Monday, March 5, 2007

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

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

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

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

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

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

Gallery Exhibit: Aida Khalil, Stephen Datz and Syau-Cheng Lai
Onondaga Community College

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

A stunning exhibit of paintings, sculpture and mixed media works.

Playthings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Drawing by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma.

Roy Bautista:
I am interested in how I learn things. And how much I learn by looking. And how much more can be learned by looking harder. A longer look at people and how people communicate, and much can be read in a body's posture and movement. The word, understand implies a pose, a stand taken. We understand through our bodies, our own physical limitations of dancing, running, and wrestling. To stop any one pose of the body during any instantaneous action is to elevate it to drama or switch it into a performance, a portent. Micro-expressions flash for an instant that can divulge much information that is not stated verbally, precisely. I am interested in the idea of play, and playing with objects, which can be made to assume poses, fetishes that can be made to represent beings.

Natalia Porter:
I'm interested in creating art that make us reflect on our relationship with objects, on the significance and value we assign to them, particularly those objects which we use everyday.

Ami Suma:
My obsession is to make you giggle and remember childhood feelings, so I am obsessed with fun textures. Textures that give me goose bumps; odd shapes and silhouettes, toys that stimulate the senses of both young and old.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

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

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

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

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

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

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

Gallery Exhibit: Aida Khalil, Stephen Datz and Syau-Cheng Lai
Onondaga Community College

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

A stunning exhibit of paintings, sculpture and mixed media works.

Playthings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Drawing by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma.

Roy Bautista:
I am interested in how I learn things. And how much I learn by looking. And how much more can be learned by looking harder. A longer look at people and how people communicate, and much can be read in a body's posture and movement. The word, understand implies a pose, a stand taken. We understand through our bodies, our own physical limitations of dancing, running, and wrestling. To stop any one pose of the body during any instantaneous action is to elevate it to drama or switch it into a performance, a portent. Micro-expressions flash for an instant that can divulge much information that is not stated verbally, precisely. I am interested in the idea of play, and playing with objects, which can be made to assume poses, fetishes that can be made to represent beings.

Natalia Porter:
I'm interested in creating art that make us reflect on our relationship with objects, on the significance and value we assign to them, particularly those objects which we use everyday.

Ami Suma:
My obsession is to make you giggle and remember childhood feelings, so I am obsessed with fun textures. Textures that give me goose bumps; odd shapes and silhouettes, toys that stimulate the senses of both young and old.

Impressions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Oil paintings by Eric Shute, watercolors by Stephen Ryan, and ceramics by Bobbi Lamb.

Environmental Injustice and the Artist Response to Hurricane Katrina
Community Folk Art Center

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

When photographers Donn Young and Gus Bennett, Jr., stared loss in the face after Hurricane Katrina they searched through their emotional and physical lives, assessed the damage and moved on. They entered spaces and captured images and rescued items that were difficult to see, but needed to be saved in order to help tell the story of New Orleans.

Donn Young returned to New Orleans to find his studio and over one million images taken during his 25 year career virtually eliminated. In light of this, he began documenting the devastation of not just his life, but the lives of others in the City as well. Gus Bennett documented the efforts of curator and archivist Linda Hill to rescue a collection of African antiquities that were left unattended and deteriorating on a local university campus. She endured the hazardous environment, located the items, removed them and began working to restore them.

For those who make New Orleans their home after Katrina, it is not always easy to find the beauty that has been covered up by the debris of the storm. This exhibition is about three remarkable individuals who chose to help save New Orleans through their individual efforts and are now sharing those efforts collectively; a metaphor for what it takes to live in New Orleans
­ today.

This exhibition will challenge your senses, in part, because we dare to display the images of objects that under different circumstances would be gazed upon with notions of beauty, humor and historic documentation. In this context, however, we are sharing those objects in their vulnerable state, straddling the line, in appearance, of art and refuse. This is a story about seeing devastation, experiencing the pain and moving forward by will and choice.

Read a review!

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

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

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

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

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

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Staging the coldest season as a playground for imagination, The Warehouse Gallery presents Embracing Winter, a group exhibition featuring knitted sculpture, psychedelic video, interactive displays, sly photography, and crisp audio and book works by American, Canadian and Italian artists: Janet Morton, Bruno Munari, Takeshi Murata, Collin Olan, Lisa M. Robinson, and Rudy Shepherd

Syracuse is the perennial winner of the Golden Snowball Award, for the most snowfall in New York State. Embracing Winter celebrates this crystallized precipitation as the key to a delightful set of activities, and as an ephemeral filter to make ordinary surroundings new again.

Read a review!

Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

On the Edge of Pop
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

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

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

A New Refutation of Time (Still Images in Sequence)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Syracuse City School District high school students worked at the e-tags gallery and studio with video artist Ryan Tebo. After four weeks, students created a visual representation of their own concept of time through still photography, which was then sequenced into one-minute video shorts. Student artists include: Corbin Bryant and Susan Drake from Nottingham High School; Varvara Mikushkina, Manual Bova and Teddy Bratt from Henninger High School; and Ryan Gallagher and Leah Bucher from Corcoran High School.

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

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

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

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

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

Prisoners of Freedom
Redhouse

Price: $6
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Prisoners of Freedom, by filmmaker Owen Shapiro, is a very unusual dramatized documentary
which explores the little-known episode in American history when 982 European refugees were brought to the United States and interred in a camp behind a barbed wire fence in Oswego, NY during WWII. Blending narration, actual interviews with surviving refugees, and recreated dramatic events the film brings to life the complex, often contradictory feelings of these refugees who found themselves in a hazy gray realm between freedom and imprisonment.

Tim Lowly, realist painter
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Maxwell Auditorium
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Visiting Artist and Speakers Program will present a lecture by Chicago-based realist painter Tim Lowly. The realism and quiet spirituality of Lowly's work has given him a national reputation. His subjects include scenes from everyday life -- from America's city streets to South Korean villages. Lowly has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and South Korea. His work can be seen in the collections of the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, the Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at UCLA. He is gallery director, assistant professor and artist-in-residence at Chicago's North Park University.

Parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, contact Kathy Tills at 315-443-2186 or kmtills@syr.edu.

Governing in an Era of Tribal Politics: The Twilight of the Bush Administration and the Election Ahead
University Lectures
Featuring Norman Ornstein

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Norman Ornstein is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and an election analyst for CBS News. Ornstein writes a weekly column called "Congress Inside Out" for the Roll Call newspaper. He also has written for The New York Times, the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs and other major publications. Ornstein frequently appears on news and public affairs programs, including "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer," "Nightline" and "Charlie Rose." Ornstein also dabbles in comedy and has worked with Al Franken since 1992, when he served as Comedy Central's pollster and commentator covering that year's conventions and election. Ornstein's latest book, "The Broken Branch: How Congress is Failing America and How to Get it Back on Track," co-authored by Thomas E. Mann, will be published shortly by Oxford University Press.

Onondaga Community College
OCC Percussion Ensemble

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Peking Acrobats
CNY Arts

Price: $7, $8
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Peking Acrobats, a troupe of China's most gifted tumblers, contortionists, jugglers, cyclists and gymnasts complemented by live musicians playing traditional Chinese instruments bring their 2,000 year-old tradition of acrobatics to downtown Syracuse. Since 1958, this elite group has toured the world over, leaving audiences spellbound by the graceful presentation of their ancient folk art, acrobatics. The Peking Acrobats are sure to amaze and excite audiences of all ages. Tickets are available at the Cultural Resources Council Box Office.

The Peking Acrobats
CNY Arts

Price: $7, $8
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Peking Acrobats, a troupe of China's most gifted tumblers, contortionists, jugglers, cyclists and gymnasts complemented by live musicians playing traditional Chinese instruments bring their 2,000 year-old tradition of acrobatics to downtown Syracuse. Since 1958, this elite group has toured the world over, leaving audiences spellbound by the graceful presentation of their ancient folk art, acrobatics. The Peking Acrobats are sure to amaze and excite audiences of all ages. Tickets are available at the Cultural Resources Council Box Office.

Gem of the Ocean
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

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

Lyric, poetic, and infused with singular spiritualism, Gem of the Ocean marks the chronological beginning of August Wilson's towering 10-play cycle of African-American life in the 20th century. The year is 1904, when slavery was a palpable memory. The place is Wilson's familiar haunt, the Hill District of Pittsburgh. A young man named Citizen seeks atonement for a crime for which there is no forgiveness. His only hope is 285-year-old Aunt Esther, the spiritual center of the community and its collective history, who guides him on a journey to the "City of Bones," the watery graves of those who perished on the journey to slavery, a past he needs to embrace.

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007

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

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

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

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

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

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

Gallery Exhibit: Aida Khalil, Stephen Datz and Syau-Cheng Lai
Onondaga Community College

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

A stunning exhibit of paintings, sculpture and mixed media works.

Playthings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Drawing by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma.

Roy Bautista:
I am interested in how I learn things. And how much I learn by looking. And how much more can be learned by looking harder. A longer look at people and how people communicate, and much can be read in a body's posture and movement. The word, understand implies a pose, a stand taken. We understand through our bodies, our own physical limitations of dancing, running, and wrestling. To stop any one pose of the body during any instantaneous action is to elevate it to drama or switch it into a performance, a portent. Micro-expressions flash for an instant that can divulge much information that is not stated verbally, precisely. I am interested in the idea of play, and playing with objects, which can be made to assume poses, fetishes that can be made to represent beings.

Natalia Porter:
I'm interested in creating art that make us reflect on our relationship with objects, on the significance and value we assign to them, particularly those objects which we use everyday.

Ami Suma:
My obsession is to make you giggle and remember childhood feelings, so I am obsessed with fun textures. Textures that give me goose bumps; odd shapes and silhouettes, toys that stimulate the senses of both young and old.

Impressions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Oil paintings by Eric Shute, watercolors by Stephen Ryan, and ceramics by Bobbi Lamb.

Environmental Injustice and the Artist Response to Hurricane Katrina
Community Folk Art Center

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

When photographers Donn Young and Gus Bennett, Jr., stared loss in the face after Hurricane Katrina they searched through their emotional and physical lives, assessed the damage and moved on. They entered spaces and captured images and rescued items that were difficult to see, but needed to be saved in order to help tell the story of New Orleans.

Donn Young returned to New Orleans to find his studio and over one million images taken during his 25 year career virtually eliminated. In light of this, he began documenting the devastation of not just his life, but the lives of others in the City as well. Gus Bennett documented the efforts of curator and archivist Linda Hill to rescue a collection of African antiquities that were left unattended and deteriorating on a local university campus. She endured the hazardous environment, located the items, removed them and began working to restore them.

For those who make New Orleans their home after Katrina, it is not always easy to find the beauty that has been covered up by the debris of the storm. This exhibition is about three remarkable individuals who chose to help save New Orleans through their individual efforts and are now sharing those efforts collectively; a metaphor for what it takes to live in New Orleans
­ today.

This exhibition will challenge your senses, in part, because we dare to display the images of objects that under different circumstances would be gazed upon with notions of beauty, humor and historic documentation. In this context, however, we are sharing those objects in their vulnerable state, straddling the line, in appearance, of art and refuse. This is a story about seeing devastation, experiencing the pain and moving forward by will and choice.

Read a review!

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

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

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

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

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

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Staging the coldest season as a playground for imagination, The Warehouse Gallery presents Embracing Winter, a group exhibition featuring knitted sculpture, psychedelic video, interactive displays, sly photography, and crisp audio and book works by American, Canadian and Italian artists: Janet Morton, Bruno Munari, Takeshi Murata, Collin Olan, Lisa M. Robinson, and Rudy Shepherd

Syracuse is the perennial winner of the Golden Snowball Award, for the most snowfall in New York State. Embracing Winter celebrates this crystallized precipitation as the key to a delightful set of activities, and as an ephemeral filter to make ordinary surroundings new again.

Read a review!

Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A New Refutation of Time (Still Images in Sequence)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Syracuse City School District high school students worked at the e-tags gallery and studio with video artist Ryan Tebo. After four weeks, students created a visual representation of their own concept of time through still photography, which was then sequenced into one-minute video shorts. Student artists include: Corbin Bryant and Susan Drake from Nottingham High School; Varvara Mikushkina, Manual Bova and Teddy Bratt from Henninger High School; and Ryan Gallagher and Leah Bucher from Corcoran High School.

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

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

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

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

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

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

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

Asphalt
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring Mirko Zardini

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

Architect Mirko Zardini, the director of The Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, an international research center and museum, was born in Italy and received his degree in architecture from the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia. Zardini's research, writings, and design projects engage the gamut of transformation of contemporary architecture and its relationship with the city and landscape. He was editor of Casabella magazine from 1983 to 1988 and Lotus International magazine from 1988 to 1999. He now serves on the editorial board of Domus.

He has taught design and theory at architecture schools in Europe and the United States, including the Swiss Federal Polytechnic University (ETH) in Zurich, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Federal Polytechnic University (EPFL), and University at Lausanne.

Zardini's publications include Frank O. Gehry: America as Context (Milan, 1994), The Dense-City: After the Sprawl (Milan, 1999), and Back from the Burbs (Lausanne, 2000). His most recent book, Asphalt (Milan, 2003), is the result of in-depth research on the character of the contemporary city for a series of exhibitions, of which "Asphalt," presented at the Milan Triennale (spring 2003), was the first. He has won numerous awards, including the competition for the Piazza Montefeltro at Forli (Italy) and the international competition for the Giardini di Porta Nuova in Milan.

For more information, contact Mary Kate O'Brien 315-443-2388 or mcobrien@syr.edu. For information on parking at The Warehouse, call 315-443-8238.

Quattro Pianisti
Civic Morning Musicals
Nancy Pease, James Lee Vatter, Patricia Doherty, Victoria Reeve, pianos

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

Quattro Pianisti will perform an eclectic program including the Waltz from Gounod's Faust, Mussorgsky's Great Gate of Kiev, the Rakoczi March, Romance by Rachmaninoff, and will close with Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever.

Performance
Salt City Jazz Collective

Syracuse Suds Factory
320 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

The Peking Acrobats
CNY Arts

Price: $7, $8
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Peking Acrobats, a troupe of China's most gifted tumblers, contortionists, jugglers, cyclists and gymnasts complemented by live musicians playing traditional Chinese instruments bring their 2,000 year-old tradition of acrobatics to downtown Syracuse. Since 1958, this elite group has toured the world over, leaving audiences spellbound by the graceful presentation of their ancient folk art, acrobatics. The Peking Acrobats are sure to amaze and excite audiences of all ages. Tickets are available at the Cultural Resources Council Box Office.

The Peking Acrobats
CNY Arts

Price: $7, $8
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Peking Acrobats, a troupe of China's most gifted tumblers, contortionists, jugglers, cyclists and gymnasts complemented by live musicians playing traditional Chinese instruments bring their 2,000 year-old tradition of acrobatics to downtown Syracuse. Since 1958, this elite group has toured the world over, leaving audiences spellbound by the graceful presentation of their ancient folk art, acrobatics. The Peking Acrobats are sure to amaze and excite audiences of all ages. Tickets are available at the Cultural Resources Council Box Office.

Gem of the Ocean
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

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

Lyric, poetic, and infused with singular spiritualism, Gem of the Ocean marks the chronological beginning of August Wilson's towering 10-play cycle of African-American life in the 20th century. The year is 1904, when slavery was a palpable memory. The place is Wilson's familiar haunt, the Hill District of Pittsburgh. A young man named Citizen seeks atonement for a crime for which there is no forgiveness. His only hope is 285-year-old Aunt Esther, the spiritual center of the community and its collective history, who guides him on a journey to the "City of Bones," the watery graves of those who perished on the journey to slavery, a past he needs to embrace.

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Thursday, March 8, 2007

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

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

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

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

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

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

Gallery Exhibit: Aida Khalil, Stephen Datz and Syau-Cheng Lai
Onondaga Community College

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

A stunning exhibit of paintings, sculpture and mixed media works.

Playthings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Drawing by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma.

Roy Bautista:
I am interested in how I learn things. And how much I learn by looking. And how much more can be learned by looking harder. A longer look at people and how people communicate, and much can be read in a body's posture and movement. The word, understand implies a pose, a stand taken. We understand through our bodies, our own physical limitations of dancing, running, and wrestling. To stop any one pose of the body during any instantaneous action is to elevate it to drama or switch it into a performance, a portent. Micro-expressions flash for an instant that can divulge much information that is not stated verbally, precisely. I am interested in the idea of play, and playing with objects, which can be made to assume poses, fetishes that can be made to represent beings.

Natalia Porter:
I'm interested in creating art that make us reflect on our relationship with objects, on the significance and value we assign to them, particularly those objects which we use everyday.

Ami Suma:
My obsession is to make you giggle and remember childhood feelings, so I am obsessed with fun textures. Textures that give me goose bumps; odd shapes and silhouettes, toys that stimulate the senses of both young and old.

Impressions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Oil paintings by Eric Shute, watercolors by Stephen Ryan, and ceramics by Bobbi Lamb.

Environmental Injustice and the Artist Response to Hurricane Katrina
Community Folk Art Center

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

When photographers Donn Young and Gus Bennett, Jr., stared loss in the face after Hurricane Katrina they searched through their emotional and physical lives, assessed the damage and moved on. They entered spaces and captured images and rescued items that were difficult to see, but needed to be saved in order to help tell the story of New Orleans.

Donn Young returned to New Orleans to find his studio and over one million images taken during his 25 year career virtually eliminated. In light of this, he began documenting the devastation of not just his life, but the lives of others in the City as well. Gus Bennett documented the efforts of curator and archivist Linda Hill to rescue a collection of African antiquities that were left unattended and deteriorating on a local university campus. She endured the hazardous environment, located the items, removed them and began working to restore them.

For those who make New Orleans their home after Katrina, it is not always easy to find the beauty that has been covered up by the debris of the storm. This exhibition is about three remarkable individuals who chose to help save New Orleans through their individual efforts and are now sharing those efforts collectively; a metaphor for what it takes to live in New Orleans
­ today.

This exhibition will challenge your senses, in part, because we dare to display the images of objects that under different circumstances would be gazed upon with notions of beauty, humor and historic documentation. In this context, however, we are sharing those objects in their vulnerable state, straddling the line, in appearance, of art and refuse. This is a story about seeing devastation, experiencing the pain and moving forward by will and choice.

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

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

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

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

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

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Staging the coldest season as a playground for imagination, The Warehouse Gallery presents Embracing Winter, a group exhibition featuring knitted sculpture, psychedelic video, interactive displays, sly photography, and crisp audio and book works by American, Canadian and Italian artists: Janet Morton, Bruno Munari, Takeshi Murata, Collin Olan, Lisa M. Robinson, and Rudy Shepherd

Syracuse is the perennial winner of the Golden Snowball Award, for the most snowfall in New York State. Embracing Winter celebrates this crystallized precipitation as the key to a delightful set of activities, and as an ephemeral filter to make ordinary surroundings new again.

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Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Language of Art
Delavan Art Gallery

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

Barbara Kellogg: watermedia
Nives Marzocchi: varied works
An exhibit of artists whose work is shown in the new cultural magazine, Stone Canoe Journal

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

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

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

A New Refutation of Time (Still Images in Sequence)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Syracuse City School District high school students worked at the e-tags gallery and studio with video artist Ryan Tebo. After four weeks, students created a visual representation of their own concept of time through still photography, which was then sequenced into one-minute video shorts. Student artists include: Corbin Bryant and Susan Drake from Nottingham High School; Varvara Mikushkina, Manual Bova and Teddy Bratt from Henninger High School; and Ryan Gallagher and Leah Bucher from Corcoran High School.

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

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

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

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

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

Nevis: Abstract Paintings by Rachel Harms
Redhouse

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

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

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

Film Series: Afghanistan Unveiled
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

After training in a unique program, Afghan women journalists embark on a groundbreaking journey to rural regions of their country to explore the effects of the repressive Taliban.

Film Series: Afghanistan Unveiled
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

After training in a unique program, Afghan women journalists embark on a groundbreaking journey to rural regions of their country to explore the effects of the repressive Taliban.

Winter Light Film Screening
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Winter Light includes experimental film, video art, and audio field recordings from Austria, Nunavut, America, Germany and Canada, to accompany the sensational exhibit, Embracing Winter.

Winter Light is co-curated by filmmaker and writer Brett Kashmere and gallery director Astria Suparak, and co-presented by The Warehouse Gallery, neighboring arts center The Redhouse, and Thursday Screeners, a student group at Syracuse University. Similar to the Embracing Winter gallery show, Winter Light revels in the fleeting aesthetics of winter, presenting works that document ice melting, crystals forming, stars twinkling, birds migrating, surreal dreaming, the loss of consciousness and the warmth of a flame.

Schedule:
6:00 pm -- Casual Reception with light refreshments at The Warehouse Gallery.
7:45 pm -- Walk across the street with Warehouse Gallery staff to the Redhouse.
8:00 pm -- Film Screening at The Redhouse. 60 minutes in length.

Winter Light Program:

rec01 (Collin Olan, 2001, audio recording, 17:10 minutes, looped)
"Brooklyn-based artist Collin Olan offers a dynamite audio piece, which records the melting of a 10-by-10-inch block of ice. As I strapped on the headphones, I was half expecting the deafening silence of a John Cage composition, but found instead a hypnotically compelling 17-minute piece of richly layered audio. Olan's piece is like music, with rising and falling choruses of trickles and gurgles serendipitously orchestrated by the laws of nature." - Katherine Rushworth, Syracuse Post Standard

Grid Panic (Michael Bell-Smith, 2006, video, silent, 2 minute loop)
"Michael Bell-Smith operates in the gap between animated cartoons and painting with unusual effectiveness. His short digital loops, shown on small screens or painting-like wall monitors, portray landscapes, figures and oblique social commentary. But their main concerns are color, space and light, tweaked and amplified by digital technology and restrained animation& Mr. Bell-Smith brings new and old and static and mobile into a promising, visually enthralling alignment." - Roberta Smith, New York Times

Crystals (Peter Lipskis, 1985, 16mm, 4 minutes)
A cinematic tribute to William Bentley, a Vermont dairy farmer who pioneered the art of snowflake photography for 46 winters (1885-1931), proving that no two of his 5381 specimens were identical. This film contains about 1500 examples (fewer than the average snowball), showing the incredible variation of design in nature, while producing the effect of an "organic" hexagonal mandala in a state of continual metamorphosis.

Birds at Sunrise (Joyce Wieland, 1985, 16mm, 10 minutes)
"The film was originally photographed in 1972. Birds from my window were filmed during the winter, through to the spring, with the early morning light. I became caught up in their frozen world and their ability to survive the bitter cold. I welcomed their chirps and their songs which offered life and hope for spring. In 1984 I was part of a cultural exchange between Canada and Israel. During my visit my unfinished movie came to mind. A connection was established in my mind so that the suffering of the birds became, in a sense, symbolic of the Jews and their survival through suffering. The film begins with the reading in Hebrew of the 23rd Psalm. This lays the spiritual ground to the film. I dedicate this film to Ayala." - JW

Fire #3 (John Price, 2003, 16mm hand-processed, silent, 3 minutes)
A hand-processed silent film created on a bitterly cruel winter evening. In a freezing bathroom with a single candle and a roll of very old 3 A.S.A. print stock - it became through the alchemy of light, silver and colour chemistry - a hazy, abstract prayer to the warmth of the sun.

Colonel Canuck (Jake Kennedy, 2003, video, 2.5 minutes)
Colonel Canuck is a screen-capture video of a "dialogue-event" in an online environment called Habbo Hotel. Colonel Canuck, the protagonist, is an avatar and, indeed, exemplar of maple-syrup-like Canadian-ness. The video shows the Colonel entering a room in Habbo and then proceeding to riff (aloud) on all things Red Leaf Nation. Many of the Colonel's references are lost, however, on his unfortunate, Euro-set listeners.

Burn Your House Down (excerpt) (Paper Rad / Wolf Eyes, 2001/2004, video, 1 minute)
Paper Rad's canine tribute to Wolf Eyes' "Burn Your House Down" begins with a snow-covered extraction from "Future Upper Peninsula / Lower Canada, 2003 euro BC."

Qulliq (Oil Lamp) (Arnait Women's Video Workshop, 1992, video, 12 minutes)
Members of Arnait Ikkajurtigiit utilize the "new" technology of video to joyfully re-enact an older technology: the ritual of Qulliq or lighting of the seal oil lamp. They tell the story in song.

31/75 Asyl (Asylum) (Kurt Kren, 1975, 16mm, silent, 8 minutes)
Recorded over the space of 21 days by selectively masking and exposing the same three rolls of film, the transformations of a landscape are simultaneously recorded in a static image. "Since the weather was changing throughout the time of shooting (March/April) the brightness of the picture is very different from take to take. Sometimes snow is seen on the ground... The exchange of the masks does create movement, but not as a course of time towards a goal." - Birgit Hein

Black Ice (Stan Brakhage, 1994, 16mm, silent, 2.5 minutes)
"I lost sight due to a blow on the head from slipping on black ice (leading to eye surgery, eventually); and now (because of artificially thinned blood) most steps I take outdoors all winter are made in frightful awareness of black ice." - SB

Odilon Redon (Guy Maddin, 1995, 16mm, b&w, 5 minutes)
A startling five-minute tour de force inspired by the work of the eponymous symbolist painter and set on a steam train hurtling across a surreal winter landscape.

Kosmos (Thorsten Fleisch, 2004, 16mm, 5 minutes)
"The mystery of the crystals under closer examination. What is it that makes them possess magic powers as claimed by mystics of all ages? Through growing crystals directly on film their mystical qualities shine straight to the screen. Unfiltered, only aided by light which gracefully breaks its rays into rich visual textures." - TF

Dorian Leljak, piano
LeMoyne College

Price: $12 regular; $7 seniors; students free
Panasci Family Chapel
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Serbian pianist Dorian Leljak will perform Robert Schumann's highly Romantic First and Third Piano Sonatas.

Dorian Leljak is a pianist who possesses an extremely high level of tonal control in a repertoire dedicated to the Classical and Romantic masterworks. A graduate of the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad and Yale University, Leljak has appeared as a soloist and recitalist throughout the world -- Wyoming Symphony Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic, St. George Strings, and the Dusan Skovran Chamber Orchestra. He is also a frequent guest at international festivals including the Celebrating the Piano Recital Series (Calgary), Charles Ives Festival (New Haven), NOMUS Festival (Novi Sad), and City-Theatre (Budva).

Named Artist-of-the-Year by the Belgrade Radio Broadcasting Corporation, Leljak made successful debuts in Carnegie Hall and Boston Philharmonia Hall. Currently, he serves as associate professor of piano at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad and is engaged as a deputy teacher of piano at the Royal College of Music in London. An active arts administrator in his native land, Leljak is founder of the Voyvodina Piano Teachers Association, executive director of the Four Seasons International Music Competition, founder of Yale Serbia and Montenegro, founder and artistic director of the Isidor Bajic Piano Memorial.

For more information, please call 445-5433.

Deadly Inheritance
Acme Mystery Company

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

Babes in Arms

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors
Bishop Ludden Junior/Senior High School
815 Fay Rd., Geddes

A group of teenagers is left without adult supervision when their folks hit the vaudeville summer circuit. For more information, phone 315-468-0053.

42nd Street
Jamesville-Dewitt High School

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors
Jamesville-Dewitt High School
Edinger Drive, Dewitt

For more information, phone 315-446-6018.

Gem of the Ocean
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

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

Lyric, poetic, and infused with singular spiritualism, Gem of the Ocean marks the chronological beginning of August Wilson's towering 10-play cycle of African-American life in the 20th century. The year is 1904, when slavery was a palpable memory. The place is Wilson's familiar haunt, the Hill District of Pittsburgh. A young man named Citizen seeks atonement for a crime for which there is no forgiveness. His only hope is 285-year-old Aunt Esther, the spiritual center of the community and its collective history, who guides him on a journey to the "City of Bones," the watery graves of those who perished on the journey to slavery, a past he needs to embrace.

Read a Review!

Friday, March 9, 2007

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

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

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

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

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

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

Gallery Exhibit: Aida Khalil, Stephen Datz and Syau-Cheng Lai
Onondaga Community College

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

A stunning exhibit of paintings, sculpture and mixed media works.

Playthings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Drawing by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma.

Roy Bautista:
I am interested in how I learn things. And how much I learn by looking. And how much more can be learned by looking harder. A longer look at people and how people communicate, and much can be read in a body's posture and movement. The word, understand implies a pose, a stand taken. We understand through our bodies, our own physical limitations of dancing, running, and wrestling. To stop any one pose of the body during any instantaneous action is to elevate it to drama or switch it into a performance, a portent. Micro-expressions flash for an instant that can divulge much information that is not stated verbally, precisely. I am interested in the idea of play, and playing with objects, which can be made to assume poses, fetishes that can be made to represent beings.

Natalia Porter:
I'm interested in creating art that make us reflect on our relationship with objects, on the significance and value we assign to them, particularly those objects which we use everyday.

Ami Suma:
My obsession is to make you giggle and remember childhood feelings, so I am obsessed with fun textures. Textures that give me goose bumps; odd shapes and silhouettes, toys that stimulate the senses of both young and old.

Works of Garofalo Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

Garofalo Architects was recently recognized as part of "The New Vanguard" in Architectural Record and the "Emerging Voices" program at the Architectural LEague of New York.

Impressions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Oil paintings by Eric Shute, watercolors by Stephen Ryan, and ceramics by Bobbi Lamb.

Environmental Injustice and the Artist Response to Hurricane Katrina
Community Folk Art Center

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

When photographers Donn Young and Gus Bennett, Jr., stared loss in the face after Hurricane Katrina they searched through their emotional and physical lives, assessed the damage and moved on. They entered spaces and captured images and rescued items that were difficult to see, but needed to be saved in order to help tell the story of New Orleans.

Donn Young returned to New Orleans to find his studio and over one million images taken during his 25 year career virtually eliminated. In light of this, he began documenting the devastation of not just his life, but the lives of others in the City as well. Gus Bennett documented the efforts of curator and archivist Linda Hill to rescue a collection of African antiquities that were left unattended and deteriorating on a local university campus. She endured the hazardous environment, located the items, removed them and began working to restore them.

For those who make New Orleans their home after Katrina, it is not always easy to find the beauty that has been covered up by the debris of the storm. This exhibition is about three remarkable individuals who chose to help save New Orleans through their individual efforts and are now sharing those efforts collectively; a metaphor for what it takes to live in New Orleans
­ today.

This exhibition will challenge your senses, in part, because we dare to display the images of objects that under different circumstances would be gazed upon with notions of beauty, humor and historic documentation. In this context, however, we are sharing those objects in their vulnerable state, straddling the line, in appearance, of art and refuse. This is a story about seeing devastation, experiencing the pain and moving forward by will and choice.

Read a review!

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Staging the coldest season as a playground for imagination, The Warehouse Gallery presents Embracing Winter, a group exhibition featuring knitted sculpture, psychedelic video, interactive displays, sly photography, and crisp audio and book works by American, Canadian and Italian artists: Janet Morton, Bruno Munari, Takeshi Murata, Collin Olan, Lisa M. Robinson, and Rudy Shepherd

Syracuse is the perennial winner of the Golden Snowball Award, for the most snowfall in New York State. Embracing Winter celebrates this crystallized precipitation as the key to a delightful set of activities, and as an ephemeral filter to make ordinary surroundings new again.

Read a review!

Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Language of Art
Delavan Art Gallery

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

Barbara Kellogg: watermedia
Nives Marzocchi: varied works
An exhibit of artists whose work is shown in the new cultural magazine, Stone Canoe Journal

A New Refutation of Time (Still Images in Sequence)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Syracuse City School District high school students worked at the e-tags gallery and studio with video artist Ryan Tebo. After four weeks, students created a visual representation of their own concept of time through still photography, which was then sequenced into one-minute video shorts. Student artists include: Corbin Bryant and Susan Drake from Nottingham High School; Varvara Mikushkina, Manual Bova and Teddy Bratt from Henninger High School; and Ryan Gallagher and Leah Bucher from Corcoran High School.

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

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

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

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

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

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

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

Nevis: Abstract Paintings by Rachel Harms
Redhouse

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

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

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

Lunch Hour Film Series
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

A Cigar at the Beach, directed by Stephen Keep Mills, fiction (USA), 15 minutes  Best of Fest Winner 2006.
A man withdraws to an empty beach to smoke a cigar and fantasize. An approaching storm out across the water mirrors the storm inside him as his fantasies propel him to the very edge of himself and to a surprise yearning greater than flesh or adventure.

Wood Diary, directed by David Edwin Meyers, fiction (USA), 15 minutes.
Walker Woods leads a loney and monotonous life. His world is filled with dependence, disgust, disarray, and shows no hope for change. Yet through it all, he continues a routine and maintains a set of sanctified virtues. All the while expressing his inner beauty as an outsider artist through masterful wood and metal creations. The inspiration behind Walker's fortitude and sanity reveal themselves when we are exposed to his secret wooden diary.

A Lineman's Cabin, directed by Constantin Popescu, fiction (Romania), 30 minutes  Best of Fest Nominee.
Two railroad men are living in a lineman's cabin. Nothing to do, the days are the same, one after another. Alone in the middle of nowhere. One night, though, a stranger has an accident on the beach, nearby. An incident that would forever change everything.

Due to limited seating, reservations are suggested, but not required. Bring your lunch if you choose. SIFF will provide the popcorn. To reserve a seat, call 315-443-8826.

What Makes Public Art?
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

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

The College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University and Stone Quarry Hill Art Park in Cazenovia will co-host "What Makes Public Art?" -- the second installment of the "Talk Serious" discussion series.

"What Makes Public Art?" will focus on public art, space and community. A panel will engage the audience on a variety of issues, including the challenges and benefits of public art, what constitutes a successful public art project, the importance of public art to individuals and communities, and the arts as an engine for economic development and urban renewal. The panelists are not public art experts, but rather local professionals engaged in promoting public art as an essential component of a great city.

"A background in the arts is not required for participation in our discussion," says Daniela Mosko-Wozniak, executive director of community art programs for VPA. "We encourage lively interaction between the audience and the panelists, so we hope to attract people who enjoy talking about public art and how it can enhance our community."

Mosko-Wozniak will moderate the panel with Natalia Mount, executive director of Stone Quarry Hill Art Park. Panelists scheduled to participate include:

Lori A. Brown, architect, artist and faculty member in the SU School of Architecture. Her work employs collage, mapping and speculative design, through which she explores issues of domestic and public spaces and their construction through gender. Many of her projects are community-based collaborations that bring design to those who otherwise might not have access to it. She is a member of CoAct, a collaborative artists' group that creates projects that encourage dialogue.

Brian E. Moore, program director for foundation initiatives at the Gifford Foundation, a philanthropic organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of life of people living in Central New York. Leading proactive charitable efforts at Gifford, Moore is currently focusing on a major neighborhood revitalization initiative being conducted by the foundation. He was previously a program officer at the Central New York Community Foundation.

Joanna Spitzner, artist and faculty member in VPA's School of Art and Design and member of CoAct. Her work often takes the form of real-life performances and alternative organizations. She is currently working on The Joanna Spitzner Foundation, which raises funding for artists through working wage jobs.

Ben Walsh, economic development coordinator for the Metropolitan Development Association of Syracuse and Central New York (MDA), the region's business leadership and planning organization. Walsh focuses his efforts on the attraction and retention of youth in the community, increasing university-industry collaboration, and the revitalization of the regions urban cores.

For more information, contact Mosko-Wozniak at (315) 443-0296 or dmoskowo@syr.edu.

Piano Convocation
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

It's a Trip: A Cabaret -- Life, Love and the Pursuit of Happiness Set To Music
Featuring Tamaralee Shutt, vocalist; Joshua Smith, music director

Price: $15
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

One woman, a Grand piano and a madcap smorgasbord of song, make for an evening of Cabaret styled entertainment. A humorous look at relationships, family and daily life, as often explored on the Broadway stage, is being re-examined through the eyes and voices of vocalist Tamaralee Shutt (Sammy Nominee for Best Jazz Vocalist) and SALT Award winning Music Director Joshua Smith.

From the songbook of early 20th Century vaudeville tart Sophie Tucker to Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter, and Kander & Ebb, to the likes of Bette Midler, Carole Bayer Sager and Sonny Bono, Smith and Shutt craft a zany and sometimes poignant spin on love and life. This original Cabaret-styled evening is a delightful musical interlude of storytelling at its finest.

For more information or tickets, phone 315-479-7469.

John Stetch in Concert

Price: $12 regular, $7 with student ID
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

John Stetch will give a solo piano concert, playing selections from his voluminously acclaimed solo trilogy - Ukrainianism, Exponentially Monk and Standards. Hailed for his unique vision, Stetch will bring together elements of the American jazz songbook and his own East European heritage - with groovy rhythms, quirky humor and breathtaking sensitivity.

Classics Series: American Rhythms
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Gerard Schwarz, conductor
Featuring Patrick Shrieves, timpani

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

Diamond Symphony No. 4
Copland Billy the Kid Suite
Daugherty "Raise the Roof" Timpani Concerto
Hanson Symphony No. 1

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April Verch
Westcott Community Center

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

When you see 27-year old April Verch perform, the first thing that strikes you is the pure energy that infuses her fiddle playing and stepdancing. When you listen to Take Me Back, her third disc for Rounder Records, though, what draws you in are more subtle things-her confident, winsome singing, the finely detailed elegance of her fiddle phrasing and the depth of a repertoire that ranges through material from Americana mainstays Buddy and Julie Miller, to simple country songs and rollicking tunes from her native Ottawa Valley to sparkling original instrumentals. Like its predecessors, Take Me Back is rooted in a deep musical tradition, yet it also serves notice that April Verch has taken a bold step forward and stands on the threshold of a new and exciting stage of her career.

Poet Catherine Tufariello
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Catherine Tufariello's first full-length collection of poems, Keeping My Name (Texas Tech University Press, 2004), was a 2004 Booklist Editor's Choice selection, a finalist for the 2005 Book Prize in Poetry, and winner of the 2006 Poets' Prize. Tufariello has also published a limited-edition letterpress book, Annunciations (Aralia Press, 2001) and a chapbook, Free Time (Robert L. Barth, 2001). Her poems and translations have appeared in such journals and anthologies as Poetry, The Hudson Review, The New Penguin Book of Love Poetry, and The POETRY Anthology: 1912-2002. She lives with her husband and daughter in Valparaiso, Indiana.

Hey, Naked Lady
Onondaga Hillplayers

Price: $38 includes dinner, show, and gratuity
Inn of the Seasons
4311 W. Seneca Tpke., Syracuse

A little-seen 1960s comedy by Fred Carmichael.

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Babes in Arms

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors
Bishop Ludden Junior/Senior High School
815 Fay Rd., Geddes

A group of teenagers is left without adult supervision when their folks hit the vaudeville summer circuit. For more information, phone 315-468-0053.

Alice in Wonderland
Blessed Sacrament School Drama Club

Price: $2 adults; $1 children, under 5 free
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-463-1261.

42nd Street
Jamesville-Dewitt High School

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors
Jamesville-Dewitt High School
Edinger Drive, Dewitt

For more information, phone 315-446-6018.

The Octette Bridge Club
Appleseed Productions
Linda Lance, director

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

On alternate Friday evenings, eight sisters meet to play bridge and gossip. The first act takes place in 1934; the second 10 years later during a Halloween bridge party where each acts out her costume's persona. The emotionally distraught youngest, who does a hilarious Salome belly dance, has just gotten out of a sanitarium and knows that she must cut the bonds to her smothering family and strike out on her own. A sentimental comedy by P.J. Barry about American life in a bygone era.

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Hello, Dolly!
Jordan-Elbridge Musical Players

Price: $9
Jordan-Elbridge High School
Hamilton Road, Jordan

For more information, phone 315-689-8500, ext. 1700.

Gem of the Ocean
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

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

Lyric, poetic, and infused with singular spiritualism, Gem of the Ocean marks the chronological beginning of August Wilson's towering 10-play cycle of African-American life in the 20th century. The year is 1904, when slavery was a palpable memory. The place is Wilson's familiar haunt, the Hill District of Pittsburgh. A young man named Citizen seeks atonement for a crime for which there is no forgiveness. His only hope is 285-year-old Aunt Esther, the spiritual center of the community and its collective history, who guides him on a journey to the "City of Bones," the watery graves of those who perished on the journey to slavery, a past he needs to embrace.

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The Fantastiks
Wit's End Players

Price: $21.00 regular; $19.00 seniors; $14.00 children
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

A girl, a boy, a wall between them... This charming show, the longest running musical in history, tells a timeless story of young love. Beautiful songs include "Try to Remember."

For more information, phone 315-345-8001.

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Saturday, March 10, 2007

The Language of Art
Delavan Art Gallery

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

Barbara Kellogg: watermedia
Nives Marzocchi: varied works
An exhibit of artists whose work is shown in the new cultural magazine, Stone Canoe Journal

Impressions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Oil paintings by Eric Shute, watercolors by Stephen Ryan, and ceramics by Bobbi Lamb.

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

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

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

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

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

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

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

A New Refutation of Time (Still Images in Sequence)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Syracuse City School District high school students worked at the e-tags gallery and studio with video artist Ryan Tebo. After four weeks, students created a visual representation of their own concept of time through still photography, which was then sequenced into one-minute video shorts. Student artists include: Corbin Bryant and Susan Drake from Nottingham High School; Varvara Mikushkina, Manual Bova and Teddy Bratt from Henninger High School; and Ryan Gallagher and Leah Bucher from Corcoran High School.

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Staging the coldest season as a playground for imagination, The Warehouse Gallery presents Embracing Winter, a group exhibition featuring knitted sculpture, psychedelic video, interactive displays, sly photography, and crisp audio and book works by American, Canadian and Italian artists: Janet Morton, Bruno Munari, Takeshi Murata, Collin Olan, Lisa M. Robinson, and Rudy Shepherd

Syracuse is the perennial winner of the Golden Snowball Award, for the most snowfall in New York State. Embracing Winter celebrates this crystallized precipitation as the key to a delightful set of activities, and as an ephemeral filter to make ordinary surroundings new again.

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Environmental Injustice and the Artist Response to Hurricane Katrina
Community Folk Art Center

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

When photographers Donn Young and Gus Bennett, Jr., stared loss in the face after Hurricane Katrina they searched through their emotional and physical lives, assessed the damage and moved on. They entered spaces and captured images and rescued items that were difficult to see, but needed to be saved in order to help tell the story of New Orleans.

Donn Young returned to New Orleans to find his studio and over one million images taken during his 25 year career virtually eliminated. In light of this, he began documenting the devastation of not just his life, but the lives of others in the City as well. Gus Bennett documented the efforts of curator and archivist Linda Hill to rescue a collection of African antiquities that were left unattended and deteriorating on a local university campus. She endured the hazardous environment, located the items, removed them and began working to restore them.

For those who make New Orleans their home after Katrina, it is not always easy to find the beauty that has been covered up by the debris of the storm. This exhibition is about three remarkable individuals who chose to help save New Orleans through their individual efforts and are now sharing those efforts collectively; a metaphor for what it takes to live in New Orleans
­ today.

This exhibition will challenge your senses, in part, because we dare to display the images of objects that under different circumstances would be gazed upon with notions of beauty, humor and historic documentation. In this context, however, we are sharing those objects in their vulnerable state, straddling the line, in appearance, of art and refuse. This is a story about seeing devastation, experiencing the pain and moving forward by will and choice.

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

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

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

Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nevis: Abstract Paintings by Rachel Harms
Redhouse

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

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

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

Knife Crazy, Milwaukee Talkee, Swords of Destiny, and Ladies & Everyone
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

Featuring artwork from Kyle Cushman, Greg Bresett, Aubri Vincent/Barwood.

Resonator; Milwaukee Talkee; Swords of Destiny; Ladies & Everyone
Spark Contemporary Art Space
Featuring Artwork from Kyle Cushman; Greg Bresett; Aubri Vincent/Barwood

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

It's a Trip: A Cabaret -- Life, Love and the Pursuit of Happiness Set To Music
Featuring Tamaralee Shutt, vocalist; Joshua Smith, music director

Price: $15
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

One woman, a Grand piano and a madcap smorgasbord of song, make for an evening of Cabaret styled entertainment. A humorous look at relationships, family and daily life, as often explored on the Broadway stage, is being re-examined through the eyes and voices of vocalist Tamaralee Shutt (Sammy Nominee for Best Jazz Vocalist) and SALT Award winning Music Director Joshua Smith.

From the songbook of early 20th Century vaudeville tart Sophie Tucker to Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter, and Kander & Ebb, to the likes of Bette Midler, Carole Bayer Sager and Sonny Bono, Smith and Shutt craft a zany and sometimes poignant spin on love and life. This original Cabaret-styled evening is a delightful musical interlude of storytelling at its finest.

For more information or tickets, phone 315-479-7469.

Gli Italiani in Inghilterra: The Viol in Italy and England
NYS Baroque
David Morris, Joëlle Morton, Webster Williams, Heather Miller Lardin, viols

Price: $20 regular, $15 student/senior
Grace Episcopal Church
819 Madison St., Syracuse

Classical Concert Series
Redhouse
Featuring Tai Murray, violin

Price: $22 regular; $18 senior; $15 student
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Eugene Ysaye Sonata No. 5 and Sonata No. 6, both Opus 27
Johann Sebastian Bach Partita No.2 in d, BWV 1004
Georg Phillipp Telemann Fantasie No. 5, TWV 40:18
Fritz Kreisler Recitative and Scherzo

Since making her debut with the Chicago Symphony at age eight, violinist Tai Murray has performed extensively with orchestras across the United States and Europe. Recent seasons have included appearances with the orchestras of Chicago, Atlanta, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Dallas, Charlotte, Sacramento, among others.

Tai Murray has received top prizes in the Indiana Concerto Competition, the inaugural Sphinx Competition, and the Julliad School Concerto Competition. In 2000, Ms. Murray earned an artist diploma in music performance from Indiana University and is currently completing her studies for an Artist Diploma at the Julliard School.

Classics Series: American Rhythms
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Gerard Schwarz, conductor
Featuring Patrick Shrieves, timpani

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

Diamond Symphony No. 4
Copland Billy the Kid Suite
Daugherty "Raise the Roof" Timpani Concerto
Hanson Symphony No. 1

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The Mysterious Messenger
Open Hand Theater

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

Open Hand Theater reprises the first hilarious act of its main stage spring production, a trip into the world of marvelous melodrama for adults and children to enjoy together.

Snow White
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive adaptation of the well-known tale.

Gem of the Ocean
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

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

Lyric, poetic, and infused with singular spiritualism, Gem of the Ocean marks the chronological beginning of August Wilson's towering 10-play cycle of African-American life in the 20th century. The year is 1904, when slavery was a palpable memory. The place is Wilson's familiar haunt, the Hill District of Pittsburgh. A young man named Citizen seeks atonement for a crime for which there is no forgiveness. His only hope is 285-year-old Aunt Esther, the spiritual center of the community and its collective history, who guides him on a journey to the "City of Bones," the watery graves of those who perished on the journey to slavery, a past he needs to embrace.

Read a Review!

Hey, Naked Lady
Onondaga Hillplayers

Price: $38 includes dinner, show, and gratuity
Inn of the Seasons
4311 W. Seneca Tpke., Syracuse

A little-seen 1960s comedy by Fred Carmichael.

Read a Review!

Babes in Arms

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors
Bishop Ludden Junior/Senior High School
815 Fay Rd., Geddes

A group of teenagers is left without adult supervision when their folks hit the vaudeville summer circuit. For more information, phone 315-468-0053.

The Diary of Anne Frank
Syracuse Civic Theatre

Price: $20 regular, $18 students/seniors, $16 children 12 and under
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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42nd Street
Jamesville-Dewitt High School

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors
Jamesville-Dewitt High School
Edinger Drive, Dewitt

For more information, phone 315-446-6018.

The Octette Bridge Club
Appleseed Productions
Linda Lance, director

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

On alternate Friday evenings, eight sisters meet to play bridge and gossip. The first act takes place in 1934; the second 10 years later during a Halloween bridge party where each acts out her costume's persona. The emotionally distraught youngest, who does a hilarious Salome belly dance, has just gotten out of a sanitarium and knows that she must cut the bonds to her smothering family and strike out on her own. A sentimental comedy by P.J. Barry about American life in a bygone era.

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Hello, Dolly!
Jordan-Elbridge Musical Players

Price: $9
Jordan-Elbridge High School
Hamilton Road, Jordan

For more information, phone 315-689-8500, ext. 1700.

Gem of the Ocean
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

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

Lyric, poetic, and infused with singular spiritualism, Gem of the Ocean marks the chronological beginning of August Wilson's towering 10-play cycle of African-American life in the 20th century. The year is 1904, when slavery was a palpable memory. The place is Wilson's familiar haunt, the Hill District of Pittsburgh. A young man named Citizen seeks atonement for a crime for which there is no forgiveness. His only hope is 285-year-old Aunt Esther, the spiritual center of the community and its collective history, who guides him on a journey to the "City of Bones," the watery graves of those who perished on the journey to slavery, a past he needs to embrace.

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The Fantastiks
Wit's End Players

Price: $21.00 regular; $19.00 seniors; $14.00 children
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

A girl, a boy, a wall between them... This charming show, the longest running musical in history, tells a timeless story of young love. Beautiful songs include "Try to Remember."

For more information, phone 315-345-8001.

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Sunday, March 11, 2007

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

A New Refutation of Time (Still Images in Sequence)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Syracuse City School District high school students worked at the e-tags gallery and studio with video artist Ryan Tebo. After four weeks, students created a visual representation of their own concept of time through still photography, which was then sequenced into one-minute video shorts. Student artists include: Corbin Bryant and Susan Drake from Nottingham High School; Varvara Mikushkina, Manual Bova and Teddy Bratt from Henninger High School; and Ryan Gallagher and Leah Bucher from Corcoran High School.

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

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

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

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

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

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

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

North of 49
Redhouse

Price: $6
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

North of 49, by filmmaker Richard Breyer, is a recent documentary about the burning of a Sikh Temple by four teens a month after 9/11. William Larue of the Post Standard called this film "The most important film to originate in Central New York over the past years."

Central New York Jazz Composer's Cooperative
Mark Copani, guitar; Dave Desiro, drums; Kevin Dorsey, double-bass, electric bass guitar; John Magnante, guitar

Price: $7
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Side-By-Side Concert
Syracuse Youth Orchestras
Gerard Schwarz, conductor
Featuring Laura Brown, violin; Stephanie Dawes, flute; Elliot Tan, piano

Price: $12 adults, $8 students
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The winners of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra/Civic Morning Musicals 37th Annual Youth Concerto Competition -- violinist Laura Brown, Fayetteville-Manlius High School; flutist Stephanie Dawes, home-schooled; and pianist Elliot Tan, Manlius Pebble Hill Middle School -- will be the featured soloists on this Side-By-Side Concert in which the Syracuse Symphony Youth Orchestra and Syracuse Symphony Youth String Chamber Orchestra will perform together with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra.

TK99 Soundcheck
Redhouse
Featuring The Lisa Gentile Band and The Barrigar Brothers

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

Hey, Naked Lady
Onondaga Hillplayers

Price: $38 includes dinner, show, and gratuity
Inn of the Seasons
4311 W. Seneca Tpke., Syracuse

A little-seen 1960s comedy by Fred Carmichael.

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The Octette Bridge Club
Appleseed Productions
Linda Lance, director

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

On alternate Friday evenings, eight sisters meet to play bridge and gossip. The first act takes place in 1934; the second 10 years later during a Halloween bridge party where each acts out her costume's persona. The emotionally distraught youngest, who does a hilarious Salome belly dance, has just gotten out of a sanitarium and knows that she must cut the bonds to her smothering family and strike out on her own. A sentimental comedy by P.J. Barry about American life in a bygone era.

Read a Review!

Gem of the Ocean
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

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

Lyric, poetic, and infused with singular spiritualism, Gem of the Ocean marks the chronological beginning of August Wilson's towering 10-play cycle of African-American life in the 20th century. The year is 1904, when slavery was a palpable memory. The place is Wilson's familiar haunt, the Hill District of Pittsburgh. A young man named Citizen seeks atonement for a crime for which there is no forgiveness. His only hope is 285-year-old Aunt Esther, the spiritual center of the community and its collective history, who guides him on a journey to the "City of Bones," the watery graves of those who perished on the journey to slavery, a past he needs to embrace.

Read a Review!

The Fantastiks
Wit's End Players

Price: $21.00 regular; $19.00 seniors; $14.00 children
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

A girl, a boy, a wall between them... This charming show, the longest running musical in history, tells a timeless story of young love. Beautiful songs include "Try to Remember."

For more information, phone 315-345-8001.

Read a Review!

Monday, March 12, 2007

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

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

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

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

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

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

Gallery Exhibit: Aida Khalil, Stephen Datz and Syau-Cheng Lai
Onondaga Community College

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

A stunning exhibit of paintings, sculpture and mixed media works.

Playthings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Drawing by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma.

Roy Bautista:
I am interested in how I learn things. And how much I learn by looking. And how much more can be learned by looking harder. A longer look at people and how people communicate, and much can be read in a body's posture and movement. The word, understand implies a pose, a stand taken. We understand through our bodies, our own physical limitations of dancing, running, and wrestling. To stop any one pose of the body during any instantaneous action is to elevate it to drama or switch it into a performance, a portent. Micro-expressions flash for an instant that can divulge much information that is not stated verbally, precisely. I am interested in the idea of play, and playing with objects, which can be made to assume poses, fetishes that can be made to represent beings.

Natalia Porter:
I'm interested in creating art that make us reflect on our relationship with objects, on the significance and value we assign to them, particularly those objects which we use everyday.

Ami Suma:
My obsession is to make you giggle and remember childhood feelings, so I am obsessed with fun textures. Textures that give me goose bumps; odd shapes and silhouettes, toys that stimulate the senses of both young and old.

Works of Garofalo Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

Garofalo Architects was recently recognized as part of "The New Vanguard" in Architectural Record and the "Emerging Voices" program at the Architectural LEague of New York.

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

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

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

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Onondaga Community College
OCC Wind Ensemble

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse