Arts + culture

Award-winning author, poet and professor Shana Youngdahl is the next featured guest in SUNY Oswego’s Living Writers Series, appearing at 3 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 3 in the Marano Campus Center auditorium, room 132.

Opening Oct. 21 in Tyler Art Gallery, "All That Remains" features artwork by SUNY Oswego art faculty members Peter Cardone and Christopher McEvoy. While each artist explores themes of slippage, memories and the push/pull of reality, their artworks engage these concepts in very different ways.

Writer, editor and sensitivity reader Shannon Luders-Manuel will be the next featured guest in SUNY Oswego’s Living Writers Series, appearing virtually at 3 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 27.

SUNY Oswego’s Theatre Department is showcasing how art and science intersect in their production of “Silent Sky,” running Oct. 15 to 18.

Award-winning author and SUNY Oswego professor Soma Mei Sheng Frazier will be the next featured guest in the Living Writers Series at 3 p.m. on Monday, Oct, 13 in the Marano Campus Center auditorium (room 132). The event will include a reading from her novel "Off the Books," followed by a Q&A and book signing. It is free and open to the campus and the community.

SUNY Oswego's annual Festival of Fire -- a collaboration between the Department of Technology and the Department of Art and Design, brings an opportunity to heat up creativity on Friday, Oct. 17.

Acclaimed photographer and 1994 alumnus Daniel Weiss returns to campus for a three-day visit Oct. 14 to 16 to present his “Holocaust Survivor Portrait Series” in the Penfield Library lobby, culminating in a public artist talk on Wednesday, Oct. 15.

SUNY Oswego’s Theatre Department will open its season with a production of “Silent Sky.” which follows pioneering astronomer Henrietta Leavitt in the 19th century and her groundbreaking discovery of calculating the distance of the universe using Cepheid variable stars.

Not only has renowned musician and educator Tim Herron returned to teach guitar at his alma mater of SUNY Oswego, but he recently contributed a tune to Central New York’s Acoustic Guitar Project that was dedicated to a faculty mentor, the late Stan Gosek.

The author of this year's Oswego Reading Initiative book, "Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants," Robin Wall Kimmerer, will speak on campus today while also discussing her latest grassroots community movement.