Sunday, February 4, 2007

Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War
Light Work Gallery
Featuring works by William Earle Williams

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

Until the release of the motion picture Glory in 1989, it was not well known that more than 180,000 black soldiers served in the Civil War. The exhibition Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War features over 40 stunning black-and-white photographs by William Earle Williams. The images call attention to the sites made special through these soldiers' contributions, so that their story becomes a part of our American story.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features the work of seniors and graduate students in Syracuse University's Department of Transmedia.

A Journey Towards Hope: Underground Railroad Sites in Oberlin, Ohio
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Coriana Close has photographed the history of Oberlin, Ohio's Underground Railroad for the last few years. The images include large format color photographs of buildings in Oberlin that were essential to the abolitionist movement.

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

Celestial Images: Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps From the Mendillo Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Celestial Images celebrates the Golden Age of astronomical charts. Some of the world's earliest artistic images, illustrations of cosmologies and heavenly phenomena, entered into a new and lively phase during the Renaissance. The invention of printing in the 15th century improved the means of disseminating scientific knowledge; advances in astronomy in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the portrayal of new information. This fortuitous conjunction created printed astronomical charts of surprising accuracy and delicate beauty. Celestial cartographers combined their scientific quest with a keen aesthetic sense -- each chart had to be an object of beauty, as well as a repository of information. These charts were a celebration of aesthetics as well as scientific knowledge.

Like the twins of Gemini, art and science walked hand-in-hand for over hundred years. By the late 19th century, this unified way of seeing had split into the "two cultures" of art and science that we know today. Overwhelmed by a vast amount of data, astronomical charts of the 20th century eventually changed into functional, unadorned tools intended for the specialists. Tucked away in libraries, museums and private collections, however, are splendid remnants of a bygone era. Assembled here from the Mendillo Collection of Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps are over 80 examples of some of the finest celestial cartography created. There are star charts (maps of the constellations and the full celestial sphere), charts of planetary systems (cosmologies), and a smaller third category, charts of celestial phenomena (such as nebulae, comets, and eclipses). Together, they pay homage to a time when simple systems explained the universe and humankind held friendly commerce with the skies.

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

Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Meaning and Metaphor presents a group of 10 large contemporary paintings and two distinctly different sculptures. Made by American and British artists, the works challenge preconceived notions of what art is and its purpose.

Several pieces reject the idea that art needs to be realistic. Large paintings by Bernard Cohen and Walter Darby Bannard explore abstraction in uniquely different ways. Bannard's Sun Flood, 1972 is an excellent late example of Abstract Expressionism while Cohen's Somewhere Between, 1975 pushed Op Art to its philosophical extreme.

Other works examine the role of narration in art. Robert Birmelin's Night Driving, 1964, Sidney Goodman's Eclipse and Rico Lebrun's Lazarus, 1962 develop stories that leave the viewer with more questions than answers.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

War News and Strange Brews: The Art of Boris Artzybasheff
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Boris Artzybasheff was a Russian émigré artist who painted over 200 cover illustrations for Time magazine. His most important work dates to World War II when he depicted the politicians, military leaders and the issues that governed the course of the conflict. His unique abilities in portraiture led Time to select him to paint several Man of the Year covers including portraits of Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman.

Artzybasheff was possibly more famous for his illustrations that gave machinery human characteristics. His sly talent for choosing just the right amount of human anatomy gave each machine a personality that ranged from sympathetic to sinister. Viewers were therefore compelled to have an emotional reaction to the machine and its purpose.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

On the Edge of Pop
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

On the Edge of Pop presents a selection of paintings, sculpture and prints that examines the pop art movement's later years in the 1970s. Included in the exhibition are works by Pop icons like Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. These originators were joined by later participants including Robert Cottingham, John Clem Clark and Mel Ramos.

Pop established a new order of symbols, images and content that evolved over time. The style began in the late 1950s as a reaction to the intensely personal and gestural look of Abstract Expressionism. Pop artists de-emphasized their role in making art by often using more mechanical techniques usually associated with mass market processes. Their images were often appropriated from popular culture and, as a result, the general public greeted the new work enthusiastically.

By 1970 Pop had evolved into a more mainstream art form as the style broadened its scope. Andy Warhol did a series of paintings and prints of celebrities and other important figures. He took a famous publicity photograph of Marilyn Monroe and made a series of differently colored screenprints. Installed as multiples, the prints reinterpreted the starlet's place in American culture. Robert Rauschenberg had gained such a reputation that in 1969 NASA invited him to Cape Canaveral to witness the launch of Apollo 11 and to use its images in his work. His color screenprint Signs, 1970 prominently features the astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon along with a host of other iconic figures and events from the preceding decade.

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

Atrium Exhibit: Scholastic Art Awards Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

New to You
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

An exhibit of the work of new guild members as well as emerging and seldom shown artists.

Arts Alive in Liverpool
Society for New Music

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

Poulenc: Babar and Friends.

Blue Cafe, folk song combo
Fayetteville Free Library

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

Benefit Recital
Vera House, Inc.
Featuring Dr. Kevin Moore, piano

Bellevue Heights United Methodist Church
2112 S. Geddes St., Syracuse

Mozart Sonata in D Major, K.576
Brahms Two Rhapsodies, Op. 79
Schumann Carnaval and Romance in F# Major

There will be a reception following the performance. Proceeds from all donations will benefit the mission and services of Vera House.

Kevin Moore is a Professor of Music at OCC and a Studio Associate in SU's Setnor School of Music. He has played more than 270 concerts in the central and western NY areas, including over 70 full-length solo recitals in addition to many chamber music, choral and vocal programs. He made his New York City recital debut in Carnegie Recital Hall in 1976.

He often performs for the Society for New Music for which he has participated in many world premiere performances. A graduate of the Crane School of Music, he also holds advanced degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, New York University & SU.

For more infomation, phone 315-425-0818 ext. 212.

Theatre Pipe Organ Pops Concert
Syracuse Wurlitzer
Featuring Jim Ford, organist

Price: $15.00 adults; $2.00 children, members free
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Binghamton's Jim Ford, performing at the world famous Syracuse Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ, will present a wide array of musical selections of all types.

The Diviners
Appleseed Productions
Jon Wilson, director

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

This marvelously theatrical play is the story of a disturbed young man and his friendship with a disenchanted preacher in southern Indiana in the early 1930s. When the boy was young he almost drowned. This trauma and the loss of his mother in the same accident has left him deathly afraid of water. The preacher, set on breaking away from a long line of Kentucky family preachers, is determined not to do what he does best. He works as a mechanic for the boy's father. The town doesn't have a preacher and the women try to persuade him to preach while he tries to persuade the child to wash. When the preacher finally gets the boy in the river and is washing him, the townspeople mistake the scene for a baptism. They descend on the event and, in the confusion, the boy drowns. Written by James Leonard, Jr.

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The Cocktail Hour
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $20 regular; $15 students/seniors
St. Clare Auditorium
Lodi and Isabella Streets, Syracuse

A. R. Gurney's semi-autobiographical story of an upper-class family in Buffalo in the 1970s.

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Spike Heels
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

Price: $40, $36, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Playwright Theresa Rebeck (of last season's comic delight Bad Dates) is fascinated with the tricky negotiations of male-female relationships. With Spike Heels, she plunges head first into the complexities of the battle of the sexes and pops up with a witty, compelling and very tart comedy. Even smart people are not so smart when it comes to love. (Adult language.)

Set in present-day Boston, the play focuses on the mixed-up, complicated relationships of four friends. Georgie is an attractive, street-savvy woman with a penchant for stiletto heels that make prizes of her legs. She lives in the same apartment complex as Andrew, a political philosophy professor writing a book. The two meet by the mailboxes one day and become unlikely friends. Andrew takes Georgie under his wing and helps her land a job as a secretary with his friend Edward, a lawyer. However, when Edward sexually harasses Georgie, the situation turns volatile. The fact that Andrew is engaged to Edward's ex-girlfriend Lydia complicates things even further.

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Disney's High School Musical
The Talent Company
Christine Lightcap, director

Price: $25 regular, $22 students/seniors, $14 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The Disney Channel smash hit original movie that topped the Billboard music charts and broke video and CD sales records within weeks of its premiere comes to life on stage with the antics of East High students as they audition for the school musical, compete in a scholastic decathlon, and play the championship basketball game. Troy (Tim Quartier), captain of the basketball team, and Gabriella (Ana Thornton), the brainy, shy new girl at school surprise themselves and others by trying out for the lead roles in the musical. They face the objections of Sharpay (Rachel Mulcahy), the thespian queen and president of the drama club, and Ryan (Chris Cory), her brother and vice-president of the drama club, who covet the roles for themselves, and friends Chad (Maoti Gborkorquellie), number two on the Wildcats Basketball Team and Taylor (MiKayla Hawkinson), president of the scholastic club, who want Troy and Gabriella to stick to what they do best - basketball and academics. Other characters in the various cliques at East High are Zeke (Stephfond Brunson), a jock with a secret passion for baking, Martha Cox (Jodie Baum), a brainiac with a secret passion for hip hop, Kelsi Neilson (Paige Goldberg), the composer-pianist of the school musical, and Jack Scott (Alex Allport), the smart-mouthed student P.A. announcer known as the Velvet Fog of East High. Ms. Darbus (Christine Lightcap) the drama teacher, Coach Bolton (Jeff Paduano) the basketball coach, and Ms. Tenny (Dorothy Lennon) the science teacher, preside over the competing school activities.

The stage version features the original musical score including The Start Of Something New, We're All In This Together, Get'cha Head In The Game, Stick To The Status Quo, Bop To The Top, When There Was Me And You, What I've Been Looking For, and Breaking Free, plus three new songs Cellular Fusion, Counting On You, and the song not in the movie but heard on a bonus track of the original cast recording entitled I Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You.

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Spike Heels
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

Price: $35, $31, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Playwright Theresa Rebeck (of last season's comic delight Bad Dates) is fascinated with the tricky negotiations of male-female relationships. With Spike Heels, she plunges head first into the complexities of the battle of the sexes and pops up with a witty, compelling and very tart comedy. Even smart people are not so smart when it comes to love. (Adult language.)

Set in present-day Boston, the play focuses on the mixed-up, complicated relationships of four friends. Georgie is an attractive, street-savvy woman with a penchant for stiletto heels that make prizes of her legs. She lives in the same apartment complex as Andrew, a political philosophy professor writing a book. The two meet by the mailboxes one day and become unlikely friends. Andrew takes Georgie under his wing and helps her land a job as a secretary with his friend Edward, a lawyer. However, when Edward sexually harasses Georgie, the situation turns volatile. The fact that Andrew is engaged to Edward's ex-girlfriend Lydia complicates things even further.

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Monday, February 5, 2007

A Journey Towards Hope: Underground Railroad Sites in Oberlin, Ohio
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Coriana Close has photographed the history of Oberlin, Ohio's Underground Railroad for the last few years. The images include large format color photographs of buildings in Oberlin that were essential to the abolitionist movement.

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

Atrium Exhibit: Scholastic Art Awards Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Visual Arts Showcase Committee of the CRC is pleased to present an eclectic offering, featuring work of state and local grant winners since 2000. Special viewing arrangements can be made through the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155.

W.E.B. DuBois Traveling Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Gallery Exhibit: Kente Cloth
Onondaga Community College

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

In Woman Veritas
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In Woman Veritas is a selection of photography from the Point of Contact Collection, including works by Burt Barr, Maureen Connor, Marta Chilindrón & Eduardo Costas, Rimma Gerlovina & Valeriy Gerlovin, and Joseph Kugielsky.

The exhibit is a reflection on women, giving visitors a chance to examine different processes by which art is created and to ask questions about the ways in which truth is manifest in women. Seeing the works of art, which were created for publication in the Point of Contact journal series, in their raw and original forms along with their polished, published forms, invites a comparison between reality and what we, and the artist, perceive as reality, or truth. In fact, truth can arise from a process of searching, or, conversely, can be expressed in an instant. The exhibit revolves around this idea of truth and perspective, and visitors are encouraged to explore both the artists' perspectives of truth and their own.

Guided visits can be scheduled outside of regular hours by appointment.

Photography to Help Bridge the Relationship Between People and Place
Westcott Community Center

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

The photographs of Andrew W. Burdick are a visual testimony to time spent in Europe and North Africa, traveling across the United States, and extensive travel in the Pacific Northwest near his home and studio in Portland, Oregon. His photos speak to the essence of human relationship with our environments.

Burdick is a 1998 graduate of Vernon-Verona-Sherrill High School (Verona, NY), The Peddie School and St. Lawrence University. Following his college graduation Burdick lived in Europe and North Africa for about six months. During this time he traveled and worked on a remote organic farm in the mountains of Southern Spain, documenting the change in relationship between human and natural systems. When he returned to the United States he worked for a year and a half as the Land Steward at The Center for Whole Communities, an organic farm and education center in Vermont. He then joined his friends of the blues and roots band Grace Potter and the Nocturnals (Hollywood Records) as Tour Manager and Photographer logging more than 35,000 road miles and driving coast-to-coast four times. While on tour, the band performed with such musical acts as blues legend Taj Mahal, The Dave Matthews Band, Trey Anastasio (Phish), The North Mississippi All-Stars, and Robert Cray.

His photographs have been used for album graphics, posters, web designs, office and home decoration, and have appeared in literary magazines and newspapers across the country. Burdick has recently published a book of photography, There and Back Again: Across The Country With Grace Potter And The Nocturnals. He also co-directed a Vermont Public Television live video recording of Grace Potter And The Nocturnals that has subsequently been released on DVD. Currently, Burdick splits time between his Portland, OR and Sherrill, NY studios where he owns and operates freelance photography businesses. In addition, Burdick has recently accepted the position of Director of Photography for Seanchai Productions, a documentary film company based in Portland focused on covering local and global issues that are environmentally and socially pressing in nature.

New to You
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

An exhibit of the work of new guild members as well as emerging and seldom shown artists.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features the work of seniors and graduate students in Syracuse University's Department of Transmedia.

Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War
Light Work Gallery
Featuring works by William Earle Williams

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

Until the release of the motion picture Glory in 1989, it was not well known that more than 180,000 black soldiers served in the Civil War. The exhibition Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War features over 40 stunning black-and-white photographs by William Earle Williams. The images call attention to the sites made special through these soldiers' contributions, so that their story becomes a part of our American story.

An Evening with Sir James Galway
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor

Price: $30-$85
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

"The Man with the Golden Flute," also known as the legendary Sir James Galway, has performed all over the world for dignitaries including the Queen of England and Pope John Paul II. He has endeared himself to millions, and is sure to win the hearts of audience members here with a riveting performance that will include Bizet's colorful Carmen Fantasy and a thrilling duet, The Magic Flutes, with his wife Lady Jeanne Galway.

von Suppe Poet and Peasant Overture
Overton/Mozart The Magic Flutes
Hardiman/Custer Lord of the Dance
de Falla Three-Cornered Hat Suite No. 2
Bizet/Borne Carmen Fantasy

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Tuesday, February 6, 2007

A Journey Towards Hope: Underground Railroad Sites in Oberlin, Ohio
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Coriana Close has photographed the history of Oberlin, Ohio's Underground Railroad for the last few years. The images include large format color photographs of buildings in Oberlin that were essential to the abolitionist movement.

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

Atrium Exhibit: Scholastic Art Awards Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Visual Arts Showcase Committee of the CRC is pleased to present an eclectic offering, featuring work of state and local grant winners since 2000. Special viewing arrangements can be made through the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155.

Gallery Exhibit: Kente Cloth
Onondaga Community College

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

W.E.B. DuBois Traveling Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

In Woman Veritas
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In Woman Veritas is a selection of photography from the Point of Contact Collection, including works by Burt Barr, Maureen Connor, Marta Chilindrón & Eduardo Costas, Rimma Gerlovina & Valeriy Gerlovin, and Joseph Kugielsky.

The exhibit is a reflection on women, giving visitors a chance to examine different processes by which art is created and to ask questions about the ways in which truth is manifest in women. Seeing the works of art, which were created for publication in the Point of Contact journal series, in their raw and original forms along with their polished, published forms, invites a comparison between reality and what we, and the artist, perceive as reality, or truth. In fact, truth can arise from a process of searching, or, conversely, can be expressed in an instant. The exhibit revolves around this idea of truth and perspective, and visitors are encouraged to explore both the artists' perspectives of truth and their own.

Guided visits can be scheduled outside of regular hours by appointment.

A Connection with Time
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Large, panoramic photos of the world of baseball at the beginning of the 20th century.

New to You
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

An exhibit of the work of new guild members as well as emerging and seldom shown artists.

Underground Railroad Made Visible: Photos by William Earle Williams
Community Folk Art Center

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

The photographs are of sites that were once part of the Underground Railroad, including many here in Central New York.

The exhibition is held in conjunction with a simultaneous exhibition at Light Work also featuring Williams' photographs: "Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War."

William Earle Williams received a B.A. degree in History from Hamilton College and an M.F.A. degree in Fine Arts from Yale University. He is a Professor of Fine Arts at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and also a Curator of Photography. Williams participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2003.

Pride and Perseverance: Civil Rights Paintings by Charly Palmer
Community Folk Art Center

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

An artist with a passion for history, Palmer's works chronicle important social and political events, focusing on African American historical subjects and the Civil Rights Movement in particular. Palmer's works make use of bold colors, textures and layers to bring his subjects to life. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and his work can be found in several prominent public and private collections. Palmer has received several major awards and commissions. He has also worked as an educator, instructing students of all ages in drawing, painting, design and illustration.

Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War
Light Work Gallery
Featuring works by William Earle Williams

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

Until the release of the motion picture Glory in 1989, it was not well known that more than 180,000 black soldiers served in the Civil War. The exhibition Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War features over 40 stunning black-and-white photographs by William Earle Williams. The images call attention to the sites made special through these soldiers' contributions, so that their story becomes a part of our American story.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features the work of seniors and graduate students in Syracuse University's Department of Transmedia.

Dreams: Between the Sky and the Earth: Collaborations with Children at Ed Smith School
The Warehouse Gallery

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

"Between the sky and the earth emerge paths to a new way of life where people journey together to a cleaner, safer, more beautiful world." So reads the inscription on a photograph by fifth-grader Shivhari Chathrattil describing his dream and image. It is one of more than 80 photographs -- in addition to a video documentary -- on display in the exhibition, which explores the dreams and visual imaginations of fifth-grade students in the Syracuse City School District (SCSD) and is the culmination of the efforts of an innovative course -- Literacy, Community and Photography -- offered through Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Meaning and Metaphor presents a group of 10 large contemporary paintings and two distinctly different sculptures. Made by American and British artists, the works challenge preconceived notions of what art is and its purpose.

Several pieces reject the idea that art needs to be realistic. Large paintings by Bernard Cohen and Walter Darby Bannard explore abstraction in uniquely different ways. Bannard's Sun Flood, 1972 is an excellent late example of Abstract Expressionism while Cohen's Somewhere Between, 1975 pushed Op Art to its philosophical extreme.

Other works examine the role of narration in art. Robert Birmelin's Night Driving, 1964, Sidney Goodman's Eclipse and Rico Lebrun's Lazarus, 1962 develop stories that leave the viewer with more questions than answers.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

Celestial Images: Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps From the Mendillo Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Celestial Images celebrates the Golden Age of astronomical charts. Some of the world's earliest artistic images, illustrations of cosmologies and heavenly phenomena, entered into a new and lively phase during the Renaissance. The invention of printing in the 15th century improved the means of disseminating scientific knowledge; advances in astronomy in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the portrayal of new information. This fortuitous conjunction created printed astronomical charts of surprising accuracy and delicate beauty. Celestial cartographers combined their scientific quest with a keen aesthetic sense -- each chart had to be an object of beauty, as well as a repository of information. These charts were a celebration of aesthetics as well as scientific knowledge.

Like the twins of Gemini, art and science walked hand-in-hand for over hundred years. By the late 19th century, this unified way of seeing had split into the "two cultures" of art and science that we know today. Overwhelmed by a vast amount of data, astronomical charts of the 20th century eventually changed into functional, unadorned tools intended for the specialists. Tucked away in libraries, museums and private collections, however, are splendid remnants of a bygone era. Assembled here from the Mendillo Collection of Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps are over 80 examples of some of the finest celestial cartography created. There are star charts (maps of the constellations and the full celestial sphere), charts of planetary systems (cosmologies), and a smaller third category, charts of celestial phenomena (such as nebulae, comets, and eclipses). Together, they pay homage to a time when simple systems explained the universe and humankind held friendly commerce with the skies.

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

War News and Strange Brews: The Art of Boris Artzybasheff
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Boris Artzybasheff was a Russian émigré artist who painted over 200 cover illustrations for Time magazine. His most important work dates to World War II when he depicted the politicians, military leaders and the issues that governed the course of the conflict. His unique abilities in portraiture led Time to select him to paint several Man of the Year covers including portraits of Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman.

Artzybasheff was possibly more famous for his illustrations that gave machinery human characteristics. His sly talent for choosing just the right amount of human anatomy gave each machine a personality that ranged from sympathetic to sinister. Viewers were therefore compelled to have an emotional reaction to the machine and its purpose.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

On the Edge of Pop
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

On the Edge of Pop presents a selection of paintings, sculpture and prints that examines the pop art movement's later years in the 1970s. Included in the exhibition are works by Pop icons like Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. These originators were joined by later participants including Robert Cottingham, John Clem Clark and Mel Ramos.

Pop established a new order of symbols, images and content that evolved over time. The style began in the late 1950s as a reaction to the intensely personal and gestural look of Abstract Expressionism. Pop artists de-emphasized their role in making art by often using more mechanical techniques usually associated with mass market processes. Their images were often appropriated from popular culture and, as a result, the general public greeted the new work enthusiastically.

By 1970 Pop had evolved into a more mainstream art form as the style broadened its scope. Andy Warhol did a series of paintings and prints of celebrities and other important figures. He took a famous publicity photograph of Marilyn Monroe and made a series of differently colored screenprints. Installed as multiples, the prints reinterpreted the starlet's place in American culture. Robert Rauschenberg had gained such a reputation that in 1969 NASA invited him to Cape Canaveral to witness the launch of Apollo 11 and to use its images in his work. His color screenprint Signs, 1970 prominently features the astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon along with a host of other iconic figures and events from the preceding decade.

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

Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

A Journey Towards Hope: Underground Railroad Sites in Oberlin, Ohio
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Coriana Close has photographed the history of Oberlin, Ohio's Underground Railroad for the last few years. The images include large format color photographs of buildings in Oberlin that were essential to the abolitionist movement.

Atrium Exhibit: Scholastic Art Awards Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Visual Arts Showcase Committee of the CRC is pleased to present an eclectic offering, featuring work of state and local grant winners since 2000. Special viewing arrangements can be made through the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155.

W.E.B. DuBois Traveling Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Gallery Exhibit: Kente Cloth
Onondaga Community College

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

In Woman Veritas
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In Woman Veritas is a selection of photography from the Point of Contact Collection, including works by Burt Barr, Maureen Connor, Marta Chilindrón & Eduardo Costas, Rimma Gerlovina & Valeriy Gerlovin, and Joseph Kugielsky.

The exhibit is a reflection on women, giving visitors a chance to examine different processes by which art is created and to ask questions about the ways in which truth is manifest in women. Seeing the works of art, which were created for publication in the Point of Contact journal series, in their raw and original forms along with their polished, published forms, invites a comparison between reality and what we, and the artist, perceive as reality, or truth. In fact, truth can arise from a process of searching, or, conversely, can be expressed in an instant. The exhibit revolves around this idea of truth and perspective, and visitors are encouraged to explore both the artists' perspectives of truth and their own.

Guided visits can be scheduled outside of regular hours by appointment.

A Connection with Time
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Large, panoramic photos of the world of baseball at the beginning of the 20th century.

New to You
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

An exhibit of the work of new guild members as well as emerging and seldom shown artists.

Pride and Perseverance: Civil Rights Paintings by Charly Palmer
Community Folk Art Center

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

An artist with a passion for history, Palmer's works chronicle important social and political events, focusing on African American historical subjects and the Civil Rights Movement in particular. Palmer's works make use of bold colors, textures and layers to bring his subjects to life. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and his work can be found in several prominent public and private collections. Palmer has received several major awards and commissions. He has also worked as an educator, instructing students of all ages in drawing, painting, design and illustration.

Underground Railroad Made Visible: Photos by William Earle Williams
Community Folk Art Center

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

The photographs are of sites that were once part of the Underground Railroad, including many here in Central New York.

The exhibition is held in conjunction with a simultaneous exhibition at Light Work also featuring Williams' photographs: "Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War."

William Earle Williams received a B.A. degree in History from Hamilton College and an M.F.A. degree in Fine Arts from Yale University. He is a Professor of Fine Arts at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and also a Curator of Photography. Williams participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2003.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features the work of seniors and graduate students in Syracuse University's Department of Transmedia.

Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War
Light Work Gallery
Featuring works by William Earle Williams

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

Until the release of the motion picture Glory in 1989, it was not well known that more than 180,000 black soldiers served in the Civil War. The exhibition Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War features over 40 stunning black-and-white photographs by William Earle Williams. The images call attention to the sites made special through these soldiers' contributions, so that their story becomes a part of our American story.

Dreams: Between the Sky and the Earth: Collaborations with Children at Ed Smith School
The Warehouse Gallery

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

"Between the sky and the earth emerge paths to a new way of life where people journey together to a cleaner, safer, more beautiful world." So reads the inscription on a photograph by fifth-grader Shivhari Chathrattil describing his dream and image. It is one of more than 80 photographs -- in addition to a video documentary -- on display in the exhibition, which explores the dreams and visual imaginations of fifth-grade students in the Syracuse City School District (SCSD) and is the culmination of the efforts of an innovative course -- Literacy, Community and Photography -- offered through Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Celestial Images: Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps From the Mendillo Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Celestial Images celebrates the Golden Age of astronomical charts. Some of the world's earliest artistic images, illustrations of cosmologies and heavenly phenomena, entered into a new and lively phase during the Renaissance. The invention of printing in the 15th century improved the means of disseminating scientific knowledge; advances in astronomy in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the portrayal of new information. This fortuitous conjunction created printed astronomical charts of surprising accuracy and delicate beauty. Celestial cartographers combined their scientific quest with a keen aesthetic sense -- each chart had to be an object of beauty, as well as a repository of information. These charts were a celebration of aesthetics as well as scientific knowledge.

Like the twins of Gemini, art and science walked hand-in-hand for over hundred years. By the late 19th century, this unified way of seeing had split into the "two cultures" of art and science that we know today. Overwhelmed by a vast amount of data, astronomical charts of the 20th century eventually changed into functional, unadorned tools intended for the specialists. Tucked away in libraries, museums and private collections, however, are splendid remnants of a bygone era. Assembled here from the Mendillo Collection of Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps are over 80 examples of some of the finest celestial cartography created. There are star charts (maps of the constellations and the full celestial sphere), charts of planetary systems (cosmologies), and a smaller third category, charts of celestial phenomena (such as nebulae, comets, and eclipses). Together, they pay homage to a time when simple systems explained the universe and humankind held friendly commerce with the skies.

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

Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Meaning and Metaphor presents a group of 10 large contemporary paintings and two distinctly different sculptures. Made by American and British artists, the works challenge preconceived notions of what art is and its purpose.

Several pieces reject the idea that art needs to be realistic. Large paintings by Bernard Cohen and Walter Darby Bannard explore abstraction in uniquely different ways. Bannard's Sun Flood, 1972 is an excellent late example of Abstract Expressionism while Cohen's Somewhere Between, 1975 pushed Op Art to its philosophical extreme.

Other works examine the role of narration in art. Robert Birmelin's Night Driving, 1964, Sidney Goodman's Eclipse and Rico Lebrun's Lazarus, 1962 develop stories that leave the viewer with more questions than answers.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

War News and Strange Brews: The Art of Boris Artzybasheff
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Boris Artzybasheff was a Russian émigré artist who painted over 200 cover illustrations for Time magazine. His most important work dates to World War II when he depicted the politicians, military leaders and the issues that governed the course of the conflict. His unique abilities in portraiture led Time to select him to paint several Man of the Year covers including portraits of Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman.

Artzybasheff was possibly more famous for his illustrations that gave machinery human characteristics. His sly talent for choosing just the right amount of human anatomy gave each machine a personality that ranged from sympathetic to sinister. Viewers were therefore compelled to have an emotional reaction to the machine and its purpose.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

On the Edge of Pop
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

On the Edge of Pop presents a selection of paintings, sculpture and prints that examines the pop art movement's later years in the 1970s. Included in the exhibition are works by Pop icons like Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. These originators were joined by later participants including Robert Cottingham, John Clem Clark and Mel Ramos.

Pop established a new order of symbols, images and content that evolved over time. The style began in the late 1950s as a reaction to the intensely personal and gestural look of Abstract Expressionism. Pop artists de-emphasized their role in making art by often using more mechanical techniques usually associated with mass market processes. Their images were often appropriated from popular culture and, as a result, the general public greeted the new work enthusiastically.

By 1970 Pop had evolved into a more mainstream art form as the style broadened its scope. Andy Warhol did a series of paintings and prints of celebrities and other important figures. He took a famous publicity photograph of Marilyn Monroe and made a series of differently colored screenprints. Installed as multiples, the prints reinterpreted the starlet's place in American culture. Robert Rauschenberg had gained such a reputation that in 1969 NASA invited him to Cape Canaveral to witness the launch of Apollo 11 and to use its images in his work. His color screenprint Signs, 1970 prominently features the astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon along with a host of other iconic figures and events from the preceding decade.

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

Living Arrangements
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

Opening reception for the exhibit of work of Julie Eizenberg.

Julie Eizenberg
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

Julie Eizenberg, founder and principal of Koning Eizenberg Architecture in Santa Monica, CA, is the Seinfeld Visiting Critic at the School of Architecture and in this capacity will teach a new design studio in collaboration with SU architecture faculty member Julia Czerniak, winner of the Connective Corridor design competition along with the firm Field Operations in New York City. The studio, sponsored by the Seinfeld Foundation and SU Trustee and alumna Judith Greenberg Seinfeld '56, offers students the opportunity to learn about housing design options and commercial forms of development as they define our culture and revitalize our urban centers. The three-year Seinfeld Housing Initiative will employ a case-study model, with a different building type and location selected each year as a specific focus. The inaugural site selected for study is the former Case Supply Warehouse complex on the Near West side of Syracuse.

Following the lecture, there will be an opening in the Architecture Gallery for Eizenberg's exhibit "Living Arrangements," which runs Feb. 7Mar. 2, and a reception and book signing for her book Architecture Isn't Just for Special Occasions: Koning Eizenberg Architecture (Monacelli Press, 2006).

Eizenberg holds a bachelor's degree in architecture degree from the University of Melbourne in Australia and a master's degree in architecture from the UCLA. She teaches and lectures throughout the U.S. and abroad and has extensive experience in the development of a wide range of design projects that involve cities, non-profit agencies, community groups and private developers.

She is a recipient of the Association of Women in Architecture 2004 Design Excellence Award. Koning Eizenberg Architecture, the firm Eizenberg founded in 1981 with partner Hank Koning, was awarded a 2006 Sustainable Quality Award by the city of Santa Monica in recognition of its commitment and leadership in sustainable practices in natural and built environments. Other awards in 2006 include a National AIA Honor Award and ID Design Distinction Award. Recent projects include the Avalon Hotel in Beverly Hills, Birch Street Mixed Use in Brea, 5th Street Family Housing in Santa Monica and the Childrens Museum in Pittsburgh.

For information on parking at The Warehouse, call 315-443-8238.

Civic Morning Musicals
Joyce Ucci, piano

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

Joyce Ucci will play the beautiful and engaging Schubert Sonata in G Major, D. 894 as her entire program. There are very few opportunities in Syracuse to hear Schubert's late sonatas live, and an opportunity to hear the G Major in particular has not presented itself at any time within memory. Ms. Ucci is very active on the music scene in Syracuse as a teacher, performer, and on the CNYAMT Board.

Performance
Salt City Jazz Collective

Syracuse Suds Factory
320 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Peter Mulvey
Redhouse

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

The highly celebrated songwriter Peter Mulvey began as a self-described "city kid" from Milwaukee, WI. He played, wrote, and sang in bands while studying theatre at Marquette University. After graduating, he traveled to Ireland, where he learned the trade of busker on the streets of Dublin. Returning to the U.S. a few years later, he settled in Boston, building an audience through street and subway performing, while also immersing himself in the thriving musical community. Since his 2000 release The Trouble with Poets, Mulvey has found a home with the venerable indie label Signature Sounds Recordings.

Always looking for ways to further immerse himself in language, art, and music, Mulvey has also scored music for theatre and modern dance, and has had numerous songs featured in film and television including various WB programs and PBS documentaries. In addition to the critical acclaim that his recorded works have brought him, though, Peter Mulvey is also highly regarded (and respected by his fellow musicians) as a serious disciple of the road. Touring rigorously, year in and year out, has made him who and what he is. Traveling from Ireland to Anchorage and all points in between, whether playing solo, duo, or with a full-on rock back, live performance is what defines his work and is where he shines.

Michael Ives, poetry
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

The reading will be preceded by a question and answer session from 3:45-4:30 p.m.

I Too Sing America
Onondaga Community College
Featuring Vanessa Johnson

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Vanessa tells stories from the Harlem Renaissance Era, to the rhythms of that truly American music art form called jazz.

Thursday, February 8, 2007

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

A Journey Towards Hope: Underground Railroad Sites in Oberlin, Ohio
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Coriana Close has photographed the history of Oberlin, Ohio's Underground Railroad for the last few years. The images include large format color photographs of buildings in Oberlin that were essential to the abolitionist movement.

Atrium Exhibit: Scholastic Art Awards Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Visual Arts Showcase Committee of the CRC is pleased to present an eclectic offering, featuring work of state and local grant winners since 2000. Special viewing arrangements can be made through the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155.

W.E.B. DuBois Traveling Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Gallery Exhibit: Kente Cloth
Onondaga Community College

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

In Woman Veritas
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In Woman Veritas is a selection of photography from the Point of Contact Collection, including works by Burt Barr, Maureen Connor, Marta Chilindrón & Eduardo Costas, Rimma Gerlovina & Valeriy Gerlovin, and Joseph Kugielsky.

The exhibit is a reflection on women, giving visitors a chance to examine different processes by which art is created and to ask questions about the ways in which truth is manifest in women. Seeing the works of art, which were created for publication in the Point of Contact journal series, in their raw and original forms along with their polished, published forms, invites a comparison between reality and what we, and the artist, perceive as reality, or truth. In fact, truth can arise from a process of searching, or, conversely, can be expressed in an instant. The exhibit revolves around this idea of truth and perspective, and visitors are encouraged to explore both the artists' perspectives of truth and their own.

Guided visits can be scheduled outside of regular hours by appointment.

Living Arrangements
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

Works by Julie Eizenberg

A Connection with Time
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Large, panoramic photos of the world of baseball at the beginning of the 20th century.

New to You
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

An exhibit of the work of new guild members as well as emerging and seldom shown artists.

Underground Railroad Made Visible: Photos by William Earle Williams
Community Folk Art Center

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

The photographs are of sites that were once part of the Underground Railroad, including many here in Central New York.

The exhibition is held in conjunction with a simultaneous exhibition at Light Work also featuring Williams' photographs: "Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War."

William Earle Williams received a B.A. degree in History from Hamilton College and an M.F.A. degree in Fine Arts from Yale University. He is a Professor of Fine Arts at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and also a Curator of Photography. Williams participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2003.

Pride and Perseverance: Civil Rights Paintings by Charly Palmer
Community Folk Art Center

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

An artist with a passion for history, Palmer's works chronicle important social and political events, focusing on African American historical subjects and the Civil Rights Movement in particular. Palmer's works make use of bold colors, textures and layers to bring his subjects to life. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and his work can be found in several prominent public and private collections. Palmer has received several major awards and commissions. He has also worked as an educator, instructing students of all ages in drawing, painting, design and illustration.

Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War
Light Work Gallery
Featuring works by William Earle Williams

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

Until the release of the motion picture Glory in 1989, it was not well known that more than 180,000 black soldiers served in the Civil War. The exhibition Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War features over 40 stunning black-and-white photographs by William Earle Williams. The images call attention to the sites made special through these soldiers' contributions, so that their story becomes a part of our American story.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features the work of seniors and graduate students in Syracuse University's Department of Transmedia.

Dreams: Between the Sky and the Earth: Collaborations with Children at Ed Smith School
The Warehouse Gallery

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

"Between the sky and the earth emerge paths to a new way of life where people journey together to a cleaner, safer, more beautiful world." So reads the inscription on a photograph by fifth-grader Shivhari Chathrattil describing his dream and image. It is one of more than 80 photographs -- in addition to a video documentary -- on display in the exhibition, which explores the dreams and visual imaginations of fifth-grade students in the Syracuse City School District (SCSD) and is the culmination of the efforts of an innovative course -- Literacy, Community and Photography -- offered through Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Meaning and Metaphor presents a group of 10 large contemporary paintings and two distinctly different sculptures. Made by American and British artists, the works challenge preconceived notions of what art is and its purpose.

Several pieces reject the idea that art needs to be realistic. Large paintings by Bernard Cohen and Walter Darby Bannard explore abstraction in uniquely different ways. Bannard's Sun Flood, 1972 is an excellent late example of Abstract Expressionism while Cohen's Somewhere Between, 1975 pushed Op Art to its philosophical extreme.

Other works examine the role of narration in art. Robert Birmelin's Night Driving, 1964, Sidney Goodman's Eclipse and Rico Lebrun's Lazarus, 1962 develop stories that leave the viewer with more questions than answers.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

Celestial Images: Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps From the Mendillo Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Celestial Images celebrates the Golden Age of astronomical charts. Some of the world's earliest artistic images, illustrations of cosmologies and heavenly phenomena, entered into a new and lively phase during the Renaissance. The invention of printing in the 15th century improved the means of disseminating scientific knowledge; advances in astronomy in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the portrayal of new information. This fortuitous conjunction created printed astronomical charts of surprising accuracy and delicate beauty. Celestial cartographers combined their scientific quest with a keen aesthetic sense -- each chart had to be an object of beauty, as well as a repository of information. These charts were a celebration of aesthetics as well as scientific knowledge.

Like the twins of Gemini, art and science walked hand-in-hand for over hundred years. By the late 19th century, this unified way of seeing had split into the "two cultures" of art and science that we know today. Overwhelmed by a vast amount of data, astronomical charts of the 20th century eventually changed into functional, unadorned tools intended for the specialists. Tucked away in libraries, museums and private collections, however, are splendid remnants of a bygone era. Assembled here from the Mendillo Collection of Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps are over 80 examples of some of the finest celestial cartography created. There are star charts (maps of the constellations and the full celestial sphere), charts of planetary systems (cosmologies), and a smaller third category, charts of celestial phenomena (such as nebulae, comets, and eclipses). Together, they pay homage to a time when simple systems explained the universe and humankind held friendly commerce with the skies.

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

War News and Strange Brews: The Art of Boris Artzybasheff
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Boris Artzybasheff was a Russian émigré artist who painted over 200 cover illustrations for Time magazine. His most important work dates to World War II when he depicted the politicians, military leaders and the issues that governed the course of the conflict. His unique abilities in portraiture led Time to select him to paint several Man of the Year covers including portraits of Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman.

Artzybasheff was possibly more famous for his illustrations that gave machinery human characteristics. His sly talent for choosing just the right amount of human anatomy gave each machine a personality that ranged from sympathetic to sinister. Viewers were therefore compelled to have an emotional reaction to the machine and its purpose.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

On the Edge of Pop
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

On the Edge of Pop presents a selection of paintings, sculpture and prints that examines the pop art movement's later years in the 1970s. Included in the exhibition are works by Pop icons like Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. These originators were joined by later participants including Robert Cottingham, John Clem Clark and Mel Ramos.

Pop established a new order of symbols, images and content that evolved over time. The style began in the late 1950s as a reaction to the intensely personal and gestural look of Abstract Expressionism. Pop artists de-emphasized their role in making art by often using more mechanical techniques usually associated with mass market processes. Their images were often appropriated from popular culture and, as a result, the general public greeted the new work enthusiastically.

By 1970 Pop had evolved into a more mainstream art form as the style broadened its scope. Andy Warhol did a series of paintings and prints of celebrities and other important figures. He took a famous publicity photograph of Marilyn Monroe and made a series of differently colored screenprints. Installed as multiples, the prints reinterpreted the starlet's place in American culture. Robert Rauschenberg had gained such a reputation that in 1969 NASA invited him to Cape Canaveral to witness the launch of Apollo 11 and to use its images in his work. His color screenprint Signs, 1970 prominently features the astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon along with a host of other iconic figures and events from the preceding decade.

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

The Human Condition
Delavan Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features photography and wood cut prints of West Africa by James Albertson, drawings on issues of forced emigration by Joan Carlon, oil paintings by William Finch, drawings on canvas and linen of West African women by Viginia Hovendon, and watercolor portraits by Stephen Ryan.

Nevis: Abstract Paintings by Rachel Harms
Redhouse

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

Rachel Harms, an English-born and educated artist will exhibit her most recent abstract paintings, which are influenced by the warm, brightly hued, West Indies Island of Nevis. Harms is interested in basic contradictions between nature and life, solidity and fragility, timelessness and change. These paintings beckon the viewer to linger, search, and discover the unexpected. They are refreshing, precisely honed constructions, both beautiful and affecting.

Rachel Harms has exhibited throughout the United Kingdom and the United States, including at the Creaser Gallery in London, the New Waterfront Museum in New York City; and recently at Onondaga Community College and ThInc in Syracuse. Harms earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Parson School of Design in New York City and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the Chelsea School of Art in London. Harms currently lives in Skaneateles with her husband and daughter.

Creating an International Film Festival: It Happened in Syracuse
University Neighbors Lecture Series
Featuring Owen Shapiro

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

Owen Shapiro is the Director of the film program in the department of Transmedia in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. He is also associate editor for Point of Contact and Associate Curator of the Point of Contact Gallery on East Genesee Street. As a filmmaker Professor Shapiro has made over 35 films and videos. He was honored with an "Homage: Owen Shapiro" at the Cinematheque Francaise in Paris and with special screenings in Hong Kong, Israel, England and Argentina. His most recent feature film was Prisoners of Freedom, a dramatized documentary about the nearly 1000 Holocaust survivors who were interned in Oswego, NY from 1944-1946. In his talk, Shapiro, co-founder and artistic director of the Syracuse International Film and Video Festival, will discuss the festival's cultural, artistic and economic impact on the city and how it is putting Syracuse on the international map of film festivals.

Big Louie and the Gang that Couldn't Think Straight
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $26 plus tax and gratuities (includes meal and show)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Audience participation comedy/mystery dinner theater.

Peter Pan
Baker High School

Price: $7, $8, $10
Baker High School
29 E. Oneida St., Baldwinsville

For more information, phone 315-638-6039.

Frozen
Redhouse
Gerard E. Moses, director

Price: $25 regular; $20 senior; $16 student; $8 student rush
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

British playwright Bryony Lavery's controversial play begins with a mother waiting for the return of her missing 10-year old daughter. In the wait and over a period of years the mother, the kidnapper, and a psychiatrist come together to confront each other. Its subject matter uncovers new questions and ignites a thick range of emotion for actors and audience members alike. Frozen asks us to look at who we are and why we do what we do.

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Friday, February 9, 2007

A Journey Towards Hope: Underground Railroad Sites in Oberlin, Ohio
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Coriana Close has photographed the history of Oberlin, Ohio's Underground Railroad for the last few years. The images include large format color photographs of buildings in Oberlin that were essential to the abolitionist movement.

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

Atrium Exhibit: Scholastic Art Awards Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Visual Arts Showcase Committee of the CRC is pleased to present an eclectic offering, featuring work of state and local grant winners since 2000. Special viewing arrangements can be made through the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155.

Gallery Exhibit: Kente Cloth
Onondaga Community College

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

W.E.B. DuBois Traveling Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

In Woman Veritas
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In Woman Veritas is a selection of photography from the Point of Contact Collection, including works by Burt Barr, Maureen Connor, Marta Chilindrón & Eduardo Costas, Rimma Gerlovina & Valeriy Gerlovin, and Joseph Kugielsky.

The exhibit is a reflection on women, giving visitors a chance to examine different processes by which art is created and to ask questions about the ways in which truth is manifest in women. Seeing the works of art, which were created for publication in the Point of Contact journal series, in their raw and original forms along with their polished, published forms, invites a comparison between reality and what we, and the artist, perceive as reality, or truth. In fact, truth can arise from a process of searching, or, conversely, can be expressed in an instant. The exhibit revolves around this idea of truth and perspective, and visitors are encouraged to explore both the artists' perspectives of truth and their own.

Guided visits can be scheduled outside of regular hours by appointment.

Living Arrangements
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

Works by Julie Eizenberg

A Connection with Time
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Large, panoramic photos of the world of baseball at the beginning of the 20th century.

New to You
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

An exhibit of the work of new guild members as well as emerging and seldom shown artists.

Pride and Perseverance: Civil Rights Paintings by Charly Palmer
Community Folk Art Center

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

An artist with a passion for history, Palmer's works chronicle important social and political events, focusing on African American historical subjects and the Civil Rights Movement in particular. Palmer's works make use of bold colors, textures and layers to bring his subjects to life. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and his work can be found in several prominent public and private collections. Palmer has received several major awards and commissions. He has also worked as an educator, instructing students of all ages in drawing, painting, design and illustration.

Underground Railroad Made Visible: Photos by William Earle Williams
Community Folk Art Center

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

The photographs are of sites that were once part of the Underground Railroad, including many here in Central New York.

The exhibition is held in conjunction with a simultaneous exhibition at Light Work also featuring Williams' photographs: "Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War."

William Earle Williams received a B.A. degree in History from Hamilton College and an M.F.A. degree in Fine Arts from Yale University. He is a Professor of Fine Arts at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and also a Curator of Photography. Williams participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2003.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features the work of seniors and graduate students in Syracuse University's Department of Transmedia.

Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War
Light Work Gallery
Featuring works by William Earle Williams

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

Until the release of the motion picture Glory in 1989, it was not well known that more than 180,000 black soldiers served in the Civil War. The exhibition Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War features over 40 stunning black-and-white photographs by William Earle Williams. The images call attention to the sites made special through these soldiers' contributions, so that their story becomes a part of our American story.

Dreams: Between the Sky and the Earth: Collaborations with Children at Ed Smith School
The Warehouse Gallery

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

"Between the sky and the earth emerge paths to a new way of life where people journey together to a cleaner, safer, more beautiful world." So reads the inscription on a photograph by fifth-grader Shivhari Chathrattil describing his dream and image. It is one of more than 80 photographs -- in addition to a video documentary -- on display in the exhibition, which explores the dreams and visual imaginations of fifth-grade students in the Syracuse City School District (SCSD) and is the culmination of the efforts of an innovative course -- Literacy, Community and Photography -- offered through Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Celestial Images: Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps From the Mendillo Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Celestial Images celebrates the Golden Age of astronomical charts. Some of the world's earliest artistic images, illustrations of cosmologies and heavenly phenomena, entered into a new and lively phase during the Renaissance. The invention of printing in the 15th century improved the means of disseminating scientific knowledge; advances in astronomy in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the portrayal of new information. This fortuitous conjunction created printed astronomical charts of surprising accuracy and delicate beauty. Celestial cartographers combined their scientific quest with a keen aesthetic sense -- each chart had to be an object of beauty, as well as a repository of information. These charts were a celebration of aesthetics as well as scientific knowledge.

Like the twins of Gemini, art and science walked hand-in-hand for over hundred years. By the late 19th century, this unified way of seeing had split into the "two cultures" of art and science that we know today. Overwhelmed by a vast amount of data, astronomical charts of the 20th century eventually changed into functional, unadorned tools intended for the specialists. Tucked away in libraries, museums and private collections, however, are splendid remnants of a bygone era. Assembled here from the Mendillo Collection of Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps are over 80 examples of some of the finest celestial cartography created. There are star charts (maps of the constellations and the full celestial sphere), charts of planetary systems (cosmologies), and a smaller third category, charts of celestial phenomena (such as nebulae, comets, and eclipses). Together, they pay homage to a time when simple systems explained the universe and humankind held friendly commerce with the skies.

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

Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Meaning and Metaphor presents a group of 10 large contemporary paintings and two distinctly different sculptures. Made by American and British artists, the works challenge preconceived notions of what art is and its purpose.

Several pieces reject the idea that art needs to be realistic. Large paintings by Bernard Cohen and Walter Darby Bannard explore abstraction in uniquely different ways. Bannard's Sun Flood, 1972 is an excellent late example of Abstract Expressionism while Cohen's Somewhere Between, 1975 pushed Op Art to its philosophical extreme.

Other works examine the role of narration in art. Robert Birmelin's Night Driving, 1964, Sidney Goodman's Eclipse and Rico Lebrun's Lazarus, 1962 develop stories that leave the viewer with more questions than answers.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

War News and Strange Brews: The Art of Boris Artzybasheff
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Boris Artzybasheff was a Russian émigré artist who painted over 200 cover illustrations for Time magazine. His most important work dates to World War II when he depicted the politicians, military leaders and the issues that governed the course of the conflict. His unique abilities in portraiture led Time to select him to paint several Man of the Year covers including portraits of Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman.

Artzybasheff was possibly more famous for his illustrations that gave machinery human characteristics. His sly talent for choosing just the right amount of human anatomy gave each machine a personality that ranged from sympathetic to sinister. Viewers were therefore compelled to have an emotional reaction to the machine and its purpose.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

On the Edge of Pop
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

On the Edge of Pop presents a selection of paintings, sculpture and prints that examines the pop art movement's later years in the 1970s. Included in the exhibition are works by Pop icons like Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. These originators were joined by later participants including Robert Cottingham, John Clem Clark and Mel Ramos.

Pop established a new order of symbols, images and content that evolved over time. The style began in the late 1950s as a reaction to the intensely personal and gestural look of Abstract Expressionism. Pop artists de-emphasized their role in making art by often using more mechanical techniques usually associated with mass market processes. Their images were often appropriated from popular culture and, as a result, the general public greeted the new work enthusiastically.

By 1970 Pop had evolved into a more mainstream art form as the style broadened its scope. Andy Warhol did a series of paintings and prints of celebrities and other important figures. He took a famous publicity photograph of Marilyn Monroe and made a series of differently colored screenprints. Installed as multiples, the prints reinterpreted the starlet's place in American culture. Robert Rauschenberg had gained such a reputation that in 1969 NASA invited him to Cape Canaveral to witness the launch of Apollo 11 and to use its images in his work. His color screenprint Signs, 1970 prominently features the astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon along with a host of other iconic figures and events from the preceding decade.

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

The Human Condition
Delavan Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features photography and wood cut prints of West Africa by James Albertson, drawings on issues of forced emigration by Joan Carlon, oil paintings by William Finch, drawings on canvas and linen of West African women by Viginia Hovendon, and watercolor portraits by Stephen Ryan.

Nevis: Abstract Paintings by Rachel Harms
Redhouse

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

Rachel Harms, an English-born and educated artist will exhibit her most recent abstract paintings, which are influenced by the warm, brightly hued, West Indies Island of Nevis. Harms is interested in basic contradictions between nature and life, solidity and fragility, timelessness and change. These paintings beckon the viewer to linger, search, and discover the unexpected. They are refreshing, precisely honed constructions, both beautiful and affecting.

Rachel Harms has exhibited throughout the United Kingdom and the United States, including at the Creaser Gallery in London, the New Waterfront Museum in New York City; and recently at Onondaga Community College and ThInc in Syracuse. Harms earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Parson School of Design in New York City and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the Chelsea School of Art in London. Harms currently lives in Skaneateles with her husband and daughter.

Lunch Hour Film Series
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: Free
Marriott Hotel Syracuse
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Right Here, Right Now, directed by Anand Gandi. Fiction (India) 29 minutes. Best of Fest Nominee 2004.
A young man in his haste to go some place takes two actions...he screams at his mother for making him late, and he lovingly appreciates his brother's painting. By doing so, he strikes off two cycles - one of frustration and sorrow and the other of love and joy.

Adventures in Home Schooling directed by Tony DeCarlo. Fiction (USA) 25 minutes. Director's Citation winner.
When a vindictive inspector from the Board of Education invades their paradise, promising to shut them down, the members of this eccentric and highly dysfunctional home schooling family somehow find a way to pull together and win the day.

Guests are encouraged to bring their lunch or snack and join other film enthusiasts in watching selected films from prior festivals.

Reservations are not required, but are welcomed due to limited seating. To reserve a seat, call the festival headquarters at 315-443-8826.

David Baker and a Tribute to Frank Sinatra
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

David Baker, local singer and actor (and long time vocalist with the popular Stan Colella Orchestra) will perform a musical sketch of Frank's solo career spanning the years 1954 to 1980, which will include many of Ol' Blue Eyes' most recognizable and popular songs. Providing the musical accompaniment will be Joe Carfagno on piano, Jim Herkimer on bass, and Larry Luttinger on drums.

For more information, call 315-478-2772.

Pops Series: The Dukes of Dixieland
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Grant Cooper, conductor

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

The Dukes of Dixieland blow traditional jazz into the 21st Century, weaving strand of pop, gospel and country with a traditional New Orleans sound. More than 27 years of tradition stand behind the Dukes as they entertain "Big Easy" style.

Poets Lydia Melvin and Jen Benka
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Jen Benka's collection of poems, A Box of Longing With Fifty Drawers, was published by Soft Skull Press in 2005. She is the Managing Editor of Poets & Writers magazine. Previously Lydia Melvin, Metta Sonnetta Sáma is the author of South of Here (New Issues Press, 2005), and a forthcoming book entitled Venus in Limbo. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Prairie Schooner, Shade and Crab Orchard Review.

Oliver!

Price: $10 regular; $8 students/seniors ($1 off with donation of non-perishable food item)
West Genesee High School
5201 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-487-4612.

Disney's High School Musical
The Talent Company
Christine Lightcap, director

Price: $25 regular, $22 students/seniors, $14 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The Disney Channel smash hit original movie that topped the Billboard music charts and broke video and CD sales records within weeks of its premiere comes to life on stage with the antics of East High students as they audition for the school musical, compete in a scholastic decathlon, and play the championship basketball game. Troy (Tim Quartier), captain of the basketball team, and Gabriella (Ana Thornton), the brainy, shy new girl at school surprise themselves and others by trying out for the lead roles in the musical. They face the objections of Sharpay (Rachel Mulcahy), the thespian queen and president of the drama club, and Ryan (Chris Cory), her brother and vice-president of the drama club, who covet the roles for themselves, and friends Chad (Maoti Gborkorquellie), number two on the Wildcats Basketball Team and Taylor (MiKayla Hawkinson), president of the scholastic club, who want Troy and Gabriella to stick to what they do best - basketball and academics. Other characters in the various cliques at East High are Zeke (Stephfond Brunson), a jock with a secret passion for baking, Martha Cox (Jodie Baum), a brainiac with a secret passion for hip hop, Kelsi Neilson (Paige Goldberg), the composer-pianist of the school musical, and Jack Scott (Alex Allport), the smart-mouthed student P.A. announcer known as the Velvet Fog of East High. Ms. Darbus (Christine Lightcap) the drama teacher, Coach Bolton (Jeff Paduano) the basketball coach, and Ms. Tenny (Dorothy Lennon) the science teacher, preside over the competing school activities.

The stage version features the original musical score including The Start Of Something New, We're All In This Together, Get'cha Head In The Game, Stick To The Status Quo, Bop To The Top, When There Was Me And You, What I've Been Looking For, and Breaking Free, plus three new songs Cellular Fusion, Counting On You, and the song not in the movie but heard on a bonus track of the original cast recording entitled I Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You.

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The Diviners
Appleseed Productions
Jon Wilson, director

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

This marvelously theatrical play is the story of a disturbed young man and his friendship with a disenchanted preacher in southern Indiana in the early 1930s. When the boy was young he almost drowned. This trauma and the loss of his mother in the same accident has left him deathly afraid of water. The preacher, set on breaking away from a long line of Kentucky family preachers, is determined not to do what he does best. He works as a mechanic for the boy's father. The town doesn't have a preacher and the women try to persuade him to preach while he tries to persuade the child to wash. When the preacher finally gets the boy in the river and is washing him, the townspeople mistake the scene for a baptism. They descend on the event and, in the confusion, the boy drowns. Written by James Leonard, Jr.

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Stupid Kids
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin
Steve Braddock, director

Price: $5 general public; free to LeMoyne community
Marren Studio Theatre, Coyne Performing Arts Ctr
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A Rebel Without a Cause viewed through the lens of the 1980s, four young adults find love amidst one of the most tumultuous decades of the last century. Four students from Joe McCarthy High School meet in juvie hall. New kid Jim Stark is the James Dean counterpart; brooding, hot headed, and desperate to make a name for himself. His eye is caught by Judy, a popular material girl who is the main squeeze of the local gang leader. Judy befriends Kimberly, a Patti Smith-fixated punk misfit, who carries a secret torch for Judy. Kimberly's friend and co-author of bad, angsty teen poetry is Neeche, who has the closeted hots for Jim.

For more information or tickets, phone 315-445-4523.

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Peter Pan
Baker High School

Price: $7, $8, $10
Baker High School
29 E. Oneida St., Baldwinsville

For more information, phone 315-638-6039.

Always ... Patsy Cline
Opening Night Productions

Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

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Frozen
Redhouse
Gerard E. Moses, director

Price: $25 regular; $20 senior; $16 student; $8 student rush
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

British playwright Bryony Lavery's controversial play begins with a mother waiting for the return of her missing 10-year old daughter. In the wait and over a period of years the mother, the kidnapper, and a psychiatrist come together to confront each other. Its subject matter uncovers new questions and ignites a thick range of emotion for actors and audience members alike. Frozen asks us to look at who we are and why we do what we do.

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The Cocktail Hour
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $20 regular; $15 students/seniors
St. Clare Auditorium
Lodi and Isabella Streets, Syracuse

A. R. Gurney's semi-autobiographical story of an upper-class family in Buffalo in the 1970s.

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Saturday, February 10, 2007

Atrium Exhibit: Scholastic Art Awards Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

New to You
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

An exhibit of the work of new guild members as well as emerging and seldom shown artists.

The Human Condition
Delavan Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features photography and wood cut prints of West Africa by James Albertson, drawings on issues of forced emigration by Joan Carlon, oil paintings by William Finch, drawings on canvas and linen of West African women by Viginia Hovendon, and watercolor portraits by Stephen Ryan.

Dreams: Between the Sky and the Earth: Collaborations with Children at Ed Smith School
The Warehouse Gallery

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

"Between the sky and the earth emerge paths to a new way of life where people journey together to a cleaner, safer, more beautiful world." So reads the inscription on a photograph by fifth-grader Shivhari Chathrattil describing his dream and image. It is one of more than 80 photographs -- in addition to a video documentary -- on display in the exhibition, which explores the dreams and visual imaginations of fifth-grade students in the Syracuse City School District (SCSD) and is the culmination of the efforts of an innovative course -- Literacy, Community and Photography -- offered through Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Underground Railroad Made Visible: Photos by William Earle Williams
Community Folk Art Center

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

The photographs are of sites that were once part of the Underground Railroad, including many here in Central New York.

The exhibition is held in conjunction with a simultaneous exhibition at Light Work also featuring Williams' photographs: "Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War."

William Earle Williams received a B.A. degree in History from Hamilton College and an M.F.A. degree in Fine Arts from Yale University. He is a Professor of Fine Arts at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and also a Curator of Photography. Williams participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2003.

Pride and Perseverance: Civil Rights Paintings by Charly Palmer
Community Folk Art Center

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

An artist with a passion for history, Palmer's works chronicle important social and political events, focusing on African American historical subjects and the Civil Rights Movement in particular. Palmer's works make use of bold colors, textures and layers to bring his subjects to life. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and his work can be found in several prominent public and private collections. Palmer has received several major awards and commissions. He has also worked as an educator, instructing students of all ages in drawing, painting, design and illustration.

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

A Journey Towards Hope: Underground Railroad Sites in Oberlin, Ohio
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Coriana Close has photographed the history of Oberlin, Ohio's Underground Railroad for the last few years. The images include large format color photographs of buildings in Oberlin that were essential to the abolitionist movement.

Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Meaning and Metaphor presents a group of 10 large contemporary paintings and two distinctly different sculptures. Made by American and British artists, the works challenge preconceived notions of what art is and its purpose.

Several pieces reject the idea that art needs to be realistic. Large paintings by Bernard Cohen and Walter Darby Bannard explore abstraction in uniquely different ways. Bannard's Sun Flood, 1972 is an excellent late example of Abstract Expressionism while Cohen's Somewhere Between, 1975 pushed Op Art to its philosophical extreme.

Other works examine the role of narration in art. Robert Birmelin's Night Driving, 1964, Sidney Goodman's Eclipse and Rico Lebrun's Lazarus, 1962 develop stories that leave the viewer with more questions than answers.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

Celestial Images: Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps From the Mendillo Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Celestial Images celebrates the Golden Age of astronomical charts. Some of the world's earliest artistic images, illustrations of cosmologies and heavenly phenomena, entered into a new and lively phase during the Renaissance. The invention of printing in the 15th century improved the means of disseminating scientific knowledge; advances in astronomy in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the portrayal of new information. This fortuitous conjunction created printed astronomical charts of surprising accuracy and delicate beauty. Celestial cartographers combined their scientific quest with a keen aesthetic sense -- each chart had to be an object of beauty, as well as a repository of information. These charts were a celebration of aesthetics as well as scientific knowledge.

Like the twins of Gemini, art and science walked hand-in-hand for over hundred years. By the late 19th century, this unified way of seeing had split into the "two cultures" of art and science that we know today. Overwhelmed by a vast amount of data, astronomical charts of the 20th century eventually changed into functional, unadorned tools intended for the specialists. Tucked away in libraries, museums and private collections, however, are splendid remnants of a bygone era. Assembled here from the Mendillo Collection of Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps are over 80 examples of some of the finest celestial cartography created. There are star charts (maps of the constellations and the full celestial sphere), charts of planetary systems (cosmologies), and a smaller third category, charts of celestial phenomena (such as nebulae, comets, and eclipses). Together, they pay homage to a time when simple systems explained the universe and humankind held friendly commerce with the skies.

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

War News and Strange Brews: The Art of Boris Artzybasheff
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Boris Artzybasheff was a Russian émigré artist who painted over 200 cover illustrations for Time magazine. His most important work dates to World War II when he depicted the politicians, military leaders and the issues that governed the course of the conflict. His unique abilities in portraiture led Time to select him to paint several Man of the Year covers including portraits of Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman.

Artzybasheff was possibly more famous for his illustrations that gave machinery human characteristics. His sly talent for choosing just the right amount of human anatomy gave each machine a personality that ranged from sympathetic to sinister. Viewers were therefore compelled to have an emotional reaction to the machine and its purpose.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

On the Edge of Pop
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

On the Edge of Pop presents a selection of paintings, sculpture and prints that examines the pop art movement's later years in the 1970s. Included in the exhibition are works by Pop icons like Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. These originators were joined by later participants including Robert Cottingham, John Clem Clark and Mel Ramos.

Pop established a new order of symbols, images and content that evolved over time. The style began in the late 1950s as a reaction to the intensely personal and gestural look of Abstract Expressionism. Pop artists de-emphasized their role in making art by often using more mechanical techniques usually associated with mass market processes. Their images were often appropriated from popular culture and, as a result, the general public greeted the new work enthusiastically.

By 1970 Pop had evolved into a more mainstream art form as the style broadened its scope. Andy Warhol did a series of paintings and prints of celebrities and other important figures. He took a famous publicity photograph of Marilyn Monroe and made a series of differently colored screenprints. Installed as multiples, the prints reinterpreted the starlet's place in American culture. Robert Rauschenberg had gained such a reputation that in 1969 NASA invited him to Cape Canaveral to witness the launch of Apollo 11 and to use its images in his work. His color screenprint Signs, 1970 prominently features the astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon along with a host of other iconic figures and events from the preceding decade.

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

Nevis: Abstract Paintings by Rachel Harms
Redhouse

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

Rachel Harms, an English-born and educated artist will exhibit her most recent abstract paintings, which are influenced by the warm, brightly hued, West Indies Island of Nevis. Harms is interested in basic contradictions between nature and life, solidity and fragility, timelessness and change. These paintings beckon the viewer to linger, search, and discover the unexpected. They are refreshing, precisely honed constructions, both beautiful and affecting.

Rachel Harms has exhibited throughout the United Kingdom and the United States, including at the Creaser Gallery in London, the New Waterfront Museum in New York City; and recently at Onondaga Community College and ThInc in Syracuse. Harms earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Parson School of Design in New York City and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the Chelsea School of Art in London. Harms currently lives in Skaneateles with her husband and daughter.

Family Series: Time to Dance
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Grant Cooper, conductor
Featuring Dance Centre North and Center of Ballet & Dance Arts

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

It's time to dance when the Syracuse Symphony welcomes the talented members of Dance Centre North and Center of Ballet and Dance Arts. This enchanting morning of music and movement is sure to sweep you off your feet!

Bernard Woma
Onondaga Community College
OCC African Ensemble

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Bernard Woma was born in Ghana and began playing the xylophone at the age of 5. He routinely performs for audiences throughout Europe and the U.S.

Jim Scott, acoustic guitar
First Unitarian Universalist Society Music Series

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

The former member of the Paul Winter Consort is the composer of the eco-anthem, "A Song for the Earth."

David Baker and a Tribute to Frank Sinatra
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

David Baker, local singer and actor (and long time vocalist with the popular Stan Colella Orchestra) will perform a musical sketch of Frank's solo career spanning the years 1954 to 1980, which will include many of Ol' Blue Eyes' most recognizable and popular songs. Providing the musical accompaniment will be Joe Carfagno on piano, Jim Herkimer on bass, and Larry Luttinger on drums.

For more information, call 315-478-2772.

Pops Series: The Dukes of Dixieland
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Grant Cooper, conductor

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

The Dukes of Dixieland blow traditional jazz into the 21st Century, weaving strand of pop, gospel and country with a traditional New Orleans sound. More than 27 years of tradition stand behind the Dukes as they entertain "Big Easy" style.

Second Saturday Series: Tony Trischka Double-Banjo Acoustic Bluegrass Spectacular
Westcott Community Center

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

One of the world's most dynamic and inventive banjo players, Syracuse native Tony Trischka returns to his hometown to celebrate the release of a new CD fronting a double-banjo, all acoustic ensemble. A veteran of many local bands, Trischka has used his gifts as a musician and arranger, coupled with his unrivaled knowledge of banjo history and technique, to inspire a whole generation of progressive bluegrass musicians.

This concert will celebrate his new Rounder Records CD, "Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular," released this month. This album, his 16th, marks Trischka's return to acoustic bluegrass. On it, he has surrounded himself with a cast of fine musicians and fellow banjo players including Earl Scruggs, Bela Fleck, Alison Brown and Steve Martin. The songs include several of Trischka's original instrumental compositions as well as some traditional bluegrass vocals with Dudley Connell, Chris Thile and Michael Daves adding their voices. Classically styled and dynamic, yet still finding new ways to expand timeless traditions, "Double Banjo" is bluegrass as only Trischka can envision it.

Throughout his 35-year career, Trischka has defied boundaries and explored a wide variety of genres commonly considered out-of-bounds for the banjo. What had previously been a primarily Southern-based bluegrass and old-time instrument became, in his hands, an instrument of greater melodic and harmonic sophistication. His styles have changed like a modern painter's: he had a traditional folk and bluegrass period, moved into jazz fusion, tried out clawhammer style banjo and experimented with traditional African melodies.

For reservations, phone 315-478-8634.

Fragon the Dragon and the Wish Come True
Open Hand Theater
PoppyTown Puppets

Price: $8 adults; $6 children ($2 discount for members)
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

In this whimsical fairytale, Fragon the fun-loving young dragon is sent on a quest by King Kaleidoscope to save the Magical Kingdom of Wonder.

Snow White
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive adaptation of the well-known tale.

Peter Pan
Baker High School

Price: $7, $8, $10
Baker High School
29 E. Oneida St., Baldwinsville

For more information, phone 315-638-6039.

Disney's High School Musical
The Talent Company
Christine Lightcap, director

Price: $25 regular, $22 students/seniors, $14 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The Disney Channel smash hit original movie that topped the Billboard music charts and broke video and CD sales records within weeks of its premiere comes to life on stage with the antics of East High students as they audition for the school musical, compete in a scholastic decathlon, and play the championship basketball game. Troy (Tim Quartier), captain of the basketball team, and Gabriella (Ana Thornton), the brainy, shy new girl at school surprise themselves and others by trying out for the lead roles in the musical. They face the objections of Sharpay (Rachel Mulcahy), the thespian queen and president of the drama club, and Ryan (Chris Cory), her brother and vice-president of the drama club, who covet the roles for themselves, and friends Chad (Maoti Gborkorquellie), number two on the Wildcats Basketball Team and Taylor (MiKayla Hawkinson), president of the scholastic club, who want Troy and Gabriella to stick to what they do best - basketball and academics. Other characters in the various cliques at East High are Zeke (Stephfond Brunson), a jock with a secret passion for baking, Martha Cox (Jodie Baum), a brainiac with a secret passion for hip hop, Kelsi Neilson (Paige Goldberg), the composer-pianist of the school musical, and Jack Scott (Alex Allport), the smart-mouthed student P.A. announcer known as the Velvet Fog of East High. Ms. Darbus (Christine Lightcap) the drama teacher, Coach Bolton (Jeff Paduano) the basketball coach, and Ms. Tenny (Dorothy Lennon) the science teacher, preside over the competing school activities.

The stage version features the original musical score including The Start Of Something New, We're All In This Together, Get'cha Head In The Game, Stick To The Status Quo, Bop To The Top, When There Was Me And You, What I've Been Looking For, and Breaking Free, plus three new songs Cellular Fusion, Counting On You, and the song not in the movie but heard on a bonus track of the original cast recording entitled I Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You.

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Death with Chocolate
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: $15
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Chocolate can be dangerous! The newly formed Onondaga Chocolate Society is hosting their first event, a theatrical production based on scenes from history in which the power of chocolate, the food of passion, has played a deadly role. Blame the chocolate? Will this evening continue the lethal legacy? Satisfy your craving and place a reservation for this audience participation murder.

Highly entertaining, the performance promises to be dark, rich and full of nuts! Guests will be expected to sample a wide variety of chocolate delights, sip coffee or tea, and savor this unique murder mystery! For more information or to place a reservation, phone 315-428-1864, ext 312. Be warned: everyone is expected to eat, drink and be wary -- it's a killer!

Oliver!

Price: $10 regular; $8 students/seniors ($1 off with donation of non-perishable food item)
West Genesee High School
5201 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-487-4612.

Disney's High School Musical
The Talent Company
Christine Lightcap, director

Price: $25 regular, $22 students/seniors, $14 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The Disney Channel smash hit original movie that topped the Billboard music charts and broke video and CD sales records within weeks of its premiere comes to life on stage with the antics of East High students as they audition for the school musical, compete in a scholastic decathlon, and play the championship basketball game. Troy (Tim Quartier), captain of the basketball team, and Gabriella (Ana Thornton), the brainy, shy new girl at school surprise themselves and others by trying out for the lead roles in the musical. They face the objections of Sharpay (Rachel Mulcahy), the thespian queen and president of the drama club, and Ryan (Chris Cory), her brother and vice-president of the drama club, who covet the roles for themselves, and friends Chad (Maoti Gborkorquellie), number two on the Wildcats Basketball Team and Taylor (MiKayla Hawkinson), president of the scholastic club, who want Troy and Gabriella to stick to what they do best - basketball and academics. Other characters in the various cliques at East High are Zeke (Stephfond Brunson), a jock with a secret passion for baking, Martha Cox (Jodie Baum), a brainiac with a secret passion for hip hop, Kelsi Neilson (Paige Goldberg), the composer-pianist of the school musical, and Jack Scott (Alex Allport), the smart-mouthed student P.A. announcer known as the Velvet Fog of East High. Ms. Darbus (Christine Lightcap) the drama teacher, Coach Bolton (Jeff Paduano) the basketball coach, and Ms. Tenny (Dorothy Lennon) the science teacher, preside over the competing school activities.

The stage version features the original musical score including The Start Of Something New, We're All In This Together, Get'cha Head In The Game, Stick To The Status Quo, Bop To The Top, When There Was Me And You, What I've Been Looking For, and Breaking Free, plus three new songs Cellular Fusion, Counting On You, and the song not in the movie but heard on a bonus track of the original cast recording entitled I Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You.

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The Diviners
Appleseed Productions
Jon Wilson, director

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

This marvelously theatrical play is the story of a disturbed young man and his friendship with a disenchanted preacher in southern Indiana in the early 1930s. When the boy was young he almost drowned. This trauma and the loss of his mother in the same accident has left him deathly afraid of water. The preacher, set on breaking away from a long line of Kentucky family preachers, is determined not to do what he does best. He works as a mechanic for the boy's father. The town doesn't have a preacher and the women try to persuade him to preach while he tries to persuade the child to wash. When the preacher finally gets the boy in the river and is washing him, the townspeople mistake the scene for a baptism. They descend on the event and, in the confusion, the boy drowns. Written by James Leonard, Jr.

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Stupid Kids
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin
Steve Braddock, director

Price: $5 general public; free to LeMoyne community
Marren Studio Theatre, Coyne Performing Arts Ctr
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A Rebel Without a Cause viewed through the lens of the 1980s, four young adults find love amidst one of the most tumultuous decades of the last century. Four students from Joe McCarthy High School meet in juvie hall. New kid Jim Stark is the James Dean counterpart; brooding, hot headed, and desperate to make a name for himself. His eye is caught by Judy, a popular material girl who is the main squeeze of the local gang leader. Judy befriends Kimberly, a Patti Smith-fixated punk misfit, who carries a secret torch for Judy. Kimberly's friend and co-author of bad, angsty teen poetry is Neeche, who has the closeted hots for Jim.

For more information or tickets, phone 315-445-4523.

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Peter Pan
Baker High School

Price: $7, $8, $10
Baker High School
29 E. Oneida St., Baldwinsville

For more information, phone 315-638-6039.

Always ... Patsy Cline
Opening Night Productions

Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

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Frozen
Redhouse
Gerard E. Moses, director

Price: $25 regular; $20 senior; $16 student; $8 student rush
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

British playwright Bryony Lavery's controversial play begins with a mother waiting for the return of her missing 10-year old daughter. In the wait and over a period of years the mother, the kidnapper, and a psychiatrist come together to confront each other. Its subject matter uncovers new questions and ignites a thick range of emotion for actors and audience members alike. Frozen asks us to look at who we are and why we do what we do.

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The Cocktail Hour
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $20 regular; $15 students/seniors
St. Clare Auditorium
Lodi and Isabella Streets, Syracuse

A. R. Gurney's semi-autobiographical story of an upper-class family in Buffalo in the 1970s.

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Sunday, February 11, 2007

Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War
Light Work Gallery
Featuring works by William Earle Williams

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

Until the release of the motion picture Glory in 1989, it was not well known that more than 180,000 black soldiers served in the Civil War. The exhibition Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War features over 40 stunning black-and-white photographs by William Earle Williams. The images call attention to the sites made special through these soldiers' contributions, so that their story becomes a part of our American story.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features the work of seniors and graduate students in Syracuse University's Department of Transmedia.

A Journey Towards Hope: Underground Railroad Sites in Oberlin, Ohio
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Coriana Close has photographed the history of Oberlin, Ohio's Underground Railroad for the last few years. The images include large format color photographs of buildings in Oberlin that were essential to the abolitionist movement.

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

War News and Strange Brews: The Art of Boris Artzybasheff
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Boris Artzybasheff was a Russian émigré artist who painted over 200 cover illustrations for Time magazine. His most important work dates to World War II when he depicted the politicians, military leaders and the issues that governed the course of the conflict. His unique abilities in portraiture led Time to select him to paint several Man of the Year covers including portraits of Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman.

Artzybasheff was possibly more famous for his illustrations that gave machinery human characteristics. His sly talent for choosing just the right amount of human anatomy gave each machine a personality that ranged from sympathetic to sinister. Viewers were therefore compelled to have an emotional reaction to the machine and its purpose.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

Celestial Images: Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps From the Mendillo Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Celestial Images celebrates the Golden Age of astronomical charts. Some of the world's earliest artistic images, illustrations of cosmologies and heavenly phenomena, entered into a new and lively phase during the Renaissance. The invention of printing in the 15th century improved the means of disseminating scientific knowledge; advances in astronomy in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the portrayal of new information. This fortuitous conjunction created printed astronomical charts of surprising accuracy and delicate beauty. Celestial cartographers combined their scientific quest with a keen aesthetic sense -- each chart had to be an object of beauty, as well as a repository of information. These charts were a celebration of aesthetics as well as scientific knowledge.

Like the twins of Gemini, art and science walked hand-in-hand for over hundred years. By the late 19th century, this unified way of seeing had split into the "two cultures" of art and science that we know today. Overwhelmed by a vast amount of data, astronomical charts of the 20th century eventually changed into functional, unadorned tools intended for the specialists. Tucked away in libraries, museums and private collections, however, are splendid remnants of a bygone era. Assembled here from the Mendillo Collection of Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps are over 80 examples of some of the finest celestial cartography created. There are star charts (maps of the constellations and the full celestial sphere), charts of planetary systems (cosmologies), and a smaller third category, charts of celestial phenomena (such as nebulae, comets, and eclipses). Together, they pay homage to a time when simple systems explained the universe and humankind held friendly commerce with the skies.

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

Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Meaning and Metaphor presents a group of 10 large contemporary paintings and two distinctly different sculptures. Made by American and British artists, the works challenge preconceived notions of what art is and its purpose.

Several pieces reject the idea that art needs to be realistic. Large paintings by Bernard Cohen and Walter Darby Bannard explore abstraction in uniquely different ways. Bannard's Sun Flood, 1972 is an excellent late example of Abstract Expressionism while Cohen's Somewhere Between, 1975 pushed Op Art to its philosophical extreme.

Other works examine the role of narration in art. Robert Birmelin's Night Driving, 1964, Sidney Goodman's Eclipse and Rico Lebrun's Lazarus, 1962 develop stories that leave the viewer with more questions than answers.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

On the Edge of Pop
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

On the Edge of Pop presents a selection of paintings, sculpture and prints that examines the pop art movement's later years in the 1970s. Included in the exhibition are works by Pop icons like Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. These originators were joined by later participants including Robert Cottingham, John Clem Clark and Mel Ramos.

Pop established a new order of symbols, images and content that evolved over time. The style began in the late 1950s as a reaction to the intensely personal and gestural look of Abstract Expressionism. Pop artists de-emphasized their role in making art by often using more mechanical techniques usually associated with mass market processes. Their images were often appropriated from popular culture and, as a result, the general public greeted the new work enthusiastically.

By 1970 Pop had evolved into a more mainstream art form as the style broadened its scope. Andy Warhol did a series of paintings and prints of celebrities and other important figures. He took a famous publicity photograph of Marilyn Monroe and made a series of differently colored screenprints. Installed as multiples, the prints reinterpreted the starlet's place in American culture. Robert Rauschenberg had gained such a reputation that in 1969 NASA invited him to Cape Canaveral to witness the launch of Apollo 11 and to use its images in his work. His color screenprint Signs, 1970 prominently features the astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon along with a host of other iconic figures and events from the preceding decade.

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

Atrium Exhibit: Scholastic Art Awards Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

New to You
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

An exhibit of the work of new guild members as well as emerging and seldom shown artists.

In Recital: Art Songs and Arias
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Eric Johnson, basso; with Ida Trebicka, piano

Price: $15; free for students and CMM membership ticket holders
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Stephen Collins Foster:
My Old Kentucky Home, Goodnight, Hard Times Come Again No More, The Glendy Burk, Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair, Thats Whats the Matter

Tommaso Giordani:
Caro mio ben

Alessandro Scarlatti:
Gia il sole dal Gange

Friederich Händel:
Ombra mai fu Georg

Vincenzo Bellini:
Dolente immagine di Fille mia; Vaga luna, che inargenti; Malinconia, Ninfa gentile

W. A. Mozart:
Per questa bella mano

Franz Schubert:
Fischerweise, Der Tod und das Mädchen, Der Lindenbaum, Wasserflut, Die Forelle, An die Musik

Hugo Wolf:
Alles endet, was entstehet

Robert Schumann:
Die beiden Grenadiere

Ludwig Fischer:
Im kühlen Keller sitz ich hier

Albert Lortzing:
Auch ich war ein Jüngling mit lockigem Haar (from Der Waffenschmied)

Jerome Kern:
Ol' Man River (from Showboat)

Winter Concert
Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra
Erik Kibelsbeck, conductor
Featuring Pablo Cohen, guitar

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Mendelssohn Overture for Winds
Beethoven Symphony No. 7
Radames Gnattali Concerto a Brazileira No. 4 (1967)

"Happy Birthday Ella" Cabaret
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Barbara Morrison

Price: $24 general; $16 CNY JAF members; $10 students
Justin's Grille
6400 Yorktown Circle, East Syracuse

Syracuse jazz audiences are well familiar with the talents of Barbara Morrison, veteran of past CNYJO concerts and Jazz in the Square headliner. She'll be taking a break from an international tour to present us with her unique one-woman "Happy Birthday Ella" show commemorating the 90th birthday of America's most loved jazz singing legend, Ella Fitzgerald. Barbara has performed with a virtual "Who's Who" of the Jazz and the Blues worlds including legends Dizzy Gillespie, James Moody, Ron Carter, Jimmy Smith, Dr. John, Kenny Burrell, Terence Blanchard, Joe Sample, Cedar Walton, Nancy Wilson, Mel Torme, Joe Williams, Tony Bennett, and Keb' Mo (Kevin Moore). She has been featured on over 20 recordings in almost every genre from traditional Jazz and Blues to Gospel and Pop.

Cash bar and food stations will be available throughout the event for an additional charge.

Seating is liimited. Please phone Justin's Grill at 315-437-1461 for reservations.

Visions of Sound
Society for New Music

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Presented in collaboration with the dance program at SUNY-Brockport.

Brian Bevelander Synthecisms No. 3
Marc Mellits Fruity Pebbles
Mark Olivieri Piano Trio
Danny Felsenfeld Egypt and A Dirty Little Secret
Dan Coleman Fantasia

TK99 Soundcheck: Mandate of Heaven & Jason Bean
Redhouse

Price: $5
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Frozen
Redhouse
Gerard E. Moses, director

Price: $25 regular; $20 senior; $16 student; $8 student rush
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

British playwright Bryony Lavery's controversial play begins with a mother waiting for the return of her missing 10-year old daughter. In the wait and over a period of years the mother, the kidnapper, and a psychiatrist come together to confront each other. Its subject matter uncovers new questions and ignites a thick range of emotion for actors and audience members alike. Frozen asks us to look at who we are and why we do what we do.

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The Cocktail Hour
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $20 regular; $15 students/seniors
St. Clare Auditorium
Lodi and Isabella Streets, Syracuse

A. R. Gurney's semi-autobiographical story of an upper-class family in Buffalo in the 1970s.

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Disney's High School Musical
The Talent Company
Christine Lightcap, director

Price: $25 regular, $22 students/seniors, $14 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The Disney Channel smash hit original movie that topped the Billboard music charts and broke video and CD sales records within weeks of its premiere comes to life on stage with the antics of East High students as they audition for the school musical, compete in a scholastic decathlon, and play the championship basketball game. Troy (Tim Quartier), captain of the basketball team, and Gabriella (Ana Thornton), the brainy, shy new girl at school surprise themselves and others by trying out for the lead roles in the musical. They face the objections of Sharpay (Rachel Mulcahy), the thespian queen and president of the drama club, and Ryan (Chris Cory), her brother and vice-president of the drama club, who covet the roles for themselves, and friends Chad (Maoti Gborkorquellie), number two on the Wildcats Basketball Team and Taylor (MiKayla Hawkinson), president of the scholastic club, who want Troy and Gabriella to stick to what they do best - basketball and academics. Other characters in the various cliques at East High are Zeke (Stephfond Brunson), a jock with a secret passion for baking, Martha Cox (Jodie Baum), a brainiac with a secret passion for hip hop, Kelsi Neilson (Paige Goldberg), the composer-pianist of the school musical, and Jack Scott (Alex Allport), the smart-mouthed student P.A. announcer known as the Velvet Fog of East High. Ms. Darbus (Christine Lightcap) the drama teacher, Coach Bolton (Jeff Paduano) the basketball coach, and Ms. Tenny (Dorothy Lennon) the science teacher, preside over the competing school activities.

The stage version features the original musical score including The Start Of Something New, We're All In This Together, Get'cha Head In The Game, Stick To The Status Quo, Bop To The Top, When There Was Me And You, What I've Been Looking For, and Breaking Free, plus three new songs Cellular Fusion, Counting On You, and the song not in the movie but heard on a bonus track of the original cast recording entitled I Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You.

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