Saturday, February 9, 2008

Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

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

Scholastic Art is the largest juried art show for Junior and Senior high school students in Central New York. Covering a 13-county region, more than 5,000 pieces are submitted each year and over 1,200 winning pieces will be on display in the Whitney Applied Technology Center for six weeks following the awards ceremony. The work of Gold Key recipients is sent on to New York City for national consideration.

The Artistic Domain
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring paintings by Sharon Gordon, encaustic paintings by Lew Graham, etchings and oil paintings by James Skvarch and works by artists in Stone Canoe, a journal of arts and ideas from Upstate New York.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Pollock Matters
Everson Museum of Art

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

Pollock Matters, curated by art historian Ellen G. Landau of Case-Western Reserve University, explores for the first time the personal and artistic relationship between famed American Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock and his close friend, noted Swiss-born photographer and graphic designer, Herbert Matter.

Featuring compelling visual and documentary evidence, the exhibition demonstrates the impact of the artists' interaction on their respective work. Comprising paintings, drawings, works on paper and other documentation -- including previously unseen photographs and letters -- it compares Matter's experimental abstract photos with known works by Pollock, and highlights their significant stylistic, technical and thematic connections.

Pollock Matters also showcases 24 small-scale works discovered by Herbert Matter's son, Alex Matter, in a storage facility in 2002. The paintings, although identified as "Jackson experimental works" by an inscription in Herbert Matter's hand and dated 1958 (2 years after the artist's death), have been the subject of much controversy, scientific study, scholarly analysis, and significant media attention. In the exhibition and accompanying catalog, Curator Ellen Landau thoroughly investigates questions raised by this unprecedented discovery of previously unknown works: "If Pollock did not paint a portion of the cache, who did? How many artists were involved? And, no less importantly, what was the purpose of these paintings?" The debate will, without doubt, continue beyond the exhibition and for decades to come.

Paintings, Drawings and Monotypes: Works of Anne Novado Cappuccilli
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images
Community Folk Art Center

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

New exhibition celebrating 40 years of the AfriCOBRA Artist Collective. AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images will feature works by 10 members of the collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in 1968 as a group of artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Through the years, the group has continued to add new members.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images features recent works in a variety of two-and-three-dimensional media. Exhibiting artists include Akili Ron Anderson, Kevin Cole, Adger Cowans, Murry DePillars, Jeff Donaldson (1932-2004), Michael D. Harris, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, James Phillips, Frank Smith and Nelson Stevens. Jones-Henderson, who is a founding member of the group, serves as exhibition administrator for AfriCOBRA.

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Visual Arts Showcase #62, Brainstorms
CNY Arts

The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Second Saturday Series: Beaucoup Blue
Westcott Community Center

Price: $10 (WCC members $8)
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Beaucoup Blue is the Philadelphia based duo of David and Adrian Mowry. Father and son have been performing their music strongly rooted in the blues, up and down the eastern seaboard.
Bridging many gaps in American music, their soulful traditional and contemporary style mesh into an innovative and authentic sound. Although blues is a staple in their repertoire, they also base their love in music from Folk, Soul, R&B, Jazz, Country, and Bluegrass. All these interests and influences come out in their original songwriting in a unique way.

Fiddle Fest
Jonathan Chai and David Deacon

Price: cover charge
Kitty Hoynes Irish Pub & Restaurant
301 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Kitty's traditional Irish session featuring fiddlers Jonathan Chai and David Deacon.

Fiddle Fest: Fiddle and Step-Dance Workshop
Featuring Colleen Searson

Price: cover charge
Kitty Hoynes Irish Pub & Restaurant
301 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Fiddle Fest
Joe Davoli and Harvey Nussbaum

Price: cover charge
Kitty Hoynes Irish Pub & Restaurant
301 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Fiddle Fest: Fiddle Workshop
Featuring Joe Davoli

Price: cover charge
Kitty Hoynes Irish Pub & Restaurant
301 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Le Moyne College Vocal Jazz Festival
LeMoyne College

Campus Center Building
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Concert following a day of workshops with guest clinician Diana Spradling, from Western Michigan University. High schools performing include Nottingham, Cicero-North Syracuse, Central Square, Baldwinsville (Baker), Onteora, and Baldwinsville Durgee Jr. High. For more information, phone 315-445-4523.

Voice Recital
Featuring Tessa Romano, soprano; Susan Crocker, piano

Price: Freewill donation
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

Tessa Romano, a 17-year-old former Syracuse resident, will present songs by Bernstein, Saint-Saens, Gounod, Rachmaninoff, Ives, Boatwright, and Herbert. The recital will benefit the Syracuse Children's Chorus and Civic Morning Musicals Junior Pro Art. A member of the Syracuse Children's Chorus from 2001-2003, Romano is currently a student of Helen Boatwright of Syracuse and Richard Lalli, Associate Professor at Yale University.

Tessa Romano has most recently performed the National Anthem with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra; has cantored and guest soloed at St. Patrick's Church in Mystic, CT; and been a guest soloist and cantor at St. Patrick's Church in Farmington, CT. While a resident of Syracuse, she sang Howard Blake's Walking in the Air from "The Snowman" with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, the parts of Grisette and Festival Dancer in Oswego Opera's performance of Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow, the part of Amahl in Open Hand Theater's production of Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, and J.S. Bach's Wedding Cantata with the Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music.

Additional information is available by calling the Syracuse Children's Chorus at 315-478-0582.

35th Parallel In Concert
Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts
35th Parallel

Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts
728 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, North African and North Indian inspired music.

Classics Series: French Fireworks
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Kazuyoshi Akiyama, conductor
Featuring Jennifer Frautschi, violin

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

Ravel La Valse
Lalo Symphonie espagnole, op. 21
Saint-Saens Havansaise
Debussy Iberia from Images

Fiddle Fest
Searson

Price: cover charge
Kitty Hoynes Irish Pub & Restaurant
301 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Searson is a kick-ass celtic and country rock band based in the Ottawa Valley, Ontario. Erin, Heather, Colleen and Mike Searson deliver a strong and fiery live show that includes lead fiddle, vocals, three female step dancers, bass, electric and acoustic guitar, mandolin and drums.

Swim Home
Open Hand Theater
Featuring Mikael Rudolph, vaudevillain mime artist

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

Mikael Rudolph performs in the style of a European street clown.
"In this style... he is a master. Absolutely. It could not have been done any better." (Marcel Marceau)

The Princess and the Pea
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive comedy.

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $22 regular; $20 students/seniors
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

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Sunday, February 10, 2008

Ollin Mecatl: The Measure of Movement
Light Work Gallery

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

Photographer Don Gregorio Antón creates mystical retablos that look like sacred objects in themselves. They are intimately small and sit on little stands to be viewed individually. Each retablo is one of a kind. Retabols, or ex votos as they are sometimes called, have been part of Mexico's tradition since the 17th century. They were originally hung behind the altars of Catholic churches, and remain a tradition to this day.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Exhibit features work by Transmedia students at Syracuse University.

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Pollock Matters
Everson Museum of Art

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

Pollock Matters, curated by art historian Ellen G. Landau of Case-Western Reserve University, explores for the first time the personal and artistic relationship between famed American Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock and his close friend, noted Swiss-born photographer and graphic designer, Herbert Matter.

Featuring compelling visual and documentary evidence, the exhibition demonstrates the impact of the artists' interaction on their respective work. Comprising paintings, drawings, works on paper and other documentation -- including previously unseen photographs and letters -- it compares Matter's experimental abstract photos with known works by Pollock, and highlights their significant stylistic, technical and thematic connections.

Pollock Matters also showcases 24 small-scale works discovered by Herbert Matter's son, Alex Matter, in a storage facility in 2002. The paintings, although identified as "Jackson experimental works" by an inscription in Herbert Matter's hand and dated 1958 (2 years after the artist's death), have been the subject of much controversy, scientific study, scholarly analysis, and significant media attention. In the exhibition and accompanying catalog, Curator Ellen Landau thoroughly investigates questions raised by this unprecedented discovery of previously unknown works: "If Pollock did not paint a portion of the cache, who did? How many artists were involved? And, no less importantly, what was the purpose of these paintings?" The debate will, without doubt, continue beyond the exhibition and for decades to come.

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

Read a review!

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

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

Scholastic Art is the largest juried art show for Junior and Senior high school students in Central New York. Covering a 13-county region, more than 5,000 pieces are submitted each year and over 1,200 winning pieces will be on display in the Whitney Applied Technology Center for six weeks following the awards ceremony. The work of Gold Key recipients is sent on to New York City for national consideration.

Action/Re-action: The Artistic Friendship of Herbert Matter and Jackson Pollock
Everson Museum of Art
Featuring Ellen G. Landau

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

Spend the afternoon in an engaging lecture by renowned Pollock scholar Ellen G. Landau, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University. She has taught in the Cleveland Museum of Art/CWRU Joint Program in Art History since 1982, specializing in 20th century American art and theory, particularly Abstract Expressionism.

Dr. Landau earned a BA from Cornell University, M.A. from The George Washington University, and Ph.D. from the University of Delaware. She was co-curator of a Krasner/Pollock joint retrospective held at the Kunstmuseum Bern in 1989-90 and in 1995 produced Lee Krasner: A Catalogue Raisonné (Abrams). Dr. Landau is a Guest Curator of Pollock Matters.

Winter Concert
Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra
Erik Kibelsbeck, conductor
Featuring Mary Coburn, violin

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Wieniawski's Second Violin Concerto and Beethoven's Symphony No. 6

Pascale Black History Month Cabaret Series: Blues Shout
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Ronnie Leigh

Price: $25 regular; $20 donors; $10 students
Hotel Syracuse Persian Terrace
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Ronnie Leigh in "Blues Shout," a tribute to the great blues and jazz singers of the 20th century.

A frequent performer in resorts, jazz clubs, and concert halls throughout the country, Syracuse's singing treasure Ronnie Leigh has shared the stage with The Drifters, Pat Metheny, The Yellowjackets, David Benoit, Special EFX, Spyro Gyra, David Sanborn, Tom Scott, Etta Jones and Jon Hendricks and the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra.

Gourmet food stations available at extra charge. Make your reservations by calling Cheryl at Pascale  315-471-3040 Ext. 203.

Sound Check
Redhouse
Featuring The Tarzan Brothers and The Z-Bones

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

Sound Check at Redhouse is aired live on TK99 and TK105.

FREE Z-Bones' CD with admission.

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $22 regular; $20 students/seniors
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Read a review!

Monday, February 11, 2008

Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

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

Scholastic Art is the largest juried art show for Junior and Senior high school students in Central New York. Covering a 13-county region, more than 5,000 pieces are submitted each year and over 1,200 winning pieces will be on display in the Whitney Applied Technology Center for six weeks following the awards ceremony. The work of Gold Key recipients is sent on to New York City for national consideration.

TV Dinner Series: Monotypes by Mick Mather
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Mary Kester
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibit of tapestries of human and landscape forms. Ms. Kester works in tapestry to exploit the tactile woven medium in forms which give the illusion of depth and monumentality. The woven grid expands into actual layers and drawn depth to suggest crevices and hollows - spaces which appear deeper than they really are. The tension between real textural substance and pictured illusion gives her work an interest that calls for a second, longer look.

Tango
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Tango, a large format folio published by Iris Editions in New York (1991) with eight intaglio prints by Nancy Graves and 13 pages of text by Pedro Cuperman that gaze at the aesthetics of this Latin American dance.

Tango proposes an evening of music, dance, and food transposed into videoa sort of "performance" projected into the space of the gallery where audience and art become intertwined in the field of representation.

"Graves conceived of the prints in the folio as a continued exploration of pattern in nature and as a tonal study of black and white," writes Thomas Padon in his book, Nancy Graves, Excavations in Print A Catalogue Raisonné (1996). "More than once the artist has asserted, 'There is nothing more challenging and meaningful than to make prints in black and white.' For an admitted colorist, it is ironic that the nine prints Graves has made in black and white are among her most powerful." The cryptic titles of the prints in the folio were selected by Graves from Cuperman's text for Tango. The poet speaks of the dance as a gradually unfolding ritual, stating near the conclusion, "Tango helps you find your own levels of proximity."

An Atlas: Radical Cartography Exhibition
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

An Atlas is a nationally traveling exhibition of artists working with "radical cartography", a practice that uses maps and mapping to promote social change, and that is part of a cultural movement that links art, geography, and activism. The participating artists, architects, and collectives in the exhibition play with cartographic convention-geographic shapes, wayfinding symbols, and aerial views- in order to take on issues from globalization to garbage.

While mapping in art practice has expanded into technological and performative realms, An Atlas focuses on a traditional aspect of the map as a work-on-paper, and, importantly, its function as a political agent. The latter is underscored by the mapmakers themselves who are committed to social justice within their own diverse practices.

Works include Ashley Hunt's intricate diagram of the social effects of the global prison-industrial complex; the Center for Urban Pedagogy's mapping of the people who make and manage the "garbage machine" in New York City; Jane Tsong's drawing of how nature and culture clash in Los Angeles' watershed; and Trevor Paglen and John Emerson's route map of CIA rendition flights. The Speculators of AREA Chicago will present "Notes for a People's Atlas of Syracuse." Visitors can pick up blank maps at the gallery to record their own histories and impressions of Syracuse. Returned maps will be displayed at Redhouse and in future exhibitions.

Paintings and Sculpture
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists exhibiting include Rachael Baldanza, Amber Balding, Alex Betancourt, Anna, Cinquemani, Sally Dutko, Bob Rose, Helena Cooper, Jeanne Dupre, Peg Hewitt, Nicholas Ruth, Sylvia Steen, Joan Stier, Karen Tashkovski, Leigh Yardley, Louise Woodard, and members of the North Syracuse Art Guild. Includes digital photography, mixed-media collages, art quilts, fiber compositions, and landscapes.

Photos and Drawings by Ben Hale
Westcott Community Center

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

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Exhibit features work by Transmedia students at Syracuse University.

Ollin Mecatl: The Measure of Movement
Light Work Gallery

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

Photographer Don Gregorio Antón creates mystical retablos that look like sacred objects in themselves. They are intimately small and sit on little stands to be viewed individually. Each retablo is one of a kind. Retabols, or ex votos as they are sometimes called, have been part of Mexico's tradition since the 17th century. They were originally hung behind the altars of Catholic churches, and remain a tradition to this day.

Paintings, Drawings and Monotypes: Works of Anne Novado Cappuccilli
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Sicko
Redhouse

Price: $10 regular; $8 students/seniors; free to LeMoyne students
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Redhouse will host a screening of Michael Moore's Sicko followed by a panel discussion. Sickois an Academy-Award Nominated documentary film about the American health care system and pharmaceutical industry. After the screening, a panel of local medical professionals will discuss the film with the audience. The event is co-sponsored by the Le Moyne College Film Club and Redhouse Arts Center.

Panelists:
Dr. W. Scott Allyn, Family Physician with practice in Skaneateles
Dr. Tom Bersani, President of the Onondaga County Medical Society
Barbara Carranti, Clinical Nurse Specialist at Amaus Health Services
Dr. Robert Hutchison, Pathologist at SUNY Upstate Medical University
Dr. Mark Maller, Geriatric Medicine Physician and LeMoyne Faculty Member

Lee Ann Roripaugh Poetry Reading
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Ms. Roripaugh reads from her book Beyond Heart Mountain about the Japanese-American experience of internment and daily life in a country at war. Presented in Partnership with ARTSwego.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

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

Scholastic Art is the largest juried art show for Junior and Senior high school students in Central New York. Covering a 13-county region, more than 5,000 pieces are submitted each year and over 1,200 winning pieces will be on display in the Whitney Applied Technology Center for six weeks following the awards ceremony. The work of Gold Key recipients is sent on to New York City for national consideration.

TV Dinner Series: Monotypes by Mick Mather
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Mary Kester
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibit of tapestries of human and landscape forms. Ms. Kester works in tapestry to exploit the tactile woven medium in forms which give the illusion of depth and monumentality. The woven grid expands into actual layers and drawn depth to suggest crevices and hollows - spaces which appear deeper than they really are. The tension between real textural substance and pictured illusion gives her work an interest that calls for a second, longer look.

Tango
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Tango, a large format folio published by Iris Editions in New York (1991) with eight intaglio prints by Nancy Graves and 13 pages of text by Pedro Cuperman that gaze at the aesthetics of this Latin American dance.

Tango proposes an evening of music, dance, and food transposed into videoa sort of "performance" projected into the space of the gallery where audience and art become intertwined in the field of representation.

"Graves conceived of the prints in the folio as a continued exploration of pattern in nature and as a tonal study of black and white," writes Thomas Padon in his book, Nancy Graves, Excavations in Print A Catalogue Raisonné (1996). "More than once the artist has asserted, 'There is nothing more challenging and meaningful than to make prints in black and white.' For an admitted colorist, it is ironic that the nine prints Graves has made in black and white are among her most powerful." The cryptic titles of the prints in the folio were selected by Graves from Cuperman's text for Tango. The poet speaks of the dance as a gradually unfolding ritual, stating near the conclusion, "Tango helps you find your own levels of proximity."

An Atlas: Radical Cartography Exhibition
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

An Atlas is a nationally traveling exhibition of artists working with "radical cartography", a practice that uses maps and mapping to promote social change, and that is part of a cultural movement that links art, geography, and activism. The participating artists, architects, and collectives in the exhibition play with cartographic convention-geographic shapes, wayfinding symbols, and aerial views- in order to take on issues from globalization to garbage.

While mapping in art practice has expanded into technological and performative realms, An Atlas focuses on a traditional aspect of the map as a work-on-paper, and, importantly, its function as a political agent. The latter is underscored by the mapmakers themselves who are committed to social justice within their own diverse practices.

Works include Ashley Hunt's intricate diagram of the social effects of the global prison-industrial complex; the Center for Urban Pedagogy's mapping of the people who make and manage the "garbage machine" in New York City; Jane Tsong's drawing of how nature and culture clash in Los Angeles' watershed; and Trevor Paglen and John Emerson's route map of CIA rendition flights. The Speculators of AREA Chicago will present "Notes for a People's Atlas of Syracuse." Visitors can pick up blank maps at the gallery to record their own histories and impressions of Syracuse. Returned maps will be displayed at Redhouse and in future exhibitions.

Paintings and Sculpture
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists exhibiting include Rachael Baldanza, Amber Balding, Alex Betancourt, Anna, Cinquemani, Sally Dutko, Bob Rose, Helena Cooper, Jeanne Dupre, Peg Hewitt, Nicholas Ruth, Sylvia Steen, Joan Stier, Karen Tashkovski, Leigh Yardley, Louise Woodard, and members of the North Syracuse Art Guild. Includes digital photography, mixed-media collages, art quilts, fiber compositions, and landscapes.

Photos and Drawings by Ben Hale
Westcott Community Center

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

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images
Community Folk Art Center

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

New exhibition celebrating 40 years of the AfriCOBRA Artist Collective. AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images will feature works by 10 members of the collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in 1968 as a group of artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Through the years, the group has continued to add new members.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images features recent works in a variety of two-and-three-dimensional media. Exhibiting artists include Akili Ron Anderson, Kevin Cole, Adger Cowans, Murry DePillars, Jeff Donaldson (1932-2004), Michael D. Harris, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, James Phillips, Frank Smith and Nelson Stevens. Jones-Henderson, who is a founding member of the group, serves as exhibition administrator for AfriCOBRA.

Ollin Mecatl: The Measure of Movement
Light Work Gallery

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

Photographer Don Gregorio Antón creates mystical retablos that look like sacred objects in themselves. They are intimately small and sit on little stands to be viewed individually. Each retablo is one of a kind. Retabols, or ex votos as they are sometimes called, have been part of Mexico's tradition since the 17th century. They were originally hung behind the altars of Catholic churches, and remain a tradition to this day.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Exhibit features work by Transmedia students at Syracuse University.

Paintings, Drawings and Monotypes: Works of Anne Novado Cappuccilli
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

SUArt Galleries presents Beloved Daughters, an exhibition that unites the Moksha (Heaven) and Ladli (Beloved Daughter) series, two of photographer-activist Fazal Sheikh's most recent projects concerning the lives of women in India.

The first of the two series, Moksha, completed in 2005, focuses on dispossessed widows who find refuge in the holy city of Vrindavan in northern India. They worship the god Krishna in hopes of being released from the cycle of reincarnation from past actions, samsara, into a higher state, moksha. The second, Ladli, reveals horrific stories of infanticide, feticide and other forms of abuse directed towards the women all over India.

Fazal Sheikh creates sustained portraits of communities around the world through photography, addressing people's beliefs and traditions as well as their socio-economic problems. Both Moksha and Ladli are hardcover books and are available at the gallery store.

Fazal Ilahi Sheikh was born in 1965 in New York City. Since graduating from Princeton University in 1987, he has worked with displaced communities across East Africa, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brazil, Cuba and India. In 2005 Sheikh was named a MacArthur Fellow. Additional fellowships include those from the J. William Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Mondriaan Foundation, and the Mother Jones International Documentary Fund. Sheikh is the recipient of the International Henri Cartier-Bresson Grand Prize, the Prix d'Arles, the Infinity Award, the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Ruttenberg Award, and the Ferguson Award.

Visual Arts Showcase #62, Brainstorms
CNY Arts

The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Pollock Matters
Everson Museum of Art

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

Pollock Matters, curated by art historian Ellen G. Landau of Case-Western Reserve University, explores for the first time the personal and artistic relationship between famed American Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock and his close friend, noted Swiss-born photographer and graphic designer, Herbert Matter.

Featuring compelling visual and documentary evidence, the exhibition demonstrates the impact of the artists' interaction on their respective work. Comprising paintings, drawings, works on paper and other documentation -- including previously unseen photographs and letters -- it compares Matter's experimental abstract photos with known works by Pollock, and highlights their significant stylistic, technical and thematic connections.

Pollock Matters also showcases 24 small-scale works discovered by Herbert Matter's son, Alex Matter, in a storage facility in 2002. The paintings, although identified as "Jackson experimental works" by an inscription in Herbert Matter's hand and dated 1958 (2 years after the artist's death), have been the subject of much controversy, scientific study, scholarly analysis, and significant media attention. In the exhibition and accompanying catalog, Curator Ellen Landau thoroughly investigates questions raised by this unprecedented discovery of previously unknown works: "If Pollock did not paint a portion of the cache, who did? How many artists were involved? And, no less importantly, what was the purpose of these paintings?" The debate will, without doubt, continue beyond the exhibition and for decades to come.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Films of Love
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: Free admission
Funk 'n Waffles University
727 S. Crouse Ave. (Campus Plaza, behind Marshall , Syracuse

An evening of films centered around the theme of love. Food and drinks will be available for purchase. Films being shown are I love you, I'm sorry, I'll Never Do It Again; The Wishing Well; The Lift; and Photograbber.

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

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

Olukola Owolabi, University Organist and assistant professor in the Setnor School of Music, will perform on Setnor's historic 1950 Holtkamp organ with special guest Shannon Kane on flute. The program will include music by Libby Larsen, Robert Morris, Calvin Hampton, Louis-James-Alfred Lefebure-Wely, Alexandre-Pierre-Francois Boely and Louis Vierne.

A native of Toronto, Owolabi has held positions as assistant organist at St. Michael's Cathedral in Toronto and at the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul in Montreal. He is a published composer and has received commissions from the Royal Canadian College of Organists and the Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto. In 2002, he was awarded second prize and audience prize at the American Guild of Organists National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance. As a recitalist, he has performed across Canada and the United States, appearing most recently at St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue in New York City, Methuen Memorial Music Hall in Massachusetts and Spelman College in Atlanta.

Kane is a senior music education major at the Setnor School with performance honors in flute. She is a member of the Renee Crown University Honors Program, University 100, Phi Kappa Lambda and Sigma Alpha Iota, as well as a member of and pianist for Lutheran Campus Ministry.

For more information, contact Owolabi at 315-443-5043.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

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

Scholastic Art is the largest juried art show for Junior and Senior high school students in Central New York. Covering a 13-county region, more than 5,000 pieces are submitted each year and over 1,200 winning pieces will be on display in the Whitney Applied Technology Center for six weeks following the awards ceremony. The work of Gold Key recipients is sent on to New York City for national consideration.

TV Dinner Series: Monotypes by Mick Mather
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Mary Kester
Onondaga Community College

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

Exhibit of tapestries of human and landscape forms. Ms. Kester works in tapestry to exploit the tactile woven medium in forms which give the illusion of depth and monumentality. The woven grid expands into actual layers and drawn depth to suggest crevices and hollows - spaces which appear deeper than they really are. The tension between real textural substance and pictured illusion gives her work an interest that calls for a second, longer look.

Tango
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Tango, a large format folio published by Iris Editions in New York (1991) with eight intaglio prints by Nancy Graves and 13 pages of text by Pedro Cuperman that gaze at the aesthetics of this Latin American dance.

Tango proposes an evening of music, dance, and food transposed into videoa sort of "performance" projected into the space of the gallery where audience and art become intertwined in the field of representation.

"Graves conceived of the prints in the folio as a continued exploration of pattern in nature and as a tonal study of black and white," writes Thomas Padon in his book, Nancy Graves, Excavations in Print A Catalogue Raisonné (1996). "More than once the artist has asserted, 'There is nothing more challenging and meaningful than to make prints in black and white.' For an admitted colorist, it is ironic that the nine prints Graves has made in black and white are among her most powerful." The cryptic titles of the prints in the folio were selected by Graves from Cuperman's text for Tango. The poet speaks of the dance as a gradually unfolding ritual, stating near the conclusion, "Tango helps you find your own levels of proximity."

An Atlas: Radical Cartography Exhibition
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

An Atlas is a nationally traveling exhibition of artists working with "radical cartography", a practice that uses maps and mapping to promote social change, and that is part of a cultural movement that links art, geography, and activism. The participating artists, architects, and collectives in the exhibition play with cartographic convention-geographic shapes, wayfinding symbols, and aerial views- in order to take on issues from globalization to garbage.

While mapping in art practice has expanded into technological and performative realms, An Atlas focuses on a traditional aspect of the map as a work-on-paper, and, importantly, its function as a political agent. The latter is underscored by the mapmakers themselves who are committed to social justice within their own diverse practices.

Works include Ashley Hunt's intricate diagram of the social effects of the global prison-industrial complex; the Center for Urban Pedagogy's mapping of the people who make and manage the "garbage machine" in New York City; Jane Tsong's drawing of how nature and culture clash in Los Angeles' watershed; and Trevor Paglen and John Emerson's route map of CIA rendition flights. The Speculators of AREA Chicago will present "Notes for a People's Atlas of Syracuse." Visitors can pick up blank maps at the gallery to record their own histories and impressions of Syracuse. Returned maps will be displayed at Redhouse and in future exhibitions.

Paintings and Sculpture
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists exhibiting include Rachael Baldanza, Amber Balding, Alex Betancourt, Anna, Cinquemani, Sally Dutko, Bob Rose, Helena Cooper, Jeanne Dupre, Peg Hewitt, Nicholas Ruth, Sylvia Steen, Joan Stier, Karen Tashkovski, Leigh Yardley, Louise Woodard, and members of the North Syracuse Art Guild. Includes digital photography, mixed-media collages, art quilts, fiber compositions, and landscapes.

Photos and Drawings by Ben Hale
Westcott Community Center

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

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images
Community Folk Art Center

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

New exhibition celebrating 40 years of the AfriCOBRA Artist Collective. AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images will feature works by 10 members of the collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in 1968 as a group of artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Through the years, the group has continued to add new members.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images features recent works in a variety of two-and-three-dimensional media. Exhibiting artists include Akili Ron Anderson, Kevin Cole, Adger Cowans, Murry DePillars, Jeff Donaldson (1932-2004), Michael D. Harris, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, James Phillips, Frank Smith and Nelson Stevens. Jones-Henderson, who is a founding member of the group, serves as exhibition administrator for AfriCOBRA.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Exhibit features work by Transmedia students at Syracuse University.

Ollin Mecatl: The Measure of Movement
Light Work Gallery

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

Photographer Don Gregorio Antón creates mystical retablos that look like sacred objects in themselves. They are intimately small and sit on little stands to be viewed individually. Each retablo is one of a kind. Retabols, or ex votos as they are sometimes called, have been part of Mexico's tradition since the 17th century. They were originally hung behind the altars of Catholic churches, and remain a tradition to this day.

Paintings, Drawings and Monotypes: Works of Anne Novado Cappuccilli
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

SUArt Galleries presents Beloved Daughters, an exhibition that unites the Moksha (Heaven) and Ladli (Beloved Daughter) series, two of photographer-activist Fazal Sheikh's most recent projects concerning the lives of women in India.

The first of the two series, Moksha, completed in 2005, focuses on dispossessed widows who find refuge in the holy city of Vrindavan in northern India. They worship the god Krishna in hopes of being released from the cycle of reincarnation from past actions, samsara, into a higher state, moksha. The second, Ladli, reveals horrific stories of infanticide, feticide and other forms of abuse directed towards the women all over India.

Fazal Sheikh creates sustained portraits of communities around the world through photography, addressing people's beliefs and traditions as well as their socio-economic problems. Both Moksha and Ladli are hardcover books and are available at the gallery store.

Fazal Ilahi Sheikh was born in 1965 in New York City. Since graduating from Princeton University in 1987, he has worked with displaced communities across East Africa, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brazil, Cuba and India. In 2005 Sheikh was named a MacArthur Fellow. Additional fellowships include those from the J. William Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Mondriaan Foundation, and the Mother Jones International Documentary Fund. Sheikh is the recipient of the International Henri Cartier-Bresson Grand Prize, the Prix d'Arles, the Infinity Award, the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Ruttenberg Award, and the Ferguson Award.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Pollock Matters
Everson Museum of Art

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

Pollock Matters, curated by art historian Ellen G. Landau of Case-Western Reserve University, explores for the first time the personal and artistic relationship between famed American Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock and his close friend, noted Swiss-born photographer and graphic designer, Herbert Matter.

Featuring compelling visual and documentary evidence, the exhibition demonstrates the impact of the artists' interaction on their respective work. Comprising paintings, drawings, works on paper and other documentation -- including previously unseen photographs and letters -- it compares Matter's experimental abstract photos with known works by Pollock, and highlights their significant stylistic, technical and thematic connections.

Pollock Matters also showcases 24 small-scale works discovered by Herbert Matter's son, Alex Matter, in a storage facility in 2002. The paintings, although identified as "Jackson experimental works" by an inscription in Herbert Matter's hand and dated 1958 (2 years after the artist's death), have been the subject of much controversy, scientific study, scholarly analysis, and significant media attention. In the exhibition and accompanying catalog, Curator Ellen Landau thoroughly investigates questions raised by this unprecedented discovery of previously unknown works: "If Pollock did not paint a portion of the cache, who did? How many artists were involved? And, no less importantly, what was the purpose of these paintings?" The debate will, without doubt, continue beyond the exhibition and for decades to come.

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Reaching for the Light
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Norma Tippett, soprano; Sandra Murphy, soprano and piano

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

A considerable array of songs, arias, and lighter fare in four languages.

Norma Tippett is a long-standing member of and frequent soloist for the Syracuse Chorale and its Chamber Singers. Singing in the Berkshire Choral Festival for the past ten years is one of her choral delights. She is also a member of SU Oratorio Society, Syracuse Vocal Ensemble, and is a paid soloist at First Church of Christ Scientist. Norma has given several fine recitals on the CMM Wednesday Recital Series, including "Woman Composers of the Art of Song."

Sandra Murphy is the Organist and Choir Director at Bellevue Heights United Methodist Church. She currently sings with the Syracuse Vocal Ensemble, and has been a member of the Syracuse University Oratorio Society. Sandra has provided musical direction and keyboard music for various local theater productions, and has studied voice with Jean Loftus and piano with Kevin Moore.

Buffalo State College Performance
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The Setnor School of Music will offer a rare performance of Hungarian composer Béla Bartók's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion. Because of its technical and logistical complexity, Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion is rarely performed. When it is, the audience is swept away by the musical experience. Four musicians perform on two grand pianos and seven percussion instruments, which creates a large, unfolding rhythmic sound that captivates and intrigues.

The performance will feature Bryan W. Boyce and Ivan Docenko Jr. on piano and Bradley J. Fuster on percussion; all three are faculty members in Buffalo State College's music department. Dinesh Joseph, assistant principal timpanist with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, will also perform.

The concert will also feature Boyce and Docenko Jr. performing Rachmaninoff's Suite No. 2, op. 17, for two pianos, four hands.

Parking is available in Irving Garage.

Celebration of Black History Month
Onondaga Community College
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Doubt
Syracuse Stage
M Burke Walker , director

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

A Bronx Catholic school, 1964, is the setting for this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama. Sister Aloysius is certain the popular Father Flynn is guilty of "improper contact" with a young student. She has no evidence. She has no doubt, and so proceeds to accuse him and threaten him unless he resigns. Is she protecting the children in her care, or is she engaged in an unfair persecution of a wrongly accused man? Playwright John Patrick Shanley offers no easy answer in this taut and gripping drama.

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Love With A Twist
Rarely Done Productions

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

Rarely Done Productions is pleased to announce One Night Only, an occasional Wednesday night cabaret-fundraiser supporting its season.

Love With A Twist: One Night Only featuring the music of Jon Balcourt. Performers at this inaugural event include Dani Guttuso, Jodie Baum, Alicia Bronzetti, Ryan MacConnell, Casey Ryan, Ian Joseph, and composer Jon Balcourt.

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

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

Scholastic Art is the largest juried art show for Junior and Senior high school students in Central New York. Covering a 13-county region, more than 5,000 pieces are submitted each year and over 1,200 winning pieces will be on display in the Whitney Applied Technology Center for six weeks following the awards ceremony. The work of Gold Key recipients is sent on to New York City for national consideration.

TV Dinner Series: Monotypes by Mick Mather
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Tango
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Tango, a large format folio published by Iris Editions in New York (1991) with eight intaglio prints by Nancy Graves and 13 pages of text by Pedro Cuperman that gaze at the aesthetics of this Latin American dance.

Tango proposes an evening of music, dance, and food transposed into videoa sort of "performance" projected into the space of the gallery where audience and art become intertwined in the field of representation.

"Graves conceived of the prints in the folio as a continued exploration of pattern in nature and as a tonal study of black and white," writes Thomas Padon in his book, Nancy Graves, Excavations in Print A Catalogue Raisonné (1996). "More than once the artist has asserted, 'There is nothing more challenging and meaningful than to make prints in black and white.' For an admitted colorist, it is ironic that the nine prints Graves has made in black and white are among her most powerful." The cryptic titles of the prints in the folio were selected by Graves from Cuperman's text for Tango. The poet speaks of the dance as a gradually unfolding ritual, stating near the conclusion, "Tango helps you find your own levels of proximity."

An Atlas: Radical Cartography Exhibition
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

An Atlas is a nationally traveling exhibition of artists working with "radical cartography", a practice that uses maps and mapping to promote social change, and that is part of a cultural movement that links art, geography, and activism. The participating artists, architects, and collectives in the exhibition play with cartographic convention-geographic shapes, wayfinding symbols, and aerial views- in order to take on issues from globalization to garbage.

While mapping in art practice has expanded into technological and performative realms, An Atlas focuses on a traditional aspect of the map as a work-on-paper, and, importantly, its function as a political agent. The latter is underscored by the mapmakers themselves who are committed to social justice within their own diverse practices.

Works include Ashley Hunt's intricate diagram of the social effects of the global prison-industrial complex; the Center for Urban Pedagogy's mapping of the people who make and manage the "garbage machine" in New York City; Jane Tsong's drawing of how nature and culture clash in Los Angeles' watershed; and Trevor Paglen and John Emerson's route map of CIA rendition flights. The Speculators of AREA Chicago will present "Notes for a People's Atlas of Syracuse." Visitors can pick up blank maps at the gallery to record their own histories and impressions of Syracuse. Returned maps will be displayed at Redhouse and in future exhibitions.

Paintings and Sculpture
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists exhibiting include Rachael Baldanza, Amber Balding, Alex Betancourt, Anna, Cinquemani, Sally Dutko, Bob Rose, Helena Cooper, Jeanne Dupre, Peg Hewitt, Nicholas Ruth, Sylvia Steen, Joan Stier, Karen Tashkovski, Leigh Yardley, Louise Woodard, and members of the North Syracuse Art Guild. Includes digital photography, mixed-media collages, art quilts, fiber compositions, and landscapes.

Photos and Drawings by Ben Hale
Westcott Community Center

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

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images
Community Folk Art Center

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

New exhibition celebrating 40 years of the AfriCOBRA Artist Collective. AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images will feature works by 10 members of the collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in 1968 as a group of artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Through the years, the group has continued to add new members.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images features recent works in a variety of two-and-three-dimensional media. Exhibiting artists include Akili Ron Anderson, Kevin Cole, Adger Cowans, Murry DePillars, Jeff Donaldson (1932-2004), Michael D. Harris, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, James Phillips, Frank Smith and Nelson Stevens. Jones-Henderson, who is a founding member of the group, serves as exhibition administrator for AfriCOBRA.

Ollin Mecatl: The Measure of Movement
Light Work Gallery

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

Photographer Don Gregorio Antón creates mystical retablos that look like sacred objects in themselves. They are intimately small and sit on little stands to be viewed individually. Each retablo is one of a kind. Retabols, or ex votos as they are sometimes called, have been part of Mexico's tradition since the 17th century. They were originally hung behind the altars of Catholic churches, and remain a tradition to this day.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Exhibit features work by Transmedia students at Syracuse University.

Paintings, Drawings and Monotypes: Works of Anne Novado Cappuccilli
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

A reception for this exhibit will be held from 5:00 - 7:00 pm.

SUArt Galleries presents Beloved Daughters, an exhibition that unites the Moksha (Heaven) and Ladli (Beloved Daughter) series, two of photographer-activist Fazal Sheikh's most recent projects concerning the lives of women in India.

The first of the two series, Moksha, completed in 2005, focuses on dispossessed widows who find refuge in the holy city of Vrindavan in northern India. They worship the god Krishna in hopes of being released from the cycle of reincarnation from past actions, samsara, into a higher state, moksha. The second, Ladli, reveals horrific stories of infanticide, feticide and other forms of abuse directed towards the women all over India.

Fazal Sheikh creates sustained portraits of communities around the world through photography, addressing people's beliefs and traditions as well as their socio-economic problems. Both Moksha and Ladli are hardcover books and are available at the gallery store.

Fazal Ilahi Sheikh was born in 1965 in New York City. Since graduating from Princeton University in 1987, he has worked with displaced communities across East Africa, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brazil, Cuba and India. In 2005 Sheikh was named a MacArthur Fellow. Additional fellowships include those from the J. William Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Mondriaan Foundation, and the Mother Jones International Documentary Fund. Sheikh is the recipient of the International Henri Cartier-Bresson Grand Prize, the Prix d'Arles, the Infinity Award, the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Ruttenberg Award, and the Ferguson Award.

The Artistic Domain
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring paintings by Sharon Gordon, encaustic paintings by Lew Graham, etchings and oil paintings by James Skvarch and works by artists in Stone Canoe, a journal of arts and ideas from Upstate New York.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Pollock Matters
Everson Museum of Art

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

Pollock Matters, curated by art historian Ellen G. Landau of Case-Western Reserve University, explores for the first time the personal and artistic relationship between famed American Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock and his close friend, noted Swiss-born photographer and graphic designer, Herbert Matter.

Featuring compelling visual and documentary evidence, the exhibition demonstrates the impact of the artists' interaction on their respective work. Comprising paintings, drawings, works on paper and other documentation -- including previously unseen photographs and letters -- it compares Matter's experimental abstract photos with known works by Pollock, and highlights their significant stylistic, technical and thematic connections.

Pollock Matters also showcases 24 small-scale works discovered by Herbert Matter's son, Alex Matter, in a storage facility in 2002. The paintings, although identified as "Jackson experimental works" by an inscription in Herbert Matter's hand and dated 1958 (2 years after the artist's death), have been the subject of much controversy, scientific study, scholarly analysis, and significant media attention. In the exhibition and accompanying catalog, Curator Ellen Landau thoroughly investigates questions raised by this unprecedented discovery of previously unknown works: "If Pollock did not paint a portion of the cache, who did? How many artists were involved? And, no less importantly, what was the purpose of these paintings?" The debate will, without doubt, continue beyond the exhibition and for decades to come.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Film Series: The Cats of Mirikitani
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

An intimate exploration of the lingering wounds of war and the healing powers of friendship and art. (53 minutes)

Keepin' it Reel 08: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
Community Folk Art Center

Price: $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Exploring Hip Hop with Beyond Beats and Rhymes. Join us after the screening for a talk-back session with filmmaker Byron Hurt.

Filmmaker Byron Hurt, a life-long hip-hop fan, was watching rap music videos on BET when he realized that each video was nearly identical. Guys in fancy cars threw money at the camera while scantily clad women danced in the background. As he discovered how stereotypical rap videos had become, Hurt, a former college quarterback turned activist, decided to make a film about the gender politics of hip-hop, the music and the culture that he grew up with. "The more I grew and the more I learned about sexism and violence and homophobia, the more those lyrics became unacceptable to me," he says. "And I began to become more conflicted about the music that I loved." The result is HIP-HOP: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, a riveting documentary that tackles issues of masculinity, sexism, violence and homophobia in today's hip-hop culture.

Sparking dialogue on hip-hop and its declarations on gender, HIP-HOP: Beyond Beats and Rhymes provides thoughtful insight from intelligent, divergent voices including rap artists, industry executives, rap fans and social critics from inside and outside the hip-hop generation. The film includes interviews with famous rappers such as Mos Def, Fat Joe, Chuck D and Jadakiss and hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons; along with commentary from Michael Eric Dyson, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Kevin Powell and Sarah Jones and interviews with young women at Spelman College, a historically black school and one of the nation's leading liberal arts institutions.

The film also explores such pressing issues as women and violence in rap music, representations of manhood in hip-hop culture, what today's rap lyrics reveal to their listeners and homoeroticism in hip-hop. A "loving critique" from a self-proclaimed "hip-hop head," HIP-HOP: Beyond Beats and Rhymes discloses the complex intersection of culture, commerce and gender through on-the-street interviews with aspiring rappers and fans at hip-hop events throughout the country.

Panel Discussion on the Exhibit Beloved Daughters
Syracuse University Art Museum

Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Beloved Daughters is an exhibition that unites the Moksha (Heaven) and Ladli (Beloved Daughter) series, two of photographer-activist Fazal Sheikh's most recent projects concerning the lives of women in India. Panelist for the discussion include Yasser Aggour, Transmedia Department; Sandeep Banerjee, English Department; Mary Warner Marien, Fine Arts Department; Smita Rane, Visitor Center, College of Arts & Sciences; Romita Ray, Fine Arts Department; Susan Wadley, South Asia Center; and Daniela Mosko-Wozniak, VPA (panel moderator)

Death Takes a Cruise
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive comedy murder mystery.

Doubt
Syracuse Stage
M Burke Walker , director

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

A Bronx Catholic school, 1964, is the setting for this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama. Sister Aloysius is certain the popular Father Flynn is guilty of "improper contact" with a young student. She has no evidence. She has no doubt, and so proceeds to accuse him and threaten him unless he resigns. Is she protecting the children in her care, or is she engaged in an unfair persecution of a wrongly accused man? Playwright John Patrick Shanley offers no easy answer in this taut and gripping drama.

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An Evening of Love Songs
Opening Night Productions

Price: $18 plus cost of dinner
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

The program includes more than 30 standards, show tunes and pop-style love songs such as My Funny Valentine, All I Ask of You from Phantom of the Opera, Makin' Whoopee, For All We Know, Fly Me To The Moon, Still from Titanic, Take Me As I Am from Jekyll & Hyde, Faithfully, Just In Time, Happily Ever After and One Alone from The Desert Song. The show stars Bob Brown, Cathleen O'Brien, Bill Ali, Becky Bottrill.

Show Only packages are available for $28 per person. This includes the $18 theatre ticket and a $10 Glen Loch Restaurant gift certificate. The gift certificates may be used at any time for food or drink.

For reservations call the Glen Loch Restaurant at 315-469-6969.

Friday, February 15, 2008

Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

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

Scholastic Art is the largest juried art show for Junior and Senior high school students in Central New York. Covering a 13-county region, more than 5,000 pieces are submitted each year and over 1,200 winning pieces will be on display in the Whitney Applied Technology Center for six weeks following the awards ceremony. The work of Gold Key recipients is sent on to New York City for national consideration.

TV Dinner Series: Monotypes by Mick Mather
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Tango
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Tango, a large format folio published by Iris Editions in New York (1991) with eight intaglio prints by Nancy Graves and 13 pages of text by Pedro Cuperman that gaze at the aesthetics of this Latin American dance.

Tango proposes an evening of music, dance, and food transposed into videoa sort of "performance" projected into the space of the gallery where audience and art become intertwined in the field of representation.

"Graves conceived of the prints in the folio as a continued exploration of pattern in nature and as a tonal study of black and white," writes Thomas Padon in his book, Nancy Graves, Excavations in Print A Catalogue Raisonné (1996). "More than once the artist has asserted, 'There is nothing more challenging and meaningful than to make prints in black and white.' For an admitted colorist, it is ironic that the nine prints Graves has made in black and white are among her most powerful." The cryptic titles of the prints in the folio were selected by Graves from Cuperman's text for Tango. The poet speaks of the dance as a gradually unfolding ritual, stating near the conclusion, "Tango helps you find your own levels of proximity."

An Atlas: Radical Cartography Exhibition
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

An Atlas is a nationally traveling exhibition of artists working with "radical cartography", a practice that uses maps and mapping to promote social change, and that is part of a cultural movement that links art, geography, and activism. The participating artists, architects, and collectives in the exhibition play with cartographic convention-geographic shapes, wayfinding symbols, and aerial views- in order to take on issues from globalization to garbage.

While mapping in art practice has expanded into technological and performative realms, An Atlas focuses on a traditional aspect of the map as a work-on-paper, and, importantly, its function as a political agent. The latter is underscored by the mapmakers themselves who are committed to social justice within their own diverse practices.

Works include Ashley Hunt's intricate diagram of the social effects of the global prison-industrial complex; the Center for Urban Pedagogy's mapping of the people who make and manage the "garbage machine" in New York City; Jane Tsong's drawing of how nature and culture clash in Los Angeles' watershed; and Trevor Paglen and John Emerson's route map of CIA rendition flights. The Speculators of AREA Chicago will present "Notes for a People's Atlas of Syracuse." Visitors can pick up blank maps at the gallery to record their own histories and impressions of Syracuse. Returned maps will be displayed at Redhouse and in future exhibitions.

Paintings and Sculpture
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists exhibiting include Rachael Baldanza, Amber Balding, Alex Betancourt, Anna, Cinquemani, Sally Dutko, Bob Rose, Helena Cooper, Jeanne Dupre, Peg Hewitt, Nicholas Ruth, Sylvia Steen, Joan Stier, Karen Tashkovski, Leigh Yardley, Louise Woodard, and members of the North Syracuse Art Guild. Includes digital photography, mixed-media collages, art quilts, fiber compositions, and landscapes.

Photos and Drawings by Ben Hale
Westcott Community Center

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

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images
Community Folk Art Center

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

New exhibition celebrating 40 years of the AfriCOBRA Artist Collective. AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images will feature works by 10 members of the collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in 1968 as a group of artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Through the years, the group has continued to add new members.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images features recent works in a variety of two-and-three-dimensional media. Exhibiting artists include Akili Ron Anderson, Kevin Cole, Adger Cowans, Murry DePillars, Jeff Donaldson (1932-2004), Michael D. Harris, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, James Phillips, Frank Smith and Nelson Stevens. Jones-Henderson, who is a founding member of the group, serves as exhibition administrator for AfriCOBRA.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Exhibit features work by Transmedia students at Syracuse University.

Ollin Mecatl: The Measure of Movement
Light Work Gallery

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

Photographer Don Gregorio Antón creates mystical retablos that look like sacred objects in themselves. They are intimately small and sit on little stands to be viewed individually. Each retablo is one of a kind. Retabols, or ex votos as they are sometimes called, have been part of Mexico's tradition since the 17th century. They were originally hung behind the altars of Catholic churches, and remain a tradition to this day.

Paintings, Drawings and Monotypes: Works of Anne Novado Cappuccilli
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

SUArt Galleries presents Beloved Daughters, an exhibition that unites the Moksha (Heaven) and Ladli (Beloved Daughter) series, two of photographer-activist Fazal Sheikh's most recent projects concerning the lives of women in India.

The first of the two series, Moksha, completed in 2005, focuses on dispossessed widows who find refuge in the holy city of Vrindavan in northern India. They worship the god Krishna in hopes of being released from the cycle of reincarnation from past actions, samsara, into a higher state, moksha. The second, Ladli, reveals horrific stories of infanticide, feticide and other forms of abuse directed towards the women all over India.

Fazal Sheikh creates sustained portraits of communities around the world through photography, addressing people's beliefs and traditions as well as their socio-economic problems. Both Moksha and Ladli are hardcover books and are available at the gallery store.

Fazal Ilahi Sheikh was born in 1965 in New York City. Since graduating from Princeton University in 1987, he has worked with displaced communities across East Africa, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brazil, Cuba and India. In 2005 Sheikh was named a MacArthur Fellow. Additional fellowships include those from the J. William Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Mondriaan Foundation, and the Mother Jones International Documentary Fund. Sheikh is the recipient of the International Henri Cartier-Bresson Grand Prize, the Prix d'Arles, the Infinity Award, the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Ruttenberg Award, and the Ferguson Award.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

The Artistic Domain
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring paintings by Sharon Gordon, encaustic paintings by Lew Graham, etchings and oil paintings by James Skvarch and works by artists in Stone Canoe, a journal of arts and ideas from Upstate New York.

Pollock Matters
Everson Museum of Art

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

Pollock Matters, curated by art historian Ellen G. Landau of Case-Western Reserve University, explores for the first time the personal and artistic relationship between famed American Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock and his close friend, noted Swiss-born photographer and graphic designer, Herbert Matter.

Featuring compelling visual and documentary evidence, the exhibition demonstrates the impact of the artists' interaction on their respective work. Comprising paintings, drawings, works on paper and other documentation -- including previously unseen photographs and letters -- it compares Matter's experimental abstract photos with known works by Pollock, and highlights their significant stylistic, technical and thematic connections.

Pollock Matters also showcases 24 small-scale works discovered by Herbert Matter's son, Alex Matter, in a storage facility in 2002. The paintings, although identified as "Jackson experimental works" by an inscription in Herbert Matter's hand and dated 1958 (2 years after the artist's death), have been the subject of much controversy, scientific study, scholarly analysis, and significant media attention. In the exhibition and accompanying catalog, Curator Ellen Landau thoroughly investigates questions raised by this unprecedented discovery of previously unknown works: "If Pollock did not paint a portion of the cache, who did? How many artists were involved? And, no less importantly, what was the purpose of these paintings?" The debate will, without doubt, continue beyond the exhibition and for decades to come.

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

BakeHouse Films
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: Free. Food and beverages available for purchase
Pascale's Bakehouse and Cafe
Hotel Syracuse, 500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

The Legend of Black Tom (Directed by Deron Albright and Steven M. Snyder, animation, USA, 16 minutes)
In 1810, Tom Molineaux, a freed American slave, fought for the bare knuckle, boxing championship against renowned British champion, Tom Cribb.

Right Here, Right Now (Directed by Anand Gandi, fiction, India, 29 minutes) Best of Fest Nominee 2004.
A young man in his haste to go some place, takes two actions...he screams at his mother for making him late, and he lovingly appreciates his brother's painting. By doing so, he strikes off two cycles-one of frustration and sorrow and the other of joy and love.

Psi Cho (Directed by Libor Pixa, animation, Czech Republic, 10 minutes)
A funny dog psycho.

The “BakeHouse Films” series features Best of Fest shorts and animation from the Syracuse International Film Festival archive. The programs last from 40 minutes to an hour. For more information, phone 315-443-8826.

Keepin' it Reel 08: Hip Hop Colony
Community Folk Art Center

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

Hip Hop Colony by filmmaker Michael Wanguhu will be screening at the Community Folk Arts Center.

Hip-hop is arguably one of the most influential cultures in the history of the world. It is a connector for youth across race, ethnicity, income, and geographic boundaries. In Hip Hop Colony, the documentary film takes you through a journey into the heart of East Africa, Kenya, a former British colony, where hip hop has firmly established its roots amongst the local citizens. Hip Hop Colony takes an intimate look at African hip hop, while establishing its genesis in Kenya.

Hip Hop Colony draws the title from the fact that the colonial era in Africa had critical inspiration in the present African culture. Africa today, despite being free and independent, is still under the influence of a new breed of global colonization by Hip Hop. Parallel to the colonial era in Africa, American mainstream hip-hop continues to invade traditional cultures around the world.

NAACP-ACTSO Gospel Fest
Onondaga Community College

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Piano Master Class
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Ann Schein, piano

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

Students from the School of Music will perform.

Ann Schein has performed in major American and European cities and in capitals of more than 50 countries around the world. In 1980, she extended the legacy of her legendary teachers, Mieczyslaw Munz, Arthur Rubenstein and Dame Myra Hess, presenting the major Chopin repertoire in six concerts in Lincoln Centers Alice Tully Hall, the first Chopin cycle to be heard in New York in 35 years.

Her recordings include solo piano works of Schumann and early songs of Alban Berg, in collaboration with Jessye Norman. From 19802000, she was on the piano faculty of the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. She has been an artist-faculty member of the Aspen Music Festival and School since 1984.

Rod MacDonald
Folkus Project

Price: $12
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Throughout an international music career lasting almost three decades, Rod MacDonald has remained a vital force in the folk music world. His eclectic brand of music transcends the typical folk genre, evident in lyrics that are infectious, inspiring, sometimes reckless, often evocative, and always compelling. In his trademark balladeer style, MacDonald artfully weaves together a tapestry of journalistically insightful lyrics and poetic imagery. His engaging delivery, musical versatility, timeless ballads, and modern folk songs place him in the elite of singer-songwriters.

Music Mavericks: The Best of Concert Series
Featuring Lisa Gentile, host

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

Lisa Gentile presents a variety of musicians from her well-received open mic Music Mavericks. This concert showcases regular performers from Music Mavericks, which fosters musicians and songwriters of all genres to explore new material, sharpen their performance skills, collaborate, network and cultivate musical relationships.

This concert will benefit Music Heals CNY, a non-profit endeavor which Gentile is heading up. The goal of MHCNY is to raise awareness of the healing power of music through bedside performances for patients and their families in health care facilities across Central New York. The organization will also produce benefit concerts to raise money for those lacking the funds to receive imperative medical treatment.

Lisa is a Syracuse native and national recording artist who recently returned to her roots after living and performing in NYC for many years. Lisa has released three CDs, the latest of which just won a SAMMY Award for Best Country Recording. She has recorded with many well-known producers and has performed in venues throughout the country. She currently performs with her band in venues throughout Central New York.

Anton in Show Business
LeMoyne College
Boot and Buskin Theater Group
Anjalee Nadkarni, director

Price: $12 regular, $8 seniors, $4 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A savvy, savage backstage comedy by Jane Martin. In it, Anton skewers incompetent producers, idiot directors, surgically beautified actors, crass sponsors, self-important critics, and satirizes, celebrates, and challenges the importance of theatre as an art form today.

Winner of the 2001 American Theatre Critics Steinberg New Play Award.

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Doubt
Syracuse Stage
M Burke Walker , director

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

A Bronx Catholic school, 1964, is the setting for this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama. Sister Aloysius is certain the popular Father Flynn is guilty of "improper contact" with a young student. She has no evidence. She has no doubt, and so proceeds to accuse him and threaten him unless he resigns. Is she protecting the children in her care, or is she engaged in an unfair persecution of a wrongly accused man? Playwright John Patrick Shanley offers no easy answer in this taut and gripping drama.

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Arabian Nights
Syracuse University Drama Department
Lisa Anne Porter, director

Price: $15 regular, $13 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Arabian Nights, by Mary Zimmerman, celebrates the powers of storytelling as the play follows Scheherezade, bride of the caliph Shahryar, as she uses her narrative skills to postpone her execution by telling the caliph elaborate stories. The caliph, having been cheated on by his first wife, now beds and murders a different virgin every night. Scheherezade tries to evade this fate through her spellbinding powers of tale telling.

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Saturday, February 16, 2008

Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

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

Scholastic Art is the largest juried art show for Junior and Senior high school students in Central New York. Covering a 13-county region, more than 5,000 pieces are submitted each year and over 1,200 winning pieces will be on display in the Whitney Applied Technology Center for six weeks following the awards ceremony. The work of Gold Key recipients is sent on to New York City for national consideration.

TV Dinner Series: Monotypes by Mick Mather
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Artistic Domain
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring paintings by Sharon Gordon, encaustic paintings by Lew Graham, etchings and oil paintings by James Skvarch and works by artists in Stone Canoe, a journal of arts and ideas from Upstate New York.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Pollock Matters
Everson Museum of Art

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

Pollock Matters, curated by art historian Ellen G. Landau of Case-Western Reserve University, explores for the first time the personal and artistic relationship between famed American Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock and his close friend, noted Swiss-born photographer and graphic designer, Herbert Matter.

Featuring compelling visual and documentary evidence, the exhibition demonstrates the impact of the artists' interaction on their respective work. Comprising paintings, drawings, works on paper and other documentation -- including previously unseen photographs and letters -- it compares Matter's experimental abstract photos with known works by Pollock, and highlights their significant stylistic, technical and thematic connections.

Pollock Matters also showcases 24 small-scale works discovered by Herbert Matter's son, Alex Matter, in a storage facility in 2002. The paintings, although identified as "Jackson experimental works" by an inscription in Herbert Matter's hand and dated 1958 (2 years after the artist's death), have been the subject of much controversy, scientific study, scholarly analysis, and significant media attention. In the exhibition and accompanying catalog, Curator Ellen Landau thoroughly investigates questions raised by this unprecedented discovery of previously unknown works: "If Pollock did not paint a portion of the cache, who did? How many artists were involved? And, no less importantly, what was the purpose of these paintings?" The debate will, without doubt, continue beyond the exhibition and for decades to come.

Paintings, Drawings and Monotypes: Works of Anne Novado Cappuccilli
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images
Community Folk Art Center

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

New exhibition celebrating 40 years of the AfriCOBRA Artist Collective. AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images will feature works by 10 members of the collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in 1968 as a group of artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Through the years, the group has continued to add new members.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images features recent works in a variety of two-and-three-dimensional media. Exhibiting artists include Akili Ron Anderson, Kevin Cole, Adger Cowans, Murry DePillars, Jeff Donaldson (1932-2004), Michael D. Harris, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, James Phillips, Frank Smith and Nelson Stevens. Jones-Henderson, who is a founding member of the group, serves as exhibition administrator for AfriCOBRA.

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

SUArt Galleries presents Beloved Daughters, an exhibition that unites the Moksha (Heaven) and Ladli (Beloved Daughter) series, two of photographer-activist Fazal Sheikh's most recent projects concerning the lives of women in India.

The first of the two series, Moksha, completed in 2005, focuses on dispossessed widows who find refuge in the holy city of Vrindavan in northern India. They worship the god Krishna in hopes of being released from the cycle of reincarnation from past actions, samsara, into a higher state, moksha. The second, Ladli, reveals horrific stories of infanticide, feticide and other forms of abuse directed towards the women all over India.

Fazal Sheikh creates sustained portraits of communities around the world through photography, addressing people's beliefs and traditions as well as their socio-economic problems. Both Moksha and Ladli are hardcover books and are available at the gallery store.

Fazal Ilahi Sheikh was born in 1965 in New York City. Since graduating from Princeton University in 1987, he has worked with displaced communities across East Africa, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brazil, Cuba and India. In 2005 Sheikh was named a MacArthur Fellow. Additional fellowships include those from the J. William Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Mondriaan Foundation, and the Mother Jones International Documentary Fund. Sheikh is the recipient of the International Henri Cartier-Bresson Grand Prize, the Prix d'Arles, the Infinity Award, the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Ruttenberg Award, and the Ferguson Award.

Special Event: Appalachian Spring
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Martha Graham Dance Company

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

From Carnegie Hall to the base of Egypt's Great Pyramids, Martha Graham Dance Company has garnered international acclaim as the most celebrated contemporary dance company in America. With the SSO performing the music of Aaron Copland, the company will bring to life one of its most treasured works, Appalalchian Spring. The program will also include Errand into the Maze (Menotti), Diversion of Angels (Dello Joio), and Ardent Song (Hovhaness).

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Keepin' it Reel 08: Rock Fresh
Community Folk Art Center

Price: $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Keepin' it Reel 08: Mixtress X
Community Folk Art Center

Price: $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Mixtress X: Hip Hop Unsung Heroine by filmmaker Dante Kaba.

Hip Hop is a cultural movement of black youth. As a constantly evolving form of self- expression and a social reflection of contemporary urban life, it is rooted in the oral history of African-American story-telling. Since the inception of Hip Hop, women dj's have been a vital participants in the construction and development of this international musical genre. Mixtress X documents this untold story, spotlighting women hip hop artists this unique contribution to the musical form as they operate and contend with a predominantly male-dominated multi-million dollar industry.

While excavating the history of unsung women dj's and charting the course of the hip hop movement from a gendered point of view, Mixtress X seeks to provide an uncensored platform for these underground and mainstream women artists who have been transforming their self-images within global Hip Hop movement.

Keepin' it Reel 08: The Hip Hop Project
Community Folk Art Center

Price: $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Piano Master Class
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Ann Schein, piano

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

Students from the School of Music will perform.

Ann Schein has performed in major American and European cities and in capitals of more than 50 countries around the world. In 1980, she extended the legacy of her legendary teachers, Mieczyslaw Munz, Arthur Rubenstein and Dame Myra Hess, presenting the major Chopin repertoire in six concerts in Lincoln Centers Alice Tully Hall, the first Chopin cycle to be heard in New York in 35 years.

Her recordings include solo piano works of Schumann and early songs of Alban Berg, in collaboration with Jessye Norman. From 19802000, she was on the piano faculty of the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. She has been an artist-faculty member of the Aspen Music Festival and School since 1984.

Syracuse University African Drumming Ensemble

Price: Free
Dewitt Community Library
Shoppingtown Mall, Dewitt

This hour-long interactive family event will feature The African Drumming Ensemble performing in honor of Black History Month. The ensemble is co-led by Bill Cole a professor in the Department of African American Studies in The College of Arts & Sciences at Syracuse University and by drummer and choreographer Biboti Ouikahilo, who will be joined by nine other musicians. Biboti, a native of the Ivory Coast is founder of Syracuse's Wacheva Cultural Arts West African Dance, Drum and Mask Ensemble.

Registration is encouraged. To register, phone 315-446-3578 or visit www.dewlib.org and click on the gold star on the home page.

Please note: The Library in now in its new location at ShoppingTown Mall on ground level below the food court in a portion of the space formerly occupied by the BonTon department store.

Masquerade Ball
Delavan Art Gallery
Featuring Marcia Rutledge and Jason Kessler

Price: $10
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Live jazz by Marcia Rutledge and Jason Kessler, plus a fine assortment of hors d'oeuvres and non-alcoholic beverages. Masks by Evamaria Harden and the exhibition "The Artistic Domain" will be on view.

What to Bring: An eccentric outfit with mask, and your favorite alcoholic beverage!

Prizes will be awarded for Best Dressed Lady, Best Dressed Gentleman, and Best Dressed We're-not-sure.

Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music
Rossetti Quartet

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

Mozart Quartet No 20 in D Major, K 499
Debussy Quartet
Dvorak Quartet No 14 in A-flat major, Op. 105

The Princess and the Pea
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive comedy.

Doubt
Syracuse Stage
M Burke Walker , director

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

A Bronx Catholic school, 1964, is the setting for this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama. Sister Aloysius is certain the popular Father Flynn is guilty of "improper contact" with a young student. She has no evidence. She has no doubt, and so proceeds to accuse him and threaten him unless he resigns. Is she protecting the children in her care, or is she engaged in an unfair persecution of a wrongly accused man? Playwright John Patrick Shanley offers no easy answer in this taut and gripping drama.

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Simple Stories/Simple Truths: Selected Works by Langston Hughes
Focusing Our Resources for Community Enlightenment, Inc.

Price: $15. Seating is limited.
1555 South Salina St.
Syracuse

In the 1960s, Harlem was home to famous jazz clubs like Small's Paradise, the Savoy Ballroom and the Cotton Club. Harlem claimed many legendary musicians, writers and activists: Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, and Malcolm X to name a few. Harlem was also the hangout of a fictional character Hughes created named Jesse B. Semple, whose friends affectionately call Simple.

Focusing Our Resources for Community Enlightenment will bring this Harlem past to present by bringing Hughes' stories to life in the script-in-hand presentation, Simple Stories/Simple Truths: Selected Works by Langston Hughes. Script-in-hand performances are "interpretive" or "dramatic" readings in which actors read their lines with script in hand.

Simple Stories captures the mood, movement, and vitality of Harlem and black America during the 1960s while presenting fictional conversations between Hughes and Jesse B. Semple, an ordinary man with extraordinary insights on being black in white America which he expresses in a natural and "simple" way. In keeping with the stories' cafe setting, audience members will be served food and beverage in the fictional Club Café @ 1555 after the performances.

For reservations, phone 315-382-5987.

Deadly Inheritance

Price: $39, dinner and show
Gilfillan's West Hill Catering Club
West Hill Road, Camillus

Interactive dinner theater/comedy. Benefit for the Octagon House.
Information: 315-487-5911.

Anton in Show Business
LeMoyne College
Boot and Buskin Theater Group
Anjalee Nadkarni, director

Price: $12 regular, $8 seniors, $4 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A savvy, savage backstage comedy by Jane Martin. In it, Anton skewers incompetent producers, idiot directors, surgically beautified actors, crass sponsors, self-important critics, and satirizes, celebrates, and challenges the importance of theatre as an art form today.

Winner of the 2001 American Theatre Critics Steinberg New Play Award.

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Doubt
Syracuse Stage
M Burke Walker , director

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

A Bronx Catholic school, 1964, is the setting for this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama. Sister Aloysius is certain the popular Father Flynn is guilty of "improper contact" with a young student. She has no evidence. She has no doubt, and so proceeds to accuse him and threaten him unless he resigns. Is she protecting the children in her care, or is she engaged in an unfair persecution of a wrongly accused man? Playwright John Patrick Shanley offers no easy answer in this taut and gripping drama.

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Arabian Nights
Syracuse University Drama Department
Lisa Anne Porter, director

Price: $15 regular, $13 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Arabian Nights, by Mary Zimmerman, celebrates the powers of storytelling as the play follows Scheherezade, bride of the caliph Shahryar, as she uses her narrative skills to postpone her execution by telling the caliph elaborate stories. The caliph, having been cheated on by his first wife, now beds and murders a different virgin every night. Scheherezade tries to evade this fate through her spellbinding powers of tale telling.

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An Evening of Love Songs
Opening Night Productions

Price: $18 plus cost of dinner
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

The program includes more than 30 standards, show tunes and pop-style love songs such as My Funny Valentine, All I Ask of You from Phantom of the Opera, Makin' Whoopee, For All We Know, Fly Me To The Moon, Still from Titanic, Take Me As I Am from Jekyll & Hyde, Faithfully, Just In Time, Happily Ever After and One Alone from The Desert Song. The show stars Bob Brown, Cathleen O'Brien, Bill Ali, Becky Bottrill.

Show Only packages are available for $28 per person. This includes the $18 theatre ticket and a $10 Glen Loch Restaurant gift certificate. The gift certificates may be used at any time for food or drink.

For reservations call the Glen Loch Restaurant at 315-469-6969.