Sunday, May 3, 2009

Window Projects: Museum of the City of Lost and Found
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Museum of the City of Lost and Found, Marion Wilson's latest sculpture project, is a continuation of her public art project launched in conjunction with the 2008 New Orleans Biennial. The exhibition is a combination of hexagram patterns of i-ching (a symbol system used to identify order in random events) collaboratively painted on the wall by the artist, community members, faculty and students at Syracuse University; miniature "igloo" and cast resin objects; and a short video of Wilson's bicycle (mobile museum) performance in New Orleans edited by Jessica Posner. Wilson invites audience participation by filling out Lost and Found Report cards (available throughout the exhibition), her method of collecting stories about viewers' personal losses, chances, findings and discoveries.

Marion Wilson uses igloos as a nomadic structure of native materials to remind us of our basic human need for shelter and protection. In addition, it is a reference to fundamentals of human existence and the Italian Arte Povera artist Mario Merz (1925-2003). In New Orleans, Wilson's sculpture was originally mounted on a constructed bicycle able to roam the city streets within the St. Roch neighborhood and the French Market. In Syracuse, Wilson will exhibit her 'mobile museum' at the Warehouse Gallery, thus, creating a "museum inside a museum." Although the installation in the Window Projects will remain through June 6, its appearance will continuously change through the continual addition of found materials collected by the artist. Wilson will be guided in selecting these additional materials by outside interviews with the general public in the greater Syracuse community.

Limbo: Works of Admas Habteslasie
Light Work Gallery

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

"Limbo" depicts a graceful yet unusually honest and insightful snapshot of Eritrea, an East African country suspended in an unsettled state between war and peace.

Eritrea warred with neighboring Ethiopia for 30 years before gaining independence in 1991. Then, in 1998, they entered another war with Ethiopia that lasted two years. Today, the war-torn country is yet again at the brink of war with their neighbor. Years of unrest have left the people of Eritrea waiting for life to improve. According to Habteslasie: "Transitory states become permanent; empty villas, destroyed old buildings and unfinished new buildings dot the landscape, monuments to the suspension of history. The collision between Eritrea's proud historical narrative and the bleak ennui of the present has produced an obsessive focus on the future. Reconstruction and infrastructure development are energetically driven forward whilst the economy remains essentially shut off from the outside world." The images in "Limbo" capture both destruction and construction, both the unhealed wounds of war and a fierce optimism and hope for a brighter future.

Habteslasie was born in Kuwait, and his parents are Eritrean. He received his master's degree from the London College of Communication in photojournalism and documentary photography. His photographic projects look at the ideas of identity, history, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with historical process. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Flowers East and 198 Gallery in London. His work has also been published in Source Magazine.

As It Happens: Artists-in-Residence at Light Work
Light Work Gallery

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

Josh Brilliant curates a selection of images by recent Light Work Artists-in-Residence, including Amy Stein, Kelli Connell, Cristina Fraire, Krista Steinke, and Christine Osinski. Brilliant is currently an MFA candidate in the Museum Studies program at Syracuse University.

All Forms: Studio Pottery '09
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Featuring works by 13 artists.

Exploring History with Art: The Changing View—Landscapes
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Paintings from OHA's permanent collection

MFA 2009
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

MFA 2009 is an exhibition of master of fine arts degree candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. Twenty-two artists will exhibit a range of work from traditional media such as oil on canvas, portraiture, and atmospheric-fired pottery to contemporary media including digital prints, site-specific installation, and video projection. The diversity of the show is also distinctly international, with artists from Canada, France, Korea and Russia.

While the artists work in a variety of media and techniques, themes emerge across the disciplines. The concept of the fabricated or manipulated environment is evident in many of the artists' sculptural installations, including a monumental model stagecoach positioned in a moon-landing re-creation and a faux-storefront display with ceramic poodles that both mock and celebrate what we regard as haute couture.

Nostalgia and personal identity are also sources of inspiration in this year's exhibition. One artist's work reinterprets the well-known characters from Sesame Street into an iconic status, while another incorporates the artist's past memories and dark humor into photographs that explore childhood experiences of fear, mortality and sex.

BFA Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition will feature work from seniors in VPA's School of Art and Design and Department of Transmedia, with a particular focus on the areas of painting, illustration, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, fiber arts/material studies and art photography.

50/50: Works of Nancy Jurs
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Nancy Jurs juxtaposes her signature large-scale, hand-built ceramic sculptures with recent site-specific installations composed of ceramic, mixed-media and found objects. Throughout her 40-year career Jurs, a Rochester-based sculptor and ceramic artist, has produced an astounding body of work that largely addresses female power and strength. In 2003, Jurs completed the Armor Series, a grouping of six life-size armored torsos that present themselves with empowered determination. The stylized shells not only serve to protect the figures but to symbolize renewed confidence and strength in a post-9/11 world. "Undaunted" (2003), which is part of the Armor Series, was acquired by the Everson in 2004.

Also on view will be "Triad," a monumental 16-foot high sculpture composed of ceramic slabs that have been hand-built: cut, scraped, modeled, and stacked in three interacting totem-like structures. Triad will be prominently displayed in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court.

Spring Art Show and Sale
Onondaga Art Guild

Price: Free
Emmanuel Episcopal Church
400 Yates St., East Syracuse

Members of The Onondaga Art Guild will hold a pre-Mother's Day Art Show and Sale that will provide a great chance to find a truly original gift for Mom. Or you can just feast your eyes on beautiful artwork by talented local artists.

Stoneware and Stone "Wear"
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Works of Sallie Thompson, ceramics, and Dee Ann VonHunke, fine silver and semi-precious gemstone jewelry.

Bench Warmers
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

Bench Warmers, directed by Yoshitaka Mori (2008, Japan, fiction, 126 minutes)
A pair of young Japanese high schoolers want one thing in life: to suit up for with their school baseball team. This charming, energetic comng-of-age story follows them through the physical exhaustions and tests of their friendship that stand in the way of achieving their goal. In Japanese. Learn more.

Good-bye to Merine; The Puppeteer of Havana
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Hotel Syracuse Persian Terrace
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Good-bye to Merine, directed by Taron Petrosyan (2008, Armenia, fiction, 10 minutes)
A young girl lives her life by fantasizing and dreaming of a non-existant hero. In Armenian. Learn more.

The Puppeteer of Havana, directed by Wolf Hermsen (2008, Germany, fiction, 113 minutes)
A puppeteer from Havana dreams of being invited to Oslo. As his dream becomes an obsession, his family starts doubting his mental state. In Spanish. Learn more.

All Animation Program
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

Goodman, directed by Dong Hee Kim (2008, Republic of Korea, animation, 14 minutes)
An industrialist deals with the effect of pollution on his loved one. Learn more.

Pretty Ugly, directed by Abbey Paccia (2008, United States, animation, 2 minutes)
In a world of sparkle and shine, one precious girl gets less than she bargained for when her brand new unicorn playmate is delivered to her door. In English. Learn more.

Aspirin (2008, Republic of Korea, animation, 6 minutes)
A little girl is forced to spend a day at home alone with her dog. In Korean. Learn more.

Hairdressing, directed by Kaoru Ishida (2008, Czech Republic, animation, 6 minutes)
This animated film depicts a hairdresser in a town where all of the citizens have plants on their heads instead of hair. In Czech. Learn more.

Blossom, directed by Areum Lee, Sumin Song (2008, Republic of Korea, animation, 4 minutes)
A coming-of-age fantasy with a melancholy twist. In Korean. Learn more.

Station of the Dead, directed by Soyoung Park (2008, Czech Republic, animation, 6 minutes)
In this animated short, a girls learns a method for making soup for the dead, and in the process learns a lesson about life. In Czech. Learn more.

Page One, directed by Na Yeon Kim (2008, Republic of Korea, animation, 3 minutes)
A short animated version of Alice in Wonderland-type fantasies. In Korean. Learn more.

The Puppet, directed by Kang Jin Woo (2008, Republic of Korea, animation, 6 minutes)
Korean Animation from the 2008 Secan Awards. Features a robotic dance. In Korean. Learn more.

Nightmare (2008, Republic of Korea, animation, 6 minutes)
A man starts to have the uncanny experience that life is mirroring his nightmare. In Korean. Learn more.

Fish Fosh, produced by Son Gi Don, Pyo Ju Young (2008, Republic of Korea, animation, 5 minutes)
No matter what he does, a frustrated fisherman cannot catch a fish. In Korean. Learn more.

Stop, directed by Jae-ok Park (2008, Republic of Korea, animation, 5 minutes)
A young man is on the way to the hospital with his mother when he swerves his car to avoid a truck driving on the wrong side of the road, and the world stops. In Korean. Learn more.

About the First Domestic Cat; Waterlife
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

About the First Domestic Cat, directed by Stanislava Mikusova (2008, Czech Republic, animation, 6 minutes)
In the beginning, when mankind was selecting animals to tame, the cat was not highly favored. But the cat showed mankind that she can get her way. In Czech. Learn more.

Waterlife, directed by Kevin McMahon (2008, Canada, documentary, 109 minutes)
Waterlife follows the epic cascade of the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. From the icy cliffs of Lake Superior to the ornate fountains of Chicago to the sewers of Windsor, this feature-length documentary tells the story of the last huge supply (20 per cent) of fresh water on Earth. The source of drinking water, fish and emotional sustenance for 35 million people, the Great Lakes are under assault by toxins, sewage, invasive species, dropping water levels and profound apathy. Some scientists believe the lakes are on the verge of ecological collapse. Filled with fascinating characters and stunning imagery, Waterlife is an epic cinematic poem about the beauty of water and the dangers of taking it for granted. The film is narrated by The Tragically Hip's Gord Downie and features music by Sam Roberts, Sufjan Stevens, Sigur Ros, Robbie Robertson and Brian Eno. In English. Learn more.

K; 411-Z; The Hide
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Hotel Syracuse Persian Terrace
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

K, directed by Piers Thompson (2007, United Kingdom, fiction, 20 minutes)
15-year-old Kaylee encounters an enigmatic stranger who compels her to reevaluate her future. In English. Learn more.

411-Z, directed by Daniel Erdelyi (2008, Hungary, drama, 7 minutes)
A barge on the Danube. A carefree summer day. Stew in the pot, and a little wine and soda to wash it off. Other than that, everything is strictly according to the shipping regulations, of course. But something might have gone wrong... In English.
Learn more.

The Hide, directed by Marek Losey (2008, United Kingdom, fiction, 84 minutes)
In this dark thriller, a prematurely aged, mildly obsessive bird watcher receives an unexpected visit to his bird-hide from a wild-looking stranger. In English.
Learn more.

Desert Trains; Border
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

Desert Trains, directed by Boaz Armoni (2008, Israel, fiction, 25 minutes)
Shuli dreams of life in another place, maybe Tel Aviv. In the meantime she lives in a god-forsaken desert town and works in a spring factory. Eli, the local macho, tries desperately to win her heart, and brings her a foreign worker to do her work as a present. An unexpected twist in the relationships and Shuli might see her dreams come true. In Hebrew. Learn more.

Border, directed by Harutyun Khachatyan (2009, Armenia, documentary, 82 minutes)
A semi-brutal she-buffalo is found near the border and brought to a small post-war Armenian village. Through her eyes we see the joys and disasters of everyday life. In Armenian. Learn more.

Special Event: World's Greatest Dad
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $16 regular; $14 students/seniors (screening and party); $10 regular; $8 students/seniors (screening only); multifilm discount passes available
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

World's Greatest Dad, directed by Bobcat Goldthwait (2009, United States, fiction, 99 minutes)
If you have ever seen Bobcat Goldthwait's films before, you know that World's Greatest Dad will be both funny and shocking. This film, staring Robin Williams, is a thoughtful but outrageous comedy about a man who learns that the things you want most may not be the things that make you happy and that being lonely is not necessarily the same as being alone. Join us at the Palace Theater in welcoming Bobcat back to Syracuse, then join Bobcat at OHM Lounge in Armory Square after the film to close the fest with a fabulous wrap party!

Discussion with Bobcat immediately following the Film! Learn more.

Exhibition: Architecture & Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibition of student work from the Architecture & Interior Design Department. It is an annual exhibit that showcases some of the best work produced by our students in the preceding academic year.

Divertimento
Arts Alive in Liverpool

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

Music for woodwind instruments

Poetry in Song
Syracuse Children's Chorus
Cassatt String Quartet
Featuring Composer Libby Larsen

Price: $18/$14 adults; $16/$12 students
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Syracuse Children's Chorus will present Poetry In Song, a concert featuring works set to the poetry of Christina Rossetti, Walter de la Mare, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Frost, Robert Louis Stevenson, and more. The concert will include the world premiere of Mind You, Now, a work by composer Libby Larsen. Mind You, Now, based on poems by John Ciardi, will also feature the Cassatt String Quartet. This performance marks the third Larsen piece premiered by the Chorus and the second collaboration between the Chorus and the Cassatt String Quartet.

Little Women
Syracuse Opera

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

Mark Adamo's setting of Louisa May Alcott's class tale of the four March sisters and their coming-of-age stories. Sung in English with projected titles.

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I Shot My Rich Aunt
Appleseed Productions
Jon Wilson, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

This rollicking romp is a mélange of off-the-wall farce and near-murder mystery. Guests are due at Lady Valonia's stately manor (a castle with a weird history) for the announcement of her nephew Dustin's engagement to Judy Blake. Unluckily, Dustin's former flame also arrives to find out why Dustin dumped her while Judy's brother is persuaded to go shoot at starlings. The family solicitor is on his way to change Valonia's will (out of Dustin's favor) and Judy's school chum Gwendolyn is coming to ensnare Dustin's cousin, a humble curate. A stray bullet enters the library and Dustin finds Valonia with a hole in her blouse oozing warm red liquid. By the time he gets help, the body has vanished. Meanwhile, the picketing cooks' and maidservants' unions have raised the drawbridge, entrapping everyone as night falls. The solicitor's wife thinks he's having an affair with Gwendolyn and arrives with horsewhip in hand on the incoming fire engine. Who said the place was on fire? Written by Mark Chandler.

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Cruizin' with Nick and Friends

Price: $15
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

A trip down memory lane with a musical show for all ages, featuring Nick Mulpagano with Jeremy Wallace, Elizabeth Fern, Holly Wallace, Mike Wallace, and Shawn Forester.

For more information, phone 315-479-7469.

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The Diary of Anne Frank
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

The story is simplicity itself. A young girl, alive to everything around her and awakening within her, with hopes and dreams of the life she may one day lead with friends and family, confides to her diary the secrets of her heart. That diary, as we all know, becomes one of the lasting documents of the 20th century, a testament not to the horrors we know so well, but to the indomitability of the human spirit. That's what's so wonderful about this version of The Diary of Anne Frank, newly revised by Wendy Kesselman. With information gleaned from previously withheld portions of the diary and additional survivor accounts, we glimpse this remarkable young woman with greater clarity and deeper understanding of the fullness of her life. Was she on the verge of falling in love for the first time? Did she harbor misgivings about herself or members of the "family" imposed on her? We know the sad end of the tale, but do we really know the complexity of the heart that with its every beat sought to find the goodness in others?

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The World Goes 'Round
Syracuse University Drama Department
Nathan Hurwitz, director

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

Life -- with its glories, indignities, hopes and quiet dreams -- is the subject of this stunning revue of the beloved songs of John Kander and Fred Ebb. Features unforgettable gems from throughout their incredible career in theatre, film and television, spotlighting songs from Cabaret; Chicago; New York, New York; Funny Lady; Kiss Of The Spiderwoman and more. Filled with humor, romance, drama, nonstop melody and brassy, insightful lyrics, The World Goes 'Round is a thrilling celebration of life and the fighting spirit that keeps us all going.

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Monday, May 4, 2009

Window Projects: Museum of the City of Lost and Found
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Museum of the City of Lost and Found, Marion Wilson's latest sculpture project, is a continuation of her public art project launched in conjunction with the 2008 New Orleans Biennial. The exhibition is a combination of hexagram patterns of i-ching (a symbol system used to identify order in random events) collaboratively painted on the wall by the artist, community members, faculty and students at Syracuse University; miniature "igloo" and cast resin objects; and a short video of Wilson's bicycle (mobile museum) performance in New Orleans edited by Jessica Posner. Wilson invites audience participation by filling out Lost and Found Report cards (available throughout the exhibition), her method of collecting stories about viewers' personal losses, chances, findings and discoveries.

Marion Wilson uses igloos as a nomadic structure of native materials to remind us of our basic human need for shelter and protection. In addition, it is a reference to fundamentals of human existence and the Italian Arte Povera artist Mario Merz (1925-2003). In New Orleans, Wilson's sculpture was originally mounted on a constructed bicycle able to roam the city streets within the St. Roch neighborhood and the French Market. In Syracuse, Wilson will exhibit her 'mobile museum' at the Warehouse Gallery, thus, creating a "museum inside a museum." Although the installation in the Window Projects will remain through June 6, its appearance will continuously change through the continual addition of found materials collected by the artist. Wilson will be guided in selecting these additional materials by outside interviews with the general public in the greater Syracuse community.

Gallery Exhibition: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Feats of Clay spotlights the varied and creative ceramics art education programs in our high schools throughout Onondaga County and Central New York. The continued success of Feats of Clay rests with the talented and dedicated high school art teachers, art students.

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Threads of a Culture: Hadbakah Images by Selma Hurwitz
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

Price: Free
Winnick Hillel Center for Jewish Life
102 Walnut Place (corner of Harrison St.), Syracuse

Selma Hurwitz is an internationally-known artist whose works portray personal and social themes of universal impact, as well as basic motifs of love, beauty, valor and tyranny. In 1964, she created her own medium, hadbakah (Hebrew for "gluing"), which is glued-thread painting. Instead of using a brush, the artist glues various individual threads, particularly those that are metalized, to a specially prepared surface. Careful planning of thread direction and location, as well as meticulous maneuvering of the threads during the gluing process, achieves the desired shading and design.

Hurwitz has exhibited work in numerous solo shows, including those at the Russell Senate Office Building Rotunda and the First Baptist Church in Washington, DC; the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles; the American Jewish Historical Society in Waltham, MA; and the Herzl Institute in New York City. Her work is part of numerous collections, including the Israel Museum, Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and Knesset, all in Jerusalem; the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California; and the National Endowment for the Arts Library in Washington, DC.

For more information about the exhibition, contact April Maw at 315-443-7095 or aamaw@syr.edu.

A Goodly Heritage of Study: The Portfolio Club of Syracuse
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Displayed are the archives of a still-thriving women's study club that was formed in 1875 in Syracuse. The Portfolio Club exemplifies a post-Civil War movement in which many thousands of middle-class women came together to educate themselves in a society that restricted women's access to institutions of higher learning. This club began a few weeks after the Association for the Advancement of Women held a congress at the Wieting Opera House in downtown Syracuse. At these congresses, which took place in many American cities, Julia Ward Howe and other presenters encouraged women to form study clubs for self-culture.

Nine young women founded the Portfolio Club, with guidance from Mary Dana Hicks, their art teacher. Though they began with a focus on art, in the middle 1880s they expanded their scope to include literature, current events, history, performing arts and many other subjects. Members have always met regularly from October through April to read their papers on a topic assigned by each year's president.

Syracuse residents and those long associated with SU will recognize the married names of many past club members, such as Mrs. Donald Dey, Mrs. William Nottingham, Mrs. E.N. Westcott, and Mrs. Mildred Eggers. Among Portfolio guest speakers during the club's first several decades were Judge Charles Andrews, Dean George Fiske Comfort, Howard Lyman, professors Sawyer Falk and Irene Sargent, Paul Paine, Douglas Petit, Katherine Sibley, and SU Chancellor Charles Sims.

The exhibition, which emphasizes the years 1875-1950, includes annual program booklets, many of them finely crafted. Also on display are meeting minutes, clippings, photographs, film footage of a 1935 gathering and other club documents.

Road Trip 2: Works of Deborah Walsh
Westcott Community Center

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

An exhibition of car and bike paintings and prints. The work is about light and color, repetition and variation on the reflective surfaces of automobiles and motorcycles.

As It Happens: Artists-in-Residence at Light Work
Light Work Gallery

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

Josh Brilliant curates a selection of images by recent Light Work Artists-in-Residence, including Amy Stein, Kelli Connell, Cristina Fraire, Krista Steinke, and Christine Osinski. Brilliant is currently an MFA candidate in the Museum Studies program at Syracuse University.

Limbo: Works of Admas Habteslasie
Light Work Gallery

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

"Limbo" depicts a graceful yet unusually honest and insightful snapshot of Eritrea, an East African country suspended in an unsettled state between war and peace.

Eritrea warred with neighboring Ethiopia for 30 years before gaining independence in 1991. Then, in 1998, they entered another war with Ethiopia that lasted two years. Today, the war-torn country is yet again at the brink of war with their neighbor. Years of unrest have left the people of Eritrea waiting for life to improve. According to Habteslasie: "Transitory states become permanent; empty villas, destroyed old buildings and unfinished new buildings dot the landscape, monuments to the suspension of history. The collision between Eritrea's proud historical narrative and the bleak ennui of the present has produced an obsessive focus on the future. Reconstruction and infrastructure development are energetically driven forward whilst the economy remains essentially shut off from the outside world." The images in "Limbo" capture both destruction and construction, both the unhealed wounds of war and a fierce optimism and hope for a brighter future.

Habteslasie was born in Kuwait, and his parents are Eritrean. He received his master's degree from the London College of Communication in photojournalism and documentary photography. His photographic projects look at the ideas of identity, history, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with historical process. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Flowers East and 198 Gallery in London. His work has also been published in Source Magazine.

Stoneware and Stone "Wear"
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Works of Sallie Thompson, ceramics, and Dee Ann VonHunke, fine silver and semi-precious gemstone jewelry.

Exhibition: Architecture & Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibition of student work from the Architecture & Interior Design Department. It is an annual exhibit that showcases some of the best work produced by our students in the preceding academic year.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Window Projects: Museum of the City of Lost and Found
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Museum of the City of Lost and Found, Marion Wilson's latest sculpture project, is a continuation of her public art project launched in conjunction with the 2008 New Orleans Biennial. The exhibition is a combination of hexagram patterns of i-ching (a symbol system used to identify order in random events) collaboratively painted on the wall by the artist, community members, faculty and students at Syracuse University; miniature "igloo" and cast resin objects; and a short video of Wilson's bicycle (mobile museum) performance in New Orleans edited by Jessica Posner. Wilson invites audience participation by filling out Lost and Found Report cards (available throughout the exhibition), her method of collecting stories about viewers' personal losses, chances, findings and discoveries.

Marion Wilson uses igloos as a nomadic structure of native materials to remind us of our basic human need for shelter and protection. In addition, it is a reference to fundamentals of human existence and the Italian Arte Povera artist Mario Merz (1925-2003). In New Orleans, Wilson's sculpture was originally mounted on a constructed bicycle able to roam the city streets within the St. Roch neighborhood and the French Market. In Syracuse, Wilson will exhibit her 'mobile museum' at the Warehouse Gallery, thus, creating a "museum inside a museum." Although the installation in the Window Projects will remain through June 6, its appearance will continuously change through the continual addition of found materials collected by the artist. Wilson will be guided in selecting these additional materials by outside interviews with the general public in the greater Syracuse community.

Gallery Exhibition: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Feats of Clay spotlights the varied and creative ceramics art education programs in our high schools throughout Onondaga County and Central New York. The continued success of Feats of Clay rests with the talented and dedicated high school art teachers, art students.

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Photo-Drawings: Recent Works by Julieve Jubin and Juan Perdiguero, and An Introduction: Recent Works by Barbara Stout
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Threads of a Culture: Hadbakah Images by Selma Hurwitz
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

Price: Free
Winnick Hillel Center for Jewish Life
102 Walnut Place (corner of Harrison St.), Syracuse

Selma Hurwitz is an internationally-known artist whose works portray personal and social themes of universal impact, as well as basic motifs of love, beauty, valor and tyranny. In 1964, she created her own medium, hadbakah (Hebrew for "gluing"), which is glued-thread painting. Instead of using a brush, the artist glues various individual threads, particularly those that are metalized, to a specially prepared surface. Careful planning of thread direction and location, as well as meticulous maneuvering of the threads during the gluing process, achieves the desired shading and design.

Hurwitz has exhibited work in numerous solo shows, including those at the Russell Senate Office Building Rotunda and the First Baptist Church in Washington, DC; the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles; the American Jewish Historical Society in Waltham, MA; and the Herzl Institute in New York City. Her work is part of numerous collections, including the Israel Museum, Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and Knesset, all in Jerusalem; the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California; and the National Endowment for the Arts Library in Washington, DC.

For more information about the exhibition, contact April Maw at 315-443-7095 or aamaw@syr.edu.

A Goodly Heritage of Study: The Portfolio Club of Syracuse
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Displayed are the archives of a still-thriving women's study club that was formed in 1875 in Syracuse. The Portfolio Club exemplifies a post-Civil War movement in which many thousands of middle-class women came together to educate themselves in a society that restricted women's access to institutions of higher learning. This club began a few weeks after the Association for the Advancement of Women held a congress at the Wieting Opera House in downtown Syracuse. At these congresses, which took place in many American cities, Julia Ward Howe and other presenters encouraged women to form study clubs for self-culture.

Nine young women founded the Portfolio Club, with guidance from Mary Dana Hicks, their art teacher. Though they began with a focus on art, in the middle 1880s they expanded their scope to include literature, current events, history, performing arts and many other subjects. Members have always met regularly from October through April to read their papers on a topic assigned by each year's president.

Syracuse residents and those long associated with SU will recognize the married names of many past club members, such as Mrs. Donald Dey, Mrs. William Nottingham, Mrs. E.N. Westcott, and Mrs. Mildred Eggers. Among Portfolio guest speakers during the club's first several decades were Judge Charles Andrews, Dean George Fiske Comfort, Howard Lyman, professors Sawyer Falk and Irene Sargent, Paul Paine, Douglas Petit, Katherine Sibley, and SU Chancellor Charles Sims.

The exhibition, which emphasizes the years 1875-1950, includes annual program booklets, many of them finely crafted. Also on display are meeting minutes, clippings, photographs, film footage of a 1935 gathering and other club documents.

Road Trip 2: Works of Deborah Walsh
Westcott Community Center

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

An exhibition of car and bike paintings and prints. The work is about light and color, repetition and variation on the reflective surfaces of automobiles and motorcycles.

As It Happens: Artists-in-Residence at Light Work
Light Work Gallery

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

Josh Brilliant curates a selection of images by recent Light Work Artists-in-Residence, including Amy Stein, Kelli Connell, Cristina Fraire, Krista Steinke, and Christine Osinski. Brilliant is currently an MFA candidate in the Museum Studies program at Syracuse University.

Limbo: Works of Admas Habteslasie
Light Work Gallery

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

"Limbo" depicts a graceful yet unusually honest and insightful snapshot of Eritrea, an East African country suspended in an unsettled state between war and peace.

Eritrea warred with neighboring Ethiopia for 30 years before gaining independence in 1991. Then, in 1998, they entered another war with Ethiopia that lasted two years. Today, the war-torn country is yet again at the brink of war with their neighbor. Years of unrest have left the people of Eritrea waiting for life to improve. According to Habteslasie: "Transitory states become permanent; empty villas, destroyed old buildings and unfinished new buildings dot the landscape, monuments to the suspension of history. The collision between Eritrea's proud historical narrative and the bleak ennui of the present has produced an obsessive focus on the future. Reconstruction and infrastructure development are energetically driven forward whilst the economy remains essentially shut off from the outside world." The images in "Limbo" capture both destruction and construction, both the unhealed wounds of war and a fierce optimism and hope for a brighter future.

Habteslasie was born in Kuwait, and his parents are Eritrean. He received his master's degree from the London College of Communication in photojournalism and documentary photography. His photographic projects look at the ideas of identity, history, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with historical process. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Flowers East and 198 Gallery in London. His work has also been published in Source Magazine.

Stoneware and Stone "Wear"
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Works of Sallie Thompson, ceramics, and Dee Ann VonHunke, fine silver and semi-precious gemstone jewelry.

MFA 2009
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

MFA 2009 is an exhibition of master of fine arts degree candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. Twenty-two artists will exhibit a range of work from traditional media such as oil on canvas, portraiture, and atmospheric-fired pottery to contemporary media including digital prints, site-specific installation, and video projection. The diversity of the show is also distinctly international, with artists from Canada, France, Korea and Russia.

While the artists work in a variety of media and techniques, themes emerge across the disciplines. The concept of the fabricated or manipulated environment is evident in many of the artists' sculptural installations, including a monumental model stagecoach positioned in a moon-landing re-creation and a faux-storefront display with ceramic poodles that both mock and celebrate what we regard as haute couture.

Nostalgia and personal identity are also sources of inspiration in this year's exhibition. One artist's work reinterprets the well-known characters from Sesame Street into an iconic status, while another incorporates the artist's past memories and dark humor into photographs that explore childhood experiences of fear, mortality and sex.

Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition of works by Andrew Deutsch and Stephen Vitiello, "Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass," is an installation composed of audio and video pieces as well as photographs, prints and sculpture. Deutsch and Vitiello are musicians, composers and sound artists who have been collaborating since 1999. For this, their first co-exhibition, the artists provided each other with musical scores for the other to perform. In so doing, they emphasize the visual nature of sound scores, shedding light on this complex, seemingly inaccessible medium called sound art.

In Vitiello's work viewers will see a shift from landscape photographs (7 Studies for Graphic Scores, 2007) to abstract black-and-white prints (Pond Set, 2008) that continue to refer to landscape through black lines that evoke both reeds and musical notes. In the background of his videos, Deutsch includes imagery from the "Notgeld" (emergency money that was put into circulation in Germany during the economic crisis of the 1920s) as a reflection on our difficult economic times. Deutsch also uses these collectibles in the making of his own sound scores; he has created a narrative referring to the films of Fritz Lang, to illustrated children's books, and to early 20th-century European artistic abstraction, where sound and sight blend into a common experience.

Titicut Follies
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

In his eye-opening masterpiece, Frederick Wiseman chronicles the daily activities of the staff and inmates at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, MA. From psychological evaluations, to recreation time and from treatments to impromptu concerts, this evocative film shows with gritty clarity the way in which the inmates are treated by guards, social workers and psychiatrists.

Titicut Follies takes its name from the New Years Eve variety show put on by the staff and featuring musical acts by inmates who are more likely to look lost, confused, and frightened than happy to be performing. The staffs indifference to the discomfort of the inmates is disappointing, but it is benign in comparison to the routine treatment of the inmates who are frequently manhandled, incessantly badgered or condescended to, and abused and degraded in a myriad of ways. Sessions with the psychiatrist are cold and accusatory with little apparent therapeutic purpose. Inmates are typically kept naked and housed in barren, isolation chambers without plumbing, cots, or personal effects. The guards behavior towards the inmates ranges from indifference to sadism.

This is Wisemans first film and it is a hellish descent. It is an indictment of the mental health system so powerful that the authorities felt compelled to quash it, and a record for the ages, lest we ever forget. Banned in Massachusetts in 1968, the authorities suppressed Titicut for a quarter century, arguing that it violated the privacy of the inmates - a risible claim, as it's painfully clear that these men had no rights at all.

Exhibition: Architecture & Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibition of student work from the Architecture & Interior Design Department. It is an annual exhibit that showcases some of the best work produced by our students in the preceding academic year.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Broadway in Syracuse

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

In the Tony-Award winning new musical comedy The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, learn that winning isn't everything and that losing doesn't necessarily make you a loser. Spelling Bee has been hailed by the Wall Street Journal as "perfect in every possible way -- that rarity of rarities, a super-smart musical that is also a bona fide crowd pleaser." This tuneful, offbeat and at times heartwarming show offers audience members the opportunity (strictly voluntary) to become part of the action as on-stage spellers. The New York Times calls The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee "irresistible, riotously funny and remarkably ingenious -- gold stars all around."

Read a review!

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Window Projects: Museum of the City of Lost and Found
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Museum of the City of Lost and Found, Marion Wilson's latest sculpture project, is a continuation of her public art project launched in conjunction with the 2008 New Orleans Biennial. The exhibition is a combination of hexagram patterns of i-ching (a symbol system used to identify order in random events) collaboratively painted on the wall by the artist, community members, faculty and students at Syracuse University; miniature "igloo" and cast resin objects; and a short video of Wilson's bicycle (mobile museum) performance in New Orleans edited by Jessica Posner. Wilson invites audience participation by filling out Lost and Found Report cards (available throughout the exhibition), her method of collecting stories about viewers' personal losses, chances, findings and discoveries.

Marion Wilson uses igloos as a nomadic structure of native materials to remind us of our basic human need for shelter and protection. In addition, it is a reference to fundamentals of human existence and the Italian Arte Povera artist Mario Merz (1925-2003). In New Orleans, Wilson's sculpture was originally mounted on a constructed bicycle able to roam the city streets within the St. Roch neighborhood and the French Market. In Syracuse, Wilson will exhibit her 'mobile museum' at the Warehouse Gallery, thus, creating a "museum inside a museum." Although the installation in the Window Projects will remain through June 6, its appearance will continuously change through the continual addition of found materials collected by the artist. Wilson will be guided in selecting these additional materials by outside interviews with the general public in the greater Syracuse community.

Gallery Exhibition: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Feats of Clay spotlights the varied and creative ceramics art education programs in our high schools throughout Onondaga County and Central New York. The continued success of Feats of Clay rests with the talented and dedicated high school art teachers, art students.

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Photo-Drawings: Recent Works by Julieve Jubin and Juan Perdiguero, and An Introduction: Recent Works by Barbara Stout
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Threads of a Culture: Hadbakah Images by Selma Hurwitz
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

Price: Free
Winnick Hillel Center for Jewish Life
102 Walnut Place (corner of Harrison St.), Syracuse

Selma Hurwitz is an internationally-known artist whose works portray personal and social themes of universal impact, as well as basic motifs of love, beauty, valor and tyranny. In 1964, she created her own medium, hadbakah (Hebrew for "gluing"), which is glued-thread painting. Instead of using a brush, the artist glues various individual threads, particularly those that are metalized, to a specially prepared surface. Careful planning of thread direction and location, as well as meticulous maneuvering of the threads during the gluing process, achieves the desired shading and design.

Hurwitz has exhibited work in numerous solo shows, including those at the Russell Senate Office Building Rotunda and the First Baptist Church in Washington, DC; the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles; the American Jewish Historical Society in Waltham, MA; and the Herzl Institute in New York City. Her work is part of numerous collections, including the Israel Museum, Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and Knesset, all in Jerusalem; the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California; and the National Endowment for the Arts Library in Washington, DC.

For more information about the exhibition, contact April Maw at 315-443-7095 or aamaw@syr.edu.

A Goodly Heritage of Study: The Portfolio Club of Syracuse
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Displayed are the archives of a still-thriving women's study club that was formed in 1875 in Syracuse. The Portfolio Club exemplifies a post-Civil War movement in which many thousands of middle-class women came together to educate themselves in a society that restricted women's access to institutions of higher learning. This club began a few weeks after the Association for the Advancement of Women held a congress at the Wieting Opera House in downtown Syracuse. At these congresses, which took place in many American cities, Julia Ward Howe and other presenters encouraged women to form study clubs for self-culture.

Nine young women founded the Portfolio Club, with guidance from Mary Dana Hicks, their art teacher. Though they began with a focus on art, in the middle 1880s they expanded their scope to include literature, current events, history, performing arts and many other subjects. Members have always met regularly from October through April to read their papers on a topic assigned by each year's president.

Syracuse residents and those long associated with SU will recognize the married names of many past club members, such as Mrs. Donald Dey, Mrs. William Nottingham, Mrs. E.N. Westcott, and Mrs. Mildred Eggers. Among Portfolio guest speakers during the club's first several decades were Judge Charles Andrews, Dean George Fiske Comfort, Howard Lyman, professors Sawyer Falk and Irene Sargent, Paul Paine, Douglas Petit, Katherine Sibley, and SU Chancellor Charles Sims.

The exhibition, which emphasizes the years 1875-1950, includes annual program booklets, many of them finely crafted. Also on display are meeting minutes, clippings, photographs, film footage of a 1935 gathering and other club documents.

Road Trip 2: Works of Deborah Walsh
Westcott Community Center

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

An exhibition of car and bike paintings and prints. The work is about light and color, repetition and variation on the reflective surfaces of automobiles and motorcycles.

39th Anniversary Celebration of the Arts Art Exhibit
Celebration of the Arts

Price: Free
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

The Celebration of the Arts, with a juried art show featuring over 100 artists and performances by local musicians and actors, provides the opportunity to enjoy the creativity of outstanding area visual and performing artists.

As It Happens: Artists-in-Residence at Light Work
Light Work Gallery

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

Josh Brilliant curates a selection of images by recent Light Work Artists-in-Residence, including Amy Stein, Kelli Connell, Cristina Fraire, Krista Steinke, and Christine Osinski. Brilliant is currently an MFA candidate in the Museum Studies program at Syracuse University.

Limbo: Works of Admas Habteslasie
Light Work Gallery

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

"Limbo" depicts a graceful yet unusually honest and insightful snapshot of Eritrea, an East African country suspended in an unsettled state between war and peace.

Eritrea warred with neighboring Ethiopia for 30 years before gaining independence in 1991. Then, in 1998, they entered another war with Ethiopia that lasted two years. Today, the war-torn country is yet again at the brink of war with their neighbor. Years of unrest have left the people of Eritrea waiting for life to improve. According to Habteslasie: "Transitory states become permanent; empty villas, destroyed old buildings and unfinished new buildings dot the landscape, monuments to the suspension of history. The collision between Eritrea's proud historical narrative and the bleak ennui of the present has produced an obsessive focus on the future. Reconstruction and infrastructure development are energetically driven forward whilst the economy remains essentially shut off from the outside world." The images in "Limbo" capture both destruction and construction, both the unhealed wounds of war and a fierce optimism and hope for a brighter future.

Habteslasie was born in Kuwait, and his parents are Eritrean. He received his master's degree from the London College of Communication in photojournalism and documentary photography. His photographic projects look at the ideas of identity, history, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with historical process. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Flowers East and 198 Gallery in London. His work has also been published in Source Magazine.

Exploring History with Art: The Changing View—Landscapes
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Paintings from OHA's permanent collection

XAYC: Xybrid Authenticity Ynder Construction, and Museum of the City of Lost and Found
Redhouse

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

The Red House is proud to present international artists Daniela Kostova and Joro De Boro with their newest site-specific project and art event commissioned by the Red House, entitled "XAYC: Xybrid Authenticity Ynder Construction," and Marion Wilson with "Museum of the City of Lost and Found," video projection and sidewalk installation.

XAYC (pronounced "house" in English) is an art project that questions contemporary identity politics and the concept of subjectivity in relation to authenticity. In Bulgarian, XAYC stands for "chaos".

By creating site-specific works both inside and outside of the Red House Arts Center's building, Daniela Kostova and Joro De Boro will open up a dialogue about the meaning of authenticity in the context of contemporary culture, the role of the artist in a system of specialized division of labor, and the importance of audience participation in the ecology of art consumption.

Marion Wilson will project "Museum of the City of Lost and Found" as a video--a staged performance of Marion Wilson riding the museum/bicycle through the cemetery stones of St. Roch. In addition, a sculpture/drawing on the city sidewalks will physically and visually connect Marion's current Warehouse Gallery Window installation to the Red House building. Marion Wilson's artwork included in "XAYC" is the latest development within a body of work commissioned by the 2008 New Orleans Biennial.

Stoneware and Stone "Wear"
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Works of Sallie Thompson, ceramics, and Dee Ann VonHunke, fine silver and semi-precious gemstone jewelry.

MFA 2009
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

MFA 2009 is an exhibition of master of fine arts degree candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. Twenty-two artists will exhibit a range of work from traditional media such as oil on canvas, portraiture, and atmospheric-fired pottery to contemporary media including digital prints, site-specific installation, and video projection. The diversity of the show is also distinctly international, with artists from Canada, France, Korea and Russia.

While the artists work in a variety of media and techniques, themes emerge across the disciplines. The concept of the fabricated or manipulated environment is evident in many of the artists' sculptural installations, including a monumental model stagecoach positioned in a moon-landing re-creation and a faux-storefront display with ceramic poodles that both mock and celebrate what we regard as haute couture.

Nostalgia and personal identity are also sources of inspiration in this year's exhibition. One artist's work reinterprets the well-known characters from Sesame Street into an iconic status, while another incorporates the artist's past memories and dark humor into photographs that explore childhood experiences of fear, mortality and sex.

BFA Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition will feature work from seniors in VPA's School of Art and Design and Department of Transmedia, with a particular focus on the areas of painting, illustration, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, fiber arts/material studies and art photography.

Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition of works by Andrew Deutsch and Stephen Vitiello, "Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass," is an installation composed of audio and video pieces as well as photographs, prints and sculpture. Deutsch and Vitiello are musicians, composers and sound artists who have been collaborating since 1999. For this, their first co-exhibition, the artists provided each other with musical scores for the other to perform. In so doing, they emphasize the visual nature of sound scores, shedding light on this complex, seemingly inaccessible medium called sound art.

In Vitiello's work viewers will see a shift from landscape photographs (7 Studies for Graphic Scores, 2007) to abstract black-and-white prints (Pond Set, 2008) that continue to refer to landscape through black lines that evoke both reeds and musical notes. In the background of his videos, Deutsch includes imagery from the "Notgeld" (emergency money that was put into circulation in Germany during the economic crisis of the 1920s) as a reflection on our difficult economic times. Deutsch also uses these collectibles in the making of his own sound scores; he has created a narrative referring to the films of Fritz Lang, to illustrated children's books, and to early 20th-century European artistic abstraction, where sound and sight blend into a common experience.

Nothing to Hide: Mental Illness in the Family
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

In conjunction with NAMI Syracuse (National Alliance on Mental Illness) and to celebrate May Is Mental Health Month, the ArtRage Gallery presents the photo essay "Nothing to Hide: Mental Illness in the Family" and the paintings of Amber Christian Osterhout; a series titled Gaining Insight: An examination of the relationship between schizophrenia and stigma.

Exhibition: Architecture & Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibition of student work from the Architecture & Interior Design Department. It is an annual exhibit that showcases some of the best work produced by our students in the preceding academic year.

Civic Morning Musicals
Kristy Labbate, soprano; Jacob Hahn, piano

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

Arias and songs by Mozart, Wolf, Faure, Berlioz, Offenbach, and Ernst Bacon's And This of All My Hopes.

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Window Projects: Museum of the City of Lost and Found
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Museum of the City of Lost and Found, Marion Wilson's latest sculpture project, is a continuation of her public art project launched in conjunction with the 2008 New Orleans Biennial. The exhibition is a combination of hexagram patterns of i-ching (a symbol system used to identify order in random events) collaboratively painted on the wall by the artist, community members, faculty and students at Syracuse University; miniature "igloo" and cast resin objects; and a short video of Wilson's bicycle (mobile museum) performance in New Orleans edited by Jessica Posner. Wilson invites audience participation by filling out Lost and Found Report cards (available throughout the exhibition), her method of collecting stories about viewers' personal losses, chances, findings and discoveries.

Marion Wilson uses igloos as a nomadic structure of native materials to remind us of our basic human need for shelter and protection. In addition, it is a reference to fundamentals of human existence and the Italian Arte Povera artist Mario Merz (1925-2003). In New Orleans, Wilson's sculpture was originally mounted on a constructed bicycle able to roam the city streets within the St. Roch neighborhood and the French Market. In Syracuse, Wilson will exhibit her 'mobile museum' at the Warehouse Gallery, thus, creating a "museum inside a museum." Although the installation in the Window Projects will remain through June 6, its appearance will continuously change through the continual addition of found materials collected by the artist. Wilson will be guided in selecting these additional materials by outside interviews with the general public in the greater Syracuse community.

Gallery Exhibition: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

There will be an artist reception at 5:30 pm.

Feats of Clay spotlights the varied and creative ceramics art education programs in our high schools throughout Onondaga County and Central New York. The continued success of Feats of Clay rests with the talented and dedicated high school art teachers, art students.

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Photo-Drawings: Recent Works by Julieve Jubin and Juan Perdiguero, and An Introduction: Recent Works by Barbara Stout
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Threads of a Culture: Hadbakah Images by Selma Hurwitz
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

Price: Free
Winnick Hillel Center for Jewish Life
102 Walnut Place (corner of Harrison St.), Syracuse

Selma Hurwitz is an internationally-known artist whose works portray personal and social themes of universal impact, as well as basic motifs of love, beauty, valor and tyranny. In 1964, she created her own medium, hadbakah (Hebrew for "gluing"), which is glued-thread painting. Instead of using a brush, the artist glues various individual threads, particularly those that are metalized, to a specially prepared surface. Careful planning of thread direction and location, as well as meticulous maneuvering of the threads during the gluing process, achieves the desired shading and design.

Hurwitz has exhibited work in numerous solo shows, including those at the Russell Senate Office Building Rotunda and the First Baptist Church in Washington, DC; the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles; the American Jewish Historical Society in Waltham, MA; and the Herzl Institute in New York City. Her work is part of numerous collections, including the Israel Museum, Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and Knesset, all in Jerusalem; the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California; and the National Endowment for the Arts Library in Washington, DC.

For more information about the exhibition, contact April Maw at 315-443-7095 or aamaw@syr.edu.

Road Trip 2: Works of Deborah Walsh
Westcott Community Center

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

An exhibition of car and bike paintings and prints. The work is about light and color, repetition and variation on the reflective surfaces of automobiles and motorcycles.

39th Anniversary Celebration of the Arts Art Exhibit
Celebration of the Arts

Price: Free
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

The Celebration of the Arts, with a juried art show featuring over 100 artists and performances by local musicians and actors, provides the opportunity to enjoy the creativity of outstanding area visual and performing artists.

As It Happens: Artists-in-Residence at Light Work
Light Work Gallery

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

Josh Brilliant curates a selection of images by recent Light Work Artists-in-Residence, including Amy Stein, Kelli Connell, Cristina Fraire, Krista Steinke, and Christine Osinski. Brilliant is currently an MFA candidate in the Museum Studies program at Syracuse University.

Limbo: Works of Admas Habteslasie
Light Work Gallery

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

"Limbo" depicts a graceful yet unusually honest and insightful snapshot of Eritrea, an East African country suspended in an unsettled state between war and peace.

Eritrea warred with neighboring Ethiopia for 30 years before gaining independence in 1991. Then, in 1998, they entered another war with Ethiopia that lasted two years. Today, the war-torn country is yet again at the brink of war with their neighbor. Years of unrest have left the people of Eritrea waiting for life to improve. According to Habteslasie: "Transitory states become permanent; empty villas, destroyed old buildings and unfinished new buildings dot the landscape, monuments to the suspension of history. The collision between Eritrea's proud historical narrative and the bleak ennui of the present has produced an obsessive focus on the future. Reconstruction and infrastructure development are energetically driven forward whilst the economy remains essentially shut off from the outside world." The images in "Limbo" capture both destruction and construction, both the unhealed wounds of war and a fierce optimism and hope for a brighter future.

Habteslasie was born in Kuwait, and his parents are Eritrean. He received his master's degree from the London College of Communication in photojournalism and documentary photography. His photographic projects look at the ideas of identity, history, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with historical process. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Flowers East and 198 Gallery in London. His work has also been published in Source Magazine.

Exploring History with Art: The Changing View—Landscapes
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Paintings from OHA's permanent collection

XAYC: Xybrid Authenticity Ynder Construction, and Museum of the City of Lost and Found
Redhouse

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

The Red House is proud to present international artists Daniela Kostova and Joro De Boro with their newest site-specific project and art event commissioned by the Red House, entitled "XAYC: Xybrid Authenticity Ynder Construction," and Marion Wilson with "Museum of the City of Lost and Found," video projection and sidewalk installation.

XAYC (pronounced "house" in English) is an art project that questions contemporary identity politics and the concept of subjectivity in relation to authenticity. In Bulgarian, XAYC stands for "chaos".

By creating site-specific works both inside and outside of the Red House Arts Center's building, Daniela Kostova and Joro De Boro will open up a dialogue about the meaning of authenticity in the context of contemporary culture, the role of the artist in a system of specialized division of labor, and the importance of audience participation in the ecology of art consumption.

Marion Wilson will project "Museum of the City of Lost and Found" as a video--a staged performance of Marion Wilson riding the museum/bicycle through the cemetery stones of St. Roch. In addition, a sculpture/drawing on the city sidewalks will physically and visually connect Marion's current Warehouse Gallery Window installation to the Red House building. Marion Wilson's artwork included in "XAYC" is the latest development within a body of work commissioned by the 2008 New Orleans Biennial.

All Forms: Studio Pottery '09
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Featuring works by 13 artists.

Stoneware and Stone "Wear"
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Works of Sallie Thompson, ceramics, and Dee Ann VonHunke, fine silver and semi-precious gemstone jewelry.

MFA 2009
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

MFA 2009 is an exhibition of master of fine arts degree candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. Twenty-two artists will exhibit a range of work from traditional media such as oil on canvas, portraiture, and atmospheric-fired pottery to contemporary media including digital prints, site-specific installation, and video projection. The diversity of the show is also distinctly international, with artists from Canada, France, Korea and Russia.

While the artists work in a variety of media and techniques, themes emerge across the disciplines. The concept of the fabricated or manipulated environment is evident in many of the artists' sculptural installations, including a monumental model stagecoach positioned in a moon-landing re-creation and a faux-storefront display with ceramic poodles that both mock and celebrate what we regard as haute couture.

Nostalgia and personal identity are also sources of inspiration in this year's exhibition. One artist's work reinterprets the well-known characters from Sesame Street into an iconic status, while another incorporates the artist's past memories and dark humor into photographs that explore childhood experiences of fear, mortality and sex.

BFA Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition will feature work from seniors in VPA's School of Art and Design and Department of Transmedia, with a particular focus on the areas of painting, illustration, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, fiber arts/material studies and art photography.

Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition of works by Andrew Deutsch and Stephen Vitiello, "Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass," is an installation composed of audio and video pieces as well as photographs, prints and sculpture. Deutsch and Vitiello are musicians, composers and sound artists who have been collaborating since 1999. For this, their first co-exhibition, the artists provided each other with musical scores for the other to perform. In so doing, they emphasize the visual nature of sound scores, shedding light on this complex, seemingly inaccessible medium called sound art.

In Vitiello's work viewers will see a shift from landscape photographs (7 Studies for Graphic Scores, 2007) to abstract black-and-white prints (Pond Set, 2008) that continue to refer to landscape through black lines that evoke both reeds and musical notes. In the background of his videos, Deutsch includes imagery from the "Notgeld" (emergency money that was put into circulation in Germany during the economic crisis of the 1920s) as a reflection on our difficult economic times. Deutsch also uses these collectibles in the making of his own sound scores; he has created a narrative referring to the films of Fritz Lang, to illustrated children's books, and to early 20th-century European artistic abstraction, where sound and sight blend into a common experience.

Nothing to Hide: Mental Illness in the Family
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

In conjunction with NAMI Syracuse (National Alliance on Mental Illness) and to celebrate May Is Mental Health Month, the ArtRage Gallery presents the photo essay "Nothing to Hide: Mental Illness in the Family" and the paintings of Amber Christian Osterhout; a series titled Gaining Insight: An examination of the relationship between schizophrenia and stigma.

Fusion
Delavan Art Gallery

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

John F. Fitzsimmons, paintings
Diana Godfrey, mixed media collage
Pam Steele, metal and glass wall sculptures
Catharine Westlake, acrylics and monotypes

Wild Card Exhibit: Paintings by Connie Carroll
Delavan Art Gallery

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

The Art of Urbanism: City Life in America & Abroad
Orange Line Gallery

Price: Free
Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The basis of this show will be a unique demonstration of city arts and culture. A showing of true urbanism and creativity that lies within the youth of this concrete civilization, where street performances, music, dancing, graffiti, art, and spoken word have evolved from simple basic ideas into the most complex and deep meaningful outputs of artistic expression.

"The Art of Urbanism: City Life in America & Abroad" at the will feature new artists as well as past favorites: John Deere, acrylic & spraypaint on canvas; Marc Pitterelli, photography; Ramona Persaud, photography; Tina Dadabo, colored pencil & marker on paper; Amber Blanding, glass; Brandon Hall, mixed media; David McKenney, acrylic on canvas; Debra Parry Trichilo, photography; Edward Colelli, photography on silk; Jace Collins, mixed media; Jim Reed, acrylic & spraypaint on canvas;
Melissa Tiffany, collage; and Mick Mather, digitally manipulated photography.

Exhibition: Architecture & Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibition of student work from the Architecture & Interior Design Department. It is an annual exhibit that showcases some of the best work produced by our students in the preceding academic year.

Westcott Theater
Marco Benevento Trio

Price: $13 over 21; $17 under 21
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Homestyle Homicide: The Freagan Family Reunion
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive comedy murder mystery.

Cats
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Price: $16
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The World Goes 'Round
Syracuse University Drama Department
Nathan Hurwitz, director

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

Life -- with its glories, indignities, hopes and quiet dreams -- is the subject of this stunning revue of the beloved songs of John Kander and Fred Ebb. Features unforgettable gems from throughout their incredible career in theatre, film and television, spotlighting songs from Cabaret; Chicago; New York, New York; Funny Lady; Kiss Of The Spiderwoman and more. Filled with humor, romance, drama, nonstop melody and brassy, insightful lyrics, The World Goes 'Round is a thrilling celebration of life and the fighting spirit that keeps us all going.

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Friday, May 8, 2009

Window Projects: Museum of the City of Lost and Found
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Museum of the City of Lost and Found, Marion Wilson's latest sculpture project, is a continuation of her public art project launched in conjunction with the 2008 New Orleans Biennial. The exhibition is a combination of hexagram patterns of i-ching (a symbol system used to identify order in random events) collaboratively painted on the wall by the artist, community members, faculty and students at Syracuse University; miniature "igloo" and cast resin objects; and a short video of Wilson's bicycle (mobile museum) performance in New Orleans edited by Jessica Posner. Wilson invites audience participation by filling out Lost and Found Report cards (available throughout the exhibition), her method of collecting stories about viewers' personal losses, chances, findings and discoveries.

Marion Wilson uses igloos as a nomadic structure of native materials to remind us of our basic human need for shelter and protection. In addition, it is a reference to fundamentals of human existence and the Italian Arte Povera artist Mario Merz (1925-2003). In New Orleans, Wilson's sculpture was originally mounted on a constructed bicycle able to roam the city streets within the St. Roch neighborhood and the French Market. In Syracuse, Wilson will exhibit her 'mobile museum' at the Warehouse Gallery, thus, creating a "museum inside a museum." Although the installation in the Window Projects will remain through June 6, its appearance will continuously change through the continual addition of found materials collected by the artist. Wilson will be guided in selecting these additional materials by outside interviews with the general public in the greater Syracuse community.

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Photo-Drawings: Recent Works by Julieve Jubin and Juan Perdiguero, and An Introduction: Recent Works by Barbara Stout
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Threads of a Culture: Hadbakah Images by Selma Hurwitz
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

Price: Free
Winnick Hillel Center for Jewish Life
102 Walnut Place (corner of Harrison St.), Syracuse

Selma Hurwitz is an internationally-known artist whose works portray personal and social themes of universal impact, as well as basic motifs of love, beauty, valor and tyranny. In 1964, she created her own medium, hadbakah (Hebrew for "gluing"), which is glued-thread painting. Instead of using a brush, the artist glues various individual threads, particularly those that are metalized, to a specially prepared surface. Careful planning of thread direction and location, as well as meticulous maneuvering of the threads during the gluing process, achieves the desired shading and design.

Hurwitz has exhibited work in numerous solo shows, including those at the Russell Senate Office Building Rotunda and the First Baptist Church in Washington, DC; the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles; the American Jewish Historical Society in Waltham, MA; and the Herzl Institute in New York City. Her work is part of numerous collections, including the Israel Museum, Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and Knesset, all in Jerusalem; the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California; and the National Endowment for the Arts Library in Washington, DC.

For more information about the exhibition, contact April Maw at 315-443-7095 or aamaw@syr.edu.

Road Trip 2: Works of Deborah Walsh
Westcott Community Center

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

An exhibition of car and bike paintings and prints. The work is about light and color, repetition and variation on the reflective surfaces of automobiles and motorcycles.

The Curiosity of Change
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anne Novado-Cappuccilli: Drawings and Paintings
John Lombardi: Works in Stone

39th Anniversary Celebration of the Arts Art Exhibit
Celebration of the Arts

Price: Free
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

The Celebration of the Arts, with a juried art show featuring over 100 artists and performances by local musicians and actors, provides the opportunity to enjoy the creativity of outstanding area visual and performing artists.

Limbo: Works of Admas Habteslasie
Light Work Gallery

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

"Limbo" depicts a graceful yet unusually honest and insightful snapshot of Eritrea, an East African country suspended in an unsettled state between war and peace.

Eritrea warred with neighboring Ethiopia for 30 years before gaining independence in 1991. Then, in 1998, they entered another war with Ethiopia that lasted two years. Today, the war-torn country is yet again at the brink of war with their neighbor. Years of unrest have left the people of Eritrea waiting for life to improve. According to Habteslasie: "Transitory states become permanent; empty villas, destroyed old buildings and unfinished new buildings dot the landscape, monuments to the suspension of history. The collision between Eritrea's proud historical narrative and the bleak ennui of the present has produced an obsessive focus on the future. Reconstruction and infrastructure development are energetically driven forward whilst the economy remains essentially shut off from the outside world." The images in "Limbo" capture both destruction and construction, both the unhealed wounds of war and a fierce optimism and hope for a brighter future.

Habteslasie was born in Kuwait, and his parents are Eritrean. He received his master's degree from the London College of Communication in photojournalism and documentary photography. His photographic projects look at the ideas of identity, history, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with historical process. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Flowers East and 198 Gallery in London. His work has also been published in Source Magazine.

As It Happens: Artists-in-Residence at Light Work
Light Work Gallery

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

Josh Brilliant curates a selection of images by recent Light Work Artists-in-Residence, including Amy Stein, Kelli Connell, Cristina Fraire, Krista Steinke, and Christine Osinski. Brilliant is currently an MFA candidate in the Museum Studies program at Syracuse University.

Curious Works
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Artist reception 6:00-8:00 PM.

Kyle Mort, paintings
Curtis W. Readel, money prints and collages
Roger Bisbing, small assemblies

Exploring History with Art: The Changing View—Landscapes
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Paintings from OHA's permanent collection

XAYC: Xybrid Authenticity Ynder Construction, and Museum of the City of Lost and Found
Redhouse

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

The Red House is proud to present international artists Daniela Kostova and Joro De Boro with their newest site-specific project and art event commissioned by the Red House, entitled "XAYC: Xybrid Authenticity Ynder Construction," and Marion Wilson with "Museum of the City of Lost and Found," video projection and sidewalk installation.

XAYC (pronounced "house" in English) is an art project that questions contemporary identity politics and the concept of subjectivity in relation to authenticity. In Bulgarian, XAYC stands for "chaos".

By creating site-specific works both inside and outside of the Red House Arts Center's building, Daniela Kostova and Joro De Boro will open up a dialogue about the meaning of authenticity in the context of contemporary culture, the role of the artist in a system of specialized division of labor, and the importance of audience participation in the ecology of art consumption.

Marion Wilson will project "Museum of the City of Lost and Found" as a video--a staged performance of Marion Wilson riding the museum/bicycle through the cemetery stones of St. Roch. In addition, a sculpture/drawing on the city sidewalks will physically and visually connect Marion's current Warehouse Gallery Window installation to the Red House building. Marion Wilson's artwork included in "XAYC" is the latest development within a body of work commissioned by the 2008 New Orleans Biennial.

All Forms: Studio Pottery '09
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Featuring works by 13 artists.

Stoneware and Stone "Wear"
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Works of Sallie Thompson, ceramics, and Dee Ann VonHunke, fine silver and semi-precious gemstone jewelry.

MFA 2009
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

MFA 2009 is an exhibition of master of fine arts degree candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. Twenty-two artists will exhibit a range of work from traditional media such as oil on canvas, portraiture, and atmospheric-fired pottery to contemporary media including digital prints, site-specific installation, and video projection. The diversity of the show is also distinctly international, with artists from Canada, France, Korea and Russia.

While the artists work in a variety of media and techniques, themes emerge across the disciplines. The concept of the fabricated or manipulated environment is evident in many of the artists' sculptural installations, including a monumental model stagecoach positioned in a moon-landing re-creation and a faux-storefront display with ceramic poodles that both mock and celebrate what we regard as haute couture.

Nostalgia and personal identity are also sources of inspiration in this year's exhibition. One artist's work reinterprets the well-known characters from Sesame Street into an iconic status, while another incorporates the artist's past memories and dark humor into photographs that explore childhood experiences of fear, mortality and sex.

BFA Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition will feature work from seniors in VPA's School of Art and Design and Department of Transmedia, with a particular focus on the areas of painting, illustration, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, fiber arts/material studies and art photography.

Wild Card Exhibit: Paintings by Connie Carroll
Delavan Art Gallery

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

Fusion
Delavan Art Gallery

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

John F. Fitzsimmons, paintings
Diana Godfrey, mixed media collage
Pam Steele, metal and glass wall sculptures
Catharine Westlake, acrylics and monotypes

Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition of works by Andrew Deutsch and Stephen Vitiello, "Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass," is an installation composed of audio and video pieces as well as photographs, prints and sculpture. Deutsch and Vitiello are musicians, composers and sound artists who have been collaborating since 1999. For this, their first co-exhibition, the artists provided each other with musical scores for the other to perform. In so doing, they emphasize the visual nature of sound scores, shedding light on this complex, seemingly inaccessible medium called sound art.

In Vitiello's work viewers will see a shift from landscape photographs (7 Studies for Graphic Scores, 2007) to abstract black-and-white prints (Pond Set, 2008) that continue to refer to landscape through black lines that evoke both reeds and musical notes. In the background of his videos, Deutsch includes imagery from the "Notgeld" (emergency money that was put into circulation in Germany during the economic crisis of the 1920s) as a reflection on our difficult economic times. Deutsch also uses these collectibles in the making of his own sound scores; he has created a narrative referring to the films of Fritz Lang, to illustrated children's books, and to early 20th-century European artistic abstraction, where sound and sight blend into a common experience.

Nothing to Hide: Mental Illness in the Family
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

In conjunction with NAMI Syracuse (National Alliance on Mental Illness) and to celebrate May Is Mental Health Month, the ArtRage Gallery presents the photo essay "Nothing to Hide: Mental Illness in the Family" and the paintings of Amber Christian Osterhout; a series titled Gaining Insight: An examination of the relationship between schizophrenia and stigma.

The Art of Urbanism: City Life in America & Abroad
Orange Line Gallery

Price: Free
Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The basis of this show will be a unique demonstration of city arts and culture. A showing of true urbanism and creativity that lies within the youth of this concrete civilization, where street performances, music, dancing, graffiti, art, and spoken word have evolved from simple basic ideas into the most complex and deep meaningful outputs of artistic expression.

"The Art of Urbanism: City Life in America & Abroad" at the will feature new artists as well as past favorites: John Deere, acrylic & spraypaint on canvas; Marc Pitterelli, photography; Ramona Persaud, photography; Tina Dadabo, colored pencil & marker on paper; Amber Blanding, glass; Brandon Hall, mixed media; David McKenney, acrylic on canvas; Debra Parry Trichilo, photography; Edward Colelli, photography on silk; Jace Collins, mixed media; Jim Reed, acrylic & spraypaint on canvas;
Melissa Tiffany, collage; and Mick Mather, digitally manipulated photography.

FridayFLICS: Roger and Me
ArtRage Gallery

Price: $5 suggested donation
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The first of Michael Moore's already legendary documentaries, he pursues GM CEO Roger Smith to confront him about the harm he did to Flint, Michigan with his massive downsizing. Won 11 awards including Best Documentary, National Society of Film Critics, National Board of Review, Berlin Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Vancouver International Film Festival. (1989)

Exhibition: Architecture & Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibition of student work from the Architecture & Interior Design Department. It is an annual exhibit that showcases some of the best work produced by our students in the preceding academic year.

OCC Flute Choir
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Classics Series: Piano Parables
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Russo, Piano
Daniel Hege, conductor

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

Golijov Last Round
Schoenfield Four Parables for Piano and Orchestra
Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 in D Minor

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Westcott Theater
To The Ruins; Sophistafunk

Price: $5 over 21, $8 under 21
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Book Release Party: The Solvay Process by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Wine, snacks, terrific poems, and new books!

The Solvay Process, the latest book of poems by Martin Walls, is an introspective collection of poetry that explores Walls' social life, including his observations of life while living in Central New York and in the Village of Solvay near Syracuse. Solvay is the home of the Solvay Process Plant, a soda ash manufacturing facility that closed in 1985. This is Walls' third book of poems. His two previous works are Small Human Detail in Care of National Trust (New Issues, 2000) and Commonwealth (March Street, 2005). Walls' poetry awards include a Witter Bynner Poetry Fellowship from the US Library of Congress, a The Nation/"Discovery" prize, and a Breadloaf Writers Conference scholarship.

Cruizin' with Nick and Friends

Price: $15
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

A trip down memory lane with a musical show for all ages, featuring Nick Mulpagano with Jeremy Wallace, Elizabeth Fern, Holly Wallace, Mike Wallace, and Shawn Forester.

For more information, phone 315-479-7469.

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June 16
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
Lauren Unbekant, director

Price: Free
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Ryan Travis' one-act play exploring single parenting in African-American communities.

Cats
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Price: $16
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Duck Variations
Celebration of the Arts
Sharee Lemos, director

Price: Free
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

A hilarious play by American playwright David Mamet.

I Shot My Rich Aunt
Appleseed Productions
Jon Wilson, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

This rollicking romp is a mélange of off-the-wall farce and near-murder mystery. Guests are due at Lady Valonia's stately manor (a castle with a weird history) for the announcement of her nephew Dustin's engagement to Judy Blake. Unluckily, Dustin's former flame also arrives to find out why Dustin dumped her while Judy's brother is persuaded to go shoot at starlings. The family solicitor is on his way to change Valonia's will (out of Dustin's favor) and Judy's school chum Gwendolyn is coming to ensnare Dustin's cousin, a humble curate. A stray bullet enters the library and Dustin finds Valonia with a hole in her blouse oozing warm red liquid. By the time he gets help, the body has vanished. Meanwhile, the picketing cooks' and maidservants' unions have raised the drawbridge, entrapping everyone as night falls. The solicitor's wife thinks he's having an affair with Gwendolyn and arrives with horsewhip in hand on the incoming fire engine. Who said the place was on fire? Written by Mark Chandler.

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The World Goes 'Round
Syracuse University Drama Department
Nathan Hurwitz, director

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

Life -- with its glories, indignities, hopes and quiet dreams -- is the subject of this stunning revue of the beloved songs of John Kander and Fred Ebb. Features unforgettable gems from throughout their incredible career in theatre, film and television, spotlighting songs from Cabaret; Chicago; New York, New York; Funny Lady; Kiss Of The Spiderwoman and more. Filled with humor, romance, drama, nonstop melody and brassy, insightful lyrics, The World Goes 'Round is a thrilling celebration of life and the fighting spirit that keeps us all going.

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Saturday, May 9, 2009

Window Projects: Museum of the City of Lost and Found
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Museum of the City of Lost and Found, Marion Wilson's latest sculpture project, is a continuation of her public art project launched in conjunction with the 2008 New Orleans Biennial. The exhibition is a combination of hexagram patterns of i-ching (a symbol system used to identify order in random events) collaboratively painted on the wall by the artist, community members, faculty and students at Syracuse University; miniature "igloo" and cast resin objects; and a short video of Wilson's bicycle (mobile museum) performance in New Orleans edited by Jessica Posner. Wilson invites audience participation by filling out Lost and Found Report cards (available throughout the exhibition), her method of collecting stories about viewers' personal losses, chances, findings and discoveries.

Marion Wilson uses igloos as a nomadic structure of native materials to remind us of our basic human need for shelter and protection. In addition, it is a reference to fundamentals of human existence and the Italian Arte Povera artist Mario Merz (1925-2003). In New Orleans, Wilson's sculpture was originally mounted on a constructed bicycle able to roam the city streets within the St. Roch neighborhood and the French Market. In Syracuse, Wilson will exhibit her 'mobile museum' at the Warehouse Gallery, thus, creating a "museum inside a museum." Although the installation in the Window Projects will remain through June 6, its appearance will continuously change through the continual addition of found materials collected by the artist. Wilson will be guided in selecting these additional materials by outside interviews with the general public in the greater Syracuse community.

39th Anniversary Celebration of the Arts Art Exhibit
Celebration of the Arts

Price: Free
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

The Celebration of the Arts, with a juried art show featuring over 100 artists and performances by local musicians and actors, provides the opportunity to enjoy the creativity of outstanding area visual and performing artists.

Fusion
Delavan Art Gallery

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

John F. Fitzsimmons, paintings
Diana Godfrey, mixed media collage
Pam Steele, metal and glass wall sculptures
Catharine Westlake, acrylics and monotypes

Artist Catharine Westlake will be in attendance 12:00-3:00.

Wild Card Exhibit: Paintings by Connie Carroll
Delavan Art Gallery

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

The Curiosity of Change
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anne Novado-Cappuccilli: Drawings and Paintings
John Lombardi: Works in Stone

Curious Works
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Kyle Mort, paintings
Curtis W. Readel, money prints and collages
Roger Bisbing, small assemblies

Stoneware and Stone "Wear"
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Works of Sallie Thompson, ceramics, and Dee Ann VonHunke, fine silver and semi-precious gemstone jewelry.

All Forms: Studio Pottery '09
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Featuring works by 13 artists.

Exploring History with Art: The Changing View—Landscapes
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Paintings from OHA's permanent collection

MFA 2009
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

MFA 2009 is an exhibition of master of fine arts degree candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. Twenty-two artists will exhibit a range of work from traditional media such as oil on canvas, portraiture, and atmospheric-fired pottery to contemporary media including digital prints, site-specific installation, and video projection. The diversity of the show is also distinctly international, with artists from Canada, France, Korea and Russia.

While the artists work in a variety of media and techniques, themes emerge across the disciplines. The concept of the fabricated or manipulated environment is evident in many of the artists' sculptural installations, including a monumental model stagecoach positioned in a moon-landing re-creation and a faux-storefront display with ceramic poodles that both mock and celebrate what we regard as haute couture.

Nostalgia and personal identity are also sources of inspiration in this year's exhibition. One artist's work reinterprets the well-known characters from Sesame Street into an iconic status, while another incorporates the artist's past memories and dark humor into photographs that explore childhood experiences of fear, mortality and sex.

BFA Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition will feature work from seniors in VPA's School of Art and Design and Department of Transmedia, with a particular focus on the areas of painting, illustration, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, fiber arts/material studies and art photography.

Nothing to Hide: Mental Illness in the Family
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

In conjunction with NAMI Syracuse (National Alliance on Mental Illness) and to celebrate May Is Mental Health Month, the ArtRage Gallery presents the photo essay "Nothing to Hide: Mental Illness in the Family" and the paintings of Amber Christian Osterhout; a series titled Gaining Insight: An examination of the relationship between schizophrenia and stigma.

The Art of Urbanism: City Life in America & Abroad
Orange Line Gallery

Price: Free
Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The basis of this show will be a unique demonstration of city arts and culture. A showing of true urbanism and creativity that lies within the youth of this concrete civilization, where street performances, music, dancing, graffiti, art, and spoken word have evolved from simple basic ideas into the most complex and deep meaningful outputs of artistic expression.

"The Art of Urbanism: City Life in America & Abroad" at the will feature new artists as well as past favorites: John Deere, acrylic & spraypaint on canvas; Marc Pitterelli, photography; Ramona Persaud, photography; Tina Dadabo, colored pencil & marker on paper; Amber Blanding, glass; Brandon Hall, mixed media; David McKenney, acrylic on canvas; Debra Parry Trichilo, photography; Edward Colelli, photography on silk; Jace Collins, mixed media; Jim Reed, acrylic & spraypaint on canvas;
Melissa Tiffany, collage; and Mick Mather, digitally manipulated photography.

Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition of works by Andrew Deutsch and Stephen Vitiello, "Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass," is an installation composed of audio and video pieces as well as photographs, prints and sculpture. Deutsch and Vitiello are musicians, composers and sound artists who have been collaborating since 1999. For this, their first co-exhibition, the artists provided each other with musical scores for the other to perform. In so doing, they emphasize the visual nature of sound scores, shedding light on this complex, seemingly inaccessible medium called sound art.

In Vitiello's work viewers will see a shift from landscape photographs (7 Studies for Graphic Scores, 2007) to abstract black-and-white prints (Pond Set, 2008) that continue to refer to landscape through black lines that evoke both reeds and musical notes. In the background of his videos, Deutsch includes imagery from the "Notgeld" (emergency money that was put into circulation in Germany during the economic crisis of the 1920s) as a reflection on our difficult economic times. Deutsch also uses these collectibles in the making of his own sound scores; he has created a narrative referring to the films of Fritz Lang, to illustrated children's books, and to early 20th-century European artistic abstraction, where sound and sight blend into a common experience.

Anime Syracuse Festival 2009

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

A celebration of Japanese anime and manga culture. Feature films to be shown include Claymore, Baccano!, and Darker than Black.

Tony Trischka
Westcott Community Center

Price: $15 regular; $12 WCC members
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Tony Trischka is perhaps the most influential banjo player in the roots music world. For more than 35 years, his stylings have inspired a whole generation of bluegrass and acoustic musicians. He was not only considered among the very best pickers, he was also one of the instrument's top teachers, and created numerous instructional books, teaching video tapes and cassettes.

A native of Syracuse, New York, Trischka's interest in banjo was sparked by the Kingston Trio's "Charlie and the MTA" in 1963. Two years later, he joined the Down City Ramblers, where he remained through 1971. That year, Trischka made his recording debut on 15 Bluegrass Instrumentals with the band Country Cooking; at the same time, he was also a member of Country Granola. In 1973, he began a two-year stint with Breakfast Special. Between 1974 and 1975, he recorded two solo albums, Bluegrass Light and Heartlands. After one more solo album in 1976, Banjoland, he went on to become musical leader for the Broadway show The Robber Bridegroom. Trischka toured with the show in 1978, the year he also played with the Monroe Doctrine. With his fearless musical curiosity as the guiding force, Tony Trischka's latest critically acclaimed release, Territory roams widely through the banjo's creative terrain. Nine selections partner Tony with fellow banjoists Pete Seeger, Mike Seeger, Bill Evans, Bill Keith, Bruce Molsky, and twelve all-Trischka solo tracks explore a panorama of tunings, banjo sounds, and traditions; tapping the creative potential of America's signature musical instrument.

Exhibition: Architecture & Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibition of student work from the Architecture & Interior Design Department. It is an annual exhibit that showcases some of the best work produced by our students in the preceding academic year.

Flutessence
John Oberbrunner, conductor

Price: Free
Soule Branch Library
101 Springfield Rd., Syracuse

-High school flute ensemble. For more information, phone 315-479-8084.

One-Hit Wonders
First Unitarian Universalist Society Music Series
Syracuse Opera Chorus

Price: Suggested donation $10
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

Songs, arias, and ensemble pieces from works such as Lakme; Cosi fan tutte; Madama Butterfly; The Tales of Hoffmann; Nine, the Musical; Iolanthe; Very Warm in May.

Classics Series: Piano Parables
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Russo, Piano
Daniel Hege, conductor

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

Golijov Last Round
Schoenfield Four Parables for Piano and Orchestra
Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 in D Minor

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Westcott Theater
Michael Glabicki of Rusted Root, with Tony Marsala and Jonathan Coleman

Price: $12 over 21; $15 under 21
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Cats
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Price: $16
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Emperor's New Clothes
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the classic story.

Cats
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Price: $16
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Stonecutter
Celebration of the Arts
Open Hand Theater

Price: Free
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

Cruizin' with Nick and Friends

Price: $15
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

A trip down memory lane with a musical show for all ages, featuring Nick Mulpagano with Jeremy Wallace, Elizabeth Fern, Holly Wallace, Mike Wallace, and Shawn Forester.

For more information, phone 315-479-7469.

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Cats
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Price: $16
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Masks of Life
Celebration of the Arts
Open Hand Theater

Price: Free
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

I Shot My Rich Aunt
Appleseed Productions
Jon Wilson, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

This rollicking romp is a mélange of off-the-wall farce and near-murder mystery. Guests are due at Lady Valonia's stately manor (a castle with a weird history) for the announcement of her nephew Dustin's engagement to Judy Blake. Unluckily, Dustin's former flame also arrives to find out why Dustin dumped her while Judy's brother is persuaded to go shoot at starlings. The family solicitor is on his way to change Valonia's will (out of Dustin's favor) and Judy's school chum Gwendolyn is coming to ensnare Dustin's cousin, a humble curate. A stray bullet enters the library and Dustin finds Valonia with a hole in her blouse oozing warm red liquid. By the time he gets help, the body has vanished. Meanwhile, the picketing cooks' and maidservants' unions have raised the drawbridge, entrapping everyone as night falls. The solicitor's wife thinks he's having an affair with Gwendolyn and arrives with horsewhip in hand on the incoming fire engine. Who said the place was on fire? Written by Mark Chandler.

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The World Goes 'Round
Syracuse University Drama Department
Nathan Hurwitz, director

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

Life -- with its glories, indignities, hopes and quiet dreams -- is the subject of this stunning revue of the beloved songs of John Kander and Fred Ebb. Features unforgettable gems from throughout their incredible career in theatre, film and television, spotlighting songs from Cabaret; Chicago; New York, New York; Funny Lady; Kiss Of The Spiderwoman and more. Filled with humor, romance, drama, nonstop melody and brassy, insightful lyrics, The World Goes 'Round is a thrilling celebration of life and the fighting spirit that keeps us all going.

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Sunday, May 10, 2009

Window Projects: Museum of the City of Lost and Found
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Museum of the City of Lost and Found, Marion Wilson's latest sculpture project, is a continuation of her public art project launched in conjunction with the 2008 New Orleans Biennial. The exhibition is a combination of hexagram patterns of i-ching (a symbol system used to identify order in random events) collaboratively painted on the wall by the artist, community members, faculty and students at Syracuse University; miniature "igloo" and cast resin objects; and a short video of Wilson's bicycle (mobile museum) performance in New Orleans edited by Jessica Posner. Wilson invites audience participation by filling out Lost and Found Report cards (available throughout the exhibition), her method of collecting stories about viewers' personal losses, chances, findings and discoveries.

Marion Wilson uses igloos as a nomadic structure of native materials to remind us of our basic human need for shelter and protection. In addition, it is a reference to fundamentals of human existence and the Italian Arte Povera artist Mario Merz (1925-2003). In New Orleans, Wilson's sculpture was originally mounted on a constructed bicycle able to roam the city streets within the St. Roch neighborhood and the French Market. In Syracuse, Wilson will exhibit her 'mobile museum' at the Warehouse Gallery, thus, creating a "museum inside a museum." Although the installation in the Window Projects will remain through June 6, its appearance will continuously change through the continual addition of found materials collected by the artist. Wilson will be guided in selecting these additional materials by outside interviews with the general public in the greater Syracuse community.

39th Anniversary Celebration of the Arts Art Exhibit
Celebration of the Arts

Price: Free
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

The Celebration of the Arts, with a juried art show featuring over 100 artists and performances by local musicians and actors, provides the opportunity to enjoy the creativity of outstanding area visual and performing artists.

Limbo: Works of Admas Habteslasie
Light Work Gallery

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

"Limbo" depicts a graceful yet unusually honest and insightful snapshot of Eritrea, an East African country suspended in an unsettled state between war and peace.

Eritrea warred with neighboring Ethiopia for 30 years before gaining independence in 1991. Then, in 1998, they entered another war with Ethiopia that lasted two years. Today, the war-torn country is yet again at the brink of war with their neighbor. Years of unrest have left the people of Eritrea waiting for life to improve. According to Habteslasie: "Transitory states become permanent; empty villas, destroyed old buildings and unfinished new buildings dot the landscape, monuments to the suspension of history. The collision between Eritrea's proud historical narrative and the bleak ennui of the present has produced an obsessive focus on the future. Reconstruction and infrastructure development are energetically driven forward whilst the economy remains essentially shut off from the outside world." The images in "Limbo" capture both destruction and construction, both the unhealed wounds of war and a fierce optimism and hope for a brighter future.

Habteslasie was born in Kuwait, and his parents are Eritrean. He received his master's degree from the London College of Communication in photojournalism and documentary photography. His photographic projects look at the ideas of identity, history, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with historical process. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Flowers East and 198 Gallery in London. His work has also been published in Source Magazine.

As It Happens: Artists-in-Residence at Light Work
Light Work Gallery

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

Josh Brilliant curates a selection of images by recent Light Work Artists-in-Residence, including Amy Stein, Kelli Connell, Cristina Fraire, Krista Steinke, and Christine Osinski. Brilliant is currently an MFA candidate in the Museum Studies program at Syracuse University.

All Forms: Studio Pottery '09
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Featuring works by 13 artists.

Exploring History with Art: The Changing View—Landscapes
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Paintings from OHA's permanent collection

MFA 2009
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

MFA 2009 is an exhibition of master of fine arts degree candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. Twenty-two artists will exhibit a range of work from traditional media such as oil on canvas, portraiture, and atmospheric-fired pottery to contemporary media including digital prints, site-specific installation, and video projection. The diversity of the show is also distinctly international, with artists from Canada, France, Korea and Russia.

While the artists work in a variety of media and techniques, themes emerge across the disciplines. The concept of the fabricated or manipulated environment is evident in many of the artists' sculptural installations, including a monumental model stagecoach positioned in a moon-landing re-creation and a faux-storefront display with ceramic poodles that both mock and celebrate what we regard as haute couture.

Nostalgia and personal identity are also sources of inspiration in this year's exhibition. One artist's work reinterprets the well-known characters from Sesame Street into an iconic status, while another incorporates the artist's past memories and dark humor into photographs that explore childhood experiences of fear, mortality and sex.

BFA Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition will feature work from seniors in VPA's School of Art and Design and Department of Transmedia, with a particular focus on the areas of painting, illustration, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, fiber arts/material studies and art photography.

Stoneware and Stone "Wear"
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Works of Sallie Thompson, ceramics, and Dee Ann VonHunke, fine silver and semi-precious gemstone jewelry.

Exhibition: Architecture & Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibition of student work from the Architecture & Interior Design Department. It is an annual exhibit that showcases some of the best work produced by our students in the preceding academic year.

Sunday Serenade
Central New York Flute Choir

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

The CNY Flute Choir will perform works by Bizet, Dvorak and Joplin in this short but sweet performance.

Young Amadeus
NYS Baroque

Price: $25 regular, $20 seniors, $15 student, $5 children 12 and under
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

What Mozart played before he played Mozart.
Malcolm Bilson plays chamber concertos from the 1760s and 1770s: Mozart's repertoire as a touring prodigy. He arranged some of them, added cadenzas to others, informing the style and design of his own concertos. Music of Johann Christian Bach, Johann Samuel Schroeter, and Georg Christoph Wagenseil, with rarely heard and utterly delightful orchestral trios by Mozart and Stamitz.

Spring Concert
Syracuse Youth Orchestras
Paul Shewan, Muriel Bodley, conductor

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

The Youth Orchestra performs works by Hindemith and Saint-Saens, as well as Bernstein's West Side Story Overture.
The Youth String Orchestra performs music by Morton Gould and the last movement of Mozart's Symphony No. 41.

I Shot My Rich Aunt
Appleseed Productions
Jon Wilson, director

Price: $30 regular; $27 students/seniors (price includes Mother's Day dinner preceding the show)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

This rollicking romp is a mélange of off-the-wall farce and near-murder mystery. Guests are due at Lady Valonia's stately manor (a castle with a weird history) for the announcement of her nephew Dustin's engagement to Judy Blake. Unluckily, Dustin's former flame also arrives to find out why Dustin dumped her while Judy's brother is persuaded to go shoot at starlings. The family solicitor is on his way to change Valonia's will (out of Dustin's favor) and Judy's school chum Gwendolyn is coming to ensnare Dustin's cousin, a humble curate. A stray bullet enters the library and Dustin finds Valonia with a hole in her blouse oozing warm red liquid. By the time he gets help, the body has vanished. Meanwhile, the picketing cooks' and maidservants' unions have raised the drawbridge, entrapping everyone as night falls. The solicitor's wife thinks he's having an affair with Gwendolyn and arrives with horsewhip in hand on the incoming fire engine. Who said the place was on fire? Written by Mark Chandler.

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Cats
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Price: $16
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Cats
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Price: $16
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse