Friday, April 2, 2010

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Selected by Essence magazine as "30 Women to Watch," Kim Mayhorn is a multi-media artist whose works encompasses installation, video and theatre. Mayhorn has been a video editor for over 10 years and in 1998 she embarked on a new challenge and began creating installations and was awarded her first solo show at HERE Arts Center in New York City entitled "A Woman Was Lynched the Other Day..." This work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

Everything is Illustrated and Winter Solstice
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Everything is Illustrated: Gallery A
Recent work by Eva Calazada, Tian Chen, Barbara Morey, and Benjamin Petrie

Winter Solstice: Gallery B
Works by Cala Glatz, Julia Kester, Jonathan LaPlante, and Beth Mand

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

Life's Closet: Acrylics and Fabric by Anne-Margaret Childress
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Remembrance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lorraine Savidge: "painting with thread" -- hand-guided original machine embroidery depicting landscape and design
Paula Burke: decorative and functional ceramics
Barbara Kellogg: abstract water media collages based on places visited
Lauren Bristol: string objects/garments referencing ancient rituals and record keeping

Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Darryl Hughto & Susan Roth: New Paintings and Sculptures
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibition will feature paintings by both artists created specifically for this exhibition, as well as recent sculptures. A full color exhibition catalog will be available which will include an essay by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

{un}familiar
Redhouse

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

{un}familiar, curated by Maeve Mulrennan of the Galway Arts Centre in Ireland, takes as its starting point research by Professor Olaf Blanke into out-of-body-experiences. The selected artists have been invited to make a new work for the exhibition. They have been given research texts by the curator, which include Prof. Blanke's case studies, Foucault's Of Other Spaces, Heterotopias and Alice's Adventure's In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

The artists were selected not because they have explored this territory before: it is because they each show a need to investigate the unknown, to immerse themselves in the unheimlich and reveal fears, myths and truths surrounding their subjects. Each artist works in various media, including performance, video, painting, drawing, collage and sculpture.

{un}familiar features the work of Michelle Browne, Benji de Burca, Cecilia Danell, Vera Klute, Sabina MacMahon, and Julia Pallone. The opening reception will include a performance of "The World Could Wait No Longer" by Mark Clare on the Red House stage. A video of this performance will be shown throughout the remainder of the exhibition.

Act 2: Recent Work by Michelle DaRin
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Act 2 represents a pivotal moment in life and art for artist, Michelle DaRin. Known regionally and nationally as a designer of fine art jewelry, Michelle also creates sculptural assemblages. These combine found objects, reclaimed wood, fiber, and metal, and objects cast in bronze. Michelle's jewelry also incorporates various elements, including forged and enameled copper, cast silver, fiber, resin, and stones. Her jewelry and sculpture will both be featured in this exhibition.

MFA MMX (2010)
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual exhibition of masters of fine arts candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts will include 20 artists displaying a broad range of traditional and contemporary work, including painting, ceramics and sculpture, as well as digital photography, installation, and computer art.

While the artists work independently on their thesis concepts, themes have routinely emerged within the group—crossing the boundaries of media and style. This year's exhibition is no exception; the work exudes a highly developed sense of technique and thought. In MFA MMX, however, the artists engage the viewer, both physically and psychologically, in a way not seen in previous MFA exhibitions. The narrative photography of Jared Landberg, a documentary film by Sonya Pollard, and the video installation of Esther Probst are examples of the thematic way many the artists record their personal history or specific experiences. Another pervading theme in the exhibition is interaction: walking through the unique environments created by painters Gwendolyn Mercado-Reyes and Jessica Sharpe, playing the autobiographical video game created by Ryan Marchand, or taking one of the hundreds of ceramic cups thrown by Shawn O'Connor; the viewer is invited to physically take part in the artistic experience.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

Read a review!

The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Rodger Mack Exhibition
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park

Price: Free
The Spring: Center for Spiritual & Cultural Unity
200 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibit will feature a total of 104 paintings by the late Rodger Mack, one of Syracuse's most well-known and well-loved artists. Internationally known for his sculptures, Mack was also a dynamic painter who created colorful, vibrant works.

The paintings are provided by Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, and the exhibition is made possible by a collaboration between the Park, The Spring and Syracuse University. Proceeds from the sale of Mack's art will go equally to the three not-for-profits.

Fresh Produce
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

An exhibit of works by S.U. School of Art and Design first- and second-year M.F.A. students.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Reassemblages
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

Mark Povinelli is curating this exhibition of over 80 or more of his most recent drawings. He navigates mythaglyphic language within the matrix of drawings as captured portals.

Also on display is a window installation designed by Mark Povinelli.

Boys & Girls: The Art of Diane Menzies and Mary Giehl
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Each year in America over 3 million children are abused, nearly 2,000 die, some run away, others are abandoned, all have their own challenges with this sojourn through adolescence. Each day in America, 6 children die from abuse, 100,000 children are homeless, 8 children die from guns, 219 children die before their first birthday, 1,534 babies are born to teenage girls.

In the paintings by Diane Menzies and installations by Mary Giehl, there are hints of darkness and confinement along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness. The work challenges the viewer to take a deeper look at what these images of childhood are telling us.

Shayna Dulberger with Warren Smith and Bill Cole
Community Folk Art Center
John Coltrane Memorial Contemporary Jazz Series

Price: Free
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-442-2230.

Joe Crookston
Folkus Project

Price: $12
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Full of spontaneity, energy, and with a lively sense of humor, Joe Crookston is a remarkable musician. But the real miracle of his performances is his charismatic presence and rapport with the crowd. An engaging performer, Crookston can be intense one moment and playful the next. Whether it's his mesmerizing guitar sound, bubbling banjo, finely crafted lyrics, or his kinetic connection with his audience, his music exudes a remarkable intergenerational, universal and timeless quality. Based in Ithaca, Crookston is a multi-instrumentalist, and his mastery of guitar, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, mandolin, and accordion fuses contemporary and traditional elements. His music is deeply rooted in the grand celebration of life, death, ancestry, and the interconnectedness of us all. His skillful songwriting mixes clever lyrics with traditional melodies to convey complex ideas and sentiments. Earthy and spiritual, his songs reveals his personal take on the natural world.

Chase Twichell, poet
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
Hall of Languages, Room 500
Syracuse University, Syracuse

A practicing Buddhist, Chase Twichell has published six books of poetry: Dog Language, The Snow Watcher, The Ghost of Eden, Perdido, The Odds, and Northern Spy. Forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in April is Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been: New and Selected Poems. She is also co-editor of The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach.

The DWC is proud to co-sponsor this reading with Syracuse University's Graduate Student Organization and Student Buddhist Association, and the Zen Center of Syracuse.

Mud and A Kind of Alaska
Black Box Players

Price: Free
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Mud
Ignorance and poverty wage war against the mind and spirit in this contemporary drama about a young woman named Mae and her desperate struggle to transcend extreme rural poverty, crippling illiteracy, and a confining gender role. Simultaneously raw and poetic, her tragedy will arouse your pity and fear, while revealing the utmost limits of the human spirit. Written by Maria Irene Fornes, directed by Jordan Rosin.

A Kind of Alaska
The extraordinarily intense drama by Harold Pinter, based on Oliver Sacks' book Awakenings, drives deeply into a world of uncertainty. After 29 years of being in a catatonic-like sleep, Deborah, now 45, awakens to find her world completely turned upside down. She struggles to find clarity in herself and desperately wants to believe that nothing has changed, while everything in her life, her family, her sisters have all changed while she has been stuck only in her mind. Directed by Alex Alcheh.

Jesus Christ Superstar
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $30, $25, $20
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Bob Brown's farewell performance as Jesus.

Almost, Maine
Syracuse Stage

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

It's all about love, and like love, it is never what you expect. Meet the people of Almost, Maine, a tiny town so far north Vermont is considered the South. One winter night, with the aurora borealis creating celestial enchantment, eight couples fall under the spell of that funny little unpredictable thing called love. By turns touching, comic, warm, gentle, and altogether surprising, Almost, Maine is a funny Valentine of a play that will make you smile with your heart. By John Cariani.

Read a Review!

Room Service
Syracuse University Drama Department
Robert Moss, director

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

This comic delight from the 1930s is a real treat for anyone who loves theatre and especially for those who love the people who make theatre. An unscrupulous Broadway producer struggles to find a backer for his new show, which he knows will be a smash hit. Holed up in a Times Square hotel with 19 hungry actors and a ballooning room service bill, he tries to forestall eviction by concocting a series of ever-more preposterous events. A gem from an era of great American comedy.

Read a Review!

Saturday, April 3, 2010

The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

Read a review!

Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

Act 2: Recent Work by Michelle DaRin
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Act 2 represents a pivotal moment in life and art for artist, Michelle DaRin. Known regionally and nationally as a designer of fine art jewelry, Michelle also creates sculptural assemblages. These combine found objects, reclaimed wood, fiber, and metal, and objects cast in bronze. Michelle's jewelry also incorporates various elements, including forged and enameled copper, cast silver, fiber, resin, and stones. Her jewelry and sculpture will both be featured in this exhibition.

MFA MMX (2010)
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual exhibition of masters of fine arts candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts will include 20 artists displaying a broad range of traditional and contemporary work, including painting, ceramics and sculpture, as well as digital photography, installation, and computer art.

While the artists work independently on their thesis concepts, themes have routinely emerged within the group—crossing the boundaries of media and style. This year's exhibition is no exception; the work exudes a highly developed sense of technique and thought. In MFA MMX, however, the artists engage the viewer, both physically and psychologically, in a way not seen in previous MFA exhibitions. The narrative photography of Jared Landberg, a documentary film by Sonya Pollard, and the video installation of Esther Probst are examples of the thematic way many the artists record their personal history or specific experiences. Another pervading theme in the exhibition is interaction: walking through the unique environments created by painters Gwendolyn Mercado-Reyes and Jessica Sharpe, playing the autobiographical video game created by Ryan Marchand, or taking one of the hundreds of ceramic cups thrown by Shawn O'Connor; the viewer is invited to physically take part in the artistic experience.

Boys & Girls: The Art of Diane Menzies and Mary Giehl
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Each year in America over 3 million children are abused, nearly 2,000 die, some run away, others are abandoned, all have their own challenges with this sojourn through adolescence. Each day in America, 6 children die from abuse, 100,000 children are homeless, 8 children die from guns, 219 children die before their first birthday, 1,534 babies are born to teenage girls.

In the paintings by Diane Menzies and installations by Mary Giehl, there are hints of darkness and confinement along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness. The work challenges the viewer to take a deeper look at what these images of childhood are telling us.

Reassemblages
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

Mark Povinelli is curating this exhibition of over 80 or more of his most recent drawings. He navigates mythaglyphic language within the matrix of drawings as captured portals.

Also on display is a window installation designed by Mark Povinelli.

Darryl Hughto & Susan Roth: New Paintings and Sculptures
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibition will feature paintings by both artists created specifically for this exhibition, as well as recent sculptures. A full color exhibition catalog will be available which will include an essay by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

Rodger Mack Exhibition
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park

Price: Free
The Spring: Center for Spiritual & Cultural Unity
200 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibit will feature a total of 104 paintings by the late Rodger Mack, one of Syracuse's most well-known and well-loved artists. Internationally known for his sculptures, Mack was also a dynamic painter who created colorful, vibrant works.

The paintings are provided by Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, and the exhibition is made possible by a collaboration between the Park, The Spring and Syracuse University. Proceeds from the sale of Mack's art will go equally to the three not-for-profits.

Fresh Produce
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

An exhibit of works by S.U. School of Art and Design first- and second-year M.F.A. students.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Don't Feed the Actors Dinner Theater
Don't Feed the Actors

Price: Dinner theater: $25 single; $40 couple. Show only: $15 on day of show if seating available
Fire and Ice Banquet Hall, The Locker Room
528 Hiawatha Blvd., Syracuse

Audience-interactive improv comedy with some of Syracuse's finest comedic actors.

Dinner 6:45 pm, show begins at 8:00 pm.

Read a review!

SaturdaySCREENINGS: Silent Waters
ArtRage Gallery

Price: $5 suggested donation
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Pakistani film. A widow with a secret past lives with her son in a peaceful Pakistani town, close to the Indian border. As Islamic nationalism takes root, her son turns to jihadism, changing the tranquility of their lives. An eye-opening look into Pakistan, past and present. Locarno International Film Festival: Best Film, Best Actress. (2003, directed by Sabiha Sumar)

Soulive + Downbeat Keys
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Br'er Rabbit in Love
Open Hand Theater
Puppets with Pizazz

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

To capture the heart of the beautiful Miss Meadows, Br'er Rabbit asks the Magic Bunny to make him a love charm. She agrees only if he will supply the ingredients: a whisker from a wildcat, a tooth from an alligator, and a foot from a chicken that has been eaten by a wolf. Mischief and trickery abound in this wonderful, fast-paced African-American folk tale. Puppetmaster Nancy Sander, the "Puppet Lady of Ohio," has been performing for over 25 years. As principal puppeteer for the nationally syndicated television show, "Hickory Hideout" she received an Emmy Award for her work in children's television.

Room Service
Syracuse University Drama Department
Robert Moss, director

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

This comic delight from the 1930s is a real treat for anyone who loves theatre and especially for those who love the people who make theatre. An unscrupulous Broadway producer struggles to find a backer for his new show, which he knows will be a smash hit. Holed up in a Times Square hotel with 19 hungry actors and a ballooning room service bill, he tries to forestall eviction by concocting a series of ever-more preposterous events. A gem from an era of great American comedy.

Read a Review!

Almost, Maine
Syracuse Stage

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

It's all about love, and like love, it is never what you expect. Meet the people of Almost, Maine, a tiny town so far north Vermont is considered the South. One winter night, with the aurora borealis creating celestial enchantment, eight couples fall under the spell of that funny little unpredictable thing called love. By turns touching, comic, warm, gentle, and altogether surprising, Almost, Maine is a funny Valentine of a play that will make you smile with your heart. By John Cariani.

Read a Review!

Idol Assassination
Without a Cue Productions
Sara Caliva, director

Price: $37.25 includes dinner and show
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

It's the final night of Big American Star, and America is going to get a chance to vote for its next...big American star. The contestants are at each other's throats, dangerously close to ripping out one another's vocal chords, while the judges and host stir up drama to boost sagging ratings. By the time the contestants are ready to sing, the atmosphere has turned murderous, and the contestants may "knock 'em dead" in more ways than one.

The show is an interactive murder mystery that involves the members of the audience.

Mud and A Kind of Alaska
Black Box Players

Price: Free
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Mud
Ignorance and poverty wage war against the mind and spirit in this contemporary drama about a young woman named Mae and her desperate struggle to transcend extreme rural poverty, crippling illiteracy, and a confining gender role. Simultaneously raw and poetic, her tragedy will arouse your pity and fear, while revealing the utmost limits of the human spirit. Written by Maria Irene Fornes, directed by Jordan Rosin.

A Kind of Alaska
The extraordinarily intense drama by Harold Pinter, based on Oliver Sacks' book Awakenings, drives deeply into a world of uncertainty. After 29 years of being in a catatonic-like sleep, Deborah, now 45, awakens to find her world completely turned upside down. She struggles to find clarity in herself and desperately wants to believe that nothing has changed, while everything in her life, her family, her sisters have all changed while she has been stuck only in her mind. Directed by Alex Alcheh.

Jesus Christ Superstar
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $30, $25, $20
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Introducing Tallon Larham as Jesus.

Almost, Maine
Syracuse Stage

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

It's all about love, and like love, it is never what you expect. Meet the people of Almost, Maine, a tiny town so far north Vermont is considered the South. One winter night, with the aurora borealis creating celestial enchantment, eight couples fall under the spell of that funny little unpredictable thing called love. By turns touching, comic, warm, gentle, and altogether surprising, Almost, Maine is a funny Valentine of a play that will make you smile with your heart. By John Cariani.

Read a Review!

Room Service
Syracuse University Drama Department
Robert Moss, director

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

This comic delight from the 1930s is a real treat for anyone who loves theatre and especially for those who love the people who make theatre. An unscrupulous Broadway producer struggles to find a backer for his new show, which he knows will be a smash hit. Holed up in a Times Square hotel with 19 hungry actors and a ballooning room service bill, he tries to forestall eviction by concocting a series of ever-more preposterous events. A gem from an era of great American comedy.

Read a Review!

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Act 2: Recent Work by Michelle DaRin
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Act 2 represents a pivotal moment in life and art for artist, Michelle DaRin. Known regionally and nationally as a designer of fine art jewelry, Michelle also creates sculptural assemblages. These combine found objects, reclaimed wood, fiber, and metal, and objects cast in bronze. Michelle's jewelry also incorporates various elements, including forged and enameled copper, cast silver, fiber, resin, and stones. Her jewelry and sculpture will both be featured in this exhibition.

Reassemblages
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

Mark Povinelli is curating this exhibition of over 80 or more of his most recent drawings. He navigates mythaglyphic language within the matrix of drawings as captured portals.

Also on display is a window installation designed by Mark Povinelli.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

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The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Fresh Produce
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

An exhibit of works by S.U. School of Art and Design first- and second-year M.F.A. students.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Bryan Richardson, South China, Klessa, Laura Stevenson and the Cans
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Price: $7
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

South China was born in 2002 as a marriage, musically and literally, of Jeremy and Jerusha Robinson. Their individual backgrounds in experimental rock and classical music produce a sound that feels sparse and improvised, evoking a slightly dark and dream-like state, like trying to recall something that is just beyond the edges of memory. They draw listeners into their intimate world of Maine winters, bittersweet moments, subtle humor, and the bizarre dream imagery.

Klessa is composed of clarinets, piano, accordion, organ, glockenspiels, flute, guitars, two drums, sleigh bells, and 4 sets of lungs that sing. They have finally gotten it together to create an album. "Aloha Demons" has materialized over months, with the help of many hands and many hearts.

With infectious melodies accompanied by intricate guitar, crumbling distortion, trumpets, and violins - the minimalist and 'sweetly cacophonous' Brooklyn outfit, Laura Stevenson and the Cans, will make you smile or crush your soul depending on your current level of sadness.

Boombox + Family Farm, Pax Effex
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Almost, Maine
Syracuse Stage

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

It's all about love, and like love, it is never what you expect. Meet the people of Almost, Maine, a tiny town so far north Vermont is considered the South. One winter night, with the aurora borealis creating celestial enchantment, eight couples fall under the spell of that funny little unpredictable thing called love. By turns touching, comic, warm, gentle, and altogether surprising, Almost, Maine is a funny Valentine of a play that will make you smile with your heart. By John Cariani.

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Mud and A Kind of Alaska
Black Box Players

Price: Free
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Mud
Ignorance and poverty wage war against the mind and spirit in this contemporary drama about a young woman named Mae and her desperate struggle to transcend extreme rural poverty, crippling illiteracy, and a confining gender role. Simultaneously raw and poetic, her tragedy will arouse your pity and fear, while revealing the utmost limits of the human spirit. Written by Maria Irene Fornes, directed by Jordan Rosin.

A Kind of Alaska
The extraordinarily intense drama by Harold Pinter, based on Oliver Sacks' book Awakenings, drives deeply into a world of uncertainty. After 29 years of being in a catatonic-like sleep, Deborah, now 45, awakens to find her world completely turned upside down. She struggles to find clarity in herself and desperately wants to believe that nothing has changed, while everything in her life, her family, her sisters have all changed while she has been stuck only in her mind. Directed by Alex Alcheh.

Monday, April 5, 2010

Annual Le Moyne College Student Art Exhibition
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exhibition of student work from the Art and Photography Department. It is an annual exhibit that showcases some of the best work produced by Onondaga student in the preceding academic year.

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Selected by Essence magazine as "30 Women to Watch," Kim Mayhorn is a multi-media artist whose works encompasses installation, video and theatre. Mayhorn has been a video editor for over 10 years and in 1998 she embarked on a new challenge and began creating installations and was awarded her first solo show at HERE Arts Center in New York City entitled "A Woman Was Lynched the Other Day..." This work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Darryl Hughto & Susan Roth: New Paintings and Sculptures
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibition will feature paintings by both artists created specifically for this exhibition, as well as recent sculptures. A full color exhibition catalog will be available which will include an essay by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

{un}familiar
Redhouse

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

{un}familiar, curated by Maeve Mulrennan of the Galway Arts Centre in Ireland, takes as its starting point research by Professor Olaf Blanke into out-of-body-experiences. The selected artists have been invited to make a new work for the exhibition. They have been given research texts by the curator, which include Prof. Blanke's case studies, Foucault's Of Other Spaces, Heterotopias and Alice's Adventure's In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

The artists were selected not because they have explored this territory before: it is because they each show a need to investigate the unknown, to immerse themselves in the unheimlich and reveal fears, myths and truths surrounding their subjects. Each artist works in various media, including performance, video, painting, drawing, collage and sculpture.

{un}familiar features the work of Michelle Browne, Benji de Burca, Cecilia Danell, Vera Klute, Sabina MacMahon, and Julia Pallone. The opening reception will include a performance of "The World Could Wait No Longer" by Mark Clare on the Red House stage. A video of this performance will be shown throughout the remainder of the exhibition.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Annual Le Moyne College Student Art Exhibition
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exhibition of student work from the Art and Photography Department. It is an annual exhibit that showcases some of the best work produced by Onondaga student in the preceding academic year.

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Selected by Essence magazine as "30 Women to Watch," Kim Mayhorn is a multi-media artist whose works encompasses installation, video and theatre. Mayhorn has been a video editor for over 10 years and in 1998 she embarked on a new challenge and began creating installations and was awarded her first solo show at HERE Arts Center in New York City entitled "A Woman Was Lynched the Other Day..." This work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

Everything is Illustrated and Winter Solstice
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Everything is Illustrated: Gallery A
Recent work by Eva Calazada, Tian Chen, Barbara Morey, and Benjamin Petrie

Winter Solstice: Gallery B
Works by Cala Glatz, Julia Kester, Jonathan LaPlante, and Beth Mand

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Darryl Hughto & Susan Roth: New Paintings and Sculptures
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibition will feature paintings by both artists created specifically for this exhibition, as well as recent sculptures. A full color exhibition catalog will be available which will include an essay by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

{un}familiar
Redhouse

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

{un}familiar, curated by Maeve Mulrennan of the Galway Arts Centre in Ireland, takes as its starting point research by Professor Olaf Blanke into out-of-body-experiences. The selected artists have been invited to make a new work for the exhibition. They have been given research texts by the curator, which include Prof. Blanke's case studies, Foucault's Of Other Spaces, Heterotopias and Alice's Adventure's In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

The artists were selected not because they have explored this territory before: it is because they each show a need to investigate the unknown, to immerse themselves in the unheimlich and reveal fears, myths and truths surrounding their subjects. Each artist works in various media, including performance, video, painting, drawing, collage and sculpture.

{un}familiar features the work of Michelle Browne, Benji de Burca, Cecilia Danell, Vera Klute, Sabina MacMahon, and Julia Pallone. The opening reception will include a performance of "The World Could Wait No Longer" by Mark Clare on the Red House stage. A video of this performance will be shown throughout the remainder of the exhibition.

MFA MMX (2010)
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual exhibition of masters of fine arts candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts will include 20 artists displaying a broad range of traditional and contemporary work, including painting, ceramics and sculpture, as well as digital photography, installation, and computer art.

While the artists work independently on their thesis concepts, themes have routinely emerged within the group—crossing the boundaries of media and style. This year's exhibition is no exception; the work exudes a highly developed sense of technique and thought. In MFA MMX, however, the artists engage the viewer, both physically and psychologically, in a way not seen in previous MFA exhibitions. The narrative photography of Jared Landberg, a documentary film by Sonya Pollard, and the video installation of Esther Probst are examples of the thematic way many the artists record their personal history or specific experiences. Another pervading theme in the exhibition is interaction: walking through the unique environments created by painters Gwendolyn Mercado-Reyes and Jessica Sharpe, playing the autobiographical video game created by Ryan Marchand, or taking one of the hundreds of ceramic cups thrown by Shawn O'Connor; the viewer is invited to physically take part in the artistic experience.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

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Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

A Voice for Children
University Lectures
Featuring Marian Wright Edelman

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Marian Wright Edelman has been an advocate for disadvantaged Americans for her entire professional life. Under her leadership, Children's Defense Fund has become the nation's strongest voice for children and families. The Leave No Child Behind mission of the CDFund is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. Edelman began her career in the mid-'60s when, as the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, she directed the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson, MS. She served as counsel for the Poor People's Campaign in Washington, DC, founded the Washington Research Project, and served as the director of the Center for Law and Education at Harvard University for two years. Her work has earned her numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. A prolific author, her latest book, The Sea is So Wide and My Boat is So Small: Charting a Course for the Next Generation, was released last fall.

Reduced-rate parking for the event is available in the Irving Avenue parking garage.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Windjammer Vocal Jazz Ensemble

Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, phone 315-443-2191.

Almost, Maine
Syracuse Stage

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

It's all about love, and like love, it is never what you expect. Meet the people of Almost, Maine, a tiny town so far north Vermont is considered the South. One winter night, with the aurora borealis creating celestial enchantment, eight couples fall under the spell of that funny little unpredictable thing called love. By turns touching, comic, warm, gentle, and altogether surprising, Almost, Maine is a funny Valentine of a play that will make you smile with your heart. By John Cariani.

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Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Annual Le Moyne College Student Art Exhibition
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exhibition of student work from the Art and Photography Department. It is an annual exhibit that showcases some of the best work produced by Onondaga student in the preceding academic year.

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Selected by Essence magazine as "30 Women to Watch," Kim Mayhorn is a multi-media artist whose works encompasses installation, video and theatre. Mayhorn has been a video editor for over 10 years and in 1998 she embarked on a new challenge and began creating installations and was awarded her first solo show at HERE Arts Center in New York City entitled "A Woman Was Lynched the Other Day..." This work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

Everything is Illustrated and Winter Solstice
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Everything is Illustrated: Gallery A
Recent work by Eva Calazada, Tian Chen, Barbara Morey, and Benjamin Petrie

Winter Solstice: Gallery B
Works by Cala Glatz, Julia Kester, Jonathan LaPlante, and Beth Mand

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Darryl Hughto & Susan Roth: New Paintings and Sculptures
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibition will feature paintings by both artists created specifically for this exhibition, as well as recent sculptures. A full color exhibition catalog will be available which will include an essay by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

{un}familiar
Redhouse

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

{un}familiar, curated by Maeve Mulrennan of the Galway Arts Centre in Ireland, takes as its starting point research by Professor Olaf Blanke into out-of-body-experiences. The selected artists have been invited to make a new work for the exhibition. They have been given research texts by the curator, which include Prof. Blanke's case studies, Foucault's Of Other Spaces, Heterotopias and Alice's Adventure's In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

The artists were selected not because they have explored this territory before: it is because they each show a need to investigate the unknown, to immerse themselves in the unheimlich and reveal fears, myths and truths surrounding their subjects. Each artist works in various media, including performance, video, painting, drawing, collage and sculpture.

{un}familiar features the work of Michelle Browne, Benji de Burca, Cecilia Danell, Vera Klute, Sabina MacMahon, and Julia Pallone. The opening reception will include a performance of "The World Could Wait No Longer" by Mark Clare on the Red House stage. A video of this performance will be shown throughout the remainder of the exhibition.

MFA MMX (2010)
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual exhibition of masters of fine arts candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts will include 20 artists displaying a broad range of traditional and contemporary work, including painting, ceramics and sculpture, as well as digital photography, installation, and computer art.

While the artists work independently on their thesis concepts, themes have routinely emerged within the group—crossing the boundaries of media and style. This year's exhibition is no exception; the work exudes a highly developed sense of technique and thought. In MFA MMX, however, the artists engage the viewer, both physically and psychologically, in a way not seen in previous MFA exhibitions. The narrative photography of Jared Landberg, a documentary film by Sonya Pollard, and the video installation of Esther Probst are examples of the thematic way many the artists record their personal history or specific experiences. Another pervading theme in the exhibition is interaction: walking through the unique environments created by painters Gwendolyn Mercado-Reyes and Jessica Sharpe, playing the autobiographical video game created by Ryan Marchand, or taking one of the hundreds of ceramic cups thrown by Shawn O'Connor; the viewer is invited to physically take part in the artistic experience.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

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Fresh Produce
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

An exhibit of works by S.U. School of Art and Design first- and second-year M.F.A. students.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Boys & Girls: The Art of Diane Menzies and Mary Giehl
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Each year in America over 3 million children are abused, nearly 2,000 die, some run away, others are abandoned, all have their own challenges with this sojourn through adolescence. Each day in America, 6 children die from abuse, 100,000 children are homeless, 8 children die from guns, 219 children die before their first birthday, 1,534 babies are born to teenage girls.

In the paintings by Diane Menzies and installations by Mary Giehl, there are hints of darkness and confinement along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness. The work challenges the viewer to take a deeper look at what these images of childhood are telling us.

Photo Show and Sale
Syracuse Camera Club

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

The Syracuse Camera Club will hold an exhibition of members' photographs during the month of April. There will be an opening reception and sale on Wed., April 7 from 7:00-9:00 pm.

"What if..." Film Series: Philadelphia: The Holy Experiment
Gifford Foundation

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

The Gifford Foundation presents the "What if..." film series, featuring films about community revitalization efforts around the United States. Each film documents the successes and struggles communities have experienced, and their varying methods of revitalizing these neighborhoods, from murals and gardens to community activism. Each will be followed by a moderated discussion.

Philadelphia: The Holy Experiment, hosted by actor David Morse, describes how concerned citizens like activists Doris Gualtney and Iris Brown, muralist Jane Golden, sculptor Lily Yeh, musician Kenny Gamble, gardener Mary Corby, restauranteur Judy Wicks, grieving father Ed Elliss, and the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's "Philly Green" initiative have all combined to grow a new title—Farmadelphia—for the city.

For further information about the "What If..." series, contact Lindsay McClung at lmcclung@giffordfd.org or by phone at 315-474-2489. Details are also available on the Foundation website or Facebook page.

Matthew and Stephen Pikarsky, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

Price: Free
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Pianists Matthew and Stephen Pikarsky, in their first-ever joint appearance, will play
Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, and Liszt's Dante Sonata and Second Hungarian Rhapsody for piano four hands. Both brothers have been winners of the CMM/SSO Youth Concerto Competition, Matthew at age 13, and Stephen at age 11. Their first joint concert presents them in a completely new capacity!

Out to Lunch
LeMoyne College
Featuring Russ Johnson Quintet

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Russ Johnson Quintet will perform Eric Dolphy's "Out to Lunch" album.

Br'er, Tony Benn, Josefin Fundin
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Price: $5
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Br'er is primarily a recording project for Philadelphia native Benjamin Schurr, employing a large host of musicians in the area to create his dense experimental pop compositions. Formed originally as a means to complete several unfinished songs Benjamin recorded for another project, Br'er quickly became its own entity after several manic recording sessions with borrowed equipment, broken keyboards, and other pieces of musical trash lying around. Br'er became a functional band with the addition of harpist/multi-instrumentalist Darian Scatton in July of 2007, and after several line up changes, now usually contains Benjamin Schurr, Darian Scatton, and Roger Alejandro Martinez.

Tony Benn is a singer/songwriter from Miltown Malbay, County Clare, Ireland and has been playing music since the 1990s. Benn started off his career in the grunge band Exploding Marmalade (Winner of the 2005 Temple Bar new bands competition and featured on the Irish top 30 list). Since then he has been in a variety of bands (Sexy Results, Addiction, Soul Panda and Miles) and busking on the streets of Dublin. His self-titled solo record was released in the summer of 2009 featuring collaborations with American songstress Johnette Napolitano and new European talent like Anthony Ward and Rebeca Massey.

Josefin Fundin is that charismatic Swedish girl you probably never met. A strong believer in today's do-it-yourself era, Fundin has taken on the role of musician, producer and recording engineer to create a representation of her evocative strength and lyrical poise. Fundin has now released her second self-produced EP within a year. This City is a six-track EP inspired by the Big Apple itself. After the release of her first solo EP, Silly Lamb, Never Learns (Feb. 09) she moved across the ocean and spent the first half of the year playing at bars and clubs in the New York City area.

Almost, Maine
Syracuse Stage

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

It's all about love, and like love, it is never what you expect. Meet the people of Almost, Maine, a tiny town so far north Vermont is considered the South. One winter night, with the aurora borealis creating celestial enchantment, eight couples fall under the spell of that funny little unpredictable thing called love. By turns touching, comic, warm, gentle, and altogether surprising, Almost, Maine is a funny Valentine of a play that will make you smile with your heart. By John Cariani.

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Thursday, April 8, 2010

Annual Le Moyne College Student Art Exhibition
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exhibition of student work from the Art and Photography Department. It is an annual exhibit that showcases some of the best work produced by Onondaga student in the preceding academic year.

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Selected by Essence magazine as "30 Women to Watch," Kim Mayhorn is a multi-media artist whose works encompasses installation, video and theatre. Mayhorn has been a video editor for over 10 years and in 1998 she embarked on a new challenge and began creating installations and was awarded her first solo show at HERE Arts Center in New York City entitled "A Woman Was Lynched the Other Day..." This work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

Everything is Illustrated and Winter Solstice
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Everything is Illustrated: Gallery A
Recent work by Eva Calazada, Tian Chen, Barbara Morey, and Benjamin Petrie

Winter Solstice: Gallery B
Works by Cala Glatz, Julia Kester, Jonathan LaPlante, and Beth Mand

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

New Works by Michael Weismore
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Michael Weismore will be displaying 25 of his new original abstract oil paintings, including a set of 10 paintings titled "Ode to Pollock." For this group of paintings, Weismore has incorporated Jackson Pollock's drip technique over his own original paintings.

The artist has a form of color blindness that affects less then 1% of people. Color blindness has only "hindered one of his paintings. He accidentally painted the sky and trees purple in an ocean landscape. It ended up being one of the first paintings of his that was ever sold by an art dealer.

In 2006, Michael was commissioned to do a painting for rock and roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis. A few years later, the artist received the 2009 Best Abstract Award from the Everson Museum.

Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Darryl Hughto & Susan Roth: New Paintings and Sculptures
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibition will feature paintings by both artists created specifically for this exhibition, as well as recent sculptures. A full color exhibition catalog will be available which will include an essay by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

{un}familiar
Redhouse

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

{un}familiar, curated by Maeve Mulrennan of the Galway Arts Centre in Ireland, takes as its starting point research by Professor Olaf Blanke into out-of-body-experiences. The selected artists have been invited to make a new work for the exhibition. They have been given research texts by the curator, which include Prof. Blanke's case studies, Foucault's Of Other Spaces, Heterotopias and Alice's Adventure's In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

The artists were selected not because they have explored this territory before: it is because they each show a need to investigate the unknown, to immerse themselves in the unheimlich and reveal fears, myths and truths surrounding their subjects. Each artist works in various media, including performance, video, painting, drawing, collage and sculpture.

{un}familiar features the work of Michelle Browne, Benji de Burca, Cecilia Danell, Vera Klute, Sabina MacMahon, and Julia Pallone. The opening reception will include a performance of "The World Could Wait No Longer" by Mark Clare on the Red House stage. A video of this performance will be shown throughout the remainder of the exhibition.

Act 2: Recent Work by Michelle DaRin
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Act 2 represents a pivotal moment in life and art for artist, Michelle DaRin. Known regionally and nationally as a designer of fine art jewelry, Michelle also creates sculptural assemblages. These combine found objects, reclaimed wood, fiber, and metal, and objects cast in bronze. Michelle's jewelry also incorporates various elements, including forged and enameled copper, cast silver, fiber, resin, and stones. Her jewelry and sculpture will both be featured in this exhibition.

MFA MMX (2010)
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

There will be a gallery reception from 5:00-7:00 pm.

The annual exhibition of masters of fine arts candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts will include 20 artists displaying a broad range of traditional and contemporary work, including painting, ceramics and sculpture, as well as digital photography, installation, and computer art.

While the artists work independently on their thesis concepts, themes have routinely emerged within the group—crossing the boundaries of media and style. This year's exhibition is no exception; the work exudes a highly developed sense of technique and thought. In MFA MMX, however, the artists engage the viewer, both physically and psychologically, in a way not seen in previous MFA exhibitions. The narrative photography of Jared Landberg, a documentary film by Sonya Pollard, and the video installation of Esther Probst are examples of the thematic way many the artists record their personal history or specific experiences. Another pervading theme in the exhibition is interaction: walking through the unique environments created by painters Gwendolyn Mercado-Reyes and Jessica Sharpe, playing the autobiographical video game created by Ryan Marchand, or taking one of the hundreds of ceramic cups thrown by Shawn O'Connor; the viewer is invited to physically take part in the artistic experience.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

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Rodger Mack Exhibition
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park

Price: Free
The Spring: Center for Spiritual & Cultural Unity
200 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibit will feature a total of 104 paintings by the late Rodger Mack, one of Syracuse's most well-known and well-loved artists. Internationally known for his sculptures, Mack was also a dynamic painter who created colorful, vibrant works.

The paintings are provided by Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, and the exhibition is made possible by a collaboration between the Park, The Spring and Syracuse University. Proceeds from the sale of Mack's art will go equally to the three not-for-profits.

Fresh Produce
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

An exhibit of works by S.U. School of Art and Design first- and second-year M.F.A. students.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Reassemblages
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

Mark Povinelli is curating this exhibition of over 80 or more of his most recent drawings. He navigates mythaglyphic language within the matrix of drawings as captured portals.

Also on display is a window installation designed by Mark Povinelli.

Boys & Girls: The Art of Diane Menzies and Mary Giehl
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Each year in America over 3 million children are abused, nearly 2,000 die, some run away, others are abandoned, all have their own challenges with this sojourn through adolescence. Each day in America, 6 children die from abuse, 100,000 children are homeless, 8 children die from guns, 219 children die before their first birthday, 1,534 babies are born to teenage girls.

In the paintings by Diane Menzies and installations by Mary Giehl, there are hints of darkness and confinement along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness. The work challenges the viewer to take a deeper look at what these images of childhood are telling us.

Wild Card Exhibition: Continuing Works
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A selection of work by over 60 artists who have previously shown at the gallery.

Opening: The Color of Spring
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

What better way to welcome spring? The Color of Spring is a collection of lush batiks by Marilyn Forth and vibrant watercolors by Elizabeth M. Hueber and Louise Woodard. In addition to the colorful dramatic imagery, the works of all three artists lay claim to another harbinger of spring—the awakening joy that the new season brings, especially in the sharing of the creative process with viewers.

2010 Syracuse Poster Project Unveiling

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

The Poster Project brings together area poets and Syracuse University student artists to create an annual series of 16 poetry posters for the poster panels of downtown Syracuse. This year's posters pay tribute to nature, highways and byways, home ownership, café culture, local industry, childhood recollections of downtown, city landmarks, and Irish heritage.

The unveiling culminates nearly a year of collaborative work. Over the summer, participating poets wrote the three-line form of poetry known as haiku. By the September deadline, some 90 poets had submitted 176 new poems. Then, the posters were designed by a class of advanced illustration students plus one graduate student in print making.

The poet-artist combinations include Elisabeth Anderson and Eric Johanni; Claire Bobrycki and Catherine LaPointe; Herm Card and Rebecca Benedict; Jane Cassady and Danny Schwartz; Cynthia DeKing and Sarah Chalek; Elizabeth Dunn and Tang Dao; Jennifer Groff and Matthew LeClair; Catherine Landis and Andrew Slezak; Peggy Liuzzi and Alec Acevedo; Michael McAnaney and Hee Soo Cho; Wendy Moleski and Gina Kim; William Padgett and Eun Joo Choi; U.V. Ray and Jessie Zehr; Michele Reed and Casey Landerkin; Leora Sapon-Shevin and Hannah Madigan; and Bryan Wilbur and Sojean Estelle Kim.

Overcoming the Spectacle: A Cinema of Pure Means
Redhouse

Price: $5 suggested donation
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Duaan Makavejev: Sweet Movie (1974)
(This film may be inappropriate for minors.)

"Overcoming the Spectacle: A Cinema of Pure Means" explores the role of cinema as a medium for political transformation by way of an examination of the medium itself and the act of what it means to "watch" a film.

The films included in this series all critique the spectacle/spectator relation inherent in the structure of cinema and attempt to imagine new relationships between the medium and the viewer. Taking its conceptual grounding from what Giorgio Agamben refers to as the cinema of "Pure Means," this series will look specifically at cinematic strategies that refute fabricated meanings, thoughts and desires. It is through the work of the cinema that the cinema, too, has to be destroyed.

"Overcoming the Spectacle: A Cinema of Pure Means" is curated by Lawrence Kumpf.

Jacob Hahn, piano
Joyful Noise Concert Series

Price: Free (donations accepted)
Liverpool First United Methodist Church
604 Oswego St., Liverpool

Jacob Hahn will perform Scarlatti, Brahms, and Beethoven.

Favorite Things
LeMoyne College
Le Moyne College Singers

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Back by popular demand, the Le Moyne College Singers will present a concert version of their favorite songs. Get your tickets early -- this lively event sold out all performances last year. For tickets, phone 315-445-4523.

Chopin 200th Birthday Celebration
LeMoyne College
Featuring SUNY Potsdam students, piano

Price: $15 general public, $10 seniors, students free
Panasci Family Chapel
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Throughout 2010, in honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Polish composer/pianist Frederic Chopin, artists will perform all-Chopin piano recitals at Le Moyne College.

The series continues with SUNY Potsdam students performing the complete Preludes and Etudes.

Sleigh Bells
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Price: $8
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Sleigh Bells is a talented Brooklyn indie/punk/hip-hop duo who has garnished praise as a band to watch in national publications such as Stereogum, Pitchfork Media, and Nylon Magazine. The Syracuse show will be the last show they play before they head to Indio, California to play at the Coachella Music Festival.

badfish: A Tribute to Sublime + Scotty Don't, Joe Driscoll, Silent Fury
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Y-Files: Where are the Cows?
Acme Mystery Company

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

Sheriff Shelly Moganagle is calling an emergency town meeting for you and everybody else in Pine Bluffs to try and figure out where in the heck all these cows are disappearing to. Roland McBurger's new hamburger joint? Cattle rustlers? Down at the Crazy Kegger folks are saying it's alien cow abduction! The Sheriff is taking no chances and has called in the FBI. Be there when Special Agents Molding and Sulky arrive. They'll need all the help they can get.

Almost, Maine
Syracuse Stage

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

It's all about love, and like love, it is never what you expect. Meet the people of Almost, Maine, a tiny town so far north Vermont is considered the South. One winter night, with the aurora borealis creating celestial enchantment, eight couples fall under the spell of that funny little unpredictable thing called love. By turns touching, comic, warm, gentle, and altogether surprising, Almost, Maine is a funny Valentine of a play that will make you smile with your heart. By John Cariani.

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Mud and A Kind of Alaska
Black Box Players

Price: Free
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Mud
Ignorance and poverty wage war against the mind and spirit in this contemporary drama about a young woman named Mae and her desperate struggle to transcend extreme rural poverty, crippling illiteracy, and a confining gender role. Simultaneously raw and poetic, her tragedy will arouse your pity and fear, while revealing the utmost limits of the human spirit. Written by Maria Irene Fornes, directed by Jordan Rosin.

A Kind of Alaska
The extraordinarily intense drama by Harold Pinter, based on Oliver Sacks' book Awakenings, drives deeply into a world of uncertainty. After 29 years of being in a catatonic-like sleep, Deborah, now 45, awakens to find her world completely turned upside down. She struggles to find clarity in herself and desperately wants to believe that nothing has changed, while everything in her life, her family, her sisters have all changed while she has been stuck only in her mind. Directed by Alex Alcheh.

Friday, April 9, 2010

Annual Le Moyne College Student Art Exhibition
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exhibition of student work from the Art and Photography Department. It is an annual exhibit that showcases some of the best work produced by Onondaga student in the preceding academic year.

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Selected by Essence magazine as "30 Women to Watch," Kim Mayhorn is a multi-media artist whose works encompasses installation, video and theatre. Mayhorn has been a video editor for over 10 years and in 1998 she embarked on a new challenge and began creating installations and was awarded her first solo show at HERE Arts Center in New York City entitled "A Woman Was Lynched the Other Day..." This work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

Everything is Illustrated and Winter Solstice
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Everything is Illustrated: Gallery A
Recent work by Eva Calazada, Tian Chen, Barbara Morey, and Benjamin Petrie

Winter Solstice: Gallery B
Works by Cala Glatz, Julia Kester, Jonathan LaPlante, and Beth Mand

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

New Works by Michael Weismore
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception tonight 6:00-8:00 pm.

Michael Weismore will be displaying 25 of his new original abstract oil paintings, including a set of 10 paintings titled "Ode to Pollock." For this group of paintings, Weismore has incorporated Jackson Pollock's drip technique over his own original paintings.

The artist has a form of color blindness that affects less then 1% of people. Color blindness has only "hindered one of his paintings. He accidentally painted the sky and trees purple in an ocean landscape. It ended up being one of the first paintings of his that was ever sold by an art dealer.

In 2006, Michael was commissioned to do a painting for rock and roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis. A few years later, the artist received the 2009 Best Abstract Award from the Everson Museum.

Annual High School Seniors Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

High schools within a 30-mile radius of Syracuse are invited to display seniors' artwork and have them juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Darryl Hughto & Susan Roth: New Paintings and Sculptures
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibition will feature paintings by both artists created specifically for this exhibition, as well as recent sculptures. A full color exhibition catalog will be available which will include an essay by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

{un}familiar
Redhouse

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

{un}familiar, curated by Maeve Mulrennan of the Galway Arts Centre in Ireland, takes as its starting point research by Professor Olaf Blanke into out-of-body-experiences. The selected artists have been invited to make a new work for the exhibition. They have been given research texts by the curator, which include Prof. Blanke's case studies, Foucault's Of Other Spaces, Heterotopias and Alice's Adventure's In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

The artists were selected not because they have explored this territory before: it is because they each show a need to investigate the unknown, to immerse themselves in the unheimlich and reveal fears, myths and truths surrounding their subjects. Each artist works in various media, including performance, video, painting, drawing, collage and sculpture.

{un}familiar features the work of Michelle Browne, Benji de Burca, Cecilia Danell, Vera Klute, Sabina MacMahon, and Julia Pallone. The opening reception will include a performance of "The World Could Wait No Longer" by Mark Clare on the Red House stage. A video of this performance will be shown throughout the remainder of the exhibition.

Act 2: Recent Work by Michelle DaRin
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Act 2 represents a pivotal moment in life and art for artist, Michelle DaRin. Known regionally and nationally as a designer of fine art jewelry, Michelle also creates sculptural assemblages. These combine found objects, reclaimed wood, fiber, and metal, and objects cast in bronze. Michelle's jewelry also incorporates various elements, including forged and enameled copper, cast silver, fiber, resin, and stones. Her jewelry and sculpture will both be featured in this exhibition.

MFA MMX (2010)
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual exhibition of masters of fine arts candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts will include 20 artists displaying a broad range of traditional and contemporary work, including painting, ceramics and sculpture, as well as digital photography, installation, and computer art.

While the artists work independently on their thesis concepts, themes have routinely emerged within the group—crossing the boundaries of media and style. This year's exhibition is no exception; the work exudes a highly developed sense of technique and thought. In MFA MMX, however, the artists engage the viewer, both physically and psychologically, in a way not seen in previous MFA exhibitions. The narrative photography of Jared Landberg, a documentary film by Sonya Pollard, and the video installation of Esther Probst are examples of the thematic way many the artists record their personal history or specific experiences. Another pervading theme in the exhibition is interaction: walking through the unique environments created by painters Gwendolyn Mercado-Reyes and Jessica Sharpe, playing the autobiographical video game created by Ryan Marchand, or taking one of the hundreds of ceramic cups thrown by Shawn O'Connor; the viewer is invited to physically take part in the artistic experience.

The Color of Spring
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

What better way to welcome spring? The Color of Spring is a collection of lush batiks by Marilyn Forth and vibrant watercolors by Elizabeth M. Hueber and Louise Woodard. In addition to the colorful dramatic imagery, the works of all three artists lay claim to another harbinger of spring—the awakening joy that the new season brings, especially in the sharing of the creative process with viewers.

Wild Card Exhibition: Continuing Works
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A selection of work by over 60 artists who have previously shown at the gallery.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

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Rodger Mack Exhibition
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park

Price: Free
The Spring: Center for Spiritual & Cultural Unity
200 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibit will feature a total of 104 paintings by the late Rodger Mack, one of Syracuse's most well-known and well-loved artists. Internationally known for his sculptures, Mack was also a dynamic painter who created colorful, vibrant works.

The paintings are provided by Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, and the exhibition is made possible by a collaboration between the Park, The Spring and Syracuse University. Proceeds from the sale of Mack's art will go equally to the three not-for-profits.

Fresh Produce
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

An exhibit of works by S.U. School of Art and Design first- and second-year M.F.A. students.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Reassemblages
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

Mark Povinelli is curating this exhibition of over 80 or more of his most recent drawings. He navigates mythaglyphic language within the matrix of drawings as captured portals.

Also on display is a window installation designed by Mark Povinelli.

Boys & Girls: The Art of Diane Menzies and Mary Giehl
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Each year in America over 3 million children are abused, nearly 2,000 die, some run away, others are abandoned, all have their own challenges with this sojourn through adolescence. Each day in America, 6 children die from abuse, 100,000 children are homeless, 8 children die from guns, 219 children die before their first birthday, 1,534 babies are born to teenage girls.

In the paintings by Diane Menzies and installations by Mary Giehl, there are hints of darkness and confinement along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness. The work challenges the viewer to take a deeper look at what these images of childhood are telling us.

Food Fight!
Don't Feed the Actors

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Don't Feed The Actors, an improv troupe made up of some of Appleseed's regular performers, returns to Appleseed Productions. Hosted by the Game Warden Greg J. Hipius, the (mostly) starving actors will improv their butts off with performances filled with games of improvisation, in hopes of getting a few table scraps. However the improv does not stop at the stage's edge as suggestions are culled from the audience and sometimes a few are dragged (willingly) on stage to play along. This is audience interactive comedy that will leave you laughing so hard you will be hungry for more!!

The Renegades Improv
Redhouse

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The Renegades are a comedy troupe based out of Syracuse, NY. The troupe incorporates sketches, digital shorts, and improv games into the performance to produce a show that's equal parts Saturday Night Live, Whose Line is it Anyways?, and Monty Python.

Performing will be Deidre Dyer, Brandon Dyer, Tim Hogarth, Jeff White, Aaron Geiskopf, and Ron Sweet.

Scenes from "Gone"
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Filmmakers Gretchen and John Morning are producing the feature documentary film Gone: The Disappearance of Aeryn Gillern. The film chronicles former Ithaca police officer Kathy Gillern as she faces the most daunting investigation of her career: the search for her son, Aeryn, who disappeared under harrowing circumstances in Vienna, Austria in 2007. Local detectives claim that the young man committed "spontaneous suicide" because of his homosexuality, but as Kathy presses into the case she uncovers evidence of deceit that may implicate the Viennese police in her son's disappearance. With the help of an investigative journalist, Kathy takes her quest for her son's whereabouts to the highest levels of the Austrian Government. The filmmakers will be in attendance to discuss their work on the documentary.

Zero Film Festival
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Price: $5
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Zero Film Festival brings the best indie films to appreciative audiences and builds relationships with local filmmaking talent along the way. The touring program will be comprised of the highlights and award-winning films from our December festival as well as hand-picked work from artists in all the cities we travel to.

Gerald Veasley with Warren Smith and Bill Cole
Community Folk Art Center
John Coltrane Memorial Contemporary Jazz Series

Price: Free
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-442-2230.

Favorite Things
LeMoyne College
Le Moyne College Singers

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Back by popular demand, the Le Moyne College Singers will present a concert version of their favorite songs. Get your tickets early -- this lively event sold out all performances last year. For tickets, phone 315-445-4523.

Shakuhachi Grand Master Ronnie Nyogetsu Seldin Concert
CNY Arts

Price: Free
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Nyogetsu Ronnie Seldin will perform two sets of traditional shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) pieces, with a 15-minute intermission.

This concert is sponsored by the Cultural Resources Council, NYSCA Decentralization Grant Program, Zen Center of Syracuse, and Everson Museum of Art. For more information, contact Jikyo Bonnie Shoultz, Zen Center of Syracuse, 315-492-6341, or Pam McLaughlin, Everson Museum, 315-474-6064 ext. 308.

Classics Series: The Seductress
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Kelly Cae Hogan, soprano

Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Strauss Death and Transfiguration
Barber Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Wagner Prelude and Liebestod from "Tristan and Isolde"
Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy

Enter the Haggis + Hot Day at the Zoo
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Trouble in Tahiti
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $25
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

As a jazz trio praises the joys of suburbia, Sam and Dinah quarrel over breakfast, as they do every day. They are due to attend a school play in which their son has the leading role, but neither attends the play. They go to a movie titled "Trouble in Tahiti," seeking on the silver screen a substitute for the happiness they are still unable to find together. By Leonard Bernstein.

Cast includes Phil Eisenman as Sam, Melanie Brunet Relyea as Dinah, and Abby Ottenjohn, Peter Irwin, and David Cotter as the trio.

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Mud and A Kind of Alaska
Black Box Players

Price: Free
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Mud
Ignorance and poverty wage war against the mind and spirit in this contemporary drama about a young woman named Mae and her desperate struggle to transcend extreme rural poverty, crippling illiteracy, and a confining gender role. Simultaneously raw and poetic, her tragedy will arouse your pity and fear, while revealing the utmost limits of the human spirit. Written by Maria Irene Fornes, directed by Jordan Rosin.

A Kind of Alaska
The extraordinarily intense drama by Harold Pinter, based on Oliver Sacks' book Awakenings, drives deeply into a world of uncertainty. After 29 years of being in a catatonic-like sleep, Deborah, now 45, awakens to find her world completely turned upside down. She struggles to find clarity in herself and desperately wants to believe that nothing has changed, while everything in her life, her family, her sisters have all changed while she has been stuck only in her mind. Directed by Alex Alcheh.

Almost, Maine
Syracuse Stage

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

It's all about love, and like love, it is never what you expect. Meet the people of Almost, Maine, a tiny town so far north Vermont is considered the South. One winter night, with the aurora borealis creating celestial enchantment, eight couples fall under the spell of that funny little unpredictable thing called love. By turns touching, comic, warm, gentle, and altogether surprising, Almost, Maine is a funny Valentine of a play that will make you smile with your heart. By John Cariani.

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