Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Gary Trento
Onondaga Community College

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

Gary Trento's entire adult life as a practicing painter has been spent believing in the persuasive power of painting; more specifically, in how representational painting can transform the activity of direct observation of the live model in real time and space into meaningful, pictorial structure. His observation of the live model, like Vermeer, Chardin, Ingre, Degas is not about a desire to possess, rather a desire to contemplate and evaluate the nature of appearance. He wants to experience observation, to bring it close, to examine, interpret, to look 'for', not 'at'. Observation is discriminatory, hence the basis for self-knowledge.

Slow Scandal: Works of Marco Maggi
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery and The Warehouse Gallery are pleased to announce the opening of a twofold exhibition by renowned artist Marco Maggi. "Slow Scandal" is the title of the exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery, while The Warehouse Gallery presents "American Ream."

The fundamental nature of this dual experiment, according to Maggi, is perception, the idea of difficult perception, "a precise confusion," Maggi comments during a recent conversation with the show's curators, Anja Chávez of The Warehouse Gallery, and Pedro Cuperman of The Point of Contact Gallery. "The aim is to slow down the viewer, and not make a text. There's no complete message, only a second reality to ponder, to start a dialogue of the viewer with the viewer, not with the work." The experience is more about intimacy than about information, or the vacuum of information, and our necessity to fill the vacuum.

Chilton & Johnson
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Chilton & Johnson features recent digital illustrations by Kelly Chilton and abstract paintings by Melissa Johnson. The exhibition is an explosion of color in a mix of fantasy worlds and formal discussions.

Onondaga Lake Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibition featuring over two dozen images drawn primarily from the Onondaga Historical Association collection exploring the evolution of Onondaga Lake over the last 500 years.

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".

Celebrating 20 Years
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

A diverse show of 56 creative artists who have previously exhibited at Edgewood Gallery.

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 Betsy Andrus Smith
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of paintings, jewelry and slumped glass plates by Seneca Falls artist Betsy Andrus Smith. Smith, an award-winning painter, has exhibited at the Salon du Vieux Colombier Paris; Musee D'Art Moderne in Tonneins, France; and Agora Gallery and Abney Gallery in New York. Her work is currently featured in Manhattan Arts International magazine.

2009 Light Work Grants in Photography
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition celebrates the recipients of the 2009 Light Work Grants in Photography: Karen Brummund, Laura Adams Guth, and Stephen Shaner.

The grant program was established in 1975 to encourage the creation of new work and scholarship in Central New York. In addition to an exhibition at Light Work, the grants include a cash award of $2,000 and publication in Contact Sheet. The grant is given annually to three Central New York photographers, critics, or photo-historians.

Barry Anderson: Intermissions
Light Work Gallery

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

Barry Anderson's videos depict purple skies, abstract worlds filled with bubbles, and colorful fragments of semi-familiar scenes. His work reminds people to stop and enjoy the moment.

Anderson's photographs and videos are featured in an innovative art exhibition, Intermissions, which offers a welcome artistic interruption to daily life in a time of economic uncertainty and other societal stresses. Organized by Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run organization on the Syracuse University campus, the fall exhibition will appear at over a dozen venues both on and off campus.

Anderson's colorful video pieces include abstract patterns, nature scenes, and semi-nostalgic images from decade-old advertising. Each piece creates a good-natured, introspective scene that contrasts the busy settings where the work is shown. Intermissions places video art and photographs at multiple venues across Syracuse, making it accessible to the general community and creating many opportunities for meaningful interaction with the work.

Partners in this unique collaboration include SUArt Galleries, Syracuse Symposium, the Tolley Administration Building, Schine Student Center, Orange TV Network, The Warehouse, Community Folk Art Center, the Everson Museum of Art, the Urban Video Project, the Red House Arts Center, and more. Exhibition sites also include public spaces such as billboards and video projections onto windows on campus and buildings in downtown Syracuse.

Barry Anderson was born in Greenville, TX. He holds an MFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown throughout the country, as well as in Thailand, South America, Cuba, and the UK. He lives in Kansas City. Barry participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

Artists & Educators: Works by Ellen Haffar, Robert Niedzwiecki, and Len Eichler
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Price: Free
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

In this show, Ellen Haffar's energetic oil paintings are a celebration of the changing seasons in the Finger Lakes wine region to the Adirondacks. Robert Niedzwiecki's oil paintings are serene depictions of the sublime found in local and Adirondack landscapes. Len Eichler's tall ceramic twister sculptures, embedded wall reliefs and vases reveal his appreciation for the power of natural phenomena, while maintaining a sense of play in the work.

Silent Auction for St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Art donated to a silent auction to support the St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach.

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond focuses on the period in the American artist's life when he spent two summers at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, NY, a rustic summer residence in the Hudson Valley region of New York state owned by his principal patron and friend since childhood, Lawson Valentine.

The show brings together 28 of Homer's watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings, and ceramic tiles of the period from galleries, private collections, and museums across the country.

For more information, visit homer.syr.edu.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Beehive Collective
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The Beehive Design Collective is a 100% volunteer-driven non-profit political organization that uses graphical media as educational tools to communicate stories of resistance to corporate globalization. The purpose of the group, based in Machias, Maine, is to "Cross-pollinate the grassroots" by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images that can be used as educational and organizing tools. The Beehive Collective is most renowned for its large format pen and ink posters, which seek to provide a visual alternative to deconstruction of complicated social and political issues ranging from globalization, free trade, militarism, resource extraction, and biotechnology.

Kings, Thieves: Video Animation by Barry Anderson
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Point of Contact is proud to be part of this large-scale video exhibition for Kansas City artist Barry Anderson, presented in conjunction with Light Work Gallery. The exhibition, titled Intermissions, features primarily video work and some photography, and takes place in 22 different venues throughout the city of Syracuse and on the Syracuse University campus.

Constructing History: A Requiem to Mark the Moment and Afro Chic
Community Folk Art Center

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

These two films by Carrie Mae Weems, an internationally known artist, are being screened in conjunction with Light Work Gallery's City-Wide Collaboration.

Documentary Screening: Nigger
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"People dissect and debate what is arguably the most loaded word in our history."

Thea St. Omer will host the premiere screening of her the final release print of her documentary film, Nigger at ArtRage. Compiled from over 100 interviews, Nigger screened as a work-in-progress at New York University and at Syracuse University last spring. 59 minutes.

More information.

Selma Moore, flute; Timothy Schmidt, guitar
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Music by Bazzini, Faure, Debussy, Ravel, Falla, Ibert, and Bozza. Like the art of the "Turner To Cezanne" exhibit opening at the Everson, this program explores the roots of Impressionism, the music of the great Impressionist Debussy, and also that of the composers he influenced.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Slow Scandal: Works of Marco Maggi
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery and The Warehouse Gallery are pleased to announce the opening of a twofold exhibition by renowned artist Marco Maggi. "Slow Scandal" is the title of the exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery, while The Warehouse Gallery presents "American Ream."

The fundamental nature of this dual experiment, according to Maggi, is perception, the idea of difficult perception, "a precise confusion," Maggi comments during a recent conversation with the show's curators, Anja Chávez of The Warehouse Gallery, and Pedro Cuperman of The Point of Contact Gallery. "The aim is to slow down the viewer, and not make a text. There's no complete message, only a second reality to ponder, to start a dialogue of the viewer with the viewer, not with the work." The experience is more about intimacy than about information, or the vacuum of information, and our necessity to fill the vacuum.

Chilton & Johnson
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Chilton & Johnson features recent digital illustrations by Kelly Chilton and abstract paintings by Melissa Johnson. The exhibition is an explosion of color in a mix of fantasy worlds and formal discussions.

Onondaga Lake Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibition featuring over two dozen images drawn primarily from the Onondaga Historical Association collection exploring the evolution of Onondaga Lake over the last 500 years.

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".

Memories in Paint: Works by Michael Lynne
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Artist Statement by Michael Lynne:
My work and my interests are eclectic and are reflected throughout the work I have selected for this show. You can see the work meander between realism, social commentary, narrative and even some abstract paintings. The changes in interest, direction and use of mediums are evident. One "stage" is not necessarily better than another but rather reflects either a change in interest by the artist or the arrival of a particularly inspiring idea. This evolving path has been my own road to self-discovery as an artist and is a path that I continue to travel.

Celebrating 20 Years
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

A diverse show of 56 creative artists who have previously exhibited at Edgewood Gallery.

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 Betsy Andrus Smith
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of paintings, jewelry and slumped glass plates by Seneca Falls artist Betsy Andrus Smith. Smith, an award-winning painter, has exhibited at the Salon du Vieux Colombier Paris; Musee D'Art Moderne in Tonneins, France; and Agora Gallery and Abney Gallery in New York. Her work is currently featured in Manhattan Arts International magazine.

Barry Anderson: Intermissions
Light Work Gallery

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

Barry Anderson's videos depict purple skies, abstract worlds filled with bubbles, and colorful fragments of semi-familiar scenes. His work reminds people to stop and enjoy the moment.

Anderson's photographs and videos are featured in an innovative art exhibition, Intermissions, which offers a welcome artistic interruption to daily life in a time of economic uncertainty and other societal stresses. Organized by Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run organization on the Syracuse University campus, the fall exhibition will appear at over a dozen venues both on and off campus.

Anderson's colorful video pieces include abstract patterns, nature scenes, and semi-nostalgic images from decade-old advertising. Each piece creates a good-natured, introspective scene that contrasts the busy settings where the work is shown. Intermissions places video art and photographs at multiple venues across Syracuse, making it accessible to the general community and creating many opportunities for meaningful interaction with the work.

Partners in this unique collaboration include SUArt Galleries, Syracuse Symposium, the Tolley Administration Building, Schine Student Center, Orange TV Network, The Warehouse, Community Folk Art Center, the Everson Museum of Art, the Urban Video Project, the Red House Arts Center, and more. Exhibition sites also include public spaces such as billboards and video projections onto windows on campus and buildings in downtown Syracuse.

Barry Anderson was born in Greenville, TX. He holds an MFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown throughout the country, as well as in Thailand, South America, Cuba, and the UK. He lives in Kansas City. Barry participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

2009 Light Work Grants in Photography
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition celebrates the recipients of the 2009 Light Work Grants in Photography: Karen Brummund, Laura Adams Guth, and Stephen Shaner.

The grant program was established in 1975 to encourage the creation of new work and scholarship in Central New York. In addition to an exhibition at Light Work, the grants include a cash award of $2,000 and publication in Contact Sheet. The grant is given annually to three Central New York photographers, critics, or photo-historians.

Artists & Educators: Works by Ellen Haffar, Robert Niedzwiecki, and Len Eichler
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Price: Free
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

In this show, Ellen Haffar's energetic oil paintings are a celebration of the changing seasons in the Finger Lakes wine region to the Adirondacks. Robert Niedzwiecki's oil paintings are serene depictions of the sublime found in local and Adirondack landscapes. Len Eichler's tall ceramic twister sculptures, embedded wall reliefs and vases reveal his appreciation for the power of natural phenomena, while maintaining a sense of play in the work.

The Salted Lip: A Tall Drink of Something Cool
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Ed Feldman's finely crafted pots celebrate the ceremony of drinking and eating with friends, and are infused with a spirit of generosity and indulgence. His pots are completely functional. They add elegance and personality to any dinner table or decor. Each piece is unique due to the introduction of sodium bicarbonate into the atmosphere of the kiln during firing, resulting in luscious and colorful surfaces.

A native Central New Yorker, Ed Feldman started his ceramics studies at SUNY Cortland. Later, he worked as a studio assistant to his professor, John Jessiman. Feldman has exhibited nationally in many shows including History in the Making in Rochester and the prestigious Strictly Functional, in Lancaster, PA. He recently received a MFA in Ceramics at Syracuse University and moved to Cortland to set up his own pottery studio.

Silent Auction for St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Art donated to a silent auction to support the St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach.

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond focuses on the period in the American artist's life when he spent two summers at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, NY, a rustic summer residence in the Hudson Valley region of New York state owned by his principal patron and friend since childhood, Lawson Valentine.

The show brings together 28 of Homer's watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings, and ceramic tiles of the period from galleries, private collections, and museums across the country.

For more information, visit homer.syr.edu.

Visions
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Paintings by Phil Parsons, photography by Bill Storm, and ink drawings by Barbara Stout.

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.

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.

The Beehive Collective
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The Beehive Design Collective is a 100% volunteer-driven non-profit political organization that uses graphical media as educational tools to communicate stories of resistance to corporate globalization. The purpose of the group, based in Machias, Maine, is to "Cross-pollinate the grassroots" by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images that can be used as educational and organizing tools. The Beehive Collective is most renowned for its large format pen and ink posters, which seek to provide a visual alternative to deconstruction of complicated social and political issues ranging from globalization, free trade, militarism, resource extraction, and biotechnology.

Wild Card Exhibition: George F. Earle Retrospective
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Kings, Thieves: Video Animation by Barry Anderson
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Point of Contact is proud to be part of this large-scale video exhibition for Kansas City artist Barry Anderson, presented in conjunction with Light Work Gallery. The exhibition, titled Intermissions, features primarily video work and some photography, and takes place in 22 different venues throughout the city of Syracuse and on the Syracuse University campus.

Constructing History: A Requiem to Mark the Moment and Afro Chic
Community Folk Art Center

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

These two films by Carrie Mae Weems, an internationally known artist, are being screened in conjunction with Light Work Gallery's City-Wide Collaboration.

Overcoming the Spectacle: A Cinema of Pure Means
Redhouse
Featuring films by René Viénet

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

René Viénet: Can Dialectics Break Bricks (1972), The Girls of Kamare (1974)
(The Girls of Kamare may be inappropriate for minors.)

"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.

Film Lecture with Cecelia Condit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Cecelia Condit is currently a full professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Film at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her work is highly respected and has been in competition at the Syracuse Film Festival for four of the last six years, as well as widely shown in competition and invited programs throughout the world. Her work would be of special interest to classes in women's studies, documentary film, scriptwriting, creative writing, video art, and family studies. Ms. Condit's work presents prime examples of excellence in the creation of the Short Film.

Free parking -- the most convenient lots are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall and Storer Auditorium.

W.J.T. Mitchell
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

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

Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of Media, Visual Art, and Literature, University of Chicago. A scholar and theorist of media, visual art and literature, Mitchell is associated with the emergent fields of visual culture and iconology (i.e., the study of images across the media). He is known especially for his study of visual and verbal representations in social and political issues from the 1700s to the present.

Part of the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light."

Chamber Orchestra: Crouching Tiger and More!
LeMoyne College

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

Percussionist David Cossin and cellist Felix Fan join the Le Moyne College Chamber Orchestra for a concert to include excerpts from Tan Dun's Crouching Tiger Concerto, as well as music from The Hours and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

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.

Friday, October 9, 2009

Slow Scandal: Works of Marco Maggi
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery and The Warehouse Gallery are pleased to announce the opening of a twofold exhibition by renowned artist Marco Maggi. "Slow Scandal" is the title of the exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery, while The Warehouse Gallery presents "American Ream."

The fundamental nature of this dual experiment, according to Maggi, is perception, the idea of difficult perception, "a precise confusion," Maggi comments during a recent conversation with the show's curators, Anja Chávez of The Warehouse Gallery, and Pedro Cuperman of The Point of Contact Gallery. "The aim is to slow down the viewer, and not make a text. There's no complete message, only a second reality to ponder, to start a dialogue of the viewer with the viewer, not with the work." The experience is more about intimacy than about information, or the vacuum of information, and our necessity to fill the vacuum.

Chilton & Johnson
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Chilton & Johnson features recent digital illustrations by Kelly Chilton and abstract paintings by Melissa Johnson. The exhibition is an explosion of color in a mix of fantasy worlds and formal discussions.

Onondaga Lake Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibition featuring over two dozen images drawn primarily from the Onondaga Historical Association collection exploring the evolution of Onondaga Lake over the last 500 years.

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".

Memories in Paint: Works by Michael Lynne
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Artist Statement by Michael Lynne:
My work and my interests are eclectic and are reflected throughout the work I have selected for this show. You can see the work meander between realism, social commentary, narrative and even some abstract paintings. The changes in interest, direction and use of mediums are evident. One "stage" is not necessarily better than another but rather reflects either a change in interest by the artist or the arrival of a particularly inspiring idea. This evolving path has been my own road to self-discovery as an artist and is a path that I continue to travel.

Celebrating 20 Years
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

A diverse show of 56 creative artists who have previously exhibited at Edgewood Gallery.

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 Betsy Andrus Smith
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of paintings, jewelry and slumped glass plates by Seneca Falls artist Betsy Andrus Smith. Smith, an award-winning painter, has exhibited at the Salon du Vieux Colombier Paris; Musee D'Art Moderne in Tonneins, France; and Agora Gallery and Abney Gallery in New York. Her work is currently featured in Manhattan Arts International magazine.

2009 Light Work Grants in Photography
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition celebrates the recipients of the 2009 Light Work Grants in Photography: Karen Brummund, Laura Adams Guth, and Stephen Shaner.

The grant program was established in 1975 to encourage the creation of new work and scholarship in Central New York. In addition to an exhibition at Light Work, the grants include a cash award of $2,000 and publication in Contact Sheet. The grant is given annually to three Central New York photographers, critics, or photo-historians.

Barry Anderson: Intermissions
Light Work Gallery

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

Barry Anderson's videos depict purple skies, abstract worlds filled with bubbles, and colorful fragments of semi-familiar scenes. His work reminds people to stop and enjoy the moment.

Anderson's photographs and videos are featured in an innovative art exhibition, Intermissions, which offers a welcome artistic interruption to daily life in a time of economic uncertainty and other societal stresses. Organized by Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run organization on the Syracuse University campus, the fall exhibition will appear at over a dozen venues both on and off campus.

Anderson's colorful video pieces include abstract patterns, nature scenes, and semi-nostalgic images from decade-old advertising. Each piece creates a good-natured, introspective scene that contrasts the busy settings where the work is shown. Intermissions places video art and photographs at multiple venues across Syracuse, making it accessible to the general community and creating many opportunities for meaningful interaction with the work.

Partners in this unique collaboration include SUArt Galleries, Syracuse Symposium, the Tolley Administration Building, Schine Student Center, Orange TV Network, The Warehouse, Community Folk Art Center, the Everson Museum of Art, the Urban Video Project, the Red House Arts Center, and more. Exhibition sites also include public spaces such as billboards and video projections onto windows on campus and buildings in downtown Syracuse.

Barry Anderson was born in Greenville, TX. He holds an MFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown throughout the country, as well as in Thailand, South America, Cuba, and the UK. He lives in Kansas City. Barry participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

Artists & Educators: Works by Ellen Haffar, Robert Niedzwiecki, and Len Eichler
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Price: Free
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

In this show, Ellen Haffar's energetic oil paintings are a celebration of the changing seasons in the Finger Lakes wine region to the Adirondacks. Robert Niedzwiecki's oil paintings are serene depictions of the sublime found in local and Adirondack landscapes. Len Eichler's tall ceramic twister sculptures, embedded wall reliefs and vases reveal his appreciation for the power of natural phenomena, while maintaining a sense of play in the work.

The Salted Lip: A Tall Drink of Something Cool
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Ed Feldman's finely crafted pots celebrate the ceremony of drinking and eating with friends, and are infused with a spirit of generosity and indulgence. His pots are completely functional. They add elegance and personality to any dinner table or decor. Each piece is unique due to the introduction of sodium bicarbonate into the atmosphere of the kiln during firing, resulting in luscious and colorful surfaces.

A native Central New Yorker, Ed Feldman started his ceramics studies at SUNY Cortland. Later, he worked as a studio assistant to his professor, John Jessiman. Feldman has exhibited nationally in many shows including History in the Making in Rochester and the prestigious Strictly Functional, in Lancaster, PA. He recently received a MFA in Ceramics at Syracuse University and moved to Cortland to set up his own pottery studio.

Silent Auction for St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Art donated to a silent auction to support the St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach.

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond focuses on the period in the American artist's life when he spent two summers at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, NY, a rustic summer residence in the Hudson Valley region of New York state owned by his principal patron and friend since childhood, Lawson Valentine.

The show brings together 28 of Homer's watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings, and ceramic tiles of the period from galleries, private collections, and museums across the country.

For more information, visit homer.syr.edu.

Visions
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Paintings by Phil Parsons, photography by Bill Storm, and ink drawings by Barbara Stout.

Wild Card Exhibition: George F. Earle Retrospective
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.

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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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.

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.

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.

The Beehive Collective
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The Beehive Design Collective is a 100% volunteer-driven non-profit political organization that uses graphical media as educational tools to communicate stories of resistance to corporate globalization. The purpose of the group, based in Machias, Maine, is to "Cross-pollinate the grassroots" by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images that can be used as educational and organizing tools. The Beehive Collective is most renowned for its large format pen and ink posters, which seek to provide a visual alternative to deconstruction of complicated social and political issues ranging from globalization, free trade, militarism, resource extraction, and biotechnology.

The Renegades Improv
Redhouse

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

The Renegades are a comedy troupe based out of Syracuse, NY. The troupe incorporates sketches, digital shorts, and improv games into the performance to produce a show that's equal parts Saturday Night Live, Whose Line is it Anyways?, and Monty Python.

Performing will be Deidre Dyer, Brandon Dyer, Tim Hogarth, Jeff White, Aaron Geiskopf, and Ron Sweet.

Improv Comedy Night
Saltine Warrior

Price: $13 regular, $10 students/seniors
Funk 'n Waffles University
727 S. Crouse Ave. (Campus Plaza, behind Marshall , Syracuse

Saltine Warrior is an improv comedy troupe. A Saltine Warrior show is a hilarious blend of short-form games (think the best parts of the hit TV show, "Who's Line Is It, Anyway?"), with the long-form scene styles in the tradition of Second City and Upright Citizen's Brigade.

This is truly interactive, improv comedy at its best! The entire performance is totally unscripted and unrehearsed...with scenes and games based on audience suggestions and participation.

Kings, Thieves: Video Animation by Barry Anderson
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Point of Contact is proud to be part of this large-scale video exhibition for Kansas City artist Barry Anderson, presented in conjunction with Light Work Gallery. The exhibition, titled Intermissions, features primarily video work and some photography, and takes place in 22 different venues throughout the city of Syracuse and on the Syracuse University campus.

Constructing History: A Requiem to Mark the Moment and Afro Chic
Community Folk Art Center

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

These two films by Carrie Mae Weems, an internationally known artist, are being screened in conjunction with Light Work Gallery's City-Wide Collaboration.

Opera Karaoke
Syracuse Opera

Opus Restaurant
218 Walton St., Syracuse

Syracuse Opera presents a night of drinks and song, featuring late night happy hour and drink specials. They provide the sheet music and pianist; you provide the vocals!

For more information, email info@syracuseopera.com or call the office at 315-475-5915.

Murder at the Cathedral

Price: $25
St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Murder mystery, with dessert buffet at intermission.

For more information, phone 315-474-6053.

Werewolf
Rarely Done Productions
Judith Harris, director

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

In this new play by Len Fonte, school district lawyer Holly Corman lays out the choices for teacher Guy Alessandro, who has just displayed some disturbing behavior in his classroom. Holly tells the 60-year-old teacher that he can retire immediately or face an embarrassing competency hearing. Instead of addressing the choices directly, he tells how he got to this place, beginning with his first year teaching and his encounter with a disturbed student who believes he's turning into a werewolf, and ending with the horrific events on the day of his incident.

Cast includes Mark Austin, Brendon Cole, Fiona Cunningham, Peggy Droz, Keegan Lounsberry, Tom Minion, Ed Perry, and Karis Wiggins.

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Birthday Night
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Price: $2 suggested donation
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

A new play written and directed by Kristian Rodriguez, starring Jorge Torres, Troy Dangerfield, Robert North, Walter Tucker, Erik Sords, and Kristian Rodriguez.

Oklahoma!
Syracuse University Drama Department

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

There's a bright golden haze on everything about this landmark musical, from Richard Rodgers' vibrant score, to Oscar Hammerstein's delightful lyrics and book, to the sparkling characters that populate a particular slice of the Oklahoma Territory. Add a Box Social, a surrey with a fringe on top, and some eye-popping choreography, and all you can say is "Oh, what a beautiful play!"

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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Wit's End Players

Price: $20 regular; $18 students/seniors, $14 children
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

This hilarious musical tells of six young people in the throes of puberty (overseen by grownups who barely made it out of childhood themselves) who learn that winning isn't everything and losing doesn't make you a loser. An upbeat tale of quirky and charming outsiders for whom a spelling bee is the one place they can stand out and fit in at the same time. Multiple Tony Award winner -- a must see!

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Saturday, October 10, 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.

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.

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.

Visions
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Paintings by Phil Parsons, photography by Bill Storm, and ink drawings by Barbara Stout.

Wild Card Exhibition: George F. Earle Retrospective
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Celebrating 20 Years
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

A diverse show of 56 creative artists who have previously exhibited at Edgewood Gallery.

Works by Betsy Andrus Smith
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of paintings, jewelry and slumped glass plates by Seneca Falls artist Betsy Andrus Smith. Smith, an award-winning painter, has exhibited at the Salon du Vieux Colombier Paris; Musee D'Art Moderne in Tonneins, France; and Agora Gallery and Abney Gallery in New York. Her work is currently featured in Manhattan Arts International magazine.

Artists & Educators: Works by Ellen Haffar, Robert Niedzwiecki, and Len Eichler
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Price: Free
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

In this show, Ellen Haffar's energetic oil paintings are a celebration of the changing seasons in the Finger Lakes wine region to the Adirondacks. Robert Niedzwiecki's oil paintings are serene depictions of the sublime found in local and Adirondack landscapes. Len Eichler's tall ceramic twister sculptures, embedded wall reliefs and vases reveal his appreciation for the power of natural phenomena, while maintaining a sense of play in the work.

Silent Auction for St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Art donated to a silent auction to support the St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach.

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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The Salted Lip: A Tall Drink of Something Cool
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Ed Feldman's finely crafted pots celebrate the ceremony of drinking and eating with friends, and are infused with a spirit of generosity and indulgence. His pots are completely functional. They add elegance and personality to any dinner table or decor. Each piece is unique due to the introduction of sodium bicarbonate into the atmosphere of the kiln during firing, resulting in luscious and colorful surfaces.

A native Central New Yorker, Ed Feldman started his ceramics studies at SUNY Cortland. Later, he worked as a studio assistant to his professor, John Jessiman. Feldman has exhibited nationally in many shows including History in the Making in Rochester and the prestigious Strictly Functional, in Lancaster, PA. He recently received a MFA in Ceramics at Syracuse University and moved to Cortland to set up his own pottery studio.

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond focuses on the period in the American artist's life when he spent two summers at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, NY, a rustic summer residence in the Hudson Valley region of New York state owned by his principal patron and friend since childhood, Lawson Valentine.

The show brings together 28 of Homer's watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings, and ceramic tiles of the period from galleries, private collections, and museums across the country.

For more information, visit homer.syr.edu.

The Beehive Collective
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The Beehive Design Collective is a 100% volunteer-driven non-profit political organization that uses graphical media as educational tools to communicate stories of resistance to corporate globalization. The purpose of the group, based in Machias, Maine, is to "Cross-pollinate the grassroots" by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images that can be used as educational and organizing tools. The Beehive Collective is most renowned for its large format pen and ink posters, which seek to provide a visual alternative to deconstruction of complicated social and political issues ranging from globalization, free trade, militarism, resource extraction, and biotechnology.

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.

Think Pink! Dance For the Cure Dance Showcase

Price: $10
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Come see talented local performers of all ages and styles: from Bellydance to ballroom, Bollywood to ballet. Performances from Syracuse School of Dance, All For the Love of Dancing, The Pink Ladies, Naach Bollywood, and more.

All proceeds from the event will go to the Breast Care Center at Upstate University Hospital to support the "Life After Breast Cancer: A Journey Toward Wellness" program.

In addition, there will be dance workshops during the day from noon-4:00 pm:
12:00-1:00: Irish Step or Cuban style Salsa
1:00-2:00: East Coast Swing or Bellydance
2:00-3:00: Line dance or Cha-Cha
3:00-4:00: Argentine Tango or Burlesque

For more information, contact hannahs_hips@yahoo.com.

Constructing History: A Requiem to Mark the Moment and Afro Chic
Community Folk Art Center

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

These two films by Carrie Mae Weems, an internationally known artist, are being screened in conjunction with Light Work Gallery's City-Wide Collaboration.

SaturdaySCREENINGS: Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
ArtRage Gallery

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

This poignant documentary Celebrates urban wildness—human and avian—and the wondrous connection between parrot antics and our behavior. A homeless musician reinvents himself through friendship with a flock of wild green and red parrots in San Francisco. Directed by Judy Irving, 2003.

Becoming Modern: Art from Turner to Cézanne and Two Pioneer Collectors
Everson Museum of Art
Featuring Michael Tooby

Price: Free with same-day exhibit admission
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Michael Tooby, Director of Learning, Programs, and Development at the National Museum Wales, will discuss the motivations of Margaret and Gwendoline Davies in assembling the collection represented in the Turner to Cézanne exhibition. Was the aim of the Davies sisters—true pioneers in the collecting of modern art—to "become modern"? Was this a reflection of the way in which Impressionists were seeking to be painters of "modern life"? Mr. Tooby will address other aspects of their collecting approach in relation to the art historical narrative set out in the exhibition.

Westcott Community Center
Second Saturday Series: Annie & the Hedonists

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

A band with a great lead singer and tight harmonies, covering an eclectic mix of acoustic folk, torchy blues, standards, bluegrass, gospel, labor ballads, early jazz,... uncommon joy-de-vivre.

Metroland 2008 "Best Acoustic Band": "What's your pleasure, folkie? Country blues? Bluegrass? Celtic music? Current singer-songwriters? With Annie Rosen's world-class vocals topping off layers of fine instrumental work, this local quartet offer one-stop listening in more tasty genres than you can shake a pick at. That's why they take the acoustic cake."

Jabberwocky
Open Hand Theater
Crabgrass Puppet Theatre

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

The poetry of Lewis Carroll and the puppetry of these award-winning performers meet in this magical, creative, delightful and beguiling show. Children will be transfixed by the music, the striking animation and gracefully choreographed puppets. Crabgrass Puppet Theatre is a returning favorite that has delighted audiences from the east coast to California and many places in between.

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!

Werewolf
Rarely Done Productions
Judith Harris, director

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

In this new play by Len Fonte, school district lawyer Holly Corman lays out the choices for teacher Guy Alessandro, who has just displayed some disturbing behavior in his classroom. Holly tells the 60-year-old teacher that he can retire immediately or face an embarrassing competency hearing. Instead of addressing the choices directly, he tells how he got to this place, beginning with his first year teaching and his encounter with a disturbed student who believes he's turning into a werewolf, and ending with the horrific events on the day of his incident.

Cast includes Mark Austin, Brendon Cole, Fiona Cunningham, Peggy Droz, Keegan Lounsberry, Tom Minion, Ed Perry, and Karis Wiggins.

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Birthday Night
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Price: $2 suggested donation
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

A new play written and directed by Kristian Rodriguez, starring Jorge Torres, Troy Dangerfield, Robert North, Walter Tucker, Erik Sords, and Kristian Rodriguez.

Oklahoma!
Syracuse University Drama Department

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

There's a bright golden haze on everything about this landmark musical, from Richard Rodgers' vibrant score, to Oscar Hammerstein's delightful lyrics and book, to the sparkling characters that populate a particular slice of the Oklahoma Territory. Add a Box Social, a surrey with a fringe on top, and some eye-popping choreography, and all you can say is "Oh, what a beautiful play!"

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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Wit's End Players

Price: $20 regular; $18 students/seniors, $14 children
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

This hilarious musical tells of six young people in the throes of puberty (overseen by grownups who barely made it out of childhood themselves) who learn that winning isn't everything and losing doesn't make you a loser. An upbeat tale of quirky and charming outsiders for whom a spelling bee is the one place they can stand out and fit in at the same time. Multiple Tony Award winner -- a must see!

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Sunday, October 11, 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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Barry Anderson: Intermissions
Light Work Gallery

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

Barry Anderson's videos depict purple skies, abstract worlds filled with bubbles, and colorful fragments of semi-familiar scenes. His work reminds people to stop and enjoy the moment.

Anderson's photographs and videos are featured in an innovative art exhibition, Intermissions, which offers a welcome artistic interruption to daily life in a time of economic uncertainty and other societal stresses. Organized by Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run organization on the Syracuse University campus, the fall exhibition will appear at over a dozen venues both on and off campus.

Anderson's colorful video pieces include abstract patterns, nature scenes, and semi-nostalgic images from decade-old advertising. Each piece creates a good-natured, introspective scene that contrasts the busy settings where the work is shown. Intermissions places video art and photographs at multiple venues across Syracuse, making it accessible to the general community and creating many opportunities for meaningful interaction with the work.

Partners in this unique collaboration include SUArt Galleries, Syracuse Symposium, the Tolley Administration Building, Schine Student Center, Orange TV Network, The Warehouse, Community Folk Art Center, the Everson Museum of Art, the Urban Video Project, the Red House Arts Center, and more. Exhibition sites also include public spaces such as billboards and video projections onto windows on campus and buildings in downtown Syracuse.

Barry Anderson was born in Greenville, TX. He holds an MFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown throughout the country, as well as in Thailand, South America, Cuba, and the UK. He lives in Kansas City. Barry participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

2009 Light Work Grants in Photography
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition celebrates the recipients of the 2009 Light Work Grants in Photography: Karen Brummund, Laura Adams Guth, and Stephen Shaner.

The grant program was established in 1975 to encourage the creation of new work and scholarship in Central New York. In addition to an exhibition at Light Work, the grants include a cash award of $2,000 and publication in Contact Sheet. The grant is given annually to three Central New York photographers, critics, or photo-historians.

The Salted Lip: A Tall Drink of Something Cool
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Ed Feldman's finely crafted pots celebrate the ceremony of drinking and eating with friends, and are infused with a spirit of generosity and indulgence. His pots are completely functional. They add elegance and personality to any dinner table or decor. Each piece is unique due to the introduction of sodium bicarbonate into the atmosphere of the kiln during firing, resulting in luscious and colorful surfaces.

A native Central New Yorker, Ed Feldman started his ceramics studies at SUNY Cortland. Later, he worked as a studio assistant to his professor, John Jessiman. Feldman has exhibited nationally in many shows including History in the Making in Rochester and the prestigious Strictly Functional, in Lancaster, PA. He recently received a MFA in Ceramics at Syracuse University and moved to Cortland to set up his own pottery studio.

Works by Betsy Andrus Smith
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of paintings, jewelry and slumped glass plates by Seneca Falls artist Betsy Andrus Smith. Smith, an award-winning painter, has exhibited at the Salon du Vieux Colombier Paris; Musee D'Art Moderne in Tonneins, France; and Agora Gallery and Abney Gallery in New York. Her work is currently featured in Manhattan Arts International magazine.

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."

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond focuses on the period in the American artist's life when he spent two summers at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, NY, a rustic summer residence in the Hudson Valley region of New York state owned by his principal patron and friend since childhood, Lawson Valentine.

The show brings together 28 of Homer's watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings, and ceramic tiles of the period from galleries, private collections, and museums across the country.

For more information, visit homer.syr.edu.

Silent Auction for St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Art donated to a silent auction to support the St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach.

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.

Phil Flanigan, Hanna Richardson, and Rick Montalbano
Fayetteville Free Library

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

One set of classic, swinging American music.

Stained Glass Series: The Early Masters
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Janet Brown, soprano

Most Holy Rosary Church
111 Roberts Ave., Syracuse

Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major, BWV 1046
Handel Cantata: Clori, mia bella Clori
Vivaldi Motet: O Qui Coeli Terraque
Haydn Symphony No. 63 in C Major, "La Roxelane"

Opera Preview: La Boheme
Syracuse Opera

Price: Free
Barnes & Noble
3454 Erie Blvd. E., Dewitt

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.

Oklahoma!
Syracuse University Drama Department

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

There's a bright golden haze on everything about this landmark musical, from Richard Rodgers' vibrant score, to Oscar Hammerstein's delightful lyrics and book, to the sparkling characters that populate a particular slice of the Oklahoma Territory. Add a Box Social, a surrey with a fringe on top, and some eye-popping choreography, and all you can say is "Oh, what a beautiful play!"

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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Wit's End Players

Price: $20 regular; $18 students/seniors, $14 children
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

This hilarious musical tells of six young people in the throes of puberty (overseen by grownups who barely made it out of childhood themselves) who learn that winning isn't everything and losing doesn't make you a loser. An upbeat tale of quirky and charming outsiders for whom a spelling bee is the one place they can stand out and fit in at the same time. Multiple Tony Award winner -- a must see!

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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.

Birthday Night
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Price: $2 suggested donation
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

A new play written and directed by Kristian Rodriguez, starring Jorge Torres, Troy Dangerfield, Robert North, Walter Tucker, Erik Sords, and Kristian Rodriguez.

Monday, October 12, 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.

Slow Scandal: Works of Marco Maggi
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery and The Warehouse Gallery are pleased to announce the opening of a twofold exhibition by renowned artist Marco Maggi. "Slow Scandal" is the title of the exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery, while The Warehouse Gallery presents "American Ream."

The fundamental nature of this dual experiment, according to Maggi, is perception, the idea of difficult perception, "a precise confusion," Maggi comments during a recent conversation with the show's curators, Anja Chávez of The Warehouse Gallery, and Pedro Cuperman of The Point of Contact Gallery. "The aim is to slow down the viewer, and not make a text. There's no complete message, only a second reality to ponder, to start a dialogue of the viewer with the viewer, not with the work." The experience is more about intimacy than about information, or the vacuum of information, and our necessity to fill the vacuum.

Onondaga Lake Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibition featuring over two dozen images drawn primarily from the Onondaga Historical Association collection exploring the evolution of Onondaga Lake over the last 500 years.

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".

Memories in Paint: Works by Michael Lynne
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Artist Statement by Michael Lynne:
My work and my interests are eclectic and are reflected throughout the work I have selected for this show. You can see the work meander between realism, social commentary, narrative and even some abstract paintings. The changes in interest, direction and use of mediums are evident. One "stage" is not necessarily better than another but rather reflects either a change in interest by the artist or the arrival of a particularly inspiring idea. This evolving path has been my own road to self-discovery as an artist and is a path that I continue to travel.

Works by Betsy Andrus Smith
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of paintings, jewelry and slumped glass plates by Seneca Falls artist Betsy Andrus Smith. Smith, an award-winning painter, has exhibited at the Salon du Vieux Colombier Paris; Musee D'Art Moderne in Tonneins, France; and Agora Gallery and Abney Gallery in New York. Her work is currently featured in Manhattan Arts International magazine.

2009 Light Work Grants in Photography
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition celebrates the recipients of the 2009 Light Work Grants in Photography: Karen Brummund, Laura Adams Guth, and Stephen Shaner.

The grant program was established in 1975 to encourage the creation of new work and scholarship in Central New York. In addition to an exhibition at Light Work, the grants include a cash award of $2,000 and publication in Contact Sheet. The grant is given annually to three Central New York photographers, critics, or photo-historians.

Barry Anderson: Intermissions
Light Work Gallery

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

Barry Anderson's videos depict purple skies, abstract worlds filled with bubbles, and colorful fragments of semi-familiar scenes. His work reminds people to stop and enjoy the moment.

Anderson's photographs and videos are featured in an innovative art exhibition, Intermissions, which offers a welcome artistic interruption to daily life in a time of economic uncertainty and other societal stresses. Organized by Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run organization on the Syracuse University campus, the fall exhibition will appear at over a dozen venues both on and off campus.

Anderson's colorful video pieces include abstract patterns, nature scenes, and semi-nostalgic images from decade-old advertising. Each piece creates a good-natured, introspective scene that contrasts the busy settings where the work is shown. Intermissions places video art and photographs at multiple venues across Syracuse, making it accessible to the general community and creating many opportunities for meaningful interaction with the work.

Partners in this unique collaboration include SUArt Galleries, Syracuse Symposium, the Tolley Administration Building, Schine Student Center, Orange TV Network, The Warehouse, Community Folk Art Center, the Everson Museum of Art, the Urban Video Project, the Red House Arts Center, and more. Exhibition sites also include public spaces such as billboards and video projections onto windows on campus and buildings in downtown Syracuse.

Barry Anderson was born in Greenville, TX. He holds an MFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown throughout the country, as well as in Thailand, South America, Cuba, and the UK. He lives in Kansas City. Barry participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

Artists & Educators: Works by Ellen Haffar, Robert Niedzwiecki, and Len Eichler
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Price: Free
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

In this show, Ellen Haffar's energetic oil paintings are a celebration of the changing seasons in the Finger Lakes wine region to the Adirondacks. Robert Niedzwiecki's oil paintings are serene depictions of the sublime found in local and Adirondack landscapes. Len Eichler's tall ceramic twister sculptures, embedded wall reliefs and vases reveal his appreciation for the power of natural phenomena, while maintaining a sense of play in the work.

Silent Auction for St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Art donated to a silent auction to support the St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach.

Kings, Thieves: Video Animation by Barry Anderson
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Point of Contact is proud to be part of this large-scale video exhibition for Kansas City artist Barry Anderson, presented in conjunction with Light Work Gallery. The exhibition, titled Intermissions, features primarily video work and some photography, and takes place in 22 different venues throughout the city of Syracuse and on the Syracuse University campus.

White Heat
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

James Cagney's last great gangster role of James Cagney, also featuring Edmond O'Brien and Virginia Mayo.

Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Tanya Bannister, piano

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

Selections include Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5.

Presented as part of SU's Pulse Performing Arts Series.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage.

The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, Epilogue
Syracuse Stage
Joseph Whelan, director

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

Syracuse Stage will present a staged reading of The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, an epilogue to the highly acclaimed play The Laramie Project. Coordinated by Tectonic Theatre Project, the epilogue will receive its world premiere at over 100 theatres on the same day in all 50 states, Canada, Great Britain, Spain, Hong Kong, and Australia. The Syracuse Stage event will include a live introductory web cast from Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in New York City hosted by Glenn Close, a staged reading of The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, and a Q&A session.

In October of 1998, Matthew Shepard, a gay University of Wyoming student, was tied to a fence, savagely beaten and left for dead by two men, Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney. Shepard died six days later. The Tectonic Theatre Company developed the original Laramie Project in the months following Shepard's murder. Members of the company interviewed hundreds of Laramie residents to chronicle the life of the town in the immediate aftermath of the vicious crime. The epilogue focuses on the long-term effects of the murder. It explores how the town has changed and how the murder continues to reverberate in the community. The play includes new interviews with Matthew's mother Judy Shepard and Mathew's murderers, who are serving life sentences. The writers also conducted many follow-up interviews with Laramie residents from the original piece, including Romaine Patterson, Reggie Fluty, Jedediah Shultz, Father Roger Schmidt, Jonas Slonaker, Beth Loffreda and others.

The reading at Syracuse Stage will be directed by long-time Stage staff member Joseph Whelan. As an adjunct faculty member in Syracuse University's Department of Drama, Whelan directed the original version of The Laramie Project in a production that was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2004.

Tuesday, October 13, 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.

Slow Scandal: Works of Marco Maggi
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery and The Warehouse Gallery are pleased to announce the opening of a twofold exhibition by renowned artist Marco Maggi. "Slow Scandal" is the title of the exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery, while The Warehouse Gallery presents "American Ream."

The fundamental nature of this dual experiment, according to Maggi, is perception, the idea of difficult perception, "a precise confusion," Maggi comments during a recent conversation with the show's curators, Anja Chávez of The Warehouse Gallery, and Pedro Cuperman of The Point of Contact Gallery. "The aim is to slow down the viewer, and not make a text. There's no complete message, only a second reality to ponder, to start a dialogue of the viewer with the viewer, not with the work." The experience is more about intimacy than about information, or the vacuum of information, and our necessity to fill the vacuum.

Chilton & Johnson
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Chilton & Johnson features recent digital illustrations by Kelly Chilton and abstract paintings by Melissa Johnson. The exhibition is an explosion of color in a mix of fantasy worlds and formal discussions.

Onondaga Lake Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibition featuring over two dozen images drawn primarily from the Onondaga Historical Association collection exploring the evolution of Onondaga Lake over the last 500 years.

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".

Memories in Paint: Works by Michael Lynne
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Artist Statement by Michael Lynne:
My work and my interests are eclectic and are reflected throughout the work I have selected for this show. You can see the work meander between realism, social commentary, narrative and even some abstract paintings. The changes in interest, direction and use of mediums are evident. One "stage" is not necessarily better than another but rather reflects either a change in interest by the artist or the arrival of a particularly inspiring idea. This evolving path has been my own road to self-discovery as an artist and is a path that I continue to travel.

Celebrating 20 Years
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

A diverse show of 56 creative artists who have previously exhibited at Edgewood Gallery.

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 Betsy Andrus Smith
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of paintings, jewelry and slumped glass plates by Seneca Falls artist Betsy Andrus Smith. Smith, an award-winning painter, has exhibited at the Salon du Vieux Colombier Paris; Musee D'Art Moderne in Tonneins, France; and Agora Gallery and Abney Gallery in New York. Her work is currently featured in Manhattan Arts International magazine.

Barry Anderson: Intermissions
Light Work Gallery

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

Barry Anderson's videos depict purple skies, abstract worlds filled with bubbles, and colorful fragments of semi-familiar scenes. His work reminds people to stop and enjoy the moment.

Anderson's photographs and videos are featured in an innovative art exhibition, Intermissions, which offers a welcome artistic interruption to daily life in a time of economic uncertainty and other societal stresses. Organized by Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run organization on the Syracuse University campus, the fall exhibition will appear at over a dozen venues both on and off campus.

Anderson's colorful video pieces include abstract patterns, nature scenes, and semi-nostalgic images from decade-old advertising. Each piece creates a good-natured, introspective scene that contrasts the busy settings where the work is shown. Intermissions places video art and photographs at multiple venues across Syracuse, making it accessible to the general community and creating many opportunities for meaningful interaction with the work.

Partners in this unique collaboration include SUArt Galleries, Syracuse Symposium, the Tolley Administration Building, Schine Student Center, Orange TV Network, The Warehouse, Community Folk Art Center, the Everson Museum of Art, the Urban Video Project, the Red House Arts Center, and more. Exhibition sites also include public spaces such as billboards and video projections onto windows on campus and buildings in downtown Syracuse.

Barry Anderson was born in Greenville, TX. He holds an MFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown throughout the country, as well as in Thailand, South America, Cuba, and the UK. He lives in Kansas City. Barry participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

2009 Light Work Grants in Photography
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition celebrates the recipients of the 2009 Light Work Grants in Photography: Karen Brummund, Laura Adams Guth, and Stephen Shaner.

The grant program was established in 1975 to encourage the creation of new work and scholarship in Central New York. In addition to an exhibition at Light Work, the grants include a cash award of $2,000 and publication in Contact Sheet. The grant is given annually to three Central New York photographers, critics, or photo-historians.

Artists & Educators: Works by Ellen Haffar, Robert Niedzwiecki, and Len Eichler
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Price: Free
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

In this show, Ellen Haffar's energetic oil paintings are a celebration of the changing seasons in the Finger Lakes wine region to the Adirondacks. Robert Niedzwiecki's oil paintings are serene depictions of the sublime found in local and Adirondack landscapes. Len Eichler's tall ceramic twister sculptures, embedded wall reliefs and vases reveal his appreciation for the power of natural phenomena, while maintaining a sense of play in the work.

Silent Auction for St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Art donated to a silent auction to support the St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach.

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.

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.

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.

Kings, Thieves: Video Animation by Barry Anderson
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Point of Contact is proud to be part of this large-scale video exhibition for Kansas City artist Barry Anderson, presented in conjunction with Light Work Gallery. The exhibition, titled Intermissions, features primarily video work and some photography, and takes place in 22 different venues throughout the city of Syracuse and on the Syracuse University campus.

Constructing History: A Requiem to Mark the Moment and Afro Chic
Community Folk Art Center

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

These two films by Carrie Mae Weems, an internationally known artist, are being screened in conjunction with Light Work Gallery's City-Wide Collaboration.

Student Film Screening
Light Work Gallery

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

In conjunction with "Intermissions," the innovative art exhibition and related programs featuring the video and photographic art of Kansas City artist Barry Anderson, Light Work will present a screening of films by students at Syracuse University, the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and the Kansas City Art Institute. The same screening will take place in Kansas City as well, thus creating a connection between the schools as part of the "Intermissions" project. The exchange builds on a connection that has already been created through the citywide video project. The videos represent some of the best work currently being done in the participating school programs. While the students will not be meeting in person, they have the opportunity to see each other's work in either city.

The Syracuse University/Kansas City Student Video Exchange presents student video work by students from SU, the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and the Kansas City Art Institute. It was curated by Anderson, associate professor of art at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, assistant professors in the Department of Transmedia in SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. Vey Duke will introduce the videos at the Syracuse screening, while Anderson will introduce them at the Kansas City screening.

Red Like the Sky
Syracuse International Film Festival

Weiskotten Hall, SUNY Upstate
766 Irving Ave., Syracuse

Syracuse University Symphony Orchestra
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
James R. Tapia, conductor
Featuring Janet Brown, soprano

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

Shostakovich Festive Overture
Hugo Wolf Spanish Leiderbuch
Copland Outdoor Overture
Dvorak Symphony No. 9, "New World"

For more information, phone 315-443-9371.

Parking is available in Irving Garage.

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.

Wednesday, October 14, 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.

Slow Scandal: Works of Marco Maggi
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery and The Warehouse Gallery are pleased to announce the opening of a twofold exhibition by renowned artist Marco Maggi. "Slow Scandal" is the title of the exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery, while The Warehouse Gallery presents "American Ream."

The fundamental nature of this dual experiment, according to Maggi, is perception, the idea of difficult perception, "a precise confusion," Maggi comments during a recent conversation with the show's curators, Anja Chávez of The Warehouse Gallery, and Pedro Cuperman of The Point of Contact Gallery. "The aim is to slow down the viewer, and not make a text. There's no complete message, only a second reality to ponder, to start a dialogue of the viewer with the viewer, not with the work." The experience is more about intimacy than about information, or the vacuum of information, and our necessity to fill the vacuum.

Chilton & Johnson
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Chilton & Johnson features recent digital illustrations by Kelly Chilton and abstract paintings by Melissa Johnson. The exhibition is an explosion of color in a mix of fantasy worlds and formal discussions.

Onondaga Lake Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibition featuring over two dozen images drawn primarily from the Onondaga Historical Association collection exploring the evolution of Onondaga Lake over the last 500 years.

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".

Memories in Paint: Works by Michael Lynne
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Artist Statement by Michael Lynne:
My work and my interests are eclectic and are reflected throughout the work I have selected for this show. You can see the work meander between realism, social commentary, narrative and even some abstract paintings. The changes in interest, direction and use of mediums are evident. One "stage" is not necessarily better than another but rather reflects either a change in interest by the artist or the arrival of a particularly inspiring idea. This evolving path has been my own road to self-discovery as an artist and is a path that I continue to travel.

Celebrating 20 Years
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

A diverse show of 56 creative artists who have previously exhibited at Edgewood Gallery.

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 Betsy Andrus Smith
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of paintings, jewelry and slumped glass plates by Seneca Falls artist Betsy Andrus Smith. Smith, an award-winning painter, has exhibited at the Salon du Vieux Colombier Paris; Musee D'Art Moderne in Tonneins, France; and Agora Gallery and Abney Gallery in New York. Her work is currently featured in Manhattan Arts International magazine.

2009 Light Work Grants in Photography
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition celebrates the recipients of the 2009 Light Work Grants in Photography: Karen Brummund, Laura Adams Guth, and Stephen Shaner.

The grant program was established in 1975 to encourage the creation of new work and scholarship in Central New York. In addition to an exhibition at Light Work, the grants include a cash award of $2,000 and publication in Contact Sheet. The grant is given annually to three Central New York photographers, critics, or photo-historians.

Barry Anderson: Intermissions
Light Work Gallery

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

Barry Anderson's videos depict purple skies, abstract worlds filled with bubbles, and colorful fragments of semi-familiar scenes. His work reminds people to stop and enjoy the moment.

Anderson's photographs and videos are featured in an innovative art exhibition, Intermissions, which offers a welcome artistic interruption to daily life in a time of economic uncertainty and other societal stresses. Organized by Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run organization on the Syracuse University campus, the fall exhibition will appear at over a dozen venues both on and off campus.

Anderson's colorful video pieces include abstract patterns, nature scenes, and semi-nostalgic images from decade-old advertising. Each piece creates a good-natured, introspective scene that contrasts the busy settings where the work is shown. Intermissions places video art and photographs at multiple venues across Syracuse, making it accessible to the general community and creating many opportunities for meaningful interaction with the work.

Partners in this unique collaboration include SUArt Galleries, Syracuse Symposium, the Tolley Administration Building, Schine Student Center, Orange TV Network, The Warehouse, Community Folk Art Center, the Everson Museum of Art, the Urban Video Project, the Red House Arts Center, and more. Exhibition sites also include public spaces such as billboards and video projections onto windows on campus and buildings in downtown Syracuse.

Barry Anderson was born in Greenville, TX. He holds an MFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown throughout the country, as well as in Thailand, South America, Cuba, and the UK. He lives in Kansas City. Barry participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

Artists & Educators: Works by Ellen Haffar, Robert Niedzwiecki, and Len Eichler
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Price: Free
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

In this show, Ellen Haffar's energetic oil paintings are a celebration of the changing seasons in the Finger Lakes wine region to the Adirondacks. Robert Niedzwiecki's oil paintings are serene depictions of the sublime found in local and Adirondack landscapes. Len Eichler's tall ceramic twister sculptures, embedded wall reliefs and vases reveal his appreciation for the power of natural phenomena, while maintaining a sense of play in the work.

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."

Silent Auction for St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Art donated to a silent auction to support the St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach.

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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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.

The Beehive Collective
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse