Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Atrium Exhibit: OCC Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Visual Arts Showcase #59
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Showcase features the work of area artists in a juried show. This season's work was selected
by Jennifer Pepper, Director of the Cazenovia College Gallery, and Wendy Harris, a working artist from Syracuse University.

Art from the CNY Region of the National League of American Pen Women

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

Works by 15 award-winning artists will be on display.

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Pennellate di Cinema: Classic film posters designed by Silvano Campeggi
Point of Contact Gallery

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

From 1945 to 1972, Silvano Campeggi worked for the major American cinematographic companies: Metro Goldwin Mayer, Universal, Paramount, RKO, Dear Film, creating over 3,000 posters for films that include Gone with the Wind, An American in Paris, Singing in the Rain and West Side Story, among countless other classics from Hollywood's Golden Era. A significant selection of the original hand made studies and sketches along with the definitive poster paintings will be on display at The Point of Contact Gallery for all Syracuse art and movie buffs to relish.

The partnership of Syracuse venues participating in this grand citywide retrospective materializes through the initiative of the Syracuse International Film Festival 2007, a Point of Contact production. Other galleries participating include the Everson Museum of Art, the Redhouse, and Company Gallery.

Each venue will cover a different era of Campeggi's prolific career. Many of the works to be presented in this citywide exhibit will later travel on to New York City's Lincoln Center for a show that opens in June.

Maestro Campeggi is the creator of the official poster for the 2007 Syracuse International Film Festival.

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Dodji Koudakpo: An African Experiences
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition features recent paintings by Koudakpo, a graduating senior at Syracuse University.

35th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

Teen artists from local schools display works in many media. The work is judged by a panel of local artists. The exhibition is co-sponsored by the Syracuse Chapter of Links, Inc.

Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Gest's photographs depict people in moments of deep private thought. The figures appear emotionally removed from their environment as if withdrawing from a public self. The work focuses on the way who we are can change when we are in a group. Although the subjects are alone in the photographs, the presence of others is implied. The images depict people in the last moments of being in their own world before seeing people, or going somewhere where others will be around. These are the last breaths and the last seconds of personal time before the subjects put on a public face and adopt the persona that they use while in a group of people.

To create these images, Gest combines numerous photographs into seamless final compositions using digital technology. Each image may consist of twenty or more separate photographs taken from various vantage points. The visually surprising images direct the viewer in the construction of everyday narratives.

Diane Menzies/Jane Daroskikh: Painting and Sculpture
Redhouse

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

Local artist Janie Darovskikh, lives in Skaneateles and is a figurative artist working in traditional sculpting methods such as carving, clay and wax modeling, plaster and bronze casting. She is the recipient of two Fulbright grants, the Suomalainen Perustus Grant, support from the New York Foundation on the Arts and numerous other awards. She exhibits in the United States and internationally. Her art has taken her to Kulusuk, Greenland; the Ural Mountains of Russia; Yangshuo, China; and to Finland, Sweden, Lithuania and Latvia. Jane is passionate about Nordic mythology, cultural exchange and her belief in art as an international language. "The process I use involves a constantly evolving search to learn, grow, exchange, feel and create. May the work tell a story of an adventure, a feeling, a dream or a journey."

Diane Menzies, also a local artist, lives in Jamesville, NY. The drawings selected for this exhibition are from a series entitled "The Passing." These mystifying drawings served as a cathartic expression of the joys and sorrows Menzies experienced while a hospice attendant for those dying of AIDS. When the works were exhibited at the Jean Cocteau Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, reviewer Diane Armitage wrote: "The gothic tension that Menzies creates might seem overwrought if not for the fact that her environmental concerns and melancholy response is right on target. Her psychological distress is not a bid for personal attention. It is, rather, a transpersonal sublimation of individual identity in favor of an emotional identification with torn bark, barren ground, and polluted air and water. Because of the careful way that Menzies limits her visual elements and establishes an air of stark abandonment, her mood of intense grieving appears as more than empty rhetoric."

Networked Nature
The Warehouse Gallery

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

"Networked Nature" uses innovative technology to combine art, science and politics. The group exhibition inventively explores the meaning and representation of "nature," from the perspective of networked culture. The featured works employ various scientific processes and locative media, such as global positioning systems (GPS) and robotics, and take the form of installations, video and sound art. Together, they make new contributions to the discourses of extant genres, such as sculpture, earth works and landscape imagery, while also demonstrating the scientific beauty and complexity of electronic and digital art.

"Networked Nature" was organized by Marisa Olson, Editor and Curator for Rhizome, a leading new media organization affiliated with the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Their programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways.

Defining Moments: American Masterworks from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition illustrates the development of American Art from the middle of the 19th century and through the 20th century. The selection of paintings, prints and sculpture in this exhibit show how art in the U.S. progressed out of Eurocentric visual and cultural ideals to form a purely American aesthetic culture. Louis Comfort Tiffany married the French Art Nouveau style with the American ingenuity of the light bulb to design masterpieces such as the Murano Design Lamp (1893-95). During the 20th century, the U.S. became a major exponent of Modernism, with artists like Rico Lebrun and Yasuo Kuniyoshi leading the way. Lebrun's "Woman with Arms over Head" (1962-63) reflects his spontaneity and experimental philosophy, while the bright, acidic colors in Kuniyoshi's "Forbidden Fruit" (1950) exemplify the prevailing aesthetic current of the New York School shortly after World War II.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Women at Work: Members of the Art Students League of New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings from the University's permanent collection examines how Modernism and the formation of the Art Students League impacted the influx of women into the field and their development as professional and influential artists.

The selection of work begins with artists who were directly influenced by the 1913 Amory Show such as Peggy Bacon, Maria Wickey, and Isabel Bishop. The exhibition concludes with the advent of Abstract Expressionism, showing works by Jan Gelb, Minna Citron, Terry Haass, and Helen Frankenthaler. These works illustrate American art's stylistic evolution during the period. Early drawings like Harriet Frishmuth's "Study, reclining nude," reveal a classical, academic structure. This type of work gave way in the 1920s to the gritty and modern "realism" of Isabel Bishop's "Sleeping Man." After World War II, Abstract Expressionism began to take over, as seen in Minna
Citron's "Men Seldom Make Passes...," and later in the work of Helen Frankenthaler.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

The Collector's Gene: Passion, Devotion and Learning
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Collector's Gene: Passion, Devotion and Learning uses a diverse selection of nearly 100 objects from the permanent collection to illustrate the collecting interests of Cloud Wampler, Colonel John Fox, Dr. Henry and Nancy Rosin, and Ruth Reeves. Henry Rosin says, "My collecting began as a child when I'd gather up the bottle caps under the stands at semi-professional baseball games in Brooklyn." He later turned his interests towards Japan where, as an Air Force flight surgeon, he accumulated a large group of Japanese sword fittings and hand colored photographs. The three other individuals profiled in the exhibition share similar experiences. Cloud Wampler, best known locally as the past Chairman of Carrier Corporation, was passionate about master prints, John Fox, stationed in Korea with the Army, insisted that the best way to learn about Korean culture was to go out and visit shopkeepers and merchants. Ruth Reeves went to India in 1956 on a Fulbright fellowship to study local brass casting techniques. She collected a large number of brass objects and a rare group of clay ceremonial sculptures. The university saw the educational potential in the collection and agreed to purchase her collection in 1963.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

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

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

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

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

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

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

Selections from Silvano Campeggi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Point of Contact Gallery and the Redhouse. Each organization will be presenting works from a different period of renowned film poster artist, Silvano Campeggi.

Survivor's Art: Images of Hope & Healing
Everson Museum of Art

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

Survivor's Art is an exhibition initiated by Vera House, a community organization created to assist families in crises related to domestic and sexual violence. As part of their project, The Art of Caring, Vera House brings together gifted artists and a caring community. The exhibition offers hope and healing and celebrates the joy of the arts in our lives.

Faculty Voice Recital: Joanna Manring, soprano
LeMoyne College
Featuring Kathleen Haddock, piano; Travis Newton, violin

Price: $12 adults; $7 students/seniors; free with LeMoyne ID
Panasci Family Chapel
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Le Moyne Vocal Studies Director Joanna Manring will present an evening of music by Verdi, Mozart, Debussy, Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, as well as Irish and English folksongs for voice and violin arranged by Rebecca Clarke.

For more information, phone 315-445-4523.

Crossroads in Time: Dennis J. Connors

Price: Free
Dewitt Community Library
Shoppingtown Mall, Dewitt

Author Dennis J. Connors will read excerpts from his book of Syracuse history Crossroads in Time. Crossroads in Time: An Illustrated History of Syracuse is a 208-page hardcover book featuring over 225 images, many in color, and several that have never been published before. It presents the truly engaging story of our city's growth and development over the last 200 years, providing our community with a long-needed general history of Syracuse that will appeal to residents and visitors alike. Books will be available for purchase and a book signing will follow the event.

Dennis J. Connors is the Curator of History at the Onondaga Historical Association Museum & Research Center. A Syracuse resident, Dennis has worked professionally with local historical agencies for over 30 years.

For more information, call the library at 315-446-3578.

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Atrium Exhibit: OCC Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Visual Arts Showcase #59
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Showcase features the work of area artists in a juried show. This season's work was selected
by Jennifer Pepper, Director of the Cazenovia College Gallery, and Wendy Harris, a working artist from Syracuse University.

Art from the CNY Region of the National League of American Pen Women

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

Works by 15 award-winning artists will be on display.

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Pennellate di Cinema: Classic film posters designed by Silvano Campeggi
Point of Contact Gallery

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

From 1945 to 1972, Silvano Campeggi worked for the major American cinematographic companies: Metro Goldwin Mayer, Universal, Paramount, RKO, Dear Film, creating over 3,000 posters for films that include Gone with the Wind, An American in Paris, Singing in the Rain and West Side Story, among countless other classics from Hollywood's Golden Era. A significant selection of the original hand made studies and sketches along with the definitive poster paintings will be on display at The Point of Contact Gallery for all Syracuse art and movie buffs to relish.

The partnership of Syracuse venues participating in this grand citywide retrospective materializes through the initiative of the Syracuse International Film Festival 2007, a Point of Contact production. Other galleries participating include the Everson Museum of Art, the Redhouse, and Company Gallery.

Each venue will cover a different era of Campeggi's prolific career. Many of the works to be presented in this citywide exhibit will later travel on to New York City's Lincoln Center for a show that opens in June.

Maestro Campeggi is the creator of the official poster for the 2007 Syracuse International Film Festival.

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

35th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

Teen artists from local schools display works in many media. The work is judged by a panel of local artists. The exhibition is co-sponsored by the Syracuse Chapter of Links, Inc.

Dodji Koudakpo: An African Experiences
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition features recent paintings by Koudakpo, a graduating senior at Syracuse University.

Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Gest's photographs depict people in moments of deep private thought. The figures appear emotionally removed from their environment as if withdrawing from a public self. The work focuses on the way who we are can change when we are in a group. Although the subjects are alone in the photographs, the presence of others is implied. The images depict people in the last moments of being in their own world before seeing people, or going somewhere where others will be around. These are the last breaths and the last seconds of personal time before the subjects put on a public face and adopt the persona that they use while in a group of people.

To create these images, Gest combines numerous photographs into seamless final compositions using digital technology. Each image may consist of twenty or more separate photographs taken from various vantage points. The visually surprising images direct the viewer in the construction of everyday narratives.

Celebration of the Arts

Price: Free
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

Diane Menzies/Jane Daroskikh: Painting and Sculpture
Redhouse

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

Local artist Janie Darovskikh, lives in Skaneateles and is a figurative artist working in traditional sculpting methods such as carving, clay and wax modeling, plaster and bronze casting. She is the recipient of two Fulbright grants, the Suomalainen Perustus Grant, support from the New York Foundation on the Arts and numerous other awards. She exhibits in the United States and internationally. Her art has taken her to Kulusuk, Greenland; the Ural Mountains of Russia; Yangshuo, China; and to Finland, Sweden, Lithuania and Latvia. Jane is passionate about Nordic mythology, cultural exchange and her belief in art as an international language. "The process I use involves a constantly evolving search to learn, grow, exchange, feel and create. May the work tell a story of an adventure, a feeling, a dream or a journey."

Diane Menzies, also a local artist, lives in Jamesville, NY. The drawings selected for this exhibition are from a series entitled "The Passing." These mystifying drawings served as a cathartic expression of the joys and sorrows Menzies experienced while a hospice attendant for those dying of AIDS. When the works were exhibited at the Jean Cocteau Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, reviewer Diane Armitage wrote: "The gothic tension that Menzies creates might seem overwrought if not for the fact that her environmental concerns and melancholy response is right on target. Her psychological distress is not a bid for personal attention. It is, rather, a transpersonal sublimation of individual identity in favor of an emotional identification with torn bark, barren ground, and polluted air and water. Because of the careful way that Menzies limits her visual elements and establishes an air of stark abandonment, her mood of intense grieving appears as more than empty rhetoric."

Networked Nature
The Warehouse Gallery

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

"Networked Nature" uses innovative technology to combine art, science and politics. The group exhibition inventively explores the meaning and representation of "nature," from the perspective of networked culture. The featured works employ various scientific processes and locative media, such as global positioning systems (GPS) and robotics, and take the form of installations, video and sound art. Together, they make new contributions to the discourses of extant genres, such as sculpture, earth works and landscape imagery, while also demonstrating the scientific beauty and complexity of electronic and digital art.

"Networked Nature" was organized by Marisa Olson, Editor and Curator for Rhizome, a leading new media organization affiliated with the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Their programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Defining Moments: American Masterworks from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition illustrates the development of American Art from the middle of the 19th century and through the 20th century. The selection of paintings, prints and sculpture in this exhibit show how art in the U.S. progressed out of Eurocentric visual and cultural ideals to form a purely American aesthetic culture. Louis Comfort Tiffany married the French Art Nouveau style with the American ingenuity of the light bulb to design masterpieces such as the Murano Design Lamp (1893-95). During the 20th century, the U.S. became a major exponent of Modernism, with artists like Rico Lebrun and Yasuo Kuniyoshi leading the way. Lebrun's "Woman with Arms over Head" (1962-63) reflects his spontaneity and experimental philosophy, while the bright, acidic colors in Kuniyoshi's "Forbidden Fruit" (1950) exemplify the prevailing aesthetic current of the New York School shortly after World War II.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

The Collector's Gene: Passion, Devotion and Learning
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Collector's Gene: Passion, Devotion and Learning uses a diverse selection of nearly 100 objects from the permanent collection to illustrate the collecting interests of Cloud Wampler, Colonel John Fox, Dr. Henry and Nancy Rosin, and Ruth Reeves. Henry Rosin says, "My collecting began as a child when I'd gather up the bottle caps under the stands at semi-professional baseball games in Brooklyn." He later turned his interests towards Japan where, as an Air Force flight surgeon, he accumulated a large group of Japanese sword fittings and hand colored photographs. The three other individuals profiled in the exhibition share similar experiences. Cloud Wampler, best known locally as the past Chairman of Carrier Corporation, was passionate about master prints, John Fox, stationed in Korea with the Army, insisted that the best way to learn about Korean culture was to go out and visit shopkeepers and merchants. Ruth Reeves went to India in 1956 on a Fulbright fellowship to study local brass casting techniques. She collected a large number of brass objects and a rare group of clay ceremonial sculptures. The university saw the educational potential in the collection and agreed to purchase her collection in 1963.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Women at Work: Members of the Art Students League of New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings from the University's permanent collection examines how Modernism and the formation of the Art Students League impacted the influx of women into the field and their development as professional and influential artists.

The selection of work begins with artists who were directly influenced by the 1913 Amory Show such as Peggy Bacon, Maria Wickey, and Isabel Bishop. The exhibition concludes with the advent of Abstract Expressionism, showing works by Jan Gelb, Minna Citron, Terry Haass, and Helen Frankenthaler. These works illustrate American art's stylistic evolution during the period. Early drawings like Harriet Frishmuth's "Study, reclining nude," reveal a classical, academic structure. This type of work gave way in the 1920s to the gritty and modern "realism" of Isabel Bishop's "Sleeping Man." After World War II, Abstract Expressionism began to take over, as seen in Minna
Citron's "Men Seldom Make Passes...," and later in the work of Helen Frankenthaler.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

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

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

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

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

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

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

Survivor's Art: Images of Hope & Healing
Everson Museum of Art

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

Survivor's Art is an exhibition initiated by Vera House, a community organization created to assist families in crises related to domestic and sexual violence. As part of their project, The Art of Caring, Vera House brings together gifted artists and a caring community. The exhibition offers hope and healing and celebrates the joy of the arts in our lives.

Selections from Silvano Campeggi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Point of Contact Gallery and the Redhouse. Each organization will be presenting works from a different period of renowned film poster artist, Silvano Campeggi.

Two Pianos, Three Pianists
Civic Morning Musicals
Anthony Crain, Cindy Josbena, Jerry Exline, pianos

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

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Atrium Exhibit: OCC Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Visual Arts Showcase #59
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Showcase features the work of area artists in a juried show. This season's work was selected
by Jennifer Pepper, Director of the Cazenovia College Gallery, and Wendy Harris, a working artist from Syracuse University.

Art from the CNY Region of the National League of American Pen Women

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

Works by 15 award-winning artists will be on display.

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Pennellate di Cinema: Classic film posters designed by Silvano Campeggi
Point of Contact Gallery

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

From 1945 to 1972, Silvano Campeggi worked for the major American cinematographic companies: Metro Goldwin Mayer, Universal, Paramount, RKO, Dear Film, creating over 3,000 posters for films that include Gone with the Wind, An American in Paris, Singing in the Rain and West Side Story, among countless other classics from Hollywood's Golden Era. A significant selection of the original hand made studies and sketches along with the definitive poster paintings will be on display at The Point of Contact Gallery for all Syracuse art and movie buffs to relish.

The partnership of Syracuse venues participating in this grand citywide retrospective materializes through the initiative of the Syracuse International Film Festival 2007, a Point of Contact production. Other galleries participating include the Everson Museum of Art, the Redhouse, and Company Gallery.

Each venue will cover a different era of Campeggi's prolific career. Many of the works to be presented in this citywide exhibit will later travel on to New York City's Lincoln Center for a show that opens in June.

Maestro Campeggi is the creator of the official poster for the 2007 Syracuse International Film Festival.

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Dodji Koudakpo: An African Experiences
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition features recent paintings by Koudakpo, a graduating senior at Syracuse University.

35th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

Teen artists from local schools display works in many media. The work is judged by a panel of local artists. The exhibition is co-sponsored by the Syracuse Chapter of Links, Inc.

Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Gest's photographs depict people in moments of deep private thought. The figures appear emotionally removed from their environment as if withdrawing from a public self. The work focuses on the way who we are can change when we are in a group. Although the subjects are alone in the photographs, the presence of others is implied. The images depict people in the last moments of being in their own world before seeing people, or going somewhere where others will be around. These are the last breaths and the last seconds of personal time before the subjects put on a public face and adopt the persona that they use while in a group of people.

To create these images, Gest combines numerous photographs into seamless final compositions using digital technology. Each image may consist of twenty or more separate photographs taken from various vantage points. The visually surprising images direct the viewer in the construction of everyday narratives.

Celebration of the Arts

Price: Free
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

Diane Menzies/Jane Daroskikh: Painting and Sculpture
Redhouse

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

Local artist Janie Darovskikh, lives in Skaneateles and is a figurative artist working in traditional sculpting methods such as carving, clay and wax modeling, plaster and bronze casting. She is the recipient of two Fulbright grants, the Suomalainen Perustus Grant, support from the New York Foundation on the Arts and numerous other awards. She exhibits in the United States and internationally. Her art has taken her to Kulusuk, Greenland; the Ural Mountains of Russia; Yangshuo, China; and to Finland, Sweden, Lithuania and Latvia. Jane is passionate about Nordic mythology, cultural exchange and her belief in art as an international language. "The process I use involves a constantly evolving search to learn, grow, exchange, feel and create. May the work tell a story of an adventure, a feeling, a dream or a journey."

Diane Menzies, also a local artist, lives in Jamesville, NY. The drawings selected for this exhibition are from a series entitled "The Passing." These mystifying drawings served as a cathartic expression of the joys and sorrows Menzies experienced while a hospice attendant for those dying of AIDS. When the works were exhibited at the Jean Cocteau Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, reviewer Diane Armitage wrote: "The gothic tension that Menzies creates might seem overwrought if not for the fact that her environmental concerns and melancholy response is right on target. Her psychological distress is not a bid for personal attention. It is, rather, a transpersonal sublimation of individual identity in favor of an emotional identification with torn bark, barren ground, and polluted air and water. Because of the careful way that Menzies limits her visual elements and establishes an air of stark abandonment, her mood of intense grieving appears as more than empty rhetoric."

Networked Nature
The Warehouse Gallery

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

"Networked Nature" uses innovative technology to combine art, science and politics. The group exhibition inventively explores the meaning and representation of "nature," from the perspective of networked culture. The featured works employ various scientific processes and locative media, such as global positioning systems (GPS) and robotics, and take the form of installations, video and sound art. Together, they make new contributions to the discourses of extant genres, such as sculpture, earth works and landscape imagery, while also demonstrating the scientific beauty and complexity of electronic and digital art.

"Networked Nature" was organized by Marisa Olson, Editor and Curator for Rhizome, a leading new media organization affiliated with the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Their programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways.

Defining Moments: American Masterworks from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition illustrates the development of American Art from the middle of the 19th century and through the 20th century. The selection of paintings, prints and sculpture in this exhibit show how art in the U.S. progressed out of Eurocentric visual and cultural ideals to form a purely American aesthetic culture. Louis Comfort Tiffany married the French Art Nouveau style with the American ingenuity of the light bulb to design masterpieces such as the Murano Design Lamp (1893-95). During the 20th century, the U.S. became a major exponent of Modernism, with artists like Rico Lebrun and Yasuo Kuniyoshi leading the way. Lebrun's "Woman with Arms over Head" (1962-63) reflects his spontaneity and experimental philosophy, while the bright, acidic colors in Kuniyoshi's "Forbidden Fruit" (1950) exemplify the prevailing aesthetic current of the New York School shortly after World War II.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Women at Work: Members of the Art Students League of New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings from the University's permanent collection examines how Modernism and the formation of the Art Students League impacted the influx of women into the field and their development as professional and influential artists.

The selection of work begins with artists who were directly influenced by the 1913 Amory Show such as Peggy Bacon, Maria Wickey, and Isabel Bishop. The exhibition concludes with the advent of Abstract Expressionism, showing works by Jan Gelb, Minna Citron, Terry Haass, and Helen Frankenthaler. These works illustrate American art's stylistic evolution during the period. Early drawings like Harriet Frishmuth's "Study, reclining nude," reveal a classical, academic structure. This type of work gave way in the 1920s to the gritty and modern "realism" of Isabel Bishop's "Sleeping Man." After World War II, Abstract Expressionism began to take over, as seen in Minna
Citron's "Men Seldom Make Passes...," and later in the work of Helen Frankenthaler.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

The Collector's Gene: Passion, Devotion and Learning
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Collector's Gene: Passion, Devotion and Learning uses a diverse selection of nearly 100 objects from the permanent collection to illustrate the collecting interests of Cloud Wampler, Colonel John Fox, Dr. Henry and Nancy Rosin, and Ruth Reeves. Henry Rosin says, "My collecting began as a child when I'd gather up the bottle caps under the stands at semi-professional baseball games in Brooklyn." He later turned his interests towards Japan where, as an Air Force flight surgeon, he accumulated a large group of Japanese sword fittings and hand colored photographs. The three other individuals profiled in the exhibition share similar experiences. Cloud Wampler, best known locally as the past Chairman of Carrier Corporation, was passionate about master prints, John Fox, stationed in Korea with the Army, insisted that the best way to learn about Korean culture was to go out and visit shopkeepers and merchants. Ruth Reeves went to India in 1956 on a Fulbright fellowship to study local brass casting techniques. She collected a large number of brass objects and a rare group of clay ceremonial sculptures. The university saw the educational potential in the collection and agreed to purchase her collection in 1963.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

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

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

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

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

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

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

Selections from Silvano Campeggi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Point of Contact Gallery and the Redhouse. Each organization will be presenting works from a different period of renowned film poster artist, Silvano Campeggi.

Survivor's Art: Images of Hope & Healing
Everson Museum of Art

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

Survivor's Art is an exhibition initiated by Vera House, a community organization created to assist families in crises related to domestic and sexual violence. As part of their project, The Art of Caring, Vera House brings together gifted artists and a caring community. The exhibition offers hope and healing and celebrates the joy of the arts in our lives.

Art for the Soul
Delavan Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features acrylic paintings by Hope Irvine, photography by Richard Schultz, and watercolor paintings by members of the Art and Soul Watercolor Group.

Over the years, Hope Irvine, Ph.D. has become an accomplished painter as well as an innovative educator and community leader. Delavan Art Gallery is pleased to exhibit Dr. Irvine's sedimentary landscape acrylic paintings. "My paintings result from confrontations with vistas, especially in the American Southwest, Alaska and Iceland," Dr. Irvine explains in her artist statement. Since 1982, Dr. Irvine has held the position of Chair of the Department of Art Education while maintaining dual tenure and full professorships in both the College of Visual & Performing Arts and the School of Education at Syracuse University. Her commitment to the arts and education of others was rewarded by the Manhattan Borough President on June 22, 1982 when he declared the date "Hope Irvine Day."

Richard Schultz's photography ranges in subject from the commonplace to the absurd. Schultz writes in his artist statement, "It's a wild and wacky world that we encounter every day. Photography has been one way for me to express my reactions to the visceral stimuli of daily life." The photographer is Vice President of the David B. Schultz Insurance Agency and a proud native of Syracuse, NY. The majority of the photographs in this exhibit were shot between 2004 and 2007 and are shown exactly as they were when the artist came across the scene.

Also in this exhibition are watercolor paintings by 12 members of the Art and Soul Watercolor Group of Onondaga County: Sharon Daniels-Duerr, Pam Dischinger, Sharon H. Gibbons, Bonnie Goetzke, Rita Keller, Loie Mechetti, Geraldine Meday, Joanne Neff, Virginia Raner, Nancy Shampine, Jan Waters and Kathryn Wehrung. The Art and Soul Watercolor Group is a collective of artists who meet weekly to discuss, share and study art together, using each other as inspiration and encouragement in the arts. The group supports Vera House, the Crisis Pregnancy Center in Mexico and Ophelia's Place along with other notable causes.

Norman Mailer and John Buffalo Mailer
Friends of the Central Library Author Series

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

Norman Mailer has been in the literary limelight since he wrote his first novel about his own World War II experiences, The Naked and the Dead. Mailer is a Pulitzer Prize winning author, who has written about everything from politics to Hollywood. His son, John Buffalo Mailer, is a playwright, whose play Crazy Eyes was performed on Cape Cod in 2005.

Amanda Shaw, fiddle, and Hurricane on the Bayou screening
Arts Branch of the YMCA of Greater Syracuse; YMCA of the Greater Tri-Valleys Center for the Creative Arts Program

Price: $20
Museum of Science and Technology (MOST)
500 S. Franklin St., Syracuse

Teen fiddle phenom Amanda Shaw, featured in the IMAX film Hurricane on the Bayou, will appear for a performance and live recording session.

The evening will feature a performance by young musicians from Van Duyn Elementary School, followed by a showing of the film, and finally the performance and live recording of "St. Louis Blues" and "Long Gone Lonesome Blues" with Amanda Shaw and students from the Tri-Valley YMCA's music program. A question-and-answer session will wrap up the event.

The film begins three months prior to Katrina, with narrator Meryl Streep supplying a host of information concerning the wetlands crisis. The narration then shifts to the Cajun-flavored cadences of blues performer Tad Benoit and his impassioned pleas for wetlands conservation; he's abetted by a gaggle of New Orleans talent including teen fiddler Amanda Shaw, Zydeco phenom Chubby Carrier, and distinguished music pioneer Allen Toussaint. Shaw is one of the stars of the film and the soundtrack has been flying off the shelves.

Proceeds go to support the programs of the YMCA of the Greater Tri-Valley's Center for the Creative Arts and the Arts Branch of the YMCA of Greater Syracuse. For tickets, phone 315-474-6851 x328; tickets are also available at the MOST.

Die Another Death
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive mystery/comedy dinner theater.

The Little Mermaid and Aladdin
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Price: $20 regular, $18 students/seniors, $18 children 12 and under
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Bang Bang You're Dead
Rarely Done Productions

Price: Free, but reservations strongly recommended
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Bang Bang You're Dead, written by award-winning playwright William Mastrosimone, which features students from OCC, Nottingham, Bishop Ludden and Jamesville-Dewitt high schools, was commissioned by the Ribbon of Promise Campaign to Prevent School Violence. The piece tackles the subject of bullying and gun violence among our school-aged youth. The play is intended to communicate and allow for discovery about how we've made the world's violence our own -- and how we can change it. It's about a theater of life.

Because of the subject matter, only mature high school students and adults will be admitted.

For more information, phone 315-546-3224.

My One and Only
Syracuse University Drama Department
David Wanstreet, director

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

Pioneer aviator Captain Billy Buck Chandler wants to be the first to pilot a plane non-stop from New York to Paris. A chance sighting of champion Channel swimmer Edythe Herbert sends his heart and his plans into a tailspin. Could such a famous and accomplished beauty possibly be his One and Only? It takes a whole lot of great Gershwin tunes, wall-to-wall tap dancing, and an emergency landing on a (not so) remote island to find out. A rarely done musical comedy treat that's as sharp and snappy as a Bop Bop Ba-Bop Ba Ba Da Ba

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Friday, May 11, 2007

Atrium Exhibit: OCC Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Visual Arts Showcase #59
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Showcase features the work of area artists in a juried show. This season's work was selected
by Jennifer Pepper, Director of the Cazenovia College Gallery, and Wendy Harris, a working artist from Syracuse University.

Art from the CNY Region of the National League of American Pen Women

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

Works by 15 award-winning artists will be on display.

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Pennellate di Cinema: Classic film posters designed by Silvano Campeggi
Point of Contact Gallery

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

From 1945 to 1972, Silvano Campeggi worked for the major American cinematographic companies: Metro Goldwin Mayer, Universal, Paramount, RKO, Dear Film, creating over 3,000 posters for films that include Gone with the Wind, An American in Paris, Singing in the Rain and West Side Story, among countless other classics from Hollywood's Golden Era. A significant selection of the original hand made studies and sketches along with the definitive poster paintings will be on display at The Point of Contact Gallery for all Syracuse art and movie buffs to relish.

The partnership of Syracuse venues participating in this grand citywide retrospective materializes through the initiative of the Syracuse International Film Festival 2007, a Point of Contact production. Other galleries participating include the Everson Museum of Art, the Redhouse, and Company Gallery.

Each venue will cover a different era of Campeggi's prolific career. Many of the works to be presented in this citywide exhibit will later travel on to New York City's Lincoln Center for a show that opens in June.

Maestro Campeggi is the creator of the official poster for the 2007 Syracuse International Film Festival.

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

35th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

Teen artists from local schools display works in many media. The work is judged by a panel of local artists. The exhibition is co-sponsored by the Syracuse Chapter of Links, Inc.

Dodji Koudakpo: An African Experiences
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition features recent paintings by Koudakpo, a graduating senior at Syracuse University.

Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Gest's photographs depict people in moments of deep private thought. The figures appear emotionally removed from their environment as if withdrawing from a public self. The work focuses on the way who we are can change when we are in a group. Although the subjects are alone in the photographs, the presence of others is implied. The images depict people in the last moments of being in their own world before seeing people, or going somewhere where others will be around. These are the last breaths and the last seconds of personal time before the subjects put on a public face and adopt the persona that they use while in a group of people.

To create these images, Gest combines numerous photographs into seamless final compositions using digital technology. Each image may consist of twenty or more separate photographs taken from various vantage points. The visually surprising images direct the viewer in the construction of everyday narratives.

Celebration of the Arts

Price: Free
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

Diane Menzies/Jane Daroskikh: Painting and Sculpture
Redhouse

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

Local artist Janie Darovskikh, lives in Skaneateles and is a figurative artist working in traditional sculpting methods such as carving, clay and wax modeling, plaster and bronze casting. She is the recipient of two Fulbright grants, the Suomalainen Perustus Grant, support from the New York Foundation on the Arts and numerous other awards. She exhibits in the United States and internationally. Her art has taken her to Kulusuk, Greenland; the Ural Mountains of Russia; Yangshuo, China; and to Finland, Sweden, Lithuania and Latvia. Jane is passionate about Nordic mythology, cultural exchange and her belief in art as an international language. "The process I use involves a constantly evolving search to learn, grow, exchange, feel and create. May the work tell a story of an adventure, a feeling, a dream or a journey."

Diane Menzies, also a local artist, lives in Jamesville, NY. The drawings selected for this exhibition are from a series entitled "The Passing." These mystifying drawings served as a cathartic expression of the joys and sorrows Menzies experienced while a hospice attendant for those dying of AIDS. When the works were exhibited at the Jean Cocteau Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, reviewer Diane Armitage wrote: "The gothic tension that Menzies creates might seem overwrought if not for the fact that her environmental concerns and melancholy response is right on target. Her psychological distress is not a bid for personal attention. It is, rather, a transpersonal sublimation of individual identity in favor of an emotional identification with torn bark, barren ground, and polluted air and water. Because of the careful way that Menzies limits her visual elements and establishes an air of stark abandonment, her mood of intense grieving appears as more than empty rhetoric."

Networked Nature
The Warehouse Gallery

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

"Networked Nature" uses innovative technology to combine art, science and politics. The group exhibition inventively explores the meaning and representation of "nature," from the perspective of networked culture. The featured works employ various scientific processes and locative media, such as global positioning systems (GPS) and robotics, and take the form of installations, video and sound art. Together, they make new contributions to the discourses of extant genres, such as sculpture, earth works and landscape imagery, while also demonstrating the scientific beauty and complexity of electronic and digital art.

"Networked Nature" was organized by Marisa Olson, Editor and Curator for Rhizome, a leading new media organization affiliated with the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Their programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Defining Moments: American Masterworks from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition illustrates the development of American Art from the middle of the 19th century and through the 20th century. The selection of paintings, prints and sculpture in this exhibit show how art in the U.S. progressed out of Eurocentric visual and cultural ideals to form a purely American aesthetic culture. Louis Comfort Tiffany married the French Art Nouveau style with the American ingenuity of the light bulb to design masterpieces such as the Murano Design Lamp (1893-95). During the 20th century, the U.S. became a major exponent of Modernism, with artists like Rico Lebrun and Yasuo Kuniyoshi leading the way. Lebrun's "Woman with Arms over Head" (1962-63) reflects his spontaneity and experimental philosophy, while the bright, acidic colors in Kuniyoshi's "Forbidden Fruit" (1950) exemplify the prevailing aesthetic current of the New York School shortly after World War II.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

The Collector's Gene: Passion, Devotion and Learning
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Collector's Gene: Passion, Devotion and Learning uses a diverse selection of nearly 100 objects from the permanent collection to illustrate the collecting interests of Cloud Wampler, Colonel John Fox, Dr. Henry and Nancy Rosin, and Ruth Reeves. Henry Rosin says, "My collecting began as a child when I'd gather up the bottle caps under the stands at semi-professional baseball games in Brooklyn." He later turned his interests towards Japan where, as an Air Force flight surgeon, he accumulated a large group of Japanese sword fittings and hand colored photographs. The three other individuals profiled in the exhibition share similar experiences. Cloud Wampler, best known locally as the past Chairman of Carrier Corporation, was passionate about master prints, John Fox, stationed in Korea with the Army, insisted that the best way to learn about Korean culture was to go out and visit shopkeepers and merchants. Ruth Reeves went to India in 1956 on a Fulbright fellowship to study local brass casting techniques. She collected a large number of brass objects and a rare group of clay ceremonial sculptures. The university saw the educational potential in the collection and agreed to purchase her collection in 1963.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Women at Work: Members of the Art Students League of New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings from the University's permanent collection examines how Modernism and the formation of the Art Students League impacted the influx of women into the field and their development as professional and influential artists.

The selection of work begins with artists who were directly influenced by the 1913 Amory Show such as Peggy Bacon, Maria Wickey, and Isabel Bishop. The exhibition concludes with the advent of Abstract Expressionism, showing works by Jan Gelb, Minna Citron, Terry Haass, and Helen Frankenthaler. These works illustrate American art's stylistic evolution during the period. Early drawings like Harriet Frishmuth's "Study, reclining nude," reveal a classical, academic structure. This type of work gave way in the 1920s to the gritty and modern "realism" of Isabel Bishop's "Sleeping Man." After World War II, Abstract Expressionism began to take over, as seen in Minna
Citron's "Men Seldom Make Passes...," and later in the work of Helen Frankenthaler.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Art for the Soul
Delavan Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features acrylic paintings by Hope Irvine, photography by Richard Schultz, and watercolor paintings by members of the Art and Soul Watercolor Group.

Over the years, Hope Irvine, Ph.D. has become an accomplished painter as well as an innovative educator and community leader. Delavan Art Gallery is pleased to exhibit Dr. Irvine's sedimentary landscape acrylic paintings. "My paintings result from confrontations with vistas, especially in the American Southwest, Alaska and Iceland," Dr. Irvine explains in her artist statement. Since 1982, Dr. Irvine has held the position of Chair of the Department of Art Education while maintaining dual tenure and full professorships in both the College of Visual & Performing Arts and the School of Education at Syracuse University. Her commitment to the arts and education of others was rewarded by the Manhattan Borough President on June 22, 1982 when he declared the date "Hope Irvine Day."

Richard Schultz's photography ranges in subject from the commonplace to the absurd. Schultz writes in his artist statement, "It's a wild and wacky world that we encounter every day. Photography has been one way for me to express my reactions to the visceral stimuli of daily life." The photographer is Vice President of the David B. Schultz Insurance Agency and a proud native of Syracuse, NY. The majority of the photographs in this exhibit were shot between 2004 and 2007 and are shown exactly as they were when the artist came across the scene.

Also in this exhibition are watercolor paintings by 12 members of the Art and Soul Watercolor Group of Onondaga County: Sharon Daniels-Duerr, Pam Dischinger, Sharon H. Gibbons, Bonnie Goetzke, Rita Keller, Loie Mechetti, Geraldine Meday, Joanne Neff, Virginia Raner, Nancy Shampine, Jan Waters and Kathryn Wehrung. The Art and Soul Watercolor Group is a collective of artists who meet weekly to discuss, share and study art together, using each other as inspiration and encouragement in the arts. The group supports Vera House, the Crisis Pregnancy Center in Mexico and Ophelia's Place along with other notable causes.

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

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

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

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

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

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

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

Survivor's Art: Images of Hope & Healing
Everson Museum of Art

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

Survivor's Art is an exhibition initiated by Vera House, a community organization created to assist families in crises related to domestic and sexual violence. As part of their project, The Art of Caring, Vera House brings together gifted artists and a caring community. The exhibition offers hope and healing and celebrates the joy of the arts in our lives.

Selections from Silvano Campeggi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Point of Contact Gallery and the Redhouse. Each organization will be presenting works from a different period of renowned film poster artist, Silvano Campeggi.

Spark Video
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Price: $3
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Come enjoy the last Spark Video of Spring 2007, and the grand finale of Krista Birnbaum's directorship of Spark Video. There will be voting for the best video after the screening (winner gets the golden DV tape!)

An Evening of Jazz and Blues
Featuring J.T. Hall Jazz Consort

Price: Free
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

This performance is part of St. David's Celebration of the Arts.

Classics Series: Beethoven's Symphony No. 6
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Kazuyoshi Akiyama, conductor
Featuring Christopher O'Riley, piano

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

Takemitsu Tree Line
Strauss Burleske
Daugherty Tombeau de Liberace
Beethoven Symphony No. 6

Cruizin' thru the 50s, 60s and 70s

Price: $20
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Written and directed by Tamaralee Shutt with musical direction by Rod Ward.

For more information and tickets, phone 315-445-4906.

The Little Mermaid and Aladdin
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Price: $20 regular, $18 students/seniors, $18 children 12 and under
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Dragon
Appleseed Productions
William Edward White, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 seniors/students
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

A town dominated by a three-headed dragon; a damsel in distress; a hero ready to right wrongs. Complete with talking cats, singing swords and magical headwear, The Dragon is a farcical love story dressed up as a faerie tale - but as an allegory, it is also one of the most penetrating and certainly funniest studies ever made of tyranny and the moral corruption of both tyrant and subjects. Banned for over 40 years, The Dragon is a faerie tale for the 21st Century, answering the question, "What happens after the dragon is slain?"

Written by Yevgeny Schwartz, translated by Max Hayward and Harrold Shukman.

Read a Review!

Bang Bang You're Dead
Rarely Done Productions

Price: Free, but reservations strongly recommended
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Bang Bang You're Dead, written by award-winning playwright William Mastrosimone, which features students from OCC, Nottingham, Bishop Ludden and Jamesville-Dewitt high schools, was commissioned by the Ribbon of Promise Campaign to Prevent School Violence. The piece tackles the subject of bullying and gun violence among our school-aged youth. The play is intended to communicate and allow for discovery about how we've made the world's violence our own -- and how we can change it. It's about a theater of life.

Because of the subject matter, only mature high school students and adults will be admitted.

For more information, phone 315-546-3224.

My One and Only
Syracuse University Drama Department
David Wanstreet, director

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

Pioneer aviator Captain Billy Buck Chandler wants to be the first to pilot a plane non-stop from New York to Paris. A chance sighting of champion Channel swimmer Edythe Herbert sends his heart and his plans into a tailspin. Could such a famous and accomplished beauty possibly be his One and Only? It takes a whole lot of great Gershwin tunes, wall-to-wall tap dancing, and an emergency landing on a (not so) remote island to find out. A rarely done musical comedy treat that's as sharp and snappy as a Bop Bop Ba-Bop Ba Ba Da Ba

Read a Review!

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

St. Clare Auditorium
Lodi and Isabella Streets, Syracuse

Read a Review!

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Art for the Soul
Delavan Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features acrylic paintings by Hope Irvine, photography by Richard Schultz, and watercolor paintings by members of the Art and Soul Watercolor Group.

Over the years, Hope Irvine, Ph.D. has become an accomplished painter as well as an innovative educator and community leader. Delavan Art Gallery is pleased to exhibit Dr. Irvine's sedimentary landscape acrylic paintings. "My paintings result from confrontations with vistas, especially in the American Southwest, Alaska and Iceland," Dr. Irvine explains in her artist statement. Since 1982, Dr. Irvine has held the position of Chair of the Department of Art Education while maintaining dual tenure and full professorships in both the College of Visual & Performing Arts and the School of Education at Syracuse University. Her commitment to the arts and education of others was rewarded by the Manhattan Borough President on June 22, 1982 when he declared the date "Hope Irvine Day."

Richard Schultz's photography ranges in subject from the commonplace to the absurd. Schultz writes in his artist statement, "It's a wild and wacky world that we encounter every day. Photography has been one way for me to express my reactions to the visceral stimuli of daily life." The photographer is Vice President of the David B. Schultz Insurance Agency and a proud native of Syracuse, NY. The majority of the photographs in this exhibit were shot between 2004 and 2007 and are shown exactly as they were when the artist came across the scene.

Also in this exhibition are watercolor paintings by 12 members of the Art and Soul Watercolor Group of Onondaga County: Sharon Daniels-Duerr, Pam Dischinger, Sharon H. Gibbons, Bonnie Goetzke, Rita Keller, Loie Mechetti, Geraldine Meday, Joanne Neff, Virginia Raner, Nancy Shampine, Jan Waters and Kathryn Wehrung. The Art and Soul Watercolor Group is a collective of artists who meet weekly to discuss, share and study art together, using each other as inspiration and encouragement in the arts. The group supports Vera House, the Crisis Pregnancy Center in Mexico and Ophelia's Place along with other notable causes.

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

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

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

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

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

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

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

Selections from Silvano Campeggi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Point of Contact Gallery and the Redhouse. Each organization will be presenting works from a different period of renowned film poster artist, Silvano Campeggi.

Survivor's Art: Images of Hope & Healing
Everson Museum of Art

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

Survivor's Art is an exhibition initiated by Vera House, a community organization created to assist families in crises related to domestic and sexual violence. As part of their project, The Art of Caring, Vera House brings together gifted artists and a caring community. The exhibition offers hope and healing and celebrates the joy of the arts in our lives.

Celebration of the Arts

Price: Free
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

Dodji Koudakpo: An African Experiences
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition features recent paintings by Koudakpo, a graduating senior at Syracuse University.

35th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

Teen artists from local schools display works in many media. The work is judged by a panel of local artists. The exhibition is co-sponsored by the Syracuse Chapter of Links, Inc.

Women at Work: Members of the Art Students League of New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings from the University's permanent collection examines how Modernism and the formation of the Art Students League impacted the influx of women into the field and their development as professional and influential artists.

The selection of work begins with artists who were directly influenced by the 1913 Amory Show such as Peggy Bacon, Maria Wickey, and Isabel Bishop. The exhibition concludes with the advent of Abstract Expressionism, showing works by Jan Gelb, Minna Citron, Terry Haass, and Helen Frankenthaler. These works illustrate American art's stylistic evolution during the period. Early drawings like Harriet Frishmuth's "Study, reclining nude," reveal a classical, academic structure. This type of work gave way in the 1920s to the gritty and modern "realism" of Isabel Bishop's "Sleeping Man." After World War II, Abstract Expressionism began to take over, as seen in Minna
Citron's "Men Seldom Make Passes...," and later in the work of Helen Frankenthaler.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

The Collector's Gene: Passion, Devotion and Learning
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Collector's Gene: Passion, Devotion and Learning uses a diverse selection of nearly 100 objects from the permanent collection to illustrate the collecting interests of Cloud Wampler, Colonel John Fox, Dr. Henry and Nancy Rosin, and Ruth Reeves. Henry Rosin says, "My collecting began as a child when I'd gather up the bottle caps under the stands at semi-professional baseball games in Brooklyn." He later turned his interests towards Japan where, as an Air Force flight surgeon, he accumulated a large group of Japanese sword fittings and hand colored photographs. The three other individuals profiled in the exhibition share similar experiences. Cloud Wampler, best known locally as the past Chairman of Carrier Corporation, was passionate about master prints, John Fox, stationed in Korea with the Army, insisted that the best way to learn about Korean culture was to go out and visit shopkeepers and merchants. Ruth Reeves went to India in 1956 on a Fulbright fellowship to study local brass casting techniques. She collected a large number of brass objects and a rare group of clay ceremonial sculptures. The university saw the educational potential in the collection and agreed to purchase her collection in 1963.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Defining Moments: American Masterworks from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition illustrates the development of American Art from the middle of the 19th century and through the 20th century. The selection of paintings, prints and sculpture in this exhibit show how art in the U.S. progressed out of Eurocentric visual and cultural ideals to form a purely American aesthetic culture. Louis Comfort Tiffany married the French Art Nouveau style with the American ingenuity of the light bulb to design masterpieces such as the Murano Design Lamp (1893-95). During the 20th century, the U.S. became a major exponent of Modernism, with artists like Rico Lebrun and Yasuo Kuniyoshi leading the way. Lebrun's "Woman with Arms over Head" (1962-63) reflects his spontaneity and experimental philosophy, while the bright, acidic colors in Kuniyoshi's "Forbidden Fruit" (1950) exemplify the prevailing aesthetic current of the New York School shortly after World War II.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Networked Nature
The Warehouse Gallery

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

"Networked Nature" uses innovative technology to combine art, science and politics. The group exhibition inventively explores the meaning and representation of "nature," from the perspective of networked culture. The featured works employ various scientific processes and locative media, such as global positioning systems (GPS) and robotics, and take the form of installations, video and sound art. Together, they make new contributions to the discourses of extant genres, such as sculpture, earth works and landscape imagery, while also demonstrating the scientific beauty and complexity of electronic and digital art.

"Networked Nature" was organized by Marisa Olson, Editor and Curator for Rhizome, a leading new media organization affiliated with the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Their programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways.

Ustad Shahid Parvez, sitar
India Community Religious and Cultural Center

Price: $12 regular, $10 ICRCC members
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Classics Series: Beethoven's Symphony No. 6
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Kazuyoshi Akiyama, conductor
Featuring Christopher O'Riley, piano

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

Takemitsu Tree Line
Strauss Burleske
Daugherty Tombeau de Liberace
Beethoven Symphony No. 6

Second Saturday Series: Brooks Williams
Westcott Community Center

Price: $12
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Stylistically rich, harmonically sophisticated, and breathtakingly beautiful, guitarist Brooks Williams' music defies categorization. His musical vision spans continents and genres -- blues, swingin' jazz, slide, fingerstyle -- where funky chords, walking bass lines, and fiery riffs abound. With influences as diverse as John Fahey, Pat Metheny, Michael Bloomfield, and Joseph Spence, it is pleasantly difficult to pin Williams down.

He is also one of the most entertaining and engaging performers on the circuit today. His concerts are legendary -- a constantly evolving mix of blues, originals, ballads, and instrumentals, presented in a fresh and personable way. His voice, one of the most purely pleasing in the business, has muscle when he needs it and a caress when that works better. After experiencing his beautiful fingerstyle artistry, audiences often react to his concerts by asking, "Where'd they hide the second guitarist?" Such is the mind-boggling artistry of this wonderful performer.

The Little Mermaid and Aladdin
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Price: $20 regular, $18 students/seniors, $18 children 12 and under
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Little Mermaid
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive adaption of the children's favorite.

The Little Mermaid and Aladdin
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Price: $20 regular, $18 students/seniors, $18 children 12 and under
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Cruizin' thru the 50s, 60s and 70s

Price: $20
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Written and directed by Tamaralee Shutt with musical direction by Rod Ward.

For more information and tickets, phone 315-445-4906.

The Little Mermaid and Aladdin
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Price: $20 regular, $18 students/seniors, $18 children 12 and under
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Dragon
Appleseed Productions
William Edward White, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 seniors/students
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

A town dominated by a three-headed dragon; a damsel in distress; a hero ready to right wrongs. Complete with talking cats, singing swords and magical headwear, The Dragon is a farcical love story dressed up as a faerie tale - but as an allegory, it is also one of the most penetrating and certainly funniest studies ever made of tyranny and the moral corruption of both tyrant and subjects. Banned for over 40 years, The Dragon is a faerie tale for the 21st Century, answering the question, "What happens after the dragon is slain?"

Written by Yevgeny Schwartz, translated by Max Hayward and Harrold Shukman.

Read a Review!

The Music Room

Price: Free
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

The music room is a humorous and poignant fictional account of a teenage boy who is involuntarily sent to east Utica to live with his aunt during the depression and who, through some twists and turns, ends up eavesdropping on a couple of budding opera singing sisters next door. He actually ends up "liking the stuff" and describes some of the arias he hears.

In addition to The Music Room, Mr. Humpreys will deliver an essay, poem or short story.

This performance is part of St. David's Celebration of the Arts.

Bang Bang You're Dead
Rarely Done Productions

Price: Free, but reservations strongly recommended
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Bang Bang You're Dead, written by award-winning playwright William Mastrosimone, which features students from OCC, Nottingham, Bishop Ludden and Jamesville-Dewitt high schools, was commissioned by the Ribbon of Promise Campaign to Prevent School Violence. The piece tackles the subject of bullying and gun violence among our school-aged youth. The play is intended to communicate and allow for discovery about how we've made the world's violence our own -- and how we can change it. It's about a theater of life.

Because of the subject matter, only mature high school students and adults will be admitted.

For more information, phone 315-546-3224.

Karen Savoca, with Pete Heitzman
Redhouse

Price: $15 (advance purchase recommended)
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Karen Savoca puts her heart into a song the way a great actor throws herself into a role. Her supple, soulful alto charms with an infinite range of expression. She can even sing several notes at once, her own brand of throat singing she calls vocal hydroplaning. Savoca is also a gifted songwriter, drawing you into her world with humor and compassion, telling her stories with such grace and ease you feel as though you've been invited to her table for supper. Though she composes and records on a variety of instruments, Savoca opts for the primal combination of voice and drum in live performance, and her groove is wide and satisfying.

Pete Heitzman can make his guitar sound like a cello, a pedal steel, a rutting elk, and some things only imagined. With this broad pallet of tones and textures he paints the ideal landscapes for Savoca's songs. An innovative and sensitive acccompanist, Heitzman is so full of surprises that he has been called "a human aurora borealis."

My One and Only
Syracuse University Drama Department
David Wanstreet, director

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

Pioneer aviator Captain Billy Buck Chandler wants to be the first to pilot a plane non-stop from New York to Paris. A chance sighting of champion Channel swimmer Edythe Herbert sends his heart and his plans into a tailspin. Could such a famous and accomplished beauty possibly be his One and Only? It takes a whole lot of great Gershwin tunes, wall-to-wall tap dancing, and an emergency landing on a (not so) remote island to find out. A rarely done musical comedy treat that's as sharp and snappy as a Bop Bop Ba-Bop Ba Ba Da Ba

Read a Review!

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

St. Clare Auditorium
Lodi and Isabella Streets, Syracuse

Read a Review!

Sunday, May 13, 2007

Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Gest's photographs depict people in moments of deep private thought. The figures appear emotionally removed from their environment as if withdrawing from a public self. The work focuses on the way who we are can change when we are in a group. Although the subjects are alone in the photographs, the presence of others is implied. The images depict people in the last moments of being in their own world before seeing people, or going somewhere where others will be around. These are the last breaths and the last seconds of personal time before the subjects put on a public face and adopt the persona that they use while in a group of people.

To create these images, Gest combines numerous photographs into seamless final compositions using digital technology. Each image may consist of twenty or more separate photographs taken from various vantage points. The visually surprising images direct the viewer in the construction of everyday narratives.

Celebration of the Arts

Price: Free
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

The Collector's Gene: Passion, Devotion and Learning
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Collector's Gene: Passion, Devotion and Learning uses a diverse selection of nearly 100 objects from the permanent collection to illustrate the collecting interests of Cloud Wampler, Colonel John Fox, Dr. Henry and Nancy Rosin, and Ruth Reeves. Henry Rosin says, "My collecting began as a child when I'd gather up the bottle caps under the stands at semi-professional baseball games in Brooklyn." He later turned his interests towards Japan where, as an Air Force flight surgeon, he accumulated a large group of Japanese sword fittings and hand colored photographs. The three other individuals profiled in the exhibition share similar experiences. Cloud Wampler, best known locally as the past Chairman of Carrier Corporation, was passionate about master prints, John Fox, stationed in Korea with the Army, insisted that the best way to learn about Korean culture was to go out and visit shopkeepers and merchants. Ruth Reeves went to India in 1956 on a Fulbright fellowship to study local brass casting techniques. She collected a large number of brass objects and a rare group of clay ceremonial sculptures. The university saw the educational potential in the collection and agreed to purchase her collection in 1963.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Women at Work: Members of the Art Students League of New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings from the University's permanent collection examines how Modernism and the formation of the Art Students League impacted the influx of women into the field and their development as professional and influential artists.

The selection of work begins with artists who were directly influenced by the 1913 Amory Show such as Peggy Bacon, Maria Wickey, and Isabel Bishop. The exhibition concludes with the advent of Abstract Expressionism, showing works by Jan Gelb, Minna Citron, Terry Haass, and Helen Frankenthaler. These works illustrate American art's stylistic evolution during the period. Early drawings like Harriet Frishmuth's "Study, reclining nude," reveal a classical, academic structure. This type of work gave way in the 1920s to the gritty and modern "realism" of Isabel Bishop's "Sleeping Man." After World War II, Abstract Expressionism began to take over, as seen in Minna
Citron's "Men Seldom Make Passes...," and later in the work of Helen Frankenthaler.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Defining Moments: American Masterworks from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition illustrates the development of American Art from the middle of the 19th century and through the 20th century. The selection of paintings, prints and sculpture in this exhibit show how art in the U.S. progressed out of Eurocentric visual and cultural ideals to form a purely American aesthetic culture. Louis Comfort Tiffany married the French Art Nouveau style with the American ingenuity of the light bulb to design masterpieces such as the Murano Design Lamp (1893-95). During the 20th century, the U.S. became a major exponent of Modernism, with artists like Rico Lebrun and Yasuo Kuniyoshi leading the way. Lebrun's "Woman with Arms over Head" (1962-63) reflects his spontaneity and experimental philosophy, while the bright, acidic colors in Kuniyoshi's "Forbidden Fruit" (1950) exemplify the prevailing aesthetic current of the New York School shortly after World War II.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Survivor's Art: Images of Hope & Healing
Everson Museum of Art

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

Survivor's Art is an exhibition initiated by Vera House, a community organization created to assist families in crises related to domestic and sexual violence. As part of their project, The Art of Caring, Vera House brings together gifted artists and a caring community. The exhibition offers hope and healing and celebrates the joy of the arts in our lives.

Selections from Silvano Campeggi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Point of Contact Gallery and the Redhouse. Each organization will be presenting works from a different period of renowned film poster artist, Silvano Campeggi.

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

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

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

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

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

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

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Spring Concert
Syracuse Youth Orchestras

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

TK99 Soundcheck: Verno & Soul Risin'
Redhouse

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

The Little Mermaid and Aladdin
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Price: $20 regular, $18 students/seniors, $18 children 12 and under
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Dragon
Appleseed Productions
William Edward White, director

Price: $27 regular; $24 seniors/students (price includes dinner before the show)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

A town dominated by a three-headed dragon; a damsel in distress; a hero ready to right wrongs. Complete with talking cats, singing swords and magical headwear, The Dragon is a farcical love story dressed up as a faerie tale - but as an allegory, it is also one of the most penetrating and certainly funniest studies ever made of tyranny and the moral corruption of both tyrant and subjects. Banned for over 40 years, The Dragon is a faerie tale for the 21st Century, answering the question, "What happens after the dragon is slain?"

Written by Yevgeny Schwartz, translated by Max Hayward and Harrold Shukman.

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You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

St. Clare Auditorium
Lodi and Isabella Streets, Syracuse

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Cruizin' thru the 50s, 60s and 70s

Price: $20
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Written and directed by Tamaralee Shutt with musical direction by Rod Ward.

For more information and tickets, phone 315-445-4906.

The Little Mermaid and Aladdin
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Price: $20 regular, $18 students/seniors, $18 children 12 and under
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Little Mermaid and Aladdin
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Price: $20 regular, $18 students/seniors, $18 children 12 and under
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Monday, May 14, 2007

Visual Arts Showcase #59
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Showcase features the work of area artists in a juried show. This season's work was selected
by Jennifer Pepper, Director of the Cazenovia College Gallery, and Wendy Harris, a working artist from Syracuse University.

Art from the CNY Region of the National League of American Pen Women

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

Works by 15 award-winning artists will be on display.

Pennellate di Cinema: Classic film posters designed by Silvano Campeggi
Point of Contact Gallery

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

From 1945 to 1972, Silvano Campeggi worked for the major American cinematographic companies: Metro Goldwin Mayer, Universal, Paramount, RKO, Dear Film, creating over 3,000 posters for films that include Gone with the Wind, An American in Paris, Singing in the Rain and West Side Story, among countless other classics from Hollywood's Golden Era. A significant selection of the original hand made studies and sketches along with the definitive poster paintings will be on display at The Point of Contact Gallery for all Syracuse art and movie buffs to relish.

The partnership of Syracuse venues participating in this grand citywide retrospective materializes through the initiative of the Syracuse International Film Festival 2007, a Point of Contact production. Other galleries participating include the Everson Museum of Art, the Redhouse, and Company Gallery.

Each venue will cover a different era of Campeggi's prolific career. Many of the works to be presented in this citywide exhibit will later travel on to New York City's Lincoln Center for a show that opens in June.

Maestro Campeggi is the creator of the official poster for the 2007 Syracuse International Film Festival.

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Gest's photographs depict people in moments of deep private thought. The figures appear emotionally removed from their environment as if withdrawing from a public self. The work focuses on the way who we are can change when we are in a group. Although the subjects are alone in the photographs, the presence of others is implied. The images depict people in the last moments of being in their own world before seeing people, or going somewhere where others will be around. These are the last breaths and the last seconds of personal time before the subjects put on a public face and adopt the persona that they use while in a group of people.

To create these images, Gest combines numerous photographs into seamless final compositions using digital technology. Each image may consist of twenty or more separate photographs taken from various vantage points. The visually surprising images direct the viewer in the construction of everyday narratives.

Diane Menzies/Jane Daroskikh: Painting and Sculpture
Redhouse

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

Local artist Janie Darovskikh, lives in Skaneateles and is a figurative artist working in traditional sculpting methods such as carving, clay and wax modeling, plaster and bronze casting. She is the recipient of two Fulbright grants, the Suomalainen Perustus Grant, support from the New York Foundation on the Arts and numerous other awards. She exhibits in the United States and internationally. Her art has taken her to Kulusuk, Greenland; the Ural Mountains of Russia; Yangshuo, China; and to Finland, Sweden, Lithuania and Latvia. Jane is passionate about Nordic mythology, cultural exchange and her belief in art as an international language. "The process I use involves a constantly evolving search to learn, grow, exchange, feel and create. May the work tell a story of an adventure, a feeling, a dream or a journey."

Diane Menzies, also a local artist, lives in Jamesville, NY. The drawings selected for this exhibition are from a series entitled "The Passing." These mystifying drawings served as a cathartic expression of the joys and sorrows Menzies experienced while a hospice attendant for those dying of AIDS. When the works were exhibited at the Jean Cocteau Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, reviewer Diane Armitage wrote: "The gothic tension that Menzies creates might seem overwrought if not for the fact that her environmental concerns and melancholy response is right on target. Her psychological distress is not a bid for personal attention. It is, rather, a transpersonal sublimation of individual identity in favor of an emotional identification with torn bark, barren ground, and polluted air and water. Because of the careful way that Menzies limits her visual elements and establishes an air of stark abandonment, her mood of intense grieving appears as more than empty rhetoric."

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Visual Arts Showcase #59
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Showcase features the work of area artists in a juried show. This season's work was selected
by Jennifer Pepper, Director of the Cazenovia College Gallery, and Wendy Harris, a working artist from Syracuse University.

Art from the CNY Region of the National League of American Pen Women

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

Works by 15 award-winning artists will be on display.

Pennellate di Cinema: Classic film posters designed by Silvano Campeggi
Point of Contact Gallery

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

From 1945 to 1972, Silvano Campeggi worked for the major American cinematographic companies: Metro Goldwin Mayer, Universal, Paramount, RKO, Dear Film, creating over 3,000 posters for films that include Gone with the Wind, An American in Paris, Singing in the Rain and West Side Story, among countless other classics from Hollywood's Golden Era. A significant selection of the original hand made studies and sketches along with the definitive poster paintings will be on display at The Point of Contact Gallery for all Syracuse art and movie buffs to relish.

The partnership of Syracuse venues participating in this grand citywide retrospective materializes through the initiative of the Syracuse International Film Festival 2007, a Point of Contact production. Other galleries participating include the Everson Museum of Art, the Redhouse, and Company Gallery.

Each venue will cover a different era of Campeggi's prolific career. Many of the works to be presented in this citywide exhibit will later travel on to New York City's Lincoln Center for a show that opens in June.

Maestro Campeggi is the creator of the official poster for the 2007 Syracuse International Film Festival.

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

35th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

Teen artists from local schools display works in many media. The work is judged by a panel of local artists. The exhibition is co-sponsored by the Syracuse Chapter of Links, Inc.

Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Gest's photographs depict people in moments of deep private thought. The figures appear emotionally removed from their environment as if withdrawing from a public self. The work focuses on the way who we are can change when we are in a group. Although the subjects are alone in the photographs, the presence of others is implied. The images depict people in the last moments of being in their own world before seeing people, or going somewhere where others will be around. These are the last breaths and the last seconds of personal time before the subjects put on a public face and adopt the persona that they use while in a group of people.

To create these images, Gest combines numerous photographs into seamless final compositions using digital technology. Each image may consist of twenty or more separate photographs taken from various vantage points. The visually surprising images direct the viewer in the construction of everyday narratives.

Diane Menzies/Jane Daroskikh: Painting and Sculpture
Redhouse

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

Local artist Janie Darovskikh, lives in Skaneateles and is a figurative artist working in traditional sculpting methods such as carving, clay and wax modeling, plaster and bronze casting. She is the recipient of two Fulbright grants, the Suomalainen Perustus Grant, support from the New York Foundation on the Arts and numerous other awards. She exhibits in the United States and internationally. Her art has taken her to Kulusuk, Greenland; the Ural Mountains of Russia; Yangshuo, China; and to Finland, Sweden, Lithuania and Latvia. Jane is passionate about Nordic mythology, cultural exchange and her belief in art as an international language. "The process I use involves a constantly evolving search to learn, grow, exchange, feel and create. May the work tell a story of an adventure, a feeling, a dream or a journey."

Diane Menzies, also a local artist, lives in Jamesville, NY. The drawings selected for this exhibition are from a series entitled "The Passing." These mystifying drawings served as a cathartic expression of the joys and sorrows Menzies experienced while a hospice attendant for those dying of AIDS. When the works were exhibited at the Jean Cocteau Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, reviewer Diane Armitage wrote: "The gothic tension that Menzies creates might seem overwrought if not for the fact that her environmental concerns and melancholy response is right on target. Her psychological distress is not a bid for personal attention. It is, rather, a transpersonal sublimation of individual identity in favor of an emotional identification with torn bark, barren ground, and polluted air and water. Because of the careful way that Menzies limits her visual elements and establishes an air of stark abandonment, her mood of intense grieving appears as more than empty rhetoric."

Networked Nature
The Warehouse Gallery

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

"Networked Nature" uses innovative technology to combine art, science and politics. The group exhibition inventively explores the meaning and representation of "nature," from the perspective of networked culture. The featured works employ various scientific processes and locative media, such as global positioning systems (GPS) and robotics, and take the form of installations, video and sound art. Together, they make new contributions to the discourses of extant genres, such as sculpture, earth works and landscape imagery, while also demonstrating the scientific beauty and complexity of electronic and digital art.

"Networked Nature" was organized by Marisa Olson, Editor and Curator for Rhizome, a leading new media organization affiliated with the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Their programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways.

Defining Moments: American Masterworks from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition illustrates the development of American Art from the middle of the 19th century and through the 20th century. The selection of paintings, prints and sculpture in this exhibit show how art in the U.S. progressed out of Eurocentric visual and cultural ideals to form a purely American aesthetic culture. Louis Comfort Tiffany married the French Art Nouveau style with the American ingenuity of the light bulb to design masterpieces such as the Murano Design Lamp (1893-95). During the 20th century, the U.S. became a major exponent of Modernism, with artists like Rico Lebrun and Yasuo Kuniyoshi leading the way. Lebrun's "Woman with Arms over Head" (1962-63) reflects his spontaneity and experimental philosophy, while the bright, acidic colors in Kuniyoshi's "Forbidden Fruit" (1950) exemplify the prevailing aesthetic current of the New York School shortly after World War II.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Women at Work: Members of the Art Students League of New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings from the University's permanent collection examines how Modernism and the formation of the Art Students League impacted the influx of women into the field and their development as professional and influential artists.

The selection of work begins with artists who were directly influenced by the 1913 Amory Show such as Peggy Bacon, Maria Wickey, and Isabel Bishop. The exhibition concludes with the advent of Abstract Expressionism, showing works by Jan Gelb, Minna Citron, Terry Haass, and Helen Frankenthaler. These works illustrate American art's stylistic evolution during the period. Early drawings like Harriet Frishmuth's "Study, reclining nude," reveal a classical, academic structure. This type of work gave way in the 1920s to the gritty and modern "realism" of Isabel Bishop's "Sleeping Man." After World War II, Abstract Expressionism began to take over, as seen in Minna
Citron's "Men Seldom Make Passes...," and later in the work of Helen Frankenthaler.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

The Collector's Gene: Passion, Devotion and Learning
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Collector's Gene: Passion, Devotion and Learning uses a diverse selection of nearly 100 objects from the permanent collection to illustrate the collecting interests of Cloud Wampler, Colonel John Fox, Dr. Henry and Nancy Rosin, and Ruth Reeves. Henry Rosin says, "My collecting began as a child when I'd gather up the bottle caps under the stands at semi-professional baseball games in Brooklyn." He later turned his interests towards Japan where, as an Air Force flight surgeon, he accumulated a large group of Japanese sword fittings and hand colored photographs. The three other individuals profiled in the exhibition share similar experiences. Cloud Wampler, best known locally as the past Chairman of Carrier Corporation, was passionate about master prints, John Fox, stationed in Korea with the Army, insisted that the best way to learn about Korean culture was to go out and visit shopkeepers and merchants. Ruth Reeves went to India in 1956 on a Fulbright fellowship to study local brass casting techniques. She collected a large number of brass objects and a rare group of clay ceremonial sculptures. The university saw the educational potential in the collection and agreed to purchase her collection in 1963.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

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

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

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

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

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

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

Selections from Silvano Campeggi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Point of Contact Gallery and the Redhouse. Each organization will be presenting works from a different period of renowned film poster artist, Silvano Campeggi.

Survivor's Art: Images of Hope & Healing
Everson Museum of Art

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

Survivor's Art is an exhibition initiated by Vera House, a community organization created to assist families in crises related to domestic and sexual violence. As part of their project, The Art of Caring, Vera House brings together gifted artists and a caring community. The exhibition offers hope and healing and celebrates the joy of the arts in our lives.