Urban Video Project

10/05/2026

Join Light Work UVP next week for two FREE events with filmmaker Tamika Galanis in celebration of the opening of DREAM DEEP ENOUGH TO REMEMBER at UVP's architectural projection on the Everson Museum of Art facade!

Filmmaking Workshop
Wednesday, October 14 | 4:30-6 p.m.
SU Special Collections Research Center
RSVP required!

Indoor Screening + Q&A
Thursday, October 15 | 6-7:30 p.m.
Light Work, Watson Theater

Both events are co-sponsored by Syracuse University Humanities Center as part of Syracuse Symposium 2026-27: DREAMS.

Go to lightwork.org for more details...

09/30/2026

Catch this exhibition by past UVP artist CRYSTAL Z CAMPBELL, up at Rivalry Projects in Buffalo through the end of October!

09/25/2026

This is the last weekend to catch ZELIKHA ZOHRA SHOJA: IN SEARCH OF BLUER TONGUES at Light Work UVP”s projection on the Everson Museum of Art facade. Stop by the plaza 7:30-11PM and see this beautiful,moving piece while you still can!

09/18/2026

ATTENTION CNY* ARTISTS...

The Light Work UVP Regional Experimental Media Commission open call closes this coming Monday -- start your application today!

The selected proposal will receive $5,000 and in-kind support toward its realization and will be featured in our Summer 2027 exhibition on the facade of the Everson Museum of Art.

MORE INFO: https://www.lightwork.org/uvp-commission/

*Eligible counties: Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego, Schuyler, Seneca, St. Lawrence, Tioga, Tompkins.

09/08/2026

"It transcends a lot of linguistic barriers..."
UVP artist Zelikha Zohra Shoja's participatory performance, GUERRILLA BREAD on the Everson Museum of Art Plaza was covered by The Daily Orange! Read the article here:

Syracuse University alumna Zelikha Shoja hosted a tandoori bread making event at the Everson Museum of Art on Friday.

09/01/2026

Join Light Work UVP this FRIDAY, 9/4 at 8PM on the Everson Museum of Art Community Plaza for a special participatory performance with current UVP artist Zelikha Zohra Shoja!
More info: https://www.lightwork.org/archive/guerilla-bread-special-event-with-zelikha-zohra-shoja/

08/21/2026

The 2027 Light Work UVP Regional Commission is open for proposals through 9/21 -- START YOUR APPLICATION TODAY to get email reminders!

Link to apply: https://www.lightwork.org/uvp-commission/

MORE INFO:
The UVP Regional Commission is a non-residential opportunity for artists in Central New York** to produce new, site-responsive film/video/electronic work for public exhibition at our projection site on the facade of the Everson Museum of Art.

The regional commission will be exhibited at UVP during the summer of 2027.

Financial support: $5,000

**Eligible NYS counties: Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego, Schuyler, Seneca, St. Lawrence, Tioga, Tompkins

Video shows stills from past regional commission projects by Evan Starling-Davis (), Paulina Velázquez Solís, Courtney Rile, and Zelikha Zohra Shoja.

08/07/2026

"Blue tongues are part of a game, but we also watch as language tries and fails to move across distance, between speaker and audience, and through translation and transliteration."

UVP artist Zelikha Zohra Shoja is currently featured on Central Current in a beautiful article by Patrick McGuan!

JOIN US at Light Work TONIGHT for ROADSIDE PICNIC, which will feature "In Search of Bluer Tongues" and other works by Zelikha and her frequent collaborator, Fatemeh Kazemi.

More info: https://www.lightwork.org/event/roadside-picnic-an-evening-at-light-work/

Her video can also be viewed on the facade of the Everson Museum of Art following the program.

07/30/2026

Join Light Work for ROADSIDE PICNIC, a summer evening of art and conversation featuring media artists from around Upstate!

Get more info and add to your calendar: https://www.lightwork.org/event/roadside-picnic-an-evening-at-light-work/

5-6:30 p.m. Gallery Reception
6:30-8 p.m. Screening + Talk

Gallery reception for "Flat Tires" and the 2026 Light Work Grants in Photography, feat. work by Amrita Stützle, Hernease Davis, Ian Sherlock Molloy, Maureen Beitler, and Patty Tomanovich.

The reception will be followed by a film screening and talk by Fatemeh Kazemi + Zelikha Zohra Shoja in the auditorium.

Following the event, Shoja’s video work "In Search of Bluer Tongues" may be viewed in the nearby Everson Museum of Art Community Plaza.

07/02/2026

Light Work UVP is pleased to present IN SEARCH OF BLUER TONGUES, new work by artist Zelikha Zohra Shoja, from July 2 through September 12, 2026, projected onto the Everson Museum of Art facade at 401 Harrison St. in downtown Syracuse, New York every Thursday through Saturday from dusk to 11PM. More info: https://www.lightwork.org/archive/zelikha-zohra-shoja-in-search-of-bluer-tongues/

And JOIN US at Light Work on FRI, AUG 7 from 5-8PM for ROADSIDE PICNIC, a special event including an indoor screening with Shoja and her frequent collaborator, Fatemeh Kazemi!