America is a vast place, and capturing it in new and unusual ways is beyond the grasp of many. Photographer Alec Soth gave it a shot (so to speak), and the results are on display at the Everson Museum of Art. From Here to There: Alec Soth’s America presents a large selection of Soth’s photos taken during the past 15 years in various locales: up and down the Mississippi River, near Niagara Falls, in Texas and Minnesota.

Szozda Gallery mounts artwork created by a married couple

Four decades is plenty of time to accumulate some impressive pieces of art. African Diasporan Treasures: 40 Years of Community Folk Art Center presents paintings, sculptures and other works surveying and sampling the permanent collection at the center, 805 E.

Past and present come together in (hyphen) Americans, Keliy Anderson-Staley’s one-person show at the Light Work Gallery. The show features more than 100 portraits of contemporary Americans, all done in a tintype format introduced in 1856 and little used after the 1930s.

We often hear about stranger danger as it relates to those people who may frighten us and our children. Most likely, they’re not dangerous at all, merely different. A new exhibit at SUNY Oswego’s Tyler Art Gallery shows us the strangers, but from their perspective.

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Ellen Blalock’s 29 black-and-white images depict people living in Central New York households: two women who live as a couple and are raising two children, two men who have been partners for more than two decades, two women who married in Canada, a...

Bob Potts’ sculpture, “Pursuit II,” made of steel, aluminum, bronze, brass and an electric motor, seems present in a region between functional, mechanical objects and an artist’s creative impulses. Upon first seeing the piece, it’s easy to imagine turning it on.

During a five-day period this month, both Bill McDowell and Heather Sackett, long-time members of Syracuse arts and crafts community, died. Sackett created her sculptures for more than 20 years, while McDowell was a woodworker and a founding partner of Eureka Crafts in Armory Square.