Saturday, November 7, 2009

Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $15 non-members, $12 students/seniors, $10 Everson members, children 5 and under free, $50 family rate (maximum two adults and four dependent children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This collection is comprised of an extraordinary group of 19th- and early 20th-century paintings collected largely between 1908 and 1923 by sisters Margaret and Gwendoline Davies. By 1914, the Davies sisters had assembled one of the finest collections of European modern art in Britain, with works from artists such as Paul Cézanne, Camille Corot, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Joseph M.W. Turner, among several others.

Turner to Cézanne speaks volumes about taste, patronage and philanthropy. The 53 original works by 29 artists included also a present survey of modern art, ranging from Turner's Romantic naturalism to Cézanne's modern aesthetic innovations. This exhibition serves as a reminder of the value of creativity, and of persistence, as many of the artists were, at first, either misunderstood or scorned.

Docent-led tours are available Tuesday-Thursday at 2:00 pm and Saturdays at 10:00 am and 3:00 pm. These tours are complimentary with exhibition admission, and no reservation is required. A complimentary cell phone audio tour is available to all visitors.

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Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Wild Card Exhibition: Transitional Living Services Art Exhibit
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Elements
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Paintings by Lynette Blake, ceramics by Amy Haven, and paintings by James Van Hoven

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Works by Jeremy Randall
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Ceramic artist Jeremy Randall was recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009.

Randall, of Tully, is co-owner of the gallery. He also is a visiting professor of art and studio manager at Cazenovia College and an adjunct instructor of ceramics at Syracuse University.

Randall's work has been featured in some 40 exhibitions and is held in the collections of Southern Illinois University and the Myerhoff Collection in Baltimore. This year alone, he has shown at the Meredith Gallery in Baltimore, Baltimore Clayworks, Limestone Art Gallery in Fayetteville, the Art House Gallery in Atlanta, the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, Fla., and the Cazenovia College Art Gallery.

Pottery Plus Show and Sale
Syracuse Ceramic Guild

Price: Free
Syracuse Vineyard Church
312 Lakeside Rd., Syracuse

Exhibit and sale of ceramics, painting, jewelry, and fiber arts.

For more information, visit the website.

Works by Patricia Tucker, Sharon Terry, and David Lisi
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Patricia Tucker, painting; Sharon Terry, jewelry; and David Lisi, pottery.

Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective" features 50 years of prints, drawings, collages and sculptures by Catlett, who is an icon of American art. The exhibition was organized with the assistance of Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA.

Born in Washington, DC, Elizabeth Catlett graduated from Howard University with a degree in painting and was the first student to receive an M.F.A. degree in sculpture from the University of Iowa in 1940. She later studied ceramics at the Art Institute of Chicago, and lithography at the Art Students League in New York. In 1943, she studied with sculptor Ossip Zadkine in New York. Catlett was awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1946, under which she travelled to Mexico to study sculpture, mural painting and printmaking. In Mexico, she worked at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura and at the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Arts Workshop), a group of artists who created art that expressed desire for social change. In 1947, she married Mexican artist Francisco Mora, and became a naturalized Mexican citizen in 1962. A lifelong artist, activist and educator, Catlett is known for her depiction of social and political issues, in particular those relating to African American and women's themes.

Elizabeth Catlett has taught at Dillard University, Hampton University, the George Washington Carver School, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, where she became the first female professor and first female department chair at the School of Fine Arts.

She retired in 1976 and makes her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she continues to work in her studio. Her work is featured in many public and private collections around the world, and she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Catlett has been the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees.

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35th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

Original crafts and fine arts by more than 50 artists and craftspeople from Central New York. For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Syracuse During the Time of Impressionism
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A complementary exhibit to the Everson Museum of Art's "From Turner To Cezanne", OHA's exhibit will look at what was happening in Syracuse at the time of the European Impressionist painters, 1880-1916. The exhibit will feature artwork, clothing, products, archival material, and other items that will interpret the Syracuse scene during this time impressionist painters were viewed by their contemporaries as "outrageously modern."

John Wood: On the Edge of Clear Meaning
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This retrospective exhibition highlights the work of mixed media photography pioneer John Wood. Over 100 works that chronicle the artist's work from the 1960s to the present will be on display in his first major retrospective exhibition.

Well known as a photographer who routinely broke the barriers of "pure photography," Wood's work is credited as being the foundation for the mixed media and digital imagery processes of the last two decades. A master of processes from straight photography, collage, cliché verre, solarization, mixed media, offset lithography to drawing, he has a unique ability to work decisively across a variety of media with ease.

Wood's early influences as a photographer stem from his time served in the Army Air Corps as a B-17 pilot, as seen in his multiple frame landscapes and time-lapse collages. After the war, Wood trained as a visual designer and photographer at the Institute of Design in Chicago. Wood spent 35 years teaching photography and printmaking at the School of Art and Design at Alfred University in Alfred, NY. Like the work of Jasper Johns, John Wood is relentless in pushing the boundaries of traditional media. His work has laid the groundwork for the multi process, cross disciplinary artwork being created for years.

Paid parking is available for weekday visitors in any SU pay lot. Free parking for weekend and evening visitors is available in the Q4 lot, located on College Place. Patrons should notify the attendant that they are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Evening and weekend parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome.

The Picture Man: Photographs of Milton Rogovin
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Milton Rogovin is a social documentary photographer, with a focus of photographing the poor and working class for 50 years. His choice of subject was summed up in his words, "The rich have their own photographers. I have chosen to photograph the poor." Rogovin has photographed miners in 10 nations, collaborated with the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, photographed a six-square block neighborhood in Buffalo for 30 years, and so much more. In 1957, he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Because he refused to "name names" he was blacklisted and his optometry practice in Buffalo suffered. "My voice was essentially silenced, so I decided to speak out through photography." In 1969, the Library of Congress accepted Rogovin's entire body of work.

Annual Group Show
Open Figure Drawing

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

More than a dozen members of the weekly drawing group exhibit diverse interpretations of the human figure in a variety of media: pen, pencil, pastel, charcoal, scratch board, oil, acrylic, and watercolor. For more information, visit www.openfiguredrawing.com or call Iver Johnson, 315-475-3400.

VPA Faculty Show
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An exhibition of work by faculty members in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. For more information, phone 315-443-5889.

Window Project: This is Not Site-Specific by Nathan Cordero
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Syracuse-based, self-taught Nathan Cordero moved recently from Sacramento, CA, where he worked primarily in public art. For the Window Projects, Cordero has covered the wall with paintings that refer to urban art while also creating an assemblage (through the inclusion of everyday objects into the artwork). An excellent draftsman, his art is about self-expression, protest and the desire to take street art into the galleries.

For this exhibition, Cordero used found objects such as plywood and photographs. He covered a person's face in the photographs to make her/him look like a thief or terrorist, and to reflect upon specific events in his personal life that also refer to issues in today's society. Engraved into the plywood, the paintings manifest the artist's ease in the medium. He uses masking tape or paint to refer to common television talk shows, personal events or books that are part of pop culture. Cordero's work, which was for the most part created within the last few months, demonstrates the artist's capacity of turning daily, banal or threatening events into art. This is his first solo museum exhibition.

American Ream: Works of Marco Maggi
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition features the installation HOTBED (ORANGE), the drawing PLEXI LINE, and the video D-REAMS. The exhibition is intended for audiences of all ages.

Uruguayan-born, New Paltz-based Marco Maggi is best known for his use of everyday materials on which he inscribes a vocabulary that evokes Aztec culture and the art of Joaquín Torres-García. By focusing on visual codes (such as repeated visual symbols that only suggest objects), spatiality, and the political connotations of maps, Maggi's work also reflects Latin American traditions and concerns expressed by many contemporary artists. American Ream (The Warehouse Gallery) and Slow Scandal (The Point of Contact Gallery) are the result of a partnership between both organizations and feature media that the artist chose as a means of responding to both spaces.

Don't Feed the Actors Dinner Theater
Don't Feed the Actors

Price: Dinner theater: $25 single; $40 couple. Show only: $15 on day of show if seating available
Fire and Ice Banquet Hall, The Locker Room
528 Hiawatha Blvd., Syracuse

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

Dinner 6:45 pm, show begins at 8:00 pm.

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Classics Series: Paul Taylor Dance Company
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
David LaMarche, conductor

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

Co-produced by Syracuse University and the SSO, the event features performances of "Also Playing" (set to the music of Donizetti), "Cascade" (set to the music of Bach), and the world premiere of the University-commissioned "Brief Encounters" (set to the music of Debussy), all choreographed by Paul Taylor.

B-Movie Festival
Alternative Movies and Events

Gear Factory Gallery
200 South Geddes St., Syracuse

The following features are set to screen:
Scream of the Bikini
The Bounty
Sexina, Popstar Pi
Doctor "S" Battles the Sex-Crazed Reefers Zombies
Bikini Girls on Ice
The Hills have Thighs
Monkeys Wear Cement Shoes

The following shorts are set to screen:
The Baby Shredder Song
Deadspeil
Massacrator
Clowns vs Ninjas
Zombies and Cigarettes
Blood from a Stone
Spaceman on Earth
Blind Date of Coffin Joe
Death in Charge
The Ballad of Angel Face
Lions... Tigers... Bears

L'Heure exquise: A Gallery Walk Recital
Syracuse Opera
Featuring Julie Nesrallah, mezzo-soprano; Chad Sloan, baritone; Douglas Kinney Frost, piano

Price: $35 includes exhibition admission
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A unique vocal program specifically designed to highlight paintings in Turner to Cézanne, L'Heure exquise will feature musical selections from Debussy, Ravel, Duparc and Fauré, set to the poetry of Verlaine, Hugo and Moréas, among others. Spanning 100 years from English Romanticism through Impressionism, and paving the way into the 20th century, each pairing of visual and musical art will inspire a deep resonance of both sight and sound in the works and of mind and heart in the listener.

View the original paintings as you hear these live performances in the galleries and learn about selected works in the exhibition. Enjoy a dessert reception with the artists following the recital. Tickets include admission to exhibition, recital and dessert reception. Attendance is limited to 35 people.

**SOLD OUT** Karen Savoca & Pete Heitzman
Redhouse

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

Karen Savoca is a gifted songwriter, drawing you into her world with humor and compassion, telling her stories with such grace and ease, you feel as though you've been invited to her table for supper. Savoca composes and records on a variety of instruments, but opts for the primal combination of voice and drum in live performance, and the groove is deep and satisfying.

Pete Heitzman's inspired and transcendent guitar work is central to their signature sound. An innovative and sensitive accompanist, Heitzman, a Syracuse native, is so full of surprises that he has been called "a human aurora borealis".

Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music
New York Chamber Soloists

Price: $20 regular, $15 senior, $10 student, children under 13 free
Lincoln Middle School
1613 James St., Syracuse

This group of distinguished virtuosi performs a diverse repertoire in creatively-programmed concerts that include winds as well as strings. Founded in 1959, the ensemble has toured worldwide, and is repeatedly invited back to perform in such notable series as the Library of Congress in Washington and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. We last enjoyed them in Syracuse in 2004.

Mozart Serenade No. 13 in G Major, K.525, "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"
Prokofiev Quintet in G minor for oboe, clarinet and strings, Op. 39
Brahms Quintet in B minor for Clarinet and Strings, Op. 115

Everybody Loves Pirates
Open Hand Theater
Frogtown Mountain Puppeteers

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

Everybody loved Frogtown Mountain Puppeteers and their wild west show at WOP last year. Now this small puppetry troupe comprised of three siblings—Erik, Brian, and Robin Torbeck—are back with the antics of their swash-buckling pirate puppets. As a young up-and-coming company, Frogtown Mountain Puppeteers received the 2008 Citation of Excellence in the Art of Puppetry from Puppeteers of America-Unima-USA.

The Woman in the Blue Dress
Syracuse Stage
Leslie Noble, director

Price: $5
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Woman in the Blue Dress is a multi-media theatre work that brings to life Henriette Henriot, a fledgling actress at the Théâtre de L'Odéon in Paris and model for artist Pierre-August Renoir's "La Parisienne." In the work, Henriette, played by Kathleen Wrinn, shares her provocative story of life in the theatre, her experience in the Parisian art world of the 1870s, and what it was like to model for Renoir, the most shocking Impressionist painter of his day. The Woman in the Blue Dress is an original 30-minute piece by Stage's Director of Educational Programming Lauren Unbekant. This special project is presented in conjunction with the Turner to Cézanne exhibit at the Everson Museum.

The Little Mermaid
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interaction adaptation of this children's favorite. The audience helps the Mermaid foil the Seawitch and get her voice back.

The Woman in the Blue Dress
Syracuse Stage
Leslie Noble, director

Price: $5
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Woman in the Blue Dress is a multi-media theatre work that brings to life Henriette Henriot, a fledgling actress at the Théâtre de L'Odéon in Paris and model for artist Pierre-August Renoir's "La Parisienne." In the work, Henriette, played by Kathleen Wrinn, shares her provocative story of life in the theatre, her experience in the Parisian art world of the 1870s, and what it was like to model for Renoir, the most shocking Impressionist painter of his day. The Woman in the Blue Dress is an original 30-minute piece by Stage's Director of Educational Programming Lauren Unbekant. This special project is presented in conjunction with the Turner to Cézanne exhibit at the Everson Museum.

Any Wednesday
Onondaga Hillplayers
Robert Steingraber, director

Price: $35 includes dinner, show, tax, and tip
Sunset Ridge Golf Club
2814 W. Seneca Tpke., Marcellus

A light and bouncy comedy by Muriel Resnik.

For reservations, phone 315-673-2255.

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Death by Disco
Without a Cue Productions

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

Welcome to the Land of Oz Discoteria and the "3rd Annual World Championship of Disco Championship." Contestants are ready to show their moves, but they don't know that tonight some competition will definitely be stiff. Join us for "Death by Disco." a murderous evening of theater, dancing, and great food!

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Appleseed Productions
William Edward White, director

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

The respected Dr. Jekyll has begun to display alarmingly erratic behavior toward his friends. At the same time, a brutal figure has begun to haunt the city's streets. In Jeffrey Hatcher's intense new version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale, Dr. Jekyll confronts the many faces of the monstrous Mr. Hyde in a maze of interlocking scenes that attempt to answer the puzzles at the heart of a tortured soul. On the fog-bound streets of Victorian-era London, Henry Jekyll's experiments with exotic "powders and tinctures" have brought forth his other self -- Edward Hyde, a sensualist and villain free to commit the sins Jekyll is too civilized to comprehend. When Hyde meets a woman who stirs his interest, Jekyll fears for her life and decides to end his experiments. But Hyde has other ideas, and so the two sides battle each other in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse to determine who shall be the master and who his slave.

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As You Like It
LeMoyne College
Steve Braddock, director

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Shakespeare's astutely funny pastoral comedy, As You Like It, runs the gamut of the comedic canon, combining cross-dressing and slapstick with gentle satire and sparkling, witty conversation.

As You Like It follows the lively exploits of banished Rosalind and her quest for true love amid the schemes of two warring brothers. In the untarnished and idyllic Forest of Arden, Rosalind, disguised as a gentleman farmer, stumbles upon an extraordinary assemblage of characters, including a fool, a malcontent traveler, her own exiled father, and the cast-out young man she loves.

The play, which contains some of Shakespeare's loveliest poetry, including "All the world's a stage," provides a glimpse into the contrasts between the courtbristling with envy and rivalryand the compassionate harmony of the forest, allowing us to recognize our own human foibles by considering the romantic versus the realistic, and by laughing at the excesses of love.

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Sunday, November 8, 2009

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $15 non-members, $12 students/seniors, $10 Everson members, children 5 and under free, $50 family rate (maximum two adults and four dependent children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This collection is comprised of an extraordinary group of 19th- and early 20th-century paintings collected largely between 1908 and 1923 by sisters Margaret and Gwendoline Davies. By 1914, the Davies sisters had assembled one of the finest collections of European modern art in Britain, with works from artists such as Paul Cézanne, Camille Corot, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Joseph M.W. Turner, among several others.

Turner to Cézanne speaks volumes about taste, patronage and philanthropy. The 53 original works by 29 artists included also a present survey of modern art, ranging from Turner's Romantic naturalism to Cézanne's modern aesthetic innovations. This exhibition serves as a reminder of the value of creativity, and of persistence, as many of the artists were, at first, either misunderstood or scorned.

Docent-led tours are available Tuesday-Thursday at 2:00 pm and Saturdays at 10:00 am and 3:00 pm. These tours are complimentary with exhibition admission, and no reservation is required. A complimentary cell phone audio tour is available to all visitors.

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Corporeal: Works by Deana Lawson
Light Work Gallery

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

Deana Lawson's photographs examine how the body informs personal, political, and historical identities. Her psychological portraits seem to start out in one shape before morphing into something unexpected. Their apparent transparency at first glance dissolves into a complex set of questions about the people who are imaged and the nature of photographing, questions that will never have clear and finite answers, no matter how hard and long we look.

Lawson calls the people she photographs her family, whether they are in fact related or whether they met as friends in church, at the grocery store, or in a club. The ties that bind her images together are not in the blood but rather in the shared experience of representation.

If the personal is political, then the portrait may present the most intense form in which to control the message of the self. In viewing Lawson's portraits, as we come to terms with the body and the sometimes uncomfortable intimacy of a stranger's personal truth, we see flesh, beauty, pain, salvation, life, and death all performed within the context of the frame. As bare identities emerge from these photographs, we may reassess the often easily avoided questions of what we are willing to look at and why.

The rooms and faces in the photographs may change, but the gaze and gesture of Lawson's subjects consistently telegraph a unified refrain: The beauty of this moment in front of the lens belongs to them. The people in her photographs offer an unrelenting intention to be seen as they want to be seen. Just as important, they possess an unbridled courage to reveal that fleeting truth to others. Although Lawson is a collaborator and co-adventurer in the making of each picture, her subjects make the key contributions that give the photographs in Corporeal their power.

Artists at Work: Transmedia Photo Faculty
Light Work Gallery

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

For many years Light Work has enjoyed a close affiliation with the art photography department in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. The faculty and students of art photo interact with Light Work's roster of international artists through lectures, internships, and classroom visits. In addition, they utilize the Community Darkrooms facilities and take full advantage of the expertise of the Light Work staff. Together we share an energy, passion, and commitment to contemporary art and photography. The exhibition "Artists At Work: Transmedia Photo Faculty" highlights this relationship by featuring work by Doug Dubois, Laura Heyman, Yasser Aggour, John Wesley Mannion, Aaron Hraba, Jennifer Wilkey, Sara Zamecnik, Kelli Pennington, Jeffrey Einhorn, and Shimpei Shirafuji.

Works by Jeremy Randall
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Ceramic artist Jeremy Randall was recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009.

Randall, of Tully, is co-owner of the gallery. He also is a visiting professor of art and studio manager at Cazenovia College and an adjunct instructor of ceramics at Syracuse University.

Randall's work has been featured in some 40 exhibitions and is held in the collections of Southern Illinois University and the Myerhoff Collection in Baltimore. This year alone, he has shown at the Meredith Gallery in Baltimore, Baltimore Clayworks, Limestone Art Gallery in Fayetteville, the Art House Gallery in Atlanta, the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, Fla., and the Cazenovia College Art Gallery.

35th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

Original crafts and fine arts by more than 50 artists and craftspeople from Central New York. For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Syracuse During the Time of Impressionism
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A complementary exhibit to the Everson Museum of Art's "From Turner To Cezanne", OHA's exhibit will look at what was happening in Syracuse at the time of the European Impressionist painters, 1880-1916. The exhibit will feature artwork, clothing, products, archival material, and other items that will interpret the Syracuse scene during this time impressionist painters were viewed by their contemporaries as "outrageously modern."

John Wood: On the Edge of Clear Meaning
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This retrospective exhibition highlights the work of mixed media photography pioneer John Wood. Over 100 works that chronicle the artist's work from the 1960s to the present will be on display in his first major retrospective exhibition.

Well known as a photographer who routinely broke the barriers of "pure photography," Wood's work is credited as being the foundation for the mixed media and digital imagery processes of the last two decades. A master of processes from straight photography, collage, cliché verre, solarization, mixed media, offset lithography to drawing, he has a unique ability to work decisively across a variety of media with ease.

Wood's early influences as a photographer stem from his time served in the Army Air Corps as a B-17 pilot, as seen in his multiple frame landscapes and time-lapse collages. After the war, Wood trained as a visual designer and photographer at the Institute of Design in Chicago. Wood spent 35 years teaching photography and printmaking at the School of Art and Design at Alfred University in Alfred, NY. Like the work of Jasper Johns, John Wood is relentless in pushing the boundaries of traditional media. His work has laid the groundwork for the multi process, cross disciplinary artwork being created for years.

Paid parking is available for weekday visitors in any SU pay lot. Free parking for weekend and evening visitors is available in the Q4 lot, located on College Place. Patrons should notify the attendant that they are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Evening and weekend parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome.

Works by Patricia Tucker, Sharon Terry, and David Lisi
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Patricia Tucker, painting; Sharon Terry, jewelry; and David Lisi, pottery.

VPA Faculty Show
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An exhibition of work by faculty members in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. For more information, phone 315-443-5889.

B-Movie Festival
Alternative Movies and Events

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Film screenings and awards ceremony.

**RESCHEDULED to 11/10** Live at the Everson
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring David LeDoux, cello; Daniel Kim, piano

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

This performance has been rescheduled to Tues., 11/10, 7:30 pm.

Music by Ravel, Debussy, Poulenc, and Stravinsky.

Fayetteville Free Library
Syracuse Symphony Flute and String Ensemble

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

Works include a Mozart flute quartet and a Beethoven trio.

L'Heure exquise
Syracuse Opera
Featuring Julie Nesrallah, mezzo-soprano; Chad Sloan, baritone; Douglas Kinney Frost, piano

Price: $20 recital only; tickets for the exhibit are available for an additional $12
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A unique vocal program specifically designed to highlight paintings in Turner to Cézanne, "L'Heure exquise" will feature musical selections from Debussy, Ravel, Duparc and Fauré, set to the poetry of Verlaine, Hugo and Moréas, among others. Spanning 100 years from English Romanticism through Impressionism, and paving the way into the 20th century, each pairing of visual and musical art will inspire a deep resonance of both sight and sound in the works and of mind and heart in the listener. This full-length recital will include projected images of works from the exhibit by Turner, Manet, Renoir, Daumier, Corot and Cézanne.

Piano Recital
Joyful Noise Concert Series
Featuring Sam Emanuel, piano

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

Works by Chopin, Haydn, and more.

Jonathan Ortloff, 2008 ATOS Young Organist of the Year
Syracuse Wurlitzer

Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Jonathan Ortloff is a student at the University of Rochester Eastman School of Music where he studies under David Higgs and William Porter. A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, he plans to build pipe organs upon graduation. Over the past six years, Jon has worked for renowned organ builders and restorers in the United States including C.B. Fisk, Russell & Company, Paul Fritts & Company, and Jonathan Ambrosino. In 2006, he was awarded a grant from the Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City to stay an additional year at the university to plan for the restoration of the 1937 G. Donald Harrison Aeolian-Skinner organ in Strong Auditorium on the university's River Campus. Currently, he is a member of the OHS committee rewriting the guidelines for conservation and documentation and is the organist for the First Church of Christ, Scientist in Rochester. He is also directing the restoration of an 8-rank Wurlitzer theatre organ in his hometown of Plattsburgh, New York. In 2008 Jonathan won the ATOS Young Organist of the Year award. This is Jonathan's second theatre organ performance in Syracuse.

The Woman in the Blue Dress
Syracuse Stage
Leslie Noble, director

Price: $5
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Woman in the Blue Dress is a multi-media theatre work that brings to life Henriette Henriot, a fledgling actress at the Théâtre de L'Odéon in Paris and model for artist Pierre-August Renoir's "La Parisienne." In the work, Henriette, played by Kathleen Wrinn, shares her provocative story of life in the theatre, her experience in the Parisian art world of the 1870s, and what it was like to model for Renoir, the most shocking Impressionist painter of his day. The Woman in the Blue Dress is an original 30-minute piece by Stage's Director of Educational Programming Lauren Unbekant. This special project is presented in conjunction with the Turner to Cézanne exhibit at the Everson Museum.

Any Wednesday
Onondaga Hillplayers
Robert Steingraber, director

Price: $35 includes dinner, show, tax, and tip
Sunset Ridge Golf Club
2814 W. Seneca Tpke., Marcellus

A light and bouncy comedy by Muriel Resnik.

For reservations, phone 315-673-2255.

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Monday, November 9, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Mary Giehl
Onondaga Community College

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

Mary Giehl's work has taken on themes that she had encountered through her work experience as a registered nurse in a pediatric intensive care unit. She had often cared for children after they had been abused. Much of her work focuses around this theme. There are hints of darkness and confinement in her installations along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Twenty-two pieces of Bond's work was donated to the SU's Bird Library by alumnus Carl Armani. The exhibition, which includes these works, is a retrospective of 30 years of Bond's creative work highlighting the photographer's mastery of abstraction, proximity, pattern, texture, and landscape.

Presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

Works by Jeremy Randall
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Ceramic artist Jeremy Randall was recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009.

Randall, of Tully, is co-owner of the gallery. He also is a visiting professor of art and studio manager at Cazenovia College and an adjunct instructor of ceramics at Syracuse University.

Randall's work has been featured in some 40 exhibitions and is held in the collections of Southern Illinois University and the Myerhoff Collection in Baltimore. This year alone, he has shown at the Meredith Gallery in Baltimore, Baltimore Clayworks, Limestone Art Gallery in Fayetteville, the Art House Gallery in Atlanta, the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, Fla., and the Cazenovia College Art Gallery.

Artists at Work: Transmedia Photo Faculty
Light Work Gallery

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

For many years Light Work has enjoyed a close affiliation with the art photography department in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. The faculty and students of art photo interact with Light Work's roster of international artists through lectures, internships, and classroom visits. In addition, they utilize the Community Darkrooms facilities and take full advantage of the expertise of the Light Work staff. Together we share an energy, passion, and commitment to contemporary art and photography. The exhibition "Artists At Work: Transmedia Photo Faculty" highlights this relationship by featuring work by Doug Dubois, Laura Heyman, Yasser Aggour, John Wesley Mannion, Aaron Hraba, Jennifer Wilkey, Sara Zamecnik, Kelli Pennington, Jeffrey Einhorn, and Shimpei Shirafuji.

Corporeal: Works by Deana Lawson
Light Work Gallery

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

Deana Lawson's photographs examine how the body informs personal, political, and historical identities. Her psychological portraits seem to start out in one shape before morphing into something unexpected. Their apparent transparency at first glance dissolves into a complex set of questions about the people who are imaged and the nature of photographing, questions that will never have clear and finite answers, no matter how hard and long we look.

Lawson calls the people she photographs her family, whether they are in fact related or whether they met as friends in church, at the grocery store, or in a club. The ties that bind her images together are not in the blood but rather in the shared experience of representation.

If the personal is political, then the portrait may present the most intense form in which to control the message of the self. In viewing Lawson's portraits, as we come to terms with the body and the sometimes uncomfortable intimacy of a stranger's personal truth, we see flesh, beauty, pain, salvation, life, and death all performed within the context of the frame. As bare identities emerge from these photographs, we may reassess the often easily avoided questions of what we are willing to look at and why.

The rooms and faces in the photographs may change, but the gaze and gesture of Lawson's subjects consistently telegraph a unified refrain: The beauty of this moment in front of the lens belongs to them. The people in her photographs offer an unrelenting intention to be seen as they want to be seen. Just as important, they possess an unbridled courage to reveal that fleeting truth to others. Although Lawson is a collaborator and co-adventurer in the making of each picture, her subjects make the key contributions that give the photographs in Corporeal their power.

35th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

Original crafts and fine arts by more than 50 artists and craftspeople from Central New York. For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Works by Patricia Tucker, Sharon Terry, and David Lisi
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Patricia Tucker, painting; Sharon Terry, jewelry; and David Lisi, pottery.

In the Navy (1941)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $3 regular, $2.50 members
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, and Dick Powell join the fleet in this lively and fun musical-comedy that's loaded with classic routines. Directed by Arthur Lubin. Cast also included The Andrews Sisters, Shemp Howard, Claire Dodd, and Dick Foran.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Mary Giehl
Onondaga Community College

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

Mary Giehl's work has taken on themes that she had encountered through her work experience as a registered nurse in a pediatric intensive care unit. She had often cared for children after they had been abused. Much of her work focuses around this theme. There are hints of darkness and confinement in her installations along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Twenty-two pieces of Bond's work was donated to the SU's Bird Library by alumnus Carl Armani. The exhibition, which includes these works, is a retrospective of 30 years of Bond's creative work highlighting the photographer's mastery of abstraction, proximity, pattern, texture, and landscape.

Presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective" features 50 years of prints, drawings, collages and sculptures by Catlett, who is an icon of American art. The exhibition was organized with the assistance of Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA.

Born in Washington, DC, Elizabeth Catlett graduated from Howard University with a degree in painting and was the first student to receive an M.F.A. degree in sculpture from the University of Iowa in 1940. She later studied ceramics at the Art Institute of Chicago, and lithography at the Art Students League in New York. In 1943, she studied with sculptor Ossip Zadkine in New York. Catlett was awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1946, under which she travelled to Mexico to study sculpture, mural painting and printmaking. In Mexico, she worked at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura and at the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Arts Workshop), a group of artists who created art that expressed desire for social change. In 1947, she married Mexican artist Francisco Mora, and became a naturalized Mexican citizen in 1962. A lifelong artist, activist and educator, Catlett is known for her depiction of social and political issues, in particular those relating to African American and women's themes.

Elizabeth Catlett has taught at Dillard University, Hampton University, the George Washington Carver School, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, where she became the first female professor and first female department chair at the School of Fine Arts.

She retired in 1976 and makes her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she continues to work in her studio. Her work is featured in many public and private collections around the world, and she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Catlett has been the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees.

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Works by Jeremy Randall
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Ceramic artist Jeremy Randall was recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009.

Randall, of Tully, is co-owner of the gallery. He also is a visiting professor of art and studio manager at Cazenovia College and an adjunct instructor of ceramics at Syracuse University.

Randall's work has been featured in some 40 exhibitions and is held in the collections of Southern Illinois University and the Myerhoff Collection in Baltimore. This year alone, he has shown at the Meredith Gallery in Baltimore, Baltimore Clayworks, Limestone Art Gallery in Fayetteville, the Art House Gallery in Atlanta, the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, Fla., and the Cazenovia College Art Gallery.

Artists at Work: Transmedia Photo Faculty
Light Work Gallery

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

For many years Light Work has enjoyed a close affiliation with the art photography department in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. The faculty and students of art photo interact with Light Work's roster of international artists through lectures, internships, and classroom visits. In addition, they utilize the Community Darkrooms facilities and take full advantage of the expertise of the Light Work staff. Together we share an energy, passion, and commitment to contemporary art and photography. The exhibition "Artists At Work: Transmedia Photo Faculty" highlights this relationship by featuring work by Doug Dubois, Laura Heyman, Yasser Aggour, John Wesley Mannion, Aaron Hraba, Jennifer Wilkey, Sara Zamecnik, Kelli Pennington, Jeffrey Einhorn, and Shimpei Shirafuji.

Corporeal: Works by Deana Lawson
Light Work Gallery

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

Deana Lawson's photographs examine how the body informs personal, political, and historical identities. Her psychological portraits seem to start out in one shape before morphing into something unexpected. Their apparent transparency at first glance dissolves into a complex set of questions about the people who are imaged and the nature of photographing, questions that will never have clear and finite answers, no matter how hard and long we look.

Lawson calls the people she photographs her family, whether they are in fact related or whether they met as friends in church, at the grocery store, or in a club. The ties that bind her images together are not in the blood but rather in the shared experience of representation.

If the personal is political, then the portrait may present the most intense form in which to control the message of the self. In viewing Lawson's portraits, as we come to terms with the body and the sometimes uncomfortable intimacy of a stranger's personal truth, we see flesh, beauty, pain, salvation, life, and death all performed within the context of the frame. As bare identities emerge from these photographs, we may reassess the often easily avoided questions of what we are willing to look at and why.

The rooms and faces in the photographs may change, but the gaze and gesture of Lawson's subjects consistently telegraph a unified refrain: The beauty of this moment in front of the lens belongs to them. The people in her photographs offer an unrelenting intention to be seen as they want to be seen. Just as important, they possess an unbridled courage to reveal that fleeting truth to others. Although Lawson is a collaborator and co-adventurer in the making of each picture, her subjects make the key contributions that give the photographs in Corporeal their power.

Annual Group Show
Open Figure Drawing

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

More than a dozen members of the weekly drawing group exhibit diverse interpretations of the human figure in a variety of media: pen, pencil, pastel, charcoal, scratch board, oil, acrylic, and watercolor. For more information, visit www.openfiguredrawing.com or call Iver Johnson, 315-475-3400.

35th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

Original crafts and fine arts by more than 50 artists and craftspeople from Central New York. For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Works by Patricia Tucker, Sharon Terry, and David Lisi
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Patricia Tucker, painting; Sharon Terry, jewelry; and David Lisi, pottery.

John Wood: On the Edge of Clear Meaning
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This retrospective exhibition highlights the work of mixed media photography pioneer John Wood. Over 100 works that chronicle the artist's work from the 1960s to the present will be on display in his first major retrospective exhibition.

Well known as a photographer who routinely broke the barriers of "pure photography," Wood's work is credited as being the foundation for the mixed media and digital imagery processes of the last two decades. A master of processes from straight photography, collage, cliché verre, solarization, mixed media, offset lithography to drawing, he has a unique ability to work decisively across a variety of media with ease.

Wood's early influences as a photographer stem from his time served in the Army Air Corps as a B-17 pilot, as seen in his multiple frame landscapes and time-lapse collages. After the war, Wood trained as a visual designer and photographer at the Institute of Design in Chicago. Wood spent 35 years teaching photography and printmaking at the School of Art and Design at Alfred University in Alfred, NY. Like the work of Jasper Johns, John Wood is relentless in pushing the boundaries of traditional media. His work has laid the groundwork for the multi process, cross disciplinary artwork being created for years.

Paid parking is available for weekday visitors in any SU pay lot. Free parking for weekend and evening visitors is available in the Q4 lot, located on College Place. Patrons should notify the attendant that they are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Evening and weekend parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $15 non-members, $12 students/seniors, $10 Everson members, children 5 and under free, $50 family rate (maximum two adults and four dependent children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This collection is comprised of an extraordinary group of 19th- and early 20th-century paintings collected largely between 1908 and 1923 by sisters Margaret and Gwendoline Davies. By 1914, the Davies sisters had assembled one of the finest collections of European modern art in Britain, with works from artists such as Paul Cézanne, Camille Corot, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Joseph M.W. Turner, among several others.

Turner to Cézanne speaks volumes about taste, patronage and philanthropy. The 53 original works by 29 artists included also a present survey of modern art, ranging from Turner's Romantic naturalism to Cézanne's modern aesthetic innovations. This exhibition serves as a reminder of the value of creativity, and of persistence, as many of the artists were, at first, either misunderstood or scorned.

Docent-led tours are available Tuesday-Thursday at 2:00 pm and Saturdays at 10:00 am and 3:00 pm. These tours are complimentary with exhibition admission, and no reservation is required. A complimentary cell phone audio tour is available to all visitors.

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Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

Geraldine Brooks
Friends of the Central Library Author Series

Price: $25
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Geraldine Brooks grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia, and worked as a reporter and feature writer. After winning a scholarship to the journalism Master's Program at Columbia University, she moved to New York City where she worked for the Wall Street Journal covering the crisis in the Middle East. She is the author of People of the Book, March, and The Years of Wonder.

Live at the Everson
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring David LeDoux, cello; Daniel Kim, piano

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

Rescheduled from Sun. Nov. 8.

Music by Ravel, Debussy, Poulenc, and Stravinsky.

Music Journeys: Garth Knox and Gutbucket
LeMoyne College

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Featured in 1991's Tous les Matins du Monde, the 15th-century viol will be expertly played by musician Garth Knox in music both old and new, followed by a set featuring Brooklyn-based jazz/rock band Gutbucket.

Samba Laranja, the SU Brazilian Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

For more information, phone 315-443-2191.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Mary Giehl
Onondaga Community College

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

Mary Giehl's work has taken on themes that she had encountered through her work experience as a registered nurse in a pediatric intensive care unit. She had often cared for children after they had been abused. Much of her work focuses around this theme. There are hints of darkness and confinement in her installations along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Twenty-two pieces of Bond's work was donated to the SU's Bird Library by alumnus Carl Armani. The exhibition, which includes these works, is a retrospective of 30 years of Bond's creative work highlighting the photographer's mastery of abstraction, proximity, pattern, texture, and landscape.

Presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective" features 50 years of prints, drawings, collages and sculptures by Catlett, who is an icon of American art. The exhibition was organized with the assistance of Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA.

Born in Washington, DC, Elizabeth Catlett graduated from Howard University with a degree in painting and was the first student to receive an M.F.A. degree in sculpture from the University of Iowa in 1940. She later studied ceramics at the Art Institute of Chicago, and lithography at the Art Students League in New York. In 1943, she studied with sculptor Ossip Zadkine in New York. Catlett was awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1946, under which she travelled to Mexico to study sculpture, mural painting and printmaking. In Mexico, she worked at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura and at the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Arts Workshop), a group of artists who created art that expressed desire for social change. In 1947, she married Mexican artist Francisco Mora, and became a naturalized Mexican citizen in 1962. A lifelong artist, activist and educator, Catlett is known for her depiction of social and political issues, in particular those relating to African American and women's themes.

Elizabeth Catlett has taught at Dillard University, Hampton University, the George Washington Carver School, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, where she became the first female professor and first female department chair at the School of Fine Arts.

She retired in 1976 and makes her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she continues to work in her studio. Her work is featured in many public and private collections around the world, and she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Catlett has been the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees.

Read a review!

Works by Jeremy Randall
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Ceramic artist Jeremy Randall was recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009.

Randall, of Tully, is co-owner of the gallery. He also is a visiting professor of art and studio manager at Cazenovia College and an adjunct instructor of ceramics at Syracuse University.

Randall's work has been featured in some 40 exhibitions and is held in the collections of Southern Illinois University and the Myerhoff Collection in Baltimore. This year alone, he has shown at the Meredith Gallery in Baltimore, Baltimore Clayworks, Limestone Art Gallery in Fayetteville, the Art House Gallery in Atlanta, the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, Fla., and the Cazenovia College Art Gallery.

Artists at Work: Transmedia Photo Faculty
Light Work Gallery

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

For many years Light Work has enjoyed a close affiliation with the art photography department in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. The faculty and students of art photo interact with Light Work's roster of international artists through lectures, internships, and classroom visits. In addition, they utilize the Community Darkrooms facilities and take full advantage of the expertise of the Light Work staff. Together we share an energy, passion, and commitment to contemporary art and photography. The exhibition "Artists At Work: Transmedia Photo Faculty" highlights this relationship by featuring work by Doug Dubois, Laura Heyman, Yasser Aggour, John Wesley Mannion, Aaron Hraba, Jennifer Wilkey, Sara Zamecnik, Kelli Pennington, Jeffrey Einhorn, and Shimpei Shirafuji.

Corporeal: Works by Deana Lawson
Light Work Gallery

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

Deana Lawson's photographs examine how the body informs personal, political, and historical identities. Her psychological portraits seem to start out in one shape before morphing into something unexpected. Their apparent transparency at first glance dissolves into a complex set of questions about the people who are imaged and the nature of photographing, questions that will never have clear and finite answers, no matter how hard and long we look.

Lawson calls the people she photographs her family, whether they are in fact related or whether they met as friends in church, at the grocery store, or in a club. The ties that bind her images together are not in the blood but rather in the shared experience of representation.

If the personal is political, then the portrait may present the most intense form in which to control the message of the self. In viewing Lawson's portraits, as we come to terms with the body and the sometimes uncomfortable intimacy of a stranger's personal truth, we see flesh, beauty, pain, salvation, life, and death all performed within the context of the frame. As bare identities emerge from these photographs, we may reassess the often easily avoided questions of what we are willing to look at and why.

The rooms and faces in the photographs may change, but the gaze and gesture of Lawson's subjects consistently telegraph a unified refrain: The beauty of this moment in front of the lens belongs to them. The people in her photographs offer an unrelenting intention to be seen as they want to be seen. Just as important, they possess an unbridled courage to reveal that fleeting truth to others. Although Lawson is a collaborator and co-adventurer in the making of each picture, her subjects make the key contributions that give the photographs in Corporeal their power.

Annual Group Show
Open Figure Drawing

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

More than a dozen members of the weekly drawing group exhibit diverse interpretations of the human figure in a variety of media: pen, pencil, pastel, charcoal, scratch board, oil, acrylic, and watercolor. For more information, visit www.openfiguredrawing.com or call Iver Johnson, 315-475-3400.

Syracuse During the Time of Impressionism
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A complementary exhibit to the Everson Museum of Art's "From Turner To Cezanne", OHA's exhibit will look at what was happening in Syracuse at the time of the European Impressionist painters, 1880-1916. The exhibit will feature artwork, clothing, products, archival material, and other items that will interpret the Syracuse scene during this time impressionist painters were viewed by their contemporaries as "outrageously modern."

35th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

Original crafts and fine arts by more than 50 artists and craftspeople from Central New York. For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Works by Patricia Tucker, Sharon Terry, and David Lisi
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Patricia Tucker, painting; Sharon Terry, jewelry; and David Lisi, pottery.

John Wood: On the Edge of Clear Meaning
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This retrospective exhibition highlights the work of mixed media photography pioneer John Wood. Over 100 works that chronicle the artist's work from the 1960s to the present will be on display in his first major retrospective exhibition.

Well known as a photographer who routinely broke the barriers of "pure photography," Wood's work is credited as being the foundation for the mixed media and digital imagery processes of the last two decades. A master of processes from straight photography, collage, cliché verre, solarization, mixed media, offset lithography to drawing, he has a unique ability to work decisively across a variety of media with ease.

Wood's early influences as a photographer stem from his time served in the Army Air Corps as a B-17 pilot, as seen in his multiple frame landscapes and time-lapse collages. After the war, Wood trained as a visual designer and photographer at the Institute of Design in Chicago. Wood spent 35 years teaching photography and printmaking at the School of Art and Design at Alfred University in Alfred, NY. Like the work of Jasper Johns, John Wood is relentless in pushing the boundaries of traditional media. His work has laid the groundwork for the multi process, cross disciplinary artwork being created for years.

Paid parking is available for weekday visitors in any SU pay lot. Free parking for weekend and evening visitors is available in the Q4 lot, located on College Place. Patrons should notify the attendant that they are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Evening and weekend parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $15 non-members, $12 students/seniors, $10 Everson members, children 5 and under free, $50 family rate (maximum two adults and four dependent children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This collection is comprised of an extraordinary group of 19th- and early 20th-century paintings collected largely between 1908 and 1923 by sisters Margaret and Gwendoline Davies. By 1914, the Davies sisters had assembled one of the finest collections of European modern art in Britain, with works from artists such as Paul Cézanne, Camille Corot, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Joseph M.W. Turner, among several others.

Turner to Cézanne speaks volumes about taste, patronage and philanthropy. The 53 original works by 29 artists included also a present survey of modern art, ranging from Turner's Romantic naturalism to Cézanne's modern aesthetic innovations. This exhibition serves as a reminder of the value of creativity, and of persistence, as many of the artists were, at first, either misunderstood or scorned.

Docent-led tours are available Tuesday-Thursday at 2:00 pm and Saturdays at 10:00 am and 3:00 pm. These tours are complimentary with exhibition admission, and no reservation is required. A complimentary cell phone audio tour is available to all visitors.

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The Picture Man: Photographs of Milton Rogovin
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Milton Rogovin is a social documentary photographer, with a focus of photographing the poor and working class for 50 years. His choice of subject was summed up in his words, "The rich have their own photographers. I have chosen to photograph the poor." Rogovin has photographed miners in 10 nations, collaborated with the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, photographed a six-square block neighborhood in Buffalo for 30 years, and so much more. In 1957, he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Because he refused to "name names" he was blacklisted and his optometry practice in Buffalo suffered. "My voice was essentially silenced, so I decided to speak out through photography." In 1969, the Library of Congress accepted Rogovin's entire body of work.

Artist Talk: Mary Mattingly
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Mary Mattingly is an artist based in New York and the founder of Waterpod. In 2006, her work headlined "Ecotopia," the International Center of Photography's Triennial. In 2007, she completed solo shows including "Fore Cast," a multimedia opera at White Box in Manhattan, "Frontier" with Galerie Adler in Germany, and "Time Has Fallen Asleep" at the New York Public Library. She has co-curated several water-based exhibitions on maritime vessels alongside the Miami Basel Art Fair, the Venice Biennale, and the Istanbul Biennale. Mary has recently exhibited work at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Tucson Museum of Art (AZ), the Neuberger Museum (NY), and at the Robert Mann Gallery (NY). Mary just returned to land after a five-month journey onboard Waterpod and is currently working on "Air Ship Air Cities" in Brooklyn.

From Lefebvre to Ravel: Music from France, 1885-1917
Civic Morning Musicals
The Lake Effect Winds

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

Charles Lefebvre Suite
Claude Debussy Suite
Maurice Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin, transcribed for woodwind quintet by Mason Jones

The Lake Effect Winds is comprised of Beth Scott, flute; Kathryn Dimmel, oboe; Tom McKay, clarinet; Don Milmore, horn; Jennifer Groth, bassoon.

Yours Truly...Ben Fiore
Rarely Done Productions

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

Ben Fiore's life has revolved around music. From the minute he was born he was getting used to blasting Billy Joel and Elton John casettes around the house. He would even sit on a stool and play along with his Little Tikes guitar watching children's music videos. Ben took piano from the ages of 4 to 14 and also took guitar from the ages of 13 to 18. He wrote his first song on the piano in the 8th grade and it was quite a disaster but he knew it was the right thing to do to keep writing.
Through high school, Ben wrote about 15 songs, and another 30 or so in college. Developing new styles of writing for his songs has been a challenge, but Ben has finally found his point in rhythm with his music and lyrics. Ben's main influences are Jason Mraz, The Goo Goo Dolls, Coldplay, Ben Folds, Snow Patrol, Lifehouse, Matchbox Twenty and the list goes on.

Raza Ali Hasan, poetry
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

Hasan is author of the poetry collections 67 Mogul Miniatures (Autumn House Press, 2009) and Grieving Shias (Sheep Meadow Press, 2006). His work has appeared in various literary journals, including AGNI, Shenandoah and Blackbird. Born in Bangladesh, Hasan was raised in Indonesia and Pakistan, before moving to the United States to earn degrees at the University of Texas at Austin and at SU. He serves on the English faculty of the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Twenty-two pieces of Bond's work was donated to the SU's Bird Library by alumnus Carl Armani. The exhibition, which includes these works, is a retrospective of 30 years of Bond's creative work highlighting the photographer's mastery of abstraction, proximity, pattern, texture, and landscape.

Presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective" features 50 years of prints, drawings, collages and sculptures by Catlett, who is an icon of American art. The exhibition was organized with the assistance of Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA.

Born in Washington, DC, Elizabeth Catlett graduated from Howard University with a degree in painting and was the first student to receive an M.F.A. degree in sculpture from the University of Iowa in 1940. She later studied ceramics at the Art Institute of Chicago, and lithography at the Art Students League in New York. In 1943, she studied with sculptor Ossip Zadkine in New York. Catlett was awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1946, under which she travelled to Mexico to study sculpture, mural painting and printmaking. In Mexico, she worked at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura and at the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Arts Workshop), a group of artists who created art that expressed desire for social change. In 1947, she married Mexican artist Francisco Mora, and became a naturalized Mexican citizen in 1962. A lifelong artist, activist and educator, Catlett is known for her depiction of social and political issues, in particular those relating to African American and women's themes.

Elizabeth Catlett has taught at Dillard University, Hampton University, the George Washington Carver School, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, where she became the first female professor and first female department chair at the School of Fine Arts.

She retired in 1976 and makes her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she continues to work in her studio. Her work is featured in many public and private collections around the world, and she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Catlett has been the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees.

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Works by Jeremy Randall
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Ceramic artist Jeremy Randall was recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009.

Randall, of Tully, is co-owner of the gallery. He also is a visiting professor of art and studio manager at Cazenovia College and an adjunct instructor of ceramics at Syracuse University.

Randall's work has been featured in some 40 exhibitions and is held in the collections of Southern Illinois University and the Myerhoff Collection in Baltimore. This year alone, he has shown at the Meredith Gallery in Baltimore, Baltimore Clayworks, Limestone Art Gallery in Fayetteville, the Art House Gallery in Atlanta, the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, Fla., and the Cazenovia College Art Gallery.

Artists at Work: Transmedia Photo Faculty
Light Work Gallery

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

For many years Light Work has enjoyed a close affiliation with the art photography department in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. The faculty and students of art photo interact with Light Work's roster of international artists through lectures, internships, and classroom visits. In addition, they utilize the Community Darkrooms facilities and take full advantage of the expertise of the Light Work staff. Together we share an energy, passion, and commitment to contemporary art and photography. The exhibition "Artists At Work: Transmedia Photo Faculty" highlights this relationship by featuring work by Doug Dubois, Laura Heyman, Yasser Aggour, John Wesley Mannion, Aaron Hraba, Jennifer Wilkey, Sara Zamecnik, Kelli Pennington, Jeffrey Einhorn, and Shimpei Shirafuji.

Corporeal: Works by Deana Lawson
Light Work Gallery

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

Deana Lawson's photographs examine how the body informs personal, political, and historical identities. Her psychological portraits seem to start out in one shape before morphing into something unexpected. Their apparent transparency at first glance dissolves into a complex set of questions about the people who are imaged and the nature of photographing, questions that will never have clear and finite answers, no matter how hard and long we look.

Lawson calls the people she photographs her family, whether they are in fact related or whether they met as friends in church, at the grocery store, or in a club. The ties that bind her images together are not in the blood but rather in the shared experience of representation.

If the personal is political, then the portrait may present the most intense form in which to control the message of the self. In viewing Lawson's portraits, as we come to terms with the body and the sometimes uncomfortable intimacy of a stranger's personal truth, we see flesh, beauty, pain, salvation, life, and death all performed within the context of the frame. As bare identities emerge from these photographs, we may reassess the often easily avoided questions of what we are willing to look at and why.

The rooms and faces in the photographs may change, but the gaze and gesture of Lawson's subjects consistently telegraph a unified refrain: The beauty of this moment in front of the lens belongs to them. The people in her photographs offer an unrelenting intention to be seen as they want to be seen. Just as important, they possess an unbridled courage to reveal that fleeting truth to others. Although Lawson is a collaborator and co-adventurer in the making of each picture, her subjects make the key contributions that give the photographs in Corporeal their power.

Annual Group Show
Open Figure Drawing

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

More than a dozen members of the weekly drawing group exhibit diverse interpretations of the human figure in a variety of media: pen, pencil, pastel, charcoal, scratch board, oil, acrylic, and watercolor. For more information, visit www.openfiguredrawing.com or call Iver Johnson, 315-475-3400.

Syracuse During the Time of Impressionism
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A complementary exhibit to the Everson Museum of Art's "From Turner To Cezanne", OHA's exhibit will look at what was happening in Syracuse at the time of the European Impressionist painters, 1880-1916. The exhibit will feature artwork, clothing, products, archival material, and other items that will interpret the Syracuse scene during this time impressionist painters were viewed by their contemporaries as "outrageously modern."

35th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

Original crafts and fine arts by more than 50 artists and craftspeople from Central New York. For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Works by Patricia Tucker, Sharon Terry, and David Lisi
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Patricia Tucker, painting; Sharon Terry, jewelry; and David Lisi, pottery.

John Wood: On the Edge of Clear Meaning
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

There will be an artist reception this evening 5:00-7:00 PM. Nathan Lyons, Director Emeritus of Visual Studies Workshop and curator of the exhibition, and Laurie Snyder, Chair of Photography at Maryland Institute College of Art will be speaking about the work of John Wood, who will be in attendance.

This retrospective exhibition highlights the work of mixed media photography pioneer John Wood. Over 100 works that chronicle the artist's work from the 1960s to the present will be on display in his first major retrospective exhibition.

Well known as a photographer who routinely broke the barriers of "pure photography," Wood's work is credited as being the foundation for the mixed media and digital imagery processes of the last two decades. A master of processes from straight photography, collage, cliché verre, solarization, mixed media, offset lithography to drawing, he has a unique ability to work decisively across a variety of media with ease.

Wood's early influences as a photographer stem from his time served in the Army Air Corps as a B-17 pilot, as seen in his multiple frame landscapes and time-lapse collages. After the war, Wood trained as a visual designer and photographer at the Institute of Design in Chicago. Wood spent 35 years teaching photography and printmaking at the School of Art and Design at Alfred University in Alfred, NY. Like the work of Jasper Johns, John Wood is relentless in pushing the boundaries of traditional media. His work has laid the groundwork for the multi process, cross disciplinary artwork being created for years.

Paid parking is available for weekday visitors in any SU pay lot. Free parking for weekend and evening visitors is available in the Q4 lot, located on College Place. Patrons should notify the attendant that they are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Evening and weekend parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome.

Elements
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Paintings by Lynette Blake, ceramics by Amy Haven, and paintings by James Van Hoven

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Wild Card Exhibition: Transitional Living Services Art Exhibit
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $15 non-members, $12 students/seniors, $10 Everson members, children 5 and under free, $50 family rate (maximum two adults and four dependent children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This collection is comprised of an extraordinary group of 19th- and early 20th-century paintings collected largely between 1908 and 1923 by sisters Margaret and Gwendoline Davies. By 1914, the Davies sisters had assembled one of the finest collections of European modern art in Britain, with works from artists such as Paul Cézanne, Camille Corot, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Joseph M.W. Turner, among several others.

Turner to Cézanne speaks volumes about taste, patronage and philanthropy. The 53 original works by 29 artists included also a present survey of modern art, ranging from Turner's Romantic naturalism to Cézanne's modern aesthetic innovations. This exhibition serves as a reminder of the value of creativity, and of persistence, as many of the artists were, at first, either misunderstood or scorned.

Docent-led tours are available Tuesday-Thursday at 2:00 pm and Saturdays at 10:00 am and 3:00 pm. These tours are complimentary with exhibition admission, and no reservation is required. A complimentary cell phone audio tour is available to all visitors.

Read a review!

Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

The Picture Man: Photographs of Milton Rogovin
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Milton Rogovin is a social documentary photographer, with a focus of photographing the poor and working class for 50 years. His choice of subject was summed up in his words, "The rich have their own photographers. I have chosen to photograph the poor." Rogovin has photographed miners in 10 nations, collaborated with the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, photographed a six-square block neighborhood in Buffalo for 30 years, and so much more. In 1957, he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Because he refused to "name names" he was blacklisted and his optometry practice in Buffalo suffered. "My voice was essentially silenced, so I decided to speak out through photography." In 1969, the Library of Congress accepted Rogovin's entire body of work.

Don't Feed the Actors
Don't Feed the Actors

Price: $15 adults, $13 students/seniors; $12 in advance
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

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

This performance is a benefit for the Westcott Street Cultural Fair.

Overcoming the Spectacle: A Cinema of Pure Means
Redhouse

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

Craig Baldwin: Tribulation 99 (1991)
Bruce Conner: A MOVIE (1958)
Peter Forgacs: Bourgeois Dictionary (1992), Either Or (1989)

"Overcoming the Spectacle: A Cinema of Pure Means" explores the role of cinema as a medium for political transformation by way of an examination of the medium itself and the act of what it means to "watch" a film.

The films included in this series all critique the spectacle/spectator relation inherent in the structure of cinema and attempt to imagine new relationships between the medium and the viewer. Taking its conceptual grounding from what Giorgio Agamben refers to as the cinema of "Pure Means," this series will look specifically at cinematic strategies that refute fabricated meanings, thoughts and desires. It is through the work of the cinema that the cinema, too, has to be destroyed.

"Overcoming the Spectacle: A Cinema of Pure Means" is curated by Lawrence Kumpf.

The Value of the Team: Celebrating the Grand 1909 North Polar Adventure of African American Explorer Matthew Henson
Syracuse University Library Associates
Featuring Deidre Stam

Price: Free
Bird Library, Peter Graham Scholarly Commons
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The accomplishments of the African American polar explorer Matthew Henson are the topic of the next Library Associates lecture.

Stam, director of the rare books and special collections concentration of Long Island University's Palmer School in Greenwich Village, has researched the life of Henson (1866-1955), a native of Charles County, MD, who spent 18 years in polar exploration with Robert E. Peary, including their trip to the North Pole 100 years ago. She explains that while Peary said that Henson made the trip possible, Henson was really an excellent team member and not a leader in the sense that Peary was. She calls him essential to Peary's team because of his practical skills, perseverance in the Arctic, strength and ability to speak Inuktitut (the language of the Inuit), and to run sled dogs.

Stam divides her time between Syracuse and New York City. She has worked in libraries, library schools, archives and museums, and taught library science at SU.

Free event parking is available in the Booth Garage, at Waverly and Comstock avenues, one block from Bird Library.

Gallery Talk and Reception
Syracuse University Art Museum
Featuring Nathan Lyons, curator

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

Gallery talk with Nathan Lyons, curator of the John Wood retrospective exhibit and Director Emeritus of the Visual Studies Workshop. Gallery reception with the artist.

Light Work Lecture
Light Work Gallery
Featuring Mary Virginia Swanson and Susan Kae Grant

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

A lecture by renowned photography consultant and educator Mary Virginia Swanson and internationally recognized artist and photographer Susan Kae Grant.

Swanson will begin the lecture by discussing the most effective steps artists can take to promote their artwork, including the use of websites, blogs, self-promotional materials and more. Swanson will be followed by Grant, who will discuss her "Night Journey" exhibition, including taking a project from conception to exhibition, and the option for artists to travel with their own exhibition. While the presentations and examples given are specific to photographers, they have relevance for artists working in all disciplines.

SU Women's Choir
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

For more information, phone 315-443-2191.

Tomb With a View
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive mystery-comedy dinner theater. The zombies who inhabit the site of an old mine disaster bring a class-action lawsuit against an ambitious mall developer.

Preview: Greater Tuna
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

This kooky comedy in two acts features hats, guns, murder, cruelty, gossip, and a whole mess o' biscuits. The radio personalities Thruston and Arles will guide you through this strange world of mysterious accents.

Friday, November 13, 2009

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Twenty-two pieces of Bond's work was donated to the SU's Bird Library by alumnus Carl Armani. The exhibition, which includes these works, is a retrospective of 30 years of Bond's creative work highlighting the photographer's mastery of abstraction, proximity, pattern, texture, and landscape.

Presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective" features 50 years of prints, drawings, collages and sculptures by Catlett, who is an icon of American art. The exhibition was organized with the assistance of Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA.

Born in Washington, DC, Elizabeth Catlett graduated from Howard University with a degree in painting and was the first student to receive an M.F.A. degree in sculpture from the University of Iowa in 1940. She later studied ceramics at the Art Institute of Chicago, and lithography at the Art Students League in New York. In 1943, she studied with sculptor Ossip Zadkine in New York. Catlett was awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1946, under which she travelled to Mexico to study sculpture, mural painting and printmaking. In Mexico, she worked at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura and at the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Arts Workshop), a group of artists who created art that expressed desire for social change. In 1947, she married Mexican artist Francisco Mora, and became a naturalized Mexican citizen in 1962. A lifelong artist, activist and educator, Catlett is known for her depiction of social and political issues, in particular those relating to African American and women's themes.

Elizabeth Catlett has taught at Dillard University, Hampton University, the George Washington Carver School, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, where she became the first female professor and first female department chair at the School of Fine Arts.

She retired in 1976 and makes her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she continues to work in her studio. Her work is featured in many public and private collections around the world, and she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Catlett has been the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees.

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Works by Jeremy Randall
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Ceramic artist Jeremy Randall was recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009.

Randall, of Tully, is co-owner of the gallery. He also is a visiting professor of art and studio manager at Cazenovia College and an adjunct instructor of ceramics at Syracuse University.

Randall's work has been featured in some 40 exhibitions and is held in the collections of Southern Illinois University and the Myerhoff Collection in Baltimore. This year alone, he has shown at the Meredith Gallery in Baltimore, Baltimore Clayworks, Limestone Art Gallery in Fayetteville, the Art House Gallery in Atlanta, the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, Fla., and the Cazenovia College Art Gallery.

Artists at Work: Transmedia Photo Faculty
Light Work Gallery

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

For many years Light Work has enjoyed a close affiliation with the art photography department in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. The faculty and students of art photo interact with Light Work's roster of international artists through lectures, internships, and classroom visits. In addition, they utilize the Community Darkrooms facilities and take full advantage of the expertise of the Light Work staff. Together we share an energy, passion, and commitment to contemporary art and photography. The exhibition "Artists At Work: Transmedia Photo Faculty" highlights this relationship by featuring work by Doug Dubois, Laura Heyman, Yasser Aggour, John Wesley Mannion, Aaron Hraba, Jennifer Wilkey, Sara Zamecnik, Kelli Pennington, Jeffrey Einhorn, and Shimpei Shirafuji.

Corporeal: Works by Deana Lawson
Light Work Gallery

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

Deana Lawson's photographs examine how the body informs personal, political, and historical identities. Her psychological portraits seem to start out in one shape before morphing into something unexpected. Their apparent transparency at first glance dissolves into a complex set of questions about the people who are imaged and the nature of photographing, questions that will never have clear and finite answers, no matter how hard and long we look.

Lawson calls the people she photographs her family, whether they are in fact related or whether they met as friends in church, at the grocery store, or in a club. The ties that bind her images together are not in the blood but rather in the shared experience of representation.

If the personal is political, then the portrait may present the most intense form in which to control the message of the self. In viewing Lawson's portraits, as we come to terms with the body and the sometimes uncomfortable intimacy of a stranger's personal truth, we see flesh, beauty, pain, salvation, life, and death all performed within the context of the frame. As bare identities emerge from these photographs, we may reassess the often easily avoided questions of what we are willing to look at and why.

The rooms and faces in the photographs may change, but the gaze and gesture of Lawson's subjects consistently telegraph a unified refrain: The beauty of this moment in front of the lens belongs to them. The people in her photographs offer an unrelenting intention to be seen as they want to be seen. Just as important, they possess an unbridled courage to reveal that fleeting truth to others. Although Lawson is a collaborator and co-adventurer in the making of each picture, her subjects make the key contributions that give the photographs in Corporeal their power.

Annual Group Show
Open Figure Drawing

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

More than a dozen members of the weekly drawing group exhibit diverse interpretations of the human figure in a variety of media: pen, pencil, pastel, charcoal, scratch board, oil, acrylic, and watercolor. For more information, visit www.openfiguredrawing.com or call Iver Johnson, 315-475-3400.

Syracuse During the Time of Impressionism
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A complementary exhibit to the Everson Museum of Art's "From Turner To Cezanne", OHA's exhibit will look at what was happening in Syracuse at the time of the European Impressionist painters, 1880-1916. The exhibit will feature artwork, clothing, products, archival material, and other items that will interpret the Syracuse scene during this time impressionist painters were viewed by their contemporaries as "outrageously modern."

35th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

Original crafts and fine arts by more than 50 artists and craftspeople from Central New York. For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Works by Patricia Tucker, Sharon Terry, and David Lisi
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Patricia Tucker, painting; Sharon Terry, jewelry; and David Lisi, pottery.

John Wood: On the Edge of Clear Meaning
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This retrospective exhibition highlights the work of mixed media photography pioneer John Wood. Over 100 works that chronicle the artist's work from the 1960s to the present will be on display in his first major retrospective exhibition.

Well known as a photographer who routinely broke the barriers of "pure photography," Wood's work is credited as being the foundation for the mixed media and digital imagery processes of the last two decades. A master of processes from straight photography, collage, cliché verre, solarization, mixed media, offset lithography to drawing, he has a unique ability to work decisively across a variety of media with ease.

Wood's early influences as a photographer stem from his time served in the Army Air Corps as a B-17 pilot, as seen in his multiple frame landscapes and time-lapse collages. After the war, Wood trained as a visual designer and photographer at the Institute of Design in Chicago. Wood spent 35 years teaching photography and printmaking at the School of Art and Design at Alfred University in Alfred, NY. Like the work of Jasper Johns, John Wood is relentless in pushing the boundaries of traditional media. His work has laid the groundwork for the multi process, cross disciplinary artwork being created for years.

Paid parking is available for weekday visitors in any SU pay lot. Free parking for weekend and evening visitors is available in the Q4 lot, located on College Place. Patrons should notify the attendant that they are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Evening and weekend parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome.

Wild Card Exhibition: Transitional Living Services Art Exhibit
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Elements
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Paintings by Lynette Blake, ceramics by Amy Haven, and paintings by James Van Hoven

Read a review!

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $15 non-members, $12 students/seniors, $10 Everson members, children 5 and under free, $50 family rate (maximum two adults and four dependent children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This collection is comprised of an extraordinary group of 19th- and early 20th-century paintings collected largely between 1908 and 1923 by sisters Margaret and Gwendoline Davies. By 1914, the Davies sisters had assembled one of the finest collections of European modern art in Britain, with works from artists such as Paul Cézanne, Camille Corot, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Joseph M.W. Turner, among several others.

Turner to Cézanne speaks volumes about taste, patronage and philanthropy. The 53 original works by 29 artists included also a present survey of modern art, ranging from Turner's Romantic naturalism to Cézanne's modern aesthetic innovations. This exhibition serves as a reminder of the value of creativity, and of persistence, as many of the artists were, at first, either misunderstood or scorned.

Docent-led tours are available Tuesday-Thursday at 2:00 pm and Saturdays at 10:00 am and 3:00 pm. These tours are complimentary with exhibition admission, and no reservation is required. A complimentary cell phone audio tour is available to all visitors.

Read a review!

The Picture Man: Photographs of Milton Rogovin
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Milton Rogovin is a social documentary photographer, with a focus of photographing the poor and working class for 50 years. His choice of subject was summed up in his words, "The rich have their own photographers. I have chosen to photograph the poor." Rogovin has photographed miners in 10 nations, collaborated with the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, photographed a six-square block neighborhood in Buffalo for 30 years, and so much more. In 1957, he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Because he refused to "name names" he was blacklisted and his optometry practice in Buffalo suffered. "My voice was essentially silenced, so I decided to speak out through photography." In 1969, the Library of Congress accepted Rogovin's entire body of work.

Great Russian Nutcracker
Moscow Ballet

Price: $99, $67.50, $47.50, $37.50 and $27.50
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Magician as Artist
Redhouse
Featuring mudboy

Price: Free
The Art School in the Art School
1003 E. Fayette St., Apt. 10, above SPARK, Syracuse

mudboy, creator of the Last Wishes exhibit of kinetic light paintings at Red House, will lead an artist conversation entitled "Magician as Artist" with subjects ranging from why he was dropped 15 feet through a trap door into a pool of slime, the TV show of British mentalist Derren Brown, the attraction of the human mind to fountains and fires, and other related ideas.

Following the artist talk, join mudboy and curator Alexis Bhagat for the (quite delayed) closing reception of the ((audience)) 5.1 Surround Sound festival.

John Coltrane Memorial Contemporary Jazz Concert
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences
WIS Brass Project

Price: Free
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The WIS Brass Project, a New York City-based ensemble, will feature jazz percussionist and drummer Warren Smith, jazz trumpet and flugelhorn players Eddie Allen and Stanton Davis, bass trombonist Jack Jeffers, French hornist Mark Taylor, and tuba players Joseph Daley and Howard Johnson.

The concert will feature the world premier of "Up River," composed by Warren Smith. "Up River" was commissioned for the 2009 Coltrane Jazz Series. The six-part piece portrays the migration of black people and their rich musical heritage from the Deep South to Midwestern cities. Each part pays tribute to the music of the blues singers involved in this cultural migration, including Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, James Brown, Bo Diddley, Coco Taylor, and Aretha Franklin.

The Coltrane Jazz Series is sponsored by SU's Office of the Chancellor and the Department of African American Studies and the iLearn Program in the College of Arts and Sciences, and coordinated by William Cole, professor and chair of the Department of African American Studies.

Anatomy of a Murder
LeMoyne College
LeMoyne Jazz Ensemble

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This concert offers several highlights from the Duke Ellington score to Anatomy of a Murder, a 1959 courtroom drama starring Jimmy Stewart.

Powell (the Polite Rebel) with Sean Patrick Taylor, Gavan Duffy, and host Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers
Words and Music Songwriter Showcase

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

Powell (the Polite Rebel) will be this month's featured artist. The Dylan-esque songs of the former SU lacrosse star have made Powell a fast-rising talent on the music scene. He recently returned from a national tour in support of his recording debut and appears on a new CD compilation alongside Lucinda Williams, Amos Lee, Marshall Crenshaw, and many others.

Sean Patrick Taylor is the lead vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist for the Syracuse rock band the Shakedown.

The Words and Music Songwriter Showcase is a celebration of original music from Central New York and beyond, featuring established and emerging artists of all genres in an up-close-and-personal acoustic setting.

The series host is singer-songwriter, author, and NPR contributor Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers. Each show includes:
* A featured artist performing a full set, plus an opening set of songwriters in the round.
* The Song Schmooze, where musicians and music lovers mingle over a drink and a bite to eat.
* Plus special guests, surprise collaborations, and the Soundbite of the Night, where Rodgers shares a memorable moment from his extraordinary archive of interviews with artists such as Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Jerry Garcia, Ani DiFranco, and Dave Matthews.

Pops Series: A Musical Tribute to our Veterans
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Featuring John McDermott, vocal soloist

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

Famous for his rendition of Danny Boy, this amazing tenor pays tribute to the dedicated men and women who have served our country bravely.

University Singers
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

For more information, phone 315-443-4106.

Ernesto Quiñonez
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Before his first publication, Ernesto Quiñonez was hailed by the Village Voice as a "writer on the verge." His debut novel, Bodega Dreams, (Vintage, 2000) was selected by Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers, Borders' Original Voices, Entertainment Weekly's IT List, the New York Public Library's 25 Books to Remember, A Book Sense 76 pick, and was named a Notable Book by the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. He has received fellowships from Wesleyan University, Indiana University, Columbia University, the Breadloaf Writer's Conference, and was chosen as a visiting screenwriter by the Sundance Screenwriters Lab in Sundance, UT. He teaches at Cornell University.

Greater Tuna
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Price: $5 regular, $2 with student ID
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

This kooky comedy in two acts features hats, guns, murder, cruelty, gossip, and a whole mess o' biscuits. The radio personalities Thruston and Arles will guide you through this strange world of mysterious accents.

The Bald Soprano and The Chairs
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rodney Hudson, director

Price: $18 regular, $16 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

These master works from theatre of absurd soar to heights of the ridiculous with word-twisting, innovative comedy. Eugene Ionesco is a giant of 20th century playwriting who took all the conventions of the stage and turned them upside down to offer stunning perspectives on theatre and the world it reflects. With a strong sense of the outrageous, Ionesco reminds us that, "The human drama is as absurd as it is painful."

Both The Bald Soprano and The Chairs are considered standards in what has been coined as Theatre of the Absurd. First popular in the 1950s and 1960s, Absurdism reflects a philosophy presented by Albert Camus—that the human condition is basically meaningless, and that explaining the world in a logical manner is not possible. In absurdist plays, there is a comical take on serious topics—death, alienation, and evil—in an effort to understand them better.

The Bald Soprano portrays an evening visit between Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Martin. With the Smiths' maid Mary and her lover, the fire chief, the night of nonsensical stories and poems carries the characters right back to the beginning.

The Bald Soprano was Eugene Ionesco's first play, performed in 1950 at the Théâtre des Noctambules. At the time, Ionesco had been learning to speak English by copying sentences from an English primer. As he copied the simple phrases over and over again, the absurdity of language struck him. He translated this experience into The Bald Soprano, which satirizes the deadliness and idiocy of the daily life of a bourgeois society frozen in meaningless formalities. The Bald Soprano had a 1987 production in New York City, a production with the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in 2007, and an Off-Broadway production in the spring of 2009 with the One Year Lease theatre ensemble.

In The Chairs, the Old Man and Old Woman are setting up chairs in anticipation of the arrival of a series of guests who are coming to hear an orator reveal the old man's discovery of the meaning of life. Once the couple has convinced themselves that a crowd is assembled (when in fact there are only empty chairs) the evening progresses to a frantic, menacing climax. The Chairs was first produced in 1952 at the Théâtre Lancry. After receiving a 1997 London production, The Chairs returned to Broadway in 1998 and garnered five Tony nominations.

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White Christmas
The Talent Company
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $30 regular, $25 seniors/students, $20 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The tale of a couple of song-and-dance men who meet up with a sister act to make sparks fly is based on the beloved 1954 movie musical that starred Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye. The Broadway hit is full of dancing, romance, laughter, and some of the greatest songs ever written, including Happy Holiday, Sisters, I Love a Piano, Blue Skies, How Deep is the Ocean, I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm, The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing, Falling Out Of Love Can Be Fun, Love, You Didn't Do Right By Me, Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep), and the unforgettable title song, White Christmas.

White Christmas stars Bob Brown as Bob Wallace and Gary Troy as Phil Davis, the song-and-dance men, and Brandi Ozark Weston as Judy Haynes and Colleen Wager as Betty Haynes, the "sister act." The show also features Bill Coughlin as General Henry Waverly and Christine Lightcap as Martha Watson, with Julia Goodman as Susan Waverly, Lou Leonardo as Ralph Sheldrake and Gennaro Parlato as Ezekiel Foster. Rounding out the cast are Jim Baxter, Molly Brown, Camille Chace, Zachary Chase, Cruz Gonzalez, Kimberly Grader, Bobby Hall, Kaleigh Pfohl, Eddie Powers, Korrie Strodel, Josh Taylor, and Rashad Williams.

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Saturday, November 14, 2009

Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $15 non-members, $12 students/seniors, $10 Everson members, children 5 and under free, $50 family rate (maximum two adults and four dependent children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This collection is comprised of an extraordinary group of 19th- and early 20th-century paintings collected largely between 1908 and 1923 by sisters Margaret and Gwendoline Davies. By 1914, the Davies sisters had assembled one of the finest collections of European modern art in Britain, with works from artists such as Paul Cézanne, Camille Corot, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Joseph M.W. Turner, among several others.

Turner to Cézanne speaks volumes about taste, patronage and philanthropy. The 53 original works by 29 artists included also a present survey of modern art, ranging from Turner's Romantic naturalism to Cézanne's modern aesthetic innovations. This exhibition serves as a reminder of the value of creativity, and of persistence, as many of the artists were, at first, either misunderstood or scorned.

Docent-led tours are available Tuesday-Thursday at 2:00 pm and Saturdays at 10:00 am and 3:00 pm. These tours are complimentary with exhibition admission, and no reservation is required. A complimentary cell phone audio tour is available to all visitors.

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Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Elements
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Paintings by Lynette Blake, ceramics by Amy Haven, and paintings by James Van Hoven

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Wild Card Exhibition: Transitional Living Services Art Exhibit
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Works by Jeremy Randall
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Ceramic artist Jeremy Randall was recognized by Ceramics Monthly as an Emerging Artist for 2009.

Randall, of Tully, is co-owner of the gallery. He also is a visiting professor of art and studio manager at Cazenovia College and an adjunct instructor of ceramics at Syracuse University.

Randall's work has been featured in some 40 exhibitions and is held in the collections of Southern Illinois University and the Myerhoff Collection in Baltimore. This year alone, he has shown at the Meredith Gallery in Baltimore, Baltimore Clayworks, Limestone Art Gallery in Fayetteville, the Art House Gallery in Atlanta, the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, Fla., and the Cazenovia College Art Gallery.

Works by Patricia Tucker, Sharon Terry, and David Lisi
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Patricia Tucker, painting; Sharon Terry, jewelry; and David Lisi, pottery.

Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective" features 50 years of prints, drawings, collages and sculptures by Catlett, who is an icon of American art. The exhibition was organized with the assistance of Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA.

Born in Washington, DC, Elizabeth Catlett graduated from Howard University with a degree in painting and was the first student to receive an M.F.A. degree in sculpture from the University of Iowa in 1940. She later studied ceramics at the Art Institute of Chicago, and lithography at the Art Students League in New York. In 1943, she studied with sculptor Ossip Zadkine in New York. Catlett was awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1946, under which she travelled to Mexico to study sculpture, mural painting and printmaking. In Mexico, she worked at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura and at the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Arts Workshop), a group of artists who created art that expressed desire for social change. In 1947, she married Mexican artist Francisco Mora, and became a naturalized Mexican citizen in 1962. A lifelong artist, activist and educator, Catlett is known for her depiction of social and political issues, in particular those relating to African American and women's themes.

Elizabeth Catlett has taught at Dillard University, Hampton University, the George Washington Carver School, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, where she became the first female professor and first female department chair at the School of Fine Arts.

She retired in 1976 and makes her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she continues to work in her studio. Her work is featured in many public and private collections around the world, and she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Catlett has been the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees.

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35th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

Original crafts and fine arts by more than 50 artists and craftspeople from Central New York. For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Syracuse During the Time of Impressionism
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A complementary exhibit to the Everson Museum of Art's "From Turner To Cezanne", OHA's exhibit will look at what was happening in Syracuse at the time of the European Impressionist painters, 1880-1916. The exhibit will feature artwork, clothing, products, archival material, and other items that will interpret the Syracuse scene during this time impressionist painters were viewed by their contemporaries as "outrageously modern."

John Wood: On the Edge of Clear Meaning
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This retrospective exhibition highlights the work of mixed media photography pioneer John Wood. Over 100 works that chronicle the artist's work from the 1960s to the present will be on display in his first major retrospective exhibition.

Well known as a photographer who routinely broke the barriers of "pure photography," Wood's work is credited as being the foundation for the mixed media and digital imagery processes of the last two decades. A master of processes from straight photography, collage, cliché verre, solarization, mixed media, offset lithography to drawing, he has a unique ability to work decisively across a variety of media with ease.

Wood's early influences as a photographer stem from his time served in the Army Air Corps as a B-17 pilot, as seen in his multiple frame landscapes and time-lapse collages. After the war, Wood trained as a visual designer and photographer at the Institute of Design in Chicago. Wood spent 35 years teaching photography and printmaking at the School of Art and Design at Alfred University in Alfred, NY. Like the work of Jasper Johns, John Wood is relentless in pushing the boundaries of traditional media. His work has laid the groundwork for the multi process, cross disciplinary artwork being created for years.

Paid parking is available for weekday visitors in any SU pay lot. Free parking for weekend and evening visitors is available in the Q4 lot, located on College Place. Patrons should notify the attendant that they are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Evening and weekend parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome.

The Picture Man: Photographs of Milton Rogovin
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Milton Rogovin is a social documentary photographer, with a focus of photographing the poor and working class for 50 years. His choice of subject was summed up in his words, "The rich have their own photographers. I have chosen to photograph the poor." Rogovin has photographed miners in 10 nations, collaborated with the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, photographed a six-square block neighborhood in Buffalo for 30 years, and so much more. In 1957, he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Because he refused to "name names" he was blacklisted and his optometry practice in Buffalo suffered. "My voice was essentially silenced, so I decided to speak out through photography." In 1969, the Library of Congress accepted Rogovin's entire body of work.

Annual Group Show
Open Figure Drawing

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

More than a dozen members of the weekly drawing group exhibit diverse interpretations of the human figure in a variety of media: pen, pencil, pastel, charcoal, scratch board, oil, acrylic, and watercolor. For more information, visit www.openfiguredrawing.com or call Iver Johnson, 315-475-3400.

Art Show and Sale
St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center

Wellington House
7262 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Featuring original paintings by local artists Fred Fisher and Wendy Harris, and select works by other fine artists. Light hors d'oeuvres will be served.

A percentage of all proceeds will benefit St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center Foundation.

SaturdaySCREENINGS: The Grapes of Wrath
ArtRage Gallery

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

Director John Ford's most famous epic drama depicting the plight of migrant farmers driven from their land by the dust bowl of the 1930s. Classic adaptation of John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. With Henry Fonda and John Carradine.

Family Series: Eudora's Fable: The Shoe Bird
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Syracuse Children's Chorus
Featuring Bruce Coville and Full Cast Audio

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

Nationally recognized children's author and Syracuse resident Bruce Coville and his talented troupe from Full Cast Audio collaborate with the SSO as we present The Shoe Bird, a musical fable by Samuel Jones based on Eudora Welty's charming children's book. You will meet Minerva the Owl, Arturo the Parrot, and Gloria the Goose, who learn important life lessons about making the most of themselves and sharing all of their special gifts.

Cello Fest Concert
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Featuring young cellists from New York State. A culmination of a daylong session of workshops at the Setnor School of Music.

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

Jowonio Presents Loren Barrigar and Jowonio Friends

Price: $25
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Central New York's favorite guitarist, Loren Barrigar, will headline a benefit concert for Jowonio School. The concert will also feature performances by 11 of the school's musically-talented staff and friends. Designed to be a family-friendly event, the concert will begin at 7:00 pm, with Jowonio performances in the first part of the program, followed by Barrigar's performance. All proceeds will benefit Jowonio School.

Loren Barrigar is known as the premiere fingerstyle guitarist in central New York. In great demand locally as a soloist, and as a duo act with his brother Kevin, Loren also tours throughout the Northeast. He is an accomplished vocalist, recording artist and songwriter, and his work appears on CDs of many of the region's finest musicians. As a youngster in Nashville, Loren studied with Chet Atkins' older brother, Jimmy, who played in the Les Paul Trio. Loren still holds the record of being the youngest performer on the Grand Old Opry, playing "Yakety Ax" at age six on a Gretsch Country Gentleman guitar that was bigger than he was! Loren is a long time devotee of fingerstyle guitar in the mold of Chet Atkins, Merle Travis, and Australian phenomenon, Tommy Emmanuel, himself a Chet protégé. He has played on stage with Emmanuel in Nashville and has worked with him in workshops and seminars around the country. As one of the founders of the Syracuse-based Guitar League, Loren has been instrumental in bringing the joy of guitar playing to hundreds of amateur musicians.

Jowonio Musicians: Music is heard constantly in the classrooms and hallways of Jowonio School. Children respond well to musical cues, and Jowonio teachers sing, chant and use rhythms to enhance learning and social skills development. Many staff members have formal music training, and use their talents both in and out of the classroom. Jowonio performers for this concert include Scott Bianchi, harmonica; Carol Bryant, vocals; Jenny O'Hara Callaghan, vocals; Mike Callaghan, guitar; Jennifer Van Ry Capozzi, piano; Meredith Dunn, vocals; Greg Halpen, vocals; Peter Irwin, vocals; Gen Pandori, guitar and vocals; Zeke Smuckler, guitar and vocals; Dick Ward, guitar and vocals.

For tickets or more information, phone 315-445-4010, ext. 201; email cb.jowonio@yahoo.com; or visit www.jowonio.org.

Cello Fest Concert
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Jeffrey Solow, cello

Price: $10
Park Central Presbyterian Church
504 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

As part of Cello Fest, a daylong session of workshops for young cellists at the Setnor School of Music, renowned cellist Jeffrey Solow will perform a concert. Cello Fest participants will join him for the end of the performance.

For more information, phone 315-443-2191.

Pops Series: A Musical Tribute to our Veterans
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Featuring John McDermott, vocal soloist

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

Famous for his rendition of Danny Boy, this amazing tenor pays tribute to the dedicated men and women who have served our country bravely.

Second Saturday Series: Tenor Madness with Hanna Richardson, Phil Flanigan, and Tom Bronzetti
Westcott Community Center

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

Internationally-renowned jazz musicians Hanna Richardson and Phil Flanigan have teamed with Tom Bronzetti to create an exciting new trio, Tenor Madness. Bronzetti and Richardson team up on tenor guitars, while Flanigan anchors the group on the upright bass. Richardson's easy, graceful way with a lyric and her engagingly sunny vocals round out the fresh sound of this unique ensemble.

Old Family Business
Delavan Art Gallery
Featuring Cheryl Costa

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Cheryl Costa reads from her new novella, Old Family Business.

Rapunzel
Open Hand Theater
Purple Rock Productions

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

The Purple Rock adaptation of "Rapunzel" tells the famous fairy tale from the perspective of a washerwoman, who uses various objects from the laundry as setting and props for the story. The puppets are hidden in various pieces of laundry, and the witch transforms into various animals before she is thwarted by the clever and talented Rapunzel. As always, Rolande Duprey of Purple Rock provides plenty of room for audience participation and laughter!

The Little Mermaid
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interaction adaptation of this children's favorite. The audience helps the Mermaid foil the Seawitch and get her voice back.

Death by Disco
Without a Cue Productions

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

Welcome to the Land of Oz Discoteria and the "3rd Annual World Championship of Disco Championship." Contestants are ready to show their moves, but they don't know that tonight some competition will definitely be stiff. Join us for "Death by Disco." a murderous evening of theater, dancing, and great food!

Robbie Q. Telfer
Redhouse

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

National Poetry Slam Finalist Robbie Q. Telfer blends poetry, theatre, stand up, music and a very small amount of dance as he presents excerpts from his book "Spiking the Sucker Punch."

Greater Tuna
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Price: $5 regular, $2 with student ID
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

This kooky comedy in two acts features hats, guns, murder, cruelty, gossip, and a whole mess o' biscuits. The radio personalities Thruston and Arles will guide you through this strange world of mysterious accents.

The Bald Soprano and The Chairs
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rodney Hudson, director

Price: $18 regular, $16 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

These master works from theatre of absurd soar to heights of the ridiculous with word-twisting, innovative comedy. Eugene Ionesco is a giant of 20th century playwriting who took all the conventions of the stage and turned them upside down to offer stunning perspectives on theatre and the world it reflects. With a strong sense of the outrageous, Ionesco reminds us that, "The human drama is as absurd as it is painful."

Both The Bald Soprano and The Chairs are considered standards in what has been coined as Theatre of the Absurd. First popular in the 1950s and 1960s, Absurdism reflects a philosophy presented by Albert Camus—that the human condition is basically meaningless, and that explaining the world in a logical manner is not possible. In absurdist plays, there is a comical take on serious topics—death, alienation, and evil—in an effort to understand them better.

The Bald Soprano portrays an evening visit between Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Martin. With the Smiths' maid Mary and her lover, the fire chief, the night of nonsensical stories and poems carries the characters right back to the beginning.

The Bald Soprano was Eugene Ionesco's first play, performed in 1950 at the Théâtre des Noctambules. At the time, Ionesco had been learning to speak English by copying sentences from an English primer. As he copied the simple phrases over and over again, the absurdity of language struck him. He translated this experience into The Bald Soprano, which satirizes the deadliness and idiocy of the daily life of a bourgeois society frozen in meaningless formalities. The Bald Soprano had a 1987 production in New York City, a production with the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in 2007, and an Off-Broadway production in the spring of 2009 with the One Year Lease theatre ensemble.

In The Chairs, the Old Man and Old Woman are setting up chairs in anticipation of the arrival of a series of guests who are coming to hear an orator reveal the old man's discovery of the meaning of life. Once the couple has convinced themselves that a crowd is assembled (when in fact there are only empty chairs) the evening progresses to a frantic, menacing climax. The Chairs was first produced in 1952 at the Théâtre Lancry. After receiving a 1997 London production, The Chairs returned to Broadway in 1998 and garnered five Tony nominations.

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White Christmas
The Talent Company
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $30 regular, $25 seniors/students, $20 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The tale of a couple of song-and-dance men who meet up with a sister act to make sparks fly is based on the beloved 1954 movie musical that starred Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye. The Broadway hit is full of dancing, romance, laughter, and some of the greatest songs ever written, including Happy Holiday, Sisters, I Love a Piano, Blue Skies, How Deep is the Ocean, I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm, The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing, Falling Out Of Love Can Be Fun, Love, You Didn't Do Right By Me, Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep), and the unforgettable title song, White Christmas.

White Christmas stars Bob Brown as Bob Wallace and Gary Troy as Phil Davis, the song-and-dance men, and Brandi Ozark Weston as Judy Haynes and Colleen Wager as Betty Haynes, the "sister act." The show also features Bill Coughlin as General Henry Waverly and Christine Lightcap as Martha Watson, with Julia Goodman as Susan Waverly, Lou Leonardo as Ralph Sheldrake and Gennaro Parlato as Ezekiel Foster. Rounding out the cast are Jim Baxter, Molly Brown, Camille Chace, Zachary Chase, Cruz Gonzalez, Kimberly Grader, Bobby Hall, Kaleigh Pfohl, Eddie Powers, Korrie Strodel, Josh Taylor, and Rashad Williams.

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