Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Howard Hao Tran: Sculpture and Drawing
LeMoyne College

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

Howard Tran's work explores three themes related to his life: migration, assimilation and identity. His family moved from China to Vietnam during WWII, translated their name to Vietnamese and assimilated in many ways while maintaining Chinese language and customs.

After immigrating to the United States, Howard's identity came into question. Although his family was Chinese, he had been born and raised in Vietnam. To Americans he was Vietnamese. Now he has lived in America most of his life and has assimilated to this culture so much that when he return returns to Vietnam he no longer feels at home.

Today, he self-identifies as Chinese/Vietnamese/American and embodies elements of all three cultures while at the same time feels between them all. In his art he explores identity, home, tradition change and the dichotomy between East and West.

Everything Illustrated VI
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Work by SUNY Oswego illustration students: Kendi Kajogo, Trish Steinberg, Liz Hunt, Jen Osborne, Sam Castaldo, Sam Fuller, Harold Vaz, Ana Paula Retore

Opening Exhibition
CommonSpace Crafts

CommonSpace Crafts
201 E Jefferson St., Syracuse

The gallery features the work of 11 local artists.

Context: Reading the Photography of Margaret Bourke-White
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a celebrity behind, and in front of, the camera. As a photographer for Life magazine from the 1930s through the 1950s, she documented unforgettable moments--African-American flood victims in Louisville, KY, standing in a bread line beneath a banner that reads almost mockingly "There's No Way Like the American Way"; just-liberated survivors of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp returning the camera's gaze under an eerily cinematic light; Mahatma Gandhi sitting cross-legged on the floor reading, spinning wheel in the foreground. Bourke-White's photographs helped shape the way millions of Americans experienced the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the world that followed.

In front of the camera she cultivated an image of herself as fearless, undaunted in pursuit of her "shot," and fashionable, donning fine clothes and a coquettish smile.

After three decades in the public eye Bourke-White began to write her memoirs in the early 1950s. When Portrait of Myself finally appeared in 1963, she had already published ten books, countless essays, and been the subject of many interviews. In fact, but for the occasional gallery exhibition, text had always surrounded Bourke-White's photographs. This exhibition explores how text "framed" the photography of Margaret Bourke-White and, ultimately, how she sought to transcend the limits of the medium that made her famous.

Beyond the Pale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Linda Bigness: encaustic and oil paintings influenced by music's emergent patterns and created with subtle nuances of color and found materials

Todd Conover: folded, pierced stone set and chainworked sculpture and jewelry, based on a strong craft tradition from centuries-old metalsmithing techniques

Amy Bartell: gouache and drawing combine to investigate organic forms; archeology of place and time presented as formal portraits

Painting Alumni Retrospective
914Works

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The breadth and diversity of "Painting Alumni Retrospective" stand as evidence of the University's lasting impact on American culture since it became the first institution in the United States to offer a bachelor of fine arts degree 140 years ago.

The exhibition includes small works by 21 alumni of the undergraduate painting program from the Class of 1959 to the Class of 2014. The exhibition shows the evolution of painting over a half century, from action painting to conceptual, post-conceptual, representational, interdisciplinary and contemporary works. As such, the exhibition addresses the historical phenomenon of American painting and the impact Syracuse University has had on the medium from the reign of critic Clement Greenberg '30 to the contemporary conversation.

The artists represented include Barbara Vural, Louise Freshman Brown, Ken Rush, Scott Bennett, Deborah Walsh, Allyn Stewart, Linda Bigness, Elizabeth Brown Eagle, Yvonne Petkus, Heather Hertel, Francis Sills, Holly Cahill, Alexis Serio Hughes, Jennie Schaeffer, Adam Winner, Edward Holland, Emily Dierkes, Sean Ward, Joshua Kaplan, Mary Luke, and Jenna Race. Combined, they have amassed prestigious recognitions, including more than 50 museum exhibitions and a wide array of press coverage and critical acclaim from the likes of the New York Times, ARTnews, Greenberg, and the Syracuse Post-Standard.

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

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Annual holiday art show. Artwork may be taken at the time of purchase.

Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Question Bridge: Black Males" is an innovative transmedia project, created by artists Chris Johnson and Hank Willis Thomas, which facilitates a dialogue between a critical mass of Black men from diverse and contending backgrounds and creates a platform for them to represent and redefine Black male identity in America. CFAC will also be featuring a Syracuse-based "Question Bridge" featuring Black men of all ages as platform to ask and candidly respond to questions that are rarely discussed in public.

"Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock" explores the work of this multidisciplinary artist who interrogates Black male identity and constructs a layered narrative addressing violence in the Black community.

Block Prints of Laura Wilder
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

An exhibition of the work of Roycroft Renaissance artist Laura Wilder.

Common Planes: The Metalwork of Arlene Abend and Todd Conover
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

An exhibit of jewelry and sculpture.

Arlene Abend's career creating sculpture spans decades. Abend works in bronze, sheet steel, and other mediums. Her work can be found in public, corporate, and private collections. Abend has exhibited in over 15 shows, some group and some one-woman shows. "When I create a sculpture to communicate an idea or a feeling, I also find myself expressing the character of the material as well...be it bronze whose molten liquid flows into cavities or sheet steel that can be sheared and bent. The use of different material is both exciting and challenging. The exploration leads to new forms and directions and offers me a far greater range of expression."

Todd Conover's passion for collecting early 20th century American Arts & Crafts Period metalwork led to his obsession with learning long-lost metalworking techniques. He quickly set out producing unique work of his own. Conover has been in fashion design for over 25 years so it was an obvious marriage to transition his metalwork to jewelry where he focuses most of his design work and energy. With a mix of unexpected yet related materials, his jewelry tends to be overtly bold with inspiration harnessed from natural forms that will highlight surface and materials. Conover is professor of Design/Chair: Fashion Design, Syracuse University School of Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts.

29th Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

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

It's that time of year again! The upstairs gallery of the Erie Canal Museum has been transformed into a 1800s street scene with over 30 gingerbread creations made by professional and amateur bakers from across the region on display in storefront windows.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to a construction schedule beyond our control, the elevator will be out of service for the duration of the Gingerbread Gallery. We apologize for the inconvenience. Our temporary entrance will be on the Water Street side of the building.

Raymond Meeks: Where Objects Fall Away
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce "Where Objects Fall Away," an exhibition spanning the career of photographer and book artist Raymond Meeks, exploring his relationship to the photobook and its form.

In the words of artist and publisher Raymond Meeks, "I continue to be inspired by collaboration with writers of poetry and short fiction and the merging of visual and word narratives. Recently, I've focused my efforts towards making artist books and a collaborative journal, orchard, which presents a visual conversation with fellow artists." Meeks has collaborated with artists Deborah Luster, Wes Mills, and Mark Steinmetz. His books and pictures are housed in numerous public and private collections, including the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, George Eastman House, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Howard Stein Collection.

2014 Light Work Grants: Trevor Clement, Sebastian Collett, Dan Wetmore
Light Work Gallery

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

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An artwork exhibit highlighting winter scenes throughout Onondaga County. "Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County" features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 30 scenes include downtown Syracuse, rural vistas, Oakwood and Rose Hill Cemeteries, and woodland settings. The imagery is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.

It's in Our Very Name: The Italian Heritage of Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

As a crossroads for many immigrants from around the world, Syracuse became the home for Italians who were looking to build a better life. In turn, these immigrants changed Syracuse both physically, by helping with different architectural and infrastructure projects, and culturally, by importing new foods and customs to our community and by participation at all levels in the Syracuse economy.

The exhibit will focus on the history and influence of Italian culture in Syracuse beginning with the name given to this village in 1825, which was adopted when John Wilkinson was inspired by a poem about Siracusa, Sicily. By the 1880s, an increasing number of Italian immigrants began to arrive to take advantage of the thriving Syracuse economy and other opportunities that were available. Some artifacts that will be highlighted include a wine press, a set of wooden bocce balls, and purses made at the Resnick purse factory.

Watercolor Memories: The Artistic Legacy of Betty Munro
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibit featuring the watercolors of the late Betty Munro, a local artist who could be seen painting in downtown Syracuse throughout the 1970s to the early 1990s. Located in the first floor main gallery, the exhibit will focus on Betty's artistic diversity through watercolor paints. Betty is best known for her architectural scenes and cityscapes, and while guests will see some of those, they also will be treated to other, perhaps lesser-known subjects such as human figures, swans, barns, the beach in Florida, and other colorful themes. All paintings in the exhibit will be for sale.

Thinkin 'Bout Lincoln
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In conjunction with Onondaga Community College's "Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War" exhibit, OHA will open an exhibit titled "Thinkin' 'Bout Lincoln" featuring some of OHA's Lincoln collection.

60th Annual Holiday Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Original art by over 50 local arts, including paintings, photography, pottery, jewelry, textiles, stained glass, and one-of-a-kind gifts.

For more information, visit artmart-syracuse.com.

Conceal/Reveal: New Work from the Faculty of the College of Visual and Performing Arts
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit brings together the eclectic and powerful work of design, studio arts, and transmedia faculty. Organized by SUArt Galleries Assistant Director Andrew J. Saluti, this exhibition will showcase new and recent artwork from 20 artists working in a wide variety of media including painting, photography, drawing, ceramics, art video and site-specific installations.

Shadows: Fernando Orellana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The interactive artworks found in Shadows are designed to be used posthumously. Inspired by paranormal research, spiritualism, and ghost folklore, these machines continuously search for the dead, attempting to allow the departed continued use of their worldly possessions. Extracted from recent estate sales, the personal objects found in these techno-effigies are in a constant state of potential energy, awaiting their owner's return. By monitoring sudden fluctuations in temperature, infrared, and electromagnetic readings, the machines try to open a channel or doorway into the neither world. By this, each machine gives the dead an opportunity or proxy to continue interacting in this world and the next.

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Performing Media: Works by Signal Culture Artists in Residence
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition highlights work which was made through a performative process with media art. Artists Benton-C Bainbridge, Pat Cain, Jax Deluca & Kyle Marler, Andrew Deutsch, Colleen Keough, LoVid, and Eric Souther are featured with single channel videos, installations, and live performances. All were artists in residence at Signal Culture in Owego, NY.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Salt City Clay: Selected Works by Syracuse Ceramics Guild
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition, juried by Chandra Debuse and Tommy Frank, presents new work by members of the Syracuse Ceramic Guild. The Syracuse Ceramic Guild, established in 1947, is a not-for-profit organization of potters dedicated to the promotion of awareness and understanding of the ceramic medium.

Switch: Prints by Dusty Herbig
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

The large format relief prints were realized through Herbig's research into developing contradictions about the dichotomy of power/energy and his concerned interest in human population expansion and its ramifications on the earth and its inhabitants. Through his use of imagery of electrical outlets, sockets, switches and other receptacles, the work seeks to open dialog about what exactly power can mean to divergent populations around the globe.

Balcon Criollo
La Casita Cultural Center

Price: Free
La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Inspired by the work of Puerto Rican artist Pepón Osorio, this gallery-wide installation of meaningful memorabilia pays special tribute to the valiant contributions of Hispanic soldiers in active duty and veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces. All the memorabilia, photographs and other meaningful objects in view are loaned and contributed for the show by members of the Hispanic communities of Syracuse University, the City of Syracuse and Hispanic American families statewide.

Among the honored veterans, this program especially recognizes the troops of the 65th Infantry Regiment known as the "Borinqueneers", the only segregated all-Hispanic battalion in the history of the U.S. Army. The legendary Borinqueneers gallantly served their country in World War I, WWII, and the Korean War. A former Borinqueneer and Korean War veteran, Eugenio Quevedo, was the guest of honor at the opening reception of the Balcón Criollo.

Moments of Place: Photos by Gwenn Thomas
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Gwenn Thomas's photographs of doors and windows are embedded within sculptural frames in ways that question perceptions of photographic imagery, and our experience of lived space. Her photographs of window frames, exterior and interior architectural spaces initiate portholes into the spaces within. These irregularly shaped photographic objects construct the illusion of actual windows, recalling Marcel Duchamp's window of 1920. The illusion is assisted by the absence of glass in the framing, opening the window of the photo from the perspective of the viewer. The photograph with the frame are the windows themselves.

Her earlier works from this series began with an exploration into the play between the two-dimensional image and the three-dimensional object frame in a 1980 exhibition at John Weber Gallery. Starting with the architectural subject matter of the photograph itself, Thomas interlinks the image with the structure of its presentational frame, which is initiated by the image itself.

Continuing into the present, the artist's newest works are framed laminated photographs of the same window taken at various times of day: morning, late afternoon and dusk. These works are inspired in part by the documentary photos of the house that the philosopher Wittgenstein designed for his sister in 1926, in Vienna.

Thomas's photographic objects reveal complex spatial relationships, within and outside of the two-dimensional plane, taking into account each available axis of space.

Trans*cending Gender: The work of Gavin Laurence Rouille and Rhys Harper
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Minneapolis-based Rouille's conceptual art poses questions about masculinity and femininity, traditional gender norms, and what shapes identity. Be it erroneous assumptions, the hurdles of transitioning, or violence (including murder), Rouille's art lays bare the challenges that transgender and gender-nonconforming people face daily. But people are more than their challenges, and Syracuse photographer and videographer Rhys Harper's classically lit black and-white images reflect this sentiment. Harper's photographs invite the viewer to see his subjects as more than their gender identities. They are teachers, musicians, parents...

Through Rouille's printmaking and Harper's photography, Trans*cending Gender presents both the challenges and the real people who live beyond these challenges. Transgender Day of Remembrance – November 20th – falls during the run of this exhibition, when we memorialize those who have died because of transphobia, the fear and hatred of transgender and gender-nonconforming people.

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Big Band HITS with Jazz Ensemble
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students & LeMoyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Le Moyne College Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Joe Carello, will perform hits from the big band era, including works by Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, and more!

Ensemble Series: Windjammer Vocal Jazz
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. Additional parking is available in Irving Garage. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Ruth Ozeki
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

Readings are preceded by a question and answer session from 3:45-4:30 pm.

Preview: Hairspray
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Bill Fennelly, director

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

Tony Award, Best Musical. Bubbling with joy and 60s era music and dance, Hairspray delights with the pleasures of a classic American musical. Tracy Turnblad is a teen whose life revolves around dancing on the Corny Collins TV show. Who knew that a teenybopper TV show could be a catalyst for integration? You can't stop the beat, and truth be told, you won't want to once the all-singing and dancing cast takes the stage. Book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman.

Choreography by David Wanstreet, musical direction by Brian Cimmet.

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Thursday, December 4, 2014

Howard Hao Tran: Sculpture and Drawing
LeMoyne College

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

Howard Tran's work explores three themes related to his life: migration, assimilation and identity. His family moved from China to Vietnam during WWII, translated their name to Vietnamese and assimilated in many ways while maintaining Chinese language and customs.

After immigrating to the United States, Howard's identity came into question. Although his family was Chinese, he had been born and raised in Vietnam. To Americans he was Vietnamese. Now he has lived in America most of his life and has assimilated to this culture so much that when he return returns to Vietnam he no longer feels at home.

Today, he self-identifies as Chinese/Vietnamese/American and embodies elements of all three cultures while at the same time feels between them all. In his art he explores identity, home, tradition change and the dichotomy between East and West.

Everything Illustrated VI
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Work by SUNY Oswego illustration students: Kendi Kajogo, Trish Steinberg, Liz Hunt, Jen Osborne, Sam Castaldo, Sam Fuller, Harold Vaz, Ana Paula Retore

Opening Exhibition
CommonSpace Crafts

CommonSpace Crafts
201 E Jefferson St., Syracuse

The gallery features the work of 11 local artists.

Context: Reading the Photography of Margaret Bourke-White
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a celebrity behind, and in front of, the camera. As a photographer for Life magazine from the 1930s through the 1950s, she documented unforgettable moments--African-American flood victims in Louisville, KY, standing in a bread line beneath a banner that reads almost mockingly "There's No Way Like the American Way"; just-liberated survivors of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp returning the camera's gaze under an eerily cinematic light; Mahatma Gandhi sitting cross-legged on the floor reading, spinning wheel in the foreground. Bourke-White's photographs helped shape the way millions of Americans experienced the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the world that followed.

In front of the camera she cultivated an image of herself as fearless, undaunted in pursuit of her "shot," and fashionable, donning fine clothes and a coquettish smile.

After three decades in the public eye Bourke-White began to write her memoirs in the early 1950s. When Portrait of Myself finally appeared in 1963, she had already published ten books, countless essays, and been the subject of many interviews. In fact, but for the occasional gallery exhibition, text had always surrounded Bourke-White's photographs. This exhibition explores how text "framed" the photography of Margaret Bourke-White and, ultimately, how she sought to transcend the limits of the medium that made her famous.

Beyond the Pale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Linda Bigness: encaustic and oil paintings influenced by music's emergent patterns and created with subtle nuances of color and found materials

Todd Conover: folded, pierced stone set and chainworked sculpture and jewelry, based on a strong craft tradition from centuries-old metalsmithing techniques

Amy Bartell: gouache and drawing combine to investigate organic forms; archeology of place and time presented as formal portraits

Painting Alumni Retrospective
914Works

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The breadth and diversity of "Painting Alumni Retrospective" stand as evidence of the University's lasting impact on American culture since it became the first institution in the United States to offer a bachelor of fine arts degree 140 years ago.

The exhibition includes small works by 21 alumni of the undergraduate painting program from the Class of 1959 to the Class of 2014. The exhibition shows the evolution of painting over a half century, from action painting to conceptual, post-conceptual, representational, interdisciplinary and contemporary works. As such, the exhibition addresses the historical phenomenon of American painting and the impact Syracuse University has had on the medium from the reign of critic Clement Greenberg '30 to the contemporary conversation.

The artists represented include Barbara Vural, Louise Freshman Brown, Ken Rush, Scott Bennett, Deborah Walsh, Allyn Stewart, Linda Bigness, Elizabeth Brown Eagle, Yvonne Petkus, Heather Hertel, Francis Sills, Holly Cahill, Alexis Serio Hughes, Jennie Schaeffer, Adam Winner, Edward Holland, Emily Dierkes, Sean Ward, Joshua Kaplan, Mary Luke, and Jenna Race. Combined, they have amassed prestigious recognitions, including more than 50 museum exhibitions and a wide array of press coverage and critical acclaim from the likes of the New York Times, ARTnews, Greenberg, and the Syracuse Post-Standard.

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

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Annual holiday art show. Artwork may be taken at the time of purchase.

Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Question Bridge: Black Males" is an innovative transmedia project, created by artists Chris Johnson and Hank Willis Thomas, which facilitates a dialogue between a critical mass of Black men from diverse and contending backgrounds and creates a platform for them to represent and redefine Black male identity in America. CFAC will also be featuring a Syracuse-based "Question Bridge" featuring Black men of all ages as platform to ask and candidly respond to questions that are rarely discussed in public.

"Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock" explores the work of this multidisciplinary artist who interrogates Black male identity and constructs a layered narrative addressing violence in the Black community.

Common Planes: The Metalwork of Arlene Abend and Todd Conover
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

An exhibit of jewelry and sculpture.

Arlene Abend's career creating sculpture spans decades. Abend works in bronze, sheet steel, and other mediums. Her work can be found in public, corporate, and private collections. Abend has exhibited in over 15 shows, some group and some one-woman shows. "When I create a sculpture to communicate an idea or a feeling, I also find myself expressing the character of the material as well...be it bronze whose molten liquid flows into cavities or sheet steel that can be sheared and bent. The use of different material is both exciting and challenging. The exploration leads to new forms and directions and offers me a far greater range of expression."

Todd Conover's passion for collecting early 20th century American Arts & Crafts Period metalwork led to his obsession with learning long-lost metalworking techniques. He quickly set out producing unique work of his own. Conover has been in fashion design for over 25 years so it was an obvious marriage to transition his metalwork to jewelry where he focuses most of his design work and energy. With a mix of unexpected yet related materials, his jewelry tends to be overtly bold with inspiration harnessed from natural forms that will highlight surface and materials. Conover is professor of Design/Chair: Fashion Design, Syracuse University School of Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Block Prints of Laura Wilder
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

An exhibition of the work of Roycroft Renaissance artist Laura Wilder.

29th Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

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

It's that time of year again! The upstairs gallery of the Erie Canal Museum has been transformed into a 1800s street scene with over 30 gingerbread creations made by professional and amateur bakers from across the region on display in storefront windows.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to a construction schedule beyond our control, the elevator will be out of service for the duration of the Gingerbread Gallery. We apologize for the inconvenience. Our temporary entrance will be on the Water Street side of the building.

Raymond Meeks: Where Objects Fall Away
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce "Where Objects Fall Away," an exhibition spanning the career of photographer and book artist Raymond Meeks, exploring his relationship to the photobook and its form.

In the words of artist and publisher Raymond Meeks, "I continue to be inspired by collaboration with writers of poetry and short fiction and the merging of visual and word narratives. Recently, I've focused my efforts towards making artist books and a collaborative journal, orchard, which presents a visual conversation with fellow artists." Meeks has collaborated with artists Deborah Luster, Wes Mills, and Mark Steinmetz. His books and pictures are housed in numerous public and private collections, including the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, George Eastman House, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Howard Stein Collection.

2014 Light Work Grants: Trevor Clement, Sebastian Collett, Dan Wetmore
Light Work Gallery

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

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An artwork exhibit highlighting winter scenes throughout Onondaga County. "Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County" features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 30 scenes include downtown Syracuse, rural vistas, Oakwood and Rose Hill Cemeteries, and woodland settings. The imagery is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.

Watercolor Memories: The Artistic Legacy of Betty Munro
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibit featuring the watercolors of the late Betty Munro, a local artist who could be seen painting in downtown Syracuse throughout the 1970s to the early 1990s. Located in the first floor main gallery, the exhibit will focus on Betty's artistic diversity through watercolor paints. Betty is best known for her architectural scenes and cityscapes, and while guests will see some of those, they also will be treated to other, perhaps lesser-known subjects such as human figures, swans, barns, the beach in Florida, and other colorful themes. All paintings in the exhibit will be for sale.

Thinkin 'Bout Lincoln
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In conjunction with Onondaga Community College's "Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War" exhibit, OHA will open an exhibit titled "Thinkin' 'Bout Lincoln" featuring some of OHA's Lincoln collection.

It's in Our Very Name: The Italian Heritage of Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

As a crossroads for many immigrants from around the world, Syracuse became the home for Italians who were looking to build a better life. In turn, these immigrants changed Syracuse both physically, by helping with different architectural and infrastructure projects, and culturally, by importing new foods and customs to our community and by participation at all levels in the Syracuse economy.

The exhibit will focus on the history and influence of Italian culture in Syracuse beginning with the name given to this village in 1825, which was adopted when John Wilkinson was inspired by a poem about Siracusa, Sicily. By the 1880s, an increasing number of Italian immigrants began to arrive to take advantage of the thriving Syracuse economy and other opportunities that were available. Some artifacts that will be highlighted include a wine press, a set of wooden bocce balls, and purses made at the Resnick purse factory.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Holiday Show 2014
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Show features jewelry, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include Kathy Barry, Jen Gandee, Diane Godfrey, Wendy Harris, Cary Joseph, Colleen McCall, David MacDonald, Betsy Menson Sio, Karen Pardee, Jeremy Randall, Emily Riesenfeld, and Errol Willett.

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit. Many fine art and craft artists currently have work on display at the gallery shop. New holiday cards, ornaments, and many gift items fill the space.

60th Annual Holiday Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Original art by over 50 local arts, including paintings, photography, pottery, jewelry, textiles, stained glass, and one-of-a-kind gifts.

For more information, visit artmart-syracuse.com.

Conceal/Reveal: New Work from the Faculty of the College of Visual and Performing Arts
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit brings together the eclectic and powerful work of design, studio arts, and transmedia faculty. Organized by SUArt Galleries Assistant Director Andrew J. Saluti, this exhibition will showcase new and recent artwork from 20 artists working in a wide variety of media including painting, photography, drawing, ceramics, art video and site-specific installations.

Shadows: Fernando Orellana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The interactive artworks found in Shadows are designed to be used posthumously. Inspired by paranormal research, spiritualism, and ghost folklore, these machines continuously search for the dead, attempting to allow the departed continued use of their worldly possessions. Extracted from recent estate sales, the personal objects found in these techno-effigies are in a constant state of potential energy, awaiting their owner's return. By monitoring sudden fluctuations in temperature, infrared, and electromagnetic readings, the machines try to open a channel or doorway into the neither world. By this, each machine gives the dead an opportunity or proxy to continue interacting in this world and the next.

Read a review!

Performing Media: Works by Signal Culture Artists in Residence
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition highlights work which was made through a performative process with media art. Artists Benton-C Bainbridge, Pat Cain, Jax Deluca & Kyle Marler, Andrew Deutsch, Colleen Keough, LoVid, and Eric Souther are featured with single channel videos, installations, and live performances. All were artists in residence at Signal Culture in Owego, NY.

Salt City Clay: Selected Works by Syracuse Ceramics Guild
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition, juried by Chandra Debuse and Tommy Frank, presents new work by members of the Syracuse Ceramic Guild. The Syracuse Ceramic Guild, established in 1947, is a not-for-profit organization of potters dedicated to the promotion of awareness and understanding of the ceramic medium.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Switch: Prints by Dusty Herbig
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

The large format relief prints were realized through Herbig's research into developing contradictions about the dichotomy of power/energy and his concerned interest in human population expansion and its ramifications on the earth and its inhabitants. Through his use of imagery of electrical outlets, sockets, switches and other receptacles, the work seeks to open dialog about what exactly power can mean to divergent populations around the globe.

Balcon Criollo
La Casita Cultural Center

Price: Free
La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Inspired by the work of Puerto Rican artist Pepón Osorio, this gallery-wide installation of meaningful memorabilia pays special tribute to the valiant contributions of Hispanic soldiers in active duty and veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces. All the memorabilia, photographs and other meaningful objects in view are loaned and contributed for the show by members of the Hispanic communities of Syracuse University, the City of Syracuse and Hispanic American families statewide.

Among the honored veterans, this program especially recognizes the troops of the 65th Infantry Regiment known as the "Borinqueneers", the only segregated all-Hispanic battalion in the history of the U.S. Army. The legendary Borinqueneers gallantly served their country in World War I, WWII, and the Korean War. A former Borinqueneer and Korean War veteran, Eugenio Quevedo, was the guest of honor at the opening reception of the Balcón Criollo.

Moments of Place: Photos by Gwenn Thomas
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Gwenn Thomas's photographs of doors and windows are embedded within sculptural frames in ways that question perceptions of photographic imagery, and our experience of lived space. Her photographs of window frames, exterior and interior architectural spaces initiate portholes into the spaces within. These irregularly shaped photographic objects construct the illusion of actual windows, recalling Marcel Duchamp's window of 1920. The illusion is assisted by the absence of glass in the framing, opening the window of the photo from the perspective of the viewer. The photograph with the frame are the windows themselves.

Her earlier works from this series began with an exploration into the play between the two-dimensional image and the three-dimensional object frame in a 1980 exhibition at John Weber Gallery. Starting with the architectural subject matter of the photograph itself, Thomas interlinks the image with the structure of its presentational frame, which is initiated by the image itself.

Continuing into the present, the artist's newest works are framed laminated photographs of the same window taken at various times of day: morning, late afternoon and dusk. These works are inspired in part by the documentary photos of the house that the philosopher Wittgenstein designed for his sister in 1926, in Vienna.

Thomas's photographic objects reveal complex spatial relationships, within and outside of the two-dimensional plane, taking into account each available axis of space.

Trans*cending Gender: The work of Gavin Laurence Rouille and Rhys Harper
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Minneapolis-based Rouille's conceptual art poses questions about masculinity and femininity, traditional gender norms, and what shapes identity. Be it erroneous assumptions, the hurdles of transitioning, or violence (including murder), Rouille's art lays bare the challenges that transgender and gender-nonconforming people face daily. But people are more than their challenges, and Syracuse photographer and videographer Rhys Harper's classically lit black and-white images reflect this sentiment. Harper's photographs invite the viewer to see his subjects as more than their gender identities. They are teachers, musicians, parents...

Through Rouille's printmaking and Harper's photography, Trans*cending Gender presents both the challenges and the real people who live beyond these challenges. Transgender Day of Remembrance – November 20th – falls during the run of this exhibition, when we memorialize those who have died because of transphobia, the fear and hatred of transgender and gender-nonconforming people.

Read a review!

Sanford Biggers: Shuffle & Shake
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Shuffle" and "Shake" form the first two parts of Sanford Biggers' Odyssean trilogy about the formation and dissolution of identity. Both works feature the electric presence of Ricardo Camillo, a Brazil-born, Germany-based choreographer, stuntman, clown and DJ. "Shuffle" explores how we matriculate through society, often masking our insecurities, pain, longing, and the internal schizophrenia of the id. The original soundtrack is composed from the artist's field recordings made in Indonesia. In "Shake," the second video of the trilogy, Camillo walks from the favelas (or shantytowns) of Brazil, to the ocean before finally transforming into an androgynous silver-skinned figure. Biggers' imagery and narrative simultaneously reference Greek mythology and the quintessential Afrofutrist aesthetics of Parliament Funkadelic.

This exhibition marks the second installment of "Celestial Navigation: A Year into the Afro Future", a year-long program of exhibitions and events at Urban Video Project and partner organizations that takes Afrofuturism as its point of departure.

Screening begins at dusk.

American Boychoir

Price: $25
Our Lady of Pompei Church
301 Ash St., Syracuse

The prestigious and world-renowned American Boychoir will be performing Christmas music from around the world. The program will feature Britten's A Ceremony of Carols, Joy to the World, Mary Had a Baby, Silent Night, He Came Down (Cameroon), Alegres Pregonan (Venezuela); Betelehemu, and more.

Limited seating in the choir loft is still available. For more information or to purchase tickets, phone 315-422-7163.

SU Student Recital Series: Composition Students
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. Additional parking is available in Irving Garage. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Hijacked Holiday
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $32.50 (includes meal, show, tax and gratuities)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Millie the copy girl has packed her favorite portfolio of copies and headed for the North Pole with hopes of marrying the big guy. Things go south fast, however, when she finds she's stepped into a crime scene. Someone has stolen all the Christmas toys right before they were to be packed into Santa's sleigh and now everyone is a suspect. It's going to be one heck of a Christmas Eve figuring out who's been naughty or nice.

Preview: The Color Purple
Redhouse

Price: $15
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, this incredibly moving musical tells the story of a young woman who manages to triumph over adversity and find her own voice through the power of love. Rated PG-13.

Music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray; book by Marsha Norman.

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Preview: Hairspray
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Bill Fennelly, director

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

Tony Award, Best Musical. Bubbling with joy and 60s era music and dance, Hairspray delights with the pleasures of a classic American musical. Tracy Turnblad is a teen whose life revolves around dancing on the Corny Collins TV show. Who knew that a teenybopper TV show could be a catalyst for integration? You can't stop the beat, and truth be told, you won't want to once the all-singing and dancing cast takes the stage. Book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman.

Choreography by David Wanstreet, musical direction by Brian Cimmet.

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Friday, December 5, 2014

Howard Hao Tran: Sculpture and Drawing
LeMoyne College

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

Howard Tran's work explores three themes related to his life: migration, assimilation and identity. His family moved from China to Vietnam during WWII, translated their name to Vietnamese and assimilated in many ways while maintaining Chinese language and customs.

After immigrating to the United States, Howard's identity came into question. Although his family was Chinese, he had been born and raised in Vietnam. To Americans he was Vietnamese. Now he has lived in America most of his life and has assimilated to this culture so much that when he return returns to Vietnam he no longer feels at home.

Today, he self-identifies as Chinese/Vietnamese/American and embodies elements of all three cultures while at the same time feels between them all. In his art he explores identity, home, tradition change and the dichotomy between East and West.

Everything Illustrated VI
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Work by SUNY Oswego illustration students: Kendi Kajogo, Trish Steinberg, Liz Hunt, Jen Osborne, Sam Castaldo, Sam Fuller, Harold Vaz, Ana Paula Retore

Opening Exhibition
CommonSpace Crafts

CommonSpace Crafts
201 E Jefferson St., Syracuse

The gallery features the work of 11 local artists.

Context: Reading the Photography of Margaret Bourke-White
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a celebrity behind, and in front of, the camera. As a photographer for Life magazine from the 1930s through the 1950s, she documented unforgettable moments--African-American flood victims in Louisville, KY, standing in a bread line beneath a banner that reads almost mockingly "There's No Way Like the American Way"; just-liberated survivors of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp returning the camera's gaze under an eerily cinematic light; Mahatma Gandhi sitting cross-legged on the floor reading, spinning wheel in the foreground. Bourke-White's photographs helped shape the way millions of Americans experienced the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the world that followed.

In front of the camera she cultivated an image of herself as fearless, undaunted in pursuit of her "shot," and fashionable, donning fine clothes and a coquettish smile.

After three decades in the public eye Bourke-White began to write her memoirs in the early 1950s. When Portrait of Myself finally appeared in 1963, she had already published ten books, countless essays, and been the subject of many interviews. In fact, but for the occasional gallery exhibition, text had always surrounded Bourke-White's photographs. This exhibition explores how text "framed" the photography of Margaret Bourke-White and, ultimately, how she sought to transcend the limits of the medium that made her famous.

Beyond the Pale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Linda Bigness: encaustic and oil paintings influenced by music's emergent patterns and created with subtle nuances of color and found materials

Todd Conover: folded, pierced stone set and chainworked sculpture and jewelry, based on a strong craft tradition from centuries-old metalsmithing techniques

Amy Bartell: gouache and drawing combine to investigate organic forms; archeology of place and time presented as formal portraits

Painting Alumni Retrospective
914Works

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The breadth and diversity of "Painting Alumni Retrospective" stand as evidence of the University's lasting impact on American culture since it became the first institution in the United States to offer a bachelor of fine arts degree 140 years ago.

The exhibition includes small works by 21 alumni of the undergraduate painting program from the Class of 1959 to the Class of 2014. The exhibition shows the evolution of painting over a half century, from action painting to conceptual, post-conceptual, representational, interdisciplinary and contemporary works. As such, the exhibition addresses the historical phenomenon of American painting and the impact Syracuse University has had on the medium from the reign of critic Clement Greenberg '30 to the contemporary conversation.

The artists represented include Barbara Vural, Louise Freshman Brown, Ken Rush, Scott Bennett, Deborah Walsh, Allyn Stewart, Linda Bigness, Elizabeth Brown Eagle, Yvonne Petkus, Heather Hertel, Francis Sills, Holly Cahill, Alexis Serio Hughes, Jennie Schaeffer, Adam Winner, Edward Holland, Emily Dierkes, Sean Ward, Joshua Kaplan, Mary Luke, and Jenna Race. Combined, they have amassed prestigious recognitions, including more than 50 museum exhibitions and a wide array of press coverage and critical acclaim from the likes of the New York Times, ARTnews, Greenberg, and the Syracuse Post-Standard.

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

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Annual holiday art show. Artwork may be taken at the time of purchase.

Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Question Bridge: Black Males" is an innovative transmedia project, created by artists Chris Johnson and Hank Willis Thomas, which facilitates a dialogue between a critical mass of Black men from diverse and contending backgrounds and creates a platform for them to represent and redefine Black male identity in America. CFAC will also be featuring a Syracuse-based "Question Bridge" featuring Black men of all ages as platform to ask and candidly respond to questions that are rarely discussed in public.

"Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock" explores the work of this multidisciplinary artist who interrogates Black male identity and constructs a layered narrative addressing violence in the Black community.

Common Planes: The Metalwork of Arlene Abend and Todd Conover
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

An exhibit of jewelry and sculpture.

Arlene Abend's career creating sculpture spans decades. Abend works in bronze, sheet steel, and other mediums. Her work can be found in public, corporate, and private collections. Abend has exhibited in over 15 shows, some group and some one-woman shows. "When I create a sculpture to communicate an idea or a feeling, I also find myself expressing the character of the material as well...be it bronze whose molten liquid flows into cavities or sheet steel that can be sheared and bent. The use of different material is both exciting and challenging. The exploration leads to new forms and directions and offers me a far greater range of expression."

Todd Conover's passion for collecting early 20th century American Arts & Crafts Period metalwork led to his obsession with learning long-lost metalworking techniques. He quickly set out producing unique work of his own. Conover has been in fashion design for over 25 years so it was an obvious marriage to transition his metalwork to jewelry where he focuses most of his design work and energy. With a mix of unexpected yet related materials, his jewelry tends to be overtly bold with inspiration harnessed from natural forms that will highlight surface and materials. Conover is professor of Design/Chair: Fashion Design, Syracuse University School of Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Block Prints of Laura Wilder
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

An exhibition of the work of Roycroft Renaissance artist Laura Wilder.

29th Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

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

It's that time of year again! The upstairs gallery of the Erie Canal Museum has been transformed into a 1800s street scene with over 30 gingerbread creations made by professional and amateur bakers from across the region on display in storefront windows.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to a construction schedule beyond our control, the elevator will be out of service for the duration of the Gingerbread Gallery. We apologize for the inconvenience. Our temporary entrance will be on the Water Street side of the building.

Inspired Tidings
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-8:00 pm, in conjunction with Skaneateles First Friday art celebration. Meet the artists and enjoy music by Chris Molloy and his Electric Blue Harp. Light refreshments will be served.

Jewelry, ceramics, oil and watercolor paintings, wood, fabric art, stained glass, photography, and much more.

Raymond Meeks: Where Objects Fall Away
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce "Where Objects Fall Away," an exhibition spanning the career of photographer and book artist Raymond Meeks, exploring his relationship to the photobook and its form.

In the words of artist and publisher Raymond Meeks, "I continue to be inspired by collaboration with writers of poetry and short fiction and the merging of visual and word narratives. Recently, I've focused my efforts towards making artist books and a collaborative journal, orchard, which presents a visual conversation with fellow artists." Meeks has collaborated with artists Deborah Luster, Wes Mills, and Mark Steinmetz. His books and pictures are housed in numerous public and private collections, including the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, George Eastman House, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Howard Stein Collection.

2014 Light Work Grants: Trevor Clement, Sebastian Collett, Dan Wetmore
Light Work Gallery

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

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An artwork exhibit highlighting winter scenes throughout Onondaga County. "Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County" features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 30 scenes include downtown Syracuse, rural vistas, Oakwood and Rose Hill Cemeteries, and woodland settings. The imagery is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.

Watercolor Memories: The Artistic Legacy of Betty Munro
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibit featuring the watercolors of the late Betty Munro, a local artist who could be seen painting in downtown Syracuse throughout the 1970s to the early 1990s. Located in the first floor main gallery, the exhibit will focus on Betty's artistic diversity through watercolor paints. Betty is best known for her architectural scenes and cityscapes, and while guests will see some of those, they also will be treated to other, perhaps lesser-known subjects such as human figures, swans, barns, the beach in Florida, and other colorful themes. All paintings in the exhibit will be for sale.

Thinkin 'Bout Lincoln
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In conjunction with Onondaga Community College's "Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War" exhibit, OHA will open an exhibit titled "Thinkin' 'Bout Lincoln" featuring some of OHA's Lincoln collection.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

It's in Our Very Name: The Italian Heritage of Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

As a crossroads for many immigrants from around the world, Syracuse became the home for Italians who were looking to build a better life. In turn, these immigrants changed Syracuse both physically, by helping with different architectural and infrastructure projects, and culturally, by importing new foods and customs to our community and by participation at all levels in the Syracuse economy.

The exhibit will focus on the history and influence of Italian culture in Syracuse beginning with the name given to this village in 1825, which was adopted when John Wilkinson was inspired by a poem about Siracusa, Sicily. By the 1880s, an increasing number of Italian immigrants began to arrive to take advantage of the thriving Syracuse economy and other opportunities that were available. Some artifacts that will be highlighted include a wine press, a set of wooden bocce balls, and purses made at the Resnick purse factory.

Holiday Show 2014
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Show features jewelry, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include Kathy Barry, Jen Gandee, Diane Godfrey, Wendy Harris, Cary Joseph, Colleen McCall, David MacDonald, Betsy Menson Sio, Karen Pardee, Jeremy Randall, Emily Riesenfeld, and Errol Willett.

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit. Many fine art and craft artists currently have work on display at the gallery shop. New holiday cards, ornaments, and many gift items fill the space.

60th Annual Holiday Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Original art by over 50 local arts, including paintings, photography, pottery, jewelry, textiles, stained glass, and one-of-a-kind gifts.

For more information, visit artmart-syracuse.com.

Conceal/Reveal: New Work from the Faculty of the College of Visual and Performing Arts
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit brings together the eclectic and powerful work of design, studio arts, and transmedia faculty. Organized by SUArt Galleries Assistant Director Andrew J. Saluti, this exhibition will showcase new and recent artwork from 20 artists working in a wide variety of media including painting, photography, drawing, ceramics, art video and site-specific installations.

Shadows: Fernando Orellana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The interactive artworks found in Shadows are designed to be used posthumously. Inspired by paranormal research, spiritualism, and ghost folklore, these machines continuously search for the dead, attempting to allow the departed continued use of their worldly possessions. Extracted from recent estate sales, the personal objects found in these techno-effigies are in a constant state of potential energy, awaiting their owner's return. By monitoring sudden fluctuations in temperature, infrared, and electromagnetic readings, the machines try to open a channel or doorway into the neither world. By this, each machine gives the dead an opportunity or proxy to continue interacting in this world and the next.

Read a review!

Salt City Clay: Selected Works by Syracuse Ceramics Guild
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition, juried by Chandra Debuse and Tommy Frank, presents new work by members of the Syracuse Ceramic Guild. The Syracuse Ceramic Guild, established in 1947, is a not-for-profit organization of potters dedicated to the promotion of awareness and understanding of the ceramic medium.

Performing Media: Works by Signal Culture Artists in Residence
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition highlights work which was made through a performative process with media art. Artists Benton-C Bainbridge, Pat Cain, Jax Deluca & Kyle Marler, Andrew Deutsch, Colleen Keough, LoVid, and Eric Souther are featured with single channel videos, installations, and live performances. All were artists in residence at Signal Culture in Owego, NY.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Festival of Trees
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5, children under 10 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The 29th Annual Festival of Trees will turn the Everson into a magical wonderland, with artfully decorated trees, wreaths and special exhibits on view throughout the galleries and gathering spaces of the Museum. Each donated item will be sold to raise funds to support the Everson's programs and exhibitions. Visitors to the Festival will have the chance to gathering decorating ideas and inspiration, purchase displays, peruse the wonderful selection in the Museum Gift Shop, enjoy live musical entertainment and refreshments at the Holiday Cafe.

Switch: Prints by Dusty Herbig
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

The large format relief prints were realized through Herbig's research into developing contradictions about the dichotomy of power/energy and his concerned interest in human population expansion and its ramifications on the earth and its inhabitants. Through his use of imagery of electrical outlets, sockets, switches and other receptacles, the work seeks to open dialog about what exactly power can mean to divergent populations around the globe.

Balcon Criollo
La Casita Cultural Center

Price: Free
La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Inspired by the work of Puerto Rican artist Pepón Osorio, this gallery-wide installation of meaningful memorabilia pays special tribute to the valiant contributions of Hispanic soldiers in active duty and veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces. All the memorabilia, photographs and other meaningful objects in view are loaned and contributed for the show by members of the Hispanic communities of Syracuse University, the City of Syracuse and Hispanic American families statewide.

Among the honored veterans, this program especially recognizes the troops of the 65th Infantry Regiment known as the "Borinqueneers", the only segregated all-Hispanic battalion in the history of the U.S. Army. The legendary Borinqueneers gallantly served their country in World War I, WWII, and the Korean War. A former Borinqueneer and Korean War veteran, Eugenio Quevedo, was the guest of honor at the opening reception of the Balcón Criollo.

Moments of Place: Photos by Gwenn Thomas
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Gwenn Thomas's photographs of doors and windows are embedded within sculptural frames in ways that question perceptions of photographic imagery, and our experience of lived space. Her photographs of window frames, exterior and interior architectural spaces initiate portholes into the spaces within. These irregularly shaped photographic objects construct the illusion of actual windows, recalling Marcel Duchamp's window of 1920. The illusion is assisted by the absence of glass in the framing, opening the window of the photo from the perspective of the viewer. The photograph with the frame are the windows themselves.

Her earlier works from this series began with an exploration into the play between the two-dimensional image and the three-dimensional object frame in a 1980 exhibition at John Weber Gallery. Starting with the architectural subject matter of the photograph itself, Thomas interlinks the image with the structure of its presentational frame, which is initiated by the image itself.

Continuing into the present, the artist's newest works are framed laminated photographs of the same window taken at various times of day: morning, late afternoon and dusk. These works are inspired in part by the documentary photos of the house that the philosopher Wittgenstein designed for his sister in 1926, in Vienna.

Thomas's photographic objects reveal complex spatial relationships, within and outside of the two-dimensional plane, taking into account each available axis of space.

Trans*cending Gender: The work of Gavin Laurence Rouille and Rhys Harper
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Minneapolis-based Rouille's conceptual art poses questions about masculinity and femininity, traditional gender norms, and what shapes identity. Be it erroneous assumptions, the hurdles of transitioning, or violence (including murder), Rouille's art lays bare the challenges that transgender and gender-nonconforming people face daily. But people are more than their challenges, and Syracuse photographer and videographer Rhys Harper's classically lit black and-white images reflect this sentiment. Harper's photographs invite the viewer to see his subjects as more than their gender identities. They are teachers, musicians, parents...

Through Rouille's printmaking and Harper's photography, Trans*cending Gender presents both the challenges and the real people who live beyond these challenges. Transgender Day of Remembrance – November 20th – falls during the run of this exhibition, when we memorialize those who have died because of transphobia, the fear and hatred of transgender and gender-nonconforming people.

Read a review!

Sanford Biggers: Shuffle & Shake
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Shuffle" and "Shake" form the first two parts of Sanford Biggers' Odyssean trilogy about the formation and dissolution of identity. Both works feature the electric presence of Ricardo Camillo, a Brazil-born, Germany-based choreographer, stuntman, clown and DJ. "Shuffle" explores how we matriculate through society, often masking our insecurities, pain, longing, and the internal schizophrenia of the id. The original soundtrack is composed from the artist's field recordings made in Indonesia. In "Shake," the second video of the trilogy, Camillo walks from the favelas (or shantytowns) of Brazil, to the ocean before finally transforming into an androgynous silver-skinned figure. Biggers' imagery and narrative simultaneously reference Greek mythology and the quintessential Afrofutrist aesthetics of Parliament Funkadelic.

This exhibition marks the second installment of "Celestial Navigation: A Year into the Afro Future", a year-long program of exhibitions and events at Urban Video Project and partner organizations that takes Afrofuturism as its point of departure.

Screening begins at dusk.

Brew & View: Eastwood Gets Dirty (Double Feature)
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Two films featuring Clint Eastwood.

7:00 pm: Dirty Harry (1971)
When A mad man calling himself "The Scorpion Killer" menaces the city, tough-as-nails San Francisco Police Inspector Harry Callahan is assigned to track down and ferret out the crazed psychopath.

9:00 pm: The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
A Missouri farmer joins a Confederate guerrilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family.

Jazz @ Sitrus: Grupo Lite
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: No cover
Sitrus on the Hill
Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel, Syracuse

Blowin' in the Wind
Landmark Theatre
Charity for Children

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Tickets may be purchased at the Landmark Theatre Box Office, by phone at 315-475-7979, or through Charity For Children at 315-436-4822.

Vocal Jazz & Broadway Selections
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students & LeMoyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Two of Le Moyne College's vocal ensembles team up for an unforgettable evening of jazz classics (with the Jazzuits), Broadway favorites (featuring the LMC Singers), and the combined ensembles performing holiday hits!

Sounds of The Season
Syracuse Gay and Lesbian Chorus
Stephen Gamba, conductor

Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

The Upstate Burners
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: $10
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring Danny D'Imperio, drums; Gary Smulyan, baritone sax; Jeff Stockham, trumpet; Peter Mack, bass; and Andrew Carroll, piano.

Free parking will be available in either of the Warehouse lots on a space-available basis. The lobby will open at 7:00 pm (cash bar) and the doors to the auditorium will open at 7:30 pm.

Tickets available at Schine Student Center.

SU Student Recital Series: Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If lot is full or unavailable, guests will be directed to alternate lots. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Floodwood, with Two Hour Delay
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Lord of the Flies
Black Box Players
Andrew Garrett, director

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

A plane crashes on a deserted island. The only survivors are a group of school boys. They live in a land of bright exotic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are inhabited by a terrifying beast.

Based on William Golding's classic novel, Lord of the Flies explores the nature of morality and humanity. In the face of complete and utter desperation which is more important: structure or survival?

For tickets, visit blackboxplayers.ticketleap.com/lordoftheflies.

Christmas, Dammit!
CNY Playhouse

Price: $10
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Liam Fitzpatrick and Kasey McHale, two of CNYP's biggest cabaret stars, explore Christmas with pianist Abel Searor. Join them for a spirited journey through the season's joys, its heartwarming moments, and the times it makes you want to throw Santa off a building. Come hear such favorites as "Silver Bells," "Silent Night," "Where Are You Christmas?" and "Text Me Merry Christmas!" Come see what they've got in store to put under your tree this year.

Amahl and the Night Visitors
Open Hand Theater

Price: $18 in advance, $20 at the door
First English Lutheran Church
Corner of James and Townsend Streets, Syracuse

The enchanting Christmas opera, written by Gian Carlo Menotti in 1951, tells the simple story of a crippled shepherd boy and his destitute mother who are visited by three kings carrying gifts for an unknown new-born. The child in all of us will delight as gorgeous giant puppets perform alongside live actors in this acclaimed family-friendly story told from the boy's perspective.

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The Nativity Part 2: It's a Wonderful Christmas
Rarely Done Productions

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

In this Christmastime comedy by Jeff Goode, author of The Eight: Reindeer Monologues from our 2008-09 season, Jesus was a child star who faded into obscurity and everyone involved in the Nativity has seen their lives fall into ruins. Now, 30 years after his birth, The Ghosts of Nativities Past converge on Bethlehem to try to teach Jesus the true meaning of Christmas.

Starring Daryl Acevedo, Josh Taylor, Patricia Catchouny, Anne Fitzgerald, Tom Nacy Warner, Alan Stillman, Michaela Oney, Shannon Tompkins, Zach Siracuse, Jodie Baum and Derek Potacki.

Mature themes.

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The Color Purple
Redhouse

Price: $30 non-member, $20 member
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, this incredibly moving musical tells the story of a young woman who manages to triumph over adversity and find her own voice through the power of love. Rated PG-13.

Music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray; book by Marsha Norman.

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Hairspray
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Bill Fennelly, director

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

Tony Award, Best Musical. Bubbling with joy and 60s era music and dance, Hairspray delights with the pleasures of a classic American musical. Tracy Turnblad is a teen whose life revolves around dancing on the Corny Collins TV show. Who knew that a teenybopper TV show could be a catalyst for integration? You can't stop the beat, and truth be told, you won't want to once the all-singing and dancing cast takes the stage. Book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman.

Choreography by David Wanstreet, musical direction by Brian Cimmet.

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Saturday, December 6, 2014

Howard Hao Tran: Sculpture and Drawing
LeMoyne College

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

Howard Tran's work explores three themes related to his life: migration, assimilation and identity. His family moved from China to Vietnam during WWII, translated their name to Vietnamese and assimilated in many ways while maintaining Chinese language and customs.

After immigrating to the United States, Howard's identity came into question. Although his family was Chinese, he had been born and raised in Vietnam. To Americans he was Vietnamese. Now he has lived in America most of his life and has assimilated to this culture so much that when he return returns to Vietnam he no longer feels at home.

Today, he self-identifies as Chinese/Vietnamese/American and embodies elements of all three cultures while at the same time feels between them all. In his art he explores identity, home, tradition change and the dichotomy between East and West.

Painting Alumni Retrospective
914Works

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The breadth and diversity of "Painting Alumni Retrospective" stand as evidence of the University's lasting impact on American culture since it became the first institution in the United States to offer a bachelor of fine arts degree 140 years ago.

The exhibition includes small works by 21 alumni of the undergraduate painting program from the Class of 1959 to the Class of 2014. The exhibition shows the evolution of painting over a half century, from action painting to conceptual, post-conceptual, representational, interdisciplinary and contemporary works. As such, the exhibition addresses the historical phenomenon of American painting and the impact Syracuse University has had on the medium from the reign of critic Clement Greenberg '30 to the contemporary conversation.

The artists represented include Barbara Vural, Louise Freshman Brown, Ken Rush, Scott Bennett, Deborah Walsh, Allyn Stewart, Linda Bigness, Elizabeth Brown Eagle, Yvonne Petkus, Heather Hertel, Francis Sills, Holly Cahill, Alexis Serio Hughes, Jennie Schaeffer, Adam Winner, Edward Holland, Emily Dierkes, Sean Ward, Joshua Kaplan, Mary Luke, and Jenna Race. Combined, they have amassed prestigious recognitions, including more than 50 museum exhibitions and a wide array of press coverage and critical acclaim from the likes of the New York Times, ARTnews, Greenberg, and the Syracuse Post-Standard.

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

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Annual holiday art show. Artwork may be taken at the time of purchase.

Common Planes: The Metalwork of Arlene Abend and Todd Conover
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

An exhibit of jewelry and sculpture.

Arlene Abend's career creating sculpture spans decades. Abend works in bronze, sheet steel, and other mediums. Her work can be found in public, corporate, and private collections. Abend has exhibited in over 15 shows, some group and some one-woman shows. "When I create a sculpture to communicate an idea or a feeling, I also find myself expressing the character of the material as well...be it bronze whose molten liquid flows into cavities or sheet steel that can be sheared and bent. The use of different material is both exciting and challenging. The exploration leads to new forms and directions and offers me a far greater range of expression."

Todd Conover's passion for collecting early 20th century American Arts & Crafts Period metalwork led to his obsession with learning long-lost metalworking techniques. He quickly set out producing unique work of his own. Conover has been in fashion design for over 25 years so it was an obvious marriage to transition his metalwork to jewelry where he focuses most of his design work and energy. With a mix of unexpected yet related materials, his jewelry tends to be overtly bold with inspiration harnessed from natural forms that will highlight surface and materials. Conover is professor of Design/Chair: Fashion Design, Syracuse University School of Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Block Prints of Laura Wilder
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

An exhibition of the work of Roycroft Renaissance artist Laura Wilder.

Beyond the Pale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Linda Bigness: encaustic and oil paintings influenced by music's emergent patterns and created with subtle nuances of color and found materials

Todd Conover: folded, pierced stone set and chainworked sculpture and jewelry, based on a strong craft tradition from centuries-old metalsmithing techniques

Amy Bartell: gouache and drawing combine to investigate organic forms; archeology of place and time presented as formal portraits

29th Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

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

It's that time of year again! The upstairs gallery of the Erie Canal Museum has been transformed into a 1800s street scene with over 30 gingerbread creations made by professional and amateur bakers from across the region on display in storefront windows.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to a construction schedule beyond our control, the elevator will be out of service for the duration of the Gingerbread Gallery. We apologize for the inconvenience. Our temporary entrance will be on the Water Street side of the building.

Festival of Trees
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5, children under 10 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The 29th Annual Festival of Trees will turn the Everson into a magical wonderland, with artfully decorated trees, wreaths and special exhibits on view throughout the galleries and gathering spaces of the Museum. Each donated item will be sold to raise funds to support the Everson's programs and exhibitions. Visitors to the Festival will have the chance to gathering decorating ideas and inspiration, purchase displays, peruse the wonderful selection in the Museum Gift Shop, enjoy live musical entertainment and refreshments at the Holiday Cafe.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Performing Media: Works by Signal Culture Artists in Residence
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition highlights work which was made through a performative process with media art. Artists Benton-C Bainbridge, Pat Cain, Jax Deluca & Kyle Marler, Andrew Deutsch, Colleen Keough, LoVid, and Eric Souther are featured with single channel videos, installations, and live performances. All were artists in residence at Signal Culture in Owego, NY.

Salt City Clay: Selected Works by Syracuse Ceramics Guild
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition, juried by Chandra Debuse and Tommy Frank, presents new work by members of the Syracuse Ceramic Guild. The Syracuse Ceramic Guild, established in 1947, is a not-for-profit organization of potters dedicated to the promotion of awareness and understanding of the ceramic medium.

Shadows: Fernando Orellana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The interactive artworks found in Shadows are designed to be used posthumously. Inspired by paranormal research, spiritualism, and ghost folklore, these machines continuously search for the dead, attempting to allow the departed continued use of their worldly possessions. Extracted from recent estate sales, the personal objects found in these techno-effigies are in a constant state of potential energy, awaiting their owner's return. By monitoring sudden fluctuations in temperature, infrared, and electromagnetic readings, the machines try to open a channel or doorway into the neither world. By this, each machine gives the dead an opportunity or proxy to continue interacting in this world and the next.

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Inspired Tidings
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Jewelry, ceramics, oil and watercolor paintings, wood, fabric art, stained glass, photography, and much more.

Plowshares Craftsfair

Price: $2-$5 suggested donation
Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The festival will feature products from more than 120 local craftspeople and 20 community organizations such as Beyond Boundaries and the Syracuse Community Choir. Crafts such as jewelry, ceramics, origami, and photography will be up for sale.

Opening Exhibition
CommonSpace Crafts

CommonSpace Crafts
201 E Jefferson St., Syracuse

The gallery features the work of 11 local artists.

Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Question Bridge: Black Males" is an innovative transmedia project, created by artists Chris Johnson and Hank Willis Thomas, which facilitates a dialogue between a critical mass of Black men from diverse and contending backgrounds and creates a platform for them to represent and redefine Black male identity in America. CFAC will also be featuring a Syracuse-based "Question Bridge" featuring Black men of all ages as platform to ask and candidly respond to questions that are rarely discussed in public.

"Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock" explores the work of this multidisciplinary artist who interrogates Black male identity and constructs a layered narrative addressing violence in the Black community.

Holiday Show 2014
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Show features jewelry, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include Kathy Barry, Jen Gandee, Diane Godfrey, Wendy Harris, Cary Joseph, Colleen McCall, David MacDonald, Betsy Menson Sio, Karen Pardee, Jeremy Randall, Emily Riesenfeld, and Errol Willett.

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit. Many fine art and craft artists currently have work on display at the gallery shop. New holiday cards, ornaments, and many gift items fill the space.

60th Annual Holiday Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Original art by over 50 local arts, including paintings, photography, pottery, jewelry, textiles, stained glass, and one-of-a-kind gifts.

For more information, visit artmart-syracuse.com.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An artwork exhibit highlighting winter scenes throughout Onondaga County. "Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County" features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 30 scenes include downtown Syracuse, rural vistas, Oakwood and Rose Hill Cemeteries, and woodland settings. The imagery is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.

Watercolor Memories: The Artistic Legacy of Betty Munro
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibit featuring the watercolors of the late Betty Munro, a local artist who could be seen painting in downtown Syracuse throughout the 1970s to the early 1990s. Located in the first floor main gallery, the exhibit will focus on Betty's artistic diversity through watercolor paints. Betty is best known for her architectural scenes and cityscapes, and while guests will see some of those, they also will be treated to other, perhaps lesser-known subjects such as human figures, swans, barns, the beach in Florida, and other colorful themes. All paintings in the exhibit will be for sale.

Thinkin 'Bout Lincoln
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In conjunction with Onondaga Community College's "Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War" exhibit, OHA will open an exhibit titled "Thinkin' 'Bout Lincoln" featuring some of OHA's Lincoln collection.

It's in Our Very Name: The Italian Heritage of Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

As a crossroads for many immigrants from around the world, Syracuse became the home for Italians who were looking to build a better life. In turn, these immigrants changed Syracuse both physically, by helping with different architectural and infrastructure projects, and culturally, by importing new foods and customs to our community and by participation at all levels in the Syracuse economy.

The exhibit will focus on the history and influence of Italian culture in Syracuse beginning with the name given to this village in 1825, which was adopted when John Wilkinson was inspired by a poem about Siracusa, Sicily. By the 1880s, an increasing number of Italian immigrants began to arrive to take advantage of the thriving Syracuse economy and other opportunities that were available. Some artifacts that will be highlighted include a wine press, a set of wooden bocce balls, and purses made at the Resnick purse factory.

Conceal/Reveal: New Work from the Faculty of the College of Visual and Performing Arts
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit brings together the eclectic and powerful work of design, studio arts, and transmedia faculty. Organized by SUArt Galleries Assistant Director Andrew J. Saluti, this exhibition will showcase new and recent artwork from 20 artists working in a wide variety of media including painting, photography, drawing, ceramics, art video and site-specific installations.

Trans*cending Gender: The work of Gavin Laurence Rouille and Rhys Harper
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Minneapolis-based Rouille's conceptual art poses questions about masculinity and femininity, traditional gender norms, and what shapes identity. Be it erroneous assumptions, the hurdles of transitioning, or violence (including murder), Rouille's art lays bare the challenges that transgender and gender-nonconforming people face daily. But people are more than their challenges, and Syracuse photographer and videographer Rhys Harper's classically lit black and-white images reflect this sentiment. Harper's photographs invite the viewer to see his subjects as more than their gender identities. They are teachers, musicians, parents...

Through Rouille's printmaking and Harper's photography, Trans*cending Gender presents both the challenges and the real people who live beyond these challenges. Transgender Day of Remembrance – November 20th – falls during the run of this exhibition, when we memorialize those who have died because of transphobia, the fear and hatred of transgender and gender-nonconforming people.

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Switch: Prints by Dusty Herbig
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

The large format relief prints were realized through Herbig's research into developing contradictions about the dichotomy of power/energy and his concerned interest in human population expansion and its ramifications on the earth and its inhabitants. Through his use of imagery of electrical outlets, sockets, switches and other receptacles, the work seeks to open dialog about what exactly power can mean to divergent populations around the globe.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Moments of Place: Photos by Gwenn Thomas
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Gwenn Thomas's photographs of doors and windows are embedded within sculptural frames in ways that question perceptions of photographic imagery, and our experience of lived space. Her photographs of window frames, exterior and interior architectural spaces initiate portholes into the spaces within. These irregularly shaped photographic objects construct the illusion of actual windows, recalling Marcel Duchamp's window of 1920. The illusion is assisted by the absence of glass in the framing, opening the window of the photo from the perspective of the viewer. The photograph with the frame are the windows themselves.

Her earlier works from this series began with an exploration into the play between the two-dimensional image and the three-dimensional object frame in a 1980 exhibition at John Weber Gallery. Starting with the architectural subject matter of the photograph itself, Thomas interlinks the image with the structure of its presentational frame, which is initiated by the image itself.

Continuing into the present, the artist's newest works are framed laminated photographs of the same window taken at various times of day: morning, late afternoon and dusk. These works are inspired in part by the documentary photos of the house that the philosopher Wittgenstein designed for his sister in 1926, in Vienna.

Thomas's photographic objects reveal complex spatial relationships, within and outside of the two-dimensional plane, taking into account each available axis of space.

Sanford Biggers: Shuffle & Shake
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Shuffle" and "Shake" form the first two parts of Sanford Biggers' Odyssean trilogy about the formation and dissolution of identity. Both works feature the electric presence of Ricardo Camillo, a Brazil-born, Germany-based choreographer, stuntman, clown and DJ. "Shuffle" explores how we matriculate through society, often masking our insecurities, pain, longing, and the internal schizophrenia of the id. The original soundtrack is composed from the artist's field recordings made in Indonesia. In "Shake," the second video of the trilogy, Camillo walks from the favelas (or shantytowns) of Brazil, to the ocean before finally transforming into an androgynous silver-skinned figure. Biggers' imagery and narrative simultaneously reference Greek mythology and the quintessential Afrofutrist aesthetics of Parliament Funkadelic.

This exhibition marks the second installment of "Celestial Navigation: A Year into the Afro Future", a year-long program of exhibitions and events at Urban Video Project and partner organizations that takes Afrofuturism as its point of departure.

Screening begins at dusk.

Holiday Show: Improv Comedy Night
Don't Feed the Actors

Price: $20 dinner and show, $10 show only
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

The performance will be preceded by dinner at 6:30 pm.

DFtA specializes in audience interactive improv and is one of the longest-running improv troupes in Central New York. Having toured all over the area, their large stable of theatrically trained actors rotate in and out of each show, ensuring a unique experience each time. Come enjoy an evening of improv in the style of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" and Drew Carey's "Improvaganza."

Tonight features Justin Polly, Dustin M. Czarny, Phil Brady, Greg Holtham, Gerrit Vander Werff Jr., and your game warden, Greg J. Hipius.

The performance will be preceded by dinner at 6:30 pm.

The Nutcracker
Syracuse City Ballet

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

International stars of today. Hometown stars of tomorrow. Spectacular sets, colorful costumes and sparkling choreography and, of course, gifted and graceful dancers provide holiday entertainment for the whole family with Syracuse City Ballet's Nutcracker.

The Nutcracker
Syracuse City Ballet

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

International stars of today. Hometown stars of tomorrow. Spectacular sets, colorful costumes and sparkling choreography and, of course, gifted and graceful dancers provide holiday entertainment for the whole family with Syracuse City Ballet's Nutcracker.

Ensemble Series: Jazz-Funk Combo
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Vocal Jazz & Broadway Selections
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students & LeMoyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Two of Le Moyne College's vocal ensembles team up for an unforgettable evening of jazz classics (with the Jazzuits), Broadway favorites (featuring the LMC Singers), and the combined ensembles performing holiday hits!

Goldbergs
NYS Baroque
Featuring Jory Vinikour, harpsichord

Price: $25 regular, $20 seniors, $10 college students, children free
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

Bach's Goldberg Variations, performed by a master. Part of the Bach330 International Celebrations. Grammy-nominated harpsichordist Jory Vinikour is recognized as one of the outstanding musicians of his generation. A highly diversified career brings him to the world's most important festivals and concert halls as recital and concerto soloist.

There will be a pre-concert talk at 6:45 pm.

Sounds of The Season
Syracuse Gay and Lesbian Chorus
Stephen Gamba, conductor

Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

SU Student Recital Series: Dan Sclafani, saxophone
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. Additional parking is available in Irving Garage. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

John Brown's Body, with Thunder Body
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

A Christmas Carol
Open Hand Theater
The Puppet People

Price: $10 adults, $6 children
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Warm your hearts with this Dickens holiday favorite, beautifully performed by Mark Carrigan and Michelle Smith-Carrigan and their exquisite marionettes. Watch Mean Ol' Scrooge as he discovers Christmas is not a HUMBUG! This puppet spectacular features beautiful handcrafted marionettes, shadow puppets, gorgeous masks, lavish costumes, vivid sets, a professional soundtrack that includes many holiday favorites, a giant 9-foot parade puppet and guaranteed smiles!

The Puppet People have been entertaining for over 20 years throughout New York State, Massachusetts and Vermont. They toured nationally and performed at Lincoln Center with the Bennington Marionettes. They have worked contractually with Capital Repertory Theatre, WXXA-FOX/Channel 23, The Egg/Steamer 10 theatre, Actors' Collaborative, Inc. and Capital Region Center-Lincoln Center Institute.

New this fall: Up Close -- A Look Inside the Story
Join us at 10:00 am for a hands-on story hour suitable for children as young as 3 years (with an accompanying parent) and anyone who wants a more in-depth exploration of the upcoming performance. Cost is an additional $5 per child, accompanying adult is free.

Little Red Riding Hood
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.

*SOLD OUT* The Color Purple
Redhouse

Price: $30 non-member, $20 member
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, this incredibly moving musical tells the story of a young woman who manages to triumph over adversity and find her own voice through the power of love. Rated PG-13.

Music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray; book by Marsha Norman.

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Frosty
Landmark Theatre
The Barter Players

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Frosty the Snowman is coming!

A young orphan named Billy discovers magic in a stolen hat when he places it on a snowman's head and that snowman comes to life! But can Frosty the snowman help Billy find his real family in time for Christmas? Join Billy and Frosty as they embark on a New York City adventure filled with thrills and chills and the discovery that the real magic of Christmas is Love. (Approximately one-hour in length, recommended for grades K-5.)

Tickets may be purchased at the Landmark Theatre Box Office, by phone at 315-475-7979, or online at TicketMaster.com.

Hairspray
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Bill Fennelly, director

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

Tony Award, Best Musical. Bubbling with joy and 60s era music and dance, Hairspray delights with the pleasures of a classic American musical. Tracy Turnblad is a teen whose life revolves around dancing on the Corny Collins TV show. Who knew that a teenybopper TV show could be a catalyst for integration? You can't stop the beat, and truth be told, you won't want to once the all-singing and dancing cast takes the stage. Book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman.

Choreography by David Wanstreet, musical direction by Brian Cimmet.

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Lord of the Flies
Black Box Players
Andrew Garrett, director

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

A plane crashes on a deserted island. The only survivors are a group of school boys. They live in a land of bright exotic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are inhabited by a terrifying beast.

Based on William Golding's classic novel, Lord of the Flies explores the nature of morality and humanity. In the face of complete and utter desperation which is more important: structure or survival?

For tickets, visit blackboxplayers.ticketleap.com/lordoftheflies.

Amahl and the Night Visitors
Open Hand Theater

Price: $18 in advance, $20 at the door
First English Lutheran Church
Corner of James and Townsend Streets, Syracuse

The enchanting Christmas opera, written by Gian Carlo Menotti in 1951, tells the simple story of a crippled shepherd boy and his destitute mother who are visited by three kings carrying gifts for an unknown new-born. The child in all of us will delight as gorgeous giant puppets perform alongside live actors in this acclaimed family-friendly story told from the boy's perspective.

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The Nativity Part 2: It's a Wonderful Christmas
Rarely Done Productions

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

In this Christmastime comedy by Jeff Goode, author of The Eight: Reindeer Monologues from our 2008-09 season, Jesus was a child star who faded into obscurity and everyone involved in the Nativity has seen their lives fall into ruins. Now, 30 years after his birth, The Ghosts of Nativities Past converge on Bethlehem to try to teach Jesus the true meaning of Christmas.

Starring Daryl Acevedo, Josh Taylor, Patricia Catchouny, Anne Fitzgerald, Tom Nacy Warner, Alan Stillman, Michaela Oney, Shannon Tompkins, Zach Siracuse, Jodie Baum and Derek Potacki.

Mature themes.

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The Color Purple
Redhouse

Price: $30 non-member, $20 member
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, this incredibly moving musical tells the story of a young woman who manages to triumph over adversity and find her own voice through the power of love. Rated PG-13.

Music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray; book by Marsha Norman.

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Hairspray
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Bill Fennelly, director

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

Tony Award, Best Musical. Bubbling with joy and 60s era music and dance, Hairspray delights with the pleasures of a classic American musical. Tracy Turnblad is a teen whose life revolves around dancing on the Corny Collins TV show. Who knew that a teenybopper TV show could be a catalyst for integration? You can't stop the beat, and truth be told, you won't want to once the all-singing and dancing cast takes the stage. Book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman.

Choreography by David Wanstreet, musical direction by Brian Cimmet.

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Sunday, December 7, 2014

29th Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

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

It's that time of year again! The upstairs gallery of the Erie Canal Museum has been transformed into a 1800s street scene with over 30 gingerbread creations made by professional and amateur bakers from across the region on display in storefront windows.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to a construction schedule beyond our control, the elevator will be out of service for the duration of the Gingerbread Gallery. We apologize for the inconvenience. Our temporary entrance will be on the Water Street side of the building.

Raymond Meeks: Where Objects Fall Away
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce "Where Objects Fall Away," an exhibition spanning the career of photographer and book artist Raymond Meeks, exploring his relationship to the photobook and its form.

In the words of artist and publisher Raymond Meeks, "I continue to be inspired by collaboration with writers of poetry and short fiction and the merging of visual and word narratives. Recently, I've focused my efforts towards making artist books and a collaborative journal, orchard, which presents a visual conversation with fellow artists." Meeks has collaborated with artists Deborah Luster, Wes Mills, and Mark Steinmetz. His books and pictures are housed in numerous public and private collections, including the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, George Eastman House, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Howard Stein Collection.

2014 Light Work Grants: Trevor Clement, Sebastian Collett, Dan Wetmore
Light Work Gallery

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

Opening Exhibition
CommonSpace Crafts

CommonSpace Crafts
201 E Jefferson St., Syracuse

The gallery features the work of 11 local artists.

Inspired Tidings
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Jewelry, ceramics, oil and watercolor paintings, wood, fabric art, stained glass, photography, and much more.

Holiday Show 2014
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Show features jewelry, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include Kathy Barry, Jen Gandee, Diane Godfrey, Wendy Harris, Cary Joseph, Colleen McCall, David MacDonald, Betsy Menson Sio, Karen Pardee, Jeremy Randall, Emily Riesenfeld, and Errol Willett.

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit. Many fine art and craft artists currently have work on display at the gallery shop. New holiday cards, ornaments, and many gift items fill the space.

Plowshares Craftsfair

Price: $2-$5 suggested donation
Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The festival will feature products from more than 120 local craftspeople and 20 community organizations such as Beyond Boundaries and the Syracuse Community Choir. Crafts such as jewelry, ceramics, origami, and photography will be up for sale.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An artwork exhibit highlighting winter scenes throughout Onondaga County. "Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County" features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 30 scenes include downtown Syracuse, rural vistas, Oakwood and Rose Hill Cemeteries, and woodland settings. The imagery is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.

Thinkin 'Bout Lincoln
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In conjunction with Onondaga Community College's "Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War" exhibit, OHA will open an exhibit titled "Thinkin' 'Bout Lincoln" featuring some of OHA's Lincoln collection.

It's in Our Very Name: The Italian Heritage of Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

As a crossroads for many immigrants from around the world, Syracuse became the home for Italians who were looking to build a better life. In turn, these immigrants changed Syracuse both physically, by helping with different architectural and infrastructure projects, and culturally, by importing new foods and customs to our community and by participation at all levels in the Syracuse economy.

The exhibit will focus on the history and influence of Italian culture in Syracuse beginning with the name given to this village in 1825, which was adopted when John Wilkinson was inspired by a poem about Siracusa, Sicily. By the 1880s, an increasing number of Italian immigrants began to arrive to take advantage of the thriving Syracuse economy and other opportunities that were available. Some artifacts that will be highlighted include a wine press, a set of wooden bocce balls, and purses made at the Resnick purse factory.

Watercolor Memories: The Artistic Legacy of Betty Munro
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibit featuring the watercolors of the late Betty Munro, a local artist who could be seen painting in downtown Syracuse throughout the 1970s to the early 1990s. Located in the first floor main gallery, the exhibit will focus on Betty's artistic diversity through watercolor paints. Betty is best known for her architectural scenes and cityscapes, and while guests will see some of those, they also will be treated to other, perhaps lesser-known subjects such as human figures, swans, barns, the beach in Florida, and other colorful themes. All paintings in the exhibit will be for sale.

Conceal/Reveal: New Work from the Faculty of the College of Visual and Performing Arts
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit brings together the eclectic and powerful work of design, studio arts, and transmedia faculty. Organized by SUArt Galleries Assistant Director Andrew J. Saluti, this exhibition will showcase new and recent artwork from 20 artists working in a wide variety of media including painting, photography, drawing, ceramics, art video and site-specific installations.

Shadows: Fernando Orellana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The interactive artworks found in Shadows are designed to be used posthumously. Inspired by paranormal research, spiritualism, and ghost folklore, these machines continuously search for the dead, attempting to allow the departed continued use of their worldly possessions. Extracted from recent estate sales, the personal objects found in these techno-effigies are in a constant state of potential energy, awaiting their owner's return. By monitoring sudden fluctuations in temperature, infrared, and electromagnetic readings, the machines try to open a channel or doorway into the neither world. By this, each machine gives the dead an opportunity or proxy to continue interacting in this world and the next.

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Performing Media: Works by Signal Culture Artists in Residence
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition highlights work which was made through a performative process with media art. Artists Benton-C Bainbridge, Pat Cain, Jax Deluca & Kyle Marler, Andrew Deutsch, Colleen Keough, LoVid, and Eric Souther are featured with single channel videos, installations, and live performances. All were artists in residence at Signal Culture in Owego, NY.

Festival of Trees
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5, children under 10 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The 29th Annual Festival of Trees will turn the Everson into a magical wonderland, with artfully decorated trees, wreaths and special exhibits on view throughout the galleries and gathering spaces of the Museum. Each donated item will be sold to raise funds to support the Everson's programs and exhibitions. Visitors to the Festival will have the chance to gathering decorating ideas and inspiration, purchase displays, peruse the wonderful selection in the Museum Gift Shop, enjoy live musical entertainment and refreshments at the Holiday Cafe.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Salt City Clay: Selected Works by Syracuse Ceramics Guild
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition, juried by Chandra Debuse and Tommy Frank, presents new work by members of the Syracuse Ceramic Guild. The Syracuse Ceramic Guild, established in 1947, is a not-for-profit organization of potters dedicated to the promotion of awareness and understanding of the ceramic medium.

Howard Hao Tran: Sculpture and Drawing
LeMoyne College

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

Howard Tran's work explores three themes related to his life: migration, assimilation and identity. His family moved from China to Vietnam during WWII, translated their name to Vietnamese and assimilated in many ways while maintaining Chinese language and customs.

After immigrating to the United States, Howard's identity came into question. Although his family was Chinese, he had been born and raised in Vietnam. To Americans he was Vietnamese. Now he has lived in America most of his life and has assimilated to this culture so much that when he return returns to Vietnam he no longer feels at home.

Today, he self-identifies as Chinese/Vietnamese/American and embodies elements of all three cultures while at the same time feels between them all. In his art he explores identity, home, tradition change and the dichotomy between East and West.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

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

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Annual holiday art show. Artwork may be taken at the time of purchase.

The Nutcracker
Syracuse City Ballet

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

International stars of today. Hometown stars of tomorrow. Spectacular sets, colorful costumes and sparkling choreography and, of course, gifted and graceful dancers provide holiday entertainment for the whole family with Syracuse City Ballet's Nutcracker.

Holiday Concert with the Maria DeSantis Band
Liverpool Public Library

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

The concert will feature special guests Keith Condon on vocals and Joe Riposo on saxophone, along with keyboardist Jimmy Cox, drummer Peter Chwazik, flutist Brian Scherer, guitarists Joe Ferlo and Mark Copani, and vocalist Maria DeSantis. The band's selections will include the Christmas Waltz, All Through The Night, Joseph's Song, Silver Bells and special holiday arrangements by Riposo.

Jeffrey Mangram: The Public, The Republic and the Politics of Education
University Neighbors Lecture Series

Price: $10 regular, $5 with student ID
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Professor Mangram distinguished himself in the classroom as a social studies teacher and was named a finalist for the New State Year Teacher Award. He continued his education and completed his Ph.D. degree. Professor Mangram holds a B.A. in policy studies/political studies, an M.A. in social studies education, and a Ph.D. in Teaching and Curriculum, all from Syracuse University. He now teaches in the SU Department of Education.

Sunday Musicale: Ronnie Leigh and Rick Montalbano
Fayetteville Free Library

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

Handel's Messiah
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Syracuse University Oratorio Society
Brian DeMaris, conductor

Price: $25 regular, $22 senior, $5 with college ID, free for children under 18
St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Symphoria continues a holiday tradition. Soprano Amanda DeMaris, mezzo-soprano Ivy Walz, tenor David Parks, and baritone Jimmy James are featured soloists for this performance.

A Swinging Holiday, with Scott Dennis and Friends
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $8
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

A Holiday Festival of Choirs
Syracuse Children's Chorus
Stephanie Mowery, conductor

Price: $18-$22 regular, $15-$18 students/seniors, $10 SCC alumni
Most Holy Rosary Church
111 Roberts Ave., Syracuse

A Carol Celebration
Syracuse Chorale
Warren Ottey, conductor

Price: $20 regular; $15 seniors and advance sale
St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Syracuse Chorale presents a holiday concert showcasing music including the 16th century O Magnum Mysterium by Tomas Luis de Victoria; the 19th century There Shall a Star Come Out of Jacob by Felix Mendelssohn; and contemporary Christmas songs by Dan Forrest. The show will include the choir's traditional audience sing-a-long of familiar carols.

Accompanist: William Veit.

Holidays at Hendricks
Hendricks Chapel

Price: Free (Donations of non-perishable food items for the Food Pantry are gladly accepted.)
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Holidays at Hendricks will feature the Hendricks Chapel Choir, new university organist Dr. Anne Laver, and the SU Brass Ensemble as well as all of the student choirs from the Setnor School of Music, including the SU Singers directed by John Warren, Windjammer, SU's Vocal Jazz ensemble, directed by Jeff Welcher, SU Concert Choir directed by Elisa Dekaney, and the SU Women's Choir directed by Barbara M. Tagg. We are also pleased to welcome Handbell Ringers from Liverpool First United Methodist Church.

Programming for Holidays at Hendricks will include traditional favorites such as "Carol of the Bells", "Lo, How a Rose 'er Blooming", and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" alongside an exciting new arrangement of "Hallelujah" from Händel's Messiah: A Soulful Celebration. Classical favorites by Poulenc, Rameau and Strauss will also be included, as well as settings in Hebrew by Steve Barnett and Dom Frimer. In keeping with Hendricks Chapel's inclusive interfaith vision, a variety of sacred and secular pieces will be offered.

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

Lord of the Flies
Black Box Players
Andrew Garrett, director

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

A plane crashes on a deserted island. The only survivors are a group of school boys. They live in a land of bright exotic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are inhabited by a terrifying beast.

Based on William Golding's classic novel, Lord of the Flies explores the nature of morality and humanity. In the face of complete and utter desperation which is more important: structure or survival?

For tickets, visit blackboxplayers.ticketleap.com/lordoftheflies.