Saturday, May 3, 2008

WRAP (World Reclamation Art Project)
International Fiber Collaborative

Price: Free
2301 E. Colvin St.
(corner of Nottingham), Syracuse

Artist Jennifer Marsh and participants from all over the world have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3-foot square fiber panels that express concern about the world's extreme dependency on oil. The panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station.

For more information, visit internationalfibercollaborative.com.

There will be a reception at the site from 5:00pm - 8:00pm.

Kewpie Karma/80
The Warehouse Gallery

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

What does a Kewpie doll have to offer the world? If anything has karma, why not a Kewpie doll?

Yoshiko Miki's work addresses issues of death and rebirth. The death of her mother three years ago caused Miki to search for answers as to why some people leave life at such a young age. She found that the only way to address this was to disregard the idea of life having an ending point and instead to view life as a continuation. Influenced by her Buddhist background, Miki wondered who her mother might have been re-born as: "A man? Or a woman?" and where she could be: "Here in America with me? Or back in Japan with my father and my little sister?"

In reincarnation, the karma of a person continues into the next life; no matter what form they are reborn. Miki depicts her mother's reincarnation through Kewpie dolls -- an iconic image of happiness and love, words that also describe her mother's approach to life. The subject of rebirth is reinforced by the infantile nature of the dolls and by their number. The 80 dolls signify the importance of the numbers 8 and 0 which represent endless life; when drawn out, there is no beginning or ending point for either number. Significantly, when the number 8 is rotated 90 degrees in either direction, it becomes a symbol for infinity. Kewpie Karma/80 deals with themes of death, rebirth and karma through an iconic medium.

Yoshiko Miki (1987) was born in Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan. At the age of 16 she moved to the United States and lived in Lancaster, PA and would remain there for a year before moving to Syracuse. She graduated from Manlius Pebble Hill School in DeWitt and currently is enrolled at the Pratt Institute at Munson-Williams-Proctor in Utica where she is studying fine arts with a concentration in sculpture.

OCC Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Annual student show.

The Materials of Color: Paintings by Italian artist Maria Grazia Facchinetti
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

38th Annual Celebration of the Arts
Celebration of the Arts

Price: Free (contributions accepted)
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Works of Kathleen Schneider, Teresa Vitale, and Dee Ann VonHunke
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Works by artists Kathleen Schneider (watercolors), Teresa Vitale (painting) and Dee Ann VonHunke (jewelry)

36th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Show
Community Folk Art Center

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

Teen artists of African American, Native American, Hispanic American and Asian American heritage will display their work in the exhibition.

The Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition is the longest running collaborative exhibition in the Greater Syracuse area that features the work of underrepresented teen artists. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories. A panel of professional local artists serve as judges for the exhibition. Participating students attend Syracuse City High Schools as well as suburban Onondaga County High Schools.

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

MFA 2008
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates.

17 artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography, and sculpture. The exhibition contains a number of artists who explore the idea of identity, while others challenge accepted notions of wealth, time, and reality. Khanh Le explores his identity as a Vietnamese-born American by combining images of his own family life, fashion and home magazines, and well known images from the Vietnam War to create a "new historical narrative". Stacey VanWaldick playfully addresses what jewelry has come to stand for in today's commercial society by fabricating "precious stones" out of bronze and chocolate. Stephanie Koenig experiments with the idea of "recyclable nostalgia" by reclaiming 70's period style to outfit the interior of her interactive life-size pirate ship. Allison Fox forms intricately detailed thin sheets of clear plastic into organic shapes through which she shines light to create ambiguous undulating shadows. The relationship between the sculpture and the shadows on the wall establishes a vibration between reality and illusion.

Other featured artists include Jen Betton, Seunghee Chung, Jennifer Gandee, Jessica Lance, Tzu Cheng Liu, Thon Lorenz, Jennifer Marsh, Frank McCauley, Ge Maggie Mu, María José Pérez (Pepa Santamaria), David Serotkin, Carrie Will, Sue Hershberger Yoder

Parking for weekend and evening visitors is in Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the SUArt Galleries. 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.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

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Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Artists include Father Andrew Szebenyi, digitally manipulated images; Meg Gentile, acrylic on canvas; Dustin Angell, photography; Sarah Reale, Sharpie portraits on canvas; Mick Mather, monotype, monotype with linocut, tempera with linocut, and watercolor; Eddie Colelli, photography; Kevin Lucas, acrylic on canvas; David McKenney, photography.

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith
The Warehouse Gallery
Community Folk Art Center

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

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith is artist Terry Adkins' multi-media tribute to Smith, known as the Empress of the Blues. Working with a variety of materials Adkins weaves sculpture into a narrative installation that is both a tribute to and a lament for the transformative power of Smith's vocal artistry.

In an essay that accompanies the exhibition Dr. Kheli R. Willetts, academic director of CFAC and assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Syracuse University writes, "Adkins' work creates an environment which challenges us to engage with Smith beyond her status as a legendary musical performer. He has resurrected her as a creative deity whose stage has now become a temple and the viewers are transformed into her devotees as they enter the space."

Smith is regarded as one of the greatest blues singers of all time. She was the highest-paid black performer of her day and arguably reached a level of success greater than that of any African American recording artist before her. Yet in her adopted home of Philadelphia she remains unsung and even her grave remained unmarked until 1970.

Adkins commutes regularly from New York to Philadelphia where he teaches in the Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania. This exhibition is a continued exploration of his use of figures in history whose contributions to society are overlooked, under appreciated, or just not given the stature that he believes they should have in society. Although Adkins work emanates from an activist position, it evolves from abstract forms with the intent of educating the public about historical figures through ways that are not image based or narrative-based but that challenge the viewer to think abstractly in relating to the stories of the lives of the people concerned.

Terry Adkins has been exhibiting internationally since 1980. He is Associate Professor of Fine Art at the University of Pennsylvania where he recently installed Darkwater: A Recital in Four Dominions, a tribute to W. E. B. Du Bois at the Arthur Ross Gallery. Adkins has published numerous essays and has completed several significant public commissions. In addition to being a highly respected artist and sought after guest lecturer, his artworks have been placed in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among other significant museums and collections. He received his B.S. from Fisk University and his M.F.A from the University of Kentucky.

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The Exodus of the Unmarketable Aesthetic
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Works of Michael Benedetti.

Horrible Coincidences; Ezra
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Horrible Coincidences by Libor Pixa (Czech Republic, 8 minutes, fiction/animation)
Household appliances and potted plants get off their inanimate duffs and strut their stuff, in the tradition of Max Fleischer cartoons and R. Crumb comix.

Ezra by Newton Aduaka (Nigeria, 110 minutes, fiction)
Depicting the life of a child solider, Ezra centers on a 16-year-old boy kidnapped when he was 6 by a band of guerrillas and forced to enact crimes for which he will never be forgiven. Powerful.

Dear Lemon Lima; Lineage of the Voice (family friendly)
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Bristol IMAX Omnitheater at the MOST
Armory Square, Syracuse

Dear Lemon Lima by Suzi Yoonessi (USA, 11 minutes, fiction)
This brisk coming-of-age comedy about three outsiders offers an acute portrayal of tween-age confusion, as well as a girl named Nothing who seeks solace in her theremin.

Lineage of the Voice by Yeon-ah Paik (Korea, 102 minutes, documentary) USA Premiere
Two young boys attempt to master the art of Pansori, a demanding form of Korean music, in this documentary that looks at the childhood that is sacrificed for ambitious hopes of celebrity. Absolutely beautiful filmmaking.

Americano
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Americano by Carlos Ferrand (Quebec/Canada, 110 minutes, documentary) USA Premiere
A journey across the North American continent that revisits a past of exploitation and suffering, the weight of silenced races extinguished for the good of the European conquest. Beautifully made.

Operation: Fish; One Hundred Nails
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Operation: Fish by Jeff Riley (USA, 11 minutes, animation)
Strange things are happening in this fun stop-motion animation, and only secret agent #4 can foil a clique of brutes in their plan to achieve world domination.

One Hundred Nails (Centoc Chiodi) by Ermanno Olmi (Italy, 90 minutes, fiction)
A professor accused of a strange crime takes refuge in a rural village, whose inhabitants soon come to accept him as a Christ figure and call on him for a miracle to save their country way of living. Strange, warm, and engaging.

The French Lieutenant's Woman; Mahek
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Hotel Syracuse Imperial Ballroom
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

The French Lieutenant's Woman by Seung-bin Bae (Korea, 20 minutes, fiction) USA Premiere
Not another adaptation of the novel, but rather an intriguing spin-off, involving a deranged mother who tells her bookworm son she is the inspiration behind John Fowles's masterpiece.

Mahek by K. Kanade (India, 80 minutes, fiction)
In this delightful children's tale, the title character Mahek is a young girl lost in dreams that never come true; that is, until a fairy helps Mahek to find her strength and regain the faith of her friends.

The Flyboys (family friendly)
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

The Flyboys by Rocco Devilliers (USA, 120 minutes, fiction)
Stephen Baldwin and Jessie James star in this kid-friendly take on airplane disaster films of the 70's, following two small town boys who stow away on a mob-owned plane with a bomb on board. A major entertainment.

Missing Green; People By Railway; Finding Normal
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts
728 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Missing Green by Joey Huertas (USA, 10 minutes, experimental/documentary)
An exploration of surveillance-camera quasi-documentaries, in which a hypnotist works with a friend of a student who has been missing for 11 years.

People By Railway (Ludia Na Trati) by Arnold Kojnok (Slovakia, 30 minutes, documentary) USA Premiere
Informative interview portrait of a rural train station in South-Central Slovakia that lost all service, and the people who were left behind geographically, economically, and socially.

Finding Normal by Brian Lindstrom (USA, 77 minutes, documentary)
From hell and back, the patients of an Oregon Rehab clinic share their darkest days and their present struggles to become better people. Fascinating and inspiring.

The Bath; Valo (family friendly)
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

The Bath by Mi-rang Lee (Korea, 20 minutes, fiction) USA Premiere
In an act of family rebellion, two sisters go to a public bath, where there act of protest turns into awkward discomfort.

Valo by Kaija Jourikkala (Finland, 84 minutes, fiction)
Set in a Finnish isolated village under Czarist rule, this film follows a brave nine-year-old boy who outwits the spies and stern authorities. Enjoyable for both parents and kids.

Exit No. 6
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Hotel Syracuse Imperial Ballroom
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Exit No. 6 by Yu-Hsien Lin (Taiwan, 99 minutes, fiction) USA Premiere
This neon-fueled, rollercoaster ride of a film follows a gang of punk daredevils searching for a missing friend, a search that leads them to an underground filled with terrible things. Very strong and engrossing.

When I Grow Up; Karabagh Fairy Tale; Iska's Journey (program suitable for mature teens and older)
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

When I Grow Up by Michelle Meeker (USA, 7 minute, animation)
A conglomeration of 11 short pieces by 11 different authors dealing with the discrepancy between our youthful aspirations and the person we eventually become.

Karabagh Fairy Tale by Levon Kalantar (Armenia, 17 minutes, documentary) USA Premiere
The village of Vank has the happiest inhabitants. An annual Donkey Derby, a Chinese restaurant located in a Titanic replica, and a haywire wedding that lasts seven days.

Iska's Journey by Csaba Bollok (Hungary, 93 minutes, fiction)
A young Romanian girl's journey to escape her bleak world of poverty becomes a lesson in survival, in this very gritty, naturalistic film with a documentary feel.

Let's Finish!!!
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Let's Finish!!! by Cheol Mean Hwang (Korea, 100 minutes, fiction)
Let's Finish!!! follows the tragic journey of three desperate youths who make a pact on an Internet chat room to find one another and end their lives together. Quirky but emotionally engrossing.

Special Program: International Video Postcard Project
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Bristol IMAX Omnitheater at the MOST
Armory Square, Syracuse

Middle-school-aged teens from Finland, Senegal, Israel, Brooklyn, the Oneida Nation, and Syracuse's Grant Middle School have been creating and sharing with one another video postcards of their neighborhoods. You will now have a chance to see what they have made and meet some of them.

The program also includes two shorts from our Young Filmmaker submissions:
Ping Pong by James Hodgens (USA, 3 minutes, experimental/animation)
Individual and self take their eternal struggle to the ping pong table, in a match seen from both sides of the net by a single pair of eyes.

Prelude by Michael Morone (USA, 11 minutes, fiction)
A pianist tries to meet a writer at a romantic spot on Chesapeake Bay, and that forms the basis of this lyrical fantasy that turns the tables on unrequited desire.

Lora
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Lora by Herendi Gabor (Hungary, 118 minutes, fiction)
In this dark comedy, Lora has suffered a case of hysterical blindness that prevents her from seeing and from seeing the difference between the two brothers in love with her. Wonderfully acted.

Woollen Dogs; Bojo; Ballou
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts
728 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Woollen Dogs by Emma DeSwaee (Belgium, 9 minutes, animation) USA Premiere
An encounter between a boy and an infirm woman in a wheelchair involving a ball, three black dogs, a mysterious mustached man related to time, and some mean, stone-throwing youngsters.

Bojo by Mikayel Vatinyan (Armenia, 14 minutes, animation) USA Premiere
A small, fuzzy-nosed creature named Bojo temporarily escapes the lonely sadness of the city through his fantasies.

Ballou by Michael Patrei (USA, 90 minute, documentary)
A high school marching band from a troubled part of Washington, DC, must overcome their disadvantages to compete in a national contest, and inspire a community to believe again. A big time hit.

Focus on New Russian Cinema: Gagarin's Grandson; also A Noisey Boy
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Bristol IMAX Omnitheater at the MOST
Armory Square, Syracuse

A Noisey Boy by Seok-beom Alin (Korea, 12 minutes, fiction) USA Premiere
Enter the world of a Korean grade school classroom, where children learn to wield the corrupting power of blackmail and reap the retribution they sow.

Gagarin's Grandson by Andrey Panin (Russia, 100 minutes, fiction) East Coast Premier
A talented middle age artist learns he has a long lost brother living in an orphanage; to complicate matters, his brother turns out to be pre adolescent and black, making for a complex and powerful exploration of racism in Russia.

Eugene Zykov from Moscow will be presenting five extraordinary new Russian films during the festival. Eugene is the founder, publisher, and chief editor of All The Showcase, a Russian/English magazine whose mission is to advance international awareness of Russian cinema.

Program suitable for ages 14 and older.

Hollow (Huecos); No Exit
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Hollow (Huecos) by Paula Ortiz (Spain, 17 minutes, experimental/animation)
An animated film in which a boy enters the dreamy yet melancholy world of puppets, and learns that fate is in the hands of the puppeteer.

No Exit by Dror Sabo (Israel, 90 minutes, fiction)
A satirical look at the Israeli TV industry in which a filmmaker exploits the tragic novelty of a blind soldier to freshen up a reality show, and proves that his only artistic drive is for popular success. Very creative.

Fission; Fragment
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Fission by Kun-I Chang (Taiwan, 5 minutes, animation) USA Premiere
Video game director Chang presents this mixed-media short that explores a man's contemplation of art as a platform for the creation of self.

Fragment by Gyula Maar (Hungary, 86 minutes, fiction) World Premiere
In a Catholic monastery at the end of WWII, members of a confined world find their social lives changing with the rise of a new social order. Stark, inventive, and an acting tour de force.

The Emigrant
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The Emigrant by Istvan Darday (Hungary, 110 minutes, fiction)
This biopic recounts the life of Sándor Márai, a once-forgotten Hungarian novelist who had prominent success in 1930s, but whose life was disrupted by the rise of Nazism and communism. Beautifully acted.

The Autumn Sun; Bliss
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Hotel Syracuse Imperial Ballroom
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

The Autumn Sun by Diana Kardoumian (Armenia, 10 minutes, fiction) USA Premier
This short film is a meditation on age and vanity, set where the combination is particularly dangerous -- in the consciousness of a dancer.

Bliss by Abdullah Oguz (Greece/Turkey, 105 minutes, fiction)
After she is condemned to death by her own family, a Turkish girl and her executioner travel a road to self-discovery that leads them to challenge the values of their culture. Intriguing.

Bobby Dogs
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts
728 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Bobby Dogs by TK Reilly (USA, 117 minutes, fiction)
A recovering alcoholic tries to rebuild his life by starting a hot dog stand in this humorous look at one person's triumph in the face of fear and uncertainty. A definite audience pleaser.

Sweat; Sona and Her Family; See You In Denver
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Bristol IMAX Omnitheater at the MOST
Armory Square, Syracuse

Sweat by Hong-jin Na (Korea, 12 minutes, experimental) USA Premiere
With a hypnotic repetition of erotically charged images, Sweat explores unspoken aspects of male sexuality in everyday life.

Sona and Her Family by Daniela Rusnokova (Slovakia, 40 minutes, documentary)
Two years in the life of a family in Rudnany, a Roma settlement in eastern Slovakia, with a physically exhausted mother struggling to raise 16 children.

See You In Denver by Jan Sikl (Czech Republic, 52 minutes, documentary) USA Premiere
A unique "home movie" chronicling the story of a family's history in the movie business beginning in the early 20th century, this film also correspondingly tells the story of the film industry.

Mugs; The Woman With Pearls; Unfinished Stories
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Mugs by Ronnie Cramer (USA, 5 minutes, experimental)
Watch Jane Fonda morph into Jimi Hendrix by way of a young-looking Bill Gates in this celebrity mutation short that's accompanied by a disquieting soundtrack.

The Woman With Pearls by Abi Foijo and Steven Brown (Taiwan, 11 minutes, animation) USA Premiere
If bling is your thing, then you won't want to miss this film about a woman whose body rains pearls.

Unfinished Stories by Pourya Azarbayjani (Iran, 76 minutes, fiction)
With gritty, naturalistic performances, this stark film paints a grim and revealing picture of three Iranian women, all at different stages in their lives, and the plight they experience in a male-dominated society. Excellent.

Lora
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Lora by Herendi Gabor (Hungary, 118 minutes, fiction)
In this dark comedy, Lora has suffered a case of hysterical blindness that prevents her from seeing and from seeing the difference between the two brothers in love with her. Wonderfully acted.

Camera; Cold Joint; The Tunnel
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Camera (Korea, 10 minutes, animation) USA Premiere
A frightening, Orwellian short that targets our fears of technology, and the ways in which the media have seeped into every pore of our lives. This brilliant little film is for adults only.

Cold Joint (Studeny Spoj) by Miroslav Remo (Slovakia, 20 minutes, fiction) USA Premiere
In a polluted industrial town, a father struggles to fix a television so that his family can watch images of a clean future.

The Tunnel (El Boquete) by Mariano Mussi (Argentina, 83 minutes, fiction)
A quirky family of crooks attempts to rob a bank by digging a tunnel into a nearby bank vault in this black comedy with a bang-up, lowdown finale. This is one very bizarre and entertaining movie.

Special Heritage Series of Silent Films
Syracuse International Film Festival
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Battle of the Sexes by DW Griffith (1928, 88 minutes, USA, fiction)
This classic silent film by one of the greatest filmmakers of all time will be screened with an
original score composed by Cuong Vu and performed live by the Cuong Vu Trio.

Israeli Cinema (Celebrating Israel at 60) -- Tribute to Moshe Mizrahi: I Love You Rosa (Academy Award Nominee)
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts
728 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

I Love You Rosa by Moshe Mizrahi (Israel, 1972, 72 minutes), starring Michal Bat-Adam
In Jewish law an unmarried brother must marry the childless widow of his dead brother. In this story the bereaving brother is 12 years old. The requirement is avoided by a legal fiction, but as time passes the relationship between the widow and her brother in-law changes.

Filmmaker Moshe Mizrahi will be in attendance.

House of Olive Trees; Wild Sunflowers
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Hotel Syracuse Imperial Ballroom
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

House of Olive Trees by Thouly Dosios (Greece, 30 minutes, fiction)
A romantic comedy in which a woman and her lover go on a vacation to a seaside cottage, where their loyalty stands test to the independence they crave.

Wild Sunflowers by Zhao Penghiao (China, 90 minutes, fiction) USA Premiere
Charting the changes China encountered from the early 1970's through 2003, the story is about the social movements of the past 30 years and their impact on 11 children born in the 60's. Fascinating.

Outdoor Drive-In Theater (family friendly)
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: Free
Murbro Parking Lot - Armory Square
Corner of Franklin and Fayette Streets, Syracuse

Clear Channel Radio is providing a special frequency for the soundtrack. There will also be outdoor speakers for those who just want to walk by, stand around, or bring a folding chair. This family friendly program (PG) will be repeated throughout the evening. Kitty Hoynes Irish Pub & Restaurant will deliver food right to your car.

A Millennium Giraffe by Jong-shik Won (Korea, 17 minute, animation) USA Premiere
A son trying to restore his mother's health must seek out the Millennium Giraffe, a magic animal who will help only in return for a sacrifice.

Wave of Care by Alexandra Hetmerova (Czech Republic, 3 minutes, animation) USA Premiere
This film examines the fine line between the struggle for perfection and the capitulation to vanity.

Such As It Is by Walter Ungerer (USA, 12 minutes, experimental)
With a series of abstractions that end in revelation, Such As It Is investigates four different environments through their perceptual themes.

Karabagh Fairy Tale by Levon Kalantar (Armenia, 17 minutes, documentary) USA Premiere
The village of Vank has the happiest inhabitants. An annual Donkey Derby, a Chinese Restaurant located in a Titanic replica, and a haywire wedding that lasts seven days.

When I Grow Up by Michelle Meeker (USA, 7 minute, animation)
A conglomeration of 11 short pieces by 11 different authors dealing with the discrepancy between our youthful aspirations and the person we eventually become.

The Miracle by Jeffrey Jon Smith (USA, 29 minutes, fiction)
The story of Tekki Lomonicki, a woman who dares to dream past her own physical limits, and in the process redefines the word "difference."

Israeli Cinema (Celebrating Israel at 60) -- Tribute to Moshe Mizrahi: Madame Rosa (Academy Award Winner)
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts
728 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Madame Rosa by Moshe Mizrahi (Israel, 1977, 105 minutes), starring Simone Signoret, Sami Ben-Youb, Claude Dauphin
Madame Rosa lives in a sixth-floor walkup in the Pigalle; she's a retired prostitute, Jewish and an Auschwitz survivor, a foster mom to children of other prostitutes. Momo is the oldest and her favorite, an Algerian lad whom she raises as a Muslim.

Filmmaker Moshe Mizrahi will be in attendance.

Son; Grandhotel
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Son by Daniel Mulley (England, 17 minutes, experimental)
A suspenseful short about a mother and son trapped in an underground theater under the control of a mysterious "director."

Grandhotel by David Ondruck (Czech Republic, 93 minutes, fiction)
Fleischman is a thirty-something, angst-ridden man living at the top of an old hotel in a place that ceased to be happening years ago. Beautifully shot and very inventive.

Seven Indian Boys; Sweat; A Millennium Giraffe; Abel's Black Dog; Crossing Borders
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Bristol IMAX Omnitheater at the MOST
Armory Square, Syracuse

Seven Indian Boys by Ashot Mkrtchyan (Armenia, 8 minutes, documentary) USA Premiere
A visual tone poem expressing the lives of Armenian children growing up in a society that cannot sustain them.

Sweat by Hong-jin Na (Korea, 12 minutes, experimental) USA Premiere
With a hypnotic repetition of erotically charged images, Sweat explores unspoken aspects of male sexuality in everyday life.

A Millennium Giraffe by Jong-shik Won (Korea, 17 minute, animation) USA Premiere
A son trying to restore his mother's health must seek out the Millennium Giraffe, a magic animal who will help only in return for a sacrifice.

Abel's Black Dog by Mariana Cengel (Slovakia, 25 minutes, fiction) USA Premiere
Tired of the geese that are wrecking his graveyard, a caretaker comes up with a cheap solution that ends up causing unforeseen problems.

Crossing Borders by Bilal Yousef (Israel, 58 minutes, documentary)
Two brave Israeli-Arab women challenge the norms of their society and move toward equality, threatening the life practiced by their friends and neighbors.

Little Girl Blue
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Little Girl Blue by Alice Nellis (Czech Republic, 93 minutes, fiction)
Infidelity, forgotten dreams, and the death of jazz singer Nina Simone all play a part in this provocative study of a woman's psyche. This is a major film, sure to be a hit, Academy Award written all over it.

Dolina
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Dolina by Zoltan Kamondi (Hungary, 122 minutes, fiction)
A man returns to the isolated, corrupt village where he grew up to collect the remains of his recently deceased father, but is forced to take part in the intrigue and scandal of the villagers' lives. Brazil-like.

Nuzhat al-Fuad
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Nuzhat al-Fuad by Judd Ne'eman (Israel, 110 minutes, fiction) USA Premiere
Against the splendid background of the Arabian Nights and tradition of Iraqi storytelling, the film explores the relationship between the real and the imagined in a story of two creative minds connected to a TV serial. Brilliant.

The Ten Minute Break; Empty Town
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Hotel Syracuse Imperial Ballroom
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

The Ten Minute Break by Seong-tae Lee (Korea, 27 minutes, fiction) USA Premiere
Military madness is the focus of this short set in the deep woods of South Korea, with a crazy sergeant and an unexperienced private tracking down a deserter.

Empty Town by Hu Yaozhi (China, 91 minutes, fiction) USA Premiere
A woman's failed quest for success in the big city leads her back home to try and pick up the broken fragments of her life, in what turns out to be a refreshing take on an old concept.

A Bumpy Ride of Blues
Celebration of the Arts

Price: Free (contributions accepted)
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

Michael Davis
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $19.50, $23.50, $26.50 ($5 discount for donors and students)
Hotel Syracuse Imperial Ballroom
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

The season finale features trombonist/composer/educator Michael Davis, about whom Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts was moved to comment, "In this 'bone-dry' era, it is essential to have Michael Davis around." Hailed as one of today's premier instrumentalists, he has established himself as a first-call musician for the entertainment world's biggest stars, including touring presently with the Rolling Stones, and past tours with Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Nelly, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson. Sarah Vaughan, Sting, Harry Connick, Jr., David Sanborn, Beck, Branford Marsalis, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Sheryl Crow, Lyle Lovett, Terence Blanchard, Bob Mintzer, and scores of others. He is a multiple recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts. In the field of music education, he has served as a clinician around the world, while also authoring and publishing a number of highly esteemed instructional books and band arrangements for musicians of all ages and abilities.

Alice in Wonderland
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive family performance.

Women and Wallace
Black Box Players
Joshua Finn, director

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

Playwright Jonathan Marc Sherman drew from personal experience with the suicide of his mother when he was 18 for this drama.

The Fantasticks
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

New York City's longest running musical (more than 17,000 performances off-Broadway), The Fantasticks is charming, funny, and a celebration of the bloom of first love. A girl and a boy grow up next door to each other. They are perfect for each other and they fall in love. To ensure the success of their romance, their oh-so-sly fathers devise every scheme to keep them apart. Filled with delightful songs.

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Miss Saigon
Henninger High School

Price: $8 before April 25; $10 at the door
Henninger High School
600 Robinson St., Syracuse

For tickets, phone 315-435-4343.

The Concert
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors/students
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The Concert, written and directed by Marcia L. Hagan, is a riveting dramatic play, with gospel music, that looks at the personal and social dynamics of three competing churches while preparing for a Mass Concert. The play that tells the story of three Baptist churches, one from the inner city, one from the lower east side of the city, and one from the suburbs, collaborating to present a musical concert to support a music scholarship fund for a graduating senior from each of the churches. The scholarship recipients must commit to serving as a musician for their church for at least one year after college graduation. This drama reveals the life, times, and tribulations of the various choir members. The story unfolds during rehearsals which take place at each church, a beauty shop, a health center, the choir members' homes, and various other places throughout the community. These rehearsals eventually culminate into a dynamic Gospel concert finale.

The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
Appleseed Productions
Jon Wilson, director

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

The creative team responsible for a recent Broadway flop (in which three chorus girls were murdered by the mysterious "Stage Door Slasher") assemble for a backer's audition of their new show at the Westchester estate of a wealthy "angel." The house is replete with sliding panels, secret passageways and a German maid who is apparently four different people -- all of which figure diabolically in the comic mayhem which follows when the infamous Slasher makes his reappearance and strikes again -- and again. As the composer, lyricist, actors and director prepare their performance, and a blizzard cuts off any possible retreat, bodies start to drop in plain sight, knives spring out of nowhere, masked figures drag their victims behind swiveling bookcases, and accusing fingers point in all directions. However, and with no thanks to the bumbling police inspector who snowshoes in to investigate, the mystery is solved in the nick of time and the Slasher unmasked -- but not before the audience has been treated to a sidesplitting good time and a generous serving of author John Bishop's biting, satiric and refreshingly irreverent wit.

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Bang Bang, You're Dead
Rarely Done Productions

Price: Free
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Bang Bang, You're Dead, which features actors from local high schools, was commissioned by the Ribbon of Promise Campaign to Prevent School Violence. The piece tackles the subject of bullying and gun violence among our school-aged youth. This is the third season presenting this all-too-timely piece.

Three Viewings
Simply New Theatre

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

Jeffrey Hatcher's new comic/dramatic piece is made up of three comic/dramatic monologues set in a Midwestern funeral parlor over a three-day weekend. simply new will put its own unique mark on this piece by using not one but three directors -- one for each monologue.

ACT I: Tell-Tale
Featuring SALT Award winning actor Bill Molesky, and directed by Brian Hensley.
This is the story of Emil, the mild-mannered undertaker whose unspoken passion for a local real-estate woman who comes to all his funerals leads him to commit crimes and plot a way to confess his true feelings before timeand bodiesrun out.

ACT II: The Thief of Tears
Featuring SALT Award winner Shannon Tompkins and directed by John Nara.
Mac, a beautiful Los Angeles drifter who makes her living stealing jewelry from corpses, tells her story. When her wealthy grandmother dies, leaving her nothing, Mac returns to her hometown and attempts to pry loose her inheritance, a diamond ring her grandmother promised Mac when she was a child. Her attempt leads Mac to find there are more obstacles to getting the ring off grandma's finger than she had imagined, and more revelations about her own past than she had bargained for.

ACT III: Thirteen Things About Ed Carpolotti
Featuring veteran actress Rosemary Palladino-Leone and directed by Baldwinsville Theater Guild's Garrett Heater
This is the story of Virginia, the widow of a wheeler-dealer contractor, who discovers that her husband has left her in debt to the banks, her family and the mob. As Virginia struggles to escape her creditors and understand how her husband could have left her in such pain and doubt, a mysterious list of "13 things" embarrassing to Ed is offered to her if she can come up with one million dollars in three days. Virginia doesn't have the money, but she does have hidden resources and is saved by an unseen benefactor. As the play ends, Virginia's benefactor is revealed, along with what the mysterious "13 things" are -- revelations that resurrect the love and trust thought lost forever.

Jeffrey Hatcher is the author of numerous plays. Local audiences may remember him from last June's simply new production of A Picasso which is currently a SALT nominee for best play of 2007, Best Actor (Bill Molesky), Best Actress (Shannon Tompkins) and Best Director (John Nara).

Reservations can be made up to one day in advance of each performance by emailing boxoffice@simplynewtheatre.com.

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The Fantasticks
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

New York City's longest running musical (more than 17,000 performances off-Broadway), The Fantasticks is charming, funny, and a celebration of the bloom of first love. A girl and a boy grow up next door to each other. They are perfect for each other and they fall in love. To ensure the success of their romance, their oh-so-sly fathers devise every scheme to keep them apart. Filled with delightful songs.

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Sweeney Todd
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

Price: $18 regular, $16 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Based upon the original book The Legend of Sweeney Todd by Christopher Bond, the musical relates the story of Todd (formerly Benjamin Barker) who returns home from Australia after spending 15 years imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. Upon returning home, Todd learns of his wife's suicide after being raped by Judge Terpin, the man responsible for Todd's imprisonment. Todd vows revenge, leading to mass murder, booming business for Mrs. Lovett's pastry shop, and ultimately, tragedy. The 1979 original production, starring Angela Lansbury, won three Tonys and four Drama Desk Awards. Since then, revival productions have continued the pace, winning a host of awards and nominations. Stephen Sondheim's complex score, suffused with rich harmonies, has enticed opera companies to stage this "staggering theatre spectacle."

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Sunday, May 4, 2008

WRAP (World Reclamation Art Project)
International Fiber Collaborative

Price: Free
2301 E. Colvin St.
(corner of Nottingham), Syracuse

Artist Jennifer Marsh and participants from all over the world have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3-foot square fiber panels that express concern about the world's extreme dependency on oil. The panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station.

For more information, visit internationalfibercollaborative.com.

Kewpie Karma/80
The Warehouse Gallery

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

What does a Kewpie doll have to offer the world? If anything has karma, why not a Kewpie doll?

Yoshiko Miki's work addresses issues of death and rebirth. The death of her mother three years ago caused Miki to search for answers as to why some people leave life at such a young age. She found that the only way to address this was to disregard the idea of life having an ending point and instead to view life as a continuation. Influenced by her Buddhist background, Miki wondered who her mother might have been re-born as: "A man? Or a woman?" and where she could be: "Here in America with me? Or back in Japan with my father and my little sister?"

In reincarnation, the karma of a person continues into the next life; no matter what form they are reborn. Miki depicts her mother's reincarnation through Kewpie dolls -- an iconic image of happiness and love, words that also describe her mother's approach to life. The subject of rebirth is reinforced by the infantile nature of the dolls and by their number. The 80 dolls signify the importance of the numbers 8 and 0 which represent endless life; when drawn out, there is no beginning or ending point for either number. Significantly, when the number 8 is rotated 90 degrees in either direction, it becomes a symbol for infinity. Kewpie Karma/80 deals with themes of death, rebirth and karma through an iconic medium.

Yoshiko Miki (1987) was born in Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan. At the age of 16 she moved to the United States and lived in Lancaster, PA and would remain there for a year before moving to Syracuse. She graduated from Manlius Pebble Hill School in DeWitt and currently is enrolled at the Pratt Institute at Munson-Williams-Proctor in Utica where she is studying fine arts with a concentration in sculpture.

38th Annual Celebration of the Arts
Celebration of the Arts

Price: Free (contributions accepted)
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

Works of Kathleen Schneider, Teresa Vitale, and Dee Ann VonHunke
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Works by artists Kathleen Schneider (watercolors), Teresa Vitale (painting) and Dee Ann VonHunke (jewelry)

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

MFA 2008
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates.

17 artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography, and sculpture. The exhibition contains a number of artists who explore the idea of identity, while others challenge accepted notions of wealth, time, and reality. Khanh Le explores his identity as a Vietnamese-born American by combining images of his own family life, fashion and home magazines, and well known images from the Vietnam War to create a "new historical narrative". Stacey VanWaldick playfully addresses what jewelry has come to stand for in today's commercial society by fabricating "precious stones" out of bronze and chocolate. Stephanie Koenig experiments with the idea of "recyclable nostalgia" by reclaiming 70's period style to outfit the interior of her interactive life-size pirate ship. Allison Fox forms intricately detailed thin sheets of clear plastic into organic shapes through which she shines light to create ambiguous undulating shadows. The relationship between the sculpture and the shadows on the wall establishes a vibration between reality and illusion.

Other featured artists include Jen Betton, Seunghee Chung, Jennifer Gandee, Jessica Lance, Tzu Cheng Liu, Thon Lorenz, Jennifer Marsh, Frank McCauley, Ge Maggie Mu, María José Pérez (Pepa Santamaria), David Serotkin, Carrie Will, Sue Hershberger Yoder

Parking for weekend and evening visitors is in Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the SUArt Galleries. 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.

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

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Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Artists include Father Andrew Szebenyi, digitally manipulated images; Meg Gentile, acrylic on canvas; Dustin Angell, photography; Sarah Reale, Sharpie portraits on canvas; Mick Mather, monotype, monotype with linocut, tempera with linocut, and watercolor; Eddie Colelli, photography; Kevin Lucas, acrylic on canvas; David McKenney, photography.

OCC Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Annual student show.

Fly Daddy Fly (family friendly)
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Hotel Syracuse Imperial Ballroom
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Fly Daddy Fly by Izuru Narushima (Japan, 121 minutes, fiction) USA Premiere
A parody and recreation of martial arts revenge films, Fly Daddy Fly is about a middle-aged business man's fight for his daughter's honor after she is molested by her school's star boxer. A definite audience winner.

El Benny
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

El Benny by Jorge Luis Sanchez (Cuba, 120 minutes, fiction)
A biographic look at Cuban jazz singer Benny More's fiery life, from his beginnings as a country boy to his rise and fall as one of Latin America's brightest stars. Strong and compelling.

The Bead; Hollow (Huecos); The Red Card
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Bristol IMAX Omnitheater at the MOST
Armory Square, Syracuse

The Bead by Marie Dvorakova (Czech Republic, 15 minutes, fiction) USA Premiere
A slapstick romance set in a bead factory, where a woman fantasizes a relationship with the research and development guy, finally gaining the courage to court him.

Hollow (Huecos) by Paula Ortiz (Spain, 17 minutes, experimental/animation)
An animated film in which a boy enters the dreamy yet melancholy world of puppets, and learns that fate is in the hands of the puppeteer.

The Red Card by Mahnaz Alzali (Iran, 74 minutes, documentary)
A documentary that exposes injustice in the trial of Khadijeh Shahla Jahed, a woman accused of murdering the wife of her soccer star love, that pays the same attention to detail as Morris's The Thin Blue Line. Compelling.

Special Event: Little Girl Blue
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Little Girl Blue by Alice Nellis (Czech Republic, 93 minutes, fiction), with guest appearance by the film's star, singer/musician Iva Bittova
Infidelity, forgotten dreams, and the death of jazz singer Nina Simone all play a part in this provocative study of a woman's psyche. This is a major film, sure to be a hit, "Academy Award" is written all over it.

Israeli Cinema (Celebrating Israel at 60) -- Tribute to Moshe Mizrahi: Every Time We Say Goodbye
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts
728 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Every Time We Say Goodbye by Moshe Mizrahi (Israel, 1984, 95 minutes) starring Tom Hanks, Christina Marcillac, Avner Hizkiyaha
An American flyer who joined the RAF before his country was in the war is recovering from a leg injury in Jerusalem. He meets a Jewish girl. They are attracted to each other but she is convinced their diverse backgrounds mean it could never work.

Academy Award winning filmmaker and Festival Achievement Award winner Moshe Mizrahi will be in attendance.

Fat Stupid Rabbit
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts
728 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Fat Stupid Rabbit by Slava Ross (Russia, 93 minutes, fiction)
One of the miserable alcoholic actors from an unsuccessful repertory children's theater starts to insert Shakespeare into his lines in hopes of reviving his career. A sure fire hit.

Siberia; The Box; Encounter Point
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Bristol IMAX Omnitheater at the MOST
Armory Square, Syracuse

Siberia by Renata Duque (Cuba, 10 minutes, fiction) USA Premiere
Siberia follows the paths of professors and students at a Havana university in 1992, as their futures are jeopardized by Cuba's political, professional, and environmental collapse.

The Box by Yong-jae Park (Korea, 17 minutes, animation) USA Premiere
In a theatre, on a stage there sits a magician with a box on his knees, and inside you will enter a phantasmagoria that is nothing short of pure magic.

Encounter Point by Ronit Avni and Julia Bacha (Israel/Palestine, 85 minutes, documentary)
In a documentary that works hard not take sides, Israeli and Palestinian parents share in the pain of having lost sons and daughters during the hostilities between the warring groups. Compelling.

William Klein: "Out Of Necessity"; Son; Unfinished Stories
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

William Klein: "Out Of Necessity" by Douglas Sloan (USA, 8 minutes, documentary)
Take a rare glimpse into the life of William Klein, radical photographer and documentary maker, as filmmaker Douglas Sloan gains access into the private world of a prolific artist.

Son by Daniel Mulley (England, 17 minutes, experimental)
A suspenseful short about a mother and son trapped in an underground theater under the control of a mysterious "director."

Unfinished Stories by Pourya Azarbayjani (Iran, 76 minutes, fiction)
With gritty, naturalistic performances, this stark film paints a grim and revealing picture of three Iranian women, all at different stages in their lives, and the plight they experience in a male dominated society. Excellent.

Waves; Red Like the Sky
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Hotel Syracuse Imperial Ballroom
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Waves by Adrian Sitaru (Romania, 16 minutes, fiction)
It's just a sunny day at the beach with a Romanian family, or so it seems at first, until this film quickly undermines those sunny notions by presenting the darkness beneath the façade.

Red Like the Sky by Cristiano Bortone (Italy, 90 minutes, fiction)
In the spirit of Cinema Paradiso comes this film about a blind child who finds a new life at the cinema, and is inspired to make films of his own. A winner for the entire family.

Israeli Cinema (Celebrating Israel at 60) -- Tribute to Moshe Mizrahi: Weekend in Galilee
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Weekend In Galilee by Moshe Mizrahi (Israel, 100 minutes, fiction) USA Premiere
A reworking of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, set in the Galilee during the autumn of 1996, with the elderly head of family returning to upset the family dynamics of a small pastoral farm.

Academy Award winning filmmaker and Festival Achievement Award winner Moshe Mizrahi will be in attendance.

Closing Awards Ceremony
Syracuse International Film Festival

Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Kevin Dorsey Collective 5th Anniversary Concert
Central New York Jazz Composer's Cooperative

Price: $10 regular; $7 CNYJAF members, students, and advance purchase
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The Collective's unique blend of world, folk, pop and jazz on 3 CDs has garnered them airplay on hundreds of radio stations worldwide, accolades from print media such as Jazz Improv and Cadence Magazines as well as their 2 SAMMYs. Don't miss this special event!

To reserve tickets, e-mail your name and the number of tickets you will need to kevindorseymusic@verizon.net.

OCC Spring Concert: Jazz, Latin Ensembles and OCC Singers
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Music from the Habsburg-Burgundian Court: Sacred and Secular Music of Pierre de la Rue
Schola Cantorum of Syracuse
Joyce Irwin, conductor

Price: $12 regular; $8 student/senior
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

Better known in his own day than in ours, Pierre de la Rue rivaled Josquin des Prez in his skills of composition. As court composer, he wrote 32 Masses for the church year, including one of the earliest polyphonic Requiem Masses. Some of his remarkable chansons may have been composed for his patron, Marguerite of Austria, who was responsible for preserving much of his music. The concert will sample both sacred and secular compositions while featuring the richly somber tones of the Requiem Mass.

Concert will be preceded by a viol prelude at 3:30 pm.

Dancing Through History
Syracuse Children's Chorus
Barbara Marble Tagg; Deborah A. Cunningham, conductor
Featuring Syracuse University Brazilian Ensemble

Price: $18, 14 regular, $16, 12 students/seniors
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Experience exciting folk music from around the world as the Chorus performs a collection of songs celebrating the art of dance. From traditional tunes to the rousing rhythms of the S.U. Brazilian Ensemble, this concert will have you dancing in the aisles.

Repertoire includes The Penguin Dance, Skip to My Lou, Dance Laddie, Come Let Us to the Bagpipe Sound from J.S. Bach's Peasant Cantata, The Boatman's Dance by Aaron Copland and Stand Together by American composer Jim Papoulis.

The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
Appleseed Productions
Jon Wilson, director

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

The creative team responsible for a recent Broadway flop (in which three chorus girls were murdered by the mysterious "Stage Door Slasher") assemble for a backer's audition of their new show at the Westchester estate of a wealthy "angel." The house is replete with sliding panels, secret passageways and a German maid who is apparently four different people -- all of which figure diabolically in the comic mayhem which follows when the infamous Slasher makes his reappearance and strikes again -- and again. As the composer, lyricist, actors and director prepare their performance, and a blizzard cuts off any possible retreat, bodies start to drop in plain sight, knives spring out of nowhere, masked figures drag their victims behind swiveling bookcases, and accusing fingers point in all directions. However, and with no thanks to the bumbling police inspector who snowshoes in to investigate, the mystery is solved in the nick of time and the Slasher unmasked -- but not before the audience has been treated to a sidesplitting good time and a generous serving of author John Bishop's biting, satiric and refreshingly irreverent wit.

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Miss Saigon
Henninger High School

Price: $8 before April 25; $10 at the door
Henninger High School
600 Robinson St., Syracuse

For tickets, phone 315-435-4343.

The Fantasticks
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

New York City's longest running musical (more than 17,000 performances off-Broadway), The Fantasticks is charming, funny, and a celebration of the bloom of first love. A girl and a boy grow up next door to each other. They are perfect for each other and they fall in love. To ensure the success of their romance, their oh-so-sly fathers devise every scheme to keep them apart. Filled with delightful songs.

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Sweeney Todd
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

Price: $18 regular, $16 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Based upon the original book The Legend of Sweeney Todd by Christopher Bond, the musical relates the story of Todd (formerly Benjamin Barker) who returns home from Australia after spending 15 years imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. Upon returning home, Todd learns of his wife's suicide after being raped by Judge Terpin, the man responsible for Todd's imprisonment. Todd vows revenge, leading to mass murder, booming business for Mrs. Lovett's pastry shop, and ultimately, tragedy. The 1979 original production, starring Angela Lansbury, won three Tonys and four Drama Desk Awards. Since then, revival productions have continued the pace, winning a host of awards and nominations. Stephen Sondheim's complex score, suffused with rich harmonies, has enticed opera companies to stage this "staggering theatre spectacle."

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The Concert
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors/students
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The Concert, written and directed by Marcia L. Hagan, is a riveting dramatic play, with gospel music, that looks at the personal and social dynamics of three competing churches while preparing for a Mass Concert. The play that tells the story of three Baptist churches, one from the inner city, one from the lower east side of the city, and one from the suburbs, collaborating to present a musical concert to support a music scholarship fund for a graduating senior from each of the churches. The scholarship recipients must commit to serving as a musician for their church for at least one year after college graduation. This drama reveals the life, times, and tribulations of the various choir members. The story unfolds during rehearsals which take place at each church, a beauty shop, a health center, the choir members' homes, and various other places throughout the community. These rehearsals eventually culminate into a dynamic Gospel concert finale.

The Fantasticks
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

New York City's longest running musical (more than 17,000 performances off-Broadway), The Fantasticks is charming, funny, and a celebration of the bloom of first love. A girl and a boy grow up next door to each other. They are perfect for each other and they fall in love. To ensure the success of their romance, their oh-so-sly fathers devise every scheme to keep them apart. Filled with delightful songs.

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Women and Wallace
Black Box Players
Joshua Finn, director

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

Playwright Jonathan Marc Sherman drew from personal experience with the suicide of his mother when he was 18 for this drama.

Bang Bang, You're Dead
Rarely Done Productions

Price: Free
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Bang Bang, You're Dead, which features actors from local high schools, was commissioned by the Ribbon of Promise Campaign to Prevent School Violence. The piece tackles the subject of bullying and gun violence among our school-aged youth. This is the third season presenting this all-too-timely piece.

Monday, May 5, 2008

WRAP (World Reclamation Art Project)
International Fiber Collaborative

Price: Free
2301 E. Colvin St.
(corner of Nottingham), Syracuse

Artist Jennifer Marsh and participants from all over the world have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3-foot square fiber panels that express concern about the world's extreme dependency on oil. The panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station.

For more information, visit internationalfibercollaborative.com.

Kewpie Karma/80
The Warehouse Gallery

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

What does a Kewpie doll have to offer the world? If anything has karma, why not a Kewpie doll?

Yoshiko Miki's work addresses issues of death and rebirth. The death of her mother three years ago caused Miki to search for answers as to why some people leave life at such a young age. She found that the only way to address this was to disregard the idea of life having an ending point and instead to view life as a continuation. Influenced by her Buddhist background, Miki wondered who her mother might have been re-born as: "A man? Or a woman?" and where she could be: "Here in America with me? Or back in Japan with my father and my little sister?"

In reincarnation, the karma of a person continues into the next life; no matter what form they are reborn. Miki depicts her mother's reincarnation through Kewpie dolls -- an iconic image of happiness and love, words that also describe her mother's approach to life. The subject of rebirth is reinforced by the infantile nature of the dolls and by their number. The 80 dolls signify the importance of the numbers 8 and 0 which represent endless life; when drawn out, there is no beginning or ending point for either number. Significantly, when the number 8 is rotated 90 degrees in either direction, it becomes a symbol for infinity. Kewpie Karma/80 deals with themes of death, rebirth and karma through an iconic medium.

Yoshiko Miki (1987) was born in Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan. At the age of 16 she moved to the United States and lived in Lancaster, PA and would remain there for a year before moving to Syracuse. She graduated from Manlius Pebble Hill School in DeWitt and currently is enrolled at the Pratt Institute at Munson-Williams-Proctor in Utica where she is studying fine arts with a concentration in sculpture.

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Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Artists include Father Andrew Szebenyi, digitally manipulated images; Meg Gentile, acrylic on canvas; Dustin Angell, photography; Sarah Reale, Sharpie portraits on canvas; Mick Mather, monotype, monotype with linocut, tempera with linocut, and watercolor; Eddie Colelli, photography; Kevin Lucas, acrylic on canvas; David McKenney, photography.

OCC Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Annual student show.

Onondaga Art Guild Spring Show

Price: Free
Hospice of Central New York
990 Seventh North St., Liverpool

For more information, phone 315-449-2240.

The Materials of Color: Paintings by Italian artist Maria Grazia Facchinetti
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibit features works from area high school students.

Labyrinths
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A life-size maze of mirrors and dreams reveals an exceptional collection of works by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna: a fugue-like series of 25 drawings and etchings inspired by the Borgian notion of the labyrinth, with Icarus as protagonist. Twenty-three 7-foot tall mirrored panels form this massive installation that complicates and multiplies the space of the gallery, and infiltrates the observer.

Invasion! The Culture of Fear in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This student-curated exhibition illustrates the concept of fear in the United States. The students, members of the Renee Crown University Honors Program taking the Spring 2008 course American Fear, felt that the theme of "invasion" underlies many of our historical anxieties relating to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and a host of other issues. The idea that different people, aliens or even epidemics, like the AIDS virus during the 1980s, might infiltrate society and bring about sweeping change has been cause for extreme fear in the American experience. The exhibition raises questions of identity, and the class hopes that visitors will "understand their differences and be less discriminating in their actions."

Among the exhibited works that illuminate the roots of our culture of fear are a 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan," Cotton Mather's 1693 account of the Salem Witch trials, the literature of the Red Scare, a variety of pulp science fiction magazines and Werner Pfeiffer's sculptural tribute to the victims of 9/11 "Out of the Sky."

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Works of Kathleen Schneider, Teresa Vitale, and Dee Ann VonHunke
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Works by artists Kathleen Schneider (watercolors), Teresa Vitale (painting) and Dee Ann VonHunke (jewelry)

Little Caesar
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $3 non-members, $2.50 members
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Little Caesar, a 1930 classic gangster film starring Edward G. Robinson as a small-time hood who makes it big in the underworld. Also starring are Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Glenda Farrell.

Special Event: An Evening with Hilary Hahn
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra

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

Grammy Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn is one of the most compelling artists on the international concert circuit. Renowned for her intellectual and emotional maturity, she was named "America's Best" young classical musician by Time Magazine in 2001. This promises to be a spellbinding event, bringing Ms. Hahn's extraordinary virtuosity to the fore as she performs Niccolo Paganini's Violin Concerto No. 1.

Also on the program:
Prokofiev Lieutenant Kije Suite
Enescu Romanian Rhapsody

Bang Bang, You're Dead
Rarely Done Productions

Price: Free
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Bang Bang, You're Dead, which features actors from local high schools, was commissioned by the Ribbon of Promise Campaign to Prevent School Violence. The piece tackles the subject of bullying and gun violence among our school-aged youth. This is the third season presenting this all-too-timely piece.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

WRAP (World Reclamation Art Project)
International Fiber Collaborative

Price: Free
2301 E. Colvin St.
(corner of Nottingham), Syracuse

Artist Jennifer Marsh and participants from all over the world have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3-foot square fiber panels that express concern about the world's extreme dependency on oil. The panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station.

For more information, visit internationalfibercollaborative.com.

Kewpie Karma/80
The Warehouse Gallery

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

What does a Kewpie doll have to offer the world? If anything has karma, why not a Kewpie doll?

Yoshiko Miki's work addresses issues of death and rebirth. The death of her mother three years ago caused Miki to search for answers as to why some people leave life at such a young age. She found that the only way to address this was to disregard the idea of life having an ending point and instead to view life as a continuation. Influenced by her Buddhist background, Miki wondered who her mother might have been re-born as: "A man? Or a woman?" and where she could be: "Here in America with me? Or back in Japan with my father and my little sister?"

In reincarnation, the karma of a person continues into the next life; no matter what form they are reborn. Miki depicts her mother's reincarnation through Kewpie dolls -- an iconic image of happiness and love, words that also describe her mother's approach to life. The subject of rebirth is reinforced by the infantile nature of the dolls and by their number. The 80 dolls signify the importance of the numbers 8 and 0 which represent endless life; when drawn out, there is no beginning or ending point for either number. Significantly, when the number 8 is rotated 90 degrees in either direction, it becomes a symbol for infinity. Kewpie Karma/80 deals with themes of death, rebirth and karma through an iconic medium.

Yoshiko Miki (1987) was born in Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan. At the age of 16 she moved to the United States and lived in Lancaster, PA and would remain there for a year before moving to Syracuse. She graduated from Manlius Pebble Hill School in DeWitt and currently is enrolled at the Pratt Institute at Munson-Williams-Proctor in Utica where she is studying fine arts with a concentration in sculpture.

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Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Artists include Father Andrew Szebenyi, digitally manipulated images; Meg Gentile, acrylic on canvas; Dustin Angell, photography; Sarah Reale, Sharpie portraits on canvas; Mick Mather, monotype, monotype with linocut, tempera with linocut, and watercolor; Eddie Colelli, photography; Kevin Lucas, acrylic on canvas; David McKenney, photography.

OCC Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Annual student show.

Onondaga Art Guild Spring Show

Price: Free
Hospice of Central New York
990 Seventh North St., Liverpool

For more information, phone 315-449-2240.

The Materials of Color: Paintings by Italian artist Maria Grazia Facchinetti
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibit features works from area high school students.

Labyrinths
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A life-size maze of mirrors and dreams reveals an exceptional collection of works by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna: a fugue-like series of 25 drawings and etchings inspired by the Borgian notion of the labyrinth, with Icarus as protagonist. Twenty-three 7-foot tall mirrored panels form this massive installation that complicates and multiplies the space of the gallery, and infiltrates the observer.

Invasion! The Culture of Fear in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This student-curated exhibition illustrates the concept of fear in the United States. The students, members of the Renee Crown University Honors Program taking the Spring 2008 course American Fear, felt that the theme of "invasion" underlies many of our historical anxieties relating to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and a host of other issues. The idea that different people, aliens or even epidemics, like the AIDS virus during the 1980s, might infiltrate society and bring about sweeping change has been cause for extreme fear in the American experience. The exhibition raises questions of identity, and the class hopes that visitors will "understand their differences and be less discriminating in their actions."

Among the exhibited works that illuminate the roots of our culture of fear are a 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan," Cotton Mather's 1693 account of the Salem Witch trials, the literature of the Red Scare, a variety of pulp science fiction magazines and Werner Pfeiffer's sculptural tribute to the victims of 9/11 "Out of the Sky."

36th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Show
Community Folk Art Center

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

Teen artists of African American, Native American, Hispanic American and Asian American heritage will display their work in the exhibition.

The Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition is the longest running collaborative exhibition in the Greater Syracuse area that features the work of underrepresented teen artists. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories. A panel of professional local artists serve as judges for the exhibition. Participating students attend Syracuse City High Schools as well as suburban Onondaga County High Schools.

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Works of Kathleen Schneider, Teresa Vitale, and Dee Ann VonHunke
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Works by artists Kathleen Schneider (watercolors), Teresa Vitale (painting) and Dee Ann VonHunke (jewelry)

MFA 2008
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates.

17 artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography, and sculpture. The exhibition contains a number of artists who explore the idea of identity, while others challenge accepted notions of wealth, time, and reality. Khanh Le explores his identity as a Vietnamese-born American by combining images of his own family life, fashion and home magazines, and well known images from the Vietnam War to create a "new historical narrative". Stacey VanWaldick playfully addresses what jewelry has come to stand for in today's commercial society by fabricating "precious stones" out of bronze and chocolate. Stephanie Koenig experiments with the idea of "recyclable nostalgia" by reclaiming 70's period style to outfit the interior of her interactive life-size pirate ship. Allison Fox forms intricately detailed thin sheets of clear plastic into organic shapes through which she shines light to create ambiguous undulating shadows. The relationship between the sculpture and the shadows on the wall establishes a vibration between reality and illusion.

Other featured artists include Jen Betton, Seunghee Chung, Jennifer Gandee, Jessica Lance, Tzu Cheng Liu, Thon Lorenz, Jennifer Marsh, Frank McCauley, Ge Maggie Mu, María José Pérez (Pepa Santamaria), David Serotkin, Carrie Will, Sue Hershberger Yoder

Parking for weekend and evening visitors is in Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the SUArt Galleries. 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.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith
The Warehouse Gallery
Community Folk Art Center

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

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith is artist Terry Adkins' multi-media tribute to Smith, known as the Empress of the Blues. Working with a variety of materials Adkins weaves sculpture into a narrative installation that is both a tribute to and a lament for the transformative power of Smith's vocal artistry.

In an essay that accompanies the exhibition Dr. Kheli R. Willetts, academic director of CFAC and assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Syracuse University writes, "Adkins' work creates an environment which challenges us to engage with Smith beyond her status as a legendary musical performer. He has resurrected her as a creative deity whose stage has now become a temple and the viewers are transformed into her devotees as they enter the space."

Smith is regarded as one of the greatest blues singers of all time. She was the highest-paid black performer of her day and arguably reached a level of success greater than that of any African American recording artist before her. Yet in her adopted home of Philadelphia she remains unsung and even her grave remained unmarked until 1970.

Adkins commutes regularly from New York to Philadelphia where he teaches in the Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania. This exhibition is a continued exploration of his use of figures in history whose contributions to society are overlooked, under appreciated, or just not given the stature that he believes they should have in society. Although Adkins work emanates from an activist position, it evolves from abstract forms with the intent of educating the public about historical figures through ways that are not image based or narrative-based but that challenge the viewer to think abstractly in relating to the stories of the lives of the people concerned.

Terry Adkins has been exhibiting internationally since 1980. He is Associate Professor of Fine Art at the University of Pennsylvania where he recently installed Darkwater: A Recital in Four Dominions, a tribute to W. E. B. Du Bois at the Arthur Ross Gallery. Adkins has published numerous essays and has completed several significant public commissions. In addition to being a highly respected artist and sought after guest lecturer, his artworks have been placed in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among other significant museums and collections. He received his B.S. from Fisk University and his M.F.A from the University of Kentucky.

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Black & White & Deb All Over
May Memorial Unitarian Society

May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A photographic exhibit by Deborah Stearns.

Tommy Emmanuel In Concert, with Special Guest Loren Barrigar
The Guitar League

Price: $30
Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts
728 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-6898-6242.

Bang Bang, You're Dead
Rarely Done Productions

Price: Free
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Bang Bang, You're Dead, which features actors from local high schools, was commissioned by the Ribbon of Promise Campaign to Prevent School Violence. The piece tackles the subject of bullying and gun violence among our school-aged youth. This is the third season presenting this all-too-timely piece.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

WRAP (World Reclamation Art Project)
International Fiber Collaborative

Price: Free
2301 E. Colvin St.
(corner of Nottingham), Syracuse

Artist Jennifer Marsh and participants from all over the world have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3-foot square fiber panels that express concern about the world's extreme dependency on oil. The panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station.

For more information, visit internationalfibercollaborative.com.

Kewpie Karma/80
The Warehouse Gallery

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

What does a Kewpie doll have to offer the world? If anything has karma, why not a Kewpie doll?

Yoshiko Miki's work addresses issues of death and rebirth. The death of her mother three years ago caused Miki to search for answers as to why some people leave life at such a young age. She found that the only way to address this was to disregard the idea of life having an ending point and instead to view life as a continuation. Influenced by her Buddhist background, Miki wondered who her mother might have been re-born as: "A man? Or a woman?" and where she could be: "Here in America with me? Or back in Japan with my father and my little sister?"

In reincarnation, the karma of a person continues into the next life; no matter what form they are reborn. Miki depicts her mother's reincarnation through Kewpie dolls -- an iconic image of happiness and love, words that also describe her mother's approach to life. The subject of rebirth is reinforced by the infantile nature of the dolls and by their number. The 80 dolls signify the importance of the numbers 8 and 0 which represent endless life; when drawn out, there is no beginning or ending point for either number. Significantly, when the number 8 is rotated 90 degrees in either direction, it becomes a symbol for infinity. Kewpie Karma/80 deals with themes of death, rebirth and karma through an iconic medium.

Yoshiko Miki (1987) was born in Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan. At the age of 16 she moved to the United States and lived in Lancaster, PA and would remain there for a year before moving to Syracuse. She graduated from Manlius Pebble Hill School in DeWitt and currently is enrolled at the Pratt Institute at Munson-Williams-Proctor in Utica where she is studying fine arts with a concentration in sculpture.

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Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Artists include Father Andrew Szebenyi, digitally manipulated images; Meg Gentile, acrylic on canvas; Dustin Angell, photography; Sarah Reale, Sharpie portraits on canvas; Mick Mather, monotype, monotype with linocut, tempera with linocut, and watercolor; Eddie Colelli, photography; Kevin Lucas, acrylic on canvas; David McKenney, photography.

OCC Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Annual student show.

Onondaga Art Guild Spring Show

Price: Free
Hospice of Central New York
990 Seventh North St., Liverpool

For more information, phone 315-449-2240.

The Materials of Color: Paintings by Italian artist Maria Grazia Facchinetti
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibit features works from area high school students.

Labyrinths
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A life-size maze of mirrors and dreams reveals an exceptional collection of works by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna: a fugue-like series of 25 drawings and etchings inspired by the Borgian notion of the labyrinth, with Icarus as protagonist. Twenty-three 7-foot tall mirrored panels form this massive installation that complicates and multiplies the space of the gallery, and infiltrates the observer.

Invasion! The Culture of Fear in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This student-curated exhibition illustrates the concept of fear in the United States. The students, members of the Renee Crown University Honors Program taking the Spring 2008 course American Fear, felt that the theme of "invasion" underlies many of our historical anxieties relating to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and a host of other issues. The idea that different people, aliens or even epidemics, like the AIDS virus during the 1980s, might infiltrate society and bring about sweeping change has been cause for extreme fear in the American experience. The exhibition raises questions of identity, and the class hopes that visitors will "understand their differences and be less discriminating in their actions."

Among the exhibited works that illuminate the roots of our culture of fear are a 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan," Cotton Mather's 1693 account of the Salem Witch trials, the literature of the Red Scare, a variety of pulp science fiction magazines and Werner Pfeiffer's sculptural tribute to the victims of 9/11 "Out of the Sky."

36th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Show
Community Folk Art Center

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

Teen artists of African American, Native American, Hispanic American and Asian American heritage will display their work in the exhibition.

The Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition is the longest running collaborative exhibition in the Greater Syracuse area that features the work of underrepresented teen artists. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories. A panel of professional local artists serve as judges for the exhibition. Participating students attend Syracuse City High Schools as well as suburban Onondaga County High Schools.

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

Works of Kathleen Schneider, Teresa Vitale, and Dee Ann VonHunke
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Works by artists Kathleen Schneider (watercolors), Teresa Vitale (painting) and Dee Ann VonHunke (jewelry)

MFA 2008
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates.

17 artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography, and sculpture. The exhibition contains a number of artists who explore the idea of identity, while others challenge accepted notions of wealth, time, and reality. Khanh Le explores his identity as a Vietnamese-born American by combining images of his own family life, fashion and home magazines, and well known images from the Vietnam War to create a "new historical narrative". Stacey VanWaldick playfully addresses what jewelry has come to stand for in today's commercial society by fabricating "precious stones" out of bronze and chocolate. Stephanie Koenig experiments with the idea of "recyclable nostalgia" by reclaiming 70's period style to outfit the interior of her interactive life-size pirate ship. Allison Fox forms intricately detailed thin sheets of clear plastic into organic shapes through which she shines light to create ambiguous undulating shadows. The relationship between the sculpture and the shadows on the wall establishes a vibration between reality and illusion.

Other featured artists include Jen Betton, Seunghee Chung, Jennifer Gandee, Jessica Lance, Tzu Cheng Liu, Thon Lorenz, Jennifer Marsh, Frank McCauley, Ge Maggie Mu, María José Pérez (Pepa Santamaria), David Serotkin, Carrie Will, Sue Hershberger Yoder

Parking for weekend and evening visitors is in Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the SUArt Galleries. 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.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

The Sweetest Battle: Works by Rebecca Murtaugh
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Artist Statement:
I am intrigued by the space between painting and sculpture and the history of objects. Much of my work is based in installation with materials and techniques that vary to serve the needs of my intentions. I engage in processes of often altering everyday materials so that they draw from the language of each material's history and at once, transcend that history to provide an experience of the sublime. My work maintains a balance of formal and conceptual motivations. I aim for the work to be playful, sexy, visually engaging, and a rewarding intellectual experience for those viewers who seek to look further.

Artist Biography:
Rebecca Murtaugh currently splits her time between Brooklyn and Central New York. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University, Bachelor of Science from the Pennsylvania State University, and was raised in Philadelphia. Her work has been exhibited nationally in both solo and group exhibitions at venues such as the Contemporary Art Fair with Thatcher Projects in New York City, Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia, the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Northern California, the Athens Institute of Contemporary Art in Atlanta, Current Gallery in Baltimore, and the District of Columbia Art Center. Upcoming exhibitions in 2008 include Seductions at 1708 Gallery in Richmond, Virginia; Part Object, Part Sculpture at the Brew House: Space 101 in Pittsburgh; and Keeping the Conceptual Momentum at the Kelly and Weber Gallery in Philadelphia. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York where she teaches Sculpture and Critical Theory.

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith
The Warehouse Gallery
Community Folk Art Center

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

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith is artist Terry Adkins' multi-media tribute to Smith, known as the Empress of the Blues. Working with a variety of materials Adkins weaves sculpture into a narrative installation that is both a tribute to and a lament for the transformative power of Smith's vocal artistry.

In an essay that accompanies the exhibition Dr. Kheli R. Willetts, academic director of CFAC and assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Syracuse University writes, "Adkins' work creates an environment which challenges us to engage with Smith beyond her status as a legendary musical performer. He has resurrected her as a creative deity whose stage has now become a temple and the viewers are transformed into her devotees as they enter the space."

Smith is regarded as one of the greatest blues singers of all time. She was the highest-paid black performer of her day and arguably reached a level of success greater than that of any African American recording artist before her. Yet in her adopted home of Philadelphia she remains unsung and even her grave remained unmarked until 1970.

Adkins commutes regularly from New York to Philadelphia where he teaches in the Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania. This exhibition is a continued exploration of his use of figures in history whose contributions to society are overlooked, under appreciated, or just not given the stature that he believes they should have in society. Although Adkins work emanates from an activist position, it evolves from abstract forms with the intent of educating the public about historical figures through ways that are not image based or narrative-based but that challenge the viewer to think abstractly in relating to the stories of the lives of the people concerned.

Terry Adkins has been exhibiting internationally since 1980. He is Associate Professor of Fine Art at the University of Pennsylvania where he recently installed Darkwater: A Recital in Four Dominions, a tribute to W. E. B. Du Bois at the Arthur Ross Gallery. Adkins has published numerous essays and has completed several significant public commissions. In addition to being a highly respected artist and sought after guest lecturer, his artworks have been placed in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among other significant museums and collections. He received his B.S. from Fisk University and his M.F.A from the University of Kentucky.

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Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Richard Smernoff, piano

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

All-Chopin recital, including the Berceuse, B-minor Scherzo, and A-flat Polonaise, as well as other well-known pieces.

The Fantasticks
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

New York City's longest running musical (more than 17,000 performances off-Broadway), The Fantasticks is charming, funny, and a celebration of the bloom of first love. A girl and a boy grow up next door to each other. They are perfect for each other and they fall in love. To ensure the success of their romance, their oh-so-sly fathers devise every scheme to keep them apart. Filled with delightful songs.

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The Fantasticks
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

New York City's longest running musical (more than 17,000 performances off-Broadway), The Fantasticks is charming, funny, and a celebration of the bloom of first love. A girl and a boy grow up next door to each other. They are perfect for each other and they fall in love. To ensure the success of their romance, their oh-so-sly fathers devise every scheme to keep them apart. Filled with delightful songs.

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Bang Bang, You're Dead
Rarely Done Productions

Price: Free
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Bang Bang, You're Dead, which features actors from local high schools, was commissioned by the Ribbon of Promise Campaign to Prevent School Violence. The piece tackles the subject of bullying and gun violence among our school-aged youth. This is the third season presenting this all-too-timely piece.

Sweeney Todd
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

Price: $18 regular, $16 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Based upon the original book The Legend of Sweeney Todd by Christopher Bond, the musical relates the story of Todd (formerly Benjamin Barker) who returns home from Australia after spending 15 years imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. Upon returning home, Todd learns of his wife's suicide after being raped by Judge Terpin, the man responsible for Todd's imprisonment. Todd vows revenge, leading to mass murder, booming business for Mrs. Lovett's pastry shop, and ultimately, tragedy. The 1979 original production, starring Angela Lansbury, won three Tonys and four Drama Desk Awards. Since then, revival productions have continued the pace, winning a host of awards and nominations. Stephen Sondheim's complex score, suffused with rich harmonies, has enticed opera companies to stage this "staggering theatre spectacle."

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Thursday, May 8, 2008

WRAP (World Reclamation Art Project)
International Fiber Collaborative

Price: Free
2301 E. Colvin St.
(corner of Nottingham), Syracuse

Artist Jennifer Marsh and participants from all over the world have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3-foot square fiber panels that express concern about the world's extreme dependency on oil. The panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station.

For more information, visit internationalfibercollaborative.com.

Kewpie Karma/80
The Warehouse Gallery

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

What does a Kewpie doll have to offer the world? If anything has karma, why not a Kewpie doll?

Yoshiko Miki's work addresses issues of death and rebirth. The death of her mother three years ago caused Miki to search for answers as to why some people leave life at such a young age. She found that the only way to address this was to disregard the idea of life having an ending point and instead to view life as a continuation. Influenced by her Buddhist background, Miki wondered who her mother might have been re-born as: "A man? Or a woman?" and where she could be: "Here in America with me? Or back in Japan with my father and my little sister?"

In reincarnation, the karma of a person continues into the next life; no matter what form they are reborn. Miki depicts her mother's reincarnation through Kewpie dolls -- an iconic image of happiness and love, words that also describe her mother's approach to life. The subject of rebirth is reinforced by the infantile nature of the dolls and by their number. The 80 dolls signify the importance of the numbers 8 and 0 which represent endless life; when drawn out, there is no beginning or ending point for either number. Significantly, when the number 8 is rotated 90 degrees in either direction, it becomes a symbol for infinity. Kewpie Karma/80 deals with themes of death, rebirth and karma through an iconic medium.

Yoshiko Miki (1987) was born in Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan. At the age of 16 she moved to the United States and lived in Lancaster, PA and would remain there for a year before moving to Syracuse. She graduated from Manlius Pebble Hill School in DeWitt and currently is enrolled at the Pratt Institute at Munson-Williams-Proctor in Utica where she is studying fine arts with a concentration in sculpture.

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Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Artists include Father Andrew Szebenyi, digitally manipulated images; Meg Gentile, acrylic on canvas; Dustin Angell, photography; Sarah Reale, Sharpie portraits on canvas; Mick Mather, monotype, monotype with linocut, tempera with linocut, and watercolor; Eddie Colelli, photography; Kevin Lucas, acrylic on canvas; David McKenney, photography.

OCC Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Annual student show.

Onondaga Art Guild Spring Show

Price: Free
Hospice of Central New York
990 Seventh North St., Liverpool

For more information, phone 315-449-2240.

The Materials of Color: Paintings by Italian artist Maria Grazia Facchinetti
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibit features works from area high school students.

Labyrinths
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A life-size maze of mirrors and dreams reveals an exceptional collection of works by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna: a fugue-like series of 25 drawings and etchings inspired by the Borgian notion of the labyrinth, with Icarus as protagonist. Twenty-three 7-foot tall mirrored panels form this massive installation that complicates and multiplies the space of the gallery, and infiltrates the observer.

Invasion! The Culture of Fear in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This student-curated exhibition illustrates the concept of fear in the United States. The students, members of the Renee Crown University Honors Program taking the Spring 2008 course American Fear, felt that the theme of "invasion" underlies many of our historical anxieties relating to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and a host of other issues. The idea that different people, aliens or even epidemics, like the AIDS virus during the 1980s, might infiltrate society and bring about sweeping change has been cause for extreme fear in the American experience. The exhibition raises questions of identity, and the class hopes that visitors will "understand their differences and be less discriminating in their actions."

Among the exhibited works that illuminate the roots of our culture of fear are a 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan," Cotton Mather's 1693 account of the Salem Witch trials, the literature of the Red Scare, a variety of pulp science fiction magazines and Werner Pfeiffer's sculptural tribute to the victims of 9/11 "Out of the Sky."

36th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Show
Community Folk Art Center

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

Teen artists of African American, Native American, Hispanic American and Asian American heritage will display their work in the exhibition.

The Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition is the longest running collaborative exhibition in the Greater Syracuse area that features the work of underrepresented teen artists. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories. A panel of professional local artists serve as judges for the exhibition. Participating students attend Syracuse City High Schools as well as suburban Onondaga County High Schools.

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

Works of Kathleen Schneider, Teresa Vitale, and Dee Ann VonHunke
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Works by artists Kathleen Schneider (watercolors), Teresa Vitale (painting) and Dee Ann VonHunke (jewelry)

MFA 2008
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates.

17 artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography, and sculpture. The exhibition contains a number of artists who explore the idea of identity, while others challenge accepted notions of wealth, time, and reality. Khanh Le explores his identity as a Vietnamese-born American by combining images of his own family life, fashion and home magazines, and well known images from the Vietnam War to create a "new historical narrative". Stacey VanWaldick playfully addresses what jewelry has come to stand for in today's commercial society by fabricating "precious stones" out of bronze and chocolate. Stephanie Koenig experiments with the idea of "recyclable nostalgia" by reclaiming 70's period style to outfit the interior of her interactive life-size pirate ship. Allison Fox forms intricately detailed thin sheets of clear plastic into organic shapes through which she shines light to create ambiguous undulating shadows. The relationship between the sculpture and the shadows on the wall establishes a vibration between reality and illusion.

Other featured artists include Jen Betton, Seunghee Chung, Jennifer Gandee, Jessica Lance, Tzu Cheng Liu, Thon Lorenz, Jennifer Marsh, Frank McCauley, Ge Maggie Mu, María José Pérez (Pepa Santamaria), David Serotkin, Carrie Will, Sue Hershberger Yoder

Parking for weekend and evening visitors is in Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the SUArt Galleries. 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.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

The Sweetest Battle: Works by Rebecca Murtaugh
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Artist Statement:
I am intrigued by the space between painting and sculpture and the history of objects. Much of my work is based in installation with materials and techniques that vary to serve the needs of my intentions. I engage in processes of often altering everyday materials so that they draw from the language of each material's history and at once, transcend that history to provide an experience of the sublime. My work maintains a balance of formal and conceptual motivations. I aim for the work to be playful, sexy, visually engaging, and a rewarding intellectual experience for those viewers who seek to look further.

Artist Biography:
Rebecca Murtaugh currently splits her time between Brooklyn and Central New York. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University, Bachelor of Science from the Pennsylvania State University, and was raised in Philadelphia. Her work has been exhibited nationally in both solo and group exhibitions at venues such as the Contemporary Art Fair with Thatcher Projects in New York City, Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia, the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Northern California, the Athens Institute of Contemporary Art in Atlanta, Current Gallery in Baltimore, and the District of Columbia Art Center. Upcoming exhibitions in 2008 include Seductions at 1708 Gallery in Richmond, Virginia; Part Object, Part Sculpture at the Brew House: Space 101 in Pittsburgh; and Keeping the Conceptual Momentum at the Kelly and Weber Gallery in Philadelphia. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York where she teaches Sculpture and Critical Theory.

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith
The Warehouse Gallery
Community Folk Art Center

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

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith is artist Terry Adkins' multi-media tribute to Smith, known as the Empress of the Blues. Working with a variety of materials Adkins weaves sculpture into a narrative installation that is both a tribute to and a lament for the transformative power of Smith's vocal artistry.

In an essay that accompanies the exhibition Dr. Kheli R. Willetts, academic director of CFAC and assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Syracuse University writes, "Adkins' work creates an environment which challenges us to engage with Smith beyond her status as a legendary musical performer. He has resurrected her as a creative deity whose stage has now become a temple and the viewers are transformed into her devotees as they enter the space."

Smith is regarded as one of the greatest blues singers of all time. She was the highest-paid black performer of her day and arguably reached a level of success greater than that of any African American recording artist before her. Yet in her adopted home of Philadelphia she remains unsung and even her grave remained unmarked until 1970.

Adkins commutes regularly from New York to Philadelphia where he teaches in the Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania. This exhibition is a continued exploration of his use of figures in history whose contributions to society are overlooked, under appreciated, or just not given the stature that he believes they should have in society. Although Adkins work emanates from an activist position, it evolves from abstract forms with the intent of educating the public about historical figures through ways that are not image based or narrative-based but that challenge the viewer to think abstractly in relating to the stories of the lives of the people concerned.

Terry Adkins has been exhibiting internationally since 1980. He is Associate Professor of Fine Art at the University of Pennsylvania where he recently installed Darkwater: A Recital in Four Dominions, a tribute to W. E. B. Du Bois at the Arthur Ross Gallery. Adkins has published numerous essays and has completed several significant public commissions. In addition to being a highly respected artist and sought after guest lecturer, his artworks have been placed in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among other significant museums and collections. He received his B.S. from Fisk University and his M.F.A from the University of Kentucky.

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Black & White & Deb All Over
May Memorial Unitarian Society

May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A photographic exhibit by Deborah Stearns.

The Escape Artist: Parting work from Allison Fox
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

This exhibit is on view May 5-11 by appointment. Contact sparkartspace@gmail.com.

Exhibit in conjunction with her MFA Thesis installation, Intimate Mechanisms, at SUArt Gallery.

The Wizard of Oz
Fowler High School

Price: $3 in advance; $5 at the door
Fowler High School
227 Magnolia St., Syracuse

For tickets, phone 315-435-4376 starting April 24.

Death Takes a Bow
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $35.95 plus tax and gratuities (includes meal and show)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive mystery dinner theater.