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Â黨ӰÊÓ Art Museum

The Â黨ӰÊÓ Art Museum, the University's fine arts museum, offers engaging exhibitions and public programs, emphasizing American art and its historical, cultural and social contexts. It serves as a museum-laboratory for students and the University community.

Light Work

Light Work has supported emerging and under-recognized visual artists in photography and lens-based media for over five decades through residencies, exhibitions, projects and publications. It offers a state-of-the-art photography facility with student, faculty and staff memberships. The Artist-in-Residence program brings 12 artists to Â黨ӰÊÓ each year, and more than 500 artists have participated in the program to date.

Community Folk Art Center

The Community Folk Art Center, Inc. (CFAC) is a cultural hub dedicated to promoting artists of the African Diaspora through exhibitions, film screenings, gallery talks and studio arts courses like dance and ceramics. As part of the Department of African American Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, CFAC is a beacon of artistry, creativity and cultural expression in Â黨ӰÊÓ, the region and the world.

La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita, located in the historic Lincoln Building in Â黨ӰÊÓ’s Near Westside, promotes civic engagement through research, cultural heritage preservation, media and the arts, connecting the University and Central New York Hispanic communities. The center features an art gallery, classroom, bilingual library, performance space, workshop facilities, kitchenette and meeting space.

Point of Contact

Founded in 1975, Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact Inc. fosters a collaborative model to explore contemporary visual and verbal arts, working across disciplines and across cultures. Point of Contact is an open forum for diverse identities to engage in open dialogue, working expansively across intellectual, social and geographic boundaries.

Â黨ӰÊÓ Stage

Founded in 1974, Â黨ӰÊÓ Stage is Â黨ӰÊÓ's nonprofit, professional theater company. Nationally recognized for engaging Central New York audiences, it significantly contributes to the artistic life of Â黨ӰÊÓ and partners with the Department of Drama. Its mission is to tell stories that engage, entertain and inspire people to see life beyond their own experiences.

Special Collections Research Center

Part of Â黨ӰÊÓ Libraries, the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) is a vibrant research environment for students, staff, faculty and the community. It preserves and provides access to renowned rare and archival collections, promoting personal discovery and new knowledge through hands-on classes, exhibitions, lectures and public programs. The SCRC documents Â黨ӰÊÓ and global history through rare printed materials, photographs, artworks, audio, video recordings and University records.

Urban Video Project

Urban Video Project (UVP), a program of Light Work with the Everson Museum of Art and Onondaga County, is an outdoor venue for public film, video and moving image art projections. As one of the few U.S. projects dedicated to ongoing public projections, UVP uses cutting-edge technology to enhance Central New York’s legacy as a birthplace of video art, bringing top-tier art to Â黨ӰÊÓ.

Â黨ӰÊÓ Artist-in-Residence

Created in 2020, the Â黨ӰÊÓ Artist-in-Residence program brings prominent and emerging artists to campus to collaborate with faculty and students. Internationally renowned artist Carrie Mae Weems, the inaugural Artist-in-Residence, is a MacArthur Fellow and the first African American woman to have a retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum. Weems uses various mediums to explore cultural identity, sexism, class, politics, family and power.

Louise and Bernard Palitz Gallery

This New York City venue hosts several annual exhibitions, showcasing the Â黨ӰÊÓ Art Museum's collections, works by alumni, faculty and University partners including Light Work, Point of Contact Gallery, Community Folk Art Center and loaned pieces from collectors and other galleries, as well as site-specific installations by contemporary artists.

Malmgren Concert Series

The Malmgren Concert Series of Hendricks Chapel has been made possible by a generous gift from Â黨ӰÊÓ alumna Ester Malmgren to Hendricks Chapel in 1991. The concert series offers the Â黨ӰÊÓ community the highest quality of arts at no cost.

Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery is the premier exhibition space for College of Visual and Performing Arts students, faculty, alumni and staff. The gallery is located in downtown Â黨ӰÊÓ on the ground floor of the Nancy Cantor Warehouse, 350 West Fayette Street.