Friday, January 2, 2009

Mapping Linguistics, Revisited: Works by Kelly Roe
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

Price: Free
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse

Kelly Roe's mixed media work will be on display. A professor in the Graphic Design Program at SUNY Oswego, Roe has a background in graphic design, bookmaking and printmaking and sees herself as an anthropologist, artist, editor and scribe. The Mapping Linguistics exhibition explores relationships in linguistics, psychology and child development.

Dawn of a New Age: The Immigrant Contribution to the Arts in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"Dawn of a New Age" tells the story of five artists who immigrated to the United States during the first half of the 20th century: Adolph Bolm, a Russian dancer and choreographer who performed with the Mariinsky Ballet and Ballets Russes; William Lescaze, a Swiss architect who was one of the pioneers of modernism; Louis Lozowick, a Russian printmaker known for his Art Deco and Precision lithographs; Miklós Rózsa, a Hungarian composer of more than 100 film scores, including Ben Hur; and John Vassos, a Greek illustrator and industrial designer. The exhibition draws from the rich holdings of SCRC and showcases more than 50 of the artists' personal papers, manuscripts, photos and artifacts.

This exhibit is part of this year's Syracuse Symposium on the theme "Migration."

Needle Art and Embroidered Stone
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Needle art by members of the American Needlepoint Guild, and fine porcelain and stoneware by Sue Canizares.

Exploring History With Art: Childhood Through The Years
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The latest exhibit in the Exploring History with Art series features paintings from the permanent collection. 19th-century portraits of children, focusing on children of prominent local families, convey historical circumstances as well as social ideals. 20th-century genre paintings show children in their element: in the bathtub, at recess, and on vacation. The exhibit also features historical objects that enliven the space and impart a sense of the experience of childhood from the cradle to school days and play time. Childhood Through The Years is not only an excellent opportunity to delve into the history of childhood but also the exhibition represents a moment, as fleeting as childhood itself, for parents and children to share their experiences through the interplay of art and history.

Works of Pavel Vulkov
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Behind the quiet contemplative character of the rare aquatints of Pavel Vulkov (1908-1956), one feels the presence of an artist who was very well aware of social problems. The artist wished to paint the world as he saw it at any given moment; it was his belief as a man and as an artist, that beauty lay in our ordinary day-to-day experience.

This exhibit is calming, visually engaging, and a rewarding intellectual experience for those viewers who seek to look further.

Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th Century Superstar
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Local artist and designer Jeffrey Mayer will present a post-modern installation of 20th century fashion design inspired by the 18th century fashion sense of Marie Antoinette. Although Marie Antoinette did not really create a style that was personally unique, what she did for fashion in the 1770s was to solidify, refine and intensify the rococo style created by her grandfather-in-law, Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who died in 1764, six years before the 14-year-old Princess even arrived from Austria. Through the exhibition and a publication to be released in the fall, Mayer will be reinterpreting and discussing Marie Antoinette's key concepts of Fantasy, Luxury, and Exoticism.

Marie Antoinette was originally displayed in 2007 in a small space in Syracuse University's Fashion Design Department where Mayer has been Associate Professor of Fashion History and Design since 1992. For the Everson's installation, Mayer has expanded the visual experience to include more than 40 garments displayed on vintage mannequins, an eclectic collection of contemporary fashion accessories, an interactive audio component, and many unique, custom-designed and hand-made objects.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Warhol Presents highlights the early commercial career of Andy Warhol, whose whimsical drawings from the 1950s created fantasies that marketed fashion and glamour through evocation. Warhol's penchant for combining art and advertisement quickly made him one of the most well known illustrators of women's fashion in New York. His talen' was sought out by fashion publication giants, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar; and women's footwear designer and retailer, I. Miller Shoe Company.

The exhibition presents 18 of Warhol's rarely seen shoe illustrations including Fantasy Shoes (ca. 1956), a whimsical and humorous take on women's footwear design. Exhibited also are drawings of women's accessories and fashion figures, including Female Fashion Figure (1950s); a vibrant depiction of a chic model alongside an equally stylish car.

Warhol's unique well-wrought line also translated to commissions of large-scale window displays for New York stores, including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's. One example of the artist's window displays is featured in this exhibition in the illustrated reproduction, Miss Dior (1950s); and a 1997 3-dimensional re-creation of Warhol's 1957 Bonwit Teller Window Display, which includes glass perfume bottles and colorful reproduction of a window display screen. Warhol's early drawings and interest in art, identity, and consumerism informed his later pop-icon status, when product and identity literally became his art, and was used to fuel his experimental factory era films.

This exhibition is curated by Natalie Sanderson, Curator of Education at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. The original exhibition, Andy Warhol Presents, was first exhibited at the University Art Museum in 2007.

Student Art Open 2008: (Un)doing Fashion
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In this exhibition, high school students explore art through their own experiences and style while drawing inspiration from fashion designer Jeffrey Mayer's exhibition "Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th-Century Superstar."

Fifteen teachers from nine different schools came to hear Jeffrey Mayer's discussion on his exhibition and incorporated its themes into their lesson plans. In the next step of the Student Art Open process, students visited the Everson with their teachers and brought inspirations from the exhibits back to the classroom. Using any media they chose, students created artwork to be submitted for the Open. The teachers then selected two students' works to be on display at the museum. Come see the amazing artwork these students meticulously created for the exhibition.

The Northside Mosaic
Our Northside Community Gallery

Price: Free
Our Northside Community Gallery
745 N. Salina St., Syracuse

The Northside Mosaic is a multidisciplinary exhibit, celebrating the myriad of people, cultures and histories that compose Our Northside neighborhood. The exhibit features pieces collected throughout 2007 and 2008 and produced predominantly by people living or working in our community. Through this project, we intend to showcase the brilliant individual lives and rich cultural diversity that exist within the Northside, heighten people's awareness of the struggles and injustices that are present within our neighborhoods, help citizens develop a deeper sense of pride for and ownership of their neighborhoods, bring aesthetic beauty to the area, and catalyze relationships and future collaborative projects among diverse groups of people.

Paul Geremia
Folkus Project

Price: $15
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

For almost 40 years, Paul Geremia has built a reputation as one of the finest finger-style blues guitarists alive. Admired by musicians like Bonnie Raitt and Dave Van Ronk (who repeatedly called him the greatest living blues singer), Geremia sets the standard for today's players, keeping traditional blues fresh and alive. What's unique about his playing is the way his guitar doesn't just accompany his husky, soulful voice but adds dramatic counterpoint through the use of rhythmic flourishes and stunning single-line runs. He's quick to blow a zippy harmonica solo over his intricate fingerpicking, creating a real conversation between guitar and harmonica that, along with his voice, reaches every corner of a song. By combining his interpretations of his blues heroes with his own original compositions, Geremia has created a style which is very much his own.

The Santaland Diaries
Syracuse Stage
James Edmondson, director

Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

For those who like a little jeer with their Christmas cheer, humorist David Sedaris' The Santaland Diaries is a gem of a lump of coal. Meet Crumpet, a 33-year-old starving artist turned Macy's elf. It's the most wonderful time of the year, but you wouldn't know it from the bad Santas, naughty elves, cranky kids and pushy parents who test Crumpet's last elfin nerve as he struggles to remain sane and perky(!) amid the absurdity of the holiday season. With sardonic wit, and a sometimes razor-sharp, sometimes velvet-soft tongue, Sedaris takes us all playfully to task for plunging into the Christmas spirit but missing the point. For mature elves only.

Adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello.

Read a Review!

Black Nativity
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
William H. Rowland II and Annette Adams-Brown, director

Price: $20 regular, $15 students/seniors
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Black Nativity, by Langston Hughes, is a foot stomping, hand clapping, jump to your feet shouting gospel drama that will delight the entire family. Hughes called it a "gospel song play." Black Nativity is a re-telling of the classic Nativity story with a non-traditional cast. Traditional Christmas carols along with a few musical numbers created specially for the show are sung in gospel style by The PRPAC Choral Ensemble. A multi-generational cast of singers, narrators, poets, dancers and soloists will fill the theater with jubilation and praise. Through the vibrations of African drums and percussion, the birth of Jesus becomes one of the most dramatic scenes of the show. Mary and Joseph will dance right into your hearts. The show was first performed on Broadway on December 11, 1961, and was one of the first plays written by an African-American to do so.

Read a review!

The Santaland Diaries
Syracuse Stage
James Edmondson, director

Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

For those who like a little jeer with their Christmas cheer, humorist David Sedaris' The Santaland Diaries is a gem of a lump of coal. Meet Crumpet, a 33-year-old starving artist turned Macy's elf. It's the most wonderful time of the year, but you wouldn't know it from the bad Santas, naughty elves, cranky kids and pushy parents who test Crumpet's last elfin nerve as he struggles to remain sane and perky(!) amid the absurdity of the holiday season. With sardonic wit, and a sometimes razor-sharp, sometimes velvet-soft tongue, Sedaris takes us all playfully to task for plunging into the Christmas spirit but missing the point. For mature elves only.

Adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello.

Read a Review!

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Needle Art and Embroidered Stone
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Needle art by members of the American Needlepoint Guild, and fine porcelain and stoneware by Sue Canizares.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Warhol Presents highlights the early commercial career of Andy Warhol, whose whimsical drawings from the 1950s created fantasies that marketed fashion and glamour through evocation. Warhol's penchant for combining art and advertisement quickly made him one of the most well known illustrators of women's fashion in New York. His talen' was sought out by fashion publication giants, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar; and women's footwear designer and retailer, I. Miller Shoe Company.

The exhibition presents 18 of Warhol's rarely seen shoe illustrations including Fantasy Shoes (ca. 1956), a whimsical and humorous take on women's footwear design. Exhibited also are drawings of women's accessories and fashion figures, including Female Fashion Figure (1950s); a vibrant depiction of a chic model alongside an equally stylish car.

Warhol's unique well-wrought line also translated to commissions of large-scale window displays for New York stores, including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's. One example of the artist's window displays is featured in this exhibition in the illustrated reproduction, Miss Dior (1950s); and a 1997 3-dimensional re-creation of Warhol's 1957 Bonwit Teller Window Display, which includes glass perfume bottles and colorful reproduction of a window display screen. Warhol's early drawings and interest in art, identity, and consumerism informed his later pop-icon status, when product and identity literally became his art, and was used to fuel his experimental factory era films.

This exhibition is curated by Natalie Sanderson, Curator of Education at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. The original exhibition, Andy Warhol Presents, was first exhibited at the University Art Museum in 2007.

Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th Century Superstar
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Local artist and designer Jeffrey Mayer will present a post-modern installation of 20th century fashion design inspired by the 18th century fashion sense of Marie Antoinette. Although Marie Antoinette did not really create a style that was personally unique, what she did for fashion in the 1770s was to solidify, refine and intensify the rococo style created by her grandfather-in-law, Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who died in 1764, six years before the 14-year-old Princess even arrived from Austria. Through the exhibition and a publication to be released in the fall, Mayer will be reinterpreting and discussing Marie Antoinette's key concepts of Fantasy, Luxury, and Exoticism.

Marie Antoinette was originally displayed in 2007 in a small space in Syracuse University's Fashion Design Department where Mayer has been Associate Professor of Fashion History and Design since 1992. For the Everson's installation, Mayer has expanded the visual experience to include more than 40 garments displayed on vintage mannequins, an eclectic collection of contemporary fashion accessories, an interactive audio component, and many unique, custom-designed and hand-made objects.

Student Art Open 2008: (Un)doing Fashion
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In this exhibition, high school students explore art through their own experiences and style while drawing inspiration from fashion designer Jeffrey Mayer's exhibition "Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th-Century Superstar."

Fifteen teachers from nine different schools came to hear Jeffrey Mayer's discussion on his exhibition and incorporated its themes into their lesson plans. In the next step of the Student Art Open process, students visited the Everson with their teachers and brought inspirations from the exhibits back to the classroom. Using any media they chose, students created artwork to be submitted for the Open. The teachers then selected two students' works to be on display at the museum. Come see the amazing artwork these students meticulously created for the exhibition.

Exploring History With Art: Childhood Through The Years
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The latest exhibit in the Exploring History with Art series features paintings from the permanent collection. 19th-century portraits of children, focusing on children of prominent local families, convey historical circumstances as well as social ideals. 20th-century genre paintings show children in their element: in the bathtub, at recess, and on vacation. The exhibit also features historical objects that enliven the space and impart a sense of the experience of childhood from the cradle to school days and play time. Childhood Through The Years is not only an excellent opportunity to delve into the history of childhood but also the exhibition represents a moment, as fleeting as childhood itself, for parents and children to share their experiences through the interplay of art and history.

The Northside Mosaic
Our Northside Community Gallery

Price: Free
Our Northside Community Gallery
745 N. Salina St., Syracuse

The Northside Mosaic is a multidisciplinary exhibit, celebrating the myriad of people, cultures and histories that compose Our Northside neighborhood. The exhibit features pieces collected throughout 2007 and 2008 and produced predominantly by people living or working in our community. Through this project, we intend to showcase the brilliant individual lives and rich cultural diversity that exist within the Northside, heighten people's awareness of the struggles and injustices that are present within our neighborhoods, help citizens develop a deeper sense of pride for and ownership of their neighborhoods, bring aesthetic beauty to the area, and catalyze relationships and future collaborative projects among diverse groups of people.

The Garbage Monster
Open Hand Theater
Featuring Tom Knight

Price: $8 adults, $6 children
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Black Nativity
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
William H. Rowland II and Annette Adams-Brown, director

Price: $20 regular, $15 students/seniors
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Black Nativity, by Langston Hughes, is a foot stomping, hand clapping, jump to your feet shouting gospel drama that will delight the entire family. Hughes called it a "gospel song play." Black Nativity is a re-telling of the classic Nativity story with a non-traditional cast. Traditional Christmas carols along with a few musical numbers created specially for the show are sung in gospel style by The PRPAC Choral Ensemble. A multi-generational cast of singers, narrators, poets, dancers and soloists will fill the theater with jubilation and praise. Through the vibrations of African drums and percussion, the birth of Jesus becomes one of the most dramatic scenes of the show. Mary and Joseph will dance right into your hearts. The show was first performed on Broadway on December 11, 1961, and was one of the first plays written by an African-American to do so.

Read a review!

The Santaland Diaries
Syracuse Stage
James Edmondson, director

Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

For those who like a little jeer with their Christmas cheer, humorist David Sedaris' The Santaland Diaries is a gem of a lump of coal. Meet Crumpet, a 33-year-old starving artist turned Macy's elf. It's the most wonderful time of the year, but you wouldn't know it from the bad Santas, naughty elves, cranky kids and pushy parents who test Crumpet's last elfin nerve as he struggles to remain sane and perky(!) amid the absurdity of the holiday season. With sardonic wit, and a sometimes razor-sharp, sometimes velvet-soft tongue, Sedaris takes us all playfully to task for plunging into the Christmas spirit but missing the point. For mature elves only.

Adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello.

Read a Review!

Black Nativity
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
William H. Rowland II and Annette Adams-Brown, director

Price: $20 regular, $15 students/seniors
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Black Nativity, by Langston Hughes, is a foot stomping, hand clapping, jump to your feet shouting gospel drama that will delight the entire family. Hughes called it a "gospel song play." Black Nativity is a re-telling of the classic Nativity story with a non-traditional cast. Traditional Christmas carols along with a few musical numbers created specially for the show are sung in gospel style by The PRPAC Choral Ensemble. A multi-generational cast of singers, narrators, poets, dancers and soloists will fill the theater with jubilation and praise. Through the vibrations of African drums and percussion, the birth of Jesus becomes one of the most dramatic scenes of the show. Mary and Joseph will dance right into your hearts. The show was first performed on Broadway on December 11, 1961, and was one of the first plays written by an African-American to do so.

Read a review!

The Santaland Diaries
Syracuse Stage
James Edmondson, director

Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

For those who like a little jeer with their Christmas cheer, humorist David Sedaris' The Santaland Diaries is a gem of a lump of coal. Meet Crumpet, a 33-year-old starving artist turned Macy's elf. It's the most wonderful time of the year, but you wouldn't know it from the bad Santas, naughty elves, cranky kids and pushy parents who test Crumpet's last elfin nerve as he struggles to remain sane and perky(!) amid the absurdity of the holiday season. With sardonic wit, and a sometimes razor-sharp, sometimes velvet-soft tongue, Sedaris takes us all playfully to task for plunging into the Christmas spirit but missing the point. For mature elves only.

Adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello.

Read a Review!

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Exploring History With Art: Childhood Through The Years
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The latest exhibit in the Exploring History with Art series features paintings from the permanent collection. 19th-century portraits of children, focusing on children of prominent local families, convey historical circumstances as well as social ideals. 20th-century genre paintings show children in their element: in the bathtub, at recess, and on vacation. The exhibit also features historical objects that enliven the space and impart a sense of the experience of childhood from the cradle to school days and play time. Childhood Through The Years is not only an excellent opportunity to delve into the history of childhood but also the exhibition represents a moment, as fleeting as childhood itself, for parents and children to share their experiences through the interplay of art and history.

Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th Century Superstar
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Local artist and designer Jeffrey Mayer will present a post-modern installation of 20th century fashion design inspired by the 18th century fashion sense of Marie Antoinette. Although Marie Antoinette did not really create a style that was personally unique, what she did for fashion in the 1770s was to solidify, refine and intensify the rococo style created by her grandfather-in-law, Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who died in 1764, six years before the 14-year-old Princess even arrived from Austria. Through the exhibition and a publication to be released in the fall, Mayer will be reinterpreting and discussing Marie Antoinette's key concepts of Fantasy, Luxury, and Exoticism.

Marie Antoinette was originally displayed in 2007 in a small space in Syracuse University's Fashion Design Department where Mayer has been Associate Professor of Fashion History and Design since 1992. For the Everson's installation, Mayer has expanded the visual experience to include more than 40 garments displayed on vintage mannequins, an eclectic collection of contemporary fashion accessories, an interactive audio component, and many unique, custom-designed and hand-made objects.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Warhol Presents highlights the early commercial career of Andy Warhol, whose whimsical drawings from the 1950s created fantasies that marketed fashion and glamour through evocation. Warhol's penchant for combining art and advertisement quickly made him one of the most well known illustrators of women's fashion in New York. His talen' was sought out by fashion publication giants, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar; and women's footwear designer and retailer, I. Miller Shoe Company.

The exhibition presents 18 of Warhol's rarely seen shoe illustrations including Fantasy Shoes (ca. 1956), a whimsical and humorous take on women's footwear design. Exhibited also are drawings of women's accessories and fashion figures, including Female Fashion Figure (1950s); a vibrant depiction of a chic model alongside an equally stylish car.

Warhol's unique well-wrought line also translated to commissions of large-scale window displays for New York stores, including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's. One example of the artist's window displays is featured in this exhibition in the illustrated reproduction, Miss Dior (1950s); and a 1997 3-dimensional re-creation of Warhol's 1957 Bonwit Teller Window Display, which includes glass perfume bottles and colorful reproduction of a window display screen. Warhol's early drawings and interest in art, identity, and consumerism informed his later pop-icon status, when product and identity literally became his art, and was used to fuel his experimental factory era films.

This exhibition is curated by Natalie Sanderson, Curator of Education at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. The original exhibition, Andy Warhol Presents, was first exhibited at the University Art Museum in 2007.

Student Art Open 2008: (Un)doing Fashion
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In this exhibition, high school students explore art through their own experiences and style while drawing inspiration from fashion designer Jeffrey Mayer's exhibition "Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th-Century Superstar."

Fifteen teachers from nine different schools came to hear Jeffrey Mayer's discussion on his exhibition and incorporated its themes into their lesson plans. In the next step of the Student Art Open process, students visited the Everson with their teachers and brought inspirations from the exhibits back to the classroom. Using any media they chose, students created artwork to be submitted for the Open. The teachers then selected two students' works to be on display at the museum. Come see the amazing artwork these students meticulously created for the exhibition.

Society for New Music
Arts Alive in Liverpool

Price: Free
Liverpool Public Library
310 Tulip St., Liverpool

Jazz Vespers Series: Oh Laughing Light
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Ronnie Leigh and Kara Shidemantle

Price: Free (donations encouraged)
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

These informal events are open to everyone of all faiths. Jazz selections will be drawn from secular and sacred sources, with inspirational readings and homily.

The Santaland Diaries
Syracuse Stage
James Edmondson, director

Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

For those who like a little jeer with their Christmas cheer, humorist David Sedaris' The Santaland Diaries is a gem of a lump of coal. Meet Crumpet, a 33-year-old starving artist turned Macy's elf. It's the most wonderful time of the year, but you wouldn't know it from the bad Santas, naughty elves, cranky kids and pushy parents who test Crumpet's last elfin nerve as he struggles to remain sane and perky(!) amid the absurdity of the holiday season. With sardonic wit, and a sometimes razor-sharp, sometimes velvet-soft tongue, Sedaris takes us all playfully to task for plunging into the Christmas spirit but missing the point. For mature elves only.

Adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello.

Read a Review!

Black Nativity
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
William H. Rowland II and Annette Adams-Brown, director

Price: $20 regular, $15 students/seniors
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Black Nativity, by Langston Hughes, is a foot stomping, hand clapping, jump to your feet shouting gospel drama that will delight the entire family. Hughes called it a "gospel song play." Black Nativity is a re-telling of the classic Nativity story with a non-traditional cast. Traditional Christmas carols along with a few musical numbers created specially for the show are sung in gospel style by The PRPAC Choral Ensemble. A multi-generational cast of singers, narrators, poets, dancers and soloists will fill the theater with jubilation and praise. Through the vibrations of African drums and percussion, the birth of Jesus becomes one of the most dramatic scenes of the show. Mary and Joseph will dance right into your hearts. The show was first performed on Broadway on December 11, 1961, and was one of the first plays written by an African-American to do so.

Read a review!

Monday, January 5, 2009

The Golem: Visual Visitations
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A major collective exhibit of seven world class artists titled "The Golem: Visual Visitations," inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' poem "El Golem." This is the third edition of a program that began in Prague in 2002 through the initiative of the Argentinean Embassy in that city, and it was introduced by the renowned poet Václav Havel, then President of the Czech Republic. A second version was later produced with tremendous success at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2003, also introduced by then President of the country, Néstor Kirchner. Now the program travels to the United States for the first time to be shown exclusively at Syracuse University.

The Golem exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery features original works especially commissioned for this exhibit, created by seven artists: from Argentina (Leandro Katz; Pedro Roth); Uruguay (Marta Chilindrón); Puerto Rico (Víctor Vázquez); Syracuse (Tom Sherman; Doug Dubois) and New York (Sarah Kipp). It combines photography, installation and video art.

Dawn of a New Age: The Immigrant Contribution to the Arts in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"Dawn of a New Age" tells the story of five artists who immigrated to the United States during the first half of the 20th century: Adolph Bolm, a Russian dancer and choreographer who performed with the Mariinsky Ballet and Ballets Russes; William Lescaze, a Swiss architect who was one of the pioneers of modernism; Louis Lozowick, a Russian printmaker known for his Art Deco and Precision lithographs; Miklós Rózsa, a Hungarian composer of more than 100 film scores, including Ben Hur; and John Vassos, a Greek illustrator and industrial designer. The exhibition draws from the rich holdings of SCRC and showcases more than 50 of the artists' personal papers, manuscripts, photos and artifacts.

This exhibit is part of this year's Syracuse Symposium on the theme "Migration."

Rooke Chapel Ringers in Concert

Price: Freewill donation
Erwin First United Methodist Church
920 Euclid Ave., Syracuse

The handbell choir of Rooke Chapel at Bucknell University returns to Syracuse as part of their annual Senior Winter Tour.

For more information, phone 315-472-4082.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

The Golem: Visual Visitations
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A major collective exhibit of seven world class artists titled "The Golem: Visual Visitations," inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' poem "El Golem." This is the third edition of a program that began in Prague in 2002 through the initiative of the Argentinean Embassy in that city, and it was introduced by the renowned poet Václav Havel, then President of the Czech Republic. A second version was later produced with tremendous success at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2003, also introduced by then President of the country, Néstor Kirchner. Now the program travels to the United States for the first time to be shown exclusively at Syracuse University.

The Golem exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery features original works especially commissioned for this exhibit, created by seven artists: from Argentina (Leandro Katz; Pedro Roth); Uruguay (Marta Chilindrón); Puerto Rico (Víctor Vázquez); Syracuse (Tom Sherman; Doug Dubois) and New York (Sarah Kipp). It combines photography, installation and video art.

Mapping Linguistics, Revisited: Works by Kelly Roe
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

Price: Free
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse

Kelly Roe's mixed media work will be on display. A professor in the Graphic Design Program at SUNY Oswego, Roe has a background in graphic design, bookmaking and printmaking and sees herself as an anthropologist, artist, editor and scribe. The Mapping Linguistics exhibition explores relationships in linguistics, psychology and child development.

Visual Journals: Recent Works by SUNY Oswego Faculty
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

Price: Free
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse

Art exhibition featuring recent work by SUNY Oswego faculty members Amy Bartell, Cynthia Clabough, Paul Pearce, Cara Brewer Thompson.

Dawn of a New Age: The Immigrant Contribution to the Arts in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"Dawn of a New Age" tells the story of five artists who immigrated to the United States during the first half of the 20th century: Adolph Bolm, a Russian dancer and choreographer who performed with the Mariinsky Ballet and Ballets Russes; William Lescaze, a Swiss architect who was one of the pioneers of modernism; Louis Lozowick, a Russian printmaker known for his Art Deco and Precision lithographs; Miklós Rózsa, a Hungarian composer of more than 100 film scores, including Ben Hur; and John Vassos, a Greek illustrator and industrial designer. The exhibition draws from the rich holdings of SCRC and showcases more than 50 of the artists' personal papers, manuscripts, photos and artifacts.

This exhibit is part of this year's Syracuse Symposium on the theme "Migration."

Needle Art and Embroidered Stone
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Needle art by members of the American Needlepoint Guild, and fine porcelain and stoneware by Sue Canizares.

Warren Kimble's America
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Folk artist Warren Kimble is creator to some of the most successful 20th century Americana. His quaint depictions have graced stationery cards to decorative accessories for the home. Still, few individuals outside of Vermont know him as the artist behind the celebrated imagery that's as American as apple pie.

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is pleased to present a retrospective of the Syracuse alumnus' work including his most recent series Widows of War, which illustrates his personal reaction to the War in Iraq and its effect on women.

Kimble is best known for his patchwork-like paintings of the American flag, bucolic farm animals, and antique barns and homes. His varying flag designs are a symbol of patriotism, a theme which the artist uses often. Portraits of oversized farm animals, from heavy pigs to stocky cows, allude to an 18th-century practice of selecting prize winning livestock for their size. Kimble's stylized barns and farm houses also reveal a penchant for abstract design over architectural accuracy.

In 2005 Kimble began work on Widows of War. After purchasing a black, antique dressmaking mannequin, Kimble saw in it a visual metaphor for the loss and sorrow felt by American wives and mothers during the war. Contrary to the idyllic scenes and colorful animals, the black-and-white series remains a solemn representation of Kimble's sadness and frustration with the war's events and its toll on American lives. The paintings and sculpture, which are intermittently marked by splats of red and barbed wire, further reinforce the feminine connection through symbolic clothespins and textile patterns.

Parking for weekend and evening visitors is in Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Parking is on a space available basis and will be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces are not available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Student Art Open 2008: (Un)doing Fashion
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In this exhibition, high school students explore art through their own experiences and style while drawing inspiration from fashion designer Jeffrey Mayer's exhibition "Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th-Century Superstar."

Fifteen teachers from nine different schools came to hear Jeffrey Mayer's discussion on his exhibition and incorporated its themes into their lesson plans. In the next step of the Student Art Open process, students visited the Everson with their teachers and brought inspirations from the exhibits back to the classroom. Using any media they chose, students created artwork to be submitted for the Open. The teachers then selected two students' works to be on display at the museum. Come see the amazing artwork these students meticulously created for the exhibition.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Warhol Presents highlights the early commercial career of Andy Warhol, whose whimsical drawings from the 1950s created fantasies that marketed fashion and glamour through evocation. Warhol's penchant for combining art and advertisement quickly made him one of the most well known illustrators of women's fashion in New York. His talen' was sought out by fashion publication giants, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar; and women's footwear designer and retailer, I. Miller Shoe Company.

The exhibition presents 18 of Warhol's rarely seen shoe illustrations including Fantasy Shoes (ca. 1956), a whimsical and humorous take on women's footwear design. Exhibited also are drawings of women's accessories and fashion figures, including Female Fashion Figure (1950s); a vibrant depiction of a chic model alongside an equally stylish car.

Warhol's unique well-wrought line also translated to commissions of large-scale window displays for New York stores, including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's. One example of the artist's window displays is featured in this exhibition in the illustrated reproduction, Miss Dior (1950s); and a 1997 3-dimensional re-creation of Warhol's 1957 Bonwit Teller Window Display, which includes glass perfume bottles and colorful reproduction of a window display screen. Warhol's early drawings and interest in art, identity, and consumerism informed his later pop-icon status, when product and identity literally became his art, and was used to fuel his experimental factory era films.

This exhibition is curated by Natalie Sanderson, Curator of Education at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. The original exhibition, Andy Warhol Presents, was first exhibited at the University Art Museum in 2007.

Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th Century Superstar
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Local artist and designer Jeffrey Mayer will present a post-modern installation of 20th century fashion design inspired by the 18th century fashion sense of Marie Antoinette. Although Marie Antoinette did not really create a style that was personally unique, what she did for fashion in the 1770s was to solidify, refine and intensify the rococo style created by her grandfather-in-law, Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who died in 1764, six years before the 14-year-old Princess even arrived from Austria. Through the exhibition and a publication to be released in the fall, Mayer will be reinterpreting and discussing Marie Antoinette's key concepts of Fantasy, Luxury, and Exoticism.

Marie Antoinette was originally displayed in 2007 in a small space in Syracuse University's Fashion Design Department where Mayer has been Associate Professor of Fashion History and Design since 1992. For the Everson's installation, Mayer has expanded the visual experience to include more than 40 garments displayed on vintage mannequins, an eclectic collection of contemporary fashion accessories, an interactive audio component, and many unique, custom-designed and hand-made objects.

The Northside Mosaic
Our Northside Community Gallery

Price: Free
Our Northside Community Gallery
745 N. Salina St., Syracuse

The Northside Mosaic is a multidisciplinary exhibit, celebrating the myriad of people, cultures and histories that compose Our Northside neighborhood. The exhibit features pieces collected throughout 2007 and 2008 and produced predominantly by people living or working in our community. Through this project, we intend to showcase the brilliant individual lives and rich cultural diversity that exist within the Northside, heighten people's awareness of the struggles and injustices that are present within our neighborhoods, help citizens develop a deeper sense of pride for and ownership of their neighborhoods, bring aesthetic beauty to the area, and catalyze relationships and future collaborative projects among diverse groups of people.

Framing Identities: Collaborations with Students at Nottingham High School
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Atrium Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

An exhibition of photography guided by student mentors in Professor Judith Meighan's "Literacy, Community, Art" course in the Syracuse University's School of Art and Design. The Nottingham High School students exhibiting work are enrolled in Randy Weatherby's "Black and White Photography" course.

Lessons & Carols for Epiphany
Bells & Motley Consort

Price: Free-will offering
Trinity Episcopal Church
106 Chapel St., Fayetteville

If you've never been to a Lessons & Carols, this is a very welcoming service, open for the greater community, consisting of readings alternating with music, to help illuminate the reason-for-the-season. Epiphany's medieval and traditional songs of the Three Kings are stunning and can range from mysterious to exalting to very detailed and intimate stories about their activities. For more information, phone 315-637-9872.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

The Golem: Visual Visitations
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A major collective exhibit of seven world class artists titled "The Golem: Visual Visitations," inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' poem "El Golem." This is the third edition of a program that began in Prague in 2002 through the initiative of the Argentinean Embassy in that city, and it was introduced by the renowned poet Václav Havel, then President of the Czech Republic. A second version was later produced with tremendous success at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2003, also introduced by then President of the country, Néstor Kirchner. Now the program travels to the United States for the first time to be shown exclusively at Syracuse University.

The Golem exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery features original works especially commissioned for this exhibit, created by seven artists: from Argentina (Leandro Katz; Pedro Roth); Uruguay (Marta Chilindrón); Puerto Rico (Víctor Vázquez); Syracuse (Tom Sherman; Doug Dubois) and New York (Sarah Kipp). It combines photography, installation and video art.

Visual Journals: Recent Works by SUNY Oswego Faculty
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

Price: Free
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse

Art exhibition featuring recent work by SUNY Oswego faculty members Amy Bartell, Cynthia Clabough, Paul Pearce, Cara Brewer Thompson.

Mapping Linguistics, Revisited: Works by Kelly Roe
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

Price: Free
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse

Kelly Roe's mixed media work will be on display. A professor in the Graphic Design Program at SUNY Oswego, Roe has a background in graphic design, bookmaking and printmaking and sees herself as an anthropologist, artist, editor and scribe. The Mapping Linguistics exhibition explores relationships in linguistics, psychology and child development.

Dawn of a New Age: The Immigrant Contribution to the Arts in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"Dawn of a New Age" tells the story of five artists who immigrated to the United States during the first half of the 20th century: Adolph Bolm, a Russian dancer and choreographer who performed with the Mariinsky Ballet and Ballets Russes; William Lescaze, a Swiss architect who was one of the pioneers of modernism; Louis Lozowick, a Russian printmaker known for his Art Deco and Precision lithographs; Miklós Rózsa, a Hungarian composer of more than 100 film scores, including Ben Hur; and John Vassos, a Greek illustrator and industrial designer. The exhibition draws from the rich holdings of SCRC and showcases more than 50 of the artists' personal papers, manuscripts, photos and artifacts.

This exhibit is part of this year's Syracuse Symposium on the theme "Migration."

Needle Art and Embroidered Stone
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Needle art by members of the American Needlepoint Guild, and fine porcelain and stoneware by Sue Canizares.

Exploring History With Art: Childhood Through The Years
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The latest exhibit in the Exploring History with Art series features paintings from the permanent collection. 19th-century portraits of children, focusing on children of prominent local families, convey historical circumstances as well as social ideals. 20th-century genre paintings show children in their element: in the bathtub, at recess, and on vacation. The exhibit also features historical objects that enliven the space and impart a sense of the experience of childhood from the cradle to school days and play time. Childhood Through The Years is not only an excellent opportunity to delve into the history of childhood but also the exhibition represents a moment, as fleeting as childhood itself, for parents and children to share their experiences through the interplay of art and history.

Works of Pavel Vulkov
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Behind the quiet contemplative character of the rare aquatints of Pavel Vulkov (1908-1956), one feels the presence of an artist who was very well aware of social problems. The artist wished to paint the world as he saw it at any given moment; it was his belief as a man and as an artist, that beauty lay in our ordinary day-to-day experience.

This exhibit is calming, visually engaging, and a rewarding intellectual experience for those viewers who seek to look further.

Warren Kimble's America
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Folk artist Warren Kimble is creator to some of the most successful 20th century Americana. His quaint depictions have graced stationery cards to decorative accessories for the home. Still, few individuals outside of Vermont know him as the artist behind the celebrated imagery that's as American as apple pie.

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is pleased to present a retrospective of the Syracuse alumnus' work including his most recent series Widows of War, which illustrates his personal reaction to the War in Iraq and its effect on women.

Kimble is best known for his patchwork-like paintings of the American flag, bucolic farm animals, and antique barns and homes. His varying flag designs are a symbol of patriotism, a theme which the artist uses often. Portraits of oversized farm animals, from heavy pigs to stocky cows, allude to an 18th-century practice of selecting prize winning livestock for their size. Kimble's stylized barns and farm houses also reveal a penchant for abstract design over architectural accuracy.

In 2005 Kimble began work on Widows of War. After purchasing a black, antique dressmaking mannequin, Kimble saw in it a visual metaphor for the loss and sorrow felt by American wives and mothers during the war. Contrary to the idyllic scenes and colorful animals, the black-and-white series remains a solemn representation of Kimble's sadness and frustration with the war's events and its toll on American lives. The paintings and sculpture, which are intermittently marked by splats of red and barbed wire, further reinforce the feminine connection through symbolic clothespins and textile patterns.

Parking for weekend and evening visitors is in Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Parking is on a space available basis and will be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces are not available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Student Art Open 2008: (Un)doing Fashion
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In this exhibition, high school students explore art through their own experiences and style while drawing inspiration from fashion designer Jeffrey Mayer's exhibition "Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th-Century Superstar."

Fifteen teachers from nine different schools came to hear Jeffrey Mayer's discussion on his exhibition and incorporated its themes into their lesson plans. In the next step of the Student Art Open process, students visited the Everson with their teachers and brought inspirations from the exhibits back to the classroom. Using any media they chose, students created artwork to be submitted for the Open. The teachers then selected two students' works to be on display at the museum. Come see the amazing artwork these students meticulously created for the exhibition.

Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th Century Superstar
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Local artist and designer Jeffrey Mayer will present a post-modern installation of 20th century fashion design inspired by the 18th century fashion sense of Marie Antoinette. Although Marie Antoinette did not really create a style that was personally unique, what she did for fashion in the 1770s was to solidify, refine and intensify the rococo style created by her grandfather-in-law, Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who died in 1764, six years before the 14-year-old Princess even arrived from Austria. Through the exhibition and a publication to be released in the fall, Mayer will be reinterpreting and discussing Marie Antoinette's key concepts of Fantasy, Luxury, and Exoticism.

Marie Antoinette was originally displayed in 2007 in a small space in Syracuse University's Fashion Design Department where Mayer has been Associate Professor of Fashion History and Design since 1992. For the Everson's installation, Mayer has expanded the visual experience to include more than 40 garments displayed on vintage mannequins, an eclectic collection of contemporary fashion accessories, an interactive audio component, and many unique, custom-designed and hand-made objects.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Warhol Presents highlights the early commercial career of Andy Warhol, whose whimsical drawings from the 1950s created fantasies that marketed fashion and glamour through evocation. Warhol's penchant for combining art and advertisement quickly made him one of the most well known illustrators of women's fashion in New York. His talen' was sought out by fashion publication giants, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar; and women's footwear designer and retailer, I. Miller Shoe Company.

The exhibition presents 18 of Warhol's rarely seen shoe illustrations including Fantasy Shoes (ca. 1956), a whimsical and humorous take on women's footwear design. Exhibited also are drawings of women's accessories and fashion figures, including Female Fashion Figure (1950s); a vibrant depiction of a chic model alongside an equally stylish car.

Warhol's unique well-wrought line also translated to commissions of large-scale window displays for New York stores, including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's. One example of the artist's window displays is featured in this exhibition in the illustrated reproduction, Miss Dior (1950s); and a 1997 3-dimensional re-creation of Warhol's 1957 Bonwit Teller Window Display, which includes glass perfume bottles and colorful reproduction of a window display screen. Warhol's early drawings and interest in art, identity, and consumerism informed his later pop-icon status, when product and identity literally became his art, and was used to fuel his experimental factory era films.

This exhibition is curated by Natalie Sanderson, Curator of Education at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. The original exhibition, Andy Warhol Presents, was first exhibited at the University Art Museum in 2007.

The Northside Mosaic
Our Northside Community Gallery

Price: Free
Our Northside Community Gallery
745 N. Salina St., Syracuse

The Northside Mosaic is a multidisciplinary exhibit, celebrating the myriad of people, cultures and histories that compose Our Northside neighborhood. The exhibit features pieces collected throughout 2007 and 2008 and produced predominantly by people living or working in our community. Through this project, we intend to showcase the brilliant individual lives and rich cultural diversity that exist within the Northside, heighten people's awareness of the struggles and injustices that are present within our neighborhoods, help citizens develop a deeper sense of pride for and ownership of their neighborhoods, bring aesthetic beauty to the area, and catalyze relationships and future collaborative projects among diverse groups of people.

Framing Identities: Collaborations with Students at Nottingham High School
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Atrium Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

An exhibition of photography guided by student mentors in Professor Judith Meighan's "Literacy, Community, Art" course in the Syracuse University's School of Art and Design. The Nottingham High School students exhibiting work are enrolled in Randy Weatherby's "Black and White Photography" course.

Thursday, January 8, 2009

The Golem: Visual Visitations
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A major collective exhibit of seven world class artists titled "The Golem: Visual Visitations," inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' poem "El Golem." This is the third edition of a program that began in Prague in 2002 through the initiative of the Argentinean Embassy in that city, and it was introduced by the renowned poet Václav Havel, then President of the Czech Republic. A second version was later produced with tremendous success at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2003, also introduced by then President of the country, Néstor Kirchner. Now the program travels to the United States for the first time to be shown exclusively at Syracuse University.

The Golem exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery features original works especially commissioned for this exhibit, created by seven artists: from Argentina (Leandro Katz; Pedro Roth); Uruguay (Marta Chilindrón); Puerto Rico (Víctor Vázquez); Syracuse (Tom Sherman; Doug Dubois) and New York (Sarah Kipp). It combines photography, installation and video art.

Visual Journals: Recent Works by SUNY Oswego Faculty
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

Price: Free
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse

Art exhibition featuring recent work by SUNY Oswego faculty members Amy Bartell, Cynthia Clabough, Paul Pearce, Cara Brewer Thompson.

Mapping Linguistics, Revisited: Works by Kelly Roe
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

Price: Free
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse

Kelly Roe's mixed media work will be on display. A professor in the Graphic Design Program at SUNY Oswego, Roe has a background in graphic design, bookmaking and printmaking and sees herself as an anthropologist, artist, editor and scribe. The Mapping Linguistics exhibition explores relationships in linguistics, psychology and child development.

Dawn of a New Age: The Immigrant Contribution to the Arts in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"Dawn of a New Age" tells the story of five artists who immigrated to the United States during the first half of the 20th century: Adolph Bolm, a Russian dancer and choreographer who performed with the Mariinsky Ballet and Ballets Russes; William Lescaze, a Swiss architect who was one of the pioneers of modernism; Louis Lozowick, a Russian printmaker known for his Art Deco and Precision lithographs; Miklós Rózsa, a Hungarian composer of more than 100 film scores, including Ben Hur; and John Vassos, a Greek illustrator and industrial designer. The exhibition draws from the rich holdings of SCRC and showcases more than 50 of the artists' personal papers, manuscripts, photos and artifacts.

This exhibit is part of this year's Syracuse Symposium on the theme "Migration."

Needle Art and Embroidered Stone
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Needle art by members of the American Needlepoint Guild, and fine porcelain and stoneware by Sue Canizares.

Exploring History With Art: Childhood Through The Years
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The latest exhibit in the Exploring History with Art series features paintings from the permanent collection. 19th-century portraits of children, focusing on children of prominent local families, convey historical circumstances as well as social ideals. 20th-century genre paintings show children in their element: in the bathtub, at recess, and on vacation. The exhibit also features historical objects that enliven the space and impart a sense of the experience of childhood from the cradle to school days and play time. Childhood Through The Years is not only an excellent opportunity to delve into the history of childhood but also the exhibition represents a moment, as fleeting as childhood itself, for parents and children to share their experiences through the interplay of art and history.

Works of Pavel Vulkov
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Behind the quiet contemplative character of the rare aquatints of Pavel Vulkov (1908-1956), one feels the presence of an artist who was very well aware of social problems. The artist wished to paint the world as he saw it at any given moment; it was his belief as a man and as an artist, that beauty lay in our ordinary day-to-day experience.

This exhibit is calming, visually engaging, and a rewarding intellectual experience for those viewers who seek to look further.

Warren Kimble's America
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Folk artist Warren Kimble is creator to some of the most successful 20th century Americana. His quaint depictions have graced stationery cards to decorative accessories for the home. Still, few individuals outside of Vermont know him as the artist behind the celebrated imagery that's as American as apple pie.

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is pleased to present a retrospective of the Syracuse alumnus' work including his most recent series Widows of War, which illustrates his personal reaction to the War in Iraq and its effect on women.

Kimble is best known for his patchwork-like paintings of the American flag, bucolic farm animals, and antique barns and homes. His varying flag designs are a symbol of patriotism, a theme which the artist uses often. Portraits of oversized farm animals, from heavy pigs to stocky cows, allude to an 18th-century practice of selecting prize winning livestock for their size. Kimble's stylized barns and farm houses also reveal a penchant for abstract design over architectural accuracy.

In 2005 Kimble began work on Widows of War. After purchasing a black, antique dressmaking mannequin, Kimble saw in it a visual metaphor for the loss and sorrow felt by American wives and mothers during the war. Contrary to the idyllic scenes and colorful animals, the black-and-white series remains a solemn representation of Kimble's sadness and frustration with the war's events and its toll on American lives. The paintings and sculpture, which are intermittently marked by splats of red and barbed wire, further reinforce the feminine connection through symbolic clothespins and textile patterns.

Parking for weekend and evening visitors is in Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Parking is on a space available basis and will be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces are not available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Student Art Open 2008: (Un)doing Fashion
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In this exhibition, high school students explore art through their own experiences and style while drawing inspiration from fashion designer Jeffrey Mayer's exhibition "Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th-Century Superstar."

Fifteen teachers from nine different schools came to hear Jeffrey Mayer's discussion on his exhibition and incorporated its themes into their lesson plans. In the next step of the Student Art Open process, students visited the Everson with their teachers and brought inspirations from the exhibits back to the classroom. Using any media they chose, students created artwork to be submitted for the Open. The teachers then selected two students' works to be on display at the museum. Come see the amazing artwork these students meticulously created for the exhibition.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5 adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Warhol Presents highlights the early commercial career of Andy Warhol, whose whimsical drawings from the 1950s created fantasies that marketed fashion and glamour through evocation. Warhol's penchant for combining art and advertisement quickly made him one of the most well known illustrators of women's fashion in New York. His talen' was sought out by fashion publication giants, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar; and women's footwear designer and retailer, I. Miller Shoe Company.

The exhibition presents 18 of Warhol's rarely seen shoe illustrations including Fantasy Shoes (ca. 1956), a whimsical and humorous take on women's footwear design. Exhibited also are drawings of women's accessories and fashion figures, including Female Fashion Figure (1950s); a vibrant depiction of a chic model alongside an equally stylish car.

Warhol's unique well-wrought line also translated to commissions of large-scale window displays for New York stores, including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's. One example of the artist's window displays is featured in this exhibition in the illustrated reproduction, Miss Dior (1950s); and a 1997 3-dimensional re-creation of Warhol's 1957 Bonwit Teller Window Display, which includes glass perfume bottles and colorful reproduction of a window display screen. Warhol's early drawings and interest in art, identity, and consumerism informed his later pop-icon status, when product and identity literally became his art, and was used to fuel his experimental factory era films.

This exhibition is curated by Natalie Sanderson, Curator of Education at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. The original exhibition, Andy Warhol Presents, was first exhibited at the University Art Museum in 2007.

Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th Century Superstar
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Local artist and designer Jeffrey Mayer will present a post-modern installation of 20th century fashion design inspired by the 18th century fashion sense of Marie Antoinette. Although Marie Antoinette did not really create a style that was personally unique, what she did for fashion in the 1770s was to solidify, refine and intensify the rococo style created by her grandfather-in-law, Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who died in 1764, six years before the 14-year-old Princess even arrived from Austria. Through the exhibition and a publication to be released in the fall, Mayer will be reinterpreting and discussing Marie Antoinette's key concepts of Fantasy, Luxury, and Exoticism.

Marie Antoinette was originally displayed in 2007 in a small space in Syracuse University's Fashion Design Department where Mayer has been Associate Professor of Fashion History and Design since 1992. For the Everson's installation, Mayer has expanded the visual experience to include more than 40 garments displayed on vintage mannequins, an eclectic collection of contemporary fashion accessories, an interactive audio component, and many unique, custom-designed and hand-made objects.

The Northside Mosaic
Our Northside Community Gallery

Price: Free
Our Northside Community Gallery
745 N. Salina St., Syracuse

The Northside Mosaic is a multidisciplinary exhibit, celebrating the myriad of people, cultures and histories that compose Our Northside neighborhood. The exhibit features pieces collected throughout 2007 and 2008 and produced predominantly by people living or working in our community. Through this project, we intend to showcase the brilliant individual lives and rich cultural diversity that exist within the Northside, heighten people's awareness of the struggles and injustices that are present within our neighborhoods, help citizens develop a deeper sense of pride for and ownership of their neighborhoods, bring aesthetic beauty to the area, and catalyze relationships and future collaborative projects among diverse groups of people.

Framing Identities: Collaborations with Students at Nottingham High School
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Atrium Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

An exhibition of photography guided by student mentors in Professor Judith Meighan's "Literacy, Community, Art" course in the Syracuse University's School of Art and Design. The Nottingham High School students exhibiting work are enrolled in Randy Weatherby's "Black and White Photography" course.

The OL Holiday Show
Orange Line Gallery

Price: Free
Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

New to Orange Line Gallery for this show include Jacqueline Adamo, oil painting; J. Francis Maloni, oil painting; Amber Blanding, glass sculpture; and Jennifer Cutter, jewelry. Also on display are the works of recent artists Brandon Hall- mixed media / collage, Chris Luchsinger- acrylic & spraypaint on canvas, David McKenney, photography; Debra Parry Trichilo, photography; Jim Reed, acrylic on canvas; Dustin Angell, photography; Father Andrew Szebenyi, digital paintings; Jace Collins, oil, acrylic and paper on Plexiglas; Melissa Tiffany, collage; Mick Mather, digital manipulations; and Spencer Baker, photography.

Words and Music Songwriter Showcase
Folkus Project
Featuring Colleen Kattau with Jeff Connor and Dana "Short Order" Cooke

Price: $10
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The Words and Music Songwriter Showcase is a celebration of original music from Central New York and beyond, featuring established and emerging artists of all genres in an up-close-and-personal acoustic setting. The series is hosted by singer-songwriter, author, and NPR contributor Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers.

Nick Saint, Private Elf
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $25.95 plus tax and gratuities (includes meal and show)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

The Island of Misfit Toys is the dark, seamy underbelly of Santa's Toyland Town, and Nick Saint will need some help when he heads there on an investigation.

Evolution
Redhouse
Leslie Noble, director
Featuring Patricia Buckley

Price: $25
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

A unique new solo play -- smart and sly, visually arresting and textually inventive. Evolution unearths a mysterious connection between family dynamics and the evolution of whales. In this tragic-comic piece, creator and performer Patricia Buckley invents three fiercely connected but strangely isolated characters who inhabit a world where mundane objects open the door to memory, turning the present into a ghost of the living past. A funny and heartbreaking piece, Evolution speaks to our shared longing for intimacy and transcendent release.

Both Buckley and director Leslie Noble are founding members of the award-winning trio, Gams on the Lam, whose original blend of theatre, dance, clowning and satire has been performed throughout the U.S., Canada and Latin America. They have received funding from NYFA, NYSCA, Arts International and The Franklin Furnace.

Evolution was created with support from the Women's Interart Development Series in New York City, and has been seen as part of guest artist series at LeMoyne and Gettysburg Colleges and received additional readings and workshops at The Berkshire Theatre Festival, Muhlenberg College, Six Figures Theatre Company, and The Franklin Stage Company. Based on the script, Ms. Buckley was an alternate for The Public Theatre's Emerging Artist Program.

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