By Rose Picón, staff writer The Community Folk Art Center (CFAC) is showcasing the artwork of talented area teens through a Teen Competitive Art Exhibition happening May 5 to 19. Teens from high schools across the Syracuse area submitted their best work to CFAC’s competition, ...Read the rest
The Treehouse Musicians continue their inaugural season with a concert for all ages on Sunday, May 20, at 3 p.m. at the Red House Arts Center (201 South West St., Syracuse). Titled “Journeys: Music of Travel and Trade,” the program features traditional and contemporary fare ...Read the rest
The Connective Corridor is just a bus. Students, I’m talking to you. I’m sure you’ve heard that line before. But if it’s not a bus, then what the heck is it? Take a look on University Avenue and you might say it’s a ...Read the rest
Have “Dinner with the Masters.” Fourteen downtown restaurants are offering three-course dinners for $25 or less through May 10 in partnership with the Everson Museum of Art’s“ From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland.” The show is the first to examine the American ...Read the rest
Watch for finishing touches this month on the Plaza at Syracuse Stage – a project led by UPSTATE, an interdisciplinary center for research, design, and real estate located within the School of Architecture. The installation features technology developed by Edward Lipson, professor of physics, including ...Read the rest
Co-founders of a student venture, The Front – Nilus Klingel ‘11, G’12 (School of Architecture) and Stephen Klimek ‘11, G’12 (School of Architecture) – recently received the “Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship” CAPES 2012. The Front launched in 2010 and incubated for ...Read the rest
More than 40 downtown buildings will be “dressing up” during the coming season, thanks to more than $600,000 in Connective Corridor façade improvement grants awarded to downtown property owners. Among the changes: new awnings and canopies, outdoor bistro tables, chairs and umbrellas, lighting displays ...Read the rest
Venture creation is an act of pure engagement. Ask any entrepreneur. More than 100 student entrepreneurs gathered last week at Syracuse University for the launch of IDEA ( http://idea.syr.edu/) – the Raymond Von Dran Innovation & Disruptive Entrepreneurship Accelerator, which was recently named a ...Read the rest