Sunday, March 7, 2010

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

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The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

(re)circulate(d): studies in 'collage': Works of Scott Herrmann
LeMoyne College

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

Scott Herrmann is a graduate of the art programs of Syracuse University and Onondaga Community College. A lifelong resident of Central New York, he resides in Liverpool with his wife and son. He recently participated in the "Collage + Assemblage" exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn. This is his first solo show.

Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Curated by Lisa Erf, program director, JPMorgan Chase, New York City.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Contemporary Film Series: Persepolis
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However, as Marji grows up, she witnesses first-hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study for a better life. However, this change proves an equally difficult trial with the young woman, finding herself in a different culture loaded with abrasive characters and profound disappointments that deeply trouble her. Even when she returns home, Marji finds that both she and her homeland have changed too much, and the young woman and her loving family must decide where she truly belongs. 2007, 96 minutes. Presented in celebration of Women's History Month.

Percussion 'Round the World
Arts Alive in Liverpool

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

Syracuse Symphony Chamber Ensemble
Fayetteville Free Library

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

Jazz Concert
Joyful Noise Concert Series

Price: Free (donations accepted)
Liverpool First United Methodist Church
604 Oswego St., Liverpool

Featuring SUNY Oswego faculty and alumni.

Rising Star Recital
Malmgren Concert Series
Featuring Ahreum Han, organ

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Ahreum Han will perform pieces by Mendelssohn, Karg-Elert, Bach, Vierne and Liszt.

A native of South Korea, Han immigrated to the United States as a teenager. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in organ performance from Westminster Choir College and graduated with an artist's diploma from the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music.

She has received top prizes from numerous competitions, including the undergraduate division of the Westminster Choir College Scholarship Competition, the Charlotte Hoyt Bagnall Scholarship Competition, the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) National Young Artist Performance Competition, the John Rodland Memorial Church Music Scholarship Competition, the Albert Schweitzer Organ Competition, the Carlean Neihart Organ Competition and the West Chester University Organ Competition. Her live performance concerts were featured on the radio show "Pipedreams" from American Public Media.

Han is active as an organ soloist and has performed at St. Bartholomew's Church in New York City, Trinity Church at Wall Street, St. Philip's Cathedral in Atlanta, Jack Singer Hall in Calgary and the Princeton University Chapel. She was featured at the Young Virtuosi Festival in 2006. In 2007, she was a featured artist at the Regional Convention of the American Guild of Organists. She performed in Germany and the United Kingdom in 2008. She has been a featured soloist at the White Mountain Musical Arts Annual Bach Festival in New Hampshire.

Last year, Han graduated with a masters degree in organ performance from Yale School of Music and Yale Institute of Sacred Music. She is currently the organist at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Stamford, Conn.

Star Wars: The Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Wit's End Players

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

Starring the brightest lights of the Syracuse stage, Star Wars: The Musical is a hilarious interpretation of what the 1977 film might have been like if it had opened off-Broadway instead of at Mann's Chinese Theater. Though written with a tongue-in-cheek attitude, the comedy rarely sinks into parody, and instead relies on turning some of the more mundane moments of the film into high melodrama by way of song (as well as the mechanics of how to stage the attack on the Death Star using only performers in starship costumes!) Book by George Lucas as adapted by Todd Panek and David R. Witanowski, music and lyrics by Timothy Edward Smith and Hunter Nolen.

Presented as a benefit by Rarely Done Productions and The Wit's End Players.

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Lookingglass Alice
Syracuse Stage

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

In your wildest imaginings, you've never imagined Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass like this! Staged with endless wit, astonishing physicality, breathtaking aerial acrobatics, and theatrical daring, Alice, The Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and all of Lewis Carroll's enchanting characters come to dizzyingly, playful, gravity-defying life in a circus-like spectacle sure to amaze kids and adults alike. By David Catlin.

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The Good Doctor
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Jon Barden, director

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

The Good Doctor is Neil Simon's tribute to one of his play writing idols—the Russian playwright Anton Chekov. The play is a series of scenes and vignettes (12 in all) written as Chekov farces with that wonderful funny and poignant Simon touch.

The cast includes Mark Baker, Denise Ballou, Jay Burris, Camille Chace, Stephanie Long, Cole Salo and Josh Taylor.

Star Wars: The Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Wit's End Players

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

Starring the brightest lights of the Syracuse stage, Star Wars: The Musical is a hilarious interpretation of what the 1977 film might have been like if it had opened off-Broadway instead of at Mann's Chinese Theater. Though written with a tongue-in-cheek attitude, the comedy rarely sinks into parody, and instead relies on turning some of the more mundane moments of the film into high melodrama by way of song (as well as the mechanics of how to stage the attack on the Death Star using only performers in starship costumes!) Book by George Lucas as adapted by Todd Panek and David R. Witanowski, music and lyrics by Timothy Edward Smith and Hunter Nolen.

Presented as a benefit by Rarely Done Productions and The Wit's End Players.

Read a Review!

Monday, March 8, 2010

(re)circulate(d): studies in 'collage': Works of Scott Herrmann
LeMoyne College

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

Scott Herrmann is a graduate of the art programs of Syracuse University and Onondaga Community College. A lifelong resident of Central New York, he resides in Liverpool with his wife and son. He recently participated in the "Collage + Assemblage" exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn. This is his first solo show.

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

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

Selected by Essence magazine as "30 Women to Watch," Kim Mayhorn is a multi-media artist whose works encompasses installation, video and theatre. Mayhorn has been a video editor for over 10 years and in 1998 she embarked on a new challenge and began creating installations and was awarded her first solo show at HERE Arts Center in New York City entitled "A Woman Was Lynched the Other Day..." This work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Phantoms
Redhouse

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

Red House Arts Center presents "Phantoms," a New Media art exhibition curated by New York City based gallerist and curator Stephan Stoayanov.

We can attribute the present art and pop-cult fascination with the paranormal and vampires with our ongoing human interest in metamorphosis.The mystery of the unknown will always be something that we obsess about. Our brain creates illusions of words and phrases.

The nine artists included in the exhibition "Phantoms" create illusions through their artwork, which evoke the paranormal and mystical on both personal and universal level. "Phantoms" features the work of Phil Argent (United Kingdom), Heather Bennett (United States), Amelie Chabannes (France), Lieven de Boeck (Belgium), Cliff Evans (Australia), Ellen Harvey (United States), Dominik Lejman (Poland), Marie Maillard (France), and Trine Lise Nedreaas (Norway).

Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft, and Design
Featuring Faythe Levine

Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

Question and answer session to follow.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

(re)circulate(d): studies in 'collage': Works of Scott Herrmann
LeMoyne College

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

Scott Herrmann is a graduate of the art programs of Syracuse University and Onondaga Community College. A lifelong resident of Central New York, he resides in Liverpool with his wife and son. He recently participated in the "Collage + Assemblage" exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn. This is his first solo show.

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

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

Selected by Essence magazine as "30 Women to Watch," Kim Mayhorn is a multi-media artist whose works encompasses installation, video and theatre. Mayhorn has been a video editor for over 10 years and in 1998 she embarked on a new challenge and began creating installations and was awarded her first solo show at HERE Arts Center in New York City entitled "A Woman Was Lynched the Other Day..." This work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

Everything is Illustrated and Winter Solstice
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Everything is Illustrated: Gallery A
Recent work by Eva Calazada, Tian Chen, Barbara Morey, and Benjamin Petrie

Winter Solstice: Gallery B
Works by Cala Glatz, Julia Kester, Jonathan LaPlante, and Beth Mand

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

Remembrance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lorraine Savidge: "painting with thread" -- hand-guided original machine embroidery depicting landscape and design
Paula Burke: decorative and functional ceramics
Barbara Kellogg: abstract water media collages based on places visited
Lauren Bristol: string objects/garments referencing ancient rituals and record keeping

Works of Bill Reddick
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Exhibition of Bill Reddick, renowned Canadian international porcelain artist. Reddick designed the Official State Dinnerware for Canada. His work can be seen at Rideau Hall, the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, and the Porcelain Institute in Jingdexhen, China.

Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

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

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Phantoms
Redhouse

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

Red House Arts Center presents "Phantoms," a New Media art exhibition curated by New York City based gallerist and curator Stephan Stoayanov.

We can attribute the present art and pop-cult fascination with the paranormal and vampires with our ongoing human interest in metamorphosis.The mystery of the unknown will always be something that we obsess about. Our brain creates illusions of words and phrases.

The nine artists included in the exhibition "Phantoms" create illusions through their artwork, which evoke the paranormal and mystical on both personal and universal level. "Phantoms" features the work of Phil Argent (United Kingdom), Heather Bennett (United States), Amelie Chabannes (France), Lieven de Boeck (Belgium), Cliff Evans (Australia), Ellen Harvey (United States), Dominik Lejman (Poland), Marie Maillard (France), and Trine Lise Nedreaas (Norway).

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

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Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Martha Graham Dance Company
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

Price: $20 general, $5 students with SU ID, $16 SU faculty/staff/alumni
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Founded in 1926 by dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, the Martha Graham Dance Company is the oldest and most celebrated contemporary dance ensemble in the nation. Since its inception, the company has received international acclaim and has performed in some of the nation's most auspicious performing arts venues, in addition to at the Great Pyramids of Egypt and in the ancient Herod Atticus Theatre on the Acropolis in Athens. The company has also produced several award-winning films broadcast on PBS. Though Graham herself is the best-known alumna, the company has provided a training ground for some of modern dance's most illustrious performers and choreographers. On March 10, artistic director Janet Eilber will be the keynote speaker for SU's annual Women of Distinction Awards.

Tickets available at the Schine Box Office.

Free parking available in the Lehman and Harrison lots. (If no basketball game, parking also available in the Marion and Waverly lots.)

Mary McFadden Lecture
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Iconic American fashion designer Mary McFadden will deliver a lecture on her career and design philosophy. The lecture is presented as part of VPA's Sue Ann Genet Lecture Series.

The Synthetic Real
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring Heather Roberge

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Auditorium
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Heather Roberge, Associate Vice Chair, UCLA Department of Architecture + Urban Design, is the founder and principal of murmur, an award-winning practice that studies the spatial, structural, and atmospheric potential of emerging digital design and manufacturing techniques. Her research focuses on the effective implications of contemporary surfaces with particular interest in formal and material experimentation that engages the senses.

Covering the World
University Lectures
Featuring Scott Simon

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

From Ground Zero in New York to ground zero in Kabul, to police stations, refugee camps, snipers' roosts, subway platforms, and theater stages, NPR's Peabody Award-winning Scott Simon has reported from all 50 states and every continent. He has covered 10 wars, hundreds of campaigns, sieges, famines, hurricanes, earthquakes, civil wars, scandals, state funerals, and opening nights. He has interviewed and profiled some of the most interesting personalities of the times. Simon has hosted many public television specials and written for numerous prominent publications. He is the author of four best-selling books, including his most recent novel, a political comedy called Windy City, which was chosen by the Washington Post as one of the best novels of 2008.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
SU Symphony Orchestra

Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, phone 315-443-2191.

Lookingglass Alice
Syracuse Stage

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

In your wildest imaginings, you've never imagined Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass like this! Staged with endless wit, astonishing physicality, breathtaking aerial acrobatics, and theatrical daring, Alice, The Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and all of Lewis Carroll's enchanting characters come to dizzyingly, playful, gravity-defying life in a circus-like spectacle sure to amaze kids and adults alike. By David Catlin.

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

(re)circulate(d): studies in 'collage': Works of Scott Herrmann
LeMoyne College

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

Scott Herrmann is a graduate of the art programs of Syracuse University and Onondaga Community College. A lifelong resident of Central New York, he resides in Liverpool with his wife and son. He recently participated in the "Collage + Assemblage" exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn. This is his first solo show.

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

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

Selected by Essence magazine as "30 Women to Watch," Kim Mayhorn is a multi-media artist whose works encompasses installation, video and theatre. Mayhorn has been a video editor for over 10 years and in 1998 she embarked on a new challenge and began creating installations and was awarded her first solo show at HERE Arts Center in New York City entitled "A Woman Was Lynched the Other Day..." This work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

Everything is Illustrated and Winter Solstice
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Everything is Illustrated: Gallery A
Recent work by Eva Calazada, Tian Chen, Barbara Morey, and Benjamin Petrie

Winter Solstice: Gallery B
Works by Cala Glatz, Julia Kester, Jonathan LaPlante, and Beth Mand

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

Remembrance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lorraine Savidge: "painting with thread" -- hand-guided original machine embroidery depicting landscape and design
Paula Burke: decorative and functional ceramics
Barbara Kellogg: abstract water media collages based on places visited
Lauren Bristol: string objects/garments referencing ancient rituals and record keeping

Works of Bill Reddick
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Exhibition of Bill Reddick, renowned Canadian international porcelain artist. Reddick designed the Official State Dinnerware for Canada. His work can be seen at Rideau Hall, the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, and the Porcelain Institute in Jingdexhen, China.

Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

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

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Phantoms
Redhouse

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

Red House Arts Center presents "Phantoms," a New Media art exhibition curated by New York City based gallerist and curator Stephan Stoayanov.

We can attribute the present art and pop-cult fascination with the paranormal and vampires with our ongoing human interest in metamorphosis.The mystery of the unknown will always be something that we obsess about. Our brain creates illusions of words and phrases.

The nine artists included in the exhibition "Phantoms" create illusions through their artwork, which evoke the paranormal and mystical on both personal and universal level. "Phantoms" features the work of Phil Argent (United Kingdom), Heather Bennett (United States), Amelie Chabannes (France), Lieven de Boeck (Belgium), Cliff Evans (Australia), Ellen Harvey (United States), Dominik Lejman (Poland), Marie Maillard (France), and Trine Lise Nedreaas (Norway).

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

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The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Curated by Lisa Erf, program director, JPMorgan Chase, New York City.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Boys & Girls: The Art of Diane Menzies and Mary Giehl
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Each year in America over 3 million children are abused, nearly 2,000 die, some run away, others are abandoned, all have their own challenges with this sojourn through adolescence. Each day in America, 6 children die from abuse, 100,000 children are homeless, 8 children die from guns, 219 children die before their first birthday, 1,534 babies are born to teenage girls.

In the paintings by Diane Menzies and installations by Mary Giehl, there are hints of darkness and confinement along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness. The work challenges the viewer to take a deeper look at what these images of childhood are telling us.

CANCELLED: Concert: Lorin Sklamberg
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Mawhinney Hall, Second Floor, Room 245
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Accordionist and vocalist Lorin Sklamberg has been a member of the Klezmatics since the beginning. As a teenager in California, Sklamberg was involved with Jewish and Israeli folk-dancing, but it wasn't until the late '80s, upon moving to NYC and joining the Klezmatics that he became immersed in klezmer. Since the early '90s, Sklamberg has been co-Director of Living Traditions, Inc., a Yiddish folk arts non-profit organization that sponsors the annual KlezKamp, and releases archival CDs of music including rescued recordings of Yiddish radio programs from the 1920s-1950s. He has performed under pianist Zalman Mlotek, and appears on a variety of releases such as the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Remember the Children.

The most convenient lots for Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Allan Kolsky, clarinet; Greg Quick, bassoon; Sar-Shalom Strong, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Richard Strauss Duet-Concertino for clarinet and bassoon, Brahms F minor Sonata, and a piece for solo clarinet by Shulamit Ran.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Ken Meyer, guitar; Judith Kellock and Janet Brown, sopranos

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

Nicolas Scherzinger Till I become accustomed to the dark (2004)
Jesse Benjamin Jones Los Ninos (2006-9)
Ian Hartsough premiere of a new work for guitar

Parking in Irving Garage is free if you mention the concert.

Lookingglass Alice
Syracuse Stage

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

In your wildest imaginings, you've never imagined Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass like this! Staged with endless wit, astonishing physicality, breathtaking aerial acrobatics, and theatrical daring, Alice, The Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and all of Lewis Carroll's enchanting characters come to dizzyingly, playful, gravity-defying life in a circus-like spectacle sure to amaze kids and adults alike. By David Catlin.

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Lookingglass Alice
Syracuse Stage

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

In your wildest imaginings, you've never imagined Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass like this! Staged with endless wit, astonishing physicality, breathtaking aerial acrobatics, and theatrical daring, Alice, The Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and all of Lewis Carroll's enchanting characters come to dizzyingly, playful, gravity-defying life in a circus-like spectacle sure to amaze kids and adults alike. By David Catlin.

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Thursday, March 11, 2010

(re)circulate(d): studies in 'collage': Works of Scott Herrmann
LeMoyne College

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

Scott Herrmann is a graduate of the art programs of Syracuse University and Onondaga Community College. A lifelong resident of Central New York, he resides in Liverpool with his wife and son. He recently participated in the "Collage + Assemblage" exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn. This is his first solo show.

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

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

Selected by Essence magazine as "30 Women to Watch," Kim Mayhorn is a multi-media artist whose works encompasses installation, video and theatre. Mayhorn has been a video editor for over 10 years and in 1998 she embarked on a new challenge and began creating installations and was awarded her first solo show at HERE Arts Center in New York City entitled "A Woman Was Lynched the Other Day..." This work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

Everything is Illustrated and Winter Solstice
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Everything is Illustrated: Gallery A
Recent work by Eva Calazada, Tian Chen, Barbara Morey, and Benjamin Petrie

Winter Solstice: Gallery B
Works by Cala Glatz, Julia Kester, Jonathan LaPlante, and Beth Mand

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

Remembrance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lorraine Savidge: "painting with thread" -- hand-guided original machine embroidery depicting landscape and design
Paula Burke: decorative and functional ceramics
Barbara Kellogg: abstract water media collages based on places visited
Lauren Bristol: string objects/garments referencing ancient rituals and record keeping

Works of Bill Reddick
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Exhibition of Bill Reddick, renowned Canadian international porcelain artist. Reddick designed the Official State Dinnerware for Canada. His work can be seen at Rideau Hall, the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, and the Porcelain Institute in Jingdexhen, China.

Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

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

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Phantoms
Redhouse

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

Red House Arts Center presents "Phantoms," a New Media art exhibition curated by New York City based gallerist and curator Stephan Stoayanov.

We can attribute the present art and pop-cult fascination with the paranormal and vampires with our ongoing human interest in metamorphosis.The mystery of the unknown will always be something that we obsess about. Our brain creates illusions of words and phrases.

The nine artists included in the exhibition "Phantoms" create illusions through their artwork, which evoke the paranormal and mystical on both personal and universal level. "Phantoms" features the work of Phil Argent (United Kingdom), Heather Bennett (United States), Amelie Chabannes (France), Lieven de Boeck (Belgium), Cliff Evans (Australia), Ellen Harvey (United States), Dominik Lejman (Poland), Marie Maillard (France), and Trine Lise Nedreaas (Norway).

Art: 2003-2009
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Art: 2003-2009" pays tribute to a group of artists aligned with the gallery since its inception over six years ago. The exhibit runs the gamut of artistic endeavors. Among the artists included in the show are: Lydia Benscher, Jamie Ashlaw, Eric W. Shute, A. Brooks Decker, Frank Calidonna, Harry R. Freeman-Jones, Diana Godfrey, Tom Hussey, John Dowling, Roscha Folger, Ruth Wynn, Wendy Harris, R. Jason Howard, Stephen Perrone, Kathleen Schneider, Arthur Brangman, Crystal LaPoint, Thomas Barnes, Tom Townsley, Kyle Mort, Andrea Hall, Stephen Ryan, Patrice Downes Centore, Robert Glisson, James Skvarch, and Vincent Fitches. The gallery is also planning to show works by Amy E. Bartell, Jim Dieso, Douglas Biklen, Tom Champion, Diane Lansing, Robert Carroll, Lauren Ritchie, Phil Austin, Sandy Clift, James R. Walker, Vivian Geiger, Richard Karuzas, Rudy Hellmann, Jennifer Colvin, Richard Schultz, Fred Wellner, Laura J. Wellner, Joyce Day Homan, Linda Esterley, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Mary Kester, and C. J. Hodge.

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Wild Card Exhibit: Blodgett & Seymour Benefit Art Show
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A Wild Card exhibition of work by the elementary students at Blodgett and Seymour schools to help raise funds for their art programs.

For the past six years, this student art exhibit has proven to be a win-win happening that celebrates young people's talent, motivates parent involvement, delights the general public, and strengthens the arts programs at both schools through sale of the works displayed. The basis for such success evolves from collaboration among Blodgett and Seymour school art teachers—Stacy Griffin, Kristin Dugger, and Kelly Moser-Vogler—and gallery director and manger, Bill Delavan and Caroline Szozda-McGowan.

This show of students' works covers a spectrum of different mediums including prints, clay, glass, collage, painting, hand-made journals and portraiture in finished dimensional pieces showcasing elephants, owls, fish, peacocks, ducks, pigs, Kokopelli's, Aztec Gods, Mehendi Hands and Rangoli. Art works are priced between $10-$30 with half of the sale going to the student and half to their art teacher for supplies. However, more importantly, art teachers agree that the real benefit of the show is in the prestige students experience in having their works displayed in a professional gallery where the encouragement fostered there furthers appreciation of the arts for students and their families alike.

The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

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Rodger Mack Exhibition
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park

Price: Free
The Spring: Center for Spiritual & Cultural Unity
200 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibit will feature a total of 104 paintings by the late Rodger Mack, one of Syracuse's most well-known and well-loved artists. Internationally known for his sculptures, Mack was also a dynamic painter who created colorful, vibrant works.

The paintings are provided by Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, and the exhibition is made possible by a collaboration between the Park, The Spring and Syracuse University. Proceeds from the sale of Mack's art will go equally to the three not-for-profits.

Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Curated by Lisa Erf, program director, JPMorgan Chase, New York City.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Boys & Girls: The Art of Diane Menzies and Mary Giehl
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Each year in America over 3 million children are abused, nearly 2,000 die, some run away, others are abandoned, all have their own challenges with this sojourn through adolescence. Each day in America, 6 children die from abuse, 100,000 children are homeless, 8 children die from guns, 219 children die before their first birthday, 1,534 babies are born to teenage girls.

In the paintings by Diane Menzies and installations by Mary Giehl, there are hints of darkness and confinement along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness. The work challenges the viewer to take a deeper look at what these images of childhood are telling us.

The Photographs of Aaron Blum, Kelli Pennington, and Jared Landberg
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Join in celebrating the products of three years of research, with the most recent and complete showing of these artists' photographic bodies of thesis work.

This Boy's Life
ArtRage Gallery

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

Moving from one unhealthy relationship to another, Caroline (Ellen Barkin) and her son, Toby (Leonardo DiCaprio), roam the country and finally end up in Washington state, where she marries Dwight (Robert De Niro), a modest mechanic. But Dwight fails to be the role model she had hoped for, and Toby is desperate to escape from under his heavy, abusive hand. Michael Caton-Jones's gripping drama is based on Tobias Wolff's autobiography of the same name.

Photographic Adventures in the American West
Syracuse University Library Associates
Featuring Karen Halverson

Price: Free
Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

Landscape photographer Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In "Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River" (2008), a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

She will speak about the photographic process and land use issues while presenting selected works. An exhibition of her work will be available and guests are encouraged to arrive at least a half hour early to view it before the talk.

Halverson graduated from Nottingham High School and Stanford University and holds master's degrees from Brandeis and Columbia universities. Her work has appeared at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art, the Corcoran Gallery, and the Library of Congress.

Free event parking is available in Booth Garage, on the corner of Waverly and Comstock avenues.

Trendsetters
Society for New Music
SU Contemporary Directions Ensemble
Armando Bayolo, conductor
Featuring Philip von Maltzahn, cello

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

James Welsch Till the sun grows cold..., 2010, premiere, for flute, oboe, French horn, and harp
Armando Bayolo Orfei Mors (Death of Orpheus), 2010, premiere, for cello and chamber orchestra
Carter Pann Summer Songs, 2009, 2nd performance (presented in conjunction with the Skaneateles Festival), for clarinet, violin, cello, piano and narrator
Samson Young Fractured Atlas, 2009, for clarinet, horn, piano, violin, viola, and cello
Virgil Thomson The Plow That Broke the Plains

The Y-Files: Where are the Cows?
Acme Mystery Company

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

Sheriff Shelly Moganagle is calling an emergency town meeting for you and everybody else in Pine Bluffs to try and figure out where in the heck all these cows are disappearing to. Roland McBurger's new hamburger joint? Cattle rustlers? Down at the Crazy Kegger folks are saying it's alien cow abduction! The Sheriff is taking no chances and has called in the FBI. Be there when Special Agents Molding and Sulky arrive. They'll need all the help they can get.

Lookingglass Alice
Syracuse Stage

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

In your wildest imaginings, you've never imagined Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass like this! Staged with endless wit, astonishing physicality, breathtaking aerial acrobatics, and theatrical daring, Alice, The Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and all of Lewis Carroll's enchanting characters come to dizzyingly, playful, gravity-defying life in a circus-like spectacle sure to amaze kids and adults alike. By David Catlin.

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Preview: The Shape of Things
Rarely Done Productions
Roy VanNorstrand, director

Price: $10
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

How far would you go for love? For art? What would you be willing to change? Which price might you pay? A young student drifts into an ever-changing relationship with an art major while his best friends' engagement crumbles, so unleashing a drama that peels back the skin of two modern-day relationships, exposing the raw meat and gristle that lie beneath. By Neil LaBute.

Intended for mature audiences only.

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Friday, March 12, 2010

(re)circulate(d): studies in 'collage': Works of Scott Herrmann
LeMoyne College

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

Scott Herrmann is a graduate of the art programs of Syracuse University and Onondaga Community College. A lifelong resident of Central New York, he resides in Liverpool with his wife and son. He recently participated in the "Collage + Assemblage" exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn. This is his first solo show.

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

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

Selected by Essence magazine as "30 Women to Watch," Kim Mayhorn is a multi-media artist whose works encompasses installation, video and theatre. Mayhorn has been a video editor for over 10 years and in 1998 she embarked on a new challenge and began creating installations and was awarded her first solo show at HERE Arts Center in New York City entitled "A Woman Was Lynched the Other Day..." This work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

Everything is Illustrated and Winter Solstice
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Everything is Illustrated: Gallery A
Recent work by Eva Calazada, Tian Chen, Barbara Morey, and Benjamin Petrie

Winter Solstice: Gallery B
Works by Cala Glatz, Julia Kester, Jonathan LaPlante, and Beth Mand

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

Opening Life's Closet: Acrylics and Fabric by Anne-Margaret Childress
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

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

Remembrance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lorraine Savidge: "painting with thread" -- hand-guided original machine embroidery depicting landscape and design
Paula Burke: decorative and functional ceramics
Barbara Kellogg: abstract water media collages based on places visited
Lauren Bristol: string objects/garments referencing ancient rituals and record keeping

Works of Bill Reddick
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Exhibition of Bill Reddick, renowned Canadian international porcelain artist. Reddick designed the Official State Dinnerware for Canada. His work can be seen at Rideau Hall, the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, and the Porcelain Institute in Jingdexhen, China.

Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

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

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Opening: Darryl Hughto & Susan Roth: New Paintings and Sculptures
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

There will be an opening reception this evening 6:00-8:00 p.m.

The exhibition will feature paintings by both artists created specifically for this exhibition, as well as recent sculptures. A full color exhibition catalog will be available which will include an essay by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

Phantoms
Redhouse

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

Red House Arts Center presents "Phantoms," a New Media art exhibition curated by New York City based gallerist and curator Stephan Stoayanov.

We can attribute the present art and pop-cult fascination with the paranormal and vampires with our ongoing human interest in metamorphosis.The mystery of the unknown will always be something that we obsess about. Our brain creates illusions of words and phrases.

The nine artists included in the exhibition "Phantoms" create illusions through their artwork, which evoke the paranormal and mystical on both personal and universal level. "Phantoms" features the work of Phil Argent (United Kingdom), Heather Bennett (United States), Amelie Chabannes (France), Lieven de Boeck (Belgium), Cliff Evans (Australia), Ellen Harvey (United States), Dominik Lejman (Poland), Marie Maillard (France), and Trine Lise Nedreaas (Norway).

Wild Card Exhibit: Blodgett & Seymour Benefit Art Show
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A Wild Card exhibition of work by the elementary students at Blodgett and Seymour schools to help raise funds for their art programs.

For the past six years, this student art exhibit has proven to be a win-win happening that celebrates young people's talent, motivates parent involvement, delights the general public, and strengthens the arts programs at both schools through sale of the works displayed. The basis for such success evolves from collaboration among Blodgett and Seymour school art teachers—Stacy Griffin, Kristin Dugger, and Kelly Moser-Vogler—and gallery director and manger, Bill Delavan and Caroline Szozda-McGowan.

This show of students' works covers a spectrum of different mediums including prints, clay, glass, collage, painting, hand-made journals and portraiture in finished dimensional pieces showcasing elephants, owls, fish, peacocks, ducks, pigs, Kokopelli's, Aztec Gods, Mehendi Hands and Rangoli. Art works are priced between $10-$30 with half of the sale going to the student and half to their art teacher for supplies. However, more importantly, art teachers agree that the real benefit of the show is in the prestige students experience in having their works displayed in a professional gallery where the encouragement fostered there furthers appreciation of the arts for students and their families alike.

Art: 2003-2009
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Art: 2003-2009" pays tribute to a group of artists aligned with the gallery since its inception over six years ago. The exhibit runs the gamut of artistic endeavors. Among the artists included in the show are: Lydia Benscher, Jamie Ashlaw, Eric W. Shute, A. Brooks Decker, Frank Calidonna, Harry R. Freeman-Jones, Diana Godfrey, Tom Hussey, John Dowling, Roscha Folger, Ruth Wynn, Wendy Harris, R. Jason Howard, Stephen Perrone, Kathleen Schneider, Arthur Brangman, Crystal LaPoint, Thomas Barnes, Tom Townsley, Kyle Mort, Andrea Hall, Stephen Ryan, Patrice Downes Centore, Robert Glisson, James Skvarch, and Vincent Fitches. The gallery is also planning to show works by Amy E. Bartell, Jim Dieso, Douglas Biklen, Tom Champion, Diane Lansing, Robert Carroll, Lauren Ritchie, Phil Austin, Sandy Clift, James R. Walker, Vivian Geiger, Richard Karuzas, Rudy Hellmann, Jennifer Colvin, Richard Schultz, Fred Wellner, Laura J. Wellner, Joyce Day Homan, Linda Esterley, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Mary Kester, and C. J. Hodge.

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Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

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The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Rodger Mack Exhibition
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park

Price: Free
The Spring: Center for Spiritual & Cultural Unity
200 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibit will feature a total of 104 paintings by the late Rodger Mack, one of Syracuse's most well-known and well-loved artists. Internationally known for his sculptures, Mack was also a dynamic painter who created colorful, vibrant works.

The paintings are provided by Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, and the exhibition is made possible by a collaboration between the Park, The Spring and Syracuse University. Proceeds from the sale of Mack's art will go equally to the three not-for-profits.

Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Curated by Lisa Erf, program director, JPMorgan Chase, New York City.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Boys & Girls: The Art of Diane Menzies and Mary Giehl
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Each year in America over 3 million children are abused, nearly 2,000 die, some run away, others are abandoned, all have their own challenges with this sojourn through adolescence. Each day in America, 6 children die from abuse, 100,000 children are homeless, 8 children die from guns, 219 children die before their first birthday, 1,534 babies are born to teenage girls.

In the paintings by Diane Menzies and installations by Mary Giehl, there are hints of darkness and confinement along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness. The work challenges the viewer to take a deeper look at what these images of childhood are telling us.

A Fashion Show to Benefit Haiti
Delavan Art Gallery
Featuring Bilaya's Billie Dreams Couture; Me'Lisa's Jema Couture

Price: $15
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Bilaya Jackson and Me'Lisa Matthews will introduce their designs at a Delavan Art Gallery special event. Net proceeds from the admission fee are being donated to Catholic Relief Services Haiti Relief Fund.

The special event boasts some notable headliners. The Hon. Van B. Robinson, President, City of Syracuse Common Council and his wife, Linda Brown-Robinson, president and owner of an event planning company are Honorary Co-Chairs. Community-theater treasure, Maureen "Moe" Harrington is host for the evening. Joseph G. Slavik, President, Catholic Charities and Community Services will speak briefly about his work as coordinator of the Haiti Relief Fund.

Bilaya Jackson's "Billie Dream's Couture" refers to her alter ego named Billie who, she says, "is the voice inside me that dreams big and has high expectations of success." She says further, "when a young woman wears one of my garments, I want her to feel the same confidence and empowerment that being fashionable instills in me." Jackson's overall theme for her segments of the fashion show is "Concrete Jungle," signifying a mix of brilliant color, shown in the first half as a more masculine dress-up military look and the second part instilled with a vibrant collection of tribal accessories of feathers and beads.

For her line of couture, Matthews implores her middle name, Jema, which means 'my beautiful jewel,' saying she chose it because "my creations are as precious to me as a piece of jewelry is to someone else." She adds, "My clothes really represent both sides of my personality — my wild, free spirited outgoing side and my feminine, girly sensitive side." For the fashion show, Matthews presents two themes for her segments, justifying her dual persona. "Glamrock" designs are colorful and fun with a punk rock feel amid the glitter and rhinestones. "Sea Goddess" designs are more feminine and flow with hues of blues, greens and violets representing the sea, and shimmering gold hues representing a goddess.

Amaus Health Services Benefit Concert

Price: $10
Immaculate Conception Church
400 Salt Springs St., Fayetteville

This concert features nearly 20 local performers and genres including classical, jazz, show tunes, and dance. Performing will be jazz pianist Jerry Exline, tenors Bruce Campbell and Shawn Hebert, Immaculate Conception cantor Sherrie Hale, the Cazenovia College Chorale and Cazenovia High School Chamber Choir, among others.

Amaus provides free health care to the homeless and economically vulnerable in downtown Syracuse. The clinic's services are provided by doctors, nurses and clerical staff who graciously donate their time and professional services. The clinic is entirely dependent on donations, and all proceeds from this performance will benefit the clinic.

Doo Wop Rocks

Price: $52, $62, $77
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Donny Most, with Jay Siegel and the Tokens, The Tymes, The Toys with Barbara Harris, Cathy Jean and the Roommates, George Galfo's Mystics, Kayla Starr and the Super Girl Group (with members of The Cookies, The Jaynettes, Reparata and the Delrons, The Exciters, and The Raindrops)

Classics Series: The Classical Piano
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Jon Nakamatsu, piano; Andrew Russo, piano

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

Haydn Symphony No. 22, The Philosopher
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23
Stravinsky Pulcinella: Suite
Mozart Concerto No. 10 for Two Pianos

Tony Trischka
Westcott Community Center

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

Concert rescheduled from Feb. 13.

Tony Trischka is perhaps the most influential banjo player in the roots music world. For more than 35 years, his stylings have inspired a whole generation of bluegrass and acoustic musicians. He was not only considered among the very best pickers, he was also one of the instrument's top teachers, and created numerous instructional books, teaching video tapes and cassettes. With fearless musical curiosity as the guiding force, Tony Trischka's "Territory" roams widely through the banjo's creative terrain.

"Territory" (Smithsonian Folkways/Ryko) is considerably more than a showcase for the virtuoso banjo playing of Tony Trischka, though that may seem like its principal function. The album is a full-bore banjo tutorial. Mr. Trischka's track-by-track notes include 20 tunings and occasional tips--and a familial jaunt through folk and bluegrass terrain. Featured on the CD are two up-and-coming acoustic artists who have toured extensively with Tony: guitarist and singer Michael Daves, and fiddler Brittany Haas. Mr. Trischka provides a steady connecting line, weaving into his folk and bluegrass musical mix not only Celtic reels but also West African kora music and Hawaiian slide guitar.

Mujeres de Arena: Testimony of Women from Ciudad Juárez
Community Folk Art Center

CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

According to reports, since 1993 more than 576 women have been murdered and over 600 are still missing in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. The climate of violence and impunity continues to grow without any concrete actions being taken to put an end to this femicide. They are young women employed in maquilas or sweat shops, migrants. The murdered women are more than a statistic. They have names, faces, and stories that are too often neglected.

This evening's performance will be in Spanish; the Saturday afternoon performance will be in English.

The Good Doctor
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Jon Barden, director

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

The Good Doctor is Neil Simon's tribute to one of his play writing idols—the Russian playwright Anton Chekov. The play is a series of scenes and vignettes (12 in all) written as Chekov farces with that wonderful funny and poignant Simon touch.

The cast includes Mark Baker, Denise Ballou, Jay Burris, Camille Chace, Stephanie Long, Cole Salo and Josh Taylor.

Pippin
Manlius Pebble Hill School

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

A Night of Israel Horovitz: The Indian Wants the Bronx and It's Called the Sugar Plum
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

The Indian Wants the Bronx
An East Indian (played by Navroz N. Dabu) gets lost on his first day in New York as two teenage punks find him waiting at a lonely bus stop. He cannot understand English, and the boys have some fun with him -- at least it starts out as fun. But as the minutes go by and the bus doesn't come, they get bored; then annoyed; then vicious. As the nightmare spell of the play takes hold, and the boys torture their victim with increasing relish, we are brought to a shocking awareness of how thin the veneer of civilization can be, of how close beneath the surface of all men lurks the primitive impulse to hurt and humiliate those whose very helplessness and inability to communicate can only frustrate and enrage.

It's Called the Sugar Plum
Zuckerman, a college student, ran over and killed a young man riding a skate board. As the play opens he is in his room pasting newspaper clippings into a scrapbook, humming contentedly, as he listens to a report of the accident on the radio. There is a knock at the door. Joanna, the fiancee of the dead man, enters in tears of accusation. After her initial tirade, it's not long before they end up in each other's arms, quarreling over the amount of space devoted to each of them in the newspaper's report of the accident. Zuckerman's outrage during the quarrel seems to be the only emotion he feels, whereas shedding tears is no problem for Joanna. But what amuses and disturbs them most is the chilling speed with which their instinctive self-concern overcomes the grief of the one and the guilt of the other.

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The Shape of Things
Rarely Done Productions
Roy VanNorstrand, director

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

How far would you go for love? For art? What would you be willing to change? Which price might you pay? A young student drifts into an ever-changing relationship with an art major while his best friends' engagement crumbles, so unleashing a drama that peels back the skin of two modern-day relationships, exposing the raw meat and gristle that lie beneath. By Neil LaBute.

Intended for mature audiences only.

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Lookingglass Alice
Syracuse Stage

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

In your wildest imaginings, you've never imagined Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass like this! Staged with endless wit, astonishing physicality, breathtaking aerial acrobatics, and theatrical daring, Alice, The Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and all of Lewis Carroll's enchanting characters come to dizzyingly, playful, gravity-defying life in a circus-like spectacle sure to amaze kids and adults alike. By David Catlin.

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Saturday, March 13, 2010

Works of Bill Reddick
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Exhibition of Bill Reddick, renowned Canadian international porcelain artist. Reddick designed the Official State Dinnerware for Canada. His work can be seen at Rideau Hall, the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, and the Porcelain Institute in Jingdexhen, China.

(re)circulate(d): studies in 'collage': Works of Scott Herrmann
LeMoyne College

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

Scott Herrmann is a graduate of the art programs of Syracuse University and Onondaga Community College. A lifelong resident of Central New York, he resides in Liverpool with his wife and son. He recently participated in the "Collage + Assemblage" exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn. This is his first solo show.

Art: 2003-2009
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Art: 2003-2009" pays tribute to a group of artists aligned with the gallery since its inception over six years ago. The exhibit runs the gamut of artistic endeavors. Among the artists included in the show are: Lydia Benscher, Jamie Ashlaw, Eric W. Shute, A. Brooks Decker, Frank Calidonna, Harry R. Freeman-Jones, Diana Godfrey, Tom Hussey, John Dowling, Roscha Folger, Ruth Wynn, Wendy Harris, R. Jason Howard, Stephen Perrone, Kathleen Schneider, Arthur Brangman, Crystal LaPoint, Thomas Barnes, Tom Townsley, Kyle Mort, Andrea Hall, Stephen Ryan, Patrice Downes Centore, Robert Glisson, James Skvarch, and Vincent Fitches. The gallery is also planning to show works by Amy E. Bartell, Jim Dieso, Douglas Biklen, Tom Champion, Diane Lansing, Robert Carroll, Lauren Ritchie, Phil Austin, Sandy Clift, James R. Walker, Vivian Geiger, Richard Karuzas, Rudy Hellmann, Jennifer Colvin, Richard Schultz, Fred Wellner, Laura J. Wellner, Joyce Day Homan, Linda Esterley, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Mary Kester, and C. J. Hodge.

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Wild Card Exhibit: Blodgett & Seymour Benefit Art Show
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A Wild Card exhibition of work by the elementary students at Blodgett and Seymour schools to help raise funds for their art programs.

For the past six years, this student art exhibit has proven to be a win-win happening that celebrates young people's talent, motivates parent involvement, delights the general public, and strengthens the arts programs at both schools through sale of the works displayed. The basis for such success evolves from collaboration among Blodgett and Seymour school art teachers—Stacy Griffin, Kristin Dugger, and Kelly Moser-Vogler—and gallery director and manger, Bill Delavan and Caroline Szozda-McGowan.

This show of students' works covers a spectrum of different mediums including prints, clay, glass, collage, painting, hand-made journals and portraiture in finished dimensional pieces showcasing elephants, owls, fish, peacocks, ducks, pigs, Kokopelli's, Aztec Gods, Mehendi Hands and Rangoli. Art works are priced between $10-$30 with half of the sale going to the student and half to their art teacher for supplies. However, more importantly, art teachers agree that the real benefit of the show is in the prestige students experience in having their works displayed in a professional gallery where the encouragement fostered there furthers appreciation of the arts for students and their families alike.

Remembrance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lorraine Savidge: "painting with thread" -- hand-guided original machine embroidery depicting landscape and design
Paula Burke: decorative and functional ceramics
Barbara Kellogg: abstract water media collages based on places visited
Lauren Bristol: string objects/garments referencing ancient rituals and record keeping

The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

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Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

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

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

Boys & Girls: The Art of Diane Menzies and Mary Giehl
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Each year in America over 3 million children are abused, nearly 2,000 die, some run away, others are abandoned, all have their own challenges with this sojourn through adolescence. Each day in America, 6 children die from abuse, 100,000 children are homeless, 8 children die from guns, 219 children die before their first birthday, 1,534 babies are born to teenage girls.

In the paintings by Diane Menzies and installations by Mary Giehl, there are hints of darkness and confinement along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness. The work challenges the viewer to take a deeper look at what these images of childhood are telling us.

Darryl Hughto & Susan Roth: New Paintings and Sculptures
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibition will feature paintings by both artists created specifically for this exhibition, as well as recent sculptures. A full color exhibition catalog will be available which will include an essay by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

Rodger Mack Exhibition
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park

Price: Free
The Spring: Center for Spiritual & Cultural Unity
200 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibit will feature a total of 104 paintings by the late Rodger Mack, one of Syracuse's most well-known and well-loved artists. Internationally known for his sculptures, Mack was also a dynamic painter who created colorful, vibrant works.

The paintings are provided by Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, and the exhibition is made possible by a collaboration between the Park, The Spring and Syracuse University. Proceeds from the sale of Mack's art will go equally to the three not-for-profits.

Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Curated by Lisa Erf, program director, JPMorgan Chase, New York City.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

DFtA ArtRage Benefit
Don't Feed the Actors

Price: $12 in advance; $15 regular, $13 students/seniors at the door
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Audience-interactive improv comedy with some of Syracuse's finest comedic actors.

This performance is a benefit for ArtRage Gallery

Classics Series: The Classical Piano
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Jon Nakamatsu, piano; Andrew Russo, piano

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

Haydn Symphony No. 22, The Philosopher
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23
Stravinsky Pulcinella: Suite
Mozart Concerto No. 10 for Two Pianos

Rakhmaninov's Vespers (The All-Night Vigil)
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Robert Cowles, conductor

Price: $14 regular, $12 students/seniors
St. Mary's Church of Minoa
401 North Main St., Minoa

Considered by many to be one of the greatest a cappella choral works ever composed, the All-Night Vigil by Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff is a work of extraordinary power and beauty. Rachmaninoff himself considered it his greatest achievement. Written in less than two weeks in 1915, the All-Night Vigil received its first performance in Moscow at an extraordinarily tense time, coming as it did on the eve of the Bolshevik Revolution. Perhaps this grave political circumstance is what inspired the not-so-religious Rachmaninoff to write a liturgical work of such astonishing depth. Whatever the reason, this is a work for the ages.

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Second Saturday Series: John Cadley and the Lost Boys
Westcott Community Center

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

John Cadly, guitar, mandolin, and vocals, started playing guitar at age 13 after getting a Kingston Trio record from his Aunt Molly and deciding he wanted to be just like Bob Shane. He formed a folk group at boarding school called The Rum Runners and has played in one band or another ever since. His songs have been recorded by Jim Hurst & Missy Raines, Lou Reid, Tony Trischka, John Rossbach, and Silk City (Danny Weiss, Barry Mitterhoff and Larry Cohen).

Raven's Feast
Open Hand Theater
Steve Abrams

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

Steve Abrams created "Raven's Feast" for World Peace Day in 1995, and these three Native American tales are now performed widely in schools and fine arts centers throughout the eastern US. A professional puppeteer for 25 years, he has given more than 4,000 performances. Best known for his great rapport with children, Steve also has a fine reputation among adults as a teacher and entertainer.

Beauty and the Beast
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive adaptation of the children's classic.

Mujeres de Arena: Testimony of Women from Ciudad Juárez
Community Folk Art Center

CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

According to reports, since 1993 more than 576 women have been murdered and over 600 are still missing in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. The climate of violence and impunity continues to grow without any concrete actions being taken to put an end to this femicide. They are young women employed in maquilas or sweat shops, migrants. The murdered women are more than a statistic. They have names, faces, and stories that are too often neglected.

This afternoon performance's will be in English; the Friday evening performance (3/12) will be in Spanish.

Lookingglass Alice
Syracuse Stage

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

In your wildest imaginings, you've never imagined Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass like this! Staged with endless wit, astonishing physicality, breathtaking aerial acrobatics, and theatrical daring, Alice, The Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and all of Lewis Carroll's enchanting characters come to dizzyingly, playful, gravity-defying life in a circus-like spectacle sure to amaze kids and adults alike. By David Catlin.

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Idol Assassination
Without a Cue Productions
Sara Caliva, director

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

It's the final night of Big American Star, and America is going to get a chance to vote for its next...big American star. The contestants are at each other's throats, dangerously close to ripping out one another's vocal chords, while the judges and host stir up drama to boost sagging ratings. By the time the contestants are ready to sing, the atmosphere has turned murderous, and the contestants may "knock 'em dead" in more ways than one.

The show is an interactive murder mystery that involves the members of the audience.

The Good Doctor
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Jon Barden, director

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

The Good Doctor is Neil Simon's tribute to one of his play writing idols—the Russian playwright Anton Chekov. The play is a series of scenes and vignettes (12 in all) written as Chekov farces with that wonderful funny and poignant Simon touch.

The cast includes Mark Baker, Denise Ballou, Jay Burris, Camille Chace, Stephanie Long, Cole Salo and Josh Taylor.

Pippin
Manlius Pebble Hill School

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

A Night of Israel Horovitz: The Indian Wants the Bronx and It's Called the Sugar Plum
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

The Indian Wants the Bronx
An East Indian (played by Navroz N. Dabu) gets lost on his first day in New York as two teenage punks find him waiting at a lonely bus stop. He cannot understand English, and the boys have some fun with him -- at least it starts out as fun. But as the minutes go by and the bus doesn't come, they get bored; then annoyed; then vicious. As the nightmare spell of the play takes hold, and the boys torture their victim with increasing relish, we are brought to a shocking awareness of how thin the veneer of civilization can be, of how close beneath the surface of all men lurks the primitive impulse to hurt and humiliate those whose very helplessness and inability to communicate can only frustrate and enrage.

It's Called the Sugar Plum
Zuckerman, a college student, ran over and killed a young man riding a skate board. As the play opens he is in his room pasting newspaper clippings into a scrapbook, humming contentedly, as he listens to a report of the accident on the radio. There is a knock at the door. Joanna, the fiancee of the dead man, enters in tears of accusation. After her initial tirade, it's not long before they end up in each other's arms, quarreling over the amount of space devoted to each of them in the newspaper's report of the accident. Zuckerman's outrage during the quarrel seems to be the only emotion he feels, whereas shedding tears is no problem for Joanna. But what amuses and disturbs them most is the chilling speed with which their instinctive self-concern overcomes the grief of the one and the guilt of the other.

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The Shape of Things
Rarely Done Productions
Roy VanNorstrand, director

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

How far would you go for love? For art? What would you be willing to change? Which price might you pay? A young student drifts into an ever-changing relationship with an art major while his best friends' engagement crumbles, so unleashing a drama that peels back the skin of two modern-day relationships, exposing the raw meat and gristle that lie beneath. By Neil LaBute.

Intended for mature audiences only.

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Lookingglass Alice
Syracuse Stage

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

In your wildest imaginings, you've never imagined Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass like this! Staged with endless wit, astonishing physicality, breathtaking aerial acrobatics, and theatrical daring, Alice, The Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and all of Lewis Carroll's enchanting characters come to dizzyingly, playful, gravity-defying life in a circus-like spectacle sure to amaze kids and adults alike. By David Catlin.

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Sunday, March 14, 2010

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

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The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

(re)circulate(d): studies in 'collage': Works of Scott Herrmann
LeMoyne College

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

Scott Herrmann is a graduate of the art programs of Syracuse University and Onondaga Community College. A lifelong resident of Central New York, he resides in Liverpool with his wife and son. He recently participated in the "Collage + Assemblage" exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn. This is his first solo show.

Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Curated by Lisa Erf, program director, JPMorgan Chase, New York City.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Side-by-Side Concert
Syracuse Youth Orchestras
Daniel Hege, conductor

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

Performance features the Syracuse Symphony Youth Orchestra, the Syracuse Symphony Youth String Orchestra, and the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. Winners of the 40th annual Youth Concerto Competition will be featured: Cecelia Lee, violin, a senior at Fayetteville-Manlius High School; Adam Rothenberg, piano, a junior at Liverpool High School; and Mark Sieling, piano, a senior at Manlius Pebble Hill School. Program will feature Marc Mellits Octet, Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Overture, Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture, and Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture.

Singing Together for Haiti

Price: $10 suggested donation
First United Methodist Church of Baldwinsville
17 W. Genesee St., Baldwinsville

The concert will include local singers Tom Anzalone, Rebecca Horning, Nancy James, Elisabeth Kisselstein, and Jim Shults, who are affiliated with the Syracuse Opera Chorus and the music faculties at Syracuse University and SUNY Oswego. Members of the choirs of Baldwinsville First United Methodist Church and Fairmount Community Church will also perform. Proceeds will benefit KONPAY (www.konpay.org.

For more information, email elisabeth.kisselstein@gmail.com or phone 315-450-2894.

Syracuse School District All-City Instrumental Music Festival

Price: Free
Henninger High School
600 Robinson St., Syracuse

Concert features orchestras and elementary, junior high, and senior high bands. For more information, phone 315-435-4181.

Silver Screen Spectacular
Syracuse University Brass Ensemble
James T. Spencer, conductor

Price: Suggested donation: $6 family, $5 regular, $2 seniors
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Silver Screen Spectacular is a multimedia event featuring live music and projected images by Larry Royer, owner of Syracuse-based Animotion Inc. The program includes a popular James Bond medley, as well as selections from Aladdin, Mary Poppins, The Mission, Silverado, How the West Was Won and Hook.

All donations will benefit the SU Brass Ensemble.

For more information, phone 315-786-2458.

Rakhmaninov's Vespers (The All-Night Vigil)
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Robert Cowles, conductor

Price: $14 regular, $12 students/seniors
St. Patrick's Church
216 N. Lowell Ave., Tipperary Hill, Syracuse

Considered by many to be one of the greatest a cappella choral works ever composed, the All-Night Vigil by Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff is a work of extraordinary power and beauty. Rachmaninoff himself considered it his greatest achievement. Written in less than two weeks in 1915, the All-Night Vigil received its first performance in Moscow at an extraordinarily tense time, coming as it did on the eve of the Bolshevik Revolution. Perhaps this grave political circumstance is what inspired the not-so-religious Rachmaninoff to write a liturgical work of such astonishing depth. Whatever the reason, this is a work for the ages.

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A Night of Israel Horovitz: The Indian Wants the Bronx and It's Called the Sugar Plum
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

The Indian Wants the Bronx
An East Indian (played by Navroz N. Dabu) gets lost on his first day in New York as two teenage punks find him waiting at a lonely bus stop. He cannot understand English, and the boys have some fun with him -- at least it starts out as fun. But as the minutes go by and the bus doesn't come, they get bored; then annoyed; then vicious. As the nightmare spell of the play takes hold, and the boys torture their victim with increasing relish, we are brought to a shocking awareness of how thin the veneer of civilization can be, of how close beneath the surface of all men lurks the primitive impulse to hurt and humiliate those whose very helplessness and inability to communicate can only frustrate and enrage.

It's Called the Sugar Plum
Zuckerman, a college student, ran over and killed a young man riding a skate board. As the play opens he is in his room pasting newspaper clippings into a scrapbook, humming contentedly, as he listens to a report of the accident on the radio. There is a knock at the door. Joanna, the fiancee of the dead man, enters in tears of accusation. After her initial tirade, it's not long before they end up in each other's arms, quarreling over the amount of space devoted to each of them in the newspaper's report of the accident. Zuckerman's outrage during the quarrel seems to be the only emotion he feels, whereas shedding tears is no problem for Joanna. But what amuses and disturbs them most is the chilling speed with which their instinctive self-concern overcomes the grief of the one and the guilt of the other.

Read a Review!

Lookingglass Alice
Syracuse Stage

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

In your wildest imaginings, you've never imagined Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass like this! Staged with endless wit, astonishing physicality, breathtaking aerial acrobatics, and theatrical daring, Alice, The Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and all of Lewis Carroll's enchanting characters come to dizzyingly, playful, gravity-defying life in a circus-like spectacle sure to amaze kids and adults alike. By David Catlin.

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