Sunday, November 6, 2011

VisualBooks: Works by Scott McCarney
Light Work Gallery

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

This unique and beautiful exhibition explores the book as a sculptural object that employs a variety of image-making processes. McCarney's carefully hand-bound editions and found-altered books incorporate photographic imagery and utilize the space of the gallery to explore reading as display (on pedestals and shelves, hanging from the ceiling, mounted on the wall).

McCarney creates his sculptural objects and photo-based editions as one-of-a-kind, hand-made pieces as well as small runs of print-on-demand books. According to Hannah Frieser, director of Light Work, "Scott McCarney rethinks the book form, considering books as a starting point rather than a mere vehicle for information and images."

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Art Gone Wild! Prints and Paintings by Animals of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo

Price: Free for members or with zoo admission
Rosamond Gifford Zoo
One Conservation Place, Syracuse

Striking and extraordinary works of art created by the animals living at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo illustrate the depth of keeper care and behavioral enrichment vital in maintaining healthy and engaged animals. The exhibition includes several pieces produced by trunks, paws, feet, hooves, scales, skin and, of course, brushes.

James Dwyer: Remembering the Man and His Art

Price: Free
Art Shops at Delavan Center
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A celebratory exhibit mounted in honor of Syracuse University Professor Emeritus James Dwyer and his lifetime contributions to art and education. "Remembering the Man and His Art" is being produced by four of Dwyer's friends and colleagues: Michael Sickler, SU Professor Emeritus in painting and drawing; Nicholas Todisco, art teacher at Onondaga Community College; Bill Delavan, owner of the Delavan Center; and Caroline Szozda-McGowan, owner of Szozda Gallery.

In the Abstract
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Szozda Gallery ushers in the fall with an engaging show featuring four noted artists who reveal meaning in their abstract works created through different pathways. "In The Abstract" is the kind of exhibition that compels interaction between artist and viewer to look beyond beauty of color and structure for a relationship to one's very existence in the world in which we live. Artists Roscha Folger, Linda Bigness, Lauren Bristol, and Kwangpyo (Steve) Koh offer insights into the realm of abstractionism in their works of mixed media, paintings, fiber art, and hand carved sculptures.

Best if Used: Functional Pottery by Jim Burke
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Photography on the Edge: Between Realism and Abstraction
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The show features photographs by Central New York artists that address the relationship between realistic representation and abstract concepts. Participating artists include Willson Cummer, Bob Gates, Elisabeth Groat, Peter Mahan, Yolanda Tooley, Jeanann Wieners, Diana Whiting, and Jamie Young.

The co-curators, Jen Gandee and Syracuse-area photographer, Bob Gates, in selecting work for this show, were looking for images that are true to the perennial conflict in the history of photography between representational and non-representational images. The same conflicting impulses that have shaped other forms of art--realism, impressionism, expressionism, abstraction, surrealism--have had their adherents among photographers. The works in this exhibit show how some photographers in Central New York respond to or participate in that complex history.

John Bishop Photographs
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Photographs by John Bishop of Tully will be featured throughout the month of November. Bishop, owner of Bishop's Falls Photography, specializes in landscape, nature and architectural photography, and has a special interest in water and waterfalls, old barns and structures, and architectural details.

A Magnificent Obsession: Selections from the Hamilton Armstrong Collection of Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For decades, Hamilton Armstrong of Fayetteville, NY has been collecting prints created by some of most important and well-known American and European artists of the last 200 years. While only a fraction of the number of works he collected will be exhibited, this show will demonstrate two areas of great interest to Armstrong.

First is the area of architectural etching that began in 19th century Europe and continued into 20th century American printmaking. Consisting of more than 30 prints by Charles Meryon, John Taylor Arms, Samuel Chamberlain, and others, this part of the exhibition highlights an impressive selection of Meryon's rare etchings.

The second part of the show is a series of wood engravings done by Fritz Eichenberg for a reprint of Emily Bronte's classic novel, Wuthering Heights. These images are rare artist proof prints for the 1943 Random House edition of the novel and have been considered some of best illustrations of the 19th century classic because they capture the drama of author's text without adding superfluous material.

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

Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exploration of identity within a unique part of the Syracuse community is the subject of "Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality," an exhibition by Bob Gates, photographer and professor emeritus of English.

The exhibition is part of the 2011 Syracuse Symposium, presented by the SU Humanities Center for SU's College of Arts and Sciences and for the entire Syracuse community. "Identity" is the theme of this year's symposium.

Gates calls the project "a collaborative urban portrait" of the people who inhabit a unique and vibrant urban space in the heart of Syracuse, which is soon to disappear -- the bus transfer stations at the corner of Fayette and Salina streets. The project began with a simple question of identity -- who are these people?

Gates is a nationally recognized photographer whose work has been featured in dozens of publications, including National Geographic Traveler, Outdoor Photographer and Popular Photography. Since 2006, his photography has been the subject of more than 20 exhibitions throughout the Northeast, garnering him numerous honors and awards, including third place in the nature category of Photo Life magazine’s international competition.

From Here to There: Alec Soth's America
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, members and children under 5 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From Here to There: Alec Soth's America" provides a focused look at an extraordinary photographer whose compelling images of the American road and its unexpected turns form powerful narrative vignettes. The exhibition will be the artist's first major survey assembled in the United States, exploring over 15 years of his career, and including an extensive new body of work.

Since his inclusion in the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo biennials, Soth's reputation as one of the most interesting voices in contemporary photography has continued to grow. Though he has followed the itinerant path laid forth by photographers such as Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Stephen Shore, Soth's is a distinct perspective, one in which the wandering, searching, and the process of telling is as resonant as the record of these remarkable encounters. When considered together, Soth's pictures probe the individualities of people, objects, and places he encounters; offer insight to broader sociologies, and in the process form a collective portrait of an unexpected America.

Featuring approximately 100 photographs made between 1994 and the present, "From Here to There" will include rarely-seen early black-and-white images as well as examples from Soth's best-known series "Sleeping by the Mississippi" and "Niagara." Interspersed throughout the exhibition will be a broad range of portraits made over the past 15 years. The exhibition will also include a new body of work the artist has been developing since 2006, exploring places of escape in America and individuals who seek to flee civilization for a life off the grid. To add insight into Soth's process, the exhibition additionally features a Library space, which includes a reading area for publications, a selection of maquettes for book and 'zine projects, short video works, and ephemera gathered on the road.

Margie Hughto: A Fired Landscape
Everson Museum of Art

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

Internationally renowned ceramic artist Margie Hughto presents her first site-specific museum installation entitled A Fired Landscape, a "clay painting" spanning 50 feet of gallery wall space. Inspired by the artist's spectacular backyard gardens and natural landscape just steps from her studio, The Fired Landscape installation consists of Setting Sun, a brilliantly colored ceramic wall relief displayed continuously on five angled walls. The visitor encounter is reminiscent of what one experiences when surrounded by the natural environment. Overall, Setting Sun is a ceramic abstraction, but Hughto establishes a connection to the landscape that inspired it by adding impressions of natural objects such as native ferns, marine life and fossils, into the wet clay and then coating the surfaces with brilliant color. The rich palette of burnt oranges and fiery reds evoke the sun’s glowing light and radiating warmth. Tiny pieces of glass embedded in the clay prior to firing add sparkle to the glossy green and blue glazes used to suggest the artist's lily pond.

Life Blood: Women in Haudenosaunee Art
LeMoyne College

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

In recognition of November as Native American Heritage Month, the Wilson Art Gallery, along with the gender and women's studies program, will sponsor an exhibition of traditional and contemporary works of Haudenosaunee women artists, as well as works that honor women by other Haudenosaunee artists.

According to Tom Huff, curator and artist, "The exhibit features the contemporary mix medium works by local Haudenosaunee women who draw on traditional culture and beliefs. Tradition is the life blood of these contemporary works. These traditions extend from the oral history of the creation story that honors Mother Earth and acknowledges women's relationship with Grandmother Moon and Life Giving Sustenance, the Three Sisters. As a matrilineal society, women are held in high regard for their leadership roles within the community and family. Within the Haudenosaunee Nations, women carry the title of clan mothers who oversee ceremonies, give clan names and maintain the authority for choosing and removing chiefs within the nation’s traditional council government. Within the family, women are the center of support and the lifeline in everyday life and decision making that sustains the strength of the extended family. This exhibit honors and celebrates this continued role of women through artistic expressions, maintaining the life blood of the nations."

For more information, phone 315-445-4153.

SU @ CU; CU @ SU
XL Projects

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

Art students from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) and Colgate University will be showcasing the high standards and diversity of their work at galleries on each other's campuses.

Colgate art students will exhibit their work 10/19-11/6.
VPA student work will be shown 11/9-11/27.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com or visit vpa.syr.edu/xl-projects.

Invitational with Photographer Tim Etter
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Always After (the Glass House)
Urban Video Project

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

Urban Video Project is pleased to present Always After (the Glass House), 2006, by internationally recognized multimedia artist, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle.

Employing footage shot on a high-speed film camera, Always After focuses on the broken glass accumulated after the windows of the Mies-designed Illinois Institute of Technology's Crown Hall were smashed by the architect's own grandson as part of a ceremony in advance of the building's renovation. Manglano-Ovalle scrupulously edits out all clear reference to this odd 'kill your fathers' ritual, leaving the viewer with a dream-like sequence in which well-shod anonymous masses eternally exit and equally anonymous custodians endlessly move in to sweep up the crystalline debris of modernism. The precise nature of the event--whether it is a natural disaster, a terrorist attack, or just routine construction--never becomes clear. Instead, the narrative unfolds like a Jacob's ladder: never reaching the end, passing again and again through the point where modernist progress and crisis become indistinguishable--a point that is always already "after."

Nathaniel Sullivan: On the Way to the Theatre, We Egged a Trans-am
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In this 1 minute-23 second video, Sullivan depicts the pressures brought to bear in teenage boys--most of which are pressures to be pleased, injunctions to enjoy. While at first glance this looks like an easy row to hoe, the work makes it clear that in fact there are consequences to taking one's pleasures liberally, without reserve. As Plato said, pleasure deranges as efficiently as pain.

Nathaniel Sullivan is an artist and writer. He received his MFA degree from the Transmedia Department at Syracuse University in Spring 2011. His practice is a balance of artwork, critical writing, and curating. His work has been shown in exhibitions and screenings in Syracuse, New York City, and widely across Canada. In 2006, he was awarded a Special Mention from the prestigious Montreal Film Festival.

Our Sporting Life: The Heroes, The Highlights, The History
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This local sports history exhibit will highlight a variety of sports equipment, photographs, ephemera, and most importantly, the people involved in making sports history come alive. From baseball, to basketball, to football, hockey, bowling, and more, the exhibit will recount the "thrill of victory and the agony of defeat" for our local sports history makers. Visitors will learn more about Syracuse’s professional basketball team, women athletes, ice boating on Onondaga Lake, past Syracuse hockey teams, as well as African American athletes such as Moses Fleetwood Walker. Guests will also get a chance to see some vintage trophies, uniforms, equipment, and images of our local competitors in action.

Gerald Grant: Hope and Despair in the American City
University Neighbors Lecture Series

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

Gerald Grant, former US Marine and journalist for the Washington Post, is The Hannah Hammond Professor of Education and Sociology Emeritus at Syracuse University. He is the author of The Perpetual Dream: Reform and Experiment in the American College; On Competence; The World We Created at Hamilton High, about Nottingham High School; Teaching in America: The Slow Revolution, as well as articles published in Commonweal, Daedalus, The New Republic, Minerva, the Harvard Educational Review, and other journals. In recent years, his work has turned to questions of urban social policy. Grant's latest book, Hope and Despair in the American City, was published by Harvard University Press in 2009. It contrasts the despair of Syracuse with the hope of Raleigh, NC.

A Mixed Bag of Chamber Music
Arts Alive in Liverpool

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

Ralph D'Mello, John Delia, John Flaver, Amy Militi, Gayle Ross, and Timothy Schmidt will give performances of music by Karel Husa, Halsey Stevens, Mozart, Rimsky-Korsakov, Michael Yost, and several works by Ralph D'Mello, including the premiere of his "Kallie's Chow Time, 2011".

Rising Star Recital: Justin Murphy Mancini, organ
Malmgren Concert Series

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Justin Murphy-Mancini is an undergraduate student in organ performance and composition at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, OH. He is an organ student of Jack Mitchener and has participated in masterclasses with Olivier Latry, Philippe Lefèbvre and John Ferguson. He serves as assistant organist and choral scholar at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Lakewood, OH. Under the supervision of the composer, he performed David Lang's the little match girl passion with the Oberlin Contemporary Ensemble at the Cleveland Museum of Art. A versatile musician, Justin also plays the piano, harpsichord and double bass.

Fall Concert
Syracuse Youth Orchestras

Price: $10 regular, $5 children ages 16 and under
West Genesee High School
5201 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

Featured works are Berlioz's La damnation de Faust: Rákóczy March and Brahms' Symphony No. 2, Op. 73, in D Major.

The Syracuse Youth Orchestra is conducted by James R. Tapia, and the Syracuse Youth String Orchestra is conducted by Muriel Bodley.

Jazz Vespers
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Cathy Gale

Price: Free
United Church of Christ in Bayberry
215 Blackberry Rd., Liverpool

One of CNY Jazz Central's signature public programs, these informal Jazz Vespers are a blend of beautiful jazz music drawn from secular and sacred sources, played by professional musicians, and inspirational and spiritual readings open to everyone of all faiths.

Immediately following the event, UCC Bayberry's youth group will serve a light supper in Fellowship Hall to raise funds for a mission trip in summer 2012.

The theme of this Jazz Vespers is "Harvest of Hope." The guest artist is Cathy Gale, a member of the Ithaca Jazz Quartet and a faculty member of Ithaca College. She will be backed by the CNY Jazz Quartet.

For more information, visit cnyjazz.org, e-mail info@cnyjazz.org or call 315-479-5299.

Everlast, with Redlight King, Silent Fury
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Love, Sex, and the I.R.S.
Onondaga Hillplayers
Robert Steingraber, director

Price: $36 includes dinner, show, tax and gratuity. Reservations required.
Sunset Ridge Golf Club
2814 W. Seneca Tpke., Marcellus

Frantic dinner-theater farce involving the Feds, mistaken identities, and more.

For more information or to reserve, phone 315-673-2255.

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The Boys Next Door
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Comedy and compassion in a group home for the developmentally disabled, by Tom Griffin.

Meet Arnold Wiggins. He's basically a nervous person. He lives with Lucien P. Smith who likes to read very big books, and Norman who works in the doughnut shop, and Barry who imagines he is a golf pro (lessons $1.13 per hour). In addition to an apartment, these guys share a caseworker names Jack who, despite his genuine concern for his clients, is on the verge of of a total burn-out. The Boys Next Door is a gentle comedy from the late 80s set in a group home for the developmentally disabled. As playwright Griffin reveals the daily struggles of his characters to make sense of their world and their places in it, he reminds us to consider how much we take for granted every day. Timothy Bond is very funny and very touching.

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Fuddy Meers
Syracuse University Drama Department
Craig MacDonald, director

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

This is a wild comedy that emphatically puts the "shoe on the other hand." A woman named Claire wakes up one morning and can't remember her husband's name, does not recognize her son and forgets that she doesn't like juice. For years she has suffered from a type of amnesia that erases all memory from her mind as she sleeps, so why should this day be different than any other? Well, for starters, Claire is kidnapped by a lisping, limping man with an accomplice whose best friend is a hand puppet. It may also be the day the mystery behind Claire's amnesia is revealed through a roller coaster ride of hilarious antics and heartbreaking poignancy in a world where nothing is what it appears and no one is who they seem. By David Lindsay-Abaire.

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Monday, November 7, 2011

Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exploration of identity within a unique part of the Syracuse community is the subject of "Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality," an exhibition by Bob Gates, photographer and professor emeritus of English.

The exhibition is part of the 2011 Syracuse Symposium, presented by the SU Humanities Center for SU's College of Arts and Sciences and for the entire Syracuse community. "Identity" is the theme of this year's symposium.

Gates calls the project "a collaborative urban portrait" of the people who inhabit a unique and vibrant urban space in the heart of Syracuse, which is soon to disappear -- the bus transfer stations at the corner of Fayette and Salina streets. The project began with a simple question of identity -- who are these people?

Gates is a nationally recognized photographer whose work has been featured in dozens of publications, including National Geographic Traveler, Outdoor Photographer and Popular Photography. Since 2006, his photography has been the subject of more than 20 exhibitions throughout the Northeast, garnering him numerous honors and awards, including third place in the nature category of Photo Life magazine’s international competition.

Life Blood: Women in Haudenosaunee Art
LeMoyne College

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

In recognition of November as Native American Heritage Month, the Wilson Art Gallery, along with the gender and women's studies program, will sponsor an exhibition of traditional and contemporary works of Haudenosaunee women artists, as well as works that honor women by other Haudenosaunee artists.

According to Tom Huff, curator and artist, "The exhibit features the contemporary mix medium works by local Haudenosaunee women who draw on traditional culture and beliefs. Tradition is the life blood of these contemporary works. These traditions extend from the oral history of the creation story that honors Mother Earth and acknowledges women's relationship with Grandmother Moon and Life Giving Sustenance, the Three Sisters. As a matrilineal society, women are held in high regard for their leadership roles within the community and family. Within the Haudenosaunee Nations, women carry the title of clan mothers who oversee ceremonies, give clan names and maintain the authority for choosing and removing chiefs within the nation’s traditional council government. Within the family, women are the center of support and the lifeline in everyday life and decision making that sustains the strength of the extended family. This exhibit honors and celebrates this continued role of women through artistic expressions, maintaining the life blood of the nations."

For more information, phone 315-445-4153.

Just One Word: Plastics
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

For more than a century, plastics have transformed our lives -- from bathroom to battlefield; from supermarket to spacecraft. Begun as a 19th-century replacement material for billiard balls and piano keys, plastics spurred 20th century developments in industry, transportation, medicine, entertainment, and other aspects of contemporary life. The original objects of "Just One Word: Plastics" represent a material history of the modern world.

This exhibition features a representative sample of the Plastics Collection at the Syracuse University Library and presents an overview of major trends in the development of plastics in everyday life. The exhibit focuses on personal and household objects rather than the use of plastics in industry where they are also widely used. Approximately 250 objects divided into 12 categories will be on view. In addition, a small selection of manuscripts and printed materials will be included.

Specific objects to be featured in the exhibition are:
* ornate celluloid combs and a wide variety of plastic toiletries
* phenolic (Bakelite) objects from the 1920s and 30s including jewelry, radios, and other appliances and games
* musical instruments
* post-war toys, dishes, and household items
* original patent books of John Wesley Hyatt, inventor of Celluloid
* product catalogues from the 1930s and 1950s for popular items such as DuPont French Ivory dresser sets, Boltaware molded "stoneware" dishes, and Tupperware, and
* the Pleur-evac, a revolutionary plastic medical device for draining fluid and maintaining pressure in the lungs that helped save the life of President Ronald Reagan.

The Plastics Collection was begun in 2007 as a joint project of the Syracuse University Library and the Plastics History & Artifacts Committee of the Plastics Pioneers Association. The Collection expanded dramatically when the National Plastics Center and Museum in Leominster, MA, closed and transferred its artifacts, books, and manuscripts to Syracuse University's care in 2008.

Aphotic Ardor: Works by Kristie Hayes-Beaulieu
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

An exhibit of variety. Diversity. Progression. Connections. Past and present. Growth. Reclusion. Pain and suffering, as well as extreme bliss. Also view a sneak preview in one of our gallery rooms of Kristie's X-ray-inspired work that will be on display at the SUNY Health Science Center in December.

Whereas I Took the Butterfly: Works by Deloss McGraw
YMCA Arts Branch GallerY

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit of literary "poster paintings" features Deloss McGraw's reflections/interpretations of such writers as Dickinson, Hemingway, Snodgrass and others, often using photographs of the authors, book covers, or other borrowed images.

Invitational with Photographer Tim Etter
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Best if Used: Functional Pottery by Jim Burke
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

John Bishop Photographs
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Photographs by John Bishop of Tully will be featured throughout the month of November. Bishop, owner of Bishop's Falls Photography, specializes in landscape, nature and architectural photography, and has a special interest in water and waterfalls, old barns and structures, and architectural details.

VisualBooks: Works by Scott McCarney
Light Work Gallery

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

This unique and beautiful exhibition explores the book as a sculptural object that employs a variety of image-making processes. McCarney's carefully hand-bound editions and found-altered books incorporate photographic imagery and utilize the space of the gallery to explore reading as display (on pedestals and shelves, hanging from the ceiling, mounted on the wall).

McCarney creates his sculptural objects and photo-based editions as one-of-a-kind, hand-made pieces as well as small runs of print-on-demand books. According to Hannah Frieser, director of Light Work, "Scott McCarney rethinks the book form, considering books as a starting point rather than a mere vehicle for information and images."

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Art Gone Wild! Prints and Paintings by Animals of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo

Price: Free for members or with zoo admission
Rosamond Gifford Zoo
One Conservation Place, Syracuse

Striking and extraordinary works of art created by the animals living at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo illustrate the depth of keeper care and behavioral enrichment vital in maintaining healthy and engaged animals. The exhibition includes several pieces produced by trunks, paws, feet, hooves, scales, skin and, of course, brushes.

The American Look: Fashion and Furnishings of the Arts and Crafts Era
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

A new exhibition unites original Arts and Crafts Movement furnishings, with an emphasis on those designed by Gustav Stickley, with clothing worn by American women during 1909-1913 -- a rarely seen combination.

Exhibition curator Jeffrey Mayer, an associate professor and program coordinator of fashion design in VPA's Department of Design, selected the garments in "The American Look" from the fashion design program's Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, which he also curates. The furniture, consisting of original pieces produced between 1906-1911, is on loan from David Rudd and Debbie Goldwein of Dalton's American Decorative Arts in Syracuse. Many of the pieces on view are unparalleled examples of the work of Gustav Stickley, none of which have been previously exhibited to the public.

For more information, contact Mayer or Lauren Tagliaferro, registrar of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, at 315-443-4644.

The Butterfly Effect
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

The Butterfly Effect is the first multimedia exhibition at 601 Tully. The actual and conceptual life of a butterfly is a departure point for a collaborative exhibition that places humans and butterflies together in a micro-habitat inside an art space.

The Butterfly Effect presents a variety of interpretations of the butterfly structure and the butterfly as a symbol as addressed by contemporary visual artists and will include work by local artists, Syracuse University students and professors, and Syracuse youth. The centerpiece of The Butterfly Effect is a living butterfly habitat constructed by SU students using materials reclaimed from local sites. The interior butterfly garden provides the opportunity for exhibition visitors to observe living butterflies while surrounded by artworks that explore or feature the butterfly metaphorically.

57th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Our gift shop of fine art and crafts handmade by local guild and independent artists is Syracuse's one-stop shopping haven during the holiday season. Find unique pottery, stained glass, paintings, jewelry, hand-crafted soaps and candles, and much more.

For more information, phone 315-243-6359 or 315-637-6562.

Stage Door Canteen (1943)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $3.50 non-members, $3 members
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Director: Frank Borzage

Our Veterans' Day show presents this WWII morale-boosting classic, showcasing the various stars and bands that entertained servicepeople in the famous NYC canteen. There are too many famous names to mention here, but among those appearing are Katharine Hepburn, Edgar Bergen, Gracie Fields, Ed Wynn, Helen Hayes, Ray Bolger, Xavier Cugat, Harpo Marx, Benny Goodman, George Jessel, Ethel Merman, Kenny Baker, Kay Kyser, Tallulah Bankhead and many, many more. While most prints in circulation are heavily edited and missing several performers/acts, our print is the rare complete and uncut version.

Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Joseph Whelan, director

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

Witty, warm and occasionally wacky, Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays is an evening of new short plays by an A-list lineup of writers with 2 Pulitzer Prizes, 4 Obies, 1 Emmy and 3 Tony nominations. Be there as they offer their unique takes on the moments before, during and after "I do." These plays are vows to the blessings of equality, the universal challenges of relationships, and the often hilarious power of love.

On that same evening, Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays premieres at Minetta Lane Theatre in New York City and more than 40 theatres and universities around the country will present readings of the work, written in response to the ongoing battle for marriage equality throughout the United States. Syracuse Stage and SU's Department of Drama have an evening planned that will include a live introductory webcast from Minetta Lane Theatre, a live reading of the plays by local performers, and a Twitter Q&A session with participants from around the globe.

The nationwide reading was organized by Tectonic Theatre Project, the same company that organized the 2009 nationwide reading of The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, which Syracuse Stage and SU Drama presented to a capacity crowd.

Some of America's most illustrious and award-winning playwrights have contributed to Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays, including Heideman Award winner Jordan Harrison, Edgar Award winner Jeffrey Hatcher, Tony Award nominee Moisés Kaufman, Tony Award nominee Neil LaBute, Sundance Jury Prize winner Wendy MacLeod, Obie Award winner José Rivera, Obie and Outer Critics Circle Award winner Paul Rudnick, and Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Doug Wright.

Directing the Syracuse reading is Joseph Whelan, Syracuse Stage Publications Director and adjunct faculty member in SU's Department of Drama. Whelan was drawn to the play after reading an article about 14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer, of Buffalo, who committed suicide, just days after making a video for the "It Gets Better" campaign, because he was taunted at school for being bisexual.

Reading in Syracuse are Rob Bundy, part-time assistant professor of Directing and Acting for SU Drama; Celia Madeoy, assistant professor of Acting and Voice for SU Drama; Leslie Noble, SU Drama administrative specialist and adjunct faculty member; Lauren Unbekant, director of educational programs for Syracuse Stage and SU Drama adjunct faculty member; and Ralph Zito, professor and chair, SU Drama.

For more information, visit www.standingonceremony.net.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exploration of identity within a unique part of the Syracuse community is the subject of "Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality," an exhibition by Bob Gates, photographer and professor emeritus of English.

The exhibition is part of the 2011 Syracuse Symposium, presented by the SU Humanities Center for SU's College of Arts and Sciences and for the entire Syracuse community. "Identity" is the theme of this year's symposium.

Gates calls the project "a collaborative urban portrait" of the people who inhabit a unique and vibrant urban space in the heart of Syracuse, which is soon to disappear -- the bus transfer stations at the corner of Fayette and Salina streets. The project began with a simple question of identity -- who are these people?

Gates is a nationally recognized photographer whose work has been featured in dozens of publications, including National Geographic Traveler, Outdoor Photographer and Popular Photography. Since 2006, his photography has been the subject of more than 20 exhibitions throughout the Northeast, garnering him numerous honors and awards, including third place in the nature category of Photo Life magazine’s international competition.

Life Blood: Women in Haudenosaunee Art
LeMoyne College

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

In recognition of November as Native American Heritage Month, the Wilson Art Gallery, along with the gender and women's studies program, will sponsor an exhibition of traditional and contemporary works of Haudenosaunee women artists, as well as works that honor women by other Haudenosaunee artists.

According to Tom Huff, curator and artist, "The exhibit features the contemporary mix medium works by local Haudenosaunee women who draw on traditional culture and beliefs. Tradition is the life blood of these contemporary works. These traditions extend from the oral history of the creation story that honors Mother Earth and acknowledges women's relationship with Grandmother Moon and Life Giving Sustenance, the Three Sisters. As a matrilineal society, women are held in high regard for their leadership roles within the community and family. Within the Haudenosaunee Nations, women carry the title of clan mothers who oversee ceremonies, give clan names and maintain the authority for choosing and removing chiefs within the nation’s traditional council government. Within the family, women are the center of support and the lifeline in everyday life and decision making that sustains the strength of the extended family. This exhibit honors and celebrates this continued role of women through artistic expressions, maintaining the life blood of the nations."

For more information, phone 315-445-4153.

Ephemera and Emerging
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Gallery A: "Ephemera," features photography by James Russell
Gallery B: "Emerging," features paintings by Michelle Bennett

Just One Word: Plastics
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

For more than a century, plastics have transformed our lives -- from bathroom to battlefield; from supermarket to spacecraft. Begun as a 19th-century replacement material for billiard balls and piano keys, plastics spurred 20th century developments in industry, transportation, medicine, entertainment, and other aspects of contemporary life. The original objects of "Just One Word: Plastics" represent a material history of the modern world.

This exhibition features a representative sample of the Plastics Collection at the Syracuse University Library and presents an overview of major trends in the development of plastics in everyday life. The exhibit focuses on personal and household objects rather than the use of plastics in industry where they are also widely used. Approximately 250 objects divided into 12 categories will be on view. In addition, a small selection of manuscripts and printed materials will be included.

Specific objects to be featured in the exhibition are:
* ornate celluloid combs and a wide variety of plastic toiletries
* phenolic (Bakelite) objects from the 1920s and 30s including jewelry, radios, and other appliances and games
* musical instruments
* post-war toys, dishes, and household items
* original patent books of John Wesley Hyatt, inventor of Celluloid
* product catalogues from the 1930s and 1950s for popular items such as DuPont French Ivory dresser sets, Boltaware molded "stoneware" dishes, and Tupperware, and
* the Pleur-evac, a revolutionary plastic medical device for draining fluid and maintaining pressure in the lungs that helped save the life of President Ronald Reagan.

The Plastics Collection was begun in 2007 as a joint project of the Syracuse University Library and the Plastics History & Artifacts Committee of the Plastics Pioneers Association. The Collection expanded dramatically when the National Plastics Center and Museum in Leominster, MA, closed and transferred its artifacts, books, and manuscripts to Syracuse University's care in 2008.

Aphotic Ardor: Works by Kristie Hayes-Beaulieu
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

An exhibit of variety. Diversity. Progression. Connections. Past and present. Growth. Reclusion. Pain and suffering, as well as extreme bliss. Also view a sneak preview in one of our gallery rooms of Kristie's X-ray-inspired work that will be on display at the SUNY Health Science Center in December.

Whereas I Took the Butterfly: Works by Deloss McGraw
YMCA Arts Branch GallerY

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit of literary "poster paintings" features Deloss McGraw's reflections/interpretations of such writers as Dickinson, Hemingway, Snodgrass and others, often using photographs of the authors, book covers, or other borrowed images.

Untold Stories
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Featuring the diverse works of Alison Fisher: acrylic and mixed media paintings; jewelry made of unique mixed metals and found objects; one-of-a-kind textiles including handbags, scarves, pillows, and throws.

Invitational with Photographer Tim Etter
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

African Diasporan Treasures: 40 Years of Community Folk Art Center
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition will showcase pieces from CFAC's permanent collection. Featuring over 30 works by artists including Joel Gaines, Ellen Oppler, Jack White, Denise Cole and Kamiiron Pritchard, "African Diasporan Treasures" provides a rare opportunity for visitors to experience the rich artistic history of CFAC. In many cases, the pieces have not been displayed for decades. The show will also feature African art that was once part of the Smithsonian Museum's collection.

Best if Used: Functional Pottery by Jim Burke
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

John Bishop Photographs
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Photographs by John Bishop of Tully will be featured throughout the month of November. Bishop, owner of Bishop's Falls Photography, specializes in landscape, nature and architectural photography, and has a special interest in water and waterfalls, old barns and structures, and architectural details.

VisualBooks: Works by Scott McCarney
Light Work Gallery

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

This unique and beautiful exhibition explores the book as a sculptural object that employs a variety of image-making processes. McCarney's carefully hand-bound editions and found-altered books incorporate photographic imagery and utilize the space of the gallery to explore reading as display (on pedestals and shelves, hanging from the ceiling, mounted on the wall).

McCarney creates his sculptural objects and photo-based editions as one-of-a-kind, hand-made pieces as well as small runs of print-on-demand books. According to Hannah Frieser, director of Light Work, "Scott McCarney rethinks the book form, considering books as a starting point rather than a mere vehicle for information and images."

Read a review!

Art Gone Wild! Prints and Paintings by Animals of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo

Price: Free for members or with zoo admission
Rosamond Gifford Zoo
One Conservation Place, Syracuse

Striking and extraordinary works of art created by the animals living at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo illustrate the depth of keeper care and behavioral enrichment vital in maintaining healthy and engaged animals. The exhibition includes several pieces produced by trunks, paws, feet, hooves, scales, skin and, of course, brushes.

The American Look: Fashion and Furnishings of the Arts and Crafts Era
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

A new exhibition unites original Arts and Crafts Movement furnishings, with an emphasis on those designed by Gustav Stickley, with clothing worn by American women during 1909-1913 -- a rarely seen combination.

Exhibition curator Jeffrey Mayer, an associate professor and program coordinator of fashion design in VPA's Department of Design, selected the garments in "The American Look" from the fashion design program's Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, which he also curates. The furniture, consisting of original pieces produced between 1906-1911, is on loan from David Rudd and Debbie Goldwein of Dalton's American Decorative Arts in Syracuse. Many of the pieces on view are unparalleled examples of the work of Gustav Stickley, none of which have been previously exhibited to the public.

For more information, contact Mayer or Lauren Tagliaferro, registrar of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, at 315-443-4644.

The Butterfly Effect
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

The Butterfly Effect is the first multimedia exhibition at 601 Tully. The actual and conceptual life of a butterfly is a departure point for a collaborative exhibition that places humans and butterflies together in a micro-habitat inside an art space.

The Butterfly Effect presents a variety of interpretations of the butterfly structure and the butterfly as a symbol as addressed by contemporary visual artists and will include work by local artists, Syracuse University students and professors, and Syracuse youth. The centerpiece of The Butterfly Effect is a living butterfly habitat constructed by SU students using materials reclaimed from local sites. The interior butterfly garden provides the opportunity for exhibition visitors to observe living butterflies while surrounded by artworks that explore or feature the butterfly metaphorically.

57th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Our gift shop of fine art and crafts handmade by local guild and independent artists is Syracuse's one-stop shopping haven during the holiday season. Find unique pottery, stained glass, paintings, jewelry, hand-crafted soaps and candles, and much more.

For more information, phone 315-243-6359 or 315-637-6562.

A Magnificent Obsession: Selections from the Hamilton Armstrong Collection of Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For decades, Hamilton Armstrong of Fayetteville, NY has been collecting prints created by some of most important and well-known American and European artists of the last 200 years. While only a fraction of the number of works he collected will be exhibited, this show will demonstrate two areas of great interest to Armstrong.

First is the area of architectural etching that began in 19th century Europe and continued into 20th century American printmaking. Consisting of more than 30 prints by Charles Meryon, John Taylor Arms, Samuel Chamberlain, and others, this part of the exhibition highlights an impressive selection of Meryon's rare etchings.

The second part of the show is a series of wood engravings done by Fritz Eichenberg for a reprint of Emily Bronte's classic novel, Wuthering Heights. These images are rare artist proof prints for the 1943 Random House edition of the novel and have been considered some of best illustrations of the 19th century classic because they capture the drama of author's text without adding superfluous material.

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

Margie Hughto: A Fired Landscape
Everson Museum of Art

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

Internationally renowned ceramic artist Margie Hughto presents her first site-specific museum installation entitled A Fired Landscape, a "clay painting" spanning 50 feet of gallery wall space. Inspired by the artist's spectacular backyard gardens and natural landscape just steps from her studio, The Fired Landscape installation consists of Setting Sun, a brilliantly colored ceramic wall relief displayed continuously on five angled walls. The visitor encounter is reminiscent of what one experiences when surrounded by the natural environment. Overall, Setting Sun is a ceramic abstraction, but Hughto establishes a connection to the landscape that inspired it by adding impressions of natural objects such as native ferns, marine life and fossils, into the wet clay and then coating the surfaces with brilliant color. The rich palette of burnt oranges and fiery reds evoke the sun’s glowing light and radiating warmth. Tiny pieces of glass embedded in the clay prior to firing add sparkle to the glossy green and blue glazes used to suggest the artist's lily pond.

From Here to There: Alec Soth's America
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, members and children under 5 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From Here to There: Alec Soth's America" provides a focused look at an extraordinary photographer whose compelling images of the American road and its unexpected turns form powerful narrative vignettes. The exhibition will be the artist's first major survey assembled in the United States, exploring over 15 years of his career, and including an extensive new body of work.

Since his inclusion in the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo biennials, Soth's reputation as one of the most interesting voices in contemporary photography has continued to grow. Though he has followed the itinerant path laid forth by photographers such as Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Stephen Shore, Soth's is a distinct perspective, one in which the wandering, searching, and the process of telling is as resonant as the record of these remarkable encounters. When considered together, Soth's pictures probe the individualities of people, objects, and places he encounters; offer insight to broader sociologies, and in the process form a collective portrait of an unexpected America.

Featuring approximately 100 photographs made between 1994 and the present, "From Here to There" will include rarely-seen early black-and-white images as well as examples from Soth's best-known series "Sleeping by the Mississippi" and "Niagara." Interspersed throughout the exhibition will be a broad range of portraits made over the past 15 years. The exhibition will also include a new body of work the artist has been developing since 2006, exploring places of escape in America and individuals who seek to flee civilization for a life off the grid. To add insight into Soth's process, the exhibition additionally features a Library space, which includes a reading area for publications, a selection of maquettes for book and 'zine projects, short video works, and ephemera gathered on the road.

Illusions of Grandeur: Art Exhibition and Book Release
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

On display: a collection of Ling Tang's graphite drawings and the debut of Ling's Le Style Moderne book: Illusions of Grandeur.

Julie Snow
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Auditorium
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Julie Snow, of Julie Snow Architects, is Syracuse Architecture Visiting Critic.

SU Guitar Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

In the Heights
Broadway in Syracuse

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

The musical tells the story of three generations of a Hispanic family in Washington Heights, Manhattan. A winning lottery ticket complicates life for some. Charles Isherwood, of The New York Times, described the musical as "light and sweet," and an "amiable show, which boasts an infectious, bouncy Latin-pop score by a gifted young composer, Lin-Manuel Miranda."

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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exploration of identity within a unique part of the Syracuse community is the subject of "Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality," an exhibition by Bob Gates, photographer and professor emeritus of English.

The exhibition is part of the 2011 Syracuse Symposium, presented by the SU Humanities Center for SU's College of Arts and Sciences and for the entire Syracuse community. "Identity" is the theme of this year's symposium.

Gates calls the project "a collaborative urban portrait" of the people who inhabit a unique and vibrant urban space in the heart of Syracuse, which is soon to disappear -- the bus transfer stations at the corner of Fayette and Salina streets. The project began with a simple question of identity -- who are these people?

Gates is a nationally recognized photographer whose work has been featured in dozens of publications, including National Geographic Traveler, Outdoor Photographer and Popular Photography. Since 2006, his photography has been the subject of more than 20 exhibitions throughout the Northeast, garnering him numerous honors and awards, including third place in the nature category of Photo Life magazine’s international competition.

Life Blood: Women in Haudenosaunee Art
LeMoyne College

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

In recognition of November as Native American Heritage Month, the Wilson Art Gallery, along with the gender and women's studies program, will sponsor an exhibition of traditional and contemporary works of Haudenosaunee women artists, as well as works that honor women by other Haudenosaunee artists.

According to Tom Huff, curator and artist, "The exhibit features the contemporary mix medium works by local Haudenosaunee women who draw on traditional culture and beliefs. Tradition is the life blood of these contemporary works. These traditions extend from the oral history of the creation story that honors Mother Earth and acknowledges women's relationship with Grandmother Moon and Life Giving Sustenance, the Three Sisters. As a matrilineal society, women are held in high regard for their leadership roles within the community and family. Within the Haudenosaunee Nations, women carry the title of clan mothers who oversee ceremonies, give clan names and maintain the authority for choosing and removing chiefs within the nation’s traditional council government. Within the family, women are the center of support and the lifeline in everyday life and decision making that sustains the strength of the extended family. This exhibit honors and celebrates this continued role of women through artistic expressions, maintaining the life blood of the nations."

For more information, phone 315-445-4153.

Opening: Pile-Stratra: Work s of Mikyung Kim
Onondaga Community College

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

There will be an artist talk today 11:00 am-12 pm, followed by a reception 12:00-12:30 pm.

Mikyung Kim's conceptual "Pile-Stratra" exhibit is an intrinsic exploration of the relationship between game and rite. Kim's work is deeply rooted in Eastern Ceremony, especially ancestor worship by creating the tableau as an altar setting. Each work is a product of random and composed elements, producing a form of controlled spontaneity that mirrors the interplay between the fleeting mind and metamorphic nature.

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

Ephemera and Emerging
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Gallery A: "Ephemera," features photography by James Russell
Gallery B: "Emerging," features paintings by Michelle Bennett

Just One Word: Plastics
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

For more than a century, plastics have transformed our lives -- from bathroom to battlefield; from supermarket to spacecraft. Begun as a 19th-century replacement material for billiard balls and piano keys, plastics spurred 20th century developments in industry, transportation, medicine, entertainment, and other aspects of contemporary life. The original objects of "Just One Word: Plastics" represent a material history of the modern world.

This exhibition features a representative sample of the Plastics Collection at the Syracuse University Library and presents an overview of major trends in the development of plastics in everyday life. The exhibit focuses on personal and household objects rather than the use of plastics in industry where they are also widely used. Approximately 250 objects divided into 12 categories will be on view. In addition, a small selection of manuscripts and printed materials will be included.

Specific objects to be featured in the exhibition are:
* ornate celluloid combs and a wide variety of plastic toiletries
* phenolic (Bakelite) objects from the 1920s and 30s including jewelry, radios, and other appliances and games
* musical instruments
* post-war toys, dishes, and household items
* original patent books of John Wesley Hyatt, inventor of Celluloid
* product catalogues from the 1930s and 1950s for popular items such as DuPont French Ivory dresser sets, Boltaware molded "stoneware" dishes, and Tupperware, and
* the Pleur-evac, a revolutionary plastic medical device for draining fluid and maintaining pressure in the lungs that helped save the life of President Ronald Reagan.

The Plastics Collection was begun in 2007 as a joint project of the Syracuse University Library and the Plastics History & Artifacts Committee of the Plastics Pioneers Association. The Collection expanded dramatically when the National Plastics Center and Museum in Leominster, MA, closed and transferred its artifacts, books, and manuscripts to Syracuse University's care in 2008.

Aphotic Ardor: Works by Kristie Hayes-Beaulieu
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

An exhibit of variety. Diversity. Progression. Connections. Past and present. Growth. Reclusion. Pain and suffering, as well as extreme bliss. Also view a sneak preview in one of our gallery rooms of Kristie's X-ray-inspired work that will be on display at the SUNY Health Science Center in December.

Whereas I Took the Butterfly: Works by Deloss McGraw
YMCA Arts Branch GallerY

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit of literary "poster paintings" features Deloss McGraw's reflections/interpretations of such writers as Dickinson, Hemingway, Snodgrass and others, often using photographs of the authors, book covers, or other borrowed images.

Untold Stories
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Featuring the diverse works of Alison Fisher: acrylic and mixed media paintings; jewelry made of unique mixed metals and found objects; one-of-a-kind textiles including handbags, scarves, pillows, and throws.

Invitational with Photographer Tim Etter
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

African Diasporan Treasures: 40 Years of Community Folk Art Center
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition will showcase pieces from CFAC's permanent collection. Featuring over 30 works by artists including Joel Gaines, Ellen Oppler, Jack White, Denise Cole and Kamiiron Pritchard, "African Diasporan Treasures" provides a rare opportunity for visitors to experience the rich artistic history of CFAC. In many cases, the pieces have not been displayed for decades. The show will also feature African art that was once part of the Smithsonian Museum's collection.

Best if Used: Functional Pottery by Jim Burke
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

John Bishop Photographs
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Photographs by John Bishop of Tully will be featured throughout the month of November. Bishop, owner of Bishop's Falls Photography, specializes in landscape, nature and architectural photography, and has a special interest in water and waterfalls, old barns and structures, and architectural details.

VisualBooks: Works by Scott McCarney
Light Work Gallery

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

This unique and beautiful exhibition explores the book as a sculptural object that employs a variety of image-making processes. McCarney's carefully hand-bound editions and found-altered books incorporate photographic imagery and utilize the space of the gallery to explore reading as display (on pedestals and shelves, hanging from the ceiling, mounted on the wall).

McCarney creates his sculptural objects and photo-based editions as one-of-a-kind, hand-made pieces as well as small runs of print-on-demand books. According to Hannah Frieser, director of Light Work, "Scott McCarney rethinks the book form, considering books as a starting point rather than a mere vehicle for information and images."

Read a review!

Art Gone Wild! Prints and Paintings by Animals of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo

Price: Free for members or with zoo admission
Rosamond Gifford Zoo
One Conservation Place, Syracuse

Striking and extraordinary works of art created by the animals living at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo illustrate the depth of keeper care and behavioral enrichment vital in maintaining healthy and engaged animals. The exhibition includes several pieces produced by trunks, paws, feet, hooves, scales, skin and, of course, brushes.

James Dwyer: Remembering the Man and His Art

Price: Free
Art Shops at Delavan Center
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A celebratory exhibit mounted in honor of Syracuse University Professor Emeritus James Dwyer and his lifetime contributions to art and education. "Remembering the Man and His Art" is being produced by four of Dwyer's friends and colleagues: Michael Sickler, SU Professor Emeritus in painting and drawing; Nicholas Todisco, art teacher at Onondaga Community College; Bill Delavan, owner of the Delavan Center; and Caroline Szozda-McGowan, owner of Szozda Gallery.

The American Look: Fashion and Furnishings of the Arts and Crafts Era
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

A new exhibition unites original Arts and Crafts Movement furnishings, with an emphasis on those designed by Gustav Stickley, with clothing worn by American women during 1909-1913 -- a rarely seen combination.

Exhibition curator Jeffrey Mayer, an associate professor and program coordinator of fashion design in VPA's Department of Design, selected the garments in "The American Look" from the fashion design program's Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, which he also curates. The furniture, consisting of original pieces produced between 1906-1911, is on loan from David Rudd and Debbie Goldwein of Dalton's American Decorative Arts in Syracuse. Many of the pieces on view are unparalleled examples of the work of Gustav Stickley, none of which have been previously exhibited to the public.

For more information, contact Mayer or Lauren Tagliaferro, registrar of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, at 315-443-4644.

Nature Inspired
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Painter C. Wilkinson and husband, potter Bruce Thomas combine their dual talents in painting and clay to produce "Nature Inspired."

Cathy and Bruce Thomas are a husband and wife team of artists who often influence each other's paintings and pottery. "Nature Inspired" marks the third time the couple has shown together, though each has been at their crafts for most of their 37 married years. Early in their separate careers, each one was better known for their distinct styles. Cathy painted under the name of C. Wilkinson and her subject matter was rarely nature based. "Rather," she says, "I was more in the pop art/realism and sometimes trompe l'oeil style. My works were more like high heel shoes or lipsticks." Bruce was always a naturalist and had much success in publishing his nature photos in various magazines, such as National Wild Life, Audubon, Natural History Magazine and Sierra Club. His long-time interest in pottery eventually led him to study under noted ceramicist Vincent Clemente. Cathy says that inspiration from both Bruce's photography and pottery have influenced the couple's desire to combine efforts to work together in creating "many pieces based on his love of nature and my love for him."

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The Butterfly Effect
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

The Butterfly Effect is the first multimedia exhibition at 601 Tully. The actual and conceptual life of a butterfly is a departure point for a collaborative exhibition that places humans and butterflies together in a micro-habitat inside an art space.

The Butterfly Effect presents a variety of interpretations of the butterfly structure and the butterfly as a symbol as addressed by contemporary visual artists and will include work by local artists, Syracuse University students and professors, and Syracuse youth. The centerpiece of The Butterfly Effect is a living butterfly habitat constructed by SU students using materials reclaimed from local sites. The interior butterfly garden provides the opportunity for exhibition visitors to observe living butterflies while surrounded by artworks that explore or feature the butterfly metaphorically.

57th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Our gift shop of fine art and crafts handmade by local guild and independent artists is Syracuse's one-stop shopping haven during the holiday season. Find unique pottery, stained glass, paintings, jewelry, hand-crafted soaps and candles, and much more.

For more information, phone 315-243-6359 or 315-637-6562.

A Magnificent Obsession: Selections from the Hamilton Armstrong Collection of Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For decades, Hamilton Armstrong of Fayetteville, NY has been collecting prints created by some of most important and well-known American and European artists of the last 200 years. While only a fraction of the number of works he collected will be exhibited, this show will demonstrate two areas of great interest to Armstrong.

First is the area of architectural etching that began in 19th century Europe and continued into 20th century American printmaking. Consisting of more than 30 prints by Charles Meryon, John Taylor Arms, Samuel Chamberlain, and others, this part of the exhibition highlights an impressive selection of Meryon's rare etchings.

The second part of the show is a series of wood engravings done by Fritz Eichenberg for a reprint of Emily Bronte's classic novel, Wuthering Heights. These images are rare artist proof prints for the 1943 Random House edition of the novel and have been considered some of best illustrations of the 19th century classic because they capture the drama of author's text without adding superfluous material.

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

From Here to There: Alec Soth's America
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, members and children under 5 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From Here to There: Alec Soth's America" provides a focused look at an extraordinary photographer whose compelling images of the American road and its unexpected turns form powerful narrative vignettes. The exhibition will be the artist's first major survey assembled in the United States, exploring over 15 years of his career, and including an extensive new body of work.

Since his inclusion in the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo biennials, Soth's reputation as one of the most interesting voices in contemporary photography has continued to grow. Though he has followed the itinerant path laid forth by photographers such as Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Stephen Shore, Soth's is a distinct perspective, one in which the wandering, searching, and the process of telling is as resonant as the record of these remarkable encounters. When considered together, Soth's pictures probe the individualities of people, objects, and places he encounters; offer insight to broader sociologies, and in the process form a collective portrait of an unexpected America.

Featuring approximately 100 photographs made between 1994 and the present, "From Here to There" will include rarely-seen early black-and-white images as well as examples from Soth's best-known series "Sleeping by the Mississippi" and "Niagara." Interspersed throughout the exhibition will be a broad range of portraits made over the past 15 years. The exhibition will also include a new body of work the artist has been developing since 2006, exploring places of escape in America and individuals who seek to flee civilization for a life off the grid. To add insight into Soth's process, the exhibition additionally features a Library space, which includes a reading area for publications, a selection of maquettes for book and 'zine projects, short video works, and ephemera gathered on the road.

Margie Hughto: A Fired Landscape
Everson Museum of Art

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

Internationally renowned ceramic artist Margie Hughto presents her first site-specific museum installation entitled A Fired Landscape, a "clay painting" spanning 50 feet of gallery wall space. Inspired by the artist's spectacular backyard gardens and natural landscape just steps from her studio, The Fired Landscape installation consists of Setting Sun, a brilliantly colored ceramic wall relief displayed continuously on five angled walls. The visitor encounter is reminiscent of what one experiences when surrounded by the natural environment. Overall, Setting Sun is a ceramic abstraction, but Hughto establishes a connection to the landscape that inspired it by adding impressions of natural objects such as native ferns, marine life and fossils, into the wet clay and then coating the surfaces with brilliant color. The rich palette of burnt oranges and fiery reds evoke the sun’s glowing light and radiating warmth. Tiny pieces of glass embedded in the clay prior to firing add sparkle to the glossy green and blue glazes used to suggest the artist's lily pond.

SU @ CU; CU @ SU
XL Projects

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

Art students from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) and Colgate University will be showcasing the high standards and diversity of their work at galleries on each other's campuses.

Colgate art students will exhibit their work 10/19-11/6.
VPA student work will be shown 11/9-11/27.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com or visit vpa.syr.edu/xl-projects.

Illusions of Grandeur: Art Exhibition and Book Release
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

On display: a collection of Ling Tang's graphite drawings and the debut of Ling's Le Style Moderne book: Illusions of Grandeur.

Special Extended Concert: Franz Schubert Winterreise
Civic Morning Musicals
David Neal, baritone; Richard Montgomery, piano

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

Kronos Quartet
Society for New Music

Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Steve Reich WTC 9/11
Nicole Lizée Death to Kosmische
Douglas Quin Polar Suite (world premiere of Kronos commission)
Michael Gordon Clouded Yellow
Omar Souleyman (arr. Jacob Garchik) La Sidounak Sayyada (I'll Prevent the Hunters from Hunting You)
Traditional (arr. Kronos, transc. Ljova) Tusen Tankar (A Thousand Thoughts)
Aleksandra Vrebalov ...hold me, neighbor, in this storm...

Polar Suite, 2011, by sound designer and Syracuse University associate professor Douglas Quin, is written for quartet, soundscape recordings from the northern and southern polar regions of the earth and outer space, processed samples, plus interactive electronics involving the revolutionary human/machine interface -- the K-Bow Bluetooth Sensor Bow by Keith McMillen.

Presented in partnership with the Syracuse University Arts Presenter and others.

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Yellow Dubmarine (Reggae Beatles Tribute)
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Jen Grotz, poetry
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

The reading will be preceded by a question and answer session from 3:45-4:30. The public is welcome.

In the Heights
Broadway in Syracuse

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

The musical tells the story of three generations of a Hispanic family in Washington Heights, Manhattan. A winning lottery ticket complicates life for some. Charles Isherwood, of The New York Times, described the musical as "light and sweet," and an "amiable show, which boasts an infectious, bouncy Latin-pop score by a gifted young composer, Lin-Manuel Miranda."

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Fuddy Meers
Syracuse University Drama Department
Craig MacDonald, director

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

This is a wild comedy that emphatically puts the "shoe on the other hand." A woman named Claire wakes up one morning and can't remember her husband's name, does not recognize her son and forgets that she doesn't like juice. For years she has suffered from a type of amnesia that erases all memory from her mind as she sleeps, so why should this day be different than any other? Well, for starters, Claire is kidnapped by a lisping, limping man with an accomplice whose best friend is a hand puppet. It may also be the day the mystery behind Claire's amnesia is revealed through a roller coaster ride of hilarious antics and heartbreaking poignancy in a world where nothing is what it appears and no one is who they seem. By David Lindsay-Abaire.

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Thursday, November 10, 2011

Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exploration of identity within a unique part of the Syracuse community is the subject of "Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality," an exhibition by Bob Gates, photographer and professor emeritus of English.

The exhibition is part of the 2011 Syracuse Symposium, presented by the SU Humanities Center for SU's College of Arts and Sciences and for the entire Syracuse community. "Identity" is the theme of this year's symposium.

Gates calls the project "a collaborative urban portrait" of the people who inhabit a unique and vibrant urban space in the heart of Syracuse, which is soon to disappear -- the bus transfer stations at the corner of Fayette and Salina streets. The project began with a simple question of identity -- who are these people?

Gates is a nationally recognized photographer whose work has been featured in dozens of publications, including National Geographic Traveler, Outdoor Photographer and Popular Photography. Since 2006, his photography has been the subject of more than 20 exhibitions throughout the Northeast, garnering him numerous honors and awards, including third place in the nature category of Photo Life magazine’s international competition.

Life Blood: Women in Haudenosaunee Art
LeMoyne College

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

In recognition of November as Native American Heritage Month, the Wilson Art Gallery, along with the gender and women's studies program, will sponsor an exhibition of traditional and contemporary works of Haudenosaunee women artists, as well as works that honor women by other Haudenosaunee artists.

According to Tom Huff, curator and artist, "The exhibit features the contemporary mix medium works by local Haudenosaunee women who draw on traditional culture and beliefs. Tradition is the life blood of these contemporary works. These traditions extend from the oral history of the creation story that honors Mother Earth and acknowledges women's relationship with Grandmother Moon and Life Giving Sustenance, the Three Sisters. As a matrilineal society, women are held in high regard for their leadership roles within the community and family. Within the Haudenosaunee Nations, women carry the title of clan mothers who oversee ceremonies, give clan names and maintain the authority for choosing and removing chiefs within the nation’s traditional council government. Within the family, women are the center of support and the lifeline in everyday life and decision making that sustains the strength of the extended family. This exhibit honors and celebrates this continued role of women through artistic expressions, maintaining the life blood of the nations."

For more information, phone 315-445-4153.

Pile-Stratra: Work s of Mikyung Kim
Onondaga Community College

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

Mikyung Kim's conceptual "Pile-Stratra" exhibit is an intrinsic exploration of the relationship between game and rite. Kim's work is deeply rooted in Eastern Ceremony, especially ancestor worship by creating the tableau as an altar setting. Each work is a product of random and composed elements, producing a form of controlled spontaneity that mirrors the interplay between the fleeting mind and metamorphic nature.

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

Ephemera and Emerging
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Gallery A: "Ephemera," features photography by James Russell
Gallery B: "Emerging," features paintings by Michelle Bennett

Just One Word: Plastics
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

For more than a century, plastics have transformed our lives -- from bathroom to battlefield; from supermarket to spacecraft. Begun as a 19th-century replacement material for billiard balls and piano keys, plastics spurred 20th century developments in industry, transportation, medicine, entertainment, and other aspects of contemporary life. The original objects of "Just One Word: Plastics" represent a material history of the modern world.

This exhibition features a representative sample of the Plastics Collection at the Syracuse University Library and presents an overview of major trends in the development of plastics in everyday life. The exhibit focuses on personal and household objects rather than the use of plastics in industry where they are also widely used. Approximately 250 objects divided into 12 categories will be on view. In addition, a small selection of manuscripts and printed materials will be included.

Specific objects to be featured in the exhibition are:
* ornate celluloid combs and a wide variety of plastic toiletries
* phenolic (Bakelite) objects from the 1920s and 30s including jewelry, radios, and other appliances and games
* musical instruments
* post-war toys, dishes, and household items
* original patent books of John Wesley Hyatt, inventor of Celluloid
* product catalogues from the 1930s and 1950s for popular items such as DuPont French Ivory dresser sets, Boltaware molded "stoneware" dishes, and Tupperware, and
* the Pleur-evac, a revolutionary plastic medical device for draining fluid and maintaining pressure in the lungs that helped save the life of President Ronald Reagan.

The Plastics Collection was begun in 2007 as a joint project of the Syracuse University Library and the Plastics History & Artifacts Committee of the Plastics Pioneers Association. The Collection expanded dramatically when the National Plastics Center and Museum in Leominster, MA, closed and transferred its artifacts, books, and manuscripts to Syracuse University's care in 2008.

Aphotic Ardor: Works by Kristie Hayes-Beaulieu
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

An exhibit of variety. Diversity. Progression. Connections. Past and present. Growth. Reclusion. Pain and suffering, as well as extreme bliss. Also view a sneak preview in one of our gallery rooms of Kristie's X-ray-inspired work that will be on display at the SUNY Health Science Center in December.

Whereas I Took the Butterfly: Works by Deloss McGraw
YMCA Arts Branch GallerY

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit of literary "poster paintings" features Deloss McGraw's reflections/interpretations of such writers as Dickinson, Hemingway, Snodgrass and others, often using photographs of the authors, book covers, or other borrowed images.

Untold Stories
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Featuring the diverse works of Alison Fisher: acrylic and mixed media paintings; jewelry made of unique mixed metals and found objects; one-of-a-kind textiles including handbags, scarves, pillows, and throws.

Invitational with Photographer Tim Etter
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

African Diasporan Treasures: 40 Years of Community Folk Art Center
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition will showcase pieces from CFAC's permanent collection. Featuring over 30 works by artists including Joel Gaines, Ellen Oppler, Jack White, Denise Cole and Kamiiron Pritchard, "African Diasporan Treasures" provides a rare opportunity for visitors to experience the rich artistic history of CFAC. In many cases, the pieces have not been displayed for decades. The show will also feature African art that was once part of the Smithsonian Museum's collection.

Best if Used: Functional Pottery by Jim Burke
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

John Bishop Photographs
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Photographs by John Bishop of Tully will be featured throughout the month of November. Bishop, owner of Bishop's Falls Photography, specializes in landscape, nature and architectural photography, and has a special interest in water and waterfalls, old barns and structures, and architectural details.

VisualBooks: Works by Scott McCarney
Light Work Gallery

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

This unique and beautiful exhibition explores the book as a sculptural object that employs a variety of image-making processes. McCarney's carefully hand-bound editions and found-altered books incorporate photographic imagery and utilize the space of the gallery to explore reading as display (on pedestals and shelves, hanging from the ceiling, mounted on the wall).

McCarney creates his sculptural objects and photo-based editions as one-of-a-kind, hand-made pieces as well as small runs of print-on-demand books. According to Hannah Frieser, director of Light Work, "Scott McCarney rethinks the book form, considering books as a starting point rather than a mere vehicle for information and images."

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James Dwyer: Remembering the Man and His Art

Price: Free
Art Shops at Delavan Center
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A celebratory exhibit mounted in honor of Syracuse University Professor Emeritus James Dwyer and his lifetime contributions to art and education. "Remembering the Man and His Art" is being produced by four of Dwyer's friends and colleagues: Michael Sickler, SU Professor Emeritus in painting and drawing; Nicholas Todisco, art teacher at Onondaga Community College; Bill Delavan, owner of the Delavan Center; and Caroline Szozda-McGowan, owner of Szozda Gallery.

Art Gone Wild! Prints and Paintings by Animals of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo

Price: Free for members or with zoo admission
Rosamond Gifford Zoo
One Conservation Place, Syracuse

Striking and extraordinary works of art created by the animals living at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo illustrate the depth of keeper care and behavioral enrichment vital in maintaining healthy and engaged animals. The exhibition includes several pieces produced by trunks, paws, feet, hooves, scales, skin and, of course, brushes.

The American Look: Fashion and Furnishings of the Arts and Crafts Era
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

A new exhibition unites original Arts and Crafts Movement furnishings, with an emphasis on those designed by Gustav Stickley, with clothing worn by American women during 1909-1913 -- a rarely seen combination.

Exhibition curator Jeffrey Mayer, an associate professor and program coordinator of fashion design in VPA's Department of Design, selected the garments in "The American Look" from the fashion design program's Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, which he also curates. The furniture, consisting of original pieces produced between 1906-1911, is on loan from David Rudd and Debbie Goldwein of Dalton's American Decorative Arts in Syracuse. Many of the pieces on view are unparalleled examples of the work of Gustav Stickley, none of which have been previously exhibited to the public.

For more information, contact Mayer or Lauren Tagliaferro, registrar of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, at 315-443-4644.

Nature Inspired
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Painter C. Wilkinson and husband, potter Bruce Thomas combine their dual talents in painting and clay to produce "Nature Inspired."

Cathy and Bruce Thomas are a husband and wife team of artists who often influence each other's paintings and pottery. "Nature Inspired" marks the third time the couple has shown together, though each has been at their crafts for most of their 37 married years. Early in their separate careers, each one was better known for their distinct styles. Cathy painted under the name of C. Wilkinson and her subject matter was rarely nature based. "Rather," she says, "I was more in the pop art/realism and sometimes trompe l'oeil style. My works were more like high heel shoes or lipsticks." Bruce was always a naturalist and had much success in publishing his nature photos in various magazines, such as National Wild Life, Audubon, Natural History Magazine and Sierra Club. His long-time interest in pottery eventually led him to study under noted ceramicist Vincent Clemente. Cathy says that inspiration from both Bruce's photography and pottery have influenced the couple's desire to combine efforts to work together in creating "many pieces based on his love of nature and my love for him."

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The Butterfly Effect
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

The Butterfly Effect is the first multimedia exhibition at 601 Tully. The actual and conceptual life of a butterfly is a departure point for a collaborative exhibition that places humans and butterflies together in a micro-habitat inside an art space.

The Butterfly Effect presents a variety of interpretations of the butterfly structure and the butterfly as a symbol as addressed by contemporary visual artists and will include work by local artists, Syracuse University students and professors, and Syracuse youth. The centerpiece of The Butterfly Effect is a living butterfly habitat constructed by SU students using materials reclaimed from local sites. The interior butterfly garden provides the opportunity for exhibition visitors to observe living butterflies while surrounded by artworks that explore or feature the butterfly metaphorically.

Photography on the Edge: Between Realism and Abstraction
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The show features photographs by Central New York artists that address the relationship between realistic representation and abstract concepts. Participating artists include Willson Cummer, Bob Gates, Elisabeth Groat, Peter Mahan, Yolanda Tooley, Jeanann Wieners, Diana Whiting, and Jamie Young.

The co-curators, Jen Gandee and Syracuse-area photographer, Bob Gates, in selecting work for this show, were looking for images that are true to the perennial conflict in the history of photography between representational and non-representational images. The same conflicting impulses that have shaped other forms of art--realism, impressionism, expressionism, abstraction, surrealism--have had their adherents among photographers. The works in this exhibit show how some photographers in Central New York respond to or participate in that complex history.

57th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Our gift shop of fine art and crafts handmade by local guild and independent artists is Syracuse's one-stop shopping haven during the holiday season. Find unique pottery, stained glass, paintings, jewelry, hand-crafted soaps and candles, and much more.

For more information, phone 315-243-6359 or 315-637-6562.

A Magnificent Obsession: Selections from the Hamilton Armstrong Collection of Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For decades, Hamilton Armstrong of Fayetteville, NY has been collecting prints created by some of most important and well-known American and European artists of the last 200 years. While only a fraction of the number of works he collected will be exhibited, this show will demonstrate two areas of great interest to Armstrong.

First is the area of architectural etching that began in 19th century Europe and continued into 20th century American printmaking. Consisting of more than 30 prints by Charles Meryon, John Taylor Arms, Samuel Chamberlain, and others, this part of the exhibition highlights an impressive selection of Meryon's rare etchings.

The second part of the show is a series of wood engravings done by Fritz Eichenberg for a reprint of Emily Bronte's classic novel, Wuthering Heights. These images are rare artist proof prints for the 1943 Random House edition of the novel and have been considered some of best illustrations of the 19th century classic because they capture the drama of author's text without adding superfluous material.

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

Opening: Sources & Structures: The Art of Robert Stackhouse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-7:00 pm.

This 25-year retrospective, organized by the SUArt Galleries, surveys the development of Robert Stackhouse as an artist. In addition to investigating the roots of his best-known imagery -- Viking ships, whales, snakes, and wood A-frame constructs -- this exhibition examines how he conceives of these designs through his drawings, watercolors, and prints. "Sources and Structures" considers how Stackhouse has made a personal examination of these natural and man-made forms and developed a body of work that explores affinities between architecture and biological anatomy.

Margie Hughto: A Fired Landscape
Everson Museum of Art

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

Internationally renowned ceramic artist Margie Hughto presents her first site-specific museum installation entitled A Fired Landscape, a "clay painting" spanning 50 feet of gallery wall space. Inspired by the artist's spectacular backyard gardens and natural landscape just steps from her studio, The Fired Landscape installation consists of Setting Sun, a brilliantly colored ceramic wall relief displayed continuously on five angled walls. The visitor encounter is reminiscent of what one experiences when surrounded by the natural environment. Overall, Setting Sun is a ceramic abstraction, but Hughto establishes a connection to the landscape that inspired it by adding impressions of natural objects such as native ferns, marine life and fossils, into the wet clay and then coating the surfaces with brilliant color. The rich palette of burnt oranges and fiery reds evoke the sun’s glowing light and radiating warmth. Tiny pieces of glass embedded in the clay prior to firing add sparkle to the glossy green and blue glazes used to suggest the artist's lily pond.

From Here to There: Alec Soth's America
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, members and children under 5 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From Here to There: Alec Soth's America" provides a focused look at an extraordinary photographer whose compelling images of the American road and its unexpected turns form powerful narrative vignettes. The exhibition will be the artist's first major survey assembled in the United States, exploring over 15 years of his career, and including an extensive new body of work.

Since his inclusion in the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo biennials, Soth's reputation as one of the most interesting voices in contemporary photography has continued to grow. Though he has followed the itinerant path laid forth by photographers such as Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Stephen Shore, Soth's is a distinct perspective, one in which the wandering, searching, and the process of telling is as resonant as the record of these remarkable encounters. When considered together, Soth's pictures probe the individualities of people, objects, and places he encounters; offer insight to broader sociologies, and in the process form a collective portrait of an unexpected America.

Featuring approximately 100 photographs made between 1994 and the present, "From Here to There" will include rarely-seen early black-and-white images as well as examples from Soth's best-known series "Sleeping by the Mississippi" and "Niagara." Interspersed throughout the exhibition will be a broad range of portraits made over the past 15 years. The exhibition will also include a new body of work the artist has been developing since 2006, exploring places of escape in America and individuals who seek to flee civilization for a life off the grid. To add insight into Soth's process, the exhibition additionally features a Library space, which includes a reading area for publications, a selection of maquettes for book and 'zine projects, short video works, and ephemera gathered on the road.

SU @ CU; CU @ SU
XL Projects

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

Art students from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) and Colgate University will be showcasing the high standards and diversity of their work at galleries on each other's campuses.

Colgate art students will exhibit their work 10/19-11/6.
VPA student work will be shown 11/9-11/27.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com or visit vpa.syr.edu/xl-projects.

Illusions of Grandeur: Art Exhibition and Book Release
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

On display: a collection of Ling Tang's graphite drawings and the debut of Ling's Le Style Moderne book: Illusions of Grandeur.

Always After (the Glass House)
Urban Video Project

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

Urban Video Project is pleased to present Always After (the Glass House), 2006, by internationally recognized multimedia artist, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle.

Employing footage shot on a high-speed film camera, Always After focuses on the broken glass accumulated after the windows of the Mies-designed Illinois Institute of Technology's Crown Hall were smashed by the architect's own grandson as part of a ceremony in advance of the building's renovation. Manglano-Ovalle scrupulously edits out all clear reference to this odd 'kill your fathers' ritual, leaving the viewer with a dream-like sequence in which well-shod anonymous masses eternally exit and equally anonymous custodians endlessly move in to sweep up the crystalline debris of modernism. The precise nature of the event--whether it is a natural disaster, a terrorist attack, or just routine construction--never becomes clear. Instead, the narrative unfolds like a Jacob's ladder: never reaching the end, passing again and again through the point where modernist progress and crisis become indistinguishable--a point that is always already "after."

Nathaniel Sullivan: On the Way to the Theatre, We Egged a Trans-am
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In this 1 minute-23 second video, Sullivan depicts the pressures brought to bear in teenage boys--most of which are pressures to be pleased, injunctions to enjoy. While at first glance this looks like an easy row to hoe, the work makes it clear that in fact there are consequences to taking one's pleasures liberally, without reserve. As Plato said, pleasure deranges as efficiently as pain.

Nathaniel Sullivan is an artist and writer. He received his MFA degree from the Transmedia Department at Syracuse University in Spring 2011. His practice is a balance of artwork, critical writing, and curating. His work has been shown in exhibitions and screenings in Syracuse, New York City, and widely across Canada. In 2006, he was awarded a Special Mention from the prestigious Montreal Film Festival.

Jon Nakamatsu, piano
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 general public, $10 seniors, free for LeMoyne students, faculty, staff
Panasci Family Chapel
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Syracuse favorite and Van Cliburn Competition gold medalist will perform a recital featuring the works of Romantic-era composers including, Brahms Sonata No. 1, Liszt Three Sonetti del Petrarca and Chopin Andante Spianato et Grande Polonaise Brillante, op. 2.

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Fiddler on the Loose
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $32.50 (includes meal, show, tax and gratuities)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

The milkman, Skeevya, and his family have been forced to leave their beloved little village of Havavodka and have immigrated to America. The quaint Russian countryside has been replaced by the bright lights of New York City and the old world traditions have been replaced by the new world permissions. In fact, Skeevya now has a new job ... with the Russian Mafia. At last he is a rich man! But how long can it last? Remember: You're gonna get a little on you when you're playing in the borscht.

For reservations, phone 315-475-1807 or email syracuse@meatballs.com.

In the Heights
Broadway in Syracuse

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

The musical tells the story of three generations of a Hispanic family in Washington Heights, Manhattan. A winning lottery ticket complicates life for some. Charles Isherwood, of The New York Times, described the musical as "light and sweet," and an "amiable show, which boasts an infectious, bouncy Latin-pop score by a gifted young composer, Lin-Manuel Miranda."

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Fuddy Meers
Syracuse University Drama Department
Craig MacDonald, director

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

This is a wild comedy that emphatically puts the "shoe on the other hand." A woman named Claire wakes up one morning and can't remember her husband's name, does not recognize her son and forgets that she doesn't like juice. For years she has suffered from a type of amnesia that erases all memory from her mind as she sleeps, so why should this day be different than any other? Well, for starters, Claire is kidnapped by a lisping, limping man with an accomplice whose best friend is a hand puppet. It may also be the day the mystery behind Claire's amnesia is revealed through a roller coaster ride of hilarious antics and heartbreaking poignancy in a world where nothing is what it appears and no one is who they seem. By David Lindsay-Abaire.

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Friday, November 11, 2011

Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exploration of identity within a unique part of the Syracuse community is the subject of "Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality," an exhibition by Bob Gates, photographer and professor emeritus of English.

The exhibition is part of the 2011 Syracuse Symposium, presented by the SU Humanities Center for SU's College of Arts and Sciences and for the entire Syracuse community. "Identity" is the theme of this year's symposium.

Gates calls the project "a collaborative urban portrait" of the people who inhabit a unique and vibrant urban space in the heart of Syracuse, which is soon to disappear -- the bus transfer stations at the corner of Fayette and Salina streets. The project began with a simple question of identity -- who are these people?

Gates is a nationally recognized photographer whose work has been featured in dozens of publications, including National Geographic Traveler, Outdoor Photographer and Popular Photography. Since 2006, his photography has been the subject of more than 20 exhibitions throughout the Northeast, garnering him numerous honors and awards, including third place in the nature category of Photo Life magazine’s international competition.

Life Blood: Women in Haudenosaunee Art
LeMoyne College

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

In recognition of November as Native American Heritage Month, the Wilson Art Gallery, along with the gender and women's studies program, will sponsor an exhibition of traditional and contemporary works of Haudenosaunee women artists, as well as works that honor women by other Haudenosaunee artists.

According to Tom Huff, curator and artist, "The exhibit features the contemporary mix medium works by local Haudenosaunee women who draw on traditional culture and beliefs. Tradition is the life blood of these contemporary works. These traditions extend from the oral history of the creation story that honors Mother Earth and acknowledges women's relationship with Grandmother Moon and Life Giving Sustenance, the Three Sisters. As a matrilineal society, women are held in high regard for their leadership roles within the community and family. Within the Haudenosaunee Nations, women carry the title of clan mothers who oversee ceremonies, give clan names and maintain the authority for choosing and removing chiefs within the nation’s traditional council government. Within the family, women are the center of support and the lifeline in everyday life and decision making that sustains the strength of the extended family. This exhibit honors and celebrates this continued role of women through artistic expressions, maintaining the life blood of the nations."

For more information, phone 315-445-4153.

Pile-Stratra: Work s of Mikyung Kim
Onondaga Community College

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

Mikyung Kim's conceptual "Pile-Stratra" exhibit is an intrinsic exploration of the relationship between game and rite. Kim's work is deeply rooted in Eastern Ceremony, especially ancestor worship by creating the tableau as an altar setting. Each work is a product of random and composed elements, producing a form of controlled spontaneity that mirrors the interplay between the fleeting mind and metamorphic nature.

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

Ephemera and Emerging
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Gallery A: "Ephemera," features photography by James Russell
Gallery B: "Emerging," features paintings by Michelle Bennett

Just One Word: Plastics
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

For more than a century, plastics have transformed our lives -- from bathroom to battlefield; from supermarket to spacecraft. Begun as a 19th-century replacement material for billiard balls and piano keys, plastics spurred 20th century developments in industry, transportation, medicine, entertainment, and other aspects of contemporary life. The original objects of "Just One Word: Plastics" represent a material history of the modern world.

This exhibition features a representative sample of the Plastics Collection at the Syracuse University Library and presents an overview of major trends in the development of plastics in everyday life. The exhibit focuses on personal and household objects rather than the use of plastics in industry where they are also widely used. Approximately 250 objects divided into 12 categories will be on view. In addition, a small selection of manuscripts and printed materials will be included.

Specific objects to be featured in the exhibition are:
* ornate celluloid combs and a wide variety of plastic toiletries
* phenolic (Bakelite) objects from the 1920s and 30s including jewelry, radios, and other appliances and games
* musical instruments
* post-war toys, dishes, and household items
* original patent books of John Wesley Hyatt, inventor of Celluloid
* product catalogues from the 1930s and 1950s for popular items such as DuPont French Ivory dresser sets, Boltaware molded "stoneware" dishes, and Tupperware, and
* the Pleur-evac, a revolutionary plastic medical device for draining fluid and maintaining pressure in the lungs that helped save the life of President Ronald Reagan.

The Plastics Collection was begun in 2007 as a joint project of the Syracuse University Library and the Plastics History & Artifacts Committee of the Plastics Pioneers Association. The Collection expanded dramatically when the National Plastics Center and Museum in Leominster, MA, closed and transferred its artifacts, books, and manuscripts to Syracuse University's care in 2008.

Aphotic Ardor: Works by Kristie Hayes-Beaulieu
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

An exhibit of variety. Diversity. Progression. Connections. Past and present. Growth. Reclusion. Pain and suffering, as well as extreme bliss. Also view a sneak preview in one of our gallery rooms of Kristie's X-ray-inspired work that will be on display at the SUNY Health Science Center in December.

Whereas I Took the Butterfly: Works by Deloss McGraw
YMCA Arts Branch GallerY

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit of literary "poster paintings" features Deloss McGraw's reflections/interpretations of such writers as Dickinson, Hemingway, Snodgrass and others, often using photographs of the authors, book covers, or other borrowed images.

Untold Stories
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Featuring the diverse works of Alison Fisher: acrylic and mixed media paintings; jewelry made of unique mixed metals and found objects; one-of-a-kind textiles including handbags, scarves, pillows, and throws.

Invitational with Photographer Tim Etter
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

African Diasporan Treasures: 40 Years of Community Folk Art Center
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition will showcase pieces from CFAC's permanent collection. Featuring over 30 works by artists including Joel Gaines, Ellen Oppler, Jack White, Denise Cole and Kamiiron Pritchard, "African Diasporan Treasures" provides a rare opportunity for visitors to experience the rich artistic history of CFAC. In many cases, the pieces have not been displayed for decades. The show will also feature African art that was once part of the Smithsonian Museum's collection.

Best if Used: Functional Pottery by Jim Burke
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

John Bishop Photographs
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Photographs by John Bishop of Tully will be featured throughout the month of November. Bishop, owner of Bishop's Falls Photography, specializes in landscape, nature and architectural photography, and has a special interest in water and waterfalls, old barns and structures, and architectural details.

VisualBooks: Works by Scott McCarney
Light Work Gallery

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

This unique and beautiful exhibition explores the book as a sculptural object that employs a variety of image-making processes. McCarney's carefully hand-bound editions and found-altered books incorporate photographic imagery and utilize the space of the gallery to explore reading as display (on pedestals and shelves, hanging from the ceiling, mounted on the wall).

McCarney creates his sculptural objects and photo-based editions as one-of-a-kind, hand-made pieces as well as small runs of print-on-demand books. According to Hannah Frieser, director of Light Work, "Scott McCarney rethinks the book form, considering books as a starting point rather than a mere vehicle for information and images."

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Art Gone Wild! Prints and Paintings by Animals of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo

Price: Free for members or with zoo admission
Rosamond Gifford Zoo
One Conservation Place, Syracuse

Striking and extraordinary works of art created by the animals living at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo illustrate the depth of keeper care and behavioral enrichment vital in maintaining healthy and engaged animals. The exhibition includes several pieces produced by trunks, paws, feet, hooves, scales, skin and, of course, brushes.

James Dwyer: Remembering the Man and His Art

Price: Free
Art Shops at Delavan Center
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A celebratory exhibit mounted in honor of Syracuse University Professor Emeritus James Dwyer and his lifetime contributions to art and education. "Remembering the Man and His Art" is being produced by four of Dwyer's friends and colleagues: Michael Sickler, SU Professor Emeritus in painting and drawing; Nicholas Todisco, art teacher at Onondaga Community College; Bill Delavan, owner of the Delavan Center; and Caroline Szozda-McGowan, owner of Szozda Gallery.

The American Look: Fashion and Furnishings of the Arts and Crafts Era
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

A new exhibition unites original Arts and Crafts Movement furnishings, with an emphasis on those designed by Gustav Stickley, with clothing worn by American women during 1909-1913 -- a rarely seen combination.

Exhibition curator Jeffrey Mayer, an associate professor and program coordinator of fashion design in VPA's Department of Design, selected the garments in "The American Look" from the fashion design program's Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, which he also curates. The furniture, consisting of original pieces produced between 1906-1911, is on loan from David Rudd and Debbie Goldwein of Dalton's American Decorative Arts in Syracuse. Many of the pieces on view are unparalleled examples of the work of Gustav Stickley, none of which have been previously exhibited to the public.

For more information, contact Mayer or Lauren Tagliaferro, registrar of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, at 315-443-4644.

Nature Inspired
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-8:00 pm.

Painter C. Wilkinson and husband, potter Bruce Thomas combine their dual talents in painting and clay to produce "Nature Inspired."

Cathy and Bruce Thomas are a husband and wife team of artists who often influence each other's paintings and pottery. "Nature Inspired" marks the third time the couple has shown together, though each has been at their crafts for most of their 37 married years. Early in their separate careers, each one was better known for their distinct styles. Cathy painted under the name of C. Wilkinson and her subject matter was rarely nature based. "Rather," she says, "I was more in the pop art/realism and sometimes trompe l'oeil style. My works were more like high heel shoes or lipsticks." Bruce was always a naturalist and had much success in publishing his nature photos in various magazines, such as National Wild Life, Audubon, Natural History Magazine and Sierra Club. His long-time interest in pottery eventually led him to study under noted ceramicist Vincent Clemente. Cathy says that inspiration from both Bruce's photography and pottery have influenced the couple's desire to combine efforts to work together in creating "many pieces based on his love of nature and my love for him."

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Photography on the Edge: Between Realism and Abstraction
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The show features photographs by Central New York artists that address the relationship between realistic representation and abstract concepts. Participating artists include Willson Cummer, Bob Gates, Elisabeth Groat, Peter Mahan, Yolanda Tooley, Jeanann Wieners, Diana Whiting, and Jamie Young.

The co-curators, Jen Gandee and Syracuse-area photographer, Bob Gates, in selecting work for this show, were looking for images that are true to the perennial conflict in the history of photography between representational and non-representational images. The same conflicting impulses that have shaped other forms of art--realism, impressionism, expressionism, abstraction, surrealism--have had their adherents among photographers. The works in this exhibit show how some photographers in Central New York respond to or participate in that complex history.

57th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Our gift shop of fine art and crafts handmade by local guild and independent artists is Syracuse's one-stop shopping haven during the holiday season. Find unique pottery, stained glass, paintings, jewelry, hand-crafted soaps and candles, and much more.

For more information, phone 315-243-6359 or 315-637-6562.

A Magnificent Obsession: Selections from the Hamilton Armstrong Collection of Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For decades, Hamilton Armstrong of Fayetteville, NY has been collecting prints created by some of most important and well-known American and European artists of the last 200 years. While only a fraction of the number of works he collected will be exhibited, this show will demonstrate two areas of great interest to Armstrong.

First is the area of architectural etching that began in 19th century Europe and continued into 20th century American printmaking. Consisting of more than 30 prints by Charles Meryon, John Taylor Arms, Samuel Chamberlain, and others, this part of the exhibition highlights an impressive selection of Meryon's rare etchings.

The second part of the show is a series of wood engravings done by Fritz Eichenberg for a reprint of Emily Bronte's classic novel, Wuthering Heights. These images are rare artist proof prints for the 1943 Random House edition of the novel and have been considered some of best illustrations of the 19th century classic because they capture the drama of author's text without adding superfluous material.

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

Sources & Structures: The Art of Robert Stackhouse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This 25-year retrospective, organized by the SUArt Galleries, surveys the development of Robert Stackhouse as an artist. In addition to investigating the roots of his best-known imagery -- Viking ships, whales, snakes, and wood A-frame constructs -- this exhibition examines how he conceives of these designs through his drawings, watercolors, and prints. "Sources and Structures" considers how Stackhouse has made a personal examination of these natural and man-made forms and developed a body of work that explores affinities between architecture and biological anatomy.

From Here to There: Alec Soth's America
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, members and children under 5 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From Here to There: Alec Soth's America" provides a focused look at an extraordinary photographer whose compelling images of the American road and its unexpected turns form powerful narrative vignettes. The exhibition will be the artist's first major survey assembled in the United States, exploring over 15 years of his career, and including an extensive new body of work.

Since his inclusion in the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo biennials, Soth's reputation as one of the most interesting voices in contemporary photography has continued to grow. Though he has followed the itinerant path laid forth by photographers such as Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Stephen Shore, Soth's is a distinct perspective, one in which the wandering, searching, and the process of telling is as resonant as the record of these remarkable encounters. When considered together, Soth's pictures probe the individualities of people, objects, and places he encounters; offer insight to broader sociologies, and in the process form a collective portrait of an unexpected America.

Featuring approximately 100 photographs made between 1994 and the present, "From Here to There" will include rarely-seen early black-and-white images as well as examples from Soth's best-known series "Sleeping by the Mississippi" and "Niagara." Interspersed throughout the exhibition will be a broad range of portraits made over the past 15 years. The exhibition will also include a new body of work the artist has been developing since 2006, exploring places of escape in America and individuals who seek to flee civilization for a life off the grid. To add insight into Soth's process, the exhibition additionally features a Library space, which includes a reading area for publications, a selection of maquettes for book and 'zine projects, short video works, and ephemera gathered on the road.

Margie Hughto: A Fired Landscape
Everson Museum of Art

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

Internationally renowned ceramic artist Margie Hughto presents her first site-specific museum installation entitled A Fired Landscape, a "clay painting" spanning 50 feet of gallery wall space. Inspired by the artist's spectacular backyard gardens and natural landscape just steps from her studio, The Fired Landscape installation consists of Setting Sun, a brilliantly colored ceramic wall relief displayed continuously on five angled walls. The visitor encounter is reminiscent of what one experiences when surrounded by the natural environment. Overall, Setting Sun is a ceramic abstraction, but Hughto establishes a connection to the landscape that inspired it by adding impressions of natural objects such as native ferns, marine life and fossils, into the wet clay and then coating the surfaces with brilliant color. The rich palette of burnt oranges and fiery reds evoke the sun’s glowing light and radiating warmth. Tiny pieces of glass embedded in the clay prior to firing add sparkle to the glossy green and blue glazes used to suggest the artist's lily pond.

SU @ CU; CU @ SU
XL Projects

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

Art students from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) and Colgate University will be showcasing the high standards and diversity of their work at galleries on each other's campuses.

Colgate art students will exhibit their work 10/19-11/6.
VPA student work will be shown 11/9-11/27.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com or visit vpa.syr.edu/xl-projects.

Illusions of Grandeur: Art Exhibition and Book Release
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

On display: a collection of Ling Tang's graphite drawings and the debut of Ling's Le Style Moderne book: Illusions of Grandeur.

Always After (the Glass House)
Urban Video Project

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

Urban Video Project is pleased to present Always After (the Glass House), 2006, by internationally recognized multimedia artist, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle.

Employing footage shot on a high-speed film camera, Always After focuses on the broken glass accumulated after the windows of the Mies-designed Illinois Institute of Technology's Crown Hall were smashed by the architect's own grandson as part of a ceremony in advance of the building's renovation. Manglano-Ovalle scrupulously edits out all clear reference to this odd 'kill your fathers' ritual, leaving the viewer with a dream-like sequence in which well-shod anonymous masses eternally exit and equally anonymous custodians endlessly move in to sweep up the crystalline debris of modernism. The precise nature of the event--whether it is a natural disaster, a terrorist attack, or just routine construction--never becomes clear. Instead, the narrative unfolds like a Jacob's ladder: never reaching the end, passing again and again through the point where modernist progress and crisis become indistinguishable--a point that is always already "after."

Nathaniel Sullivan: On the Way to the Theatre, We Egged a Trans-am
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In this 1 minute-23 second video, Sullivan depicts the pressures brought to bear in teenage boys--most of which are pressures to be pleased, injunctions to enjoy. While at first glance this looks like an easy row to hoe, the work makes it clear that in fact there are consequences to taking one's pleasures liberally, without reserve. As Plato said, pleasure deranges as efficiently as pain.

Nathaniel Sullivan is an artist and writer. He received his MFA degree from the Transmedia Department at Syracuse University in Spring 2011. His practice is a balance of artwork, critical writing, and curating. His work has been shown in exhibitions and screenings in Syracuse, New York City, and widely across Canada. In 2006, he was awarded a Special Mention from the prestigious Montreal Film Festival.

Redhouse Live Comedy Improv
Redhouse

Price: $10 regular, $5 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

A troupe of seasoned actors and comedians improvise hysterical scenes and games.

Syracuse Area Music Awards

Price: $15
OnCenter Convention Center
800 South State St., Syracuse

Award ceremony, with musical performances by 805, The Rods and Isreal Hagan.

Nominees
Best pop: Kristin Turo; Kim Monroe and Chris Eves; Tommy Connors; South Bay; White Picket Fence.
Best country: Christopher Ames; The Easy Ramblers; Greg Hoover; Just Joe.
Best jazz: Tom Bronzetti Band; Kevin Dorsey Collective.
Best metal: One Last Shot; Earth Crisis; Shooting Hemlock; Torment the Vein; Feeding Affliction.
Best blues: Mark Cloutier; Master Thieves; The Chris Terra Band; Mark Doyle and the Maniacs.
Best alternative: 4 Point 0; The Scarlet Ending; God Astray; Catastrophe Me!; Independent Louis.
Best hip-hop/rap: Sophistafunk; DeCoy; Powder Jay; Double-J/A.O.D. Team; Anormous.
Best rock: Silent Fury; Stone Soul Foundation; Elephant Mountain; Just a Memory; Michael P. Ryan.
Best R&B: Dave Hanlon's Cookbook; Isreal Hagan; Brownskin.
Best Americana: Chad Bradshaw Band; Stiv Morgan; Dan Duggan; Andrew and Noah VanNorstrand; Loren Barrigar.
Best recording, other style: William Nicholson; Leper Pony; Turnip Stampede; Samba Laranja; Ceili Rain.

Tina Hall, author
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Tina May Hall teaches creative writing at Hamilton College. Her first collection of stories, The Physics of Imaginary Objects, won the 2010 Drue Heinz Literature Prize and was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Her novella, All the Day's Sad Stories, was published as a chapbook by Caketrain Press in 2009. Her stories have appeared in The Collagist, 3rd Bed, Black Warrior Review, Quarterly West, The Fairy Tale Review, and other journals.

Zanna, Don't: A Musical Fairytale
Encore Presentations
Stephfond D. Brunson, director

Price: $37.25 dinner and show, $20 show only
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

A musical by Tim Acito and with additional lyrics and material by Alexander Dinelaris. The story is set in a parallel universe where homosexuality is the norm and heterosexuality is a taboo. Set in midwest America, "Zanna" takes place at heterophobic Heartsville High. Zanna is the school's matchmaker, bringing together happy couples until the football team's quarterback and the captain of the Girls' Intramural Mechanical Bull-Riding Team begin to discover their feelings for each other.

Dinner begins at 6:30 pm; show at 8:00 pm.

A Tuna Christmas
CNY Playhouse
Deborah Pearson, director

Price: Dinner theater: $29 single; $55 couple. Show only: $20 (limited availability)
Fire and Ice Banquet Hall, The Locker Room
528 Hiawatha Blvd., Syracuse

Dinner at 6:45 pm, followed by show at 8:00 pm.

Twenty Characters, Two Men, a Partridge in a Pear Tree! In this hilarious sequel to Greater Tuna, it's Christmas in the third smallest town in Texas. Radio station OKKK news personalities Thurston Wheelis and Arles Struvie report on various Yuletide activities, including hot competition in the annual lawn display contest. In other news, voracious Joe Bob Lipsey's production of "A Christmas Carol" is jeopardized by unpaid electric bills. Many colorful Tuna denizens, some you will recognize from Greater Tuna and some appearing here for the first time, join in the holiday fun. Starring Greg J. Hipius & Gerrit Vander Werff Jr.

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Arsenic and Old Lace
Warehoure Architecture Theatre: WhAT

Price: $3
Slocum Hall Auditorium
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Fuddy Meers
Syracuse University Drama Department
Craig MacDonald, director

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

This is a wild comedy that emphatically puts the "shoe on the other hand." A woman named Claire wakes up one morning and can't remember her husband's name, does not recognize her son and forgets that she doesn't like juice. For years she has suffered from a type of amnesia that erases all memory from her mind as she sleeps, so why should this day be different than any other? Well, for starters, Claire is kidnapped by a lisping, limping man with an accomplice whose best friend is a hand puppet. It may also be the day the mystery behind Claire's amnesia is revealed through a roller coaster ride of hilarious antics and heartbreaking poignancy in a world where nothing is what it appears and no one is who they seem. By David Lindsay-Abaire.

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Saturday, November 12, 2011

Ephemera and Emerging
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Gallery A: "Ephemera," features photography by James Russell
Gallery B: "Emerging," features paintings by Michelle Bennett

Invitational with Photographer Tim Etter
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Untold Stories
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Featuring the diverse works of Alison Fisher: acrylic and mixed media paintings; jewelry made of unique mixed metals and found objects; one-of-a-kind textiles including handbags, scarves, pillows, and throws.

Margie Hughto: A Fired Landscape
Everson Museum of Art

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

Internationally renowned ceramic artist Margie Hughto presents her first site-specific museum installation entitled A Fired Landscape, a "clay painting" spanning 50 feet of gallery wall space. Inspired by the artist's spectacular backyard gardens and natural landscape just steps from her studio, The Fired Landscape installation consists of Setting Sun, a brilliantly colored ceramic wall relief displayed continuously on five angled walls. The visitor encounter is reminiscent of what one experiences when surrounded by the natural environment. Overall, Setting Sun is a ceramic abstraction, but Hughto establishes a connection to the landscape that inspired it by adding impressions of natural objects such as native ferns, marine life and fossils, into the wet clay and then coating the surfaces with brilliant color. The rich palette of burnt oranges and fiery reds evoke the sun’s glowing light and radiating warmth. Tiny pieces of glass embedded in the clay prior to firing add sparkle to the glossy green and blue glazes used to suggest the artist's lily pond.

From Here to There: Alec Soth's America
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, members and children under 5 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From Here to There: Alec Soth's America" provides a focused look at an extraordinary photographer whose compelling images of the American road and its unexpected turns form powerful narrative vignettes. The exhibition will be the artist's first major survey assembled in the United States, exploring over 15 years of his career, and including an extensive new body of work.

Since his inclusion in the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo biennials, Soth's reputation as one of the most interesting voices in contemporary photography has continued to grow. Though he has followed the itinerant path laid forth by photographers such as Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Stephen Shore, Soth's is a distinct perspective, one in which the wandering, searching, and the process of telling is as resonant as the record of these remarkable encounters. When considered together, Soth's pictures probe the individualities of people, objects, and places he encounters; offer insight to broader sociologies, and in the process form a collective portrait of an unexpected America.

Featuring approximately 100 photographs made between 1994 and the present, "From Here to There" will include rarely-seen early black-and-white images as well as examples from Soth's best-known series "Sleeping by the Mississippi" and "Niagara." Interspersed throughout the exhibition will be a broad range of portraits made over the past 15 years. The exhibition will also include a new body of work the artist has been developing since 2006, exploring places of escape in America and individuals who seek to flee civilization for a life off the grid. To add insight into Soth's process, the exhibition additionally features a Library space, which includes a reading area for publications, a selection of maquettes for book and 'zine projects, short video works, and ephemera gathered on the road.

Best if Used: Functional Pottery by Jim Burke
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

John Bishop Photographs
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Photographs by John Bishop of Tully will be featured throughout the month of November. Bishop, owner of Bishop's Falls Photography, specializes in landscape, nature and architectural photography, and has a special interest in water and waterfalls, old barns and structures, and architectural details.

James Dwyer: Remembering the Man and His Art

Price: Free
Art Shops at Delavan Center
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A celebratory exhibit mounted in honor of Syracuse University Professor Emeritus James Dwyer and his lifetime contributions to art and education. "Remembering the Man and His Art" is being produced by four of Dwyer's friends and colleagues: Michael Sickler, SU Professor Emeritus in painting and drawing; Nicholas Todisco, art teacher at Onondaga Community College; Bill Delavan, owner of the Delavan Center; and Caroline Szozda-McGowan, owner of Szozda Gallery.

Art Gone Wild! Prints and Paintings by Animals of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo

Price: Free for members or with zoo admission
Rosamond Gifford Zoo
One Conservation Place, Syracuse

Striking and extraordinary works of art created by the animals living at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo illustrate the depth of keeper care and behavioral enrichment vital in maintaining healthy and engaged animals. The exhibition includes several pieces produced by trunks, paws, feet, hooves, scales, skin and, of course, brushes.

The Big Show
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Comstock Art Facility
1055 Comstock Ave., Syracuse

Student work from Art Workshops for Young People, an offering of the art education dual program in SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts and School of Education, will be exhibited in the Art Education Wing (rooms 043, 044, 045, and 051) of Comstock Art Facility. Free parking is available in the Manley North lot.

The semester-long Art Workshops for Young People are taught by undergraduate and graduate art education students. Nine workshop" in two different time sessions are offered each semester for children ages 5-14. "The Big Show” is the culminating exhibition. Ninety children participated in the fall 2011 semester workshops.

For more information about the exhibition or the workshops, contact Patti Gavigan, art education office coordinator, at 315-443-2355 or pagaviga@syr.edu.

Nature Inspired
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Painter C. Wilkinson and husband, potter Bruce Thomas combine their dual talents in painting and clay to produce "Nature Inspired."

Cathy and Bruce Thomas are a husband and wife team of artists who often influence each other's paintings and pottery. "Nature Inspired" marks the third time the couple has shown together, though each has been at their crafts for most of their 37 married years. Early in their separate careers, each one was better known for their distinct styles. Cathy painted under the name of C. Wilkinson and her subject matter was rarely nature based. "Rather," she says, "I was more in the pop art/realism and sometimes trompe l'oeil style. My works were more like high heel shoes or lipsticks." Bruce was always a naturalist and had much success in publishing his nature photos in various magazines, such as National Wild Life, Audubon, Natural History Magazine and Sierra Club. His long-time interest in pottery eventually led him to study under noted ceramicist Vincent Clemente. Cathy says that inspiration from both Bruce's photography and pottery have influenced the couple's desire to combine efforts to work together in creating "many pieces based on his love of nature and my love for him."

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African Diasporan Treasures: 40 Years of Community Folk Art Center
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition will showcase pieces from CFAC's permanent collection. Featuring over 30 works by artists including Joel Gaines, Ellen Oppler, Jack White, Denise Cole and Kamiiron Pritchard, "African Diasporan Treasures" provides a rare opportunity for visitors to experience the rich artistic history of CFAC. In many cases, the pieces have not been displayed for decades. The show will also feature African art that was once part of the Smithsonian Museum's collection.

Illusions of Grandeur: Art Exhibition and Book Release
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

On display: a collection of Ling Tang's graphite drawings and the debut of Ling's Le Style Moderne book: Illusions of Grandeur.

Photography on the Edge: Between Realism and Abstraction
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The show features photographs by Central New York artists that address the relationship between realistic representation and abstract concepts. Participating artists include Willson Cummer, Bob Gates, Elisabeth Groat, Peter Mahan, Yolanda Tooley, Jeanann Wieners, Diana Whiting, and Jamie Young.

The co-curators, Jen Gandee and Syracuse-area photographer, Bob Gates, in selecting work for this show, were looking for images that are true to the perennial conflict in the history of photography between representational and non-representational images. The same conflicting impulses that have shaped other forms of art--realism, impressionism, expressionism, abstraction, surrealism--have had their adherents among photographers. The works in this exhibit show how some photographers in Central New York respond to or participate in that complex history.

57th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Our gift shop of fine art and crafts handmade by local guild and independent artists is Syracuse's one-stop shopping haven during the holiday season. Find unique pottery, stained glass, paintings, jewelry, hand-crafted soaps and candles, and much more.

For more information, phone 315-243-6359 or 315-637-6562.

A Magnificent Obsession: Selections from the Hamilton Armstrong Collection of Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For decades, Hamilton Armstrong of Fayetteville, NY has been collecting prints created by some of most important and well-known American and European artists of the last 200 years. While only a fraction of the number of works he collected will be exhibited, this show will demonstrate two areas of great interest to Armstrong.

First is the area of architectural etching that began in 19th century Europe and continued into 20th century American printmaking. Consisting of more than 30 prints by Charles Meryon, John Taylor Arms, Samuel Chamberlain, and others, this part of the exhibition highlights an impressive selection of Meryon's rare etchings.

The second part of the show is a series of wood engravings done by Fritz Eichenberg for a reprint of Emily Bronte's classic novel, Wuthering Heights. These images are rare artist proof prints for the 1943 Random House edition of the novel and have been considered some of best illustrations of the 19th century classic because they capture the drama of author's text without adding superfluous material.

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

Sources & Structures: The Art of Robert Stackhouse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This 25-year retrospective, organized by the SUArt Galleries, surveys the development of Robert Stackhouse as an artist. In addition to investigating the roots of his best-known imagery -- Viking ships, whales, snakes, and wood A-frame constructs -- this exhibition examines how he conceives of these designs through his drawings, watercolors, and prints. "Sources and Structures" considers how Stackhouse has made a personal examination of these natural and man-made forms and developed a body of work that explores affinities between architecture and biological anatomy.

Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exploration of identity within a unique part of the Syracuse community is the subject of "Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality," an exhibition by Bob Gates, photographer and professor emeritus of English.

The exhibition is part of the 2011 Syracuse Symposium, presented by the SU Humanities Center for SU's College of Arts and Sciences and for the entire Syracuse community. "Identity" is the theme of this year's symposium.

Gates calls the project "a collaborative urban portrait" of the people who inhabit a unique and vibrant urban space in the heart of Syracuse, which is soon to disappear -- the bus transfer stations at the corner of Fayette and Salina streets. The project began with a simple question of identity -- who are these people?

Gates is a nationally recognized photographer whose work has been featured in dozens of publications, including National Geographic Traveler, Outdoor Photographer and Popular Photography. Since 2006, his photography has been the subject of more than 20 exhibitions throughout the Northeast, garnering him numerous honors and awards, including third place in the nature category of Photo Life magazine’s international competition.

SU @ CU; CU @ SU
XL Projects

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

Art students from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) and Colgate University will be showcasing the high standards and diversity of their work at galleries on each other's campuses.

Colgate art students will exhibit their work 10/19-11/6.
VPA student work will be shown 11/9-11/27.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com or visit vpa.syr.edu/xl-projects.

Always After (the Glass House)
Urban Video Project

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

Urban Video Project is pleased to present Always After (the Glass House), 2006, by internationally recognized multimedia artist, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle.

Employing footage shot on a high-speed film camera, Always After focuses on the broken glass accumulated after the windows of the Mies-designed Illinois Institute of Technology's Crown Hall were smashed by the architect's own grandson as part of a ceremony in advance of the building's renovation. Manglano-Ovalle scrupulously edits out all clear reference to this odd 'kill your fathers' ritual, leaving the viewer with a dream-like sequence in which well-shod anonymous masses eternally exit and equally anonymous custodians endlessly move in to sweep up the crystalline debris of modernism. The precise nature of the event--whether it is a natural disaster, a terrorist attack, or just routine construction--never becomes clear. Instead, the narrative unfolds like a Jacob's ladder: never reaching the end, passing again and again through the point where modernist progress and crisis become indistinguishable--a point that is always already "after."

Nathaniel Sullivan: On the Way to the Theatre, We Egged a Trans-am
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In this 1 minute-23 second video, Sullivan depicts the pressures brought to bear in teenage boys--most of which are pressures to be pleased, injunctions to enjoy. While at first glance this looks like an easy row to hoe, the work makes it clear that in fact there are consequences to taking one's pleasures liberally, without reserve. As Plato said, pleasure deranges as efficiently as pain.

Nathaniel Sullivan is an artist and writer. He received his MFA degree from the Transmedia Department at Syracuse University in Spring 2011. His practice is a balance of artwork, critical writing, and curating. His work has been shown in exhibitions and screenings in Syracuse, New York City, and widely across Canada. In 2006, he was awarded a Special Mention from the prestigious Montreal Film Festival.

Opening: Daughters of Ixchel: The Photography of Mary Lawyer O'Connor
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this evening 7:00-9:00 pm.

"Daughters of Ixchel" is a collection of images of Maya women and their hand-woven textiles that brings awareness and understanding of vibrant Maya cultures and the challenges they face. The exhibit will be a look into the lives of women weavers from Guatemala and Southern Mexico. Portrait and documentary photography along with text will tell their stories and will include original textiles. We will highlight fair-trade, worker-owned cooperatives and the political history of Guatemala where, despite persecution and genocide, Maya weavers maintain traditional methods, patterns, colors and styles that flourish and evolve.

Mary Lawyer O'Connor lives in Pompey and is a founder and current head of the Montessori School of Syracuse.

Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers
Steeple Coffeehouse

Price: $10 includes dessert and beverage
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Singer/songwriter

Redhouse Regulars: Fat River Kings
Redhouse

Price: $15 regular, $10 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

A homegrown Adirondack band playing a blend of original, traditional and modern roots music.

Jupiter String Quartet
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

Price: $20 regular, $15 senior, $10 student
Lincoln Middle School
1613 James St., Syracuse

This critically-acclaimed group is winner of the prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award, and since its first appearance with SFCM in 2008 it has continued to collect honors -- most recently the Avery Fisher Career Grant. The Dallas Morning News glowingly wrote: "Every so often, a performance leaves us in awe of its loving sophistication, its attention to the finest details of balance and expression."

Beethoven String Quartet Op. 18 No. 6 in B-flat Major
Prokofiev String Quartet No. 2 in F Major, Op. 92
Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 44-1

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SU Oratorio Society
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Concert features Randall Thompson's Peaceable Kingdom and other works.

Annie & The Hedonists
Westcott Community Center

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

Annie & the Hedonists is a band that knows no musical boundaries. This eclectic group from the Albany area offers something for everyone. Anchored by the incomparable voice of band namesake Annie Rosen, this diverse ensemble gives audiences everything from jazz, swing, torchy blues, standards, bluegrass, gospel, and folk, with a sampling of honky tonk country thrown in for good measure. Each of their concerts is almost like a lesson in American roots music history.

The powerful sound is pulled into a cohesive whole by arrangements and interpretations that are distinctly theirs. Along with tight musicianship, there is a thread of dry humor running through their music. It swings with a wink. Annie's blues-tinged singing and the pure backup harmonies are framed by a variety of knockout lead instruments. The band is made up of two couples. Annie sings lead vocals and her husband, Jonny Rosen, plays guitar and sings. Steve Fry is on mandolin, trumpet, guitar, keyboard, and vocals while partner Betsy Fry rounds out the combo on bass and harmony vocals.

Star Mother's Youngest Child
Open Hand Theater
Theatre Figuren

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

For two unsuspecting characters, secrets and transformations unveil themselves until both discover that of all the "things" to give or receive, LOVE is the most precious. It all happens in a single day, Christmas Eve, in a celebration of the Human Spirit -- of friendship and sharing. Based on the story by Louise Moeri, this beautiful performance features small-scale puppetry and wonderful Scandinavian music played on a magical "toy" set.

Fuddy Meers
Syracuse University Drama Department
Craig MacDonald, director