Saturday, June 6, 2009

Window Projects: Museum of the City of Lost and Found
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Museum of the City of Lost and Found, Marion Wilson's latest sculpture project, is a continuation of her public art project launched in conjunction with the 2008 New Orleans Biennial. The exhibition is a combination of hexagram patterns of i-ching (a symbol system used to identify order in random events) collaboratively painted on the wall by the artist, community members, faculty and students at Syracuse University; miniature "igloo" and cast resin objects; and a short video of Wilson's bicycle (mobile museum) performance in New Orleans edited by Jessica Posner. Wilson invites audience participation by filling out Lost and Found Report cards (available throughout the exhibition), her method of collecting stories about viewers' personal losses, chances, findings and discoveries.

Marion Wilson uses igloos as a nomadic structure of native materials to remind us of our basic human need for shelter and protection. In addition, it is a reference to fundamentals of human existence and the Italian Arte Povera artist Mario Merz (1925-2003). In New Orleans, Wilson's sculpture was originally mounted on a constructed bicycle able to roam the city streets within the St. Roch neighborhood and the French Market. In Syracuse, Wilson will exhibit her 'mobile museum' at the Warehouse Gallery, thus, creating a "museum inside a museum." Although the installation in the Window Projects will remain through June 6, its appearance will continuously change through the continual addition of found materials collected by the artist. Wilson will be guided in selecting these additional materials by outside interviews with the general public in the greater Syracuse community.

Fusion
Delavan Art Gallery

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

John F. Fitzsimmons, paintings
Diana Godfrey, mixed media collage
Pam Steele, metal and glass wall sculptures
Catharine Westlake, acrylics and monotypes

Artist Diana Godfrey will be in attendance 12:00-3:00.

Wild Card Exhibit: Color Etchings from Florence by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna
Delavan Art Gallery

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

The Curiosity of Change
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anne Novado-Cappuccilli: Drawings and Paintings
John Lombardi: Works in Stone

PostSecret
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In November 2004, Frank Warren began a community art project by handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood. Each self-addressed card invited people to anonymously share a secret. Two requirements were: the secret had to be true and it had to be something that had never been told to another person. Today Warren has been mailed more than 100,000 highly personal and artfully decorated postcards illustrating the soulful secrets never voiced. This extraordinary project has become an international phenomenon with thousands of people participating in scheduled PostSecret events throughout the United States, and through the PostSecret website and blog.

This exhibition features 450 postcards bringing together the most powerful, poignant and beautifully intimate secrets Warren has received in the past four years. In many cases, the illustrations on the cards are just as compelling as the accompanying text.

Sitting Still
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"What does the world look like from a non-violent point of view? What would happen if the youth of Syracuse city and Syracuse University joined together to explore this question?" These are the questions that led Anne Beffel, a New York based public artist and Associate Professor of Art at Syracuse University and Pam McLaughlin, Everson Curator of Education and Public Programs to bring the Sitting Still contemplative video project to high school students from the Syracuse City School District. Beffel and McLaughlin worked together for over a year to put video cameras in the hands eight young artists, so that they could stop, look, and listen as scenes unfolded before them ranging from those that inspired awe to those that compelled participation and intervention. Within the context of four workshops at the SU Warehouse e-tags studio, students engaged in making video art from a perfectly still point of view, and then used their artworks as the basis for sharing their diverse visions. The workshops were at the heart of this process of opening up to environments -- both physical and social.

Westcott Art Trail
Westcott Community Center

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

This art fair has grown to one of the finest arts & craft offerings in Syracuse with more than 60 artists of extraordinary quality in 20 locations around the Westcott neighborhood. The locations include artists' homes and studios that stretch from Meadowbrook to Berkley and from Broad to Avondale. Local artists work in a range of mediums, including ceramics, glass, jewelry, fibers, painting, and sculpture. Fourteen artists will be demonstrating their craft in mediums including silk painting, henna, watercolor, ceramic wheel throwing and firing, oil painting, origami, jewelry making techniques. Visitors will even be able to glaze and take home their own ceramic objects, fired in an outdoor Raku kiln.

Art Trail Maps are available at http://www.westcottcc.org/art_trail_09.htm.

37th Annual Teen Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

CFAC is honored to host the longest running collaborative exhibition in the Greater Syracuse area that features the work of under-represented teen artists. Participating students attend Syracuse City High Schools and suburban Onondaga County High Schools. A panel of professional local artists serve as judges for the competition. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories.

All Forms: Studio Pottery '09
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Featuring works by 13 artists.

Interdisciplinary
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Dinosaur aesthetics, Onondaga Lake and the creation of energy from body sweat are among the subjects addressed in "Interdisciplinary," an exhibition of projects by Syracuse University faculty who received 200809 grants from the College of Visual and Performing Arts Interdisciplinary Committee.

"Interdisciplinary" features the following projects:
* "Creative Collaborations," readings and songs from the class "Poetry and Music Composition," taught by Gregory Mertl, assistant professor of composition in the School of Music
* "Dinosaurs Had Sharp Teeth!" an interactive display about dinosaur aesthetics by Chris Wildrick, assistant professor of foundation in the School of Art and Design
* "The Lake Project: Social Sculpture and the Urban Landscape," featuring photographs of Onondaga Lake by students of Sarah McCoubrey, associate professor of foundation in the School of Art and Design, and Marion Wilson, VPA director of community initiatives
* "Practicing in Public," featuring a video installation by students of Sam Van Aken, associate professor of sculpture in the School of Art and Design, and Laura Heyman, assistant professor of art photography in the Department of Transmedia
* "Singing for an Inclusive Society," featuring photographs and video from a project led by Miso Suchy, associate professor of film in the Department of Transmedia; Lida Suchy; and the Syracuse Community Choir
* "Waste to Work," an exploration of how body sweat can be harnessed to create energy, led by Olivia Robinson, assistant professor of fiber arts/material studies in the School of Art and Design, and Daniela Kostova

For more information about the exhibition, contact Andrew Havenhand at 315-474-1217 or ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

Tanks & Trees: The War Show
Orange Line Gallery

Price: Free
Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A soldier's intimate look at Iraq. Featuring photographs from Steven Robinson, photos and video from anonymous sources, and video from the Syracuse Peace Council.

Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition of works by Andrew Deutsch and Stephen Vitiello, "Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass," is an installation composed of audio and video pieces as well as photographs, prints and sculpture. Deutsch and Vitiello are musicians, composers and sound artists who have been collaborating since 1999. For this, their first co-exhibition, the artists provided each other with musical scores for the other to perform. In so doing, they emphasize the visual nature of sound scores, shedding light on this complex, seemingly inaccessible medium called sound art.

In Vitiello's work viewers will see a shift from landscape photographs (7 Studies for Graphic Scores, 2007) to abstract black-and-white prints (Pond Set, 2008) that continue to refer to landscape through black lines that evoke both reeds and musical notes. In the background of his videos, Deutsch includes imagery from the "Notgeld" (emergency money that was put into circulation in Germany during the economic crisis of the 1920s) as a reflection on our difficult economic times. Deutsch also uses these collectibles in the making of his own sound scores; he has created a narrative referring to the films of Fritz Lang, to illustrated children's books, and to early 20th-century European artistic abstraction, where sound and sight blend into a common experience.

Beyond Boundaries Art Exhibit and Silent Auction
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This is the 16th annual Beyond Boundaries Silent Auction. It is held every year as both a fundraiser and as a presentation of a collection of work from a culturally diverse mix of CNY established and emerging artists. It serves to continue an education fund for three communities in Ghana (CENSUDI in Bolgatanga, the Liberian refugee camp in Buduburam and the community library in Wora Wora).

Additional information can be found at www.beyondboundariescny.org, or contact Mardea Warner at 315-479-5757, mardeamardea@yahoo.com.

Taste of Syracuse

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

Main Stage
1:00-2:00 pm: Soft Spoken
2:20-3:20 pm: AfterFX
3:40-4:40 pm: Square Pegs
5:00-6:00 pm: 3 Inch Fury
6:20-7:20 pm: Gridley Paige
7:40-8:40 pm: Whiskey Mae
9:00 pm: Kevin Costner and Modern West

Party Barge Stage
2:00-2:50 pm: Media Mayhem
3:00-4:00 pm: CX Tec Dinosaurs
4:10-5:10 pm: The Delinquents
5:20-6:20 pm: Simplelife
6:35-7:35 pm: - Kane
8:00-10:00 pm: Changes in Latitude - A Jimmy Buffet Tribute Band

The Clinton Square Stage
Saturday Acappella Festival:
3:00 pm: Five-Life
3:45 pm: no Xcuse
4:30 pm: Closer Still
5:15 pm: no Xcuse

For more information, visit tasteofsyracuse.com.

The World Provider
Redhouse

Price: $12
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The World Provider mixes next-level performance art with old-school Broadway/Vegas showmanship, fine-tuning the irresistible combination of catchy tunes, cheap-keyboard sonics, and over-the-top theatrical performance.

The superheroic alter ego of mild-mannered writer/filmmaker Malcolm Fraser, the WP got started in Toronto in 1999, coming up alongside some friends you might have heard of—Peaches, Feist, Gonzales, Mocky, Taylor Savvy. Eventually they all moved on to Europe and varying degrees of fame. The WP, in a misguided display of non-conformity, stayed on these shores, relocating to Montreal.

Originally a one-man band, the WP has in recent years expanded to various lineups, appearing either as a duo with wife/collaborator Stacey DeWolfe or with a full band featuring Stacey, Montreal indie-film queen Kara Blake on keys and Besnard Lakes rock goddess Olga Goreas on drums.

The Emperor's New Clothes
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the classic story.

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $15 adults; $10 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Big Bad Wolf is put on trial and has a very different account of what happened.

Read a review!

Crowns
Syracuse Stage
Patdro Harris, director

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

Get ready for some soul stirring, funny and powerful stories, stories from the church elders, stories with hattitude, enough hattitude to set the choir singing. That's hattitude, as in hat, as in Crown, as in the elegant cranial adornments favored by certain elegant church-going ladies of the South. Sing about it, dance about it, boast about it, even dream about it, a Crown is a joyous expression of culture and tradition, and as we find in this rollicking celebratory play by Regina Taylor, tradition and culture can be just the balm to salve the wounded soul. That's worth singing about whether the style is gospel, freedom song or hip-hop.

Read a Review!

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $15 adults; $10 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Big Bad Wolf is put on trial and has a very different account of what happened.

Read a review!

The Falsettos Murder
Without A Cue

Price: $39.50 includes dinner, show, tax, and gratuity
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

In this a parody of the HBO mega hit, The Sopranos, Tony and his entourage are in town for—what else?—a waste management convention. When somebody gets whacked it's nothing personal, strictly "business."

For reservations, phone 315-469-6969. For more information, visit www.glenloch.net.

On Golden Pond
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Bryan Allen Jones, director

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

This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the 48th year. He is a retired professor, nearing 80, with heart palpitations and a failing memory—but still as tart-tongued, observant, and eager for life as ever. Ethel, 10 years younger and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched and continue to enrich their long life together. They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist finacé, who then goes off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer. The boy quickly becomes the "grandchild" the elderly couple have longed for, and as Norman revels in taking his ward fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about modern teenage awareness-and slang-in return. In the end, as the summer wanes, so does their brief idyll, and in the final, deeply moving moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought even closer together by the incidence of a mild heart attack. Time, they know, is now against them, but the years have been good and, perhaps, another summer on Golden Pond still awaits.

The cast includes Tom Minion as Norman Thayer Jr., BJ Newsome as Ethel Thayer, Aileen Kenneson as Chelsea Thayer Wayne, Jay Burris as Bill Ray, Alec Funiciello as Billy Ray, and Lee Lamanche as Charlie Martin.

Bingo: The Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Bingo is a splashy, zippy, outrageously funny new musical. Come meet Vern, Honey and Patsy -- three pals that have driven through a terrible storm in the name of their weekly obsession. In between the number calling, strange rituals and fierce competitions, love blossoms and long-lost friends unite. Book by Michael Heitzman and Ilene Reid; music and lyrics by Michael Heitzman Ilene Reid and David Holcenberg.

Read a Review!

Crowns
Syracuse Stage
Patdro Harris, director

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

Get ready for some soul stirring, funny and powerful stories, stories from the church elders, stories with hattitude, enough hattitude to set the choir singing. That's hattitude, as in hat, as in Crown, as in the elegant cranial adornments favored by certain elegant church-going ladies of the South. Sing about it, dance about it, boast about it, even dream about it, a Crown is a joyous expression of culture and tradition, and as we find in this rollicking celebratory play by Regina Taylor, tradition and culture can be just the balm to salve the wounded soul. That's worth singing about whether the style is gospel, freedom song or hip-hop.

Read a Review!

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Limbo: Works of Admas Habteslasie
Light Work Gallery

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

"Limbo" depicts a graceful yet unusually honest and insightful snapshot of Eritrea, an East African country suspended in an unsettled state between war and peace.

Eritrea warred with neighboring Ethiopia for 30 years before gaining independence in 1991. Then, in 1998, they entered another war with Ethiopia that lasted two years. Today, the war-torn country is yet again at the brink of war with their neighbor. Years of unrest have left the people of Eritrea waiting for life to improve. According to Habteslasie: "Transitory states become permanent; empty villas, destroyed old buildings and unfinished new buildings dot the landscape, monuments to the suspension of history. The collision between Eritrea's proud historical narrative and the bleak ennui of the present has produced an obsessive focus on the future. Reconstruction and infrastructure development are energetically driven forward whilst the economy remains essentially shut off from the outside world." The images in "Limbo" capture both destruction and construction, both the unhealed wounds of war and a fierce optimism and hope for a brighter future.

Habteslasie was born in Kuwait, and his parents are Eritrean. He received his master's degree from the London College of Communication in photojournalism and documentary photography. His photographic projects look at the ideas of identity, history, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with historical process. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Flowers East and 198 Gallery in London. His work has also been published in Source Magazine.

As It Happens: Artists-in-Residence at Light Work
Light Work Gallery

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

Josh Brilliant curates a selection of images by recent Light Work Artists-in-Residence, including Amy Stein, Kelli Connell, Cristina Fraire, Krista Steinke, and Christine Osinski. Brilliant is currently an MFA candidate in the Museum Studies program at Syracuse University.

All Forms: Studio Pottery '09
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Featuring works by 13 artists.

Interdisciplinary
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Dinosaur aesthetics, Onondaga Lake and the creation of energy from body sweat are among the subjects addressed in "Interdisciplinary," an exhibition of projects by Syracuse University faculty who received 200809 grants from the College of Visual and Performing Arts Interdisciplinary Committee.

"Interdisciplinary" features the following projects:
* "Creative Collaborations," readings and songs from the class "Poetry and Music Composition," taught by Gregory Mertl, assistant professor of composition in the School of Music
* "Dinosaurs Had Sharp Teeth!" an interactive display about dinosaur aesthetics by Chris Wildrick, assistant professor of foundation in the School of Art and Design
* "The Lake Project: Social Sculpture and the Urban Landscape," featuring photographs of Onondaga Lake by students of Sarah McCoubrey, associate professor of foundation in the School of Art and Design, and Marion Wilson, VPA director of community initiatives
* "Practicing in Public," featuring a video installation by students of Sam Van Aken, associate professor of sculpture in the School of Art and Design, and Laura Heyman, assistant professor of art photography in the Department of Transmedia
* "Singing for an Inclusive Society," featuring photographs and video from a project led by Miso Suchy, associate professor of film in the Department of Transmedia; Lida Suchy; and the Syracuse Community Choir
* "Waste to Work," an exploration of how body sweat can be harnessed to create energy, led by Olivia Robinson, assistant professor of fiber arts/material studies in the School of Art and Design, and Daniela Kostova

For more information about the exhibition, contact Andrew Havenhand at 315-474-1217 or ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

Sitting Still
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"What does the world look like from a non-violent point of view? What would happen if the youth of Syracuse city and Syracuse University joined together to explore this question?" These are the questions that led Anne Beffel, a New York based public artist and Associate Professor of Art at Syracuse University and Pam McLaughlin, Everson Curator of Education and Public Programs to bring the Sitting Still contemplative video project to high school students from the Syracuse City School District. Beffel and McLaughlin worked together for over a year to put video cameras in the hands eight young artists, so that they could stop, look, and listen as scenes unfolded before them ranging from those that inspired awe to those that compelled participation and intervention. Within the context of four workshops at the SU Warehouse e-tags studio, students engaged in making video art from a perfectly still point of view, and then used their artworks as the basis for sharing their diverse visions. The workshops were at the heart of this process of opening up to environments -- both physical and social.

PostSecret
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In November 2004, Frank Warren began a community art project by handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood. Each self-addressed card invited people to anonymously share a secret. Two requirements were: the secret had to be true and it had to be something that had never been told to another person. Today Warren has been mailed more than 100,000 highly personal and artfully decorated postcards illustrating the soulful secrets never voiced. This extraordinary project has become an international phenomenon with thousands of people participating in scheduled PostSecret events throughout the United States, and through the PostSecret website and blog.

This exhibition features 450 postcards bringing together the most powerful, poignant and beautifully intimate secrets Warren has received in the past four years. In many cases, the illustrations on the cards are just as compelling as the accompanying text.

Westcott Art Trail
Westcott Community Center

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

This art fair has grown to one of the finest arts & craft offerings in Syracuse with more than 60 artists of extraordinary quality in 20 locations around the Westcott neighborhood. The locations include artists' homes and studios that stretch from Meadowbrook to Berkley and from Broad to Avondale. Local artists work in a range of mediums, including ceramics, glass, jewelry, fibers, painting, and sculpture. Fourteen artists will be demonstrating their craft in mediums including silk painting, henna, watercolor, ceramic wheel throwing and firing, oil painting, origami, jewelry making techniques. Visitors will even be able to glaze and take home their own ceramic objects, fired in an outdoor Raku kiln.

Art Trail Maps are available at http://www.westcottcc.org/art_trail_09.htm.

Styles in Music: Concert with Commentary
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Steven Rosenfeld, piano

Price: $15
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Beethoven Sonata in F Major, Op. 10, No. 2
Scarlatti Two Sonatas
Rameau Gavotte Variations
Bartok Improvisations, Op. 20
Schumann Fantasy Pieces, Op. 12 and Toccata, Op. 7

Togethe We Can Move Mountains
Syracuse Community Choir
Karen Mihalyi, conductor
Featuring Marcia Hagen

Price: $10-$20 sliding scale
Erwin First United Methodist Church
920 Euclid Ave., Syracuse

Crowns
Syracuse Stage
Patdro Harris, director

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

Get ready for some soul stirring, funny and powerful stories, stories from the church elders, stories with hattitude, enough hattitude to set the choir singing. That's hattitude, as in hat, as in Crown, as in the elegant cranial adornments favored by certain elegant church-going ladies of the South. Sing about it, dance about it, boast about it, even dream about it, a Crown is a joyous expression of culture and tradition, and as we find in this rollicking celebratory play by Regina Taylor, tradition and culture can be just the balm to salve the wounded soul. That's worth singing about whether the style is gospel, freedom song or hip-hop.

Read a Review!

Monday, June 8, 2009

Postcards to (and from!) the Past
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit is a collaboration between the Arts Branch of the YMCA's after school arts program at Salem Hyde Elementary School, the Onondaga Historical Association, and Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. On display at the YMCA will be replications of over 100 century-old postcards mailed back and forth between students in the YMCA's program (asking questions of various historical figures from the Syracuse area), and staff members of the OHA (who responded to the students' questions in character). Sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, the kids' questions show an active engagement with their own history—and the postcards themselves are a delight to anyone interested in the area's past. The exhibit is continued across the street at the OHA, and guests are invited and encouraged to visit both galleries to see the complete show.

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Spring Loaded
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery
Associated Artists of Syracuse

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

Featuring works by Joan Applebaum, Lesley Brooks, A. Brooks Decker, Lorraine Doyle, Joy Englehart, Marcia Ferber, Roscha Folger, Patricia Gancarz, Mimi George, Helga Gilber, Carol Ginsky, Marion Lapham, Howard McLaughlin, Kathleen O'Brien, Ute Oestreicher, E.A. Pilbeam, Mary Raineri, Pamela Sunshine, Yolanda Tooley, Clara Towell.

The Complete Works of Alexandra Crosby
Westcott Community Center

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

As It Happens: Artists-in-Residence at Light Work
Light Work Gallery

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

Josh Brilliant curates a selection of images by recent Light Work Artists-in-Residence, including Amy Stein, Kelli Connell, Cristina Fraire, Krista Steinke, and Christine Osinski. Brilliant is currently an MFA candidate in the Museum Studies program at Syracuse University.

Limbo: Works of Admas Habteslasie
Light Work Gallery

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

"Limbo" depicts a graceful yet unusually honest and insightful snapshot of Eritrea, an East African country suspended in an unsettled state between war and peace.

Eritrea warred with neighboring Ethiopia for 30 years before gaining independence in 1991. Then, in 1998, they entered another war with Ethiopia that lasted two years. Today, the war-torn country is yet again at the brink of war with their neighbor. Years of unrest have left the people of Eritrea waiting for life to improve. According to Habteslasie: "Transitory states become permanent; empty villas, destroyed old buildings and unfinished new buildings dot the landscape, monuments to the suspension of history. The collision between Eritrea's proud historical narrative and the bleak ennui of the present has produced an obsessive focus on the future. Reconstruction and infrastructure development are energetically driven forward whilst the economy remains essentially shut off from the outside world." The images in "Limbo" capture both destruction and construction, both the unhealed wounds of war and a fierce optimism and hope for a brighter future.

Habteslasie was born in Kuwait, and his parents are Eritrean. He received his master's degree from the London College of Communication in photojournalism and documentary photography. His photographic projects look at the ideas of identity, history, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with historical process. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Flowers East and 198 Gallery in London. His work has also been published in Source Magazine.

Captains Courageous
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

1937 film based on the Rudyard Kipling book, starring Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore, Mickey Rooney, Melvyn Douglas, and John Carradine.

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Postcards to (and from!) the Past
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit is a collaboration between the Arts Branch of the YMCA's after school arts program at Salem Hyde Elementary School, the Onondaga Historical Association, and Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. On display at the YMCA will be replications of over 100 century-old postcards mailed back and forth between students in the YMCA's program (asking questions of various historical figures from the Syracuse area), and staff members of the OHA (who responded to the students' questions in character). Sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, the kids' questions show an active engagement with their own history—and the postcards themselves are a delight to anyone interested in the area's past. The exhibit is continued across the street at the OHA, and guests are invited and encouraged to visit both galleries to see the complete show.

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Recent works by Al Bremer and Kate Timm
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Spring Loaded
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery
Associated Artists of Syracuse

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

Featuring works by Joan Applebaum, Lesley Brooks, A. Brooks Decker, Lorraine Doyle, Joy Englehart, Marcia Ferber, Roscha Folger, Patricia Gancarz, Mimi George, Helga Gilber, Carol Ginsky, Marion Lapham, Howard McLaughlin, Kathleen O'Brien, Ute Oestreicher, E.A. Pilbeam, Mary Raineri, Pamela Sunshine, Yolanda Tooley, Clara Towell.

The Complete Works of Alexandra Crosby
Westcott Community Center

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

The Curiosity of Change
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anne Novado-Cappuccilli: Drawings and Paintings
John Lombardi: Works in Stone

37th Annual Teen Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

CFAC is honored to host the longest running collaborative exhibition in the Greater Syracuse area that features the work of under-represented teen artists. Participating students attend Syracuse City High Schools and suburban Onondaga County High Schools. A panel of professional local artists serve as judges for the competition. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories.

Limbo: Works of Admas Habteslasie
Light Work Gallery

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

"Limbo" depicts a graceful yet unusually honest and insightful snapshot of Eritrea, an East African country suspended in an unsettled state between war and peace.

Eritrea warred with neighboring Ethiopia for 30 years before gaining independence in 1991. Then, in 1998, they entered another war with Ethiopia that lasted two years. Today, the war-torn country is yet again at the brink of war with their neighbor. Years of unrest have left the people of Eritrea waiting for life to improve. According to Habteslasie: "Transitory states become permanent; empty villas, destroyed old buildings and unfinished new buildings dot the landscape, monuments to the suspension of history. The collision between Eritrea's proud historical narrative and the bleak ennui of the present has produced an obsessive focus on the future. Reconstruction and infrastructure development are energetically driven forward whilst the economy remains essentially shut off from the outside world." The images in "Limbo" capture both destruction and construction, both the unhealed wounds of war and a fierce optimism and hope for a brighter future.

Habteslasie was born in Kuwait, and his parents are Eritrean. He received his master's degree from the London College of Communication in photojournalism and documentary photography. His photographic projects look at the ideas of identity, history, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with historical process. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Flowers East and 198 Gallery in London. His work has also been published in Source Magazine.

As It Happens: Artists-in-Residence at Light Work
Light Work Gallery

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

Josh Brilliant curates a selection of images by recent Light Work Artists-in-Residence, including Amy Stein, Kelli Connell, Cristina Fraire, Krista Steinke, and Christine Osinski. Brilliant is currently an MFA candidate in the Museum Studies program at Syracuse University.

PostSecret
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In November 2004, Frank Warren began a community art project by handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood. Each self-addressed card invited people to anonymously share a secret. Two requirements were: the secret had to be true and it had to be something that had never been told to another person. Today Warren has been mailed more than 100,000 highly personal and artfully decorated postcards illustrating the soulful secrets never voiced. This extraordinary project has become an international phenomenon with thousands of people participating in scheduled PostSecret events throughout the United States, and through the PostSecret website and blog.

This exhibition features 450 postcards bringing together the most powerful, poignant and beautifully intimate secrets Warren has received in the past four years. In many cases, the illustrations on the cards are just as compelling as the accompanying text.

Sitting Still
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"What does the world look like from a non-violent point of view? What would happen if the youth of Syracuse city and Syracuse University joined together to explore this question?" These are the questions that led Anne Beffel, a New York based public artist and Associate Professor of Art at Syracuse University and Pam McLaughlin, Everson Curator of Education and Public Programs to bring the Sitting Still contemplative video project to high school students from the Syracuse City School District. Beffel and McLaughlin worked together for over a year to put video cameras in the hands eight young artists, so that they could stop, look, and listen as scenes unfolded before them ranging from those that inspired awe to those that compelled participation and intervention. Within the context of four workshops at the SU Warehouse e-tags studio, students engaged in making video art from a perfectly still point of view, and then used their artworks as the basis for sharing their diverse visions. The workshops were at the heart of this process of opening up to environments -- both physical and social.

Vicktory Dogs Exhibition
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Pit bulls victimized in the notorious dog-fighting ring of former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick are the subject of the exhibition. "Vicktory Dogs" is the brainchild of Cyrus Mejia, who, along with his wife and a group of animal lovers, founded Best Friends Animal Society, the nation's largest sanctuary for abused and abandoned animals.

The exhibition features giclée prints of 22 dogs rescued by Best Friends after Vick's indictment. By depicting the dogs up close in his painting, Mejia hopes people will confront their own prejudices about pit bulls in general and will think twice about exploiting them or fearing them, or both.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Postcards to (and from!) the Past
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit is a collaboration between the Arts Branch of the YMCA's after school arts program at Salem Hyde Elementary School, the Onondaga Historical Association, and Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. On display at the YMCA will be replications of over 100 century-old postcards mailed back and forth between students in the YMCA's program (asking questions of various historical figures from the Syracuse area), and staff members of the OHA (who responded to the students' questions in character). Sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, the kids' questions show an active engagement with their own history—and the postcards themselves are a delight to anyone interested in the area's past. The exhibit is continued across the street at the OHA, and guests are invited and encouraged to visit both galleries to see the complete show.

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Recent works by Al Bremer and Kate Timm
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Spring Loaded
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery
Associated Artists of Syracuse

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

Featuring works by Joan Applebaum, Lesley Brooks, A. Brooks Decker, Lorraine Doyle, Joy Englehart, Marcia Ferber, Roscha Folger, Patricia Gancarz, Mimi George, Helga Gilber, Carol Ginsky, Marion Lapham, Howard McLaughlin, Kathleen O'Brien, Ute Oestreicher, E.A. Pilbeam, Mary Raineri, Pamela Sunshine, Yolanda Tooley, Clara Towell.

The Complete Works of Alexandra Crosby
Westcott Community Center

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

The Curiosity of Change
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anne Novado-Cappuccilli: Drawings and Paintings
John Lombardi: Works in Stone

37th Annual Teen Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

CFAC is honored to host the longest running collaborative exhibition in the Greater Syracuse area that features the work of under-represented teen artists. Participating students attend Syracuse City High Schools and suburban Onondaga County High Schools. A panel of professional local artists serve as judges for the competition. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories.

As It Happens: Artists-in-Residence at Light Work
Light Work Gallery

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

Josh Brilliant curates a selection of images by recent Light Work Artists-in-Residence, including Amy Stein, Kelli Connell, Cristina Fraire, Krista Steinke, and Christine Osinski. Brilliant is currently an MFA candidate in the Museum Studies program at Syracuse University.

Limbo: Works of Admas Habteslasie
Light Work Gallery

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

"Limbo" depicts a graceful yet unusually honest and insightful snapshot of Eritrea, an East African country suspended in an unsettled state between war and peace.

Eritrea warred with neighboring Ethiopia for 30 years before gaining independence in 1991. Then, in 1998, they entered another war with Ethiopia that lasted two years. Today, the war-torn country is yet again at the brink of war with their neighbor. Years of unrest have left the people of Eritrea waiting for life to improve. According to Habteslasie: "Transitory states become permanent; empty villas, destroyed old buildings and unfinished new buildings dot the landscape, monuments to the suspension of history. The collision between Eritrea's proud historical narrative and the bleak ennui of the present has produced an obsessive focus on the future. Reconstruction and infrastructure development are energetically driven forward whilst the economy remains essentially shut off from the outside world." The images in "Limbo" capture both destruction and construction, both the unhealed wounds of war and a fierce optimism and hope for a brighter future.

Habteslasie was born in Kuwait, and his parents are Eritrean. He received his master's degree from the London College of Communication in photojournalism and documentary photography. His photographic projects look at the ideas of identity, history, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with historical process. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Flowers East and 198 Gallery in London. His work has also been published in Source Magazine.

(Shade/Light) Red Excursions
Redhouse

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

Patrick Blackburn's newest multimedia installation creates an environment which seduces visitors and subtly asks them to leave their preconception of viewing art aside. Instead, visitors are invited to experience the artwork in the present moment. Blackburn explores the use of familiar media objects as a means of experiencing audio and visual art.

Blackburn is an artist, musician, composer and producer of audio and visual landscapes. He has worked in the design and production of numerous gallery installation and limited editions music albums and sound artworks. In his own artwork, Blackburn uses emergent technologies and behavioral patterns such as music generated by a system that ostensibly has no inputs. Thus his artwork cannot be called a composition in the traditional sense but rather open-end soundscapes, designed to continue indefinitely, without a chance to ever repeat. His work continues to create itself even in the audience's absence.

Interdisciplinary
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Dinosaur aesthetics, Onondaga Lake and the creation of energy from body sweat are among the subjects addressed in "Interdisciplinary," an exhibition of projects by Syracuse University faculty who received 200809 grants from the College of Visual and Performing Arts Interdisciplinary Committee.

"Interdisciplinary" features the following projects:
* "Creative Collaborations," readings and songs from the class "Poetry and Music Composition," taught by Gregory Mertl, assistant professor of composition in the School of Music
* "Dinosaurs Had Sharp Teeth!" an interactive display about dinosaur aesthetics by Chris Wildrick, assistant professor of foundation in the School of Art and Design
* "The Lake Project: Social Sculpture and the Urban Landscape," featuring photographs of Onondaga Lake by students of Sarah McCoubrey, associate professor of foundation in the School of Art and Design, and Marion Wilson, VPA director of community initiatives
* "Practicing in Public," featuring a video installation by students of Sam Van Aken, associate professor of sculpture in the School of Art and Design, and Laura Heyman, assistant professor of art photography in the Department of Transmedia
* "Singing for an Inclusive Society," featuring photographs and video from a project led by Miso Suchy, associate professor of film in the Department of Transmedia; Lida Suchy; and the Syracuse Community Choir
* "Waste to Work," an exploration of how body sweat can be harnessed to create energy, led by Olivia Robinson, assistant professor of fiber arts/material studies in the School of Art and Design, and Daniela Kostova

For more information about the exhibition, contact Andrew Havenhand at 315-474-1217 or ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

Sitting Still
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"What does the world look like from a non-violent point of view? What would happen if the youth of Syracuse city and Syracuse University joined together to explore this question?" These are the questions that led Anne Beffel, a New York based public artist and Associate Professor of Art at Syracuse University and Pam McLaughlin, Everson Curator of Education and Public Programs to bring the Sitting Still contemplative video project to high school students from the Syracuse City School District. Beffel and McLaughlin worked together for over a year to put video cameras in the hands eight young artists, so that they could stop, look, and listen as scenes unfolded before them ranging from those that inspired awe to those that compelled participation and intervention. Within the context of four workshops at the SU Warehouse e-tags studio, students engaged in making video art from a perfectly still point of view, and then used their artworks as the basis for sharing their diverse visions. The workshops were at the heart of this process of opening up to environments -- both physical and social.

PostSecret
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In November 2004, Frank Warren began a community art project by handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood. Each self-addressed card invited people to anonymously share a secret. Two requirements were: the secret had to be true and it had to be something that had never been told to another person. Today Warren has been mailed more than 100,000 highly personal and artfully decorated postcards illustrating the soulful secrets never voiced. This extraordinary project has become an international phenomenon with thousands of people participating in scheduled PostSecret events throughout the United States, and through the PostSecret website and blog.

This exhibition features 450 postcards bringing together the most powerful, poignant and beautifully intimate secrets Warren has received in the past four years. In many cases, the illustrations on the cards are just as compelling as the accompanying text.

Vicktory Dogs Exhibition
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Pit bulls victimized in the notorious dog-fighting ring of former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick are the subject of the exhibition. "Vicktory Dogs" is the brainchild of Cyrus Mejia, who, along with his wife and a group of animal lovers, founded Best Friends Animal Society, the nation's largest sanctuary for abused and abandoned animals.

The exhibition features giclée prints of 22 dogs rescued by Best Friends after Vick's indictment. By depicting the dogs up close in his painting, Mejia hopes people will confront their own prejudices about pit bulls in general and will think twice about exploiting them or fearing them, or both.

Cindoliesha
Kuumba Project

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

Students in the Kuumba Project urban arts education program will celebrate the program's year end with a performance of the play "Cindoliesha," a rendition of "Cinderella."

Developed, implemented and managed by the South Side Initiative Office, the Kuumba Project began in September 2007 with 22 middle-school children, ages 12-15, who receive daily instruction from professional artists in dance, studio arts, literary arts, music and theater (music and theater were combined into a musical theater offering in 2008).

The "Cindoliesha" performance will embody the talents of all of the students of the Kuumba program. The musical theater students wrote the play; the studio-arts students designed the flyer and the backdrops of the scenes; the literary arts students prepared the spoken word; and the dance students choreographed their performances.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Postcards to (and from!) the Past
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit is a collaboration between the Arts Branch of the YMCA's after school arts program at Salem Hyde Elementary School, the Onondaga Historical Association, and Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. On display at the YMCA will be replications of over 100 century-old postcards mailed back and forth between students in the YMCA's program (asking questions of various historical figures from the Syracuse area), and staff members of the OHA (who responded to the students' questions in character). Sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, the kids' questions show an active engagement with their own history—and the postcards themselves are a delight to anyone interested in the area's past. The exhibit is continued across the street at the OHA, and guests are invited and encouraged to visit both galleries to see the complete show.

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Recent works by Al Bremer and Kate Timm
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Spring Loaded
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery
Associated Artists of Syracuse

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

Featuring works by Joan Applebaum, Lesley Brooks, A. Brooks Decker, Lorraine Doyle, Joy Englehart, Marcia Ferber, Roscha Folger, Patricia Gancarz, Mimi George, Helga Gilber, Carol Ginsky, Marion Lapham, Howard McLaughlin, Kathleen O'Brien, Ute Oestreicher, E.A. Pilbeam, Mary Raineri, Pamela Sunshine, Yolanda Tooley, Clara Towell.

The Complete Works of Alexandra Crosby
Westcott Community Center

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

The Curiosity of Change
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anne Novado-Cappuccilli: Drawings and Paintings
John Lombardi: Works in Stone

37th Annual Teen Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

CFAC is honored to host the longest running collaborative exhibition in the Greater Syracuse area that features the work of under-represented teen artists. Participating students attend Syracuse City High Schools and suburban Onondaga County High Schools. A panel of professional local artists serve as judges for the competition. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories.

Limbo: Works of Admas Habteslasie
Light Work Gallery

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

"Limbo" depicts a graceful yet unusually honest and insightful snapshot of Eritrea, an East African country suspended in an unsettled state between war and peace.

Eritrea warred with neighboring Ethiopia for 30 years before gaining independence in 1991. Then, in 1998, they entered another war with Ethiopia that lasted two years. Today, the war-torn country is yet again at the brink of war with their neighbor. Years of unrest have left the people of Eritrea waiting for life to improve. According to Habteslasie: "Transitory states become permanent; empty villas, destroyed old buildings and unfinished new buildings dot the landscape, monuments to the suspension of history. The collision between Eritrea's proud historical narrative and the bleak ennui of the present has produced an obsessive focus on the future. Reconstruction and infrastructure development are energetically driven forward whilst the economy remains essentially shut off from the outside world." The images in "Limbo" capture both destruction and construction, both the unhealed wounds of war and a fierce optimism and hope for a brighter future.

Habteslasie was born in Kuwait, and his parents are Eritrean. He received his master's degree from the London College of Communication in photojournalism and documentary photography. His photographic projects look at the ideas of identity, history, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with historical process. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Flowers East and 198 Gallery in London. His work has also been published in Source Magazine.

As It Happens: Artists-in-Residence at Light Work
Light Work Gallery

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

Josh Brilliant curates a selection of images by recent Light Work Artists-in-Residence, including Amy Stein, Kelli Connell, Cristina Fraire, Krista Steinke, and Christine Osinski. Brilliant is currently an MFA candidate in the Museum Studies program at Syracuse University.

(Shade/Light) Red Excursions
Redhouse

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

Patrick Blackburn's newest multimedia installation creates an environment which seduces visitors and subtly asks them to leave their preconception of viewing art aside. Instead, visitors are invited to experience the artwork in the present moment. Blackburn explores the use of familiar media objects as a means of experiencing audio and visual art.

Blackburn is an artist, musician, composer and producer of audio and visual landscapes. He has worked in the design and production of numerous gallery installation and limited editions music albums and sound artworks. In his own artwork, Blackburn uses emergent technologies and behavioral patterns such as music generated by a system that ostensibly has no inputs. Thus his artwork cannot be called a composition in the traditional sense but rather open-end soundscapes, designed to continue indefinitely, without a chance to ever repeat. His work continues to create itself even in the audience's absence.

All Forms: Studio Pottery '09
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Featuring works by 13 artists.

Interdisciplinary
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Dinosaur aesthetics, Onondaga Lake and the creation of energy from body sweat are among the subjects addressed in "Interdisciplinary," an exhibition of projects by Syracuse University faculty who received 200809 grants from the College of Visual and Performing Arts Interdisciplinary Committee.

"Interdisciplinary" features the following projects:
* "Creative Collaborations," readings and songs from the class "Poetry and Music Composition," taught by Gregory Mertl, assistant professor of composition in the School of Music
* "Dinosaurs Had Sharp Teeth!" an interactive display about dinosaur aesthetics by Chris Wildrick, assistant professor of foundation in the School of Art and Design
* "The Lake Project: Social Sculpture and the Urban Landscape," featuring photographs of Onondaga Lake by students of Sarah McCoubrey, associate professor of foundation in the School of Art and Design, and Marion Wilson, VPA director of community initiatives
* "Practicing in Public," featuring a video installation by students of Sam Van Aken, associate professor of sculpture in the School of Art and Design, and Laura Heyman, assistant professor of art photography in the Department of Transmedia
* "Singing for an Inclusive Society," featuring photographs and video from a project led by Miso Suchy, associate professor of film in the Department of Transmedia; Lida Suchy; and the Syracuse Community Choir
* "Waste to Work," an exploration of how body sweat can be harnessed to create energy, led by Olivia Robinson, assistant professor of fiber arts/material studies in the School of Art and Design, and Daniela Kostova

For more information about the exhibition, contact Andrew Havenhand at 315-474-1217 or ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

Fusion
Delavan Art Gallery

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

John F. Fitzsimmons, paintings
Diana Godfrey, mixed media collage
Pam Steele, metal and glass wall sculptures
Catharine Westlake, acrylics and monotypes

Wild Card Exhibit: Color Etchings from Florence by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna
Delavan Art Gallery

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

Sitting Still
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"What does the world look like from a non-violent point of view? What would happen if the youth of Syracuse city and Syracuse University joined together to explore this question?" These are the questions that led Anne Beffel, a New York based public artist and Associate Professor of Art at Syracuse University and Pam McLaughlin, Everson Curator of Education and Public Programs to bring the Sitting Still contemplative video project to high school students from the Syracuse City School District. Beffel and McLaughlin worked together for over a year to put video cameras in the hands eight young artists, so that they could stop, look, and listen as scenes unfolded before them ranging from those that inspired awe to those that compelled participation and intervention. Within the context of four workshops at the SU Warehouse e-tags studio, students engaged in making video art from a perfectly still point of view, and then used their artworks as the basis for sharing their diverse visions. The workshops were at the heart of this process of opening up to environments -- both physical and social.

PostSecret
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In November 2004, Frank Warren began a community art project by handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood. Each self-addressed card invited people to anonymously share a secret. Two requirements were: the secret had to be true and it had to be something that had never been told to another person. Today Warren has been mailed more than 100,000 highly personal and artfully decorated postcards illustrating the soulful secrets never voiced. This extraordinary project has become an international phenomenon with thousands of people participating in scheduled PostSecret events throughout the United States, and through the PostSecret website and blog.

This exhibition features 450 postcards bringing together the most powerful, poignant and beautifully intimate secrets Warren has received in the past four years. In many cases, the illustrations on the cards are just as compelling as the accompanying text.

Vicktory Dogs Exhibition
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Pit bulls victimized in the notorious dog-fighting ring of former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick are the subject of the exhibition. "Vicktory Dogs" is the brainchild of Cyrus Mejia, who, along with his wife and a group of animal lovers, founded Best Friends Animal Society, the nation's largest sanctuary for abused and abandoned animals.

The exhibition features giclée prints of 22 dogs rescued by Best Friends after Vick's indictment. By depicting the dogs up close in his painting, Mejia hopes people will confront their own prejudices about pit bulls in general and will think twice about exploiting them or fearing them, or both.

Tanks & Trees: The War Show
Orange Line Gallery

Price: Free
Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A soldier's intimate look at Iraq. Featuring photographs from Steven Robinson, photos and video from anonymous sources, and video from the Syracuse Peace Council.

Greek Cultural Festival

Price: Free
St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Church
325 Waring Rd., Syracuse

For more information, visit the website.

Naked: Three Artists in the Raw
Featuring Dusty Pas'cal, Lisa Gentile, and Jason Vatter

Price: $10
Upstairs at the Dino
246 W. Willow St., Syracuse

The concept of the show, Naked, was created with the artists' goal in mind -- presenting their work in the most unaltered, raw form. They decided to present the solo acoustic sets in a cabaret-style setting for the most intimate result.

Dusty Pas'cal has most recently released the CD "More," which was a follow up to his 2007 SAMMY nominated debut album, "Home." Both albums have done extremely well and Dusty has surely made an impression in Central New York and throughout his travels as a troubadour with an edge. Dusty's music has gotten regular airplay on TK99's Blue Moon Café, as well as on stations in Boston and Vermont.

Lisa Gentile has quickly become a fixture on the local music scene after returning to her hometown of Syracuse after many years of living and performing in NYC. Lisa is a national recoding artist and has performed extensively throughout the country. Since her return to Syracuse, she has won a 2007 SAMMY Award for Best Country Recording. She has also created a music community through "Music Mavericks" Open Mic which she hosts every Wednesday night at Opus Lounge in Armory Square. Most recently, Lisa has launched Music Heals CNY, a not-for-profit endeavor which brings live acoustic music to the bedsides of patients and families healthcare facilities throughout Central New York.

Jason Vatter has recently returned to music scene after a bit of a hiatus with a brand new crop of songs to share. Jason has three independent albums under his belt: "Strong Enough," "Found" and "These Friends of Mine." Jason has performed at countless cafes, colleges, bookstores, and clubs in the region. He was nominated for a SAMMY in 2001 and was also the host of the very popular Song Swap at the now extinct Happy Endings Cake and Coffee House in Syracuse.

Homestyle Homicide: The Freagan Family Reunion
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive comedy murder mystery.

Friday, June 12, 2009

Postcards to (and from!) the Past
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit is a collaboration between the Arts Branch of the YMCA's after school arts program at Salem Hyde Elementary School, the Onondaga Historical Association, and Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. On display at the YMCA will be replications of over 100 century-old postcards mailed back and forth between students in the YMCA's program (asking questions of various historical figures from the Syracuse area), and staff members of the OHA (who responded to the students' questions in character). Sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, the kids' questions show an active engagement with their own history—and the postcards themselves are a delight to anyone interested in the area's past. The exhibit is continued across the street at the OHA, and guests are invited and encouraged to visit both galleries to see the complete show.

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Recent works by Al Bremer and Kate Timm
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Spring Loaded
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery
Associated Artists of Syracuse

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

Featuring works by Joan Applebaum, Lesley Brooks, A. Brooks Decker, Lorraine Doyle, Joy Englehart, Marcia Ferber, Roscha Folger, Patricia Gancarz, Mimi George, Helga Gilber, Carol Ginsky, Marion Lapham, Howard McLaughlin, Kathleen O'Brien, Ute Oestreicher, E.A. Pilbeam, Mary Raineri, Pamela Sunshine, Yolanda Tooley, Clara Towell.

The Complete Works of Alexandra Crosby
Westcott Community Center

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

The Curiosity of Change
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anne Novado-Cappuccilli: Drawings and Paintings
John Lombardi: Works in Stone

37th Annual Teen Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

CFAC is honored to host the longest running collaborative exhibition in the Greater Syracuse area that features the work of under-represented teen artists. Participating students attend Syracuse City High Schools and suburban Onondaga County High Schools. A panel of professional local artists serve as judges for the competition. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories.

Limbo: Works of Admas Habteslasie
Light Work Gallery

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

"Limbo" depicts a graceful yet unusually honest and insightful snapshot of Eritrea, an East African country suspended in an unsettled state between war and peace.

Eritrea warred with neighboring Ethiopia for 30 years before gaining independence in 1991. Then, in 1998, they entered another war with Ethiopia that lasted two years. Today, the war-torn country is yet again at the brink of war with their neighbor. Years of unrest have left the people of Eritrea waiting for life to improve. According to Habteslasie: "Transitory states become permanent; empty villas, destroyed old buildings and unfinished new buildings dot the landscape, monuments to the suspension of history. The collision between Eritrea's proud historical narrative and the bleak ennui of the present has produced an obsessive focus on the future. Reconstruction and infrastructure development are energetically driven forward whilst the economy remains essentially shut off from the outside world." The images in "Limbo" capture both destruction and construction, both the unhealed wounds of war and a fierce optimism and hope for a brighter future.

Habteslasie was born in Kuwait, and his parents are Eritrean. He received his master's degree from the London College of Communication in photojournalism and documentary photography. His photographic projects look at the ideas of identity, history, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with historical process. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Flowers East and 198 Gallery in London. His work has also been published in Source Magazine.

As It Happens: Artists-in-Residence at Light Work
Light Work Gallery

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

Josh Brilliant curates a selection of images by recent Light Work Artists-in-Residence, including Amy Stein, Kelli Connell, Cristina Fraire, Krista Steinke, and Christine Osinski. Brilliant is currently an MFA candidate in the Museum Studies program at Syracuse University.

(Shade/Light) Red Excursions
Redhouse

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

Patrick Blackburn's newest multimedia installation creates an environment which seduces visitors and subtly asks them to leave their preconception of viewing art aside. Instead, visitors are invited to experience the artwork in the present moment. Blackburn explores the use of familiar media objects as a means of experiencing audio and visual art.

Blackburn is an artist, musician, composer and producer of audio and visual landscapes. He has worked in the design and production of numerous gallery installation and limited editions music albums and sound artworks. In his own artwork, Blackburn uses emergent technologies and behavioral patterns such as music generated by a system that ostensibly has no inputs. Thus his artwork cannot be called a composition in the traditional sense but rather open-end soundscapes, designed to continue indefinitely, without a chance to ever repeat. His work continues to create itself even in the audience's absence.

All Forms: Studio Pottery '09
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Featuring works by 13 artists.

Interdisciplinary
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Dinosaur aesthetics, Onondaga Lake and the creation of energy from body sweat are among the subjects addressed in "Interdisciplinary," an exhibition of projects by Syracuse University faculty who received 200809 grants from the College of Visual and Performing Arts Interdisciplinary Committee.

"Interdisciplinary" features the following projects:
* "Creative Collaborations," readings and songs from the class "Poetry and Music Composition," taught by Gregory Mertl, assistant professor of composition in the School of Music
* "Dinosaurs Had Sharp Teeth!" an interactive display about dinosaur aesthetics by Chris Wildrick, assistant professor of foundation in the School of Art and Design
* "The Lake Project: Social Sculpture and the Urban Landscape," featuring photographs of Onondaga Lake by students of Sarah McCoubrey, associate professor of foundation in the School of Art and Design, and Marion Wilson, VPA director of community initiatives
* "Practicing in Public," featuring a video installation by students of Sam Van Aken, associate professor of sculpture in the School of Art and Design, and Laura Heyman, assistant professor of art photography in the Department of Transmedia
* "Singing for an Inclusive Society," featuring photographs and video from a project led by Miso Suchy, associate professor of film in the Department of Transmedia; Lida Suchy; and the Syracuse Community Choir
* "Waste to Work," an exploration of how body sweat can be harnessed to create energy, led by Olivia Robinson, assistant professor of fiber arts/material studies in the School of Art and Design, and Daniela Kostova

For more information about the exhibition, contact Andrew Havenhand at 315-474-1217 or ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

Fusion
Delavan Art Gallery

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

John F. Fitzsimmons, paintings
Diana Godfrey, mixed media collage
Pam Steele, metal and glass wall sculptures
Catharine Westlake, acrylics and monotypes

Wild Card Exhibit: Color Etchings from Florence by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna
Delavan Art Gallery

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

Sitting Still
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"What does the world look like from a non-violent point of view? What would happen if the youth of Syracuse city and Syracuse University joined together to explore this question?" These are the questions that led Anne Beffel, a New York based public artist and Associate Professor of Art at Syracuse University and Pam McLaughlin, Everson Curator of Education and Public Programs to bring the Sitting Still contemplative video project to high school students from the Syracuse City School District. Beffel and McLaughlin worked together for over a year to put video cameras in the hands eight young artists, so that they could stop, look, and listen as scenes unfolded before them ranging from those that inspired awe to those that compelled participation and intervention. Within the context of four workshops at the SU Warehouse e-tags studio, students engaged in making video art from a perfectly still point of view, and then used their artworks as the basis for sharing their diverse visions. The workshops were at the heart of this process of opening up to environments -- both physical and social.

PostSecret
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In November 2004, Frank Warren began a community art project by handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood. Each self-addressed card invited people to anonymously share a secret. Two requirements were: the secret had to be true and it had to be something that had never been told to another person. Today Warren has been mailed more than 100,000 highly personal and artfully decorated postcards illustrating the soulful secrets never voiced. This extraordinary project has become an international phenomenon with thousands of people participating in scheduled PostSecret events throughout the United States, and through the PostSecret website and blog.

This exhibition features 450 postcards bringing together the most powerful, poignant and beautifully intimate secrets Warren has received in the past four years. In many cases, the illustrations on the cards are just as compelling as the accompanying text.

Vicktory Dogs Exhibition
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Pit bulls victimized in the notorious dog-fighting ring of former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick are the subject of the exhibition. "Vicktory Dogs" is the brainchild of Cyrus Mejia, who, along with his wife and a group of animal lovers, founded Best Friends Animal Society, the nation's largest sanctuary for abused and abandoned animals.

The exhibition features giclée prints of 22 dogs rescued by Best Friends after Vick's indictment. By depicting the dogs up close in his painting, Mejia hopes people will confront their own prejudices about pit bulls in general and will think twice about exploiting them or fearing them, or both.

Tanks & Trees: The War Show
Orange Line Gallery

Price: Free
Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A soldier's intimate look at Iraq. Featuring photographs from Steven Robinson, photos and video from anonymous sources, and video from the Syracuse Peace Council.

Jamesville Balloon Fest

Price: $5; children 10 and under free
Jamesville Beach
Apulia Rd., Jamesville

7:00-8:00 pm: Terry Mulhauser Band
8:30-10:00 pm: The Fabulous Thunderbirds

For more information, visit syracuseballoonfest.com.

Greek Cultural Festival

Price: Free
St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Church
325 Waring Rd., Syracuse

For more information, visit the website.

Friday (and Tuesday) FLICS: Aimee & Jaguar
ArtRage Gallery

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

Berlin, 1943-44: Taboo-smashing wartime love between a covert Jewish woman in the underground and the love-starved wife of a Nazi officer; a gripping true story. GLAAD Media Award, Outstanding Film; Best Actress (two wins), Berlin Film Festival. (Directed by Max Faberbock, 1999)

Pops Concert: Rhapsody in Blue and Other Colors of the Rainbow
Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra
Erik Kibelsbeck, conductor

Drivers Village (formerly Penn Can Mall)
5885 E. Circle Dr., Cicero

Papa Grows Funk
Westcott Theater

Price: $10
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $15 adults; $10 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Big Bad Wolf is put on trial and has a very different account of what happened.

Read a review!

On Golden Pond
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Bryan Allen Jones, director

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

This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the 48th year. He is a retired professor, nearing 80, with heart palpitations and a failing memory—but still as tart-tongued, observant, and eager for life as ever. Ethel, 10 years younger and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched and continue to enrich their long life together. They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist finacé, who then goes off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer. The boy quickly becomes the "grandchild" the elderly couple have longed for, and as Norman revels in taking his ward fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about modern teenage awareness-and slang-in return. In the end, as the summer wanes, so does their brief idyll, and in the final, deeply moving moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought even closer together by the incidence of a mild heart attack. Time, they know, is now against them, but the years have been good and, perhaps, another summer on Golden Pond still awaits.

The cast includes Tom Minion as Norman Thayer Jr., BJ Newsome as Ethel Thayer, Aileen Kenneson as Chelsea Thayer Wayne, Jay Burris as Bill Ray, Alec Funiciello as Billy Ray, and Lee Lamanche as Charlie Martin.

An Evening of One-Act Comedies
Dragon Lady Players

Price: $10
Tara Stage
Shoppingtown Mall, next to Christopher & Banks, Dewitt

Noir Lite by Richard Hirsch
Gadzooks and Ophelia by Cheryl Ann Costa
Break a Leg by Jo J. Adamson

For more information, phone 315-263-2731.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Appleseed Productions
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: $18 regular; $15 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

This musical takes comedy back to its roots, combining situations from time-tested, 2000-year-old comedies of Roman playwright Plautus with the infectious energy of classic vaudeville. The result is a non-stop laugh-fest in which a crafty slave (Pseudolus) struggles to win the hand of a beautiful but slow-witted courtesan (Philia) for his young master (Hero), in exchange for freedom. Book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

The show stars Greg J. Hipius as Pseudolus and Michael Spinoso as Hysterium, and also features Dan Williams as Hero, Danan Healy as Philia, Patricia Elise Catchouny as Domina, Lanny Freshman as Senex, Bill Ali as Miles Gloriousus, and Mark Allen Holt as Marcus Lycus.

Read a Review!

Bingo: The Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Bingo is a splashy, zippy, outrageously funny new musical. Come meet Vern, Honey and Patsy -- three pals that have driven through a terrible storm in the name of their weekly obsession. In between the number calling, strange rituals and fierce competitions, love blossoms and long-lost friends unite. Book by Michael Heitzman and Ilene Reid; music and lyrics by Michael Heitzman Ilene Reid and David Holcenberg.

Read a Review!

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Wild Card Exhibit: Color Etchings from Florence by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna
Delavan Art Gallery

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

Fusion
Delavan Art Gallery

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

John F. Fitzsimmons, paintings
Diana Godfrey, mixed media collage
Pam Steele, metal and glass wall sculptures
Catharine Westlake, acrylics and monotypes

The Curiosity of Change
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anne Novado-Cappuccilli: Drawings and Paintings
John Lombardi: Works in Stone

Sitting Still
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"What does the world look like from a non-violent point of view? What would happen if the youth of Syracuse city and Syracuse University joined together to explore this question?" These are the questions that led Anne Beffel, a New York based public artist and Associate Professor of Art at Syracuse University and Pam McLaughlin, Everson Curator of Education and Public Programs to bring the Sitting Still contemplative video project to high school students from the Syracuse City School District. Beffel and McLaughlin worked together for over a year to put video cameras in the hands eight young artists, so that they could stop, look, and listen as scenes unfolded before them ranging from those that inspired awe to those that compelled participation and intervention. Within the context of four workshops at the SU Warehouse e-tags studio, students engaged in making video art from a perfectly still point of view, and then used their artworks as the basis for sharing their diverse visions. The workshops were at the heart of this process of opening up to environments -- both physical and social.

PostSecret
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In November 2004, Frank Warren began a community art project by handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood. Each self-addressed card invited people to anonymously share a secret. Two requirements were: the secret had to be true and it had to be something that had never been told to another person. Today Warren has been mailed more than 100,000 highly personal and artfully decorated postcards illustrating the soulful secrets never voiced. This extraordinary project has become an international phenomenon with thousands of people participating in scheduled PostSecret events throughout the United States, and through the PostSecret website and blog.

This exhibition features 450 postcards bringing together the most powerful, poignant and beautifully intimate secrets Warren has received in the past four years. In many cases, the illustrations on the cards are just as compelling as the accompanying text.

37th Annual Teen Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

CFAC is honored to host the longest running collaborative exhibition in the Greater Syracuse area that features the work of under-represented teen artists. Participating students attend Syracuse City High Schools and suburban Onondaga County High Schools. A panel of professional local artists serve as judges for the competition. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories.

All Forms: Studio Pottery '09
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Featuring works by 13 artists.

Interdisciplinary
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Dinosaur aesthetics, Onondaga Lake and the creation of energy from body sweat are among the subjects addressed in "Interdisciplinary," an exhibition of projects by Syracuse University faculty who received 200809 grants from the College of Visual and Performing Arts Interdisciplinary Committee.

"Interdisciplinary" features the following projects:
* "Creative Collaborations," readings and songs from the class "Poetry and Music Composition," taught by Gregory Mertl, assistant professor of composition in the School of Music
* "Dinosaurs Had Sharp Teeth!" an interactive display about dinosaur aesthetics by Chris Wildrick, assistant professor of foundation in the School of Art and Design
* "The Lake Project: Social Sculpture and the Urban Landscape," featuring photographs of Onondaga Lake by students of Sarah McCoubrey, associate professor of foundation in the School of Art and Design, and Marion Wilson, VPA director of community initiatives
* "Practicing in Public," featuring a video installation by students of Sam Van Aken, associate professor of sculpture in the School of Art and Design, and Laura Heyman, assistant professor of art photography in the Department of Transmedia
* "Singing for an Inclusive Society," featuring photographs and video from a project led by Miso Suchy, associate professor of film in the Department of Transmedia; Lida Suchy; and the Syracuse Community Choir
* "Waste to Work," an exploration of how body sweat can be harnessed to create energy, led by Olivia Robinson, assistant professor of fiber arts/material studies in the School of Art and Design, and Daniela Kostova

For more information about the exhibition, contact Andrew Havenhand at 315-474-1217 or ahavenhand@yahoo.com.

Everson Community Day
Everson Museum of Art

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

Spend an art-filled afternoon at the annual Everson Community Day! Make an "I wish..." collage postcard and mail it to a special person. Take a quiet journey through our Walking Still Labyrinth. Construct a musical sculpture using beads and founds objects. Use your body as an art form through learning yoga poses and body movements. Enjoy live music, chalk drawing, tattoo making, face painting and more!

Tanks & Trees: The War Show
Orange Line Gallery

Price: Free
Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A soldier's intimate look at Iraq. Featuring photographs from Steven Robinson, photos and video from anonymous sources, and video from the Syracuse Peace Council.

®Evolution Studios Spring Art Show

Price: Free
Gear Factory Gallery
200 South Geddes St., Syracuse

Opening-- The Power of Revolt: Grassroots Resistance in Oaxaca
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Opening reception featuring music by Colleen Kattau.

A powerful exhibit of photographs from the Oaxaca, Mexico resistance movement combined with original political posters from art collectives there.

In 2006, Oaxaca, Mexico came alive with a broad and diverse movement that captivated the nation and inspired communities organizing for social justice around the world. Fueled by long ignored social contradictions, what began as a teachers' strike demanding more resources for education quickly turned into a massive movement that demanded direct, participatory democracy.

Hundreds of thousands of Oaxacans raised their voices against the abuses of the state government. They participated in marches of up to 800,000 people, planned strategy at the barricades, occupied government buildings, took over radio stations, held sit-ins, and reclaimed spaces for public art and altars for assassinated activists. In the now Legendary March of Pots and Pans, 2,000 women peacefully took over and operated the state television channel for three weeks.

Jamesville Balloon Fest

Price: $5; children 10 and under free
Jamesville Beach
Apulia Rd., Jamesville

2:00-3:00 pm: Dead Rose
3:15-4:30 pm: Three Inch Fury
4:45-5:45 pm: The Reissues
6:00-7:30 pm: Under The Gun
8:00-10:00 pm: Night Ranger

For more information, visit syracuseballoonfest.com.

Greek Cultural Festival

Price: Free
St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Church
325 Waring Rd., Syracuse

For more information, visit the website.

Juneteenth

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

Music, dance, food, arts and crafts, and more.

Main Stage
12:50 pm: Abundant Life
1:30 pm: M. ISland, Brother Maniac, Sammy Bravo, B.E.
2:20 pm: Bells of Harmony
3:10 pm: John Puma
4:10 pm: Noble
4:25 pm: Brownskin
5:25 pm: Soul Mind
6:35 pm: About Time
7:30 pm: As Is
8:15 pm: Diversity
9:15 pm: The Blacklights

Jubilee Stage
1:10 pm: Cocochynna Bags, JB, D'zyre Edwards, Nyierri Edwards, Patrice, Tony Stone, Bo Bo Camp, Reality, Akuma Roots
2:00 pm: Jimmy Black, Nyesha McGriff, J.B., Nadia Garrett
2:50 pm: Rinnessy, L. Ness, Lil Kayouz, Sabrena Thomas
3:40 pm: Dance competition
5:05 pm: Big Moe, Derronda Jones, Angela Stroman, Diamond West
6:10 pm: Will Star, Rayelle Church, Zyierri Edwards

For more information, visit syracusejuneteenth.org.

Student Video Artist Talk
Everson Museum of Art

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

"Sitting Still" is an Everson video project by Central New York high school and Syracuse University students, which explores meditative points of view. High school students who participated in this project will share their ideas, artistic intentions and techniques.

2nd Annual Gospel Fest

Price: $10; children 16 and under free with adult
Kellish Hill Farm
3192 Pompey Center Rd., Pompey

A full day of gospel music featuring Gospel Way, Diamond Someday, Lake Effect Bluegrass, the Fuhrmans, Tri County Bluegrass, the Ingersoll Family Band, Father John, and others. Jamming encouraged after last performance. Plenty of areas on the farm for jamming. Food vendors 12:00-4:00 pm. Pastor Kent Miller of the Oran Community Church and Carol Beckwith are emceeing for the day.

For more information, phone Carol Beckwith, 315-430-6842.

Bluegrass and Fiddling at Baltimore Woods
Featuring Bristol Mountain Bluegrass, John Cadley, The Lost Boys, McCarthy Paisley Band

Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Bristol Mountain Bluegrass original band members Don Springer and Richard Hood have teamed up with Perry Cleaveland and Norm Darling to create a powerful band that's even more exciting than the original. Perry and Norm are well-known, award-winning master musicians on mandolin and bass, respectively. Bristol Mountain Bluegrass interweaves the history and styles of bluegrass and its roots into their show, creating a concert that's both entertaining and informative.

The Lost Boys have recorded two CDs, "Middle of Nowhere" and "Black Dog." Both have been ho"nored with a SAMMY Award (Syracuse Area Music Awards) for Best Bluegrass Recording. In addition, Middle of Nowhere" was named the Number One recording of the year in all genres by the Syracuse New Times, and received a Highlight Review in Bluegrass Unlimited magazine.

John Cadley's songs have been recorded by Lou Reid, Jim Hurst and Missy Raines, and Tony Trischka. His song, "Time," became Lou Reid's first #1 hit, remaining in the top spot on the Bluegrass Unlimited chart for three months.

McCarthy Paisley Band offers the audience a fresh perspective of traditional and original tunes based on Bluegrass.

Fiddlers and other musicians are welcome to bring their instruments and participate in open mic segments throughout the day.

Bring your lawn chairs, blankets, food, and settle down for an afternoon of traditional music at Baltimore Woods.

Bayside; I am the Avalanche; Still Rings True; October Nights
Westcott Theater

Price: $12 over 21; $15 under 21
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Punk rock

A Liverpool Community Celebration

Price: $8 regular, $6 students/seniors
Liverpool High School Auditorium
4338 Wetzel Rd., Liverpool

Featuring the Liverpool Community Chorus, Liverpool Youth Voices, Liverpool School of Dance, and Liverpool High School Vocal Quartet. For more information, phone 315-652-7708.

The Emperor's New Clothes
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the classic story.

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $15 adults; $10 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Big Bad Wolf is put on trial and has a very different account of what happened.

Read a review!

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $15 adults; $10 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Big Bad Wolf is put on trial and has a very different account of what happened.

Read a review!

The Falsettos Murder
Without A Cue

Price: $39.50 includes dinner, show, tax, and gratuity
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

In this a parody of the HBO mega hit, The Sopranos, Tony and his entourage are in town for—what else?—a waste management convention. When somebody gets whacked it's nothing personal, strictly "business."

For reservations, phone 315-469-6969. For more information, visit www.glenloch.net.

On Golden Pond
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Bryan Allen Jones, director

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

This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the 48th year. He is a retired professor, nearing 80, with heart palpitations and a failing memory—but still as tart-tongued, observant, and eager for life as ever. Ethel, 10 years younger and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched and continue to enrich their long life together. They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist finacé, who then goes off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer. The boy quickly becomes the "grandchild" the elderly couple have longed for, and as Norman revels in taking his ward fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about modern teenage awareness-and slang-in return. In the end, as the summer wanes, so does their brief idyll, and in the final, deeply moving moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought even closer together by the incidence of a mild heart attack. Time, they know, is now against them, but the years have been good and, perhaps, another summer on Golden Pond still awaits.

The cast includes Tom Minion as Norman Thayer Jr., BJ Newsome as Ethel Thayer, Aileen Kenneson as Chelsea Thayer Wayne, Jay Burris as Bill Ray, Alec Funiciello as Billy Ray, and Lee Lamanche as Charlie Martin.

An Evening of One-Act Comedies
Dragon Lady Players

Price: $10
Tara Stage
Shoppingtown Mall, next to Christopher & Banks, Dewitt

Noir Lite by Richard Hirsch
Gadzooks and Ophelia by Cheryl Ann Costa
Break a Leg by Jo J. Adamson

For more information, phone 315-263-2731.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Appleseed Productions
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: $18 regular; $15 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

This musical takes comedy back to its roots, combining situations from time-tested, 2000-year-old comedies of Roman playwright Plautus with the infectious energy of classic vaudeville. The result is a non-stop laugh-fest in which a crafty slave (Pseudolus) struggles to win the hand of a beautiful but slow-witted courtesan (Philia) for his young master (Hero), in exchange for freedom. Book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

The show stars Greg J. Hipius as Pseudolus and Michael Spinoso as Hysterium, and also features Dan Williams as Hero, Danan Healy as Philia, Patricia Elise Catchouny as Domina, Lanny Freshman as Senex, Bill Ali as Miles Gloriousus, and Mark Allen Holt as Marcus Lycus.

Read a Review!

Bingo: The Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Bingo is a splashy, zippy, outrageously funny new musical. Come meet Vern, Honey and Patsy -- three pals that have driven through a terrible storm in the name of their weekly obsession. In between the number calling, strange rituals and fierce competitions, love blossoms and long-lost friends unite. Book by Michael Heitzman and Ilene Reid; music and lyrics by Michael Heitzman Ilene Reid and David Holcenberg.

Read a Review!