Monday, May 3, 2010

Gallery Exhibition: Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

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

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 and art students.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

New Works by Michael Weismore
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Michael Weismore will be displaying 25 of his new original abstract oil paintings, including a set of 10 paintings titled "Ode to Pollock." For this group of paintings, Weismore has incorporated Jackson Pollock's drip technique over his own original paintings.

The artist has a form of color blindness that affects less then 1% of people. Color blindness has only "hindered one of his paintings. He accidentally painted the sky and trees purple in an ocean landscape. It ended up being one of the first paintings of his that was ever sold by an art dealer.

In 2006, Michael was commissioned to do a painting for rock and roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis. A few years later, the artist received the 2009 Best Abstract Award from the Everson Museum.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Works of Bridget Bossart Van Otterloo, Lucie Wellner, and Katherine Houston
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Drawn from details of the death of a former friend and bandmate of artist Paul Lloyd Sargent, "elegy" is presented through a multimedia installation of mashed-up, remixed, and recontextualized historical ephemera collected from mixtapes, amateur videos, zines, photographs, band fliers, sketchbook pages, song lyrics, and more. A lament for the death of youth despite the overwhelming persistence of youth culture, "elegy: society for a dead society" paints nostalgia and cynicism as two shades within the same dark palette.

Paul Lloyd Sargent splits his time between Brooklyn and Wellesley Island, NY. He was raised in Syracuse and graduated from Nottingham High School in 1989 and Hamilton College in 1993. After stints in Las Vegas, Boston, and Venice Beach, in 2000, he received his MFA in video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

"What if..." Film Series: ABCD in Action
Gifford Foundation

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

The Gifford Foundation presents the "What if..." film series, featuring films about community revitalization efforts around the United States. Each film documents the successes and struggles communities have experienced, and their varying methods of revitalizing these neighborhoods, from murals and gardens to community activism. Each will be followed by a moderated discussion.

ABCD in Action profiles five diverse groups which have utilized the principles of Asset Based Community Development to create partnerships with those they serve and, in effect, rejuvenate and revitalize their organizations. Included are profiles from agencies and neighborhood associations in Savannah, GA; Ames, IA; Marquette, MI; New Hampshire, and Asheville, NC. The film outlines a practical approach to creating community collaborations that work, covering such topics as "Discovering What People Care About," "Mobilizing A Community's Assets," "People & Programs: We Need Both," "Leading By Stepping Back: The Role Of Governments & Agencies," and "Inclusion: There Is No One We Do Not Need."

For further information about the "What If..." series, contact Lindsay McClung at lmcclung@giffordfd.org or by phone at 315-474-2489. Details are also available on the Foundation website or Facebook page.

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Gallery Exhibition: Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

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

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 and art students.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place" and "Experimental Urbanism"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place," in Gallery A, featuring photographs by Jane Winslow and Mindy Ostrow. This exhibition invites the viewer to see the world through the lens of two of the regions most talented photographers.

"Experimental Urbanism," in Gallery B, features work by internationally known installation artist, Richard Metzgar. This particular exhibit showcases a series of prints that challenge the viewer to rethink the ways they document place and experience.

New Works by Michael Weismore
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Michael Weismore will be displaying 25 of his new original abstract oil paintings, including a set of 10 paintings titled "Ode to Pollock." For this group of paintings, Weismore has incorporated Jackson Pollock's drip technique over his own original paintings.

The artist has a form of color blindness that affects less then 1% of people. Color blindness has only "hindered one of his paintings. He accidentally painted the sky and trees purple in an ocean landscape. It ended up being one of the first paintings of his that was ever sold by an art dealer.

In 2006, Michael was commissioned to do a painting for rock and roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis. A few years later, the artist received the 2009 Best Abstract Award from the Everson Museum.

Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

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

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Works of Bridget Bossart Van Otterloo, Lucie Wellner, and Katherine Houston
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Drawn from details of the death of a former friend and bandmate of artist Paul Lloyd Sargent, "elegy" is presented through a multimedia installation of mashed-up, remixed, and recontextualized historical ephemera collected from mixtapes, amateur videos, zines, photographs, band fliers, sketchbook pages, song lyrics, and more. A lament for the death of youth despite the overwhelming persistence of youth culture, "elegy: society for a dead society" paints nostalgia and cynicism as two shades within the same dark palette.

Paul Lloyd Sargent splits his time between Brooklyn and Wellesley Island, NY. He was raised in Syracuse and graduated from Nottingham High School in 1989 and Hamilton College in 1993. After stints in Las Vegas, Boston, and Venice Beach, in 2000, he received his MFA in video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

MFA MMX (2010)
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual exhibition of masters of fine arts candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts will include 20 artists displaying a broad range of traditional and contemporary work, including painting, ceramics and sculpture, as well as digital photography, installation, and computer art.

While the artists work independently on their thesis concepts, themes have routinely emerged within the group—crossing the boundaries of media and style. This year's exhibition is no exception; the work exudes a highly developed sense of technique and thought. In MFA MMX, however, the artists engage the viewer, both physically and psychologically, in a way not seen in previous MFA exhibitions. The narrative photography of Jared Landberg, a documentary film by Sonya Pollard, and the video installation of Esther Probst are examples of the thematic way many the artists record their personal history or specific experiences. Another pervading theme in the exhibition is interaction: walking through the unique environments created by painters Gwendolyn Mercado-Reyes and Jessica Sharpe, playing the autobiographical video game created by Ryan Marchand, or taking one of the hundreds of ceramic cups thrown by Shawn O'Connor; the viewer is invited to physically take part in the artistic experience.

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

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Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Noxious Foxes and Friends Academy
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Price: $6
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Noxious Foxes is a two-piece, instrumental, math-rock band from Brooklyn, NY. Armed with drums, guitar, Wurlitzer, and aided by a laboratory of effect and loop pedals, they create massive landscapes of sound. Songs get loud, fast, mathy, thick, yet always with a melodic agenda. Comparisons range from Hella to Battles to "a Stephen King novel turned into a Tim Burton film".

Members Richie and Justin comprised half of the band Jack Bauer from 2002-2006 while in college and regrouped as Noxious Foxes in mid-2009. They put out their first album Lovestorm later that year, and are currently writing and recording their next LP.

Friends Academy is a music group comprised of three core contributors, Andrew Bishop, Matthew Longo, and Allen Wilcox. The group makes rock, electronic, downtempo and pop music. The members met in Vermont in 2001-2002 and have lived in Brooklyn since 2005-2006. Friends Academy have performed extensively in New York City and in the northeastern United States, joined by a rotating cast of musicians and friends. For the Noxious Foxes/Friends Academy Spring Tour 2010, the band put together an EP of seven tracks.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Gallery Exhibition: Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

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

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 and art students.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place" and "Experimental Urbanism"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place," in Gallery A, featuring photographs by Jane Winslow and Mindy Ostrow. This exhibition invites the viewer to see the world through the lens of two of the regions most talented photographers.

"Experimental Urbanism," in Gallery B, features work by internationally known installation artist, Richard Metzgar. This particular exhibit showcases a series of prints that challenge the viewer to rethink the ways they document place and experience.

New Works by Michael Weismore
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Michael Weismore will be displaying 25 of his new original abstract oil paintings, including a set of 10 paintings titled "Ode to Pollock." For this group of paintings, Weismore has incorporated Jackson Pollock's drip technique over his own original paintings.

The artist has a form of color blindness that affects less then 1% of people. Color blindness has only "hindered one of his paintings. He accidentally painted the sky and trees purple in an ocean landscape. It ended up being one of the first paintings of his that was ever sold by an art dealer.

In 2006, Michael was commissioned to do a painting for rock and roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis. A few years later, the artist received the 2009 Best Abstract Award from the Everson Museum.

Celebration of the Arts Art Exhibit
Celebration of the Arts

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

Closing: Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

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

There will be a closing Cinco de Mayo Celebration, 7:00-9:00 p.m. featuring live music, dance lessons, and foods that celebrate the culture of Mexico.

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Works of Bridget Bossart Van Otterloo, Lucie Wellner, and Katherine Houston
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Drawn from details of the death of a former friend and bandmate of artist Paul Lloyd Sargent, "elegy" is presented through a multimedia installation of mashed-up, remixed, and recontextualized historical ephemera collected from mixtapes, amateur videos, zines, photographs, band fliers, sketchbook pages, song lyrics, and more. A lament for the death of youth despite the overwhelming persistence of youth culture, "elegy: society for a dead society" paints nostalgia and cynicism as two shades within the same dark palette.

Paul Lloyd Sargent splits his time between Brooklyn and Wellesley Island, NY. He was raised in Syracuse and graduated from Nottingham High School in 1989 and Hamilton College in 1993. After stints in Las Vegas, Boston, and Venice Beach, in 2000, he received his MFA in video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

MFA MMX (2010)
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual exhibition of masters of fine arts candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts will include 20 artists displaying a broad range of traditional and contemporary work, including painting, ceramics and sculpture, as well as digital photography, installation, and computer art.

While the artists work independently on their thesis concepts, themes have routinely emerged within the group—crossing the boundaries of media and style. This year's exhibition is no exception; the work exudes a highly developed sense of technique and thought. In MFA MMX, however, the artists engage the viewer, both physically and psychologically, in a way not seen in previous MFA exhibitions. The narrative photography of Jared Landberg, a documentary film by Sonya Pollard, and the video installation of Esther Probst are examples of the thematic way many the artists record their personal history or specific experiences. Another pervading theme in the exhibition is interaction: walking through the unique environments created by painters Gwendolyn Mercado-Reyes and Jessica Sharpe, playing the autobiographical video game created by Ryan Marchand, or taking one of the hundreds of ceramic cups thrown by Shawn O'Connor; the viewer is invited to physically take part in the artistic experience.

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

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B.F.A. Thesis Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Exhibition of thesis work by B.F.A. students in the School of Art and Design.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Isaac Bidwell: The Big Three-Oh
Echo

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

A solo exhibition of art work by Isaac Bidwell. For this show, Isaac has arranged a collection of 30 original ink drawings, paintings and digital illustrations. As his first exhibition in Syracuse since 2008, The Big Three-Oh not only displays a body of new and unseen works, but the end of Isaac's twenties.

A Tender Record: Early black and white photographs by Marjory Wilkins
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Curated by Nancy Keefe Rhodes, this is an exhibit of 35 restored and finished prints of the now-extinct 15th Ward and others of historical relevance to both the African American community and the Syracuse community at large. Marjory Wilkins has been an important figure in our community for over six decades, inspiring many through her camera's view of the world. Her work is described by the exhibit curator in this way: "As documentary photographs, they record history, whether recent or remote, that is 'minority' history—that is, history often outside of its own community, either ignored or contested by stereotypes."

Her photography has become an invaluable resource to remember a place now destroyed, and a community with a charm and importance almost unknown to those outside of it.

The Beehive Collective's Crosspollination
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Price: Free
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Beehive Design Collective is a group of artist educators, illustrators, entomologists, botanists, activists, researchers, and volunteers based in Mathias, ME.

Their visually stunning, large scale B+W graphics depict social justice and raising ecological consciousness in a way that is never boring. The bees will present these picture lectures in a special event at Spark Contemporary Art Space. This is an event co-sponsored by the Alchemical Nursery. Refreshments will be served.

Lori Larson, soprano; Sar-Shalom Strong, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

A recital featuring famous arias by Mozart, Rossini, Bizet, and Verdi, a medley of spirituals, and a work by Lori Larson.

Untempered Ensemble with Billy Bang
Community Folk Art Center
John Coltrane Memorial Contemporary Jazz Series

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

For more information, phone 315-442-2230.

The Wizard of Oz
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Preview: Fences
Syracuse Stage

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

Because a true classic always speaks to us anew. Pittsburgh, 1957. Troy Maxon, ex-ballplayer, complicated African-American family man and garbage collector, has lived a life of diminished hopes and abandoned dreams. Now Troy's talented son, Cory, has hopes and dreams of his own. Will Troy allow his bitterness about the past to poison his son's promising future? With a view toward a better future, August Wilson's Fences first posed this dramatic and necessary question 25 years ago ... and it hits us as hard today.

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I Love You Because
Syracuse University Drama Department
Marie Kemp, director

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

Ah, New York, city of romance, where relationships end badly, and on the rebound everyone falls for the wrong person. Such is the world of I Love You Because. This infectiously entertaining modern day musical love story is filled with witty and incisive lyrics and a rich and tuneful score. A quirky and slightly nutty take on modern dating. Think Friends with terrific songs and dancing.

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Thursday, May 6, 2010

Gallery Exhibition: Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

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

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 and art students.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place" and "Experimental Urbanism"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place," in Gallery A, featuring photographs by Jane Winslow and Mindy Ostrow. This exhibition invites the viewer to see the world through the lens of two of the regions most talented photographers.

"Experimental Urbanism," in Gallery B, features work by internationally known installation artist, Richard Metzgar. This particular exhibit showcases a series of prints that challenge the viewer to rethink the ways they document place and experience.

New Works by Michael Weismore
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Michael Weismore will be displaying 25 of his new original abstract oil paintings, including a set of 10 paintings titled "Ode to Pollock." For this group of paintings, Weismore has incorporated Jackson Pollock's drip technique over his own original paintings.

The artist has a form of color blindness that affects less then 1% of people. Color blindness has only "hindered one of his paintings. He accidentally painted the sky and trees purple in an ocean landscape. It ended up being one of the first paintings of his that was ever sold by an art dealer.

In 2006, Michael was commissioned to do a painting for rock and roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis. A few years later, the artist received the 2009 Best Abstract Award from the Everson Museum.

Celebration of the Arts Art Exhibit
Celebration of the Arts

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

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Works of Bridget Bossart Van Otterloo, Lucie Wellner, and Katherine Houston
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Drawn from details of the death of a former friend and bandmate of artist Paul Lloyd Sargent, "elegy" is presented through a multimedia installation of mashed-up, remixed, and recontextualized historical ephemera collected from mixtapes, amateur videos, zines, photographs, band fliers, sketchbook pages, song lyrics, and more. A lament for the death of youth despite the overwhelming persistence of youth culture, "elegy: society for a dead society" paints nostalgia and cynicism as two shades within the same dark palette.

Paul Lloyd Sargent splits his time between Brooklyn and Wellesley Island, NY. He was raised in Syracuse and graduated from Nottingham High School in 1989 and Hamilton College in 1993. After stints in Las Vegas, Boston, and Venice Beach, in 2000, he received his MFA in video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Fiction to Function: Recent Work by Shanna Fliegel
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Shanna Fliegel's ceramic artwork draws upon "the surrealistic nature of dreams and childhood memories" and combines image, color, and sculpted forms to create "vehicles that generate stories for the viewer." Her artistic output includes anthropomorphic figures, wall tablets, and functional vessels and these will be on view.

Read a review!

MFA MMX (2010)
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual exhibition of masters of fine arts candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts will include 20 artists displaying a broad range of traditional and contemporary work, including painting, ceramics and sculpture, as well as digital photography, installation, and computer art.

While the artists work independently on their thesis concepts, themes have routinely emerged within the group—crossing the boundaries of media and style. This year's exhibition is no exception; the work exudes a highly developed sense of technique and thought. In MFA MMX, however, the artists engage the viewer, both physically and psychologically, in a way not seen in previous MFA exhibitions. The narrative photography of Jared Landberg, a documentary film by Sonya Pollard, and the video installation of Esther Probst are examples of the thematic way many the artists record their personal history or specific experiences. Another pervading theme in the exhibition is interaction: walking through the unique environments created by painters Gwendolyn Mercado-Reyes and Jessica Sharpe, playing the autobiographical video game created by Ryan Marchand, or taking one of the hundreds of ceramic cups thrown by Shawn O'Connor; the viewer is invited to physically take part in the artistic experience.

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

Read a review!

Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

B.F.A. Thesis Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Exhibition of thesis work by B.F.A. students in the School of Art and Design.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Isaac Bidwell: The Big Three-Oh
Echo

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

A solo exhibition of art work by Isaac Bidwell. For this show, Isaac has arranged a collection of 30 original ink drawings, paintings and digital illustrations. As his first exhibition in Syracuse since 2008, The Big Three-Oh not only displays a body of new and unseen works, but the end of Isaac's twenties.

A Tender Record: Early black and white photographs by Marjory Wilkins
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Curated by Nancy Keefe Rhodes, this is an exhibit of 35 restored and finished prints of the now-extinct 15th Ward and others of historical relevance to both the African American community and the Syracuse community at large. Marjory Wilkins has been an important figure in our community for over six decades, inspiring many through her camera's view of the world. Her work is described by the exhibit curator in this way: "As documentary photographs, they record history, whether recent or remote, that is 'minority' history—that is, history often outside of its own community, either ignored or contested by stereotypes."

Her photography has become an invaluable resource to remember a place now destroyed, and a community with a charm and importance almost unknown to those outside of it.

Star Wars, the Musical
Fowler High School

Price: $5 in advance; $8 at the door
Fowler High School
227 Magnolia St., Syracuse

Landmines + Many More
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Price: $5
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Dead Pull Hitter
Acme Mystery Company

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

Play ball! Come on out to the ball park, loyal followers. It's media day and your hometown Sympronius Swamp Turtles are getting ready for yet another pathetic season of shabby, losing baseball. Make sure you wear your protective gear this year, sports fans. Jobs are now on the line and the new owner plays rough. Really, really rough.

The Wizard of Oz
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Preview: Fences
Syracuse Stage

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

Because a true classic always speaks to us anew. Pittsburgh, 1957. Troy Maxon, ex-ballplayer, complicated African-American family man and garbage collector, has lived a life of diminished hopes and abandoned dreams. Now Troy's talented son, Cory, has hopes and dreams of his own. Will Troy allow his bitterness about the past to poison his son's promising future? With a view toward a better future, August Wilson's Fences first posed this dramatic and necessary question 25 years ago ... and it hits us as hard today.

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I Love You Because
Syracuse University Drama Department
Marie Kemp, director

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

Ah, New York, city of romance, where relationships end badly, and on the rebound everyone falls for the wrong person. Such is the world of I Love You Because. This infectiously entertaining modern day musical love story is filled with witty and incisive lyrics and a rich and tuneful score. A quirky and slightly nutty take on modern dating. Think Friends with terrific songs and dancing.

Read a Review!

Friday, May 7, 2010

Gallery Exhibition: Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

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

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place" and "Experimental Urbanism"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place," in Gallery A, featuring photographs by Jane Winslow and Mindy Ostrow. This exhibition invites the viewer to see the world through the lens of two of the regions most talented photographers.

"Experimental Urbanism," in Gallery B, features work by internationally known installation artist, Richard Metzgar. This particular exhibit showcases a series of prints that challenge the viewer to rethink the ways they document place and experience.

New Works by Michael Weismore
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Michael Weismore will be displaying 25 of his new original abstract oil paintings, including a set of 10 paintings titled "Ode to Pollock." For this group of paintings, Weismore has incorporated Jackson Pollock's drip technique over his own original paintings.

The artist has a form of color blindness that affects less then 1% of people. Color blindness has only "hindered one of his paintings. He accidentally painted the sky and trees purple in an ocean landscape. It ended up being one of the first paintings of his that was ever sold by an art dealer.

In 2006, Michael was commissioned to do a painting for rock and roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis. A few years later, the artist received the 2009 Best Abstract Award from the Everson Museum.

Horizons
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anna Soltyk: richly textured oil and mixed media paintings
Phil Austin: glass artistry
Wendy Harris: upstate landscape done en plein air in pastel and mixed media

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Celebration of the Arts Art Exhibit
Celebration of the Arts

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

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Works of Bridget Bossart Van Otterloo, Lucie Wellner, and Katherine Houston
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Drawn from details of the death of a former friend and bandmate of artist Paul Lloyd Sargent, "elegy" is presented through a multimedia installation of mashed-up, remixed, and recontextualized historical ephemera collected from mixtapes, amateur videos, zines, photographs, band fliers, sketchbook pages, song lyrics, and more. A lament for the death of youth despite the overwhelming persistence of youth culture, "elegy: society for a dead society" paints nostalgia and cynicism as two shades within the same dark palette.

Paul Lloyd Sargent splits his time between Brooklyn and Wellesley Island, NY. He was raised in Syracuse and graduated from Nottingham High School in 1989 and Hamilton College in 1993. After stints in Las Vegas, Boston, and Venice Beach, in 2000, he received his MFA in video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Fiction to Function: Recent Work by Shanna Fliegel
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Shanna Fliegel's ceramic artwork draws upon "the surrealistic nature of dreams and childhood memories" and combines image, color, and sculpted forms to create "vehicles that generate stories for the viewer." Her artistic output includes anthropomorphic figures, wall tablets, and functional vessels and these will be on view.

Read a review!

MFA MMX (2010)
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual exhibition of masters of fine arts candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts will include 20 artists displaying a broad range of traditional and contemporary work, including painting, ceramics and sculpture, as well as digital photography, installation, and computer art.

While the artists work independently on their thesis concepts, themes have routinely emerged within the group—crossing the boundaries of media and style. This year's exhibition is no exception; the work exudes a highly developed sense of technique and thought. In MFA MMX, however, the artists engage the viewer, both physically and psychologically, in a way not seen in previous MFA exhibitions. The narrative photography of Jared Landberg, a documentary film by Sonya Pollard, and the video installation of Esther Probst are examples of the thematic way many the artists record their personal history or specific experiences. Another pervading theme in the exhibition is interaction: walking through the unique environments created by painters Gwendolyn Mercado-Reyes and Jessica Sharpe, playing the autobiographical video game created by Ryan Marchand, or taking one of the hundreds of ceramic cups thrown by Shawn O'Connor; the viewer is invited to physically take part in the artistic experience.

Isaac Bidwell: The Big Three-Oh
Echo

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

A solo exhibition of art work by Isaac Bidwell. For this show, Isaac has arranged a collection of 30 original ink drawings, paintings and digital illustrations. As his first exhibition in Syracuse since 2008, The Big Three-Oh not only displays a body of new and unseen works, but the end of Isaac's twenties.

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

Read a review!

B.F.A. Thesis Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Exhibition of thesis work by B.F.A. students in the School of Art and Design.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

A Tender Record: Early black and white photographs by Marjory Wilkins
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Curated by Nancy Keefe Rhodes, this is an exhibit of 35 restored and finished prints of the now-extinct 15th Ward and others of historical relevance to both the African American community and the Syracuse community at large. Marjory Wilkins has been an important figure in our community for over six decades, inspiring many through her camera's view of the world. Her work is described by the exhibit curator in this way: "As documentary photographs, they record history, whether recent or remote, that is 'minority' history—that is, history often outside of its own community, either ignored or contested by stereotypes."

Her photography has become an invaluable resource to remember a place now destroyed, and a community with a charm and importance almost unknown to those outside of it.

Opening Under The Surface: Ceramic Stylings of Shawn McGuire and Wes Weiss
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

"Under the Surface" explores the rich surfaces achieved by each ceramic artist using very different techniques. Shawn's work is thrown and altered and then naked Raku fired. Wes's work is hand-built from colored clays and the result is an active, vibrant surface.

May Garden Party
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Garden-themed pieces in a variety of mediums.

First Friday Art Night: Works of Gretchen Hamlin and Bob Ripley
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New works by watercolorist Bob Ripley and glass artist Gretchen Hamlin.

Enjoy festive music provided by Alize of Ithaca. Welcome spring with wine tastings by Anyela's Winery of Skaneateles from 6:00-7:00 p.m. Refreshments will be served.

Creative Arts Academy May Showcase
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free (donations accepted)
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The program will highlight work that Creative Arts Academy students have done all semester. The showcase will include an interactive puppet show, several dance performances, a stylized movement piece, monologues, piano performances, and also a display of student artwork.

Star Wars, the Musical
Fowler High School

Price: $5 in advance; $8 at the door
Fowler High School
227 Magnolia St., Syracuse

"An Feirin" (The Gift): An Evening of Celtic Song and Dance
Celebration of the Arts

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

The program features The McCreas, four-time North American Irish Dance Champion Michael Galvin, and champion piper Michael Roddy.

Long Time Courting
Folkus Project

Price: $12
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Fiery Irish jigs and reels and soaring vocal arrangements are the trademarks of Long Time Courting. Featuring strong instrumentalists and fine lead singing, this four-woman band brings heavenly harmonies to traditional ballads as well as original new songs and serves up a zesty side of high energy dance tunes based in the traditions of Ireland, Scotland, Appalachia, Quebec, and Cape Breton.

Bringing together the talents of Sarah Blair on fiddle/vocals, Liz Simmons on guitar/vocals, Shannon Heaton on flute/vocals, and Ariel Friedman on cello/vocals, this Boston-based band shares a love of traditional Irish and American music, as well as contemporary folk and pop. They bring elements of these various genres to their traditional repertoire with sensitivity, musicality, beauty—and a bit of mischief, too.

Big Hits, Big Flicks
Syracuse Gay and Lesbian Chorus
Glenn Kime, conductor

Lincoln Middle School
1613 James St., Syracuse

A rockin' revue of movie music.

Pops Series: The Magical Music of Disney in Concert
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Ron Spigelman, conductor

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

The Syracuse Symphony Orchestra will perform symphonic arrangements from the archives at the Walt Disney Studio, provided by Disney Music Publishing. Music from early classics to recent releases will take you on a musical journey to far off places where the stories, tales and myths of many cultures have originated. You'll hear music from Disney's animated films and Broadway shows including The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Mary Poppins, and Tarzan.

Lynn Levin, poet
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Lynn Levin's third book of poems, Fair Creatures of an Hour, was recently published by Loonfeather Press. Her previous collection of poems, Imaginarium, was a finalist for ForeWord Magazines 2005 Book of the Year Award. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Boulevard, 5 AM, Cimarron Review, and other places. Lynn Levin teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and at Drexel University, where she is also the executive producer of the TV show, The Drexel InterView. She lives in Southampton, PA.

The Wizard of Oz
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

To Kill a Mockingbird
Appleseed Productions
Sharee Lemos, director

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

Scout is about to experience the dramatic events that will affect the rest of her life. She and brother Jem are being raised by their widower father Atticus and by a strong-minded housekeeper Calpurnia. Wide-eyed Scout is fascinated with the sensitively-revealed people of her small town but, from the start, there's a rumble of thunder just under the calm surface. The black people of the community have a special feeling about Scout's father and she doesn't know why. A few of her white friends are inexplicably hostile and Scout doesn't understand this either. Unpleasant things are shouted and the bewildered girl turns to her father. Atticus, a lawyer, explains that he's defending a young Negro wrongfully accused of a grave crime. Scout wants to know why he's doing it. "Because if I didn't," her father replies, "I couldn't hold my head up." He goes on to prepare Scout for the trouble to come. Things do get bitter, to the point where Atticus props himself in a chair against the cell door of the man he's defending and confronts an angry mob. Horrified Scout projects herself into this confrontation and her inconvenient presence helps bring back a little sanity. Atticus fights his legal battle with a result that is part defeat, part triumph. As Atticus comes out of the courthouse, the deeply moved town minister tells Scout, "Stand up. Your father's passing!"

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Cruizin' Thru the 1950s Dance Party

Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Come listen to the swingin' hits of he 1950s! There's plenty of room to cut a rug on the large dance floor.

To reserve tickets, phone 315-422-7011.

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Fences
Syracuse Stage

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

Because a true classic always speaks to us anew. Pittsburgh, 1957. Troy Maxon, ex-ballplayer, complicated African-American family man and garbage collector, has lived a life of diminished hopes and abandoned dreams. Now Troy's talented son, Cory, has hopes and dreams of his own. Will Troy allow his bitterness about the past to poison his son's promising future? With a view toward a better future, August Wilson's Fences first posed this dramatic and necessary question 25 years ago ... and it hits us as hard today.

Read a Review!

I Love You Because
Syracuse University Drama Department
Marie Kemp, director

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

Ah, New York, city of romance, where relationships end badly, and on the rebound everyone falls for the wrong person. Such is the world of I Love You Because. This infectiously entertaining modern day musical love story is filled with witty and incisive lyrics and a rich and tuneful score. A quirky and slightly nutty take on modern dating. Think Friends with terrific songs and dancing.

Read a Review!

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Under The Surface: Ceramic Stylings of Shawn McGuire and Wes Weiss
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

"Under the Surface" explores the rich surfaces achieved by each ceramic artist using very different techniques. Shawn's work is thrown and altered and then naked Raku fired. Wes's work is hand-built from colored clays and the result is an active, vibrant surface.

Celebration of the Arts Art Exhibit
Celebration of the Arts

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

Horizons
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anna Soltyk: richly textured oil and mixed media paintings
Phil Austin: glass artistry
Wendy Harris: upstate landscape done en plein air in pastel and mixed media

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Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

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Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

May Garden Party
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Garden-themed pieces in a variety of mediums.

Fiction to Function: Recent Work by Shanna Fliegel
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Shanna Fliegel's ceramic artwork draws upon "the surrealistic nature of dreams and childhood memories" and combines image, color, and sculpted forms to create "vehicles that generate stories for the viewer." Her artistic output includes anthropomorphic figures, wall tablets, and functional vessels and these will be on view.

Read a review!

Works of Gretchen Hamlin and Bob Ripley
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New works by watercolorist Bob Ripley and glass artist Gretchen Hamlin.

MFA MMX (2010)
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual exhibition of masters of fine arts candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts will include 20 artists displaying a broad range of traditional and contemporary work, including painting, ceramics and sculpture, as well as digital photography, installation, and computer art.

While the artists work independently on their thesis concepts, themes have routinely emerged within the group—crossing the boundaries of media and style. This year's exhibition is no exception; the work exudes a highly developed sense of technique and thought. In MFA MMX, however, the artists engage the viewer, both physically and psychologically, in a way not seen in previous MFA exhibitions. The narrative photography of Jared Landberg, a documentary film by Sonya Pollard, and the video installation of Esther Probst are examples of the thematic way many the artists record their personal history or specific experiences. Another pervading theme in the exhibition is interaction: walking through the unique environments created by painters Gwendolyn Mercado-Reyes and Jessica Sharpe, playing the autobiographical video game created by Ryan Marchand, or taking one of the hundreds of ceramic cups thrown by Shawn O'Connor; the viewer is invited to physically take part in the artistic experience.

A Tender Record: Early black and white photographs by Marjory Wilkins
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Curated by Nancy Keefe Rhodes, this is an exhibit of 35 restored and finished prints of the now-extinct 15th Ward and others of historical relevance to both the African American community and the Syracuse community at large. Marjory Wilkins has been an important figure in our community for over six decades, inspiring many through her camera's view of the world. Her work is described by the exhibit curator in this way: "As documentary photographs, they record history, whether recent or remote, that is 'minority' history—that is, history often outside of its own community, either ignored or contested by stereotypes."

Her photography has become an invaluable resource to remember a place now destroyed, and a community with a charm and importance almost unknown to those outside of it.

Isaac Bidwell: The Big Three-Oh
Echo

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

A solo exhibition of art work by Isaac Bidwell. For this show, Isaac has arranged a collection of 30 original ink drawings, paintings and digital illustrations. As his first exhibition in Syracuse since 2008, The Big Three-Oh not only displays a body of new and unseen works, but the end of Isaac's twenties.

Works of Bridget Bossart Van Otterloo, Lucie Wellner, and Katherine Houston
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Gallery Exhibition: Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

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

B.F.A. Thesis Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Exhibition of thesis work by B.F.A. students in the School of Art and Design.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Fit to be Bound in New York
Everson Museum of Art
Featuring Peter Verheyen

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

Far from a lost and dying art, bookbinding and book arts are an incredibly vital multi-disciplinary medium that combines the best attributes of the arts. The book as traditionally understood has also morphed into something very different while continuing to reference its origins. Drawing on examples from the past as well as the Fit to be Bound exhibit, Peter Verheyen, bookbinder and Head of Preservation at Syracuse University Library, will discuss the book arts as practiced in New York State over the past 100 years. Topics will include the training required to become a binder, the types of materials used, the growth of book arts organizations and "centers," and a look into the future.

What If?
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

What if Clinton Square were suspended by hot air?
What if I-81 was a roller coaster?
What if Erie Blvd was a giant swimming pool?

Think we're crazy? What's your "what if?" for Syracuse?
Join us for a celebration of the Syracuse of tomorrow.

Family Series: The Magical Music of Disney in Concert
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra

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

The Syracuse Symphony Orchestra will perform symphonic arrangements from the archives at the Walt Disney Studio, provided by Disney Music Publishing. Music from early classics to recent releases will take you on a musical journey to far off places where the stories, tales and myths of many cultures have originated. You'll hear music from Disney's animated films and Broadway shows including The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Mary Poppins, and Tarzan.

Star Wars, the Musical
Fowler High School

Price: $5 in advance; $8 at the door
Fowler High School
227 Magnolia St., Syracuse

An Evening of Babs and Ballads
Celebration of the Arts
Featuring Letizia

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

Letizia sings some of the most beautiful and memorable ballads, featuring many by Barbara Streisand.

Big Hits, Big Flicks
Syracuse Gay and Lesbian Chorus
Glenn Kime, conductor

Lincoln Middle School
1613 James St., Syracuse

A rockin' revue of movie music.

Pops Series: The Magical Music of Disney in Concert
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Ron Spigelman, conductor

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

The Syracuse Symphony Orchestra will perform symphonic arrangements from the archives at the Walt Disney Studio, provided by Disney Music Publishing. Music from early classics to recent releases will take you on a musical journey to far off places where the stories, tales and myths of many cultures have originated. You'll hear music from Disney's animated films and Broadway shows including The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Mary Poppins, and Tarzan.

Second Saturday Series: Amy Gallatine & Stillwaters
Westcott Community Center

Price: $15 ($12 for WCC members)
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Amy Gallatin and her band Stillwaters have taken the stage at some of the most prestigious venues in the U.S., Mexico, and Europe. They were invited in 1996, '98, and 2003 to tour several European countries. Their most recent performances in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Denmark drew extremely enthusiastic crowds at house concerts, music clubs, theaters, country and bluegrass festivals, and National Radio, as well as representing the United States as the featured performers at the European World of Bluegrass convention in The Netherlands.

Amy is at home singing various musical styles—country, folk, bluegrass or western swing—branding each song with soulful sincerity. Her influences are diverse, ranging from old and contemporary cowboy tunes learned out West, to great country artists like Emmylou Harris, Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, and the Everly Brothers, with even a dash of blues influence thrown in—Koko Taylor, Katie Wilson, BB King, and Shemekiah Copeland.

The Wizard of Oz
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Aladdin
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the classic tale.

I Love You Because
Syracuse University Drama Department
Marie Kemp, director

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

Ah, New York, city of romance, where relationships end badly, and on the rebound everyone falls for the wrong person. Such is the world of I Love You Because. This infectiously entertaining modern day musical love story is filled with witty and incisive lyrics and a rich and tuneful score. A quirky and slightly nutty take on modern dating. Think Friends with terrific songs and dancing.

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The Wizard of Oz
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Fences
Syracuse Stage

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

Because a true classic always speaks to us anew. Pittsburgh, 1957. Troy Maxon, ex-ballplayer, complicated African-American family man and garbage collector, has lived a life of diminished hopes and abandoned dreams. Now Troy's talented son, Cory, has hopes and dreams of his own. Will Troy allow his bitterness about the past to poison his son's promising future? With a view toward a better future, August Wilson's Fences first posed this dramatic and necessary question 25 years ago ... and it hits us as hard today.

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The Wizard of Oz
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Idol Assassination
Without a Cue Productions
Sara Caliva, director

Price: $37.25 includes dinner and show
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

It's the final night of Big American Star, and America is going to get a chance to vote for its next...big American star. The contestants are at each other's throats, dangerously close to ripping out one another's vocal chords, while the judges and host stir up drama to boost sagging ratings. By the time the contestants are ready to sing, the atmosphere has turned murderous, and the contestants may "knock 'em dead" in more ways than one.

The show is an interactive murder mystery that involves the members of the audience.

To Kill a Mockingbird
Appleseed Productions
Sharee Lemos, director

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

Scout is about to experience the dramatic events that will affect the rest of her life. She and brother Jem are being raised by their widower father Atticus and by a strong-minded housekeeper Calpurnia. Wide-eyed Scout is fascinated with the sensitively-revealed people of her small town but, from the start, there's a rumble of thunder just under the calm surface. The black people of the community have a special feeling about Scout's father and she doesn't know why. A few of her white friends are inexplicably hostile and Scout doesn't understand this either. Unpleasant things are shouted and the bewildered girl turns to her father. Atticus, a lawyer, explains that he's defending a young Negro wrongfully accused of a grave crime. Scout wants to know why he's doing it. "Because if I didn't," her father replies, "I couldn't hold my head up." He goes on to prepare Scout for the trouble to come. Things do get bitter, to the point where Atticus props himself in a chair against the cell door of the man he's defending and confronts an angry mob. Horrified Scout projects herself into this confrontation and her inconvenient presence helps bring back a little sanity. Atticus fights his legal battle with a result that is part defeat, part triumph. As Atticus comes out of the courthouse, the deeply moved town minister tells Scout, "Stand up. Your father's passing!"

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Cruizin' Thru the 1950s Dance Party

Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Come listen to the swingin' hits of he 1950s! There's plenty of room to cut a rug on the large dance floor.

To reserve tickets, phone 315-422-7011.

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Fences
Syracuse Stage

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

Because a true classic always speaks to us anew. Pittsburgh, 1957. Troy Maxon, ex-ballplayer, complicated African-American family man and garbage collector, has lived a life of diminished hopes and abandoned dreams. Now Troy's talented son, Cory, has hopes and dreams of his own. Will Troy allow his bitterness about the past to poison his son's promising future? With a view toward a better future, August Wilson's Fences first posed this dramatic and necessary question 25 years ago ... and it hits us as hard today.

Read a Review!

I Love You Because
Syracuse University Drama Department
Marie Kemp, director

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

Ah, New York, city of romance, where relationships end badly, and on the rebound everyone falls for the wrong person. Such is the world of I Love You Because. This infectiously entertaining modern day musical love story is filled with witty and incisive lyrics and a rich and tuneful score. A quirky and slightly nutty take on modern dating. Think Friends with terrific songs and dancing.

Read a Review!

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Celebration of the Arts Art Exhibit
Celebration of the Arts

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

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Fiction to Function: Recent Work by Shanna Fliegel
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Shanna Fliegel's ceramic artwork draws upon "the surrealistic nature of dreams and childhood memories" and combines image, color, and sculpted forms to create "vehicles that generate stories for the viewer." Her artistic output includes anthropomorphic figures, wall tablets, and functional vessels and these will be on view.

Read a review!

Works of Gretchen Hamlin and Bob Ripley
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New works by watercolorist Bob Ripley and glass artist Gretchen Hamlin.

MFA MMX (2010)
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual exhibition of masters of fine arts candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts will include 20 artists displaying a broad range of traditional and contemporary work, including painting, ceramics and sculpture, as well as digital photography, installation, and computer art.

While the artists work independently on their thesis concepts, themes have routinely emerged within the group—crossing the boundaries of media and style. This year's exhibition is no exception; the work exudes a highly developed sense of technique and thought. In MFA MMX, however, the artists engage the viewer, both physically and psychologically, in a way not seen in previous MFA exhibitions. The narrative photography of Jared Landberg, a documentary film by Sonya Pollard, and the video installation of Esther Probst are examples of the thematic way many the artists record their personal history or specific experiences. Another pervading theme in the exhibition is interaction: walking through the unique environments created by painters Gwendolyn Mercado-Reyes and Jessica Sharpe, playing the autobiographical video game created by Ryan Marchand, or taking one of the hundreds of ceramic cups thrown by Shawn O'Connor; the viewer is invited to physically take part in the artistic experience.

Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

Read a review!

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

May Garden Party
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Garden-themed pieces in a variety of mediums.

Gallery Exhibition: Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

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

B.F.A. Thesis Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Exhibition of thesis work by B.F.A. students in the School of Art and Design.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Live at the Everson: A Celebration of the Piano
Civic Morning Musicals

Price: $15 regular, students free
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The program will feature pianists Kevin Moore, John Spradling, Ida Trebicka, Maryna Mazhukhova, Matthew Pikarsky, and Stephen Pikarsky in a colorful array of composers.

To Kill a Mockingbird
Appleseed Productions
Sharee Lemos, director

Price: $30 regular; $27 students/seniors (price includes dinner before the show and dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

There will be a Mother's Day dinner before the performance at 12:30.

Scout is about to experience the dramatic events that will affect the rest of her life. She and brother Jem are being raised by their widower father Atticus and by a strong-minded housekeeper Calpurnia. Wide-eyed Scout is fascinated with the sensitively-revealed people of her small town but, from the start, there's a rumble of thunder just under the calm surface. The black people of the community have a special feeling about Scout's father and she doesn't know why. A few of her white friends are inexplicably hostile and Scout doesn't understand this either. Unpleasant things are shouted and the bewildered girl turns to her father. Atticus, a lawyer, explains that he's defending a young Negro wrongfully accused of a grave crime. Scout wants to know why he's doing it. "Because if I didn't," her father replies, "I couldn't hold my head up." He goes on to prepare Scout for the trouble to come. Things do get bitter, to the point where Atticus props himself in a chair against the cell door of the man he's defending and confronts an angry mob. Horrified Scout projects herself into this confrontation and her inconvenient presence helps bring back a little sanity. Atticus fights his legal battle with a result that is part defeat, part triumph. As Atticus comes out of the courthouse, the deeply moved town minister tells Scout, "Stand up. Your father's passing!"

Read a review!

The Wizard of Oz
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Fences
Syracuse Stage

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

Because a true classic always speaks to us anew. Pittsburgh, 1957. Troy Maxon, ex-ballplayer, complicated African-American family man and garbage collector, has lived a life of diminished hopes and abandoned dreams. Now Troy's talented son, Cory, has hopes and dreams of his own. Will Troy allow his bitterness about the past to poison his son's promising future? With a view toward a better future, August Wilson's Fences first posed this dramatic and necessary question 25 years ago ... and it hits us as hard today.

Read a Review!

I Love You Because
Syracuse University Drama Department
Marie Kemp, director

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

Ah, New York, city of romance, where relationships end badly, and on the rebound everyone falls for the wrong person. Such is the world of I Love You Because. This infectiously entertaining modern day musical love story is filled with witty and incisive lyrics and a rich and tuneful score. A quirky and slightly nutty take on modern dating. Think Friends with terrific songs and dancing.

Read a Review!

The Wizard of Oz
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Monday, May 10, 2010

Gallery Exhibition: Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

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

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

New Works by Michael Weismore
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Michael Weismore will be displaying 25 of his new original abstract oil paintings, including a set of 10 paintings titled "Ode to Pollock." For this group of paintings, Weismore has incorporated Jackson Pollock's drip technique over his own original paintings.

The artist has a form of color blindness that affects less then 1% of people. Color blindness has only "hindered one of his paintings. He accidentally painted the sky and trees purple in an ocean landscape. It ended up being one of the first paintings of his that was ever sold by an art dealer.

In 2006, Michael was commissioned to do a painting for rock and roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis. A few years later, the artist received the 2009 Best Abstract Award from the Everson Museum.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Works of Bridget Bossart Van Otterloo, Lucie Wellner, and Katherine Houston
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Drawn from details of the death of a former friend and bandmate of artist Paul Lloyd Sargent, "elegy" is presented through a multimedia installation of mashed-up, remixed, and recontextualized historical ephemera collected from mixtapes, amateur videos, zines, photographs, band fliers, sketchbook pages, song lyrics, and more. A lament for the death of youth despite the overwhelming persistence of youth culture, "elegy: society for a dead society" paints nostalgia and cynicism as two shades within the same dark palette.

Paul Lloyd Sargent splits his time between Brooklyn and Wellesley Island, NY. He was raised in Syracuse and graduated from Nottingham High School in 1989 and Hamilton College in 1993. After stints in Las Vegas, Boston, and Venice Beach, in 2000, he received his MFA in video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

May Garden Party
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Garden-themed pieces in a variety of mediums.

Works of Gretchen Hamlin and Bob Ripley
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New works by watercolorist Bob Ripley and glass artist Gretchen Hamlin.