Friday, December 7, 2007

Syracuse Builds: After the Master Plan
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

The exhibition presents 13 architectural and landscape projects currently in development for the Syracuse University campus and the city of Syracuse, including a new residence hall on the main campus by Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems headquarters designed by Toshiko Mori Architect, and a community InfoCenter for the Near Westside Initiative project in Syracuse designed by Syracuse Architecture professors Tim Stenson and Scott Ruff.

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A mixed media show with works from OCC's own faculty members.

Tango
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Tango, a large format folio published by Iris Editions in New York (1991) with eight intaglio prints by Nancy Graves and 13 pages of text by Pedro Cuperman that gaze at the aesthetics of this Latin American dance.

Tango proposes an evening of music, dance, and food transposed into videoa sort of "performance" projected into the space of the gallery where audience and art become intertwined in the field of representation.

"Graves conceived of the prints in the folio as a continued exploration of pattern in nature and as a tonal study of black and white," writes Thomas Padon in his book, Nancy Graves, Excavations in Print A Catalogue Raisonné (1996). "More than once the artist has asserted, 'There is nothing more challenging and meaningful than to make prints in black and white.' For an admitted colorist, it is ironic that the nine prints Graves has made in black and white are among her most powerful." The cryptic titles of the prints in the folio were selected by Graves from Cuperman's text for Tango. The poet speaks of the dance as a gradually unfolding ritual, stating near the conclusion, "Tango helps you find your own levels of proximity."

The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the execution for murder of two Italian anarchist laborers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a selection of period ephemera issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee together with a plethora of books associated with the trial that have been published in the intervening years by Paul Avrich, Felix Frankfurter, and Eugene Lyons, among others. The exhibit features artistic expressions (cartoons, illustrations, novels, plays, poems, songs and music) inspired by the trial, including the work of Maxwell Anderson, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Howard Fast, Woodie Guthrie, William Gropper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rockwell Kent, Katherine Anne Porter, Pete Seeger, and Upton Sinclair. The story of the Sacco and Vanzetti mural by Ben Shahn on the east wall of H. B. Crouse will also be explored.

A Gala Holiday Art Exhibit
Westcott Community Center

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

Mary Stebbins Taitt: digital paintings
John "Jaw's" McGrath: pen and ink landscapes
Karen Tashkovski: paper collage
Amber Blanding: glass work
Mary Fragapane: pastel paintings and prints
Mick Mather: photographs
Kirsten Moore: acrylic and oil paintings
John Swank: photography

Paying Attention
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Pastels and oils by Nicora Gangi and glass works by Alex Andreani.

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Off the Wall Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Unlike most gallery shows, this Associated Artists sale allows everyone the opportunity to purchase fine original artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall". A portion of each sale helps support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Please join us and enjoy the creations of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful chance to find one-of-a-kind gifts!

World AIDS Day Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

In her photographic series "Camp Heartland," Katja Heinemann documents children at the Willow River, Minnesota camp. The camp is for children who are affected by HIV and AIDS. Children attending the camp are infected with HIV or have family members who are living with the virus. Through photographs and interviews with the children, Heinemann presents a portrait of strength and courage in the struggle against HIV/AIDS.

Stella Washington's short film Your Hands presents an overview of HIV/AIDS, in particular how it affects the African American community. Through interviews with women both HIV positive and negative, along with statistics relating to HIV/AIDS and African American women, Washington provides a foundation upon which to stimulate conversation and awareness.

The Art of George Mayocole
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Suggested donation $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

This exhibition features vibrant, abstract, mixed media works on paper by this New York City-based artist.

Gullah Lifestyles: A Culture Under Attack and Confederate Currency: The Color of Money
Community Folk Art Center

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

Paintings by John W. Jones and Leroy Campbell

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular; $4 seniors; $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Display of more than 40 gingerbread creations.

Holiday Festival of Trees
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $7 regular; $5 seniors/students 18 and under; free for children 5 and under
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Museum of Art's Holiday Festival of Trees is a Syracuse tradition that delights participants with hundreds of decorated trees, wreaths and unique displays. The trees are always different, surprising, and beautiful. The Everson is grateful year after year for the support community members, business and organizations show in donating trees and other items. This year will be sure to provide new surprises and bring out the holiday spirit in the whole community.

Angelika Rinnhofer: Sammelsurium
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, featuring the work of German-born artist Angelika Rinnhofer, will feature her large-format color prints from three related series, Menschenkunde, Felsenfest, and Seelensucht. She describes her series Menschenkunde as portraits that combine facts, beauty, and irony in a Renaissance-style. Rinnhofer's series Felsenfest continues the same aesthetics in its re-interpretations of martyrs and saints into a modern context. Rinnhofer remembers being frightened as a child when viewing the horrific images of tortured saints commonly found in churches in her hometown Nürnberg, Germany. She now casts a critical eye, juxtaposing religious figures with modern-looking scientists. Seelensucht takes Rinnhofer back to the traditional single-figure portrait, also capturing the themes of martyrs.

Angelika lives in Beacon, NY. She is a commercial photographer and artist. She is the recipient of a Kodak European Gold Award and received a fellowship in photography from the Dutchess County Arts Council. She participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2005.

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Train of Thought: Serial Images from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features the work of five artists -- Hollis Frampton, Arnold Gassan, Peter Max Kandhola, Judy Natal, and Aaron Siskind -- all of whom generously donated either a series of prints or a portfolio of prints to the Light Work Collection. This exhibition provides us with an opportunity to investigate the artists' use of duplication and repetition to explore a single subject or idea. The images in this exhibition are produced using a variety of techniques, including photogravures, ektacolor, silver gelatin prints, and chromogenic prints.

Artist Showcase: Images by Brian Arnold
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition is comprised of recent acquisitions to the Light Work Collection that come from multiple series that Ithaca-based photographer Brian Arnold has been working on. He utilizes traditional black-and-white processes, remaining committed to what he refers to as "the alchemy of photography." All of his photographs are unique silver gelatin prints, toned with a combination of selenium, sulfur, and gold chloride. Arnold also creates unique limited edition books, two of which are included in this exhibition. He teaches photography and electronic arts at the New York State College of Art and Engineering at Alfred University.

16x16 Small Works Show
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Juried exhibition of selected works by local, national and international artists.

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Where I Live in Tuscany
Redhouse

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

An exhibition of landscapes by international artist Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna. The exhibition is curated by Daniela Mosko-Wozniak and signifies the first collaboration between the College of Visual and Performing Arts and the Redhouse gallery.

Where I Live in Tuscany shows recent landscapes, views from the artist's house revealing the unique beauty of the Italian landscape colored by the changing seasons. Kraczyna allows us a glimpse into his private world, a unique insight into his colorful palette, which marks all his series, whether he interprets themes of Icarus, Chinese Calligraphy, the Venice Carnival, or generally the labyrinths of life. The exhibit features the distinct multi-plate color etching technique that has earned Kraczyna notoriety not just in Italy, but also internationally.

Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. He teaches printmaking and art-on-paper classes for the studio arts program at Syracuse University's Florence Center. He lives and works in his adopted country of Italy from his studio in the house of the Italian Master Domenico Ghirlandaio, the teacher of Michelangelo. Born on the Polish-Russian border in 1940, Kraczyna immigrated to the United States after WWII. Kraczyna first traveled to Italy 1961 on a scholarship from RISD, and after completing a Master's degree, returned to live and work there, allowing the particular character of the country to inform his work. In his studio, overlooking the city of Florence, he teaches Master Classes for advanced students in his own multi-plate color etching technique, in addition to his summer workshops in Barga.

He is the founder and former director of Il Bisonte International School of Advanced Printmaking in Florence, where he taught the techniques of color etching, and is co-author of I Segni Incisi, the first Italian textbook on the history and techniques of etching. He has directed "Studio for Color Etching" workshops in Barga, Lucca, and at the International Symposium for Color Etching at Palacky University, Czech Republic. His work has been shown in more than 139 solo exhibitions in the United States, Italy, Germany, England, Mexico, Columbia, the Czech Republic, and Japan, and is represented in the Uffizi Print Collection.

Free parking is conveniently located directly behind the Redhouse building.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Show and sale of original fine art and crafts.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) 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.

Wrapping Up the Season
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring mixed media by Amy E. Bartell, monoprints and mixed media by Tara Hogan and works by the Syracuse Ceramic Guild.

Amy E. Bartell is showing a new series of mixed media works titled "Archeological Memoir." In her artist statement she describes the body of work as "a glimpse into memory and a quest for directional clues amidst the maps, signs, mysteries, scraps of writing and the compass of magnetic north." Bartell's artwork can be found in the collections of numerous individuals and organizations including Carleton College, California State University, Syracuse University and SUNY New York. She is known as a mural artist around the country and as the former Gallery Coordinator of Delavan Art Gallery. Currently, she is a faculty member of the art department at SUNY Oswego. Bartell's approach in her new series raises the question "What do we see when we scan the horizons of our lives? Where do we dig; does 'X' really mark the spot?"

Tara Hogan is exhibiting a collection of monoprints and mixed media from a new series of work titled "Conversations With Nature." The body of work conveys a dialogue between humans, animals and nature inspired by an interest in environmental consciousness. Hogan has been a graphic designer since earning her BFA in Illustration from Syracuse University eight years ago. Her art has been published in American Illustration, CMYK Magazine, Domino Magazine online and on the back of Bear Magazine. About her distinct style, Hogan explains, "I have a loving appreciation for nature's intricate beauty combined with modern urban style."

Syracuse Ceramic Guild's exhibition features ceramics by 10 its members. Selected works include eclectic ceramics by Lory and Walt Black, porcelain and stoneware by Sue Canizares, Raku sculpture by Dona Flaherty, Raku pottery by Dee Gage, abstract sculptural stoneware by Jane T. Gillett, ceramic story boxes by Amy Patricia Komar, "Biomorpheus," a body of abstract works by Ron Kalinoski, high-fired porcelain and stoneware by Bobbi Lamb and soda fired works by Steven Pilcher. The Syracuse Ceramic Guild, established in 1947, is a not-for-profit organization of potters dedicated to the promotion of awareness and understanding of the ceramic medium.

R. Bingham Morris: Contemporary Acrylic Paintings
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

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

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Genetic Self-Portrait: Works by Gary Schneider
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The show includes 55 photo-based works that South African-born, NYC-based artist Gary Schneider produced when he was offered a chance to create a new body of work inspired by the Human Genome Project (HGP). The HGP, a scientific race to uncover the mysteries of DNA, began formally in the 1990s and was completed in 2003. During that period, Schneider was able to collaborate with a number of scientists and was given access to advanced imaging systems from electron microscopes to x-ray machines.

The work in the exhibition ranges from images of his individual chromosomes made by a light microscope to panoramic dental x-rays. Schneider is known as a master photographic printer, and by combining his skill as a craftsman and selecting specimens for their aesthetic qualities, he moved beyond scientific descriptions to produce a personal portrait that asks us to consider how we are unique and where we stand on common ground.

Schneider had always been interested in alternative imaging techniques, and previous to this project he had been making images by imprinting his hands onto film emulsions. When he decided to include these prints along with the images he had been making with scientists, he realized that what he had been creating was a new kind of portrait. Ann Thomas, curator of photographs at the National Gallery of Canada, described it as a new approach that "challenges the traditional definition of the portrait, and revises our understanding of what it means to be revealed before the camera's lens."

By merging scientific accuracy with poetic resonance, Schneider has created a very personal illumination of how our individual identity is so closely linked to our broader understanding and use of the information contained in the human building blocks of our DNA. Through the personal exploration that went into creating genetic self-portrait, Schneider reveals that while we may always want to think of ourselves as more than the sum of our parts, our real promise might be found in looking at the 99 percent of ourselves we have in common with everyone else.

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The Day I Stole the Sun
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

As the culminating event to the Partnership for Better Education's yearlong Art, Literacy and Technology (ALT) program, the photographic and written work of 50 Henninger High School students is on display in this exhibit. The partnership's ALT program links art, literacy and technology through photography and poetry to improve the writing and reading skills of students in the Syracuse City School District (SCSD). Representatives from SU, the Verizon Foundation and the SCSD will be in attendance at the reception, which will include a guided exhibition walk-through for the public and selected student poetry readings.

The student work on display is the visual and narrative result of the students' opportunity for expression using photography and writing. Students strengthened both literacy skills and conceptual abilities as they explored ideas such as "stealing" something that could not be literally stolen. "The Day I Stole the Sun" was chosen from the students' writings as the title for the anthology of work on display. The photographs and poems by each of the students who participated in the project will also be showcased in a special, full-color catalog.

SU graduate students in the Creative Writing Program and upper-level undergraduates worked with the Henninger students in the 2007 spring and fall semesters, helping them connect picture making with writing and critical thinking. Photographer and VPA instructor Stephen Mahan and SU creative writing professor and poet Michael Burkard co-taught a special course for these 25 SU students that included instruction on how to best work with high school students. The program promoted an expansive use of photography and creative writing across curricula and disciplines, building on the skills that students naturally possess while attempting to improve ninth-graders' verbalization skills in relating images and events, and encouraging their creativity.

Christmas Around the World

Ste. Marie Among the Iroquois
106 Lake Dr., Liverpool

The museum will be filled with a magnificent collection of international Santas, while fully decorated trees will add to the holiday atmosphere celebrating the traditions of the season in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Russia and more. In addition, visitors will enjoy an enhanced display of model trains, and various local celebrities will be reading holiday stories for children. The program will feature nightly holiday entertainment with hot beverages available and the mission site may be open weather permitting. A gift shop offering unique holiday items will be open throughout the program.

OCC Flute Choir
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

1880 Ami Rivenc Music Box Performance
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular; $4 seniors; $2 children
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Folkus Project
Karen Savoca and Pete Heitzman

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

Delightfully improvisational performers from upstate New York are electrifying, unique, and always uplifting.

Dusty Pas'cal, The Barrigar Brothers, the Lisa Gentile Band

Price: $16
Hotel Syracuse Persian Terrace
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 646-228-6872.

Coyote Run
Redhouse

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Touring in support of their newly released sixth CD, Places, Celtic rock band Coyote Run will appear for one night only. The band headlines and performs in major Celtic festivals, clubs, pubs and concert halls throughout the United States. They have also toured Ireland and Scotland.

Native American tribes have long viewed the Coyote as the trickster/teacher. Filled with mischief, this animal guide leads the child within us all, and he helps us to tap into the joy of living.

His playful and irreverent attitude perfectly blends with the defiant and life-filled spirit of the Celtic people who immigrated and spread across our continent. Coyote Run's music is undeniably Celtic in influence, yet hops boundaries and stylistic borders with the ease and carefree nature of the trickster.

The Best Time of the Year!
Syracuse Chorale
Warren Ottey, conductor

St. Joseph the Worker Church
1001 Tulip St., Liverpool

The Syracuse Chorale heralds the beginning of the Christmas season in a sparkling concert, which opens with Georg Frideric Handel's Messiah setting of the angels' announcement of the birth of the Christ Child to the Bethlehem shepherds: the soprano recitatives and the brilliant chorus, Glory to God. The major work of the concert, Camille Saint-Saens' beautiful Christmas Oratorio follows, featuring not only majestic choral singing, but also solo arias, along with a duet, a trio, a quartet, and a quintet, accompanied on pipe organ by Ernest Camerota.

The second half of the concert features three brand new pieces and one centuries-old work sung by the Syracuse Chorale Chamber Singers. The Syracuse Chorale will present contemporary composer Glenn Rudolph's mystical I Came from Light, sung to his soundscape. Our audience will then be invited to join with the Chorale in the merry title medley of the concert, The Best Time of the Year - Music and Memories of Christmas, arranged by Keith Christopher. The concert's finale, I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Johnny Marks, in a new and powerful arrangement by Lloyd Larsen, will send audience and singers alike into the holidays with thoughtfulness and joy!

Holiday Concert
Syracuse Gay and Lesbian Chorus

Price: Regular: $15 in advance, $18 at the door; students/seniors: $12; children under 10: $7.50 in advance, $9 at the door; children under 3: free
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

The evening's festivities will include a post-concert reception and raffle. Tickets can be purchased in advance at the Lavender Inkwell Bookshoppe, or reserved online at www.syrglc.org.

The Actor's Nightmare and Moon Over Buffalo

Price: $10
Manlius Pebble Hill School
5300 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

For more information, phone 315-446-2452.

Grease and 101 Dalmations
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Fiddler on the Roof
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Brimming with wonderfully memorable songs (Tradition; Matchmaker, Matchmaker; If I Were a Rich Man;
Sunrise, Sunset; To Life) and folk-inspired choreography, Fiddler on the Roof is the touching tale of Tevye, his family and the tiny Russian town of Anatevka. Tradition is the fabric that holds body and soul, family and community together. But can tradition, however strong, withstand the strain of pressure from within and without. Fiddler is a classic of American musical theatre.

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Sorry! Wrong Chimney!
Appleseed Productions
Jon Wilson, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

A Yuletide Farce, by Jack Sharkey & Leo W. Sears.

David Tuttle is moonlighting as a department store Santa so that he can buy his wife a diamond bracelet for Christmas. He tells her he's working late at the office, but she finds out he isn't at the office. A suspected other woman from across the hall, hypnotism, the notorious Santa burglar Kris Kreigle and his gun toting fiancée, and a confused policeman add up to a rollicking tale that is hilarious Christmas entertainment.

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The Facts of Life: The Lost Episode
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

The lost episode in question is titled The Best Little Whorehouse in Peekskill. Budget cuts are threatening to force Mrs. Garrett to leave Eastland. Blair, Tottie, Natalie, and Jo will do anything to raise enough money so she can stay. Anything. Mature audiences.

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Footloose
The Talent Company
Bob Durkin, director

Price: $25 regular; $22 seniors/students; $16 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Based on the motion picture hit about a young man who comes to town and changes the lives of everyone there, Footloose is propelled by the rockin' rhythm of its Oscar-nominated Top 40 score, with music by Tom Snow and lyrics by Dean Pitchford. The soundtrack album spent 10 weeks at #1 on the Billboard charts featuring such popular '80s tunes as "Let's Hear It For The Boy," "Almost Paradise," "The Girl Gets Around," "Holding Out For A Hero," and the title song, "Footloose." When the film was released in 1984, there were at least 65 communities in the United States that had some sort of law on the books outlawing dancing. One such town was Elmore City, OK, the original inspiration for the unbelievable story of Footloose. Ever since the town's inception in 1861, dancing had been illegal. In 1980, when Elmore City teens protested the ordinance at City Hall, a firestorm of controversy followed; when it was all over, the town saw its first dance in over 100 years.

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Saturday, December 8, 2007

Syracuse Builds: After the Master Plan
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

The exhibition presents 13 architectural and landscape projects currently in development for the Syracuse University campus and the city of Syracuse, including a new residence hall on the main campus by Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems headquarters designed by Toshiko Mori Architect, and a community InfoCenter for the Near Westside Initiative project in Syracuse designed by Syracuse Architecture professors Tim Stenson and Scott Ruff.

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Off the Wall Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Unlike most gallery shows, this Associated Artists sale allows everyone the opportunity to purchase fine original artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall". A portion of each sale helps support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Please join us and enjoy the creations of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful chance to find one-of-a-kind gifts!

R. Bingham Morris: Contemporary Acrylic Paintings
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Wrapping Up the Season
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring mixed media by Amy E. Bartell, monoprints and mixed media by Tara Hogan and works by the Syracuse Ceramic Guild.

Amy E. Bartell is showing a new series of mixed media works titled "Archeological Memoir." In her artist statement she describes the body of work as "a glimpse into memory and a quest for directional clues amidst the maps, signs, mysteries, scraps of writing and the compass of magnetic north." Bartell's artwork can be found in the collections of numerous individuals and organizations including Carleton College, California State University, Syracuse University and SUNY New York. She is known as a mural artist around the country and as the former Gallery Coordinator of Delavan Art Gallery. Currently, she is a faculty member of the art department at SUNY Oswego. Bartell's approach in her new series raises the question "What do we see when we scan the horizons of our lives? Where do we dig; does 'X' really mark the spot?"

Tara Hogan is exhibiting a collection of monoprints and mixed media from a new series of work titled "Conversations With Nature." The body of work conveys a dialogue between humans, animals and nature inspired by an interest in environmental consciousness. Hogan has been a graphic designer since earning her BFA in Illustration from Syracuse University eight years ago. Her art has been published in American Illustration, CMYK Magazine, Domino Magazine online and on the back of Bear Magazine. About her distinct style, Hogan explains, "I have a loving appreciation for nature's intricate beauty combined with modern urban style."

Syracuse Ceramic Guild's exhibition features ceramics by 10 its members. Selected works include eclectic ceramics by Lory and Walt Black, porcelain and stoneware by Sue Canizares, Raku sculpture by Dona Flaherty, Raku pottery by Dee Gage, abstract sculptural stoneware by Jane T. Gillett, ceramic story boxes by Amy Patricia Komar, "Biomorpheus," a body of abstract works by Ron Kalinoski, high-fired porcelain and stoneware by Bobbi Lamb and soda fired works by Steven Pilcher. The Syracuse Ceramic Guild, established in 1947, is a not-for-profit organization of potters dedicated to the promotion of awareness and understanding of the ceramic medium.

Paying Attention
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Pastels and oils by Nicora Gangi and glass works by Alex Andreani.

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Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular; $4 seniors; $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Display of more than 40 gingerbread creations.

Holiday Festival of Trees
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $7 regular; $5 seniors/students 18 and under; free for children 5 and under
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Museum of Art's Holiday Festival of Trees is a Syracuse tradition that delights participants with hundreds of decorated trees, wreaths and unique displays. The trees are always different, surprising, and beautiful. The Everson is grateful year after year for the support community members, business and organizations show in donating trees and other items. This year will be sure to provide new surprises and bring out the holiday spirit in the whole community.

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

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

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

16x16 Small Works Show
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Juried exhibition of selected works by local, national and international artists.

Gullah Lifestyles: A Culture Under Attack and Confederate Currency: The Color of Money
Community Folk Art Center

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

Paintings by John W. Jones and Leroy Campbell

The Art of George Mayocole
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Suggested donation $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

This exhibition features vibrant, abstract, mixed media works on paper by this New York City-based artist.

World AIDS Day Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

In her photographic series "Camp Heartland," Katja Heinemann documents children at the Willow River, Minnesota camp. The camp is for children who are affected by HIV and AIDS. Children attending the camp are infected with HIV or have family members who are living with the virus. Through photographs and interviews with the children, Heinemann presents a portrait of strength and courage in the struggle against HIV/AIDS.

Stella Washington's short film Your Hands presents an overview of HIV/AIDS, in particular how it affects the African American community. Through interviews with women both HIV positive and negative, along with statistics relating to HIV/AIDS and African American women, Washington provides a foundation upon which to stimulate conversation and awareness.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Show and sale of original fine art and crafts.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) 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.

The Day I Stole the Sun
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

As the culminating event to the Partnership for Better Education's yearlong Art, Literacy and Technology (ALT) program, the photographic and written work of 50 Henninger High School students is on display in this exhibit. The partnership's ALT program links art, literacy and technology through photography and poetry to improve the writing and reading skills of students in the Syracuse City School District (SCSD). Representatives from SU, the Verizon Foundation and the SCSD will be in attendance at the reception, which will include a guided exhibition walk-through for the public and selected student poetry readings.

The student work on display is the visual and narrative result of the students' opportunity for expression using photography and writing. Students strengthened both literacy skills and conceptual abilities as they explored ideas such as "stealing" something that could not be literally stolen. "The Day I Stole the Sun" was chosen from the students' writings as the title for the anthology of work on display. The photographs and poems by each of the students who participated in the project will also be showcased in a special, full-color catalog.

SU graduate students in the Creative Writing Program and upper-level undergraduates worked with the Henninger students in the 2007 spring and fall semesters, helping them connect picture making with writing and critical thinking. Photographer and VPA instructor Stephen Mahan and SU creative writing professor and poet Michael Burkard co-taught a special course for these 25 SU students that included instruction on how to best work with high school students. The program promoted an expansive use of photography and creative writing across curricula and disciplines, building on the skills that students naturally possess while attempting to improve ninth-graders' verbalization skills in relating images and events, and encouraging their creativity.

Genetic Self-Portrait: Works by Gary Schneider
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The show includes 55 photo-based works that South African-born, NYC-based artist Gary Schneider produced when he was offered a chance to create a new body of work inspired by the Human Genome Project (HGP). The HGP, a scientific race to uncover the mysteries of DNA, began formally in the 1990s and was completed in 2003. During that period, Schneider was able to collaborate with a number of scientists and was given access to advanced imaging systems from electron microscopes to x-ray machines.

The work in the exhibition ranges from images of his individual chromosomes made by a light microscope to panoramic dental x-rays. Schneider is known as a master photographic printer, and by combining his skill as a craftsman and selecting specimens for their aesthetic qualities, he moved beyond scientific descriptions to produce a personal portrait that asks us to consider how we are unique and where we stand on common ground.

Schneider had always been interested in alternative imaging techniques, and previous to this project he had been making images by imprinting his hands onto film emulsions. When he decided to include these prints along with the images he had been making with scientists, he realized that what he had been creating was a new kind of portrait. Ann Thomas, curator of photographs at the National Gallery of Canada, described it as a new approach that "challenges the traditional definition of the portrait, and revises our understanding of what it means to be revealed before the camera's lens."

By merging scientific accuracy with poetic resonance, Schneider has created a very personal illumination of how our individual identity is so closely linked to our broader understanding and use of the information contained in the human building blocks of our DNA. Through the personal exploration that went into creating genetic self-portrait, Schneider reveals that while we may always want to think of ourselves as more than the sum of our parts, our real promise might be found in looking at the 99 percent of ourselves we have in common with everyone else.

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Christmas Around the World

Ste. Marie Among the Iroquois
106 Lake Dr., Liverpool

The museum will be filled with a magnificent collection of international Santas, while fully decorated trees will add to the holiday atmosphere celebrating the traditions of the season in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Russia and more. In addition, visitors will enjoy an enhanced display of model trains, and various local celebrities will be reading holiday stories for children. The program will feature nightly holiday entertainment with hot beverages available and the mission site may be open weather permitting. A gift shop offering unique holiday items will be open throughout the program.

The Adventures of Rudolph
Center of Ballet and Dance Arts

Price: $9, $13.50, $18
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The ballet tells the story of how Rudolph and friends save Christmas.

Holiday Concert
Skaneateles Community Band

Price: Free
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

For more information, phone 315-685-0552.

Brenda Lee Christmas Show

Price: $45.50, $39.50, $29.50
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-475-7980.

Tan Dun's Ghost Opera
LeMoyne College
Flux String Quartet
Featuring Wu Man, pipa

Price: $15 regular; $10 seniors; students free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The world's most prominent pipa (a kind of Chinese lute) player, Wu Man has traveled the world as a soloist and member of Yo-Yo Ma's exclusive Silk Road Project. Tan Dun's evocate and powerful Ghost Opera, written for Wu Man and the Kronos Quartet, will receive its CNY premiere this evening with Ms. Wu and a string quartet led by Felix Fan. Tan Dun is the Oscar-winning composer of the soundtrack to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as well as the music director of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing.

Classic Christmas
Liverpool Community Chorus

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

Holiday Concert
Syracuse Gay and Lesbian Chorus

Price: Regular: $15 in advance, $18 at the door; students/seniors: $12; children under 10: $7.50 in advance, $9 at the door; children under 3: free
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

The evening's festivities will include a post-concert reception and raffle. Tickets can be purchased in advance at the Lavender Inkwell Bookshoppe, or reserved online at www.syrglc.org.

Second Saturday Series: Dan Duggan and Peggy Lynn
Westcott Community Center

Price: $12; $10 for WCC members
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Dan Duggan, nationally touring performer and teacher, is rapidly being acknowledged as one of the finest dulcimer players and composers in the country. As recipient of the prestigious National Hammered Dulcimer Championship, Dan's accomplishment, though based on technical merit, is even more considerable as he is the first winner to have performed all original compositions. Although pioneering innovative compositional work for the dulcimer, Dan's renditions of traditional Irish and American tunes reflect his study and understanding of their original context. Whether re-creating 18th century harp pieces or vibrant 19th century dance tunes, Dan has engaged audiences nationwide in an excursion of musical styles and moods.

Peggy Lynn, singer, songwriter and arts educator brings an infectious enthusiasm to all her endeavors. With a sultry, yet powerful alto voice, Peggy gives a clear message of the passion underlying her songs. While her style and range give meaning and feeling to all her work, her most powerful message, her passion, is for the contributions and burdens of women. Peggy ranges from folksy to blues with equal ease, alone or harmonizing with others.

Stone Canoe Writers Series
Delavan Art Gallery
Featuring Michael Burkard and Chris Kennedy

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Michael Burkard was a 2006 Stone Canoe Poetry Editor and faculty member in the Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University. Chris Kennedy is the director of the MFA program in creative writing at Syracuse University and the author of full-length collections of poetry.

Grandfather Frost's Stories of Russia
Open Hand Theater

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

Baba Yaga and her mischievous cat spin a timeless folk story of winter magic in this lively performance.

Sleeping Beauty
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive version of the children's classic.

Grease and 101 Dalmations
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Fiddler on the Roof
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Brimming with wonderfully memorable songs (Tradition; Matchmaker, Matchmaker; If I Were a Rich Man;
Sunrise, Sunset; To Life) and folk-inspired choreography, Fiddler on the Roof is the touching tale of Tevye, his family and the tiny Russian town of Anatevka. Tradition is the fabric that holds body and soul, family and community together. But can tradition, however strong, withstand the strain of pressure from within and without. Fiddler is a classic of American musical theatre.

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The Actor's Nightmare and Moon Over Buffalo

Price: $10
Manlius Pebble Hill School
5300 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

For more information, phone 315-446-2452.

Grease and 101 Dalmations
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Fiddler on the Roof
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Brimming with wonderfully memorable songs (Tradition; Matchmaker, Matchmaker; If I Were a Rich Man;
Sunrise, Sunset; To Life) and folk-inspired choreography, Fiddler on the Roof is the touching tale of Tevye, his family and the tiny Russian town of Anatevka. Tradition is the fabric that holds body and soul, family and community together. But can tradition, however strong, withstand the strain of pressure from within and without. Fiddler is a classic of American musical theatre.

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Sorry! Wrong Chimney!
Appleseed Productions
Jon Wilson, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

A Yuletide Farce, by Jack Sharkey & Leo W. Sears.

David Tuttle is moonlighting as a department store Santa so that he can buy his wife a diamond bracelet for Christmas. He tells her he's working late at the office, but she finds out he isn't at the office. A suspected other woman from across the hall, hypnotism, the notorious Santa burglar Kris Kreigle and his gun toting fiancée, and a confused policeman add up to a rollicking tale that is hilarious Christmas entertainment.

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The Facts of Life: The Lost Episode
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

The lost episode in question is titled The Best Little Whorehouse in Peekskill. Budget cuts are threatening to force Mrs. Garrett to leave Eastland. Blair, Tottie, Natalie, and Jo will do anything to raise enough money so she can stay. Anything. Mature audiences.

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Footloose
The Talent Company
Bob Durkin, director

Price: $25 regular; $22 seniors/students; $16 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Based on the motion picture hit about a young man who comes to town and changes the lives of everyone there, Footloose is propelled by the rockin' rhythm of its Oscar-nominated Top 40 score, with music by Tom Snow and lyrics by Dean Pitchford. The soundtrack album spent 10 weeks at #1 on the Billboard charts featuring such popular '80s tunes as "Let's Hear It For The Boy," "Almost Paradise," "The Girl Gets Around," "Holding Out For A Hero," and the title song, "Footloose." When the film was released in 1984, there were at least 65 communities in the United States that had some sort of law on the books outlawing dancing. One such town was Elmore City, OK, the original inspiration for the unbelievable story of Footloose. Ever since the town's inception in 1861, dancing had been illegal. In 1980, when Elmore City teens protested the ordinance at City Hall, a firestorm of controversy followed; when it was all over, the town saw its first dance in over 100 years.

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The Facts of Life: The Lost Episode
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

The lost episode in question is titled The Best Little Whorehouse in Peekskill. Budget cuts are threatening to force Mrs. Garrett to leave Eastland. Blair, Tottie, Natalie, and Jo will do anything to raise enough money so she can stay. Anything. Mature audiences.

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Sunday, December 9, 2007

Syracuse Builds: After the Master Plan
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

The exhibition presents 13 architectural and landscape projects currently in development for the Syracuse University campus and the city of Syracuse, including a new residence hall on the main campus by Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems headquarters designed by Toshiko Mori Architect, and a community InfoCenter for the Near Westside Initiative project in Syracuse designed by Syracuse Architecture professors Tim Stenson and Scott Ruff.

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular; $4 seniors; $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Display of more than 40 gingerbread creations.

Holiday Festival of Trees
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $7 regular; $5 seniors/students 18 and under; free for children 5 and under
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Museum of Art's Holiday Festival of Trees is a Syracuse tradition that delights participants with hundreds of decorated trees, wreaths and unique displays. The trees are always different, surprising, and beautiful. The Everson is grateful year after year for the support community members, business and organizations show in donating trees and other items. This year will be sure to provide new surprises and bring out the holiday spirit in the whole community.

Train of Thought: Serial Images from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features the work of five artists -- Hollis Frampton, Arnold Gassan, Peter Max Kandhola, Judy Natal, and Aaron Siskind -- all of whom generously donated either a series of prints or a portfolio of prints to the Light Work Collection. This exhibition provides us with an opportunity to investigate the artists' use of duplication and repetition to explore a single subject or idea. The images in this exhibition are produced using a variety of techniques, including photogravures, ektacolor, silver gelatin prints, and chromogenic prints.

Angelika Rinnhofer: Sammelsurium
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, featuring the work of German-born artist Angelika Rinnhofer, will feature her large-format color prints from three related series, Menschenkunde, Felsenfest, and Seelensucht. She describes her series Menschenkunde as portraits that combine facts, beauty, and irony in a Renaissance-style. Rinnhofer's series Felsenfest continues the same aesthetics in its re-interpretations of martyrs and saints into a modern context. Rinnhofer remembers being frightened as a child when viewing the horrific images of tortured saints commonly found in churches in her hometown Nürnberg, Germany. She now casts a critical eye, juxtaposing religious figures with modern-looking scientists. Seelensucht takes Rinnhofer back to the traditional single-figure portrait, also capturing the themes of martyrs.

Angelika lives in Beacon, NY. She is a commercial photographer and artist. She is the recipient of a Kodak European Gold Award and received a fellowship in photography from the Dutchess County Arts Council. She participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2005.

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Artist Showcase: Images by Brian Arnold
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition is comprised of recent acquisitions to the Light Work Collection that come from multiple series that Ithaca-based photographer Brian Arnold has been working on. He utilizes traditional black-and-white processes, remaining committed to what he refers to as "the alchemy of photography." All of his photographs are unique silver gelatin prints, toned with a combination of selenium, sulfur, and gold chloride. Arnold also creates unique limited edition books, two of which are included in this exhibition. He teaches photography and electronic arts at the New York State College of Art and Engineering at Alfred University.

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) 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.

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

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

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Off the Wall Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Unlike most gallery shows, this Associated Artists sale allows everyone the opportunity to purchase fine original artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall". A portion of each sale helps support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Please join us and enjoy the creations of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful chance to find one-of-a-kind gifts!

Dancin' Through the Holidays
Dance Arts Studio and Center of Movement Studies

Price: $8
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-454-0054.

Sunday Musicale: Sentimental Serenade
Fayetteville Free Library

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

OCC Winter Concert: Jazz, Latin Ensembles and OCC Singers
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Handel's Messiah
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Syracuse University Oratorio Society
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Janet Brown, soprano; Quinn Patrick, mezzo-soprano; Robert Allen, tenor; Jimi James, baritone

Most Holy Rosary Church
111 Roberts Ave., Syracuse

The Jazzuits Vocal Jazz Ensemble
LeMoyne College
Featuring Homer High School Vocal Jazz Ensemble

Price: Free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A side-by-side concert featuring classic vocal jazz tunes and arrangements.

Organ Recital
Malmgren Concert Series
Featuring Hector Olivera

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The program will include music by Bach, Franck and Lemare, as well as improvisations on well-known holiday themes chosen by the audience.

Hector Organist Olivera has performed with many orchestras, including the Dallas Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra and the Amsterdam Baroque Ensemble. As a soloist, he has performed at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Royal Albert Hall in London and the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, Calif.

Virtuosic Vivaldi
NYS Baroque

Price: $20 regular, $15 student/senior
Church of the Saviour
437 James St., Syracuse

Vivaldi's Four Seasons and other Venetian delights.

TK99 Sound Check
Redhouse

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

Sound check for December will feature Kh'Mi and Rick Balestra.

Charles Dickens and Friends
Onondaga Historical Association

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

On Sunday, Dec. 9, from 2-4 p.m., the Onondaga Historical Association is offering a special treat for the holiday season. Those stopping at the OHA Museum will have the opportunity to meet a special visitor from the past, Charles Dickens, whose free presentation will help get patrons in the holiday spirit. At the same time, over half a dozen more contemporary authors, whose books are published by Syracuse University Press, will be present to sign recent books focusing on upstate New York history.

Copies will be available through the OHA Museum Gift Shop that day with a special one-day discount. Also, refreshments will be served by none other than Mrs. Bob Cratchit, and visitors will have a chance to participate in a raffle for a basket of special holiday surprises.

Dickens, portrayed by professional actor Scott Peal, is not unknown in Syracuse, although he last visited almost 140 years ago. In 1868, the famous English author stopped in the Salt City to tender readings from his The Pickwick Papers and A Christmas Carol. He performed on the stage of Clinton Square's Wieting Hall, a space that predated the famous opera house. Local reviewers were surprised by his small stature but generally complimented his "power of expression."

Dickens, however, had the misfortune of arriving in Syracuse in early March. He reported that Syracuse was "a very grim place in a heavy thaw." Nevertheless, he was pleased with the attendance and ticket sales, which encouraged him for a possible return engagement. It has taken him quite a long time, but Dickens has finally been able to work Syracuse back into his busy lecturing schedule.

At the OHA Museum, he will offer amusing anecdotes from his life, and participants will enjoy his wit and wisdom as he offers a glimpse of Victorian life and its customs. He will also offer a few lessons and activities in the use of one's faculties of observation and imagination, important talents for a successful writer. And participants will enjoy listening to Dickens read excerpts from A Christmas Carol.

Following his presentations, Dickens will invite everyone to visit with several other authors who will have gathered at the OHA Museum for a historical book signing. Books by those authors present can be purchased that day at the OHA Museum Gift Shop.

Syracuse University Press authors scheduled to be at the OHA Museum that afternoon will be:
Dennis Connors Crossroad in Time: An Illustrated History of Syracuse
Robert Bogdan Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People's Photography and Adirondack Vernacular: The Photography of Henry M. Beach
Milton Sernett Abolition's Axe: Beriah Green, Oneida Institute and the Black Freedom Struggle and North Star Country: Upstate New York & The Crusade for African American Freedom
Jim Pula Ethnic Utica and New York Mills: The Evolution of a Village
Anthony Wonderley Oneida Iroquois: Folklore, Myth and History
Christopher Vecsey The Iroquois and Their Neighbors and Iroquois Land Claims
John Robert Greene The Hill: An Illustrated Biography of Syracuse University 1870-Present, Syracuse University: The Tolley Years and Syracuse University: The Eggers Years

Sorry! Wrong Chimney!
Appleseed Productions
Jon Wilson, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

A Yuletide Farce, by Jack Sharkey & Leo W. Sears.

David Tuttle is moonlighting as a department store Santa so that he can buy his wife a diamond bracelet for Christmas. He tells her he's working late at the office, but she finds out he isn't at the office. A suspected other woman from across the hall, hypnotism, the notorious Santa burglar Kris Kreigle and his gun toting fiancée, and a confused policeman add up to a rollicking tale that is hilarious Christmas entertainment.

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The Actor's Nightmare and Moon Over Buffalo

Price: $10
Manlius Pebble Hill School
5300 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

For more information, phone 315-446-2452.

The Facts of Life: The Lost Episode
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

The lost episode in question is titled The Best Little Whorehouse in Peekskill. Budget cuts are threatening to force Mrs. Garrett to leave Eastland. Blair, Tottie, Natalie, and Jo will do anything to raise enough money so she can stay. Anything. Mature audiences.

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Fiddler on the Roof
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Brimming with wonderfully memorable songs (Tradition; Matchmaker, Matchmaker; If I Were a Rich Man;
Sunrise, Sunset; To Life) and folk-inspired choreography, Fiddler on the Roof is the touching tale of Tevye, his family and the tiny Russian town of Anatevka. Tradition is the fabric that holds body and soul, family and community together. But can tradition, however strong, withstand the strain of pressure from within and without. Fiddler is a classic of American musical theatre.

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Footloose
The Talent Company
Bob Durkin, director

Price: $25 regular; $22 seniors/students; $16 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Based on the motion picture hit about a young man who comes to town and changes the lives of everyone there, Footloose is propelled by the rockin' rhythm of its Oscar-nominated Top 40 score, with music by Tom Snow and lyrics by Dean Pitchford. The soundtrack album spent 10 weeks at #1 on the Billboard charts featuring such popular '80s tunes as "Let's Hear It For The Boy," "Almost Paradise," "The Girl Gets Around," "Holding Out For A Hero," and the title song, "Footloose." When the film was released in 1984, there were at least 65 communities in the United States that had some sort of law on the books outlawing dancing. One such town was Elmore City, OK, the original inspiration for the unbelievable story of Footloose. Ever since the town's inception in 1861, dancing had been illegal. In 1980, when Elmore City teens protested the ordinance at City Hall, a firestorm of controversy followed; when it was all over, the town saw its first dance in over 100 years.

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Monday, December 10, 2007

Syracuse Builds: After the Master Plan
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

The exhibition presents 13 architectural and landscape projects currently in development for the Syracuse University campus and the city of Syracuse, including a new residence hall on the main campus by Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems headquarters designed by Toshiko Mori Architect, and a community InfoCenter for the Near Westside Initiative project in Syracuse designed by Syracuse Architecture professors Tim Stenson and Scott Ruff.

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A mixed media show with works from OCC's own faculty members.

Tango
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Tango, a large format folio published by Iris Editions in New York (1991) with eight intaglio prints by Nancy Graves and 13 pages of text by Pedro Cuperman that gaze at the aesthetics of this Latin American dance.

Tango proposes an evening of music, dance, and food transposed into videoa sort of "performance" projected into the space of the gallery where audience and art become intertwined in the field of representation.

"Graves conceived of the prints in the folio as a continued exploration of pattern in nature and as a tonal study of black and white," writes Thomas Padon in his book, Nancy Graves, Excavations in Print A Catalogue Raisonné (1996). "More than once the artist has asserted, 'There is nothing more challenging and meaningful than to make prints in black and white.' For an admitted colorist, it is ironic that the nine prints Graves has made in black and white are among her most powerful." The cryptic titles of the prints in the folio were selected by Graves from Cuperman's text for Tango. The poet speaks of the dance as a gradually unfolding ritual, stating near the conclusion, "Tango helps you find your own levels of proximity."

The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the execution for murder of two Italian anarchist laborers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a selection of period ephemera issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee together with a plethora of books associated with the trial that have been published in the intervening years by Paul Avrich, Felix Frankfurter, and Eugene Lyons, among others. The exhibit features artistic expressions (cartoons, illustrations, novels, plays, poems, songs and music) inspired by the trial, including the work of Maxwell Anderson, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Howard Fast, Woodie Guthrie, William Gropper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rockwell Kent, Katherine Anne Porter, Pete Seeger, and Upton Sinclair. The story of the Sacco and Vanzetti mural by Ben Shahn on the east wall of H. B. Crouse will also be explored.

A Gala Holiday Art Exhibit
Westcott Community Center

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

Mary Stebbins Taitt: digital paintings
John "Jaw's" McGrath: pen and ink landscapes
Karen Tashkovski: paper collage
Amber Blanding: glass work
Mary Fragapane: pastel paintings and prints
Mick Mather: photographs
Kirsten Moore: acrylic and oil paintings
John Swank: photography

Off the Wall Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Unlike most gallery shows, this Associated Artists sale allows everyone the opportunity to purchase fine original artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall". A portion of each sale helps support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Please join us and enjoy the creations of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful chance to find one-of-a-kind gifts!

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular; $4 seniors; $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Display of more than 40 gingerbread creations.

Angelika Rinnhofer: Sammelsurium
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, featuring the work of German-born artist Angelika Rinnhofer, will feature her large-format color prints from three related series, Menschenkunde, Felsenfest, and Seelensucht. She describes her series Menschenkunde as portraits that combine facts, beauty, and irony in a Renaissance-style. Rinnhofer's series Felsenfest continues the same aesthetics in its re-interpretations of martyrs and saints into a modern context. Rinnhofer remembers being frightened as a child when viewing the horrific images of tortured saints commonly found in churches in her hometown Nürnberg, Germany. She now casts a critical eye, juxtaposing religious figures with modern-looking scientists. Seelensucht takes Rinnhofer back to the traditional single-figure portrait, also capturing the themes of martyrs.

Angelika lives in Beacon, NY. She is a commercial photographer and artist. She is the recipient of a Kodak European Gold Award and received a fellowship in photography from the Dutchess County Arts Council. She participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2005.

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Train of Thought: Serial Images from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features the work of five artists -- Hollis Frampton, Arnold Gassan, Peter Max Kandhola, Judy Natal, and Aaron Siskind -- all of whom generously donated either a series of prints or a portfolio of prints to the Light Work Collection. This exhibition provides us with an opportunity to investigate the artists' use of duplication and repetition to explore a single subject or idea. The images in this exhibition are produced using a variety of techniques, including photogravures, ektacolor, silver gelatin prints, and chromogenic prints.

Artist Showcase: Images by Brian Arnold
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition is comprised of recent acquisitions to the Light Work Collection that come from multiple series that Ithaca-based photographer Brian Arnold has been working on. He utilizes traditional black-and-white processes, remaining committed to what he refers to as "the alchemy of photography." All of his photographs are unique silver gelatin prints, toned with a combination of selenium, sulfur, and gold chloride. Arnold also creates unique limited edition books, two of which are included in this exhibition. He teaches photography and electronic arts at the New York State College of Art and Engineering at Alfred University.

16x16 Small Works Show
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Juried exhibition of selected works by local, national and international artists.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Show and sale of original fine art and crafts.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Plug In
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The Redhouse and the Department of Transmedia at Syracuse University are pleased to present "PLUG IN"  a group exhibition by BFA students in the Computer Art program at Syracuse University.

"PLUG IN" is a exhibition of numerous art works that incorporate computer and/or electronic technology in the process of creation. On display will be digital illustration, interactive art, motion graphics, experimental video and computer animation. Artists presented by Visiting Assistant Professor Sean Hovendick include Bleu Bailey, George Brauneck, Taryn Bzdick, Zachary Fisher, Scott Jones, Kyle Koontz, Tyler Main, Luke Mazza, Joshua Perry, Zachary Rubins, Andrew Scully, Ramon Sosa and Scott Yapp.

Young Lions of Central New York

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Two sets of swingin' big band music performed by a group of dedicated high school musicians representing many of the outstanding music programs in the area.

Happy Go Lucky Local by Duke Ellington
Portrait of Louis Armstrong by Duke Ellington
Jack the Bear by Duke Ellington
Isfahan by Billy Strayhorn
V.I.P.'s Boogie by Duke Ellington
In Walked Horace by J.J. Johnson
Orilla Del Mar by Jim Martin
Whodunnit? by Gordon Goodwin
Back at the Flat by Mike Pendowski

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Syracuse Builds: After the Master Plan
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

The exhibition presents 13 architectural and landscape projects currently in development for the Syracuse University campus and the city of Syracuse, including a new residence hall on the main campus by Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems headquarters designed by Toshiko Mori Architect, and a community InfoCenter for the Near Westside Initiative project in Syracuse designed by Syracuse Architecture professors Tim Stenson and Scott Ruff.

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A mixed media show with works from OCC's own faculty members.

Tango
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Tango, a large format folio published by Iris Editions in New York (1991) with eight intaglio prints by Nancy Graves and 13 pages of text by Pedro Cuperman that gaze at the aesthetics of this Latin American dance.

Tango proposes an evening of music, dance, and food transposed into videoa sort of "performance" projected into the space of the gallery where audience and art become intertwined in the field of representation.

"Graves conceived of the prints in the folio as a continued exploration of pattern in nature and as a tonal study of black and white," writes Thomas Padon in his book, Nancy Graves, Excavations in Print A Catalogue Raisonné (1996). "More than once the artist has asserted, 'There is nothing more challenging and meaningful than to make prints in black and white.' For an admitted colorist, it is ironic that the nine prints Graves has made in black and white are among her most powerful." The cryptic titles of the prints in the folio were selected by Graves from Cuperman's text for Tango. The poet speaks of the dance as a gradually unfolding ritual, stating near the conclusion, "Tango helps you find your own levels of proximity."

The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the execution for murder of two Italian anarchist laborers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a selection of period ephemera issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee together with a plethora of books associated with the trial that have been published in the intervening years by Paul Avrich, Felix Frankfurter, and Eugene Lyons, among others. The exhibit features artistic expressions (cartoons, illustrations, novels, plays, poems, songs and music) inspired by the trial, including the work of Maxwell Anderson, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Howard Fast, Woodie Guthrie, William Gropper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rockwell Kent, Katherine Anne Porter, Pete Seeger, and Upton Sinclair. The story of the Sacco and Vanzetti mural by Ben Shahn on the east wall of H. B. Crouse will also be explored.

A Gala Holiday Art Exhibit
Westcott Community Center

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

Mary Stebbins Taitt: digital paintings
John "Jaw's" McGrath: pen and ink landscapes
Karen Tashkovski: paper collage
Amber Blanding: glass work
Mary Fragapane: pastel paintings and prints
Mick Mather: photographs
Kirsten Moore: acrylic and oil paintings
John Swank: photography

Paying Attention
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Pastels and oils by Nicora Gangi and glass works by Alex Andreani.

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Off the Wall Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Unlike most gallery shows, this Associated Artists sale allows everyone the opportunity to purchase fine original artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall". A portion of each sale helps support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Please join us and enjoy the creations of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful chance to find one-of-a-kind gifts!

World AIDS Day Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

In her photographic series "Camp Heartland," Katja Heinemann documents children at the Willow River, Minnesota camp. The camp is for children who are affected by HIV and AIDS. Children attending the camp are infected with HIV or have family members who are living with the virus. Through photographs and interviews with the children, Heinemann presents a portrait of strength and courage in the struggle against HIV/AIDS.

Stella Washington's short film Your Hands presents an overview of HIV/AIDS, in particular how it affects the African American community. Through interviews with women both HIV positive and negative, along with statistics relating to HIV/AIDS and African American women, Washington provides a foundation upon which to stimulate conversation and awareness.

The Art of George Mayocole
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Suggested donation $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

This exhibition features vibrant, abstract, mixed media works on paper by this New York City-based artist.

Gullah Lifestyles: A Culture Under Attack and Confederate Currency: The Color of Money
Community Folk Art Center

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

Paintings by John W. Jones and Leroy Campbell

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular; $4 seniors; $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Display of more than 40 gingerbread creations.

Train of Thought: Serial Images from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features the work of five artists -- Hollis Frampton, Arnold Gassan, Peter Max Kandhola, Judy Natal, and Aaron Siskind -- all of whom generously donated either a series of prints or a portfolio of prints to the Light Work Collection. This exhibition provides us with an opportunity to investigate the artists' use of duplication and repetition to explore a single subject or idea. The images in this exhibition are produced using a variety of techniques, including photogravures, ektacolor, silver gelatin prints, and chromogenic prints.

Angelika Rinnhofer: Sammelsurium
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, featuring the work of German-born artist Angelika Rinnhofer, will feature her large-format color prints from three related series, Menschenkunde, Felsenfest, and Seelensucht. She describes her series Menschenkunde as portraits that combine facts, beauty, and irony in a Renaissance-style. Rinnhofer's series Felsenfest continues the same aesthetics in its re-interpretations of martyrs and saints into a modern context. Rinnhofer remembers being frightened as a child when viewing the horrific images of tortured saints commonly found in churches in her hometown Nürnberg, Germany. She now casts a critical eye, juxtaposing religious figures with modern-looking scientists. Seelensucht takes Rinnhofer back to the traditional single-figure portrait, also capturing the themes of martyrs.

Angelika lives in Beacon, NY. She is a commercial photographer and artist. She is the recipient of a Kodak European Gold Award and received a fellowship in photography from the Dutchess County Arts Council. She participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2005.

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Artist Showcase: Images by Brian Arnold
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition is comprised of recent acquisitions to the Light Work Collection that come from multiple series that Ithaca-based photographer Brian Arnold has been working on. He utilizes traditional black-and-white processes, remaining committed to what he refers to as "the alchemy of photography." All of his photographs are unique silver gelatin prints, toned with a combination of selenium, sulfur, and gold chloride. Arnold also creates unique limited edition books, two of which are included in this exhibition. He teaches photography and electronic arts at the New York State College of Art and Engineering at Alfred University.

16x16 Small Works Show
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Juried exhibition of selected works by local, national and international artists.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Show and sale of original fine art and crafts.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) 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.

R. Bingham Morris: Contemporary Acrylic Paintings
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Wrapping Up the Season
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring mixed media by Amy E. Bartell, monoprints and mixed media by Tara Hogan and works by the Syracuse Ceramic Guild.

Amy E. Bartell is showing a new series of mixed media works titled "Archeological Memoir." In her artist statement she describes the body of work as "a glimpse into memory and a quest for directional clues amidst the maps, signs, mysteries, scraps of writing and the compass of magnetic north." Bartell's artwork can be found in the collections of numerous individuals and organizations including Carleton College, California State University, Syracuse University and SUNY New York. She is known as a mural artist around the country and as the former Gallery Coordinator of Delavan Art Gallery. Currently, she is a faculty member of the art department at SUNY Oswego. Bartell's approach in her new series raises the question "What do we see when we scan the horizons of our lives? Where do we dig; does 'X' really mark the spot?"

Tara Hogan is exhibiting a collection of monoprints and mixed media from a new series of work titled "Conversations With Nature." The body of work conveys a dialogue between humans, animals and nature inspired by an interest in environmental consciousness. Hogan has been a graphic designer since earning her BFA in Illustration from Syracuse University eight years ago. Her art has been published in American Illustration, CMYK Magazine, Domino Magazine online and on the back of Bear Magazine. About her distinct style, Hogan explains, "I have a loving appreciation for nature's intricate beauty combined with modern urban style."

Syracuse Ceramic Guild's exhibition features ceramics by 10 its members. Selected works include eclectic ceramics by Lory and Walt Black, porcelain and stoneware by Sue Canizares, Raku sculpture by Dona Flaherty, Raku pottery by Dee Gage, abstract sculptural stoneware by Jane T. Gillett, ceramic story boxes by Amy Patricia Komar, "Biomorpheus," a body of abstract works by Ron Kalinoski, high-fired porcelain and stoneware by Bobbi Lamb and soda fired works by Steven Pilcher. The Syracuse Ceramic Guild, established in 1947, is a not-for-profit organization of potters dedicated to the promotion of awareness and understanding of the ceramic medium.

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

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

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Plug In
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The Redhouse and the Department of Transmedia at Syracuse University are pleased to present "PLUG IN"  a group exhibition by BFA students in the Computer Art program at Syracuse University.

"PLUG IN" is a exhibition of numerous art works that incorporate computer and/or electronic technology in the process of creation. On display will be digital illustration, interactive art, motion graphics, experimental video and computer animation. Artists presented by Visiting Assistant Professor Sean Hovendick include Bleu Bailey, George Brauneck, Taryn Bzdick, Zachary Fisher, Scott Jones, Kyle Koontz, Tyler Main, Luke Mazza, Joshua Perry, Zachary Rubins, Andrew Scully, Ramon Sosa and Scott Yapp.

Genetic Self-Portrait: Works by Gary Schneider
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The show includes 55 photo-based works that South African-born, NYC-based artist Gary Schneider produced when he was offered a chance to create a new body of work inspired by the Human Genome Project (HGP). The HGP, a scientific race to uncover the mysteries of DNA, began formally in the 1990s and was completed in 2003. During that period, Schneider was able to collaborate with a number of scientists and was given access to advanced imaging systems from electron microscopes to x-ray machines.

The work in the exhibition ranges from images of his individual chromosomes made by a light microscope to panoramic dental x-rays. Schneider is known as a master photographic printer, and by combining his skill as a craftsman and selecting specimens for their aesthetic qualities, he moved beyond scientific descriptions to produce a personal portrait that asks us to consider how we are unique and where we stand on common ground.

Schneider had always been interested in alternative imaging techniques, and previous to this project he had been making images by imprinting his hands onto film emulsions. When he decided to include these prints along with the images he had been making with scientists, he realized that what he had been creating was a new kind of portrait. Ann Thomas, curator of photographs at the National Gallery of Canada, described it as a new approach that "challenges the traditional definition of the portrait, and revises our understanding of what it means to be revealed before the camera's lens."

By merging scientific accuracy with poetic resonance, Schneider has created a very personal illumination of how our individual identity is so closely linked to our broader understanding and use of the information contained in the human building blocks of our DNA. Through the personal exploration that went into creating genetic self-portrait, Schneider reveals that while we may always want to think of ourselves as more than the sum of our parts, our real promise might be found in looking at the 99 percent of ourselves we have in common with everyone else.

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The Day I Stole the Sun
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

As the culminating event to the Partnership for Better Education's yearlong Art, Literacy and Technology (ALT) program, the photographic and written work of 50 Henninger High School students is on display in this exhibit. The partnership's ALT program links art, literacy and technology through photography and poetry to improve the writing and reading skills of students in the Syracuse City School District (SCSD). Representatives from SU, the Verizon Foundation and the SCSD will be in attendance at the reception, which will include a guided exhibition walk-through for the public and selected student poetry readings.

The student work on display is the visual and narrative result of the students' opportunity for expression using photography and writing. Students strengthened both literacy skills and conceptual abilities as they explored ideas such as "stealing" something that could not be literally stolen. "The Day I Stole the Sun" was chosen from the students' writings as the title for the anthology of work on display. The photographs and poems by each of the students who participated in the project will also be showcased in a special, full-color catalog.

SU graduate students in the Creative Writing Program and upper-level undergraduates worked with the Henninger students in the 2007 spring and fall semesters, helping them connect picture making with writing and critical thinking. Photographer and VPA instructor Stephen Mahan and SU creative writing professor and poet Michael Burkard co-taught a special course for these 25 SU students that included instruction on how to best work with high school students. The program promoted an expansive use of photography and creative writing across curricula and disciplines, building on the skills that students naturally possess while attempting to improve ninth-graders' verbalization skills in relating images and events, and encouraging their creativity.

Piano at the Panasci: CNY Young Artists
LeMoyne College
Featuring Award Winners of the 2007 Patricia DeAngelis Youth Piano Festival

Price: $15 regular; $10 seniors; students free
Panasci Family Chapel
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

In October 2006, the First Annual Patricia DeAngelis Youth Piano Festival was held at Le Moyne College. Pianists of High School and Pre-High School age performed and were awarded cash and performance prizes. As part of the 2007 Festival, prizewinners will reassemble for this Evening of Young Talent.

Don't miss this chance to hear some of Central New York's most gifted young pianists.

2007 Festival Results:

High School Division
1st - Nicholas Hrynyk, Auburn High School
2nd - Rhimmon Simchy-Gross, F-M High School
3rd - Hannah Button, Canastota High School

Youth Division
1st - Gregory Rosenthal, Welwood Middle School
2nd - Jessica Lee, Eagle Hill Middle School
3rd - Max Su, Horseheads Intermediate School

Annie
Broadway in Syracuse

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

Leapin' lizards! The timeless tale of Little Orphan Annie is back, giving a whole new generation the change to experience this classic musical about never giving up hope. Boasting one of Broadway's most memorable scores, including "It's a Hard-Knock Life," "Easy Street," "N.Y.C." and the ever-optimistic "Tomorrow," Annie is a delightful theatrical experience for the entire family. Don't miss this all-new production that Variety calls "a winner!"

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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Syracuse Builds: After the Master Plan
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

The exhibition presents 13 architectural and landscape projects currently in development for the Syracuse University campus and the city of Syracuse, including a new residence hall on the main campus by Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems headquarters designed by Toshiko Mori Architect, and a community InfoCenter for the Near Westside Initiative project in Syracuse designed by Syracuse Architecture professors Tim Stenson and Scott Ruff.

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A mixed media show with works from OCC's own faculty members.

Tango
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Tango, a large format folio published by Iris Editions in New York (1991) with eight intaglio prints by Nancy Graves and 13 pages of text by Pedro Cuperman that gaze at the aesthetics of this Latin American dance.

Tango proposes an evening of music, dance, and food transposed into videoa sort of "performance" projected into the space of the gallery where audience and art become intertwined in the field of representation.

"Graves conceived of the prints in the folio as a continued exploration of pattern in nature and as a tonal study of black and white," writes Thomas Padon in his book, Nancy Graves, Excavations in Print A Catalogue Raisonné (1996). "More than once the artist has asserted, 'There is nothing more challenging and meaningful than to make prints in black and white.' For an admitted colorist, it is ironic that the nine prints Graves has made in black and white are among her most powerful." The cryptic titles of the prints in the folio were selected by Graves from Cuperman's text for Tango. The poet speaks of the dance as a gradually unfolding ritual, stating near the conclusion, "Tango helps you find your own levels of proximity."

The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the execution for murder of two Italian anarchist laborers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a selection of period ephemera issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee together with a plethora of books associated with the trial that have been published in the intervening years by Paul Avrich, Felix Frankfurter, and Eugene Lyons, among others. The exhibit features artistic expressions (cartoons, illustrations, novels, plays, poems, songs and music) inspired by the trial, including the work of Maxwell Anderson, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Howard Fast, Woodie Guthrie, William Gropper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rockwell Kent, Katherine Anne Porter, Pete Seeger, and Upton Sinclair. The story of the Sacco and Vanzetti mural by Ben Shahn on the east wall of H. B. Crouse will also be explored.

A Gala Holiday Art Exhibit
Westcott Community Center

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

Mary Stebbins Taitt: digital paintings
John "Jaw's" McGrath: pen and ink landscapes
Karen Tashkovski: paper collage
Amber Blanding: glass work
Mary Fragapane: pastel paintings and prints
Mick Mather: photographs
Kirsten Moore: acrylic and oil paintings
John Swank: photography

Paying Attention
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Pastels and oils by Nicora Gangi and glass works by Alex Andreani.

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Off the Wall Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Unlike most gallery shows, this Associated Artists sale allows everyone the opportunity to purchase fine original artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall". A portion of each sale helps support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Please join us and enjoy the creations of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful chance to find one-of-a-kind gifts!

World AIDS Day Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

In her photographic series "Camp Heartland," Katja Heinemann documents children at the Willow River, Minnesota camp. The camp is for children who are affected by HIV and AIDS. Children attending the camp are infected with HIV or have family members who are living with the virus. Through photographs and interviews with the children, Heinemann presents a portrait of strength and courage in the struggle against HIV/AIDS.

Stella Washington's short film Your Hands presents an overview of HIV/AIDS, in particular how it affects the African American community. Through interviews with women both HIV positive and negative, along with statistics relating to HIV/AIDS and African American women, Washington provides a foundation upon which to stimulate conversation and awareness.

Gullah Lifestyles: A Culture Under Attack and Confederate Currency: The Color of Money
Community Folk Art Center

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

Paintings by John W. Jones and Leroy Campbell

The Art of George Mayocole
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Suggested donation $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

This exhibition features vibrant, abstract, mixed media works on paper by this New York City-based artist.

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular; $4 seniors; $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Display of more than 40 gingerbread creations.

Angelika Rinnhofer: Sammelsurium
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, featuring the work of German-born artist Angelika Rinnhofer, will feature her large-format color prints from three related series, Menschenkunde, Felsenfest, and Seelensucht. She describes her series Menschenkunde as portraits that combine facts, beauty, and irony in a Renaissance-style. Rinnhofer's series Felsenfest continues the same aesthetics in its re-interpretations of martyrs and saints into a modern context. Rinnhofer remembers being frightened as a child when viewing the horrific images of tortured saints commonly found in churches in her hometown Nürnberg, Germany. She now casts a critical eye, juxtaposing religious figures with modern-looking scientists. Seelensucht takes Rinnhofer back to the traditional single-figure portrait, also capturing the themes of martyrs.

Angelika lives in Beacon, NY. She is a commercial photographer and artist. She is the recipient of a Kodak European Gold Award and received a fellowship in photography from the Dutchess County Arts Council. She participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2005.

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Train of Thought: Serial Images from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features the work of five artists -- Hollis Frampton, Arnold Gassan, Peter Max Kandhola, Judy Natal, and Aaron Siskind -- all of whom generously donated either a series of prints or a portfolio of prints to the Light Work Collection. This exhibition provides us with an opportunity to investigate the artists' use of duplication and repetition to explore a single subject or idea. The images in this exhibition are produced using a variety of techniques, including photogravures, ektacolor, silver gelatin prints, and chromogenic prints.

Artist Showcase: Images by Brian Arnold
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition is comprised of recent acquisitions to the Light Work Collection that come from multiple series that Ithaca-based photographer Brian Arnold has been working on. He utilizes traditional black-and-white processes, remaining committed to what he refers to as "the alchemy of photography." All of his photographs are unique silver gelatin prints, toned with a combination of selenium, sulfur, and gold chloride. Arnold also creates unique limited edition books, two of which are included in this exhibition. He teaches photography and electronic arts at the New York State College of Art and Engineering at Alfred University.

16x16 Small Works Show
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Juried exhibition of selected works by local, national and international artists.

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Show and sale of original fine art and crafts.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) 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.

Wrapping Up the Season
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring mixed media by Amy E. Bartell, monoprints and mixed media by Tara Hogan and works by the Syracuse Ceramic Guild.

Amy E. Bartell is showing a new series of mixed media works titled "Archeological Memoir." In her artist statement she describes the body of work as "a glimpse into memory and a quest for directional clues amidst the maps, signs, mysteries, scraps of writing and the compass of magnetic north." Bartell's artwork can be found in the collections of numerous individuals and organizations including Carleton College, California State University, Syracuse University and SUNY New York. She is known as a mural artist around the country and as the former Gallery Coordinator of Delavan Art Gallery. Currently, she is a faculty member of the art department at SUNY Oswego. Bartell's approach in her new series raises the question "What do we see when we scan the horizons of our lives? Where do we dig; does 'X' really mark the spot?"

Tara Hogan is exhibiting a collection of monoprints and mixed media from a new series of work titled "Conversations With Nature." The body of work conveys a dialogue between humans, animals and nature inspired by an interest in environmental consciousness. Hogan has been a graphic designer since earning her BFA in Illustration from Syracuse University eight years ago. Her art has been published in American Illustration, CMYK Magazine, Domino Magazine online and on the back of Bear Magazine. About her distinct style, Hogan explains, "I have a loving appreciation for nature's intricate beauty combined with modern urban style."

Syracuse Ceramic Guild's exhibition features ceramics by 10 its members. Selected works include eclectic ceramics by Lory and Walt Black, porcelain and stoneware by Sue Canizares, Raku sculpture by Dona Flaherty, Raku pottery by Dee Gage, abstract sculptural stoneware by Jane T. Gillett, ceramic story boxes by Amy Patricia Komar, "Biomorpheus," a body of abstract works by Ron Kalinoski, high-fired porcelain and stoneware by Bobbi Lamb and soda fired works by Steven Pilcher. The Syracuse Ceramic Guild, established in 1947, is a not-for-profit organization of potters dedicated to the promotion of awareness and understanding of the ceramic medium.

R. Bingham Morris: Contemporary Acrylic Paintings
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

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

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Plug In
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The Redhouse and the Department of Transmedia at Syracuse University are pleased to present "PLUG IN"  a group exhibition by BFA students in the Computer Art program at Syracuse University.

"PLUG IN" is a exhibition of numerous art works that incorporate computer and/or electronic technology in the process of creation. On display will be digital illustration, interactive art, motion graphics, experimental video and computer animation. Artists presented by Visiting Assistant Professor Sean Hovendick include Bleu Bailey, George Brauneck, Taryn Bzdick, Zachary Fisher, Scott Jones, Kyle Koontz, Tyler Main, Luke Mazza, Joshua Perry, Zachary Rubins, Andrew Scully, Ramon Sosa and Scott Yapp.

Genetic Self-Portrait: Works by Gary Schneider
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The show includes 55 photo-based works that South African-born, NYC-based artist Gary Schneider produced when he was offered a chance to create a new body of work inspired by the Human Genome Project (HGP). The HGP, a scientific race to uncover the mysteries of DNA, began formally in the 1990s and was completed in 2003. During that period, Schneider was able to collaborate with a number of scientists and was given access to advanced imaging systems from electron microscopes to x-ray machines.

The work in the exhibition ranges from images of his individual chromosomes made by a light microscope to panoramic dental x-rays. Schneider is known as a master photographic printer, and by combining his skill as a craftsman and selecting specimens for their aesthetic qualities, he moved beyond scientific descriptions to produce a personal portrait that asks us to consider how we are unique and where we stand on common ground.

Schneider had always been interested in alternative imaging techniques, and previous to this project he had been making images by imprinting his hands onto film emulsions. When he decided to include these prints along with the images he had been making with scientists, he realized that what he had been creating was a new kind of portrait. Ann Thomas, curator of photographs at the National Gallery of Canada, described it as a new approach that "challenges the traditional definition of the portrait, and revises our understanding of what it means to be revealed before the camera's lens."

By merging scientific accuracy with poetic resonance, Schneider has created a very personal illumination of how our individual identity is so closely linked to our broader understanding and use of the information contained in the human building blocks of our DNA. Through the personal exploration that went into creating genetic self-portrait, Schneider reveals that while we may always want to think of ourselves as more than the sum of our parts, our real promise might be found in looking at the 99 percent of ourselves we have in common with everyone else.

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The Day I Stole the Sun
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

As the culminating event to the Partnership for Better Education's yearlong Art, Literacy and Technology (ALT) program, the photographic and written work of 50 Henninger High School students is on display in this exhibit. The partnership's ALT program links art, literacy and technology through photography and poetry to improve the writing and reading skills of students in the Syracuse City School District (SCSD). Representatives from SU, the Verizon Foundation and the SCSD will be in attendance at the reception, which will include a guided exhibition walk-through for the public and selected student poetry readings.

The student work on display is the visual and narrative result of the students' opportunity for expression using photography and writing. Students strengthened both literacy skills and conceptual abilities as they explored ideas such as "stealing" something that could not be literally stolen. "The Day I Stole the Sun" was chosen from the students' writings as the title for the anthology of work on display. The photographs and poems by each of the students who participated in the project will also be showcased in a special, full-color catalog.

SU graduate students in the Creative Writing Program and upper-level undergraduates worked with the Henninger students in the 2007 spring and fall semesters, helping them connect picture making with writing and critical thinking. Photographer and VPA instructor Stephen Mahan and SU creative writing professor and poet Michael Burkard co-taught a special course for these 25 SU students that included instruction on how to best work with high school students. The program promoted an expansive use of photography and creative writing across curricula and disciplines, building on the skills that students naturally possess while attempting to improve ninth-graders' verbalization skills in relating images and events, and encouraging their creativity.

Fiddler on the Roof
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Brimming with wonderfully memorable songs (Tradition; Matchmaker, Matchmaker; If I Were a Rich Man;
Sunrise, Sunset; To Life) and folk-inspired choreography, Fiddler on the Roof is the touching tale of Tevye, his family and the tiny Russian town of Anatevka. Tradition is the fabric that holds body and soul, family and community together. But can tradition, however strong, withstand the strain of pressure from within and without. Fiddler is a classic of American musical theatre.

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Annie
Broadway in Syracuse

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

Leapin' lizards! The timeless tale of Little Orphan Annie is back, giving a whole new generation the change to experience this classic musical about never giving up hope. Boasting one of Broadway's most memorable scores, including "It's a Hard-Knock Life," "Easy Street," "N.Y.C." and the ever-optimistic "Tomorrow," Annie is a delightful theatrical experience for the entire family. Don't miss this all-new production that Variety calls "a winner!"

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Thursday, December 13, 2007

Syracuse Builds: After the Master Plan
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

The exhibition presents 13 architectural and landscape projects currently in development for the Syracuse University campus and the city of Syracuse, including a new residence hall on the main campus by Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems headquarters designed by Toshiko Mori Architect, and a community InfoCenter for the Near Westside Initiative project in Syracuse designed by Syracuse Architecture professors Tim Stenson and Scott Ruff.

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A mixed media show with works from OCC's own faculty members.

Tango
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Tango, a large format folio published by Iris Editions in New York (1991) with eight intaglio prints by Nancy Graves and 13 pages of text by Pedro Cuperman that gaze at the aesthetics of this Latin American dance.

Tango proposes an evening of music, dance, and food transposed into videoa sort of "performance" projected into the space of the gallery where audience and art become intertwined in the field of representation.

"Graves conceived of the prints in the folio as a continued exploration of pattern in nature and as a tonal study of black and white," writes Thomas Padon in his book, Nancy Graves, Excavations in Print A Catalogue Raisonné (1996). "More than once the artist has asserted, 'There is nothing more challenging and meaningful than to make prints in black and white.' For an admitted colorist, it is ironic that the nine prints Graves has made in black and white are among her most powerful." The cryptic titles of the prints in the folio were selected by Graves from Cuperman's text for Tango. The poet speaks of the dance as a gradually unfolding ritual, stating near the conclusion, "Tango helps you find your own levels of proximity."

The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the execution for murder of two Italian anarchist laborers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a selection of period ephemera issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee together with a plethora of books associated with the trial that have been published in the intervening years by Paul Avrich, Felix Frankfurter, and Eugene Lyons, among others. The exhibit features artistic expressions (cartoons, illustrations, novels, plays, poems, songs and music) inspired by the trial, including the work of Maxwell Anderson, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Howard Fast, Woodie Guthrie, William Gropper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rockwell Kent, Katherine Anne Porter, Pete Seeger, and Upton Sinclair. The story of the Sacco and Vanzetti mural by Ben Shahn on the east wall of H. B. Crouse will also be explored.

A Gala Holiday Art Exhibit
Westcott Community Center

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

Mary Stebbins Taitt: digital paintings
John "Jaw's" McGrath: pen and ink landscapes
Karen Tashkovski: paper collage
Amber Blanding: glass work
Mary Fragapane: pastel paintings and prints
Mick Mather: photographs
Kirsten Moore: acrylic and oil paintings
John Swank: photography

Paying Attention
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Pastels and oils by Nicora Gangi and glass works by Alex Andreani.

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Off the Wall Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Unlike most gallery shows, this Associated Artists sale allows everyone the opportunity to purchase fine original artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall". A portion of each sale helps support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Please join us and enjoy the creations of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful chance to find one-of-a-kind gifts!

World AIDS Day Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

In her photographic series "Camp Heartland," Katja Heinemann documents children at the Willow River, Minnesota camp. The camp is for children who are affected by HIV and AIDS. Children attending the camp are infected with HIV or have family members who are living with the virus. Through photographs and interviews with the children, Heinemann presents a portrait of strength and courage in the struggle against HIV/AIDS.

Stella Washington's short film Your Hands presents an overview of HIV/AIDS, in particular how it affects the African American community. Through interviews with women both HIV positive and negative, along with statistics relating to HIV/AIDS and African American women, Washington provides a foundation upon which to stimulate conversation and awareness.

The Art of George Mayocole
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Suggested donation $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

This exhibition features vibrant, abstract, mixed media works on paper by this New York City-based artist.

Gullah Lifestyles: A Culture Under Attack and Confederate Currency: The Color of Money
Community Folk Art Center

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

Paintings by John W. Jones and Leroy Campbell

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular; $4 seniors; $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Display of more than 40 gingerbread creations.

Train of Thought: Serial Images from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features the work of five artists -- Hollis Frampton, Arnold Gassan, Peter Max Kandhola, Judy Natal, and Aaron Siskind -- all of whom generously donated either a series of prints or a portfolio of prints to the Light Work Collection. This exhibition provides us with an opportunity to investigate the artists' use of duplication and repetition to explore a single subject or idea. The images in this exhibition are produced using a variety of techniques, including photogravures, ektacolor, silver gelatin prints, and chromogenic prints.

Angelika Rinnhofer: Sammelsurium
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, featuring the work of German-born artist Angelika Rinnhofer, will feature her large-format color prints from three related series, Menschenkunde, Felsenfest, and Seelensucht. She describes her series Menschenkunde as portraits that combine facts, beauty, and irony in a Renaissance-style. Rinnhofer's series Felsenfest continues the same aesthetics in its re-interpretations of martyrs and saints into a modern context. Rinnhofer remembers being frightened as a child when viewing the horrific images of tortured saints commonly found in churches in her hometown Nürnberg, Germany. She now casts a critical eye, juxtaposing religious figures with modern-looking scientists. Seelensucht takes Rinnhofer back to the traditional single-figure portrait, also capturing the themes of martyrs.

Angelika lives in Beacon, NY. She is a commercial photographer and artist. She is the recipient of a Kodak European Gold Award and received a fellowship in photography from the Dutchess County Arts Council. She participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2005.

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Artist Showcase: Images by Brian Arnold
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition is comprised of recent acquisitions to the Light Work Collection that come from multiple series that Ithaca-based photographer Brian Arnold has been working on. He utilizes traditional black-and-white processes, remaining committed to what he refers to as "the alchemy of photography." All of his photographs are unique silver gelatin prints, toned with a combination of selenium, sulfur, and gold chloride. Arnold also creates unique limited edition books, two of which are included in this exhibition. He teaches photography and electronic arts at the New York State College of Art and Engineering at Alfred University.

16x16 Small Works Show
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Juried exhibition of selected works by local, national and international artists.