Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Robert Gerhardt: "Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma"
LeMoyne College

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

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Ludwig Stein Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

This exhibit will depict the 14 Stations of the Cross, also called "Via Dolorosa" or "The Way of Sorrows.” These events are the depiction of the final hours of Christ, and they cover the Passion of Jesus from his condemnation to his entombment.

Cortland County Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-7:00 pm.

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

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

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

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

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

Where Eagles Fly: Works by Don Ford
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Don Ward, humorist, storyteller, artist, and poet, will have at least a dozen photos, along with stories and poems, on display. This is the first solo show of the artist, who has had his writings featured in many magazines across the U.S., Portugal, and Cyprus.

Figurative Expressions II
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Five artists who approach the figure in creative and unique ways
Scott Estelle: bronze sculpture
John Fitzsimmons: oil painting
Vincent Fitches: oil painting
Stephen Ryan: watercolor painting
Gail Hoffman: bronze and aluminum sculpture

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

A Fire in My Belly
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The video by David Wojnarowicz, part of a groundbreaking exhibition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery focusing on sexual difference in the making of modern American portraiture, was censored and removed from the exhibit under pressure from a right wing religious group and conservative politicians.

The video, A Fire in My Belly was removed by G. Wayne Clough, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, after receiving complaints from William Donohue, president of the Catholic League, as well as John Boehner, Republican Speaker of the House, and Eric Cantor, Republican Majority Leader. The removal of the video from the exhibition has sparked public outcry from arts organizations and activists around the world, including the Tate Modern in London, the Whitney Museum and MOMA in New York City, and SF MOMA in San Francisco, among many others. Light Work joined these protests in early December by organizing a screening of Fire in My Belly on December 14 in collaboration with the ArtRage Gallery, which included a public forum about the work. Light Work will continue to show the video until February 13, the date the exhibition is scheduled to close in Washington, DC.

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Focus x Three: Photography and Video
Redhouse

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

Focus x Three, the second in the Emerging Women of CNY series, highlights the work of three photographers: Erin Mulvehill, Gillian Andrew, and Colleen Woolpert. Each has an association and history with Syracuse, as all are graduates of Syracuse University. They have all worked, in some capacity, in the world of professional photography, perfecting their craft, while continuing to pursue the "fine art" side of their vision. Curator of this exhibition, Marianne Smith Dalton, stated: "Each of these women masterfully uses the camera to convey her own unique reflection of 'reality.' These compelling photographs, frozen moments in time, will captivate and hold you transfixed. Come celebrate the work of these three young women and discover a new way to 'see' through the lenses of these talented photographers."

Rug Design Competition Exhibition Tour
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The Odegard Award for Excellence in Rug Design Competition Exhibition Tour is currently on view. This exhibition is the result of a competition created and sponsored by Odegard Inc. to show student designers how combining modern designs with traditional hand-knotting techniques can increase awareness and respect for the legacy of textile and carpet weaving. Odegard received submissions from more than 400 students at universities and colleges across the country.

Pr-int-erface: Ornamentation on Textiles
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Pr-int-erface: Ornamentation on Textiles" features work by students of design faculty members Eileen Gosson and Jan Navales. The methods of printing on textiles have evolved though the accessibility of technological devices. Traditional screen printing has given way to digital printing, and the surface pattern design industry has changed. This exhibition highlights student experiences in understanding the differences and similarities inherent in each process and end result.

Surface Material
Szozda Gallery

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

Artist Vincent Fitches, well-know locally and globally, shares exhibit space with emerging new artist Emily Elizabeth Jones. Fitches and Jones are both relatively young in age, but of the two, Fitches has enjoyed greater notoriety, having shown his work worldwide. For Jones, "Surface Material" is her first big public exhibit. The gallery's title for the show is indicative of how each artist creates their works.

Creating mostly on panel, Fitches describes his artworks as, "uncanny in their color palate and unstructured composition." He says he focuses on a central object using subjects often in solitary environments, exposing their vulnerabilities in both his landscapes and figurative paintings. "This deconstruction of the naturalness dictated in the art world allows for a new vision of beauty and interpretation," Fitches explains.

In creating her art, Jones says she is motivated by a "fascination with the universe," where she sees the elements in the atmosphere as constantly creating and changing what we perceive. Applying acrylic on canvas, she tries to capture those moments of full spectrum of color rather than shape. "Like the glare of sun and early haziness," she says. Included in this first exhibit of Jones' works are minimal landscapes in a series called, "Horizon Colors."

The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Aomebart
Echo

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

A collaborative installation.

Stone Canoe Art Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The fifth edition of Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts, Literature, and Social Commentary, features the work of more than 100 artists and writers with ties to Upstate New York, ranging from those with international reputations to those who have not previously published or exhibited their work. Lynette Stephenson, a professor at Colgate University, is this issue's visual arts editor and curator of the current exhibition.

All Power to the People! Graphics of the Black Panther Party USA
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

From the collection of the Center for the Study of Politcal Graphics, the largest repository of political posters in the USA, All Power to the People! features Black Panther Party posters and newspaper graphics produced in the 1960s and 1970s. The exhibition highlights the artistry of Emory Douglas, and documents the Panthers' involvement with a broad array of causes, including opposition to the Vietnam War and solidarity with the United Farm Workers movement. With documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, All Power to the People! also illustrates efforts of the United States government to destroy the Panthers as part of wide-spread efforts to stifle oppositional political movements. The social programs of the Panthers and the powerful images of armed party members had a strong impact on the public consciousness of the time, and their efforts to combat the oppression of racism and poverty still resonate today.

A Fire in My Belly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

On December 1, World AIDS day, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. (a Smithsonian institute) removed the video A Fire in My Belly, by David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) from its exhibit entitled "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture," after caving to pressure from the president of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue. Donohue has described the video as anti-Catholic "hate speech" because the four-minute video includes a 15-second image of ants crawling over a crucifix. Incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner has joined with Donohue and has condemned the show as an "outrageous use of taxpayer money."

Hide/Seek is the first major exhibition at the Portrait Gallery to focus on what the museum calls "sexual difference" and A Fire in My Belly, made in 1987, was a response to the AIDS crisis in the U.S. ArtRage has joined with arts organizations all across the U.S. by screening this video, providing space to discuss the art and to discuss the implications of its censoring. We support and defend an artist's right to use their art for social change. Consequently, ArtRage will show the Wojnarowicz video in a constant loop in our gallery until Feb. 13, 2011, the scheduled end date for the Smithsonian exhibition.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

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A February Valentine Concert of Love: Agape, Phileo, and Eros
Civic Morning Musicals
Warren Ottey, conductor
Featuring Syracuse Chorale Chamber Singers

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

The music ranges from centuries-old church music to modern Broadway, and runs the full gamut of various expressions of love.

Tea Leaf Green, with The Bridge
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Stacey D'Erasmo, fiction
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

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

Rent
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Wednesday @ 1 Lecture Series preceding this performance.

Jonathan Larson's Broadway phenomenon ignites the stage with passion and energy. One year—525,600 minutes—in the lives of seven young friends from Alphabet City brings love, loss, tragedy and triumph in a whirl of non-stop music. Larson built the show on the artists and addicts he knew in his neighborhood as they battled poverty, drugs, AIDS and the looming gentrification of their Vie Bohème. Urban and gritty, this Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical brims with raw emotion and infectious enthusiasm.

Based on Puccini's La Boheme, Rent opened off-Broadway in January 1996 to wide critical acclaim. It quickly moved to its Broadway home, the Nederlander Theatre, where it ran for 12 years, becoming the eighth longest running Broadway musical in history. Rent won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for drama and was nominated for ten Tony Awards, winning four, including Best Musical and Best Original Score.

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Rent
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Jonathan Larson's Broadway phenomenon ignites the stage with passion and energy. One year—525,600 minutes—in the lives of seven young friends from Alphabet City brings love, loss, tragedy and triumph in a whirl of non-stop music. Larson built the show on the artists and addicts he knew in his neighborhood as they battled poverty, drugs, AIDS and the looming gentrification of their Vie Bohème. Urban and gritty, this Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical brims with raw emotion and infectious enthusiasm.

Based on Puccini's La Boheme, Rent opened off-Broadway in January 1996 to wide critical acclaim. It quickly moved to its Broadway home, the Nederlander Theatre, where it ran for 12 years, becoming the eighth longest running Broadway musical in history. Rent won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for drama and was nominated for ten Tony Awards, winning four, including Best Musical and Best Original Score.

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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Robert Gerhardt: "Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma"
LeMoyne College

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

Ludwig Stein Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

This exhibit will depict the 14 Stations of the Cross, also called "Via Dolorosa" or "The Way of Sorrows.” These events are the depiction of the final hours of Christ, and they cover the Passion of Jesus from his condemnation to his entombment.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Cortland County Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

Where Eagles Fly: Works by Don Ford
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Don Ward, humorist, storyteller, artist, and poet, will have at least a dozen photos, along with stories and poems, on display. This is the first solo show of the artist, who has had his writings featured in many magazines across the U.S., Portugal, and Cyprus.

Figurative Expressions II
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Five artists who approach the figure in creative and unique ways
Scott Estelle: bronze sculpture
John Fitzsimmons: oil painting
Vincent Fitches: oil painting
Stephen Ryan: watercolor painting
Gail Hoffman: bronze and aluminum sculpture

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

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

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

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

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

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

A Fire in My Belly
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The video by David Wojnarowicz, part of a groundbreaking exhibition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery focusing on sexual difference in the making of modern American portraiture, was censored and removed from the exhibit under pressure from a right wing religious group and conservative politicians.

The video, A Fire in My Belly was removed by G. Wayne Clough, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, after receiving complaints from William Donohue, president of the Catholic League, as well as John Boehner, Republican Speaker of the House, and Eric Cantor, Republican Majority Leader. The removal of the video from the exhibition has sparked public outcry from arts organizations and activists around the world, including the Tate Modern in London, the Whitney Museum and MOMA in New York City, and SF MOMA in San Francisco, among many others. Light Work joined these protests in early December by organizing a screening of Fire in My Belly on December 14 in collaboration with the ArtRage Gallery, which included a public forum about the work. Light Work will continue to show the video until February 13, the date the exhibition is scheduled to close in Washington, DC.

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Focus x Three: Photography and Video
Redhouse

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

Focus x Three, the second in the Emerging Women of CNY series, highlights the work of three photographers: Erin Mulvehill, Gillian Andrew, and Colleen Woolpert. Each has an association and history with Syracuse, as all are graduates of Syracuse University. They have all worked, in some capacity, in the world of professional photography, perfecting their craft, while continuing to pursue the "fine art" side of their vision. Curator of this exhibition, Marianne Smith Dalton, stated: "Each of these women masterfully uses the camera to convey her own unique reflection of 'reality.' These compelling photographs, frozen moments in time, will captivate and hold you transfixed. Come celebrate the work of these three young women and discover a new way to 'see' through the lenses of these talented photographers."

Pr-int-erface: Ornamentation on Textiles
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Pr-int-erface: Ornamentation on Textiles" features work by students of design faculty members Eileen Gosson and Jan Navales. The methods of printing on textiles have evolved though the accessibility of technological devices. Traditional screen printing has given way to digital printing, and the surface pattern design industry has changed. This exhibition highlights student experiences in understanding the differences and similarities inherent in each process and end result.

Rug Design Competition Exhibition Tour
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The Odegard Award for Excellence in Rug Design Competition Exhibition Tour is currently on view. This exhibition is the result of a competition created and sponsored by Odegard Inc. to show student designers how combining modern designs with traditional hand-knotting techniques can increase awareness and respect for the legacy of textile and carpet weaving. Odegard received submissions from more than 400 students at universities and colleges across the country.

Surface Material
Szozda Gallery

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

Artist Vincent Fitches, well-know locally and globally, shares exhibit space with emerging new artist Emily Elizabeth Jones. Fitches and Jones are both relatively young in age, but of the two, Fitches has enjoyed greater notoriety, having shown his work worldwide. For Jones, "Surface Material" is her first big public exhibit. The gallery's title for the show is indicative of how each artist creates their works.

Creating mostly on panel, Fitches describes his artworks as, "uncanny in their color palate and unstructured composition." He says he focuses on a central object using subjects often in solitary environments, exposing their vulnerabilities in both his landscapes and figurative paintings. "This deconstruction of the naturalness dictated in the art world allows for a new vision of beauty and interpretation," Fitches explains.

In creating her art, Jones says she is motivated by a "fascination with the universe," where she sees the elements in the atmosphere as constantly creating and changing what we perceive. Applying acrylic on canvas, she tries to capture those moments of full spectrum of color rather than shape. "Like the glare of sun and early haziness," she says. Included in this first exhibit of Jones' works are minimal landscapes in a series called, "Horizon Colors."

Embryonic: New Work by Eunjung Shin
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Korean-born Eunjung Shin's figurative ceramic sculpture depicts experiences from the artist's life. Her work in the upcoming show, Embryonic, will include a new series of realistic, infant figures cradled in egg-like structures. These pieces represent Shin's hopeful wishes and new beginnings. The exhibition will also include larger jester figures, which explore the nature of human folly. Many of the works are embellished with beautifully hand-carved arabesques and floral patterns. The artist says that the carving of these ornamentations is much like meditative acts connected to many Asian traditions.

Shin received an MFA in Ceramics from Syracuse University in 2007 and a MFA in Ceramics form Kyunghee University in Yongin, Korea. She currently teaches classes at the Community Folk Art Center’s Creative Arts Academy in Syracuse. Her artwork has been shown in many venues nationally and internationally, including Affinity at the Icheon World Ceramic Center in Icheon, Korea. Shin currently resides in the city of Syracuse.

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Aomebart
Echo

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

A collaborative installation.

Stone Canoe Art Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The fifth edition of Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts, Literature, and Social Commentary, features the work of more than 100 artists and writers with ties to Upstate New York, ranging from those with international reputations to those who have not previously published or exhibited their work. Lynette Stephenson, a professor at Colgate University, is this issue's visual arts editor and curator of the current exhibition.

A Fire in My Belly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

On December 1, World AIDS day, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. (a Smithsonian institute) removed the video A Fire in My Belly, by David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) from its exhibit entitled "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture," after caving to pressure from the president of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue. Donohue has described the video as anti-Catholic "hate speech" because the four-minute video includes a 15-second image of ants crawling over a crucifix. Incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner has joined with Donohue and has condemned the show as an "outrageous use of taxpayer money."

Hide/Seek is the first major exhibition at the Portrait Gallery to focus on what the museum calls "sexual difference" and A Fire in My Belly, made in 1987, was a response to the AIDS crisis in the U.S. ArtRage has joined with arts organizations all across the U.S. by screening this video, providing space to discuss the art and to discuss the implications of its censoring. We support and defend an artist's right to use their art for social change. Consequently, ArtRage will show the Wojnarowicz video in a constant loop in our gallery until Feb. 13, 2011, the scheduled end date for the Smithsonian exhibition.

All Power to the People! Graphics of the Black Panther Party USA
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

From the collection of the Center for the Study of Politcal Graphics, the largest repository of political posters in the USA, All Power to the People! features Black Panther Party posters and newspaper graphics produced in the 1960s and 1970s. The exhibition highlights the artistry of Emory Douglas, and documents the Panthers' involvement with a broad array of causes, including opposition to the Vietnam War and solidarity with the United Farm Workers movement. With documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, All Power to the People! also illustrates efforts of the United States government to destroy the Panthers as part of wide-spread efforts to stifle oppositional political movements. The social programs of the Panthers and the powerful images of armed party members had a strong impact on the public consciousness of the time, and their efforts to combat the oppression of racism and poverty still resonate today.

Opening: The Psyche and Color: An Italian Point of View

Price: Free
Hospice of Central New York
990 Seventh North St., Liverpool

Maria Rizzo and Maria Grazia Facchinetti from Italy of two different generations and with two points of view, show 14 works each in an explosive combination of light, color and symbolism.

Demitrus Oliver: Mare, 2009
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Hip Hop Comedy Jamm 2011

Price: $12 regular, $10 with student or military ID
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

For reservations and information, call 315-832-0643

A night for local Hip Hop music and stand up comedy. Host KD the Comic presents Ty Doria, Runnamuck and more along with comedy.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

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Wine, Women and Film: Fashion
Redhouse

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

A screening of Fashion, followed by a discussion with Tula Goenka, associate professor of TV/Radio/Film at Syracuse University and author of Bollywood and Beyond: Conversations with Indian Filmmakers.

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

Left on Red & The Chocolate Revolution Tour
ArtRage Gallery

Price: $10 suggested donation; free for children, seniors, and the unemployed
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The Chocolate Revolution Tour 2011 will be an interactively sweet experience focused around fair-trade chocolate, music and education. Headlined by Left On Red with additional performances by Grace Lynn Stumberg, the tour consists of evening performances at venues as well as educational initiatives in high schools and radio and press interviews throughout each day.

Left on Red's story began when Liah and Kelly decided to make their living exclusively through busking in the New York subways. Now, after three years, they have written and recorded 2 EPs, been played on over 150 non-commercial and college radio stations, and wowed audiences of all ages and musical tastes with their unique brand of original songs with catchy melodic hooks and intelligent, often humorous yet socially relevant lyrics and passionate improvisational instrumentation. Left On Red believes by making the simple informed decision to purchase Fair Trade Chocolate this Valentine's Day, consumers are taking a step toward eradicating child slavery in the cocoa fields of Africa and showing powerful corporations that it is unacceptable to profit from child trafficked labor in any industry.

Harry Crocker and the Saucerer's Stove
Acme Mystery Company

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

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

Rent
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Jonathan Larson's Broadway phenomenon ignites the stage with passion and energy. One year—525,600 minutes—in the lives of seven young friends from Alphabet City brings love, loss, tragedy and triumph in a whirl of non-stop music. Larson built the show on the artists and addicts he knew in his neighborhood as they battled poverty, drugs, AIDS and the looming gentrification of their Vie Bohème. Urban and gritty, this Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical brims with raw emotion and infectious enthusiasm.

Based on Puccini's La Boheme, Rent opened off-Broadway in January 1996 to wide critical acclaim. It quickly moved to its Broadway home, the Nederlander Theatre, where it ran for 12 years, becoming the eighth longest running Broadway musical in history. Rent won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for drama and was nominated for ten Tony Awards, winning four, including Best Musical and Best Original Score.

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Friday, February 11, 2011

Robert Gerhardt: "Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma"
LeMoyne College

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

The Psyche and Color: An Italian Point of View

Price: Free
Hospice of Central New York
990 Seventh North St., Liverpool

Maria Rizzo and Maria Grazia Facchinetti from Italy of two different generations and with two points of view, show 14 works each in an explosive combination of light, color and symbolism.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Ludwig Stein Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

This exhibit will depict the 14 Stations of the Cross, also called "Via Dolorosa" or "The Way of Sorrows.” These events are the depiction of the final hours of Christ, and they cover the Passion of Jesus from his condemnation to his entombment.

Cortland County Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

Where Eagles Fly: Works by Don Ford
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Don Ward, humorist, storyteller, artist, and poet, will have at least a dozen photos, along with stories and poems, on display. This is the first solo show of the artist, who has had his writings featured in many magazines across the U.S., Portugal, and Cyprus.

Figurative Expressions II
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Five artists who approach the figure in creative and unique ways
Scott Estelle: bronze sculpture
John Fitzsimmons: oil painting
Vincent Fitches: oil painting
Stephen Ryan: watercolor painting
Gail Hoffman: bronze and aluminum sculpture

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

A Fire in My Belly
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The video by David Wojnarowicz, part of a groundbreaking exhibition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery focusing on sexual difference in the making of modern American portraiture, was censored and removed from the exhibit under pressure from a right wing religious group and conservative politicians.

The video, A Fire in My Belly was removed by G. Wayne Clough, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, after receiving complaints from William Donohue, president of the Catholic League, as well as John Boehner, Republican Speaker of the House, and Eric Cantor, Republican Majority Leader. The removal of the video from the exhibition has sparked public outcry from arts organizations and activists around the world, including the Tate Modern in London, the Whitney Museum and MOMA in New York City, and SF MOMA in San Francisco, among many others. Light Work joined these protests in early December by organizing a screening of Fire in My Belly on December 14 in collaboration with the ArtRage Gallery, which included a public forum about the work. Light Work will continue to show the video until February 13, the date the exhibition is scheduled to close in Washington, DC.

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Focus x Three: Photography and Video
Redhouse

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

Focus x Three, the second in the Emerging Women of CNY series, highlights the work of three photographers: Erin Mulvehill, Gillian Andrew, and Colleen Woolpert. Each has an association and history with Syracuse, as all are graduates of Syracuse University. They have all worked, in some capacity, in the world of professional photography, perfecting their craft, while continuing to pursue the "fine art" side of their vision. Curator of this exhibition, Marianne Smith Dalton, stated: "Each of these women masterfully uses the camera to convey her own unique reflection of 'reality.' These compelling photographs, frozen moments in time, will captivate and hold you transfixed. Come celebrate the work of these three young women and discover a new way to 'see' through the lenses of these talented photographers."

Rug Design Competition Exhibition Tour
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The Odegard Award for Excellence in Rug Design Competition Exhibition Tour is currently on view. This exhibition is the result of a competition created and sponsored by Odegard Inc. to show student designers how combining modern designs with traditional hand-knotting techniques can increase awareness and respect for the legacy of textile and carpet weaving. Odegard received submissions from more than 400 students at universities and colleges across the country.

Pr-int-erface: Ornamentation on Textiles
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Pr-int-erface: Ornamentation on Textiles" features work by students of design faculty members Eileen Gosson and Jan Navales. The methods of printing on textiles have evolved though the accessibility of technological devices. Traditional screen printing has given way to digital printing, and the surface pattern design industry has changed. This exhibition highlights student experiences in understanding the differences and similarities inherent in each process and end result.

Surface Material
Szozda Gallery

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

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

Artist Vincent Fitches, well-know locally and globally, shares exhibit space with emerging new artist Emily Elizabeth Jones. Fitches and Jones are both relatively young in age, but of the two, Fitches has enjoyed greater notoriety, having shown his work worldwide. For Jones, "Surface Material" is her first big public exhibit. The gallery's title for the show is indicative of how each artist creates their works.

Creating mostly on panel, Fitches describes his artworks as, "uncanny in their color palate and unstructured composition." He says he focuses on a central object using subjects often in solitary environments, exposing their vulnerabilities in both his landscapes and figurative paintings. "This deconstruction of the naturalness dictated in the art world allows for a new vision of beauty and interpretation," Fitches explains.

In creating her art, Jones says she is motivated by a "fascination with the universe," where she sees the elements in the atmosphere as constantly creating and changing what we perceive. Applying acrylic on canvas, she tries to capture those moments of full spectrum of color rather than shape. "Like the glare of sun and early haziness," she says. Included in this first exhibit of Jones' works are minimal landscapes in a series called, "Horizon Colors."

Embryonic: New Work by Eunjung Shin
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Korean-born Eunjung Shin's figurative ceramic sculpture depicts experiences from the artist's life. Her work in the upcoming show, Embryonic, will include a new series of realistic, infant figures cradled in egg-like structures. These pieces represent Shin's hopeful wishes and new beginnings. The exhibition will also include larger jester figures, which explore the nature of human folly. Many of the works are embellished with beautifully hand-carved arabesques and floral patterns. The artist says that the carving of these ornamentations is much like meditative acts connected to many Asian traditions.

Shin received an MFA in Ceramics from Syracuse University in 2007 and a MFA in Ceramics form Kyunghee University in Yongin, Korea. She currently teaches classes at the Community Folk Art Center’s Creative Arts Academy in Syracuse. Her artwork has been shown in many venues nationally and internationally, including Affinity at the Icheon World Ceramic Center in Icheon, Korea. Shin currently resides in the city of Syracuse.

The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Aomebart
Echo

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

A collaborative installation.

Stone Canoe Art Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The fifth edition of Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts, Literature, and Social Commentary, features the work of more than 100 artists and writers with ties to Upstate New York, ranging from those with international reputations to those who have not previously published or exhibited their work. Lynette Stephenson, a professor at Colgate University, is this issue's visual arts editor and curator of the current exhibition.

All Power to the People! Graphics of the Black Panther Party USA
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

From the collection of the Center for the Study of Politcal Graphics, the largest repository of political posters in the USA, All Power to the People! features Black Panther Party posters and newspaper graphics produced in the 1960s and 1970s. The exhibition highlights the artistry of Emory Douglas, and documents the Panthers' involvement with a broad array of causes, including opposition to the Vietnam War and solidarity with the United Farm Workers movement. With documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, All Power to the People! also illustrates efforts of the United States government to destroy the Panthers as part of wide-spread efforts to stifle oppositional political movements. The social programs of the Panthers and the powerful images of armed party members had a strong impact on the public consciousness of the time, and their efforts to combat the oppression of racism and poverty still resonate today.

A Fire in My Belly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

On December 1, World AIDS day, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. (a Smithsonian institute) removed the video A Fire in My Belly, by David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) from its exhibit entitled "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture," after caving to pressure from the president of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue. Donohue has described the video as anti-Catholic "hate speech" because the four-minute video includes a 15-second image of ants crawling over a crucifix. Incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner has joined with Donohue and has condemned the show as an "outrageous use of taxpayer money."

Hide/Seek is the first major exhibition at the Portrait Gallery to focus on what the museum calls "sexual difference" and A Fire in My Belly, made in 1987, was a response to the AIDS crisis in the U.S. ArtRage has joined with arts organizations all across the U.S. by screening this video, providing space to discuss the art and to discuss the implications of its censoring. We support and defend an artist's right to use their art for social change. Consequently, ArtRage will show the Wojnarowicz video in a constant loop in our gallery until Feb. 13, 2011, the scheduled end date for the Smithsonian exhibition.

Demitrus Oliver: Mare, 2009
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Satan's Closet
Salt City Improv Theater

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

The SCiT long-form house team will take your suggestions and spontaneously turn them into hilarious scenes. How do they do it? We suspect magical powers.

Jump at the Sun
Light Work Gallery

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

Jump at the Sun is the first feature-length documentary about the life of novelist and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston. Chock full of her anthropological footage shot or produced in 1927 and 1943, it swells with an honest verve, never losing its melodic pace. The program begins with a talk at 4:30pm, followed by a screening of the documentary at 5:00pm, and a question and answer session with writer/producer Kristy Anderson at 6:30pm.

Hurston (1891-1960) wrote short stories and books, and was considered the queen of the Harlem Renaissance. Commentary from writers Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, biographer Cheryl Wall, and scholars are featured in the 84-minute biographical film. Footage of the rural South, some of it shot by Hurston, and recordings of her talking and singing are included in the documentary. The film’s title comes from Hurston’s mother encouraging her to “jump at the sun,” to realize her dreams and not be deterred because she was black and a woman.

This presentation is sponsored by Syracuse University's Office of Multicultural Affairs, in collaboration with Slutzker Center for International Services, Partnership for Better Education, Department of Anthropology, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, Light Work, Honors Program, and the College of Arts & Sciences.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

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Brew & View Series: Hair
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Implements of Mass Construction
Erie Canal Museum

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

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

SSO Brass Quintet
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Don Giovanni
Syracuse Opera

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

In this Mozart classic opera, the amorous pursuits of Don Giovanni involve intrigue, impersonation, bravado, jealousy and a fiery ending. Set in Spain, in and around Don Giovanni's villa. Sung in Italian with projected English translation.

Jonathan Bender, author
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Jonathan Bender is the author of LEGO: A Love Story. It covers the year he spent immersed
in the Adult Fan of LEGO community traveling to fan conventions in search of the country's largest private collection. His journey also took him abroad to LEGO's headquarters in Denmark, where he was able to tour the factory and visit the secret set vault. While he was attempting to understand why adults are so drawn to a child's toy, he and his wife Kate were attempting to start a family of their own. Originally a third-person project, Bender found himself being drawn into the world of adult fans and attempting to build alongside them. Bender is a freelance journalist. His writing has appeared on CNN.com, ESPN.com, Women's Health Magazine, and the Kansas City Star, among others. He makes his home in Kansas City with his wife and he has significantly more than the 62 LEGO bricks that exist for every man, woman and child on earth.

Love Letters and Hate Mail
CNY Playhouse

Price: Dinner theater: $29 single; $55 couple. Show only: $20 (limited availability)
Fire and Ice Banquet Hall, The Locker Room
528 Hiawatha Blvd., Syracuse

Dinner at 6:45 pm, followed by show at 8:00 pm.

Just in time for Valentine's day, NATC presents AR Gurney's Love Letters paired with its modern counterpart You've Got Hate Mail by Billy Van Zandt and Jane Millimore. Love Letters, the classic love tale, directed by Dustin Czarny, centers around the letters written over a span of 50 years. The performance will feature well-known theatrical couples Mark English and Cathy Greer English on Feb. 12 and 18 and Dan Stevens and Nora O'Dea on Feb. 11, 13, and 17.

The second act turns to the modern world in You've Got Hate Mail. The show is intended as a comic answer to Love Letters and revolves around the zaniness a few errant emails can cause to a relationship. This show also stars real-life married couples Navroz and Binaifer Dabu, and Dustin M. Czarny and Heather J. Roach. Pam Hipius rounds out the cast and the play is directed by her husband Greg Hipius.

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Reach
Encore Presentations
M. Marie Beebe, director

Price: $37.25 dinner theater (includes tax and tip); $20 show only
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

This is a world premiere of Reach by Ryan Sprague, starring Ryan Santiago and Danielle Valeriano.

New Orleans 2006, a year after Hurricane Katrina. In this quirky sweet story of hope, we learn what happens after the media has gone. In rationalizing great tragedy, Lindsey and Jordan find themselves stagnant and detached. But through play, compassion, and acceptance they are able to leave their isolation and be in the unknown together.

For tickets, phone 315-469-6969.

Note: Show contains mature language.

Dinner at 7:00 pm; show follows at 8:00 pm.

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Antony and Cleopatra
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Antony and Cleopatra is an epic historical tragedy whose title characters are larger than life and death. The story was made famous in the early '60s by Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and Rex Harrison in the boom and bust movie entitled Cleopatra.

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Saturday, February 12, 2011

Robert Gerhardt: "Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma"
LeMoyne College

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

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Aomebart
Echo

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

A collaborative installation.

Figurative Expressions II
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Five artists who approach the figure in creative and unique ways
Scott Estelle: bronze sculpture
John Fitzsimmons: oil painting
Vincent Fitches: oil painting
Stephen Ryan: watercolor painting
Gail Hoffman: bronze and aluminum sculpture

Surface Material
Szozda Gallery

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

Artist Vincent Fitches, well-know locally and globally, shares exhibit space with emerging new artist Emily Elizabeth Jones. Fitches and Jones are both relatively young in age, but of the two, Fitches has enjoyed greater notoriety, having shown his work worldwide. For Jones, "Surface Material" is her first big public exhibit. The gallery's title for the show is indicative of how each artist creates their works.

Creating mostly on panel, Fitches describes his artworks as, "uncanny in their color palate and unstructured composition." He says he focuses on a central object using subjects often in solitary environments, exposing their vulnerabilities in both his landscapes and figurative paintings. "This deconstruction of the naturalness dictated in the art world allows for a new vision of beauty and interpretation," Fitches explains.

In creating her art, Jones says she is motivated by a "fascination with the universe," where she sees the elements in the atmosphere as constantly creating and changing what we perceive. Applying acrylic on canvas, she tries to capture those moments of full spectrum of color rather than shape. "Like the glare of sun and early haziness," she says. Included in this first exhibit of Jones' works are minimal landscapes in a series called, "Horizon Colors."

Embryonic: New Work by Eunjung Shin
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Korean-born Eunjung Shin's figurative ceramic sculpture depicts experiences from the artist's life. Her work in the upcoming show, Embryonic, will include a new series of realistic, infant figures cradled in egg-like structures. These pieces represent Shin's hopeful wishes and new beginnings. The exhibition will also include larger jester figures, which explore the nature of human folly. Many of the works are embellished with beautifully hand-carved arabesques and floral patterns. The artist says that the carving of these ornamentations is much like meditative acts connected to many Asian traditions.

Shin received an MFA in Ceramics from Syracuse University in 2007 and a MFA in Ceramics form Kyunghee University in Yongin, Korea. She currently teaches classes at the Community Folk Art Center’s Creative Arts Academy in Syracuse. Her artwork has been shown in many venues nationally and internationally, including Affinity at the Icheon World Ceramic Center in Icheon, Korea. Shin currently resides in the city of Syracuse.

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Fire in My Belly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

On December 1, World AIDS day, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. (a Smithsonian institute) removed the video A Fire in My Belly, by David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) from its exhibit entitled "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture," after caving to pressure from the president of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue. Donohue has described the video as anti-Catholic "hate speech" because the four-minute video includes a 15-second image of ants crawling over a crucifix. Incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner has joined with Donohue and has condemned the show as an "outrageous use of taxpayer money."

Hide/Seek is the first major exhibition at the Portrait Gallery to focus on what the museum calls "sexual difference" and A Fire in My Belly, made in 1987, was a response to the AIDS crisis in the U.S. ArtRage has joined with arts organizations all across the U.S. by screening this video, providing space to discuss the art and to discuss the implications of its censoring. We support and defend an artist's right to use their art for social change. Consequently, ArtRage will show the Wojnarowicz video in a constant loop in our gallery until Feb. 13, 2011, the scheduled end date for the Smithsonian exhibition.

All Power to the People! Graphics of the Black Panther Party USA
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

From the collection of the Center for the Study of Politcal Graphics, the largest repository of political posters in the USA, All Power to the People! features Black Panther Party posters and newspaper graphics produced in the 1960s and 1970s. The exhibition highlights the artistry of Emory Douglas, and documents the Panthers' involvement with a broad array of causes, including opposition to the Vietnam War and solidarity with the United Farm Workers movement. With documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, All Power to the People! also illustrates efforts of the United States government to destroy the Panthers as part of wide-spread efforts to stifle oppositional political movements. The social programs of the Panthers and the powerful images of armed party members had a strong impact on the public consciousness of the time, and their efforts to combat the oppression of racism and poverty still resonate today.

Artist Reception: Stone Canoe Art Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

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

The fifth edition of Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts, Literature, and Social Commentary, features the work of more than 100 artists and writers with ties to Upstate New York, ranging from those with international reputations to those who have not previously published or exhibited their work. Lynette Stephenson, a professor at Colgate University, is this issue's visual arts editor and curator of the current exhibition.

Demitrus Oliver: Mare, 2009
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

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Movies of Color: Black Southern Cinema
ArtRage Gallery

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

Fascinating documentary explores films by African-Americans that offered non-stereotypical portraits of their lives in America between 1915 and 1945.  Rare and revealing.

Directed by Tom Thurman, 2003.

Implements of Mass Construction
Erie Canal Museum

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

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

Subcat Music Series: The Worst/Carnindyle
Redhouse

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

Subcat brings local band The Worst and their friends Carnindyle to Red House stage. Don't be fooled by the name, this duo is making a name for themselves around the Syracuse area playing what they describe as funk music.

Junior Voice Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Sarah Detweiler and Rachel Boucher

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

Sarah Detweiler and Rachel Boucher, junior music industry and vocal performance students, will perform works by such composers as Brahms, Mozart, Faure, Handel and Ben Moore, with the assistance of Jianan Yu and Juliette Sabbah on piano.

Parking is available in Irving Garage.

Larry Hoyt and the Good Acoustics
Westcott Community Center

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

Larry Hoyt and the Good Acoustics bring a variety of talents to the stage as they entertain with a variety of acoustic musics, from old-time folk and country, to pop standards and acoustic versions of rock'n'roll oldies.

"Variety is the spice of life" says singer and group leader, Larry Hoyt, a veteran singer/songwriter who has performed for many years in Central new York, as well as in Nashville, Los Angeles, and New York City. In addition to performing several originals, Hoyt and the Acoustics deliver acoustic renditions of songs written by Stephan Foster, Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan, among many others. Joining Hoyt onstage are bassist and back-up singer David Goldman; violinist Judy Stanton; and vocalist Eileen Rose, who sings harmony, and also lead on such favorites as "Leaving on a Jet Plane" and "A Thousand Stars". Other favorite songs found in a typical Good Acoustics set list include "On the Road Again," "Jambalya," "Dream," "Hard Times Come Again No More," "If I Had a Hammer," and "So Long, Been Good to Know Yuh."

Library Boogie
Open Hand Theater
Tom Knight

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

It's a show that's fun for kids, but savvy enough to appeal to grown-ups, too. Tom Knight is a great children's songwriter. His shows are filled with short puppet vignettes, lots of songs, and audience participation. Tom's favorite themes are animals, food, the environment, and the importance of reading. With catchy melodies and clever lyrics, Tom Knight's songs are easy to remember and fun to sing and most have a part for the audience, whether it is hand movements, dancing to the "Alligator Jump" or just singing along.

Sleeping Beauty
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive comedy retelling of the children's classic.

Rent
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Jonathan Larson's Broadway phenomenon ignites the stage with passion and energy. One year—525,600 minutes—in the lives of seven young friends from Alphabet City brings love, loss, tragedy and triumph in a whirl of non-stop music. Larson built the show on the artists and addicts he knew in his neighborhood as they battled poverty, drugs, AIDS and the looming gentrification of their Vie Bohème. Urban and gritty, this Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical brims with raw emotion and infectious enthusiasm.

Based on Puccini's La Boheme, Rent opened off-Broadway in January 1996 to wide critical acclaim. It quickly moved to its Broadway home, the Nederlander Theatre, where it ran for 12 years, becoming the eighth longest running Broadway musical in history. Rent won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for drama and was nominated for ten Tony Awards, winning four, including Best Musical and Best Original Score.

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Love Letters and Hate Mail
CNY Playhouse

Price: Dinner theater: $29 single; $55 couple. Show only: $20 (limited availability)
Fire and Ice Banquet Hall, The Locker Room
528 Hiawatha Blvd., Syracuse

Dinner at 6:45 pm, followed by show at 8:00 pm.

Just in time for Valentine's day, NATC presents AR Gurney's Love Letters paired with its modern counterpart You've Got Hate Mail by Billy Van Zandt and Jane Millimore. Love Letters, the classic love tale, directed by Dustin Czarny, centers around the letters written over a span of 50 years. The performance will feature well-known theatrical couples Mark English and Cathy Greer English on Feb. 12 and 18 and Dan Stevens and Nora O'Dea on Feb. 11, 13, and 17.

The second act turns to the modern world in You've Got Hate Mail. The show is intended as a comic answer to Love Letters and revolves around the zaniness a few errant emails can cause to a relationship. This show also stars real-life married couples Navroz and Binaifer Dabu, and Dustin M. Czarny and Heather J. Roach. Pam Hipius rounds out the cast and the play is directed by her husband Greg Hipius.

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Reach
Encore Presentations
M. Marie Beebe, director

Price: $37.25 dinner theater (includes tax and tip); $20 show only
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

This is a world premiere of Reach by Ryan Sprague, starring Ryan Santiago and Danielle Valeriano.

New Orleans 2006, a year after Hurricane Katrina. In this quirky sweet story of hope, we learn what happens after the media has gone. In rationalizing great tragedy, Lindsey and Jordan find themselves stagnant and detached. But through play, compassion, and acceptance they are able to leave their isolation and be in the unknown together.

For tickets, phone 315-469-6969.

Note: Show contains mature language.

Dinner at 7:00 pm; show follows at 8:00 pm.

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Antony and Cleopatra
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Antony and Cleopatra is an epic historical tragedy whose title characters are larger than life and death. The story was made famous in the early '60s by Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and Rex Harrison in the boom and bust movie entitled Cleopatra.

Read a Review!

Rent
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Jonathan Larson's Broadway phenomenon ignites the stage with passion and energy. One year—525,600 minutes—in the lives of seven young friends from Alphabet City brings love, loss, tragedy and triumph in a whirl of non-stop music. Larson built the show on the artists and addicts he knew in his neighborhood as they battled poverty, drugs, AIDS and the looming gentrification of their Vie Bohème. Urban and gritty, this Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical brims with raw emotion and infectious enthusiasm.

Based on Puccini's La Boheme, Rent opened off-Broadway in January 1996 to wide critical acclaim. It quickly moved to its Broadway home, the Nederlander Theatre, where it ran for 12 years, becoming the eighth longest running Broadway musical in history. Rent won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for drama and was nominated for ten Tony Awards, winning four, including Best Musical and Best Original Score.

Read a Review!

Sunday, February 13, 2011

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

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

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

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

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

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

A Fire in My Belly
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The video by David Wojnarowicz, part of a groundbreaking exhibition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery focusing on sexual difference in the making of modern American portraiture, was censored and removed from the exhibit under pressure from a right wing religious group and conservative politicians.

The video, A Fire in My Belly was removed by G. Wayne Clough, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, after receiving complaints from William Donohue, president of the Catholic League, as well as John Boehner, Republican Speaker of the House, and Eric Cantor, Republican Majority Leader. The removal of the video from the exhibition has sparked public outcry from arts organizations and activists around the world, including the Tate Modern in London, the Whitney Museum and MOMA in New York City, and SF MOMA in San Francisco, among many others. Light Work joined these protests in early December by organizing a screening of Fire in My Belly on December 14 in collaboration with the ArtRage Gallery, which included a public forum about the work. Light Work will continue to show the video until February 13, the date the exhibition is scheduled to close in Washington, DC.

Surface Material
Szozda Gallery

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

Artist Vincent Fitches, well-know locally and globally, shares exhibit space with emerging new artist Emily Elizabeth Jones. Fitches and Jones are both relatively young in age, but of the two, Fitches has enjoyed greater notoriety, having shown his work worldwide. For Jones, "Surface Material" is her first big public exhibit. The gallery's title for the show is indicative of how each artist creates their works.

Creating mostly on panel, Fitches describes his artworks as, "uncanny in their color palate and unstructured composition." He says he focuses on a central object using subjects often in solitary environments, exposing their vulnerabilities in both his landscapes and figurative paintings. "This deconstruction of the naturalness dictated in the art world allows for a new vision of beauty and interpretation," Fitches explains.

In creating her art, Jones says she is motivated by a "fascination with the universe," where she sees the elements in the atmosphere as constantly creating and changing what we perceive. Applying acrylic on canvas, she tries to capture those moments of full spectrum of color rather than shape. "Like the glare of sun and early haziness," she says. Included in this first exhibit of Jones' works are minimal landscapes in a series called, "Horizon Colors."

Embryonic: New Work by Eunjung Shin
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Korean-born Eunjung Shin's figurative ceramic sculpture depicts experiences from the artist's life. Her work in the upcoming show, Embryonic, will include a new series of realistic, infant figures cradled in egg-like structures. These pieces represent Shin's hopeful wishes and new beginnings. The exhibition will also include larger jester figures, which explore the nature of human folly. Many of the works are embellished with beautifully hand-carved arabesques and floral patterns. The artist says that the carving of these ornamentations is much like meditative acts connected to many Asian traditions.

Shin received an MFA in Ceramics from Syracuse University in 2007 and a MFA in Ceramics form Kyunghee University in Yongin, Korea. She currently teaches classes at the Community Folk Art Center’s Creative Arts Academy in Syracuse. Her artwork has been shown in many venues nationally and internationally, including Affinity at the Icheon World Ceramic Center in Icheon, Korea. Shin currently resides in the city of Syracuse.

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Robert Gerhardt: "Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma"
LeMoyne College

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

Stone Canoe Art Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The fifth edition of Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts, Literature, and Social Commentary, features the work of more than 100 artists and writers with ties to Upstate New York, ranging from those with international reputations to those who have not previously published or exhibited their work. Lynette Stephenson, a professor at Colgate University, is this issue's visual arts editor and curator of the current exhibition.

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Demitrus Oliver: Mare, 2009
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

One From the Heart
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 film only; $20 film, dessert, and champagne
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Dessert and champagne, music by Crystal Gayle and Tom Waits and Coppola's only musical -- could there be a better way to celebrate Valentine's Day and support SYRFILM?

After completing Apocalypse Now, director Francis Ford Coppola initially planned his next picture to be an intimate romantic musical to be shot on a low budget in Las Vegas. Three years later, One From the Heart had become a big budget spectacular, shot at his newly opened Zeotrope Studios on strikingly stylized sets and costing $27 million. The story stars Frederick Forrest (Hank) and Teri Garr (Franny), a working-class couple whose relationship has fallen into a rut. They both set off to find new partners and meet Leila and Ray (Natasha Kinsky and Raul Julia), a high-wire artist and would-be actor. But Franny and Hank still love each other, so will that love bring them back together? Singer/songwriter Tom Waits received an Oscar nomination for his widely acclaimed song score, performed with country crooner Crystal Gayle.

Tickets for the film only will be available at the door. Reservations requested for the dessert and champagne reception -- phone 315-443-8826.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

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Implements of Mass Construction
Erie Canal Museum

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

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

Jill Coggiola, clarinet

Price: Free
University United Methodist Church
1085 E. Genesee St. (corner of University Ave.), Syracuse

Coggiola will perform works by Paul Ben-Haim and Louis Cahuzac. Members of the Syracuse University Clarinet Choir will join her in the second half of the concert for works by George Gershwin, Jean Francaix, and Arnold Cooke.

A native of Buffalo and affiliate artist at Syracuse University, Coggiola has held clarinet positions with the Naples Philharmonic, Tallahassee Symphony, Erie Philharmonic and Opera Roanoke. She has performed with numerous orchestras and chamber ensembles, including the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic and Rochester Philharmonic, and has appeared as both concerto soloist and recitalist throughout the eastern United States. At Syracuse University, Coggiola teaches clarinet, directs the Syracuse University Clarinet Choir, and supervises woodwind instruction for the music education program in the Setnor School of Music.

University Church is handicapped accessible, and free parking is available off University Avenue. For more information, call the church at 315-475-7277.

Black History Month Cabaret
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Antoinette Montague

Price: $25 regular, $20 donors, $12 students with ID
Sheraton Syracuse University Grand Ballroom
801 University Ave., Syracuse

Last year, the incomparable, bluesy Antoinette Montague packed the house, her one-woman show resulting in a standing ovation and multiple encores. She has been invited back as our 2011 cabaret artist to present an all-new show. Each year CNY Jazz Central creates an affordable alternative to the Manhattan cabaret and supper club scene. Affordable food stations and cash bar are available once inside. Also note the new location, the elegant Sheraton Syracuse University, with plenty of parking.

Doors open at 4:00 pm, music begins at 5:00 pm, Ms. Montague's show begins at 6:00 pm.

Don Giovanni
Syracuse Opera

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

In this Mozart classic opera, the amorous pursuits of Don Giovanni involve intrigue, impersonation, bravado, jealousy and a fiery ending. Set in Spain, in and around Don Giovanni's villa. Sung in Italian with projected English translation.

Love Letters and Hate Mail
CNY Playhouse

Price: Dinner theater: $29 single; $55 couple. Show only: $20 (limited availability)
Fire and Ice Banquet Hall, The Locker Room
528 Hiawatha Blvd., Syracuse

Brunch at 12:45 pm, followed by show at 2:00 pm.

Just in time for Valentine's day, NATC presents AR Gurney's Love Letters paired with its modern counterpart You've Got Hate Mail by Billy Van Zandt and Jane Millimore. Love Letters, the classic love tale, directed by Dustin Czarny, centers around the letters written over a span of 50 years. The performance will feature well-known theatrical couples Mark English and Cathy Greer English on Feb. 12 and 18 and Dan Stevens and Nora O'Dea on Feb. 11, 13, and 17.

The second act turns to the modern world in You've Got Hate Mail. The show is intended as a comic answer to Love Letters and revolves around the zaniness a few errant emails can cause to a relationship. This show also stars real-life married couples Navroz and Binaifer Dabu, and Dustin M. Czarny and Heather J. Roach. Pam Hipius rounds out the cast and the play is directed by her husband Greg Hipius.

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Automat: An Interpretation and Hearts of Clover
Armory Square Playwrights

Price: $7 regular, $5 students/seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Staged readings of two new short plays by local playwrights Kathy Kramer and Francis DiClemente

Automat: An Interpretation, a romantic dramedy, follows the plight of Martin Ramsey, an idealistic artist and night custodian, who has fallen in love with the female figure in Edward Hopper's painting, "Automat." Elements of magic realism bring the figure in the painting to life but the realization of a romance presents challenges not easily negotiated. The reading features David Baker, Ethan Howse, Rachel Torba Grage, Donna Stuccio, and Bob Fullenbaum.

Hearts of Clover tells the story of two elderly sisters, Ruthann and Maude, who live together in a small town in the 1950s. Their quiet life is turned upside down when their developmentally-disabled neighbor, Leon, faces a crisis and there is no one else to help. Long-buried secrets are brought to light, pitting neighbor against neighbor. The reading features Amy Doherty, Kathy Kramer, Donna Stuccio, and Len Fonte.

Playwright Francis DiClemente is a writer, photographer, and video producer in Syracuse. He is the author of Outskirts of Intimacy, a poetry chapbook published by Flutter Press.

Kathy Kramer earned her BA from Empire State College as a returning, non-traditional student and an MLS from Long Island University. As a founding member of 3rd Floor Productions in Ithaca, she has worked in many aspects of theater--playwriting, acting, directing, producing, and stage crew. Her full-length plays include Colorful Bricks and Fanatics, performed at the Kitchen Theatre, and The Tadpole Stage and Solitary Lights, presented in several venues in Ithaca. Her one-act, Hearts of Clover, was a finalist in Ohio State University's Eileen Heckart Senior Drama Competition and a winner in the Arts/West Humble Play Competition in Athens, Ohio. Among her site-specific plays, two were chosen for "Asphalt Jungle Shorts: Taking it to the Streets" a festival in Ontario, Canada. Several short works, including You Can't Be Switzerland, have been presented as readings by Armory Square Playhouse, Wolf's Mouth Theater Collective and Auburn Players Second Stage. Most recently, her one-act, Sleeps Through Storms was produced by Theatre Incognita in Ithaca. Kathy is also the author of a newly published book of poems, Boiled Potato Blues.

Antony and Cleopatra
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Antony and Cleopatra is an epic historical tragedy whose title characters are larger than life and death. The story was made famous in the early '60s by Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and Rex Harrison in the boom and bust movie entitled Cleopatra.

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Rent
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

Jonathan Larson's Broadway phenomenon ignites the stage with passion and energy. One year—525,600 minutes—in the lives of seven young friends from Alphabet City brings love, loss, tragedy and triumph in a whirl of non-stop music. Larson built the show on the artists and addicts he knew in his neighborhood as they battled poverty, drugs, AIDS and the looming gentrification of their Vie Bohème. Urban and gritty, this Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical brims with raw emotion and infectious enthusiasm.

Based on Puccini's La Boheme, Rent opened off-Broadway in January 1996 to wide critical acclaim. It quickly moved to its Broadway home, the Nederlander Theatre, where it ran for 12 years, becoming the eighth longest running Broadway musical in history. Rent won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for drama and was nominated for ten Tony Awards, winning four, including Best Musical and Best Original Score.

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Monday, February 14, 2011

Robert Gerhardt: "Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma"
LeMoyne College

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

The Psyche and Color: An Italian Point of View

Price: Free
Hospice of Central New York
990 Seventh North St., Liverpool

Maria Rizzo and Maria Grazia Facchinetti from Italy of two different generations and with two points of view, show 14 works each in an explosive combination of light, color and symbolism.

Ludwig Stein Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

This exhibit will depict the 14 Stations of the Cross, also called "Via Dolorosa" or "The Way of Sorrows.” These events are the depiction of the final hours of Christ, and they cover the Passion of Jesus from his condemnation to his entombment.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Cortland County Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

Where Eagles Fly: Works by Don Ford
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Don Ward, humorist, storyteller, artist, and poet, will have at least a dozen photos, along with stories and poems, on display. This is the first solo show of the artist, who has had his writings featured in many magazines across the U.S., Portugal, and Cyprus.

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

Focus x Three: Photography and Video
Redhouse

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

Focus x Three, the second in the Emerging Women of CNY series, highlights the work of three photographers: Erin Mulvehill, Gillian Andrew, and Colleen Woolpert. Each has an association and history with Syracuse, as all are graduates of Syracuse University. They have all worked, in some capacity, in the world of professional photography, perfecting their craft, while continuing to pursue the "fine art" side of their vision. Curator of this exhibition, Marianne Smith Dalton, stated: "Each of these women masterfully uses the camera to convey her own unique reflection of 'reality.' These compelling photographs, frozen moments in time, will captivate and hold you transfixed. Come celebrate the work of these three young women and discover a new way to 'see' through the lenses of these talented photographers."

Pr-int-erface: Ornamentation on Textiles
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Pr-int-erface: Ornamentation on Textiles" features work by students of design faculty members Eileen Gosson and Jan Navales. The methods of printing on textiles have evolved though the accessibility of technological devices. Traditional screen printing has given way to digital printing, and the surface pattern design industry has changed. This exhibition highlights student experiences in understanding the differences and similarities inherent in each process and end result.

Rug Design Competition Exhibition Tour
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The Odegard Award for Excellence in Rug Design Competition Exhibition Tour is currently on view. This exhibition is the result of a competition created and sponsored by Odegard Inc. to show student designers how combining modern designs with traditional hand-knotting techniques can increase awareness and respect for the legacy of textile and carpet weaving. Odegard received submissions from more than 400 students at universities and colleges across the country.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

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Implements of Mass Construction
Erie Canal Museum

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

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

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Robert Gerhardt: "Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma"
LeMoyne College

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

The Psyche and Color: An Italian Point of View

Price: Free
Hospice of Central New York
990 Seventh North St., Liverpool

Maria Rizzo and Maria Grazia Facchinetti from Italy of two different generations and with two points of view, show 14 works each in an explosive combination of light, color and symbolism.

Ludwig Stein Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

This exhibit will depict the 14 Stations of the Cross, also called "Via Dolorosa" or "The Way of Sorrows.” These events are the depiction of the final hours of Christ, and they cover the Passion of Jesus from his condemnation to his entombment.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Cortland County Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

Marcel Breuer and Postwar America
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

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

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

Where Eagles Fly: Works by Don Ford
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Don Ward, humorist, storyteller, artist, and poet, will have at least a dozen photos, along with stories and poems, on display. This is the first solo show of the artist, who has had his writings featured in many magazines across the U.S., Portugal, and Cyprus.

Figurative Expressions II
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Five artists who approach the figure in creative and unique ways
Scott Estelle: bronze sculpture
John Fitzsimmons: oil painting
Vincent Fitches: oil painting
Stephen Ryan: watercolor painting
Gail Hoffman: bronze and aluminum sculpture

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

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

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

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

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

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Focus x Three: Photography and Video
Redhouse

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

Focus x Three, the second in the Emerging Women of CNY series, highlights the work of three photographers: Erin Mulvehill, Gillian Andrew, and Colleen Woolpert. Each has an association and history with Syracuse, as all are graduates of Syracuse University. They have all worked, in some capacity, in the world of professional photography, perfecting their craft, while continuing to pursue the "fine art" side of their vision. Curator of this exhibition, Marianne Smith Dalton, stated: "Each of these women masterfully uses the camera to convey her own unique reflection of 'reality.' These compelling photographs, frozen moments in time, will captivate and hold you transfixed. Come celebrate the work of these three young women and discover a new way to 'see' through the lenses of these talented photographers."

Rug Design Competition Exhibition Tour
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The Odegard Award for Excellence in Rug Design Competition Exhibition Tour is currently on view. This exhibition is the result of a competition created and sponsored by Odegard Inc. to show student designers how combining modern designs with traditional hand-knotting techniques can increase awareness and respect for the legacy of textile and carpet weaving. Odegard received submissions from more than 400 students at universities and colleges across the country.

Pr-int-erface: Ornamentation on Textiles
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Pr-int-erface: Ornamentation on Textiles" features work by students of design faculty members Eileen Gosson and Jan Navales. The methods of printing on textiles have evolved though the accessibility of technological devices. Traditional screen printing has given way to digital printing, and the surface pattern design industry has changed. This exhibition highlights student experiences in understanding the differences and similarities inherent in each process and end result.

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project