Exhibits

“A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s” Traveling Exhibit

 

Visit the Community Folk Arts Center to explore Syracuse University Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center’s (SCRC) traveling exhibition of “A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s.”

On View: September 11, 2023 – December 15, 2023 EDT

This exhibition was previously on display at SCRC from January through August 2023. A Love Supreme reimagines the Black Power and the Black Arts Movements by intentionally unmuting a multitude of Black writers, leaders and artists from SCRC’s manuscript and archival collections as well as the rare book and printed materials collection.

 

Exhbition: Active Repair: Works from the Social Justice Sewing Academy

 

The Community Folk Art Center will host an exhibition of group and individual quilts from the Social Justice Sewing Academy, a non-profit organization that empowers individuals to utilize textile art for personal transformation, community cohesion, and begin the journey toward becoming an agent of social change.

This event is organized by the School of Information Studies and supported by the Humanities Center’s Syracuse Symposium on “Repair”.

Exhibition on View: December 12, 2022 – February 17, 2023 ; Monday – Friday 10am – 7pm and Saturday 11am – 3pm

 

 

 

 

 

VIRTUAL – 48th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition

Artist: Various

Jun 08, 2020 – Jun 29, 2020

48th Teen Exhibit flyer

The Covid-19 pandemic has significantly impacted our country, state and local communities. While the building may be closed, we are still “here” and have been working diligently to produce exciting virtual exhibitions and content.

The virtual submission period has ended, judging has been finalized and winners notified. This year’s exhibition will be presented on a virtual platform and also available for viewing here:

https://www.artsonia.com/schools/school.asp?id=177284

Thank you for your continued Support!

 

-Community Folk Art Center in partnership with the Syracuse Chapter of the Links, Inc.

 

About the Annual Teenage Art Competition:

In 1972, three high school art teachers, Charles Wollowitz, Roberta Braen, and Nancy Peck of Nottingham and Corcoran High Schools with Herb Williams, Director of CFAC, engaged in a strategic planning process that led to the development of an art show and competition in response to a need to provide competition and exhibition opportunities for African American, Asian, Latinx, Native American and other underrepresented students attending high schools in the Syracuse area. Subsequently, the Syracuse Chapter of The Links, Incorporated in conjunction with the Syracuse City School District joined CFAC and art teachers from the local community to continue these efforts.