Sunday, December 2, 2007

Syracuse Builds: After the Master Plan
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

The exhibition presents 13 architectural and landscape projects currently in development for the Syracuse University campus and the city of Syracuse, including a new residence hall on the main campus by Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems headquarters designed by Toshiko Mori Architect, and a community InfoCenter for the Near Westside Initiative project in Syracuse designed by Syracuse Architecture professors Tim Stenson and Scott Ruff.

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular; $4 seniors; $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Display of more than 40 gingerbread creations.

Holiday Festival of Trees
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $7 regular; $5 seniors/students 18 and under; free for children 5 and under
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Museum of Art's Holiday Festival of Trees is a Syracuse tradition that delights participants with hundreds of decorated trees, wreaths and unique displays. The trees are always different, surprising, and beautiful. The Everson is grateful year after year for the support community members, business and organizations show in donating trees and other items. This year will be sure to provide new surprises and bring out the holiday spirit in the whole community.

Artist Showcase: Images by Brian Arnold
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition is comprised of recent acquisitions to the Light Work Collection that come from multiple series that Ithaca-based photographer Brian Arnold has been working on. He utilizes traditional black-and-white processes, remaining committed to what he refers to as "the alchemy of photography." All of his photographs are unique silver gelatin prints, toned with a combination of selenium, sulfur, and gold chloride. Arnold also creates unique limited edition books, two of which are included in this exhibition. He teaches photography and electronic arts at the New York State College of Art and Engineering at Alfred University.

Angelika Rinnhofer: Sammelsurium
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition, featuring the work of German-born artist Angelika Rinnhofer, will feature her large-format color prints from three related series, Menschenkunde, Felsenfest, and Seelensucht. She describes her series Menschenkunde as portraits that combine facts, beauty, and irony in a Renaissance-style. Rinnhofer's series Felsenfest continues the same aesthetics in its re-interpretations of martyrs and saints into a modern context. Rinnhofer remembers being frightened as a child when viewing the horrific images of tortured saints commonly found in churches in her hometown Nürnberg, Germany. She now casts a critical eye, juxtaposing religious figures with modern-looking scientists. Seelensucht takes Rinnhofer back to the traditional single-figure portrait, also capturing the themes of martyrs.

Angelika lives in Beacon, NY. She is a commercial photographer and artist. She is the recipient of a Kodak European Gold Award and received a fellowship in photography from the Dutchess County Arts Council. She participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2005.

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Train of Thought: Serial Images from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition features the work of five artists -- Hollis Frampton, Arnold Gassan, Peter Max Kandhola, Judy Natal, and Aaron Siskind -- all of whom generously donated either a series of prints or a portfolio of prints to the Light Work Collection. This exhibition provides us with an opportunity to investigate the artists' use of duplication and repetition to explore a single subject or idea. The images in this exhibition are produced using a variety of techniques, including photogravures, ektacolor, silver gelatin prints, and chromogenic prints.

Plowshares Crafts Fair
Syracuse Peace Council

Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Holiday Festival of Crafts
Rochester Folk Art Guild

Price: $2
Montessori School of Syracuse
155 Waldorf Parkway, Syracuse

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

For the first time ever in central New York, the SUArt Galleries will be presenting a complete, First Edition of Francisco de Goya's monumental graphic statement, The Disasters of War. Considered by many to be unrivaled in its graphic depiction of cruelty, terror, and the inhumanity of man toward his fellow man, the Disasters were not printed in their entirety during the artist's lifetime. Originally conceived and partially executed during the Peninsula War of 1808-1814 and the immediate post-war years, Goya dared not publish the series during his lifetime. The immediacy of the images, the bluntness of his approach to depicting the violence of war, and the fact that the post-war Spanish regime decreed that the War was to be forgotten made publication of the series impossible until 35 years after Goya's death.

Set against a backdrop of war, political turmoil, dictatorship, military occupation, and a growing sense of nationalism, the Disasters may be both the beginning and highlight of modern graphics. When the "fatal consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte and other emphatic caprices" (as it had been described by Goya and his son Javier) was published in 1863 by the Royal Academy of San Fernando, it revolutionized the role of the artist as journalist and an observer of war. Goya, to a large extent, recorded what he saw and purposefully maintained the independence of the observed facts as distinct from his personal reactions to the cruelty, injustice, or whatever emotion the horror he witnessed might have engendered, in order to give greater clarity to the facts.

This series of prints has transcended the specific references to a Napoleonic era war that was borne of imperialist aspirations and has become synonymous with the gross brutality of war and its impact on the innocents of every conflict. In fact, it is not uncommon to hear contemporary war photographers pay homage to Goya and his brilliant concepts that abound in The Disasters of War.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Yves Saint Front
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition contains 31 images primarily of Tahiti and Chausey, France, created between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s.

A descendant of mariners, St. Front preferred coastal scenes, often including boats at anchor, seaside villages and beaches. A number of his works include members of his family and the Tahitian natives, occasionally in an arrangement of small peripheral images around a central landscape. There are also a number of sensitively designed interiors; one that is particularly strong shows his wife Isabella standing at a telephone while their cat sleeps on a floor mat.

Weekend and evening visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

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

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Off the Wall Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Unlike most gallery shows, this Associated Artists sale allows everyone the opportunity to purchase fine original artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall". A portion of each sale helps support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Please join us and enjoy the creations of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful chance to find one-of-a-kind gifts!

The Nutcracker
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
North Carolina Dance Theater
Ron Spigelman, conductor

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

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Wind Song
Arts Alive in Liverpool

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

Music for flute, oboe, clarinet and piano.

Welcome Yule
Bells & Motley Consort

Onondaga Hill Free Library
4840 W. Seneca Tnpk., Syracuse

Early music holiday concert.

Christmas Holiday Concert
Syracuse Liederverein Chorus

Price: $6
St. Stephen's Lutheran Church
DeWitt St. and Mertens Ave., Syracuse

German and English choral music. For more information, phone 315-622-2658.

Songs of the Season
Featuring Nancy B. James, soprano; Jimi James, baritone; Rebecca Horning, piano

Price: $10
Fairmount Community Church
4801 W. Genesee St. , Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-487-8521.

OCC Winter Concert: Wind Ensemble and Choir
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Best Time of the Year!
Syracuse Chorale
Warren Ottey, conductor

St. Mary's Church of Minoa
401 North Main St., Minoa

The Syracuse Chorale heralds the beginning of the Christmas season in a sparkling concert, which opens with Georg Frideric Handel's Messiah setting of the angels' announcement of the birth of the Christ Child to the Bethlehem shepherds: the soprano recitatives and the brilliant chorus, Glory to God. The major work of the concert, Camille Saint-Saens' beautiful Christmas Oratorio follows, featuring not only majestic choral singing, but also solo arias, along with a duet, a trio, a quartet, and a quintet, accompanied on pipe organ by Ernest Camerota.

The second half of the concert features three brand new pieces and one centuries-old work sung by the Syracuse Chorale Chamber Singers. The Syracuse Chorale will present contemporary composer Glenn Rudolph's mystical I Came from Light, sung to his soundscape. Our audience will then be invited to join with the Chorale in the merry title medley of the concert, The Best Time of the Year - Music and Memories of Christmas, arranged by Keith Christopher. The concert's finale, I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Johnny Marks, in a new and powerful arrangement by Lloyd Larsen, will send audience and singers alike into the holidays with thoughtfulness and joy!

Advent Lessons and Carols
St. Paul's Cathedral Choir

Church of the Saviour
437 James St., Syracuse

The Nine Lessons and Carols
Syracuse Children's Chorus
Barbara Marble Tagg, conductor

Most Holy Rosary Church
111 Roberts Ave., Syracuse

Composer and arranger Alice Parker will join the chorus as narrator of the traditional holiday presentation of the Nine Lessons as the children present classic and contemporary songs of the season and honor Parker's lifelong contribution to American choral music.

Annual Revels Dinner: A Renaissance Christmas
LeMoyne College
Le Moyne College Singers and Special Guests
Joanna Manring, conductor

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Join us at the table of Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth for an evening of Christmas music, dancing, theater, and merriment. Feast on turkey legs, spicy steak, English wassail, baked potatoes and hearty peasant bread. Cash bar available half an hour before start time.

For tickets, please call the W. Carroll Coyne Performing Arts Center at 315-445-4523. Tickets are one sale Nov. 7-Nov. 27. Tables seat 8, so bring your friends! Arrive early for seating of large parties.

(Guest parking available in Lot C off of Springfield Ave.)

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Syracuse University Flute and Trumpet Ensembles

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Flute Ensemble performs under the direction of Deborah Coble, faculty member in the Setnor School of Music. The Trumpet Ensemble performs under the direction of Daniel Sapochetti, also a faculty member in the Setnor School. The program will feature music by Satie, Holst, Brahms, Ewazen, Buss, Bach and Busch, as well as an arrangement of "Greensleeves" by McGinty.

For more information, contact Coble at 315-451-3584 or dccoble@syr.edu.

Free parking is available in Irving Garage.

Holidays at Hendricks Concert
Hendricks Chapel

Price: Free (donations of non-perishable food accepted)
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Syracuse University Brass Ensemble (SUBE), the Hendricks Chapel Choir and the Hendricks Chapel Handbell Ringers will come together to present the annual Hendricks Chapel holiday concert.

A tree-lighting ceremony and carol singing will precede the concert at 7:00 p.m. on the chapel steps.

This year, through a unique collaboration between SU and WCNY, the 90-minute concert will be simulcast by WCNY on both television and radio on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, at 2 p.m. WCNY-FM (CLASSIC-FM) is found at 91.3 in Syracuse, 89.5 in Utica and 90.9 in Watertown, and also streams live on the Web at http://www.wcny.org. WCNY-TV is found on Channel 24 or Time Warner Channel 11.

During the concert, the three groups will perform both individually and in combination. The brass ensemble will be directed by James Spencer, the choir by John Warren, and the handbell ringers by Jessica Bowerman. University Organist Kola Owolabi will provide accompaniment. The program will include a variety of music, including traditional carols, a cappella motets, renaissance music for organ and brass, and a traditional Chanukah song. The concert will conclude with the singing of "Silent Night" by candlelight.

The SUBE, housed in SU's College of Arts and Sciences, is composed of members of the SU faculty and staff, the SUNY Upstate Medical University faculty and staff, and accomplished musicians from surrounding communities. The SUBE presents about 18 performances per year, including the annual July 4th celebration with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra at the New York State Fairgrounds. The ensemble's repertoire includes music from all major musical periods and often features new compositions commissioned by nationally known composers.

The Hendricks Chapel Choir is a select, voice-mixed choir of about 40 students that provides music for the Sunday morning interdenominational Protestant service at SU as well as for various campus events. The choir presents annual holiday and spring concerts, and tours internationally every four years. The choir will tour South America in May 2009.

The Hendricks Chapel Handbell Ringers is a group of students, faculty and staff from the Syracuse University community. The ensemble rings five octaves of Schulmerich handbells and four octaves of Schulmerich MelodyChimes. The Handbell Ringers perform at the Protestant worship services in Hendricks Chapel throughout the academic year, as well as at other churches and venues throughout Central New York.

Public parking is free and available on a first-come/first-served basis in the Quad 1 lot (accessible via Crouse Drive) and Quad 3 lot (accessible via Sims Drive, with entrance between Bowne Hall and Carnegie Library), and also in the Irving Avenue Garage.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Syracuse University Chamber Strings

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Sorry! Wrong Chimney!
Appleseed Productions
Jon Wilson, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

A Yuletide Farce, by Jack Sharkey & Leo W. Sears.

David Tuttle is moonlighting as a department store Santa so that he can buy his wife a diamond bracelet for Christmas. He tells her he's working late at the office, but she finds out he isn't at the office. A suspected other woman from across the hall, hypnotism, the notorious Santa burglar Kris Kreigle and his gun toting fiancée, and a confused policeman add up to a rollicking tale that is hilarious Christmas entertainment.

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Endgame
Simply New Theatre

Price: $25 regular; $20 students/seniors
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Grease and 101 Dalmations
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Fiddler on the Roof
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Brimming with wonderfully memorable songs (Tradition; Matchmaker, Matchmaker; If I Were a Rich Man;
Sunrise, Sunset; To Life) and folk-inspired choreography, Fiddler on the Roof is the touching tale of Tevye, his family and the tiny Russian town of Anatevka. Tradition is the fabric that holds body and soul, family and community together. But can tradition, however strong, withstand the strain of pressure from within and without. Fiddler is a classic of American musical theatre.

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Footloose
The Talent Company
Bob Durkin, director

Price: $25 regular; $22 seniors/students; $16 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Based on the motion picture hit about a young man who comes to town and changes the lives of everyone there, Footloose is propelled by the rockin' rhythm of its Oscar-nominated Top 40 score, with music by Tom Snow and lyrics by Dean Pitchford. The soundtrack album spent 10 weeks at #1 on the Billboard charts featuring such popular '80s tunes as "Let's Hear It For The Boy," "Almost Paradise," "The Girl Gets Around," "Holding Out For A Hero," and the title song, "Footloose." When the film was released in 1984, there were at least 65 communities in the United States that had some sort of law on the books outlawing dancing. One such town was Elmore City, OK, the original inspiration for the unbelievable story of Footloose. Ever since the town's inception in 1861, dancing had been illegal. In 1980, when Elmore City teens protested the ordinance at City Hall, a firestorm of controversy followed; when it was all over, the town saw its first dance in over 100 years.

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Speak
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $8
Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Adaptation of Laurie Halse Anderson's 1999 National Book Award finalist. (Not for children younger than 13.)

Monday, December 3, 2007

Syracuse Builds: After the Master Plan
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

The exhibition presents 13 architectural and landscape projects currently in development for the Syracuse University campus and the city of Syracuse, including a new residence hall on the main campus by Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems headquarters designed by Toshiko Mori Architect, and a community InfoCenter for the Near Westside Initiative project in Syracuse designed by Syracuse Architecture professors Tim Stenson and Scott Ruff.

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A mixed media show with works from OCC's own faculty members.

Tango
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Tango, a large format folio published by Iris Editions in New York (1991) with eight intaglio prints by Nancy Graves and 13 pages of text by Pedro Cuperman that gaze at the aesthetics of this Latin American dance.

Tango proposes an evening of music, dance, and food transposed into videoa sort of "performance" projected into the space of the gallery where audience and art become intertwined in the field of representation.

"Graves conceived of the prints in the folio as a continued exploration of pattern in nature and as a tonal study of black and white," writes Thomas Padon in his book, Nancy Graves, Excavations in Print A Catalogue Raisonné (1996). "More than once the artist has asserted, 'There is nothing more challenging and meaningful than to make prints in black and white.' For an admitted colorist, it is ironic that the nine prints Graves has made in black and white are among her most powerful." The cryptic titles of the prints in the folio were selected by Graves from Cuperman's text for Tango. The poet speaks of the dance as a gradually unfolding ritual, stating near the conclusion, "Tango helps you find your own levels of proximity."

The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the execution for murder of two Italian anarchist laborers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a selection of period ephemera issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee together with a plethora of books associated with the trial that have been published in the intervening years by Paul Avrich, Felix Frankfurter, and Eugene Lyons, among others. The exhibit features artistic expressions (cartoons, illustrations, novels, plays, poems, songs and music) inspired by the trial, including the work of Maxwell Anderson, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Howard Fast, Woodie Guthrie, William Gropper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rockwell Kent, Katherine Anne Porter, Pete Seeger, and Upton Sinclair. The story of the Sacco and Vanzetti mural by Ben Shahn on the east wall of H. B. Crouse will also be explored.

A Gala Holiday Art Exhibit
Westcott Community Center

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

Mary Stebbins Taitt: digital paintings
John "Jaw's" McGrath: pen and ink landscapes
Karen Tashkovski: paper collage
Amber Blanding: glass work
Mary Fragapane: pastel paintings and prints
Mick Mather: photographs
Kirsten Moore: acrylic and oil paintings
John Swank: photography

Off the Wall Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Unlike most gallery shows, this Associated Artists sale allows everyone the opportunity to purchase fine original artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall". A portion of each sale helps support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Please join us and enjoy the creations of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful chance to find one-of-a-kind gifts!

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular; $4 seniors; $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Display of more than 40 gingerbread creations.

Holiday Festival of Trees
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $7 regular; $5 seniors/students 18 and under; free for children 5 and under
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Museum of Art's Holiday Festival of Trees is a Syracuse tradition that delights participants with hundreds of decorated trees, wreaths and unique displays. The trees are always different, surprising, and beautiful. The Everson is grateful year after year for the support community members, business and organizations show in donating trees and other items. This year will be sure to provide new surprises and bring out the holiday spirit in the whole community.

Angelika Rinnhofer: Sammelsurium
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition, featuring the work of German-born artist Angelika Rinnhofer, will feature her large-format color prints from three related series, Menschenkunde, Felsenfest, and Seelensucht. She describes her series Menschenkunde as portraits that combine facts, beauty, and irony in a Renaissance-style. Rinnhofer's series Felsenfest continues the same aesthetics in its re-interpretations of martyrs and saints into a modern context. Rinnhofer remembers being frightened as a child when viewing the horrific images of tortured saints commonly found in churches in her hometown Nürnberg, Germany. She now casts a critical eye, juxtaposing religious figures with modern-looking scientists. Seelensucht takes Rinnhofer back to the traditional single-figure portrait, also capturing the themes of martyrs.

Angelika lives in Beacon, NY. She is a commercial photographer and artist. She is the recipient of a Kodak European Gold Award and received a fellowship in photography from the Dutchess County Arts Council. She participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2005.

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Artist Showcase: Images by Brian Arnold
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition is comprised of recent acquisitions to the Light Work Collection that come from multiple series that Ithaca-based photographer Brian Arnold has been working on. He utilizes traditional black-and-white processes, remaining committed to what he refers to as "the alchemy of photography." All of his photographs are unique silver gelatin prints, toned with a combination of selenium, sulfur, and gold chloride. Arnold also creates unique limited edition books, two of which are included in this exhibition. He teaches photography and electronic arts at the New York State College of Art and Engineering at Alfred University.

Train of Thought: Serial Images from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition features the work of five artists -- Hollis Frampton, Arnold Gassan, Peter Max Kandhola, Judy Natal, and Aaron Siskind -- all of whom generously donated either a series of prints or a portfolio of prints to the Light Work Collection. This exhibition provides us with an opportunity to investigate the artists' use of duplication and repetition to explore a single subject or idea. The images in this exhibition are produced using a variety of techniques, including photogravures, ektacolor, silver gelatin prints, and chromogenic prints.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

Show and sale of original fine art and crafts.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Alias Boston Blackie
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

One of Columbia's mystery programmers with Chester Morris as the sleuth; in this 1942 entry he's helping out a framed convict (Larry Parks, who would play the lead in 1946s The Jolson Story.)

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Syracuse Builds: After the Master Plan
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

The exhibition presents 13 architectural and landscape projects currently in development for the Syracuse University campus and the city of Syracuse, including a new residence hall on the main campus by Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems headquarters designed by Toshiko Mori Architect, and a community InfoCenter for the Near Westside Initiative project in Syracuse designed by Syracuse Architecture professors Tim Stenson and Scott Ruff.

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A mixed media show with works from OCC's own faculty members.

Tango
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Tango, a large format folio published by Iris Editions in New York (1991) with eight intaglio prints by Nancy Graves and 13 pages of text by Pedro Cuperman that gaze at the aesthetics of this Latin American dance.

Tango proposes an evening of music, dance, and food transposed into videoa sort of "performance" projected into the space of the gallery where audience and art become intertwined in the field of representation.

"Graves conceived of the prints in the folio as a continued exploration of pattern in nature and as a tonal study of black and white," writes Thomas Padon in his book, Nancy Graves, Excavations in Print A Catalogue Raisonné (1996). "More than once the artist has asserted, 'There is nothing more challenging and meaningful than to make prints in black and white.' For an admitted colorist, it is ironic that the nine prints Graves has made in black and white are among her most powerful." The cryptic titles of the prints in the folio were selected by Graves from Cuperman's text for Tango. The poet speaks of the dance as a gradually unfolding ritual, stating near the conclusion, "Tango helps you find your own levels of proximity."

The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the execution for murder of two Italian anarchist laborers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a selection of period ephemera issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee together with a plethora of books associated with the trial that have been published in the intervening years by Paul Avrich, Felix Frankfurter, and Eugene Lyons, among others. The exhibit features artistic expressions (cartoons, illustrations, novels, plays, poems, songs and music) inspired by the trial, including the work of Maxwell Anderson, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Howard Fast, Woodie Guthrie, William Gropper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rockwell Kent, Katherine Anne Porter, Pete Seeger, and Upton Sinclair. The story of the Sacco and Vanzetti mural by Ben Shahn on the east wall of H. B. Crouse will also be explored.

A Gala Holiday Art Exhibit
Westcott Community Center

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

Mary Stebbins Taitt: digital paintings
John "Jaw's" McGrath: pen and ink landscapes
Karen Tashkovski: paper collage
Amber Blanding: glass work
Mary Fragapane: pastel paintings and prints
Mick Mather: photographs
Kirsten Moore: acrylic and oil paintings
John Swank: photography

Paying Attention
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Pastels and oils by Nicora Gangi and glass works by Alex Andreani.

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Off the Wall Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Unlike most gallery shows, this Associated Artists sale allows everyone the opportunity to purchase fine original artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall". A portion of each sale helps support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Please join us and enjoy the creations of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful chance to find one-of-a-kind gifts!

World AIDS Day Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In her photographic series "Camp Heartland," Katja Heinemann documents children at the Willow River, Minnesota camp. The camp is for children who are affected by HIV and AIDS. Children attending the camp are infected with HIV or have family members who are living with the virus. Through photographs and interviews with the children, Heinemann presents a portrait of strength and courage in the struggle against HIV/AIDS.

Stella Washington's short film Your Hands presents an overview of HIV/AIDS, in particular how it affects the African American community. Through interviews with women both HIV positive and negative, along with statistics relating to HIV/AIDS and African American women, Washington provides a foundation upon which to stimulate conversation and awareness.

The Art of George Mayocole
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Suggested donation $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

This exhibition features vibrant, abstract, mixed media works on paper by this New York City-based artist.

Gullah Lifestyles: A Culture Under Attack and Confederate Currency: The Color of Money
Community Folk Art Center

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

Paintings by John W. Jones and Leroy Campbell

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular; $4 seniors; $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Display of more than 40 gingerbread creations.

Holiday Festival of Trees
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $7 regular; $5 seniors/students 18 and under; free for children 5 and under
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Museum of Art's Holiday Festival of Trees is a Syracuse tradition that delights participants with hundreds of decorated trees, wreaths and unique displays. The trees are always different, surprising, and beautiful. The Everson is grateful year after year for the support community members, business and organizations show in donating trees and other items. This year will be sure to provide new surprises and bring out the holiday spirit in the whole community.

Artist Showcase: Images by Brian Arnold
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition is comprised of recent acquisitions to the Light Work Collection that come from multiple series that Ithaca-based photographer Brian Arnold has been working on. He utilizes traditional black-and-white processes, remaining committed to what he refers to as "the alchemy of photography." All of his photographs are unique silver gelatin prints, toned with a combination of selenium, sulfur, and gold chloride. Arnold also creates unique limited edition books, two of which are included in this exhibition. He teaches photography and electronic arts at the New York State College of Art and Engineering at Alfred University.

Angelika Rinnhofer: Sammelsurium
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition, featuring the work of German-born artist Angelika Rinnhofer, will feature her large-format color prints from three related series, Menschenkunde, Felsenfest, and Seelensucht. She describes her series Menschenkunde as portraits that combine facts, beauty, and irony in a Renaissance-style. Rinnhofer's series Felsenfest continues the same aesthetics in its re-interpretations of martyrs and saints into a modern context. Rinnhofer remembers being frightened as a child when viewing the horrific images of tortured saints commonly found in churches in her hometown Nürnberg, Germany. She now casts a critical eye, juxtaposing religious figures with modern-looking scientists. Seelensucht takes Rinnhofer back to the traditional single-figure portrait, also capturing the themes of martyrs.

Angelika lives in Beacon, NY. She is a commercial photographer and artist. She is the recipient of a Kodak European Gold Award and received a fellowship in photography from the Dutchess County Arts Council. She participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2005.

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Train of Thought: Serial Images from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition features the work of five artists -- Hollis Frampton, Arnold Gassan, Peter Max Kandhola, Judy Natal, and Aaron Siskind -- all of whom generously donated either a series of prints or a portfolio of prints to the Light Work Collection. This exhibition provides us with an opportunity to investigate the artists' use of duplication and repetition to explore a single subject or idea. The images in this exhibition are produced using a variety of techniques, including photogravures, ektacolor, silver gelatin prints, and chromogenic prints.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

Show and sale of original fine art and crafts.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Wrapping Up the Season
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring mixed media by Amy E. Bartell, monoprints and mixed media by Tara Hogan and works by the Syracuse Ceramic Guild.

Amy E. Bartell is showing a new series of mixed media works titled "Archeological Memoir." In her artist statement she describes the body of work as "a glimpse into memory and a quest for directional clues amidst the maps, signs, mysteries, scraps of writing and the compass of magnetic north." Bartell's artwork can be found in the collections of numerous individuals and organizations including Carleton College, California State University, Syracuse University and SUNY New York. She is known as a mural artist around the country and as the former Gallery Coordinator of Delavan Art Gallery. Currently, she is a faculty member of the art department at SUNY Oswego. Bartell's approach in her new series raises the question "What do we see when we scan the horizons of our lives? Where do we dig; does 'X' really mark the spot?"

Tara Hogan is exhibiting a collection of monoprints and mixed media from a new series of work titled "Conversations With Nature." The body of work conveys a dialogue between humans, animals and nature inspired by an interest in environmental consciousness. Hogan has been a graphic designer since earning her BFA in Illustration from Syracuse University eight years ago. Her art has been published in American Illustration, CMYK Magazine, Domino Magazine online and on the back of Bear Magazine. About her distinct style, Hogan explains, "I have a loving appreciation for nature's intricate beauty combined with modern urban style."

Syracuse Ceramic Guild's exhibition features ceramics by 10 its members. Selected works include eclectic ceramics by Lory and Walt Black, porcelain and stoneware by Sue Canizares, Raku sculpture by Dona Flaherty, Raku pottery by Dee Gage, abstract sculptural stoneware by Jane T. Gillett, ceramic story boxes by Amy Patricia Komar, "Biomorpheus," a body of abstract works by Ron Kalinoski, high-fired porcelain and stoneware by Bobbi Lamb and soda fired works by Steven Pilcher. The Syracuse Ceramic Guild, established in 1947, is a not-for-profit organization of potters dedicated to the promotion of awareness and understanding of the ceramic medium.

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

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

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Genetic Self-Portrait: Works by Gary Schneider
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The show includes 55 photo-based works that South African-born, NYC-based artist Gary Schneider produced when he was offered a chance to create a new body of work inspired by the Human Genome Project (HGP). The HGP, a scientific race to uncover the mysteries of DNA, began formally in the 1990s and was completed in 2003. During that period, Schneider was able to collaborate with a number of scientists and was given access to advanced imaging systems from electron microscopes to x-ray machines.

The work in the exhibition ranges from images of his individual chromosomes made by a light microscope to panoramic dental x-rays. Schneider is known as a master photographic printer, and by combining his skill as a craftsman and selecting specimens for their aesthetic qualities, he moved beyond scientific descriptions to produce a personal portrait that asks us to consider how we are unique and where we stand on common ground.

Schneider had always been interested in alternative imaging techniques, and previous to this project he had been making images by imprinting his hands onto film emulsions. When he decided to include these prints along with the images he had been making with scientists, he realized that what he had been creating was a new kind of portrait. Ann Thomas, curator of photographs at the National Gallery of Canada, described it as a new approach that "challenges the traditional definition of the portrait, and revises our understanding of what it means to be revealed before the camera's lens."

By merging scientific accuracy with poetic resonance, Schneider has created a very personal illumination of how our individual identity is so closely linked to our broader understanding and use of the information contained in the human building blocks of our DNA. Through the personal exploration that went into creating genetic self-portrait, Schneider reveals that while we may always want to think of ourselves as more than the sum of our parts, our real promise might be found in looking at the 99 percent of ourselves we have in common with everyone else.

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The Day I Stole the Sun
The Warehouse Gallery

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

As the culminating event to the Partnership for Better Education's yearlong Art, Literacy and Technology (ALT) program, the photographic and written work of 50 Henninger High School students is on display in this exhibit. The partnership's ALT program links art, literacy and technology through photography and poetry to improve the writing and reading skills of students in the Syracuse City School District (SCSD). Representatives from SU, the Verizon Foundation and the SCSD will be in attendance at the reception, which will include a guided exhibition walk-through for the public and selected student poetry readings.

The student work on display is the visual and narrative result of the students' opportunity for expression using photography and writing. Students strengthened both literacy skills and conceptual abilities as they explored ideas such as "stealing" something that could not be literally stolen. "The Day I Stole the Sun" was chosen from the students' writings as the title for the anthology of work on display. The photographs and poems by each of the students who participated in the project will also be showcased in a special, full-color catalog.

SU graduate students in the Creative Writing Program and upper-level undergraduates worked with the Henninger students in the 2007 spring and fall semesters, helping them connect picture making with writing and critical thinking. Photographer and VPA instructor Stephen Mahan and SU creative writing professor and poet Michael Burkard co-taught a special course for these 25 SU students that included instruction on how to best work with high school students. The program promoted an expansive use of photography and creative writing across curricula and disciplines, building on the skills that students naturally possess while attempting to improve ninth-graders' verbalization skills in relating images and events, and encouraging their creativity.

Winds and Strings Concert
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This end-of-semester concert will feature performances by Le Moyne College's String Ensemble, Travis Newton, director; Wind Ensemble, JC Sanford, director; and Brass Ensemble, Jeffrey Gray, director.

Music of Britten, Milhaud, Strauss and Sousa.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Syracuse University Percussion Ensemble

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Syracuse Builds: After the Master Plan
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

The exhibition presents 13 architectural and landscape projects currently in development for the Syracuse University campus and the city of Syracuse, including a new residence hall on the main campus by Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems headquarters designed by Toshiko Mori Architect, and a community InfoCenter for the Near Westside Initiative project in Syracuse designed by Syracuse Architecture professors Tim Stenson and Scott Ruff.

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A mixed media show with works from OCC's own faculty members.

Tango
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Tango, a large format folio published by Iris Editions in New York (1991) with eight intaglio prints by Nancy Graves and 13 pages of text by Pedro Cuperman that gaze at the aesthetics of this Latin American dance.

Tango proposes an evening of music, dance, and food transposed into videoa sort of "performance" projected into the space of the gallery where audience and art become intertwined in the field of representation.

"Graves conceived of the prints in the folio as a continued exploration of pattern in nature and as a tonal study of black and white," writes Thomas Padon in his book, Nancy Graves, Excavations in Print A Catalogue Raisonné (1996). "More than once the artist has asserted, 'There is nothing more challenging and meaningful than to make prints in black and white.' For an admitted colorist, it is ironic that the nine prints Graves has made in black and white are among her most powerful." The cryptic titles of the prints in the folio were selected by Graves from Cuperman's text for Tango. The poet speaks of the dance as a gradually unfolding ritual, stating near the conclusion, "Tango helps you find your own levels of proximity."

The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the execution for murder of two Italian anarchist laborers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a selection of period ephemera issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee together with a plethora of books associated with the trial that have been published in the intervening years by Paul Avrich, Felix Frankfurter, and Eugene Lyons, among others. The exhibit features artistic expressions (cartoons, illustrations, novels, plays, poems, songs and music) inspired by the trial, including the work of Maxwell Anderson, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Howard Fast, Woodie Guthrie, William Gropper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rockwell Kent, Katherine Anne Porter, Pete Seeger, and Upton Sinclair. The story of the Sacco and Vanzetti mural by Ben Shahn on the east wall of H. B. Crouse will also be explored.

A Gala Holiday Art Exhibit
Westcott Community Center

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

Mary Stebbins Taitt: digital paintings
John "Jaw's" McGrath: pen and ink landscapes
Karen Tashkovski: paper collage
Amber Blanding: glass work
Mary Fragapane: pastel paintings and prints
Mick Mather: photographs
Kirsten Moore: acrylic and oil paintings
John Swank: photography

Paying Attention
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Pastels and oils by Nicora Gangi and glass works by Alex Andreani.

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Off the Wall Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Unlike most gallery shows, this Associated Artists sale allows everyone the opportunity to purchase fine original artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall". A portion of each sale helps support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Please join us and enjoy the creations of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful chance to find one-of-a-kind gifts!

World AIDS Day Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In her photographic series "Camp Heartland," Katja Heinemann documents children at the Willow River, Minnesota camp. The camp is for children who are affected by HIV and AIDS. Children attending the camp are infected with HIV or have family members who are living with the virus. Through photographs and interviews with the children, Heinemann presents a portrait of strength and courage in the struggle against HIV/AIDS.

Stella Washington's short film Your Hands presents an overview of HIV/AIDS, in particular how it affects the African American community. Through interviews with women both HIV positive and negative, along with statistics relating to HIV/AIDS and African American women, Washington provides a foundation upon which to stimulate conversation and awareness.

Gullah Lifestyles: A Culture Under Attack and Confederate Currency: The Color of Money
Community Folk Art Center

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

Paintings by John W. Jones and Leroy Campbell

The Art of George Mayocole
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Suggested donation $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

This exhibition features vibrant, abstract, mixed media works on paper by this New York City-based artist.

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular; $4 seniors; $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Display of more than 40 gingerbread creations.

Holiday Festival of Trees
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $7 regular; $5 seniors/students 18 and under; free for children 5 and under
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Museum of Art's Holiday Festival of Trees is a Syracuse tradition that delights participants with hundreds of decorated trees, wreaths and unique displays. The trees are always different, surprising, and beautiful. The Everson is grateful year after year for the support community members, business and organizations show in donating trees and other items. This year will be sure to provide new surprises and bring out the holiday spirit in the whole community.

Angelika Rinnhofer: Sammelsurium
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition, featuring the work of German-born artist Angelika Rinnhofer, will feature her large-format color prints from three related series, Menschenkunde, Felsenfest, and Seelensucht. She describes her series Menschenkunde as portraits that combine facts, beauty, and irony in a Renaissance-style. Rinnhofer's series Felsenfest continues the same aesthetics in its re-interpretations of martyrs and saints into a modern context. Rinnhofer remembers being frightened as a child when viewing the horrific images of tortured saints commonly found in churches in her hometown Nürnberg, Germany. She now casts a critical eye, juxtaposing religious figures with modern-looking scientists. Seelensucht takes Rinnhofer back to the traditional single-figure portrait, also capturing the themes of martyrs.

Angelika lives in Beacon, NY. She is a commercial photographer and artist. She is the recipient of a Kodak European Gold Award and received a fellowship in photography from the Dutchess County Arts Council. She participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2005.

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Artist Showcase: Images by Brian Arnold
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition is comprised of recent acquisitions to the Light Work Collection that come from multiple series that Ithaca-based photographer Brian Arnold has been working on. He utilizes traditional black-and-white processes, remaining committed to what he refers to as "the alchemy of photography." All of his photographs are unique silver gelatin prints, toned with a combination of selenium, sulfur, and gold chloride. Arnold also creates unique limited edition books, two of which are included in this exhibition. He teaches photography and electronic arts at the New York State College of Art and Engineering at Alfred University.

Train of Thought: Serial Images from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition features the work of five artists -- Hollis Frampton, Arnold Gassan, Peter Max Kandhola, Judy Natal, and Aaron Siskind -- all of whom generously donated either a series of prints or a portfolio of prints to the Light Work Collection. This exhibition provides us with an opportunity to investigate the artists' use of duplication and repetition to explore a single subject or idea. The images in this exhibition are produced using a variety of techniques, including photogravures, ektacolor, silver gelatin prints, and chromogenic prints.

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Where I Live in Tuscany
Redhouse

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

An exhibition of landscapes by international artist Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna. The exhibition is curated by Daniela Mosko-Wozniak and signifies the first collaboration between the College of Visual and Performing Arts and the Redhouse gallery.

Where I Live in Tuscany shows recent landscapes, views from the artist's house revealing the unique beauty of the Italian landscape colored by the changing seasons. Kraczyna allows us a glimpse into his private world, a unique insight into his colorful palette, which marks all his series, whether he interprets themes of Icarus, Chinese Calligraphy, the Venice Carnival, or generally the labyrinths of life. The exhibit features the distinct multi-plate color etching technique that has earned Kraczyna notoriety not just in Italy, but also internationally.

Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. He teaches printmaking and art-on-paper classes for the studio arts program at Syracuse University's Florence Center. He lives and works in his adopted country of Italy from his studio in the house of the Italian Master Domenico Ghirlandaio, the teacher of Michelangelo. Born on the Polish-Russian border in 1940, Kraczyna immigrated to the United States after WWII. Kraczyna first traveled to Italy 1961 on a scholarship from RISD, and after completing a Master's degree, returned to live and work there, allowing the particular character of the country to inform his work. In his studio, overlooking the city of Florence, he teaches Master Classes for advanced students in his own multi-plate color etching technique, in addition to his summer workshops in Barga.

He is the founder and former director of Il Bisonte International School of Advanced Printmaking in Florence, where he taught the techniques of color etching, and is co-author of I Segni Incisi, the first Italian textbook on the history and techniques of etching. He has directed "Studio for Color Etching" workshops in Barga, Lucca, and at the International Symposium for Color Etching at Palacky University, Czech Republic. His work has been shown in more than 139 solo exhibitions in the United States, Italy, Germany, England, Mexico, Columbia, the Czech Republic, and Japan, and is represented in the Uffizi Print Collection.

Free parking is conveniently located directly behind the Redhouse building.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

Show and sale of original fine art and crafts.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Wrapping Up the Season
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring mixed media by Amy E. Bartell, monoprints and mixed media by Tara Hogan and works by the Syracuse Ceramic Guild.

Amy E. Bartell is showing a new series of mixed media works titled "Archeological Memoir." In her artist statement she describes the body of work as "a glimpse into memory and a quest for directional clues amidst the maps, signs, mysteries, scraps of writing and the compass of magnetic north." Bartell's artwork can be found in the collections of numerous individuals and organizations including Carleton College, California State University, Syracuse University and SUNY New York. She is known as a mural artist around the country and as the former Gallery Coordinator of Delavan Art Gallery. Currently, she is a faculty member of the art department at SUNY Oswego. Bartell's approach in her new series raises the question "What do we see when we scan the horizons of our lives? Where do we dig; does 'X' really mark the spot?"

Tara Hogan is exhibiting a collection of monoprints and mixed media from a new series of work titled "Conversations With Nature." The body of work conveys a dialogue between humans, animals and nature inspired by an interest in environmental consciousness. Hogan has been a graphic designer since earning her BFA in Illustration from Syracuse University eight years ago. Her art has been published in American Illustration, CMYK Magazine, Domino Magazine online and on the back of Bear Magazine. About her distinct style, Hogan explains, "I have a loving appreciation for nature's intricate beauty combined with modern urban style."

Syracuse Ceramic Guild's exhibition features ceramics by 10 its members. Selected works include eclectic ceramics by Lory and Walt Black, porcelain and stoneware by Sue Canizares, Raku sculpture by Dona Flaherty, Raku pottery by Dee Gage, abstract sculptural stoneware by Jane T. Gillett, ceramic story boxes by Amy Patricia Komar, "Biomorpheus," a body of abstract works by Ron Kalinoski, high-fired porcelain and stoneware by Bobbi Lamb and soda fired works by Steven Pilcher. The Syracuse Ceramic Guild, established in 1947, is a not-for-profit organization of potters dedicated to the promotion of awareness and understanding of the ceramic medium.

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

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

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

The Day I Stole the Sun
The Warehouse Gallery

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

As the culminating event to the Partnership for Better Education's yearlong Art, Literacy and Technology (ALT) program, the photographic and written work of 50 Henninger High School students is on display in this exhibit. The partnership's ALT program links art, literacy and technology through photography and poetry to improve the writing and reading skills of students in the Syracuse City School District (SCSD). Representatives from SU, the Verizon Foundation and the SCSD will be in attendance at the reception, which will include a guided exhibition walk-through for the public and selected student poetry readings.

The student work on display is the visual and narrative result of the students' opportunity for expression using photography and writing. Students strengthened both literacy skills and conceptual abilities as they explored ideas such as "stealing" something that could not be literally stolen. "The Day I Stole the Sun" was chosen from the students' writings as the title for the anthology of work on display. The photographs and poems by each of the students who participated in the project will also be showcased in a special, full-color catalog.

SU graduate students in the Creative Writing Program and upper-level undergraduates worked with the Henninger students in the 2007 spring and fall semesters, helping them connect picture making with writing and critical thinking. Photographer and VPA instructor Stephen Mahan and SU creative writing professor and poet Michael Burkard co-taught a special course for these 25 SU students that included instruction on how to best work with high school students. The program promoted an expansive use of photography and creative writing across curricula and disciplines, building on the skills that students naturally possess while attempting to improve ninth-graders' verbalization skills in relating images and events, and encouraging their creativity.

Genetic Self-Portrait: Works by Gary Schneider
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The show includes 55 photo-based works that South African-born, NYC-based artist Gary Schneider produced when he was offered a chance to create a new body of work inspired by the Human Genome Project (HGP). The HGP, a scientific race to uncover the mysteries of DNA, began formally in the 1990s and was completed in 2003. During that period, Schneider was able to collaborate with a number of scientists and was given access to advanced imaging systems from electron microscopes to x-ray machines.

The work in the exhibition ranges from images of his individual chromosomes made by a light microscope to panoramic dental x-rays. Schneider is known as a master photographic printer, and by combining his skill as a craftsman and selecting specimens for their aesthetic qualities, he moved beyond scientific descriptions to produce a personal portrait that asks us to consider how we are unique and where we stand on common ground.

Schneider had always been interested in alternative imaging techniques, and previous to this project he had been making images by imprinting his hands onto film emulsions. When he decided to include these prints along with the images he had been making with scientists, he realized that what he had been creating was a new kind of portrait. Ann Thomas, curator of photographs at the National Gallery of Canada, described it as a new approach that "challenges the traditional definition of the portrait, and revises our understanding of what it means to be revealed before the camera's lens."

By merging scientific accuracy with poetic resonance, Schneider has created a very personal illumination of how our individual identity is so closely linked to our broader understanding and use of the information contained in the human building blocks of our DNA. Through the personal exploration that went into creating genetic self-portrait, Schneider reveals that while we may always want to think of ourselves as more than the sum of our parts, our real promise might be found in looking at the 99 percent of ourselves we have in common with everyone else.

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Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Syracuse University Wind Ensemble
John M. Laverty, conductor

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Wind Ensemble will be performing works by Ron Nelson, Samuel Barber, Charles L. Booker, Joseph Schwantner, and Miklos Rozsa.

Free parking will be available in Irving Garage.

For further information, please contact the University Band Department at 315-443-2194 or fmmoore@syr.edu.

George Saunders, non-fiction
Raymond Carver Reading Series

Price: Free
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Thursday, December 6, 2007

Syracuse Builds: After the Master Plan
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

The exhibition presents 13 architectural and landscape projects currently in development for the Syracuse University campus and the city of Syracuse, including a new residence hall on the main campus by Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems headquarters designed by Toshiko Mori Architect, and a community InfoCenter for the Near Westside Initiative project in Syracuse designed by Syracuse Architecture professors Tim Stenson and Scott Ruff.

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A mixed media show with works from OCC's own faculty members.

Tango
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Tango, a large format folio published by Iris Editions in New York (1991) with eight intaglio prints by Nancy Graves and 13 pages of text by Pedro Cuperman that gaze at the aesthetics of this Latin American dance.

Tango proposes an evening of music, dance, and food transposed into videoa sort of "performance" projected into the space of the gallery where audience and art become intertwined in the field of representation.

"Graves conceived of the prints in the folio as a continued exploration of pattern in nature and as a tonal study of black and white," writes Thomas Padon in his book, Nancy Graves, Excavations in Print A Catalogue Raisonné (1996). "More than once the artist has asserted, 'There is nothing more challenging and meaningful than to make prints in black and white.' For an admitted colorist, it is ironic that the nine prints Graves has made in black and white are among her most powerful." The cryptic titles of the prints in the folio were selected by Graves from Cuperman's text for Tango. The poet speaks of the dance as a gradually unfolding ritual, stating near the conclusion, "Tango helps you find your own levels of proximity."

The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the execution for murder of two Italian anarchist laborers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a selection of period ephemera issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee together with a plethora of books associated with the trial that have been published in the intervening years by Paul Avrich, Felix Frankfurter, and Eugene Lyons, among others. The exhibit features artistic expressions (cartoons, illustrations, novels, plays, poems, songs and music) inspired by the trial, including the work of Maxwell Anderson, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Howard Fast, Woodie Guthrie, William Gropper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rockwell Kent, Katherine Anne Porter, Pete Seeger, and Upton Sinclair. The story of the Sacco and Vanzetti mural by Ben Shahn on the east wall of H. B. Crouse will also be explored.

A Gala Holiday Art Exhibit
Westcott Community Center

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

Mary Stebbins Taitt: digital paintings
John "Jaw's" McGrath: pen and ink landscapes
Karen Tashkovski: paper collage
Amber Blanding: glass work
Mary Fragapane: pastel paintings and prints
Mick Mather: photographs
Kirsten Moore: acrylic and oil paintings
John Swank: photography

Paying Attention
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Pastels and oils by Nicora Gangi and glass works by Alex Andreani.

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Off the Wall Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Unlike most gallery shows, this Associated Artists sale allows everyone the opportunity to purchase fine original artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall". A portion of each sale helps support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Please join us and enjoy the creations of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful chance to find one-of-a-kind gifts!

World AIDS Day Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In her photographic series "Camp Heartland," Katja Heinemann documents children at the Willow River, Minnesota camp. The camp is for children who are affected by HIV and AIDS. Children attending the camp are infected with HIV or have family members who are living with the virus. Through photographs and interviews with the children, Heinemann presents a portrait of strength and courage in the struggle against HIV/AIDS.

Stella Washington's short film Your Hands presents an overview of HIV/AIDS, in particular how it affects the African American community. Through interviews with women both HIV positive and negative, along with statistics relating to HIV/AIDS and African American women, Washington provides a foundation upon which to stimulate conversation and awareness.

The Art of George Mayocole
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Suggested donation $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

This exhibition features vibrant, abstract, mixed media works on paper by this New York City-based artist.

Gullah Lifestyles: A Culture Under Attack and Confederate Currency: The Color of Money
Community Folk Art Center

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

Paintings by John W. Jones and Leroy Campbell

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular; $4 seniors; $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Display of more than 40 gingerbread creations.

Holiday Festival of Trees
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $7 regular; $5 seniors/students 18 and under; free for children 5 and under
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Museum of Art's Holiday Festival of Trees is a Syracuse tradition that delights participants with hundreds of decorated trees, wreaths and unique displays. The trees are always different, surprising, and beautiful. The Everson is grateful year after year for the support community members, business and organizations show in donating trees and other items. This year will be sure to provide new surprises and bring out the holiday spirit in the whole community.

Artist Showcase: Images by Brian Arnold
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition is comprised of recent acquisitions to the Light Work Collection that come from multiple series that Ithaca-based photographer Brian Arnold has been working on. He utilizes traditional black-and-white processes, remaining committed to what he refers to as "the alchemy of photography." All of his photographs are unique silver gelatin prints, toned with a combination of selenium, sulfur, and gold chloride. Arnold also creates unique limited edition books, two of which are included in this exhibition. He teaches photography and electronic arts at the New York State College of Art and Engineering at Alfred University.

Angelika Rinnhofer: Sammelsurium
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition, featuring the work of German-born artist Angelika Rinnhofer, will feature her large-format color prints from three related series, Menschenkunde, Felsenfest, and Seelensucht. She describes her series Menschenkunde as portraits that combine facts, beauty, and irony in a Renaissance-style. Rinnhofer's series Felsenfest continues the same aesthetics in its re-interpretations of martyrs and saints into a modern context. Rinnhofer remembers being frightened as a child when viewing the horrific images of tortured saints commonly found in churches in her hometown Nürnberg, Germany. She now casts a critical eye, juxtaposing religious figures with modern-looking scientists. Seelensucht takes Rinnhofer back to the traditional single-figure portrait, also capturing the themes of martyrs.

Angelika lives in Beacon, NY. She is a commercial photographer and artist. She is the recipient of a Kodak European Gold Award and received a fellowship in photography from the Dutchess County Arts Council. She participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2005.

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Train of Thought: Serial Images from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition features the work of five artists -- Hollis Frampton, Arnold Gassan, Peter Max Kandhola, Judy Natal, and Aaron Siskind -- all of whom generously donated either a series of prints or a portfolio of prints to the Light Work Collection. This exhibition provides us with an opportunity to investigate the artists' use of duplication and repetition to explore a single subject or idea. The images in this exhibition are produced using a variety of techniques, including photogravures, ektacolor, silver gelatin prints, and chromogenic prints.

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Where I Live in Tuscany
Redhouse

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

An exhibition of landscapes by international artist Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna. The exhibition is curated by Daniela Mosko-Wozniak and signifies the first collaboration between the College of Visual and Performing Arts and the Redhouse gallery.

Where I Live in Tuscany shows recent landscapes, views from the artist's house revealing the unique beauty of the Italian landscape colored by the changing seasons. Kraczyna allows us a glimpse into his private world, a unique insight into his colorful palette, which marks all his series, whether he interprets themes of Icarus, Chinese Calligraphy, the Venice Carnival, or generally the labyrinths of life. The exhibit features the distinct multi-plate color etching technique that has earned Kraczyna notoriety not just in Italy, but also internationally.

Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. He teaches printmaking and art-on-paper classes for the studio arts program at Syracuse University's Florence Center. He lives and works in his adopted country of Italy from his studio in the house of the Italian Master Domenico Ghirlandaio, the teacher of Michelangelo. Born on the Polish-Russian border in 1940, Kraczyna immigrated to the United States after WWII. Kraczyna first traveled to Italy 1961 on a scholarship from RISD, and after completing a Master's degree, returned to live and work there, allowing the particular character of the country to inform his work. In his studio, overlooking the city of Florence, he teaches Master Classes for advanced students in his own multi-plate color etching technique, in addition to his summer workshops in Barga.

He is the founder and former director of Il Bisonte International School of Advanced Printmaking in Florence, where he taught the techniques of color etching, and is co-author of I Segni Incisi, the first Italian textbook on the history and techniques of etching. He has directed "Studio for Color Etching" workshops in Barga, Lucca, and at the International Symposium for Color Etching at Palacky University, Czech Republic. His work has been shown in more than 139 solo exhibitions in the United States, Italy, Germany, England, Mexico, Columbia, the Czech Republic, and Japan, and is represented in the Uffizi Print Collection.

Free parking is conveniently located directly behind the Redhouse building.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

Show and sale of original fine art and crafts.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

R. Bingham Morris: Contemporary Acrylic Paintings
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Wrapping Up the Season
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring mixed media by Amy E. Bartell, monoprints and mixed media by Tara Hogan and works by the Syracuse Ceramic Guild.

Amy E. Bartell is showing a new series of mixed media works titled "Archeological Memoir." In her artist statement she describes the body of work as "a glimpse into memory and a quest for directional clues amidst the maps, signs, mysteries, scraps of writing and the compass of magnetic north." Bartell's artwork can be found in the collections of numerous individuals and organizations including Carleton College, California State University, Syracuse University and SUNY New York. She is known as a mural artist around the country and as the former Gallery Coordinator of Delavan Art Gallery. Currently, she is a faculty member of the art department at SUNY Oswego. Bartell's approach in her new series raises the question "What do we see when we scan the horizons of our lives? Where do we dig; does 'X' really mark the spot?"

Tara Hogan is exhibiting a collection of monoprints and mixed media from a new series of work titled "Conversations With Nature." The body of work conveys a dialogue between humans, animals and nature inspired by an interest in environmental consciousness. Hogan has been a graphic designer since earning her BFA in Illustration from Syracuse University eight years ago. Her art has been published in American Illustration, CMYK Magazine, Domino Magazine online and on the back of Bear Magazine. About her distinct style, Hogan explains, "I have a loving appreciation for nature's intricate beauty combined with modern urban style."

Syracuse Ceramic Guild's exhibition features ceramics by 10 its members. Selected works include eclectic ceramics by Lory and Walt Black, porcelain and stoneware by Sue Canizares, Raku sculpture by Dona Flaherty, Raku pottery by Dee Gage, abstract sculptural stoneware by Jane T. Gillett, ceramic story boxes by Amy Patricia Komar, "Biomorpheus," a body of abstract works by Ron Kalinoski, high-fired porcelain and stoneware by Bobbi Lamb and soda fired works by Steven Pilcher. The Syracuse Ceramic Guild, established in 1947, is a not-for-profit organization of potters dedicated to the promotion of awareness and understanding of the ceramic medium.

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

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

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Genetic Self-Portrait: Works by Gary Schneider
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The show includes 55 photo-based works that South African-born, NYC-based artist Gary Schneider produced when he was offered a chance to create a new body of work inspired by the Human Genome Project (HGP). The HGP, a scientific race to uncover the mysteries of DNA, began formally in the 1990s and was completed in 2003. During that period, Schneider was able to collaborate with a number of scientists and was given access to advanced imaging systems from electron microscopes to x-ray machines.

The work in the exhibition ranges from images of his individual chromosomes made by a light microscope to panoramic dental x-rays. Schneider is known as a master photographic printer, and by combining his skill as a craftsman and selecting specimens for their aesthetic qualities, he moved beyond scientific descriptions to produce a personal portrait that asks us to consider how we are unique and where we stand on common ground.

Schneider had always been interested in alternative imaging techniques, and previous to this project he had been making images by imprinting his hands onto film emulsions. When he decided to include these prints along with the images he had been making with scientists, he realized that what he had been creating was a new kind of portrait. Ann Thomas, curator of photographs at the National Gallery of Canada, described it as a new approach that "challenges the traditional definition of the portrait, and revises our understanding of what it means to be revealed before the camera's lens."

By merging scientific accuracy with poetic resonance, Schneider has created a very personal illumination of how our individual identity is so closely linked to our broader understanding and use of the information contained in the human building blocks of our DNA. Through the personal exploration that went into creating genetic self-portrait, Schneider reveals that while we may always want to think of ourselves as more than the sum of our parts, our real promise might be found in looking at the 99 percent of ourselves we have in common with everyone else.

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The Day I Stole the Sun
The Warehouse Gallery

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

As the culminating event to the Partnership for Better Education's yearlong Art, Literacy and Technology (ALT) program, the photographic and written work of 50 Henninger High School students is on display in this exhibit. The partnership's ALT program links art, literacy and technology through photography and poetry to improve the writing and reading skills of students in the Syracuse City School District (SCSD). Representatives from SU, the Verizon Foundation and the SCSD will be in attendance at the reception, which will include a guided exhibition walk-through for the public and selected student poetry readings.

The student work on display is the visual and narrative result of the students' opportunity for expression using photography and writing. Students strengthened both literacy skills and conceptual abilities as they explored ideas such as "stealing" something that could not be literally stolen. "The Day I Stole the Sun" was chosen from the students' writings as the title for the anthology of work on display. The photographs and poems by each of the students who participated in the project will also be showcased in a special, full-color catalog.

SU graduate students in the Creative Writing Program and upper-level undergraduates worked with the Henninger students in the 2007 spring and fall semesters, helping them connect picture making with writing and critical thinking. Photographer and VPA instructor Stephen Mahan and SU creative writing professor and poet Michael Burkard co-taught a special course for these 25 SU students that included instruction on how to best work with high school students. The program promoted an expansive use of photography and creative writing across curricula and disciplines, building on the skills that students naturally possess while attempting to improve ninth-graders' verbalization skills in relating images and events, and encouraging their creativity.

Flutessence
John Oberbrunner, conductor

Price: Free
Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

All-flute ensemble made up of talented high school musicians. For more information, phone 315-435-3636.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Syracuse University Symphony Band
Justin J. Mertz, conductor

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Symphony Band will be performing works by Bob Margolis, Johannes Brahms, Ralph Vaughn-Williams, Jaime Texidor and Morton Gould, under the direction of Justin J. Mertz with associate conductor Jennifer Luzzo

Free parking will be available in Irving Garage.

For further information, please contact the University Band Department at 315-443-2194 or fmmoore@syr.edu.

Pirates of the Yuletide
Acme Mystery Company

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

London 1757: The world's hardiest pirates are planning to raid the North Pole and kidnap Santa. Interactive mystery/comedy dinner theater.

Grease and 101 Dalmations
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Le Moyne College Jazz Ensemble and Young Lions of CNY
LeMoyne College
Featuring Danilo Perez, piano and J.C. Sanford, trombone

Price: $15 regular; $10 seniors; students free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

An evening of jazz standards, with original tunes and arrangements by Danilo Perez and J.C. Sanford. Mr. Perez will perform solo, in a small ensemble with J.C. Sanford and the Young Lions of Central New York, and as a soloist with the Le Moyne College Jazz Ensemble.

Friday, December 7, 2007

Syracuse Builds: After the Master Plan
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

The exhibition presents 13 architectural and landscape projects currently in development for the Syracuse University campus and the city of Syracuse, including a new residence hall on the main campus by Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems headquarters designed by Toshiko Mori Architect, and a community InfoCenter for the Near Westside Initiative project in Syracuse designed by Syracuse Architecture professors Tim Stenson and Scott Ruff.

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A mixed media show with works from OCC's own faculty members.

Tango
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Tango, a large format folio published by Iris Editions in New York (1991) with eight intaglio prints by Nancy Graves and 13 pages of text by Pedro Cuperman that gaze at the aesthetics of this Latin American dance.

Tango proposes an evening of music, dance, and food transposed into videoa sort of "performance" projected into the space of the gallery where audience and art become intertwined in the field of representation.

"Graves conceived of the prints in the folio as a continued exploration of pattern in nature and as a tonal study of black and white," writes Thomas Padon in his book, Nancy Graves, Excavations in Print A Catalogue Raisonné (1996). "More than once the artist has asserted, 'There is nothing more challenging and meaningful than to make prints in black and white.' For an admitted colorist, it is ironic that the nine prints Graves has made in black and white are among her most powerful." The cryptic titles of the prints in the folio were selected by Graves from Cuperman's text for Tango. The poet speaks of the dance as a gradually unfolding ritual, stating near the conclusion, "Tango helps you find your own levels of proximity."

The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the execution for murder of two Italian anarchist laborers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a selection of period ephemera issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee together with a plethora of books associated with the trial that have been published in the intervening years by Paul Avrich, Felix Frankfurter, and Eugene Lyons, among others. The exhibit features artistic expressions (cartoons, illustrations, novels, plays, poems, songs and music) inspired by the trial, including the work of Maxwell Anderson, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Howard Fast, Woodie Guthrie, William Gropper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rockwell Kent, Katherine Anne Porter, Pete Seeger, and Upton Sinclair. The story of the Sacco and Vanzetti mural by Ben Shahn on the east wall of H. B. Crouse will also be explored.

A Gala Holiday Art Exhibit
Westcott Community Center

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

Mary Stebbins Taitt: digital paintings
John "Jaw's" McGrath: pen and ink landscapes
Karen Tashkovski: paper collage
Amber Blanding: glass work
Mary Fragapane: pastel paintings and prints
Mick Mather: photographs
Kirsten Moore: acrylic and oil paintings
John Swank: photography

Paying Attention
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Pastels and oils by Nicora Gangi and glass works by Alex Andreani.

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Off the Wall Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Unlike most gallery shows, this Associated Artists sale allows everyone the opportunity to purchase fine original artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall". A portion of each sale helps support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Please join us and enjoy the creations of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful chance to find one-of-a-kind gifts!

World AIDS Day Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In her photographic series "Camp Heartland," Katja Heinemann documents children at the Willow River, Minnesota camp. The camp is for children who are affected by HIV and AIDS. Children attending the camp are infected with HIV or have family members who are living with the virus. Through photographs and interviews with the children, Heinemann presents a portrait of strength and courage in the struggle against HIV/AIDS.

Stella Washington's short film Your Hands presents an overview of HIV/AIDS, in particular how it affects the African American community. Through interviews with women both HIV positive and negative, along with statistics relating to HIV/AIDS and African American women, Washington provides a foundation upon which to stimulate conversation and awareness.

Gullah Lifestyles: A Culture Under Attack and Confederate Currency: The Color of Money
Community Folk Art Center

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

Paintings by John W. Jones and Leroy Campbell

The Art of George Mayocole
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Suggested donation $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

This exhibition features vibrant, abstract, mixed media works on paper by this New York City-based artist.

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular; $4 seniors; $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Display of more than 40 gingerbread creations.

Holiday Festival of Trees
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $7 regular; $5 seniors/students 18 and under; free for children 5 and under
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Museum of Art's Holiday Festival of Trees is a Syracuse tradition that delights participants with hundreds of decorated trees, wreaths and unique displays. The trees are always different, surprising, and beautiful. The Everson is grateful year after year for the support community members, business and organizations show in donating trees and other items. This year will be sure to provide new surprises and bring out the holiday spirit in the whole community.

Angelika Rinnhofer: Sammelsurium
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition, featuring the work of German-born artist Angelika Rinnhofer, will feature her large-format color prints from three related series, Menschenkunde, Felsenfest, and Seelensucht. She describes her series Menschenkunde as portraits that combine facts, beauty, and irony in a Renaissance-style. Rinnhofer's series Felsenfest continues the same aesthetics in its re-interpretations of martyrs and saints into a modern context. Rinnhofer remembers being frightened as a child when viewing the horrific images of tortured saints commonly found in churches in her hometown Nürnberg, Germany. She now casts a critical eye, juxtaposing religious figures with modern-looking scientists. Seelensucht takes Rinnhofer back to the traditional single-figure portrait, also capturing the themes of martyrs.

Angelika lives in Beacon, NY. She is a commercial photographer and artist. She is the recipient of a Kodak European Gold Award and received a fellowship in photography from the Dutchess County Arts Council. She participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2005.

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Artist Showcase: Images by Brian Arnold
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition is comprised of recent acquisitions to the Light Work Collection that come from multiple series that Ithaca-based photographer Brian Arnold has been working on. He utilizes traditional black-and-white processes, remaining committed to what he refers to as "the alchemy of photography." All of his photographs are unique silver gelatin prints, toned with a combination of selenium, sulfur, and gold chloride. Arnold also creates unique limited edition books, two of which are included in this exhibition. He teaches photography and electronic arts at the New York State College of Art and Engineering at Alfred University.

Train of Thought: Serial Images from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition features the work of five artists -- Hollis Frampton, Arnold Gassan, Peter Max Kandhola, Judy Natal, and Aaron Siskind -- all of whom generously donated either a series of prints or a portfolio of prints to the Light Work Collection. This exhibition provides us with an opportunity to investigate the artists' use of duplication and repetition to explore a single subject or idea. The images in this exhibition are produced using a variety of techniques, including photogravures, ektacolor, silver gelatin prints, and chromogenic prints.

16x16 Small Works Show
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Juried exhibition of selected works by local, national and international artists.

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Where I Live in Tuscany
Redhouse

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

An exhibition of landscapes by international artist Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna. The exhibition is curated by Daniela Mosko-Wozniak and signifies the first collaboration between the College of Visual and Performing Arts and the Redhouse gallery.

Where I Live in Tuscany shows recent landscapes, views from the artist's house revealing the unique beauty of the Italian landscape colored by the changing seasons. Kraczyna allows us a glimpse into his private world, a unique insight into his colorful palette, which marks all his series, whether he interprets themes of Icarus, Chinese Calligraphy, the Venice Carnival, or generally the labyrinths of life. The exhibit features the distinct multi-plate color etching technique that has earned Kraczyna notoriety not just in Italy, but also internationally.

Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. He teaches printmaking and art-on-paper classes for the studio arts program at Syracuse University's Florence Center. He lives and works in his adopted country of Italy from his studio in the house of the Italian Master Domenico Ghirlandaio, the teacher of Michelangelo. Born on the Polish-Russian border in 1940, Kraczyna immigrated to the United States after WWII. Kraczyna first traveled to Italy 1961 on a scholarship from RISD, and after completing a Master's degree, returned to live and work there, allowing the particular character of the country to inform his work. In his studio, overlooking the city of Florence, he teaches Master Classes for advanced students in his own multi-plate color etching technique, in addition to his summer workshops in Barga.

He is the founder and former director of Il Bisonte International School of Advanced Printmaking in Florence, where he taught the techniques of color etching, and is co-author of I Segni Incisi, the first Italian textbook on the history and techniques of etching. He has directed "Studio for Color Etching" workshops in Barga, Lucca, and at the International Symposium for Color Etching at Palacky University, Czech Republic. His work has been shown in more than 139 solo exhibitions in the United States, Italy, Germany, England, Mexico, Columbia, the Czech Republic, and Japan, and is represented in the Uffizi Print Collection.

Free parking is conveniently located directly behind the Redhouse building.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

Show and sale of original fine art and crafts.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Wrapping Up the Season
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring mixed media by Amy E. Bartell, monoprints and mixed media by Tara Hogan and works by the Syracuse Ceramic Guild.

Amy E. Bartell is showing a new series of mixed media works titled "Archeological Memoir." In her artist statement she describes the body of work as "a glimpse into memory and a quest for directional clues amidst the maps, signs, mysteries, scraps of writing and the compass of magnetic north." Bartell's artwork can be found in the collections of numerous individuals and organizations including Carleton College, California State University, Syracuse University and SUNY New York. She is known as a mural artist around the country and as the former Gallery Coordinator of Delavan Art Gallery. Currently, she is a faculty member of the art department at SUNY Oswego. Bartell's approach in her new series raises the question "What do we see when we scan the horizons of our lives? Where do we dig; does 'X' really mark the spot?"

Tara Hogan is exhibiting a collection of monoprints and mixed media from a new series of work titled "Conversations With Nature." The body of work conveys a dialogue between humans, animals and nature inspired by an interest in environmental consciousness. Hogan has been a graphic designer since earning her BFA in Illustration from Syracuse University eight years ago. Her art has been published in American Illustration, CMYK Magazine, Domino Magazine online and on the back of Bear Magazine. About her distinct style, Hogan explains, "I have a loving appreciation for nature's intricate beauty combined with modern urban style."

Syracuse Ceramic Guild's exhibition features ceramics by 10 its members. Selected works include eclectic ceramics by Lory and Walt Black, porcelain and stoneware by Sue Canizares, Raku sculpture by Dona Flaherty, Raku pottery by Dee Gage, abstract sculptural stoneware by Jane T. Gillett, ceramic story boxes by Amy Patricia Komar, "Biomorpheus," a body of abstract works by Ron Kalinoski, high-fired porcelain and stoneware by Bobbi Lamb and soda fired works by Steven Pilcher. The Syracuse Ceramic Guild, established in 1947, is a not-for-profit organization of potters dedicated to the promotion of awareness and understanding of the ceramic medium.

R. Bingham Morris: Contemporary Acrylic Paintings
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

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

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

The Day I Stole the Sun
The Warehouse Gallery

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

As the culminating event to the Partnership for Better Education's yearlong Art, Literacy and Technology (ALT) program, the photographic and written work of 50 Henninger High School students is on display in this exhibit. The partnership's ALT program links art, literacy and technology through photography and poetry to improve the writing and reading skills of students in the Syracuse City School District (SCSD). Representatives from SU, the Verizon Foundation and the SCSD will be in attendance at the reception, which will include a guided exhibition walk-through for the public and selected student poetry readings.

The student work on display is the visual and narrative result of the students' opportunity for expression using photography and writing. Students strengthened both literacy skills and conceptual abilities as they explored ideas such as "stealing" something that could not be literally stolen. "The Day I Stole the Sun" was chosen from the students' writings as the title for the anthology of work on display. The photographs and poems by each of the students who participated in the project will also be showcased in a special, full-color catalog.

SU graduate students in the Creative Writing Program and upper-level undergraduates worked with the Henninger students in the 2007 spring and fall semesters, helping them connect picture making with writing and critical thinking. Photographer and VPA instructor Stephen Mahan and SU creative writing professor and poet Michael Burkard co-taught a special course for these 25 SU students that included instruction on how to best work with high school students. The program promoted an expansive use of photography and creative writing across curricula and disciplines, building on the skills that students naturally possess while attempting to improve ninth-graders' verbalization skills in relating images and events, and encouraging their creativity.

Genetic Self-Portrait: Works by Gary Schneider
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The show includes 55 photo-based works that South African-born, NYC-based artist Gary Schneider produced when he was offered a chance to create a new body of work inspired by the Human Genome Project (HGP). The HGP, a scientific race to uncover the mysteries of DNA, began formally in the 1990s and was completed in 2003. During that period, Schneider was able to collaborate with a number of scientists and was given access to advanced imaging systems from electron microscopes to x-ray machines.

The work in the exhibition ranges from images of his individual chromosomes made by a light microscope to panoramic dental x-rays. Schneider is known as a master photographic printer, and by combining his skill as a craftsman and selecting specimens for their aesthetic qualities, he moved beyond scientific descriptions to produce a personal portrait that asks us to consider how we are unique and where we stand on common ground.

Schneider had always been interested in alternative imaging techniques, and previous to this project he had been making images by imprinting his hands onto film emulsions. When he decided to include these prints along with the images he had been making with scientists, he realized that what he had been creating was a new kind of portrait. Ann Thomas, curator of photographs at the National Gallery of Canada, described it as a new approach that "challenges the traditional definition of the portrait, and revises our understanding of what it means to be revealed before the camera's lens."

By merging scientific accuracy with poetic resonance, Schneider has created a very personal illumination of how our individual identity is so closely linked to our broader understanding and use of the information contained in the human building blocks of our DNA. Through the personal exploration that went into creating genetic self-portrait, Schneider reveals that while we may always want to think of ourselves as more than the sum of our parts, our real promise might be found in looking at the 99 percent of ourselves we have in common with everyone else.

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Christmas Around the World

Ste. Marie Among the Iroquois
106 Lake Dr., Liverpool

The museum will be filled with a magnificent collection of international Santas, while fully decorated trees will add to the holiday atmosphere celebrating the traditions of the season in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Russia and more. In addition, visitors will enjoy an enhanced display of model trains, and various local celebrities will be reading holiday stories for children. The program will feature nightly holiday entertainment with hot beverages available and the mission site may be open weather permitting. A gift shop offering unique holiday items will be open throughout the program.

OCC Flute Choir
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

1880 Ami Rivenc Music Box Performance
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular; $4 seniors; $2 children
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Folkus Project
Karen Savoca and Pete Heitzman

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

Delightfully improvisational performers from upstate New York are electrifying, unique, and always uplifting.

Dusty Pas'cal, The Barrigar Brothers, the Lisa Gentile Band

Price: $16
Hotel Syracuse Persian Terrace
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 646-228-6872.

Coyote Run
Redhouse

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

Touring in support of their newly released sixth CD, Places, Celtic rock band Coyote Run will appear for one night only. The band headlines and performs in major Celtic festivals, clubs, pubs and concert halls throughout the United States. They have also toured Ireland and Scotland.

Native American tribes have long viewed the Coyote as the trickster/teacher. Filled with mischief, this animal guide leads the child within us all, and he helps us to tap into the joy of living.

His playful and irreverent attitude perfectly blends with the defiant and life-filled spirit of the Celtic people who immigrated and spread across our continent. Coyote Run's music is undeniably Celtic in influence, yet hops boundaries and stylistic borders with the ease and carefree nature of the trickster.

The Best Time of the Year!
Syracuse Chorale
Warren Ottey, conductor

St. Joseph the Worker Church
1001 Tulip St., Liverpool

The Syracuse Chorale heralds the beginning of the Christmas season in a sparkling concert, which opens with Georg Frideric Handel's Messiah setting of the angels' announcement of the birth of the Christ Child to the Bethlehem shepherds: the soprano recitatives and the brilliant chorus, Glory to God. The major work of the concert, Camille Saint-Saens' beautiful Christmas Oratorio follows, featuring not only majestic choral singing, but also solo arias, along with a duet, a trio, a quartet, and a quintet, accompanied on pipe organ by Ernest Camerota.

The second half of the concert features three brand new pieces and one centuries-old work sung by the Syracuse Chorale Chamber Singers. The Syracuse Chorale will present contemporary composer Glenn Rudolph's mystical I Came from Light, sung to his soundscape. Our audience will then be invited to join with the Chorale in the merry title medley of the concert, The Best Time of the Year - Music and Memories of Christmas, arranged by Keith Christopher. The concert's finale, I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Johnny Marks, in a new and powerful arrangement by Lloyd Larsen, will send audience and singers alike into the holidays with thoughtfulness and joy!

Holiday Concert
Syracuse Gay and Lesbian Chorus

Price: Regular: $15 in advance, $18 at the door; students/seniors: $12; children under 10: $7.50 in advance, $9 at the door; children under 3: free
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

The evening's festivities will include a post-concert reception and raffle. Tickets can be purchased in advance at the Lavender Inkwell Bookshoppe, or reserved online at www.syrglc.org.

The Actor's Nightmare and Moon Over Buffalo

Price: $10
Manlius Pebble Hill School
5300 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

For more information, phone 315-446-2452.

Grease and 101 Dalmations
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Fiddler on the Roof
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Brimming with wonderfully memorable songs (Tradition; Matchmaker, Matchmaker; If I Were a Rich Man;
Sunrise, Sunset; To Life) and folk-inspired choreography, Fiddler on the Roof is the touching tale of Tevye, his family and the tiny Russian town of Anatevka. Tradition is the fabric that holds body and soul, family and community together. But can tradition, however strong, withstand the strain of pressure from within and without. Fiddler is a classic of American musical theatre.

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Sorry! Wrong Chimney!
Appleseed Productions
Jon Wilson, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

A Yuletide Farce, by Jack Sharkey & Leo W. Sears.

David Tuttle is moonlighting as a department store Santa so that he can buy his wife a diamond bracelet for Christmas. He tells her he's working late at the office, but she finds out he isn't at the office. A suspected other woman from across the hall, hypnotism, the notorious Santa burglar Kris Kreigle and his gun toting fiancée, and a confused policeman add up to a rollicking tale that is hilarious Christmas entertainment.

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The Facts of Life: The Lost Episode
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

The lost episode in question is titled The Best Little Whorehouse in Peekskill. Budget cuts are threatening to force Mrs. Garrett to leave Eastland. Blair, Tottie, Natalie, and Jo will do anything to raise enough money so she can stay. Anything. Mature audiences.

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Footloose
The Talent Company
Bob Durkin, director

Price: $25 regular; $22 seniors/students; $16 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Based on the motion picture hit about a young man who comes to town and changes the lives of everyone there, Footloose is propelled by the rockin' rhythm of its Oscar-nominated Top 40 score, with music by Tom Snow and lyrics by Dean Pitchford. The soundtrack album spent 10 weeks at #1 on the Billboard charts featuring such popular '80s tunes as "Let's Hear It For The Boy," "Almost Paradise," "The Girl Gets Around," "Holding Out For A Hero," and the title song, "Footloose." When the film was released in 1984, there were at least 65 communities in the United States that had some sort of law on the books outlawing dancing. One such town was Elmore City, OK, the original inspiration for the unbelievable story of Footloose. Ever since the town's inception in 1861, dancing had been illegal. In 1980, when Elmore City teens protested the ordinance at City Hall, a firestorm of controversy followed; when it was all over, the town saw its first dance in over 100 years.

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Saturday, December 8, 2007

Syracuse Builds: After the Master Plan
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

The exhibition presents 13 architectural and landscape projects currently in development for the Syracuse University campus and the city of Syracuse, including a new residence hall on the main campus by Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems headquarters designed by Toshiko Mori Architect, and a community InfoCenter for the Near Westside Initiative project in Syracuse designed by Syracuse Architecture professors Tim Stenson and Scott Ruff.

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Off the Wall Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Unlike most gallery shows, this Associated Artists sale allows everyone the opportunity to purchase fine original artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall". A portion of each sale helps support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Please join us and enjoy the creations of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful chance to find one-of-a-kind gifts!

R. Bingham Morris: Contemporary Acrylic Paintings
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Wrapping Up the Season
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring mixed media by Amy E. Bartell, monoprints and mixed media by Tara Hogan and works by the Syracuse Ceramic Guild.

Amy E. Bartell is showing a new series of mixed media works titled "Archeological Memoir." In her artist statement she describes the body of work as "a glimpse into memory and a quest for directional clues amidst the maps, signs, mysteries, scraps of writing and the compass of magnetic north." Bartell's artwork can be found in the collections of numerous individuals and organizations including Carleton College, California State University, Syracuse University and SUNY New York. She is known as a mural artist around the country and as the former Gallery Coordinator of Delavan Art Gallery. Currently, she is a faculty member of the art department at SUNY Oswego. Bartell's approach in her new series raises the question "What do we see when we scan the horizons of our lives? Where do we dig; does 'X' really mark the spot?"

Tara Hogan is exhibiting a collection of monoprints and mixed media from a new series of work titled "Conversations With Nature." The body of work conveys a dialogue between humans, animals and nature inspired by an interest in environmental consciousness. Hogan has been a graphic designer since earning her BFA in Illustration from Syracuse University eight years ago. Her art has been published in American Illustration, CMYK Magazine, Domino Magazine online and on the back of Bear Magazine. About her distinct style, Hogan explains, "I have a loving appreciation for nature's intricate beauty combined with modern urban style."

Syracuse Ceramic Guild's exhibition features ceramics by 10 its members. Selected works include eclectic ceramics by Lory and Walt Black, porcelain and stoneware by Sue Canizares, Raku sculpture by Dona Flaherty, Raku pottery by Dee Gage, abstract sculptural stoneware by Jane T. Gillett, ceramic story boxes by Amy Patricia Komar, "Biomorpheus," a body of abstract works by Ron Kalinoski, high-fired porcelain and stoneware by Bobbi Lamb and soda fired works by Steven Pilcher. The Syracuse Ceramic Guild, established in 1947, is a not-for-profit organization of potters dedicated to the promotion of awareness and understanding of the ceramic medium.

Paying Attention
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Pastels and oils by Nicora Gangi and glass works by Alex Andreani.

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Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular; $4 seniors; $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Display of more than 40 gingerbread creations.

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

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

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Holiday Festival of Trees
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $7 regular; $5 seniors/students 18 and under; free for children 5 and under
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Museum of Art's Holiday Festival of Trees is a Syracuse tradition that delights participants with hundreds of decorated trees, wreaths and unique displays. The trees are always different, surprising, and beautiful. The Everson is grateful year after year for the support community members, business and organizations show in donating trees and other items. This year will be sure to provide new surprises and bring out the holiday spirit in the whole community.

16x16 Small Works Show
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Juried exhibition of selected works by local, national and international artists.

The Art of George Mayocole
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Suggested donation $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

This exhibition features vibrant, abstract, mixed media works on paper by this New York City-based artist.

Gullah Lifestyles: A Culture Under Attack and Confederate Currency: The Color of Money
Community Folk Art Center

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

Paintings by John W. Jones and Leroy Campbell

World AIDS Day Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In her photographic series "Camp Heartland," Katja Heinemann documents children at the Willow River, Minnesota camp. The camp is for children who are affected by HIV and AIDS. Children attending the camp are infected with HIV or have family members who are living with the virus. Through photographs and interviews with the children, Heinemann presents a portrait of strength and courage in the struggle against HIV/AIDS.

Stella Washington's short film Your Hands presents an overview of HIV/AIDS, in particular how it affects the African American community. Through interviews with women both HIV positive and negative, along with statistics relating to HIV/AIDS and African American women, Washington provides a foundation upon which to stimulate conversation and awareness.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

Show and sale of original fine art and crafts.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Genetic Self-Portrait: Works by Gary Schneider
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The show includes 55 photo-based works that South African-born, NYC-based artist Gary Schneider produced when he was offered a chance to create a new body of work inspired by the Human Genome Project (HGP). The HGP, a scientific race to uncover the mysteries of DNA, began formally in the 1990s and was completed in 2003. During that period, Schneider was able to collaborate with a number of scientists and was given access to advanced imaging systems from electron microscopes to x-ray machines.

The work in the exhibition ranges from images of his individual chromosomes made by a light microscope to panoramic dental x-rays. Schneider is known as a master photographic printer, and by combining his skill as a craftsman and selecting specimens for their aesthetic qualities, he moved beyond scientific descriptions to produce a personal portrait that asks us to consider how we are unique and where we stand on common ground.

Schneider had always been interested in alternative imaging techniques, and previous to this project he had been making images by imprinting his hands onto film emulsions. When he decided to include these prints along with the images he had been making with scientists, he realized that what he had been creating was a new kind of portrait. Ann Thomas, curator of photographs at the National Gallery of Canada, described it as a new approach that "challenges the traditional definition of the portrait, and revises our understanding of what it means to be revealed before the camera's lens."

By merging scientific accuracy with poetic resonance, Schneider has created a very personal illumination of how our individual identity is so closely linked to our broader understanding and use of the information contained in the human building blocks of our DNA. Through the personal exploration that went into creating genetic self-portrait, Schneider reveals that while we may always want to think of ourselves as more than the sum of our parts, our real promise might be found in looking at the 99 percent of ourselves we have in common with everyone else.

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The Day I Stole the Sun
The Warehouse Gallery

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

As the culminating event to the Partnership for Better Education's yearlong Art, Literacy and Technology (ALT) program, the photographic and written work of 50 Henninger High School students is on display in this exhibit. The partnership's ALT program links art, literacy and technology through photography and poetry to improve the writing and reading skills of students in the Syracuse City School District (SCSD). Representatives from SU, the Verizon Foundation and the SCSD will be in attendance at the reception, which will include a guided exhibition walk-through for the public and selected student poetry readings.

The student work on display is the visual and narrative result of the students' opportunity for expression using photography and writing. Students strengthened both literacy skills and conceptual abilities as they explored ideas such as "stealing" something that could not be literally stolen. "The Day I Stole the Sun" was chosen from the students' writings as the title for the anthology of work on display. The photographs and poems by each of the students who participated in the project will also be showcased in a special, full-color catalog.

SU graduate students in the Creative Writing Program and upper-level undergraduates worked with the Henninger students in the 2007 spring and fall semesters, helping them connect picture making with writing and critical thinking. Photographer and VPA instructor Stephen Mahan and SU creative writing professor and poet Michael Burkard co-taught a special course for these 25 SU students that included instruction on how to best work with high school students. The program promoted an expansive use of photography and creative writing across curricula and disciplines, building on the skills that students naturally possess while attempting to improve ninth-graders' verbalization skills in relating images and events, and encouraging their creativity.

Christmas Around the World

Ste. Marie Among the Iroquois
106 Lake Dr., Liverpool

The museum will be filled with a magnificent collection of international Santas, while fully decorated trees will add to the holiday atmosphere celebrating the traditions of the season in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Russia and more. In addition, visitors will enjoy an enhanced display of model trains, and various local celebrities will be reading holiday stories for children. The program will feature nightly holiday entertainment with hot beverages available and the mission site may be open weather permitting. A gift shop offering unique holiday items will be open throughout the program.

The Adventures of Rudolph
Center of Ballet and Dance Arts

Price: $9, $13.50, $18
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The ballet tells the story of how Rudolph and friends save Christmas.

Holiday Concert
Skaneateles Community Band

Price: Free
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

For more information, phone 315-685-0552.