Tuesday, September 7, 2010

OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

OCC Faculty Art Show is a collection of artworks in various mediums from about 20 art instructors. The work covers a broad range of genres including elements of representational, nonrepresentational and abstract art forms.

Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond" features the work of five SU faculty members -- Anne Cofer, Mary Giehl and Sarah Saulson (fiber arts/material studies) and Marion Dorfer and Eileen Gosson (surface pattern design).

Cofer, an installation artist, had her first museum solo exhibition "Concealed Objects" at the Everson Museum of Art in spring 2009 and a permanent site-specific project for SU's Hinds Hall installed in May. She has been published nationally in Ceramics Monthly and internationally in Ceramics Art and Perception. Her work has been pictured in the New York Times and was selected for “500 Ceramic Sculptures” (Lark, 2009).

Dorfer began her successful freelance business, MY Designs, after graduating from SU. From 1986-2004, she collaborated with her agent John Sacks of Jane-Albert Studios Inc. in New York City. Her speculative design work was exhibited and sold yearly at the studio as well as at the Surtex (New York City), Heimtextil (Germany) and Indigo (France) trade shows. Through Jane-Albert Studios and independent commissions, she has created designs for printed and woven textiles, wall covering, glass, ceramic products and paper products.

Giehl, who creates installations as well as two-dimensional work and sculpture, recently exhibited her work in group shows at Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art in Utica; ArtRage and Point of Contact Gallery in Syracuse; the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn; and Main Street Gallery in Groton. Her numerous community art projects include serving as guest curator for Syracuse's Lipe Art Park, where she is working to enhance the park's 600-foot fence by creating an abstract image of the Erie Canal using felt made from recycled plastic bottles.

Gosson's professional career began as a designer and colorist for Scalamandré Silks in New York City; she later worked as an assistant to Anne Marie de Samarjay, owner of Samarjay Associates, a surface pattern design agency in Manhattan. That position led to 20-plus years of freelance design experience for multiple product categories within industry. Her clients include Waverly, a division of F. Schumacher & Co.; Brewster Wallcovering Co.; Kenneth James line; Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia; Lynn Hollyn Associates, the Smithsonian Institution; Warner Wallcovering; Western Textile Co.; and Brunschwig & Fils.

Saulson is a professional handweaver and workshop leader with an interest in ethnic textiles and processes. She served on the board of Weave a Real Peace, an organization that serves as a catalyst for improving the quality of life of weavers and textile artisans in communities-in-need, and she has taught dyeing and weaving in Ghana, where she also conducted a research project on craft cooperatives for SERRV International, a nonprofit, fair trade organization. She recently exhibited her work at Lowell National Historical Park in Massachusetts.

Honoring The Masters: Works of Ann Milner and Phil DeMocker
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

"Honoring the Masters," featuring Ann Milner's oriental brush painting and Phil DeMocker's origami, is a tribute to artists of the past setting the standards for today's active artists and gallery goers. Highlighted will be "masters" from noted dynasties. The "Mustard Seed Garden Manual, first published in the mid-1600s, will be the reference for some techniques in both learning and creating pieces of Oriental brush painting. Reproductions of work from ancient and more recent masters will show the background and heritage next to current representations of classical subjects and composition.

Origami pieces will represent Phil's favorite designer/folders and will be labeled to explain why he has chosen those artists.

As with most art, copying the work of an established artist is considered distasteful and cheap. While the art of the Orient to copy a master is considered one highest forms of art. Ann Milner is painting in the Sumie style from the Mustard Seed Manual, a comprehensive work of style, structure and form. Phil DeMocker is working from the works of both past and present masters of origami.

Changes
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

K.V. and Debe Abbott: Selection of works 1985-2010
Brian Brickley: Sculptural and functional ceramics

Read a review!

Pa Bouje Anko (Don't Move Again): Works by Laura Heyman
Light Work Gallery

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

André Eugene, Jean Hérard Céleur, Rònald Bazile, Pierre Isnel Destimare, Leah Gordon, and Myron Beasley organized the Ghetto Biennale in Haiti's capitol Port-au-Prince to ask the question, "What happens when first world art rubs up against third world art?"

For her project, Laura Heyman explored formal portraiture following the example of artists like Mike Disfarmer, James Van Der Zee and Seydou Keita, who used the commercial and utilitarian aspects of their practice to portray their subjects with a consideration and respect that was both clear-eyed and beautiful.

Joan Lukas Rothenberg: A Retrospective
Redhouse

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

Joan Lukas Rothenberg's art involvement began early in her life. As the director of the "Art Squad" at Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, NY, Joan was awarded the New York Society of Illustrators prize for her poster depicting the plight of children in poverty. She studied art at New York City's Cooper Union before earning her Master of Fine Arts in painting and ceramics from the University of Michigan and further study in drawing and printmaking at Royal University College in Stockholm.

In Syracuse, Joan was recognized as both an artist and activist. She was a founding member of the first women's consciousness-raising group which evolved into the Women's Information Center in 1972. She also founded and operated Auragyns, a women's art gallery. Joan was in the process of completing her PhD in Women's Studies at Syracuse University, studying images of women in the media, at the time of her death in 1990.

In celebration of Joan's spirit, tenacity, and vision, Red House will feature a series of group exhibitions promoting local, professional and student women artists. The retrospective will inaugurate this Emerging Women Artist series. The retrospective and the series are both made possible by a grant from the Joan Rothenberg Family Foundation.

The exhibit will be on display by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 for more information or to schedule a viewing.

Read a review!

4x4: Community Curators and the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Four individuals associated with the Syracuse visual arts community were invited to develop an exhibition using works from SU's permanent collection. Nancy Keefe Rhodes, art critic for the City Eagle newspaper, curated an exhibition of American art made between the two world wars while Jack White, internationally recognized artist and former Syracuse resident, will investigate objects pertaining to hand-to-hand sport, such as boxing and wrestling. Roy Simmons Jr., former SU lacrosse coach and an artist in his own right will examine the work of Ivan Mestrovic, the Croatian artist and former professor from SU's School of Art. The director of the Community Folk Arts Center, Dr. Kheli Willetts, will explore visual interrelationships in the ethnographic and art collections through vice and virtue.

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

Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition explores the collaborative design process employed at Herman Miller, the world-renowned furniture company that has used design to solve problems for the home and workplace for almost 90 years. Good Design showcases archival holdings of concept models, drawings, supplementary photographs, and completed masterworks of design in furniture and decorative art produced by Herman Miller, Inc. Works by Gilbert Rohde, Ray and Charles Eames, George Nelson, Alexander Girard, Robert Probst, Bill Stumpf, Don Chadwick, Ayse Birdsel, and other well known designers are featured. The exhibition was organized and is circulated by the Muskegon Museum of Art in association with The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan.

Designed to Scale--The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series
Everson Museum of Art

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

Designed to Scale, part three of the 2010 New York State Artists Series showcases significant designers from the Central New York region whose work is recognized in the national and international design arenas. Although modest in scale, the exhibition touches on a broad range of innovative design objects—furniture, lighting, commercial products and dining experiences, unique accessories, toys, and surface patterns.

Read a Review!

Organ Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Kola Owolabi, organ

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

Kola Owolabi, Syracuse University organist and assistant professor, will present an organ recital on the historic Holtkamp organ.

The program for both evenings will include Calvin Hampton's Prelude and Variations on Old Hundredth, Johann Sebastian Bach's Trio on 'Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr', Petr Eben's Landscapes of Patmos and Georges Bizet's Fantasia on Carmen. Eben's piece will feature percussionist Joshua Dekaney.

A native of Toronto, Owolabi has held positions as assistant organist at St. Michael's Cathedral in Toronto and at the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul in Montreal. He is a published composer and has received commissions from the Royal Canadian College of Organists and the Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto. In 2002, he was awarded second prize and the audience prize at the American Guild of Organists National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance.

As a recitalist, he has performed across Canada and the United States, appearing most recently at St. Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue in New York City, Methuen Memorial Music Hall in Massachusetts, Spelman College in Atlanta, and Cornell University. He is also the sub-dean for the Syracuse chapter of the American Guild of Organists.

Setnor Auditorium's organ was rebuilt in 1950 by Walter Holtkamp and consists of 3,823 pipes, many of which are from the original organ built by Frank Roosevelt in 1889 and rebuilt by the Estey Organ Company in 1924. The organ was awarded a Historic Organ Citation by the Organ Historical Society in 1989.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage. For more information, contact Owolabi at 315-443-5043.

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

OCC Faculty Art Show is a collection of artworks in various mediums from about 20 art instructors. The work covers a broad range of genres including elements of representational, nonrepresentational and abstract art forms.

Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond" features the work of five SU faculty members -- Anne Cofer, Mary Giehl and Sarah Saulson (fiber arts/material studies) and Marion Dorfer and Eileen Gosson (surface pattern design).

Cofer, an installation artist, had her first museum solo exhibition "Concealed Objects" at the Everson Museum of Art in spring 2009 and a permanent site-specific project for SU's Hinds Hall installed in May. She has been published nationally in Ceramics Monthly and internationally in Ceramics Art and Perception. Her work has been pictured in the New York Times and was selected for “500 Ceramic Sculptures” (Lark, 2009).

Dorfer began her successful freelance business, MY Designs, after graduating from SU. From 1986-2004, she collaborated with her agent John Sacks of Jane-Albert Studios Inc. in New York City. Her speculative design work was exhibited and sold yearly at the studio as well as at the Surtex (New York City), Heimtextil (Germany) and Indigo (France) trade shows. Through Jane-Albert Studios and independent commissions, she has created designs for printed and woven textiles, wall covering, glass, ceramic products and paper products.

Giehl, who creates installations as well as two-dimensional work and sculpture, recently exhibited her work in group shows at Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art in Utica; ArtRage and Point of Contact Gallery in Syracuse; the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn; and Main Street Gallery in Groton. Her numerous community art projects include serving as guest curator for Syracuse's Lipe Art Park, where she is working to enhance the park's 600-foot fence by creating an abstract image of the Erie Canal using felt made from recycled plastic bottles.

Gosson's professional career began as a designer and colorist for Scalamandré Silks in New York City; she later worked as an assistant to Anne Marie de Samarjay, owner of Samarjay Associates, a surface pattern design agency in Manhattan. That position led to 20-plus years of freelance design experience for multiple product categories within industry. Her clients include Waverly, a division of F. Schumacher & Co.; Brewster Wallcovering Co.; Kenneth James line; Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia; Lynn Hollyn Associates, the Smithsonian Institution; Warner Wallcovering; Western Textile Co.; and Brunschwig & Fils.

Saulson is a professional handweaver and workshop leader with an interest in ethnic textiles and processes. She served on the board of Weave a Real Peace, an organization that serves as a catalyst for improving the quality of life of weavers and textile artisans in communities-in-need, and she has taught dyeing and weaving in Ghana, where she also conducted a research project on craft cooperatives for SERRV International, a nonprofit, fair trade organization. She recently exhibited her work at Lowell National Historical Park in Massachusetts.

Honoring The Masters: Works of Ann Milner and Phil DeMocker
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

"Honoring the Masters," featuring Ann Milner's oriental brush painting and Phil DeMocker's origami, is a tribute to artists of the past setting the standards for today's active artists and gallery goers. Highlighted will be "masters" from noted dynasties. The "Mustard Seed Garden Manual, first published in the mid-1600s, will be the reference for some techniques in both learning and creating pieces of Oriental brush painting. Reproductions of work from ancient and more recent masters will show the background and heritage next to current representations of classical subjects and composition.

Origami pieces will represent Phil's favorite designer/folders and will be labeled to explain why he has chosen those artists.

As with most art, copying the work of an established artist is considered distasteful and cheap. While the art of the Orient to copy a master is considered one highest forms of art. Ann Milner is painting in the Sumie style from the Mustard Seed Manual, a comprehensive work of style, structure and form. Phil DeMocker is working from the works of both past and present masters of origami.

Changes
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

K.V. and Debe Abbott: Selection of works 1985-2010
Brian Brickley: Sculptural and functional ceramics

Read a review!

Pa Bouje Anko (Don't Move Again): Works by Laura Heyman
Light Work Gallery

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

André Eugene, Jean Hérard Céleur, Rònald Bazile, Pierre Isnel Destimare, Leah Gordon, and Myron Beasley organized the Ghetto Biennale in Haiti's capitol Port-au-Prince to ask the question, "What happens when first world art rubs up against third world art?"

For her project, Laura Heyman explored formal portraiture following the example of artists like Mike Disfarmer, James Van Der Zee and Seydou Keita, who used the commercial and utilitarian aspects of their practice to portray their subjects with a consideration and respect that was both clear-eyed and beautiful.

Joan Lukas Rothenberg: A Retrospective
Redhouse

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

Joan Lukas Rothenberg's art involvement began early in her life. As the director of the "Art Squad" at Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, NY, Joan was awarded the New York Society of Illustrators prize for her poster depicting the plight of children in poverty. She studied art at New York City's Cooper Union before earning her Master of Fine Arts in painting and ceramics from the University of Michigan and further study in drawing and printmaking at Royal University College in Stockholm.

In Syracuse, Joan was recognized as both an artist and activist. She was a founding member of the first women's consciousness-raising group which evolved into the Women's Information Center in 1972. She also founded and operated Auragyns, a women's art gallery. Joan was in the process of completing her PhD in Women's Studies at Syracuse University, studying images of women in the media, at the time of her death in 1990.

In celebration of Joan's spirit, tenacity, and vision, Red House will feature a series of group exhibitions promoting local, professional and student women artists. The retrospective will inaugurate this Emerging Women Artist series. The retrospective and the series are both made possible by a grant from the Joan Rothenberg Family Foundation.

The exhibit will be on display by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 for more information or to schedule a viewing.

Read a review!

4x4: Community Curators and the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Four individuals associated with the Syracuse visual arts community were invited to develop an exhibition using works from SU's permanent collection. Nancy Keefe Rhodes, art critic for the City Eagle newspaper, curated an exhibition of American art made between the two world wars while Jack White, internationally recognized artist and former Syracuse resident, will investigate objects pertaining to hand-to-hand sport, such as boxing and wrestling. Roy Simmons Jr., former SU lacrosse coach and an artist in his own right will examine the work of Ivan Mestrovic, the Croatian artist and former professor from SU's School of Art. The director of the Community Folk Arts Center, Dr. Kheli Willetts, will explore visual interrelationships in the ethnographic and art collections through vice and virtue.

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

Designed to Scale--The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series
Everson Museum of Art

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

Designed to Scale, part three of the 2010 New York State Artists Series showcases significant designers from the Central New York region whose work is recognized in the national and international design arenas. Although modest in scale, the exhibition touches on a broad range of innovative design objects—furniture, lighting, commercial products and dining experiences, unique accessories, toys, and surface patterns.

Read a Review!

Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition explores the collaborative design process employed at Herman Miller, the world-renowned furniture company that has used design to solve problems for the home and workplace for almost 90 years. Good Design showcases archival holdings of concept models, drawings, supplementary photographs, and completed masterworks of design in furniture and decorative art produced by Herman Miller, Inc. Works by Gilbert Rohde, Ray and Charles Eames, George Nelson, Alexander Girard, Robert Probst, Bill Stumpf, Don Chadwick, Ayse Birdsel, and other well known designers are featured. The exhibition was organized and is circulated by the Muskegon Museum of Art in association with The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan.

Monumental Printstallations
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Large-scale works created by artists at Lake Effect Editions, the press of the printmaking program at Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, are the subject of this exhibition. The show features the work of student, faculty, and visiting artists, including Nicholaus Arnold, Marco Camacho, Susan Edmunds, John Hancock, Dusty Herbig, Neil Hueber, Eric Johanni, Rich Kim, Kristen Leonard, and Sam Tobias.

Junk
Echo

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

A mixed media installation by Travis Adenau.

Organ Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Kola Owolabi, organ

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

Kola Owolabi, Syracuse University organist and assistant professor, will present an organ recital on the historic Holtkamp organ.

The program for both evenings will include Calvin Hampton's Prelude and Variations on Old Hundredth, Johann Sebastian Bach's Trio on 'Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr', Petr Eben's Landscapes of Patmos and Georges Bizet's Fantasia on Carmen. Eben's piece will feature percussionist Joshua Dekaney.

A native of Toronto, Owolabi has held positions as assistant organist at St. Michael's Cathedral in Toronto and at the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul in Montreal. He is a published composer and has received commissions from the Royal Canadian College of Organists and the Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto. In 2002, he was awarded second prize and the audience prize at the American Guild of Organists National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance.

As a recitalist, he has performed across Canada and the United States, appearing most recently at St. Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue in New York City, Methuen Memorial Music Hall in Massachusetts, Spelman College in Atlanta, and Cornell University. He is also the sub-dean for the Syracuse chapter of the American Guild of Organists.

Setnor Auditorium's organ was rebuilt in 1950 by Walter Holtkamp and consists of 3,823 pipes, many of which are from the original organ built by Frank Roosevelt in 1889 and rebuilt by the Estey Organ Company in 1924. The organ was awarded a Historic Organ Citation by the Organ Historical Society in 1989.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage. For more information, contact Owolabi at 315-443-5043.

Thursday, September 9, 2010

OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

OCC Faculty Art Show is a collection of artworks in various mediums from about 20 art instructors. The work covers a broad range of genres including elements of representational, nonrepresentational and abstract art forms.

Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond" features the work of five SU faculty members -- Anne Cofer, Mary Giehl and Sarah Saulson (fiber arts/material studies) and Marion Dorfer and Eileen Gosson (surface pattern design).

Cofer, an installation artist, had her first museum solo exhibition "Concealed Objects" at the Everson Museum of Art in spring 2009 and a permanent site-specific project for SU's Hinds Hall installed in May. She has been published nationally in Ceramics Monthly and internationally in Ceramics Art and Perception. Her work has been pictured in the New York Times and was selected for “500 Ceramic Sculptures” (Lark, 2009).

Dorfer began her successful freelance business, MY Designs, after graduating from SU. From 1986-2004, she collaborated with her agent John Sacks of Jane-Albert Studios Inc. in New York City. Her speculative design work was exhibited and sold yearly at the studio as well as at the Surtex (New York City), Heimtextil (Germany) and Indigo (France) trade shows. Through Jane-Albert Studios and independent commissions, she has created designs for printed and woven textiles, wall covering, glass, ceramic products and paper products.

Giehl, who creates installations as well as two-dimensional work and sculpture, recently exhibited her work in group shows at Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art in Utica; ArtRage and Point of Contact Gallery in Syracuse; the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn; and Main Street Gallery in Groton. Her numerous community art projects include serving as guest curator for Syracuse's Lipe Art Park, where she is working to enhance the park's 600-foot fence by creating an abstract image of the Erie Canal using felt made from recycled plastic bottles.

Gosson's professional career began as a designer and colorist for Scalamandré Silks in New York City; she later worked as an assistant to Anne Marie de Samarjay, owner of Samarjay Associates, a surface pattern design agency in Manhattan. That position led to 20-plus years of freelance design experience for multiple product categories within industry. Her clients include Waverly, a division of F. Schumacher & Co.; Brewster Wallcovering Co.; Kenneth James line; Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia; Lynn Hollyn Associates, the Smithsonian Institution; Warner Wallcovering; Western Textile Co.; and Brunschwig & Fils.

Saulson is a professional handweaver and workshop leader with an interest in ethnic textiles and processes. She served on the board of Weave a Real Peace, an organization that serves as a catalyst for improving the quality of life of weavers and textile artisans in communities-in-need, and she has taught dyeing and weaving in Ghana, where she also conducted a research project on craft cooperatives for SERRV International, a nonprofit, fair trade organization. She recently exhibited her work at Lowell National Historical Park in Massachusetts.

Honoring The Masters: Works of Ann Milner and Phil DeMocker
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

"Honoring the Masters," featuring Ann Milner's oriental brush painting and Phil DeMocker's origami, is a tribute to artists of the past setting the standards for today's active artists and gallery goers. Highlighted will be "masters" from noted dynasties. The "Mustard Seed Garden Manual, first published in the mid-1600s, will be the reference for some techniques in both learning and creating pieces of Oriental brush painting. Reproductions of work from ancient and more recent masters will show the background and heritage next to current representations of classical subjects and composition.

Origami pieces will represent Phil's favorite designer/folders and will be labeled to explain why he has chosen those artists.

As with most art, copying the work of an established artist is considered distasteful and cheap. While the art of the Orient to copy a master is considered one highest forms of art. Ann Milner is painting in the Sumie style from the Mustard Seed Manual, a comprehensive work of style, structure and form. Phil DeMocker is working from the works of both past and present masters of origami.

Changes
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

K.V. and Debe Abbott: Selection of works 1985-2010
Brian Brickley: Sculptural and functional ceramics

Read a review!

Pa Bouje Anko (Don't Move Again): Works by Laura Heyman
Light Work Gallery

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

André Eugene, Jean Hérard Céleur, Rònald Bazile, Pierre Isnel Destimare, Leah Gordon, and Myron Beasley organized the Ghetto Biennale in Haiti's capitol Port-au-Prince to ask the question, "What happens when first world art rubs up against third world art?"

For her project, Laura Heyman explored formal portraiture following the example of artists like Mike Disfarmer, James Van Der Zee and Seydou Keita, who used the commercial and utilitarian aspects of their practice to portray their subjects with a consideration and respect that was both clear-eyed and beautiful.

Joan Lukas Rothenberg: A Retrospective
Redhouse

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

Joan Lukas Rothenberg's art involvement began early in her life. As the director of the "Art Squad" at Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, NY, Joan was awarded the New York Society of Illustrators prize for her poster depicting the plight of children in poverty. She studied art at New York City's Cooper Union before earning her Master of Fine Arts in painting and ceramics from the University of Michigan and further study in drawing and printmaking at Royal University College in Stockholm.

In Syracuse, Joan was recognized as both an artist and activist. She was a founding member of the first women's consciousness-raising group which evolved into the Women's Information Center in 1972. She also founded and operated Auragyns, a women's art gallery. Joan was in the process of completing her PhD in Women's Studies at Syracuse University, studying images of women in the media, at the time of her death in 1990.

In celebration of Joan's spirit, tenacity, and vision, Red House will feature a series of group exhibitions promoting local, professional and student women artists. The retrospective will inaugurate this Emerging Women Artist series. The retrospective and the series are both made possible by a grant from the Joan Rothenberg Family Foundation.

The exhibit will be on display by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 for more information or to schedule a viewing.

Read a review!

4x4: Community Curators and the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

There will be an opening reception tonight from 5:00 to 7:00 pm.

Four individuals associated with the Syracuse visual arts community were invited to develop an exhibition using works from SU's permanent collection. Nancy Keefe Rhodes, art critic for the City Eagle newspaper, curated an exhibition of American art made between the two world wars while Jack White, internationally recognized artist and former Syracuse resident, will investigate objects pertaining to hand-to-hand sport, such as boxing and wrestling. Roy Simmons Jr., former SU lacrosse coach and an artist in his own right will examine the work of Ivan Mestrovic, the Croatian artist and former professor from SU's School of Art. The director of the Community Folk Arts Center, Dr. Kheli Willetts, will explore visual interrelationships in the ethnographic and art collections through vice and virtue.

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

Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition explores the collaborative design process employed at Herman Miller, the world-renowned furniture company that has used design to solve problems for the home and workplace for almost 90 years. Good Design showcases archival holdings of concept models, drawings, supplementary photographs, and completed masterworks of design in furniture and decorative art produced by Herman Miller, Inc. Works by Gilbert Rohde, Ray and Charles Eames, George Nelson, Alexander Girard, Robert Probst, Bill Stumpf, Don Chadwick, Ayse Birdsel, and other well known designers are featured. The exhibition was organized and is circulated by the Muskegon Museum of Art in association with The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan.

Designed to Scale--The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series
Everson Museum of Art

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

Designed to Scale, part three of the 2010 New York State Artists Series showcases significant designers from the Central New York region whose work is recognized in the national and international design arenas. Although modest in scale, the exhibition touches on a broad range of innovative design objects—furniture, lighting, commercial products and dining experiences, unique accessories, toys, and surface patterns.

Read a Review!

Monumental Printstallations
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Large-scale works created by artists at Lake Effect Editions, the press of the printmaking program at Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, are the subject of this exhibition. The show features the work of student, faculty, and visiting artists, including Nicholaus Arnold, Marco Camacho, Susan Edmunds, John Hancock, Dusty Herbig, Neil Hueber, Eric Johanni, Rich Kim, Kristen Leonard, and Sam Tobias.

Junk
Echo

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

A mixed media installation by Travis Adenau.

Gasland
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: Free
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

This free screening starts at 6:30 pm with live music, a hydro-fracking resources for action fair, and speakers. The film will begin at 7:30, and will be followed by a discussion with director Josh Fox.

When filmmaker Josh Fox discovers that natural gas drilling is coming to his area, the Catskillls/Poconos region of Upstate New York and Pennsylvania, he sets off on a 24-state journey to uncover the deep consequences of the United States' natural gas drilling boom. What he uncovers is truly shocking—water that can be lit on fire right out of the sink, chronically ill residents of drilling areas from disparate locations in the US all with the same mysterious symptoms, huge pools of toxic waste that kill cattle and vegetation, well blowouts and huge gas explosions consistently covered up by state and federal regulatory agencies. These are just a few of the many absurd and astonishing revelations of a new country called Gasland.

Rain date: Fri., Sept. 10.

Wine, Women and Film: Little Girl Blue
Redhouse

Price: $8 adults; $5 with student ID
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Little Girl Blue, by Czech director Alice Nellis, is a beautiful and imaginative study of a woman's psyche. Czech singing star Iva Bittova portrays a woman whose interest in music is a major part of her ordinary life as well as her inner world. This moving performance won the Best Actress award at the 2008 Syracuse International Film Festival.

Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide, describes Little Girl Blue: Iva Bittova stars as Julie, a professional translator quietly buckling beneath the weight of a routine, unsatisfying marriage to businessman Harold. In low-key desperation, she slips into a gentle mid-life crisis, catalyzed by her discovery that one of her favorite vocalists, blues legend Nina Simone, just passed away. Julie responds by deciding on the spur of the moment to purchase a piano for the family's spacious living room, which sends her on a colorful journey through the streets of Prague.

Ms. Bittova will be on hand to discuss the film as well as offer a special performance following the screening.

Part of a year-long film series celebrating the role of women in filmmaking.

The Big Break: Round One
Westcott Theater
Featuring Autumn Fire, Lee Terrace, and more

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Come support local bands!

Preview: Elegy in Blue
Rarely Done Productions
Donna Stuccio, director

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

Officer Celeste Luna wades through the fog of her day-to-day operations, tending to her urban beat while doggedly guarding her heart. A fateful convergence of four other lost souls in her territory leads to the unearthing of long-secreted information which threatens to reap catastrophic fallout. Will forgiveness or retribution win out? A world premiere, the play is the sequel to "Blue Moon". Written by Donna Stuccio.

Preview tickets available by phoning the Box Office only.

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Friday, September 10, 2010

Le Moyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

There will be an opening reception 4:00-6:00 pm.

Works by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore, and Charlie Wollowitz.

Opening: Anagama Nakama: 7 Anagama Potters
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

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

Works by Marvin Bjurlin, Julie Crosby, Fred Herbst, Cary Joseph, Marc Peter Keane, Chris Longwell, and Momoko Takeshita.

OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

OCC Faculty Art Show is a collection of artworks in various mediums from about 20 art instructors. The work covers a broad range of genres including elements of representational, nonrepresentational and abstract art forms.

Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond" features the work of five SU faculty members -- Anne Cofer, Mary Giehl and Sarah Saulson (fiber arts/material studies) and Marion Dorfer and Eileen Gosson (surface pattern design).

Cofer, an installation artist, had her first museum solo exhibition "Concealed Objects" at the Everson Museum of Art in spring 2009 and a permanent site-specific project for SU's Hinds Hall installed in May. She has been published nationally in Ceramics Monthly and internationally in Ceramics Art and Perception. Her work has been pictured in the New York Times and was selected for “500 Ceramic Sculptures” (Lark, 2009).

Dorfer began her successful freelance business, MY Designs, after graduating from SU. From 1986-2004, she collaborated with her agent John Sacks of Jane-Albert Studios Inc. in New York City. Her speculative design work was exhibited and sold yearly at the studio as well as at the Surtex (New York City), Heimtextil (Germany) and Indigo (France) trade shows. Through Jane-Albert Studios and independent commissions, she has created designs for printed and woven textiles, wall covering, glass, ceramic products and paper products.

Giehl, who creates installations as well as two-dimensional work and sculpture, recently exhibited her work in group shows at Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art in Utica; ArtRage and Point of Contact Gallery in Syracuse; the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn; and Main Street Gallery in Groton. Her numerous community art projects include serving as guest curator for Syracuse's Lipe Art Park, where she is working to enhance the park's 600-foot fence by creating an abstract image of the Erie Canal using felt made from recycled plastic bottles.

Gosson's professional career began as a designer and colorist for Scalamandré Silks in New York City; she later worked as an assistant to Anne Marie de Samarjay, owner of Samarjay Associates, a surface pattern design agency in Manhattan. That position led to 20-plus years of freelance design experience for multiple product categories within industry. Her clients include Waverly, a division of F. Schumacher & Co.; Brewster Wallcovering Co.; Kenneth James line; Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia; Lynn Hollyn Associates, the Smithsonian Institution; Warner Wallcovering; Western Textile Co.; and Brunschwig & Fils.

Saulson is a professional handweaver and workshop leader with an interest in ethnic textiles and processes. She served on the board of Weave a Real Peace, an organization that serves as a catalyst for improving the quality of life of weavers and textile artisans in communities-in-need, and she has taught dyeing and weaving in Ghana, where she also conducted a research project on craft cooperatives for SERRV International, a nonprofit, fair trade organization. She recently exhibited her work at Lowell National Historical Park in Massachusetts.

Honoring The Masters: Works of Ann Milner and Phil DeMocker
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

There will be an opening reception 6:00-8:00 pm.

"Honoring the Masters," featuring Ann Milner's oriental brush painting and Phil DeMocker's origami, is a tribute to artists of the past setting the standards for today's active artists and gallery goers. Highlighted will be "masters" from noted dynasties. The "Mustard Seed Garden Manual, first published in the mid-1600s, will be the reference for some techniques in both learning and creating pieces of Oriental brush painting. Reproductions of work from ancient and more recent masters will show the background and heritage next to current representations of classical subjects and composition.

Origami pieces will represent Phil's favorite designer/folders and will be labeled to explain why he has chosen those artists.

As with most art, copying the work of an established artist is considered distasteful and cheap. While the art of the Orient to copy a master is considered one highest forms of art. Ann Milner is painting in the Sumie style from the Mustard Seed Manual, a comprehensive work of style, structure and form. Phil DeMocker is working from the works of both past and present masters of origami.

Changes
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

K.V. and Debe Abbott: Selection of works 1985-2010
Brian Brickley: Sculptural and functional ceramics

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Canaltown Suds: Syracuse Breweries of the Canal Era
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Pa Bouje Anko (Don't Move Again): Works by Laura Heyman
Light Work Gallery

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

André Eugene, Jean Hérard Céleur, Rònald Bazile, Pierre Isnel Destimare, Leah Gordon, and Myron Beasley organized the Ghetto Biennale in Haiti's capitol Port-au-Prince to ask the question, "What happens when first world art rubs up against third world art?"

For her project, Laura Heyman explored formal portraiture following the example of artists like Mike Disfarmer, James Van Der Zee and Seydou Keita, who used the commercial and utilitarian aspects of their practice to portray their subjects with a consideration and respect that was both clear-eyed and beautiful.

Opening: Objects & Atmospheres
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

There will be an opening reception 6:00-8:00 pm.

Nathan Sullivan: Paintings and lithographs
Joshua Primmer: Stoneware vessels
Brenda Edwards: Paintings and drawings

Sullivan's oil on panel "Form Series" are masterfully painted, Vermeer-like in their surface quality. His images of suspended or floating tiny organic objects such as seeds are rendered to large scale in chiaroscuro, resulting in their otherworldly presence.

Primmer is exhibiting his intimately scaled stoneware objects and vessels. While one may consider the relatively small scale of his work, it possesses a monumentality usually restricted to large scale work and architecture.

Edwards' depictions in her soft focus drawings and paintings range from sultry atmospheres to luminous mists. They are moments that catch the play of light in their respective environments.

Joan Lukas Rothenberg: A Retrospective
Redhouse

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

Joan Lukas Rothenberg's art involvement began early in her life. As the director of the "Art Squad" at Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, NY, Joan was awarded the New York Society of Illustrators prize for her poster depicting the plight of children in poverty. She studied art at New York City's Cooper Union before earning her Master of Fine Arts in painting and ceramics from the University of Michigan and further study in drawing and printmaking at Royal University College in Stockholm.

In Syracuse, Joan was recognized as both an artist and activist. She was a founding member of the first women's consciousness-raising group which evolved into the Women's Information Center in 1972. She also founded and operated Auragyns, a women's art gallery. Joan was in the process of completing her PhD in Women's Studies at Syracuse University, studying images of women in the media, at the time of her death in 1990.

In celebration of Joan's spirit, tenacity, and vision, Red House will feature a series of group exhibitions promoting local, professional and student women artists. The retrospective will inaugurate this Emerging Women Artist series. The retrospective and the series are both made possible by a grant from the Joan Rothenberg Family Foundation.

The exhibit will be on display by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 for more information or to schedule a viewing.

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4x4: Community Curators and the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Four individuals associated with the Syracuse visual arts community were invited to develop an exhibition using works from SU's permanent collection. Nancy Keefe Rhodes, art critic for the City Eagle newspaper, curated an exhibition of American art made between the two world wars while Jack White, internationally recognized artist and former Syracuse resident, will investigate objects pertaining to hand-to-hand sport, such as boxing and wrestling. Roy Simmons Jr., former SU lacrosse coach and an artist in his own right will examine the work of Ivan Mestrovic, the Croatian artist and former professor from SU's School of Art. The director of the Community Folk Arts Center, Dr. Kheli Willetts, will explore visual interrelationships in the ethnographic and art collections through vice and virtue.

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

Designed to Scale--The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series
Everson Museum of Art

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

Designed to Scale, part three of the 2010 New York State Artists Series showcases significant designers from the Central New York region whose work is recognized in the national and international design arenas. Although modest in scale, the exhibition touches on a broad range of innovative design objects—furniture, lighting, commercial products and dining experiences, unique accessories, toys, and surface patterns.

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Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition explores the collaborative design process employed at Herman Miller, the world-renowned furniture company that has used design to solve problems for the home and workplace for almost 90 years. Good Design showcases archival holdings of concept models, drawings, supplementary photographs, and completed masterworks of design in furniture and decorative art produced by Herman Miller, Inc. Works by Gilbert Rohde, Ray and Charles Eames, George Nelson, Alexander Girard, Robert Probst, Bill Stumpf, Don Chadwick, Ayse Birdsel, and other well known designers are featured. The exhibition was organized and is circulated by the Muskegon Museum of Art in association with The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan.

Monumental Printstallations
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Large-scale works created by artists at Lake Effect Editions, the press of the printmaking program at Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, are the subject of this exhibition. The show features the work of student, faculty, and visiting artists, including Nicholaus Arnold, Marco Camacho, Susan Edmunds, John Hancock, Dusty Herbig, Neil Hueber, Eric Johanni, Rich Kim, Kristen Leonard, and Sam Tobias.

Junk
Echo

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

A mixed media installation by Travis Adenau.

Last Comic Standing Rejects Tour

Price: $10
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Check out the other talent from NBC's hit "Last Comic Standing." These very funny comics didn't make it -- Danny Rolando, Chipp Jones, Sean Carlucci, and KD the Comic, along with local special guest Justin Jackson.

Comedy Fest 2010

Price: $32, $42, $52
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

National stand-up comics including Capone, Ray Lipowski, Michael Blackson, and Syracuse's Jay Real.

Syracuse Irish Festival

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

4:00 pm: Seamus Kennedy
5:00 pm: McDonald Ashford Academy of Irish Dance
5:20 pm: The Flyin' Column
6:10 pm: Drumcliffe School of Irish Dance
6:30 pm: Rising Gael
7:20 pm: Francis Academy of Irish Dance
7:40 pm: The Elders
9:10 pm: Johnston School of Irish Dance
9:30 pm: The Town Pants

For more information, visit syracuseirishfestival.com.

Culture and Community Revitalization: Opportunities and Challenges
CNYSpeaks and Imagining America
Featuring Maria Rosario Jackson

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

The Urban Institute's Maria Rosario Jackson will speak about the elements of a truly creative city, followed by a CNYSpeaks' facilitated small-table deliberation on how her talk relates to Syracuse.

Walk-ins welcome. Free parking at the Warehouse East Lot.

For more information, contact Greg Munno at 315-730-4621 or visit www.cnyspeaks.com.

The Big Break: Round One
Westcott Theater
Featuring Amish Mafia, Through The Looking Glass, Thrifter, Floor of Eyes

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Come support local bands!

Sarah Aument CD Release Party
Redhouse

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

Sarah Aument is a singer-songwriter currently based in Syracuse. She started playing original music when she was 16 and has acquired a taste for indie folk-rock that crosses into pop and freak folk. In December 2008, Sarah Aument teamed up with Syracuse students Sam Mason and Dan Creahan to start O, Morning Records. In a small dorm room at Syracuse University, she recorded an E.P. entitled "Wake Up Singing," and released the E.P. in March 2009. Since then she has become a well-known artist around Central New York and has partnered up with band members Kevin Muldoon and Brian Ludwig to record "Vertical Lines," her first album released in Summer 2010. Sarah Aument is currently touring the Northeast with her band.

Don Bogen, poet
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Don Bogen is the author of four books of poetry, most recently An Algebra (University of Chicago Press, 2009) and Luster (Wesleyan University Press, 2003). Prizes for his work include a Discovery Award, the Emily Dickinson Award of the Poetry Society of America, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He teaches at the University of Cincinnati, and is Poetry Editor of The Cincinnati Review.

Parade
Appleseed Productions
Deborah Pearson and Meghan Pearson, director

Price: $20 regular; $17 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

In 1913, Leo Frank, a Brooklyn-born Jew living in Georgia, is put on trial for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, a factory worker under his employ. Already guilty in the eyes of everyone around him, a sensationalist publisher and a janitor's false testimony seal Leo's fate. His only defenders are a governor with a conscience, and, eventually, his assimilated Southern wife who finds the strength and love to become his greatest champion. Based on a true story.

Book by Alfred Uhry, music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, music directed by Dan Williams, choreographed by Jennifer Pearson.

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Elegy in Blue
Rarely Done Productions
Donna Stuccio, director

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

Officer Celeste Luna wades through the fog of her day-to-day operations, tending to her urban beat while doggedly guarding her heart. A fateful convergence of four other lost souls in her territory leads to the unearthing of long-secreted information which threatens to reap catastrophic fallout. Will forgiveness or retribution win out? A world premiere, the play is the sequel to "Blue Moon". Written by Donna Stuccio.

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Saturday, September 11, 2010

Anagama Nakama: 7 Anagama Potters
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

Works by Marvin Bjurlin, Julie Crosby, Fred Herbst, Cary Joseph, Marc Peter Keane, Chris Longwell, and Momoko Takeshita.

Le Moyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Works by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore, and Charlie Wollowitz.

Junk
Echo

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

A mixed media installation by Travis Adenau.

Canaltown Suds: Syracuse Breweries of the Canal Era
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition explores the collaborative design process employed at Herman Miller, the world-renowned furniture company that has used design to solve problems for the home and workplace for almost 90 years. Good Design showcases archival holdings of concept models, drawings, supplementary photographs, and completed masterworks of design in furniture and decorative art produced by Herman Miller, Inc. Works by Gilbert Rohde, Ray and Charles Eames, George Nelson, Alexander Girard, Robert Probst, Bill Stumpf, Don Chadwick, Ayse Birdsel, and other well known designers are featured. The exhibition was organized and is circulated by the Muskegon Museum of Art in association with The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan.

Designed to Scale--The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series
Everson Museum of Art

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

Designed to Scale, part three of the 2010 New York State Artists Series showcases significant designers from the Central New York region whose work is recognized in the national and international design arenas. Although modest in scale, the exhibition touches on a broad range of innovative design objects—furniture, lighting, commercial products and dining experiences, unique accessories, toys, and surface patterns.

Read a Review!

Objects & Atmospheres
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Nathan Sullivan: Paintings and lithographs
Joshua Primmer: Stoneware vessels
Brenda Edwards: Paintings and drawings

Sullivan's oil on panel "Form Series" are masterfully painted, Vermeer-like in their surface quality. His images of suspended or floating tiny organic objects such as seeds are rendered to large scale in chiaroscuro, resulting in their otherworldly presence.

Primmer is exhibiting his intimately scaled stoneware objects and vessels. While one may consider the relatively small scale of his work, it possesses a monumentality usually restricted to large scale work and architecture.

Edwards' depictions in her soft focus drawings and paintings range from sultry atmospheres to luminous mists. They are moments that catch the play of light in their respective environments.

4x4: Community Curators and the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Four individuals associated with the Syracuse visual arts community were invited to develop an exhibition using works from SU's permanent collection. Nancy Keefe Rhodes, art critic for the City Eagle newspaper, curated an exhibition of American art made between the two world wars while Jack White, internationally recognized artist and former Syracuse resident, will investigate objects pertaining to hand-to-hand sport, such as boxing and wrestling. Roy Simmons Jr., former SU lacrosse coach and an artist in his own right will examine the work of Ivan Mestrovic, the Croatian artist and former professor from SU's School of Art. The director of the Community Folk Arts Center, Dr. Kheli Willetts, will explore visual interrelationships in the ethnographic and art collections through vice and virtue.

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

Monumental Printstallations
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Large-scale works created by artists at Lake Effect Editions, the press of the printmaking program at Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, are the subject of this exhibition. The show features the work of student, faculty, and visiting artists, including Nicholaus Arnold, Marco Camacho, Susan Edmunds, John Hancock, Dusty Herbig, Neil Hueber, Eric Johanni, Rich Kim, Kristen Leonard, and Sam Tobias.

Opening Reception: Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond" features the work of five SU faculty members -- Anne Cofer, Mary Giehl and Sarah Saulson (fiber arts/material studies) and Marion Dorfer and Eileen Gosson (surface pattern design).

Cofer, an installation artist, had her first museum solo exhibition "Concealed Objects" at the Everson Museum of Art in spring 2009 and a permanent site-specific project for SU's Hinds Hall installed in May. She has been published nationally in Ceramics Monthly and internationally in Ceramics Art and Perception. Her work has been pictured in the New York Times and was selected for “500 Ceramic Sculptures” (Lark, 2009).

Dorfer began her successful freelance business, MY Designs, after graduating from SU. From 1986-2004, she collaborated with her agent John Sacks of Jane-Albert Studios Inc. in New York City. Her speculative design work was exhibited and sold yearly at the studio as well as at the Surtex (New York City), Heimtextil (Germany) and Indigo (France) trade shows. Through Jane-Albert Studios and independent commissions, she has created designs for printed and woven textiles, wall covering, glass, ceramic products and paper products.

Giehl, who creates installations as well as two-dimensional work and sculpture, recently exhibited her work in group shows at Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art in Utica; ArtRage and Point of Contact Gallery in Syracuse; the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn; and Main Street Gallery in Groton. Her numerous community art projects include serving as guest curator for Syracuse's Lipe Art Park, where she is working to enhance the park's 600-foot fence by creating an abstract image of the Erie Canal using felt made from recycled plastic bottles.

Gosson's professional career began as a designer and colorist for Scalamandré Silks in New York City; she later worked as an assistant to Anne Marie de Samarjay, owner of Samarjay Associates, a surface pattern design agency in Manhattan. That position led to 20-plus years of freelance design experience for multiple product categories within industry. Her clients include Waverly, a division of F. Schumacher & Co.; Brewster Wallcovering Co.; Kenneth James line; Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia; Lynn Hollyn Associates, the Smithsonian Institution; Warner Wallcovering; Western Textile Co.; and Brunschwig & Fils.

Saulson is a professional handweaver and workshop leader with an interest in ethnic textiles and processes. She served on the board of Weave a Real Peace, an organization that serves as a catalyst for improving the quality of life of weavers and textile artisans in communities-in-need, and she has taught dyeing and weaving in Ghana, where she also conducted a research project on craft cooperatives for SERRV International, a nonprofit, fair trade organization. She recently exhibited her work at Lowell National Historical Park in Massachusetts.

Opening: Americans Who Tell the Truth: Paintings by Robert Shetterly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A collection of portraits intended to remind people of the dignity, courage and importance of some of America's truth tellers. Each portrait includes a moving quote by the subject, and a biography is displayed with each painting. One lesson to be learned from all of these Americans is that the greatness of our country frequently depends not on the letter of the law, but the insistence of a single person that we adhere to the spirit of the law.

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

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

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

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

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Syracuse Irish Festival

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

12:15 pm: Blarney Rebel Band
1:10 pm: Shillelagh Fighting Demonstration
1:30 pm: Hair of the Dog
2:30 pm: Harrington Dance School
3:00 pm: The Elders
4:00 pm: Rince Na Sonas School of Irish Dance
4:20 pm: Seamus Kennedy
5:30 pm: Rising Gael
6:20 pm: Butler Sheehan Academy of Irish Dance
6:40 pm: The Causeway Giants
7:40 pm: McDonald Ashford Academy of Irish Dance
8:00 pm: The Glengarry Bhoys
9:40 pm: The Elders

For more information, visit syracuseirishfestival.com

Anime Festival

Price: $20
OnCenter Convention Center
800 South State St., Syracuse

A full day of anime, cosplay, gaming, and all around nerd-tastic fun.

For more information, visit www.animesyracuse.com.

Remembering the Heroes: A Musical Tribute to the Victims of 9/11

Price: Free (donations accepted)
Andrews Memorial United Methodist Church
106 Church St., North Syracuse

A concert performed in memory of those whose lives were lost during the tragic events of September 11, 2001. Music from the movies, Broadway and classical selections by John Williams, Telemann, James Horner, and many more.

Performers include Martha Grener, flute; Maryna Mazhukhova, piano; Victoria Bullock Krukowski, clarinet; Christine Prevost, cello; Darcie Bowden, viola; Michael Montero, violin; John Harnois, violin.

Donations accepted to assist Haitian Relief. Refreshments will be provided by the Cicero-Mattydale Lions Club. For more information, phone 315-458-0890 or 315-452-5376.

A Concert for Healing

Price: Free
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

This concert will feature the premiere of Christian Imboden's Mass for 4-part choir performed by local musicians. Christian grew up in DeWitt and currently lives in New York City.

Also featured will be the works of composers with Central New York connections, including Dr. Donald Miller, who teaches at Onondaga Community College; David Byrne, who grew up in Jamesville; Ernst Bacon, who taught at Syracuse University; Colton Hubbard, of Ithaca College; and Cal Hampton, who attended Syracuse University and was organist at Calvary Episcopal Church in New York City.

This concert began as one woman's response to witnessing 9/11 and its aftermath in New York City. It is music's innate power to heal that gives comfort in the present and hope for the future. Please join us as we remember those who died, and look joyfully toward the future.

Red House Regulars: Chris Trapper of the Push Stars
Redhouse

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

Longtime Red House favorite Chris Trapper of the Push Stars returns once again. Trapper's concerts are heavily anticipated by his fervent local following and this appearance is sure to be no different as Trapper's interesting blend of 1950s pop, 1990s rock and old-timey jazz, presented with his distinctive bari-tenor, is sure to pack the House.

The Boston-based Trapper is a favorite among fans of the indie alt-acoustic music scene for his ability to write songs that speak to the heart; intricate power-pop with a compelling knack for telling everyday stories. Trapper writes songs that at first listen are greeted as old, familiar friends. His musical stories are accessible but never trivial, smart but never snobbish, honest but never pandering.

Kristin Cifelli opens.

Soulive with Sophistafunk and House on a Spring
Westcott Theater

Price: $20
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Art-in-Motion
Open Hand Theater, Syracuse Stage, Imagining America

Price: Free
Museum of Science and Technology (MOST) lawn
West Jefferson St., Syracuse

This giant puppet performance created about the City of Syracuse features the work of neighborhood activists, artists, and children from the Near Westside, the South Side, Eastwood, and the North Side. Artists as diverse as painter Juan Cruz, director Jose Miguel Hernandez, puppeteer Geoffrey Navias, and theater artist/clown Lauren Unbekant have worked with more than 100 volunteers and children to create this citywide performance as great entertainment for families and people of all ages.

With strong commitments from the South Side Community Coalition, the Spanish Action League in the Near Westside, Open Hand Theater on the North Side, and Eastwood community organizers, Art-in-Motion is unprecedented in Syracuse in its role of arts participation to strengthen city neighborhoods, nurture creativity in the community, and build on the city's unique cultural heritage.

For more information about the event, call 315-443-8590 or email valdepra@syr.edu.

In case of rain, the performance will take place at Plymouth Church, 232 E. Onondaga St., Syracuse.

Art-in-Motion Performance
Open Hand Theater
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Armory Square
Clinton and Jefferson St., Syracuse

A large-scale performance featuring giant puppets and movement-based theatrical scenes created in four distinct Syracuse neighborhoods, will be enacted. The performance will be an artistically rich multi-generational, multi-cultural, university/community event that supports, strengthens and connects neighborhoods through the arts.

Parade
Appleseed Productions
Deborah Pearson and Meghan Pearson, director

Price: $20 regular; $17 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

In 1913, Leo Frank, a Brooklyn-born Jew living in Georgia, is put on trial for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, a factory worker under his employ. Already guilty in the eyes of everyone around him, a sensationalist publisher and a janitor's false testimony seal Leo's fate. His only defenders are a governor with a conscience, and, eventually, his assimilated Southern wife who finds the strength and love to become his greatest champion. Based on a true story.

Book by Alfred Uhry, music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, music directed by Dan Williams, choreographed by Jennifer Pearson.

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Elegy in Blue
Rarely Done Productions
Donna Stuccio, director

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

Officer Celeste Luna wades through the fog of her day-to-day operations, tending to her urban beat while doggedly guarding her heart. A fateful convergence of four other lost souls in her territory leads to the unearthing of long-secreted information which threatens to reap catastrophic fallout. Will forgiveness or retribution win out? A world premiere, the play is the sequel to "Blue Moon". Written by Donna Stuccio.

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Sunday, September 12, 2010

Canaltown Suds: Syracuse Breweries of the Canal Era
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Pa Bouje Anko (Don't Move Again): Works by Laura Heyman
Light Work Gallery

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

André Eugene, Jean Hérard Céleur, Rònald Bazile, Pierre Isnel Destimare, Leah Gordon, and Myron Beasley organized the Ghetto Biennale in Haiti's capitol Port-au-Prince to ask the question, "What happens when first world art rubs up against third world art?"

For her project, Laura Heyman explored formal portraiture following the example of artists like Mike Disfarmer, James Van Der Zee and Seydou Keita, who used the commercial and utilitarian aspects of their practice to portray their subjects with a consideration and respect that was both clear-eyed and beautiful.

4x4: Community Curators and the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Four individuals associated with the Syracuse visual arts community were invited to develop an exhibition using works from SU's permanent collection. Nancy Keefe Rhodes, art critic for the City Eagle newspaper, curated an exhibition of American art made between the two world wars while Jack White, internationally recognized artist and former Syracuse resident, will investigate objects pertaining to hand-to-hand sport, such as boxing and wrestling. Roy Simmons Jr., former SU lacrosse coach and an artist in his own right will examine the work of Ivan Mestrovic, the Croatian artist and former professor from SU's School of Art. The director of the Community Folk Arts Center, Dr. Kheli Willetts, will explore visual interrelationships in the ethnographic and art collections through vice and virtue.

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

Designed to Scale--The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series
Everson Museum of Art

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

Designed to Scale, part three of the 2010 New York State Artists Series showcases significant designers from the Central New York region whose work is recognized in the national and international design arenas. Although modest in scale, the exhibition touches on a broad range of innovative design objects—furniture, lighting, commercial products and dining experiences, unique accessories, toys, and surface patterns.

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Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition explores the collaborative design process employed at Herman Miller, the world-renowned furniture company that has used design to solve problems for the home and workplace for almost 90 years. Good Design showcases archival holdings of concept models, drawings, supplementary photographs, and completed masterworks of design in furniture and decorative art produced by Herman Miller, Inc. Works by Gilbert Rohde, Ray and Charles Eames, George Nelson, Alexander Girard, Robert Probst, Bill Stumpf, Don Chadwick, Ayse Birdsel, and other well known designers are featured. The exhibition was organized and is circulated by the Muskegon Museum of Art in association with The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan.

Le Moyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Works by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore, and Charlie Wollowitz.

Monumental Printstallations
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Large-scale works created by artists at Lake Effect Editions, the press of the printmaking program at Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, are the subject of this exhibition. The show features the work of student, faculty, and visiting artists, including Nicholaus Arnold, Marco Camacho, Susan Edmunds, John Hancock, Dusty Herbig, Neil Hueber, Eric Johanni, Rich Kim, Kristen Leonard, and Sam Tobias.

84th Annual Juried Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Contemporary Film Series: Objectified
Everson Museum of Art

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

Objectified is a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. It's a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It's about the designers who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. The film documents the creative processes of some of the world's most influential product designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. (2009, Directed by Gary Hustwit, 75 minutes)

3rd Annual Percussion Day
Adanfo African Drummers, Samba Laranja, Moyubata

Price: Free
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

Keep those dancing shoes handy, because funky beats will float through the air in Thornden Park once again. Area groups with styles that span the world will play a concert that can be enjoyed by the whole family. Bring a blanket or lawn chairs and enjoy the music and the lovely ambiance of the Amphitheater, one of Syracuse's hidden gems.

Adanfo African Drummers, headed up by Ghanaian master drummer David Etse Nyadedzor, play music from West Africa. Samba Laranja, under the direction of well-known local percussionist and SU affiliate artist Josh Dekaney, will perform Brazilian carnival-style music. Appearing for the first time this year are Moyubata, with members Pablo Arnau, Dionisio Cruz and Vincent Ludovico, playing Afro-Cuban rumba rhythms.

Byron Jones, The "Welsh Wizard"
Syracuse Wurlitzer

Price: $15 adults, $2 children
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Byron Jones was born in South Wales, well known as the "land of song", and from a very early age he showed a great interest in music. It was not long before he was playing for his local Sunday school, where he was introduced to an harmonium. He continued piano lessons while at school and upon leaving was asked to play the newly installed Hammond organ in the local miners club. Soon he was accompanying famous West End artists when they appeared in clubs in his native Wales. He now has his own music club with over 600 members. He hosts a number of music festivals per year on both electronic and pipe organs, and has played many of the prime theatre organ venues in England as well as touring throughout the United States. He has broadcast many times on TV and radio and has produced many excellent CDs and videos. A perennial favorite, he returns to Syracuse for a program on our world famous Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ.

Parade
Appleseed Productions
Deborah Pearson and Meghan Pearson, director

Price: $20 regular; $17 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

In 1913, Leo Frank, a Brooklyn-born Jew living in Georgia, is put on trial for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, a factory worker under his employ. Already guilty in the eyes of everyone around him, a sensationalist publisher and a janitor's false testimony seal Leo's fate. His only defenders are a governor with a conscience, and, eventually, his assimilated Southern wife who finds the strength and love to become his greatest champion. Based on a true story.

Book by Alfred Uhry, music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, music directed by Dan Williams, choreographed by Jennifer Pearson.

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Monday, September 13, 2010

Le Moyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Works by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore, and Charlie Wollowitz.

OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

OCC Faculty Art Show is a collection of artworks in various mediums from about 20 art instructors. The work covers a broad range of genres including elements of representational, nonrepresentational and abstract art forms.

Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond" features the work of five SU faculty members -- Anne Cofer, Mary Giehl and Sarah Saulson (fiber arts/material studies) and Marion Dorfer and Eileen Gosson (surface pattern design).

Cofer, an installation artist, had her first museum solo exhibition "Concealed Objects" at the Everson Museum of Art in spring 2009 and a permanent site-specific project for SU's Hinds Hall installed in May. She has been published nationally in Ceramics Monthly and internationally in Ceramics Art and Perception. Her work has been pictured in the New York Times and was selected for “500 Ceramic Sculptures” (Lark, 2009).

Dorfer began her successful freelance business, MY Designs, after graduating from SU. From 1986-2004, she collaborated with her agent John Sacks of Jane-Albert Studios Inc. in New York City. Her speculative design work was exhibited and sold yearly at the studio as well as at the Surtex (New York City), Heimtextil (Germany) and Indigo (France) trade shows. Through Jane-Albert Studios and independent commissions, she has created designs for printed and woven textiles, wall covering, glass, ceramic products and paper products.

Giehl, who creates installations as well as two-dimensional work and sculpture, recently exhibited her work in group shows at Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art in Utica; ArtRage and Point of Contact Gallery in Syracuse; the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn; and Main Street Gallery in Groton. Her numerous community art projects include serving as guest curator for Syracuse's Lipe Art Park, where she is working to enhance the park's 600-foot fence by creating an abstract image of the Erie Canal using felt made from recycled plastic bottles.

Gosson's professional career began as a designer and colorist for Scalamandré Silks in New York City; she later worked as an assistant to Anne Marie de Samarjay, owner of Samarjay Associates, a surface pattern design agency in Manhattan. That position led to 20-plus years of freelance design experience for multiple product categories within industry. Her clients include Waverly, a division of F. Schumacher & Co.; Brewster Wallcovering Co.; Kenneth James line; Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia; Lynn Hollyn Associates, the Smithsonian Institution; Warner Wallcovering; Western Textile Co.; and Brunschwig & Fils.

Saulson is a professional handweaver and workshop leader with an interest in ethnic textiles and processes. She served on the board of Weave a Real Peace, an organization that serves as a catalyst for improving the quality of life of weavers and textile artisans in communities-in-need, and she has taught dyeing and weaving in Ghana, where she also conducted a research project on craft cooperatives for SERRV International, a nonprofit, fair trade organization. She recently exhibited her work at Lowell National Historical Park in Massachusetts.

Honoring The Masters: Works of Ann Milner and Phil DeMocker
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

"Honoring the Masters," featuring Ann Milner's oriental brush painting and Phil DeMocker's origami, is a tribute to artists of the past setting the standards for today's active artists and gallery goers. Highlighted will be "masters" from noted dynasties. The "Mustard Seed Garden Manual, first published in the mid-1600s, will be the reference for some techniques in both learning and creating pieces of Oriental brush painting. Reproductions of work from ancient and more recent masters will show the background and heritage next to current representations of classical subjects and composition.

Origami pieces will represent Phil's favorite designer/folders and will be labeled to explain why he has chosen those artists.

As with most art, copying the work of an established artist is considered distasteful and cheap. While the art of the Orient to copy a master is considered one highest forms of art. Ann Milner is painting in the Sumie style from the Mustard Seed Manual, a comprehensive work of style, structure and form. Phil DeMocker is working from the works of both past and present masters of origami.

84th Annual Juried Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Canaltown Suds: Syracuse Breweries of the Canal Era
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Pa Bouje Anko (Don't Move Again): Works by Laura Heyman
Light Work Gallery

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

André Eugene, Jean Hérard Céleur, Rònald Bazile, Pierre Isnel Destimare, Leah Gordon, and Myron Beasley organized the Ghetto Biennale in Haiti's capitol Port-au-Prince to ask the question, "What happens when first world art rubs up against third world art?"

For her project, Laura Heyman explored formal portraiture following the example of artists like Mike Disfarmer, James Van Der Zee and Seydou Keita, who used the commercial and utilitarian aspects of their practice to portray their subjects with a consideration and respect that was both clear-eyed and beautiful.

Objects & Atmospheres
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Nathan Sullivan: Paintings and lithographs
Joshua Primmer: Stoneware vessels
Brenda Edwards: Paintings and drawings

Sullivan's oil on panel "Form Series" are masterfully painted, Vermeer-like in their surface quality. His images of suspended or floating tiny organic objects such as seeds are rendered to large scale in chiaroscuro, resulting in their otherworldly presence.

Primmer is exhibiting his intimately scaled stoneware objects and vessels. While one may consider the relatively small scale of his work, it possesses a monumentality usually restricted to large scale work and architecture.

Edwards' depictions in her soft focus drawings and paintings range from sultry atmospheres to luminous mists. They are moments that catch the play of light in their respective environments.

Joan Lukas Rothenberg: A Retrospective
Redhouse

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

Joan Lukas Rothenberg's art involvement began early in her life. As the director of the "Art Squad" at Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, NY, Joan was awarded the New York Society of Illustrators prize for her poster depicting the plight of children in poverty. She studied art at New York City's Cooper Union before earning her Master of Fine Arts in painting and ceramics from the University of Michigan and further study in drawing and printmaking at Royal University College in Stockholm.

In Syracuse, Joan was recognized as both an artist and activist. She was a founding member of the first women's consciousness-raising group which evolved into the Women's Information Center in 1972. She also founded and operated Auragyns, a women's art gallery. Joan was in the process of completing her PhD in Women's Studies at Syracuse University, studying images of women in the media, at the time of her death in 1990.

In celebration of Joan's spirit, tenacity, and vision, Red House will feature a series of group exhibitions promoting local, professional and student women artists. The retrospective will inaugurate this Emerging Women Artist series. The retrospective and the series are both made possible by a grant from the Joan Rothenberg Family Foundation.

The exhibit will be on display by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 for more information or to schedule a viewing.

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The Gilded Lily (1935)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Director: Wesley Ruggles. Cast includes Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland, C. Aubrey Smith, Luis Alberni. Delightful comedy with Colbert and MacMurray as a couple with a platonic "best friend" relationship ... which changes when Milland enters the scene. The first of several Colbert-MacMurray film teamings, and lots of fun.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Le Moyne Faculty Exhibition
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Works by Barry Darling, Katya Krenina, David Moore, and Charlie Wollowitz.

Anagama Nakama: 7 Anagama Potters
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

Works by Marvin Bjurlin, Julie Crosby, Fred Herbst, Cary Joseph, Marc Peter Keane, Chris Longwell, and Momoko Takeshita.

OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

OCC Faculty Art Show is a collection of artworks in various mediums from about 20 art instructors. The work covers a broad range of genres including elements of representational, nonrepresentational and abstract art forms.

Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Pliable Planes: Cloth & Beyond" features the work of five SU faculty members -- Anne Cofer, Mary Giehl and Sarah Saulson (fiber arts/material studies) and Marion Dorfer and Eileen Gosson (surface pattern design).

Cofer, an installation artist, had her first museum solo exhibition "Concealed Objects" at the Everson Museum of Art in spring 2009 and a permanent site-specific project for SU's Hinds Hall installed in May. She has been published nationally in Ceramics Monthly and internationally in Ceramics Art and Perception. Her work has been pictured in the New York Times and was selected for “500 Ceramic Sculptures” (Lark, 2009).

Dorfer began her successful freelance business, MY Designs, after graduating from SU. From 1986-2004, she collaborated with her agent John Sacks of Jane-Albert Studios Inc. in New York City. Her speculative design work was exhibited and sold yearly at the studio as well as at the Surtex (New York City), Heimtextil (Germany) and Indigo (France) trade shows. Through Jane-Albert Studios and independent commissions, she has created designs for printed and woven textiles, wall covering, glass, ceramic products and paper products.

Giehl, who creates installations as well as two-dimensional work and sculpture, recently exhibited her work in group shows at Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art in Utica; ArtRage and Point of Contact Gallery in Syracuse; the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn; and Main Street Gallery in Groton. Her numerous community art projects include serving as guest curator for Syracuse's Lipe Art Park, where she is working to enhance the park's 600-foot fence by creating an abstract image of the Erie Canal using felt made from recycled plastic bottles.

Gosson's professional career began as a designer and colorist for Scalamandré Silks in New York City; she later worked as an assistant to Anne Marie de Samarjay, owner of Samarjay Associates, a surface pattern design agency in Manhattan. That position led to 20-plus years of freelance design experience for multiple product categories within industry. Her clients include Waverly, a division of F. Schumacher & Co.; Brewster Wallcovering Co.; Kenneth James line; Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia; Lynn Hollyn Associates, the Smithsonian Institution; Warner Wallcovering; Western Textile Co.; and Brunschwig & Fils.

Saulson is a professional handweaver and workshop leader with an interest in ethnic textiles and processes. She served on the board of Weave a Real Peace, an organization that serves as a catalyst for improving the quality of life of weavers and textile artisans in communities-in-need, and she has taught dyeing and weaving in Ghana, where she also conducted a research project on craft cooperatives for SERRV International, a nonprofit, fair trade organization. She recently exhibited her work at Lowell National Historical Park in Massachusetts.

Honoring The Masters: Works of Ann Milner and Phil DeMocker
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

"Honoring the Masters," featuring Ann Milner's oriental brush painting and Phil DeMocker's origami, is a tribute to artists of the past setting the standards for today's active artists and gallery goers. Highlighted will be "masters" from noted dynasties. The "Mustard Seed Garden Manual, first published in the mid-1600s, will be the reference for some techniques in both learning and creating pieces of Oriental brush painting. Reproductions of work from ancient and more recent masters will show the background and heritage next to current representations of classical subjects and composition.

Origami pieces will represent Phil's favorite designer/folders and will be labeled to explain why he has chosen those artists.

As with most art, copying the work of an established artist is considered distasteful and cheap. While the art of the Orient to copy a master is considered one highest forms of art. Ann Milner is painting in the Sumie style from the Mustard Seed Manual, a comprehensive work of style, structure and form. Phil DeMocker is working from the works of both past and present masters of origami.

84th Annual Juried Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Canaltown Suds: Syracuse Breweries of the Canal Era
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Pa Bouje Anko (Don't Move Again): Works by Laura Heyman
Light Work Gallery

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

André Eugene, Jean Hérard Céleur, Rònald Bazile, Pierre Isnel Destimare, Leah Gordon, and Myron Beasley organized the Ghetto Biennale in Haiti's capitol Port-au-Prince to ask the question, "What happens when first world art rubs up against third world art?"

For her project, Laura Heyman explored formal portraiture following the example of artists like Mike Disfarmer, James Van Der Zee and Seydou Keita, who used the commercial and utilitarian aspects of their practice to portray their subjects with a consideration and respect that was both clear-eyed and beautiful.

Objects & Atmospheres
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Nathan Sullivan: Paintings and lithographs
Joshua Primmer: Stoneware vessels
Brenda Edwards: Paintings and drawings

Sullivan's oil on panel "Form Series" are masterfully painted, Vermeer-like in their surface quality. His images of suspended or floating tiny organic objects such as seeds are rendered to large scale in chiaroscuro, resulting in their otherworldly presence.

Primmer is exhibiting his intimately scaled stoneware objects and vessels. While one may consider the relatively small scale of his work, it possesses a monumentality usually restricted to large scale work and architecture.

Edwards' depictions in her soft focus drawings and paintings range from sultry atmospheres to luminous mists. They are moments that catch the play of light in their respective environments.

Joan Lukas Rothenberg: A Retrospective
Redhouse

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

Joan Lukas Rothenberg's art involvement began early in her life. As the director of the "Art Squad" at Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, NY, Joan was awarded the New York Society of Illustrators prize for her poster depicting the plight of children in poverty. She studied art at New York City's Cooper Union before earning her Master of Fine Arts in painting and ceramics from the University of Michigan and further study in drawing and printmaking at Royal University College in Stockholm.

In Syracuse, Joan was recognized as both an artist and activist. She was a founding member of the first women's consciousness-raising group which evolved into the Women's Information Center in 1972. She also founded and operated Auragyns, a women's art gallery. Joan was in the process of completing her PhD in Women's Studies at Syracuse University, studying images of women in the media, at the time of her death in 1990.

In celebration of Joan's spirit, tenacity, and vision, Red House will feature a series of group exhibitions promoting local, professional and student women artists. The retrospective will inaugurate this Emerging Women Artist series. The retrospective and the series are both made possible by a grant from the Joan Rothenberg Family Foundation.

The exhibit will be on display by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 for more information or to schedule a viewing.

Read a review!

4x4: Community Curators and the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Four individuals associated with the Syracuse visual arts community were invited to develop an exhibition using works from SU's permanent collection. Nancy Keefe Rhodes, art critic for the City Eagle newspaper, curated an exhibition of American art made between the two world wars while Jack White, internationally recognized artist and former Syracuse resident, will investigate objects pertaining to hand-to-hand sport, such as boxing and wrestling. Roy Simmons Jr., former SU lacrosse coach and an artist in his own right will examine the work of Ivan Mestrovic, the Croatian artist and former professor from SU's School of Art. The director of the Community Folk Arts Center, Dr. Kheli Willetts, will explore visual interrelationships in the ethnographic and art collections through vice and virtue.

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

Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition explores the collaborative design process employed at Herman Miller, the world-renowned furniture company that has used design to solve problems for the home and workplace for almost 90 years. Good Design showcases archival holdings of concept models, drawings, supplementary photographs, and completed masterworks of design in furniture and decorative art produced by Herman Miller, Inc. Works by Gilbert Rohde, Ray and Charles Eames, George Nelson, Alexander Girard, Robert Probst, Bill Stumpf, Don Chadwick, Ayse Birdsel, and other well known designers are featured. The exhibition was organized and is circulated by the Muskegon Museum of Art in association with The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan.

Designed to Scale--The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series
Everson Museum of Art

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

Designed to Scale, part three of the 2010 New York State Artists Series showcases significant designers from the Central New York region whose work is recognized in the national and international design arenas. Although modest in scale, the exhibition touches on a broad range of innovative design objects—furniture, lighting, commercial products and dining experiences, unique accessories, toys, and surface patterns.

Read a Review!