Light Work
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Light Work is a major photography center in Syracuse, New York. The artist-run nonprofit supports photographers through a community-access digital lab facility, residencies, exhibitions, and publications.
History
The organization is housed at Syracuse University in the Robert B. Menschel Media Center. Founding directors Phil Block and Tom Bryan established it in 1973 and Jeffrey Hoone has led Light Work since 1982.
Its programs are supported by National Endowment for the Arts; New York State Council on the Arts; Robert and Joyce Menschel; Vital Projects Fund, Inc.; Syracuse University; Central New York Community Foundation; Joy of Giving Something, Inc., as well as by local subscribers.
Autograph ABP, the Community Folk Art Center, En Foco, the Everson Museum of Art, the Red House Art Center, the Urban Video Project (UVP), and others are collaborative partners of the center.
Artists-in-Residence Program
Light Work annually invites a dozen or more artists to Syracuse to work on new projects. Residency includes a stipend, a furnished apartment, staff support, and access to its facilities.
New work by Artists-in-Residence is published in a special edition of the center's magazine, Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual, including an essay commissioned by Light Work. Work by former Artists-in-Residence is also part of the Light Work Collection. To date, more than 360 artists have participated in the program.
Collection
The Light Work Collection holds over 3,500 photographs and art objects.
Artists-in-Residence such as Cindy Sherman, John Gossage, Sunil Gupta, and others, are represented with early work that was made during the time of their Light Work residency.
Urban Video Project
The Urban Video Project (UVP) is a multi-media public art initiative of Light Work and Syracuse University with technology provided by Time Warner Cable. Its mission is to present exhibitions and projects that celebrate the arts and culture of Syracuse, where UVP operates one permanent exhibition site and one mobile projection unit along the city's Connective Corridor. UVP Everson projects an image near the size of an IMAX screen above the sculpture plaza of the Everson Museum of Art.
Location and opening hours
Light Work is located at 316 Waverly Avenue on the campus of Syracuse University.
Currently Light Work is open the following hours:
- Sunday - Friday: 10:00am - 6:00pm
Light Work Galleries are open and free to the public.
Notable Traveling Exhibitions
The Everson has presented a number of exhibitions that are available for loan, either in entirety or broken down as individual artworks, including:
- Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller
- Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
- Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales
- Pollock Matters
- Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th-Century Superstar
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