Thursday, February 3, 2011

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Robert Gerhardt: "Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma"
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Ludwig Stein Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

This exhibit will depict the 14 Stations of the Cross, also called "Via Dolorosa" or "The Way of Sorrows.” These events are the depiction of the final hours of Christ, and they cover the Passion of Jesus from his condemnation to his entombment.

Cortland County Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists include Fred Zimmerman, David Yaman, Kathy Williams, Carl Steckler, Laurie Seamans, Meg Richardson, Lyla Phillips, Allen Phillips, Joan Niswender, Richard Mitchell, Amy Hnatko, Emily Gibbons, Serry Dans, Kathie Beale, and David Beale.

Where Eagles Fly: Works by Don Ford
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Don Ward, humorist, storyteller, artist, and poet, will have at least a dozen photos, along with stories and poems, on display. This is the first solo show of the artist, who has had his writings featured in many magazines across the U.S., Portugal, and Cyprus.

Figurative Expressions II
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Five artists who approach the figure in creative and unique ways
Scott Estelle: bronze sculpture
John Fitzsimmons: oil painting
Vincent Fitches: oil painting
Stephen Ryan: watercolor painting
Gail Hoffman: bronze and aluminum sculpture

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

A Fire in My Belly
Light Work Gallery

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

The video by David Wojnarowicz, part of a groundbreaking exhibition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery focusing on sexual difference in the making of modern American portraiture, was censored and removed from the exhibit under pressure from a right wing religious group and conservative politicians.

The video, A Fire in My Belly was removed by G. Wayne Clough, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, after receiving complaints from William Donohue, president of the Catholic League, as well as John Boehner, Republican Speaker of the House, and Eric Cantor, Republican Majority Leader. The removal of the video from the exhibition has sparked public outcry from arts organizations and activists around the world, including the Tate Modern in London, the Whitney Museum and MOMA in New York City, and SF MOMA in San Francisco, among many others. Light Work joined these protests in early December by organizing a screening of Fire in My Belly on December 14 in collaboration with the ArtRage Gallery, which included a public forum about the work. Light Work will continue to show the video until February 13, the date the exhibition is scheduled to close in Washington, DC.

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

This suite of three video installations, "Mare," "Perigee", and "Penumbra," by Demetrius Oliver reconnects viewers to their place in the universe by playing with earthly and human forms against a backdrop of the cosmos. In "Penumbra," explorations of light and scale, movement and the rhythm of the natural world suggest journeys both physical and metaphysical.

One of the installations will be on view in the Light Work Gallery, one projected onto the Everson Museum, and one installed in the Menschel Photography Gallery in the Schine Student Center.

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Hudson Past/Perfect: Photos by Marna Bell
Light Work Gallery

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

Marna Bell is the winner of the Light Work/Community Darkrooms Members Juried Exhibition competition. In 2005, after the sudden death of her mother, Bell picked up her camera after a 20-year hiatus from painting and began photographing nature. Her focus in both painting and photography has been on reclaiming visions of the past and her connection to nature.

According to Bell, "Many trips back home to New York City on the train have helped me remember lost pieces of time where life seemed simpler and less veiled. It was a natural progression for me to record the cycle of change in my 'Hudson Past/Perfect' series. By revisiting the same landscapes in different seasons and under different weather conditions, I was able to capture the past before it disappeared. I am drawn to the meditative quality of the Hudson River and the sacred aspects of the natural environment. The series is reminiscent of a more romantic era, when God and nature were viewed as one."

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

Focus x Three: Photography and Video
Redhouse

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

Focus x Three, the second in the Emerging Women of CNY series, highlights the work of three photographers: Erin Mulvehill, Gillian Andrew, and Colleen Woolpert. Each has an association and history with Syracuse, as all are graduates of Syracuse University. They have all worked, in some capacity, in the world of professional photography, perfecting their craft, while continuing to pursue the "fine art" side of their vision. Curator of this exhibition, Marianne Smith Dalton, stated: "Each of these women masterfully uses the camera to convey her own unique reflection of 'reality.' These compelling photographs, frozen moments in time, will captivate and hold you transfixed. Come celebrate the work of these three young women and discover a new way to 'see' through the lenses of these talented photographers."

Without Restraint: Works by Phil Parsons and Barbara Conte-Gaugel
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Barbara Conte-Gaugel has named the collage-assemblage series on display "Remnants," suggesting how the artist's nostalgia for things old, rusty and ordinary combine with her desire to give her pieces "new life, one quite different from the former one, but no less important." This same affinity for things past is prominent in her black and white photographs of lost buildings, crumbling edifices, abandoned structures and old prisons. Conte-Gaugel refers to them as "handmade," taken with a manual Nikon camera and printed on fiber-based paper -- "landscape imagery in which time seems to stand still."

For "Without Restraint," Phil Parsons includes pieces from several different series including "Landscape," and "Black Forest." Parsons began painting landscapes at a time when he viewed rural scenes around him with a different perspective following the death of a family member. "Life is fleeting," he says, "And I needed a record, a reminder for myself and my children." Working in his "Black Forest Series," Parsons draws abstractions and classical imagery, forging both together and seemingly arranged under a gossamer film in the same picture plane.

Embryonic: New Work by Eunjung Shin
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Korean-born Eunjung Shin's figurative ceramic sculpture depicts experiences from the artist's life. Her work in the upcoming show, Embryonic, will include a new series of realistic, infant figures cradled in egg-like structures. These pieces represent Shin's hopeful wishes and new beginnings. The exhibition will also include larger jester figures, which explore the nature of human folly. Many of the works are embellished with beautifully hand-carved arabesques and floral patterns. The artist says that the carving of these ornamentations is much like meditative acts connected to many Asian traditions.

Shin received an MFA in Ceramics from Syracuse University in 2007 and a MFA in Ceramics form Kyunghee University in Yongin, Korea. She currently teaches classes at the Community Folk Art Center’s Creative Arts Academy in Syracuse. Her artwork has been shown in many venues nationally and internationally, including Affinity at the Icheon World Ceramic Center in Icheon, Korea. Shin currently resides in the city of Syracuse.

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity is a rich, reflective exhibition of works by 40 artists representing the vast cultural blend of modern American society.

American artists of African, Arab, European, Asian, Latino, and Native American descent explore their heritage in this vivid and diverse exhibition using a wide variety of media. The artists examine patriotism, communication, struggle for acceptance, being an American in the 21st century, and more. Humor, heartache, anger, apprehension--all emotions are evoked by these works, raising questions about race, class, gender and age. Four main themes run through Infinite Mirror: Self-Selection, Pride, Assimilation, and Protest, providing audiences with the opportunity to re-examine both the story and storytellers of the quintessential "American dream."

The exhibition was curated by Blake Bradford, Curator and Director of Education at the Barnes Foundation; Benito Huerta, Curator and Director of The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington; and Robert Lee, Curator and Executive Director at Asian American Arts Centre in New York.

Paid parking is available for weekday visitors in any SU pay lot. Free parking for weekend and evening visitors is available in the Q4 lot, located on College Place. Patrons should notify the attendant that they are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Evening and weekend parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome.

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The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

A selection of 30 woodcuts and etchings by the internationally known and collected Chinese American artist and educator. This exhibition is a limited retrospective look at Seong Moy's career as printmaker.

Moy's early works, small but complicated woodcuts on soft luminous papers, were immediately accepted by artists, curators, and the public. A painterly quality, so important to his entire graphic output, is evident in much of this work and is all the more special because it is captured in color wood block prints that require great sophistication and skill from the artist.

As Moy's career continued to develop, his interest in capturing spatial relationships of shapes and forms in his compositions, was heightened by the role color plays in energizing these elements. This trend continued for a number a years and could also be found in his cardboard relief prints.

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

Stone Canoe Art Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

The fifth edition of Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts, Literature, and Social Commentary, features the work of more than 100 artists and writers with ties to Upstate New York, ranging from those with international reputations to those who have not previously published or exhibited their work. Lynette Stephenson, a professor at Colgate University, is this issue's visual arts editor and curator of the current exhibition.

Rigo 23: Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024
The Warehouse Gallery

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

San Francisco based artist Rigo 23 is known nationally and internationally for his highly political site-specific work. Intercultural relations and justice issues are often present in his work which includes working with political prisoners, such as Leonard Peltier, who is the subject of this show. The exhibition title refers specifically to Peltier's given name in Lakota (Tate Wikikuwa), to his next hearing in 2024, and to Rigo 23's former project at the De Young Museum in San Francisco (1999). The Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024 will focus on the artwork, life, and status of this Native American whose case has been an international controversy since the 1970s. This exhibition will showcase Peltier through the visual arts (oil paintings) as well as educational components such as talks and a symposium sponsored by the Humanities Center at Syracuse University.

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A Fire in My Belly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

On December 1, World AIDS day, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. (a Smithsonian institute) removed the video A Fire in My Belly, by David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) from its exhibit entitled "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture," after caving to pressure from the president of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue. Donohue has described the video as anti-Catholic "hate speech" because the four-minute video includes a 15-second image of ants crawling over a crucifix. Incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner has joined with Donohue and has condemned the show as an "outrageous use of taxpayer money."

Hide/Seek is the first major exhibition at the Portrait Gallery to focus on what the museum calls "sexual difference" and A Fire in My Belly, made in 1987, was a response to the AIDS crisis in the U.S. ArtRage has joined with arts organizations all across the U.S. by screening this video, providing space to discuss the art and to discuss the implications of its censoring. We support and defend an artist's right to use their art for social change. Consequently, ArtRage will show the Wojnarowicz video in a constant loop in our gallery until Feb. 13, 2011, the scheduled end date for the Smithsonian exhibition.

All Power to the People! Graphics of the Black Panther Party USA
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

From the collection of the Center for the Study of Politcal Graphics, the largest repository of political posters in the USA, All Power to the People! features Black Panther Party posters and newspaper graphics produced in the 1960s and 1970s. The exhibition highlights the artistry of Emory Douglas, and documents the Panthers' involvement with a broad array of causes, including opposition to the Vietnam War and solidarity with the United Farm Workers movement. With documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, All Power to the People! also illustrates efforts of the United States government to destroy the Panthers as part of wide-spread efforts to stifle oppositional political movements. The social programs of the Panthers and the powerful images of armed party members had a strong impact on the public consciousness of the time, and their efforts to combat the oppression of racism and poverty still resonate today.

Demitrus Oliver: Mare, 2009
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Mare, 2009, projects a circular image of a wave crashing against an unnamed shore. As the image rotates, the lines of the waves begin to resemble the layered surface of a Jovian planet such as Jupiter. Connecting the sea with heavenly phenomena, the installation recreates the sense of wonderment felt when looking at the night sky and the fundamental human desire to understand one's place in the universe. Mare, which is Latin for "seas", suggests movement and journeys both physical and metaphysical, as well as metaphors of darkness and illumination, looking and discovery.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses or lamenting the struggles of daily living, Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed "Truisms" on one of Times Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her "Survival" series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

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Harry Crocker and the Saucerer's Stove
Acme Mystery Company

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

Something's cooking at Frogtort's School for Culinary Wizardry and it smells like trouble. Harry Crocker returns after 25 years to save his alma mater but not everyone's happy to see him, to say the least. Professor Fumblepork is sending out an owl to all wizards (including you). Join Professors McMonalogue and Crepe, even Harry's old friend Herhiane, as they try to pay off centuries of back taxes and avoid a hostile takeover by the Ministry of Magic.

Rent
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Jonathan Larson's Broadway phenomenon ignites the stage with passion and energy. One year—525,600 minutes—in the lives of seven young friends from Alphabet City brings love, loss, tragedy and triumph in a whirl of non-stop music. Larson built the show on the artists and addicts he knew in his neighborhood as they battled poverty, drugs, AIDS and the looming gentrification of their Vie Bohème. Urban and gritty, this Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical brims with raw emotion and infectious enthusiasm.

Based on Puccini's La Boheme, Rent opened off-Broadway in January 1996 to wide critical acclaim. It quickly moved to its Broadway home, the Nederlander Theatre, where it ran for 12 years, becoming the eighth longest running Broadway musical in history. Rent won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for drama and was nominated for ten Tony Awards, winning four, including Best Musical and Best Original Score.

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Lovers

Price: $13.50
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Lovers, a pair of tragi-comic plays by Irish playwright Brian Friel, takes place in Ballymore, County Donegal, in 1966. The first play, Winners, takes us through a fateful afternoon in the lives of two soon-to-be-wed high school students. The second play, Losers, concerns a couple who are no longer young whose courting is seriously impaired by an implacable, shrewd, and frightening invalid mother and her crony. The two plays are linked by what Friel called "the Northern Irish thing."

Along with Susan Barbour, Megan Dobertin, Michael Barbour, and Alec Barbour, this play features the return to the stage of two of Syracuse's long-time leading ladies: Caroline Fitzgerald and Mary Earle.

For reservation, phone 315-449-3220.

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Friday, February 4, 2011

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Robert Gerhardt: "Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma"
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Ludwig Stein Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

This exhibit will depict the 14 Stations of the Cross, also called "Via Dolorosa" or "The Way of Sorrows.” These events are the depiction of the final hours of Christ, and they cover the Passion of Jesus from his condemnation to his entombment.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Cortland County Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists include Fred Zimmerman, David Yaman, Kathy Williams, Carl Steckler, Laurie Seamans, Meg Richardson, Lyla Phillips, Allen Phillips, Joan Niswender, Richard Mitchell, Amy Hnatko, Emily Gibbons, Serry Dans, Kathie Beale, and David Beale.

Where Eagles Fly: Works by Don Ford
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Don Ward, humorist, storyteller, artist, and poet, will have at least a dozen photos, along with stories and poems, on display. This is the first solo show of the artist, who has had his writings featured in many magazines across the U.S., Portugal, and Cyprus.

Figurative Expressions II
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Five artists who approach the figure in creative and unique ways
Scott Estelle: bronze sculpture
John Fitzsimmons: oil painting
Vincent Fitches: oil painting
Stephen Ryan: watercolor painting
Gail Hoffman: bronze and aluminum sculpture

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

A Fire in My Belly
Light Work Gallery

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

The video by David Wojnarowicz, part of a groundbreaking exhibition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery focusing on sexual difference in the making of modern American portraiture, was censored and removed from the exhibit under pressure from a right wing religious group and conservative politicians.

The video, A Fire in My Belly was removed by G. Wayne Clough, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, after receiving complaints from William Donohue, president of the Catholic League, as well as John Boehner, Republican Speaker of the House, and Eric Cantor, Republican Majority Leader. The removal of the video from the exhibition has sparked public outcry from arts organizations and activists around the world, including the Tate Modern in London, the Whitney Museum and MOMA in New York City, and SF MOMA in San Francisco, among many others. Light Work joined these protests in early December by organizing a screening of Fire in My Belly on December 14 in collaboration with the ArtRage Gallery, which included a public forum about the work. Light Work will continue to show the video until February 13, the date the exhibition is scheduled to close in Washington, DC.

Hudson Past/Perfect: Photos by Marna Bell
Light Work Gallery

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

Marna Bell is the winner of the Light Work/Community Darkrooms Members Juried Exhibition competition. In 2005, after the sudden death of her mother, Bell picked up her camera after a 20-year hiatus from painting and began photographing nature. Her focus in both painting and photography has been on reclaiming visions of the past and her connection to nature.

According to Bell, "Many trips back home to New York City on the train have helped me remember lost pieces of time where life seemed simpler and less veiled. It was a natural progression for me to record the cycle of change in my 'Hudson Past/Perfect' series. By revisiting the same landscapes in different seasons and under different weather conditions, I was able to capture the past before it disappeared. I am drawn to the meditative quality of the Hudson River and the sacred aspects of the natural environment. The series is reminiscent of a more romantic era, when God and nature were viewed as one."

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

This suite of three video installations, "Mare," "Perigee", and "Penumbra," by Demetrius Oliver reconnects viewers to their place in the universe by playing with earthly and human forms against a backdrop of the cosmos. In "Penumbra," explorations of light and scale, movement and the rhythm of the natural world suggest journeys both physical and metaphysical.

One of the installations will be on view in the Light Work Gallery, one projected onto the Everson Museum, and one installed in the Menschel Photography Gallery in the Schine Student Center.

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

Focus x Three: Photography and Video
Redhouse

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

Focus x Three, the second in the Emerging Women of CNY series, highlights the work of three photographers: Erin Mulvehill, Gillian Andrew, and Colleen Woolpert. Each has an association and history with Syracuse, as all are graduates of Syracuse University. They have all worked, in some capacity, in the world of professional photography, perfecting their craft, while continuing to pursue the "fine art" side of their vision. Curator of this exhibition, Marianne Smith Dalton, stated: "Each of these women masterfully uses the camera to convey her own unique reflection of 'reality.' These compelling photographs, frozen moments in time, will captivate and hold you transfixed. Come celebrate the work of these three young women and discover a new way to 'see' through the lenses of these talented photographers."

Pr-int-erface: Ornamentation on Textiles
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Pr-int-erface: Ornamentation on Textiles" features work by students of design faculty members Eileen Gosson and Jan Navales. The methods of printing on textiles have evolved though the accessibility of technological devices. Traditional screen printing has given way to digital printing, and the surface pattern design industry has changed. This exhibition highlights student experiences in understanding the differences and similarities inherent in each process and end result.

Rug Design Competition Exhibition Tour
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The Odegard Award for Excellence in Rug Design Competition Exhibition Tour is currently on view. This exhibition is the result of a competition created and sponsored by Odegard Inc. to show student designers how combining modern designs with traditional hand-knotting techniques can increase awareness and respect for the legacy of textile and carpet weaving. Odegard received submissions from more than 400 students at universities and colleges across the country.

Without Restraint: Works by Phil Parsons and Barbara Conte-Gaugel
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Barbara Conte-Gaugel has named the collage-assemblage series on display "Remnants," suggesting how the artist's nostalgia for things old, rusty and ordinary combine with her desire to give her pieces "new life, one quite different from the former one, but no less important." This same affinity for things past is prominent in her black and white photographs of lost buildings, crumbling edifices, abandoned structures and old prisons. Conte-Gaugel refers to them as "handmade," taken with a manual Nikon camera and printed on fiber-based paper -- "landscape imagery in which time seems to stand still."

For "Without Restraint," Phil Parsons includes pieces from several different series including "Landscape," and "Black Forest." Parsons began painting landscapes at a time when he viewed rural scenes around him with a different perspective following the death of a family member. "Life is fleeting," he says, "And I needed a record, a reminder for myself and my children." Working in his "Black Forest Series," Parsons draws abstractions and classical imagery, forging both together and seemingly arranged under a gossamer film in the same picture plane.

Embryonic: New Work by Eunjung Shin
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Korean-born Eunjung Shin's figurative ceramic sculpture depicts experiences from the artist's life. Her work in the upcoming show, Embryonic, will include a new series of realistic, infant figures cradled in egg-like structures. These pieces represent Shin's hopeful wishes and new beginnings. The exhibition will also include larger jester figures, which explore the nature of human folly. Many of the works are embellished with beautifully hand-carved arabesques and floral patterns. The artist says that the carving of these ornamentations is much like meditative acts connected to many Asian traditions.

Shin received an MFA in Ceramics from Syracuse University in 2007 and a MFA in Ceramics form Kyunghee University in Yongin, Korea. She currently teaches classes at the Community Folk Art Center’s Creative Arts Academy in Syracuse. Her artwork has been shown in many venues nationally and internationally, including Affinity at the Icheon World Ceramic Center in Icheon, Korea. Shin currently resides in the city of Syracuse.

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity is a rich, reflective exhibition of works by 40 artists representing the vast cultural blend of modern American society.

American artists of African, Arab, European, Asian, Latino, and Native American descent explore their heritage in this vivid and diverse exhibition using a wide variety of media. The artists examine patriotism, communication, struggle for acceptance, being an American in the 21st century, and more. Humor, heartache, anger, apprehension--all emotions are evoked by these works, raising questions about race, class, gender and age. Four main themes run through Infinite Mirror: Self-Selection, Pride, Assimilation, and Protest, providing audiences with the opportunity to re-examine both the story and storytellers of the quintessential "American dream."

The exhibition was curated by Blake Bradford, Curator and Director of Education at the Barnes Foundation; Benito Huerta, Curator and Director of The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington; and Robert Lee, Curator and Executive Director at Asian American Arts Centre in New York.

Paid parking is available for weekday visitors in any SU pay lot. Free parking for weekend and evening visitors is available in the Q4 lot, located on College Place. Patrons should notify the attendant that they are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Evening and weekend parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome.

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The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

A selection of 30 woodcuts and etchings by the internationally known and collected Chinese American artist and educator. This exhibition is a limited retrospective look at Seong Moy's career as printmaker.

Moy's early works, small but complicated woodcuts on soft luminous papers, were immediately accepted by artists, curators, and the public. A painterly quality, so important to his entire graphic output, is evident in much of this work and is all the more special because it is captured in color wood block prints that require great sophistication and skill from the artist.

As Moy's career continued to develop, his interest in capturing spatial relationships of shapes and forms in his compositions, was heightened by the role color plays in energizing these elements. This trend continued for a number a years and could also be found in his cardboard relief prints.

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

Opening: Aomebart
Echo

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

There will be an opening reception 5:00-8:00 pm.

A collaborative installation.

Stone Canoe Art Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

The fifth edition of Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts, Literature, and Social Commentary, features the work of more than 100 artists and writers with ties to Upstate New York, ranging from those with international reputations to those who have not previously published or exhibited their work. Lynette Stephenson, a professor at Colgate University, is this issue's visual arts editor and curator of the current exhibition.

Rigo 23: Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024
The Warehouse Gallery

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

San Francisco based artist Rigo 23 is known nationally and internationally for his highly political site-specific work. Intercultural relations and justice issues are often present in his work which includes working with political prisoners, such as Leonard Peltier, who is the subject of this show. The exhibition title refers specifically to Peltier's given name in Lakota (Tate Wikikuwa), to his next hearing in 2024, and to Rigo 23's former project at the De Young Museum in San Francisco (1999). The Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024 will focus on the artwork, life, and status of this Native American whose case has been an international controversy since the 1970s. This exhibition will showcase Peltier through the visual arts (oil paintings) as well as educational components such as talks and a symposium sponsored by the Humanities Center at Syracuse University.

Read a review!

All Power to the People! Graphics of the Black Panther Party USA
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

From the collection of the Center for the Study of Politcal Graphics, the largest repository of political posters in the USA, All Power to the People! features Black Panther Party posters and newspaper graphics produced in the 1960s and 1970s. The exhibition highlights the artistry of Emory Douglas, and documents the Panthers' involvement with a broad array of causes, including opposition to the Vietnam War and solidarity with the United Farm Workers movement. With documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, All Power to the People! also illustrates efforts of the United States government to destroy the Panthers as part of wide-spread efforts to stifle oppositional political movements. The social programs of the Panthers and the powerful images of armed party members had a strong impact on the public consciousness of the time, and their efforts to combat the oppression of racism and poverty still resonate today.

A Fire in My Belly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

On December 1, World AIDS day, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. (a Smithsonian institute) removed the video A Fire in My Belly, by David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) from its exhibit entitled "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture," after caving to pressure from the president of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue. Donohue has described the video as anti-Catholic "hate speech" because the four-minute video includes a 15-second image of ants crawling over a crucifix. Incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner has joined with Donohue and has condemned the show as an "outrageous use of taxpayer money."

Hide/Seek is the first major exhibition at the Portrait Gallery to focus on what the museum calls "sexual difference" and A Fire in My Belly, made in 1987, was a response to the AIDS crisis in the U.S. ArtRage has joined with arts organizations all across the U.S. by screening this video, providing space to discuss the art and to discuss the implications of its censoring. We support and defend an artist's right to use their art for social change. Consequently, ArtRage will show the Wojnarowicz video in a constant loop in our gallery until Feb. 13, 2011, the scheduled end date for the Smithsonian exhibition.

Demitrus Oliver: Mare, 2009
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Mare, 2009, projects a circular image of a wave crashing against an unnamed shore. As the image rotates, the lines of the waves begin to resemble the layered surface of a Jovian planet such as Jupiter. Connecting the sea with heavenly phenomena, the installation recreates the sense of wonderment felt when looking at the night sky and the fundamental human desire to understand one's place in the universe. Mare, which is Latin for "seas", suggests movement and journeys both physical and metaphysical, as well as metaphors of darkness and illumination, looking and discovery.

Red House Live Comedy Improv
Redhouse

Price: $10
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Red House Arts Center invites you to laugh with us, or at us -- preferably with us -- as our very own improvisational comedy troupe returns. No two shows are the same; each feature different scenes and characters fueled by audience suggestions and response.

The cast this season includes Tim Mahar, Laura Austin, Stephen Peters and Rachelle Clavin, with musical director Emmett Van Slyke, and hosted by Glenn "Gomez" Adams of TK99's "Gomez & Dave Morning Show."

Red House Live was created by Tim Mahar and Laura Austin, who have both trained and performed with Second City, the home of "the world's greatest comedy theatre." You may also recognize Mahar from his performances with "Off the Cuff" in Syracuse and New York, or from his own show "Live Radio". Austin has been seen working in television, film and theatre throughout the U.S. and abroad.

Oregon Fail
Salt City Improv Theater

Price: $5
Salt City Improv Theatre
Shoppingtown Mall, Sears Wing, Dewitt

The long-form improv team, Oregon Fail, is performing a benefit show in order to raise money and awareness for The Children's Cancer and Blood Foundation. Tickets for this show are specially priced at only $5.

Spring Festival Gala
SU Chinese Student and Scholar Association

Price: $3 performance only, $6 dinner and performance
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Spring Festival, the important Chinese holiday marking the arrival of the New Year, begins on Feb. 3. The Chinese Student and Scholar Association (CSSA) will simultaneously celebrate the holiday and educate the University community about it through a unique collaboration with an Honors Program class taught by anthropology professor Faye McMahon.

The CSSA's Spring Festival Gala begins at 5:00 pm with a banquet. Performances begin at 7:00 pm, and will feature a traditional Lion Dance by Syracuse Kung Fu; Orange Bhangra; SU Zinda; Cheon Ji In, the Korean Dance Club; and the breakdancing group Shift.

Tickets are available at the Schine Box Office, 315-443-4517.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses or lamenting the struggles of daily living, Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed "Truisms" on one of Times Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her "Survival" series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

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Dala
Folkus Project

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

It's been quite a year for the up-and-coming Canadian folk/pop duo Dala. They were selected as Vocal Group of the Year at the 2010 Canadian Folk Music Awards. Their latest album, "Everyone Is Someone," earned them their fifth Canadian Folk Music Award nomination, a Toronto Independent Music Award for Best Folk Group, and was touted by The Irish Post as the Album of the Year. Dala appeared at last year's Falcon Ridge Folk Festival and was the surprise hit with their premiere performance at the Newport Folk Festival.

Amanda Walther and Sheila Carabine are Dala, whose music combines beautiful harmonies, compelling stories, and hauntingly memorable melodies. Drawing upon influences like The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Bob Dylan, Dala's songs are catchy and insightful. Their music is emotionally resonant, highly accessible and the sheer joy with which they perform turns first-time listeners into instant fans.

Classics Series: Beyond the Score: Vivaldi's The Four Season
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor

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

Vivaldi The Four Seasons

Beyond the Score® is produced by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Designed not only for classical music aficionados, but also for newcomers looking to delve deeper into the world of classical music, the first half of each Beyond the Score program offers a multimedia examination of the selected score—its context in history, how it fits into the composer's output of works, the details of a composer's life that influenced its creation—sharing the illuminating stories found "inside" the music.

Eric Krasno and Chapter 2
Westcott Theater

Price: $15 advance, $20 day of show.
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Also performing: Big Sam Funky Nation.

Blues and rock.

Information: 315-299-8886.

Opera Karaoke
Syracuse Opera

Price: Free
Opus Restaurant
218 Walton St., Syracuse

Syracuse Opera is pleased to invite all inspired and aspiring singers to Opera Karaoke. Syracuse Opera will provide the sheet music and pianist, while you provide the vocals. The Opus Restaurant & Lounge will provide late-night happy hour and drink specials.

For more information, call the Syracuse Opera administrative offices at 315-475-5915.

Love Letters and Hate Mail
CNY Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: $10
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A staged reading of A.R.Gurney’s Love Letters and You've Got Hate Mail by Billy Van Zandt and Jane Millimore. Both one-act plays will feature well known theatrical couples.

Love Letters, directed by Dustin Czarny, features two pairs of married actors (Dan Stevens  and Nora O’Dea along with Mark and Cathy English) performing on alternate nights this classic love tale centered around the letters written over a span of 50 years.

The second act turns to the modern world in You've Got Hate Mail. This show also stars real life married couples Navroz and Binaifer Dabu and Dustin M. Czarny and Heather J. Roach. Pam Hipius rounds out the cast and the play is directed by her husband Greg Hipius. The show is intended as a comic answer to Love Letters and revolves around the zaniness a few errant emails can cause to a relationship.

Lovers

Price: $13.50
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Lovers, a pair of tragi-comic plays by Irish playwright Brian Friel, takes place in Ballymore, County Donegal, in 1966. The first play, Winners, takes us through a fateful afternoon in the lives of two soon-to-be-wed high school students. The second play, Losers, concerns a couple who are no longer young whose courting is seriously impaired by an implacable, shrewd, and frightening invalid mother and her crony. The two plays are linked by what Friel called "the Northern Irish thing."

Along with Susan Barbour, Megan Dobertin, Michael Barbour, and Alec Barbour, this play features the return to the stage of two of Syracuse's long-time leading ladies: Caroline Fitzgerald and Mary Earle.

For reservation, phone 315-449-3220.

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Rent
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Jonathan Larson's Broadway phenomenon ignites the stage with passion and energy. One year—525,600 minutes—in the lives of seven young friends from Alphabet City brings love, loss, tragedy and triumph in a whirl of non-stop music. Larson built the show on the artists and addicts he knew in his neighborhood as they battled poverty, drugs, AIDS and the looming gentrification of their Vie Bohème. Urban and gritty, this Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical brims with raw emotion and infectious enthusiasm.

Based on Puccini's La Boheme, Rent opened off-Broadway in January 1996 to wide critical acclaim. It quickly moved to its Broadway home, the Nederlander Theatre, where it ran for 12 years, becoming the eighth longest running Broadway musical in history. Rent won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for drama and was nominated for ten Tony Awards, winning four, including Best Musical and Best Original Score.

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Saturday, February 5, 2011

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Robert Gerhardt: "Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma"
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Aomebart
Echo

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

A collaborative installation.

Figurative Expressions II
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Five artists who approach the figure in creative and unique ways
Scott Estelle: bronze sculpture
John Fitzsimmons: oil painting
Vincent Fitches: oil painting
Stephen Ryan: watercolor painting
Gail Hoffman: bronze and aluminum sculpture

Without Restraint: Works by Phil Parsons and Barbara Conte-Gaugel
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Barbara Conte-Gaugel has named the collage-assemblage series on display "Remnants," suggesting how the artist's nostalgia for things old, rusty and ordinary combine with her desire to give her pieces "new life, one quite different from the former one, but no less important." This same affinity for things past is prominent in her black and white photographs of lost buildings, crumbling edifices, abandoned structures and old prisons. Conte-Gaugel refers to them as "handmade," taken with a manual Nikon camera and printed on fiber-based paper -- "landscape imagery in which time seems to stand still."

For "Without Restraint," Phil Parsons includes pieces from several different series including "Landscape," and "Black Forest." Parsons began painting landscapes at a time when he viewed rural scenes around him with a different perspective following the death of a family member. "Life is fleeting," he says, "And I needed a record, a reminder for myself and my children." Working in his "Black Forest Series," Parsons draws abstractions and classical imagery, forging both together and seemingly arranged under a gossamer film in the same picture plane.

Embryonic: New Work by Eunjung Shin
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Korean-born Eunjung Shin's figurative ceramic sculpture depicts experiences from the artist's life. Her work in the upcoming show, Embryonic, will include a new series of realistic, infant figures cradled in egg-like structures. These pieces represent Shin's hopeful wishes and new beginnings. The exhibition will also include larger jester figures, which explore the nature of human folly. Many of the works are embellished with beautifully hand-carved arabesques and floral patterns. The artist says that the carving of these ornamentations is much like meditative acts connected to many Asian traditions.

Shin received an MFA in Ceramics from Syracuse University in 2007 and a MFA in Ceramics form Kyunghee University in Yongin, Korea. She currently teaches classes at the Community Folk Art Center’s Creative Arts Academy in Syracuse. Her artwork has been shown in many venues nationally and internationally, including Affinity at the Icheon World Ceramic Center in Icheon, Korea. Shin currently resides in the city of Syracuse.

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity is a rich, reflective exhibition of works by 40 artists representing the vast cultural blend of modern American society.

American artists of African, Arab, European, Asian, Latino, and Native American descent explore their heritage in this vivid and diverse exhibition using a wide variety of media. The artists examine patriotism, communication, struggle for acceptance, being an American in the 21st century, and more. Humor, heartache, anger, apprehension--all emotions are evoked by these works, raising questions about race, class, gender and age. Four main themes run through Infinite Mirror: Self-Selection, Pride, Assimilation, and Protest, providing audiences with the opportunity to re-examine both the story and storytellers of the quintessential "American dream."

The exhibition was curated by Blake Bradford, Curator and Director of Education at the Barnes Foundation; Benito Huerta, Curator and Director of The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington; and Robert Lee, Curator and Executive Director at Asian American Arts Centre in New York.

Paid parking is available for weekday visitors in any SU pay lot. Free parking for weekend and evening visitors is available in the Q4 lot, located on College Place. Patrons should notify the attendant that they are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Evening and weekend parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome.

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The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

A selection of 30 woodcuts and etchings by the internationally known and collected Chinese American artist and educator. This exhibition is a limited retrospective look at Seong Moy's career as printmaker.

Moy's early works, small but complicated woodcuts on soft luminous papers, were immediately accepted by artists, curators, and the public. A painterly quality, so important to his entire graphic output, is evident in much of this work and is all the more special because it is captured in color wood block prints that require great sophistication and skill from the artist.

As Moy's career continued to develop, his interest in capturing spatial relationships of shapes and forms in his compositions, was heightened by the role color plays in energizing these elements. This trend continued for a number a years and could also be found in his cardboard relief prints.

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

A Fire in My Belly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

On December 1, World AIDS day, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. (a Smithsonian institute) removed the video A Fire in My Belly, by David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) from its exhibit entitled "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture," after caving to pressure from the president of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue. Donohue has described the video as anti-Catholic "hate speech" because the four-minute video includes a 15-second image of ants crawling over a crucifix. Incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner has joined with Donohue and has condemned the show as an "outrageous use of taxpayer money."

Hide/Seek is the first major exhibition at the Portrait Gallery to focus on what the museum calls "sexual difference" and A Fire in My Belly, made in 1987, was a response to the AIDS crisis in the U.S. ArtRage has joined with arts organizations all across the U.S. by screening this video, providing space to discuss the art and to discuss the implications of its censoring. We support and defend an artist's right to use their art for social change. Consequently, ArtRage will show the Wojnarowicz video in a constant loop in our gallery until Feb. 13, 2011, the scheduled end date for the Smithsonian exhibition.

All Power to the People! Graphics of the Black Panther Party USA
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

From the collection of the Center for the Study of Politcal Graphics, the largest repository of political posters in the USA, All Power to the People! features Black Panther Party posters and newspaper graphics produced in the 1960s and 1970s. The exhibition highlights the artistry of Emory Douglas, and documents the Panthers' involvement with a broad array of causes, including opposition to the Vietnam War and solidarity with the United Farm Workers movement. With documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, All Power to the People! also illustrates efforts of the United States government to destroy the Panthers as part of wide-spread efforts to stifle oppositional political movements. The social programs of the Panthers and the powerful images of armed party members had a strong impact on the public consciousness of the time, and their efforts to combat the oppression of racism and poverty still resonate today.

Stone Canoe Art Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

The fifth edition of Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts, Literature, and Social Commentary, features the work of more than 100 artists and writers with ties to Upstate New York, ranging from those with international reputations to those who have not previously published or exhibited their work. Lynette Stephenson, a professor at Colgate University, is this issue's visual arts editor and curator of the current exhibition.

Rigo 23: Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024
The Warehouse Gallery

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

San Francisco based artist Rigo 23 is known nationally and internationally for his highly political site-specific work. Intercultural relations and justice issues are often present in his work which includes working with political prisoners, such as Leonard Peltier, who is the subject of this show. The exhibition title refers specifically to Peltier's given name in Lakota (Tate Wikikuwa), to his next hearing in 2024, and to Rigo 23's former project at the De Young Museum in San Francisco (1999). The Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024 will focus on the artwork, life, and status of this Native American whose case has been an international controversy since the 1970s. This exhibition will showcase Peltier through the visual arts (oil paintings) as well as educational components such as talks and a symposium sponsored by the Humanities Center at Syracuse University.

Read a review!

Demitrus Oliver: Mare, 2009
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Mare, 2009, projects a circular image of a wave crashing against an unnamed shore. As the image rotates, the lines of the waves begin to resemble the layered surface of a Jovian planet such as Jupiter. Connecting the sea with heavenly phenomena, the installation recreates the sense of wonderment felt when looking at the night sky and the fundamental human desire to understand one's place in the universe. Mare, which is Latin for "seas", suggests movement and journeys both physical and metaphysical, as well as metaphors of darkness and illumination, looking and discovery.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses or lamenting the struggles of daily living, Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed "Truisms" on one of Times Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her "Survival" series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

Read a review!

CMM / SSOrchestra Youth Concerto Competition Finals
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Phantom of the Opera

Price: $8
East Syracuse-Minoa High School
6400 Freemont Rd., East Syracuse

Presented by ES-M Musical Theater.

Music to Warm the Soul: Cabaret Concert
Featuring Essa Jaffe, vocals, Fred Willard, piano

Price: $18
Temple Adeth Yeshurun
450 Kimber Rd., DeWitt

Gershwin, Porter and Jewish music.

A Capella for the Fellas
Onondaga Community College

Price: $20
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Benefit for the Rescue Mission.

Information: 315-478-9710.

Phantom of the Opera

Price: $8
East Syracuse-Minoa High School
6400 Freemont Rd., East Syracuse

Presented by ES-M Musical Theater.

Folkstrings
Redhouse

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

Folkstrings takes some of the Lost Boys bluegrass, some of Leo's roots, some of Foundation's gospel and adds a whole lot of folk. Classic tunes from the '60s and '70s folk scene with some original work mixed in.

Classics Series: Beyond the Score: Vivaldi's The Four Season
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor

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

Vivaldi The Four Seasons

Beyond the Score® is produced by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Designed not only for classical music aficionados, but also for newcomers looking to delve deeper into the world of classical music, the first half of each Beyond the Score program offers a multimedia examination of the selected score—its context in history, how it fits into the composer's output of works, the details of a composer's life that influenced its creation—sharing the illuminating stories found "inside" the music.

Donna the Buffalo, with Roy Jay Band
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Animalia
Open Hand Theater
Hobey Ford's Golden Rod Puppets

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

Open Hand Theater welcomes award winning puppeteer, craftsman, and master storyteller Hobey Ford to his first appearance on our World of Puppets stage, presenting his exquisite puppet ballet. Explore the beauty of the movement of whales, dolphins, birds, butterflies, wolves and realistically animated creature puppets. Captivating and magical, this performance will charm children and adults alike.

Sleeping Beauty
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive comedy retelling of the children's classic.

Rent
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Jonathan Larson's Broadway phenomenon ignites the stage with passion and energy. One year—525,600 minutes—in the lives of seven young friends from Alphabet City brings love, loss, tragedy and triumph in a whirl of non-stop music. Larson built the show on the artists and addicts he knew in his neighborhood as they battled poverty, drugs, AIDS and the looming gentrification of their Vie Bohème. Urban and gritty, this Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical brims with raw emotion and infectious enthusiasm.

Based on Puccini's La Boheme, Rent opened off-Broadway in January 1996 to wide critical acclaim. It quickly moved to its Broadway home, the Nederlander Theatre, where it ran for 12 years, becoming the eighth longest running Broadway musical in history. Rent won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for drama and was nominated for ten Tony Awards, winning four, including Best Musical and Best Original Score.

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No Time for Death
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $25 individual, $50 couple, $30 individual at the door
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Presented along with The Knights of Columbus.

Information: 315-687-9015 or 315-687-3494.

Lovers

Price: $13.50
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Lovers, a pair of tragi-comic plays by Irish playwright Brian Friel, takes place in Ballymore, County Donegal, in 1966. The first play, Winners, takes us through a fateful afternoon in the lives of two soon-to-be-wed high school students. The second play, Losers, concerns a couple who are no longer young whose courting is seriously impaired by an implacable, shrewd, and frightening invalid mother and her crony. The two plays are linked by what Friel called "the Northern Irish thing."

Along with Susan Barbour, Megan Dobertin, Michael Barbour, and Alec Barbour, this play features the return to the stage of two of Syracuse's long-time leading ladies: Caroline Fitzgerald and Mary Earle.

For reservation, phone 315-449-3220.

Read a review!

Rent
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Jonathan Larson's Broadway phenomenon ignites the stage with passion and energy. One year—525,600 minutes—in the lives of seven young friends from Alphabet City brings love, loss, tragedy and triumph in a whirl of non-stop music. Larson built the show on the artists and addicts he knew in his neighborhood as they battled poverty, drugs, AIDS and the looming gentrification of their Vie Bohème. Urban and gritty, this Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical brims with raw emotion and infectious enthusiasm.

Based on Puccini's La Boheme, Rent opened off-Broadway in January 1996 to wide critical acclaim. It quickly moved to its Broadway home, the Nederlander Theatre, where it ran for 12 years, becoming the eighth longest running Broadway musical in history. Rent won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for drama and was nominated for ten Tony Awards, winning four, including Best Musical and Best Original Score.

Read a Review!

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

A Fire in My Belly
Light Work Gallery

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

The video by David Wojnarowicz, part of a groundbreaking exhibition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery focusing on sexual difference in the making of modern American portraiture, was censored and removed from the exhibit under pressure from a right wing religious group and conservative politicians.

The video, A Fire in My Belly was removed by G. Wayne Clough, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, after receiving complaints from William Donohue, president of the Catholic League, as well as John Boehner, Republican Speaker of the House, and Eric Cantor, Republican Majority Leader. The removal of the video from the exhibition has sparked public outcry from arts organizations and activists around the world, including the Tate Modern in London, the Whitney Museum and MOMA in New York City, and SF MOMA in San Francisco, among many others. Light Work joined these protests in early December by organizing a screening of Fire in My Belly on December 14 in collaboration with the ArtRage Gallery, which included a public forum about the work. Light Work will continue to show the video until February 13, the date the exhibition is scheduled to close in Washington, DC.

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

This suite of three video installations, "Mare," "Perigee", and "Penumbra," by Demetrius Oliver reconnects viewers to their place in the universe by playing with earthly and human forms against a backdrop of the cosmos. In "Penumbra," explorations of light and scale, movement and the rhythm of the natural world suggest journeys both physical and metaphysical.

One of the installations will be on view in the Light Work Gallery, one projected onto the Everson Museum, and one installed in the Menschel Photography Gallery in the Schine Student Center.

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Hudson Past/Perfect: Photos by Marna Bell
Light Work Gallery

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

Marna Bell is the winner of the Light Work/Community Darkrooms Members Juried Exhibition competition. In 2005, after the sudden death of her mother, Bell picked up her camera after a 20-year hiatus from painting and began photographing nature. Her focus in both painting and photography has been on reclaiming visions of the past and her connection to nature.

According to Bell, "Many trips back home to New York City on the train have helped me remember lost pieces of time where life seemed simpler and less veiled. It was a natural progression for me to record the cycle of change in my 'Hudson Past/Perfect' series. By revisiting the same landscapes in different seasons and under different weather conditions, I was able to capture the past before it disappeared. I am drawn to the meditative quality of the Hudson River and the sacred aspects of the natural environment. The series is reminiscent of a more romantic era, when God and nature were viewed as one."

Without Restraint: Works by Phil Parsons and Barbara Conte-Gaugel
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Barbara Conte-Gaugel has named the collage-assemblage series on display "Remnants," suggesting how the artist's nostalgia for things old, rusty and ordinary combine with her desire to give her pieces "new life, one quite different from the former one, but no less important." This same affinity for things past is prominent in her black and white photographs of lost buildings, crumbling edifices, abandoned structures and old prisons. Conte-Gaugel refers to them as "handmade," taken with a manual Nikon camera and printed on fiber-based paper -- "landscape imagery in which time seems to stand still."

For "Without Restraint," Phil Parsons includes pieces from several different series including "Landscape," and "Black Forest." Parsons began painting landscapes at a time when he viewed rural scenes around him with a different perspective following the death of a family member. "Life is fleeting," he says, "And I needed a record, a reminder for myself and my children." Working in his "Black Forest Series," Parsons draws abstractions and classical imagery, forging both together and seemingly arranged under a gossamer film in the same picture plane.

Embryonic: New Work by Eunjung Shin
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Korean-born Eunjung Shin's figurative ceramic sculpture depicts experiences from the artist's life. Her work in the upcoming show, Embryonic, will include a new series of realistic, infant figures cradled in egg-like structures. These pieces represent Shin's hopeful wishes and new beginnings. The exhibition will also include larger jester figures, which explore the nature of human folly. Many of the works are embellished with beautifully hand-carved arabesques and floral patterns. The artist says that the carving of these ornamentations is much like meditative acts connected to many Asian traditions.

Shin received an MFA in Ceramics from Syracuse University in 2007 and a MFA in Ceramics form Kyunghee University in Yongin, Korea. She currently teaches classes at the Community Folk Art Center’s Creative Arts Academy in Syracuse. Her artwork has been shown in many venues nationally and internationally, including Affinity at the Icheon World Ceramic Center in Icheon, Korea. Shin currently resides in the city of Syracuse.

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

A selection of 30 woodcuts and etchings by the internationally known and collected Chinese American artist and educator. This exhibition is a limited retrospective look at Seong Moy's career as printmaker.

Moy's early works, small but complicated woodcuts on soft luminous papers, were immediately accepted by artists, curators, and the public. A painterly quality, so important to his entire graphic output, is evident in much of this work and is all the more special because it is captured in color wood block prints that require great sophistication and skill from the artist.

As Moy's career continued to develop, his interest in capturing spatial relationships of shapes and forms in his compositions, was heightened by the role color plays in energizing these elements. This trend continued for a number a years and could also be found in his cardboard relief prints.

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity is a rich, reflective exhibition of works by 40 artists representing the vast cultural blend of modern American society.

American artists of African, Arab, European, Asian, Latino, and Native American descent explore their heritage in this vivid and diverse exhibition using a wide variety of media. The artists examine patriotism, communication, struggle for acceptance, being an American in the 21st century, and more. Humor, heartache, anger, apprehension--all emotions are evoked by these works, raising questions about race, class, gender and age. Four main themes run through Infinite Mirror: Self-Selection, Pride, Assimilation, and Protest, providing audiences with the opportunity to re-examine both the story and storytellers of the quintessential "American dream."

The exhibition was curated by Blake Bradford, Curator and Director of Education at the Barnes Foundation; Benito Huerta, Curator and Director of The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington; and Robert Lee, Curator and Executive Director at Asian American Arts Centre in New York.

Paid parking is available for weekday visitors in any SU pay lot. Free parking for weekend and evening visitors is available in the Q4 lot, located on College Place. Patrons should notify the attendant that they are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Evening and weekend parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome.

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Robert Gerhardt: "Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma"
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Stone Canoe Art Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

The fifth edition of Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts, Literature, and Social Commentary, features the work of more than 100 artists and writers with ties to Upstate New York, ranging from those with international reputations to those who have not previously published or exhibited their work. Lynette Stephenson, a professor at Colgate University, is this issue's visual arts editor and curator of the current exhibition.

Closing Reception: Rigo 23: Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024
The Warehouse Gallery

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

There will be a closing reception this afternoon. Artist Rigo23 will discuss his site-specific work at The Warehouse Gallery, plus music by Robert Benedict, Native American flutist; and Smiley, Native American singer.

San Francisco based artist Rigo 23 is known nationally and internationally for his highly political site-specific work. Intercultural relations and justice issues are often present in his work which includes working with political prisoners, such as Leonard Peltier, who is the subject of this show. The exhibition title refers specifically to Peltier's given name in Lakota (Tate Wikikuwa), to his next hearing in 2024, and to Rigo 23's former project at the De Young Museum in San Francisco (1999). The Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024 will focus on the artwork, life, and status of this Native American whose case has been an international controversy since the 1970s. This exhibition will showcase Peltier through the visual arts (oil paintings) as well as educational components such as talks and a symposium sponsored by the Humanities Center at Syracuse University.

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New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Demitrus Oliver: Mare, 2009
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Mare, 2009, projects a circular image of a wave crashing against an unnamed shore. As the image rotates, the lines of the waves begin to resemble the layered surface of a Jovian planet such as Jupiter. Connecting the sea with heavenly phenomena, the installation recreates the sense of wonderment felt when looking at the night sky and the fundamental human desire to understand one's place in the universe. Mare, which is Latin for "seas", suggests movement and journeys both physical and metaphysical, as well as metaphors of darkness and illumination, looking and discovery.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses or lamenting the struggles of daily living, Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed "Truisms" on one of Times Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her "Survival" series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

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Society for New Music
Arts Alive in Liverpool

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

Sunday Musicale: Songs of Love
Fayetteville Free Library
Luba Lesser, mezzo-soprano; Maryna Mazhukhova-Dubaniewicz, piano

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

Love songs and arias by Purcell, Mozart, Rossini, Schumann, Brahms, Bizet, Berlioz, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Schoenberg, Menotti and Bolcom.

Bluegrass Showcase with Harvey Nusbaum and Salt Potatoes
Central New York Bluegrass Association

Price: $10 regular, $8 members, kids 16 and under free with paying adult students/seniors
Marcellus American Legion Hall
13 E. Main St., Marcellus

Pick, sing, and dance with the Central New York Bluegrass Association, featuring Harvey Nusbaum and Salt Potatoes. Jamming will begin at 11:00 am. The concert/dance will be 3:00 pm. A luncheon will be provided by members of the Association.

The Salt Potatoes are four lifetime acoustic musicians. Though they concentrate on the traditional music of this country and the British Isles, they're not above playing a good jazz tune, pop tune or Swedish waltz. All are multi-instrumentalists and perform on various combinations of guitar, fiddle, voices, banjo and mandolin. They are experienced dance leaders and teachers and will keep the audience hopping!

For more information, email cnybacontactus@aol.com or visit www.cnyba.com.

counter)induction
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Acclaimed contemporary music ensemble counter)induction will present a concert highlighting works by founders Kyle Bartlett and Douglas Boyce, as well as works by Daniel Moe, Salvatore Sciarrino and Felipe Lara.

In its 12 years of virtuosic performances and daring programming, the composer/performer collective counter)induction has established itself as a force of excellence in contemporary music. Hailed by The New York Times for its "fiery ensemble virtuosity" and for its "first-rate performances" by The Washington Post, it has given critically acclaimed performances at Miller Theatre, Merkin Concert Hall and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. counter)induction is the winner of an ASCAP/Chamber Music America Award for Adventurous Programming and has headlined numerous festivals, including the Music at the Anthology Festival, Boston Conservatory New Music Week, the Columbia Music Scholarship Conference and, most recently, the 2010 Conference of the International Consortium for Auditory Display.

Since emerging in 1998 from a series of collaborations between composers at the University of Pennsylvania and performers at the Juilliard School, counter)induction has premiered numerous pieces by both established and younger emerging American composers, including Eric Moe, Suzanne Sorkin, Ursula Mamlok and Lee Hyla. The ensemble has also widely promoted the music of international composers not often heard in America, including Jukka Tiensuu, Bernhard Gander, Gilbert Amy, Dai Fujikura and Vinko Globokar.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage. For more information about the concert, contact the Setnor School at 315-443-2191.

Lovers

Price: $13.50
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Lovers, a pair of tragi-comic plays by Irish playwright Brian Friel, takes place in Ballymore, County Donegal, in 1966. The first play, Winners, takes us through a fateful afternoon in the lives of two soon-to-be-wed high school students. The second play, Losers, concerns a couple who are no longer young whose courting is seriously impaired by an implacable, shrewd, and frightening invalid mother and her crony. The two plays are linked by what Friel called "the Northern Irish thing."

Along with Susan Barbour, Megan Dobertin, Michael Barbour, and Alec Barbour, this play features the return to the stage of two of Syracuse's long-time leading ladies: Caroline Fitzgerald and Mary Earle.

For reservation, phone 315-449-3220.

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Rent
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Jonathan Larson's Broadway phenomenon ignites the stage with passion and energy. One year—525,600 minutes—in the lives of seven young friends from Alphabet City brings love, loss, tragedy and triumph in a whirl of non-stop music. Larson built the show on the artists and addicts he knew in his neighborhood as they battled poverty, drugs, AIDS and the looming gentrification of their Vie Bohème. Urban and gritty, this Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical brims with raw emotion and infectious enthusiasm.

Based on Puccini's La Boheme, Rent opened off-Broadway in January 1996 to wide critical acclaim. It quickly moved to its Broadway home, the Nederlander Theatre, where it ran for 12 years, becoming the eighth longest running Broadway musical in history. Rent won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for drama and was nominated for ten Tony Awards, winning four, including Best Musical and Best Original Score.

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Monday, February 7, 2011

Robert Gerhardt: "Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma"
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Ludwig Stein Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

This exhibit will depict the 14 Stations of the Cross, also called "Via Dolorosa" or "The Way of Sorrows.” These events are the depiction of the final hours of Christ, and they cover the Passion of Jesus from his condemnation to his entombment.

Cortland County Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists include Fred Zimmerman, David Yaman, Kathy Williams, Carl Steckler, Laurie Seamans, Meg Richardson, Lyla Phillips, Allen Phillips, Joan Niswender, Richard Mitchell, Amy Hnatko, Emily Gibbons, Serry Dans, Kathie Beale, and David Beale.

Where Eagles Fly: Works by Don Ford
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Don Ward, humorist, storyteller, artist, and poet, will have at least a dozen photos, along with stories and poems, on display. This is the first solo show of the artist, who has had his writings featured in many magazines across the U.S., Portugal, and Cyprus.

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

A Fire in My Belly
Light Work Gallery

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

The video by David Wojnarowicz, part of a groundbreaking exhibition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery focusing on sexual difference in the making of modern American portraiture, was censored and removed from the exhibit under pressure from a right wing religious group and conservative politicians.

The video, A Fire in My Belly was removed by G. Wayne Clough, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, after receiving complaints from William Donohue, president of the Catholic League, as well as John Boehner, Republican Speaker of the House, and Eric Cantor, Republican Majority Leader. The removal of the video from the exhibition has sparked public outcry from arts organizations and activists around the world, including the Tate Modern in London, the Whitney Museum and MOMA in New York City, and SF MOMA in San Francisco, among many others. Light Work joined these protests in early December by organizing a screening of Fire in My Belly on December 14 in collaboration with the ArtRage Gallery, which included a public forum about the work. Light Work will continue to show the video until February 13, the date the exhibition is scheduled to close in Washington, DC.

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

This suite of three video installations, "Mare," "Perigee", and "Penumbra," by Demetrius Oliver reconnects viewers to their place in the universe by playing with earthly and human forms against a backdrop of the cosmos. In "Penumbra," explorations of light and scale, movement and the rhythm of the natural world suggest journeys both physical and metaphysical.

One of the installations will be on view in the Light Work Gallery, one projected onto the Everson Museum, and one installed in the Menschel Photography Gallery in the Schine Student Center.

Hudson Past/Perfect: Photos by Marna Bell
Light Work Gallery

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

Marna Bell is the winner of the Light Work/Community Darkrooms Members Juried Exhibition competition. In 2005, after the sudden death of her mother, Bell picked up her camera after a 20-year hiatus from painting and began photographing nature. Her focus in both painting and photography has been on reclaiming visions of the past and her connection to nature.

According to Bell, "Many trips back home to New York City on the train have helped me remember lost pieces of time where life seemed simpler and less veiled. It was a natural progression for me to record the cycle of change in my 'Hudson Past/Perfect' series. By revisiting the same landscapes in different seasons and under different weather conditions, I was able to capture the past before it disappeared. I am drawn to the meditative quality of the Hudson River and the sacred aspects of the natural environment. The series is reminiscent of a more romantic era, when God and nature were viewed as one."

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Focus x Three: Photography and Video
Redhouse

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

Focus x Three, the second in the Emerging Women of CNY series, highlights the work of three photographers: Erin Mulvehill, Gillian Andrew, and Colleen Woolpert. Each has an association and history with Syracuse, as all are graduates of Syracuse University. They have all worked, in some capacity, in the world of professional photography, perfecting their craft, while continuing to pursue the "fine art" side of their vision. Curator of this exhibition, Marianne Smith Dalton, stated: "Each of these women masterfully uses the camera to convey her own unique reflection of 'reality.' These compelling photographs, frozen moments in time, will captivate and hold you transfixed. Come celebrate the work of these three young women and discover a new way to 'see' through the lenses of these talented photographers."

Pr-int-erface: Ornamentation on Textiles
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Pr-int-erface: Ornamentation on Textiles" features work by students of design faculty members Eileen Gosson and Jan Navales. The methods of printing on textiles have evolved though the accessibility of technological devices. Traditional screen printing has given way to digital printing, and the surface pattern design industry has changed. This exhibition highlights student experiences in understanding the differences and similarities inherent in each process and end result.

Rug Design Competition Exhibition Tour
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The Odegard Award for Excellence in Rug Design Competition Exhibition Tour is currently on view. This exhibition is the result of a competition created and sponsored by Odegard Inc. to show student designers how combining modern designs with traditional hand-knotting techniques can increase awareness and respect for the legacy of textile and carpet weaving. Odegard received submissions from more than 400 students at universities and colleges across the country.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses or lamenting the struggles of daily living, Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed "Truisms" on one of Times Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her "Survival" series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

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Ending the Loud Silence: Hide/Seek the Future of Queer Exhibitions and Freedom of Speech
Light Work Gallery
Featuring Jonathan Katz

Price: Free
Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

Light Work, Hendricks Chapel, and the LGBT Resource Center are pleased to announce a lecture by Jonathan Katz, co-curator of the important Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture. Co-curated by Katz and David C. Ward, this groundbreaking exhibition is the first to focus on sexual difference in the making of modern American portraiture. The exhibition has been praised for its groundbreaking scholarship by a major museum and has drawn international attention when a video in the exhibition by David Wojnarowicz was censored and removed from the exhibition under pressure from a right wing religious group and conservative politicians.

The exhibition considers such themes as the role of sexual difference in depicting modern America; how artists explored the fluidity of sexuality and gender; how major themes in modern art—especially abstraction—were influenced by social marginalization; and how art reflected society's evolving and changing attitudes toward sexuality, desire, and romantic attachment. According to Blake Gopnik of The Washington Post, the exhibition features a "...fascinating world, and powerful art..." He goes on to state that, "Scholars Jonathan Katz and David Ward have mounted one of the best thematic exhibitions in years." According to Holland Cotter of The New York Times, "With the exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, one of our federally funded museums, the National Portrait Gallery, here in the city of 'don't ask, don't tell,' has gone where our big private museums apparently dare not tread, deep into the history of art by and about gay artists."

The exhibition attracted international attention when Wojnarowicz's video A Fire in My Belly was censored and removed from the exhibition by G. Wayne Clough, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, after receiving complaints from William Donohue, president of the Catholic League as well as John Boehner, Republican Speaker of the House, and Eric Cantor, Republican Majority Leader. The removal of the video from the exhibition has sparked public outcry from arts organizations and activists around the world, including the Tate Modern in London, the Whitney Museum and MOMA in New York City, and SF MOMA in San Francisco, among many others. Light Work joined these protests in early December by organizing a screening of Fire in My Belly on December 14 in collaboration with the ArtRage Gallery, which included a public forum about the work. Light Work will continue to show the video until February 13, the date the exhibition is scheduled to close in Washington, DC.

Light Work presents this event as an opportunity for Katz to discuss the process of curating this important exhibition, its significance, as well as the controversy surrounding the entire exhibition and Wojnarowicz's video. In addition, there will be a question-and-answer session with Katz and audience members through which Light Work hopes to continue the dialogue about this exhibition, censorship, and the controversy.

Limited free parking for this event is available in Booth Garage. Please RSVP to Light Work, 315-443-1300.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Robert Gerhardt: "Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma"
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Ludwig Stein Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

This exhibit will depict the 14 Stations of the Cross, also called "Via Dolorosa" or "The Way of Sorrows.” These events are the depiction of the final hours of Christ, and they cover the Passion of Jesus from his condemnation to his entombment.

Cortland County Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists include Fred Zimmerman, David Yaman, Kathy Williams, Carl Steckler, Laurie Seamans, Meg Richardson, Lyla Phillips, Allen Phillips, Joan Niswender, Richard Mitchell, Amy Hnatko, Emily Gibbons, Serry Dans, Kathie Beale, and David Beale.

Orange Pulp: The Pulp Magazine & Contemporary Culture
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be pulp magazines, notably titles like Weird Tales and Amazing Stories; the typescript of Isaac Asimov's "Strange Playfellow," which introduced readers to one of science fiction's best known characters, Robbie the Robot; and correspondence with figures like Ray Bradbury.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Where Eagles Fly: Works by Don Ford
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Don Ward, humorist, storyteller, artist, and poet, will have at least a dozen photos, along with stories and poems, on display. This is the first solo show of the artist, who has had his writings featured in many magazines across the U.S., Portugal, and Cyprus.

Figurative Expressions II
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Five artists who approach the figure in creative and unique ways
Scott Estelle: bronze sculpture
John Fitzsimmons: oil painting
Vincent Fitches: oil painting
Stephen Ryan: watercolor painting
Gail Hoffman: bronze and aluminum sculpture

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

A Fire in My Belly
Light Work Gallery

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

The video by David Wojnarowicz, part of a groundbreaking exhibition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery focusing on sexual difference in the making of modern American portraiture, was censored and removed from the exhibit under pressure from a right wing religious group and conservative politicians.

The video, A Fire in My Belly was removed by G. Wayne Clough, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, after receiving complaints from William Donohue, president of the Catholic League, as well as John Boehner, Republican Speaker of the House, and Eric Cantor, Republican Majority Leader. The removal of the video from the exhibition has sparked public outcry from arts organizations and activists around the world, including the Tate Modern in London, the Whitney Museum and MOMA in New York City, and SF MOMA in San Francisco, among many others. Light Work joined these protests in early December by organizing a screening of Fire in My Belly on December 14 in collaboration with the ArtRage Gallery, which included a public forum about the work. Light Work will continue to show the video until February 13, the date the exhibition is scheduled to close in Washington, DC.

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Hudson Past/Perfect: Photos by Marna Bell
Light Work Gallery

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

Marna Bell is the winner of the Light Work/Community Darkrooms Members Juried Exhibition competition. In 2005, after the sudden death of her mother, Bell picked up her camera after a 20-year hiatus from painting and began photographing nature. Her focus in both painting and photography has been on reclaiming visions of the past and her connection to nature.

According to Bell, "Many trips back home to New York City on the train have helped me remember lost pieces of time where life seemed simpler and less veiled. It was a natural progression for me to record the cycle of change in my 'Hudson Past/Perfect' series. By revisiting the same landscapes in different seasons and under different weather conditions, I was able to capture the past before it disappeared. I am drawn to the meditative quality of the Hudson River and the sacred aspects of the natural environment. The series is reminiscent of a more romantic era, when God and nature were viewed as one."

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

This suite of three video installations, "Mare," "Perigee", and "Penumbra," by Demetrius Oliver reconnects viewers to their place in the universe by playing with earthly and human forms against a backdrop of the cosmos. In "Penumbra," explorations of light and scale, movement and the rhythm of the natural world suggest journeys both physical and metaphysical.

One of the installations will be on view in the Light Work Gallery, one projected onto the Everson Museum, and one installed in the Menschel Photography Gallery in the Schine Student Center.

Focus x Three: Photography and Video
Redhouse

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

Focus x Three, the second in the Emerging Women of CNY series, highlights the work of three photographers: Erin Mulvehill, Gillian Andrew, and Colleen Woolpert. Each has an association and history with Syracuse, as all are graduates of Syracuse University. They have all worked, in some capacity, in the world of professional photography, perfecting their craft, while continuing to pursue the "fine art" side of their vision. Curator of this exhibition, Marianne Smith Dalton, stated: "Each of these women masterfully uses the camera to convey her own unique reflection of 'reality.' These compelling photographs, frozen moments in time, will captivate and hold you transfixed. Come celebrate the work of these three young women and discover a new way to 'see' through the lenses of these talented photographers."

Rug Design Competition Exhibition Tour
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The Odegard Award for Excellence in Rug Design Competition Exhibition Tour is currently on view. This exhibition is the result of a competition created and sponsored by Odegard Inc. to show student designers how combining modern designs with traditional hand-knotting techniques can increase awareness and respect for the legacy of textile and carpet weaving. Odegard received submissions from more than 400 students at universities and colleges across the country.

Pr-int-erface: Ornamentation on Textiles
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Pr-int-erface: Ornamentation on Textiles" features work by students of design faculty members Eileen Gosson and Jan Navales. The methods of printing on textiles have evolved though the accessibility of technological devices. Traditional screen printing has given way to digital printing, and the surface pattern design industry has changed. This exhibition highlights student experiences in understanding the differences and similarities inherent in each process and end result.

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity is a rich, reflective exhibition of works by 40 artists representing the vast cultural blend of modern American society.

American artists of African, Arab, European, Asian, Latino, and Native American descent explore their heritage in this vivid and diverse exhibition using a wide variety of media. The artists examine patriotism, communication, struggle for acceptance, being an American in the 21st century, and more. Humor, heartache, anger, apprehension--all emotions are evoked by these works, raising questions about race, class, gender and age. Four main themes run through Infinite Mirror: Self-Selection, Pride, Assimilation, and Protest, providing audiences with the opportunity to re-examine both the story and storytellers of the quintessential "American dream."

The exhibition was curated by Blake Bradford, Curator and Director of Education at the Barnes Foundation; Benito Huerta, Curator and Director of The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington; and Robert Lee, Curator and Executive Director at Asian American Arts Centre in New York.

Paid parking is available for weekday visitors in any SU pay lot. Free parking for weekend and evening visitors is available in the Q4 lot, located on College Place. Patrons should notify the attendant that they are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Evening and weekend parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome.

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The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

A selection of 30 woodcuts and etchings by the internationally known and collected Chinese American artist and educator. This exhibition is a limited retrospective look at Seong Moy's career as printmaker.

Moy's early works, small but complicated woodcuts on soft luminous papers, were immediately accepted by artists, curators, and the public. A painterly quality, so important to his entire graphic output, is evident in much of this work and is all the more special because it is captured in color wood block prints that require great sophistication and skill from the artist.

As Moy's career continued to develop, his interest in capturing spatial relationships of shapes and forms in his compositions, was heightened by the role color plays in energizing these elements. This trend continued for a number a years and could also be found in his cardboard relief prints.

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

Orange Pulp: Works by Norman Saunders
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

A profile of pulp artist Norman Saunders (1907-1989), including 10 lush and dramatic Saunders paintings from the university collection.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Aomebart
Echo

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

A collaborative installation.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses or lamenting the struggles of daily living, Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed "Truisms" on one of Times Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her "Survival" series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

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Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Crafting the Urban Surface: Tiles, Skins and Screens
Syracuse University School of Art and Design
Featuring Boston Valley Terra Cotta

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

A talk by John Krouse, president and general manager, and Sheri Carter, architect/sales and marketing director, of Boston Valley Terra Cotta, a specialized architectural terra cotta manufacturer.

Located in Orchard Park, NY, Boston Valley Terra Cotta was established by the Krouse family in 1981, following the purchase of Boston Valley Pottery, a company that had been in existence since 1889. Originally a brick manufacturing facility and later a clay pot manufacturer, Boston Valley Pottery was converted to an architectural terra cotta facility by the Krouses. Utilizing both superior ceramic engineering knowledge and sculpting talent, Boston Valley Terra Cotta has become one of the leading manufacturers of architectural terra cotta in the country.

Boston Valley commenced operations with the restoration of the Guaranty Building, a Louis Sullivan building in Buffalo, NY. Since that time, the company has been awarded contracts for some of the most notable buildings around the country, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Texas Theatre, the San Francisco Civic Center, Stoeckel Hall at Yale University, and many others.

Parking is available for $4 in Booth Garage. Patrons should mention that they are attending the lecture to receive this rate.

For more information about the lecture, contact Errol Willett, associate professor of ceramics and chair of the Department of Art, at 315-443-3012 or eswillet@syr.edu.

A Tribute to Duke Ellington
LeMoyne College
LeMoyne Jazz Ensemble and Young Lions of Central New York

Price: $10 general public, $4 students
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The concert will feature Ellington favorites including "Take the 'A' Train" and "Mood Indigo."

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Robert Gerhardt: "Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma"
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Ludwig Stein Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

This exhibit will depict the 14 Stations of the Cross, also called "Via Dolorosa" or "The Way of Sorrows.” These events are the depiction of the final hours of Christ, and they cover the Passion of Jesus from his condemnation to his entombment.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Cortland County Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-7:00 pm.

Artists include Fred Zimmerman, David Yaman, Kathy Williams, Carl Steckler, Laurie Seamans, Meg Richardson, Lyla Phillips, Allen Phillips, Joan Niswender, Richard Mitchell, Amy Hnatko, Emily Gibbons, Serry Dans, Kathie Beale, and David Beale.

Orange Pulp: The Pulp Magazine & Contemporary Culture
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be pulp magazines, notably titles like Weird Tales and Amazing Stories; the typescript of Isaac Asimov's "Strange Playfellow," which introduced readers to one of science fiction's best known characters, Robbie the Robot; and correspondence with figures like Ray Bradbury.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Where Eagles Fly: Works by Don Ford
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Don Ward, humorist, storyteller, artist, and poet, will have at least a dozen photos, along with stories and poems, on display. This is the first solo show of the artist, who has had his writings featured in many magazines across the U.S., Portugal, and Cyprus.

Figurative Expressions II
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Five artists who approach the figure in creative and unique ways
Scott Estelle: bronze sculpture
John Fitzsimmons: oil painting
Vincent Fitches: oil painting
Stephen Ryan: watercolor painting
Gail Hoffman: bronze and aluminum sculpture

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

A Fire in My Belly
Light Work Gallery

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

The video by David Wojnarowicz, part of a groundbreaking exhibition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery focusing on sexual difference in the making of modern American portraiture, was censored and removed from the exhibit under pressure from a right wing religious group and conservative politicians.

The video, A Fire in My Belly was removed by G. Wayne Clough, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, after receiving complaints from William Donohue, president of the Catholic League, as well as John Boehner, Republican Speaker of the House, and Eric Cantor, Republican Majority Leader. The removal of the video from the exhibition has sparked public outcry from arts organizations and activists around the world, including the Tate Modern in London, the Whitney Museum and MOMA in New York City, and SF MOMA in San Francisco, among many others. Light Work joined these protests in early December by organizing a screening of Fire in My Belly on December 14 in collaboration with the ArtRage Gallery, which included a public forum about the work. Light Work will continue to show the video until February 13, the date the exhibition is scheduled to close in Washington, DC.

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

This suite of three video installations, "Mare," "Perigee", and "Penumbra," by Demetrius Oliver reconnects viewers to their place in the universe by playing with earthly and human forms against a backdrop of the cosmos. In "Penumbra," explorations of light and scale, movement and the rhythm of the natural world suggest journeys both physical and metaphysical.

One of the installations will be on view in the Light Work Gallery, one projected onto the Everson Museum, and one installed in the Menschel Photography Gallery in the Schine Student Center.

Hudson Past/Perfect: Photos by Marna Bell
Light Work Gallery

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

Marna Bell is the winner of the Light Work/Community Darkrooms Members Juried Exhibition competition. In 2005, after the sudden death of her mother, Bell picked up her camera after a 20-year hiatus from painting and began photographing nature. Her focus in both painting and photography has been on reclaiming visions of the past and her connection to nature.

According to Bell, "Many trips back home to New York City on the train have helped me remember lost pieces of time where life seemed simpler and less veiled. It was a natural progression for me to record the cycle of change in my 'Hudson Past/Perfect' series. By revisiting the same landscapes in different seasons and under different weather conditions, I was able to capture the past before it disappeared. I am drawn to the meditative quality of the Hudson River and the sacred aspects of the natural environment. The series is reminiscent of a more romantic era, when God and nature were viewed as one."

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

Focus x Three: Photography and Video
Redhouse

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

Focus x Three, the second in the Emerging Women of CNY series, highlights the work of three photographers: Erin Mulvehill, Gillian Andrew, and Colleen Woolpert. Each has an association and history with Syracuse, as all are graduates of Syracuse University. They have all worked, in some capacity, in the world of professional photography, perfecting their craft, while continuing to pursue the "fine art" side of their vision. Curator of this exhibition, Marianne Smith Dalton, stated: "Each of these women masterfully uses the camera to convey her own unique reflection of 'reality.' These compelling photographs, frozen moments in time, will captivate and hold you transfixed. Come celebrate the work of these three young women and discover a new way to 'see' through the lenses of these talented photographers."

Pr-int-erface: Ornamentation on Textiles
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Pr-int-erface: Ornamentation on Textiles" features work by students of design faculty members Eileen Gosson and Jan Navales. The methods of printing on textiles have evolved though the accessibility of technological devices. Traditional screen printing has given way to digital printing, and the surface pattern design industry has changed. This exhibition highlights student experiences in understanding the differences and similarities inherent in each process and end result.

Rug Design Competition Exhibition Tour
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The Odegard Award for Excellence in Rug Design Competition Exhibition Tour is currently on view. This exhibition is the result of a competition created and sponsored by Odegard Inc. to show student designers how combining modern designs with traditional hand-knotting techniques can increase awareness and respect for the legacy of textile and carpet weaving. Odegard received submissions from more than 400 students at universities and colleges across the country.

Surface Material
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Artist Vincent Fitches, well-know locally and globally, shares exhibit space with emerging new artist Emily Elizabeth Jones. Fitches and Jones are both relatively young in age, but of the two, Fitches has enjoyed greater notoriety, having shown his work worldwide. For Jones, "Surface Material" is her first big public exhibit. The gallery's title for the show is indicative of how each artist creates their works.

Creating mostly on panel, Fitches describes his artworks as, "uncanny in their color palate and unstructured composition." He says he focuses on a central object using subjects often in solitary environments, exposing their vulnerabilities in both his landscapes and figurative paintings. "This deconstruction of the naturalness dictated in the art world allows for a new vision of beauty and interpretation," Fitches explains.

In creating her art, Jones says she is motivated by a "fascination with the universe," where she sees the elements in the atmosphere as constantly creating and changing what we perceive. Applying acrylic on canvas, she tries to capture those moments of full spectrum of color rather than shape. "Like the glare of sun and early haziness," she says. Included in this first exhibit of Jones' works are minimal landscapes in a series called, "Horizon Colors."

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity is a rich, reflective exhibition of works by 40 artists representing the vast cultural blend of modern American society.

American artists of African, Arab, European, Asian, Latino, and Native American descent explore their heritage in this vivid and diverse exhibition using a wide variety of media. The artists examine patriotism, communication, struggle for acceptance, being an American in the 21st century, and more. Humor, heartache, anger, apprehension--all emotions are evoked by these works, raising questions about race, class, gender and age. Four main themes run through Infinite Mirror: Self-Selection, Pride, Assimilation, and Protest, providing audiences with the opportunity to re-examine both the story and storytellers of the quintessential "American dream."

The exhibition was curated by Blake Bradford, Curator and Director of Education at the Barnes Foundation; Benito Huerta, Curator and Director of The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington; and Robert Lee, Curator and Executive Director at Asian American Arts Centre in New York.

Paid parking is available for weekday visitors in any SU pay lot. Free parking for weekend and evening visitors is available in the Q4 lot, located on College Place. Patrons should notify the attendant that they are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Evening and weekend parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome.

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The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

A selection of 30 woodcuts and etchings by the internationally known and collected Chinese American artist and educator. This exhibition is a limited retrospective look at Seong Moy's career as printmaker.

Moy's early works, small but complicated woodcuts on soft luminous papers, were immediately accepted by artists, curators, and the public. A painterly quality, so important to his entire graphic output, is evident in much of this work and is all the more special because it is captured in color wood block prints that require great sophistication and skill from the artist.

As Moy's career continued to develop, his interest in capturing spatial relationships of shapes and forms in his compositions, was heightened by the role color plays in energizing these elements. This trend continued for a number a years and could also be found in his cardboard relief prints.

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

Orange Pulp: Works by Norman Saunders
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

A profile of pulp artist Norman Saunders (1907-1989), including 10 lush and dramatic Saunders paintings from the university collection.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Aomebart
Echo

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

A collaborative installation.

Stone Canoe Art Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

The fifth edition of Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts, Literature, and Social Commentary, features the work of more than 100 artists and writers with ties to Upstate New York, ranging from those with international reputations to those who have not previously published or exhibited their work. Lynette Stephenson, a professor at Colgate University, is this issue's visual arts editor and curator of the current exhibition.

All Power to the People! Graphics of the Black Panther Party USA
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

From the collection of the Center for the Study of Politcal Graphics, the largest repository of political posters in the USA, All Power to the People! features Black Panther Party posters and newspaper graphics produced in the 1960s and 1970s. The exhibition highlights the artistry of Emory Douglas, and documents the Panthers' involvement with a broad array of causes, including opposition to the Vietnam War and solidarity with the United Farm Workers movement. With documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, All Power to the People! also illustrates efforts of the United States government to destroy the Panthers as part of wide-spread efforts to stifle oppositional political movements. The social programs of the Panthers and the powerful images of armed party members had a strong impact on the public consciousness of the time, and their efforts to combat the oppression of racism and poverty still resonate today.

A Fire in My Belly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

On December 1, World AIDS day, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. (a Smithsonian institute) removed the video A Fire in My Belly, by David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) from its exhibit entitled "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture," after caving to pressure from the president of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue. Donohue has described the video as anti-Catholic "hate speech" because the four-minute video includes a 15-second image of ants crawling over a crucifix. Incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner has joined with Donohue and has condemned the show as an "outrageous use of taxpayer money."

Hide/Seek is the first major exhibition at the Portrait Gallery to focus on what the museum calls "sexual difference" and A Fire in My Belly, made in 1987, was a response to the AIDS crisis in the U.S. ArtRage has joined with arts organizations all across the U.S. by screening this video, providing space to discuss the art and to discuss the implications of its censoring. We support and defend an artist's right to use their art for social change. Consequently, ArtRage will show the Wojnarowicz video in a constant loop in our gallery until Feb. 13, 2011, the scheduled end date for the Smithsonian exhibition.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses or lamenting the struggles of daily living, Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed "Truisms" on one of Times Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her "Survival" series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

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A February Valentine Concert of Love: Agape, Phileo, and Eros
Civic Morning Musicals
Warren Ottey, conductor
Featuring Syracuse Chorale Chamber Singers

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

The music ranges from centuries-old church music to modern Broadway, and runs the full gamut of various expressions of love.

Tea Leaf Green, with The Bridge
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Stacey D'Erasmo, fiction
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

Reading is preceded by a question and answer session from 3:45-4:30.

Rent
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Wednesday @ 1 Lecture Series preceding this performance.

Jonathan Larson's Broadway phenomenon ignites the stage with passion and energy. One year—525,600 minutes—in the lives of seven young friends from Alphabet City brings love, loss, tragedy and triumph in a whirl of non-stop music. Larson built the show on the artists and addicts he knew in his neighborhood as they battled poverty, drugs, AIDS and the looming gentrification of their Vie Bohème. Urban and gritty, this Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical brims with raw emotion and infectious enthusiasm.

Based on Puccini's La Boheme, Rent opened off-Broadway in January 1996 to wide critical acclaim. It quickly moved to its Broadway home, the Nederlander Theatre, where it ran for 12 years, becoming the eighth longest running Broadway musical in history. Rent won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for drama and was nominated for ten Tony Awards, winning four, including Best Musical and Best Original Score.

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Rent
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Jonathan Larson's Broadway phenomenon ignites the stage with passion and energy. One year—525,600 minutes—in the lives of seven young friends from Alphabet City brings love, loss, tragedy and triumph in a whirl of non-stop music. Larson built the show on the artists and addicts he knew in his neighborhood as they battled poverty, drugs, AIDS and the looming gentrification of their Vie Bohème. Urban and gritty, this Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical brims with raw emotion and infectious enthusiasm.

Based on Puccini's La Boheme, Rent opened off-Broadway in January 1996 to wide critical acclaim. It quickly moved to its Broadway home, the Nederlander Theatre, where it ran for 12 years, becoming the eighth longest running Broadway musical in history. Rent won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for drama and was nominated for ten Tony Awards, winning four, including Best Musical and Best Original Score.

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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Robert Gerhardt: "Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma"
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Ludwig Stein Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

This exhibit will depict the 14 Stations of the Cross, also called "Via Dolorosa" or "The Way of Sorrows.” These events are the depiction of the final hours of Christ, and they cover the Passion of Jesus from his condemnation to his entombment.

Cortland County Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists include Fred Zimmerman, David Yaman, Kathy Williams, Carl Steckler, Laurie Seamans, Meg Richardson, Lyla Phillips, Allen Phillips, Joan Niswender, Richard Mitchell, Amy Hnatko, Emily Gibbons, Serry Dans, Kathie Beale, and David Beale.

Orange Pulp: The Pulp Magazine & Contemporary Culture
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be pulp magazines, notably titles like Weird Tales and Amazing Stories; the typescript of Isaac Asimov's "Strange Playfellow," which introduced readers to one of science fiction's best known characters, Robbie the Robot; and correspondence with figures like Ray Bradbury.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Where Eagles Fly: Works by Don Ford
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Don Ward, humorist, storyteller, artist, and poet, will have at least a dozen photos, along with stories and poems, on display. This is the first solo show of the artist, who has had his writings featured in many magazines across the U.S., Portugal, and Cyprus.