Thursday, March 4, 2010

(re)circulate(d): studies in 'collage': Works of Scott Herrmann
LeMoyne College

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

Scott Herrmann is a graduate of the art programs of Syracuse University and Onondaga Community College. A lifelong resident of Central New York, he resides in Liverpool with his wife and son. He recently participated in the "Collage + Assemblage" exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn. This is his first solo show.

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

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

Selected by Essence magazine as "30 Women to Watch," Kim Mayhorn is a multi-media artist whose works encompasses installation, video and theatre. Mayhorn has been a video editor for over 10 years and in 1998 she embarked on a new challenge and began creating installations and was awarded her first solo show at HERE Arts Center in New York City entitled "A Woman Was Lynched the Other Day..." This work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

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

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

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

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

Everything is Illustrated and Winter Solstice
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Everything is Illustrated: Gallery A
Recent work by Eva Calazada, Tian Chen, Barbara Morey, and Benjamin Petrie

Winter Solstice: Gallery B
Works by Cala Glatz, Julia Kester, Jonathan LaPlante, and Beth Mand

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

The Loneliness of Nature: Works by James Domroe
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Photographs of "The Loneliness of Nature" were manipulated in Photoshop to heighten and bring contrast to the starkness of the photos.

Also a short film, "How to be Happy", running time 5 min.

Remembrance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lorraine Savidge: "painting with thread" -- hand-guided original machine embroidery depicting landscape and design
Paula Burke: decorative and functional ceramics
Barbara Kellogg: abstract water media collages based on places visited
Lauren Bristol: string objects/garments referencing ancient rituals and record keeping

Works of Bill Reddick
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

Exhibition of Bill Reddick, renowned Canadian international porcelain artist. Reddick designed the Official State Dinnerware for Canada. His work can be seen at Rideau Hall, the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, and the Porcelain Institute in Jingdexhen, China.

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

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

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

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

Phantoms
Redhouse

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

Red House Arts Center presents "Phantoms," a New Media art exhibition curated by New York City based gallerist and curator Stephan Stoayanov.

We can attribute the present art and pop-cult fascination with the paranormal and vampires with our ongoing human interest in metamorphosis.The mystery of the unknown will always be something that we obsess about. Our brain creates illusions of words and phrases.

The nine artists included in the exhibition "Phantoms" create illusions through their artwork, which evoke the paranormal and mystical on both personal and universal level. "Phantoms" features the work of Phil Argent (United Kingdom), Heather Bennett (United States), Amelie Chabannes (France), Lieven de Boeck (Belgium), Cliff Evans (Australia), Ellen Harvey (United States), Dominik Lejman (Poland), Marie Maillard (France), and Trine Lise Nedreaas (Norway).

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

Opening: Wild Card Exhibit: Blodgett & Seymour Benefit Art Show
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception today 3:00-6:00 p.m.

A Wild Card exhibition of work by the elementary students at Blodgett and Seymour schools to help raise funds for their art programs.

For the past six years, this student art exhibit has proven to be a win-win happening that celebrates young people's talent, motivates parent involvement, delights the general public, and strengthens the arts programs at both schools through sale of the works displayed. The basis for such success evolves from collaboration among Blodgett and Seymour school art teachers—Stacy Griffin, Kristin Dugger, and Kelly Moser-Vogler—and gallery director and manger, Bill Delavan and Caroline Szozda-McGowan.

This show of students' works covers a spectrum of different mediums including prints, clay, glass, collage, painting, hand-made journals and portraiture in finished dimensional pieces showcasing elephants, owls, fish, peacocks, ducks, pigs, Kokopelli's, Aztec Gods, Mehendi Hands and Rangoli. Art works are priced between $10-$30 with half of the sale going to the student and half to their art teacher for supplies. However, more importantly, art teachers agree that the real benefit of the show is in the prestige students experience in having their works displayed in a professional gallery where the encouragement fostered there furthers appreciation of the arts for students and their families alike.

Art: 2003-2009
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Art: 2003-2009" pays tribute to a group of artists aligned with the gallery since its inception over six years ago. The exhibit runs the gamut of artistic endeavors. Among the artists included in the show are: Lydia Benscher, Jamie Ashlaw, Eric W. Shute, A. Brooks Decker, Frank Calidonna, Harry R. Freeman-Jones, Diana Godfrey, Tom Hussey, John Dowling, Roscha Folger, Ruth Wynn, Wendy Harris, R. Jason Howard, Stephen Perrone, Kathleen Schneider, Arthur Brangman, Crystal LaPoint, Thomas Barnes, Tom Townsley, Kyle Mort, Andrea Hall, Stephen Ryan, Patrice Downes Centore, Robert Glisson, James Skvarch, and Vincent Fitches. The gallery is also planning to show works by Amy E. Bartell, Jim Dieso, Douglas Biklen, Tom Champion, Diane Lansing, Robert Carroll, Lauren Ritchie, Phil Austin, Sandy Clift, James R. Walker, Vivian Geiger, Richard Karuzas, Rudy Hellmann, Jennifer Colvin, Richard Schultz, Fred Wellner, Laura J. Wellner, Joyce Day Homan, Linda Esterley, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Mary Kester, and C. J. Hodge.

Read a review!

The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

Read a review!

Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Curated by Lisa Erf, program director, JPMorgan Chase, New York City.

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

Miscreant of Taliwood
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 regular; $8 students/seniors
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Filmmaker George Gittoes, from Australia, will be screening his film, Miscreant of Taliwood.

George Gittoes has been described as a war artist who uses painting, drawing, photography, and video. He has focused on traveling to places that have been affected greatly by human tragedy either because of war or natural disaster. Sometimes the Australian government has employed him as a war artist to travel with troops or peacekeepers.

Gittoes's painting "Self Portrait in Somalia" was hung in the 1994 Archibald Prize, "General John Sanderson in Cambodia" was hung in the 1995 Archibald, and a portrait of John Olsen hung in the 1997 Archibald. In 1998, he was himself painted by another artist (Jiawei Shen) for the Archibald, in Eyewitness. His documentary Soundtrack To War had 17 scenes featured in Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. His film The Miscreants was filmed in the Taliban areas in Pakistan.

Flutessence

Price: Free
Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

Retired SSO principal flutist John Oberbrunner leads this high school flute ensemble in works by Salieri, Debussy, and Joplin.

Rhapsody in Blue
LeMoyne College
Le Moyne Community Chamber Orchestra
Featuring Anthony Molinaro, piano

Price: $15 general public, $10 seniors, free for students and LeMoyne community
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

After a tribute to John Williams featuring music from Star Wars and Jurassic Park, Anthony Molinaro, with the Le Moyne Community Chamber Orchestra, caps things off with his individual take on Gershwin's timeless Rhapsody in Blue.

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

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

You and the rest of the Bangalone Gang are in deep trouble. Big Louie's been beaned by a bocci ball and now he ain't thinking so good. The gang's got to figure out what to do before arch rival gang leader "Muscles" Marinara has you rubbed out. You better move fast. Word on the street is that ruthless hitman Jake "The Weasel" is on the way.

Anything Goes

Price: $12 regular, $10 students/seniors
Jamesville-Dewitt High School
Edinger Drive, Dewitt

For more information, phone 315-446-2477.

Lookingglass Alice
Syracuse Stage

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

In your wildest imaginings, you've never imagined Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass like this! Staged with endless wit, astonishing physicality, breathtaking aerial acrobatics, and theatrical daring, Alice, The Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and all of Lewis Carroll's enchanting characters come to dizzyingly, playful, gravity-defying life in a circus-like spectacle sure to amaze kids and adults alike. By David Catlin.

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Revenge of the Space Pandas
Black Box Players

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

Binky Rudich is your everyday, run-of-the-mill mad scientist, and with the help of his assistant Vivian and his friend Bob the Sheep (who is a sheep) he creates his masterpiece. A two-speed clock. This two-speed clock not only keeps Earth time but also, when used correctly, stops Earth time and shoots Binky, Vivian, and Bob the Sheep off into the galaxy. They arrive on Crestview, 4th World of the Goolagong system, which is ruled by the tyrannical (but not too bright) George Topax and his army of Space Pandas. Their clock is broken, their territory is unknown, and their situation is dire. Needless to say, hilarity ensues as our fearless friends try to fix their clock and make it home in time for lunch. Mama Rudich is making casserole. Written by David Mamet, directed by Tony Cavallo.

Friday, March 5, 2010

(re)circulate(d): studies in 'collage': Works of Scott Herrmann
LeMoyne College

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

Scott Herrmann is a graduate of the art programs of Syracuse University and Onondaga Community College. A lifelong resident of Central New York, he resides in Liverpool with his wife and son. He recently participated in the "Collage + Assemblage" exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn. This is his first solo show.

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

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

Selected by Essence magazine as "30 Women to Watch," Kim Mayhorn is a multi-media artist whose works encompasses installation, video and theatre. Mayhorn has been a video editor for over 10 years and in 1998 she embarked on a new challenge and began creating installations and was awarded her first solo show at HERE Arts Center in New York City entitled "A Woman Was Lynched the Other Day..." This work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

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

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

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

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

Everything is Illustrated and Winter Solstice
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Everything is Illustrated: Gallery A
Recent work by Eva Calazada, Tian Chen, Barbara Morey, and Benjamin Petrie

Winter Solstice: Gallery B
Works by Cala Glatz, Julia Kester, Jonathan LaPlante, and Beth Mand

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

Remembrance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lorraine Savidge: "painting with thread" -- hand-guided original machine embroidery depicting landscape and design
Paula Burke: decorative and functional ceramics
Barbara Kellogg: abstract water media collages based on places visited
Lauren Bristol: string objects/garments referencing ancient rituals and record keeping

Works of Bill Reddick
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

Exhibition of Bill Reddick, renowned Canadian international porcelain artist. Reddick designed the Official State Dinnerware for Canada. His work can be seen at Rideau Hall, the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, and the Porcelain Institute in Jingdexhen, China.

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

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

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

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

Phantoms
Redhouse

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

Red House Arts Center presents "Phantoms," a New Media art exhibition curated by New York City based gallerist and curator Stephan Stoayanov.

We can attribute the present art and pop-cult fascination with the paranormal and vampires with our ongoing human interest in metamorphosis.The mystery of the unknown will always be something that we obsess about. Our brain creates illusions of words and phrases.

The nine artists included in the exhibition "Phantoms" create illusions through their artwork, which evoke the paranormal and mystical on both personal and universal level. "Phantoms" features the work of Phil Argent (United Kingdom), Heather Bennett (United States), Amelie Chabannes (France), Lieven de Boeck (Belgium), Cliff Evans (Australia), Ellen Harvey (United States), Dominik Lejman (Poland), Marie Maillard (France), and Trine Lise Nedreaas (Norway).

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

Wild Card Exhibit: Blodgett & Seymour Benefit Art Show
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A Wild Card exhibition of work by the elementary students at Blodgett and Seymour schools to help raise funds for their art programs.

For the past six years, this student art exhibit has proven to be a win-win happening that celebrates young people's talent, motivates parent involvement, delights the general public, and strengthens the arts programs at both schools through sale of the works displayed. The basis for such success evolves from collaboration among Blodgett and Seymour school art teachers—Stacy Griffin, Kristin Dugger, and Kelly Moser-Vogler—and gallery director and manger, Bill Delavan and Caroline Szozda-McGowan.

This show of students' works covers a spectrum of different mediums including prints, clay, glass, collage, painting, hand-made journals and portraiture in finished dimensional pieces showcasing elephants, owls, fish, peacocks, ducks, pigs, Kokopelli's, Aztec Gods, Mehendi Hands and Rangoli. Art works are priced between $10-$30 with half of the sale going to the student and half to their art teacher for supplies. However, more importantly, art teachers agree that the real benefit of the show is in the prestige students experience in having their works displayed in a professional gallery where the encouragement fostered there furthers appreciation of the arts for students and their families alike.

Art: 2003-2009
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Art: 2003-2009" pays tribute to a group of artists aligned with the gallery since its inception over six years ago. The exhibit runs the gamut of artistic endeavors. Among the artists included in the show are: Lydia Benscher, Jamie Ashlaw, Eric W. Shute, A. Brooks Decker, Frank Calidonna, Harry R. Freeman-Jones, Diana Godfrey, Tom Hussey, John Dowling, Roscha Folger, Ruth Wynn, Wendy Harris, R. Jason Howard, Stephen Perrone, Kathleen Schneider, Arthur Brangman, Crystal LaPoint, Thomas Barnes, Tom Townsley, Kyle Mort, Andrea Hall, Stephen Ryan, Patrice Downes Centore, Robert Glisson, James Skvarch, and Vincent Fitches. The gallery is also planning to show works by Amy E. Bartell, Jim Dieso, Douglas Biklen, Tom Champion, Diane Lansing, Robert Carroll, Lauren Ritchie, Phil Austin, Sandy Clift, James R. Walker, Vivian Geiger, Richard Karuzas, Rudy Hellmann, Jennifer Colvin, Richard Schultz, Fred Wellner, Laura J. Wellner, Joyce Day Homan, Linda Esterley, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Mary Kester, and C. J. Hodge.

Read a review!

The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

Read a review!

Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Curated by Lisa Erf, program director, JPMorgan Chase, New York City.

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

Opening: Rodger Mack Exhibition
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park

Price: Free
The Spring: Center for Spiritual & Cultural Unity
200 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

There will be an opening wine and cheese reception from 5:00-7:00 pm.

The exhibit will feature a total of 104 paintings by the late Rodger Mack, one of Syracuse's most well-known and well-loved artists. Internationally known for his sculptures, Mack was also a dynamic painter who created colorful, vibrant works.

The paintings are provided by Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, and the exhibition is made possible by a collaboration between the Park, The Spring and Syracuse University. Proceeds from the sale of Mack's art will go equally to the three not-for-profits.

An Evening of Improv
Lazlo's Closet

Price: $13
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The Renegades comedy troupe features the extremely talented cast of Brandon Dyer, Tim Hogarth, Jeff White, Deidre Dyer, Aaron Geiskopf, Ron Sweet, and Lou Leonardo. Their high-energy stage show is a live comedy experience unlike any other in the area. They incorporate improv games, sketches, digital shorts, and long form improv to produce a show that's equal parts Saturday Night Live, Whose Line is it Anyway?, and Monty Python.

Syracuse Symphony Orchestra String Quartet I
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

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

Everson Uncorked
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Bring your friends and start the weekend off at the Everson! The Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court will be filled with the sounds of live music and the galleries will be hosting exciting exhibitions by artists Tim Scott and Jen Pepper. Enjoy a cash bar and light fare catered by Pascale's.

Fred Ho and Salim Washington
Community Folk Art Center
John Coltrane Memorial Contemporary Jazz Series

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

Award-winning baritone saxophonist Fred Ho (pictured) and tenor saxophonist Salim Washington will perform. For more information, phone 315-442-2230.

*SOLD OUT* Girlyman
Folkus Project

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

Making their Folkus debut, Girlyman is the quirky, much-buzzed-about trio with the brainy lyrics, edgy banter, and shimmering harmonies. Recalling 60's vocal groups like Simon & Garfunkel and Peter, Paul and Mary, their songs are an irresistible blend of acoustic, Americana, and rock. Their performances are magical, bursting with energy and playfulness. Girlyman describes their musical style, infused with years of classical and jazz training, as "harmony-driven gender pop." They nail clear harmonies that never lose enunciation or emotion with themes centered around love and life sung from their young perspective. But much of Girlyman's rare appeal is a willingness to see the shadow side of its own idealism. Yet through it all, the warm but fragile male and female vocal melodies remain buoyant and heartfelt.

Reservations recommended -- email tickets@folkus.org or phone 315-440-7444.

Classics Series: Beethoven's Ninth
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Syracuse University Oratorio Society
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Jill Gardner, soprano; Barbara Rearick, mezzo-soprano; William Hite, tenor; Jimi James, bass

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

Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music
Beethoven Symphony No. 9, "Choral"

Nate Pritts and Matt Hart, poets
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Nate Pritts is the author of The Wonderfull Yeare (Cooper Dillon, 2010), Sensational
Spectacular (BlazeVOX, 2007) and Honorary Astronaut (Ghost Road Press, 2008). The founder and primary editor of H_NGM_N, Nate currently teaches at the DWC. Matt Hart is the author of two full length books of poetry, Who's Who Vivid (Slope Editions, 2006) and You Are Mist (Moor Books, forthcoming), as well as numerous chapbooks. A co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety, Matt teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

The Good Doctor
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Jon Barden, director

Price: Adults $15, students $12
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

The Good Doctor is Neil Simon's tribute to one of his play writing idols—the Russian playwright Anton Chekov. The play is a series of scenes and vignettes (12 in all) written as Chekov farces with that wonderful funny and poignant Simon touch.

The cast includes Mark Baker, Denise Ballou, Jay Burris, Camille Chace, Stephanie Long, Cole Salo and Josh Taylor.

Anything Goes

Price: $12 regular, $10 students/seniors
Jamesville-Dewitt High School
Edinger Drive, Dewitt

For more information, phone 315-446-2477.

Revenge of the Space Pandas
Black Box Players

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

Binky Rudich is your everyday, run-of-the-mill mad scientist, and with the help of his assistant Vivian and his friend Bob the Sheep (who is a sheep) he creates his masterpiece. A two-speed clock. This two-speed clock not only keeps Earth time but also, when used correctly, stops Earth time and shoots Binky, Vivian, and Bob the Sheep off into the galaxy. They arrive on Crestview, 4th World of the Goolagong system, which is ruled by the tyrannical (but not too bright) George Topax and his army of Space Pandas. Their clock is broken, their territory is unknown, and their situation is dire. Needless to say, hilarity ensues as our fearless friends try to fix their clock and make it home in time for lunch. Mama Rudich is making casserole. Written by David Mamet, directed by Tony Cavallo.

Radio Play
Redhouse

Price: $25 regular, $20 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Sonic auteurs Reggie Watts and Tommy Smith bring their exceptional talents to CNY with Radioplay. Songs, stories and soundscapes collide in a comedic mash-up of non-temporal quasi-political pop-cultural tropes.

Fat Pig
Simply New Theatre
John Nara, director

Price: $24
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Cow. Slob. Pig. How many insults can you hear before you have to stand up and defend the woman you love? Tom faces just that question when he falls for Helen, a bright, funny, sexy young woman who happens to be plus-sized...and then some. Forced to explain his new relationship to his shallow (although shockingly funny) friends, he finally comes to terms with his own preconceptions of the importance of conventional good looks. This sharply drawn play not only critiques our slavish adherence to Hollywood ideals of beauty but also boldly questions our own ability to change what we dislike about ourselves.

A modern romantic comedy by Neil Labute, featuring Josh Canfield, Jenn DeCook, Katheryn Guyette, and Wil Szczech.

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Lookingglass Alice
Syracuse Stage

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

In your wildest imaginings, you've never imagined Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass like this! Staged with endless wit, astonishing physicality, breathtaking aerial acrobatics, and theatrical daring, Alice, The Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and all of Lewis Carroll's enchanting characters come to dizzyingly, playful, gravity-defying life in a circus-like spectacle sure to amaze kids and adults alike. By David Catlin.

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Saturday, March 6, 2010

Works of Bill Reddick
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

Exhibition of Bill Reddick, renowned Canadian international porcelain artist. Reddick designed the Official State Dinnerware for Canada. His work can be seen at Rideau Hall, the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, and the Porcelain Institute in Jingdexhen, China.

(re)circulate(d): studies in 'collage': Works of Scott Herrmann
LeMoyne College

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

Scott Herrmann is a graduate of the art programs of Syracuse University and Onondaga Community College. A lifelong resident of Central New York, he resides in Liverpool with his wife and son. He recently participated in the "Collage + Assemblage" exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn. This is his first solo show.

Art: 2003-2009
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Art: 2003-2009" pays tribute to a group of artists aligned with the gallery since its inception over six years ago. The exhibit runs the gamut of artistic endeavors. Among the artists included in the show are: Lydia Benscher, Jamie Ashlaw, Eric W. Shute, A. Brooks Decker, Frank Calidonna, Harry R. Freeman-Jones, Diana Godfrey, Tom Hussey, John Dowling, Roscha Folger, Ruth Wynn, Wendy Harris, R. Jason Howard, Stephen Perrone, Kathleen Schneider, Arthur Brangman, Crystal LaPoint, Thomas Barnes, Tom Townsley, Kyle Mort, Andrea Hall, Stephen Ryan, Patrice Downes Centore, Robert Glisson, James Skvarch, and Vincent Fitches. The gallery is also planning to show works by Amy E. Bartell, Jim Dieso, Douglas Biklen, Tom Champion, Diane Lansing, Robert Carroll, Lauren Ritchie, Phil Austin, Sandy Clift, James R. Walker, Vivian Geiger, Richard Karuzas, Rudy Hellmann, Jennifer Colvin, Richard Schultz, Fred Wellner, Laura J. Wellner, Joyce Day Homan, Linda Esterley, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Mary Kester, and C. J. Hodge.

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Wild Card Exhibit: Blodgett & Seymour Benefit Art Show
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A Wild Card exhibition of work by the elementary students at Blodgett and Seymour schools to help raise funds for their art programs.

For the past six years, this student art exhibit has proven to be a win-win happening that celebrates young people's talent, motivates parent involvement, delights the general public, and strengthens the arts programs at both schools through sale of the works displayed. The basis for such success evolves from collaboration among Blodgett and Seymour school art teachers—Stacy Griffin, Kristin Dugger, and Kelly Moser-Vogler—and gallery director and manger, Bill Delavan and Caroline Szozda-McGowan.

This show of students' works covers a spectrum of different mediums including prints, clay, glass, collage, painting, hand-made journals and portraiture in finished dimensional pieces showcasing elephants, owls, fish, peacocks, ducks, pigs, Kokopelli's, Aztec Gods, Mehendi Hands and Rangoli. Art works are priced between $10-$30 with half of the sale going to the student and half to their art teacher for supplies. However, more importantly, art teachers agree that the real benefit of the show is in the prestige students experience in having their works displayed in a professional gallery where the encouragement fostered there furthers appreciation of the arts for students and their families alike.

Remembrance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lorraine Savidge: "painting with thread" -- hand-guided original machine embroidery depicting landscape and design
Paula Burke: decorative and functional ceramics
Barbara Kellogg: abstract water media collages based on places visited
Lauren Bristol: string objects/garments referencing ancient rituals and record keeping

The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

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

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

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

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

Rodger Mack Exhibition
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park

Price: Free
The Spring: Center for Spiritual & Cultural Unity
200 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibit will feature a total of 104 paintings by the late Rodger Mack, one of Syracuse's most well-known and well-loved artists. Internationally known for his sculptures, Mack was also a dynamic painter who created colorful, vibrant works.

The paintings are provided by Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, and the exhibition is made possible by a collaboration between the Park, The Spring and Syracuse University. Proceeds from the sale of Mack's art will go equally to the three not-for-profits.

Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Curated by Lisa Erf, program director, JPMorgan Chase, New York City.

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

Opening-- Boys & Girls: The Art of Diane Menzies and Mary Giehl
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Each year in America over 3 million children are abused, nearly 2,000 die, some run away, others are abandoned, all have their own challenges with this sojourn through adolescence. Each day in America, 6 children die from abuse, 100,000 children are homeless, 8 children die from guns, 219 children die before their first birthday, 1,534 babies are born to teenage girls.

In the paintings by Diane Menzies and installations by Mary Giehl, there are hints of darkness and confinement along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness. The work challenges the viewer to take a deeper look at what these images of childhood are telling us.

Don't Feed the Actors Dinner Theater
Don't Feed the Actors

Price: Dinner theater: $25 single; $40 couple. Show only: $15 on day of show if seating available
Fire and Ice Banquet Hall, The Locker Room
528 Hiawatha Blvd., Syracuse

Audience-interactive improv comedy with some of Syracuse's finest comedic actors.

Dinner 6:45 pm, show begins at 8:00 pm.

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Hands for Haiti

Price: $20 adults, $10 students
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

A concert to benefit the Lambi Fund of Haiti, which works on sustainable development, the environment, animal husbandry, community micro credit and leadership training.

7:00 p.m., music: Society for New Music, part 1
7:10 p.m., speaker: Ricardo (Haitian soccer player), and/or SOIL group from Rochester
7:15 p.m., music: Society of New Music, part 2
7:35 p.m., speaker: Paula Johnson, SU law professor and activist for Haiti
7:40 p.m., music: Andy Russo (classical pianist, artist in residence at LeMoyne)
8:00 p.m., music: Dariusz Terefenko (solo jazz piano from Eastman School of Music)
8:20 p.m., speaker: Kenel Antoine, member of local Haitian community
8:25 p.m., music: Reuben Lee (singer/songwriter) and band
8:40 p.m., music: Jeffery Pepper Rodgers with Joshua Dekaney (folk with Brazilian percussion)
9:00 p.m., speaker: Arthur Flowers
9:15 p.m., music: Karen Savoca & Pete Heitzman (legendary CNY folk-duo)
9:45 p.m., music: Dave Hanlon's Cookbook

Encore!
Syracuse Children's Chorus
Barbara Marble Tagg, Deborah A. Cunningham, Marcia DeMartini, conductor

Most Holy Rosary Church
111 Roberts Ave., Syracuse

Alumni choristers will join the Syracuse Children's Chorus for a celebration to honor Founder and Artistic Director Dr. Barbara Marble Tagg as she passes the baton after 29 years of leadership. The concert will open with the combined singing of the ever-familiar Jubilate Deo. A presentation of solos and ensembles are in store for this most entertaining evening. The concert will close with the SCC favorite My Own Song, a piece written by SCC alumna Crystal LaPoint.

Classics Series: Beethoven's Ninth
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Syracuse University Oratorio Society
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Jill Gardner, soprano; Barbara Rearick, mezzo-soprano; William Hite, tenor; Jimi James, bass

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

Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music
Beethoven Symphony No. 9, "Choral"

Sleeping Beauty
Open Hand Theater
Tanglewood Marionettes

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

The classic tale of Sleeping Beauty begins in King Felix's great hall with the celebration of Princess Aurora's birth. The party goes awry when the wicked witch arrives and curses Princess Aurora. A painted story book opens to reveal each scene, as beautifully hand-crafted marionettes are brought to life by a master puppeteer and the dramatic events unfold. Will the curse come true? Will someone with a "true heart" appear? Tanglewood Marionettes are recipients of a 1999 Citation for Excellence in the Art of Puppetry and annual featured performers at the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta, Georgia.

Beauty and the Beast
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive adaptation of the children's classic.

Revenge of the Space Pandas
Black Box Players

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

Binky Rudich is your everyday, run-of-the-mill mad scientist, and with the help of his assistant Vivian and his friend Bob the Sheep (who is a sheep) he creates his masterpiece. A two-speed clock. This two-speed clock not only keeps Earth time but also, when used correctly, stops Earth time and shoots Binky, Vivian, and Bob the Sheep off into the galaxy. They arrive on Crestview, 4th World of the Goolagong system, which is ruled by the tyrannical (but not too bright) George Topax and his army of Space Pandas. Their clock is broken, their territory is unknown, and their situation is dire. Needless to say, hilarity ensues as our fearless friends try to fix their clock and make it home in time for lunch. Mama Rudich is making casserole. Written by David Mamet, directed by Tony Cavallo.

Anything Goes

Price: $12 regular, $10 students/seniors
Jamesville-Dewitt High School
Edinger Drive, Dewitt

For more information, phone 315-446-2477.

Lookingglass Alice
Syracuse Stage

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

In your wildest imaginings, you've never imagined Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass like this! Staged with endless wit, astonishing physicality, breathtaking aerial acrobatics, and theatrical daring, Alice, The Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and all of Lewis Carroll's enchanting characters come to dizzyingly, playful, gravity-defying life in a circus-like spectacle sure to amaze kids and adults alike. By David Catlin.

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Idol Assassination
Without a Cue Productions
Sara Caliva, director

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

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

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

The Good Doctor
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Jon Barden, director

Price: Adults $15, students $12
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

The Good Doctor is Neil Simon's tribute to one of his play writing idols—the Russian playwright Anton Chekov. The play is a series of scenes and vignettes (12 in all) written as Chekov farces with that wonderful funny and poignant Simon touch.

The cast includes Mark Baker, Denise Ballou, Jay Burris, Camille Chace, Stephanie Long, Cole Salo and Josh Taylor.

Anything Goes

Price: $12 regular, $10 students/seniors
Jamesville-Dewitt High School
Edinger Drive, Dewitt

For more information, phone 315-446-2477.

Revenge of the Space Pandas
Black Box Players

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

Binky Rudich is your everyday, run-of-the-mill mad scientist, and with the help of his assistant Vivian and his friend Bob the Sheep (who is a sheep) he creates his masterpiece. A two-speed clock. This two-speed clock not only keeps Earth time but also, when used correctly, stops Earth time and shoots Binky, Vivian, and Bob the Sheep off into the galaxy. They arrive on Crestview, 4th World of the Goolagong system, which is ruled by the tyrannical (but not too bright) George Topax and his army of Space Pandas. Their clock is broken, their territory is unknown, and their situation is dire. Needless to say, hilarity ensues as our fearless friends try to fix their clock and make it home in time for lunch. Mama Rudich is making casserole. Written by David Mamet, directed by Tony Cavallo.

Star Wars: The Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Wit's End Players

Price: $25
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Starring the brightest lights of the Syracuse stage, Star Wars: The Musical is a hilarious interpretation of what the 1977 film might have been like if it had opened off-Broadway instead of at Mann's Chinese Theater. Though written with a tongue-in-cheek attitude, the comedy rarely sinks into parody, and instead relies on turning some of the more mundane moments of the film into high melodrama by way of song (as well as the mechanics of how to stage the attack on the Death Star using only performers in starship costumes!) Book by George Lucas as adapted by Todd Panek and David R. Witanowski, music and lyrics by Timothy Edward Smith and Hunter Nolen.

Presented as a benefit by Rarely Done Productions and The Wit's End Players.

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Radio Play
Redhouse

Price: $25 regular, $20 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Sonic auteurs Reggie Watts and Tommy Smith bring their exceptional talents to CNY with Radioplay. Songs, stories and soundscapes collide in a comedic mash-up of non-temporal quasi-political pop-cultural tropes.

Fat Pig
Simply New Theatre
John Nara, director

Price: $24
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Cow. Slob. Pig. How many insults can you hear before you have to stand up and defend the woman you love? Tom faces just that question when he falls for Helen, a bright, funny, sexy young woman who happens to be plus-sized...and then some. Forced to explain his new relationship to his shallow (although shockingly funny) friends, he finally comes to terms with his own preconceptions of the importance of conventional good looks. This sharply drawn play not only critiques our slavish adherence to Hollywood ideals of beauty but also boldly questions our own ability to change what we dislike about ourselves.

A modern romantic comedy by Neil Labute, featuring Josh Canfield, Jenn DeCook, Katheryn Guyette, and Wil Szczech.

Read a Review!

Lookingglass Alice
Syracuse Stage

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

In your wildest imaginings, you've never imagined Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass like this! Staged with endless wit, astonishing physicality, breathtaking aerial acrobatics, and theatrical daring, Alice, The Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and all of Lewis Carroll's enchanting characters come to dizzyingly, playful, gravity-defying life in a circus-like spectacle sure to amaze kids and adults alike. By David Catlin.

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Sunday, March 7, 2010

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

Read a review!

(re)circulate(d): studies in 'collage': Works of Scott Herrmann
LeMoyne College

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

Scott Herrmann is a graduate of the art programs of Syracuse University and Onondaga Community College. A lifelong resident of Central New York, he resides in Liverpool with his wife and son. He recently participated in the "Collage + Assemblage" exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn. This is his first solo show.

Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Curated by Lisa Erf, program director, JPMorgan Chase, New York City.

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

Contemporary Film Series: Persepolis
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However, as Marji grows up, she witnesses first-hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study for a better life. However, this change proves an equally difficult trial with the young woman, finding herself in a different culture loaded with abrasive characters and profound disappointments that deeply trouble her. Even when she returns home, Marji finds that both she and her homeland have changed too much, and the young woman and her loving family must decide where she truly belongs. 2007, 96 minutes. Presented in celebration of Women's History Month.

Percussion 'Round the World
Arts Alive in Liverpool

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

Syracuse Symphony Chamber Ensemble
Fayetteville Free Library

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

Jazz Concert
Joyful Noise Concert Series

Price: Free (donations accepted)
Liverpool First United Methodist Church
604 Oswego St., Liverpool

Featuring SUNY Oswego faculty and alumni.

Rising Star Recital
Malmgren Concert Series
Featuring Ahreum Han, organ

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Ahreum Han will perform pieces by Mendelssohn, Karg-Elert, Bach, Vierne and Liszt.

A native of South Korea, Han immigrated to the United States as a teenager. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in organ performance from Westminster Choir College and graduated with an artist's diploma from the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music.

She has received top prizes from numerous competitions, including the undergraduate division of the Westminster Choir College Scholarship Competition, the Charlotte Hoyt Bagnall Scholarship Competition, the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) National Young Artist Performance Competition, the John Rodland Memorial Church Music Scholarship Competition, the Albert Schweitzer Organ Competition, the Carlean Neihart Organ Competition and the West Chester University Organ Competition. Her live performance concerts were featured on the radio show "Pipedreams" from American Public Media.

Han is active as an organ soloist and has performed at St. Bartholomew's Church in New York City, Trinity Church at Wall Street, St. Philip's Cathedral in Atlanta, Jack Singer Hall in Calgary and the Princeton University Chapel. She was featured at the Young Virtuosi Festival in 2006. In 2007, she was a featured artist at the Regional Convention of the American Guild of Organists. She performed in Germany and the United Kingdom in 2008. She has been a featured soloist at the White Mountain Musical Arts Annual Bach Festival in New Hampshire.

Last year, Han graduated with a masters degree in organ performance from Yale School of Music and Yale Institute of Sacred Music. She is currently the organist at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Stamford, Conn.

Star Wars: The Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Wit's End Players

Price: $25
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Starring the brightest lights of the Syracuse stage, Star Wars: The Musical is a hilarious interpretation of what the 1977 film might have been like if it had opened off-Broadway instead of at Mann's Chinese Theater. Though written with a tongue-in-cheek attitude, the comedy rarely sinks into parody, and instead relies on turning some of the more mundane moments of the film into high melodrama by way of song (as well as the mechanics of how to stage the attack on the Death Star using only performers in starship costumes!) Book by George Lucas as adapted by Todd Panek and David R. Witanowski, music and lyrics by Timothy Edward Smith and Hunter Nolen.

Presented as a benefit by Rarely Done Productions and The Wit's End Players.

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Lookingglass Alice
Syracuse Stage

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

In your wildest imaginings, you've never imagined Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass like this! Staged with endless wit, astonishing physicality, breathtaking aerial acrobatics, and theatrical daring, Alice, The Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and all of Lewis Carroll's enchanting characters come to dizzyingly, playful, gravity-defying life in a circus-like spectacle sure to amaze kids and adults alike. By David Catlin.

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The Good Doctor
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Jon Barden, director

Price: Regular $15, students/seniors $12
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

The Good Doctor is Neil Simon's tribute to one of his play writing idols—the Russian playwright Anton Chekov. The play is a series of scenes and vignettes (12 in all) written as Chekov farces with that wonderful funny and poignant Simon touch.

The cast includes Mark Baker, Denise Ballou, Jay Burris, Camille Chace, Stephanie Long, Cole Salo and Josh Taylor.

Star Wars: The Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Wit's End Players

Price: $25
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Starring the brightest lights of the Syracuse stage, Star Wars: The Musical is a hilarious interpretation of what the 1977 film might have been like if it had opened off-Broadway instead of at Mann's Chinese Theater. Though written with a tongue-in-cheek attitude, the comedy rarely sinks into parody, and instead relies on turning some of the more mundane moments of the film into high melodrama by way of song (as well as the mechanics of how to stage the attack on the Death Star using only performers in starship costumes!) Book by George Lucas as adapted by Todd Panek and David R. Witanowski, music and lyrics by Timothy Edward Smith and Hunter Nolen.

Presented as a benefit by Rarely Done Productions and The Wit's End Players.

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Monday, March 8, 2010

(re)circulate(d): studies in 'collage': Works of Scott Herrmann
LeMoyne College

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

Scott Herrmann is a graduate of the art programs of Syracuse University and Onondaga Community College. A lifelong resident of Central New York, he resides in Liverpool with his wife and son. He recently participated in the "Collage + Assemblage" exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn. This is his first solo show.

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

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

Selected by Essence magazine as "30 Women to Watch," Kim Mayhorn is a multi-media artist whose works encompasses installation, video and theatre. Mayhorn has been a video editor for over 10 years and in 1998 she embarked on a new challenge and began creating installations and was awarded her first solo show at HERE Arts Center in New York City entitled "A Woman Was Lynched the Other Day..." This work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

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

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

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

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

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Phantoms
Redhouse

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

Red House Arts Center presents "Phantoms," a New Media art exhibition curated by New York City based gallerist and curator Stephan Stoayanov.

We can attribute the present art and pop-cult fascination with the paranormal and vampires with our ongoing human interest in metamorphosis.The mystery of the unknown will always be something that we obsess about. Our brain creates illusions of words and phrases.

The nine artists included in the exhibition "Phantoms" create illusions through their artwork, which evoke the paranormal and mystical on both personal and universal level. "Phantoms" features the work of Phil Argent (United Kingdom), Heather Bennett (United States), Amelie Chabannes (France), Lieven de Boeck (Belgium), Cliff Evans (Australia), Ellen Harvey (United States), Dominik Lejman (Poland), Marie Maillard (France), and Trine Lise Nedreaas (Norway).

Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft, and Design
Featuring Faythe Levine

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

Question and answer session to follow.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

(re)circulate(d): studies in 'collage': Works of Scott Herrmann
LeMoyne College

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

Scott Herrmann is a graduate of the art programs of Syracuse University and Onondaga Community College. A lifelong resident of Central New York, he resides in Liverpool with his wife and son. He recently participated in the "Collage + Assemblage" exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn. This is his first solo show.

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

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

Selected by Essence magazine as "30 Women to Watch," Kim Mayhorn is a multi-media artist whose works encompasses installation, video and theatre. Mayhorn has been a video editor for over 10 years and in 1998 she embarked on a new challenge and began creating installations and was awarded her first solo show at HERE Arts Center in New York City entitled "A Woman Was Lynched the Other Day..." This work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

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

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

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

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

Everything is Illustrated and Winter Solstice
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Everything is Illustrated: Gallery A
Recent work by Eva Calazada, Tian Chen, Barbara Morey, and Benjamin Petrie

Winter Solstice: Gallery B
Works by Cala Glatz, Julia Kester, Jonathan LaPlante, and Beth Mand

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

Remembrance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lorraine Savidge: "painting with thread" -- hand-guided original machine embroidery depicting landscape and design
Paula Burke: decorative and functional ceramics
Barbara Kellogg: abstract water media collages based on places visited
Lauren Bristol: string objects/garments referencing ancient rituals and record keeping

Works of Bill Reddick
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

Exhibition of Bill Reddick, renowned Canadian international porcelain artist. Reddick designed the Official State Dinnerware for Canada. His work can be seen at Rideau Hall, the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, and the Porcelain Institute in Jingdexhen, China.

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

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

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

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Phantoms
Redhouse

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

Red House Arts Center presents "Phantoms," a New Media art exhibition curated by New York City based gallerist and curator Stephan Stoayanov.

We can attribute the present art and pop-cult fascination with the paranormal and vampires with our ongoing human interest in metamorphosis.The mystery of the unknown will always be something that we obsess about. Our brain creates illusions of words and phrases.

The nine artists included in the exhibition "Phantoms" create illusions through their artwork, which evoke the paranormal and mystical on both personal and universal level. "Phantoms" features the work of Phil Argent (United Kingdom), Heather Bennett (United States), Amelie Chabannes (France), Lieven de Boeck (Belgium), Cliff Evans (Australia), Ellen Harvey (United States), Dominik Lejman (Poland), Marie Maillard (France), and Trine Lise Nedreaas (Norway).

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

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The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

Martha Graham Dance Company
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

Price: $20 general, $5 students with SU ID, $16 SU faculty/staff/alumni
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Founded in 1926 by dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, the Martha Graham Dance Company is the oldest and most celebrated contemporary dance ensemble in the nation. Since its inception, the company has received international acclaim and has performed in some of the nation's most auspicious performing arts venues, in addition to at the Great Pyramids of Egypt and in the ancient Herod Atticus Theatre on the Acropolis in Athens. The company has also produced several award-winning films broadcast on PBS. Though Graham herself is the best-known alumna, the company has provided a training ground for some of modern dance's most illustrious performers and choreographers. On March 10, artistic director Janet Eilber will be the keynote speaker for SU's annual Women of Distinction Awards.

Tickets available at the Schine Box Office.

Free parking available in the Lehman and Harrison lots. (If no basketball game, parking also available in the Marion and Waverly lots.)

Mary McFadden Lecture
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Iconic American fashion designer Mary McFadden will deliver a lecture on her career and design philosophy. The lecture is presented as part of VPA's Sue Ann Genet Lecture Series.

The Synthetic Real
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring Heather Roberge

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Auditorium
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Heather Roberge, Associate Vice Chair, UCLA Department of Architecture + Urban Design, is the founder and principal of murmur, an award-winning practice that studies the spatial, structural, and atmospheric potential of emerging digital design and manufacturing techniques. Her research focuses on the effective implications of contemporary surfaces with particular interest in formal and material experimentation that engages the senses.

Covering the World
University Lectures
Featuring Scott Simon

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

From Ground Zero in New York to ground zero in Kabul, to police stations, refugee camps, snipers' roosts, subway platforms, and theater stages, NPR's Peabody Award-winning Scott Simon has reported from all 50 states and every continent. He has covered 10 wars, hundreds of campaigns, sieges, famines, hurricanes, earthquakes, civil wars, scandals, state funerals, and opening nights. He has interviewed and profiled some of the most interesting personalities of the times. Simon has hosted many public television specials and written for numerous prominent publications. He is the author of four best-selling books, including his most recent novel, a political comedy called Windy City, which was chosen by the Washington Post as one of the best novels of 2008.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
SU Symphony Orchestra

Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, phone 315-443-2191.

Lookingglass Alice
Syracuse Stage

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

In your wildest imaginings, you've never imagined Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass like this! Staged with endless wit, astonishing physicality, breathtaking aerial acrobatics, and theatrical daring, Alice, The Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and all of Lewis Carroll's enchanting characters come to dizzyingly, playful, gravity-defying life in a circus-like spectacle sure to amaze kids and adults alike. By David Catlin.

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

(re)circulate(d): studies in 'collage': Works of Scott Herrmann
LeMoyne College

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

Scott Herrmann is a graduate of the art programs of Syracuse University and Onondaga Community College. A lifelong resident of Central New York, he resides in Liverpool with his wife and son. He recently participated in the "Collage + Assemblage" exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn. This is his first solo show.

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

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

Selected by Essence magazine as "30 Women to Watch," Kim Mayhorn is a multi-media artist whose works encompasses installation, video and theatre. Mayhorn has been a video editor for over 10 years and in 1998 she embarked on a new challenge and began creating installations and was awarded her first solo show at HERE Arts Center in New York City entitled "A Woman Was Lynched the Other Day..." This work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

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

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

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

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

Everything is Illustrated and Winter Solstice
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Everything is Illustrated: Gallery A
Recent work by Eva Calazada, Tian Chen, Barbara Morey, and Benjamin Petrie

Winter Solstice: Gallery B
Works by Cala Glatz, Julia Kester, Jonathan LaPlante, and Beth Mand

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

Remembrance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lorraine Savidge: "painting with thread" -- hand-guided original machine embroidery depicting landscape and design
Paula Burke: decorative and functional ceramics
Barbara Kellogg: abstract water media collages based on places visited
Lauren Bristol: string objects/garments referencing ancient rituals and record keeping

Works of Bill Reddick
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

Exhibition of Bill Reddick, renowned Canadian international porcelain artist. Reddick designed the Official State Dinnerware for Canada. His work can be seen at Rideau Hall, the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, and the Porcelain Institute in Jingdexhen, China.

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

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

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

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Phantoms
Redhouse

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

Red House Arts Center presents "Phantoms," a New Media art exhibition curated by New York City based gallerist and curator Stephan Stoayanov.

We can attribute the present art and pop-cult fascination with the paranormal and vampires with our ongoing human interest in metamorphosis.The mystery of the unknown will always be something that we obsess about. Our brain creates illusions of words and phrases.

The nine artists included in the exhibition "Phantoms" create illusions through their artwork, which evoke the paranormal and mystical on both personal and universal level. "Phantoms" features the work of Phil Argent (United Kingdom), Heather Bennett (United States), Amelie Chabannes (France), Lieven de Boeck (Belgium), Cliff Evans (Australia), Ellen Harvey (United States), Dominik Lejman (Poland), Marie Maillard (France), and Trine Lise Nedreaas (Norway).

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

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Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Curated by Lisa Erf, program director, JPMorgan Chase, New York City.

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

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

Boys & Girls: The Art of Diane Menzies and Mary Giehl
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Each year in America over 3 million children are abused, nearly 2,000 die, some run away, others are abandoned, all have their own challenges with this sojourn through adolescence. Each day in America, 6 children die from abuse, 100,000 children are homeless, 8 children die from guns, 219 children die before their first birthday, 1,534 babies are born to teenage girls.

In the paintings by Diane Menzies and installations by Mary Giehl, there are hints of darkness and confinement along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness. The work challenges the viewer to take a deeper look at what these images of childhood are telling us.

CANCELLED: Concert: Lorin Sklamberg
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Mawhinney Hall, Second Floor, Room 245
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Accordionist and vocalist Lorin Sklamberg has been a member of the Klezmatics since the beginning. As a teenager in California, Sklamberg was involved with Jewish and Israeli folk-dancing, but it wasn't until the late '80s, upon moving to NYC and joining the Klezmatics that he became immersed in klezmer. Since the early '90s, Sklamberg has been co-Director of Living Traditions, Inc., a Yiddish folk arts non-profit organization that sponsors the annual KlezKamp, and releases archival CDs of music including rescued recordings of Yiddish radio programs from the 1920s-1950s. He has performed under pianist Zalman Mlotek, and appears on a variety of releases such as the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Remember the Children.

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

Allan Kolsky, clarinet; Greg Quick, bassoon; Sar-Shalom Strong, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Richard Strauss Duet-Concertino for clarinet and bassoon, Brahms F minor Sonata, and a piece for solo clarinet by Shulamit Ran.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Ken Meyer, guitar; Judith Kellock and Janet Brown, sopranos

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

Nicolas Scherzinger Till I become accustomed to the dark (2004)
Jesse Benjamin Jones Los Ninos (2006-9)
Ian Hartsough premiere of a new work for guitar

Parking in Irving Garage is free if you mention the concert.

Lookingglass Alice
Syracuse Stage

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

In your wildest imaginings, you've never imagined Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass like this! Staged with endless wit, astonishing physicality, breathtaking aerial acrobatics, and theatrical daring, Alice, The Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and all of Lewis Carroll's enchanting characters come to dizzyingly, playful, gravity-defying life in a circus-like spectacle sure to amaze kids and adults alike. By David Catlin.

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Lookingglass Alice
Syracuse Stage

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

In your wildest imaginings, you've never imagined Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass like this! Staged with endless wit, astonishing physicality, breathtaking aerial acrobatics, and theatrical daring, Alice, The Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and all of Lewis Carroll's enchanting characters come to dizzyingly, playful, gravity-defying life in a circus-like spectacle sure to amaze kids and adults alike. By David Catlin.

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Thursday, March 11, 2010

(re)circulate(d): studies in 'collage': Works of Scott Herrmann
LeMoyne College

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

Scott Herrmann is a graduate of the art programs of Syracuse University and Onondaga Community College. A lifelong resident of Central New York, he resides in Liverpool with his wife and son. He recently participated in the "Collage + Assemblage" exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn. This is his first solo show.

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

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

Selected by Essence magazine as "30 Women to Watch," Kim Mayhorn is a multi-media artist whose works encompasses installation, video and theatre. Mayhorn has been a video editor for over 10 years and in 1998 she embarked on a new challenge and began creating installations and was awarded her first solo show at HERE Arts Center in New York City entitled "A Woman Was Lynched the Other Day..." This work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

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

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

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

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

Everything is Illustrated and Winter Solstice
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Everything is Illustrated: Gallery A
Recent work by Eva Calazada, Tian Chen, Barbara Morey, and Benjamin Petrie

Winter Solstice: Gallery B
Works by Cala Glatz, Julia Kester, Jonathan LaPlante, and Beth Mand

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

Remembrance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lorraine Savidge: "painting with thread" -- hand-guided original machine embroidery depicting landscape and design
Paula Burke: decorative and functional ceramics
Barbara Kellogg: abstract water media collages based on places visited
Lauren Bristol: string objects/garments referencing ancient rituals and record keeping

Works of Bill Reddick
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

Exhibition of Bill Reddick, renowned Canadian international porcelain artist. Reddick designed the Official State Dinnerware for Canada. His work can be seen at Rideau Hall, the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, and the Porcelain Institute in Jingdexhen, China.

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

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

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

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Phantoms
Redhouse

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

Red House Arts Center presents "Phantoms," a New Media art exhibition curated by New York City based gallerist and curator Stephan Stoayanov.

We can attribute the present art and pop-cult fascination with the paranormal and vampires with our ongoing human interest in metamorphosis.The mystery of the unknown will always be something that we obsess about. Our brain creates illusions of words and phrases.

The nine artists included in the exhibition "Phantoms" create illusions through their artwork, which evoke the paranormal and mystical on both personal and universal level. "Phantoms" features the work of Phil Argent (United Kingdom), Heather Bennett (United States), Amelie Chabannes (France), Lieven de Boeck (Belgium), Cliff Evans (Australia), Ellen Harvey (United States), Dominik Lejman (Poland), Marie Maillard (France), and Trine Lise Nedreaas (Norway).

Wild Card Exhibit: Blodgett & Seymour Benefit Art Show
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A Wild Card exhibition of work by the elementary students at Blodgett and Seymour schools to help raise funds for their art programs.

For the past six years, this student art exhibit has proven to be a win-win happening that celebrates young people's talent, motivates parent involvement, delights the general public, and strengthens the arts programs at both schools through sale of the works displayed. The basis for such success evolves from collaboration among Blodgett and Seymour school art teachers—Stacy Griffin, Kristin Dugger, and Kelly Moser-Vogler—and gallery director and manger, Bill Delavan and Caroline Szozda-McGowan.

This show of students' works covers a spectrum of different mediums including prints, clay, glass, collage, painting, hand-made journals and portraiture in finished dimensional pieces showcasing elephants, owls, fish, peacocks, ducks, pigs, Kokopelli's, Aztec Gods, Mehendi Hands and Rangoli. Art works are priced between $10-$30 with half of the sale going to the student and half to their art teacher for supplies. However, more importantly, art teachers agree that the real benefit of the show is in the prestige students experience in having their works displayed in a professional gallery where the encouragement fostered there furthers appreciation of the arts for students and their families alike.

Art: 2003-2009
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Art: 2003-2009" pays tribute to a group of artists aligned with the gallery since its inception over six years ago. The exhibit runs the gamut of artistic endeavors. Among the artists included in the show are: Lydia Benscher, Jamie Ashlaw, Eric W. Shute, A. Brooks Decker, Frank Calidonna, Harry R. Freeman-Jones, Diana Godfrey, Tom Hussey, John Dowling, Roscha Folger, Ruth Wynn, Wendy Harris, R. Jason Howard, Stephen Perrone, Kathleen Schneider, Arthur Brangman, Crystal LaPoint, Thomas Barnes, Tom Townsley, Kyle Mort, Andrea Hall, Stephen Ryan, Patrice Downes Centore, Robert Glisson, James Skvarch, and Vincent Fitches. The gallery is also planning to show works by Amy E. Bartell, Jim Dieso, Douglas Biklen, Tom Champion, Diane Lansing, Robert Carroll, Lauren Ritchie, Phil Austin, Sandy Clift, James R. Walker, Vivian Geiger, Richard Karuzas, Rudy Hellmann, Jennifer Colvin, Richard Schultz, Fred Wellner, Laura J. Wellner, Joyce Day Homan, Linda Esterley, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Mary Kester, and C. J. Hodge.

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Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

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The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Rodger Mack Exhibition
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park

Price: Free
The Spring: Center for Spiritual & Cultural Unity
200 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibit will feature a total of 104 paintings by the late Rodger Mack, one of Syracuse's most well-known and well-loved artists. Internationally known for his sculptures, Mack was also a dynamic painter who created colorful, vibrant works.

The paintings are provided by Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, and the exhibition is made possible by a collaboration between the Park, The Spring and Syracuse University. Proceeds from the sale of Mack's art will go equally to the three not-for-profits.

Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Curated by Lisa Erf, program director, JPMorgan Chase, New York City.

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

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

Boys & Girls: The Art of Diane Menzies and Mary Giehl
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Each year in America over 3 million children are abused, nearly 2,000 die, some run away, others are abandoned, all have their own challenges with this sojourn through adolescence. Each day in America, 6 children die from abuse, 100,000 children are homeless, 8 children die from guns, 219 children die before their first birthday, 1,534 babies are born to teenage girls.

In the paintings by Diane Menzies and installations by Mary Giehl, there are hints of darkness and confinement along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness. The work challenges the viewer to take a deeper look at what these images of childhood are telling us.

The Photographs of Aaron Blum, Kelli Pennington, and Jared Landberg
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

Join in celebrating the products of three years of research, with the most recent and complete showing of these artists' photographic bodies of thesis work.

This Boy's Life
ArtRage Gallery

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

Moving from one unhealthy relationship to another, Caroline (Ellen Barkin) and her son, Toby (Leonardo DiCaprio), roam the country and finally end up in Washington state, where she marries Dwight (Robert De Niro), a modest mechanic. But Dwight fails to be the role model she had hoped for, and Toby is desperate to escape from under his heavy, abusive hand. Michael Caton-Jones's gripping drama is based on Tobias Wolff's autobiography of the same name.

Photographic Adventures in the American West
Syracuse University Library Associates
Featuring Karen Halverson

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

Landscape photographer Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In "Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River" (2008), a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

She will speak about the photographic process and land use issues while presenting selected works. An exhibition of her work will be available and guests are encouraged to arrive at least a half hour early to view it before the talk.

Halverson graduated from Nottingham High School and Stanford University and holds master's degrees from Brandeis and Columbia universities. Her work has appeared at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art, the Corcoran Gallery, and the Library of Congress.

Free event parking is available in Booth Garage, on the corner of Waverly and Comstock avenues.

Trendsetters
Society for New Music
SU Contemporary Directions Ensemble
Armando Bayolo, conductor
Featuring Philip von Maltzahn, cello

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors; students free with SU ID
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

James Welsch Till the sun grows cold..., 2010, premiere, for flute, oboe, French horn, and harp
Armando Bayolo Orfei Mors (Death of Orpheus), 2010, premiere, for cello and chamber orchestra
Carter Pann Summer Songs, 2009, 2nd performance (presented in conjunction with the Skaneateles Festival), for clarinet, violin, cello, piano and narrator
Samson Young Fractured Atlas, 2009, for clarinet, horn, piano, violin, viola, and cello
Virgil Thomson The Plow That Broke the Plains

The Y-Files: Where are the Cows?
Acme Mystery Company

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

Sheriff Shelly Moganagle is calling an emergency town meeting for you and everybody else in Pine Bluffs to try and figure out where in the heck all these cows are disappearing to. Roland McBurger's new hamburger joint? Cattle rustlers? Down at the Crazy Kegger folks are saying it's alien cow abduction! The Sheriff is taking no chances and has called in the FBI. Be there when Special Agents Molding and Sulky arrive. They'll need all the help they can get.

Lookingglass Alice
Syracuse Stage

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

In your wildest imaginings, you've never imagined Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass like this! Staged with endless wit, astonishing physicality, breathtaking aerial acrobatics, and theatrical daring, Alice, The Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and all of Lewis Carroll's enchanting characters come to dizzyingly, playful, gravity-defying life in a circus-like spectacle sure to amaze kids and adults alike. By David Catlin.

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Preview: The Shape of Things
Rarely Done Productions
Roy VanNorstrand, director

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

How far would you go for love? For art? What would you be willing to change? Which price might you pay? A young student drifts into an ever-changing relationship with an art major while his best friends' engagement crumbles, so unleashing a drama that peels back the skin of two modern-day relationships, exposing the raw meat and gristle that lie beneath. By Neil LaBute.

Intended for mature audiences only.

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