Syracuse Initiatives: Past Projects

Logo"The Hyphenated Artist Series" is a collaboration with Partners for Arts Education (PAE), a Syracuse-based organization that provides funding and support to deepen and enrich educational experiences in and through the arts for students, teachers, and artists. The series enhances and promotes the region’s cultural activity by exploring expanded opportunities for artists in combinations such as artist-educator and artist-organizer. Funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the Series features performances and workshops by artists whose work goes beyond aesthetics. Read Press Release Here

"Get on the Bus," a course for Syracuse University students, uses the Connective Corridor to understand how art can contribute to community development in Syracuse and beyond. The Connective Corridor is a mile and a quarter strip extending from University Hill through downtown, encompassing 23 arts and cultural venues. Five evenings during the semester, the free Connective Corridor bus will travel to two of those venues—such as Light Work, Syracuse Symphony, Community Folk Arts Center, the Red House. The students will have co-ordinated brief events at the sites, and will additionally, each of the five evenings, share with the bus riders one cultural richness that no longer exists there— including the 15th Ward, presence of Native Americans, the Erie Canal, active life around the mansions, and large European immigrant groups. The intention is to get more people to experience the sites and recognize the need for these organizations to be supported in order that they, and the city, will thrive. Read Press Release Here