Friday, August 3, 2007

Visual Arts Showcase #60: 2007 Annual Member Show
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Double your pleasure, double your fun and double your exposure to some wonderful artists as the Visual Arts Showcase Committee and the Cultural Resource Council of Onondaga County present the 2007 Annual Members' Shows, Showcase #60, in two locations -- WCNY in Liverpool and the Link Gallery in The Warehouse in Armory Square.

Founded in 1992 by a group of 12 area artists and arts advocates, the VAC currently has 31 volunteer members whose mission it is to create professionally presented exhibits of high quality art produced by artists who live or work in the Central New York area. Also, to further public education about the visual arts as well as to increase recognition of the contributions of working visual artists in our community. All showcases are juried or curated by an ever-changing assortment of area professionals: gallery owners, museum directors, arts educators, and working artists from the Upstate area.

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.

Central New York Book Arts
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Central New York Book Arts is an exhibition that features book works created by regional book artists, including students at Wells College in Aurora, N.Y., and Printmaking 552 in the School of Art and Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts, at Syracuse University.

The exhibitors are Jennifer Betton, Nicole Blum, Carol Ceraldi, Leigh Craven, Tijana Djordjevic, Diane Fine, Jessica Ginsberg, Beverly Hettig, Zebadiah Keneally, Sue Huggins Leopard, Robert LoMascolo, Conor McGrann, Ellen Nanni, Zoe Nementz, Shalini Patel, Bertha Rogers, Jamie Shoneman, Jane Tam, Robert Walp, Cynthia Wang, Wells College Book Arts Center, and Craig Wischerath.

The 22 works in the exhibition illustrate a wide range of book structures, including sewn books, accordions, and sculptural works using such materials as clay, cloth, paper, leather, and parchment. Techniques used for text and imagery include letterpress printing, woodcuts, silk-screen, laser/inkjet, calligraphic, and combinations of these techniques.

Damu Smith Memorial Environmental Justice Photo Exhibition and Southside Photovoice Project
Community Folk Art Center

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

ISDP 2007: Independent Study Degree Program Master of Arts in Illustration Exhibition
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Five artists from around the country will exhibit their thesis work, which includes a variety of media and subject matter.
* Ross Hogin, of Seattle, exhibits a series of graphic portraits depicting what he considers the toughest sports heroes of our time.
* Richard Williams transforms the traditional pin-up calendar into an evocative series of dominatrix like goddesses.
* Designer Q. Cassetti illustrates her technical prowess in digital media with a combination of color theory and visual texture.
* Christopher Williams of Lakewood, Colorado uses the traditional medium of pen and ink to illustrate his series entitled State of Mind.
* Colored pencil and mixed media are used in the fantastic landscapes and character portraits of Traci VanWoensel.

Notify the SU gate attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed to the nearest lot.

Defining Moments: American Masterworks from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition illustrates the development of American Art from the middle of the 19th century and through the 20th century. The selection of paintings, prints and sculpture in this exhibit show how art in the U.S. progressed out of Eurocentric visual and cultural ideals to form a purely American aesthetic culture. Louis Comfort Tiffany married the French Art Nouveau style with the American ingenuity of the light bulb to design masterpieces such as the Murano Design Lamp (1893-95). During the 20th century, the U.S. became a major exponent of Modernism, with artists like Rico Lebrun and Yasuo Kuniyoshi leading the way. Lebrun's "Woman with Arms over Head" (1962-63) reflects his spontaneity and experimental philosophy, while the bright, acidic colors in Kuniyoshi's "Forbidden Fruit" (1950) exemplify the prevailing aesthetic current of the New York School shortly after World War II.

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.

Women at Work: Members of the Art Students League of New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings from the University's permanent collection examines how Modernism and the formation of the Art Students League impacted the influx of women into the field and their development as professional and influential artists.

The selection of work begins with artists who were directly influenced by the 1913 Amory Show such as Peggy Bacon, Maria Wickey, and Isabel Bishop. The exhibition concludes with the advent of Abstract Expressionism, showing works by Jan Gelb, Minna Citron, Terry Haass, and Helen Frankenthaler. These works illustrate American art's stylistic evolution during the period. Early drawings like Harriet Frishmuth's "Study, reclining nude," reveal a classical, academic structure. This type of work gave way in the 1920s to the gritty and modern "realism" of Isabel Bishop's "Sleeping Man." After World War II, Abstract Expressionism began to take over, as seen in Minna
Citron's "Men Seldom Make Passes...," and later in the work of Helen Frankenthaler.

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.

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.

Visual Arts Showcase #60: 2007 Annual Member Show
CNY Arts

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

Double your pleasure, double your fun and double your exposure to some wonderful artists as the Visual Arts Showcase Committee and the Cultural Resource Council of Onondaga County present the 2007 Annual Members' Shows, Showcase #60, in two locations -- WCNY in Liverpool and the Link Gallery in The Warehouse in Armory Square.

Founded in 1992 by a group of 12 area artists and arts advocates, the VAC currently has 31 volunteer members whose mission it is to create professionally presented exhibits of high quality art produced by artists who live or work in the Central New York area. Also, to further public education about the visual arts as well as to increase recognition of the contributions of working visual artists in our community. All showcases are juried or curated by an ever-changing assortment of area professionals: gallery owners, museum directors, arts educators, and working artists from the Upstate area.

Collector's Showcase
Delavan Art Gallery

Price: Free
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Our special Collector's Showcase will feature staff picks from "Holdover" -- a selection of works from many of the 140 artists who have previously been shown in Delavan Art Gallery.

Special Deal! For the first time, Delavan Art Gallery is running a special deal for art collectors:
Purchase $500 of art during the Collector's Showcase and receive a $50 collector's certificate for use in our upcoming exhibits.

Tom Mazzullo Drawings
Everson Museum of Art

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

Tom Mazzullo is quietly turning the age-old idea of still-life upside down. In Tom Mazzullo Drawings, fruits and vegetables no longer rest among plentiful pre-arranged settings atop tablecloths dressed with lacey doilies and wrinkles that fall gracefully to the floor. There are no half-filled water glasses for light to dance in or mirrored reflections to play tricks on the eye.

The objects are meticulously drawn to scale, an invitation to move in for a closer look. The delicate, silverpoint lines become more apparent, reflecting light as one's eye wanders fervently over the layered network of cross-hatching where every line counts. Mazzullo wants the viewer to "concentrate on one subject, one idea at a time." The artist feels he has succeeded when "a drawing's pale, perfect surface elicits a liveliness and presence greater than the simplicity of its construction."

Tom Mazzullo Drawings, which includes 20 silverpoint and four conté crayon drawings, is the artist's first solo museum exhibition.

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art
Everson Museum of Art

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

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art, an exhibition organized by the Longyear Museum of Anthropology at Colgate University, includes 85 religious objects, most of them from the 20th century, such as figures, masks and headdresses, divination trays, staffs, vessels, and shrine furniture. Much of the art figures in the veneration of divinities and ancestors, and the control of supernatural powers associated with nature, medicine, and witchcraft.

Notes on Paper: Watercolors of Musicians by Steve Ryan
Lucas Gallery

Price: Free
Lucas Gallery
33 Jordan St., Skaneateles

Ryan's work is impressionistic, wet-to-wet watercolors, painted on crescent textured illustration board. The board and paints are wetted repetitively and some areas are defined later with pastel conte pencil. Subjects include musicians, both children and adults, in the jazz as well as the classical genre.

Lakescapes: Selected Works of Karen Thomas-Lillie
Lucas Gallery

Lucas Gallery
33 Jordan St., Skaneateles

Karen Thomas-Lillie is an artist and designer with a degree from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, who creates impressionistic landscapes of the Finger Lakes using oilbar on panels. Her aesthetic focuses on expanses, edges, distance, fields, drumlins, water and sky. Her work reflects her effort to unite art with the natural environments she sees as well as her respect for the natural beauty of the lakes.

All You Need Is Liverpool Beatles/'60s music Festival

Price: $25
Paper Mill Island
Baldwinsville

Bye Bye Birdie
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

Price: $10 adults; $5 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Youth theater production.

Man of LaMancha

Price: $4
Tully Junior-Senior High School
Elm St., Tully

Presented by the Tully Council of the Arts.
Information: 315-696-6235.

The Wizard of Oz
Skaneateles Summer Theater

Skaneateles High School
49 E. Elizabeth St., Skaneateles

For more information, phone 315-685-8657.

Hate Mail
Summerstage New York

Price: $30 regular; $25 students/seniors
Wellwood Middle School
700 S. Manlius St., Fayetteville

Hate Mail, by Bill Corbett and Kira Obolensky, is an epistolary play something like Love Letters, with two actors reading letters and other correspondence, but it's a little wilder and more hysterically funny. It tells the story of Preston, a spoiled rich kid who meets his match in Dahlia, an angst-filled artist. Their worlds collide when Preston sends a complaint letter that gets Dahlia fired from her job, and then there's no turning back. The play stays with their increasingly crazed correspondence as they move from hate to love, and then right back again.

Menopause the Musical
Syracuse Stage

Price: $45, $40, $22 (regular); $40, $35, $22 (students/seniors); $20 (ages 18 and under)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Menopause The Musical brings together four women (a Power Woman, Earth Mother, Soap Star and an Iowa Housewife) at a NYC Bloomingdale's lingerie sale, who have nothing in common but a black lace bra and hot flashes, night sweats, memory loss, chocolate binges, not enough sex, too much sex, plastic surgery and more! Menopause The Musical joyfully parodies 25 of the top "baby boomer" songs of the '60s and '70s celebrating women who are or will be experiencing The Change.

Read a review!

Grease
Theatre '90

Price: $23 regular; $20 students/seniors; $14 children under 12
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Read a Review!

Lowdown Lies
Armory Square Playwrights

Price: $15 regular; $12.50 studetns/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Lowdown Lies is a full-length, non-musical comedy written by Post-Standard humor columnist Jeff Kramer, about the mess a man creates after backing out of a vasectomy without telling his wife.

Read a Review!

Saturday, August 4, 2007

Collector's Showcase
Delavan Art Gallery

Price: Free
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Our special Collector's Showcase will feature staff picks from "Holdover" -- a selection of works from many of the 140 artists who have previously been shown in Delavan Art Gallery.

Special Deal! For the first time, Delavan Art Gallery is running a special deal for art collectors:
Purchase $500 of art during the Collector's Showcase and receive a $50 collector's certificate for use in our upcoming exhibits.

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art
Everson Museum of Art

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

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art, an exhibition organized by the Longyear Museum of Anthropology at Colgate University, includes 85 religious objects, most of them from the 20th century, such as figures, masks and headdresses, divination trays, staffs, vessels, and shrine furniture. Much of the art figures in the veneration of divinities and ancestors, and the control of supernatural powers associated with nature, medicine, and witchcraft.

Tom Mazzullo Drawings
Everson Museum of Art

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

Tom Mazzullo is quietly turning the age-old idea of still-life upside down. In Tom Mazzullo Drawings, fruits and vegetables no longer rest among plentiful pre-arranged settings atop tablecloths dressed with lacey doilies and wrinkles that fall gracefully to the floor. There are no half-filled water glasses for light to dance in or mirrored reflections to play tricks on the eye.

The objects are meticulously drawn to scale, an invitation to move in for a closer look. The delicate, silverpoint lines become more apparent, reflecting light as one's eye wanders fervently over the layered network of cross-hatching where every line counts. Mazzullo wants the viewer to "concentrate on one subject, one idea at a time." The artist feels he has succeeded when "a drawing's pale, perfect surface elicits a liveliness and presence greater than the simplicity of its construction."

Tom Mazzullo Drawings, which includes 20 silverpoint and four conté crayon drawings, is the artist's first solo museum exhibition.

Lakescapes: Selected Works of Karen Thomas-Lillie
Lucas Gallery

Lucas Gallery
33 Jordan St., Skaneateles

Karen Thomas-Lillie is an artist and designer with a degree from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, who creates impressionistic landscapes of the Finger Lakes using oilbar on panels. Her aesthetic focuses on expanses, edges, distance, fields, drumlins, water and sky. Her work reflects her effort to unite art with the natural environments she sees as well as her respect for the natural beauty of the lakes.

Notes on Paper: Watercolors of Musicians by Steve Ryan
Lucas Gallery

Price: Free
Lucas Gallery
33 Jordan St., Skaneateles

Ryan's work is impressionistic, wet-to-wet watercolors, painted on crescent textured illustration board. The board and paints are wetted repetitively and some areas are defined later with pastel conte pencil. Subjects include musicians, both children and adults, in the jazz as well as the classical genre.

Damu Smith Memorial Environmental Justice Photo Exhibition and Southside Photovoice Project
Community Folk Art Center

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

ISDP 2007: Independent Study Degree Program Master of Arts in Illustration Exhibition
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Five artists from around the country will exhibit their thesis work, which includes a variety of media and subject matter.
* Ross Hogin, of Seattle, exhibits a series of graphic portraits depicting what he considers the toughest sports heroes of our time.
* Richard Williams transforms the traditional pin-up calendar into an evocative series of dominatrix like goddesses.
* Designer Q. Cassetti illustrates her technical prowess in digital media with a combination of color theory and visual texture.
* Christopher Williams of Lakewood, Colorado uses the traditional medium of pen and ink to illustrate his series entitled State of Mind.
* Colored pencil and mixed media are used in the fantastic landscapes and character portraits of Traci VanWoensel.

Notify the SU gate attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed to the nearest lot.

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.

Women at Work: Members of the Art Students League of New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings from the University's permanent collection examines how Modernism and the formation of the Art Students League impacted the influx of women into the field and their development as professional and influential artists.

The selection of work begins with artists who were directly influenced by the 1913 Amory Show such as Peggy Bacon, Maria Wickey, and Isabel Bishop. The exhibition concludes with the advent of Abstract Expressionism, showing works by Jan Gelb, Minna Citron, Terry Haass, and Helen Frankenthaler. These works illustrate American art's stylistic evolution during the period. Early drawings like Harriet Frishmuth's "Study, reclining nude," reveal a classical, academic structure. This type of work gave way in the 1920s to the gritty and modern "realism" of Isabel Bishop's "Sleeping Man." After World War II, Abstract Expressionism began to take over, as seen in Minna
Citron's "Men Seldom Make Passes...," and later in the work of Helen Frankenthaler.

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.

Visual Arts Showcase #60: 2007 Annual Member Show
CNY Arts

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

Double your pleasure, double your fun and double your exposure to some wonderful artists as the Visual Arts Showcase Committee and the Cultural Resource Council of Onondaga County present the 2007 Annual Members' Shows, Showcase #60, in two locations -- WCNY in Liverpool and the Link Gallery in The Warehouse in Armory Square.

Founded in 1992 by a group of 12 area artists and arts advocates, the VAC currently has 31 volunteer members whose mission it is to create professionally presented exhibits of high quality art produced by artists who live or work in the Central New York area. Also, to further public education about the visual arts as well as to increase recognition of the contributions of working visual artists in our community. All showcases are juried or curated by an ever-changing assortment of area professionals: gallery owners, museum directors, arts educators, and working artists from the Upstate area.

Candlelight Concert Youth Opening Act
Katherine Weber, Andrew King and Steven Seigert

Price: Free
Armory Square
Clinton and Jefferson St., Syracuse

Central New York Divas Live
Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $15
Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts
728 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Featuring Erika DeSocio (rock), Nikki Feroni (rhythm 'n' blues), Lisa Gentile (urban country), Jessy Chick (piano jam), Natalia (electrosoul).

Candlelight Concert
Syracuse Opera

Price: Free
Armory Square
Clinton and Jefferson St., Syracuse

Hansel and Gretel
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive version of the children's classic.

Hate Mail
Summerstage New York

Price: $25 regular; $20 students/seniors
Wellwood Middle School
700 S. Manlius St., Fayetteville

Hate Mail, by Bill Corbett and Kira Obolensky, is an epistolary play something like Love Letters, with two actors reading letters and other correspondence, but it's a little wilder and more hysterically funny. It tells the story of Preston, a spoiled rich kid who meets his match in Dahlia, an angst-filled artist. Their worlds collide when Preston sends a complaint letter that gets Dahlia fired from her job, and then there's no turning back. The play stays with their increasingly crazed correspondence as they move from hate to love, and then right back again.

Menopause the Musical
Syracuse Stage

Price: $45, $40, $22 (regular); $40, $35, $22 (students/seniors); $20 (ages 18 and under)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Menopause The Musical brings together four women (a Power Woman, Earth Mother, Soap Star and an Iowa Housewife) at a NYC Bloomingdale's lingerie sale, who have nothing in common but a black lace bra and hot flashes, night sweats, memory loss, chocolate binges, not enough sex, too much sex, plastic surgery and more! Menopause The Musical joyfully parodies 25 of the top "baby boomer" songs of the '60s and '70s celebrating women who are or will be experiencing The Change.

Read a review!

Bye Bye Birdie
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

Price: $10 adults; $5 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Youth theater production.

The Wizard of Oz
Skaneateles Summer Theater

Skaneateles High School
49 E. Elizabeth St., Skaneateles

For more information, phone 315-685-8657.

Hate Mail
Summerstage New York

Price: $30 regular; $25 students/seniors
Wellwood Middle School
700 S. Manlius St., Fayetteville

Hate Mail, by Bill Corbett and Kira Obolensky, is an epistolary play something like Love Letters, with two actors reading letters and other correspondence, but it's a little wilder and more hysterically funny. It tells the story of Preston, a spoiled rich kid who meets his match in Dahlia, an angst-filled artist. Their worlds collide when Preston sends a complaint letter that gets Dahlia fired from her job, and then there's no turning back. The play stays with their increasingly crazed correspondence as they move from hate to love, and then right back again.

Menopause the Musical
Syracuse Stage

Price: $45, $40, $22 (regular); $40, $35, $22 (students/seniors); $20 (ages 18 and under)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Menopause The Musical brings together four women (a Power Woman, Earth Mother, Soap Star and an Iowa Housewife) at a NYC Bloomingdale's lingerie sale, who have nothing in common but a black lace bra and hot flashes, night sweats, memory loss, chocolate binges, not enough sex, too much sex, plastic surgery and more! Menopause The Musical joyfully parodies 25 of the top "baby boomer" songs of the '60s and '70s celebrating women who are or will be experiencing The Change.

Read a review!

Grease
Theatre '90

Price: $23 regular; $20 students/seniors; $14 children under 12
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Read a Review!

Lowdown Lies
Armory Square Playwrights

Price: $15 regular; $12.50 studetns/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Lowdown Lies is a full-length, non-musical comedy written by Post-Standard humor columnist Jeff Kramer, about the mess a man creates after backing out of a vasectomy without telling his wife.

Read a Review!

Poor Broke College Student Top Hat Fund Benefit
Simply New Theatre

Price: Free (donations accepted)
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The show features performances by Christine Lightcap, Tom Warner, Kathy Guyette, Bill Molesky, Shannon Tompkins, Tamaralee Schutt, Danielle Lovier, Ryan MacConnell, J Brazill, the cast of the 2007 Jamesville-Dewitt High School production of 42nd Street, Genarro Parlato with an unforgettable number from Gypsy that you will not want to miss! Plus Bob Brown with a sneak peak at the Wit's End Players production of The Will Rogers Follies.

But what is the Poor Broke College Student Top Hat Fund? When we formed Simply New back in 1987 we were straight out of college and remembered what it was like to have to work a part time job in lieu of participating in as many theatre productions as possible. So once a year we get together  sing some songs and act some monologues and small scripts and collect money at the end of the night to top off our annual fund.

This year's recipient will be announced on 8/4, and all proceeds will go to this student on his or her way to college at the end of August to study acting.

Sunday, August 5, 2007

Notes on Paper: Watercolors of Musicians by Steve Ryan
Lucas Gallery

Price: Free
Lucas Gallery
33 Jordan St., Skaneateles

Ryan's work is impressionistic, wet-to-wet watercolors, painted on crescent textured illustration board. The board and paints are wetted repetitively and some areas are defined later with pastel conte pencil. Subjects include musicians, both children and adults, in the jazz as well as the classical genre.

Lakescapes: Selected Works of Karen Thomas-Lillie
Lucas Gallery

Lucas Gallery
33 Jordan St., Skaneateles

Karen Thomas-Lillie is an artist and designer with a degree from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, who creates impressionistic landscapes of the Finger Lakes using oilbar on panels. Her aesthetic focuses on expanses, edges, distance, fields, drumlins, water and sky. Her work reflects her effort to unite art with the natural environments she sees as well as her respect for the natural beauty of the lakes.

Women at Work: Members of the Art Students League of New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings from the University's permanent collection examines how Modernism and the formation of the Art Students League impacted the influx of women into the field and their development as professional and influential artists.

The selection of work begins with artists who were directly influenced by the 1913 Amory Show such as Peggy Bacon, Maria Wickey, and Isabel Bishop. The exhibition concludes with the advent of Abstract Expressionism, showing works by Jan Gelb, Minna Citron, Terry Haass, and Helen Frankenthaler. These works illustrate American art's stylistic evolution during the period. Early drawings like Harriet Frishmuth's "Study, reclining nude," reveal a classical, academic structure. This type of work gave way in the 1920s to the gritty and modern "realism" of Isabel Bishop's "Sleeping Man." After World War II, Abstract Expressionism began to take over, as seen in Minna
Citron's "Men Seldom Make Passes...," and later in the work of Helen Frankenthaler.

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.

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.

ISDP 2007: Independent Study Degree Program Master of Arts in Illustration Exhibition
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Five artists from around the country will exhibit their thesis work, which includes a variety of media and subject matter.
* Ross Hogin, of Seattle, exhibits a series of graphic portraits depicting what he considers the toughest sports heroes of our time.
* Richard Williams transforms the traditional pin-up calendar into an evocative series of dominatrix like goddesses.
* Designer Q. Cassetti illustrates her technical prowess in digital media with a combination of color theory and visual texture.
* Christopher Williams of Lakewood, Colorado uses the traditional medium of pen and ink to illustrate his series entitled State of Mind.
* Colored pencil and mixed media are used in the fantastic landscapes and character portraits of Traci VanWoensel.

Notify the SU gate attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed to the nearest lot.

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art
Everson Museum of Art

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

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art, an exhibition organized by the Longyear Museum of Anthropology at Colgate University, includes 85 religious objects, most of them from the 20th century, such as figures, masks and headdresses, divination trays, staffs, vessels, and shrine furniture. Much of the art figures in the veneration of divinities and ancestors, and the control of supernatural powers associated with nature, medicine, and witchcraft.

Tom Mazzullo Drawings
Everson Museum of Art

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

Tom Mazzullo is quietly turning the age-old idea of still-life upside down. In Tom Mazzullo Drawings, fruits and vegetables no longer rest among plentiful pre-arranged settings atop tablecloths dressed with lacey doilies and wrinkles that fall gracefully to the floor. There are no half-filled water glasses for light to dance in or mirrored reflections to play tricks on the eye.

The objects are meticulously drawn to scale, an invitation to move in for a closer look. The delicate, silverpoint lines become more apparent, reflecting light as one's eye wanders fervently over the layered network of cross-hatching where every line counts. Mazzullo wants the viewer to "concentrate on one subject, one idea at a time." The artist feels he has succeeded when "a drawing's pale, perfect surface elicits a liveliness and presence greater than the simplicity of its construction."

Tom Mazzullo Drawings, which includes 20 silverpoint and four conté crayon drawings, is the artist's first solo museum exhibition.

The Wizard of Oz
Skaneateles Summer Theater

Skaneateles High School
49 E. Elizabeth St., Skaneateles

For more information, phone 315-685-8657.

Hate Mail
Summerstage New York

Price: $25 regular; $20 students/seniors
Wellwood Middle School
700 S. Manlius St., Fayetteville

Hate Mail, by Bill Corbett and Kira Obolensky, is an epistolary play something like Love Letters, with two actors reading letters and other correspondence, but it's a little wilder and more hysterically funny. It tells the story of Preston, a spoiled rich kid who meets his match in Dahlia, an angst-filled artist. Their worlds collide when Preston sends a complaint letter that gets Dahlia fired from her job, and then there's no turning back. The play stays with their increasingly crazed correspondence as they move from hate to love, and then right back again.

Grease
Theatre '90

Price: $23 regular; $20 students/seniors; $14 children under 12
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Read a Review!

Bye Bye Birdie
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

Price: $10 adults; $5 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Youth theater production.

Menopause the Musical
Syracuse Stage

Price: $45, $40, $22 (regular); $40, $35, $22 (students/seniors); $20 (ages 18 and under)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Menopause The Musical brings together four women (a Power Woman, Earth Mother, Soap Star and an Iowa Housewife) at a NYC Bloomingdale's lingerie sale, who have nothing in common but a black lace bra and hot flashes, night sweats, memory loss, chocolate binges, not enough sex, too much sex, plastic surgery and more! Menopause The Musical joyfully parodies 25 of the top "baby boomer" songs of the '60s and '70s celebrating women who are or will be experiencing The Change.

Read a review!

Menopause the Musical
Syracuse Stage

Price: $40, $35, $22 (regular); $35, $32, $22 (students/seniors); $20 (ages 18 and under)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Menopause The Musical brings together four women (a Power Woman, Earth Mother, Soap Star and an Iowa Housewife) at a NYC Bloomingdale's lingerie sale, who have nothing in common but a black lace bra and hot flashes, night sweats, memory loss, chocolate binges, not enough sex, too much sex, plastic surgery and more! Menopause The Musical joyfully parodies 25 of the top "baby boomer" songs of the '60s and '70s celebrating women who are or will be experiencing The Change.

Read a review!

Monday, August 6, 2007

Visual Arts Showcase #60: 2007 Annual Member Show
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Double your pleasure, double your fun and double your exposure to some wonderful artists as the Visual Arts Showcase Committee and the Cultural Resource Council of Onondaga County present the 2007 Annual Members' Shows, Showcase #60, in two locations -- WCNY in Liverpool and the Link Gallery in The Warehouse in Armory Square.

Founded in 1992 by a group of 12 area artists and arts advocates, the VAC currently has 31 volunteer members whose mission it is to create professionally presented exhibits of high quality art produced by artists who live or work in the Central New York area. Also, to further public education about the visual arts as well as to increase recognition of the contributions of working visual artists in our community. All showcases are juried or curated by an ever-changing assortment of area professionals: gallery owners, museum directors, arts educators, and working artists from the Upstate area.

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.

Central New York Book Arts
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Central New York Book Arts is an exhibition that features book works created by regional book artists, including students at Wells College in Aurora, N.Y., and Printmaking 552 in the School of Art and Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts, at Syracuse University.

The exhibitors are Jennifer Betton, Nicole Blum, Carol Ceraldi, Leigh Craven, Tijana Djordjevic, Diane Fine, Jessica Ginsberg, Beverly Hettig, Zebadiah Keneally, Sue Huggins Leopard, Robert LoMascolo, Conor McGrann, Ellen Nanni, Zoe Nementz, Shalini Patel, Bertha Rogers, Jamie Shoneman, Jane Tam, Robert Walp, Cynthia Wang, Wells College Book Arts Center, and Craig Wischerath.

The 22 works in the exhibition illustrate a wide range of book structures, including sewn books, accordions, and sculptural works using such materials as clay, cloth, paper, leather, and parchment. Techniques used for text and imagery include letterpress printing, woodcuts, silk-screen, laser/inkjet, calligraphic, and combinations of these techniques.

Defining Moments: American Masterworks from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition illustrates the development of American Art from the middle of the 19th century and through the 20th century. The selection of paintings, prints and sculpture in this exhibit show how art in the U.S. progressed out of Eurocentric visual and cultural ideals to form a purely American aesthetic culture. Louis Comfort Tiffany married the French Art Nouveau style with the American ingenuity of the light bulb to design masterpieces such as the Murano Design Lamp (1893-95). During the 20th century, the U.S. became a major exponent of Modernism, with artists like Rico Lebrun and Yasuo Kuniyoshi leading the way. Lebrun's "Woman with Arms over Head" (1962-63) reflects his spontaneity and experimental philosophy, while the bright, acidic colors in Kuniyoshi's "Forbidden Fruit" (1950) exemplify the prevailing aesthetic current of the New York School shortly after World War II.

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.

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Visual Arts Showcase #60: 2007 Annual Member Show
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Double your pleasure, double your fun and double your exposure to some wonderful artists as the Visual Arts Showcase Committee and the Cultural Resource Council of Onondaga County present the 2007 Annual Members' Shows, Showcase #60, in two locations -- WCNY in Liverpool and the Link Gallery in The Warehouse in Armory Square.

Founded in 1992 by a group of 12 area artists and arts advocates, the VAC currently has 31 volunteer members whose mission it is to create professionally presented exhibits of high quality art produced by artists who live or work in the Central New York area. Also, to further public education about the visual arts as well as to increase recognition of the contributions of working visual artists in our community. All showcases are juried or curated by an ever-changing assortment of area professionals: gallery owners, museum directors, arts educators, and working artists from the Upstate area.

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.

Central New York Book Arts
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Central New York Book Arts is an exhibition that features book works created by regional book artists, including students at Wells College in Aurora, N.Y., and Printmaking 552 in the School of Art and Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts, at Syracuse University.

The exhibitors are Jennifer Betton, Nicole Blum, Carol Ceraldi, Leigh Craven, Tijana Djordjevic, Diane Fine, Jessica Ginsberg, Beverly Hettig, Zebadiah Keneally, Sue Huggins Leopard, Robert LoMascolo, Conor McGrann, Ellen Nanni, Zoe Nementz, Shalini Patel, Bertha Rogers, Jamie Shoneman, Jane Tam, Robert Walp, Cynthia Wang, Wells College Book Arts Center, and Craig Wischerath.

The 22 works in the exhibition illustrate a wide range of book structures, including sewn books, accordions, and sculptural works using such materials as clay, cloth, paper, leather, and parchment. Techniques used for text and imagery include letterpress printing, woodcuts, silk-screen, laser/inkjet, calligraphic, and combinations of these techniques.

Damu Smith Memorial Environmental Justice Photo Exhibition and Southside Photovoice Project
Community Folk Art Center

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

Defining Moments: American Masterworks from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition illustrates the development of American Art from the middle of the 19th century and through the 20th century. The selection of paintings, prints and sculpture in this exhibit show how art in the U.S. progressed out of Eurocentric visual and cultural ideals to form a purely American aesthetic culture. Louis Comfort Tiffany married the French Art Nouveau style with the American ingenuity of the light bulb to design masterpieces such as the Murano Design Lamp (1893-95). During the 20th century, the U.S. became a major exponent of Modernism, with artists like Rico Lebrun and Yasuo Kuniyoshi leading the way. Lebrun's "Woman with Arms over Head" (1962-63) reflects his spontaneity and experimental philosophy, while the bright, acidic colors in Kuniyoshi's "Forbidden Fruit" (1950) exemplify the prevailing aesthetic current of the New York School shortly after World War II.

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.

ISDP 2007: Independent Study Degree Program Master of Arts in Illustration Exhibition
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Five artists from around the country will exhibit their thesis work, which includes a variety of media and subject matter.
* Ross Hogin, of Seattle, exhibits a series of graphic portraits depicting what he considers the toughest sports heroes of our time.
* Richard Williams transforms the traditional pin-up calendar into an evocative series of dominatrix like goddesses.
* Designer Q. Cassetti illustrates her technical prowess in digital media with a combination of color theory and visual texture.
* Christopher Williams of Lakewood, Colorado uses the traditional medium of pen and ink to illustrate his series entitled State of Mind.
* Colored pencil and mixed media are used in the fantastic landscapes and character portraits of Traci VanWoensel.

Notify the SU gate attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed to the nearest lot.

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.

Women at Work: Members of the Art Students League of New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings from the University's permanent collection examines how Modernism and the formation of the Art Students League impacted the influx of women into the field and their development as professional and influential artists.

The selection of work begins with artists who were directly influenced by the 1913 Amory Show such as Peggy Bacon, Maria Wickey, and Isabel Bishop. The exhibition concludes with the advent of Abstract Expressionism, showing works by Jan Gelb, Minna Citron, Terry Haass, and Helen Frankenthaler. These works illustrate American art's stylistic evolution during the period. Early drawings like Harriet Frishmuth's "Study, reclining nude," reveal a classical, academic structure. This type of work gave way in the 1920s to the gritty and modern "realism" of Isabel Bishop's "Sleeping Man." After World War II, Abstract Expressionism began to take over, as seen in Minna
Citron's "Men Seldom Make Passes...," and later in the work of Helen Frankenthaler.

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.

Visual Arts Showcase #60: 2007 Annual Member Show
CNY Arts

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

Double your pleasure, double your fun and double your exposure to some wonderful artists as the Visual Arts Showcase Committee and the Cultural Resource Council of Onondaga County present the 2007 Annual Members' Shows, Showcase #60, in two locations -- WCNY in Liverpool and the Link Gallery in The Warehouse in Armory Square.

Founded in 1992 by a group of 12 area artists and arts advocates, the VAC currently has 31 volunteer members whose mission it is to create professionally presented exhibits of high quality art produced by artists who live or work in the Central New York area. Also, to further public education about the visual arts as well as to increase recognition of the contributions of working visual artists in our community. All showcases are juried or curated by an ever-changing assortment of area professionals: gallery owners, museum directors, arts educators, and working artists from the Upstate area.

Tom Mazzullo Drawings
Everson Museum of Art

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

Tom Mazzullo is quietly turning the age-old idea of still-life upside down. In Tom Mazzullo Drawings, fruits and vegetables no longer rest among plentiful pre-arranged settings atop tablecloths dressed with lacey doilies and wrinkles that fall gracefully to the floor. There are no half-filled water glasses for light to dance in or mirrored reflections to play tricks on the eye.

The objects are meticulously drawn to scale, an invitation to move in for a closer look. The delicate, silverpoint lines become more apparent, reflecting light as one's eye wanders fervently over the layered network of cross-hatching where every line counts. Mazzullo wants the viewer to "concentrate on one subject, one idea at a time." The artist feels he has succeeded when "a drawing's pale, perfect surface elicits a liveliness and presence greater than the simplicity of its construction."

Tom Mazzullo Drawings, which includes 20 silverpoint and four conté crayon drawings, is the artist's first solo museum exhibition.

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art
Everson Museum of Art

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

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art, an exhibition organized by the Longyear Museum of Anthropology at Colgate University, includes 85 religious objects, most of them from the 20th century, such as figures, masks and headdresses, divination trays, staffs, vessels, and shrine furniture. Much of the art figures in the veneration of divinities and ancestors, and the control of supernatural powers associated with nature, medicine, and witchcraft.

Local Ties Night: Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
Alternative Movies and Events

Price: $5
Funk 'n Waffles University
727 S. Crouse Ave. (Campus Plaza, behind Marshall , Syracuse

*CANCELLED* Lauren Weisberger
Friends of the Central Library Author Series

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

Author of The Devil Wears Prada.

For ticket refunds, phone 315-435-2121.

Menopause the Musical
Syracuse Stage

Price: $40, $35, $22 (regular); $35, $32, $22 (students/seniors); $20 (ages 18 and under)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Menopause The Musical brings together four women (a Power Woman, Earth Mother, Soap Star and an Iowa Housewife) at a NYC Bloomingdale's lingerie sale, who have nothing in common but a black lace bra and hot flashes, night sweats, memory loss, chocolate binges, not enough sex, too much sex, plastic surgery and more! Menopause The Musical joyfully parodies 25 of the top "baby boomer" songs of the '60s and '70s celebrating women who are or will be experiencing The Change.

Read a review!

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Visual Arts Showcase #60: 2007 Annual Member Show
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Double your pleasure, double your fun and double your exposure to some wonderful artists as the Visual Arts Showcase Committee and the Cultural Resource Council of Onondaga County present the 2007 Annual Members' Shows, Showcase #60, in two locations -- WCNY in Liverpool and the Link Gallery in The Warehouse in Armory Square.

Founded in 1992 by a group of 12 area artists and arts advocates, the VAC currently has 31 volunteer members whose mission it is to create professionally presented exhibits of high quality art produced by artists who live or work in the Central New York area. Also, to further public education about the visual arts as well as to increase recognition of the contributions of working visual artists in our community. All showcases are juried or curated by an ever-changing assortment of area professionals: gallery owners, museum directors, arts educators, and working artists from the Upstate area.

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.

Central New York Book Arts
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Central New York Book Arts is an exhibition that features book works created by regional book artists, including students at Wells College in Aurora, N.Y., and Printmaking 552 in the School of Art and Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts, at Syracuse University.

The exhibitors are Jennifer Betton, Nicole Blum, Carol Ceraldi, Leigh Craven, Tijana Djordjevic, Diane Fine, Jessica Ginsberg, Beverly Hettig, Zebadiah Keneally, Sue Huggins Leopard, Robert LoMascolo, Conor McGrann, Ellen Nanni, Zoe Nementz, Shalini Patel, Bertha Rogers, Jamie Shoneman, Jane Tam, Robert Walp, Cynthia Wang, Wells College Book Arts Center, and Craig Wischerath.

The 22 works in the exhibition illustrate a wide range of book structures, including sewn books, accordions, and sculptural works using such materials as clay, cloth, paper, leather, and parchment. Techniques used for text and imagery include letterpress printing, woodcuts, silk-screen, laser/inkjet, calligraphic, and combinations of these techniques.

Damu Smith Memorial Environmental Justice Photo Exhibition and Southside Photovoice Project
Community Folk Art Center

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

ISDP 2007: Independent Study Degree Program Master of Arts in Illustration Exhibition
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Five artists from around the country will exhibit their thesis work, which includes a variety of media and subject matter.
* Ross Hogin, of Seattle, exhibits a series of graphic portraits depicting what he considers the toughest sports heroes of our time.
* Richard Williams transforms the traditional pin-up calendar into an evocative series of dominatrix like goddesses.
* Designer Q. Cassetti illustrates her technical prowess in digital media with a combination of color theory and visual texture.
* Christopher Williams of Lakewood, Colorado uses the traditional medium of pen and ink to illustrate his series entitled State of Mind.
* Colored pencil and mixed media are used in the fantastic landscapes and character portraits of Traci VanWoensel.

Notify the SU gate attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed to the nearest lot.

Defining Moments: American Masterworks from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition illustrates the development of American Art from the middle of the 19th century and through the 20th century. The selection of paintings, prints and sculpture in this exhibit show how art in the U.S. progressed out of Eurocentric visual and cultural ideals to form a purely American aesthetic culture. Louis Comfort Tiffany married the French Art Nouveau style with the American ingenuity of the light bulb to design masterpieces such as the Murano Design Lamp (1893-95). During the 20th century, the U.S. became a major exponent of Modernism, with artists like Rico Lebrun and Yasuo Kuniyoshi leading the way. Lebrun's "Woman with Arms over Head" (1962-63) reflects his spontaneity and experimental philosophy, while the bright, acidic colors in Kuniyoshi's "Forbidden Fruit" (1950) exemplify the prevailing aesthetic current of the New York School shortly after World War II.

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.

Women at Work: Members of the Art Students League of New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings from the University's permanent collection examines how Modernism and the formation of the Art Students League impacted the influx of women into the field and their development as professional and influential artists.

The selection of work begins with artists who were directly influenced by the 1913 Amory Show such as Peggy Bacon, Maria Wickey, and Isabel Bishop. The exhibition concludes with the advent of Abstract Expressionism, showing works by Jan Gelb, Minna Citron, Terry Haass, and Helen Frankenthaler. These works illustrate American art's stylistic evolution during the period. Early drawings like Harriet Frishmuth's "Study, reclining nude," reveal a classical, academic structure. This type of work gave way in the 1920s to the gritty and modern "realism" of Isabel Bishop's "Sleeping Man." After World War II, Abstract Expressionism began to take over, as seen in Minna
Citron's "Men Seldom Make Passes...," and later in the work of Helen Frankenthaler.

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.

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.

Visual Arts Showcase #60: 2007 Annual Member Show
CNY Arts

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

Double your pleasure, double your fun and double your exposure to some wonderful artists as the Visual Arts Showcase Committee and the Cultural Resource Council of Onondaga County present the 2007 Annual Members' Shows, Showcase #60, in two locations -- WCNY in Liverpool and the Link Gallery in The Warehouse in Armory Square.

Founded in 1992 by a group of 12 area artists and arts advocates, the VAC currently has 31 volunteer members whose mission it is to create professionally presented exhibits of high quality art produced by artists who live or work in the Central New York area. Also, to further public education about the visual arts as well as to increase recognition of the contributions of working visual artists in our community. All showcases are juried or curated by an ever-changing assortment of area professionals: gallery owners, museum directors, arts educators, and working artists from the Upstate area.

Tom Mazzullo Drawings
Everson Museum of Art

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

Tom Mazzullo is quietly turning the age-old idea of still-life upside down. In Tom Mazzullo Drawings, fruits and vegetables no longer rest among plentiful pre-arranged settings atop tablecloths dressed with lacey doilies and wrinkles that fall gracefully to the floor. There are no half-filled water glasses for light to dance in or mirrored reflections to play tricks on the eye.

The objects are meticulously drawn to scale, an invitation to move in for a closer look. The delicate, silverpoint lines become more apparent, reflecting light as one's eye wanders fervently over the layered network of cross-hatching where every line counts. Mazzullo wants the viewer to "concentrate on one subject, one idea at a time." The artist feels he has succeeded when "a drawing's pale, perfect surface elicits a liveliness and presence greater than the simplicity of its construction."

Tom Mazzullo Drawings, which includes 20 silverpoint and four conté crayon drawings, is the artist's first solo museum exhibition.

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art
Everson Museum of Art

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

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art, an exhibition organized by the Longyear Museum of Anthropology at Colgate University, includes 85 religious objects, most of them from the 20th century, such as figures, masks and headdresses, divination trays, staffs, vessels, and shrine furniture. Much of the art figures in the veneration of divinities and ancestors, and the control of supernatural powers associated with nature, medicine, and witchcraft.

Menopause the Musical
Syracuse Stage

Price: $40, $35, $22 (regular); $35, $32, $22 (students/seniors); $20 (ages 18 and under)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Menopause The Musical brings together four women (a Power Woman, Earth Mother, Soap Star and an Iowa Housewife) at a NYC Bloomingdale's lingerie sale, who have nothing in common but a black lace bra and hot flashes, night sweats, memory loss, chocolate binges, not enough sex, too much sex, plastic surgery and more! Menopause The Musical joyfully parodies 25 of the top "baby boomer" songs of the '60s and '70s celebrating women who are or will be experiencing The Change.

Read a review!

Thursday, August 9, 2007

Visual Arts Showcase #60: 2007 Annual Member Show
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Double your pleasure, double your fun and double your exposure to some wonderful artists as the Visual Arts Showcase Committee and the Cultural Resource Council of Onondaga County present the 2007 Annual Members' Shows, Showcase #60, in two locations -- WCNY in Liverpool and the Link Gallery in The Warehouse in Armory Square.

Founded in 1992 by a group of 12 area artists and arts advocates, the VAC currently has 31 volunteer members whose mission it is to create professionally presented exhibits of high quality art produced by artists who live or work in the Central New York area. Also, to further public education about the visual arts as well as to increase recognition of the contributions of working visual artists in our community. All showcases are juried or curated by an ever-changing assortment of area professionals: gallery owners, museum directors, arts educators, and working artists from the Upstate area.

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.

Central New York Book Arts
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Central New York Book Arts is an exhibition that features book works created by regional book artists, including students at Wells College in Aurora, N.Y., and Printmaking 552 in the School of Art and Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts, at Syracuse University.

The exhibitors are Jennifer Betton, Nicole Blum, Carol Ceraldi, Leigh Craven, Tijana Djordjevic, Diane Fine, Jessica Ginsberg, Beverly Hettig, Zebadiah Keneally, Sue Huggins Leopard, Robert LoMascolo, Conor McGrann, Ellen Nanni, Zoe Nementz, Shalini Patel, Bertha Rogers, Jamie Shoneman, Jane Tam, Robert Walp, Cynthia Wang, Wells College Book Arts Center, and Craig Wischerath.

The 22 works in the exhibition illustrate a wide range of book structures, including sewn books, accordions, and sculptural works using such materials as clay, cloth, paper, leather, and parchment. Techniques used for text and imagery include letterpress printing, woodcuts, silk-screen, laser/inkjet, calligraphic, and combinations of these techniques.

Damu Smith Memorial Environmental Justice Photo Exhibition and Southside Photovoice Project
Community Folk Art Center

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

Defining Moments: American Masterworks from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition illustrates the development of American Art from the middle of the 19th century and through the 20th century. The selection of paintings, prints and sculpture in this exhibit show how art in the U.S. progressed out of Eurocentric visual and cultural ideals to form a purely American aesthetic culture. Louis Comfort Tiffany married the French Art Nouveau style with the American ingenuity of the light bulb to design masterpieces such as the Murano Design Lamp (1893-95). During the 20th century, the U.S. became a major exponent of Modernism, with artists like Rico Lebrun and Yasuo Kuniyoshi leading the way. Lebrun's "Woman with Arms over Head" (1962-63) reflects his spontaneity and experimental philosophy, while the bright, acidic colors in Kuniyoshi's "Forbidden Fruit" (1950) exemplify the prevailing aesthetic current of the New York School shortly after World War II.

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.

ISDP 2007: Independent Study Degree Program Master of Arts in Illustration Exhibition
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Five artists from around the country will exhibit their thesis work, which includes a variety of media and subject matter.
* Ross Hogin, of Seattle, exhibits a series of graphic portraits depicting what he considers the toughest sports heroes of our time.
* Richard Williams transforms the traditional pin-up calendar into an evocative series of dominatrix like goddesses.
* Designer Q. Cassetti illustrates her technical prowess in digital media with a combination of color theory and visual texture.
* Christopher Williams of Lakewood, Colorado uses the traditional medium of pen and ink to illustrate his series entitled State of Mind.
* Colored pencil and mixed media are used in the fantastic landscapes and character portraits of Traci VanWoensel.

Notify the SU gate attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed to the nearest lot.

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.

Women at Work: Members of the Art Students League of New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings from the University's permanent collection examines how Modernism and the formation of the Art Students League impacted the influx of women into the field and their development as professional and influential artists.

The selection of work begins with artists who were directly influenced by the 1913 Amory Show such as Peggy Bacon, Maria Wickey, and Isabel Bishop. The exhibition concludes with the advent of Abstract Expressionism, showing works by Jan Gelb, Minna Citron, Terry Haass, and Helen Frankenthaler. These works illustrate American art's stylistic evolution during the period. Early drawings like Harriet Frishmuth's "Study, reclining nude," reveal a classical, academic structure. This type of work gave way in the 1920s to the gritty and modern "realism" of Isabel Bishop's "Sleeping Man." After World War II, Abstract Expressionism began to take over, as seen in Minna
Citron's "Men Seldom Make Passes...," and later in the work of Helen Frankenthaler.

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.

Visual Arts Showcase #60: 2007 Annual Member Show
CNY Arts

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

Double your pleasure, double your fun and double your exposure to some wonderful artists as the Visual Arts Showcase Committee and the Cultural Resource Council of Onondaga County present the 2007 Annual Members' Shows, Showcase #60, in two locations -- WCNY in Liverpool and the Link Gallery in The Warehouse in Armory Square.

Founded in 1992 by a group of 12 area artists and arts advocates, the VAC currently has 31 volunteer members whose mission it is to create professionally presented exhibits of high quality art produced by artists who live or work in the Central New York area. Also, to further public education about the visual arts as well as to increase recognition of the contributions of working visual artists in our community. All showcases are juried or curated by an ever-changing assortment of area professionals: gallery owners, museum directors, arts educators, and working artists from the Upstate area.

Collector's Showcase
Delavan Art Gallery

Price: Free
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Our special Collector's Showcase will feature staff picks from "Holdover" -- a selection of works from many of the 140 artists who have previously been shown in Delavan Art Gallery.

Special Deal! For the first time, Delavan Art Gallery is running a special deal for art collectors:
Purchase $500 of art during the Collector's Showcase and receive a $50 collector's certificate for use in our upcoming exhibits.

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art
Everson Museum of Art

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

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art, an exhibition organized by the Longyear Museum of Anthropology at Colgate University, includes 85 religious objects, most of them from the 20th century, such as figures, masks and headdresses, divination trays, staffs, vessels, and shrine furniture. Much of the art figures in the veneration of divinities and ancestors, and the control of supernatural powers associated with nature, medicine, and witchcraft.

Tom Mazzullo Drawings
Everson Museum of Art

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

Tom Mazzullo is quietly turning the age-old idea of still-life upside down. In Tom Mazzullo Drawings, fruits and vegetables no longer rest among plentiful pre-arranged settings atop tablecloths dressed with lacey doilies and wrinkles that fall gracefully to the floor. There are no half-filled water glasses for light to dance in or mirrored reflections to play tricks on the eye.

The objects are meticulously drawn to scale, an invitation to move in for a closer look. The delicate, silverpoint lines become more apparent, reflecting light as one's eye wanders fervently over the layered network of cross-hatching where every line counts. Mazzullo wants the viewer to "concentrate on one subject, one idea at a time." The artist feels he has succeeded when "a drawing's pale, perfect surface elicits a liveliness and presence greater than the simplicity of its construction."

Tom Mazzullo Drawings, which includes 20 silverpoint and four conté crayon drawings, is the artist's first solo museum exhibition.

Film Under the Stars: The Thing from Another World
Everson Museum of Art

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

Bring a beach chair, blanket, snack and your family for an open air viewing of The Thing from Another World. Families can explore outdoor sculptures by David Hayes, Henry Moore, Lila Katzen and many others before viewing the film.

The Thing from Another World is the thrilling tale of an Air Force crew and scientists at a remote Arctic research outpost who fight a malevolent alien being, The Thing. The film stars Kenneth Tobey (Captain Patrick Hendry), Margaret Sheridan (Nikki Nicholson), Robert Cornthwaite (Dr. Arthur Carrington), James Arness (The Thing) and Douglas Spencer (Ned Scott). (Directed by Christian Nyby. 87 minutes, 1951.)

This film screening under the stars promises to be an exciting evening of fun and adventure for the whole family! Don't forget to bring popcorn!

Jazz in the City: Latin Dance Party
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Grupo Pagan and Alex Torres y su orquesta

Price: Free
Hamilton St. by the Tipp Hill Boys & Girls Club
(near Fayette and Genesee), Syracuse

Marcia Rutledge with Greg Evans, Andrew Carrol and Tom Bronzetti

Price: $7.50
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

This performance will offer a rare opportunity to hear the three jazz dynamos, Greg Evans, Andrew Carrol, and Tom Bronzetti, on drums, keys, and guitar, back in company with local jazz vocalist Marcia Rutledge. Their CD release celebratory concert at the same venue in December 2005 played to a standing-room-only crowd and featured songs from the CD no one home. This impromptu concert will bring the boys together for what might be their only public concert of the summer, and their last for many months to come, as they have college plans for the coming year that will take them to NYC and LA. Miss Rutledge promises a few new surprises from her ever-expanding and eclectic book of standards and original tunes.

For reservations or more information, contact Marcia at mrutledge2@twcny.rr.com or 315-427-8953, or Greg at 315-345-4036.

Chamber Music
Skaneateles Festival

Price: $22, $18 regular; $19, $15 students/seniors; children under 13 free
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Samuel Barber String Quartet, op. 11
Paquito D'Rivera The Village Street Quartet
Traditional Amazing Grace
Traditional A selection of American songs
Jennifer Higdon Southern Harmony
Will Ramsey Peace
Traditional Free Little Bird

Performers include Mike Seeger and the Ying Quartet.

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The Merry Wives of Windsor
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: Free
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

Theatergoers are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and picnics.

Read a review!

Harry Crocker and the Saucerer's Stove
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive mystery dinner theater.

Menopause the Musical
Syracuse Stage

Price: $40, $35, $22 (regular); $35, $32, $22 (students/seniors); $20 (ages 18 and under)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Menopause The Musical brings together four women (a Power Woman, Earth Mother, Soap Star and an Iowa Housewife) at a NYC Bloomingdale's lingerie sale, who have nothing in common but a black lace bra and hot flashes, night sweats, memory loss, chocolate binges, not enough sex, too much sex, plastic surgery and more! Menopause The Musical joyfully parodies 25 of the top "baby boomer" songs of the '60s and '70s celebrating women who are or will be experiencing The Change.

Read a review!

Grease
Theatre '90

Price: $23 regular; $20 students/seniors; $14 children under 12
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Read a Review!

Evolution
Leslie Noble, director
Featuring Patricia Buckley

Price: $10
Marren Studio Theatre, Coyne Performing Arts Ctr
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

New one-woman play about two sisters and their mother dealing with a mysterious illness.

Friday, August 10, 2007

Visual Arts Showcase #60: 2007 Annual Member Show
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Double your pleasure, double your fun and double your exposure to some wonderful artists as the Visual Arts Showcase Committee and the Cultural Resource Council of Onondaga County present the 2007 Annual Members' Shows, Showcase #60, in two locations -- WCNY in Liverpool and the Link Gallery in The Warehouse in Armory Square.

Founded in 1992 by a group of 12 area artists and arts advocates, the VAC currently has 31 volunteer members whose mission it is to create professionally presented exhibits of high quality art produced by artists who live or work in the Central New York area. Also, to further public education about the visual arts as well as to increase recognition of the contributions of working visual artists in our community. All showcases are juried or curated by an ever-changing assortment of area professionals: gallery owners, museum directors, arts educators, and working artists from the Upstate area.

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.

Central New York Book Arts
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Central New York Book Arts is an exhibition that features book works created by regional book artists, including students at Wells College in Aurora, N.Y., and Printmaking 552 in the School of Art and Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts, at Syracuse University.

The exhibitors are Jennifer Betton, Nicole Blum, Carol Ceraldi, Leigh Craven, Tijana Djordjevic, Diane Fine, Jessica Ginsberg, Beverly Hettig, Zebadiah Keneally, Sue Huggins Leopard, Robert LoMascolo, Conor McGrann, Ellen Nanni, Zoe Nementz, Shalini Patel, Bertha Rogers, Jamie Shoneman, Jane Tam, Robert Walp, Cynthia Wang, Wells College Book Arts Center, and Craig Wischerath.

The 22 works in the exhibition illustrate a wide range of book structures, including sewn books, accordions, and sculptural works using such materials as clay, cloth, paper, leather, and parchment. Techniques used for text and imagery include letterpress printing, woodcuts, silk-screen, laser/inkjet, calligraphic, and combinations of these techniques.

Damu Smith Memorial Environmental Justice Photo Exhibition and Southside Photovoice Project
Community Folk Art Center

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

Defining Moments: American Masterworks from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition illustrates the development of American Art from the middle of the 19th century and through the 20th century. The selection of paintings, prints and sculpture in this exhibit show how art in the U.S. progressed out of Eurocentric visual and cultural ideals to form a purely American aesthetic culture. Louis Comfort Tiffany married the French Art Nouveau style with the American ingenuity of the light bulb to design masterpieces such as the Murano Design Lamp (1893-95). During the 20th century, the U.S. became a major exponent of Modernism, with artists like Rico Lebrun and Yasuo Kuniyoshi leading the way. Lebrun's "Woman with Arms over Head" (1962-63) reflects his spontaneity and experimental philosophy, while the bright, acidic colors in Kuniyoshi's "Forbidden Fruit" (1950) exemplify the prevailing aesthetic current of the New York School shortly after World War II.

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.

Women at Work: Members of the Art Students League of New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings from the University's permanent collection examines how Modernism and the formation of the Art Students League impacted the influx of women into the field and their development as professional and influential artists.

The selection of work begins with artists who were directly influenced by the 1913 Amory Show such as Peggy Bacon, Maria Wickey, and Isabel Bishop. The exhibition concludes with the advent of Abstract Expressionism, showing works by Jan Gelb, Minna Citron, Terry Haass, and Helen Frankenthaler. These works illustrate American art's stylistic evolution during the period. Early drawings like Harriet Frishmuth's "Study, reclining nude," reveal a classical, academic structure. This type of work gave way in the 1920s to the gritty and modern "realism" of Isabel Bishop's "Sleeping Man." After World War II, Abstract Expressionism began to take over, as seen in Minna
Citron's "Men Seldom Make Passes...," and later in the work of Helen Frankenthaler.

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.

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.

Visual Arts Showcase #60: 2007 Annual Member Show
CNY Arts

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

Double your pleasure, double your fun and double your exposure to some wonderful artists as the Visual Arts Showcase Committee and the Cultural Resource Council of Onondaga County present the 2007 Annual Members' Shows, Showcase #60, in two locations -- WCNY in Liverpool and the Link Gallery in The Warehouse in Armory Square.

Founded in 1992 by a group of 12 area artists and arts advocates, the VAC currently has 31 volunteer members whose mission it is to create professionally presented exhibits of high quality art produced by artists who live or work in the Central New York area. Also, to further public education about the visual arts as well as to increase recognition of the contributions of working visual artists in our community. All showcases are juried or curated by an ever-changing assortment of area professionals: gallery owners, museum directors, arts educators, and working artists from the Upstate area.

Collector's Showcase
Delavan Art Gallery

Price: Free
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Our special Collector's Showcase will feature staff picks from "Holdover" -- a selection of works from many of the 140 artists who have previously been shown in Delavan Art Gallery.

Special Deal! For the first time, Delavan Art Gallery is running a special deal for art collectors:
Purchase $500 of art during the Collector's Showcase and receive a $50 collector's certificate for use in our upcoming exhibits.

Tom Mazzullo Drawings
Everson Museum of Art

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

Tom Mazzullo is quietly turning the age-old idea of still-life upside down. In Tom Mazzullo Drawings, fruits and vegetables no longer rest among plentiful pre-arranged settings atop tablecloths dressed with lacey doilies and wrinkles that fall gracefully to the floor. There are no half-filled water glasses for light to dance in or mirrored reflections to play tricks on the eye.

The objects are meticulously drawn to scale, an invitation to move in for a closer look. The delicate, silverpoint lines become more apparent, reflecting light as one's eye wanders fervently over the layered network of cross-hatching where every line counts. Mazzullo wants the viewer to "concentrate on one subject, one idea at a time." The artist feels he has succeeded when "a drawing's pale, perfect surface elicits a liveliness and presence greater than the simplicity of its construction."

Tom Mazzullo Drawings, which includes 20 silverpoint and four conté crayon drawings, is the artist's first solo museum exhibition.

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art
Everson Museum of Art

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

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art, an exhibition organized by the Longyear Museum of Anthropology at Colgate University, includes 85 religious objects, most of them from the 20th century, such as figures, masks and headdresses, divination trays, staffs, vessels, and shrine furniture. Much of the art figures in the veneration of divinities and ancestors, and the control of supernatural powers associated with nature, medicine, and witchcraft.

Notes on Paper: Watercolors of Musicians by Steve Ryan
Lucas Gallery

Price: Free
Lucas Gallery
33 Jordan St., Skaneateles

Ryan's work is impressionistic, wet-to-wet watercolors, painted on crescent textured illustration board. The board and paints are wetted repetitively and some areas are defined later with pastel conte pencil. Subjects include musicians, both children and adults, in the jazz as well as the classical genre.

Lakescapes: Selected Works of Karen Thomas-Lillie
Lucas Gallery

Lucas Gallery
33 Jordan St., Skaneateles

Karen Thomas-Lillie is an artist and designer with a degree from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, who creates impressionistic landscapes of the Finger Lakes using oilbar on panels. Her aesthetic focuses on expanses, edges, distance, fields, drumlins, water and sky. Her work reflects her effort to unite art with the natural environments she sees as well as her respect for the natural beauty of the lakes.

Jazz Friday
Ronnie Leigh Trio

Price: Free
Fayette Firefighters Memorial Park
Fayette St., Syracuse

Bring a lunch and enjoy lunchtime jazz in the park.

Reel Music
Skaneateles Festival

Price: $22, $18 regular; $19, $15 students/seniors; children under 13 free
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Irving Berlin I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket
Jerome Kern The Way You Look Tonight
George Gershwin A Woman is a Sometime Thing; I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'
John Williams Three Pieces from Schindler's List: Theme from Schindler's List, Jewish Town,
Remembrances
Franz Waxman Variations on Auld Lang Syne for piano quartet
Erich Korngold String Sextet

Performers include Elinor Freer, piano; Timothy Jones, baritone; Michael Klotz, viola; Elizabeth Simkin, cello; and the Ying Quartet.

The Merry Wives of Windsor
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: Free
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

Theatergoers are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and picnics.

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Bye Bye Birdie
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

Price: $10 adults; $5 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Youth theater production.

Aristocrats and Seussical Jr.
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Price: $20 regular, $18 students/seniors, $16 children 12 and under
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An Evening with Groucho
Summerstage New York

Price: $30 regular; $25 students/seniors
Wellwood Middle School
700 S. Manlius St., Fayetteville

Award-winning actor/director/playwright Frank Ferrante recreates his PBS, New York, and London acclaimed portrayal of legendary comedian Groucho Marx in this fast-paced 90-minutes of hilarity. The two-act comedy consists of the best of Groucho one-liners, anecdotes, and songs, including "Hooray for Captain Spalding" and "Lydia, the Tattooed Lady." The audience literally becomes part of the show as Ferrante ad-libs his way throughput the performance in grand Groucho style. Accompanied by his onstage pianist, Jim Furmston, Ferrante portrays the young Groucho of stage and film, and reacquaints us with the likes of brothers Harpo, Chico, Zeppo, and Gummo; Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields, Greta Garbo, Marx foil Margaret Dumont, and MGM's Louis Mayer. Perfect for all ages.

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Menopause the Musical
Syracuse Stage

Price: $45, $40, $22 (regular); $40, $35, $22 (students/seniors); $20 (ages 18 and under)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Menopause The Musical brings together four women (a Power Woman, Earth Mother, Soap Star and an Iowa Housewife) at a NYC Bloomingdale's lingerie sale, who have nothing in common but a black lace bra and hot flashes, night sweats, memory loss, chocolate binges, not enough sex, too much sex, plastic surgery and more! Menopause The Musical joyfully parodies 25 of the top "baby boomer" songs of the '60s and '70s celebrating women who are or will be experiencing The Change.

Read a review!

Grease
Theatre '90

Price: $23 regular; $20 students/seniors; $14 children under 12
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

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Lowdown Lies
Armory Square Playwrights

Price: $15 regular; $12.50 studetns/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Lowdown Lies is a full-length, non-musical comedy written by Post-Standard humor columnist Jeff Kramer, about the mess a man creates after backing out of a vasectomy without telling his wife.

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Evolution
Leslie Noble, director
Featuring Patricia Buckley

Price: $10
Marren Studio Theatre, Coyne Performing Arts Ctr
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

New one-woman play about two sisters and their mother dealing with a mysterious illness.