Community Calendar

All That Remains features artwork by two SUNY Oswego art faculty members, Peter Cardone and Christopher McEvoy. While each artist explores themes of slippage, memories, and the push pull of reality, their artworks engage these concepts in very different ways.

Cardone’s photographic series depicts the Lighthouse at the H. Lee Maritime Museum and scenes of Lake Ontario. The images of the Lighthouse are devoid of people or living things. They feature liminal interior spaces with views of the lake shown through another frame, such as a door or a window. Other works look down on the water from a higher vantage point, framing the view with bits of roof, gutter, and railings. Cardone says, “The photographs simultaneously generate feelings of presence and absence. Standing by the water, I feel grounded in a particular place and time. Yet, as I look out, I am untethered from the present, tracing the water’s path to memories of other lakes, oceans, places, and people.”

Christopher McEvoy’s abstracted paintings inhabit the gap between perception and imagination. His large paintings are heavily layered with organic and geometric components. These forms overlap, fuse, and create a conflicting linear perspective. This evokes a feeling of falling apart and coming together simultaneously. McEvoy says, “These aren't paintings about confusion but consciousness. In fractured moments and invented landscapes, I witness my own daily negotiations with meaning—the constant work of assembling coherence from fragments.”

On view Oct. 21 - November 14.

Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Friday: 2-6 p.m., Saturday – Sunday: 11 a.m.- 3 p.m. Closed on Mondays, holidays, and when classes are not in session. Classes and groups may arrange after-hours visitation.

Moderated by SUNY Oswego Director of Arts Programming, Lowell Hutcheson, this upcoming Civic Discourse Series discussion on Arts, Culture and American Democracy features panelists Davana Robedee (Director of Tyler Art Gallery), Laura Donnelly (Professor and Chair, Department of English and Creative Writing), Danielle Hodgins (Assistant Professor, Theatre Department), and Michael Raicht (Assistant Professor, Department of English and Creative Writing). The group will discuss the role of the arts in shaping, critiquing and influencing American culture and politics, as well as the state of the arts in the current political climate.

This conversation will be offered both in person and via Zoom.

For Zoom information, please visit https://calendar.oswego.edu/event/arts-culture-and-american-democracy

Join us for a “frightfully” fun Art After School that explores clay, pastels, and paint! Students will create fall and Halloween-themed crafts to get in the spirit of all things spooky. Join us for this six-week program if you’re interested in getting into the spooky spirit!

Let’s have some fun with a needle and thread! This class will be an introduction to hand sewing (a necessary skill) and basic sewing machine skills. Students will have the opportunity to let their creativity shine while designing and sewing embellished bookmarks, postcards, and journal covers. We will end the session with a personalized apron. So, are you ready to go on a sewing adventure?

ROCKY HORROR

Get ready to do The Time Warp again with "The Rocky Horror Show", the cult classic rock musical that’s outrageously fun and delightfully twisted. When sweethearts Brad and Janet stumble into the bizarre world of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, they’re swept into a wild night of music, madness, and mayhem. Packed with iconic songs, over-the-top characters, and interactive thrills, this is the ultimate live theatre experience for thrill-seekers and partygoers alike! With eight performances, including a late-night Halloween spectacular featuring dancing, games, and a costume runway. This outrageous, interactive rock musical guarantees a wildly fun and twisted experience.

Co-Produced by SUNY Cortland and Cortland Repertory Theatre

Directed by Bryan Knowlton
Music Direction by Ben Kapilow

- Friday, Oct. 24, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
- Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
- Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025 at 2 p.m.
- Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
- Friday, Oct. 31, 2025 at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m.
- Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.

Location: Cortland Repertory Theatre Downtown
Content Warning: “Rocky Horror contains adult and sexual themes and is intended for Mature Audiences Only.”

Join the SUNY Oswego Music Department for the second Focus on Faculty concert of the year! This will be a collaborative concert featuring masterworks of vocal and wind literature, featuring SUNY Oswego professors Rob Auler (piano), Trevor Jorgensen (clarinet), and Ben May (voice). This performance is free and open to all.

Explore all things apples this October during the 28th Annual Apple Tasting Tour in Wayne County! The Signature Tasting Weekend will take place from October 10 to 13, 2025, featuring apple-themed tastings, family-friendly activities, and fun across each of the 11 stops. Play the Apple Jumble for a chance to win prizes as you “U Pick the stops, U Pick the way!”

The Ballad of Human Movement is an exhibit that will fill your heart with pride for our little city. People have come from all over the world to make Utica their homes. Stories like The New York Times article "How Refugees Transformed a Dying Rust Belt Town" brought Utica into the spotlight, and the Gannett Gallery is thrilled to present a celebration of what makes our city so special. There will also be a free film screening of "Utica: The Last Refuge" on Saturday, October 25, at 2:00 p.m. in the Kunsela Hall Auditorium on the SUNY Poly campus.

Opening Reception: Friday, 10/10/2025 5:00-7:00
Event website: https//balladofhumanmovement.net

Lacuna presents new works from Alison Altafi that explore the space between presence and absence, form and dissolution, memory and dream. Inspired by the cosmos, fairytale, myth and the endless cycles of time, Lacuna invites viewers to consider the space not as emptiness, but as a site of possibility, memory and soft transformation.

Reception Date: October 3, 5-7 p.m.

"i solemnly swear” is an exhibition about the consequences of conscription and deployment into combat. Syracuse artist Paul Pearce was drafted into the US Army in 1967 and deployed to Vietnam in 1968. “I should never have been a soldier, and yet I was a good soldier,” Pearce says. “For this reason, I am haunted by what I did and what I witnessed. When people say, ‘Thank you for your service,’ my reply is, ‘Don’t thank me for my service; you don’t know what I did. My country made me do it and I was just a kid.’”