Wednesday, October 4, 2006

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Gallery Exhibit: Jian-Guo Xu
Onondaga Community College

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

Mixed-media paintings bridging Eastern and Western artistic traditions.

Associated Artists Annual Juried Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

This year marks the 80th consecutive year that this show has taken place. It is the first year in the new gallery which is part of the recently expanded and remodeled Manlius Library. The Gordon Steele Medal will be awarded for Best of Show. This award, given out since 1962, includes a cash prize and a solo exhibit in the Library Gallery. This year's show is being juried by Merilee French Freeman and Claude Freeman, both Adjunct Professors of Painting in the Art Department at OCC.

Vietnam: Journey of the Heart, Photographs By Geoffrey Clifford, 1985-2000
Community Folk Art Center

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

Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)

Perspectives: Contemporary Asian Art, Culture and Identity
Community Folk Art Center

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

Featuring works by: Vinh Dang, Lisa Jong-Soon Goodlin, Joshua Harris, Bea Lee, Mai Lee, Mao Yang Lee, Hye Yeon Nam, Anh Thao and Phong Vu.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Members Only: Beatrix Reinhardt
Light Work Gallery

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

German photographer Beatrix Reinhardt's images in the exhibition take an inside look at members-only clubs worldwide, which Reinhardt views as special entities that provide a community for their members while excluding everyone else. Her images capture the marks left behind by members of the club. They are devoid of people but speak volumes about club members.

Reinhardt spends most of her time making phone calls and knocking on doors to gain permission to enter clubs. Since starting the series in 2003, she has traveled to places as far away as Australia, Great Britain and China to capture these images. She is currently photographing in Queens, NY, where membership clubs are plentiful and rich in visuals. Some of these exclusive clubs can require years on a waiting list, and many have membership dues ranging from minimal to tens of thousands of dollars per year.

Reinhardt grew up in Jena, Germany, and has lived in the United States on and off for more than 10 years. She completed a residency at Light Work in January 2006 and has also participated in residencies in Australia, India and China. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally, most recently at the Minnesota Center of Photography in Minneapolis, the Silver Eye Center of Photography in Pittsburgh, and Sam Romo in Atlanta. She will also have an exhibition this year in Finland.

Overcoming Inertia: Works of Kathryn Rose Martini, fibers artist
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Kathryn Rose Martini graduated from Syracuse University with a BFA in Fiber Structure and Interlocking. Beyond exhibitions over the past 6 years she has used her interest in creativity within the community working with children, both in the visual arts and conducting dance interactive workshops hoping to promote a comfort and curiousity in the arts. She has donated her time and efforts to several local non-profit institutions and organizations. Recent work is on view through September 30 at the Delavan Art Gallery in their Fashion Fashion exhibition. Martini lives and works in Syracuse.

Through a Glass Dimly: Works of Willam Finch, painter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Vibrant hand-painted vines lace the gallery walls, cleverly tying together the diverse works and accentuating the "family tree" theme of the exhibition, "CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration". This family consists of members in the recently formed Coalition of Museum and Art Centers. CMAC, an initiative by Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor, has a mission to celebrate and explore the visual and electronic arts through exhibitions, publications, education, and scholarship. CMAC brings together the programs, services, and projects of several different campus art centers and affiliated non-profit organizations in a collaborative effort to expand the public's awareness, understanding, and involvement in the arts.

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration is a visual guide to the coalition organizations:

* SUArt Galleries is the new amalgamation of the Lowe Art Gallery and the University Art Collection. The Galleries' contribution to the exhibition illustrates the rich diversity of the permanent collection, from the haunting Renaissance images by Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach to the sharp social commentary of Goya. The department's strength in 20th century American art is seen in Martin Lewis' sweltering New York nocturne, Glow of the City, and in a pair of chromed Art Deco poodles by Boris Lovet-Lorski.

* Light Work's Permanent Collection includes work donated by participants in the Artist-in-Residence program. Selected for the exhibition is a photo from Chan Chao's series of Burmese Rebels, also chosen for the 2002 Whitney Biennial. A sense of calm and tenderness is captured, while also bringing greater awareness of the democracy movement in Burma. Carrie Mae Weems investigates the power of racial jokes and the tradition of oral history in a black-and-white photograph incorporating text. The signature weaving technique of Dinh Q. Lê is on view, combining images from the Vietnam War with stills from popular movies. Recognizing how Hollywood's representation of the war stretches from the hyper-real to the surreal, Lê suggests it produces a new kind of memory which is 'neither fact nor fiction.' Also exploring the border of culture and representation are the collaborative team Max Becher and Andrea Robbins. Their series German Indians looks at a long-standing German romanticization of the American West.

* The Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library displays classic images taken for Life magazine by Margaret Bourke-White, alongside her view camera and its travel case; 19th century sideshow performers from the Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs; the first comic strip character, the Yellow Kid, created by Richard Outcault; and playful sketches by the Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer.

* Community Folk Art Center contrasts fearsome masks from West Africa with carnivalesque ones from Mexico. The wooden Liberian visors, once part of the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, and now in CFAC's permanent collection, incorporate natural materials such as feathers and hair. The devil faces flourished with festive paint are from the Mexican folk art collection of Alejandro Garcia, director of SU's School of Social Work.

* The finale of the show is the back room (the former vault of the building), devoted to The Warehouse Gallery's dreamy projection of the future. An enticing list of upcoming initiatives includes an Art Happy Hour for downtowners, a series highlighting young art collectives across North America, and a store for affordable, handcrafted art objects, among others. The gallery's mission is to engage the community in a dialogue regarding the role the arts can play in illuminating the critical issues of our times. Visitors can interact with the displays: a plant-shaped chalkboard asks viewers what they'd like to see in The Warehouse Gallery, clipboards gather information from potential collaborators, labeled Polaroids virtually introduce audiences to one another, and submission applications are dispensed. The gallery will commission Central New York artists to create unique installations for their street-level windows facing the busy intersection of West Fayette and West Streets.

Coalition members are each matched to an indigenous tree for the exhibition. This organizational strategy is in line with The Warehouse Gallery's lively, organic growth and novel way of incorporating regional idiosyncrasies into its international exhibitions.

Art Nouveau Glass and Pottery
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explores a principle component of the Art Nouveau movement: the Decorative Arts. Works by of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Emile Galle and Frederick Carder, including several of Tiffany's most original works, including examples of his trademark favrile glass.

The Elegant Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explore the popularity of European Academic style paintings in America during the first decade of the 20th century. Included are paintings by William Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean Leon Gerome, Rudolph Ernst, and Max Gaisser.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Insightful and Incidental: Portraits from the Collection of Robert M. Infarinato
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Encompasses both insightful images, where the sitter is posed in a setting to illustrate the subject's character or physical form; and incidental portraits, created on the spur of the moment. Photographic art by Edward Steichen, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Mary Ellen Mark.

Reclaiming Midwives: Stills from All My Babies
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Highlights the importance of African-American midwives in Southern communities. Robert Gailbrath's black and white photographs document the renowned film All My Babies, nationally utilized as a training film for midwives.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

Civic Morning Musicals
Kevin Moore, piano

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

Schumann's Carnaval, Op. 9; music of Brahms.

Around the World in 80 Days
Syracuse Stage
Russell Treyz, director

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

Climb on board for laughter and adventure as five highly spirited actors joyously recreate Phileas Fogg's exciting trip around the world in 80 days. The year is 1872, the wager is £20,000, the means of transport is pure imagination, and the prize -- true love. All this and an elephant, too.

Play by Mark Brown, based on the novel by Jules Verne.

Read a Review!

Thursday, October 5, 2006

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Gallery Exhibit: Jian-Guo Xu
Onondaga Community College

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

Mixed-media paintings bridging Eastern and Western artistic traditions.

Associated Artists Annual Juried Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

This year marks the 80th consecutive year that this show has taken place. It is the first year in the new gallery which is part of the recently expanded and remodeled Manlius Library. The Gordon Steele Medal will be awarded for Best of Show. This award, given out since 1962, includes a cash prize and a solo exhibit in the Library Gallery. This year's show is being juried by Merilee French Freeman and Claude Freeman, both Adjunct Professors of Painting in the Art Department at OCC.

Vietnam: Journey of the Heart, Photographs By Geoffrey Clifford, 1985-2000
Community Folk Art Center

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

Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)

Perspectives: Contemporary Asian Art, Culture and Identity
Community Folk Art Center

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

Featuring works by: Vinh Dang, Lisa Jong-Soon Goodlin, Joshua Harris, Bea Lee, Mai Lee, Mao Yang Lee, Hye Yeon Nam, Anh Thao and Phong Vu.

Members Only: Beatrix Reinhardt
Light Work Gallery

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

German photographer Beatrix Reinhardt's images in the exhibition take an inside look at members-only clubs worldwide, which Reinhardt views as special entities that provide a community for their members while excluding everyone else. Her images capture the marks left behind by members of the club. They are devoid of people but speak volumes about club members.

Reinhardt spends most of her time making phone calls and knocking on doors to gain permission to enter clubs. Since starting the series in 2003, she has traveled to places as far away as Australia, Great Britain and China to capture these images. She is currently photographing in Queens, NY, where membership clubs are plentiful and rich in visuals. Some of these exclusive clubs can require years on a waiting list, and many have membership dues ranging from minimal to tens of thousands of dollars per year.

Reinhardt grew up in Jena, Germany, and has lived in the United States on and off for more than 10 years. She completed a residency at Light Work in January 2006 and has also participated in residencies in Australia, India and China. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally, most recently at the Minnesota Center of Photography in Minneapolis, the Silver Eye Center of Photography in Pittsburgh, and Sam Romo in Atlanta. She will also have an exhibition this year in Finland.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Through a Glass Dimly: Works of Willam Finch, painter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Overcoming Inertia: Works of Kathryn Rose Martini, fibers artist
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Kathryn Rose Martini graduated from Syracuse University with a BFA in Fiber Structure and Interlocking. Beyond exhibitions over the past 6 years she has used her interest in creativity within the community working with children, both in the visual arts and conducting dance interactive workshops hoping to promote a comfort and curiousity in the arts. She has donated her time and efforts to several local non-profit institutions and organizations. Recent work is on view through September 30 at the Delavan Art Gallery in their Fashion Fashion exhibition. Martini lives and works in Syracuse.

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Vibrant hand-painted vines lace the gallery walls, cleverly tying together the diverse works and accentuating the "family tree" theme of the exhibition, "CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration". This family consists of members in the recently formed Coalition of Museum and Art Centers. CMAC, an initiative by Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor, has a mission to celebrate and explore the visual and electronic arts through exhibitions, publications, education, and scholarship. CMAC brings together the programs, services, and projects of several different campus art centers and affiliated non-profit organizations in a collaborative effort to expand the public's awareness, understanding, and involvement in the arts.

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration is a visual guide to the coalition organizations:

* SUArt Galleries is the new amalgamation of the Lowe Art Gallery and the University Art Collection. The Galleries' contribution to the exhibition illustrates the rich diversity of the permanent collection, from the haunting Renaissance images by Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach to the sharp social commentary of Goya. The department's strength in 20th century American art is seen in Martin Lewis' sweltering New York nocturne, Glow of the City, and in a pair of chromed Art Deco poodles by Boris Lovet-Lorski.

* Light Work's Permanent Collection includes work donated by participants in the Artist-in-Residence program. Selected for the exhibition is a photo from Chan Chao's series of Burmese Rebels, also chosen for the 2002 Whitney Biennial. A sense of calm and tenderness is captured, while also bringing greater awareness of the democracy movement in Burma. Carrie Mae Weems investigates the power of racial jokes and the tradition of oral history in a black-and-white photograph incorporating text. The signature weaving technique of Dinh Q. Lê is on view, combining images from the Vietnam War with stills from popular movies. Recognizing how Hollywood's representation of the war stretches from the hyper-real to the surreal, Lê suggests it produces a new kind of memory which is 'neither fact nor fiction.' Also exploring the border of culture and representation are the collaborative team Max Becher and Andrea Robbins. Their series German Indians looks at a long-standing German romanticization of the American West.

* The Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library displays classic images taken for Life magazine by Margaret Bourke-White, alongside her view camera and its travel case; 19th century sideshow performers from the Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs; the first comic strip character, the Yellow Kid, created by Richard Outcault; and playful sketches by the Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer.

* Community Folk Art Center contrasts fearsome masks from West Africa with carnivalesque ones from Mexico. The wooden Liberian visors, once part of the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, and now in CFAC's permanent collection, incorporate natural materials such as feathers and hair. The devil faces flourished with festive paint are from the Mexican folk art collection of Alejandro Garcia, director of SU's School of Social Work.

* The finale of the show is the back room (the former vault of the building), devoted to The Warehouse Gallery's dreamy projection of the future. An enticing list of upcoming initiatives includes an Art Happy Hour for downtowners, a series highlighting young art collectives across North America, and a store for affordable, handcrafted art objects, among others. The gallery's mission is to engage the community in a dialogue regarding the role the arts can play in illuminating the critical issues of our times. Visitors can interact with the displays: a plant-shaped chalkboard asks viewers what they'd like to see in The Warehouse Gallery, clipboards gather information from potential collaborators, labeled Polaroids virtually introduce audiences to one another, and submission applications are dispensed. The gallery will commission Central New York artists to create unique installations for their street-level windows facing the busy intersection of West Fayette and West Streets.

Coalition members are each matched to an indigenous tree for the exhibition. This organizational strategy is in line with The Warehouse Gallery's lively, organic growth and novel way of incorporating regional idiosyncrasies into its international exhibitions.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

The Elegant Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explore the popularity of European Academic style paintings in America during the first decade of the 20th century. Included are paintings by William Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean Leon Gerome, Rudolph Ernst, and Max Gaisser.

Art Nouveau Glass and Pottery
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explores a principle component of the Art Nouveau movement: the Decorative Arts. Works by of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Emile Galle and Frederick Carder, including several of Tiffany's most original works, including examples of his trademark favrile glass.

Reclaiming Midwives: Stills from All My Babies
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Highlights the importance of African-American midwives in Southern communities. Robert Gailbrath's black and white photographs document the renowned film All My Babies, nationally utilized as a training film for midwives.

Insightful and Incidental: Portraits from the Collection of Robert M. Infarinato
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Encompasses both insightful images, where the sitter is posed in a setting to illustrate the subject's character or physical form; and incidental portraits, created on the spur of the moment. Photographic art by Edward Steichen, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Mary Ellen Mark.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

View on Nam June Paik, a tribute
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Original works on paper by the late Korean video artist Nam June Paik.

Eye on Cinema
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Photographic art by Judy Pfaff, Sandy Skoglund, and Rob Van Erve.

Johan Lowie: Call to Silence
Redhouse

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

An exhibition of oil paintings by Belgian artist Johan Lowie focuses on the human drama, while capturing personal stories and emotions in the Surrealist style.

"My work focuses on the human drama, capturing stories and emotions in one image. The story of waking up at four o'clock in the morning will all your negative feelings of doom, despair or the feeling of pure happiness. How does love feel? The loss of a friend, the first days of spring? The tale of sorrow or eufory captured in deep understanding, the theatre of life in a light of color and composition. How do you paint these human travels universally without showing the obvious but deeper meaning with color and composition."

Better Than Words
Delavan Art Gallery

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

Deborah Dahlin - landscapes and still lifes
Suzanne Firsching - eclectic sculptural works
Chris Galin - photography
Stephen Perrone - paintings
Kate Wossner - landscape photography

Bringin' in Da Spirit
Syracuse University Art Museum
Featuring Rhonda Haynes, producer, director and cinematographer

Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Narrated by Phylicia Rashad, Ms. Haynes' film chronicles a powerful history widely unknown outside of close-knit southern U.S. communities. It provides a moving glimpse of the women who have skillfully birthed scores of children across generations. Bringin' in Da Spirit celebrates women who have committed themselves to holistic answers amidst powerful misconceptions about the practice of midwifery and virulent opposition from practitioners of Western Medicine. Ms. Haynes will introduce the film that has won over 10 awards in Best Documentary, Best Historical, Audience Choice and Jurors' Choice Award at several film festivals. She will also provide a brief synopsis along with time at the conclusion of the film for audience questions.

This film is presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Reclaiming Midwives: Stills from All My Babies".

Turbulent Architecture
University Lectures
Featuring Ned Kahn, artist and sculptor

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artists use their creativity to reveal the world in new and sometimes unexpected ways. Artist Ned Kahn's work focuses on the physical world. From the harmonies of randomness to the dynamics of the Earth's crust, Kahn uses scientific principles to create mesmerizing works of art. For the past 16 years, Kahn has been creating interactive sculptures inspired by everything from wind and waves to comets, black holes and galaxies. Created using simple materials such as water, sand and air, Kahn's artworks are not just celebrations of nature, they are inspired by fluid dynamics and other aspects of science. Considered one of the most successful artists and exhibit builders in the country, Kahn has had major commissions all over the world and in 2004 was the recipient of a MacArthur Genius Award.

Joanna Manring in Recital
LeMoyne College

Price: $12 regular; $7 seniors, free for students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

World premiere of Josh Coles' one-act chamber opera based on the unpublished letters of Civil War soldier William Gurley and featuring Le Moyne's director of vocal studies, soprano Joanna Manring.

Ted Kooser, Poet Laureate of the United States
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: $20 (SOLD OUT)
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Ted Kooser, recent winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, was born in Ames, Iowa in 1939. He received his B.A. from Iowa State and his M.A. in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of ten collections of poetry, including Delights & Shadows (Copper Canyon, 2004); Winter Morning Walks: One Hundred Postcards to Jim Harrison (2000), which won the 2001 Nebraska Book Award for poetry; Weather Central (1994); One World at a Time (1985); and Sure Signs (Pittsburgh, 1980). His fiction and non-fiction books include Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry (Copper Canyon, 2003) written with fellow poet and longtime friend, Jim Harrison; and Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps (2002), which won the Nebraska Book Award for Nonfiction in 2003. His honors include two NEA fellowships in poetry, a Pushcart Prize, the Stanley Kunitz Prize from Columbia, and a Merit Award from the Nebraska Arts Council. In the fall of 2004, Kooser was appointed the Library of Congress's 13th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. He is a visiting professor in the English department of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He lives on an acreage near the village of Garland, NE, with his wife Kathleen Rutledge, the editor of the Lincoln Journal Star.

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

Interactive comedy/mystery dinner theater.

The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily
Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts

Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts
728 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A fairy tale by Goethe Glen Williamson and Lauri Portecarrero of New York City.

Around the World in 80 Days
Syracuse Stage
Russell Treyz, director

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

Climb on board for laughter and adventure as five highly spirited actors joyously recreate Phileas Fogg's exciting trip around the world in 80 days. The year is 1872, the wager is £20,000, the means of transport is pure imagination, and the prize -- true love. All this and an elephant, too.

Play by Mark Brown, based on the novel by Jules Verne.

Read a Review!

A Naked Girl on the Appian Way
Redhouse
Gerard E. Moses, director

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

In A Naked Girl On The Appian Way by Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg, reading, breeding and sibling rivalry take on a whole new twist. This smart and irreverent comedy is about a wildly non-traditional family testing tolerance, acceptance, and the outer limits of love.

The Lapins -- Bess, a successful cookbook author, and her husband Jeffrey, an industry mogul -- await the homecoming of two of their children from a year of European travel. The children reveal surprising news that has mother and father dazed, confused, and questioning the path to proper parenting.

Read a Review!

Friday, October 6, 2006

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Gallery Exhibit: Jian-Guo Xu
Onondaga Community College

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

Mixed-media paintings bridging Eastern and Western artistic traditions.

Associated Artists Annual Juried Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

This year marks the 80th consecutive year that this show has taken place. It is the first year in the new gallery which is part of the recently expanded and remodeled Manlius Library. The Gordon Steele Medal will be awarded for Best of Show. This award, given out since 1962, includes a cash prize and a solo exhibit in the Library Gallery. This year's show is being juried by Merilee French Freeman and Claude Freeman, both Adjunct Professors of Painting in the Art Department at OCC.

Vietnam: Journey of the Heart, Photographs By Geoffrey Clifford, 1985-2000
Community Folk Art Center

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

Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)

Perspectives: Contemporary Asian Art, Culture and Identity
Community Folk Art Center

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

Featuring works by: Vinh Dang, Lisa Jong-Soon Goodlin, Joshua Harris, Bea Lee, Mai Lee, Mao Yang Lee, Hye Yeon Nam, Anh Thao and Phong Vu.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Members Only: Beatrix Reinhardt
Light Work Gallery

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

German photographer Beatrix Reinhardt's images in the exhibition take an inside look at members-only clubs worldwide, which Reinhardt views as special entities that provide a community for their members while excluding everyone else. Her images capture the marks left behind by members of the club. They are devoid of people but speak volumes about club members.

Reinhardt spends most of her time making phone calls and knocking on doors to gain permission to enter clubs. Since starting the series in 2003, she has traveled to places as far away as Australia, Great Britain and China to capture these images. She is currently photographing in Queens, NY, where membership clubs are plentiful and rich in visuals. Some of these exclusive clubs can require years on a waiting list, and many have membership dues ranging from minimal to tens of thousands of dollars per year.

Reinhardt grew up in Jena, Germany, and has lived in the United States on and off for more than 10 years. She completed a residency at Light Work in January 2006 and has also participated in residencies in Australia, India and China. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally, most recently at the Minnesota Center of Photography in Minneapolis, the Silver Eye Center of Photography in Pittsburgh, and Sam Romo in Atlanta. She will also have an exhibition this year in Finland.

Overcoming Inertia: Works of Kathryn Rose Martini, fibers artist
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Kathryn Rose Martini graduated from Syracuse University with a BFA in Fiber Structure and Interlocking. Beyond exhibitions over the past 6 years she has used her interest in creativity within the community working with children, both in the visual arts and conducting dance interactive workshops hoping to promote a comfort and curiousity in the arts. She has donated her time and efforts to several local non-profit institutions and organizations. Recent work is on view through September 30 at the Delavan Art Gallery in their Fashion Fashion exhibition. Martini lives and works in Syracuse.

Through a Glass Dimly: Works of Willam Finch, painter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Vibrant hand-painted vines lace the gallery walls, cleverly tying together the diverse works and accentuating the "family tree" theme of the exhibition, "CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration". This family consists of members in the recently formed Coalition of Museum and Art Centers. CMAC, an initiative by Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor, has a mission to celebrate and explore the visual and electronic arts through exhibitions, publications, education, and scholarship. CMAC brings together the programs, services, and projects of several different campus art centers and affiliated non-profit organizations in a collaborative effort to expand the public's awareness, understanding, and involvement in the arts.

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration is a visual guide to the coalition organizations:

* SUArt Galleries is the new amalgamation of the Lowe Art Gallery and the University Art Collection. The Galleries' contribution to the exhibition illustrates the rich diversity of the permanent collection, from the haunting Renaissance images by Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach to the sharp social commentary of Goya. The department's strength in 20th century American art is seen in Martin Lewis' sweltering New York nocturne, Glow of the City, and in a pair of chromed Art Deco poodles by Boris Lovet-Lorski.

* Light Work's Permanent Collection includes work donated by participants in the Artist-in-Residence program. Selected for the exhibition is a photo from Chan Chao's series of Burmese Rebels, also chosen for the 2002 Whitney Biennial. A sense of calm and tenderness is captured, while also bringing greater awareness of the democracy movement in Burma. Carrie Mae Weems investigates the power of racial jokes and the tradition of oral history in a black-and-white photograph incorporating text. The signature weaving technique of Dinh Q. Lê is on view, combining images from the Vietnam War with stills from popular movies. Recognizing how Hollywood's representation of the war stretches from the hyper-real to the surreal, Lê suggests it produces a new kind of memory which is 'neither fact nor fiction.' Also exploring the border of culture and representation are the collaborative team Max Becher and Andrea Robbins. Their series German Indians looks at a long-standing German romanticization of the American West.

* The Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library displays classic images taken for Life magazine by Margaret Bourke-White, alongside her view camera and its travel case; 19th century sideshow performers from the Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs; the first comic strip character, the Yellow Kid, created by Richard Outcault; and playful sketches by the Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer.

* Community Folk Art Center contrasts fearsome masks from West Africa with carnivalesque ones from Mexico. The wooden Liberian visors, once part of the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, and now in CFAC's permanent collection, incorporate natural materials such as feathers and hair. The devil faces flourished with festive paint are from the Mexican folk art collection of Alejandro Garcia, director of SU's School of Social Work.

* The finale of the show is the back room (the former vault of the building), devoted to The Warehouse Gallery's dreamy projection of the future. An enticing list of upcoming initiatives includes an Art Happy Hour for downtowners, a series highlighting young art collectives across North America, and a store for affordable, handcrafted art objects, among others. The gallery's mission is to engage the community in a dialogue regarding the role the arts can play in illuminating the critical issues of our times. Visitors can interact with the displays: a plant-shaped chalkboard asks viewers what they'd like to see in The Warehouse Gallery, clipboards gather information from potential collaborators, labeled Polaroids virtually introduce audiences to one another, and submission applications are dispensed. The gallery will commission Central New York artists to create unique installations for their street-level windows facing the busy intersection of West Fayette and West Streets.

Coalition members are each matched to an indigenous tree for the exhibition. This organizational strategy is in line with The Warehouse Gallery's lively, organic growth and novel way of incorporating regional idiosyncrasies into its international exhibitions.

Art Nouveau Glass and Pottery
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explores a principle component of the Art Nouveau movement: the Decorative Arts. Works by of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Emile Galle and Frederick Carder, including several of Tiffany's most original works, including examples of his trademark favrile glass.

The Elegant Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explore the popularity of European Academic style paintings in America during the first decade of the 20th century. Included are paintings by William Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean Leon Gerome, Rudolph Ernst, and Max Gaisser.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Insightful and Incidental: Portraits from the Collection of Robert M. Infarinato
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Encompasses both insightful images, where the sitter is posed in a setting to illustrate the subject's character or physical form; and incidental portraits, created on the spur of the moment. Photographic art by Edward Steichen, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Mary Ellen Mark.

Reclaiming Midwives: Stills from All My Babies
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Highlights the importance of African-American midwives in Southern communities. Robert Gailbrath's black and white photographs document the renowned film All My Babies, nationally utilized as a training film for midwives.

Better Than Words
Delavan Art Gallery

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

Deborah Dahlin - landscapes and still lifes
Suzanne Firsching - eclectic sculptural works
Chris Galin - photography
Stephen Perrone - paintings
Kate Wossner - landscape photography

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

View on Nam June Paik, a tribute
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Original works on paper by the late Korean video artist Nam June Paik.

Eye on Cinema
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Photographic art by Judy Pfaff, Sandy Skoglund, and Rob Van Erve.

Johan Lowie: Call to Silence
Redhouse

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

An exhibition of oil paintings by Belgian artist Johan Lowie focuses on the human drama, while capturing personal stories and emotions in the Surrealist style.

"My work focuses on the human drama, capturing stories and emotions in one image. The story of waking up at four o'clock in the morning will all your negative feelings of doom, despair or the feeling of pure happiness. How does love feel? The loss of a friend, the first days of spring? The tale of sorrow or eufory captured in deep understanding, the theatre of life in a light of color and composition. How do you paint these human travels universally without showing the obvious but deeper meaning with color and composition."

Visual Arts Showcase #57
CNY Arts

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

Visual Arts Showcase #57 features 19 local visual artists presenting work in varied media.
Featured Artists: Joan Applebaum, Dan Bacich, Marna Bell, Michael Berman, Judith Brown-Roenbeck, Robert Carroll, Joe Cerio, Anne Childress, Mary Lou Colgin, Shelly Coryell, Ben Donzella, Joy Englehart, Kathy Gibbons, Richard Karuzas, Steve Koh, Allen Kosoff, Joe LeFevre, Yolanda Tooley, Noelle Uebele

The Minimalists: Master & Disciples
Onondaga Community College
Society for New Music

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Steve Reich Sextet (in celebration of his 70th birthday)
Marc Mellits M&W
Martin Bresnick Ballade, 2004

Corcoran Alumni Musicians

Price: Free
Corcoran High School
919 Glenwood Ave., Syracuse

Information: 315-435-4321.

Composer Fridays
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Andrew Waggoner

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

The Composition Department in SU's Setnor School of Music (VPA) hosts Composer Fridays, public presentations by composition faculty on the first Friday of each month. Each month a different faculty composer will present his or her recent work, guiding the audience through live and recorded performances, sharing what makes them tick and inviting the audience to respond. The resulting exchange will be lively, thought-provoking, sometimes weird, always fun. Reception to follow.

For more information, phone 315-443-5892.

Setnor Memorial Concert
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Folkus Project
Joe Crookston

Price: $10
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Lyrics a la Pablo Neruda plus dynamic, celebratory music

Classics Series: Kobrin Plays Rachmaninoff
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Alexander Kobrin, piano

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

Theofanides Rainbow Body
Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra

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Novelist Farnoosh Moshiri
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Farnoosh Moshiri grew up in Tehran, Iran. She worked as a playwright and fiction writer before fleeing the country in 1983 after her play was banned and its director and cast arrested. Her many awards include the Barthelme Memorial Fellowship at the University of Houston, the Barbara Deming Award for Peace and Justice, and two consecutive Black Heron Awards for Social Fiction. She has published three novels, most recently Against Gravity (Penguin, Jan. 2006) and one book of short stories.

The Maid of Arran

Price: $20; advance sale $15
Wellwood Middle School
700 S. Manlius St., Fayetteville

Information: 315-637-9511.

Harvey
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

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

Harvey tells the story of Elwood P. Dowd, a pleasant man with one very unusual friend - a six-and-a-half-foot invisible rabbit. When Elwood starts introducing Harvey to guests at a society party, his sister, Veta, has seen as much of his eccentric behavior as she can tolerate. She decides to have him committed to a sanitarium to spare her daughter, Myrtle Mae, and their family from future embarrassment. Problems arise, however, when Veta herself is mistakenly assumed to be on the verge of lunacy when she explains to doctors that years of living with Elwood's hallucination have caused her to see Harvey also! The doctors commit Veta instead of Elwood, but when the truth comes out, the search is on for Elwood and his invisible companion. When he shows up at the sanitarium looking for his lost friend Harvey, it seems that the mild-mannered Elwood's delusion has had a strange influence on more than one of the doctors.

Never the Sinner: The Leopold and Loeb Story
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

It seems as though a "Trial of the Century" happens along every decade, but the 1924 case against Leopold and Loeb in Chicago has fascinated writers and filmmakers for 75 years -- perhaps because it has all the ingredients that make up riveting drama: seduction, deception, and murder.

Although John Logan's play is a courtroom drama, what really moves the plot is how he investigates the question, "Why would two teenagers who have it all -- brilliance, wealth, youth -- commit the most brutal crime, one that stands apart in its viciousness?"

Leopold and Loeb kidnapped and killed a boy from their affluent Chicago neighborhood. The victim, 14-year-old Bobby Franks, was a cousin of Richard Loeb's, but it could have been almost anyone as the two just wanted to experience the thrill of murder.

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A Naked Girl on the Appian Way
Redhouse
Gerard E. Moses, director

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

In A Naked Girl On The Appian Way by Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg, reading, breeding and sibling rivalry take on a whole new twist. This smart and irreverent comedy is about a wildly non-traditional family testing tolerance, acceptance, and the outer limits of love.

The Lapins -- Bess, a successful cookbook author, and her husband Jeffrey, an industry mogul -- await the homecoming of two of their children from a year of European travel. The children reveal surprising news that has mother and father dazed, confused, and questioning the path to proper parenting.

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Around the World in 80 Days
Syracuse Stage
Russell Treyz, director

Price: $44, $39, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Climb on board for laughter and adventure as five highly spirited actors joyously recreate Phileas Fogg's exciting trip around the world in 80 days. The year is 1872, the wager is £20,000, the means of transport is pure imagination, and the prize -- true love. All this and an elephant, too.

Play by Mark Brown, based on the novel by Jules Verne.

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Hello, Dolly!
The Talent Company

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

A joyous, exuberant show that is a song of praise to the undefeatable human spirit, every main character in Hello, Dolly! decides to take a chance once more on life. It is this affirmation of the positive powers of the human spirit that has contributed to the show's success and longevity. With a book by Michael Stewart, based on the play "The Matchmaker" by Thornton Wilder, and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, the show won 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.

During the turn-of-the-century "Gay 90s" in New York City, Dolly Gallagher Levy has her hand in every business from marriages to corset repair, but unofficially, this feminine but shrewd lady is a natural arranger. Dolly promises to help Ambrose Kemper, a struggling artist, win the hand of Ermengarde, the niece of Horace Vandergelder, the Scrooge of Yonkers, while setting her own sights on Vandergelder himself. Along the way, many others become caught up in Dolly's manipulations that result in zany confusion, mistaken identities, and ensuing melees.

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Saturday, October 7, 2006

Associated Artists Annual Juried Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

This year marks the 80th consecutive year that this show has taken place. It is the first year in the new gallery which is part of the recently expanded and remodeled Manlius Library. The Gordon Steele Medal will be awarded for Best of Show. This award, given out since 1962, includes a cash prize and a solo exhibit in the Library Gallery. This year's show is being juried by Merilee French Freeman and Claude Freeman, both Adjunct Professors of Painting in the Art Department at OCC.

Better Than Words
Delavan Art Gallery

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

Deborah Dahlin - landscapes and still lifes
Suzanne Firsching - eclectic sculptural works
Chris Galin - photography
Stephen Perrone - paintings
Kate Wossner - landscape photography

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Through a Glass Dimly: Works of Willam Finch, painter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Overcoming Inertia: Works of Kathryn Rose Martini, fibers artist
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Kathryn Rose Martini graduated from Syracuse University with a BFA in Fiber Structure and Interlocking. Beyond exhibitions over the past 6 years she has used her interest in creativity within the community working with children, both in the visual arts and conducting dance interactive workshops hoping to promote a comfort and curiousity in the arts. She has donated her time and efforts to several local non-profit institutions and organizations. Recent work is on view through September 30 at the Delavan Art Gallery in their Fashion Fashion exhibition. Martini lives and works in Syracuse.

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Vibrant hand-painted vines lace the gallery walls, cleverly tying together the diverse works and accentuating the "family tree" theme of the exhibition, "CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration". This family consists of members in the recently formed Coalition of Museum and Art Centers. CMAC, an initiative by Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor, has a mission to celebrate and explore the visual and electronic arts through exhibitions, publications, education, and scholarship. CMAC brings together the programs, services, and projects of several different campus art centers and affiliated non-profit organizations in a collaborative effort to expand the public's awareness, understanding, and involvement in the arts.

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration is a visual guide to the coalition organizations:

* SUArt Galleries is the new amalgamation of the Lowe Art Gallery and the University Art Collection. The Galleries' contribution to the exhibition illustrates the rich diversity of the permanent collection, from the haunting Renaissance images by Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach to the sharp social commentary of Goya. The department's strength in 20th century American art is seen in Martin Lewis' sweltering New York nocturne, Glow of the City, and in a pair of chromed Art Deco poodles by Boris Lovet-Lorski.

* Light Work's Permanent Collection includes work donated by participants in the Artist-in-Residence program. Selected for the exhibition is a photo from Chan Chao's series of Burmese Rebels, also chosen for the 2002 Whitney Biennial. A sense of calm and tenderness is captured, while also bringing greater awareness of the democracy movement in Burma. Carrie Mae Weems investigates the power of racial jokes and the tradition of oral history in a black-and-white photograph incorporating text. The signature weaving technique of Dinh Q. Lê is on view, combining images from the Vietnam War with stills from popular movies. Recognizing how Hollywood's representation of the war stretches from the hyper-real to the surreal, Lê suggests it produces a new kind of memory which is 'neither fact nor fiction.' Also exploring the border of culture and representation are the collaborative team Max Becher and Andrea Robbins. Their series German Indians looks at a long-standing German romanticization of the American West.

* The Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library displays classic images taken for Life magazine by Margaret Bourke-White, alongside her view camera and its travel case; 19th century sideshow performers from the Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs; the first comic strip character, the Yellow Kid, created by Richard Outcault; and playful sketches by the Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer.

* Community Folk Art Center contrasts fearsome masks from West Africa with carnivalesque ones from Mexico. The wooden Liberian visors, once part of the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, and now in CFAC's permanent collection, incorporate natural materials such as feathers and hair. The devil faces flourished with festive paint are from the Mexican folk art collection of Alejandro Garcia, director of SU's School of Social Work.

* The finale of the show is the back room (the former vault of the building), devoted to The Warehouse Gallery's dreamy projection of the future. An enticing list of upcoming initiatives includes an Art Happy Hour for downtowners, a series highlighting young art collectives across North America, and a store for affordable, handcrafted art objects, among others. The gallery's mission is to engage the community in a dialogue regarding the role the arts can play in illuminating the critical issues of our times. Visitors can interact with the displays: a plant-shaped chalkboard asks viewers what they'd like to see in The Warehouse Gallery, clipboards gather information from potential collaborators, labeled Polaroids virtually introduce audiences to one another, and submission applications are dispensed. The gallery will commission Central New York artists to create unique installations for their street-level windows facing the busy intersection of West Fayette and West Streets.

Coalition members are each matched to an indigenous tree for the exhibition. This organizational strategy is in line with The Warehouse Gallery's lively, organic growth and novel way of incorporating regional idiosyncrasies into its international exhibitions.

Vietnam: Journey of the Heart, Photographs By Geoffrey Clifford, 1985-2000
Community Folk Art Center

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

Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)

Perspectives: Contemporary Asian Art, Culture and Identity
Community Folk Art Center

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

Featuring works by: Vinh Dang, Lisa Jong-Soon Goodlin, Joshua Harris, Bea Lee, Mai Lee, Mao Yang Lee, Hye Yeon Nam, Anh Thao and Phong Vu.

African-American Constructs: Designs by Scott Ruff
Community Folk Art Center

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

Ruff is a professor of architecture at Syracuse University. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from Cornell University. He is the recipient of an Alpha Chi Ro Medal for leadership and service. Prior to joining the SU faculty, Ruff taught at Hampton University, the University at Buffalo and Cornell University. Ruff previously worked with the architectural firm of Foit-Albert and Associates.

Ruff formed Ruff Works Studio in 2003. Ruff Works specializes in research and design. One main focus of the studio is the research and cultivation of African-American aesthetics in spatial design. Ruff's publications include an article in Thresholds, "Spatial wRapping: A Speculation on Men's Hip-Hop Fashion," and a book review in the Journal of Architectural Education, "White Papers, Black Marks." He has lectured throughout the United States.

Reclaiming Midwives: Stills from All My Babies
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Highlights the importance of African-American midwives in Southern communities. Robert Gailbrath's black and white photographs document the renowned film All My Babies, nationally utilized as a training film for midwives.

Insightful and Incidental: Portraits from the Collection of Robert M. Infarinato
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Encompasses both insightful images, where the sitter is posed in a setting to illustrate the subject's character or physical form; and incidental portraits, created on the spur of the moment. Photographic art by Edward Steichen, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Mary Ellen Mark.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

The Elegant Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explore the popularity of European Academic style paintings in America during the first decade of the 20th century. Included are paintings by William Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean Leon Gerome, Rudolph Ernst, and Max Gaisser.

Art Nouveau Glass and Pottery
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explores a principle component of the Art Nouveau movement: the Decorative Arts. Works by of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Emile Galle and Frederick Carder, including several of Tiffany's most original works, including examples of his trademark favrile glass.

View on Nam June Paik, a tribute
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Original works on paper by the late Korean video artist Nam June Paik.

Eye on Cinema
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Photographic art by Judy Pfaff, Sandy Skoglund, and Rob Van Erve.

Johan Lowie: Call to Silence
Redhouse

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

An exhibition of oil paintings by Belgian artist Johan Lowie focuses on the human drama, while capturing personal stories and emotions in the Surrealist style.

"My work focuses on the human drama, capturing stories and emotions in one image. The story of waking up at four o'clock in the morning will all your negative feelings of doom, despair or the feeling of pure happiness. How does love feel? The loss of a friend, the first days of spring? The tale of sorrow or eufory captured in deep understanding, the theatre of life in a light of color and composition. How do you paint these human travels universally without showing the obvious but deeper meaning with color and composition."

Contemporary Film Series: Spark Video Program
Everson Museum of Art

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

Throughout the year, Spark serves as a space for students, local artists and community groups to display and perform artwork. This month, we're bringing Spark to the Everson's big screen. Expect the unexpected from a variety of video shorts created by local and international directors. An eclectic mix of performance, cultural critique, animations and eye candy, Spark's video programs are always thought provoking and entertaining. 90 min, various years.

Co-Hosted by the Everson and Spark Contemporary Art Space

Holly Near in concert with John Bucchino

Price: $25.00 advance, $30.00 at the door
H. W. Smith School Auditorium
1130 Salt Springs Rd., Syracuse

The concert is part of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation's "Wonderful Weekend of Oz!" fundraising event. Ms. Near, an outspoken activist, singer, teacher, and recording artist, has spent the past 35 years working for progressive political and social change. Over the years, her powerful anthems have captured the mood of many movements and now her voice and messages are no less urgent than those of 35 years ago. John Bucchino, song-writer and pianist, will be joining her for the performance.

The concert benefits the Gage Foundation which is currently restoring the home of Matilda Joslyn Gage, a Fayetteville resident for over 40 years. Gage was a prominent 19th-century activist, a progressive visionary of woman's rights and human liberation.

Please contact the Gage Foundation at 315-637-9511 or Foundation@MatildaJoslynGage.org to purchase tickets or for further information.

Classics Series: Kobrin Plays Rachmaninoff
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Alexander Kobrin, piano

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

Theofanides Rainbow Body
Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra

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Jack and the Beanstalk
Open Hand Theater

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

Michael Graham's delightful puppets bring this well-loved tale to life, with lots of surprises and a giant family treat.

Aladdin
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Around the World in 80 Days
Syracuse Stage
Russell Treyz, director

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

Climb on board for laughter and adventure as five highly spirited actors joyously recreate Phileas Fogg's exciting trip around the world in 80 days. The year is 1872, the wager is £20,000, the means of transport is pure imagination, and the prize -- true love. All this and an elephant, too.

Play by Mark Brown, based on the novel by Jules Verne.

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Harvey
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

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

Harvey tells the story of Elwood P. Dowd, a pleasant man with one very unusual friend - a six-and-a-half-foot invisible rabbit. When Elwood starts introducing Harvey to guests at a society party, his sister, Veta, has seen as much of his eccentric behavior as she can tolerate. She decides to have him committed to a sanitarium to spare her daughter, Myrtle Mae, and their family from future embarrassment. Problems arise, however, when Veta herself is mistakenly assumed to be on the verge of lunacy when she explains to doctors that years of living with Elwood's hallucination have caused her to see Harvey also! The doctors commit Veta instead of Elwood, but when the truth comes out, the search is on for Elwood and his invisible companion. When he shows up at the sanitarium looking for his lost friend Harvey, it seems that the mild-mannered Elwood's delusion has had a strange influence on more than one of the doctors.

Never the Sinner: The Leopold and Loeb Story
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

It seems as though a "Trial of the Century" happens along every decade, but the 1924 case against Leopold and Loeb in Chicago has fascinated writers and filmmakers for 75 years -- perhaps because it has all the ingredients that make up riveting drama: seduction, deception, and murder.

Although John Logan's play is a courtroom drama, what really moves the plot is how he investigates the question, "Why would two teenagers who have it all -- brilliance, wealth, youth -- commit the most brutal crime, one that stands apart in its viciousness?"

Leopold and Loeb kidnapped and killed a boy from their affluent Chicago neighborhood. The victim, 14-year-old Bobby Franks, was a cousin of Richard Loeb's, but it could have been almost anyone as the two just wanted to experience the thrill of murder.

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A Naked Girl on the Appian Way
Redhouse
Gerard E. Moses, director

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

In A Naked Girl On The Appian Way by Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg, reading, breeding and sibling rivalry take on a whole new twist. This smart and irreverent comedy is about a wildly non-traditional family testing tolerance, acceptance, and the outer limits of love.

The Lapins -- Bess, a successful cookbook author, and her husband Jeffrey, an industry mogul -- await the homecoming of two of their children from a year of European travel. The children reveal surprising news that has mother and father dazed, confused, and questioning the path to proper parenting.

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Around the World in 80 Days
Syracuse Stage
Russell Treyz, director

Price: $44, $39, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Climb on board for laughter and adventure as five highly spirited actors joyously recreate Phileas Fogg's exciting trip around the world in 80 days. The year is 1872, the wager is £20,000, the means of transport is pure imagination, and the prize -- true love. All this and an elephant, too.

Play by Mark Brown, based on the novel by Jules Verne.

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Hello, Dolly!
The Talent Company

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

A joyous, exuberant show that is a song of praise to the undefeatable human spirit, every main character in Hello, Dolly! decides to take a chance once more on life. It is this affirmation of the positive powers of the human spirit that has contributed to the show's success and longevity. With a book by Michael Stewart, based on the play "The Matchmaker" by Thornton Wilder, and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, the show won 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.

During the turn-of-the-century "Gay 90s" in New York City, Dolly Gallagher Levy has her hand in every business from marriages to corset repair, but unofficially, this feminine but shrewd lady is a natural arranger. Dolly promises to help Ambrose Kemper, a struggling artist, win the hand of Ermengarde, the niece of Horace Vandergelder, the Scrooge of Yonkers, while setting her own sights on Vandergelder himself. Along the way, many others become caught up in Dolly's manipulations that result in zany confusion, mistaken identities, and ensuing melees.

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Sunday, October 8, 2006

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Vibrant hand-painted vines lace the gallery walls, cleverly tying together the diverse works and accentuating the "family tree" theme of the exhibition, "CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration". This family consists of members in the recently formed Coalition of Museum and Art Centers. CMAC, an initiative by Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor, has a mission to celebrate and explore the visual and electronic arts through exhibitions, publications, education, and scholarship. CMAC brings together the programs, services, and projects of several different campus art centers and affiliated non-profit organizations in a collaborative effort to expand the public's awareness, understanding, and involvement in the arts.

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration is a visual guide to the coalition organizations:

* SUArt Galleries is the new amalgamation of the Lowe Art Gallery and the University Art Collection. The Galleries' contribution to the exhibition illustrates the rich diversity of the permanent collection, from the haunting Renaissance images by Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach to the sharp social commentary of Goya. The department's strength in 20th century American art is seen in Martin Lewis' sweltering New York nocturne, Glow of the City, and in a pair of chromed Art Deco poodles by Boris Lovet-Lorski.

* Light Work's Permanent Collection includes work donated by participants in the Artist-in-Residence program. Selected for the exhibition is a photo from Chan Chao's series of Burmese Rebels, also chosen for the 2002 Whitney Biennial. A sense of calm and tenderness is captured, while also bringing greater awareness of the democracy movement in Burma. Carrie Mae Weems investigates the power of racial jokes and the tradition of oral history in a black-and-white photograph incorporating text. The signature weaving technique of Dinh Q. Lê is on view, combining images from the Vietnam War with stills from popular movies. Recognizing how Hollywood's representation of the war stretches from the hyper-real to the surreal, Lê suggests it produces a new kind of memory which is 'neither fact nor fiction.' Also exploring the border of culture and representation are the collaborative team Max Becher and Andrea Robbins. Their series German Indians looks at a long-standing German romanticization of the American West.

* The Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library displays classic images taken for Life magazine by Margaret Bourke-White, alongside her view camera and its travel case; 19th century sideshow performers from the Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs; the first comic strip character, the Yellow Kid, created by Richard Outcault; and playful sketches by the Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer.

* Community Folk Art Center contrasts fearsome masks from West Africa with carnivalesque ones from Mexico. The wooden Liberian visors, once part of the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, and now in CFAC's permanent collection, incorporate natural materials such as feathers and hair. The devil faces flourished with festive paint are from the Mexican folk art collection of Alejandro Garcia, director of SU's School of Social Work.

* The finale of the show is the back room (the former vault of the building), devoted to The Warehouse Gallery's dreamy projection of the future. An enticing list of upcoming initiatives includes an Art Happy Hour for downtowners, a series highlighting young art collectives across North America, and a store for affordable, handcrafted art objects, among others. The gallery's mission is to engage the community in a dialogue regarding the role the arts can play in illuminating the critical issues of our times. Visitors can interact with the displays: a plant-shaped chalkboard asks viewers what they'd like to see in The Warehouse Gallery, clipboards gather information from potential collaborators, labeled Polaroids virtually introduce audiences to one another, and submission applications are dispensed. The gallery will commission Central New York artists to create unique installations for their street-level windows facing the busy intersection of West Fayette and West Streets.

Coalition members are each matched to an indigenous tree for the exhibition. This organizational strategy is in line with The Warehouse Gallery's lively, organic growth and novel way of incorporating regional idiosyncrasies into its international exhibitions.

Art Nouveau Glass and Pottery
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explores a principle component of the Art Nouveau movement: the Decorative Arts. Works by of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Emile Galle and Frederick Carder, including several of Tiffany's most original works, including examples of his trademark favrile glass.

The Elegant Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explore the popularity of European Academic style paintings in America during the first decade of the 20th century. Included are paintings by William Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean Leon Gerome, Rudolph Ernst, and Max Gaisser.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Insightful and Incidental: Portraits from the Collection of Robert M. Infarinato
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Encompasses both insightful images, where the sitter is posed in a setting to illustrate the subject's character or physical form; and incidental portraits, created on the spur of the moment. Photographic art by Edward Steichen, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Mary Ellen Mark.

Reclaiming Midwives: Stills from All My Babies
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Highlights the importance of African-American midwives in Southern communities. Robert Gailbrath's black and white photographs document the renowned film All My Babies, nationally utilized as a training film for midwives.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

Associated Artists Annual Juried Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

This year marks the 80th consecutive year that this show has taken place. It is the first year in the new gallery which is part of the recently expanded and remodeled Manlius Library. The Gordon Steele Medal will be awarded for Best of Show. This award, given out since 1962, includes a cash prize and a solo exhibit in the Library Gallery. This year's show is being juried by Merilee French Freeman and Claude Freeman, both Adjunct Professors of Painting in the Art Department at OCC.

The Wizard of Oz
Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation

Price: $10; $30 for family of up to 5
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

When it was first released in 1939, the soon-to-be-classic Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Judy Garland Wizard of Oz played locally at The Palace Theater. Now the film returns to this newly-renovated venue in an extraordinary, one-time-only "Ozzy" night at the movies. Enjoy the Technicolor splendor, songs, comedy, and magic of Baum's story and characters on the big screen -- as they were meant to be experienced -- and revel in a specially selected supporting program of Oz (or 1939) related trailers, an Oz cartoon, and the historical perspective and anecdotes provided by host John Fricke. Period costumes, refreshments, and exhibits will be featured as well.

Tickets can be purchased at the door or in advance through the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation at 315-637-9511 or Foundation@MatildaJoslynGage.org.

The event is part of the Wonderful Weekend of Oz, presented by the Gage Foundation Oct. 6-8. L. Frank Baum, author of the Wizard of Oz, was Gage's son-in-law. A full listing of events is at www.MatildaJoslynGage.com.

The Minimalists: Master & Disciples
Society for New Music

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

Steve Reich Sextet
Marc Mellits M&W
Marty Bresnick Ballade, 2004

Around the World in 80 Days
Syracuse Stage
Russell Treyz, director

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

Climb on board for laughter and adventure as five highly spirited actors joyously recreate Phileas Fogg's exciting trip around the world in 80 days. The year is 1872, the wager is £20,000, the means of transport is pure imagination, and the prize -- true love. All this and an elephant, too.

Play by Mark Brown, based on the novel by Jules Verne.

Read a Review!

Hello, Dolly!
The Talent Company

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

A joyous, exuberant show that is a song of praise to the undefeatable human spirit, every main character in Hello, Dolly! decides to take a chance once more on life. It is this affirmation of the positive powers of the human spirit that has contributed to the show's success and longevity. With a book by Michael Stewart, based on the play "The Matchmaker" by Thornton Wilder, and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, the show won 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.

During the turn-of-the-century "Gay 90s" in New York City, Dolly Gallagher Levy has her hand in every business from marriages to corset repair, but unofficially, this feminine but shrewd lady is a natural arranger. Dolly promises to help Ambrose Kemper, a struggling artist, win the hand of Ermengarde, the niece of Horace Vandergelder, the Scrooge of Yonkers, while setting her own sights on Vandergelder himself. Along the way, many others become caught up in Dolly's manipulations that result in zany confusion, mistaken identities, and ensuing melees.

Read a review!

Monday, October 9, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase #57
CNY Arts

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

Visual Arts Showcase #57 features 19 local visual artists presenting work in varied media.
Featured Artists: Joan Applebaum, Dan Bacich, Marna Bell, Michael Berman, Judith Brown-Roenbeck, Robert Carroll, Joe Cerio, Anne Childress, Mary Lou Colgin, Shelly Coryell, Ben Donzella, Joy Englehart, Kathy Gibbons, Richard Karuzas, Steve Koh, Allen Kosoff, Joe LeFevre, Yolanda Tooley, Noelle Uebele

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Gallery Exhibit: Jian-Guo Xu
Onondaga Community College

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

Mixed-media paintings bridging Eastern and Western artistic traditions.

Associated Artists Annual Juried Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

This year marks the 80th consecutive year that this show has taken place. It is the first year in the new gallery which is part of the recently expanded and remodeled Manlius Library. The Gordon Steele Medal will be awarded for Best of Show. This award, given out since 1962, includes a cash prize and a solo exhibit in the Library Gallery. This year's show is being juried by Merilee French Freeman and Claude Freeman, both Adjunct Professors of Painting in the Art Department at OCC.

Members Only: Beatrix Reinhardt
Light Work Gallery

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

German photographer Beatrix Reinhardt's images in the exhibition take an inside look at members-only clubs worldwide, which Reinhardt views as special entities that provide a community for their members while excluding everyone else. Her images capture the marks left behind by members of the club. They are devoid of people but speak volumes about club members.

Reinhardt spends most of her time making phone calls and knocking on doors to gain permission to enter clubs. Since starting the series in 2003, she has traveled to places as far away as Australia, Great Britain and China to capture these images. She is currently photographing in Queens, NY, where membership clubs are plentiful and rich in visuals. Some of these exclusive clubs can require years on a waiting list, and many have membership dues ranging from minimal to tens of thousands of dollars per year.

Reinhardt grew up in Jena, Germany, and has lived in the United States on and off for more than 10 years. She completed a residency at Light Work in January 2006 and has also participated in residencies in Australia, India and China. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally, most recently at the Minnesota Center of Photography in Minneapolis, the Silver Eye Center of Photography in Pittsburgh, and Sam Romo in Atlanta. She will also have an exhibition this year in Finland.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase #57
CNY Arts

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

Visual Arts Showcase #57 features 19 local visual artists presenting work in varied media.
Featured Artists: Joan Applebaum, Dan Bacich, Marna Bell, Michael Berman, Judith Brown-Roenbeck, Robert Carroll, Joe Cerio, Anne Childress, Mary Lou Colgin, Shelly Coryell, Ben Donzella, Joy Englehart, Kathy Gibbons, Richard Karuzas, Steve Koh, Allen Kosoff, Joe LeFevre, Yolanda Tooley, Noelle Uebele

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Gallery Exhibit: Jian-Guo Xu
Onondaga Community College

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

Mixed-media paintings bridging Eastern and Western artistic traditions.

Associated Artists Annual Juried Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

This year marks the 80th consecutive year that this show has taken place. It is the first year in the new gallery which is part of the recently expanded and remodeled Manlius Library. The Gordon Steele Medal will be awarded for Best of Show. This award, given out since 1962, includes a cash prize and a solo exhibit in the Library Gallery. This year's show is being juried by Merilee French Freeman and Claude Freeman, both Adjunct Professors of Painting in the Art Department at OCC.

Vietnam: Journey of the Heart, Photographs By Geoffrey Clifford, 1985-2000
Community Folk Art Center

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

Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)

African-American Constructs: Designs by Scott Ruff
Community Folk Art Center

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

Ruff is a professor of architecture at Syracuse University. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from Cornell University. He is the recipient of an Alpha Chi Ro Medal for leadership and service. Prior to joining the SU faculty, Ruff taught at Hampton University, the University at Buffalo and Cornell University. Ruff previously worked with the architectural firm of Foit-Albert and Associates.

Ruff formed Ruff Works Studio in 2003. Ruff Works specializes in research and design. One main focus of the studio is the research and cultivation of African-American aesthetics in spatial design. Ruff's publications include an article in Thresholds, "Spatial wRapping: A Speculation on Men's Hip-Hop Fashion," and a book review in the Journal of Architectural Education, "White Papers, Black Marks." He has lectured throughout the United States.

Perspectives: Contemporary Asian Art, Culture and Identity
Community Folk Art Center

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

Featuring works by: Vinh Dang, Lisa Jong-Soon Goodlin, Joshua Harris, Bea Lee, Mai Lee, Mao Yang Lee, Hye Yeon Nam, Anh Thao and Phong Vu.

Members Only: Beatrix Reinhardt
Light Work Gallery

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

German photographer Beatrix Reinhardt's images in the exhibition take an inside look at members-only clubs worldwide, which Reinhardt views as special entities that provide a community for their members while excluding everyone else. Her images capture the marks left behind by members of the club. They are devoid of people but speak volumes about club members.

Reinhardt spends most of her time making phone calls and knocking on doors to gain permission to enter clubs. Since starting the series in 2003, she has traveled to places as far away as Australia, Great Britain and China to capture these images. She is currently photographing in Queens, NY, where membership clubs are plentiful and rich in visuals. Some of these exclusive clubs can require years on a waiting list, and many have membership dues ranging from minimal to tens of thousands of dollars per year.

Reinhardt grew up in Jena, Germany, and has lived in the United States on and off for more than 10 years. She completed a residency at Light Work in January 2006 and has also participated in residencies in Australia, India and China. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally, most recently at the Minnesota Center of Photography in Minneapolis, the Silver Eye Center of Photography in Pittsburgh, and Sam Romo in Atlanta. She will also have an exhibition this year in Finland.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Overcoming Inertia: Works of Kathryn Rose Martini, fibers artist
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Kathryn Rose Martini graduated from Syracuse University with a BFA in Fiber Structure and Interlocking. Beyond exhibitions over the past 6 years she has used her interest in creativity within the community working with children, both in the visual arts and conducting dance interactive workshops hoping to promote a comfort and curiousity in the arts. She has donated her time and efforts to several local non-profit institutions and organizations. Recent work is on view through September 30 at the Delavan Art Gallery in their Fashion Fashion exhibition. Martini lives and works in Syracuse.

Through a Glass Dimly: Works of Willam Finch, painter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Vibrant hand-painted vines lace the gallery walls, cleverly tying together the diverse works and accentuating the "family tree" theme of the exhibition, "CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration". This family consists of members in the recently formed Coalition of Museum and Art Centers. CMAC, an initiative by Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor, has a mission to celebrate and explore the visual and electronic arts through exhibitions, publications, education, and scholarship. CMAC brings together the programs, services, and projects of several different campus art centers and affiliated non-profit organizations in a collaborative effort to expand the public's awareness, understanding, and involvement in the arts.

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration is a visual guide to the coalition organizations:

* SUArt Galleries is the new amalgamation of the Lowe Art Gallery and the University Art Collection. The Galleries' contribution to the exhibition illustrates the rich diversity of the permanent collection, from the haunting Renaissance images by Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach to the sharp social commentary of Goya. The department's strength in 20th century American art is seen in Martin Lewis' sweltering New York nocturne, Glow of the City, and in a pair of chromed Art Deco poodles by Boris Lovet-Lorski.

* Light Work's Permanent Collection includes work donated by participants in the Artist-in-Residence program. Selected for the exhibition is a photo from Chan Chao's series of Burmese Rebels, also chosen for the 2002 Whitney Biennial. A sense of calm and tenderness is captured, while also bringing greater awareness of the democracy movement in Burma. Carrie Mae Weems investigates the power of racial jokes and the tradition of oral history in a black-and-white photograph incorporating text. The signature weaving technique of Dinh Q. Lê is on view, combining images from the Vietnam War with stills from popular movies. Recognizing how Hollywood's representation of the war stretches from the hyper-real to the surreal, Lê suggests it produces a new kind of memory which is 'neither fact nor fiction.' Also exploring the border of culture and representation are the collaborative team Max Becher and Andrea Robbins. Their series German Indians looks at a long-standing German romanticization of the American West.

* The Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library displays classic images taken for Life magazine by Margaret Bourke-White, alongside her view camera and its travel case; 19th century sideshow performers from the Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs; the first comic strip character, the Yellow Kid, created by Richard Outcault; and playful sketches by the Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer.

* Community Folk Art Center contrasts fearsome masks from West Africa with carnivalesque ones from Mexico. The wooden Liberian visors, once part of the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, and now in CFAC's permanent collection, incorporate natural materials such as feathers and hair. The devil faces flourished with festive paint are from the Mexican folk art collection of Alejandro Garcia, director of SU's School of Social Work.

* The finale of the show is the back room (the former vault of the building), devoted to The Warehouse Gallery's dreamy projection of the future. An enticing list of upcoming initiatives includes an Art Happy Hour for downtowners, a series highlighting young art collectives across North America, and a store for affordable, handcrafted art objects, among others. The gallery's mission is to engage the community in a dialogue regarding the role the arts can play in illuminating the critical issues of our times. Visitors can interact with the displays: a plant-shaped chalkboard asks viewers what they'd like to see in The Warehouse Gallery, clipboards gather information from potential collaborators, labeled Polaroids virtually introduce audiences to one another, and submission applications are dispensed. The gallery will commission Central New York artists to create unique installations for their street-level windows facing the busy intersection of West Fayette and West Streets.

Coalition members are each matched to an indigenous tree for the exhibition. This organizational strategy is in line with The Warehouse Gallery's lively, organic growth and novel way of incorporating regional idiosyncrasies into its international exhibitions.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

The Elegant Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explore the popularity of European Academic style paintings in America during the first decade of the 20th century. Included are paintings by William Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean Leon Gerome, Rudolph Ernst, and Max Gaisser.

Art Nouveau Glass and Pottery
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explores a principle component of the Art Nouveau movement: the Decorative Arts. Works by of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Emile Galle and Frederick Carder, including several of Tiffany's most original works, including examples of his trademark favrile glass.

Reclaiming Midwives: Stills from All My Babies
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Highlights the importance of African-American midwives in Southern communities. Robert Gailbrath's black and white photographs document the renowned film All My Babies, nationally utilized as a training film for midwives.

Insightful and Incidental: Portraits from the Collection of Robert M. Infarinato
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Encompasses both insightful images, where the sitter is posed in a setting to illustrate the subject's character or physical form; and incidental portraits, created on the spur of the moment. Photographic art by Edward Steichen, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Mary Ellen Mark.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

Ballet Hispanico
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

Price: $20 general; $10 SU faculty/staff/alumni; $5 students with SU ID
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Ballet Hispanico Company will display its distinctive blend of ballet, modern and Latin dance. Celebrated for its innovative repertory and sizzling artistry, Ballet Hispanico embodies the vitality of Hispanic culture and its contributions to contemporary dance and modern American culture. Established in 1970 by Tina Ramirez, the company performs works inspired by an aspect of Hispanic culture, set in a lively and colorful atmosphere that celebrates Latino heritage.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Degas String Quartet

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

Schubert String Quintet in C Major, with guest cellist Caroline Stinson
Andrew Waggoner String Quartet No. 4 "My Penelope"

Waggoner is composer in residence at the Setnor School and chair of the Department of Composition and Theory. Commissioned by the Degas Quartet, My Penelope will officially premiere Nov. 3 at NOCCA Riverfront in New Orleans, as part of a benefit concert for the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. My Penelope (String Quartet no. 4) was composed in spring and summer 2006 for the Degas Quartet. The title is Waggoner's personal take on Homer's epic poem The Odyssey, as related to recent events in the city of New Orleans. Waggoner was born in New Orleans and studied at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. The Odyssey concerns the events that befall Greek hero Odysseus in his journey back to his native land, wife Penelope and son Telemachus after the fall of Troy.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band

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

Mamma Mia!
Broadway in Syracuse
Featuring Syracuse-native Carrie Manolakos

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

Writer Catherine Johnson's sunny, funny tale unfolds on a Greek island paradise. On the eve of her wedding, a daughter's quest to discover the identity of her father brings three men from her mother's past back to the island they last visited 20 years ago. The story-telling magic of ABBA's timeless songs propels this enchanting tale of love, laughter and friendship, and every night everyone's having the time of their lives!

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Around the World in 80 Days
Syracuse Stage
Russell Treyz, director

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

Climb on board for laughter and adventure as five highly spirited actors joyously recreate Phileas Fogg's exciting trip around the world in 80 days. The year is 1872, the wager is £20,000, the means of transport is pure imagination, and the prize -- true love. All this and an elephant, too.

Play by Mark Brown, based on the novel by Jules Verne.

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Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Atrium Exhibit: National Kitchen and Bath Design Competition
Onondaga Community College

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

National Kitchen and Bath Design Competition featuring nine professional designers from the Central New York region. Display will also include five of the winning entries from last years competition.

Visual Arts Showcase #57
CNY Arts

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

Visual Arts Showcase #57 features 19 local visual artists presenting work in varied media.
Featured Artists: Joan Applebaum, Dan Bacich, Marna Bell, Michael Berman, Judith Brown-Roenbeck, Robert Carroll, Joe Cerio, Anne Childress, Mary Lou Colgin, Shelly Coryell, Ben Donzella, Joy Englehart, Kathy Gibbons, Richard Karuzas, Steve Koh, Allen Kosoff, Joe LeFevre, Yolanda Tooley, Noelle Uebele

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Gallery Exhibit: Jian-Guo Xu
Onondaga Community College

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

Mixed-media paintings bridging Eastern and Western artistic traditions.

Associated Artists Annual Juried Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

This year marks the 80th consecutive year that this show has taken place. It is the first year in the new gallery which is part of the recently expanded and remodeled Manlius Library. The Gordon Steele Medal will be awarded for Best of Show. This award, given out since 1962, includes a cash prize and a solo exhibit in the Library Gallery. This year's show is being juried by Merilee French Freeman and Claude Freeman, both Adjunct Professors of Painting in the Art Department at OCC.

Vietnam: Journey of the Heart, Photographs By Geoffrey Clifford, 1985-2000
Community Folk Art Center

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

Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)

African-American Constructs: Designs by Scott Ruff
Community Folk Art Center

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

Ruff is a professor of architecture at Syracuse University. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from Cornell University. He is the recipient of an Alpha Chi Ro Medal for leadership and service. Prior to joining the SU faculty, Ruff taught at Hampton University, the University at Buffalo and Cornell University. Ruff previously worked with the architectural firm of Foit-Albert and Associates.

Ruff formed Ruff Works Studio in 2003. Ruff Works specializes in research and design. One main focus of the studio is the research and cultivation of African-American aesthetics in spatial design. Ruff's publications include an article in Thresholds, "Spatial wRapping: A Speculation on Men's Hip-Hop Fashion," and a book review in the Journal of Architectural Education, "White Papers, Black Marks." He has lectured throughout the United States.

Perspectives: Contemporary Asian Art, Culture and Identity
Community Folk Art Center

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

Featuring works by: Vinh Dang, Lisa Jong-Soon Goodlin, Joshua Harris, Bea Lee, Mai Lee, Mao Yang Lee, Hye Yeon Nam, Anh Thao and Phong Vu.

Members Only: Beatrix Reinhardt
Light Work Gallery

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

German photographer Beatrix Reinhardt's images in the exhibition take an inside look at members-only clubs worldwide, which Reinhardt views as special entities that provide a community for their members while excluding everyone else. Her images capture the marks left behind by members of the club. They are devoid of people but speak volumes about club members.

Reinhardt spends most of her time making phone calls and knocking on doors to gain permission to enter clubs. Since starting the series in 2003, she has traveled to places as far away as Australia, Great Britain and China to capture these images. She is currently photographing in Queens, NY, where membership clubs are plentiful and rich in visuals. Some of these exclusive clubs can require years on a waiting list, and many have membership dues ranging from minimal to tens of thousands of dollars per year.

Reinhardt grew up in Jena, Germany, and has lived in the United States on and off for more than 10 years. She completed a residency at Light Work in January 2006 and has also participated in residencies in Australia, India and China. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally, most recently at the Minnesota Center of Photography in Minneapolis, the Silver Eye Center of Photography in Pittsburgh, and Sam Romo in Atlanta. She will also have an exhibition this year in Finland.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Through a Glass Dimly: Works of Willam Finch, painter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Overcoming Inertia: Works of Kathryn Rose Martini, fibers artist
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Kathryn Rose Martini graduated from Syracuse University with a BFA in Fiber Structure and Interlocking. Beyond exhibitions over the past 6 years she has used her interest in creativity within the community working with children, both in the visual arts and conducting dance interactive workshops hoping to promote a comfort and curiousity in the arts. She has donated her time and efforts to several local non-profit institutions and organizations. Recent work is on view through September 30 at the Delavan Art Gallery in their Fashion Fashion exhibition. Martini lives and works in Syracuse.

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Vibrant hand-painted vines lace the gallery walls, cleverly tying together the diverse works and accentuating the "family tree" theme of the exhibition, "CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration". This family consists of members in the recently formed Coalition of Museum and Art Centers. CMAC, an initiative by Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor, has a mission to celebrate and explore the visual and electronic arts through exhibitions, publications, education, and scholarship. CMAC brings together the programs, services, and projects of several different campus art centers and affiliated non-profit organizations in a collaborative effort to expand the public's awareness, understanding, and involvement in the arts.

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration is a visual guide to the coalition organizations:

* SUArt Galleries is the new amalgamation of the Lowe Art Gallery and the University Art Collection. The Galleries' contribution to the exhibition illustrates the rich diversity of the permanent collection, from the haunting Renaissance images by Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach to the sharp social commentary of Goya. The department's strength in 20th century American art is seen in Martin Lewis' sweltering New York nocturne, Glow of the City, and in a pair of chromed Art Deco poodles by Boris Lovet-Lorski.

* Light Work's Permanent Collection includes work donated by participants in the Artist-in-Residence program. Selected for the exhibition is a photo from Chan Chao's series of Burmese Rebels, also chosen for the 2002 Whitney Biennial. A sense of calm and tenderness is captured, while also bringing greater awareness of the democracy movement in Burma. Carrie Mae Weems investigates the power of racial jokes and the tradition of oral history in a black-and-white photograph incorporating text. The signature weaving technique of Dinh Q. Lê is on view, combining images from the Vietnam War with stills from popular movies. Recognizing how Hollywood's representation of the war stretches from the hyper-real to the surreal, Lê suggests it produces a new kind of memory which is 'neither fact nor fiction.' Also exploring the border of culture and representation are the collaborative team Max Becher and Andrea Robbins. Their series German Indians looks at a long-standing German romanticization of the American West.

* The Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library displays classic images taken for Life magazine by Margaret Bourke-White, alongside her view camera and its travel case; 19th century sideshow performers from the Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs; the first comic strip character, the Yellow Kid, created by Richard Outcault; and playful sketches by the Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer.

* Community Folk Art Center contrasts fearsome masks from West Africa with carnivalesque ones from Mexico. The wooden Liberian visors, once part of the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, and now in CFAC's permanent collection, incorporate natural materials such as feathers and hair. The devil faces flourished with festive paint are from the Mexican folk art collection of Alejandro Garcia, director of SU's School of Social Work.

* The finale of the show is the back room (the former vault of the building), devoted to The Warehouse Gallery's dreamy projection of the future. An enticing list of upcoming initiatives includes an Art Happy Hour for downtowners, a series highlighting young art collectives across North America, and a store for affordable, handcrafted art objects, among others. The gallery's mission is to engage the community in a dialogue regarding the role the arts can play in illuminating the critical issues of our times. Visitors can interact with the displays: a plant-shaped chalkboard asks viewers what they'd like to see in The Warehouse Gallery, clipboards gather information from potential collaborators, labeled Polaroids virtually introduce audiences to one another, and submission applications are dispensed. The gallery will commission Central New York artists to create unique installations for their street-level windows facing the busy intersection of West Fayette and West Streets.

Coalition members are each matched to an indigenous tree for the exhibition. This organizational strategy is in line with The Warehouse Gallery's lively, organic growth and novel way of incorporating regional idiosyncrasies into its international exhibitions.

Art Nouveau Glass and Pottery
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explores a principle component of the Art Nouveau movement: the Decorative Arts. Works by of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Emile Galle and Frederick Carder, including several of Tiffany's most original works, including examples of his trademark favrile glass.

The Elegant Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explore the popularity of European Academic style paintings in America during the first decade of the 20th century. Included are paintings by William Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean Leon Gerome, Rudolph Ernst, and Max Gaisser.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Insightful and Incidental: Portraits from the Collection of Robert M. Infarinato
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Encompasses both insightful images, where the sitter is posed in a setting to illustrate the subject's character or physical form; and incidental portraits, created on the spur of the moment. Photographic art by Edward Steichen, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Mary Ellen Mark.

Reclaiming Midwives: Stills from All My Babies
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Highlights the importance of African-American midwives in Southern communities. Robert Gailbrath's black and white photographs document the renowned film All My Babies, nationally utilized as a training film for midwives.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

Recent Work: Architects Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

Architects Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam are founders and principals of Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects Inc. in Atlanta.

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

Civic Morning Musicals
Tom McKay, clarinet; Susan Crocker, piano

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

Music of Brahms, Muczynski.

Onondaga Community College
OCC Wind Ensemble

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

David Holsiinger On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss, Frank Ticheli's arrangment of Amazing Grace, Robert W. Smith's The Divine Comedy, and works by Strauss and Bach.

Redhouse Live: Jana Losey & J.E. Borgen
Redhouse

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

The New York Times says Jana Losey's music is "seductive...sinks under your skin." A recent central New York transplant from San Diego, she and her Ithaca-based band will be co-headlining with J.E. Borgen. J.E. is one of Boston's finest and most promising young Berkelee School of Music songwriters.

Mamma Mia!
Broadway in Syracuse
Featuring Syracuse-native Carrie Manolakos

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

Writer Catherine Johnson's sunny, funny tale unfolds on a Greek island paradise. On the eve of her wedding, a daughter's quest to discover the identity of her father brings three men from her mother's past back to the island they last visited 20 years ago. The story-telling magic of ABBA's timeless songs propels this enchanting tale of love, laughter and friendship, and every night everyone's having the time of their lives!

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