Friday, November 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.

Million Dollar Blocks: Justice and the City
ThINC

Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

The United States currently has more than 2 million people locked up in jails and prisons. A disproportionate number of them come from a very few neighborhoods in the country's biggest cities. In many places, the concentration is so dense that states are spending in excess of a million dollars a year to incarcerate the residents of single census blocks. When these people are released and reenter their communities, roughly 40% do not stay more than three years before they are reincarcerated.

Using rarely accessible data from the criminal justice system, the Spatial Information Design Lab and the Justice Mapping Center have created maps of these "million dollar blocks" and of the city-prison-city-prison migration for of the nation's cities. The maps suggest that the criminal justice system has become the predominant government institution in these communities and that public investment in this system has resulted in significant costs to other elements of our civic infrastructure -- education, housing, health, and family.

The maps pose difficult ethical and political questions for policymakers and designers. When they are linked to other urban social and economic indicators of incarceration they also suggest new strategies for approaching urban design and criminal justice reform together.

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: Donalee Peden-Wesley
Onondaga Community College

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

Large scale charcoal drawings with watercolor washes that address issues and relationships between humans and animals.

The Eye of the FaithKeeper: The Haudenosaunee Art of Oren Lyons
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

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."

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition features abstract artwork from 16 New York State artists. Artists exhibiting: Anatoli Truskalo, Linda Bigness, Bob Gates, Amber Blanding, Hunter O'Reilly, Stan Bowman, Lynne Taetzsch, Paul McMillan, Cheyne Rood, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, Barbara Page, Barbara Mink, Len Fishman, Melissa Tiffany and Al D'Agostino. The show holds a number of different and unique mediums including paintings, sculptures, glass work, photographs, collage, drawings, and giclee prints on canvas.

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.

Four to the Fore
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

The exhibits highlights the varied work of four members, Barbara Emmons, Judith Jaquith, Elizabeth Pilbeam, and Clara Towell.

Visual Arts Showcase #61, Tribal
CNY Arts

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

A juried exhibit in which a dozen regional artists have individually interpreted the concept of "Tribal."

Newfoundland and Other Journeys
Fayetteville Free Library

Price: Free
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

A showing of original pigment prints by Donal and Shel Little.

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.

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.

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.

***CANCELLED*** 2007 Faculty Show
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Maximum Color
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring glass by Phil Austin, paintings by Alison Fisher, landscapes and abstractions by Jim Loveless, non-representational paintings by Lutz Scherneck, and creative photography by Linda Spatuzzi.

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.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

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

Since 1974, the Cultural Resources Council, in cooperation with the Everson, has presented On My Own Time. A celebration of artwork created by employees of local businesses on their own time, the exhibition is meant to promote creativity and artistic endeavors by those who are not full-time artists.

Pottery Plus Show and Sale
The Syracuse Ceramic Guild

Price: Free
Syracuse Vineyard Church
312 Lakeside Rd., Syracuse

Over 30 members will exhibit and sell quality ceramic wares, plus works in glass, painting, sculpture, paper, fiber, wood, and other arts.

The Friday evening reception will feature a performance by local jazz artist Marcia Rutledge.

Math for Poets and Drummers
Onondaga Community College
Simple Gifts

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Math and music have long been linked. The ancient Greeks discovered a mystical correspondence between musical intervals with a pleasing sound and ratios of whole numbers. Learn about the connections between the mathematics of poetry and musical rhythm.

Guitar Foundation of America Performance
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist to be announced: Winner of the Guitar Foundation of America's Annual International Solo Guitar Competition.

Simple Gifts
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Three women plus twelve instruments equals one good time when Simple Gifts takes the stage. Drawing on an impressive variety of ethnic folk styles, this award-winning trio plays everything from lively Irish jigs and down-home American reels to hard-driving Klezmer frailachs and haunting Gypsy melodies, spicing the mix with the distinctive rhythms of Balkan dance music, the lush sounds of Scandinavian twin fiddling, and original compositions written in a traditional style. Funded by a grant from the NYS Music Fund.

Folkus Project
Jonathan Byrd

Price: $10
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Eclectic, substantive songs, rich with contemporary imagery and textures yet rooted in tradition.

The Best of Music Mavericks
Redhouse
Featuring Lisa Gentile, singer-songwriter

Price: $10 (proceeds to benefit Music Heals CNY)
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This is the first concert of what will be a quarterly series showcasing regular performers from Music Mavericks open mic nights, which take place on Wednesday evenings at the Coffee Pavilion. The weekly format fosters musicians and songwriters of all genres to explore new material, sharpen their performance skills, collaborate, network and cultivate musical relationships.

The concept of Music Mavericks was created by Bloom Projects, of which Gentile is a co-founder. The show will be produced by this creative project management company and will benefit its non-profit endeavor, Music Heals CNY, which Gentile is heading up. The goal of Music Heals CNY is to raise awareness of the healing power of music through bedside performances for patients and their families in health care facilities across Central New York. The organization will also produce benefit concerts to raise money for those lacking the funds to receive imperative medical treatment.

Lisa is a Syracuse native and national recording artist who recently returned to her roots after living and performing in NYC for many years. She has recorded with many well-known producers and has performed in venues throughout the country. Lisa has released three CDs, her latest of which just won a SAMMY Award for Best Country Recording.

Classics Series: Rodeo
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Syracuse University Oratorio Society
Andre Raphel Smith, conductor
Featuring Lianne Coble, soprano

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

Barber Symphony No. 1
Copland Ballet Music from Rodeo
Lauridsen O Magnum Mysterium
Poulenc Gloria

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Short-Fiction Author Jennifer Pashley
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Jennifer Pashley is a fiction instructor at the DWC, and an adjunct professor of English at LeMoyne College. Her first collection of stories, States, was published in summer 2007 by Lewis Clark Press. She was recently awarded the Red Hen Short Fiction Award for her story "States"; other stories have been published in Two Rivers Review and Mississippi Review.

Playing With Fire (After Frankenstein)
Appleseed Productions
William Edward White, director

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

As the play, written by Barbara Field, adapted from Mary Shelley's novel, begins, an exhausted and dying Victor Frankenstein has finally tracked down his Creature in the lonely, frozen tundra of the North Pole. Determined to right the wrong he has committed by, at last, destroying the malignant evil he believes he has created, Frankenstein finds that he must first deal with his own responsibility and guilt -- for, as their fascinating confrontation develops, it is evident that the Creature has become a pathetic, lonely and even sensitive being who wants only to find love and that he, Frankenstein, by intruding into the very secrets of life, is truly the evil one. As the two debate, scenes from the past flash by: Frankenstein's young bride, whom the Monster killed out of pique when the scientist failed to provide him with a mate of his own; the brilliant, quick-witted Professor Krempe, Frankenstein's university mentor; and moments between the youthful Victor and his brother, who also fell victim to the Creature's vengeance. Ultimately the exchange between Frankenstein and the Creature becomes a confrontation between parent and child, scientist and experiment, rejection and love, and even good and evil -- culminating in the Creature's agonizing question, "Why did you make me?"

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Translations
LeMoyne College
Anjalee Nadkarni, director

Price: $12 regular; $8 seniors; $4 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Brian Friel's haunting lyrical play is about language as the soul of a nation. Set at the time of British mapping of Ireland in the early 19th century, Translations depicts the ways in which language encompasses both cultural and communicative meanings. Friel emphasizes tensions between the movement towards modernization, and the importance of maintaining cultural tradition.

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Thruway Diaries
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company

Price: $10 general public; $5 with student ID
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A 3-act play written and directed by Samuel L. Kelley, about a black family traveling south faced with racial profiling.

Baby With the Bathwater
Rarely Done Productions
Linda Lance, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Playwright Christoper Durang's dark comedy about how difficult it is to be a parent, and how scary it is to be a baby and a child. The play is written in an absurdist, playful style and, for all its darkness, has a hopeful ending. Mature audiences.

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Misery
Syracuse Stage
Emma Griffin, director

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

The perfect Halloween treat from the "king of horror, Stephen King. A psychological thriller that serves up gasps and laughs aplenty. A must for King lovers.

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Saturday, November 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.

Million Dollar Blocks: Justice and the City
ThINC

Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

The United States currently has more than 2 million people locked up in jails and prisons. A disproportionate number of them come from a very few neighborhoods in the country's biggest cities. In many places, the concentration is so dense that states are spending in excess of a million dollars a year to incarcerate the residents of single census blocks. When these people are released and reenter their communities, roughly 40% do not stay more than three years before they are reincarcerated.

Using rarely accessible data from the criminal justice system, the Spatial Information Design Lab and the Justice Mapping Center have created maps of these "million dollar blocks" and of the city-prison-city-prison migration for of the nation's cities. The maps suggest that the criminal justice system has become the predominant government institution in these communities and that public investment in this system has resulted in significant costs to other elements of our civic infrastructure -- education, housing, health, and family.

The maps pose difficult ethical and political questions for policymakers and designers. When they are linked to other urban social and economic indicators of incarceration they also suggest new strategies for approaching urban design and criminal justice reform together.

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

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Four to the Fore
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

The exhibits highlights the varied work of four members, Barbara Emmons, Judith Jaquith, Elizabeth Pilbeam, and Clara Towell.

Maximum Color
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring glass by Phil Austin, paintings by Alison Fisher, landscapes and abstractions by Jim Loveless, non-representational paintings by Lutz Scherneck, and creative photography by Linda Spatuzzi.

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.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

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

Since 1974, the Cultural Resources Council, in cooperation with the Everson, has presented On My Own Time. A celebration of artwork created by employees of local businesses on their own time, the exhibition is meant to promote creativity and artistic endeavors by those who are not full-time artists.

Newfoundland and Other Journeys
Fayetteville Free Library

Price: Free
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

A showing of original pigment prints by Donal and Shel Little.

Pottery Plus Show and Sale
The Syracuse Ceramic Guild

Price: Free
Syracuse Vineyard Church
312 Lakeside Rd., Syracuse

Over 30 members will exhibit and sell quality ceramic wares, plus works in glass, painting, sculpture, paper, fiber, wood, and other arts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

***CANCELLED*** 2007 Faculty Show
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Visual Arts Showcase #61, Tribal
CNY Arts

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

A juried exhibit in which a dozen regional artists have individually interpreted the concept of "Tribal."

Artist Reception and Panel Discussion
Community Folk Art Center

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

Discussion in conjunction with the exhibits "Gullah Lifestyles" and "Confederate Currency."

(Re)envisioning Life as an Artist
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Five artists from Under One Roof Reprise will share with audience members the path through which they came to be artists. Some topics of discussion will include the impact of family, art education experience and exposure to art and artists. This is a wonderful opportunity to hear about the real-life challenges and successes related to living an artistic life. High school and college students are encouraged to attend.

Sixth Annual Invitational Women's Choir Festival
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The invited choir for the festival is the Homer High School Women's Choir under the direction of Cara K-B McLaughlin. Marian Dolan of Naples, FL, is guest conductor. Internationally known for her multicultural master classes, Dolan will conduct "Kyrie" from Glenn McClure's Caribbean Mass. McClure, the festival's composer-in-residence, will play steel drum for the performance with additional percussion by faculty member Joshua Dekaney.

The public concert will feature the participating choirs individually and a combined choir of more than 100 singers. Concert repertoire will include selections by Stephen Paulus, Ruth Watson Henderson, Moses Hogan and Harri Wessman.

Parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, contact Barbara Tagg at 315-443-5750 or btagg@syr.edu.

Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music
Brentano Quartet

Price: $20 regular, $15 senior, $10 student, children under 13 free
Lincoln Middle School
1613 James St., Syracuse

Monteverdi Set of Madrigals
J.S. Bach Contrapunctus of the Art of the Fugue
Haydn Quartet in D major, Op. 76, No. 5
Beethoven Quartet No. 12 in E-flat major, Op. 127

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Classics Series: Rodeo
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Syracuse University Oratorio Society
Andre Raphel Smith, conductor
Featuring Lianne Coble, soprano

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

Barber Symphony No. 1
Copland Ballet Music from Rodeo
Lauridsen O Magnum Mysterium
Poulenc Gloria

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Stone Canoe Reading Series
Delavan Art Gallery
Featuring Phil Memmer

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Legend of the Banana Kid
Open Hand Theater
Frogtown Mountain Puppeteers

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

Little Chucky outsmarts the thugs and brings justice back to town, using bananas as his weapon of choice. Frogtown Mountain Puppeteers of Bar Harbor, ME and their cast of over 20 puppets encounter all kinds of wild Western fun.

Sleeping Beauty
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

Price: $5
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive version of the children's classic.

Misery
Syracuse Stage
Emma Griffin, director

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

The perfect Halloween treat from the "king of horror, Stephen King. A psychological thriller that serves up gasps and laughs aplenty. A must for King lovers.

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Playing With Fire (After Frankenstein)
Appleseed Productions
William Edward White, director

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

As the play, written by Barbara Field, adapted from Mary Shelley's novel, begins, an exhausted and dying Victor Frankenstein has finally tracked down his Creature in the lonely, frozen tundra of the North Pole. Determined to right the wrong he has committed by, at last, destroying the malignant evil he believes he has created, Frankenstein finds that he must first deal with his own responsibility and guilt -- for, as their fascinating confrontation develops, it is evident that the Creature has become a pathetic, lonely and even sensitive being who wants only to find love and that he, Frankenstein, by intruding into the very secrets of life, is truly the evil one. As the two debate, scenes from the past flash by: Frankenstein's young bride, whom the Monster killed out of pique when the scientist failed to provide him with a mate of his own; the brilliant, quick-witted Professor Krempe, Frankenstein's university mentor; and moments between the youthful Victor and his brother, who also fell victim to the Creature's vengeance. Ultimately the exchange between Frankenstein and the Creature becomes a confrontation between parent and child, scientist and experiment, rejection and love, and even good and evil -- culminating in the Creature's agonizing question, "Why did you make me?"

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Translations
LeMoyne College
Anjalee Nadkarni, director

Price: $12 regular; $8 seniors; $4 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Brian Friel's haunting lyrical play is about language as the soul of a nation. Set at the time of British mapping of Ireland in the early 19th century, Translations depicts the ways in which language encompasses both cultural and communicative meanings. Friel emphasizes tensions between the movement towards modernization, and the importance of maintaining cultural tradition.

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Baby With the Bathwater
Rarely Done Productions
Linda Lance, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Playwright Christoper Durang's dark comedy about how difficult it is to be a parent, and how scary it is to be a baby and a child. The play is written in an absurdist, playful style and, for all its darkness, has a hopeful ending. Mature audiences.

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Misery
Syracuse Stage
Emma Griffin, director

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

The perfect Halloween treat from the "king of horror, Stephen King. A psychological thriller that serves up gasps and laughs aplenty. A must for King lovers.

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Sunday, November 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.

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.

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.

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.

***CANCELLED*** 2007 Faculty Show
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

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

Since 1974, the Cultural Resources Council, in cooperation with the Everson, has presented On My Own Time. A celebration of artwork created by employees of local businesses on their own time, the exhibition is meant to promote creativity and artistic endeavors by those who are not full-time artists.

Four to the Fore
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

The exhibits highlights the varied work of four members, Barbara Emmons, Judith Jaquith, Elizabeth Pilbeam, and Clara Towell.

Newfoundland and Other Journeys
Fayetteville Free Library

Price: Free
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

A showing of original pigment prints by Donal and Shel Little.

Pottery Plus Show and Sale
The Syracuse Ceramic Guild

Price: Free
Syracuse Vineyard Church
312 Lakeside Rd., Syracuse

Over 30 members will exhibit and sell quality ceramic wares, plus works in glass, painting, sculpture, paper, fiber, wood, and other arts.

The September Trio
Arts Alive in Liverpool

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

Classic Broadway tunes from the musicals for soprano, baritone and piano.

Central New York Jazz Composer's Cooperative
Jerry Bower, percussion; Cookie Coogan, vocals; Bill DiCosimo, piano; Kevin Dorsey, bass

Price: $10 regular; $7 donors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Brahms, Beethoven, & Beloved Encores
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Jeremy Mastrangelo, violin; Andrew Russo, piano

Price: $15 regular, students free
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brahms Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano in D minor, op. 108
Beethoven Sonata for Piano and Violin in A major, op. 30, no. 1
and beloved encores by Brahms, William Bolcom, George Gerhwin (arr Heifetz), Fritz Kreisler, Astor Piazzolla, Paul Schoenfield, and others.

NAMI-Promise Fundraiser Concert
Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra
Erik Kibelsbeck, conductor
Featuring Kevin Moore, piano

Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

Grieg Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
Anton Rubinstein Piano Concerto No. 4 (1st movement)
Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Overture
plus special solo performances

For more information, contact NAMI-Promise, 315-487-2085 or nami-promise@nami-promise.org.

Rising Star Organ Recital
Malmgren Concert Series
Featuring Bradley Fitch, organ

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The program will include music by Butxehude, Bach, Brahms, Petr Eben, and Maurice Duruflé.

Fitch, a native of Youngstown, Ohio, is enrolled in the doctor of music arts program at the University of Oklahoma, where he is studying under John Schwandt. At the university, Fitch is actively involved in teaching, organ maintenance and the restoration of a Möller op. 5819 organ, which will be installed in a building on the campus. He also serves as organist for McFarlin United Methodist Church in Norman, Okla. Fitch received a bachelor's degree from Oberlin College and a master's degree from Indiana University.

Misery
Syracuse Stage
Emma Griffin, director

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

The perfect Halloween treat from the "king of horror, Stephen King. A psychological thriller that serves up gasps and laughs aplenty. A must for King lovers.

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Monday, November 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

Newfoundland and Other Journeys
Fayetteville Free Library

Price: Free
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

A showing of original pigment prints by Donal and Shel Little.

The Eye of the FaithKeeper: The Haudenosaunee Art of Oren Lyons
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Donalee Peden-Wesley
Onondaga Community College

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

Large scale charcoal drawings with watercolor washes that address issues and relationships between humans and animals.

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."

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition features abstract artwork from 16 New York State artists. Artists exhibiting: Anatoli Truskalo, Linda Bigness, Bob Gates, Amber Blanding, Hunter O'Reilly, Stan Bowman, Lynne Taetzsch, Paul McMillan, Cheyne Rood, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, Barbara Page, Barbara Mink, Len Fishman, Melissa Tiffany and Al D'Agostino. The show holds a number of different and unique mediums including paintings, sculptures, glass work, photographs, collage, drawings, and giclee prints on canvas.

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.

Four to the Fore
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

The exhibits highlights the varied work of four members, Barbara Emmons, Judith Jaquith, Elizabeth Pilbeam, and Clara Towell.

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.

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.

Michael Shayne, Private Detective
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

From 1940, Lloyd Nolan plays the hardboiled dick in the first of seven programmers from 20th Century Fox.

Chuck D., Co-Founder of Public Enemy
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

As leader and co-founder of legendary rap group Public Enemy, Chuck D redefined rap music and hip hop culture with the release of PE's explosive debut album, Yo Bum Rush The Show, in 1987. His messages addressed weighty issues about race, rage and inequality with a jolting combination of intelligence and eloquence never seen before. Chuck D and Public Enemy were celebrated in the May 2004 issue of Rolling Stone magazine as one of the "fifty most important performers in rock & roll history."

Chuck D is also a national spokesperson for Rock the Vote, the National Urban League, and the National Alliance for African American Athletes. He has appeared in numerous public service announcements for national peace and the Partnership for a Drug Free America. As he continues to work on commentary, music, and writing on rap, race, and reality, it is clear that there are few who have transcended music and have made an impact as loud of Chuck D.

Fall Concert
Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra
Erik Kibelsbeck, conductor
Featuring Kevin Moore, piano

Price: Free, but suggested donation $5
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Grieg Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Overture
Anton Rubinstein Piano Concerto no.4 in D minor, op.70

The Fourth Piano Concerto of Anton Rubinstein was once among the most popular piano concertos in the repertoire. When Tchaikovsky set out to write his ever-popular Piano Concerto no. 1, it was the Rubinstein Fourth that he used as a model. Rubinstein was Tchaikovsky's teacher at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, an institution that Rubinstein founded. He wrote seven symphonies, five piano concertos and 17 operas among a long list of other works. His Fourth Piano Concerto is one of his very finest works.

It is a large-scale virtuoso piece, masterfully written for the piano by one of the greatest pianists in history. It is a delightful, entertaining and tuneful piece and should be played much more often than is the case.

Tuesday, November 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

Newfoundland and Other Journeys
Fayetteville Free Library

Price: Free
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

A showing of original pigment prints by Donal and Shel Little.

Gallery Exhibit: Donalee Peden-Wesley
Onondaga Community College

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

Large scale charcoal drawings with watercolor washes that address issues and relationships between humans and animals.

The Eye of the FaithKeeper: The Haudenosaunee Art of Oren Lyons
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

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."

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition features abstract artwork from 16 New York State artists. Artists exhibiting: Anatoli Truskalo, Linda Bigness, Bob Gates, Amber Blanding, Hunter O'Reilly, Stan Bowman, Lynne Taetzsch, Paul McMillan, Cheyne Rood, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, Barbara Page, Barbara Mink, Len Fishman, Melissa Tiffany and Al D'Agostino. The show holds a number of different and unique mediums including paintings, sculptures, glass work, photographs, collage, drawings, and giclee prints on canvas.

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.

Four to the Fore
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

The exhibits highlights the varied work of four members, Barbara Emmons, Judith Jaquith, Elizabeth Pilbeam, and Clara Towell.

Visual Arts Showcase #61, Tribal
CNY Arts

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

A juried exhibit in which a dozen regional artists have individually interpreted the concept of "Tribal."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

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

Since 1974, the Cultural Resources Council, in cooperation with the Everson, has presented On My Own Time. A celebration of artwork created by employees of local businesses on their own time, the exhibition is meant to promote creativity and artistic endeavors by those who are not full-time artists.

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.

Mountains Beyond Mountains
University Lectures
Featuring Tracy Kidder, author

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This event is sponsored in cooperation with the Onondaga Public Library Gifford Series.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Windjammer Vocal Jazz
Bill DiCosimo, conductor

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

The program features repertoire from the Great American Songbook, including works by George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Harry Warren, Mack Gordon, and a Todd Buffa arrangement of the Stanley Turrentine classic "Sugar."

Parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, contact DiCosimo at 315-443-6145 or wjdicosi@syr.edu.

Misery
Syracuse Stage
Emma Griffin, director

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

The perfect Halloween treat from the "king of horror, Stephen King. A psychological thriller that serves up gasps and laughs aplenty. A must for King lovers.

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Wednesday, November 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

Newfoundland and Other Journeys
Fayetteville Free Library

Price: Free
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

A showing of original pigment prints by Donal and Shel Little.

The Eye of the FaithKeeper: The Haudenosaunee Art of Oren Lyons
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Donalee Peden-Wesley
Onondaga Community College

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

Large scale charcoal drawings with watercolor washes that address issues and relationships between humans and animals.

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."

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition features abstract artwork from 16 New York State artists. Artists exhibiting: Anatoli Truskalo, Linda Bigness, Bob Gates, Amber Blanding, Hunter O'Reilly, Stan Bowman, Lynne Taetzsch, Paul McMillan, Cheyne Rood, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, Barbara Page, Barbara Mink, Len Fishman, Melissa Tiffany and Al D'Agostino. The show holds a number of different and unique mediums including paintings, sculptures, glass work, photographs, collage, drawings, and giclee prints on canvas.

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.

Four to the Fore
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

The exhibits highlights the varied work of four members, Barbara Emmons, Judith Jaquith, Elizabeth Pilbeam, and Clara Towell.

Visual Arts Showcase #61, Tribal
CNY Arts

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

A juried exhibit in which a dozen regional artists have individually interpreted the concept of "Tribal."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

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

Since 1974, the Cultural Resources Council, in cooperation with the Everson, has presented On My Own Time. A celebration of artwork created by employees of local businesses on their own time, the exhibition is meant to promote creativity and artistic endeavors by those who are not full-time artists.

The Great Flood of Florence
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts
Featuring Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna

Price: Free
Bird Library, Peter Graham Scholarly Commons
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna, an internationally known artist and faculty member for SU Florence, will present a slide show and talk about his photographic essay "The Great Flood of Florence." A book signing will follow.

Kraczyna's book, published by Syracuse University Press, features 85 black-and-white photographs taken on and in the days after Nov. 4, 1966, when Florence, Italy, experienced a devastating flood that crippled the city and destroyed many art treasures. Kraczyna was awarded the Fiorino d'Oro, the highest honor of the City of Florence, for 10 of the photographs.

Currently a visiting professor at SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), Kraczyna has had 128 solo exhibitions spanning five continents. His work is also preserved in Florence's famous Uffizi Gallery. His talk is sponsored by SU Press and VPA.

For more information, contact Lisa Kuerbis, SU Press marketing coordinator, at 315-463-0756 or lkuerbis@syr.edu.

Tracy Kidder
Friends of the Central Library Author Series

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

A contributing editor of The Atlantic Monthly since 1981, Tracy Kidder has written about subjects as diverse as a mass murder trial, teaching, building a house, corporate technology, and living in a small town. He has won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book, Mountains Beyond Mountains, describes the astonishing sacrifices and determination of Dr. Paul Farmer in fighting global health problems in Haiti and elsewhere.

Civic Morning Musicals
Lavender Trio
Featuring The Hamilton College Dance Team

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

The Lavender Trio presensts a recital of ensemble music with a guest appearance of dancers from The Hamilton College Dance Team. Lavender Trio members Heather Johnsen, Beth Carville Evans, and Judy Marchione will perform a mixture of standard repertoire, original arrangements, as well as music and choreography pieces written for them by various composers.

Jay McInerney, fiction
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

Misery
Syracuse Stage
Emma Griffin, director

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

The perfect Halloween treat from the "king of horror, Stephen King. A psychological thriller that serves up gasps and laughs aplenty. A must for King lovers.

Read a Review!

Thursday, November 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.

Million Dollar Blocks: Justice and the City
ThINC

Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

The United States currently has more than 2 million people locked up in jails and prisons. A disproportionate number of them come from a very few neighborhoods in the country's biggest cities. In many places, the concentration is so dense that states are spending in excess of a million dollars a year to incarcerate the residents of single census blocks. When these people are released and reenter their communities, roughly 40% do not stay more than three years before they are reincarcerated.

Using rarely accessible data from the criminal justice system, the Spatial Information Design Lab and the Justice Mapping Center have created maps of these "million dollar blocks" and of the city-prison-city-prison migration for of the nation's cities. The maps suggest that the criminal justice system has become the predominant government institution in these communities and that public investment in this system has resulted in significant costs to other elements of our civic infrastructure -- education, housing, health, and family.

The maps pose difficult ethical and political questions for policymakers and designers. When they are linked to other urban social and economic indicators of incarceration they also suggest new strategies for approaching urban design and criminal justice reform together.

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

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Newfoundland and Other Journeys
Fayetteville Free Library

Price: Free
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

A showing of original pigment prints by Donal and Shel Little.

The Eye of the FaithKeeper: The Haudenosaunee Art of Oren Lyons
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

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."

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition features abstract artwork from 16 New York State artists. Artists exhibiting: Anatoli Truskalo, Linda Bigness, Bob Gates, Amber Blanding, Hunter O'Reilly, Stan Bowman, Lynne Taetzsch, Paul McMillan, Cheyne Rood, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, Barbara Page, Barbara Mink, Len Fishman, Melissa Tiffany and Al D'Agostino. The show holds a number of different and unique mediums including paintings, sculptures, glass work, photographs, collage, drawings, and giclee prints on canvas.

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.

Four to the Fore
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

The exhibits highlights the varied work of four members, Barbara Emmons, Judith Jaquith, Elizabeth Pilbeam, and Clara Towell.

Visual Arts Showcase #61, Tribal
CNY Arts

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

A juried exhibit in which a dozen regional artists have individually interpreted the concept of "Tribal."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Maximum Color
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring glass by Phil Austin, paintings by Alison Fisher, landscapes and abstractions by Jim Loveless, non-representational paintings by Lutz Scherneck, and creative photography by Linda Spatuzzi.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

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

Since 1974, the Cultural Resources Council, in cooperation with the Everson, has presented On My Own Time. A celebration of artwork created by employees of local businesses on their own time, the exhibition is meant to promote creativity and artistic endeavors by those who are not full-time artists.

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.

Cosmology: Works by Alan Singer
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Alan Singer utilizes traditional painting and drawing techniques combined with high-tech digital tools and printmaking techniques to create his abstract environments. William Zimmer, New York Times' art critic, commented that "Singer's art has the refreshing jauntiness found in the pioneering American abstractionists."

Alan Singer says: "My subjects are derived from visual and physical phenomena related to space (in the geometric sense), and our human interactions with nature. I think about how our environment interweaves things we can see and things which we can only feel, like the wind. I am very conscious of the elements in our natural world and the forces that are exerted on us, and how we adapt. I try to open my art to representations of physical and social forces that may draw upon literary, scientific or mathematical resources. Patterns in my painting find correlations to the textures and rhythms of music, dance, textile arts and more."

Film Series: Just an American Boy
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

This fascinating documentary follows Steve Earle, a politically conscious performer of roots rock, alternative country and many musical points in between, during his tour and promotional appearances in 2002 and 2003. (95 minutes)

Film Series: Just an American Boy
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

This fascinating documentary follows Steve Earle, a politically conscious performer of roots rock, alternative country and many musical points in between, during his tour and promotional appearances in 2002 and 2003. (95 minutes)

Cinema Thursday: The Gullah Connection
Community Folk Art Center

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

2008 Festival Prescreening
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: Free, but reservations recommended
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Syracuse International Film Festival hosts a prescreening evening. A team of local writers, actors, producers and film critics will make up a professional prescreening team who will watch a handful of the hundreds of entries received by the festival organizers. The general public is invited to join the prescreening sessions and give their impressions of the films.

The space is limited, so please call 315-442-8700 to reserve a spot.

Rocky Horror Picture Show
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The Paul Carlon Octet with Special Guest Christelle Durandy

Price: $15 adults, $10 students
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Paul Carlon brings his Octet plus vocalist Christelle Durandy to Syracuse for a set of gritty Ellington/Mingus-influenced swing, Afro-Cuban timba and rumba, and hardcore NYC jazz. The debut CD of this fast-rising and hard-hitting group of some of New York City's top young jazz musicians, Other Tongues, has been achieving critical and popular success since its 2006 release. New York City-based saxophonist, flautist, and composer Paul Carlon, a veteran of the bands of bassist Harvie S, late great trombonist Juan Pablo Torres, tresero Ben Lapidus (Sonido Isleño), Rumbatap pioneer Max Pollak, and Ileana Santamaría, has established impressive credentials as a bandleader in his own right with the release of Other Tongues.

For this concert, the group will be performing material from Other Tongues as well as newly-penned originals and fresh arrangements ranging from a Delta Blues classic (Skip James' "Hard Times Killin' Floor Blues") to Brazilian Afro-Samba (Baden Powell's "Canto de Xangô"). The group is in the process of working up new material for their second CD, to be recorded in the Spring of 2008.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Excelsior Cornet Band

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

The Excelsior Cornet Band will perform original Civil War music on period instruments in a concert presented as part of the 2007 Syracuse Symposium.

Special guest Ralph Dudgeon will join the band to perform on the E-flat cornet and the E-flat keyed bugle.

The Excelsior Cornet Band is New York state's only authentic Civil War brass band. Founded in 2001, the band consists of a group of upstate New York musicians (including SU faculty and staff members) who are dedicated to the performance of original Civil War music on actual antique brass band instruments of the 1860s period, such as cornets, horns, bugles, trombones, basses and percussion instruments. Band members wear uniforms that represent those of a typical early-war New York state militia band.

The band performs the most popular melodies of the 1850-70 period, as well as patriotic airs, operatic medleys, marches and dance music by the era's most renowned composers and bandmasters. All of the band's musical arrangements come from the band books of Civil War-era bands, or are arranged from original Civil War sheet music.

The band has presented concerts, educational programs and living history portrayals for a wide variety of organizations and municipalities across New York state. The band received a Syracuse Area Music Award for "Best Recording, Other Styles" in 2006 for its debut CD, Cheer, Boys, Cheer!

Parking will be available in the Irving Garage for $3.50.

Death Joins the Club
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive dinner theater murder mystery.

Misery
Syracuse Stage
Emma Griffin, director

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

The perfect Halloween treat from the "king of horror, Stephen King. A psychological thriller that serves up gasps and laughs aplenty. A must for King lovers.

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LeMoyne College
Major Arcana

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The student-run theatre club presents one-acts that are directed, designed and performed by Le Moyne College students.

Friday, November 9, 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.

Million Dollar Blocks: Justice and the City
ThINC

Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

The United States currently has more than 2 million people locked up in jails and prisons. A disproportionate number of them come from a very few neighborhoods in the country's biggest cities. In many places, the concentration is so dense that states are spending in excess of a million dollars a year to incarcerate the residents of single census blocks. When these people are released and reenter their communities, roughly 40% do not stay more than three years before they are reincarcerated.

Using rarely accessible data from the criminal justice system, the Spatial Information Design Lab and the Justice Mapping Center have created maps of these "million dollar blocks" and of the city-prison-city-prison migration for of the nation's cities. The maps suggest that the criminal justice system has become the predominant government institution in these communities and that public investment in this system has resulted in significant costs to other elements of our civic infrastructure -- education, housing, health, and family.

The maps pose difficult ethical and political questions for policymakers and designers. When they are linked to other urban social and economic indicators of incarceration they also suggest new strategies for approaching urban design and criminal justice reform together.

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

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Eye of the FaithKeeper: The Haudenosaunee Art of Oren Lyons
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

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."

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition features abstract artwork from 16 New York State artists. Artists exhibiting: Anatoli Truskalo, Linda Bigness, Bob Gates, Amber Blanding, Hunter O'Reilly, Stan Bowman, Lynne Taetzsch, Paul McMillan, Cheyne Rood, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, Barbara Page, Barbara Mink, Len Fishman, Melissa Tiffany and Al D'Agostino. The show holds a number of different and unique mediums including paintings, sculptures, glass work, photographs, collage, drawings, and giclee prints on canvas.

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.

Four to the Fore
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

The exhibits highlights the varied work of four members, Barbara Emmons, Judith Jaquith, Elizabeth Pilbeam, and Clara Towell.

Visual Arts Showcase #61, Tribal
CNY Arts

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

A juried exhibit in which a dozen regional artists have individually interpreted the concept of "Tribal."

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.

Newfoundland and Other Journeys
Fayetteville Free Library

Price: Free
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

A showing of original pigment prints by Donal and Shel Little.

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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