Thursday, December 4, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

They are testaments to the impact of terrorism: sculptures portraying mothers going back to the exact moment they learned their child died in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some are screaming; others are weeping. Some are curled into a ball; others have fists raised in anger. The 76 larger-than-life figures that comprise the Dark Elegy collection were created by Montauk, NY-based artist Suse Lowenstein, the mother of a Pan Am 103 student victim.

Four of these sculptures will be on display as part of the University's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy.

HIV/AIDS Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibit features works of art on the theme of HIV/AIDS created by Onondaga art and photography students.

Paintings by DeLoss McGraw on Poems by W.D. Snodgrass
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.D. Snodgrass and internationally acclaimed artist DeLoss McGraw have collaborated for over 30 years. This latest series of works, being shown for the first time at the YMCA's gallerY, consists of paintings created by Mr. McGraw directly on pages torn from Snodgrass' acclaimed poetry collection Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems. The end product is an extraordinary exhibit that adds an evocative dimension to a poetic achievement that stands among the best of the late 20th century.

DeLoss McGraw's work has been exhibited around the globe, and is collected by such eminent institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, and many universities. His illustrated version of Alice in Wonderland won the Illustrator's Society Book of the Year Award for 2002. W.D. Snodgrass is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, translation, and criticism, including Heart's Needle, which was awarded the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and De/Compositions, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.

The Art of Pochade: Works of Eric W. Shute
LeMoyne College

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

A pochade is a small sketch in which the artist records, usually in color, the atmospheric effects and general impressions of a landscape. They are small, rapidly executed oil color sketches painted out of doors or plein air. These small paintings are often used as preliminary studies for larger works executed in the studio at a later time. The artist will be exhibiting 16 to 20 of these small works, many of them scenes from the Jonesport and Beals Island area in Down East Maine. The works are quickly conceived and rapidly executed to try and capture the light and conditions of the moment. Because these small paintings are usually considered a reference for larger works they are not often seen by the public.

The artist will be showing one larger work along side the pochade painting that was used as a reference. Patrons may compare the two paintings and see the evolution and thought process of the artist from the original concept in the small color sketch to completion in the much larger finished painting.

Eric Schute's work has appeared at Syracuse's Delavan Art Gallery, Gallery 210, the Everson Museum of Art and the Alden Gallery in Provincetown, MA. For more information, phone 315-445-4323.

Gallery Exhibition: Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A mixed media show with works from Onondaga's own faculty members.

The Golem: Visual Visitations
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A major collective exhibit of seven world class artists titled "The Golem: Visual Visitations," inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' poem "El Golem." This is the third edition of a program that began in Prague in 2002 through the initiative of the Argentinean Embassy in that city, and it was introduced by the renowned poet Václav Havel, then President of the Czech Republic. A second version was later produced with tremendous success at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2003, also introduced by then President of the country, Néstor Kirchner. Now the program travels to the United States for the first time to be shown exclusively at Syracuse University.

The Golem exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery features original works especially commissioned for this exhibit, created by seven artists: from Argentina (Leandro Katz; Pedro Roth); Uruguay (Marta Chilindrón); Puerto Rico (Víctor Vázquez); Syracuse (Tom Sherman; Doug Dubois) and New York (Sarah Kipp). It combines photography, installation and video art.

Mapping Linguistics, Revisited: Works by Kelly Roe
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Kelly Roe's mixed media work will be on display. A professor in the Graphic Design Program at SUNY Oswego, Roe has a background in graphic design, bookmaking and printmaking and sees herself as an anthropologist, artist, editor and scribe. The Mapping Linguistics exhibition explores relationships in linguistics, psychology and child development.

Visual Journals: Recent Works by SUNY Oswego Faculty
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Art exhibition featuring recent work by SUNY Oswego faculty members Amy Bartell, Cynthia Clabough, Paul Pearce, Cara Brewer Thompson.

Dawn of a New Age: The Immigrant Contribution to the Arts in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"Dawn of a New Age" tells the story of five artists who immigrated to the United States during the first half of the 20th century: Adolph Bolm, a Russian dancer and choreographer who performed with the Mariinsky Ballet and Ballets Russes; William Lescaze, a Swiss architect who was one of the pioneers of modernism; Louis Lozowick, a Russian printmaker known for his Art Deco and Precision lithographs; Miklós Rózsa, a Hungarian composer of more than 100 film scores, including Ben Hur; and John Vassos, a Greek illustrator and industrial designer. The exhibition draws from the rich holdings of SCRC and showcases more than 50 of the artists' personal papers, manuscripts, photos and artifacts.

This exhibit is part of this year's Syracuse Symposium on the theme "Migration."

Viewpoints: A Collaborative Collection
Westcott Community Center

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

The Syracuse Photography Meetup Group proudly presents a collection of photographic images at their very first collaborative gallery exhibit. Creatively capturing images from the commonplace to the unexpected, photographers catch the light and special moments in time. This collection of images will serve to captivate your eye and draw you in closer to view a new world in each and every photo.

Members have long exhibited their works on the unique "underground" galleries of cyberspace, but now further realize their works, by bringing them to life in print for this collaborative effort. We hope you enjoy the variety of work, as well as appreciate the varied levels of expertise represented here, from the active beginner, serious amateur, aspiring professional, and working professionals. It is safe to say that each image is a labor of love, born out of an enthusiasm to create something new and wonderful.

The Color of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Watercolor paintings by Laura Wilk, glassworks of Carmel Nicoletti, and felted bags and ruffled scarves of Sherry Gordon.

Pacheco: From the 5th Street Gym to Gandhi
Brian's Art Gallery

Brian's Art Gallery
201 Wolf St. (former Keybank building), Syracuse

Ferdie Pacheco is a man with a great zest for life. He is a painter, an author of 14 books, a playwright, a winner of two Emmy awards, and a humanitarian. Born in 1927 in Ybor City, he made up his mind at 14 to become a doctor and established his practice on Southwest Eighth Street when the Cuban exiles began streaming into the city. It was here that he rediscovered his own immigrant roots -- his father was the Cuban born son of a Spanish consul. Pacheco went on to become Muhammad Ali's cornerman and personal physician for 17 years, becoming known as "The Fight Doctor."

His art work is internationally acclaimed and his painting of Gandhi has been selected as the stamp for the 2009 United Nations Day of Nonviolence. Pacheco's paintings are characterized by his imaginative use of color and design. In particular, his famous faces are executed in a fauvist style. His work has won the Gold Medal and First Prize in Tonneins, France: the First Prize, Best Colorist at Musee Du Luxembourg.

Founding Visionaries: Herb Williams and Jack White
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Community Folk Art Center is proud to exhibit this unique collection of sculptures, drawings and prints by two CFAC founders, Herb Williams and Jack White.

Celebrating Herb Williams: His Life, His Work, and His Art: As CFAC founding director, Herb Williams (1938-1999) devoted his life to promoting the work of diverse artists and ensuring that a large audience could experience their work. His dedication to the collective vision of the founding members kept Williams busy and while he avidly supported and promoted other artist he rarely took time exhibit his own work. This will be the first large-scale exhibition of Williams work in Upstate New York. Though he identified himself primarily as a sculptor, Williams worked across various artistic mediums; manipulating wood, plaster and bronze into figurative and abstract forms. His lithographs and etchings not only indicate the measure of his artistic skill and creativity but also serve as a chronicle of his literal, figurative journey as an artist.

Jack White: An Ancestral Image is a collection of the works by CFAC co-founder and artist Jack White. Since the late 1960s, Jack White's mixed media abstract work, defined as "abstract impressionism," has been inspired by African art forms and symbolism. The works included in the Ancestral Image exhibition are outside the boundaries of traditional painting or sculpture. They contain elements of the spiritual, the artistic, and the utilitarian that define African art.

March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
Community Folk Art Center

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

Original illustrated works by London Ladd

23rd Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

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

The annual event features more than 40 gingerbread creations, including buildings, Victorian village storefronts, street scenes, and much more.

Tracing Memory: Photographs by Angie Buckley, Pedro Isztin, Cyrus Karimipour, and Paula Luttringer
Light Work Gallery

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

Guest curator Miriam Romais of En Foco curated this exhibition to explore what makes a thought become a memory. The artists included in this exhibition create photographs that look at the idea of remembrance -- of letting go and making sense of past events, and using those memories to understand who they are today.

Growing up with a mother from Thailand and a Caucasian American father, Angie Buckley did not know her family history for many years. She relied on the conflicting memories and stories of relatives to piece together her heritage. Her images are created with a pinhole camera and cutouts of old family photographs, resulting in work that lies somewhere in between the real world and imagination. Buckley received her BFA in Photography from Ohio University and her MFA in Photography from Arizona State University. She has received various awards, and her work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Southern Light Gallery in Texas, the McDuffy Arts Center in Virginia, and New York University.

Pedro Isztin's color portraits metaphorically integrate formative childhood memories, using them to heal the adult that the child has become. Part of a larger series that emulates a life journey, Destino III: Transformation revisits, in Isztin's words, "the pain, joy, and suffering that our psyches are stamped with, no matter how little or large those experiences as a child." Isztin was born to a Colombian mother and Hungarian father; his work explores his diverse heritage. He lives in Ottawa, Canada, and has exhibited internationally. He has received numerous awards and grants, including a Photography Project Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and an Ontario Arts Council Award.

Cyrus Karimipour revels in the flexibility of memories and uses his images to visually recreate them and depict how he remembers an event or encounter. In his series Invented Memory, he creates scenarios by heavily manipulating his negatives and rearranging their fragments to then be re-photographed. His imagery becomes ambiguous, as if looking in on someone else's dream. Karimipour received his BA from Oakland University in Michigan and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. His work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of New Art in Michigan, and the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio. His art has also appeared in Harper's Magazine and The Detroit News, among other publications.

Paula Luttringer faces her own traumatic past, infusing her imagery with what other women remember about being abducted and held captive during Argentina's Dirty War. Lamento de Los Muros (The Wailing of the Walls) consists of large black-and-white images that depict the interior of the detention centers where thousands of people were held, tortured, and "disappeared." The images capture both history and memory. Luttringer was awarded a fellowship by the Guggenheim Foundation in 2001. Her work appears in the collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; the Museum of Fine Arts in Texas; and George Eastman House in New York. She currently lives and works in Buenos Aires and Paris.

2008 Light Work Grant Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Works of Kathy Morris, Paul Pearce, and Nancy Keefe Rhodes, the recipients of the 34th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. Kathy Morris and Paul Pearce are imagemakers. Nancy Keefe Rhodes received the award for a photo-historian project on local documentary photographer Marjory Wilkins.

Exploring History With Art: Childhood Through The Years
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The latest exhibit in the Exploring History with Art series features paintings from the permanent collection. 19th-century portraits of children, focusing on children of prominent local families, convey historical circumstances as well as social ideals. 20th-century genre paintings show children in their element: in the bathtub, at recess, and on vacation. The exhibit also features historical objects that enliven the space and impart a sense of the experience of childhood from the cradle to school days and play time. Childhood Through The Years is not only an excellent opportunity to delve into the history of childhood but also the exhibition represents a moment, as fleeting as childhood itself, for parents and children to share their experiences through the interplay of art and history.

Paper Politics
Redhouse

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

Paper Politics is an important international survey of recent politically-motivated printmaking that includes over 200 handmade prints. The exhibit offers the public a comprehensive view of artists' responses to a wide variety of recent political situations and circumstances, ranging from local city politics to national policy to international 'interventions'.

All the artists selected for the exhibition employ an individual approach to the use of the media, techniques, form, and content, and yet each holds in common the will to make politically engaged art. It is through this thread that the viewer may access the struggle to balance the competing impetuses of artist and activist amongst many of the artists included in the exhibit.

The gallery is open by appointment. To schedule a visit, please phone 315-425-0405.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Show and sale of original fine arts and crafts by Central New York artists and craftspeople. For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Warren Kimble's America
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Folk artist Warren Kimble is creator to some of the most successful 20th century Americana. His quaint depictions have graced stationery cards to decorative accessories for the home. Still, few individuals outside of Vermont know him as the artist behind the celebrated imagery that's as American as apple pie.

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is pleased to present a retrospective of the Syracuse alumnus' work including his most recent series Widows of War, which illustrates his personal reaction to the War in Iraq and its effect on women.

Kimble is best known for his patchwork-like paintings of the American flag, bucolic farm animals, and antique barns and homes. His varying flag designs are a symbol of patriotism, a theme which the artist uses often. Portraits of oversized farm animals, from heavy pigs to stocky cows, allude to an 18th-century practice of selecting prize winning livestock for their size. Kimble's stylized barns and farm houses also reveal a penchant for abstract design over architectural accuracy.

In 2005 Kimble began work on Widows of War. After purchasing a black, antique dressmaking mannequin, Kimble saw in it a visual metaphor for the loss and sorrow felt by American wives and mothers during the war. Contrary to the idyllic scenes and colorful animals, the black-and-white series remains a solemn representation of Kimble's sadness and frustration with the war's events and its toll on American lives. The paintings and sculpture, which are intermittently marked by splats of red and barbed wire, further reinforce the feminine connection through symbolic clothespins and textile patterns.

Parking for weekend and evening visitors is in Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Parking is on a space available basis and will be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces are not available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Art for the Holidays
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring mixed media illustrations by Katya Krenina, monotypes and mixed media works by Thea Reidy as well as ceramics by the Clayscapes Pottery (Donald Seymour, Shawn McGuire, Jolee M. Romano, Tim See and Sallie Thompson).

Special Exhibit: Shadows
Delavan Art Gallery

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

When viewing lighted objects, it's easy to overlook the shadows they create. The Delavan Art Gallery has expanded on this concept to produce a one-of-its-kind exhibit devoted entirely to shadows and featuring works by a host of noted Central New York artists.

The Shadows Exhibit was conceived with two ideas in mind: how shadows are made (by an object, a light source and a background), and Bill Delavan's special professional interest in lighting the Gallery's exhibitions, sometimes playfully turning shadows into their own art form.

Featured artists in this exhibit include Arlene Abend, Reginald Adams, Anahid Ajemian, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Hillary Gifford, Barre Hunt, Lauren Ritchie, Jeffrey Schuessler, Andy Schuster and Matthew Vural.

Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th Century Superstar
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Local artist and designer Jeffrey Mayer will present a post-modern installation of 20th century fashion design inspired by the 18th century fashion sense of Marie Antoinette. Although Marie Antoinette did not really create a style that was personally unique, what she did for fashion in the 1770s was to solidify, refine and intensify the rococo style created by her grandfather-in-law, Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who died in 1764, six years before the 14-year-old Princess even arrived from Austria. Through the exhibition and a publication to be released in the fall, Mayer will be reinterpreting and discussing Marie Antoinette's key concepts of Fantasy, Luxury, and Exoticism.

Marie Antoinette was originally displayed in 2007 in a small space in Syracuse University's Fashion Design Department where Mayer has been Associate Professor of Fashion History and Design since 1992. For the Everson's installation, Mayer has expanded the visual experience to include more than 40 garments displayed on vintage mannequins, an eclectic collection of contemporary fashion accessories, an interactive audio component, and many unique, custom-designed and hand-made objects.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

Warhol Presents highlights the early commercial career of Andy Warhol, whose whimsical drawings from the 1950s created fantasies that marketed fashion and glamour through evocation. Warhol's penchant for combining art and advertisement quickly made him one of the most well known illustrators of women's fashion in New York. His talen' was sought out by fashion publication giants, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar; and women's footwear designer and retailer, I. Miller Shoe Company.

The exhibition presents 18 of Warhol's rarely seen shoe illustrations including Fantasy Shoes (ca. 1956), a whimsical and humorous take on women's footwear design. Exhibited also are drawings of women's accessories and fashion figures, including Female Fashion Figure (1950s); a vibrant depiction of a chic model alongside an equally stylish car.

Warhol's unique well-wrought line also translated to commissions of large-scale window displays for New York stores, including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's. One example of the artist's window displays is featured in this exhibition in the illustrated reproduction, Miss Dior (1950s); and a 1997 3-dimensional re-creation of Warhol's 1957 Bonwit Teller Window Display, which includes glass perfume bottles and colorful reproduction of a window display screen. Warhol's early drawings and interest in art, identity, and consumerism informed his later pop-icon status, when product and identity literally became his art, and was used to fuel his experimental factory era films.

This exhibition is curated by Natalie Sanderson, Curator of Education at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. The original exhibition, Andy Warhol Presents, was first exhibited at the University Art Museum in 2007.

Roiling Infill by Alex Schweder; Blind Spot by Kim Waale
The Warehouse Gallery

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

This solo exhibition by Seattle/Berlin-based artist Alex Schweder, Roiling Infill, consists of a video projection, Jealous Poché (2004), and an architectural installation titled Snowballing Doorway (2007). Both components of the exhibition accomplish in very different ways the artist's ongoing interest in the intersection between architecture, sculpture and performance art.

Jealous Poché is a seven-minute architectural fly-through of a space somewhere between body and building. The word poché was coined in France's École de Beaux Arts during a neoclassical moment to refer to the space between the surfaces of walls. Here, the camera path and viewer's position are actually inside the viscous poché looking into the voids on the other side of the wall's surface. The camera work in this video shows an attention by the artist to a liminal moment (the skin of the wall) between expanse and engulfment. Made in collaboration with gastroenterologist Jim Wagonfeld, a 25-gallon vat of strawberry Jell-O mixed with blocks of resin was filmed with an endoscope. Schweder's decision to use an imaging device normally employed to visualize the human body's own poché in turn represents the architectural space in the video as fleshy. This is in contrast to architecture's historical representation of and fantasies of perfect bodies.

Snowballing Doorway moves from the world of represented architectural fleshiness to architectural flesh itself. Two sac-like arches made from a combination of opaque and clear vinyl pass the same volume of poché (in this case air) back and forth until one of the two completely bulges to fill the aperture in which they are installed. This shifting skin is an example of what Schweder calls "a building that performs itself." Here he is interested in how the codes of architecture act like a score for how occupants are supposed to "perform" the building. In this case, the arch prompts an occupant to "pass through" it. Schweder's unstable arch, however, changes this instruction to its opposite when the poché passes into the upside-down arch on top. In this way, a viewer becomes aware of the way buildings structure the behavior in them.

Both works point to a permeability between buildings and the bodies that occupy them. The video, made using an edible treat, makes it unclear where insides and outsides of buildings and bodies start and stop. The inflatable instructions make explicit that buildings construct us in as much as we construct them.

Also on display, in the Window Projects Gallery, is Blind Spot, a site-specific installation using wax-encrusted wire forms designed to simultaneously emulate the roots and branches of trees and the retina and optic nerve of the human eye. These "references to nature as it exists outside and within the human body underscore the trouble we as humans have in seeing and thinking about ourselves as organisms that are part of the natural world" (Waale, artist statement).

Waale blurs the boundaries between sculpture and drawing as she moves from Vocalizations, a series of preliminary drawings for the project, to sculptural elements that will fill the space.

Syracuse Cultural Workers InsideOUT
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Syracuse Cultural Workers (SCW) presents a familiar face (or, rather, several familiar faces) to the progressive community in Syracuse. The calendars, posters, cards, and T-shirts they publish are well-known; and the banners, drums, and willing bodies are a ready resource for just about any event designed to educate/agitate.

With this exhibit, they celebrate their 25th anniversary with a behind-the-scenes look at some of the less obvious aspects of what it means to be an international "peace and justice publisher and distributor." Topics include: the poster process, from brainstorm to finished product; customer feedback when they don't get it right (and when they do); a poster/calendar/art collages featuring activist art spanning 30 years, and more. This exhibit promises to be a show filled with surprising, entertaining, and visually stimulating perspectives.

There will be a guided tour of the exhibit between 5:00-6:00 pm with Dik Cool, Syracuse Cultural Workers co-founder and publisher.

Syracuse Film Festival Pre-Screening
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

Reflections on Afghanistan
University Neighbors Lecture Series
Featuring Captain Ben Tupper

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

Ben Tupper graduated from Nottingham High School, Syracuse University, and the Maxwell School. He worked for 10 years as a social justice activist in peace, civil rights, and environmental groups from CNY to Louisiana, including multiple trips to Nicaragua with Witness for Peace. Ben has been a New York National Guard member for 14 years. He gave five NPR commentaries while serving as an embedded trainer in the Afghan National Army along the eastern front with Pakistan. He was awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge and the Bronze Star during his tour.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
S.U. Wind Ensemble
John Laverty, conductor

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

The program includes music by Daugherty, Godfrey, Copland and Granger. Bradley Ethington, director of the Setnor School, and Justin Mertz, assistant director of SU Bands and a faculty member in the Setnor School, will appear as guest conductors.

Parking is available in Irving Garage.

For more information, contact the SU Band Office at 315-443-2194 or fmmoore@syr.edu.

A Cappella After Hours
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Produced and hosted by The Mandarins once a semester, A Cappella After Hours showcases the talents of all five of the a cappella groups on Syracuse University's campus: Groovestand, The Mandarins, Oy Cappella, Orange Appeal, and Main Squeeze.

Nick Saint, Private Elf
Acme Mystery Company

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

The Island of Misfit Toys is the dark, seamy underbelly of Santa's Toyland Town, and Nick Saint will need some help when he heads there on an investigation.

Preview: The Santaland Diaries
Syracuse Stage
James Edmondson, director

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

For those who like a little jeer with their Christmas cheer, humorist David Sedaris' The Santaland Diaries is a gem of a lump of coal. Meet Crumpet, a 33-year-old starving artist turned Macy's elf. It's the most wonderful time of the year, but you wouldn't know it from the bad Santas, naughty elves, cranky kids and pushy parents who test Crumpet's last elfin nerve as he struggles to remain sane and perky(!) amid the absurdity of the holiday season. With sardonic wit, and a sometimes razor-sharp, sometimes velvet-soft tongue, Sedaris takes us all playfully to task for plunging into the Christmas spirit but missing the point. For mature elves only.

Adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello.

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Godspell
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj, director

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

This energetic musical based on the gospel of St. Matthew is a celebration of worldwide community, filled with popular hit songs and irresistible good will. From the UN to India to China to Darfur to Syracuse prepare ye the way of hope, brotherhood and sisterhood as the time for tolerance and inclusiveness draws nearer Day by Day. A groundbreaking musical in its time, this colorful update features world dance-inspired choreography and multimedia projections.

Conceived by John-Michael Tebelak; music and new lyrics by Stephen Schwartz; choreographed by Anthony Salatino.

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Preview: The Eight: Reindeer Monologues; Seven Santas
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $5
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The Eight: Reindeer Monologues:
A wickedly funny alternative to traditional candy-cane cheer. Scandal erupts at the North Pole when one of Santa's eight tiny reindeer accuses him of sexual harassment. As the mass media descends upon the event, the other members of the sleigh team demand to share their perspectives, and a horrific tale of corruption and perversion emerges -which seems to implicate everyone from the teeniest elf to the tainted Saint himself. With each deer's stunning confession, the truth behind the shocking allegations becomes clearer...and murkier.

Seven Santas:
Scandal erupts at the North Pole when the most powerful man on Earth is sentenced to rehab for a minor traffic violation. But when he finds himself in a detox program run by the estranged Mrs. Claus, Santa's desperate struggle to conceal the truth about his arrest uncovers yet another sordid secret that could mean the end of Christmas-as-we-know-it.

No one under the age of 18 admitted.

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Friday, December 5, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

They are testaments to the impact of terrorism: sculptures portraying mothers going back to the exact moment they learned their child died in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some are screaming; others are weeping. Some are curled into a ball; others have fists raised in anger. The 76 larger-than-life figures that comprise the Dark Elegy collection were created by Montauk, NY-based artist Suse Lowenstein, the mother of a Pan Am 103 student victim.

Four of these sculptures will be on display as part of the University's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy.

HIV/AIDS Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibit features works of art on the theme of HIV/AIDS created by Onondaga art and photography students.

Paintings by DeLoss McGraw on Poems by W.D. Snodgrass
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.D. Snodgrass and internationally acclaimed artist DeLoss McGraw have collaborated for over 30 years. This latest series of works, being shown for the first time at the YMCA's gallerY, consists of paintings created by Mr. McGraw directly on pages torn from Snodgrass' acclaimed poetry collection Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems. The end product is an extraordinary exhibit that adds an evocative dimension to a poetic achievement that stands among the best of the late 20th century.

DeLoss McGraw's work has been exhibited around the globe, and is collected by such eminent institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, and many universities. His illustrated version of Alice in Wonderland won the Illustrator's Society Book of the Year Award for 2002. W.D. Snodgrass is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, translation, and criticism, including Heart's Needle, which was awarded the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and De/Compositions, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.

The Art of Pochade: Works of Eric W. Shute
LeMoyne College

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

A pochade is a small sketch in which the artist records, usually in color, the atmospheric effects and general impressions of a landscape. They are small, rapidly executed oil color sketches painted out of doors or plein air. These small paintings are often used as preliminary studies for larger works executed in the studio at a later time. The artist will be exhibiting 16 to 20 of these small works, many of them scenes from the Jonesport and Beals Island area in Down East Maine. The works are quickly conceived and rapidly executed to try and capture the light and conditions of the moment. Because these small paintings are usually considered a reference for larger works they are not often seen by the public.

The artist will be showing one larger work along side the pochade painting that was used as a reference. Patrons may compare the two paintings and see the evolution and thought process of the artist from the original concept in the small color sketch to completion in the much larger finished painting.

Eric Schute's work has appeared at Syracuse's Delavan Art Gallery, Gallery 210, the Everson Museum of Art and the Alden Gallery in Provincetown, MA. For more information, phone 315-445-4323.

Gallery Exhibition: Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A mixed media show with works from Onondaga's own faculty members.

The Golem: Visual Visitations
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A major collective exhibit of seven world class artists titled "The Golem: Visual Visitations," inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' poem "El Golem." This is the third edition of a program that began in Prague in 2002 through the initiative of the Argentinean Embassy in that city, and it was introduced by the renowned poet Václav Havel, then President of the Czech Republic. A second version was later produced with tremendous success at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2003, also introduced by then President of the country, Néstor Kirchner. Now the program travels to the United States for the first time to be shown exclusively at Syracuse University.

The Golem exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery features original works especially commissioned for this exhibit, created by seven artists: from Argentina (Leandro Katz; Pedro Roth); Uruguay (Marta Chilindrón); Puerto Rico (Víctor Vázquez); Syracuse (Tom Sherman; Doug Dubois) and New York (Sarah Kipp). It combines photography, installation and video art.

Mapping Linguistics, Revisited: Works by Kelly Roe
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Kelly Roe's mixed media work will be on display. A professor in the Graphic Design Program at SUNY Oswego, Roe has a background in graphic design, bookmaking and printmaking and sees herself as an anthropologist, artist, editor and scribe. The Mapping Linguistics exhibition explores relationships in linguistics, psychology and child development.

Visual Journals: Recent Works by SUNY Oswego Faculty
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Art exhibition featuring recent work by SUNY Oswego faculty members Amy Bartell, Cynthia Clabough, Paul Pearce, Cara Brewer Thompson.

Dawn of a New Age: The Immigrant Contribution to the Arts in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"Dawn of a New Age" tells the story of five artists who immigrated to the United States during the first half of the 20th century: Adolph Bolm, a Russian dancer and choreographer who performed with the Mariinsky Ballet and Ballets Russes; William Lescaze, a Swiss architect who was one of the pioneers of modernism; Louis Lozowick, a Russian printmaker known for his Art Deco and Precision lithographs; Miklós Rózsa, a Hungarian composer of more than 100 film scores, including Ben Hur; and John Vassos, a Greek illustrator and industrial designer. The exhibition draws from the rich holdings of SCRC and showcases more than 50 of the artists' personal papers, manuscripts, photos and artifacts.

This exhibit is part of this year's Syracuse Symposium on the theme "Migration."

Viewpoints: A Collaborative Collection
Westcott Community Center

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

The Syracuse Photography Meetup Group proudly presents a collection of photographic images at their very first collaborative gallery exhibit. Creatively capturing images from the commonplace to the unexpected, photographers catch the light and special moments in time. This collection of images will serve to captivate your eye and draw you in closer to view a new world in each and every photo.

Members have long exhibited their works on the unique "underground" galleries of cyberspace, but now further realize their works, by bringing them to life in print for this collaborative effort. We hope you enjoy the variety of work, as well as appreciate the varied levels of expertise represented here, from the active beginner, serious amateur, aspiring professional, and working professionals. It is safe to say that each image is a labor of love, born out of an enthusiasm to create something new and wonderful.

The Color of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Watercolor paintings by Laura Wilk, glassworks of Carmel Nicoletti, and felted bags and ruffled scarves of Sherry Gordon.

Pacheco: From the 5th Street Gym to Gandhi
Brian's Art Gallery

Brian's Art Gallery
201 Wolf St. (former Keybank building), Syracuse

Ferdie Pacheco is a man with a great zest for life. He is a painter, an author of 14 books, a playwright, a winner of two Emmy awards, and a humanitarian. Born in 1927 in Ybor City, he made up his mind at 14 to become a doctor and established his practice on Southwest Eighth Street when the Cuban exiles began streaming into the city. It was here that he rediscovered his own immigrant roots -- his father was the Cuban born son of a Spanish consul. Pacheco went on to become Muhammad Ali's cornerman and personal physician for 17 years, becoming known as "The Fight Doctor."

His art work is internationally acclaimed and his painting of Gandhi has been selected as the stamp for the 2009 United Nations Day of Nonviolence. Pacheco's paintings are characterized by his imaginative use of color and design. In particular, his famous faces are executed in a fauvist style. His work has won the Gold Medal and First Prize in Tonneins, France: the First Prize, Best Colorist at Musee Du Luxembourg.

March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
Community Folk Art Center

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

Original illustrated works by London Ladd

Founding Visionaries: Herb Williams and Jack White
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Community Folk Art Center is proud to exhibit this unique collection of sculptures, drawings and prints by two CFAC founders, Herb Williams and Jack White.

Celebrating Herb Williams: His Life, His Work, and His Art: As CFAC founding director, Herb Williams (1938-1999) devoted his life to promoting the work of diverse artists and ensuring that a large audience could experience their work. His dedication to the collective vision of the founding members kept Williams busy and while he avidly supported and promoted other artist he rarely took time exhibit his own work. This will be the first large-scale exhibition of Williams work in Upstate New York. Though he identified himself primarily as a sculptor, Williams worked across various artistic mediums; manipulating wood, plaster and bronze into figurative and abstract forms. His lithographs and etchings not only indicate the measure of his artistic skill and creativity but also serve as a chronicle of his literal, figurative journey as an artist.

Jack White: An Ancestral Image is a collection of the works by CFAC co-founder and artist Jack White. Since the late 1960s, Jack White's mixed media abstract work, defined as "abstract impressionism," has been inspired by African art forms and symbolism. The works included in the Ancestral Image exhibition are outside the boundaries of traditional painting or sculpture. They contain elements of the spiritual, the artistic, and the utilitarian that define African art.

23rd Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

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

The annual event features more than 40 gingerbread creations, including buildings, Victorian village storefronts, street scenes, and much more.

Everson Unwrapped: A Winter Celebration
Everson Museum of Art

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

A new winter tradition -- Everson Unwrapped: A Winter Celebration. It's a whole new way of celebrating the holiday season. This weeklong celebration of art will delight participants with a myriad of decorations and unique displays. Going beyond decorated trees, the displays are different, surprising, and beautiful. This year will be sure to provide new surprises and bring out the holiday spirit in the whole community.

Tracing Memory: Photographs by Angie Buckley, Pedro Isztin, Cyrus Karimipour, and Paula Luttringer
Light Work Gallery

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

Guest curator Miriam Romais of En Foco curated this exhibition to explore what makes a thought become a memory. The artists included in this exhibition create photographs that look at the idea of remembrance -- of letting go and making sense of past events, and using those memories to understand who they are today.

Growing up with a mother from Thailand and a Caucasian American father, Angie Buckley did not know her family history for many years. She relied on the conflicting memories and stories of relatives to piece together her heritage. Her images are created with a pinhole camera and cutouts of old family photographs, resulting in work that lies somewhere in between the real world and imagination. Buckley received her BFA in Photography from Ohio University and her MFA in Photography from Arizona State University. She has received various awards, and her work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Southern Light Gallery in Texas, the McDuffy Arts Center in Virginia, and New York University.

Pedro Isztin's color portraits metaphorically integrate formative childhood memories, using them to heal the adult that the child has become. Part of a larger series that emulates a life journey, Destino III: Transformation revisits, in Isztin's words, "the pain, joy, and suffering that our psyches are stamped with, no matter how little or large those experiences as a child." Isztin was born to a Colombian mother and Hungarian father; his work explores his diverse heritage. He lives in Ottawa, Canada, and has exhibited internationally. He has received numerous awards and grants, including a Photography Project Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and an Ontario Arts Council Award.

Cyrus Karimipour revels in the flexibility of memories and uses his images to visually recreate them and depict how he remembers an event or encounter. In his series Invented Memory, he creates scenarios by heavily manipulating his negatives and rearranging their fragments to then be re-photographed. His imagery becomes ambiguous, as if looking in on someone else's dream. Karimipour received his BA from Oakland University in Michigan and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. His work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of New Art in Michigan, and the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio. His art has also appeared in Harper's Magazine and The Detroit News, among other publications.

Paula Luttringer faces her own traumatic past, infusing her imagery with what other women remember about being abducted and held captive during Argentina's Dirty War. Lamento de Los Muros (The Wailing of the Walls) consists of large black-and-white images that depict the interior of the detention centers where thousands of people were held, tortured, and "disappeared." The images capture both history and memory. Luttringer was awarded a fellowship by the Guggenheim Foundation in 2001. Her work appears in the collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; the Museum of Fine Arts in Texas; and George Eastman House in New York. She currently lives and works in Buenos Aires and Paris.

2008 Light Work Grant Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Works of Kathy Morris, Paul Pearce, and Nancy Keefe Rhodes, the recipients of the 34th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. Kathy Morris and Paul Pearce are imagemakers. Nancy Keefe Rhodes received the award for a photo-historian project on local documentary photographer Marjory Wilkins.

Exploring History With Art: Childhood Through The Years
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The latest exhibit in the Exploring History with Art series features paintings from the permanent collection. 19th-century portraits of children, focusing on children of prominent local families, convey historical circumstances as well as social ideals. 20th-century genre paintings show children in their element: in the bathtub, at recess, and on vacation. The exhibit also features historical objects that enliven the space and impart a sense of the experience of childhood from the cradle to school days and play time. Childhood Through The Years is not only an excellent opportunity to delve into the history of childhood but also the exhibition represents a moment, as fleeting as childhood itself, for parents and children to share their experiences through the interplay of art and history.

Paper Politics
Redhouse

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

Paper Politics is an important international survey of recent politically-motivated printmaking that includes over 200 handmade prints. The exhibit offers the public a comprehensive view of artists' responses to a wide variety of recent political situations and circumstances, ranging from local city politics to national policy to international 'interventions'.

All the artists selected for the exhibition employ an individual approach to the use of the media, techniques, form, and content, and yet each holds in common the will to make politically engaged art. It is through this thread that the viewer may access the struggle to balance the competing impetuses of artist and activist amongst many of the artists included in the exhibit.

The gallery is open by appointment. To schedule a visit, please phone 315-425-0405.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Show and sale of original fine arts and crafts by Central New York artists and craftspeople. For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Warren Kimble's America
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Folk artist Warren Kimble is creator to some of the most successful 20th century Americana. His quaint depictions have graced stationery cards to decorative accessories for the home. Still, few individuals outside of Vermont know him as the artist behind the celebrated imagery that's as American as apple pie.

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is pleased to present a retrospective of the Syracuse alumnus' work including his most recent series Widows of War, which illustrates his personal reaction to the War in Iraq and its effect on women.

Kimble is best known for his patchwork-like paintings of the American flag, bucolic farm animals, and antique barns and homes. His varying flag designs are a symbol of patriotism, a theme which the artist uses often. Portraits of oversized farm animals, from heavy pigs to stocky cows, allude to an 18th-century practice of selecting prize winning livestock for their size. Kimble's stylized barns and farm houses also reveal a penchant for abstract design over architectural accuracy.

In 2005 Kimble began work on Widows of War. After purchasing a black, antique dressmaking mannequin, Kimble saw in it a visual metaphor for the loss and sorrow felt by American wives and mothers during the war. Contrary to the idyllic scenes and colorful animals, the black-and-white series remains a solemn representation of Kimble's sadness and frustration with the war's events and its toll on American lives. The paintings and sculpture, which are intermittently marked by splats of red and barbed wire, further reinforce the feminine connection through symbolic clothespins and textile patterns.

Parking for weekend and evening visitors is in Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Parking is on a space available basis and will be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces are not available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Art for the Holidays
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring mixed media illustrations by Katya Krenina, monotypes and mixed media works by Thea Reidy as well as ceramics by the Clayscapes Pottery (Donald Seymour, Shawn McGuire, Jolee M. Romano, Tim See and Sallie Thompson).

Special Exhibit: Shadows
Delavan Art Gallery

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

When viewing lighted objects, it's easy to overlook the shadows they create. The Delavan Art Gallery has expanded on this concept to produce a one-of-its-kind exhibit devoted entirely to shadows and featuring works by a host of noted Central New York artists.

The Shadows Exhibit was conceived with two ideas in mind: how shadows are made (by an object, a light source and a background), and Bill Delavan's special professional interest in lighting the Gallery's exhibitions, sometimes playfully turning shadows into their own art form.

Featured artists in this exhibit include Arlene Abend, Reginald Adams, Anahid Ajemian, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Hillary Gifford, Barre Hunt, Lauren Ritchie, Jeffrey Schuessler, Andy Schuster and Matthew Vural.

Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th Century Superstar
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Local artist and designer Jeffrey Mayer will present a post-modern installation of 20th century fashion design inspired by the 18th century fashion sense of Marie Antoinette. Although Marie Antoinette did not really create a style that was personally unique, what she did for fashion in the 1770s was to solidify, refine and intensify the rococo style created by her grandfather-in-law, Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who died in 1764, six years before the 14-year-old Princess even arrived from Austria. Through the exhibition and a publication to be released in the fall, Mayer will be reinterpreting and discussing Marie Antoinette's key concepts of Fantasy, Luxury, and Exoticism.

Marie Antoinette was originally displayed in 2007 in a small space in Syracuse University's Fashion Design Department where Mayer has been Associate Professor of Fashion History and Design since 1992. For the Everson's installation, Mayer has expanded the visual experience to include more than 40 garments displayed on vintage mannequins, an eclectic collection of contemporary fashion accessories, an interactive audio component, and many unique, custom-designed and hand-made objects.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

Warhol Presents highlights the early commercial career of Andy Warhol, whose whimsical drawings from the 1950s created fantasies that marketed fashion and glamour through evocation. Warhol's penchant for combining art and advertisement quickly made him one of the most well known illustrators of women's fashion in New York. His talen' was sought out by fashion publication giants, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar; and women's footwear designer and retailer, I. Miller Shoe Company.

The exhibition presents 18 of Warhol's rarely seen shoe illustrations including Fantasy Shoes (ca. 1956), a whimsical and humorous take on women's footwear design. Exhibited also are drawings of women's accessories and fashion figures, including Female Fashion Figure (1950s); a vibrant depiction of a chic model alongside an equally stylish car.

Warhol's unique well-wrought line also translated to commissions of large-scale window displays for New York stores, including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's. One example of the artist's window displays is featured in this exhibition in the illustrated reproduction, Miss Dior (1950s); and a 1997 3-dimensional re-creation of Warhol's 1957 Bonwit Teller Window Display, which includes glass perfume bottles and colorful reproduction of a window display screen. Warhol's early drawings and interest in art, identity, and consumerism informed his later pop-icon status, when product and identity literally became his art, and was used to fuel his experimental factory era films.

This exhibition is curated by Natalie Sanderson, Curator of Education at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. The original exhibition, Andy Warhol Presents, was first exhibited at the University Art Museum in 2007.

26th Annual Syracuse Holiday Craft Spectacular

Price: $3
Horticulture Building
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Roiling Infill by Alex Schweder; Blind Spot by Kim Waale
The Warehouse Gallery

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

This solo exhibition by Seattle/Berlin-based artist Alex Schweder, Roiling Infill, consists of a video projection, Jealous Poché (2004), and an architectural installation titled Snowballing Doorway (2007). Both components of the exhibition accomplish in very different ways the artist's ongoing interest in the intersection between architecture, sculpture and performance art.

Jealous Poché is a seven-minute architectural fly-through of a space somewhere between body and building. The word poché was coined in France's École de Beaux Arts during a neoclassical moment to refer to the space between the surfaces of walls. Here, the camera path and viewer's position are actually inside the viscous poché looking into the voids on the other side of the wall's surface. The camera work in this video shows an attention by the artist to a liminal moment (the skin of the wall) between expanse and engulfment. Made in collaboration with gastroenterologist Jim Wagonfeld, a 25-gallon vat of strawberry Jell-O mixed with blocks of resin was filmed with an endoscope. Schweder's decision to use an imaging device normally employed to visualize the human body's own poché in turn represents the architectural space in the video as fleshy. This is in contrast to architecture's historical representation of and fantasies of perfect bodies.

Snowballing Doorway moves from the world of represented architectural fleshiness to architectural flesh itself. Two sac-like arches made from a combination of opaque and clear vinyl pass the same volume of poché (in this case air) back and forth until one of the two completely bulges to fill the aperture in which they are installed. This shifting skin is an example of what Schweder calls "a building that performs itself." Here he is interested in how the codes of architecture act like a score for how occupants are supposed to "perform" the building. In this case, the arch prompts an occupant to "pass through" it. Schweder's unstable arch, however, changes this instruction to its opposite when the poché passes into the upside-down arch on top. In this way, a viewer becomes aware of the way buildings structure the behavior in them.

Both works point to a permeability between buildings and the bodies that occupy them. The video, made using an edible treat, makes it unclear where insides and outsides of buildings and bodies start and stop. The inflatable instructions make explicit that buildings construct us in as much as we construct them.

Also on display, in the Window Projects Gallery, is Blind Spot, a site-specific installation using wax-encrusted wire forms designed to simultaneously emulate the roots and branches of trees and the retina and optic nerve of the human eye. These "references to nature as it exists outside and within the human body underscore the trouble we as humans have in seeing and thinking about ourselves as organisms that are part of the natural world" (Waale, artist statement).

Waale blurs the boundaries between sculpture and drawing as she moves from Vocalizations, a series of preliminary drawings for the project, to sculptural elements that will fill the space.

Framing Identities: Collaborations with Students at Nottingham High School
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Atrium Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

An exhibition of photography guided by student mentors in Professor Judith Meighan's "Literacy, Community, Art" course in the Syracuse University's School of Art and Design. The Nottingham High School students exhibiting work are enrolled in Randy Weatherby's "Black and White Photography" course.

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

Syracuse Cultural Workers InsideOUT
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Syracuse Cultural Workers (SCW) presents a familiar face (or, rather, several familiar faces) to the progressive community in Syracuse. The calendars, posters, cards, and T-shirts they publish are well-known; and the banners, drums, and willing bodies are a ready resource for just about any event designed to educate/agitate.

With this exhibit, they celebrate their 25th anniversary with a behind-the-scenes look at some of the less obvious aspects of what it means to be an international "peace and justice publisher and distributor." Topics include: the poster process, from brainstorm to finished product; customer feedback when they don't get it right (and when they do); a poster/calendar/art collages featuring activist art spanning 30 years, and more. This exhibit promises to be a show filled with surprising, entertaining, and visually stimulating perspectives.

Computer Art BFA Show -- BETA: ca08
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

BETA: ca08 is a group exhibition of student artworks that incorporate computer and/or electronic technology in the process of creation. Artists presented by Visiting Assistant Professor Sean Hovendick include Anthony Almonte, Andrew Blackmore, Danielle Galasso, Caitlin Lawther, Michael Lebson, Marcus Lee, Andres Lora, Joshua Mabie and Zach Rubins.

Lissa Schneckenburger
Folkus Project

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

The traditional music of New England can be as warm and comforting as a winter fire or as potent and exhilarating as a summer thunderstorm. Fiddler and singer Lissa Schneckenburger is a master of both moods, a winsome, sweet-voiced singer who brings new life to old ballads and a skillful, dynamic fiddler who captures the driving rhythm and carefree joy of dance tunes old and new. Her live performances are a rich mix of traditional and original material brought together by energetic, chord-rich fiddling and sweet vocals. Drawing inspiration from the traditional repertoire of the New England folk dance scene, her fiddling is uplifting and lively; her singing, gentle and evocative.

Peace and Joy
Syracuse Gay and Lesbian Chorus
Shawn DeVito, conductor

Price: $15 in advance; $18 at the door
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

The evening's event will include a post-concert reception and raffle.

Seating is limited. Tickets can be purchased at the Lavender Inkwell Bookshoppe, or reserved by email at SGLCtickets@twcny.rr.com.

Friday night's performance will include a sign language interpreter.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
S.U. Symphony Band
Bradley Ethington, Justin Mertz, conductor

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

The program includes music by Bernstein, Grantham and Van der Roost. Jennifer Luzzo and Andrea Rommel will appear as conducting associates.

Parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, contact the SU Band Office at 315-443-2194 or fmmoore@syr.edu.

Charles Dickens Presents: A Christmas Carol
Onondaga Community College
Featuring Mike Randall

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Charles Dickens is going to be spending the holidays inside of Mike Randall's head, so Mark Twain is just going to have to move over and make some room. After a year's worth of preparation -- including a dialect coach who helped with the British accent -- Mike Randall is bringing Charles Dickens to life, recreating the author's own immensely popular readings of Dickens' classic play, A Christmas Carol. Mike Randall is an alumnus of Onondaga Community College.

Godspell
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj, director

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

This energetic musical based on the gospel of St. Matthew is a celebration of worldwide community, filled with popular hit songs and irresistible good will. From the UN to India to China to Darfur to Syracuse prepare ye the way of hope, brotherhood and sisterhood as the time for tolerance and inclusiveness draws nearer Day by Day. A groundbreaking musical in its time, this colorful update features world dance-inspired choreography and multimedia projections.

Conceived by John-Michael Tebelak; music and new lyrics by Stephen Schwartz; choreographed by Anthony Salatino.

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The Santaland Diaries
Syracuse Stage
James Edmondson, director

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

For those who like a little jeer with their Christmas cheer, humorist David Sedaris' The Santaland Diaries is a gem of a lump of coal. Meet Crumpet, a 33-year-old starving artist turned Macy's elf. It's the most wonderful time of the year, but you wouldn't know it from the bad Santas, naughty elves, cranky kids and pushy parents who test Crumpet's last elfin nerve as he struggles to remain sane and perky(!) amid the absurdity of the holiday season. With sardonic wit, and a sometimes razor-sharp, sometimes velvet-soft tongue, Sedaris takes us all playfully to task for plunging into the Christmas spirit but missing the point. For mature elves only.

Adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello.

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Communicating Doors
Appleseed Productions
Dan Stevens, director

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

This intricate time traveling comic thriller is about a London sex specialist from the future stumbles into a murder plot that sends her, compliments of a unique set of hotel doors, traveling back in time. She and two women who were murdered in 1998 and 1978 race back and forth in time trying to rewrite history and prevent their own violent ends. The frantic race begins when Poopay is hired for an evening at the Regal Hotel by an old man who eschews a fling in favor of confessing his role in the demise of his wives. Now a target, Poopay flees into the vestibule and somehow triggers the time machine. Written by Alan Ayckbourn.

Production features Roy vanNorstrand, Jennifer DeCook, Nora O'Dea, Rick Signorelli, Anne Fitzgerald, and David J. Hubert.

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Amahl and the Night Visitors
Open Hand Theater

Price: $15 in advance; $20 at the door
First English Lutheran Church
Corner of James and Townsend Streets, Syracuse

The Christmas classic featuring Open Hand's giant puppets.

To reserve tickets, phone 315-476-0466.

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The Eight: Reindeer Monologues; Seven Santas
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The Eight: Reindeer Monologues:
A wickedly funny alternative to traditional candy-cane cheer. Scandal erupts at the North Pole when one of Santa's eight tiny reindeer accuses him of sexual harassment. As the mass media descends upon the event, the other members of the sleigh team demand to share their perspectives, and a horrific tale of corruption and perversion emerges -which seems to implicate everyone from the teeniest elf to the tainted Saint himself. With each deer's stunning confession, the truth behind the shocking allegations becomes clearer...and murkier.

Seven Santas:
Scandal erupts at the North Pole when the most powerful man on Earth is sentenced to rehab for a minor traffic violation. But when he finds himself in a detox program run by the estranged Mrs. Claus, Santa's desperate struggle to conceal the truth about his arrest uncovers yet another sordid secret that could mean the end of Christmas-as-we-know-it.

No one under the age of 18 admitted.

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The Producers
The Talent Company
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $25 regular, $22 students/seniors, $16 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The Producers, adapted by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan from Brooks' 1968 film, with music and lyrics by Brooks, skewers Broadway traditions and takes no prisoners as it proudly proclaims itself an "equal opportunity offender!" The story line is a comedy classic: a crooked producer Max Bialystock and his anxiety ridden accountant Leo Bloom cook up a scheme to produce the worst musical ever and pocket their investors' money before the curtain falls. Instead of bilking their investors (rich little old ladies) and escaping the tax guys by producing a flop, the duo's Springtime for Hitler becomes a huge hit.

They start their scheme by finding Franz Liebkind, author of the worst play ever written. Then they secure the worst director in New York, Roger De Bris, and his assistant, Carmen Ghia, to stage the show that will present New York's worst actors. Complications arise when the show opens on Broadway and is unexpectedly a huge success!

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Saturday, December 6, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

They are testaments to the impact of terrorism: sculptures portraying mothers going back to the exact moment they learned their child died in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some are screaming; others are weeping. Some are curled into a ball; others have fists raised in anger. The 76 larger-than-life figures that comprise the Dark Elegy collection were created by Montauk, NY-based artist Suse Lowenstein, the mother of a Pan Am 103 student victim.

Four of these sculptures will be on display as part of the University's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy.

HIV/AIDS Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibit features works of art on the theme of HIV/AIDS created by Onondaga art and photography students.

Pacheco: From the 5th Street Gym to Gandhi
Brian's Art Gallery

Brian's Art Gallery
201 Wolf St. (former Keybank building), Syracuse

Ferdie Pacheco is a man with a great zest for life. He is a painter, an author of 14 books, a playwright, a winner of two Emmy awards, and a humanitarian. Born in 1927 in Ybor City, he made up his mind at 14 to become a doctor and established his practice on Southwest Eighth Street when the Cuban exiles began streaming into the city. It was here that he rediscovered his own immigrant roots -- his father was the Cuban born son of a Spanish consul. Pacheco went on to become Muhammad Ali's cornerman and personal physician for 17 years, becoming known as "The Fight Doctor."

His art work is internationally acclaimed and his painting of Gandhi has been selected as the stamp for the 2009 United Nations Day of Nonviolence. Pacheco's paintings are characterized by his imaginative use of color and design. In particular, his famous faces are executed in a fauvist style. His work has won the Gold Medal and First Prize in Tonneins, France: the First Prize, Best Colorist at Musee Du Luxembourg.

Special Exhibit: Shadows
Delavan Art Gallery

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

When viewing lighted objects, it's easy to overlook the shadows they create. The Delavan Art Gallery has expanded on this concept to produce a one-of-its-kind exhibit devoted entirely to shadows and featuring works by a host of noted Central New York artists.

The Shadows Exhibit was conceived with two ideas in mind: how shadows are made (by an object, a light source and a background), and Bill Delavan's special professional interest in lighting the Gallery's exhibitions, sometimes playfully turning shadows into their own art form.

Featured artists in this exhibit include Arlene Abend, Reginald Adams, Anahid Ajemian, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Hillary Gifford, Barre Hunt, Lauren Ritchie, Jeffrey Schuessler, Andy Schuster and Matthew Vural.

Art for the Holidays
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring mixed media illustrations by Katya Krenina, monotypes and mixed media works by Thea Reidy as well as ceramics by the Clayscapes Pottery (Donald Seymour, Shawn McGuire, Jolee M. Romano, Tim See and Sallie Thompson).

The Color of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Watercolor paintings by Laura Wilk, glassworks of Carmel Nicoletti, and felted bags and ruffled scarves of Sherry Gordon.

23rd Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

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

The annual event features more than 40 gingerbread creations, including buildings, Victorian village storefronts, street scenes, and much more.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

Warhol Presents highlights the early commercial career of Andy Warhol, whose whimsical drawings from the 1950s created fantasies that marketed fashion and glamour through evocation. Warhol's penchant for combining art and advertisement quickly made him one of the most well known illustrators of women's fashion in New York. His talen' was sought out by fashion publication giants, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar; and women's footwear designer and retailer, I. Miller Shoe Company.

The exhibition presents 18 of Warhol's rarely seen shoe illustrations including Fantasy Shoes (ca. 1956), a whimsical and humorous take on women's footwear design. Exhibited also are drawings of women's accessories and fashion figures, including Female Fashion Figure (1950s); a vibrant depiction of a chic model alongside an equally stylish car.

Warhol's unique well-wrought line also translated to commissions of large-scale window displays for New York stores, including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's. One example of the artist's window displays is featured in this exhibition in the illustrated reproduction, Miss Dior (1950s); and a 1997 3-dimensional re-creation of Warhol's 1957 Bonwit Teller Window Display, which includes glass perfume bottles and colorful reproduction of a window display screen. Warhol's early drawings and interest in art, identity, and consumerism informed his later pop-icon status, when product and identity literally became his art, and was used to fuel his experimental factory era films.

This exhibition is curated by Natalie Sanderson, Curator of Education at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. The original exhibition, Andy Warhol Presents, was first exhibited at the University Art Museum in 2007.

Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th Century Superstar
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Local artist and designer Jeffrey Mayer will present a post-modern installation of 20th century fashion design inspired by the 18th century fashion sense of Marie Antoinette. Although Marie Antoinette did not really create a style that was personally unique, what she did for fashion in the 1770s was to solidify, refine and intensify the rococo style created by her grandfather-in-law, Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who died in 1764, six years before the 14-year-old Princess even arrived from Austria. Through the exhibition and a publication to be released in the fall, Mayer will be reinterpreting and discussing Marie Antoinette's key concepts of Fantasy, Luxury, and Exoticism.

Marie Antoinette was originally displayed in 2007 in a small space in Syracuse University's Fashion Design Department where Mayer has been Associate Professor of Fashion History and Design since 1992. For the Everson's installation, Mayer has expanded the visual experience to include more than 40 garments displayed on vintage mannequins, an eclectic collection of contemporary fashion accessories, an interactive audio component, and many unique, custom-designed and hand-made objects.

Everson Unwrapped: A Winter Celebration
Everson Museum of Art

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

A new winter tradition -- Everson Unwrapped: A Winter Celebration. It's a whole new way of celebrating the holiday season. This weeklong celebration of art will delight participants with a myriad of decorations and unique displays. Going beyond decorated trees, the displays are different, surprising, and beautiful. This year will be sure to provide new surprises and bring out the holiday spirit in the whole community.

38th Annual Plowshares Craftsfair

Price: $2 regular, free for students/seniors
Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Plowshares is Central New York's premiere multicultural community craftsfair. Sponsored by the Syracuse Peace Council, it features over 125 local craftspeople, hearty food and lively entertainment.

26th Annual Syracuse Holiday Craft Spectacular

Price: $3
Horticulture Building
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Holiday Festival of Crafts
Rochester Folk Art Guild

Price: $2
Montessori School of Syracuse
155 Waldorf Parkway, Syracuse

Founding Visionaries: Herb Williams and Jack White
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Community Folk Art Center is proud to exhibit this unique collection of sculptures, drawings and prints by two CFAC founders, Herb Williams and Jack White.

Celebrating Herb Williams: His Life, His Work, and His Art: As CFAC founding director, Herb Williams (1938-1999) devoted his life to promoting the work of diverse artists and ensuring that a large audience could experience their work. His dedication to the collective vision of the founding members kept Williams busy and while he avidly supported and promoted other artist he rarely took time exhibit his own work. This will be the first large-scale exhibition of Williams work in Upstate New York. Though he identified himself primarily as a sculptor, Williams worked across various artistic mediums; manipulating wood, plaster and bronze into figurative and abstract forms. His lithographs and etchings not only indicate the measure of his artistic skill and creativity but also serve as a chronicle of his literal, figurative journey as an artist.

Jack White: An Ancestral Image is a collection of the works by CFAC co-founder and artist Jack White. Since the late 1960s, Jack White's mixed media abstract work, defined as "abstract impressionism," has been inspired by African art forms and symbolism. The works included in the Ancestral Image exhibition are outside the boundaries of traditional painting or sculpture. They contain elements of the spiritual, the artistic, and the utilitarian that define African art.

March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
Community Folk Art Center

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

Original illustrated works by London Ladd

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Show and sale of original fine arts and crafts by Central New York artists and craftspeople. For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Exploring History With Art: Childhood Through The Years
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The latest exhibit in the Exploring History with Art series features paintings from the permanent collection. 19th-century portraits of children, focusing on children of prominent local families, convey historical circumstances as well as social ideals. 20th-century genre paintings show children in their element: in the bathtub, at recess, and on vacation. The exhibit also features historical objects that enliven the space and impart a sense of the experience of childhood from the cradle to school days and play time. Childhood Through The Years is not only an excellent opportunity to delve into the history of childhood but also the exhibition represents a moment, as fleeting as childhood itself, for parents and children to share their experiences through the interplay of art and history.

Warren Kimble's America
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Folk artist Warren Kimble is creator to some of the most successful 20th century Americana. His quaint depictions have graced stationery cards to decorative accessories for the home. Still, few individuals outside of Vermont know him as the artist behind the celebrated imagery that's as American as apple pie.

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is pleased to present a retrospective of the Syracuse alumnus' work including his most recent series Widows of War, which illustrates his personal reaction to the War in Iraq and its effect on women.

Kimble is best known for his patchwork-like paintings of the American flag, bucolic farm animals, and antique barns and homes. His varying flag designs are a symbol of patriotism, a theme which the artist uses often. Portraits of oversized farm animals, from heavy pigs to stocky cows, allude to an 18th-century practice of selecting prize winning livestock for their size. Kimble's stylized barns and farm houses also reveal a penchant for abstract design over architectural accuracy.

In 2005 Kimble began work on Widows of War. After purchasing a black, antique dressmaking mannequin, Kimble saw in it a visual metaphor for the loss and sorrow felt by American wives and mothers during the war. Contrary to the idyllic scenes and colorful animals, the black-and-white series remains a solemn representation of Kimble's sadness and frustration with the war's events and its toll on American lives. The paintings and sculpture, which are intermittently marked by splats of red and barbed wire, further reinforce the feminine connection through symbolic clothespins and textile patterns.

Parking for weekend and evening visitors is in Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Parking is on a space available basis and will be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces are not available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Syracuse Cultural Workers InsideOUT
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Syracuse Cultural Workers (SCW) presents a familiar face (or, rather, several familiar faces) to the progressive community in Syracuse. The calendars, posters, cards, and T-shirts they publish are well-known; and the banners, drums, and willing bodies are a ready resource for just about any event designed to educate/agitate.

With this exhibit, they celebrate their 25th anniversary with a behind-the-scenes look at some of the less obvious aspects of what it means to be an international "peace and justice publisher and distributor." Topics include: the poster process, from brainstorm to finished product; customer feedback when they don't get it right (and when they do); a poster/calendar/art collages featuring activist art spanning 30 years, and more. This exhibit promises to be a show filled with surprising, entertaining, and visually stimulating perspectives.

The Art of Pochade: Works of Eric W. Shute
LeMoyne College

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

A pochade is a small sketch in which the artist records, usually in color, the atmospheric effects and general impressions of a landscape. They are small, rapidly executed oil color sketches painted out of doors or plein air. These small paintings are often used as preliminary studies for larger works executed in the studio at a later time. The artist will be exhibiting 16 to 20 of these small works, many of them scenes from the Jonesport and Beals Island area in Down East Maine. The works are quickly conceived and rapidly executed to try and capture the light and conditions of the moment. Because these small paintings are usually considered a reference for larger works they are not often seen by the public.

The artist will be showing one larger work along side the pochade painting that was used as a reference. Patrons may compare the two paintings and see the evolution and thought process of the artist from the original concept in the small color sketch to completion in the much larger finished painting.

Eric Schute's work has appeared at Syracuse's Delavan Art Gallery, Gallery 210, the Everson Museum of Art and the Alden Gallery in Provincetown, MA. For more information, phone 315-445-4323.

Framing Identities: Collaborations with Students at Nottingham High School
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Atrium Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

An exhibition of photography guided by student mentors in Professor Judith Meighan's "Literacy, Community, Art" course in the Syracuse University's School of Art and Design. The Nottingham High School students exhibiting work are enrolled in Randy Weatherby's "Black and White Photography" course.

Roiling Infill by Alex Schweder; Blind Spot by Kim Waale
The Warehouse Gallery

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

This solo exhibition by Seattle/Berlin-based artist Alex Schweder, Roiling Infill, consists of a video projection, Jealous Poché (2004), and an architectural installation titled Snowballing Doorway (2007). Both components of the exhibition accomplish in very different ways the artist's ongoing interest in the intersection between architecture, sculpture and performance art.

Jealous Poché is a seven-minute architectural fly-through of a space somewhere between body and building. The word poché was coined in France's École de Beaux Arts during a neoclassical moment to refer to the space between the surfaces of walls. Here, the camera path and viewer's position are actually inside the viscous poché looking into the voids on the other side of the wall's surface. The camera work in this video shows an attention by the artist to a liminal moment (the skin of the wall) between expanse and engulfment. Made in collaboration with gastroenterologist Jim Wagonfeld, a 25-gallon vat of strawberry Jell-O mixed with blocks of resin was filmed with an endoscope. Schweder's decision to use an imaging device normally employed to visualize the human body's own poché in turn represents the architectural space in the video as fleshy. This is in contrast to architecture's historical representation of and fantasies of perfect bodies.

Snowballing Doorway moves from the world of represented architectural fleshiness to architectural flesh itself. Two sac-like arches made from a combination of opaque and clear vinyl pass the same volume of poché (in this case air) back and forth until one of the two completely bulges to fill the aperture in which they are installed. This shifting skin is an example of what Schweder calls "a building that performs itself." Here he is interested in how the codes of architecture act like a score for how occupants are supposed to "perform" the building. In this case, the arch prompts an occupant to "pass through" it. Schweder's unstable arch, however, changes this instruction to its opposite when the poché passes into the upside-down arch on top. In this way, a viewer becomes aware of the way buildings structure the behavior in them.

Both works point to a permeability between buildings and the bodies that occupy them. The video, made using an edible treat, makes it unclear where insides and outsides of buildings and bodies start and stop. The inflatable instructions make explicit that buildings construct us in as much as we construct them.

Also on display, in the Window Projects Gallery, is Blind Spot, a site-specific installation using wax-encrusted wire forms designed to simultaneously emulate the roots and branches of trees and the retina and optic nerve of the human eye. These "references to nature as it exists outside and within the human body underscore the trouble we as humans have in seeing and thinking about ourselves as organisms that are part of the natural world" (Waale, artist statement).

Waale blurs the boundaries between sculpture and drawing as she moves from Vocalizations, a series of preliminary drawings for the project, to sculptural elements that will fill the space.

Duo Seraphim: Lute Song for Advent and Christmastide
Mignarda Lutesong Duo

Price: $12 regular, $10 students/seniors, children under 12 free
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

Ron Andrico and Donna Stewart present a very special concert celebrating the release of their Christmas CD, Duo Seraphim. Featuring their own arrangements for lute and voice of many familiar and traditional English, Irish, French, and German carols, juxtaposed with a few favorite Latin motets, Scots tunes, and one Italian lauda set to a very special poem by Petrarch, the program spans the seasons from Advent to Epiphany. Please join them in the lovely acoustic of Pebble Hill church for a peaceful and reflective evening before the season gets into full swing.

Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music
Musicians from Marlboro

Price: $20 regular, $15 senior, $10 student
Lincoln Middle School
1613 James St., Syracuse

Each summer at Vermont's renowned Marlboro Music Festival, seasoned artists join with exceptionally gifted young professionals to explore and perform the chamber music literature. Throughout the year, the Musicians from Marlboro touring program brings some of these concerts to venues countrywide. The Marlboro musicians' program for SFCM this year will be highlighted by the exquisite Mendelssohn Octet.

Janacek String Quartet No. 1, "Kreutzer Sonata"
Mozart String Quintet in E-flat Major, K. 614
Mendelssohn String Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20

Peace and Joy
Syracuse Gay and Lesbian Chorus
Shawn DeVito, conductor

Price: $15 in advance; $18 at the door
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

The evening's event will include a post-concert reception and raffle.

Seating is limited. Tickets can be purchased at the Lavender Inkwell Bookshoppe, or reserved by email at SGLCtickets@twcny.rr.com.

World of Puppets: Grandfather Frost's Stories of Russia
Open Hand Theater

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

Snow White
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive children's show -- help Snow White and the dwarfs foil the schemes of the Wicked Queen.

Godspell
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj, director

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

This energetic musical based on the gospel of St. Matthew is a celebration of worldwide community, filled with popular hit songs and irresistible good will. From the UN to India to China to Darfur to Syracuse prepare ye the way of hope, brotherhood and sisterhood as the time for tolerance and inclusiveness draws nearer Day by Day. A groundbreaking musical in its time, this colorful update features world dance-inspired choreography and multimedia projections.

Conceived by John-Michael Tebelak; music and new lyrics by Stephen Schwartz; choreographed by Anthony Salatino.

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The Santaland Diaries
Syracuse Stage
James Edmondson, director

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

For those who like a little jeer with their Christmas cheer, humorist David Sedaris' The Santaland Diaries is a gem of a lump of coal. Meet Crumpet, a 33-year-old starving artist turned Macy's elf. It's the most wonderful time of the year, but you wouldn't know it from the bad Santas, naughty elves, cranky kids and pushy parents who test Crumpet's last elfin nerve as he struggles to remain sane and perky(!) amid the absurdity of the holiday season. With sardonic wit, and a sometimes razor-sharp, sometimes velvet-soft tongue, Sedaris takes us all playfully to task for plunging into the Christmas spirit but missing the point. For mature elves only.

Adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello.

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The Santaland Diaries
Syracuse Stage
James Edmondson, director

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

For those who like a little jeer with their Christmas cheer, humorist David Sedaris' The Santaland Diaries is a gem of a lump of coal. Meet Crumpet, a 33-year-old starving artist turned Macy's elf. It's the most wonderful time of the year, but you wouldn't know it from the bad Santas, naughty elves, cranky kids and pushy parents who test Crumpet's last elfin nerve as he struggles to remain sane and perky(!) amid the absurdity of the holiday season. With sardonic wit, and a sometimes razor-sharp, sometimes velvet-soft tongue, Sedaris takes us all playfully to task for plunging into the Christmas spirit but missing the point. For mature elves only.

Adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello.

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Godspell
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj, director

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

This energetic musical based on the gospel of St. Matthew is a celebration of worldwide community, filled with popular hit songs and irresistible good will. From the UN to India to China to Darfur to Syracuse prepare ye the way of hope, brotherhood and sisterhood as the time for tolerance and inclusiveness draws nearer Day by Day. A groundbreaking musical in its time, this colorful update features world dance-inspired choreography and multimedia projections.

Conceived by John-Michael Tebelak; music and new lyrics by Stephen Schwartz; choreographed by Anthony Salatino.

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Communicating Doors
Appleseed Productions
Dan Stevens, director

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

This intricate time traveling comic thriller is about a London sex specialist from the future stumbles into a murder plot that sends her, compliments of a unique set of hotel doors, traveling back in time. She and two women who were murdered in 1998 and 1978 race back and forth in time trying to rewrite history and prevent their own violent ends. The frantic race begins when Poopay is hired for an evening at the Regal Hotel by an old man who eschews a fling in favor of confessing his role in the demise of his wives. Now a target, Poopay flees into the vestibule and somehow triggers the time machine. Written by Alan Ayckbourn.

Production features Roy vanNorstrand, Jennifer DeCook, Nora O'Dea, Rick Signorelli, Anne Fitzgerald, and David J. Hubert.

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Amahl and the Night Visitors
Open Hand Theater

Price: $15 in advance, $20 at the door
First English Lutheran Church
Corner of James and Townsend Streets, Syracuse

The Christmas classic featuring Open Hand's giant puppets.

To reserve tickets, phone 315-476-0466.

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The Eight: Reindeer Monologues; Seven Santas
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The Eight: Reindeer Monologues:
A wickedly funny alternative to traditional candy-cane cheer. Scandal erupts at the North Pole when one of Santa's eight tiny reindeer accuses him of sexual harassment. As the mass media descends upon the event, the other members of the sleigh team demand to share their perspectives, and a horrific tale of corruption and perversion emerges -which seems to implicate everyone from the teeniest elf to the tainted Saint himself. With each deer's stunning confession, the truth behind the shocking allegations becomes clearer...and murkier.

Seven Santas:
Scandal erupts at the North Pole when the most powerful man on Earth is sentenced to rehab for a minor traffic violation. But when he finds himself in a detox program run by the estranged Mrs. Claus, Santa's desperate struggle to conceal the truth about his arrest uncovers yet another sordid secret that could mean the end of Christmas-as-we-know-it.

No one under the age of 18 admitted.

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The Producers
The Talent Company
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $25 regular, $22 students/seniors, $16 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The Producers, adapted by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan from Brooks' 1968 film, with music and lyrics by Brooks, skewers Broadway traditions and takes no prisoners as it proudly proclaims itself an "equal opportunity offender!" The story line is a comedy classic: a crooked producer Max Bialystock and his anxiety ridden accountant Leo Bloom cook up a scheme to produce the worst musical ever and pocket their investors' money before the curtain falls. Instead of bilking their investors (rich little old ladies) and escaping the tax guys by producing a flop, the duo's Springtime for Hitler becomes a huge hit.

They start their scheme by finding Franz Liebkind, author of the worst play ever written. Then they secure the worst director in New York, Roger De Bris, and his assistant, Carmen Ghia, to stage the show that will present New York's worst actors. Complications arise when the show opens on Broadway and is unexpectedly a huge success!

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Sunday, December 7, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

They are testaments to the impact of terrorism: sculptures portraying mothers going back to the exact moment they learned their child died in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some are screaming; others are weeping. Some are curled into a ball; others have fists raised in anger. The 76 larger-than-life figures that comprise the Dark Elegy collection were created by Montauk, NY-based artist Suse Lowenstein, the mother of a Pan Am 103 student victim.

Four of these sculptures will be on display as part of the University's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy.

23rd Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

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

The annual event features more than 40 gingerbread creations, including buildings, Victorian village storefronts, street scenes, and much more.

Everson Unwrapped: A Winter Celebration
Everson Museum of Art

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

A new winter tradition -- Everson Unwrapped: A Winter Celebration. It's a whole new way of celebrating the holiday season. This weeklong celebration of art will delight participants with a myriad of decorations and unique displays. Going beyond decorated trees, the displays are different, surprising, and beautiful. This year will be sure to provide new surprises and bring out the holiday spirit in the whole community.

Tracing Memory: Photographs by Angie Buckley, Pedro Isztin, Cyrus Karimipour, and Paula Luttringer
Light Work Gallery

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

Guest curator Miriam Romais of En Foco curated this exhibition to explore what makes a thought become a memory. The artists included in this exhibition create photographs that look at the idea of remembrance -- of letting go and making sense of past events, and using those memories to understand who they are today.

Growing up with a mother from Thailand and a Caucasian American father, Angie Buckley did not know her family history for many years. She relied on the conflicting memories and stories of relatives to piece together her heritage. Her images are created with a pinhole camera and cutouts of old family photographs, resulting in work that lies somewhere in between the real world and imagination. Buckley received her BFA in Photography from Ohio University and her MFA in Photography from Arizona State University. She has received various awards, and her work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Southern Light Gallery in Texas, the McDuffy Arts Center in Virginia, and New York University.

Pedro Isztin's color portraits metaphorically integrate formative childhood memories, using them to heal the adult that the child has become. Part of a larger series that emulates a life journey, Destino III: Transformation revisits, in Isztin's words, "the pain, joy, and suffering that our psyches are stamped with, no matter how little or large those experiences as a child." Isztin was born to a Colombian mother and Hungarian father; his work explores his diverse heritage. He lives in Ottawa, Canada, and has exhibited internationally. He has received numerous awards and grants, including a Photography Project Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and an Ontario Arts Council Award.

Cyrus Karimipour revels in the flexibility of memories and uses his images to visually recreate them and depict how he remembers an event or encounter. In his series Invented Memory, he creates scenarios by heavily manipulating his negatives and rearranging their fragments to then be re-photographed. His imagery becomes ambiguous, as if looking in on someone else's dream. Karimipour received his BA from Oakland University in Michigan and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. His work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of New Art in Michigan, and the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio. His art has also appeared in Harper's Magazine and The Detroit News, among other publications.

Paula Luttringer faces her own traumatic past, infusing her imagery with what other women remember about being abducted and held captive during Argentina's Dirty War. Lamento de Los Muros (The Wailing of the Walls) consists of large black-and-white images that depict the interior of the detention centers where thousands of people were held, tortured, and "disappeared." The images capture both history and memory. Luttringer was awarded a fellowship by the Guggenheim Foundation in 2001. Her work appears in the collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; the Museum of Fine Arts in Texas; and George Eastman House in New York. She currently lives and works in Buenos Aires and Paris.

2008 Light Work Grant Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Works of Kathy Morris, Paul Pearce, and Nancy Keefe Rhodes, the recipients of the 34th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. Kathy Morris and Paul Pearce are imagemakers. Nancy Keefe Rhodes received the award for a photo-historian project on local documentary photographer Marjory Wilkins.

26th Annual Syracuse Holiday Craft Spectacular

Price: $3
Horticulture Building
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Holiday Festival of Crafts
Rochester Folk Art Guild

Price: $2
Montessori School of Syracuse
155 Waldorf Parkway, Syracuse

38th Annual Plowshares Craftsfair

Price: $2 regular, free for students/seniors
Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Plowshares is Central New York's premiere multicultural community craftsfair. Sponsored by the Syracuse Peace Council, it features over 125 local craftspeople, hearty food and lively entertainment.

Exploring History With Art: Childhood Through The Years
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The latest exhibit in the Exploring History with Art series features paintings from the permanent collection. 19th-century portraits of children, focusing on children of prominent local families, convey historical circumstances as well as social ideals. 20th-century genre paintings show children in their element: in the bathtub, at recess, and on vacation. The exhibit also features historical objects that enliven the space and impart a sense of the experience of childhood from the cradle to school days and play time. Childhood Through The Years is not only an excellent opportunity to delve into the history of childhood but also the exhibition represents a moment, as fleeting as childhood itself, for parents and children to share their experiences through the interplay of art and history.

Warren Kimble's America
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Folk artist Warren Kimble is creator to some of the most successful 20th century Americana. His quaint depictions have graced stationery cards to decorative accessories for the home. Still, few individuals outside of Vermont know him as the artist behind the celebrated imagery that's as American as apple pie.

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is pleased to present a retrospective of the Syracuse alumnus' work including his most recent series Widows of War, which illustrates his personal reaction to the War in Iraq and its effect on women.

Kimble is best known for his patchwork-like paintings of the American flag, bucolic farm animals, and antique barns and homes. His varying flag designs are a symbol of patriotism, a theme which the artist uses often. Portraits of oversized farm animals, from heavy pigs to stocky cows, allude to an 18th-century practice of selecting prize winning livestock for their size. Kimble's stylized barns and farm houses also reveal a penchant for abstract design over architectural accuracy.

In 2005 Kimble began work on Widows of War. After purchasing a black, antique dressmaking mannequin, Kimble saw in it a visual metaphor for the loss and sorrow felt by American wives and mothers during the war. Contrary to the idyllic scenes and colorful animals, the black-and-white series remains a solemn representation of Kimble's sadness and frustration with the war's events and its toll on American lives. The paintings and sculpture, which are intermittently marked by splats of red and barbed wire, further reinforce the feminine connection through symbolic clothespins and textile patterns.

Parking for weekend and evening visitors is in Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Parking is on a space available basis and will be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces are not available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

Warhol Presents highlights the early commercial career of Andy Warhol, whose whimsical drawings from the 1950s created fantasies that marketed fashion and glamour through evocation. Warhol's penchant for combining art and advertisement quickly made him one of the most well known illustrators of women's fashion in New York. His talen' was sought out by fashion publication giants, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar; and women's footwear designer and retailer, I. Miller Shoe Company.

The exhibition presents 18 of Warhol's rarely seen shoe illustrations including Fantasy Shoes (ca. 1956), a whimsical and humorous take on women's footwear design. Exhibited also are drawings of women's accessories and fashion figures, including Female Fashion Figure (1950s); a vibrant depiction of a chic model alongside an equally stylish car.

Warhol's unique well-wrought line also translated to commissions of large-scale window displays for New York stores, including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's. One example of the artist's window displays is featured in this exhibition in the illustrated reproduction, Miss Dior (1950s); and a 1997 3-dimensional re-creation of Warhol's 1957 Bonwit Teller Window Display, which includes glass perfume bottles and colorful reproduction of a window display screen. Warhol's early drawings and interest in art, identity, and consumerism informed his later pop-icon status, when product and identity literally became his art, and was used to fuel his experimental factory era films.

This exhibition is curated by Natalie Sanderson, Curator of Education at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. The original exhibition, Andy Warhol Presents, was first exhibited at the University Art Museum in 2007.

Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th Century Superstar
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Local artist and designer Jeffrey Mayer will present a post-modern installation of 20th century fashion design inspired by the 18th century fashion sense of Marie Antoinette. Although Marie Antoinette did not really create a style that was personally unique, what she did for fashion in the 1770s was to solidify, refine and intensify the rococo style created by her grandfather-in-law, Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who died in 1764, six years before the 14-year-old Princess even arrived from Austria. Through the exhibition and a publication to be released in the fall, Mayer will be reinterpreting and discussing Marie Antoinette's key concepts of Fantasy, Luxury, and Exoticism.

Marie Antoinette was originally displayed in 2007 in a small space in Syracuse University's Fashion Design Department where Mayer has been Associate Professor of Fashion History and Design since 1992. For the Everson's installation, Mayer has expanded the visual experience to include more than 40 garments displayed on vintage mannequins, an eclectic collection of contemporary fashion accessories, an interactive audio component, and many unique, custom-designed and hand-made objects.

The Art of Pochade: Works of Eric W. Shute
LeMoyne College

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

A pochade is a small sketch in which the artist records, usually in color, the atmospheric effects and general impressions of a landscape. They are small, rapidly executed oil color sketches painted out of doors or plein air. These small paintings are often used as preliminary studies for larger works executed in the studio at a later time. The artist will be exhibiting 16 to 20 of these small works, many of them scenes from the Jonesport and Beals Island area in Down East Maine. The works are quickly conceived and rapidly executed to try and capture the light and conditions of the moment. Because these small paintings are usually considered a reference for larger works they are not often seen by the public.

The artist will be showing one larger work along side the pochade painting that was used as a reference. Patrons may compare the two paintings and see the evolution and thought process of the artist from the original concept in the small color sketch to completion in the much larger finished painting.

Eric Schute's work has appeared at Syracuse's Delavan Art Gallery, Gallery 210, the Everson Museum of Art and the Alden Gallery in Provincetown, MA. For more information, phone 315-445-4323.

HIV/AIDS Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibit features works of art on the theme of HIV/AIDS created by Onondaga art and photography students.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Price: $3 regular; children 5 and under free
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Join us for How the Grinch Stole Christmas, the 2000 classic starring Jim Carrey as the Grinch who takes revenge to steal Christmas from Whoville with the help of his dog Max.

Concessions will be available for purchase. For more information call 315-475-7980.

A continued tradition this year includes a discount for Lights on the Lake. Bring your movie ticket stub to Lights on the Lake and get $1 off a carload. In turn, bring your Lights on the Lake ticket stub to the Landmark Theatre and get $1 off a maximum of 4 adult movie tickets.

Belle Aire, handbell choir
Fayetteville Free Library

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

Skaneateles Brass
Arts Alive in Liverpool

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

Welcome Yule Concert
Bells & Motley Consort

Price: Free
Onondaga Hill Free Library
4840 W. Seneca Tnpk., Syracuse

Our annual local Bells & Motley Christmas gathering. We'll play our most favorite Medieval, Renaissance, and traditional French, Celtic, and English holiday music, on a full complement of historic instruments. Come enjoy this intimate, interactive library setting that makes everyone feel right at home, and share a Holiday Wassail toast and a song. for more information, phone 315-492-1727.

Season of Glory
Syracuse Chorale
Warren Ottey, conductor

Price: $15 regular, $12 students/seniors; $8 children 15 and under ($2 discount for advance purchase)
St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Lee Dengler Pacem
Conrad Susa A Christmas Garland
G. Puccini Gloria from Messa di Gloria
G. F. Handel And the Glory of the Lord from Messiah
Craig Courtney & Brady Allred A Musicological Journey Through the 12 Days of Christmas

and other music of the season

The Master's Gift
NYS Baroque
Featuring Julie Andrijeski, violin; David Yearsley, harpsichord; Steven Zohn, flute

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

Dall'abaco Concerto for Strings in F Major
Telemann Paris Quartet in E Minor, TWV 43: e4
Bach Violin Concerto in A Minor, BWV 1041
Muffat Sonata à 5 in G Minor from Armonico Tributo
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, BWV 1050

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The Nine Lessons and Carols
Syracuse Children's Chorus
Featuring Nicholas J. Pirro, narrator

Most Holy Rosary Church
111 Roberts Ave., Syracuse

Celebrate the holiday season with the 14th presentation of the beloved The Nine Lessons and Carols. Enjoy the angelic voices of the choristers as they perform traditional and contemporary works. Be sure to include this centuries-old tradition of readings, carols, and the candlelight singing of Stille Nacht (Silent Night) as part of your holiday season!

Holiday Flute Choir Showcase

Price: Free
Reformed Church of Syracuse
1228 Teall Ave., Syracuse

Performance features the CNY Flute Choir and the CNY Select Youth Flute Choir. A reception follows. For more information, phone 315-682-5835.

Holidays at Hendricks
Hendricks Chapel
Hendricks Chapel Choir, Syracuse University Brass Ensemble

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Hendricks Chapel Choir and Syracuse University Brass Ensemble will perform both individually and in combination. The choir will be directed by John Warren and the brass ensemble by James Spencer. University Organist Kola Owolabi will provide accompaniment. This year's program includes music by Brahms, Bruckner, Handel, Victoria and contemporary American Morten Lauridsen, as well as traditional carols.

Those attending are asked to bring a non-perishable food item; items collected will be donated to the Eastern Farm Workers Association.

Public parking is free and available on a first-come, first-served basis in the Quad 1 lot (accessible via Crouse Drive), the Quad 3 lot (accessible via Sims Drive, with entrance between Bowne Hall and Carnegie Library), the Quad 4 lot (accessible via College Place) and also in the Irving Garage.

For the second year, the 90-minute concert will be broadcast by WCNY on both television and radio, and streamed on the Internet. Broadcast times for Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, are 6:00 pm on the radio and Internet and 9:00 pm on television. Broadcast times for Christmas Day are 8:00 am on the radio and Internet and 2:00 pm on television.

WCNY-FM (CLASSIC-FM) is found at 91.3 in Syracuse, 89.5 in Utica and 90.9 in Watertown, and Internet streams can be found on the Web at wcny.org. WCNY-TV is found on Channel 24 or Time Warner Channel 11.

Communicating Doors
Appleseed Productions
Dan Stevens, director

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

This intricate time traveling comic thriller is about a London sex specialist from the future stumbles into a murder plot that sends her, compliments of a unique set of hotel doors, traveling back in time. She and two women who were murdered in 1998 and 1978 race back and forth in time trying to rewrite history and prevent their own violent ends. The frantic race begins when Poopay is hired for an evening at the Regal Hotel by an old man who eschews a fling in favor of confessing his role in the demise of his wives. Now a target, Poopay flees into the vestibule and somehow triggers the time machine. Written by Alan Ayckbourn.

Production features Roy vanNorstrand, Jennifer DeCook, Nora O'Dea, Rick Signorelli, Anne Fitzgerald, and David J. Hubert.

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The Producers
The Talent Company
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $25 regular, $22 students/seniors, $16 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The Producers, adapted by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan from Brooks' 1968 film, with music and lyrics by Brooks, skewers Broadway traditions and takes no prisoners as it proudly proclaims itself an "equal opportunity offender!" The story line is a comedy classic: a crooked producer Max Bialystock and his anxiety ridden accountant Leo Bloom cook up a scheme to produce the worst musical ever and pocket their investors' money before the curtain falls. Instead of bilking their investors (rich little old ladies) and escaping the tax guys by producing a flop, the duo's Springtime for Hitler becomes a huge hit.

They start their scheme by finding Franz Liebkind, author of the worst play ever written. Then they secure the worst director in New York, Roger De Bris, and his assistant, Carmen Ghia, to stage the show that will present New York's worst actors. Complications arise when the show opens on Broadway and is unexpectedly a huge success!

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Godspell
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj, director

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

This energetic musical based on the gospel of St. Matthew is a celebration of worldwide community, filled with popular hit songs and irresistible good will. From the UN to India to China to Darfur to Syracuse prepare ye the way of hope, brotherhood and sisterhood as the time for tolerance and inclusiveness draws nearer Day by Day. A groundbreaking musical in its time, this colorful update features world dance-inspired choreography and multimedia projections.

Conceived by John-Michael Tebelak; music and new lyrics by Stephen Schwartz; choreographed by Anthony Salatino.

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The Santaland Diaries
Syracuse Stage
James Edmondson, director

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

For those who like a little jeer with their Christmas cheer, humorist David Sedaris' The Santaland Diaries is a gem of a lump of coal. Meet Crumpet, a 33-year-old starving artist turned Macy's elf. It's the most wonderful time of the year, but you wouldn't know it from the bad Santas, naughty elves, cranky kids and pushy parents who test Crumpet's last elfin nerve as he struggles to remain sane and perky(!) amid the absurdity of the holiday season. With sardonic wit, and a sometimes razor-sharp, sometimes velvet-soft tongue, Sedaris takes us all playfully to task for plunging into the Christmas spirit but missing the point. For mature elves only.

Adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello.

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Monday, December 8, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

They are testaments to the impact of terrorism: sculptures portraying mothers going back to the exact moment they learned their child died in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some are screaming; others are weeping. Some are curled into a ball; others have fists raised in anger. The 76 larger-than-life figures that comprise the Dark Elegy collection were created by Montauk, NY-based artist Suse Lowenstein, the mother of a Pan Am 103 student victim.

Four of these sculptures will be on display as part of the University's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy.

HIV/AIDS Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibit features works of art on the theme of HIV/AIDS created by Onondaga art and photography students.

Paintings by DeLoss McGraw on Poems by W.D. Snodgrass
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.D. Snodgrass and internationally acclaimed artist DeLoss McGraw have collaborated for over 30 years. This latest series of works, being shown for the first time at the YMCA's gallerY, consists of paintings created by Mr. McGraw directly on pages torn from Snodgrass' acclaimed poetry collection Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems. The end product is an extraordinary exhibit that adds an evocative dimension to a poetic achievement that stands among the best of the late 20th century.

DeLoss McGraw's work has been exhibited around the globe, and is collected by such eminent institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, and many universities. His illustrated version of Alice in Wonderland won the Illustrator's Society Book of the Year Award for 2002. W.D. Snodgrass is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, translation, and criticism, including Heart's Needle, which was awarded the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and De/Compositions, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.

The Art of Pochade: Works of Eric W. Shute
LeMoyne College

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

A pochade is a small sketch in which the artist records, usually in color, the atmospheric effects and general impressions of a landscape. They are small, rapidly executed oil color sketches painted out of doors or plein air. These small paintings are often used as preliminary studies for larger works executed in the studio at a later time. The artist will be exhibiting 16 to 20 of these small works, many of them scenes from the Jonesport and Beals Island area in Down East Maine. The works are quickly conceived and rapidly executed to try and capture the light and conditions of the moment. Because these small paintings are usually considered a reference for larger works they are not often seen by the public.

The artist will be showing one larger work along side the pochade painting that was used as a reference. Patrons may compare the two paintings and see the evolution and thought process of the artist from the original concept in the small color sketch to completion in the much larger finished painting.

Eric Schute's work has appeared at Syracuse's Delavan Art Gallery, Gallery 210, the Everson Museum of Art and the Alden Gallery in Provincetown, MA. For more information, phone 315-445-4323.

Gallery Exhibition: Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A mixed media show with works from Onondaga's own faculty members.

The Golem: Visual Visitations
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A major collective exhibit of seven world class artists titled "The Golem: Visual Visitations," inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' poem "El Golem." This is the third edition of a program that began in Prague in 2002 through the initiative of the Argentinean Embassy in that city, and it was introduced by the renowned poet Václav Havel, then President of the Czech Republic. A second version was later produced with tremendous success at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2003, also introduced by then President of the country, Néstor Kirchner. Now the program travels to the United States for the first time to be shown exclusively at Syracuse University.

The Golem exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery features original works especially commissioned for this exhibit, created by seven artists: from Argentina (Leandro Katz; Pedro Roth); Uruguay (Marta Chilindrón); Puerto Rico (Víctor Vázquez); Syracuse (Tom Sherman; Doug Dubois) and New York (Sarah Kipp). It combines photography, installation and video art.

Dawn of a New Age: The Immigrant Contribution to the Arts in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"Dawn of a New Age" tells the story of five artists who immigrated to the United States during the first half of the 20th century: Adolph Bolm, a Russian dancer and choreographer who performed with the Mariinsky Ballet and Ballets Russes; William Lescaze, a Swiss architect who was one of the pioneers of modernism; Louis Lozowick, a Russian printmaker known for his Art Deco and Precision lithographs; Miklós Rózsa, a Hungarian composer of more than 100 film scores, including Ben Hur; and John Vassos, a Greek illustrator and industrial designer. The exhibition draws from the rich holdings of SCRC and showcases more than 50 of the artists' personal papers, manuscripts, photos and artifacts.

This exhibit is part of this year's Syracuse Symposium on the theme "Migration."

Viewpoints: A Collaborative Collection
Westcott Community Center

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

The Syracuse Photography Meetup Group proudly presents a collection of photographic images at their very first collaborative gallery exhibit. Creatively capturing images from the commonplace to the unexpected, photographers catch the light and special moments in time. This collection of images will serve to captivate your eye and draw you in closer to view a new world in each and every photo.

Members have long exhibited their works on the unique "underground" galleries of cyberspace, but now further realize their works, by bringing them to life in print for this collaborative effort. We hope you enjoy the variety of work, as well as appreciate the varied levels of expertise represented here, from the active beginner, serious amateur, aspiring professional, and working professionals. It is safe to say that each image is a labor of love, born out of an enthusiasm to create something new and wonderful.

23rd Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

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

The annual event features more than 40 gingerbread creations, including buildings, Victorian village storefronts, street scenes, and much more.

Everson Unwrapped: A Winter Celebration
Everson Museum of Art

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

A new winter tradition -- Everson Unwrapped: A Winter Celebration. It's a whole new way of celebrating the holiday season. This weeklong celebration of art will delight participants with a myriad of decorations and unique displays. Going beyond decorated trees, the displays are different, surprising, and beautiful. This year will be sure to provide new surprises and bring out the holiday spirit in the whole community.

Tracing Memory: Photographs by Angie Buckley, Pedro Isztin, Cyrus Karimipour, and Paula Luttringer
Light Work Gallery

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

Guest curator Miriam Romais of En Foco curated this exhibition to explore what makes a thought become a memory. The artists included in this exhibition create photographs that look at the idea of remembrance -- of letting go and making sense of past events, and using those memories to understand who they are today.

Growing up with a mother from Thailand and a Caucasian American father, Angie Buckley did not know her family history for many years. She relied on the conflicting memories and stories of relatives to piece together her heritage. Her images are created with a pinhole camera and cutouts of old family photographs, resulting in work that lies somewhere in between the real world and imagination. Buckley received her BFA in Photography from Ohio University and her MFA in Photography from Arizona State University. She has received various awards, and her work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Southern Light Gallery in Texas, the McDuffy Arts Center in Virginia, and New York University.

Pedro Isztin's color portraits metaphorically integrate formative childhood memories, using them to heal the adult that the child has become. Part of a larger series that emulates a life journey, Destino III: Transformation revisits, in Isztin's words, "the pain, joy, and suffering that our psyches are stamped with, no matter how little or large those experiences as a child." Isztin was born to a Colombian mother and Hungarian father; his work explores his diverse heritage. He lives in Ottawa, Canada, and has exhibited internationally. He has received numerous awards and grants, including a Photography Project Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and an Ontario Arts Council Award.

Cyrus Karimipour revels in the flexibility of memories and uses his images to visually recreate them and depict how he remembers an event or encounter. In his series Invented Memory, he creates scenarios by heavily manipulating his negatives and rearranging their fragments to then be re-photographed. His imagery becomes ambiguous, as if looking in on someone else's dream. Karimipour received his BA from Oakland University in Michigan and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. His work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of New Art in Michigan, and the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio. His art has also appeared in Harper's Magazine and The Detroit News, among other publications.

Paula Luttringer faces her own traumatic past, infusing her imagery with what other women remember about being abducted and held captive during Argentina's Dirty War. Lamento de Los Muros (The Wailing of the Walls) consists of large black-and-white images that depict the interior of the detention centers where thousands of people were held, tortured, and "disappeared." The images capture both history and memory. Luttringer was awarded a fellowship by the Guggenheim Foundation in 2001. Her work appears in the collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; the Museum of Fine Arts in Texas; and George Eastman House in New York. She currently lives and works in Buenos Aires and Paris.

2008 Light Work Grant Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Works of Kathy Morris, Paul Pearce, and Nancy Keefe Rhodes, the recipients of the 34th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. Kathy Morris and Paul Pearce are imagemakers. Nancy Keefe Rhodes received the award for a photo-historian project on local documentary photographer Marjory Wilkins.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Show and sale of original fine arts and crafts by Central New York artists and craftspeople. For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

They are testaments to the impact of terrorism: sculptures portraying mothers going back to the exact moment they learned their child died in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some are screaming; others are weeping. Some are curled into a ball; others have fists raised in anger. The 76 larger-than-life figures that comprise the Dark Elegy collection were created by Montauk, NY-based artist Suse Lowenstein, the mother of a Pan Am 103 student victim.

Four of these sculptures will be on display as part of the University's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy.

HIV/AIDS Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibit features works of art on the theme of HIV/AIDS created by Onondaga art and photography students.

The Art of Pochade: Works of Eric W. Shute
LeMoyne College

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

A pochade is a small sketch in which the artist records, usually in color, the atmospheric effects and general impressions of a landscape. They are small, rapidly executed oil color sketches painted out of doors or plein air. These small paintings are often used as preliminary studies for larger works executed in the studio at a later time. The artist will be exhibiting 16 to 20 of these small works, many of them scenes from the Jonesport and Beals Island area in Down East Maine. The works are quickly conceived and rapidly executed to try and capture the light and conditions of the moment. Because these small paintings are usually considered a reference for larger works they are not often seen by the public.

The artist will be showing one larger work along side the pochade painting that was used as a reference. Patrons may compare the two paintings and see the evolution and thought process of the artist from the original concept in the small color sketch to completion in the much larger finished painting.

Eric Schute's work has appeared at Syracuse's Delavan Art Gallery, Gallery 210, the Everson Museum of Art and the Alden Gallery in Provincetown, MA. For more information, phone 315-445-4323.

Gallery Exhibition: Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A mixed media show with works from Onondaga's own faculty members.

The Golem: Visual Visitations
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A major collective exhibit of seven world class artists titled "The Golem: Visual Visitations," inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' poem "El Golem." This is the third edition of a program that began in Prague in 2002 through the initiative of the Argentinean Embassy in that city, and it was introduced by the renowned poet Václav Havel, then President of the Czech Republic. A second version was later produced with tremendous success at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2003, also introduced by then President of the country, Néstor Kirchner. Now the program travels to the United States for the first time to be shown exclusively at Syracuse University.

The Golem exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery features original works especially commissioned for this exhibit, created by seven artists: from Argentina (Leandro Katz; Pedro Roth); Uruguay (Marta Chilindrón); Puerto Rico (Víctor Vázquez); Syracuse (Tom Sherman; Doug Dubois) and New York (Sarah Kipp). It combines photography, installation and video art.

Mapping Linguistics, Revisited: Works by Kelly Roe
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Kelly Roe's mixed media work will be on display. A professor in the Graphic Design Program at SUNY Oswego, Roe has a background in graphic design, bookmaking and printmaking and sees herself as an anthropologist, artist, editor and scribe. The Mapping Linguistics exhibition explores relationships in linguistics, psychology and child development.

Visual Journals: Recent Works by SUNY Oswego Faculty
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Art exhibition featuring recent work by SUNY Oswego faculty members Amy Bartell, Cynthia Clabough, Paul Pearce, Cara Brewer Thompson.

Dawn of a New Age: The Immigrant Contribution to the Arts in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"Dawn of a New Age" tells the story of five artists who immigrated to the United States during the first half of the 20th century: Adolph Bolm, a Russian dancer and choreographer who performed with the Mariinsky Ballet and Ballets Russes; William Lescaze, a Swiss architect who was one of the pioneers of modernism; Louis Lozowick, a Russian printmaker known for his Art Deco and Precision lithographs; Miklós Rózsa, a Hungarian composer of more than 100 film scores, including Ben Hur; and John Vassos, a Greek illustrator and industrial designer. The exhibition draws from the rich holdings of SCRC and showcases more than 50 of the artists' personal papers, manuscripts, photos and artifacts.

This exhibit is part of this year's Syracuse Symposium on the theme "Migration."

Viewpoints: A Collaborative Collection
Westcott Community Center

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

The Syracuse Photography Meetup Group proudly presents a collection of photographic images at their very first collaborative gallery exhibit. Creatively capturing images from the commonplace to the unexpected, photographers catch the light and special moments in time. This collection of images will serve to captivate your eye and draw you in closer to view a new world in each and every photo.

Members have long exhibited their works on the unique "underground" galleries of cyberspace, but now further realize their works, by bringing them to life in print for this collaborative effort. We hope you enjoy the variety of work, as well as appreciate the varied levels of expertise represented here, from the active beginner, serious amateur, aspiring professional, and working professionals. It is safe to say that each image is a labor of love, born out of an enthusiasm to create something new and wonderful.

The Color of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Watercolor paintings by Laura Wilk, glassworks of Carmel Nicoletti, and felted bags and ruffled scarves of Sherry Gordon.

Pacheco: From the 5th Street Gym to Gandhi
Brian's Art Gallery

Brian's Art Gallery
201 Wolf St. (former Keybank building), Syracuse

Ferdie Pacheco is a man with a great zest for life. He is a painter, an author of 14 books, a playwright, a winner of two Emmy awards, and a humanitarian. Born in 1927 in Ybor City, he made up his mind at 14 to become a doctor and established his practice on Southwest Eighth Street when the Cuban exiles began streaming into the city. It was here that he rediscovered his own immigrant roots -- his father was the Cuban born son of a Spanish consul. Pacheco went on to become Muhammad Ali's cornerman and personal physician for 17 years, becoming known as "The Fight Doctor."

His art work is internationally acclaimed and his painting of Gandhi has been selected as the stamp for the 2009 United Nations Day of Nonviolence. Pacheco's paintings are characterized by his imaginative use of color and design. In particular, his famous faces are executed in a fauvist style. His work has won the Gold Medal and First Prize in Tonneins, France: the First Prize, Best Colorist at Musee Du Luxembourg.

March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
Community Folk Art Center

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

Original illustrated works by London Ladd

Founding Visionaries: Herb Williams and Jack White
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Community Folk Art Center is proud to exhibit this unique collection of sculptures, drawings and prints by two CFAC founders, Herb Williams and Jack White.

Celebrating Herb Williams: His Life, His Work, and His Art: As CFAC founding director, Herb Williams (1938-1999) devoted his life to promoting the work of diverse artists and ensuring that a large audience could experience their work. His dedication to the collective vision of the founding members kept Williams busy and while he avidly supported and promoted other artist he rarely took time exhibit his own work. This will be the first large-scale exhibition of Williams work in Upstate New York. Though he identified himself primarily as a sculptor, Williams worked across various artistic mediums; manipulating wood, plaster and bronze into figurative and abstract forms. His lithographs and etchings not only indicate the measure of his artistic skill and creativity but also serve as a chronicle of his literal, figurative journey as an artist.

Jack White: An Ancestral Image is a collection of the works by CFAC co-founder and artist Jack White. Since the late 1960s, Jack White's mixed media abstract work, defined as "abstract impressionism," has been inspired by African art forms and symbolism. The works included in the Ancestral Image exhibition are outside the boundaries of traditional painting or sculpture. They contain elements of the spiritual, the artistic, and the utilitarian that define African art.

23rd Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

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

The annual event features more than 40 gingerbread creations, including buildings, Victorian village storefronts, street scenes, and much more.

Everson Unwrapped: A Winter Celebration
Everson Museum of Art

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

A new winter tradition -- Everson Unwrapped: A Winter Celebration. It's a whole new way of celebrating the holiday season. This weeklong celebration of art will delight participants with a myriad of decorations and unique displays. Going beyond decorated trees, the displays are different, surprising, and beautiful. This year will be sure to provide new surprises and bring out the holiday spirit in the whole community.

Tracing Memory: Photographs by Angie Buckley, Pedro Isztin, Cyrus Karimipour, and Paula Luttringer
Light Work Gallery

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

Guest curator Miriam Romais of En Foco curated this exhibition to explore what makes a thought become a memory. The artists included in this exhibition create photographs that look at the idea of remembrance -- of letting go and making sense of past events, and using those memories to understand who they are today.

Growing up with a mother from Thailand and a Caucasian American father, Angie Buckley did not know her family history for many years. She relied on the conflicting memories and stories of relatives to piece together her heritage. Her images are created with a pinhole camera and cutouts of old family photographs, resulting in work that lies somewhere in between the real world and imagination. Buckley received her BFA in Photography from Ohio University and her MFA in Photography from Arizona State University. She has received various awards, and her work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Southern Light Gallery in Texas, the McDuffy Arts Center in Virginia, and New York University.

Pedro Isztin's color portraits metaphorically integrate formative childhood memories, using them to heal the adult that the child has become. Part of a larger series that emulates a life journey, Destino III: Transformation revisits, in Isztin's words, "the pain, joy, and suffering that our psyches are stamped with, no matter how little or large those experiences as a child." Isztin was born to a Colombian mother and Hungarian father; his work explores his diverse heritage. He lives in Ottawa, Canada, and has exhibited internationally. He has received numerous awards and grants, including a Photography Project Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and an Ontario Arts Council Award.

Cyrus Karimipour revels in the flexibility of memories and uses his images to visually recreate them and depict how he remembers an event or encounter. In his series Invented Memory, he creates scenarios by heavily manipulating his negatives and rearranging their fragments to then be re-photographed. His imagery becomes ambiguous, as if looking in on someone else's dream. Karimipour received his BA from Oakland University in Michigan and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. His work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of New Art in Michigan, and the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio. His art has also appeared in Harper's Magazine and The Detroit News, among other publications.

Paula Luttringer faces her own traumatic past, infusing her imagery with what other women remember about being abducted and held captive during Argentina's Dirty War. Lamento de Los Muros (The Wailing of the Walls) consists of large black-and-white images that depict the interior of the detention centers where thousands of people were held, tortured, and "disappeared." The images capture both history and memory. Luttringer was awarded a fellowship by the Guggenheim Foundation in 2001. Her work appears in the collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; the Museum of Fine Arts in Texas; and George Eastman House in New York. She currently lives and works in Buenos Aires and Paris.

2008 Light Work Grant Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Works of Kathy Morris, Paul Pearce, and Nancy Keefe Rhodes, the recipients of the 34th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. Kathy Morris and Paul Pearce are imagemakers. Nancy Keefe Rhodes received the award for a photo-historian project on local documentary photographer Marjory Wilkins.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Show and sale of original fine arts and crafts by Central New York artists and craftspeople. For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Warren Kimble's America
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Folk artist Warren Kimble is creator to some of the most successful 20th century Americana. His quaint depictions have graced stationery cards to decorative accessories for the home. Still, few individuals outside of Vermont know him as the artist behind the celebrated imagery that's as American as apple pie.

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is pleased to present a retrospective of the Syracuse alumnus' work including his most recent series Widows of War, which illustrates his personal reaction to the War in Iraq and its effect on women.

Kimble is best known for his patchwork-like paintings of the American flag, bucolic farm animals, and antique barns and homes. His varying flag designs are a symbol of patriotism, a theme which the artist uses often. Portraits of oversized farm animals, from heavy pigs to stocky cows, allude to an 18th-century practice of selecting prize winning livestock for their size. Kimble's stylized barns and farm houses also reveal a penchant for abstract design over architectural accuracy.

In 2005 Kimble began work on Widows of War. After purchasing a black, antique dressmaking mannequin, Kimble saw in it a visual metaphor for the loss and sorrow felt by American wives and mothers during the war. Contrary to the idyllic scenes and colorful animals, the black-and-white series remains a solemn representation of Kimble's sadness and frustration with the war's events and its toll on American lives. The paintings and sculpture, which are intermittently marked by splats of red and barbed wire, further reinforce the feminine connection through symbolic clothespins and textile patterns.

Parking for weekend and evening visitors is in Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Parking is on a space available basis and will be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces are not available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th Century Superstar
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Local artist and designer Jeffrey Mayer will present a post-modern installation of 20th century fashion design inspired by the 18th century fashion sense of Marie Antoinette. Although Marie Antoinette did not really create a style that was personally unique, what she did for fashion in the 1770s was to solidify, refine and intensify the rococo style created by her grandfather-in-law, Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who died in 1764, six years before the 14-year-old Princess even arrived from Austria. Through the exhibition and a publication to be released in the fall, Mayer will be reinterpreting and discussing Marie Antoinette's key concepts of Fantasy, Luxury, and Exoticism.

Marie Antoinette was originally displayed in 2007 in a small space in Syracuse University's Fashion Design Department where Mayer has been Associate Professor of Fashion History and Design since 1992. For the Everson's installation, Mayer has expanded the visual experience to include more than 40 garments displayed on vintage mannequins, an eclectic collection of contemporary fashion accessories, an interactive audio component, and many unique, custom-designed and hand-made objects.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

Warhol Presents highlights the early commercial career of Andy Warhol, whose whimsical drawings from the 1950s created fantasies that marketed fashion and glamour through evocation. Warhol's penchant for combining art and advertisement quickly made him one of the most well known illustrators of women's fashion in New York. His talen' was sought out by fashion publication giants, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar; and women's footwear designer and retailer, I. Miller Shoe Company.

The exhibition presents 18 of Warhol's rarely seen shoe illustrations including Fantasy Shoes (ca. 1956), a whimsical and humorous take on women's footwear design. Exhibited also are drawings of women's accessories and fashion figures, including Female Fashion Figure (1950s); a vibrant depiction of a chic model alongside an equally stylish car.

Warhol's unique well-wrought line also translated to commissions of large-scale window displays for New York stores, including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's. One example of the artist's window displays is featured in this exhibition in the illustrated reproduction, Miss Dior (1950s); and a 1997 3-dimensional re-creation of Warhol's 1957 Bonwit Teller Window Display, which includes glass perfume bottles and colorful reproduction of a window display screen. Warhol's early drawings and interest in art, identity, and consumerism informed his later pop-icon status, when product and identity literally became his art, and was used to fuel his experimental factory era films.

This exhibition is curated by Natalie Sanderson, Curator of Education at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. The original exhibition, Andy Warhol Presents, was first exhibited at the University Art Museum in 2007.

Roiling Infill by Alex Schweder; Blind Spot by Kim Waale
The Warehouse Gallery

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

This solo exhibition by Seattle/Berlin-based artist Alex Schweder, Roiling Infill, consists of a video projection, Jealous Poché (2004), and an architectural installation titled Snowballing Doorway (2007). Both components of the exhibition accomplish in very different ways the artist's ongoing interest in the intersection between architecture, sculpture and performance art.

Jealous Poché is a seven-minute architectural fly-through of a space somewhere between body and building. The word poché was coined in France's École de Beaux Arts during a neoclassical moment to refer to the space between the surfaces of walls. Here, the camera path and viewer's position are actually inside the viscous poché looking into the voids on the other side of the wall's surface. The camera work in this video shows an attention by the artist to a liminal moment (the skin of the wall) between expanse and engulfment. Made in collaboration with gastroenterologist Jim Wagonfeld, a 25-gallon vat of strawberry Jell-O mixed with blocks of resin was filmed with an endoscope. Schweder's decision to use an imaging device normally employed to visualize the human body's own poché in turn represents the architectural space in the video as fleshy. This is in contrast to architecture's historical representation of and fantasies of perfect bodies.

Snowballing Doorway moves from the world of represented architectural fleshiness to architectural flesh itself. Two sac-like arches made from a combination of opaque and clear vinyl pass the same volume of poché (in this case air) back and forth until one of the two completely bulges to fill the aperture in which they are installed. This shifting skin is an example of what Schweder calls "a building that performs itself." Here he is interested in how the codes of architecture act like a score for how occupants are supposed to "perform" the building. In this case, the arch prompts an occupant to "pass through" it. Schweder's unstable arch, however, changes this instruction to its opposite when the poché passes into the upside-down arch on top. In this way, a viewer becomes aware of the way buildings structure the behavior in them.

Both works point to a permeability between buildings and the bodies that occupy them. The video, made using an edible treat, makes it unclear where insides and outsides of buildings and bodies start and stop. The inflatable instructions make explicit that buildings construct us in as much as we construct them.

Also on display, in the Window Projects Gallery, is Blind Spot, a site-specific installation using wax-encrusted wire forms designed to simultaneously emulate the roots and branches of trees and the retina and optic nerve of the human eye. These "references to nature as it exists outside and within the human body underscore the trouble we as humans have in seeing and thinking about ourselves as organisms that are part of the natural world" (Waale, artist statement).

Waale blurs the boundaries between sculpture and drawing as she moves from Vocalizations, a series of preliminary drawings for the project, to sculptural elements that will fill the space.

Framing Identities: Collaborations with Students at Nottingham High School
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Atrium Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

An exhibition of photography guided by student mentors in Professor Judith Meighan's "Literacy, Community, Art" course in the Syracuse University's School of Art and Design. The Nottingham High School students exhibiting work are enrolled in Randy Weatherby's "Black and White Photography" course.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

They are testaments to the impact of terrorism: sculptures portraying mothers going back to the exact moment they learned their child died in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some are screaming; others are weeping. Some are curled into a ball; others have fists raised in anger. The 76 larger-than-life figures that comprise the Dark Elegy collection were created by Montauk, NY-based artist Suse Lowenstein, the mother of a Pan Am 103 student victim.

Four of these sculptures will be on display as part of the University's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy.

HIV/AIDS Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibit features works of art on the theme of HIV/AIDS created by Onondaga art and photography students.

The Art of Pochade: Works of Eric W. Shute
LeMoyne College

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

A pochade is a small sketch in which the artist records, usually in color, the atmospheric effects and general impressions of a landscape. They are small, rapidly executed oil color sketches painted out of doors or plein air. These small paintings are often used as preliminary studies for larger works executed in the studio at a later time. The artist will be exhibiting 16 to 20 of these small works, many of them scenes from the Jonesport and Beals Island area in Down East Maine. The works are quickly conceived and rapidly executed to try and capture the light and conditions of the moment. Because these small paintings are usually considered a reference for larger works they are not often seen by the public.

The artist will be showing one larger work along side the pochade painting that was used as a reference. Patrons may compare the two paintings and see the evolution and thought process of the artist from the original concept in the small color sketch to completion in the much larger finished painting.

Eric Schute's work has appeared at Syracuse's Delavan Art Gallery, Gallery 210, the Everson Museum of Art and the Alden Gallery in Provincetown, MA. For more information, phone 315-445-4323.

Gallery Exhibition: Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A mixed media show with works from Onondaga's own faculty members.

The Golem: Visual Visitations
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A major collective exhibit of seven world class artists titled "The Golem: Visual Visitations," inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' poem "El Golem." This is the third edition of a program that began in Prague in 2002 through the initiative of the Argentinean Embassy in that city, and it was introduced by the renowned poet Václav Havel, then President of the Czech Republic. A second version was later produced with tremendous success at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2003, also introduced by then President of the country, Néstor Kirchner. Now the program travels to the United States for the first time to be shown exclusively at Syracuse University.

The Golem exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery features original works especially commissioned for this exhibit, created by seven artists: from Argentina (Leandro Katz; Pedro Roth); Uruguay (Marta Chilindrón); Puerto Rico (Víctor Vázquez); Syracuse (Tom Sherman; Doug Dubois) and New York (Sarah Kipp). It combines photography, installation and video art.

Visual Journals: Recent Works by SUNY Oswego Faculty
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Art exhibition featuring recent work by SUNY Oswego faculty members Amy Bartell, Cynthia Clabough, Paul Pearce, Cara Brewer Thompson.

Mapping Linguistics, Revisited: Works by Kelly Roe
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Kelly Roe's mixed media work will be on display. A professor in the Graphic Design Program at SUNY Oswego, Roe has a background in graphic design, bookmaking and printmaking and sees herself as an anthropologist, artist, editor and scribe. The Mapping Linguistics exhibition explores relationships in linguistics, psychology and child development.

Dawn of a New Age: The Immigrant Contribution to the Arts in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"Dawn of a New Age" tells the story of five artists who immigrated to the United States during the first half of the 20th century: Adolph Bolm, a Russian dancer and choreographer who performed with the Mariinsky Ballet and Ballets Russes; William Lescaze, a Swiss architect who was one of the pioneers of modernism; Louis Lozowick, a Russian printmaker known for his Art Deco and Precision lithographs; Miklós Rózsa, a Hungarian composer of more than 100 film scores, including Ben Hur; and John Vassos, a Greek illustrator and industrial designer. The exhibition draws from the rich holdings of SCRC and showcases more than 50 of the artists' personal papers, manuscripts, photos and artifacts.

This exhibit is part of this year's Syracuse Symposium on the theme "Migration."

Viewpoints: A Collaborative Collection
Westcott Community Center

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

The Syracuse Photography Meetup Group proudly presents a collection of photographic images at their very first collaborative gallery exhibit. Creatively capturing images from the commonplace to the unexpected, photographers catch the light and special moments in time. This collection of images will serve to captivate your eye and draw you in closer to view a new world in each and every photo.

Members have long exhibited their works on the unique "underground" galleries of cyberspace, but now further realize their works, by bringing them to life in print for this collaborative effort. We hope you enjoy the variety of work, as well as appreciate the varied levels of expertise represented here, from the active beginner, serious amateur, aspiring professional, and working professionals. It is safe to say that each image is a labor of love, born out of an enthusiasm to create something new and wonderful.

The Color of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Watercolor paintings by Laura Wilk, glassworks of Carmel Nicoletti, and felted bags and ruffled scarves of Sherry Gordon.

Pacheco: From the 5th Street Gym to Gandhi
Brian's Art Gallery

Brian's Art Gallery
201 Wolf St. (former Keybank building), Syracuse

Ferdie Pacheco is a man with a great zest for life. He is a painter, an author of 14 books, a playwright, a winner of two Emmy awards, and a humanitarian. Born in 1927 in Ybor City, he made up his mind at 14 to become a doctor and established his practice on Southwest Eighth Street when the Cuban exiles began streaming into the city. It was here that he rediscovered his own immigrant roots -- his father was the Cuban born son of a Spanish consul. Pacheco went on to become Muhammad Ali's cornerman and personal physician for 17 years, becoming known as "The Fight Doctor."

His art work is internationally acclaimed and his painting of Gandhi has been selected as the stamp for the 2009 United Nations Day of Nonviolence. Pacheco's paintings are characterized by his imaginative use of color and design. In particular, his famous faces are executed in a fauvist style. His work has won the Gold Medal and First Prize in Tonneins, France: the First Prize, Best Colorist at Musee Du Luxembourg.

Founding Visionaries: Herb Williams and Jack White
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Community Folk Art Center is proud to exhibit this unique collection of sculptures, drawings and prints by two CFAC founders, Herb Williams and Jack White.

Celebrating Herb Williams: His Life, His Work, and His Art: As CFAC founding director, Herb Williams (1938-1999) devoted his life to promoting the work of diverse artists and ensuring that a large audience could experience their work. His dedication to the collective vision of the founding members kept Williams busy and while he avidly supported and promoted other artist he rarely took time exhibit his own work. This will be the first large-scale exhibition of Williams work in Upstate New York. Though he identified himself primarily as a sculptor, Williams worked across various artistic mediums; manipulating wood, plaster and bronze into figurative and abstract forms. His lithographs and etchings not only indicate the measure of his artistic skill and creativity but also serve as a chronicle of his literal, figurative journey as an artist.

Jack White: An Ancestral Image is a collection of the works by CFAC co-founder and artist Jack White. Since the late 1960s, Jack White's mixed media abstract work, defined as "abstract impressionism," has been inspired by African art forms and symbolism. The works included in the Ancestral Image exhibition are outside the boundaries of traditional painting or sculpture. They contain elements of the spiritual, the artistic, and the utilitarian that define African art.

March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
Community Folk Art Center

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

Original illustrated works by London Ladd