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Arts and Performance

2025 Light Work Grants Exhibition

May 12, 2025 at 10:00amAugust 29, 2025 at 5:00pm EDT

Light Work

With enormous pleasure, Light Work presents the 50th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography! The 2025 recipients are Sarah Knobel (St. Lawrence), Joe Librandi-Cowan (Onondaga County), and Lida Suchy (Onondaga County). The two runners-up are Marna Bell (Onondaga County) and Adrian Francis (Onondaga County).

This year’s judge was Marina Chao (a curator at CPW in Kingston, NY), who writes: “From an unexpected approach to plastic waste to portraits of Ukrainian civic leaders to an exploration of home, family, and memory, this year’s grantees address subjects that are intimate and personal, urgent and political, in innovative, collaborative, and deeply felt ways.”

The Light Work Grants are part of our ongoing effort to support and encourage Central New York artists working in photography and related mediums within a fifty-mile radius of Syracuse. Established in 1975, the Light Work Grants are among the oldest photography fellowships in the country.

An opening reception will be held on July 25th from 5-7 PM at the Jeffrey J. Hoone Gallery at Light Work.

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This event was published on May 7, 2025.


Event Details

Parking
Metered parking is available in front of the Syracuse University Library, on Walnut Avenue, and on Comstock Avenue across from the Comstock Ave Garage. Light Work’s gallery and office and the Community Darkrooms facility are located on the main floor of the Robert B. Menschel Media Center.