Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Window Project: Stephanie Rozene--The Politics of Porcelain
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This spring, both the main gallery and Window Projects feature emerging female artists and celebrate their artistic achievements at a time that coincides with International Women's Day (March 2011). Stephanie Rozene draws upon the fine line between design and the visual arts. Her work is the result of extensive research and gifted craftsmanship. Through the medium of ceramics (and with special attention to specific patterns, ornaments, and forms) she explores the politics of European ceramics and traces international developments in this medium back to the reigns of French kings Louis XV and Louis XVI. This is her first solo museum show.

Ingrid Ludt: "Forest becomes Ocean"
LeMoyne College

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

Winter Art Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

Come in from the cold and enjoy the warmth of friends and the glow of ceramic art made in The Studio at Clayscapes Pottery. Featuring ceramic artwork by Millie St. John, Tim See, Don Seymour, Shawn McGuire, Wes Weiss, and Sarah VanDerVoort as well as many others.

Takafumi Ide Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Takafumi Ide is an interdisciplinary media artist specializing in installation with sound and light. He received his B.A. in graphic design from Tama Art University in Tokyo in 1989, and his M.F.A. in studio art from Stony Brook University in 2007. He has worked for more than 10 years as a graphic designer and an illustrator in Japan and now teaches at Stony Brook University as a lecturer, and Suffolk County Community College as an adjunct instructor.

He has received several honors, such as The Sculpture Space Fellowship and Residency (funded by both the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts), the Strategic Opportunity Stipend Program Grant through the New York Foundation for the Arts, and most recently the Nomura Cultural Foundation's Project Grant, Asahi Shimbun Foundation Project Grant, and the Vermont Studio Center's Partial-Grant and Residency. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally. More recent exhibitions include Sunroom Project Glynder Gallery, Wave Hill, NY, ISE Cultural Foundation in Soho, NY, and AC Institute in Chelsea, NY.

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Cortland County Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists include Fred Zimmerman, David Yaman, Kathy Williams, Carl Steckler, Laurie Seamans, Meg Richardson, Lyla Phillips, Allen Phillips, Joan Niswender, Richard Mitchell, Amy Hnatko, Emily Gibbons, Serry Dans, Kathie Beale, and David Beale.

Orange Pulp: The Pulp Magazine & Contemporary Culture
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be pulp magazines, notably titles like Weird Tales and Amazing Stories; the typescript of Isaac Asimov's "Strange Playfellow," which introduced readers to one of science fiction's best known characters, Robbie the Robot; and correspondence with figures like Ray Bradbury.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Marcel Breuer and Postwar America
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Drawings from the Marcel Breuer Papers, curated by SU Architecture students, with Barry Bergdoll and Jonathan Massey. The exhibition is the outcome of their work in the extensive Breuer archive at the Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center. It features images of 120 drawings, as well as photographs, documenting thirteen of Breuer’s major postwar buildings and projects. Full-scale reproductions highlight themes that characterized some of Breuer’s lesser-known major work and document his responses to the needs and opportunities of postwar American society.

Breuer (1902-1981) was a leading figure among the second generation of modernist architects whose striking designs for furniture, houses, institutions, and commercial buildings helped to set the shape and style of modernity in Europe and the United States, leading “Time” magazine to characterize him as one of the “form givers of the 20th century.” His works include the UNESCO headquarters in Paris and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Celebrating CNY Women in Art: 100th Anniversary of International Women's Day
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

This group exhibit showcases both the artwork of local women artists, as well as artwork with women-focused subjects. Artists will be sharing their personal experiences in a number of areas. The artists from the CNY area and include Maria Rizzo (painting), Amanda Gormley (photography), Patricia Seitz (painting), Suzanne Masters (paint and collage), Sherry Gordon (painting), Kristie Hayes (painting and drawing), Carla Senecal (installation artwork), and Michael Moody (painting and prints).

Tonal Gestures
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Diana Godfrey: mixed media pastels and acrylic paintings
Carmel Nicoletti: bronze reliefs and glass works

Amos Kennedy Prints!
Community Folk Art Center

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

Focusing on issues of race, violence and community, "Amos Kennedy Prints!" features the hand-printed works of Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. and will include prints created at CFAC. By transforming the gallery into an active printmaking workshop, Kennedy will collaborate with students from the Syracuse area and Syracuse University to create images and broadsides that reflect issues of race, gender and politics and illustrate the impact of violence in the city on their lives and community. The public is invited to meet Kennedy and to observe and participate in the printmaking process.

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

This suite of three video installations, "Mare," "Perigee", and "Penumbra," by Demetrius Oliver reconnects viewers to their place in the universe by playing with earthly and human forms against a backdrop of the cosmos. In "Penumbra," explorations of light and scale, movement and the rhythm of the natural world suggest journeys both physical and metaphysical.

One of the installations will be on view in the Light Work Gallery, one projected onto the Everson Museum, and one installed in the Menschel Photography Gallery in the Schine Student Center.

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Hudson Past/Perfect: Photos by Marna Bell
Light Work Gallery

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

Marna Bell is the winner of the Light Work/Community Darkrooms Members Juried Exhibition competition. In 2005, after the sudden death of her mother, Bell picked up her camera after a 20-year hiatus from painting and began photographing nature. Her focus in both painting and photography has been on reclaiming visions of the past and her connection to nature.

According to Bell, "Many trips back home to New York City on the train have helped me remember lost pieces of time where life seemed simpler and less veiled. It was a natural progression for me to record the cycle of change in my 'Hudson Past/Perfect' series. By revisiting the same landscapes in different seasons and under different weather conditions, I was able to capture the past before it disappeared. I am drawn to the meditative quality of the Hudson River and the sacred aspects of the natural environment. The series is reminiscent of a more romantic era, when God and nature were viewed as one."

Fashionable Points of View
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Fashionable Points of View" marks the first time the SU fashion design faculty has presented its work as a group. The artwork in the exhibition includes beautifully crafted garments, accessories and fine art.

Among the faculty designers showcasing their expertise and interest within the field of fashion are Jeffrey Mayer, fashion design program coordinator; Karen Bakke; Todd Conover; Laurel Morton; Claudia Gervais; Joyce Backus; Elizabeth Shorrock; Megan Lawson Clark; and Jean Henry.

For more information, contact Mayer at jcmayer@syr.edu, or Lauren Tagliaferro at lktaglia@syr.edu.

The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

A selection of 30 woodcuts and etchings by the internationally known and collected Chinese American artist and educator. This exhibition is a limited retrospective look at Seong Moy's career as printmaker.

Moy's early works, small but complicated woodcuts on soft luminous papers, were immediately accepted by artists, curators, and the public. A painterly quality, so important to his entire graphic output, is evident in much of this work and is all the more special because it is captured in color wood block prints that require great sophistication and skill from the artist.

As Moy's career continued to develop, his interest in capturing spatial relationships of shapes and forms in his compositions, was heightened by the role color plays in energizing these elements. This trend continued for a number a years and could also be found in his cardboard relief prints.

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.

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity is a rich, reflective exhibition of works by 40 artists representing the vast cultural blend of modern American society.

American artists of African, Arab, European, Asian, Latino, and Native American descent explore their heritage in this vivid and diverse exhibition using a wide variety of media. The artists examine patriotism, communication, struggle for acceptance, being an American in the 21st century, and more. Humor, heartache, anger, apprehension--all emotions are evoked by these works, raising questions about race, class, gender and age. Four main themes run through Infinite Mirror: Self-Selection, Pride, Assimilation, and Protest, providing audiences with the opportunity to re-examine both the story and storytellers of the quintessential "American dream."

The exhibition was curated by Blake Bradford, Curator and Director of Education at the Barnes Foundation; Benito Huerta, Curator and Director of The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington; and Robert Lee, Curator and Executive Director at Asian American Arts Centre in New York.

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

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Orange Pulp: Works by Norman Saunders
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

A profile of pulp artist Norman Saunders (1907-1989), including 10 lush and dramatic Saunders paintings from the university collection.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Casey Landerkin: Paintings and Illustrations
Echo

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

Kueng Caputo: The Quadrangular Cloud
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The young female Swiss designer duo, Sarah Kueng and Lovis Caputo, will install a hotel in the Warehouse Gallery. The main gallery will be transformed into small ephemeral rooms where the visitor is invited to take a break from reality and to take a mini-vacation complete with a number of very simple, inexpensive and joyful elements. When seated or lying down, the public's focus is drawn to the interior space and lighting. The idea for a temporary hotel goes back to Kueng's and Caputo's 72 Hours Hotel, which was initially developed in 2006 for the train station in Zurich, Switzerland. Both artists have been widely exhibited. This is their first museum solo show in the U.S.

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Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses or lamenting the struggles of daily living, Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed "Truisms" on one of Times Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her "Survival" series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

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Implements of Mass Construction
Erie Canal Museum

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

The Erie Canal was built by thousands of untrained men during the 19th century, before the United States had any civil engineering professionals. So how did they construct a canal across the entire state of New York? Come by the Erie Canal Museum and see the tools that made it possible. The 16 items on view were used for construction or industry along the Erie Canal in the 19th century. Visit the Museum's second floor gallery to try to guess what each instrument is. Tools similar to some of the implements on display are still used today, but others will require some guesswork. Come visit today to guess for yourself!

Visiting Artist Lecture: Gerard Haggerty
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Although they are drawn from life, Haggerty’s luminous works illuminate his concern with mood and myth. His work has been featured in the “XXIIII American Drawing Biennial,” the “XXIV American Drawing Biennial” and the Smithsonian Institution’s “Contemporary American Drawings IV” and “Contemporary American Drawings V” (Purchase Prize). He has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation.

Haggerty’s one-person exhibitions have been presented at such venues as Space Gallery in Los Angeles and Dome Gallery in New York City. His art is included in the collections of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the Chrysler Museum of Art, the Laguna Museum of Art, the Portland Art Museum, Michael Douglas, Jack Nicholson and others. He currently teaches at Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY) and the Chautauqua Institution.

Parking is available for $4 in Booth Garage. Patrons should mention that they are attending the lecture to receive this rate.

For more information about the lecture, contact Stephen Zaima, professor of painting, at 315-443-9400 or szaima@syr.edu.

Earth in Sight: Ideas and Images to Inspire Individual and Social Action
University Lectures
Featuring James Balog

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

James Balog's Extreme Ice Survey is a monumental and stunning look at the impact that climate change is having on the world's glaciers. Shocked by the changes he saw while shooting the June 2007 National Geographic cover story on melting glaciers, Balog, who has a graduate degree in geomorphology, founded the most wide-ranging glacier study ever conducted using innovative time-lapse video and conventional photography at sites in Alaska, Greenland, Iceland and the northern U.S. Rockies. For nearly 30 years, Balog has broken new ground in the art of photographing nature. He has received numerous awards, including the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Rowell Award for the Art of Adventure, the first-ever International League of Conservation Photographers Award for Conservation Photography, the Aspen Institute's Visual Arts & Design Award and the North American Nature Photography Association's "Outstanding Photographer of the Year" award. His photographs have been exhibited at more than 100 museums and galleries from Paris to Los Angeles. Balog is the author of seven books, the most recent of which is Extreme Ice Now: Vanishing Glaciers and Changing Climate: A Progress Report, released by National Geographic Books in March 2009. His images are regularly published in The New Yorker, National Geographic, Life, American Photo, Vanity Fair, Sierra, Audubon, and Outside, and he is a contributing editor for National Geographic Adventure.

Reduced-rate parking for the event is available in the Irving Avenue parking garage.

SU Symphony Orchestra
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The Syracuse University Symphony Orchestra is committed to stylistic diversity, with a repertoire that spans four centuries.

Parking is available in the Irving Garage.

Radio Golf
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

How do we move forward without leaving behind difficult but defining aspects of our past? A powerful and timely drama from the most celebrated American playwright of this generation, Radio Golf tells the story of a man striving to become the first African American mayor of Pittsburgh. He's forced to weigh the importance of family, legacy, heritage, and history against the truth of his political and class ambitions. Moving, funny, lyrical, and rousing, Radio Golf is the inspiring final play of August Wilson's monumental, ten-play 20th-century cycle and career.

Radio Golf received four 2007 Tony nominations, including Best Play, and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.

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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Window Project: Stephanie Rozene--The Politics of Porcelain
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This spring, both the main gallery and Window Projects feature emerging female artists and celebrate their artistic achievements at a time that coincides with International Women's Day (March 2011). Stephanie Rozene draws upon the fine line between design and the visual arts. Her work is the result of extensive research and gifted craftsmanship. Through the medium of ceramics (and with special attention to specific patterns, ornaments, and forms) she explores the politics of European ceramics and traces international developments in this medium back to the reigns of French kings Louis XV and Louis XVI. This is her first solo museum show.

Ingrid Ludt: "Forest becomes Ocean"
LeMoyne College

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

Winter Art Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

Come in from the cold and enjoy the warmth of friends and the glow of ceramic art made in The Studio at Clayscapes Pottery. Featuring ceramic artwork by Millie St. John, Tim See, Don Seymour, Shawn McGuire, Wes Weiss, and Sarah VanDerVoort as well as many others.

Takafumi Ide Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Takafumi Ide is an interdisciplinary media artist specializing in installation with sound and light. He received his B.A. in graphic design from Tama Art University in Tokyo in 1989, and his M.F.A. in studio art from Stony Brook University in 2007. He has worked for more than 10 years as a graphic designer and an illustrator in Japan and now teaches at Stony Brook University as a lecturer, and Suffolk County Community College as an adjunct instructor.

He has received several honors, such as The Sculpture Space Fellowship and Residency (funded by both the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts), the Strategic Opportunity Stipend Program Grant through the New York Foundation for the Arts, and most recently the Nomura Cultural Foundation's Project Grant, Asahi Shimbun Foundation Project Grant, and the Vermont Studio Center's Partial-Grant and Residency. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally. More recent exhibitions include Sunroom Project Glynder Gallery, Wave Hill, NY, ISE Cultural Foundation in Soho, NY, and AC Institute in Chelsea, NY.

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Cortland County Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists include Fred Zimmerman, David Yaman, Kathy Williams, Carl Steckler, Laurie Seamans, Meg Richardson, Lyla Phillips, Allen Phillips, Joan Niswender, Richard Mitchell, Amy Hnatko, Emily Gibbons, Serry Dans, Kathie Beale, and David Beale.

Orange Pulp: The Pulp Magazine & Contemporary Culture
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be pulp magazines, notably titles like Weird Tales and Amazing Stories; the typescript of Isaac Asimov's "Strange Playfellow," which introduced readers to one of science fiction's best known characters, Robbie the Robot; and correspondence with figures like Ray Bradbury.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Marcel Breuer and Postwar America
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Drawings from the Marcel Breuer Papers, curated by SU Architecture students, with Barry Bergdoll and Jonathan Massey. The exhibition is the outcome of their work in the extensive Breuer archive at the Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center. It features images of 120 drawings, as well as photographs, documenting thirteen of Breuer’s major postwar buildings and projects. Full-scale reproductions highlight themes that characterized some of Breuer’s lesser-known major work and document his responses to the needs and opportunities of postwar American society.

Breuer (1902-1981) was a leading figure among the second generation of modernist architects whose striking designs for furniture, houses, institutions, and commercial buildings helped to set the shape and style of modernity in Europe and the United States, leading “Time” magazine to characterize him as one of the “form givers of the 20th century.” His works include the UNESCO headquarters in Paris and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Celebrating CNY Women in Art: 100th Anniversary of International Women's Day
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

This group exhibit showcases both the artwork of local women artists, as well as artwork with women-focused subjects. Artists will be sharing their personal experiences in a number of areas. The artists from the CNY area and include Maria Rizzo (painting), Amanda Gormley (photography), Patricia Seitz (painting), Suzanne Masters (paint and collage), Sherry Gordon (painting), Kristie Hayes (painting and drawing), Carla Senecal (installation artwork), and Michael Moody (painting and prints).

Tonal Gestures
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Diana Godfrey: mixed media pastels and acrylic paintings
Carmel Nicoletti: bronze reliefs and glass works

Amos Kennedy Prints!
Community Folk Art Center

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

Focusing on issues of race, violence and community, "Amos Kennedy Prints!" features the hand-printed works of Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. and will include prints created at CFAC. By transforming the gallery into an active printmaking workshop, Kennedy will collaborate with students from the Syracuse area and Syracuse University to create images and broadsides that reflect issues of race, gender and politics and illustrate the impact of violence in the city on their lives and community. The public is invited to meet Kennedy and to observe and participate in the printmaking process.

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

Fashionable Points of View
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Fashionable Points of View" marks the first time the SU fashion design faculty has presented its work as a group. The artwork in the exhibition includes beautifully crafted garments, accessories and fine art.

Among the faculty designers showcasing their expertise and interest within the field of fashion are Jeffrey Mayer, fashion design program coordinator; Karen Bakke; Todd Conover; Laurel Morton; Claudia Gervais; Joyce Backus; Elizabeth Shorrock; Megan Lawson Clark; and Jean Henry.

For more information, contact Mayer at jcmayer@syr.edu, or Lauren Tagliaferro at lktaglia@syr.edu.

Full Circle
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Linda Esterley: mixed media collage
Lynette Blake: oil paintings
Elizabeth Moldenhauer: felted vessels

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity is a rich, reflective exhibition of works by 40 artists representing the vast cultural blend of modern American society.

American artists of African, Arab, European, Asian, Latino, and Native American descent explore their heritage in this vivid and diverse exhibition using a wide variety of media. The artists examine patriotism, communication, struggle for acceptance, being an American in the 21st century, and more. Humor, heartache, anger, apprehension--all emotions are evoked by these works, raising questions about race, class, gender and age. Four main themes run through Infinite Mirror: Self-Selection, Pride, Assimilation, and Protest, providing audiences with the opportunity to re-examine both the story and storytellers of the quintessential "American dream."

The exhibition was curated by Blake Bradford, Curator and Director of Education at the Barnes Foundation; Benito Huerta, Curator and Director of The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington; and Robert Lee, Curator and Executive Director at Asian American Arts Centre in New York.

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

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The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

A selection of 30 woodcuts and etchings by the internationally known and collected Chinese American artist and educator. This exhibition is a limited retrospective look at Seong Moy's career as printmaker.

Moy's early works, small but complicated woodcuts on soft luminous papers, were immediately accepted by artists, curators, and the public. A painterly quality, so important to his entire graphic output, is evident in much of this work and is all the more special because it is captured in color wood block prints that require great sophistication and skill from the artist.

As Moy's career continued to develop, his interest in capturing spatial relationships of shapes and forms in his compositions, was heightened by the role color plays in energizing these elements. This trend continued for a number a years and could also be found in his cardboard relief prints.

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.

Orange Pulp: Works by Norman Saunders
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

A profile of pulp artist Norman Saunders (1907-1989), including 10 lush and dramatic Saunders paintings from the university collection.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Casey Landerkin: Paintings and Illustrations
Echo

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

New Directions in Photography
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

What does it mean to be an art photographer today? In this exhibition, the third-year art photography graduate students prove that the photographic medium has outgrown its traditional function as singular-print-on-the-wall and is now an expanded practice that includes video, sculpture, installation and performance.

Although the four photographers -- Sarah Zamecnik, Shimpei Shirafuji, Jeffrey Einhorn and Colleen Woolpert -- push their work in different directions, one belief unites them: the image is paramount, whether it is static or in motion; surrounded by a frame or mounted to a sculptural form; printed on paper or projected onto surfaces; silent or accompanied by sound. It operates sometimes as documentation, other times as replication or appropriation. It is used variously to depict truths or to create fictions derived from truths or the realm of the artist's imagination.

For more information, contact Colleen Woolpert at cmwoolpe@syr.edu. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Kueng Caputo: The Quadrangular Cloud
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The young female Swiss designer duo, Sarah Kueng and Lovis Caputo, will install a hotel in the Warehouse Gallery. The main gallery will be transformed into small ephemeral rooms where the visitor is invited to take a break from reality and to take a mini-vacation complete with a number of very simple, inexpensive and joyful elements. When seated or lying down, the public's focus is drawn to the interior space and lighting. The idea for a temporary hotel goes back to Kueng's and Caputo's 72 Hours Hotel, which was initially developed in 2006 for the train station in Zurich, Switzerland. Both artists have been widely exhibited. This is their first museum solo show in the U.S.

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100 Years of Women Rockin' the World
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibition features the art of 35 women artists -- nine local to Syracuse, and the rest from communities across the country. These women, in keeping with the mission of ArtRage, are also activists and their work expresses a whole range of issues important to both women and the community of concerned people worldwide: self-image, hunger, collective action, war, children, the status of women, immigration, environmental crisis, alternative lifestyles and self-discovery.

Participating artists include Arlene Abend, Amy Bartell, Ellen Blalock, Marlena Buczek, Elizabeth Carter, Jen Cartwright, the Chicago Women's Graphic Collective, Sue Coe, Erin Currier, Jane Evershed, Raina Gentry, Susan Grabel, Sharon Lee Hart, Robin Hewlett, Gail Hoffman, Nancy Hom, Katherine Hughes, Lahib Jaddo, Mollie Kellogg, Kate Luscher, Dierdre Luzwick, Sofia Perez, Ruth Putter, Favianna Rodriguez, Gazelle Samizay, Nicole Schulman, Sarah Walroth, Anita Welych and Oceans Unraveled project with artists: Aviva Alter, Mary Buczek, Mary Ellen Croteau.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses or lamenting the struggles of daily living, Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed "Truisms" on one of Times Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her "Survival" series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

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Implements of Mass Construction
Erie Canal Museum

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

The Erie Canal was built by thousands of untrained men during the 19th century, before the United States had any civil engineering professionals. So how did they construct a canal across the entire state of New York? Come by the Erie Canal Museum and see the tools that made it possible. The 16 items on view were used for construction or industry along the Erie Canal in the 19th century. Visit the Museum's second floor gallery to try to guess what each instrument is. Tools similar to some of the implements on display are still used today, but others will require some guesswork. Come visit today to guess for yourself!

The Legacy of Martin Luther King: How We Must Continue His Work
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences
Featuring Sonia Sanchez, poet, activist, and playwright

Price: Free
Maxwell Auditorium
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Syracuse University’s 28th annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Public Affairs Lecture will feature poet, activist, and playwright Sonia Sanchez.
 
Sanchez has lectured all over the world on issues of black culture, women’s liberation, peace, and racial justice. She taught for more than two decades at Temple University, where she was the first PresidentialFellow and held the Laura Carnell Chair in English. She is a longstanding sponsor of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and is one of 20 African American women featured in “Freedom Sisters,” an interactive exhibition created by the Cincinnati Museum Center and Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition.
 
Sanchez’s poetry helped define the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. She is the author of more than 16 books, including Morning Haiku (Beacon Press 2010); I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t and Other Plays (Duke University Press 2010), edited by Jacqueline Wood; Homegirls and Handgrenades (White Pine Press, new edition 2007); and Shake Loose My Skin (Beacon Press 1999), among others.
 
Sanchez is the recipient of a number of awards. She is the Poetry Society of America’s 2001 Robert Frost Medalist and a Ford Freedom Scholar from the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.  She received the Robert Creeley award (2009), the Harper Lee Award (2004), the Alabama Distinguished Writer and the National Visionary Leadership Award (2006), the Leeway Foundation Transformational Award (2005), and the Langston Hughes Poetry Award (1990). She also received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts (1992-93), the National Endowment for the Arts Lucretia Mott Award (1984), the American Book Award (1985), and the Peace and Freedom Award from Women International League for Peace and Freedom (1989), among others. 

Paid parking is available in the Irving garage ($4).

Bach and Beyond
Civic Morning Musicals
Juilliard Student Ensemble

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

Elizabeth Sutphen, mezzo-soprano, Juilliard student and Manlius Pebble Hill School graduate, will collaborate with fellow third-year students Adrienne Hochman, viola, and Simon Frisch, piano. Ms. Sutphen, 2008 recipient of the Skaneateles Festival Robinson Award, recently made her Juilliard Opera Theater debut as Mustardseed in A Midsummer Night's Dream and will appear this spring as the Second Witch in the Juilliard Opera Theater production of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. Ms. Hochman, winner of the Juilliard Concerto Competition, recently made her Peter Jay Sharp Theater solo debut. Their CMM concert features works of Bach, Rossini, and Brahms, as well as a debut performance of an original vocal and instrumental work by Mr. Frisch.

Songs of Love
Featuring Luba Lesser, mezzo-soprano; Maryna Mazhukhova, piano

Price: Free
Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

Love songs and arias by Purcell, Mozart, Rossini, Schumann, Brahms, Bizet, Berlioz, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Schoenberg, and Bolcom.

For more information, phone 315-475-9952.

Sam Lipsyte, fiction
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

Reading is preceded by a question and answer session from 3:45-4:30.

Radio Golf
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

How do we move forward without leaving behind difficult but defining aspects of our past? A powerful and timely drama from the most celebrated American playwright of this generation, Radio Golf tells the story of a man striving to become the first African American mayor of Pittsburgh. He's forced to weigh the importance of family, legacy, heritage, and history against the truth of his political and class ambitions. Moving, funny, lyrical, and rousing, Radio Golf is the inspiring final play of August Wilson's monumental, ten-play 20th-century cycle and career.

Radio Golf received four 2007 Tony nominations, including Best Play, and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.

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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Window Project: Stephanie Rozene--The Politics of Porcelain
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This spring, both the main gallery and Window Projects feature emerging female artists and celebrate their artistic achievements at a time that coincides with International Women's Day (March 2011). Stephanie Rozene draws upon the fine line between design and the visual arts. Her work is the result of extensive research and gifted craftsmanship. Through the medium of ceramics (and with special attention to specific patterns, ornaments, and forms) she explores the politics of European ceramics and traces international developments in this medium back to the reigns of French kings Louis XV and Louis XVI. This is her first solo museum show.

Ingrid Ludt: "Forest becomes Ocean"
LeMoyne College

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

Winter Art Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

Come in from the cold and enjoy the warmth of friends and the glow of ceramic art made in The Studio at Clayscapes Pottery. Featuring ceramic artwork by Millie St. John, Tim See, Don Seymour, Shawn McGuire, Wes Weiss, and Sarah VanDerVoort as well as many others.

Takafumi Ide Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Takafumi Ide is an interdisciplinary media artist specializing in installation with sound and light. He received his B.A. in graphic design from Tama Art University in Tokyo in 1989, and his M.F.A. in studio art from Stony Brook University in 2007. He has worked for more than 10 years as a graphic designer and an illustrator in Japan and now teaches at Stony Brook University as a lecturer, and Suffolk County Community College as an adjunct instructor.

He has received several honors, such as The Sculpture Space Fellowship and Residency (funded by both the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts), the Strategic Opportunity Stipend Program Grant through the New York Foundation for the Arts, and most recently the Nomura Cultural Foundation's Project Grant, Asahi Shimbun Foundation Project Grant, and the Vermont Studio Center's Partial-Grant and Residency. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally. More recent exhibitions include Sunroom Project Glynder Gallery, Wave Hill, NY, ISE Cultural Foundation in Soho, NY, and AC Institute in Chelsea, NY.

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Cortland County Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists include Fred Zimmerman, David Yaman, Kathy Williams, Carl Steckler, Laurie Seamans, Meg Richardson, Lyla Phillips, Allen Phillips, Joan Niswender, Richard Mitchell, Amy Hnatko, Emily Gibbons, Serry Dans, Kathie Beale, and David Beale.

Orange Pulp: The Pulp Magazine & Contemporary Culture
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be pulp magazines, notably titles like Weird Tales and Amazing Stories; the typescript of Isaac Asimov's "Strange Playfellow," which introduced readers to one of science fiction's best known characters, Robbie the Robot; and correspondence with figures like Ray Bradbury.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Marcel Breuer and Postwar America
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Drawings from the Marcel Breuer Papers, curated by SU Architecture students, with Barry Bergdoll and Jonathan Massey. The exhibition is the outcome of their work in the extensive Breuer archive at the Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center. It features images of 120 drawings, as well as photographs, documenting thirteen of Breuer’s major postwar buildings and projects. Full-scale reproductions highlight themes that characterized some of Breuer’s lesser-known major work and document his responses to the needs and opportunities of postwar American society.

Breuer (1902-1981) was a leading figure among the second generation of modernist architects whose striking designs for furniture, houses, institutions, and commercial buildings helped to set the shape and style of modernity in Europe and the United States, leading “Time” magazine to characterize him as one of the “form givers of the 20th century.” His works include the UNESCO headquarters in Paris and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Celebrating CNY Women in Art: 100th Anniversary of International Women's Day
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

This group exhibit showcases both the artwork of local women artists, as well as artwork with women-focused subjects. Artists will be sharing their personal experiences in a number of areas. The artists from the CNY area and include Maria Rizzo (painting), Amanda Gormley (photography), Patricia Seitz (painting), Suzanne Masters (paint and collage), Sherry Gordon (painting), Kristie Hayes (painting and drawing), Carla Senecal (installation artwork), and Michael Moody (painting and prints).

Tonal Gestures
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Diana Godfrey: mixed media pastels and acrylic paintings
Carmel Nicoletti: bronze reliefs and glass works

Amos Kennedy Prints!
Community Folk Art Center

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

Focusing on issues of race, violence and community, "Amos Kennedy Prints!" features the hand-printed works of Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. and will include prints created at CFAC. By transforming the gallery into an active printmaking workshop, Kennedy will collaborate with students from the Syracuse area and Syracuse University to create images and broadsides that reflect issues of race, gender and politics and illustrate the impact of violence in the city on their lives and community. The public is invited to meet Kennedy and to observe and participate in the printmaking process.

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

Fashionable Points of View
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Fashionable Points of View" marks the first time the SU fashion design faculty has presented its work as a group. The artwork in the exhibition includes beautifully crafted garments, accessories and fine art.

Among the faculty designers showcasing their expertise and interest within the field of fashion are Jeffrey Mayer, fashion design program coordinator; Karen Bakke; Todd Conover; Laurel Morton; Claudia Gervais; Joyce Backus; Elizabeth Shorrock; Megan Lawson Clark; and Jean Henry.

For more information, contact Mayer at jcmayer@syr.edu, or Lauren Tagliaferro at lktaglia@syr.edu.

Full Circle
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Linda Esterley: mixed media collage
Lynette Blake: oil paintings
Elizabeth Moldenhauer: felted vessels

Forrest Lesch-Middelton: Recent Work
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Forrest Lesch-Middelton's pottery combines historic patterns with modern-day technology. The resulting work creates a subtle narrative that references the cross-cultural influences that impact every facet of daily life. Pottery is used as a metaphor to illustrate this phenomenon. To achieve the intricate patterns, Lesch-Middelton uses silkscreen and embossment transfer techniques. He says of his artwork, "By blending form, pattern, and surface, my goal is to create an object that simultaneously elicits a visceral and intellectual response, followed by a contemplation of my work as a whole."

Lesch-Middelton received his MFA in Ceramics from Utah State University in 2006 and a BFA in Ceramics from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1998. He is currently the Ceramics Program Coordinator at the Sonoma Community Center in Sonoma, California and teaches at Santa Rosa Jr. College and Solano College in the San Francisco Bay area. His artwork has been shown in many venues nationally, including the Baltimore Clayworks (MD), Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (TN), and Santa Fe Clay Center (NM). He currently lives with his wife and two daughters in Northern California.

The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

A selection of 30 woodcuts and etchings by the internationally known and collected Chinese American artist and educator. This exhibition is a limited retrospective look at Seong Moy's career as printmaker.

Moy's early works, small but complicated woodcuts on soft luminous papers, were immediately accepted by artists, curators, and the public. A painterly quality, so important to his entire graphic output, is evident in much of this work and is all the more special because it is captured in color wood block prints that require great sophistication and skill from the artist.

As Moy's career continued to develop, his interest in capturing spatial relationships of shapes and forms in his compositions, was heightened by the role color plays in energizing these elements. This trend continued for a number a years and could also be found in his cardboard relief prints.

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.

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity is a rich, reflective exhibition of works by 40 artists representing the vast cultural blend of modern American society.

American artists of African, Arab, European, Asian, Latino, and Native American descent explore their heritage in this vivid and diverse exhibition using a wide variety of media. The artists examine patriotism, communication, struggle for acceptance, being an American in the 21st century, and more. Humor, heartache, anger, apprehension--all emotions are evoked by these works, raising questions about race, class, gender and age. Four main themes run through Infinite Mirror: Self-Selection, Pride, Assimilation, and Protest, providing audiences with the opportunity to re-examine both the story and storytellers of the quintessential "American dream."

The exhibition was curated by Blake Bradford, Curator and Director of Education at the Barnes Foundation; Benito Huerta, Curator and Director of The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington; and Robert Lee, Curator and Executive Director at Asian American Arts Centre in New York.

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

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Orange Pulp: Works by Norman Saunders
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

A profile of pulp artist Norman Saunders (1907-1989), including 10 lush and dramatic Saunders paintings from the university collection.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Casey Landerkin: Paintings and Illustrations
Echo

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

Opening: New Directions in Photography
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An opening reception will be held this evening from 5:00-8:00 PM.

What does it mean to be an art photographer today? In this exhibition, the third-year art photography graduate students prove that the photographic medium has outgrown its traditional function as singular-print-on-the-wall and is now an expanded practice that includes video, sculpture, installation and performance.

Although the four photographers -- Sarah Zamecnik, Shimpei Shirafuji, Jeffrey Einhorn and Colleen Woolpert -- push their work in different directions, one belief unites them: the image is paramount, whether it is static or in motion; surrounded by a frame or mounted to a sculptural form; printed on paper or projected onto surfaces; silent or accompanied by sound. It operates sometimes as documentation, other times as replication or appropriation. It is used variously to depict truths or to create fictions derived from truths or the realm of the artist's imagination.

For more information, contact Colleen Woolpert at cmwoolpe@syr.edu. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Kueng Caputo: The Quadrangular Cloud
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The young female Swiss designer duo, Sarah Kueng and Lovis Caputo, will install a hotel in the Warehouse Gallery. The main gallery will be transformed into small ephemeral rooms where the visitor is invited to take a break from reality and to take a mini-vacation complete with a number of very simple, inexpensive and joyful elements. When seated or lying down, the public's focus is drawn to the interior space and lighting. The idea for a temporary hotel goes back to Kueng's and Caputo's 72 Hours Hotel, which was initially developed in 2006 for the train station in Zurich, Switzerland. Both artists have been widely exhibited. This is their first museum solo show in the U.S.

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100 Years of Women Rockin' the World
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibition features the art of 35 women artists -- nine local to Syracuse, and the rest from communities across the country. These women, in keeping with the mission of ArtRage, are also activists and their work expresses a whole range of issues important to both women and the community of concerned people worldwide: self-image, hunger, collective action, war, children, the status of women, immigration, environmental crisis, alternative lifestyles and self-discovery.

Participating artists include Arlene Abend, Amy Bartell, Ellen Blalock, Marlena Buczek, Elizabeth Carter, Jen Cartwright, the Chicago Women's Graphic Collective, Sue Coe, Erin Currier, Jane Evershed, Raina Gentry, Susan Grabel, Sharon Lee Hart, Robin Hewlett, Gail Hoffman, Nancy Hom, Katherine Hughes, Lahib Jaddo, Mollie Kellogg, Kate Luscher, Dierdre Luzwick, Sofia Perez, Ruth Putter, Favianna Rodriguez, Gazelle Samizay, Nicole Schulman, Sarah Walroth, Anita Welych and Oceans Unraveled project with artists: Aviva Alter, Mary Buczek, Mary Ellen Croteau.

Opening Reception: Davidovich in Situ: A Video Art Project
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Argentine video artist Jaime Davidovich returns to Syracuse University after an amazing year of grand-scale museum exhibitions worldwide, to work on site at The Point of Contact Gallery. Davidovich will present a series of his classic videos along with collage, photography, and a new series of paintings that he will produce on site.

Davidovich, on Painting and Video Art:

"My paintings are hybrids combining the tactile sensation of painting with the electronic pulse of video. The works are small in scale and intimate in nature. I want to do an art that speaks on a one-to-one basis with the viewer, no actors or story line, just a scale for human dialogue. In a time of video as spectacle, my work is indeed conflictive. I am interested in establishing a link (no pun intended) between Morandi and the Internet; the personal gesture and digital reproduction. These are the opposites that attract me. I use video because it is intimate, personal. I use the brush because is my gestural DNA."

Demitrus Oliver: Mare, 2009
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Mare, 2009, projects a circular image of a wave crashing against an unnamed shore. As the image rotates, the lines of the waves begin to resemble the layered surface of a Jovian planet such as Jupiter. Connecting the sea with heavenly phenomena, the installation recreates the sense of wonderment felt when looking at the night sky and the fundamental human desire to understand one's place in the universe. Mare, which is Latin for "seas", suggests movement and journeys both physical and metaphysical, as well as metaphors of darkness and illumination, looking and discovery.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses or lamenting the struggles of daily living, Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed "Truisms" on one of Times Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her "Survival" series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

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Wine, Women and Film: Vinyl and Red Lips
Redhouse

Price: $8
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Vinyl and Red Lips is an experimental short video based on Tango, a large format folio published by Iris Editions in New York (1991) with eight intaglio prints by Nancy Graves and 13 pages of text by Pedro Cuperman that gaze at the aesthetics of this Latin American dance. Vinyl and Red Lips explores the seductive nature and origins of this classic dance through vivid imagery and provocative narration. This powerful short invites the viewer to lose themselves in sensual music and color; wandering seamlessly through the wonderful world of tango, a world of imagination, poetry and lust.

KC Duggan, film editor and Managing Director of the Syracuse International Film Festival, will be on hand to lead a discussion about this exciting film. As with all Wine, Women and Film events, a complimentary glass of wine is included with each adult admission.

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

Implements of Mass Construction
Erie Canal Museum

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

The Erie Canal was built by thousands of untrained men during the 19th century, before the United States had any civil engineering professionals. So how did they construct a canal across the entire state of New York? Come by the Erie Canal Museum and see the tools that made it possible. The 16 items on view were used for construction or industry along the Erie Canal in the 19th century. Visit the Museum's second floor gallery to try to guess what each instrument is. Tools similar to some of the implements on display are still used today, but others will require some guesswork. Come visit today to guess for yourself!

The Glengarry Bhoys

Price: $20
Johnston's Ballybay
550 Richmond Ave., Syracuse

Canadian band plays traditional fiddle music as well as rock. Opening will be the Causeway Giants, the Johnston School of Irish Dance,, and the Syracuse Kiltie Pipe Band.

Harry Crocker and the Saucerer's Stove
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $32.50 plus tax and gratuities (includes meal and show)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Something's cooking at Frogtort's School for Culinary Wizardry and it smells like trouble. Harry Crocker returns after 25 years to save his alma mater but not everyone's happy to see him, to say the least. Professor Fumblepork is sending out an owl to all wizards (including you). Join Professors McMonalogue and Crepe, even Harry's old friend Herhiane, as they try to pay off centuries of back taxes and avoid a hostile takeover by the Ministry of Magic.

Titanic
C. W. Baker High School

Price: $8, $10, $12
Baker High School
29 E. Oneida St., Baldwinsville

The Tony Award winning musical depicts the tragic story of the RMS Titanic, which sunk in the Atlantic Ocean in 1912, and the last days of many of its passengers.

Tickets can be purchased by calling the box office at 315-638-6039.

Open Dress Rehearsal: Name in the Street
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
Rodney Scott Hudson, director
Featuring Stephen McKinley Henderson

Price: Free (reservations recommended)
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A script-in-hand reading of Name in the Street, a new play by award-winning playwright Kyle Bass. Set in a northern city in the mid-1960s, the play examines the relationship between two estranged African-American brothers after the death of their father. The absence of his presence in their lives had left them emotionally stunted.

The cast will feature Stephen McKinley Henderson, nominated for a Tony Award last year for his portrayal of Bono, opposite Denzel Washington's Troy Maxson, in the Broadway revival of August Wilson’s Fences. Henderson will read the pivotal role of Moe in Bass' drama. Syracuse residents Julius Edwards and David Walker will read the roles of brothers Clyde and Dee.

A talkback with the playwright and cast will follow each show except for the open dress rehearsal.

A limited number of tickets will be available at the theater 30 minutes prior to the show. Tickets can be reserved by emailing PRPAC.syr@gmail.com. Patrons are asked to specify performance date, time and number of tickets in all email reservations.

Radio Golf
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

How do we move forward without leaving behind difficult but defining aspects of our past? A powerful and timely drama from the most celebrated American playwright of this generation, Radio Golf tells the story of a man striving to become the first African American mayor of Pittsburgh. He's forced to weigh the importance of family, legacy, heritage, and history against the truth of his political and class ambitions. Moving, funny, lyrical, and rousing, Radio Golf is the inspiring final play of August Wilson's monumental, ten-play 20th-century cycle and career.

Radio Golf received four 2007 Tony nominations, including Best Play, and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.

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Preview: Corpus Christi
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

The most controversial and talked-about play of 1998. An old and familiar story, but from that point on, nothing feels quite familiar again. What follows is a story that parallels the New Testament, and its subject is nothing less than the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus. But author Terrence McNally's Christ figure is a character named Joshua, a young man born and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas, in the early 1950s.

This play is intended for mature audiences only.

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Friday, March 11, 2011

Window Project: Stephanie Rozene--The Politics of Porcelain
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This spring, both the main gallery and Window Projects feature emerging female artists and celebrate their artistic achievements at a time that coincides with International Women's Day (March 2011). Stephanie Rozene draws upon the fine line between design and the visual arts. Her work is the result of extensive research and gifted craftsmanship. Through the medium of ceramics (and with special attention to specific patterns, ornaments, and forms) she explores the politics of European ceramics and traces international developments in this medium back to the reigns of French kings Louis XV and Louis XVI. This is her first solo museum show.

Ingrid Ludt: "Forest becomes Ocean"
LeMoyne College

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

Winter Art Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

Come in from the cold and enjoy the warmth of friends and the glow of ceramic art made in The Studio at Clayscapes Pottery. Featuring ceramic artwork by Millie St. John, Tim See, Don Seymour, Shawn McGuire, Wes Weiss, and Sarah VanDerVoort as well as many others.

Takafumi Ide Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Takafumi Ide is an interdisciplinary media artist specializing in installation with sound and light. He received his B.A. in graphic design from Tama Art University in Tokyo in 1989, and his M.F.A. in studio art from Stony Brook University in 2007. He has worked for more than 10 years as a graphic designer and an illustrator in Japan and now teaches at Stony Brook University as a lecturer, and Suffolk County Community College as an adjunct instructor.

He has received several honors, such as The Sculpture Space Fellowship and Residency (funded by both the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts), the Strategic Opportunity Stipend Program Grant through the New York Foundation for the Arts, and most recently the Nomura Cultural Foundation's Project Grant, Asahi Shimbun Foundation Project Grant, and the Vermont Studio Center's Partial-Grant and Residency. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally. More recent exhibitions include Sunroom Project Glynder Gallery, Wave Hill, NY, ISE Cultural Foundation in Soho, NY, and AC Institute in Chelsea, NY.

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Davidovich in Situ: A Video Art Project
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Argentine video artist Jaime Davidovich returns to Syracuse University after an amazing year of grand-scale museum exhibitions worldwide, to work on site at The Point of Contact Gallery. Davidovich will present a series of his classic videos along with collage, photography, and a new series of paintings that he will produce on site.

Davidovich, on Painting and Video Art:

"My paintings are hybrids combining the tactile sensation of painting with the electronic pulse of video. The works are small in scale and intimate in nature. I want to do an art that speaks on a one-to-one basis with the viewer, no actors or story line, just a scale for human dialogue. In a time of video as spectacle, my work is indeed conflictive. I am interested in establishing a link (no pun intended) between Morandi and the Internet; the personal gesture and digital reproduction. These are the opposites that attract me. I use video because it is intimate, personal. I use the brush because is my gestural DNA."

Cortland County Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists include Fred Zimmerman, David Yaman, Kathy Williams, Carl Steckler, Laurie Seamans, Meg Richardson, Lyla Phillips, Allen Phillips, Joan Niswender, Richard Mitchell, Amy Hnatko, Emily Gibbons, Serry Dans, Kathie Beale, and David Beale.

Orange Pulp: The Pulp Magazine & Contemporary Culture
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be pulp magazines, notably titles like Weird Tales and Amazing Stories; the typescript of Isaac Asimov's "Strange Playfellow," which introduced readers to one of science fiction's best known characters, Robbie the Robot; and correspondence with figures like Ray Bradbury.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Marcel Breuer and Postwar America
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Drawings from the Marcel Breuer Papers, curated by SU Architecture students, with Barry Bergdoll and Jonathan Massey. The exhibition is the outcome of their work in the extensive Breuer archive at the Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center. It features images of 120 drawings, as well as photographs, documenting thirteen of Breuer’s major postwar buildings and projects. Full-scale reproductions highlight themes that characterized some of Breuer’s lesser-known major work and document his responses to the needs and opportunities of postwar American society.

Breuer (1902-1981) was a leading figure among the second generation of modernist architects whose striking designs for furniture, houses, institutions, and commercial buildings helped to set the shape and style of modernity in Europe and the United States, leading “Time” magazine to characterize him as one of the “form givers of the 20th century.” His works include the UNESCO headquarters in Paris and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Opening: Celebrating CNY Women in Art: 100th Anniversary of International Women's Day
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

There will be an opening reception this evening from 6:00-8:00 PM. The artists will be there to discuss their work.

This group exhibit showcases both the artwork of local women artists, as well as artwork with women-focused subjects. Artists will be sharing their personal experiences in a number of areas. The artists from the CNY area and include Maria Rizzo (painting), Amanda Gormley (photography), Patricia Seitz (painting), Suzanne Masters (paint and collage), Sherry Gordon (painting), Kristie Hayes (painting and drawing), Carla Senecal (installation artwork), and Michael Moody (painting and prints).

Tonal Gestures
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Diana Godfrey: mixed media pastels and acrylic paintings
Carmel Nicoletti: bronze reliefs and glass works

Amos Kennedy Prints!
Community Folk Art Center

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

Focusing on issues of race, violence and community, "Amos Kennedy Prints!" features the hand-printed works of Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. and will include prints created at CFAC. By transforming the gallery into an active printmaking workshop, Kennedy will collaborate with students from the Syracuse area and Syracuse University to create images and broadsides that reflect issues of race, gender and politics and illustrate the impact of violence in the city on their lives and community. The public is invited to meet Kennedy and to observe and participate in the printmaking process.

Opening: No Boundaries: Color & Landscape
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

There will be an artist reception this evening 6:00-8:00 pm.

Works by Scott Bennett and Michael Matthews.

Note: Limestone Art is now in its new location next to Pascale's at 105 Brooklea Dr. in Fayetteville.

Scott Bennett's new series of vivid landscape paintings have found their inspiration close to home, or rather at his new home and studio in Jamesville, NY.  While continuing his characteristic impasto painting technique, Bennett shares his inspiration with us: "Our property has wonderful woods and views in all directions, and most of these paintings are inspired by the beauty I see everyday when I look out any window or walk out the door." His work has been exhibited in over 40 national exhibitions, and is included in numerous corporate and private collections. This is Bennett's second exhibition at Limestone.
 
Michael Matthews' landscapes are developed from sketchbook watercolors created on site during his travels, at times during below freezing temperatures as ice forms while he paints.  Back in the studio, Matthews creates large paintings from a singe sketch or an amalgamation of his watercolors. Michael Matthews lives in Syracuse, NY and in Harrogate, British Columbia.  His work is found in over 60 corporate art collections.

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

Fashionable Points of View
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Fashionable Points of View" marks the first time the SU fashion design faculty has presented its work as a group. The artwork in the exhibition includes beautifully crafted garments, accessories and fine art.

Among the faculty designers showcasing their expertise and interest within the field of fashion are Jeffrey Mayer, fashion design program coordinator; Karen Bakke; Todd Conover; Laurel Morton; Claudia Gervais; Joyce Backus; Elizabeth Shorrock; Megan Lawson Clark; and Jean Henry.

For more information, contact Mayer at jcmayer@syr.edu, or Lauren Tagliaferro at lktaglia@syr.edu.

Opening Reception: Full Circle
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

There will be an artist reception this evening 5:00-8:00 pm.

Linda Esterley: mixed media collage
Lynette Blake: oil paintings
Elizabeth Moldenhauer: felted vessels

Forrest Lesch-Middelton: Recent Work
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Forrest Lesch-Middelton's pottery combines historic patterns with modern-day technology. The resulting work creates a subtle narrative that references the cross-cultural influences that impact every facet of daily life. Pottery is used as a metaphor to illustrate this phenomenon. To achieve the intricate patterns, Lesch-Middelton uses silkscreen and embossment transfer techniques. He says of his artwork, "By blending form, pattern, and surface, my goal is to create an object that simultaneously elicits a visceral and intellectual response, followed by a contemplation of my work as a whole."

Lesch-Middelton received his MFA in Ceramics from Utah State University in 2006 and a BFA in Ceramics from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1998. He is currently the Ceramics Program Coordinator at the Sonoma Community Center in Sonoma, California and teaches at Santa Rosa Jr. College and Solano College in the San Francisco Bay area. His artwork has been shown in many venues nationally, including the Baltimore Clayworks (MD), Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (TN), and Santa Fe Clay Center (NM). He currently lives with his wife and two daughters in Northern California.

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity is a rich, reflective exhibition of works by 40 artists representing the vast cultural blend of modern American society.

American artists of African, Arab, European, Asian, Latino, and Native American descent explore their heritage in this vivid and diverse exhibition using a wide variety of media. The artists examine patriotism, communication, struggle for acceptance, being an American in the 21st century, and more. Humor, heartache, anger, apprehension--all emotions are evoked by these works, raising questions about race, class, gender and age. Four main themes run through Infinite Mirror: Self-Selection, Pride, Assimilation, and Protest, providing audiences with the opportunity to re-examine both the story and storytellers of the quintessential "American dream."

The exhibition was curated by Blake Bradford, Curator and Director of Education at the Barnes Foundation; Benito Huerta, Curator and Director of The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington; and Robert Lee, Curator and Executive Director at Asian American Arts Centre in New York.

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

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The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

A selection of 30 woodcuts and etchings by the internationally known and collected Chinese American artist and educator. This exhibition is a limited retrospective look at Seong Moy's career as printmaker.

Moy's early works, small but complicated woodcuts on soft luminous papers, were immediately accepted by artists, curators, and the public. A painterly quality, so important to his entire graphic output, is evident in much of this work and is all the more special because it is captured in color wood block prints that require great sophistication and skill from the artist.

As Moy's career continued to develop, his interest in capturing spatial relationships of shapes and forms in his compositions, was heightened by the role color plays in energizing these elements. This trend continued for a number a years and could also be found in his cardboard relief prints.

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.

Orange Pulp: Works by Norman Saunders
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

A profile of pulp artist Norman Saunders (1907-1989), including 10 lush and dramatic Saunders paintings from the university collection.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Casey Landerkin: Paintings and Illustrations
Echo

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

New Directions in Photography
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

What does it mean to be an art photographer today? In this exhibition, the third-year art photography graduate students prove that the photographic medium has outgrown its traditional function as singular-print-on-the-wall and is now an expanded practice that includes video, sculpture, installation and performance.

Although the four photographers -- Sarah Zamecnik, Shimpei Shirafuji, Jeffrey Einhorn and Colleen Woolpert -- push their work in different directions, one belief unites them: the image is paramount, whether it is static or in motion; surrounded by a frame or mounted to a sculptural form; printed on paper or projected onto surfaces; silent or accompanied by sound. It operates sometimes as documentation, other times as replication or appropriation. It is used variously to depict truths or to create fictions derived from truths or the realm of the artist's imagination.

For more information, contact Colleen Woolpert at cmwoolpe@syr.edu. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Kueng Caputo: The Quadrangular Cloud
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The young female Swiss designer duo, Sarah Kueng and Lovis Caputo, will install a hotel in the Warehouse Gallery. The main gallery will be transformed into small ephemeral rooms where the visitor is invited to take a break from reality and to take a mini-vacation complete with a number of very simple, inexpensive and joyful elements. When seated or lying down, the public's focus is drawn to the interior space and lighting. The idea for a temporary hotel goes back to Kueng's and Caputo's 72 Hours Hotel, which was initially developed in 2006 for the train station in Zurich, Switzerland. Both artists have been widely exhibited. This is their first museum solo show in the U.S.

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100 Years of Women Rockin' the World
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibition features the art of 35 women artists -- nine local to Syracuse, and the rest from communities across the country. These women, in keeping with the mission of ArtRage, are also activists and their work expresses a whole range of issues important to both women and the community of concerned people worldwide: self-image, hunger, collective action, war, children, the status of women, immigration, environmental crisis, alternative lifestyles and self-discovery.

Participating artists include Arlene Abend, Amy Bartell, Ellen Blalock, Marlena Buczek, Elizabeth Carter, Jen Cartwright, the Chicago Women's Graphic Collective, Sue Coe, Erin Currier, Jane Evershed, Raina Gentry, Susan Grabel, Sharon Lee Hart, Robin Hewlett, Gail Hoffman, Nancy Hom, Katherine Hughes, Lahib Jaddo, Mollie Kellogg, Kate Luscher, Dierdre Luzwick, Sofia Perez, Ruth Putter, Favianna Rodriguez, Gazelle Samizay, Nicole Schulman, Sarah Walroth, Anita Welych and Oceans Unraveled project with artists: Aviva Alter, Mary Buczek, Mary Ellen Croteau.

Opening Reception: Ah Leon: Memories of Elementary School
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 (Everson members free)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Opening reception for Reynolds Unwrapped and Ah Leon exhibits.

In 2008, Ah Leon envisioned a monumental ceramic installation showcasing dozens of stoneware desks and chairs in neat rows like the classrooms of our youth. It began with a small grouping called Memories of Elementary School first exhibited in August 2008 at The Taipei Gallery Exposition and in 2009 at the Phoenix Art Museum in conjunction with the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) annual conference. Ah Leon continued to make more desks which were exhibited at the American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA) in 2010. Another year has passed and Ah Leon has completed the 20 sets of desks and chairs which will be showcased in this exhibition.

His original idea was to create a classroom environment that would “lead audiences to remember their childhood stories.” Ah Leon studied elementary school desks, determined that his creations would be authentic, revealing memories through carved initials, scratches and drawings on their worn surfaces. His classroom would preserve the stories of our childhood as if they were “frozen in the museum space.”

The first two rows of tables and chairs appear new. They become progressively more dilapidated--some broken, some leaning--until the last rows where the furniture is falling over and ultimately only chips and severed parts remain on the floor. In one area the desks are arranged as if a teacher reads to a group of children. The impact of the scene is immediate: viewers are taken back to their own childhood classroom and long forgotten memories drift to the surface.

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Opening Reception: Reynolds Unwrapped: The Cartoon Art of Dan Reynolds
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 (Everson members free)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Opening reception for Reynolds Unwrapped and Ah Leon exhibits.

The 2011 exhibition program will continue to highlight the talented artists of New York State through a series of focused exhibitions. The season opens with Reynolds Unwrapped: The Cartoon Art of Dan Reynolds, an exhibition featuring more than 100 original works of art that are seriously hilarious. The small-scale drawings depicting the comedic daily lives of humans and animals alike are all rendered by hand in a variety of media, an approach that is becoming increasing rare in a world of computer-generated images.

Dan Reynolds began drawing cartoons in 1989, when he was 30. As a youth center instructor, Reynolds was surrounded by youthful energy and creative minds. He was an avid follower of popular cartoons of the time, such as Gary Larson's Far Side and Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes. A native of Brewerton, NY, Reynolds was inspired by his Central New York surroundings, a place where snow is abundant and cows can be found just minutes from anywhere. From the beginning, Reynolds has used farm animals as messengers of humor, particularly cows, pigs and chickens, a series that was immediately accepted by Reader's Digest in 1989. A new cartoon has appeared in every issue since then. Reynolds' cartoons have also appeared in thematic Reynolds Unwrapped book compilations featuring everything from sports to holiday special editions. American Greetings and Recycled Greeting Cards also feature Reynolds cartoons on greeting cards for every occasion.

In 2008, Reynolds was diagnosed with testicular cancer and subsequently received months of chemotherapy. While he was in treatment, he began drawing cartoons about cancer and his personal experience which he found was shared by his fellow patients. He shared the cartoons with the staff and patients at the facility and discovered the power of art to bring humor to an otherwise humorless situation.

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Demitrus Oliver: Mare, 2009
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Mare, 2009, projects a circular image of a wave crashing against an unnamed shore. As the image rotates, the lines of the waves begin to resemble the layered surface of a Jovian planet such as Jupiter. Connecting the sea with heavenly phenomena, the installation recreates the sense of wonderment felt when looking at the night sky and the fundamental human desire to understand one's place in the universe. Mare, which is Latin for "seas", suggests movement and journeys both physical and metaphysical, as well as metaphors of darkness and illumination, looking and discovery.

Satan's Closet
Salt City Improv Theater

Price: $8 regular, $6 students
Salt City Improv Theatre
Shoppingtown Mall, Sears Wing, Dewitt

An evening of comedy improv.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses or lamenting the struggles of daily living, Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed "Truisms" on one of Times Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her "Survival" series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

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Implements of Mass Construction
Erie Canal Museum

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

The Erie Canal was built by thousands of untrained men during the 19th century, before the United States had any civil engineering professionals. So how did they construct a canal across the entire state of New York? Come by the Erie Canal Museum and see the tools that made it possible. The 16 items on view were used for construction or industry along the Erie Canal in the 19th century. Visit the Museum's second floor gallery to try to guess what each instrument is. Tools similar to some of the implements on display are still used today, but others will require some guesswork. Come visit today to guess for yourself!

Opening: Heartland Passage: The Oral History of the Erie Canal
Erie Canal Museum

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

"Heartland Passage" is a set of nine high-definition videos -- six of them newly produced and three drawn from the New York State Museum -- that each profile a person who grew up along or worked on the Erie Canal. (24 minutes total)

Dr. Daniel Ward, Erie Canal Museum curator, will introduce the nine videos and provide some history about the project.

Celebration of Songs
Syracuse Opera

Price: $10
Plymouth Church
232 E. Onondaga St., Syracuse

The Opera Company's Resident Artists will sing "showstopper" songs from operas and musicals. Refreshments will be
served following the performance. Proceeds will benefit Plymouth Church.

For more information, call Plymouth Church at 315-474-4836.

Pops Series: Broadway Giants: The Music of Gershwin, Ellington, and Porter
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Michael Butterman, conductor
Featuring Andrew Russo, piano

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

Featuring Rhapsody In Blue and other great works by George Gershwin, Duke Ellington and Cole Porter.

The High Kings
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Mike Raicht, graphic novelist
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Mike Raicht is a former Marvel Comics editor and current freelance comic book writer. He has written stories for multiple publishers including Marvel Entertainment (Spider-Man, Hulk, X-Men), DC Comics (Batman, Superman), IDW (GI Joe), Dynamite! (Army of Darkness, Raise the Dead II), and Th3rd World Studios (The Stuff of Legend). The first volume of his book, The Stuff of Legend: The Dark, was picked up by Villard, an imprint of Random House, and launched at #2 on the New York Times Paperback Graphic Novel list. His upcoming work includes a new creator-owned werewolf comic called The Pack and the graphic novel adaptation of the New York Times Bestselling series, The Mortal Instruments. The second volume of The Stuff of Legend, titled The Jungle, will launch in April. He teaches at LeMoyne College and the DWC.

Titanic
C. W. Baker High School

Price: $8, $10, $12
Baker High School
29 E. Oneida St., Baldwinsville

The Tony Award winning musical depicts the tragic story of the RMS Titanic, which sunk in the Atlantic Ocean in 1912, and the last days of many of its passengers.

Tickets can be purchased by calling the box office at 315-638-6039.

Urinetown: The Musical
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Deborah Taylor and Heather Jensen, director

Price: $20 adults, $17 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

The satirical comedy musical features music and lyrics by Mark Hollman and book and lyrics by Greg Kotis. Urinetown lampoons the legal system, capitalism, social responsibility, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, and local politics. In addition the musical ridicules Broadway itself poking fun at shows such as Les Miserables and Annie, to name a few. The production won three Tony Awards in 2002.

A terrible water shortage, due to a 20-year drought, has hamstrung the Gotham-like town that is the setting for Urinetown: The Musical. In an attempt to regulate water consumption, the government has outlawed the use of private toilets. The citizenry must use public, designated pay-per-flush amenities owned and operated by Urine Good Company, a vindictive corporation run by the corrupt Caldwell B. Cladwell. Urinetown provides a story that centers on the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of a free flush.

Music directed by Dan Williams, choreographed by Stephfond Brunson.

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Name in the Street
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
Rodney Scott Hudson, director
Featuring Stephen McKinley Henderson

Price: Free (reservations recommended)
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A script-in-hand reading of Name in the Street, a new play by award-winning playwright Kyle Bass. Set in a northern city in the mid-1960s, the play examines the relationship between two estranged African-American brothers after the death of their father. The absence of his presence in their lives had left them emotionally stunted.

The cast will feature Stephen McKinley Henderson, nominated for a Tony Award last year for his portrayal of Bono, opposite Denzel Washington's Troy Maxson, in the Broadway revival of August Wilson’s Fences. Henderson will read the pivotal role of Moe in Bass' drama. Syracuse residents Julius Edwards and David Walker will read the roles of brothers Clyde and Dee.

A talkback with the playwright and cast will follow each show except for the open dress rehearsal.

A limited number of tickets will be available at the theater 30 minutes prior to the show. Tickets can be reserved by emailing PRPAC.syr@gmail.com. Patrons are asked to specify performance date, time and number of tickets in all email reservations.

Tonight at 8:30: Three Plays by Noel Coward
Appleseed Productions
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $18 regular; $15 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

The Red Peppers: Doing a song and dance act in a vaudeville theatre are George Pepper and his wife, Lily. They also have a genius for picking quarrels and insulting co workers. When the house musical director, Bert, comes to the dressing room to bum a cigarette and a beer, they chide him for accompanying them in the wrong tempo, call him a drunk, and oust him. Mr. Edwards, house manager, comes to defend Bert, and he is insulted. At the following show Bert had his revenge when he plays the accompaniment so fast the Peppers get frantic and finally fall down. Lily stalks off the stage after heaving her hat at Bert.

Ways and Means: In a bedroom in Mrs. Lloyd Ransome's fabulous villa on the Cote d'Azur are heiress Stella Cartwright and her husband, a gambler. They are plagued by debts and their prolonged stay at the villa is becoming embarrassing when a scandalous chauffeur attempts to rob them and ends up saving their honor.

Hands Across the Sea: Lady Gilpin (Piggie) is so busy with social duties and gossip that she has no time for coherent thinking. She is set aflutter when her drawing room is suddenly filled with her husband's naval conferees, blueprint delivery boys and dumpy Mr. and Mrs. Wadhurst from the Far East, who flighty Piggie mistakes for the Rawlingsons. The Wadhursts overhear intimate phone conversations, are stumbled over, spilled upon and completely ignored before Piggie finally gets it straight.

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Corpus Christi
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

The most controversial and talked-about play of 1998. An old and familiar story, but from that point on, nothing feels quite familiar again. What follows is a story that parallels the New Testament, and its subject is nothing less than the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus. But author Terrence McNally's Christ figure is a character named Joshua, a young man born and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas, in the early 1950s.

This play is intended for mature audiences only.

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Radio Golf
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

How do we move forward without leaving behind difficult but defining aspects of our past? A powerful and timely drama from the most celebrated American playwright of this generation, Radio Golf tells the story of a man striving to become the first African American mayor of Pittsburgh. He's forced to weigh the importance of family, legacy, heritage, and history against the truth of his political and class ambitions. Moving, funny, lyrical, and rousing, Radio Golf is the inspiring final play of August Wilson's monumental, ten-play 20th-century cycle and career.

Radio Golf received four 2007 Tony nominations, including Best Play, and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.

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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Window Project: Stephanie Rozene--The Politics of Porcelain
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This spring, both the main gallery and Window Projects feature emerging female artists and celebrate their artistic achievements at a time that coincides with International Women's Day (March 2011). Stephanie Rozene draws upon the fine line between design and the visual arts. Her work is the result of extensive research and gifted craftsmanship. Through the medium of ceramics (and with special attention to specific patterns, ornaments, and forms) she explores the politics of European ceramics and traces international developments in this medium back to the reigns of French kings Louis XV and Louis XVI. This is her first solo museum show.

Winter Art Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

Come in from the cold and enjoy the warmth of friends and the glow of ceramic art made in The Studio at Clayscapes Pottery. Featuring ceramic artwork by Millie St. John, Tim See, Don Seymour, Shawn McGuire, Wes Weiss, and Sarah VanDerVoort as well as many others.

Ingrid Ludt: "Forest becomes Ocean"
LeMoyne College

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

Casey Landerkin: Paintings and Illustrations
Echo

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

Tonal Gestures
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Diana Godfrey: mixed media pastels and acrylic paintings
Carmel Nicoletti: bronze reliefs and glass works

Ah Leon: Memories of Elementary School
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2008, Ah Leon envisioned a monumental ceramic installation showcasing dozens of stoneware desks and chairs in neat rows like the classrooms of our youth. It began with a small grouping called Memories of Elementary School first exhibited in August 2008 at The Taipei Gallery Exposition and in 2009 at the Phoenix Art Museum in conjunction with the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) annual conference. Ah Leon continued to make more desks which were exhibited at the American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA) in 2010. Another year has passed and Ah Leon has completed the 20 sets of desks and chairs which will be showcased in this exhibition.

His original idea was to create a classroom environment that would “lead audiences to remember their childhood stories.” Ah Leon studied elementary school desks, determined that his creations would be authentic, revealing memories through carved initials, scratches and drawings on their worn surfaces. His classroom would preserve the stories of our childhood as if they were “frozen in the museum space.”

The first two rows of tables and chairs appear new. They become progressively more dilapidated--some broken, some leaning--until the last rows where the furniture is falling over and ultimately only chips and severed parts remain on the floor. In one area the desks are arranged as if a teacher reads to a group of children. The impact of the scene is immediate: viewers are taken back to their own childhood classroom and long forgotten memories drift to the surface.

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Reynolds Unwrapped: The Cartoon Art of Dan Reynolds
Everson Museum of Art

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

The 2011 exhibition program will continue to highlight the talented artists of New York State through a series of focused exhibitions. The season opens with Reynolds Unwrapped: The Cartoon Art of Dan Reynolds, an exhibition featuring more than 100 original works of art that are seriously hilarious. The small-scale drawings depicting the comedic daily lives of humans and animals alike are all rendered by hand in a variety of media, an approach that is becoming increasing rare in a world of computer-generated images.

Dan Reynolds began drawing cartoons in 1989, when he was 30. As a youth center instructor, Reynolds was surrounded by youthful energy and creative minds. He was an avid follower of popular cartoons of the time, such as Gary Larson's Far Side and Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes. A native of Brewerton, NY, Reynolds was inspired by his Central New York surroundings, a place where snow is abundant and cows can be found just minutes from anywhere. From the beginning, Reynolds has used farm animals as messengers of humor, particularly cows, pigs and chickens, a series that was immediately accepted by Reader's Digest in 1989. A new cartoon has appeared in every issue since then. Reynolds' cartoons have also appeared in thematic Reynolds Unwrapped book compilations featuring everything from sports to holiday special editions. American Greetings and Recycled Greeting Cards also feature Reynolds cartoons on greeting cards for every occasion.

In 2008, Reynolds was diagnosed with testicular cancer and subsequently received months of chemotherapy. While he was in treatment, he began drawing cartoons about cancer and his personal experience which he found was shared by his fellow patients. He shared the cartoons with the staff and patients at the facility and discovered the power of art to bring humor to an otherwise humorless situation.

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Artist in Attendance: Full Circle
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Artist Linda Esterley will be in attendance this afternoon 12:00-4:00 pm.

Linda Esterley: mixed media collage
Lynette Blake: oil paintings
Elizabeth Moldenhauer: felted vessels

Amos Kennedy Prints!
Community Folk Art Center

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

Focusing on issues of race, violence and community, "Amos Kennedy Prints!" features the hand-printed works of Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. and will include prints created at CFAC. By transforming the gallery into an active printmaking workshop, Kennedy will collaborate with students from the Syracuse area and Syracuse University to create images and broadsides that reflect issues of race, gender and politics and illustrate the impact of violence in the city on their lives and community. The public is invited to meet Kennedy and to observe and participate in the printmaking process.

Forrest Lesch-Middelton: Recent Work
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Forrest Lesch-Middelton's pottery combines historic patterns with modern-day technology. The resulting work creates a subtle narrative that references the cross-cultural influences that impact every facet of daily life. Pottery is used as a metaphor to illustrate this phenomenon. To achieve the intricate patterns, Lesch-Middelton uses silkscreen and embossment transfer techniques. He says of his artwork, "By blending form, pattern, and surface, my goal is to create an object that simultaneously elicits a visceral and intellectual response, followed by a contemplation of my work as a whole."

Lesch-Middelton received his MFA in Ceramics from Utah State University in 2006 and a BFA in Ceramics from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1998. He is currently the Ceramics Program Coordinator at the Sonoma Community Center in Sonoma, California and teaches at Santa Rosa Jr. College and Solano College in the San Francisco Bay area. His artwork has been shown in many venues nationally, including the Baltimore Clayworks (MD), Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (TN), and Santa Fe Clay Center (NM). He currently lives with his wife and two daughters in Northern California.

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

A selection of 30 woodcuts and etchings by the internationally known and collected Chinese American artist and educator. This exhibition is a limited retrospective look at Seong Moy's career as printmaker.

Moy's early works, small but complicated woodcuts on soft luminous papers, were immediately accepted by artists, curators, and the public. A painterly quality, so important to his entire graphic output, is evident in much of this work and is all the more special because it is captured in color wood block prints that require great sophistication and skill from the artist.

As Moy's career continued to develop, his interest in capturing spatial relationships of shapes and forms in his compositions, was heightened by the role color plays in energizing these elements. This trend continued for a number a years and could also be found in his cardboard relief prints.

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.

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity is a rich, reflective exhibition of works by 40 artists representing the vast cultural blend of modern American society.

American artists of African, Arab, European, Asian, Latino, and Native American descent explore their heritage in this vivid and diverse exhibition using a wide variety of media. The artists examine patriotism, communication, struggle for acceptance, being an American in the 21st century, and more. Humor, heartache, anger, apprehension--all emotions are evoked by these works, raising questions about race, class, gender and age. Four main themes run through Infinite Mirror: Self-Selection, Pride, Assimilation, and Protest, providing audiences with the opportunity to re-examine both the story and storytellers of the quintessential "American dream."

The exhibition was curated by Blake Bradford, Curator and Director of Education at the Barnes Foundation; Benito Huerta, Curator and Director of The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington; and Robert Lee, Curator and Executive Director at Asian American Arts Centre in New York.

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

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Orange Pulp: Works by Norman Saunders
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

A profile of pulp artist Norman Saunders (1907-1989), including 10 lush and dramatic Saunders paintings from the university collection.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

100 Years of Women Rockin' the World
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibition features the art of 35 women artists -- nine local to Syracuse, and the rest from communities across the country. These women, in keeping with the mission of ArtRage, are also activists and their work expresses a whole range of issues important to both women and the community of concerned people worldwide: self-image, hunger, collective action, war, children, the status of women, immigration, environmental crisis, alternative lifestyles and self-discovery.

Participating artists include Arlene Abend, Amy Bartell, Ellen Blalock, Marlena Buczek, Elizabeth Carter, Jen Cartwright, the Chicago Women's Graphic Collective, Sue Coe, Erin Currier, Jane Evershed, Raina Gentry, Susan Grabel, Sharon Lee Hart, Robin Hewlett, Gail Hoffman, Nancy Hom, Katherine Hughes, Lahib Jaddo, Mollie Kellogg, Kate Luscher, Dierdre Luzwick, Sofia Perez, Ruth Putter, Favianna Rodriguez, Gazelle Samizay, Nicole Schulman, Sarah Walroth, Anita Welych and Oceans Unraveled project with artists: Aviva Alter, Mary Buczek, Mary Ellen Croteau.

No Boundaries: Color & Landscape
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Works by Scott Bennett and Michael Matthews.

Note: Limestone Art is now in its new location next to Pascale's at 105 Brooklea Dr. in Fayetteville.

Scott Bennett's new series of vivid landscape paintings have found their inspiration close to home, or rather at his new home and studio in Jamesville, NY.  While continuing his characteristic impasto painting technique, Bennett shares his inspiration with us: "Our property has wonderful woods and views in all directions, and most of these paintings are inspired by the beauty I see everyday when I look out any window or walk out the door." His work has been exhibited in over 40 national exhibitions, and is included in numerous corporate and private collections. This is Bennett's second exhibition at Limestone.
 
Michael Matthews' landscapes are developed from sketchbook watercolors created on site during his travels, at times during below freezing temperatures as ice forms while he paints.  Back in the studio, Matthews creates large paintings from a singe sketch or an amalgamation of his watercolors. Michael Matthews lives in Syracuse, NY and in Harrogate, British Columbia.  His work is found in over 60 corporate art collections.

New Directions in Photography
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

What does it mean to be an art photographer today? In this exhibition, the third-year art photography graduate students prove that the photographic medium has outgrown its traditional function as singular-print-on-the-wall and is now an expanded practice that includes video, sculpture, installation and performance.

Although the four photographers -- Sarah Zamecnik, Shimpei Shirafuji, Jeffrey Einhorn and Colleen Woolpert -- push their work in different directions, one belief unites them: the image is paramount, whether it is static or in motion; surrounded by a frame or mounted to a sculptural form; printed on paper or projected onto surfaces; silent or accompanied by sound. It operates sometimes as documentation, other times as replication or appropriation. It is used variously to depict truths or to create fictions derived from truths or the realm of the artist's imagination.

For more information, contact Colleen Woolpert at cmwoolpe@syr.edu. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Kueng Caputo: The Quadrangular Cloud
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The young female Swiss designer duo, Sarah Kueng and Lovis Caputo, will install a hotel in the Warehouse Gallery. The main gallery will be transformed into small ephemeral rooms where the visitor is invited to take a break from reality and to take a mini-vacation complete with a number of very simple, inexpensive and joyful elements. When seated or lying down, the public's focus is drawn to the interior space and lighting. The idea for a temporary hotel goes back to Kueng's and Caputo's 72 Hours Hotel, which was initially developed in 2006 for the train station in Zurich, Switzerland. Both artists have been widely exhibited. This is their first museum solo show in the U.S.

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SUArt Kids: Infinite Mirror
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

When was the last time you enjoyed taking your children to an art gallery? Join us to participate in SUArt KIDS, an interactive art gallery experience that includes guided exhibition tours and art-related stories at the Syracuse University Art Galleries, designed specifically to engage your family with the exhibition "Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity." Come and explore the SUArt Galleries and introduce the world of art to your family.

This event, geared towards kids aged 5-10, will cover themes from the exhibition that include the portrait, nationalism, and diversity. There will be a story and a guided art activity centered on "building a flag" using shapes, colors and concepts to describe who the child is, where they come from, etc.

Demitrus Oliver: Mare, 2009
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Mare, 2009, projects a circular image of a wave crashing against an unnamed shore. As the image rotates, the lines of the waves begin to resemble the layered surface of a Jovian planet such as Jupiter. Connecting the sea with heavenly phenomena, the installation recreates the sense of wonderment felt when looking at the night sky and the fundamental human desire to understand one's place in the universe. Mare, which is Latin for "seas", suggests movement and journeys both physical and metaphysical, as well as metaphors of darkness and illumination, looking and discovery.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses or lamenting the struggles of daily living, Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed "Truisms" on one of Times Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her "Survival" series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

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Implements of Mass Construction
Erie Canal Museum

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

The Erie Canal was built by thousands of untrained men during the 19th century, before the United States had any civil engineering professionals. So how did they construct a canal across the entire state of New York? Come by the Erie Canal Museum and see the tools that made it possible. The 16 items on view were used for construction or industry along the Erie Canal in the 19th century. Visit the Museum's second floor gallery to try to guess what each instrument is. Tools similar to some of the implements on display are still used today, but others will require some guesswork. Come visit today to guess for yourself!

Artist Talk: A Country Bumpkin's Pottery Life
Everson Museum of Art
Featuring Ah Leon

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

Don't miss a chance to hear world-renown ceramic sculptor Ah Leon, master of the traditional Yixing style teapot and signature wood-textured trompe l'oeil installations. Ah Leon will present his artist journey beginning with his apprenticeships with experienced ceramists through out Taiwan, and will discuss Yixing teapot making techniques, contemporary innovations, and his installation work.

Family Series: It's Instrumental
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Michael Butterman, conductor

Price: $10 adults; $5 children
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Find out everything there is to know about the instruments of the orchestra, and make your own instruments in the lobby before the concert! Featuring Benjamin Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.

Women Rockin’ the World Benefit Concert
ArtRage Gallery
Featuring emma's revolution and Colleen Kattau

Price: $15 in advance, $20 at the door
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

ArtRage is celebrating the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day and our exhibition of women’s art with this rocking' concert to benefit the gallery.

Doors open at 7:00 pm for a community reception featuring local women’s organizations. Concert begins at 8:00 pm.

emma’s revolution is the duo of award-winning activist musicians, Pat Humphries and Sandy O, who write songs that become traditions and are imbued with hope, warmth and the power and drive to turn tears into laughter, cynicism into action. A motivating force in intimate concerts and mass demonstrations, infused with inspiration from the legacy of music for social change, Pat Humphries and Sandy O’s dynamic harmonies are multiplied by hundreds of thousands. Emma Goldman stood for everybody’s right to beautiful, radiant things. Join the revolution!

Colleen Kattau is a vocalist songwriter in both Spanish and English. A dynamic performer, whose music has been called, “Power and beauty steeping in a fine tea.” She’s performed on Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now and is a featured artist at SOAWatch vigils.

Joanne Perry & The Unstoppables
Steeple Coffeehouse

Price: $10 donation includes dessert and beverage
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Closer Still
Redhouse

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

Closer Still is a band from Mexico, NY, that has been performing in and around the Syracuse area for several years. The group is comprised of twins Maggie and Maynah Goble, Tom Miles, and Jason Checkla. They combine catchy pop melodies with rich acoustic sound and impressive guitar stylings thanks to the immensely talented Checkla, and Miles on percussion. Solid harmonies make up original tunes along with some great covers.

Ames Piano Quartet
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

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

One of the few piano quartets in the world, the Ames Piano Quartet combines a lush string sound with the orchestral quality of the piano to produce an exquisite and rare sonority. Based at Iowa State University, the Quartet has concertized to great acclaim internationally, and made eleven highly praised recordings. Fanfare named their CD of Dvorak Quartets "one of the best chamber music recordings of the century."

Mozart Piano Quartet in G minor, K. 478
Schoenfield Carolina Reveille
Brahms Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor, Op. 25

Pops Series: Broadway Giants: The Music of Gershwin, Ellington, and Porter
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Michael Butterman, conductor
Featuring Andrew Russo, piano

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

Featuring Rhapsody In Blue and other great works by George Gershwin, Duke Ellington and Cole Porter.

Tony Trischka
Westcott Community Center

Price: $10 regular; $8 WCC members; $5 students
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

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

"Territory" (Smithsonian Folkways/Ryko) is considerably more than a showcase for the virtuoso banjo playing of Tony Trischka, though that may seem like its principal function. The album is a full-bore banjo tutorial -- Mr. Trischka's track-by-track notes include 20 tunings and occasional tips -- and a familial jaunt through folk and bluegrass terrain.

Featured on the CD are two up-and-coming acoustic artists who have toured extensively with Tony: guitarist and singer Michael Daves, and fiddler Brittany Haas. Mr. Trischka provides a steady connecting line, weaving into his folk and bluegrass musical mix not only Celtic reels but also West African kora music and Hawaiian slide guitar.

Dark Hollow (Grateful Dead Tribute)
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Stonecutter
Open Hand Theater

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

Tashi, a lowly stonecutter, sees everyone else as having a better life. Wishing to be just like them, he learns many lessons. The artists of Open Hand Theater present this favorite engaging tale with roots in both Japanese and Indian folklore. True to the beauty and style of Japanese theater, the performance features live music, a wonderful array of puppets, and a mountain range.

Sleeping Beauty
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive comedy retelling of the children's classic.

Titanic
C. W. Baker High School

Price: $8, $10, $12
Baker High School
29 E. Oneida St., Baldwinsville

The Tony Award winning musical depicts the tragic story of the RMS Titanic, which sunk in the Atlantic Ocean in 1912, and the last days of many of its passengers.

Tickets can be purchased by calling the box office at 315-638-6039.

Radio Golf
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

How do we move forward without leaving behind difficult but defining aspects of our past? A powerful and timely drama from the most celebrated American playwright of this generation, Radio Golf tells the story of a man striving to become the first African American mayor of Pittsburgh. He's forced to weigh the importance of family, legacy, heritage, and history against the truth of his political and class ambitions. Moving, funny, lyrical, and rousing, Radio Golf is the inspiring final play of August Wilson's monumental, ten-play 20th-century cycle and career.

Radio Golf received four 2007 Tony nominations, including Best Play, and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.

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Titanic
C. W. Baker High School

Price: $8, $10, $12
Baker High School
29 E. Oneida St., Baldwinsville

The Tony Award winning musical depicts the tragic story of the RMS Titanic, which sunk in the Atlantic Ocean in 1912, and the last days of many of its passengers.

Tickets can be purchased by calling the box office at 315-638-6039.

Urinetown: The Musical
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Deborah Taylor and Heather Jensen, director

Price: $20 adults, $17 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

The satirical comedy musical features music and lyrics by Mark Hollman and book and lyrics by Greg Kotis. Urinetown lampoons the legal system, capitalism, social responsibility, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, and local politics. In addition the musical ridicules Broadway itself poking fun at shows such as Les Miserables and Annie, to name a few. The production won three Tony Awards in 2002.

A terrible water shortage, due to a 20-year drought, has hamstrung the Gotham-like town that is the setting for Urinetown: The Musical. In an attempt to regulate water consumption, the government has outlawed the use of private toilets. The citizenry must use public, designated pay-per-flush amenities owned and operated by Urine Good Company, a vindictive corporation run by the corrupt Caldwell B. Cladwell. Urinetown provides a story that centers on the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of a free flush.

Music directed by Dan Williams, choreographed by Stephfond Brunson.

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Name in the Street
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
Rodney Scott Hudson, director
Featuring Stephen McKinley Henderson

Price: Free (reservations recommended)
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A script-in-hand reading of Name in the Street, a new play by award-winning playwright Kyle Bass. Set in a northern city in the mid-1960s, the play examines the relationship between two estranged African-American brothers after the death of their father. The absence of his presence in their lives had left them emotionally stunted.

The cast will feature Stephen McKinley Henderson, nominated for a Tony Award last year for his portrayal of Bono, opposite Denzel Washington's Troy Maxson, in the Broadway revival of August Wilson’s Fences. Henderson will read the pivotal role of Moe in Bass' drama. Syracuse residents Julius Edwards and David Walker will read the roles of brothers Clyde and Dee.

A talkback with the playwright and cast will follow each show except for the open dress rehearsal.

A limited number of tickets will be available at the theater 30 minutes prior to the show. Tickets can be reserved by emailing PRPAC.syr@gmail.com. Patrons are asked to specify performance date, time and number of tickets in all email reservations.

Tonight at 8:30: Three Plays by Noel Coward
Appleseed Productions
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $18 regular; $15 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

The Red Peppers: Doing a song and dance act in a vaudeville theatre are George Pepper and his wife, Lily. They also have a genius for picking quarrels and insulting co workers. When the house musical director, Bert, comes to the dressing room to bum a cigarette and a beer, they chide him for accompanying them in the wrong tempo, call him a drunk, and oust him. Mr. Edwards, house manager, comes to defend Bert, and he is insulted. At the following show Bert had his revenge when he plays the accompaniment so fast the Peppers get frantic and finally fall down. Lily stalks off the stage after heaving her hat at Bert.

Ways and Means: In a bedroom in Mrs. Lloyd Ransome's fabulous villa on the Cote d'Azur are heiress Stella Cartwright and her husband, a gambler. They are plagued by debts and their prolonged stay at the villa is becoming embarrassing when a scandalous chauffeur attempts to rob them and ends up saving their honor.

Hands Across the Sea: Lady Gilpin (Piggie) is so busy with social duties and gossip that she has no time for coherent thinking. She is set aflutter when her drawing room is suddenly filled with her husband's naval conferees, blueprint delivery boys and dumpy Mr. and Mrs. Wadhurst from the Far East, who flighty Piggie mistakes for the Rawlingsons. The Wadhursts overhear intimate phone conversations, are stumbled over, spilled upon and completely ignored before Piggie finally gets it straight.

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Corpus Christi
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

The most controversial and talked-about play of 1998. An old and familiar story, but from that point on, nothing feels quite familiar again. What follows is a story that parallels the New Testament, and its subject is nothing less than the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus. But author Terrence McNally's Christ figure is a character named Joshua, a young man born and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas, in the early 1950s.

This play is intended for mature audiences only.

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Radio Golf
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

How do we move forward without leaving behind difficult but defining aspects of our past? A powerful and timely drama from the most celebrated American playwright of this generation, Radio Golf tells the story of a man striving to become the first African American mayor of Pittsburgh. He's forced to weigh the importance of family, legacy, heritage, and history against the truth of his political and class ambitions. Moving, funny, lyrical, and rousing, Radio Golf is the inspiring final play of August Wilson's monumental, ten-play 20th-century cycle and career.

Radio Golf received four 2007 Tony nominations, including Best Play, and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.

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Sunday, March 13, 2011

Window Project: Stephanie Rozene--The Politics of Porcelain
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This spring, both the main gallery and Window Projects feature emerging female artists and celebrate their artistic achievements at a time that coincides with International Women's Day (March 2011). Stephanie Rozene draws upon the fine line between design and the visual arts. Her work is the result of extensive research and gifted craftsmanship. Through the medium of ceramics (and with special attention to specific patterns, ornaments, and forms) she explores the politics of European ceramics and traces international developments in this medium back to the reigns of French kings Louis XV and Louis XVI. This is her first solo museum show.

Full Circle
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Linda Esterley: mixed media collage
Lynette Blake: oil paintings
Elizabeth Moldenhauer: felted vessels

Forrest Lesch-Middelton: Recent Work
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Forrest Lesch-Middelton's pottery combines historic patterns with modern-day technology. The resulting work creates a subtle narrative that references the cross-cultural influences that impact every facet of daily life. Pottery is used as a metaphor to illustrate this phenomenon. To achieve the intricate patterns, Lesch-Middelton uses silkscreen and embossment transfer techniques. He says of his artwork, "By blending form, pattern, and surface, my goal is to create an object that simultaneously elicits a visceral and intellectual response, followed by a contemplation of my work as a whole."

Lesch-Middelton received his MFA in Ceramics from Utah State University in 2006 and a BFA in Ceramics from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1998. He is currently the Ceramics Program Coordinator at the Sonoma Community Center in Sonoma, California and teaches at Santa Rosa Jr. College and Solano College in the San Francisco Bay area. His artwork has been shown in many venues nationally, including the Baltimore Clayworks (MD), Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (TN), and Santa Fe Clay Center (NM). He currently lives with his wife and two daughters in Northern California.

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity is a rich, reflective exhibition of works by 40 artists representing the vast cultural blend of modern American society.

American artists of African, Arab, European, Asian, Latino, and Native American descent explore their heritage in this vivid and diverse exhibition using a wide variety of media. The artists examine patriotism, communication, struggle for acceptance, being an American in the 21st century, and more. Humor, heartache, anger, apprehension--all emotions are evoked by these works, raising questions about race, class, gender and age. Four main themes run through Infinite Mirror: Self-Selection, Pride, Assimilation, and Protest, providing audiences with the opportunity to re-examine both the story and storytellers of the quintessential "American dream."

The exhibition was curated by Blake Bradford, Curator and Director of Education at the Barnes Foundation; Benito Huerta, Curator and Director of The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington; and Robert Lee, Curator and Executive Director at Asian American Arts Centre in New York.

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

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The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

A selection of 30 woodcuts and etchings by the internationally known and collected Chinese American artist and educator. This exhibition is a limited retrospective look at Seong Moy's career as printmaker.

Moy's early works, small but complicated woodcuts on soft luminous papers, were immediately accepted by artists, curators, and the public. A painterly quality, so important to his entire graphic output, is evident in much of this work and is all the more special because it is captured in color wood block prints that require great sophistication and skill from the artist.

As Moy's career continued to develop, his interest in capturing spatial relationships of shapes and forms in his compositions, was heightened by the role color plays in energizing these elements. This trend continued for a number a years and could also be found in his cardboard relief prints.

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.

Orange Pulp: Works by Norman Saunders
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

A profile of pulp artist Norman Saunders (1907-1989), including 10 lush and dramatic Saunders paintings from the university collection.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Reynolds Unwrapped: The Cartoon Art of Dan Reynolds
Everson Museum of Art

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

The 2011 exhibition program will continue to highlight the talented artists of New York State through a series of focused exhibitions. The season opens with Reynolds Unwrapped: The Cartoon Art of Dan Reynolds, an exhibition featuring more than 100 original works of art that are seriously hilarious. The small-scale drawings depicting the comedic daily lives of humans and animals alike are all rendered by hand in a variety of media, an approach that is becoming increasing rare in a world of computer-generated images.

Dan Reynolds began drawing cartoons in 1989, when he was 30. As a youth center instructor, Reynolds was surrounded by youthful energy and creative minds. He was an avid follower of popular cartoons of the time, such as Gary Larson's Far Side and Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes. A native of Brewerton, NY, Reynolds was inspired by his Central New York surroundings, a place where snow is abundant and cows can be found just minutes from anywhere. From the beginning, Reynolds has used farm animals as messengers of humor, particularly cows, pigs and chickens, a series that was immediately accepted by Reader's Digest in 1989. A new cartoon has appeared in every issue since then. Reynolds' cartoons have also appeared in thematic Reynolds Unwrapped book compilations featuring everything from sports to holiday special editions. American Greetings and Recycled Greeting Cards also feature Reynolds cartoons on greeting cards for every occasion.

In 2008, Reynolds was diagnosed with testicular cancer and subsequently received months of chemotherapy. While he was in treatment, he began drawing cartoons about cancer and his personal experience which he found was shared by his fellow patients. He shared the cartoons with the staff and patients at the facility and discovered the power of art to bring humor to an otherwise humorless situation.

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Ah Leon: Memories of Elementary School
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2008, Ah Leon envisioned a monumental ceramic installation showcasing dozens of stoneware desks and chairs in neat rows like the classrooms of our youth. It began with a small grouping called Memories of Elementary School first exhibited in August 2008 at The Taipei Gallery Exposition and in 2009 at the Phoenix Art Museum in conjunction with the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) annual conference. Ah Leon continued to make more desks which were exhibited at the American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA) in 2010. Another year has passed and Ah Leon has completed the 20 sets of desks and chairs which will be showcased in this exhibition.

His original idea was to create a classroom environment that would “lead audiences to remember their childhood stories.” Ah Leon studied elementary school desks, determined that his creations would be authentic, revealing memories through carved initials, scratches and drawings on their worn surfaces. His classroom would preserve the stories of our childhood as if they were “frozen in the museum space.”

The first two rows of tables and chairs appear new. They become progressively more dilapidated--some broken, some leaning--until the last rows where the furniture is falling over and ultimately only chips and severed parts remain on the floor. In one area the desks are arranged as if a teacher reads to a group of children. The impact of the scene is immediate: viewers are taken back to their own childhood classroom and long forgotten memories drift to the surface.

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Ingrid Ludt: "Forest becomes Ocean"
LeMoyne College

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

New Directions in Photography
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

What does it mean to be an art photographer today? In this exhibition, the third-year art photography graduate students prove that the photographic medium has outgrown its traditional function as singular-print-on-the-wall and is now an expanded practice that includes video, sculpture, installation and performance.

Although the four photographers -- Sarah Zamecnik, Shimpei Shirafuji, Jeffrey Einhorn and Colleen Woolpert -- push their work in different directions, one belief unites them: the image is paramount, whether it is static or in motion; surrounded by a frame or mounted to a sculptural form; printed on paper or projected onto surfaces; silent or accompanied by sound. It operates sometimes as documentation, other times as replication or appropriation. It is used variously to depict truths or to create fictions derived from truths or the realm of the artist's imagination.

For more information, contact Colleen Woolpert at cmwoolpe@syr.edu. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Demitrus Oliver: Mare, 2009
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Mare, 2009, projects a circular image of a wave crashing against an unnamed shore. As the image rotates, the lines of the waves begin to resemble the layered surface of a Jovian planet such as Jupiter. Connecting the sea with heavenly phenomena, the installation recreates the sense of wonderment felt when looking at the night sky and the fundamental human desire to understand one's place in the universe. Mare, which is Latin for "seas", suggests movement and journeys both physical and metaphysical, as well as metaphors of darkness and illumination, looking and discovery.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses or lamenting the struggles of daily living, Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed "Truisms" on one of Times Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her "Survival" series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

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Implements of Mass Construction
Erie Canal Museum

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

The Erie Canal was built by thousands of untrained men during the 19th century, before the United States had any civil engineering professionals. So how did they construct a canal across the entire state of New York? Come by the Erie Canal Museum and see the tools that made it possible. The 16 items on view were used for construction or industry along the Erie Canal in the 19th century. Visit the Museum's second floor gallery to try to guess what each instrument is. Tools similar to some of the implements on display are still used today, but others will require some guesswork. Come visit today to guess for yourself!

Ceili Rain

Price: $14 at the door, $12 in advance
Robinson Memorial Church
126 Terry Rd. (corner of Granger), Syracuse

Gaelic and Celtic Christian rock. Corned beef dinner follows for an extra $8.

For more information, phone 315-468-2509.

Piano recital
Featuring John Kamfonas

Price: Freewill offering or non-perishable food donation
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Classic works and improvisation.

For more information, phone 315-635-9964.

CNY Flute Choir Sunday Showcase

Price: Free
Erwin First United Methodist Church
920 Euclid Ave., Syracuse

Solos and smaller chamber pieces, including works by Kuhlau and Morlacchi, as well as some gospel works.

For more information, phone 315-682-8317.

Tonight at 8:30: Three Plays by Noel Coward
Appleseed Productions
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $18 regular; $15 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

The Red Peppers: Doing a song and dance act in a vaudeville theatre are George Pepper and his wife, Lily. They also have a genius for picking quarrels and insulting co workers. When the house musical director, Bert, comes to the dressing room to bum a cigarette and a beer, they chide him for accompanying them in the wrong tempo, call him a drunk, and oust him. Mr. Edwards, house manager, comes to defend Bert, and he is insulted. At the following show Bert had his revenge when he plays the accompaniment so fast the Peppers get frantic and finally fall down. Lily stalks off the stage after heaving her hat at Bert.

Ways and Means: In a bedroom in Mrs. Lloyd Ransome's fabulous villa on the Cote d'Azur are heiress Stella Cartwright and her husband, a gambler. They are plagued by debts and their prolonged stay at the villa is becoming embarrassing when a scandalous chauffeur attempts to rob them and ends up saving their honor.

Hands Across the Sea: Lady Gilpin (Piggie) is so busy with social duties and gossip that she has no time for coherent thinking. She is set aflutter when her drawing room is suddenly filled with her husband's naval conferees, blueprint delivery boys and dumpy Mr. and Mrs. Wadhurst from the Far East, who flighty Piggie mistakes for the Rawlingsons. The Wadhursts overhear intimate phone conversations, are stumbled over, spilled upon and completely ignored before Piggie finally gets it straight.

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Radio Golf
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

How do we move forward without leaving behind difficult but defining aspects of our past? A powerful and timely drama from the most celebrated American playwright of this generation, Radio Golf tells the story of a man striving to become the first African American mayor of Pittsburgh. He's forced to weigh the importance of family, legacy, heritage, and history against the truth of his political and class ambitions. Moving, funny, lyrical, and rousing, Radio Golf is the inspiring final play of August Wilson's monumental, ten-play 20th-century cycle and career.

Radio Golf received four 2007 Tony nominations, including Best Play, and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.

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