Thursday, October 9, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

They are testaments to the impact of terrorism: sculptures portraying mothers going back to the exact moment they learned their child died in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some are screaming; others are weeping. Some are curled into a ball; others have fists raised in anger. The 76 larger-than-life figures that comprise the Dark Elegy collection were created by Montauk, NY-based artist Suse Lowenstein, the mother of a Pan Am 103 student victim.

Four of these sculptures will be on display as part of the University's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy.

Migrating Memories, Migrating Arts: Photographic Retrospective
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition celebrates the formative cultural fermentation occurring in the present regional landscape of Central New York. These photographs document Folk Arts: Soul of Syracuse, a series of community-University collaborative programs hosted by the Department of Anthropology in SU's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs with Catholic Charities Refugee Resettlement Services, the Center for New Americans, St. Vincent de Paul Church, and Tabernacle Baptist Church in 2007 and 2008. This exhibit is part of the 2008 Syracuse Symposium: Migration.

Paintings by DeLoss McGraw on Poems by W.D. Snodgrass
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.D. Snodgrass and internationally acclaimed artist DeLoss McGraw have collaborated for over 30 years. This latest series of works, being shown for the first time at the YMCA's gallerY, consists of paintings created by Mr. McGraw directly on pages torn from Snodgrass' acclaimed poetry collection Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems. The end product is an extraordinary exhibit that adds an evocative dimension to a poetic achievement that stands among the best of the late 20th century.

DeLoss McGraw's work has been exhibited around the globe, and is collected by such eminent institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, and many universities. His illustrated version of Alice in Wonderland won the Illustrator's Society Book of the Year Award for 2002. W.D. Snodgrass is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, translation, and criticism, including Heart's Needle, which was awarded the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and De/Compositions, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.

Gallery Exhibition: Matt Moyer
Onondaga Community College

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

Photojournalist Matt Moyer has worked on assignment for publication such as The New York Times, The Guardian, and National Geographic magazine. For more than 15 years, he has been committed to telling stories that put a human face on the day's news.

Paik & Cage
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The exhibit is a verbal and visual testimony of a friendship: "Paik & Cage" is a defining encounter of two 1960s masters, Korean video-art precursor Nam June Paik and American composer John Cage.

Nam June Paik's newly digitized, uncut version of Suite (212), which combines 12 short videos starting with The Selling of New York will screen for the duration of the show. This is one of the more significant pieces from the legendary Synapse program that pioneered video as an art form right here in Syracuse in the 1970s.

As a noteworthy accompaniment, the exhibit introduces a never-before-shown photographic profile of John Cage by Cuban artist Raoul Sentenat.

In addition, the exhibit will include a headset-equipped audio installation for the piece Indeterminacy, new aspect of form in instrumental and electronic music, which has John Cage narrating a series of 1-minute Zen Buddhist tales and meditations.

Avant-garde artist and composer, Nam June Paik (1932-2006) pioneered into video as an art form in the 1960s by combining multiple TV screens with sculpture, music and live performers. Trained in music, aesthetics and philosophy, he was a member of the 1960s art movement Fluxus, which was in part inspired by composer John Cage's use of everyday sound in music.

American composer John Cage (1912-1992) was an explorer of electronic music and the non-standard use of musical instruments. Many think of him as the most influential composer of the 20th century. He was instrumental in the development of modern dance and is best known for his 1952 composition 4'33", which is performed without a single note being played.

Think Tech Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Art with a "techie" theme by Anna Soltyk, Ben Applebaum, Bob Gates, Derek Chalfant, Elizabeth Chalfant, Elizabeth Groat, Delores Herringshaw, Jennifer Jeffery, Jerry Russell, Maria Aridgides, Saba Khan, Sharon Bottle Souva, Smita Rane; plus posters from the Syracuse Poster Project.

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Dawn of a New Age: The Immigrant Contribution to the Arts in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"Dawn of a New Age" tells the story of five artists who immigrated to the United States during the first half of the 20th century: Adolph Bolm, a Russian dancer and choreographer who performed with the Mariinsky Ballet and Ballets Russes; William Lescaze, a Swiss architect who was one of the pioneers of modernism; Louis Lozowick, a Russian printmaker known for his Art Deco and Precision lithographs; Miklós Rózsa, a Hungarian composer of more than 100 film scores, including Ben Hur; and John Vassos, a Greek illustrator and industrial designer. The exhibition draws from the rich holdings of SCRC and showcases more than 50 of the artists' personal papers, manuscripts, photos and artifacts.

This exhibit is part of this year's Syracuse Symposium on the theme "Migration."

Art Not Apathy: Works of Barbara Higgens
Westcott Community Center

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

Founding Visionaries: Herb Williams and Jack White
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Community Folk Art Center is proud to exhibit this unique collection of sculptures, drawings and prints by two CFAC founders, Herb Williams and Jack White.

Celebrating Herb Williams: His Life, His Work, and His Art: As CFAC founding director, Herb Williams (1938-1999) devoted his life to promoting the work of diverse artists and ensuring that a large audience could experience their work. His dedication to the collective vision of the founding members kept Williams busy and while he avidly supported and promoted other artist he rarely took time exhibit his own work. This will be the first large-scale exhibition of Williams work in Upstate New York. Though he identified himself primarily as a sculptor, Williams worked across various artistic mediums; manipulating wood, plaster and bronze into figurative and abstract forms. His lithographs and etchings not only indicate the measure of his artistic skill and creativity but also serve as a chronicle of his literal, figurative journey as an artist.

Jack White: An Ancestral Image is a collection of the works by CFAC co-founder and artist Jack White. Since the late 1960s, Jack White's mixed media abstract work, defined as "abstract impressionism," has been inspired by African art forms and symbolism. The works included in the Ancestral Image exhibition are outside the boundaries of traditional painting or sculpture. They contain elements of the spiritual, the artistic, and the utilitarian that define African art.

March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
Community Folk Art Center

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

Original illustrated works by London Ladd

Ernesto Pujol Exhibition: Walk #1
Light Work Gallery

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

The black-and-white digital images in this exhibition follow a figure clad in a black robe, Pujol himself, walking through a Civil War cemetery in South Carolina. The photographs are arranged in sequential order in the gallery, depicting a dialogue between the figure, nature, and architecture. According to René Paul Barilleaux, "A lush Southern landscape, ornate Victorian cast ironwork, carved marble statuary, and other picturesque elements appear as a counterpoint to the dark, nearly motionless walker."

Pujol conceived this series as a combination between a performance (the walking) and installation. According to Pujol, he had avoided going to the cemetery for some time, but "When I first set foot in that city of the dead, I suddenly realized that it was the familiar environment I had dreamed about for years. I had experienced recurring dreams of marble arches and colonnades surrounded by gated gardens and water." After beginning to photograph the area in a documentary style, he quickly realized that he needed to walk through the space in a performative way, which resulted in the photographs depicted in this exhibition.

In addition to the digital images, this exhibition also features the black robe worn in the photographs, displayed on a mannequin in the center of the gallery, as well as twelve small, framed, hand-blown glass plates hanging on the wall with the images. Each plate has a word painted on it, meant to evoke a personal or emotional response from the viewers in the gallery. Ernesto Pujol

Pujol was born in Cuba and grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He received his BA in humanities and painting from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, and his MFA in interdisciplinary art practice from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been exhibited internationally, and he has received numerous awards and fellowships. In addition, Pujol's work is included in various permanent collections, including at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University; Casa de las Americas in Havana, Cuba; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; among many others. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 1999.

Rita Hammond Exhibition: Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman
Light Work Gallery

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

A nationally recognized artist and photographer, Rita Hammond (1924-1999) was a dynamic and greatly admired presence in the Central New York art community. With audacity, intelligence, and humor, Hammond's work reflected on major figures from the history of art and photography. "Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman" offers a body of photographs from Hammond's long-time collaboration with Lynn Moser. The series juxtaposes images of Moser as a young girl in 1967 with images of her as a woman 20 years later, revealing the dramatic and intimate effects of time, reflected in both the subject and the perspective of the photographer.

Exploring History With Art: Childhood Through The Years
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The latest exhibit in the Exploring History with Art series features paintings from the permanent collection. 19th-century portraits of children, focusing on children of prominent local families, convey historical circumstances as well as social ideals. 20th-century genre paintings show children in their element: in the bathtub, at recess, and on vacation. The exhibit also features historical objects that enliven the space and impart a sense of the experience of childhood from the cradle to school days and play time. Childhood Through The Years is not only an excellent opportunity to delve into the history of childhood but also the exhibition represents a moment, as fleeting as childhood itself, for parents and children to share their experiences through the interplay of art and history.

Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition explores multiple facets of Michelangelo's life, art and reputation with more than 25 works by the master and artists contemporary to him, including 14 original works by Michelangelo chosen to illustrate the broad range of his interests and creative activities. Figural studies associated with the Sistine Chapel and other paintings appear alongside original architectural plans and sketches of ancient Roman monuments. Printed books complement autograph examples of the artist's poetry. Eight of the Michelangelo works in the exhibition -- five drawings, including "Study for a Gate" and "Christ in Limbo," and three manuscript pages -- have never been seen in this country.

Five Years at Delavan
Delavan Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features prints by the Atelier Four (Amy Georgia Buchholz, Bruce Muirhead, Jake Muirhead and Bill Salzillo) as well as sculptures by Dexter Benedict and Donald S. Sottile.

The Atelier Four is a group of artists associated with Hamilton College working together in the collaborative workshop spirit often found among printmakers. Linked philosophically to the Arts and Crafts Movement that has deep roots in Upstate New York, this group is committed to keeping the tradition of studio printmaking alive while promoting its contemporary relevance. The selection of intaglio prints exhibited here compares and contrasts the working methods of the four whose teacher/student relationships developed into life-long friendships that have shaped their art and careers. From a historical perspective the selection also references the important influences of the upstate New York printmaking laboratories centered around Robert Marx at Syracuse University and Harvey Breverman at The University of Buffalo.

Despite similar goals, each of the four artists represents a different approach to intaglio printmaking. Bruce Muirhead is a self-defined painter/print-maker in the romantic mold. William Salzillo's new prints reference historical styles. Amy Georgia Buchholz's recent dry points, based on nature subjects, reference the aesthetic philosophy of the Etching Revival. And Jake Muirhead has participated in numerous national and international print competitions. He is currently Associate in Charge of Etching at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Maryland in addition to teaching drawing at Montgomery College and printmaking at the Washington Waldorf School.

Dexter Benedict is a sculptor and the owner/operator of the Fire Works Foundry and sculpture studio in Yates County, New York. He is known for a number of commissions ranging from small commemorative awards to monumental bronze portrait figures.

Donald S. Sottile of Penn Yan, NY, is an accomplished sculptor working in both bronze and wood.

Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th Century Superstar
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Local artist and designer Jeffrey Mayer will present a post-modern installation of 20th century fashion design inspired by the 18th century fashion sense of Marie Antoinette. Although Marie Antoinette did not really create a style that was personally unique, what she did for fashion in the 1770s was to solidify, refine and intensify the rococo style created by her grandfather-in-law, Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who died in 1764, six years before the 14-year-old Princess even arrived from Austria. Through the exhibition and a publication to be released in the fall, Mayer will be reinterpreting and discussing Marie Antoinette's key concepts of Fantasy, Luxury, and Exoticism.

Marie Antoinette was originally displayed in 2007 in a small space in Syracuse University's Fashion Design Department where Mayer has been Associate Professor of Fashion History and Design since 1992. For the Everson's installation, Mayer has expanded the visual experience to include more than 40 garments displayed on vintage mannequins, an eclectic collection of contemporary fashion accessories, an interactive audio component, and many unique, custom-designed and hand-made objects.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

Warhol Presents highlights the early commercial career of Andy Warhol, whose whimsical drawings from the 1950s created fantasies that marketed fashion and glamour through evocation. Warhol's penchant for combining art and advertisement quickly made him one of the most well known illustrators of women's fashion in New York. His talen' was sought out by fashion publication giants, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar; and women's footwear designer and retailer, I. Miller Shoe Company.

The exhibition presents 18 of Warhol's rarely seen shoe illustrations including Fantasy Shoes (ca. 1956), a whimsical and humorous take on women's footwear design. Exhibited also are drawings of women's accessories and fashion figures, including Female Fashion Figure (1950s); a vibrant depiction of a chic model alongside an equally stylish car.

Warhol's unique well-wrought line also translated to commissions of large-scale window displays for New York stores, including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's. One example of the artist's window displays is featured in this exhibition in the illustrated reproduction, Miss Dior (1950s); and a 1997 3-dimensional re-creation of Warhol's 1957 Bonwit Teller Window Display, which includes glass perfume bottles and colorful reproduction of a window display screen. Warhol's early drawings and interest in art, identity, and consumerism informed his later pop-icon status, when product and identity literally became his art, and was used to fuel his experimental factory era films.

This exhibition is curated by Natalie Sanderson, Curator of Education at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. The original exhibition, Andy Warhol Presents, was first exhibited at the University Art Museum in 2007.

Dreams of Promise and Peril
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The role that artists play as cultural barometers always seems to be heightened in times of change and uncertainty. Although they employ different approaches, from timely reportage to futuristic illusions, all of the artists in the exhibition explore the terrain where hopes and dreams collide. By making visible the complex emotions we all sometimes experience the artists in this exhibition ask us to deeply consider the promise and peril that exists both in the fantasies we create and the realities we deny.

All of the work in this exhibition was borrowed from the JGS, Inc. collection, a non-profit photography organization based in New York City. JGS and Syracuse University have entered into an agreement to collaborate on traveling exhibitions, research, publications, and other projects utilizing work from the JGS collection that includes over 8,000 photographs spanning the history of the medium. This exhibition is an example of that collaboration and at the conclusion of the exhibition SUArt Galleries will create traveling solo exhibitions by each of the four artists.

Combat Paper
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Combat Paper" is a collaborative project initiated by Drew Matott and Drew Cameron along with members of the Iraq Veterans Against the War. Utilizing uniforms worn in combat in Iraq, veterans cut, cook, beat and form sheets of paper out of their uniforms. In this way, veterans are able to use the transformation processes of papermaking to reclaim their uniform as art and begin to reconcile their experiences as a soldier in Iraq.

The Combat Paper project is an art therapy that utilizes paper as its medium and has been generating hope and inspiration for war veterans all across the country. The project has a positive impact on veterans, serves as a visceral statement of the long lasting effects of combat and acts as a catalyst for community discussion and activism.

Life and the Traveler
Orange Line Gallery

Price: Free
Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

"Life and the Traveler" explores treks to geographical places, real and imagined, as well as journeys to the inner-self in manners of traditional to abstract.

This show will feature five artists new to Orange Line, including Marna Bell, Laura Celuch and Heather Kunst showing photography; Jim Reed with latex on canvas; and Jace Collins featuring works in acrylic, oil and paper on Plexiglas.

Other new work, relevant to the theme, will be shown by artists:
David McKenney, Debra Parry Trichilo, Dustin Angell, Kevin Lucas, Spencer Baker: photography
Father Andrew: digital paintings
Meg Gentile: acrylic, oil, wax, and paper on canvas
Melissa Tiffany: collage
Mick Mather: digitally manipulated photography

Montana Smith and the Curse of the Golden Crocodile
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive mystery/comedy.

Two One-Act Plays: The Blue Vein Society; Sweat
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company

Price: $15 regular; $8 students/seniors
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The Blue Vein Society is not just about class and color among African Americans. It is about a world in which we still judge people more by the color of their skin than the content of their character. The play is based on Charles Chesnutt's short story, The Wife of His Youth. Chesnutt is the first African American fiction writer to achieve international acclaim. Separated by slavery and war, a black woman searches for her long-lost husband, only to find that he has changed his name and identity and is part of a club that excludes dark-skinned African Americans. He pretends not to recognize his darker skinned wife from slavery until she and his present fair-skinned fiancée force him to confront his past.

Sweat is one of three short stories in Spunk by Zora Neale Hurston adapted for the stage play by George C. Wolfe. Sweat focuses on the turning point in the life of Delia Jones, a washerwoman from Hurston's hometown of Eatonville, FL. Beginning with an outburst against her abusive husband and finishing with her involvement in his death, the story follows Delia through a transformation, an upheaval of values that Hurston is interested in setting in the context of the Harlem Renaissance in New York City. The author makes use of biblical allusion and African American folk culture to attack issues of gender and oppression that were taboo topics at the time and continue to have a wide significance today.

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Spamalot
Broadway in Syracuse

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

Adapted from the 1975 hit movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, this musical comedy tells the story of King Arthur, his Knights of the Round Table, and their quest for the Holy Grail.

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Steel Pier
Syracuse University Drama Department
David Wanstreet, director

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

When the Great Depression hit the States in the 1930s, many Americans did anything they could to keep from going under. The Steel Pier Marathon Dance emerged around this time, offering performers not only the opportunity to win food, housing, and money, but also a chance to break into show business. Set in 1933 at the Atlantic City amusement park, this 1997 Tony-nominated Broadway production is credited by well-known collaborators Kander and Ebb, who previously teamed up to create Cabaret and the revival of Chicago. Bill Kelly, an adventurous pilot, falls out of the sky and into the arms of Rita Racine, a dancer and the wife of evil Steel Pier manager Mick Hamilton. Entertainment and plenty of razzle-dazzle dancing ensue when Rita and Bill pair up for the marathon.

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Friday, October 10, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

They are testaments to the impact of terrorism: sculptures portraying mothers going back to the exact moment they learned their child died in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some are screaming; others are weeping. Some are curled into a ball; others have fists raised in anger. The 76 larger-than-life figures that comprise the Dark Elegy collection were created by Montauk, NY-based artist Suse Lowenstein, the mother of a Pan Am 103 student victim.

Four of these sculptures will be on display as part of the University's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy.

Migrating Memories, Migrating Arts: Photographic Retrospective
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition celebrates the formative cultural fermentation occurring in the present regional landscape of Central New York. These photographs document Folk Arts: Soul of Syracuse, a series of community-University collaborative programs hosted by the Department of Anthropology in SU's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs with Catholic Charities Refugee Resettlement Services, the Center for New Americans, St. Vincent de Paul Church, and Tabernacle Baptist Church in 2007 and 2008. This exhibit is part of the 2008 Syracuse Symposium: Migration.

Paintings by DeLoss McGraw on Poems by W.D. Snodgrass
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.D. Snodgrass and internationally acclaimed artist DeLoss McGraw have collaborated for over 30 years. This latest series of works, being shown for the first time at the YMCA's gallerY, consists of paintings created by Mr. McGraw directly on pages torn from Snodgrass' acclaimed poetry collection Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems. The end product is an extraordinary exhibit that adds an evocative dimension to a poetic achievement that stands among the best of the late 20th century.

DeLoss McGraw's work has been exhibited around the globe, and is collected by such eminent institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, and many universities. His illustrated version of Alice in Wonderland won the Illustrator's Society Book of the Year Award for 2002. W.D. Snodgrass is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, translation, and criticism, including Heart's Needle, which was awarded the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and De/Compositions, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.

Gallery Exhibition: Matt Moyer
Onondaga Community College

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

Photojournalist Matt Moyer has worked on assignment for publication such as The New York Times, The Guardian, and National Geographic magazine. For more than 15 years, he has been committed to telling stories that put a human face on the day's news.

Paik & Cage
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The exhibit is a verbal and visual testimony of a friendship: "Paik & Cage" is a defining encounter of two 1960s masters, Korean video-art precursor Nam June Paik and American composer John Cage.

Nam June Paik's newly digitized, uncut version of Suite (212), which combines 12 short videos starting with The Selling of New York will screen for the duration of the show. This is one of the more significant pieces from the legendary Synapse program that pioneered video as an art form right here in Syracuse in the 1970s.

As a noteworthy accompaniment, the exhibit introduces a never-before-shown photographic profile of John Cage by Cuban artist Raoul Sentenat.

In addition, the exhibit will include a headset-equipped audio installation for the piece Indeterminacy, new aspect of form in instrumental and electronic music, which has John Cage narrating a series of 1-minute Zen Buddhist tales and meditations.

Avant-garde artist and composer, Nam June Paik (1932-2006) pioneered into video as an art form in the 1960s by combining multiple TV screens with sculpture, music and live performers. Trained in music, aesthetics and philosophy, he was a member of the 1960s art movement Fluxus, which was in part inspired by composer John Cage's use of everyday sound in music.

American composer John Cage (1912-1992) was an explorer of electronic music and the non-standard use of musical instruments. Many think of him as the most influential composer of the 20th century. He was instrumental in the development of modern dance and is best known for his 1952 composition 4'33", which is performed without a single note being played.

Mapping Linguistics, Revisited: Works by Kelly Roe
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

Price: Free
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse

Kelly Roe's mixed media work will be on display. A professor in the Graphic Design Program at SUNY Oswego, Roe has a background in graphic design, bookmaking and printmaking and sees herself as an anthropologist, artist, editor and scribe. The Mapping Linguistics exhibition explores relationships in linguistics, psychology and child development.

Visual Journals: Recent Works by SUNY Oswego Faculty
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

Price: Free
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse

Art exhibition featuring recent work by SUNY Oswego faculty members Amy Bartell, Cynthia Clabough, Paul Pearce, Cara Brewer Thompson.

Think Tech Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Art with a "techie" theme by Anna Soltyk, Ben Applebaum, Bob Gates, Derek Chalfant, Elizabeth Chalfant, Elizabeth Groat, Delores Herringshaw, Jennifer Jeffery, Jerry Russell, Maria Aridgides, Saba Khan, Sharon Bottle Souva, Smita Rane; plus posters from the Syracuse Poster Project.

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Dawn of a New Age: The Immigrant Contribution to the Arts in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"Dawn of a New Age" tells the story of five artists who immigrated to the United States during the first half of the 20th century: Adolph Bolm, a Russian dancer and choreographer who performed with the Mariinsky Ballet and Ballets Russes; William Lescaze, a Swiss architect who was one of the pioneers of modernism; Louis Lozowick, a Russian printmaker known for his Art Deco and Precision lithographs; Miklós Rózsa, a Hungarian composer of more than 100 film scores, including Ben Hur; and John Vassos, a Greek illustrator and industrial designer. The exhibition draws from the rich holdings of SCRC and showcases more than 50 of the artists' personal papers, manuscripts, photos and artifacts.

This exhibit is part of this year's Syracuse Symposium on the theme "Migration."

Art Not Apathy: Works of Barbara Higgens
Westcott Community Center

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

March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
Community Folk Art Center

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

Original illustrated works by London Ladd

Founding Visionaries: Herb Williams and Jack White
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Community Folk Art Center is proud to exhibit this unique collection of sculptures, drawings and prints by two CFAC founders, Herb Williams and Jack White.

Celebrating Herb Williams: His Life, His Work, and His Art: As CFAC founding director, Herb Williams (1938-1999) devoted his life to promoting the work of diverse artists and ensuring that a large audience could experience their work. His dedication to the collective vision of the founding members kept Williams busy and while he avidly supported and promoted other artist he rarely took time exhibit his own work. This will be the first large-scale exhibition of Williams work in Upstate New York. Though he identified himself primarily as a sculptor, Williams worked across various artistic mediums; manipulating wood, plaster and bronze into figurative and abstract forms. His lithographs and etchings not only indicate the measure of his artistic skill and creativity but also serve as a chronicle of his literal, figurative journey as an artist.

Jack White: An Ancestral Image is a collection of the works by CFAC co-founder and artist Jack White. Since the late 1960s, Jack White's mixed media abstract work, defined as "abstract impressionism," has been inspired by African art forms and symbolism. The works included in the Ancestral Image exhibition are outside the boundaries of traditional painting or sculpture. They contain elements of the spiritual, the artistic, and the utilitarian that define African art.

Ernesto Pujol Exhibition: Walk #1
Light Work Gallery

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

The black-and-white digital images in this exhibition follow a figure clad in a black robe, Pujol himself, walking through a Civil War cemetery in South Carolina. The photographs are arranged in sequential order in the gallery, depicting a dialogue between the figure, nature, and architecture. According to René Paul Barilleaux, "A lush Southern landscape, ornate Victorian cast ironwork, carved marble statuary, and other picturesque elements appear as a counterpoint to the dark, nearly motionless walker."

Pujol conceived this series as a combination between a performance (the walking) and installation. According to Pujol, he had avoided going to the cemetery for some time, but "When I first set foot in that city of the dead, I suddenly realized that it was the familiar environment I had dreamed about for years. I had experienced recurring dreams of marble arches and colonnades surrounded by gated gardens and water." After beginning to photograph the area in a documentary style, he quickly realized that he needed to walk through the space in a performative way, which resulted in the photographs depicted in this exhibition.

In addition to the digital images, this exhibition also features the black robe worn in the photographs, displayed on a mannequin in the center of the gallery, as well as twelve small, framed, hand-blown glass plates hanging on the wall with the images. Each plate has a word painted on it, meant to evoke a personal or emotional response from the viewers in the gallery. Ernesto Pujol

Pujol was born in Cuba and grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He received his BA in humanities and painting from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, and his MFA in interdisciplinary art practice from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been exhibited internationally, and he has received numerous awards and fellowships. In addition, Pujol's work is included in various permanent collections, including at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University; Casa de las Americas in Havana, Cuba; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; among many others. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 1999.

Rita Hammond Exhibition: Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman
Light Work Gallery

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

A nationally recognized artist and photographer, Rita Hammond (1924-1999) was a dynamic and greatly admired presence in the Central New York art community. With audacity, intelligence, and humor, Hammond's work reflected on major figures from the history of art and photography. "Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman" offers a body of photographs from Hammond's long-time collaboration with Lynn Moser. The series juxtaposes images of Moser as a young girl in 1967 with images of her as a woman 20 years later, revealing the dramatic and intimate effects of time, reflected in both the subject and the perspective of the photographer.

Exploring History With Art: Childhood Through The Years
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The latest exhibit in the Exploring History with Art series features paintings from the permanent collection. 19th-century portraits of children, focusing on children of prominent local families, convey historical circumstances as well as social ideals. 20th-century genre paintings show children in their element: in the bathtub, at recess, and on vacation. The exhibit also features historical objects that enliven the space and impart a sense of the experience of childhood from the cradle to school days and play time. Childhood Through The Years is not only an excellent opportunity to delve into the history of childhood but also the exhibition represents a moment, as fleeting as childhood itself, for parents and children to share their experiences through the interplay of art and history.

Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition explores multiple facets of Michelangelo's life, art and reputation with more than 25 works by the master and artists contemporary to him, including 14 original works by Michelangelo chosen to illustrate the broad range of his interests and creative activities. Figural studies associated with the Sistine Chapel and other paintings appear alongside original architectural plans and sketches of ancient Roman monuments. Printed books complement autograph examples of the artist's poetry. Eight of the Michelangelo works in the exhibition -- five drawings, including "Study for a Gate" and "Christ in Limbo," and three manuscript pages -- have never been seen in this country.

Five Years at Delavan
Delavan Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features prints by the Atelier Four (Amy Georgia Buchholz, Bruce Muirhead, Jake Muirhead and Bill Salzillo) as well as sculptures by Dexter Benedict and Donald S. Sottile.

The Atelier Four is a group of artists associated with Hamilton College working together in the collaborative workshop spirit often found among printmakers. Linked philosophically to the Arts and Crafts Movement that has deep roots in Upstate New York, this group is committed to keeping the tradition of studio printmaking alive while promoting its contemporary relevance. The selection of intaglio prints exhibited here compares and contrasts the working methods of the four whose teacher/student relationships developed into life-long friendships that have shaped their art and careers. From a historical perspective the selection also references the important influences of the upstate New York printmaking laboratories centered around Robert Marx at Syracuse University and Harvey Breverman at The University of Buffalo.

Despite similar goals, each of the four artists represents a different approach to intaglio printmaking. Bruce Muirhead is a self-defined painter/print-maker in the romantic mold. William Salzillo's new prints reference historical styles. Amy Georgia Buchholz's recent dry points, based on nature subjects, reference the aesthetic philosophy of the Etching Revival. And Jake Muirhead has participated in numerous national and international print competitions. He is currently Associate in Charge of Etching at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Maryland in addition to teaching drawing at Montgomery College and printmaking at the Washington Waldorf School.

Dexter Benedict is a sculptor and the owner/operator of the Fire Works Foundry and sculpture studio in Yates County, New York. He is known for a number of commissions ranging from small commemorative awards to monumental bronze portrait figures.

Donald S. Sottile of Penn Yan, NY, is an accomplished sculptor working in both bronze and wood.

Wild Card Exhibit: Political Cartoons by Joe Glisson
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Joe Glisson is a political cartoonist with a new book being released titled Seems Like Old Times. The book is a political cartoon retrospective of work published in the Syracuse New Times, featuring major events and politicians of the past 25 years, including local topics and persons.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

Warhol Presents highlights the early commercial career of Andy Warhol, whose whimsical drawings from the 1950s created fantasies that marketed fashion and glamour through evocation. Warhol's penchant for combining art and advertisement quickly made him one of the most well known illustrators of women's fashion in New York. His talen' was sought out by fashion publication giants, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar; and women's footwear designer and retailer, I. Miller Shoe Company.

The exhibition presents 18 of Warhol's rarely seen shoe illustrations including Fantasy Shoes (ca. 1956), a whimsical and humorous take on women's footwear design. Exhibited also are drawings of women's accessories and fashion figures, including Female Fashion Figure (1950s); a vibrant depiction of a chic model alongside an equally stylish car.

Warhol's unique well-wrought line also translated to commissions of large-scale window displays for New York stores, including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's. One example of the artist's window displays is featured in this exhibition in the illustrated reproduction, Miss Dior (1950s); and a 1997 3-dimensional re-creation of Warhol's 1957 Bonwit Teller Window Display, which includes glass perfume bottles and colorful reproduction of a window display screen. Warhol's early drawings and interest in art, identity, and consumerism informed his later pop-icon status, when product and identity literally became his art, and was used to fuel his experimental factory era films.

This exhibition is curated by Natalie Sanderson, Curator of Education at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. The original exhibition, Andy Warhol Presents, was first exhibited at the University Art Museum in 2007.

Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th Century Superstar
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Local artist and designer Jeffrey Mayer will present a post-modern installation of 20th century fashion design inspired by the 18th century fashion sense of Marie Antoinette. Although Marie Antoinette did not really create a style that was personally unique, what she did for fashion in the 1770s was to solidify, refine and intensify the rococo style created by her grandfather-in-law, Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who died in 1764, six years before the 14-year-old Princess even arrived from Austria. Through the exhibition and a publication to be released in the fall, Mayer will be reinterpreting and discussing Marie Antoinette's key concepts of Fantasy, Luxury, and Exoticism.

Marie Antoinette was originally displayed in 2007 in a small space in Syracuse University's Fashion Design Department where Mayer has been Associate Professor of Fashion History and Design since 1992. For the Everson's installation, Mayer has expanded the visual experience to include more than 40 garments displayed on vintage mannequins, an eclectic collection of contemporary fashion accessories, an interactive audio component, and many unique, custom-designed and hand-made objects.

Dreams of Promise and Peril
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The role that artists play as cultural barometers always seems to be heightened in times of change and uncertainty. Although they employ different approaches, from timely reportage to futuristic illusions, all of the artists in the exhibition explore the terrain where hopes and dreams collide. By making visible the complex emotions we all sometimes experience the artists in this exhibition ask us to deeply consider the promise and peril that exists both in the fantasies we create and the realities we deny.

All of the work in this exhibition was borrowed from the JGS, Inc. collection, a non-profit photography organization based in New York City. JGS and Syracuse University have entered into an agreement to collaborate on traveling exhibitions, research, publications, and other projects utilizing work from the JGS collection that includes over 8,000 photographs spanning the history of the medium. This exhibition is an example of that collaboration and at the conclusion of the exhibition SUArt Galleries will create traveling solo exhibitions by each of the four artists.

Combat Paper
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Combat Paper" is a collaborative project initiated by Drew Matott and Drew Cameron along with members of the Iraq Veterans Against the War. Utilizing uniforms worn in combat in Iraq, veterans cut, cook, beat and form sheets of paper out of their uniforms. In this way, veterans are able to use the transformation processes of papermaking to reclaim their uniform as art and begin to reconcile their experiences as a soldier in Iraq.

The Combat Paper project is an art therapy that utilizes paper as its medium and has been generating hope and inspiration for war veterans all across the country. The project has a positive impact on veterans, serves as a visceral statement of the long lasting effects of combat and acts as a catalyst for community discussion and activism.

Life and the Traveler
Orange Line Gallery

Price: Free
Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

"Life and the Traveler" explores treks to geographical places, real and imagined, as well as journeys to the inner-self in manners of traditional to abstract.

This show will feature five artists new to Orange Line, including Marna Bell, Laura Celuch and Heather Kunst showing photography; Jim Reed with latex on canvas; and Jace Collins featuring works in acrylic, oil and paper on Plexiglas.

Other new work, relevant to the theme, will be shown by artists:
David McKenney, Debra Parry Trichilo, Dustin Angell, Kevin Lucas, Spencer Baker: photography
Father Andrew: digital paintings
Meg Gentile: acrylic, oil, wax, and paper on canvas
Melissa Tiffany: collage
Mick Mather: digitally manipulated photography

Works of Jim Ridlon
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

B-Movie Film Festival
Alternative Movies and Events

Price: $10 one-day pass; $25 weekend pass
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

7:00 pm: The Two Plates
8:15 pm: Two Plates Filmmaker Q&A
8:45 pm: Pic Six (short) and Alien Raiders (feature)
10:30 pm: Mil Mascaras: Resurrection
11:45 pm: Mil Mascaras: Academy of Doom

The Two Plates
From the producers of Lights Camera Dead and the director of the critically acclaimed film Big Fish in Middlesex comes The Two Plates. An urban tale in the heart of Richmond Virginia about two hustlers turned counterfeiters embarking on the ultimate hustle. (Directed by Jonathan Straiton, 75 min.)

Pic Six
Twice a week, Evan buys a lottery ticket for Vic, the big dumb psychopath he works for down at the local pizzeria. Vic always plays the same numbers: 1-2-3-4-5-6. Evan knows the odds of Vic winning are next to impossible, but when he blows off buying Vic's ticket one day, guess whose numbers come up? (Directed by David Breckman, 17 min.)

Alien Raiders
It's the end of yet another night at Hastings Supermarket, an idyllic family grocery store in Buck Lake, Arizona. But the normal monotony of rounding up shopping carts and settling out the cash drawers is broken at 11:07pm, just before closing when a group of masked and armed-to-the-teeth militants invades the store, immediately killing several of the employees and shoppers and holding the rest hostage. Though the hostage-takers at first appear to be robbers or terrorists, they reveal themselves to be a cadre of rogue scientists that has discovered and tracked an alien infestation to THIS STORE on THIS NIGHT, and they are determined to find out which of the survivors are extraterrestrials and end the invasion at any cost. (Directed by Ben Rock, 85 min.)

Mil Mascaras: Resurrection
Mil Mascaras is a renaissance man of international repute. He is a connoisseur of the arts, a scholar of science and humanity, and a masked wrestler. He is often called upon to assist the authorities in combating threats to mankind, whether they are seductive vampire women, lycanthropic madmen, or invaders from other worlds. However, no threat has ever been greater than that posed by the Aztec mummy. In this story, an Aztec mummy is resurrected by the power of the gem of Tonauac. Using its power, the Aztec mummy is able to control the minds of men, even those of strong pedigree and erudition. Determined to lead the ascendancy of the Aztec nation over the descendants of its past conquerors, the Aztec mummy conspires to manipulate men of power for his own ends. Whether Mil Mascaras can be corrupted by the influence of his undead adversary is not clear, but the answer hinges upon the secret of his mask -- a mask which has been passed down to him from his ancestors since time in memoriam. (90 min.)

Mil Mascaras: Academy of Doom
"Wrestling Women vs. the Brainiac" is set on the campus of the famous Mil Mascaras Wrestling Women's Academy. The Academy finds itself the focus of seemingly disparate events involving the villainous Luctor; an eccentric Baron; and a series of bizarre murders. The most famous figure at the academy, La Torcha, joins forces with Mil Mascaras to unravel the mystery and ensure that justice prevails. (Directed by Chip Gubera, 85 min.)

MK Groove Orchestra Jazz Concert
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Steeped in tradition, and looking towards the future, the MK Groove Orchestra is comprised of some of NYC's finest up and coming talent performing well arranged originals and choice covers with musicality, energy and precision. Inspired by the likes of Duke Ellington, Machito, Sun Ra, Stravinski, Blue Note Rare Groove, CTI, and others, they have developed a unique sound and sensibility that has been crafted over the last four years performing regularly at venues throughout New York State.

Andrew & Noah VanNorstrand
Redhouse

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

Andrew and Noah VanNorstrand blend elements of Celtic, Appalachian, swing, old-time country and bluegrass into finely tuned and intricately arranged alternative folk music. These brothers from central New York have mastered a wide array of acoustic instruments including fiddles, mandolins, guitar and banjo. Their energetic stage presence and compelling original material have brought them to concert halls, festival stages and dance floors across North America.

Tom Sleigh, poet
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Tom Sleigh's most recent books of poems include Space Walk (Houghton Mifflin, 2007), which was awarded the prestigious Kingsley Tufts Prize for Poetry, and Far Side of the Earth (2003), named an Honor Book by the Massachusetts Society for the Book. Among his many awards are an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Shelley Award from the Poetry Society of America, and grants from the Guggenheim and Ingram Merill Foundations, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Hunter College and lives in Brooklyn.

Two One-Act Plays: The Blue Vein Society; Sweat
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company

Price: $15 regular; $8 students/seniors
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The Blue Vein Society is not just about class and color among African Americans. It is about a world in which we still judge people more by the color of their skin than the content of their character. The play is based on Charles Chesnutt's short story, The Wife of His Youth. Chesnutt is the first African American fiction writer to achieve international acclaim. Separated by slavery and war, a black woman searches for her long-lost husband, only to find that he has changed his name and identity and is part of a club that excludes dark-skinned African Americans. He pretends not to recognize his darker skinned wife from slavery until she and his present fair-skinned fiancée force him to confront his past.

Sweat is one of three short stories in Spunk by Zora Neale Hurston adapted for the stage play by George C. Wolfe. Sweat focuses on the turning point in the life of Delia Jones, a washerwoman from Hurston's hometown of Eatonville, FL. Beginning with an outburst against her abusive husband and finishing with her involvement in his death, the story follows Delia through a transformation, an upheaval of values that Hurston is interested in setting in the context of the Harlem Renaissance in New York City. The author makes use of biblical allusion and African American folk culture to attack issues of gender and oppression that were taboo topics at the time and continue to have a wide significance today.

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Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead*
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

When CB's dog dies from rabies, CB begins to question the existence of an afterlife. His best friend is too burnt out to provide a coherent speculation; his sister has gone goth; his ex-girlfriend has recently been institutionalized; and his other friends are too inebriated to give him any sort of solace. This show is intended for Mature audiences only. Book by Bert V. Royal.

*This production is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by the estate of Charles M. Schultz.

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Steel Pier
Syracuse University Drama Department
David Wanstreet, director

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

When the Great Depression hit the States in the 1930s, many Americans did anything they could to keep from going under. The Steel Pier Marathon Dance emerged around this time, offering performers not only the opportunity to win food, housing, and money, but also a chance to break into show business. Set in 1933 at the Atlantic City amusement park, this 1997 Tony-nominated Broadway production is credited by well-known collaborators Kander and Ebb, who previously teamed up to create Cabaret and the revival of Chicago. Bill Kelly, an adventurous pilot, falls out of the sky and into the arms of Rita Racine, a dancer and the wife of evil Steel Pier manager Mick Hamilton. Entertainment and plenty of razzle-dazzle dancing ensue when Rita and Bill pair up for the marathon.

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Saturday, October 11, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

They are testaments to the impact of terrorism: sculptures portraying mothers going back to the exact moment they learned their child died in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some are screaming; others are weeping. Some are curled into a ball; others have fists raised in anger. The 76 larger-than-life figures that comprise the Dark Elegy collection were created by Montauk, NY-based artist Suse Lowenstein, the mother of a Pan Am 103 student victim.

Four of these sculptures will be on display as part of the University's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy.

Wild Card Exhibit: Political Cartoons by Joe Glisson
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Joe Glisson is a political cartoonist with a new book being released titled Seems Like Old Times. The book is a political cartoon retrospective of work published in the Syracuse New Times, featuring major events and politicians of the past 25 years, including local topics and persons.

Five Years at Delavan
Delavan Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features prints by the Atelier Four (Amy Georgia Buchholz, Bruce Muirhead, Jake Muirhead and Bill Salzillo) as well as sculptures by Dexter Benedict and Donald S. Sottile.

The Atelier Four is a group of artists associated with Hamilton College working together in the collaborative workshop spirit often found among printmakers. Linked philosophically to the Arts and Crafts Movement that has deep roots in Upstate New York, this group is committed to keeping the tradition of studio printmaking alive while promoting its contemporary relevance. The selection of intaglio prints exhibited here compares and contrasts the working methods of the four whose teacher/student relationships developed into life-long friendships that have shaped their art and careers. From a historical perspective the selection also references the important influences of the upstate New York printmaking laboratories centered around Robert Marx at Syracuse University and Harvey Breverman at The University of Buffalo.

Despite similar goals, each of the four artists represents a different approach to intaglio printmaking. Bruce Muirhead is a self-defined painter/print-maker in the romantic mold. William Salzillo's new prints reference historical styles. Amy Georgia Buchholz's recent dry points, based on nature subjects, reference the aesthetic philosophy of the Etching Revival. And Jake Muirhead has participated in numerous national and international print competitions. He is currently Associate in Charge of Etching at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Maryland in addition to teaching drawing at Montgomery College and printmaking at the Washington Waldorf School.

Dexter Benedict is a sculptor and the owner/operator of the Fire Works Foundry and sculpture studio in Yates County, New York. He is known for a number of commissions ranging from small commemorative awards to monumental bronze portrait figures.

Donald S. Sottile of Penn Yan, NY, is an accomplished sculptor working in both bronze and wood.

Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th Century Superstar
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Local artist and designer Jeffrey Mayer will present a post-modern installation of 20th century fashion design inspired by the 18th century fashion sense of Marie Antoinette. Although Marie Antoinette did not really create a style that was personally unique, what she did for fashion in the 1770s was to solidify, refine and intensify the rococo style created by her grandfather-in-law, Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who died in 1764, six years before the 14-year-old Princess even arrived from Austria. Through the exhibition and a publication to be released in the fall, Mayer will be reinterpreting and discussing Marie Antoinette's key concepts of Fantasy, Luxury, and Exoticism.

Marie Antoinette was originally displayed in 2007 in a small space in Syracuse University's Fashion Design Department where Mayer has been Associate Professor of Fashion History and Design since 1992. For the Everson's installation, Mayer has expanded the visual experience to include more than 40 garments displayed on vintage mannequins, an eclectic collection of contemporary fashion accessories, an interactive audio component, and many unique, custom-designed and hand-made objects.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

Warhol Presents highlights the early commercial career of Andy Warhol, whose whimsical drawings from the 1950s created fantasies that marketed fashion and glamour through evocation. Warhol's penchant for combining art and advertisement quickly made him one of the most well known illustrators of women's fashion in New York. His talen' was sought out by fashion publication giants, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar; and women's footwear designer and retailer, I. Miller Shoe Company.

The exhibition presents 18 of Warhol's rarely seen shoe illustrations including Fantasy Shoes (ca. 1956), a whimsical and humorous take on women's footwear design. Exhibited also are drawings of women's accessories and fashion figures, including Female Fashion Figure (1950s); a vibrant depiction of a chic model alongside an equally stylish car.

Warhol's unique well-wrought line also translated to commissions of large-scale window displays for New York stores, including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's. One example of the artist's window displays is featured in this exhibition in the illustrated reproduction, Miss Dior (1950s); and a 1997 3-dimensional re-creation of Warhol's 1957 Bonwit Teller Window Display, which includes glass perfume bottles and colorful reproduction of a window display screen. Warhol's early drawings and interest in art, identity, and consumerism informed his later pop-icon status, when product and identity literally became his art, and was used to fuel his experimental factory era films.

This exhibition is curated by Natalie Sanderson, Curator of Education at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. The original exhibition, Andy Warhol Presents, was first exhibited at the University Art Museum in 2007.

Works of Jim Ridlon
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition explores multiple facets of Michelangelo's life, art and reputation with more than 25 works by the master and artists contemporary to him, including 14 original works by Michelangelo chosen to illustrate the broad range of his interests and creative activities. Figural studies associated with the Sistine Chapel and other paintings appear alongside original architectural plans and sketches of ancient Roman monuments. Printed books complement autograph examples of the artist's poetry. Eight of the Michelangelo works in the exhibition -- five drawings, including "Study for a Gate" and "Christ in Limbo," and three manuscript pages -- have never been seen in this country.

Founding Visionaries: Herb Williams and Jack White
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Community Folk Art Center is proud to exhibit this unique collection of sculptures, drawings and prints by two CFAC founders, Herb Williams and Jack White.

Celebrating Herb Williams: His Life, His Work, and His Art: As CFAC founding director, Herb Williams (1938-1999) devoted his life to promoting the work of diverse artists and ensuring that a large audience could experience their work. His dedication to the collective vision of the founding members kept Williams busy and while he avidly supported and promoted other artist he rarely took time exhibit his own work. This will be the first large-scale exhibition of Williams work in Upstate New York. Though he identified himself primarily as a sculptor, Williams worked across various artistic mediums; manipulating wood, plaster and bronze into figurative and abstract forms. His lithographs and etchings not only indicate the measure of his artistic skill and creativity but also serve as a chronicle of his literal, figurative journey as an artist.

Jack White: An Ancestral Image is a collection of the works by CFAC co-founder and artist Jack White. Since the late 1960s, Jack White's mixed media abstract work, defined as "abstract impressionism," has been inspired by African art forms and symbolism. The works included in the Ancestral Image exhibition are outside the boundaries of traditional painting or sculpture. They contain elements of the spiritual, the artistic, and the utilitarian that define African art.

March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
Community Folk Art Center

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

Original illustrated works by London Ladd

Exploring History With Art: Childhood Through The Years
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The latest exhibit in the Exploring History with Art series features paintings from the permanent collection. 19th-century portraits of children, focusing on children of prominent local families, convey historical circumstances as well as social ideals. 20th-century genre paintings show children in their element: in the bathtub, at recess, and on vacation. The exhibit also features historical objects that enliven the space and impart a sense of the experience of childhood from the cradle to school days and play time. Childhood Through The Years is not only an excellent opportunity to delve into the history of childhood but also the exhibition represents a moment, as fleeting as childhood itself, for parents and children to share their experiences through the interplay of art and history.

Migrating Memories, Migrating Arts: Photographic Retrospective
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition celebrates the formative cultural fermentation occurring in the present regional landscape of Central New York. These photographs document Folk Arts: Soul of Syracuse, a series of community-University collaborative programs hosted by the Department of Anthropology in SU's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs with Catholic Charities Refugee Resettlement Services, the Center for New Americans, St. Vincent de Paul Church, and Tabernacle Baptist Church in 2007 and 2008. This exhibit is part of the 2008 Syracuse Symposium: Migration.

Combat Paper
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Combat Paper" is a collaborative project initiated by Drew Matott and Drew Cameron along with members of the Iraq Veterans Against the War. Utilizing uniforms worn in combat in Iraq, veterans cut, cook, beat and form sheets of paper out of their uniforms. In this way, veterans are able to use the transformation processes of papermaking to reclaim their uniform as art and begin to reconcile their experiences as a soldier in Iraq.

The Combat Paper project is an art therapy that utilizes paper as its medium and has been generating hope and inspiration for war veterans all across the country. The project has a positive impact on veterans, serves as a visceral statement of the long lasting effects of combat and acts as a catalyst for community discussion and activism.

Life and the Traveler
Orange Line Gallery

Price: Free
Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

"Life and the Traveler" explores treks to geographical places, real and imagined, as well as journeys to the inner-self in manners of traditional to abstract.

This show will feature five artists new to Orange Line, including Marna Bell, Laura Celuch and Heather Kunst showing photography; Jim Reed with latex on canvas; and Jace Collins featuring works in acrylic, oil and paper on Plexiglas.

Other new work, relevant to the theme, will be shown by artists:
David McKenney, Debra Parry Trichilo, Dustin Angell, Kevin Lucas, Spencer Baker: photography
Father Andrew: digital paintings
Meg Gentile: acrylic, oil, wax, and paper on canvas
Melissa Tiffany: collage
Mick Mather: digitally manipulated photography

Dreams of Promise and Peril
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The role that artists play as cultural barometers always seems to be heightened in times of change and uncertainty. Although they employ different approaches, from timely reportage to futuristic illusions, all of the artists in the exhibition explore the terrain where hopes and dreams collide. By making visible the complex emotions we all sometimes experience the artists in this exhibition ask us to deeply consider the promise and peril that exists both in the fantasies we create and the realities we deny.

All of the work in this exhibition was borrowed from the JGS, Inc. collection, a non-profit photography organization based in New York City. JGS and Syracuse University have entered into an agreement to collaborate on traveling exhibitions, research, publications, and other projects utilizing work from the JGS collection that includes over 8,000 photographs spanning the history of the medium. This exhibition is an example of that collaboration and at the conclusion of the exhibition SUArt Galleries will create traveling solo exhibitions by each of the four artists.

Opening Reception: Combat Paper
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Combat Paper" is a collaborative project initiated by Drew Matott and Drew Cameron along with members of the Iraq Veterans Against the War. Utilizing uniforms worn in combat in Iraq, veterans cut, cook, beat and form sheets of paper out of their uniforms. In this way, veterans are able to use the transformation processes of papermaking to reclaim their uniform as art and begin to reconcile their experiences as a soldier in Iraq.

The Combat Paper project is an art therapy that utilizes paper as its medium and has been generating hope and inspiration for war veterans all across the country. The project has a positive impact on veterans, serves as a visceral statement of the long lasting effects of combat and acts as a catalyst for community discussion and activism.

Recognize, an interaction
Floor One Gallery and (R) Evolution Art Studio

Gear Factory Gallery
200 South Geddes St., Syracuse

A simultaneous examination of the art process from creation to exhibition culminates with "Recognize", a collaborative effort between Floor One, (R) Evolution Art Studio, and the Gear Factory.

Throughout the evening, guests of Floor One in Beacon, NY, are encouraged to paint six blank canvas panels within the gallery. This fluctuating creation will be broadcast via an internet live stream to the Gear Factory in Syracuse where (R) Evolution Art Studio is hosting a warehouse styled exhibition.

Concurrently, (R) Evolution Art Studio will broadcast via an internet live stream to Floor One in a virtual exchange of creative energy occurring in two separate spaces some four hours away from one another.

"Recognize" serves as the prototype for future simulcasts between do-it-yourself arts groups throughout the state of New York, connecting and synchronizing the efforts of artists, exhibitions and art spaces into a modern and easily accessible format.

Contemporary Film Series -- Warhol directs...
Everson Museum of Art

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

Screening of films directed by Andy Warhol:
The Nude Restaurant, 1967, 95 minutes
Vinyl, 1965, 66 minutes
The Velvet Underground & Nico (A Symphony of Sound), 1966, 67 minutes
My Hustler, 1965, 67 minutes
I a Man, 1967, 95 minutes

B-Movie Film Festival
Alternative Movies and Events

Price: $10 one-day pass; $25 weekend pass
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

12:00 pm: Ghouligans! Super Show! (short) and Bally Master (doc)
1:30 pm: Reel Zombies
3:15 pm: Reel Zombies Filmmaker Q&A
3:30 pm: Safety First: The Rise of Women
4:20 pm: Blood on the Highway
5:50 pm: Blood on the Highway Filmmaker Q&A
6:05 pm: London Betty
7:25 pm: London Betty Filmmaker Q&A
7:40 pm: I Kicked Luis Guzman in the Face (short) and Clay (feature)
10:00 pm: Clay Filmmaker Q&A
10:20 pm: Killer Weed (short), Wheelchair Werewolf (short), and Ski Wolf (feature)
11:45 pm: Ski wolf Filmmaker Q&A
12:00 midnight: Casting Call of Cthulhu (short) and Doctor Infierno (feature)

The Ghouligans Super Show!
The Ghouligans are a collection of nostalgic monster dead beats that live for classic comedy and chaos. These retro horror characters deliver an electric mix of fun and excitement. Count Farnham, the most royal of all vampires! Once a proud vampire socialite, now just an old washed out blood sucking embarrassment, he often gives a warped self righteous view of the underworld. Count Farnham bites! Void, Void, return from the dead, with or without your rotted head! The depressed slow moving hippie zombie, named after the worm infested hole in his heart. Void is always looking for love in all the wrong graveyards. Wolfgang puts the G in Groovy! This rock n roll werewolf is the crazy cool ghastly ghoul, who likes to surf, and howl at the moon. Ghouls, girls and good times, Wolfgang is the original party animal! Boris is your typical modern day man-made horror. Created by science to be a domesticated ghoul tool, Boris is the essential square, in a world of cool cats. It is not easy fitting in, when you have two metal bolts in your neck. Horror and comedy mix better than peanut butter and jelly. The Ghouligans concept combines a deep cast of horror monsters, with a variety of traditional styles. Creative themes and story lines tend to reflect a more simple time in entertainment. This allows for the possibility for different venues and vehicles. (41 min.)

Bally Master
Experience a guilty pleasure as you are drawn into the bizarre world of Scott Baker, master of the bally stage at Coney Island's Sideshows by the Seashore. Watch Scott as he performs hardcore sideshow-geeking acts such as razor blade eating, straight jacket escape, 'The Human Pin-Cushion,' 'The Human Blockhead,' and watch, if you can, as he consumes a meal of glass chards. 'Professor Scott' also talks about how many of these outrageous routines came about. Meet fellow sideshow performers who share the stage with him such as Insectavora (the sensual Coney Island fire-eater), Bambi the Mermaid (burlesque star and unofficial Queen of Coney Island), Serpentina the snake charmer as well as other Coney Island personalities and habitues. Scott talks in depth about his life, the sideshow, and of geeking, and by geeking, we mean biting off the heads of live chickens, not sitting at a computer all day. Many of the legendary performers who influenced him such as Harry Houdini, Frank Lentini, Melvin Burkhardt and Gypsy Rose Lee are discussed. Scott was filmed live on the bally stage at the Coney Island Circus Sideshow as he worked the crowd and in other locations throughout New York City. It's all REAL, it's all HERE, it's ALIVE! (Directed by Gary Beeber, 22 min.)

Reel Zombies
Independent Zombie Film makers, Producer Mike Masters and Director David J. Francis, the team behind the commercially unsuccessful Zombie Night 1 and 2, have found the climate for Zombie movies has changed significantly after the real zombie invasion begins. The filmmakers seize an opportunity to do something they were never able to before on their meagre budgets, make a memorable zombie film. They set about bringing the gang back together and assemble several key cast and crew members from their past productions. With a full crew and a documentarian following them all the way, Masters and Francis embark on the production of their masterpiece. The entire process is documented as the filmmakers struggle with cast and crew fatalities, a lack of resources to finish the film, and an increasingly high level of zombie activity. Despite it all, the filmmakers' resolve to finish the film at all costs leads them down some dangerous paths, and forcing them to make some difficult creative choices to keep the cameras rolling at all times. It's all the challenges of shooting a low budget zombie film, mixed with the perils of surviving in a Zombie infested world. Will they finish the film and get their long deserved accolades as pioneers in the Zombie film industry, or will the making of documentary be all that's left of their oft times hilarious attempts to bring something innovative, fresh and devastatingly real to the screen?

Safety First: the Rise of Women!
California women test their survival instincts under extreme duress in various life threatening emergency situations while working in high-rise office buildings. (Directed by Mac Kelly, 50 min.)

Blood on the Highway
After a gastrointestinal mishap with their map, three twenty-somethings on a road-trip accidentally wander into Fate, Texas, only to find the town populated by bloodthirsty, dimwitted vampires. A brutal run-in with two carnivorous convenience store clerks leads the three to take refuge with the town's only surviving humans and prepare for battle with an army of the undead. (Directed by Barak Epstein and Blair Rowan, 87 min.)

London Betty
Betty is a plucky journalist who comes to the American town of Pharisee as the new reporter for the local newspaper. But trying to get an audience with her elusive, agoraphobic publisher (Daniel von Bargen, Super Troopers, Malcolm in the Middle) is only part of her problem. Her first story requires the toppling of the corrupt and perverted administration run by Mayor Plumb. However, Betty has unlikely allies to help her bring down the mayor: a pair of petty thieves, a golden-hearted prostitute and a transvestite ex-Marine hitman. With a narration by cult movie favorite Clint Howard, London Betty offers a distinctive mix of comedy, romance and adventure. (Directed by Thomas Edward Seymour, 80 min.)

I Kicked Luis Guzman In The Face
While having lunch with a couple friends he made online, Jason fabricates a story about beating up the actor Luis Guzman in order to impress them. The story spreads until Jason becomes a minor celebrity of the online community. His life becomes more rewarding and enjoyable. That comes to a halt though, when the story spreads to Luis. Luis comes to Jason's door demanding the story be retracted. (Directed by Sherwin Shilati, 21 min)

Clay
Clay is a killer. He walks the streets, picking his victims by fate. Behind his madness lies Sam, his father, a man who unknowingly raised a serial killer by filling his child's head with years upon years of evil stories, lies, bitterness, abuse and fear. Now Clay has grown up, and his father's vicious rule over him is headed to a certain end... Several tragedies, years apart, converge into one violent and brutal climax. (Directed by Ron Bonk , 117 min.)

Killer Weed
A marijuana monster, the doctor who created it, and the cub scouts who rise up to destroy it! (Directed by Gabriel Evans, 8 min.)

Wheelchair Werewolf
A town is terrorized by a werewolf. But who could it be? (Directed by Joe Avella, 2 min.)

Ski Wolf
What do you get when you combine two of the greatest cult comedies, "Teen Wolf" and "Ski School", of all time? Well "Ski Wolf" is what you get! Witness 80s style tomfoolery flung at you with the greatest of ease. Will Scott Bateman and his companions be able to stop "Ralston Zabka the 14th" (cult legend Trent Haaga) and his sidekicks (including adult star "Alix Lakehurst") from taking the ski mountain away from Uncle Billy? Or will the Ski Wolf thwart the evil rich kids plan and bring the party back to the mountain slopes? Watch this flick and you will find these answers and more (like wild parties, explosive diarrhea, crazy sex scenes and huge naked breasts& oops, I said too much) in "Ski Wolf!" Hairy palms are truly the least of his problems! (Directed by Chris Seaver, 71 min.)

Casting Call of Cthulhu
If dread Cthulhu wants a role in Joseph Nanni's short, he'll have to line up and audition like everyone else. Casting Call Of Cthulhu takes us behind the scenes of a horror movie where an exasperated director auditions would-be monsters for his next film. As it turns out, none of the applicants have what it takes to frighten anyone. One guy has claws for hands and the scary thing is he thinks that's normal. There's fishgirl who can't perform under hot lights, a guy with two heads, one of which doesn't want to be there. The director's frustration mounts as the endless parade of pathetic auditions continues. For him, the stars are wrong. The film culminates in cosmic hilarity when a creature straight from the pages of H.P. Lovecraft steps in and steps things up. (Directed by Joseph Nanni, 9 min.)

Doctor Infierno
Doc Hell, famous gynecologist, wants to control the entire world. His plan: to heal the humanity using a miraculous medicine, in exchange for its complete submission. But his goals will be compromised when an unexpected detail, García Nurse, seeks revenge. The killer sent to her annihilation has failed. Nurse, murderer, one neighbor's boyfriend, the building manager, and a handful of other nasty people will be all involved in a crazy madness under the secret bunker of the Doctor Hell. (Directed by Paco Limón, 84 min.)

B-Movie Film Festival
Alternative Movies and Events

Price: $10 one-day pass; $25 weekend pass
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

12:00 pm: Filmmaker Panel (free admission)
1:00 pm: Sunday Shorts
2:55 pm: Sunday Animated Shorts
3:15 pm: Fright Flick
5:00 pm: Fright Flick Filmmaker Q&A
5:15 pm: Hamlet The Vampire Slayer
6:30 pm: Hamlet The Vampire Slayer Filmmaker Q&A
7:00 pm: Awards Ceremony (free admission)

Sunday Shorts:
Dead Bones
The Wild West. A bounty hunter is tracking down a criminal. He catches up with him in a small half-abandonned village where he soon discovers that the few remaining locals have unusual customs. (Directed by Olivier Beguin, 18 min.)

Dirt
Mary and Walter, two senior citizens, mull about their suburban home on what would be any other day... except today, Sully, a crazed police officer, is staked outside of their house in a surveillance van, convinced that they are really psychopathic drug lords. In the throes of his convictions, Sully forces his rookie partner (Macklewhitzsch) to bug their house disguised as a cable-man... unfortunately, Macklewhitzsch's investigation only confirms that Sully's wrong: the quaint old couple are senile and withered, hardly the fortitude needed to lead a drug cartel. Sadly it seems just the thought of being wrong is enough to fuel Sully's rage, so Macklewhitzsch is forced to carry on with the investigation, installing thumb-sized cameras all around the couple's home. However, when Macklewhitzsch reaches the garage, he stumbles upon a door leading away from the rest of the house and down a sordid corridor full of cobwebs, moisture, and tarps. When, Macklewhitzsch reaches the heart of room, he finds himself between a small chemical lab and a cocaine mangrove... but that's not all the old people are hiding. At the edge of the room, Macklewhitzsch hears scratching and muffled cries from what looks like a surrogate shed. To his horror, Sully was right, and then some: Mary and Walter aren't just supplying the East Coast with tons of cocaine... their harvesting children for fertilizer. (Directed by Brendan Dean, 14 min.)

Excision
The main character, Pauline, has a sister, Grace, who suffers from cystic fibrosis and occupies most of her parents' attention. Pauline is fascinated by surgery. This not only gives her nightmares, but also disturbs her mom and dad. However, compelled by a life with a suffering sister, she can't let go of this preoccupation, despite her fear. As her home life deteriorates, Pauline's grades drop and her mother becomes emotionally distant. She has no one to go to and her mental state veers far away from sanity until her nightmares no longer frighten her and surgery becomes more than an intense fascination, but perhaps a future and a way of winning her parents' attention and love. Pauline no longer looks at her sister as a human, but as an opportunity to steal back the devotion of her parents. Aware that Grace will one day need a lung transplant because of her condition, Pauline is convinced she can perform the operation herself. The story explores a strained relationship between a mother and daughter. It is a story of neglect, obsession, jealousy and loneliness told through a blurring of suburbia and terror. (Directed by Richard Bates, 18 min.)

Foet (Dir. cut)
When Pro-Life Denise runs into her long lost friend Helene, she's astounded. Helene is now a fancy, head turning looker who is nothing like the plain jane she use to be. They go to lunch and Denise discovers Helene's secret: a handbag made out of fetal skin. It is so elite, that ownership is entry into a secret club. With her curiosity getting the better of her, she goes to the boutique to learn more about Foet. Unable to contain herself, she purchases one. But after a grueling nights sleep, she has second thoughts. She wants to do the right thing and return the bag. But... A model walks by with her own Foet bag and gives Denise the knowing look. Denise can't go back to being such a plain person. She needs some glamor in her life. So, she decides to keep the bag. (Directed by Ian Fischer, 14 min.)

FutureCop 2010
FutureCop 2010 is a presentistic Crime-dramedy set 3 years in the future. Torn apart by his brother's murder, mediocre private investigator Rex Merryweather, searches for clues that will lead to the capture of his brother's killer. There's just one problem; due to a microchip implanted in his brain, Merryweather randomly skips through small intervals of time. As you can imagine, this makes Rex's task much harder and way more irritating. Along the way he gets involved with a beautiful woman who has a job for him. All he has to do is guard a package. Of course it's never that easy. Rex is bruised, beaten, and broken down in this rollercoaster of Action/Adventure/Comedy. (Directed by Matt Kelley, 7 min.)

Joe Limbo's Portal
Joe is a twenty something modern man; a dreamer who's avoiding the responsibilities of life in favour of his pastimes. Meanwhile, the important things in his life are slipping out of his control. Eva is too fed up with his preoccupations to give their relationship another chance; she's a level headed professional with precious little time for boys in men's clothing. All hope for them seems to be lost and then suddenly, during a heated encounter in a broken lift, there is a malfunction that spirals them into a parallel universe! Dazed and confused our heroes stumble out to investigate. All too quickly their problems from planet earth manifest into bizarre and frightening forms and now it's more crucial than ever for them to reconcile and fight their way through the madness! Will Joe be able to separate fantasy from reality? Will Eva overcome her disbelief in time to vanquish the monstrous space villian Gwartor? And what will come of them if they do conquer? Will they ever find a way home??! All this is answered (and lots more you never wanted to know!) in the sci-fi-rom-com 'Joe Limbo's Portal' - coming to a festival near you! (Directed by Christiaan Faberij de Jonge, 14 min.)

Maxwell's Mind
An experimental surgeon in the 1940s develops a new life support device, one that promises to maintain the health of the human brain no matter what condition the body is in. Eager to prove the worth of his research, he persuades a terminally ill colleague, Professor Julian Maxwell, to become his test subject. Though the experiment seems to be a success and the patient's brain remains sentient after "death", it soon becomes clear that nothing can bring the tuberculosis-stricken body of the patient back to life. Without any hope of a recovery and with his colleagues losing confidence, the surgeon finds himself in uncertain moral territory as he resolves to keep Maxwell's mind alive, no matter what. Soon the only kind words he hears are those of his patient, electronically piped through the machinery, urging him onward, ever onward. Filmed in stark black and white and paying homage to the look and feel of classic horror fare, this film is based on the Edgar Allen Poe short story 'The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar'. (Directed by Ben Solovey, 8 min.)

Ringtone
Henry. An overworked business consultant. On the job 24/7. A slave to his cell phone. Working the long hours to support himself and his wannabe novelist girlfriend, Jasmine. So when his cell phone becomes permanently stuck to his head and won't...stop...ringing... he tries to ignore the problem. Tries to continue life as usual. But as Henry's condition worsens it threatens his career and his relationship with Jasmine, forcing both of them to re-evaluate their lives and their places in the universe. (Directed by Jeremy Boxen, 19 min.)

Animated Shorts:
Nasuh
Based on the poem by the Sufi poet Rumi, 'Nasuh' is a short experimental film created collaboratively by composer Scott Lindroth and artist Anya Belkina. It tells the story of a lecherous bath-house worker, Nasuh, who overcomes his carnal desires when hit by a spiritual revelation. The piece weaves together drawing, video and animation to the sound of concerto for strings and soprano. (Directed by Anya Belkina, Ken Calhoun; 8 min.)

The Cave: An Adaptation of Plato's Allegory in Clay
An excerpt from Plato's Republic, the 'Allegory of the Cave' is a classic commentary on the human condition. We have adapted and brought it to life by shooting over 4,000 still photographs of John Grigsby's wonderful claymation. The look was achieved by use of candlelight in a real fire that burned at the back of the set. (Directed by Michael Ramsey, 3 min.)

Turducken
3 Birds, 1 Cop... Turducken (Directed by Steve Stark, 3 min.)

Zombie Gets A Date
Zombie has a date tonight, but his poor partner isn't so excited about what's in store for her, what in dating a zombie and all. (Directed by Leetal Platt, 3 min.)

Fright Flick
A second-rate film crew sets out to shoot the third in a trilogy of tasteless (although cheesy) horror movies called FRIGHT FLICK. The schmuck-of-a-director maintains an active casting couch, the spineless producer never gets his due credit, the supporting actress keeps pouting that SHE should be the lead, and the rest of the crew is secretly making plans to shoot their own movie. On-the-set shenanigans turn scary as cast and crew members turn up as brutally murdered corpses...and suddenly they realize that they are in a real-life horror movie of their own. A nod to the independent horror flicks of the 80's, FRIGHT FLICK is the quintisential campy, slasher/who-dunnit flick that reveals how everyone is just dying to be in the movie business....although it may cost you an arm and a leg. The popular Hollywood actor, Chad Allen (from TV's DR. QUINN: MEDICINE WOMAN and leading man in movies END OF THE SPEAR and SAVE ME), takes on another leading role in FRIGHT FLICK. (Directed by Israel Luna, 103 min.)

Hamlet the Vampire Slayer
Hamlet is haunted by the possibility that his Latin Lover Uncle Claudio is a vampire who murdered his father and seduced his mother. As the undead truth slaps Hamlet in the face, he must suppress his desires to become a male cheerleader, and face the fact that he is the chosen one who must slay the demons of darkness. His path is helped and hindered by The Playa King, Othello and MacBeth (Europe's finest vampire slayers), Rosenchad and Guildenbrad (his frat-buddies-turned-bloodsuckers), his insane girlfriend, Ophelia, and her bad ass cheerleading brother, Laertes. It comes down to a battle of vampires and wits, as Hamlet and Laertes dual in a male cheerleading dance off that can only end in one thing - DEATH BY POM POM!!! (Directed by Jason Witter, 76 min.)

Carla Ulbrich and Victoria Vox
Westcott Community Center

Price: $12 regular; $10 WCC members
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Don't let the diminutive size and cute looks fool you -- Carla Ulbrich is one seriously demented lady! Why? Well, let's start with the song titles: (I Don't Like) Corny Schlocky Sappy Songs; The Wedgie; Please Do Something Stupid; I Have to Kill You Now; What If Your Butt Was Gone. There are songs about Waffle House, Klingons, and dating for food.

Carla's song "If I had the Copyright" was featured in a major documentary film which was nationally released in November 2006. She has been in the "Funny 5" (top 5 most requested songs) on the Dr. Demento show many times and has been heard world-wide on numerous radio stations, including XM radio, Sirius Satellite, "Bob and Sherrie in the Morning," the BBC, and the Howard Stern Channel.
She's the president of the Difficult Last Name Club, and, of course, has a song about it.

Carla will be releasing her 4th CD in September 2008, followed shortly after by her 5th CD, "Live at XM Radio Theater." She will also be on her second tour of England this September.

Victoria Vox made her big debut at 6 years old, singing "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" in her babysitter's garage in Algoma, WI. Through 20-some years of experience, she has also tackled a Casio keyboard, violin, oboe, trumpet, guitar, bass and ukulele.

Vox continued her higher education at Boston's prestigious Berklee College of Music. Meticulous about honing her craft, the then pink-haired "conservative" punk-rocker earned a degree in Songwriting and was awarded a Berklee Achievement Scholarship and the Vince Gill Songwriting Award.

In February of 2006, Vox released "Victoria Vox and Her Jumping Flea" to rave reviews. On her first Hawaiian tour in support of the album, Vox was offered sponsorship by KoAloha Ukuleles out of Honolulu. Jumping Flea has been featured on NPR's "To the Best of Our Knowledge," the song "America" was used on A&E's Random 1 and indie films Lost in Woonsocket and Westbound, and "My Darlin' Beau" was awarded runner-up in the International Acoustic Music Awards. She was also included in Relix Magazine's list of artists to watch.

Swim Home
Open Hand Theater
Featuring Mikael Rudolph

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

Mikael Rudolph returns to Syracuse with this high paced physical comedy show featuring classical mime and astounding magic, charming mask and puppet characters and plenty of audience interaction. Don't miss this mesmerizing performance.

Snow White
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive children's show -- help Snow White and the dwarfs foil the schemes of the Wicked Queen.

Steel Pier
Syracuse University Drama Department
David Wanstreet, director

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

When the Great Depression hit the States in the 1930s, many Americans did anything they could to keep from going under. The Steel Pier Marathon Dance emerged around this time, offering performers not only the opportunity to win food, housing, and money, but also a chance to break into show business. Set in 1933 at the Atlantic City amusement park, this 1997 Tony-nominated Broadway production is credited by well-known collaborators Kander and Ebb, who previously teamed up to create Cabaret and the revival of Chicago. Bill Kelly, an adventurous pilot, falls out of the sky and into the arms of Rita Racine, a dancer and the wife of evil Steel Pier manager Mick Hamilton. Entertainment and plenty of razzle-dazzle dancing ensue when Rita and Bill pair up for the marathon.

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Two One-Act Plays: The Blue Vein Society; Sweat
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company

Price: $15 regular; $8 students/seniors
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The Blue Vein Society is not just about class and color among African Americans. It is about a world in which we still judge people more by the color of their skin than the content of their character. The play is based on Charles Chesnutt's short story, The Wife of His Youth. Chesnutt is the first African American fiction writer to achieve international acclaim. Separated by slavery and war, a black woman searches for her long-lost husband, only to find that he has changed his name and identity and is part of a club that excludes dark-skinned African Americans. He pretends not to recognize his darker skinned wife from slavery until she and his present fair-skinned fiancée force him to confront his past.

Sweat is one of three short stories in Spunk by Zora Neale Hurston adapted for the stage play by George C. Wolfe. Sweat focuses on the turning point in the life of Delia Jones, a washerwoman from Hurston's hometown of Eatonville, FL. Beginning with an outburst against her abusive husband and finishing with her involvement in his death, the story follows Delia through a transformation, an upheaval of values that Hurston is interested in setting in the context of the Harlem Renaissance in New York City. The author makes use of biblical allusion and African American folk culture to attack issues of gender and oppression that were taboo topics at the time and continue to have a wide significance today.

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Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead*
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

When CB's dog dies from rabies, CB begins to question the existence of an afterlife. His best friend is too burnt out to provide a coherent speculation; his sister has gone goth; his ex-girlfriend has recently been institutionalized; and his other friends are too inebriated to give him any sort of solace. This show is intended for Mature audiences only. Book by Bert V. Royal.

*This production is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by the estate of Charles M. Schultz.

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Steel Pier
Syracuse University Drama Department
David Wanstreet, director

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

When the Great Depression hit the States in the 1930s, many Americans did anything they could to keep from going under. The Steel Pier Marathon Dance emerged around this time, offering performers not only the opportunity to win food, housing, and money, but also a chance to break into show business. Set in 1933 at the Atlantic City amusement park, this 1997 Tony-nominated Broadway production is credited by well-known collaborators Kander and Ebb, who previously teamed up to create Cabaret and the revival of Chicago. Bill Kelly, an adventurous pilot, falls out of the sky and into the arms of Rita Racine, a dancer and the wife of evil Steel Pier manager Mick Hamilton. Entertainment and plenty of razzle-dazzle dancing ensue when Rita and Bill pair up for the marathon.

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Sunday, October 12, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

They are testaments to the impact of terrorism: sculptures portraying mothers going back to the exact moment they learned their child died in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some are screaming; others are weeping. Some are curled into a ball; others have fists raised in anger. The 76 larger-than-life figures that comprise the Dark Elegy collection were created by Montauk, NY-based artist Suse Lowenstein, the mother of a Pan Am 103 student victim.

Four of these sculptures will be on display as part of the University's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy.

Rita Hammond Exhibition: Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman
Light Work Gallery

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

A nationally recognized artist and photographer, Rita Hammond (1924-1999) was a dynamic and greatly admired presence in the Central New York art community. With audacity, intelligence, and humor, Hammond's work reflected on major figures from the history of art and photography. "Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman" offers a body of photographs from Hammond's long-time collaboration with Lynn Moser. The series juxtaposes images of Moser as a young girl in 1967 with images of her as a woman 20 years later, revealing the dramatic and intimate effects of time, reflected in both the subject and the perspective of the photographer.

Ernesto Pujol Exhibition: Walk #1
Light Work Gallery

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

The black-and-white digital images in this exhibition follow a figure clad in a black robe, Pujol himself, walking through a Civil War cemetery in South Carolina. The photographs are arranged in sequential order in the gallery, depicting a dialogue between the figure, nature, and architecture. According to René Paul Barilleaux, "A lush Southern landscape, ornate Victorian cast ironwork, carved marble statuary, and other picturesque elements appear as a counterpoint to the dark, nearly motionless walker."

Pujol conceived this series as a combination between a performance (the walking) and installation. According to Pujol, he had avoided going to the cemetery for some time, but "When I first set foot in that city of the dead, I suddenly realized that it was the familiar environment I had dreamed about for years. I had experienced recurring dreams of marble arches and colonnades surrounded by gated gardens and water." After beginning to photograph the area in a documentary style, he quickly realized that he needed to walk through the space in a performative way, which resulted in the photographs depicted in this exhibition.

In addition to the digital images, this exhibition also features the black robe worn in the photographs, displayed on a mannequin in the center of the gallery, as well as twelve small, framed, hand-blown glass plates hanging on the wall with the images. Each plate has a word painted on it, meant to evoke a personal or emotional response from the viewers in the gallery. Ernesto Pujol

Pujol was born in Cuba and grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He received his BA in humanities and painting from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, and his MFA in interdisciplinary art practice from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been exhibited internationally, and he has received numerous awards and fellowships. In addition, Pujol's work is included in various permanent collections, including at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University; Casa de las Americas in Havana, Cuba; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; among many others. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 1999.

Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition explores multiple facets of Michelangelo's life, art and reputation with more than 25 works by the master and artists contemporary to him, including 14 original works by Michelangelo chosen to illustrate the broad range of his interests and creative activities. Figural studies associated with the Sistine Chapel and other paintings appear alongside original architectural plans and sketches of ancient Roman monuments. Printed books complement autograph examples of the artist's poetry. Eight of the Michelangelo works in the exhibition -- five drawings, including "Study for a Gate" and "Christ in Limbo," and three manuscript pages -- have never been seen in this country.

Exploring History With Art: Childhood Through The Years
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The latest exhibit in the Exploring History with Art series features paintings from the permanent collection. 19th-century portraits of children, focusing on children of prominent local families, convey historical circumstances as well as social ideals. 20th-century genre paintings show children in their element: in the bathtub, at recess, and on vacation. The exhibit also features historical objects that enliven the space and impart a sense of the experience of childhood from the cradle to school days and play time. Childhood Through The Years is not only an excellent opportunity to delve into the history of childhood but also the exhibition represents a moment, as fleeting as childhood itself, for parents and children to share their experiences through the interplay of art and history.

Migrating Memories, Migrating Arts: Photographic Retrospective
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition celebrates the formative cultural fermentation occurring in the present regional landscape of Central New York. These photographs document Folk Arts: Soul of Syracuse, a series of community-University collaborative programs hosted by the Department of Anthropology in SU's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs with Catholic Charities Refugee Resettlement Services, the Center for New Americans, St. Vincent de Paul Church, and Tabernacle Baptist Church in 2007 and 2008. This exhibit is part of the 2008 Syracuse Symposium: Migration.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

Warhol Presents highlights the early commercial career of Andy Warhol, whose whimsical drawings from the 1950s created fantasies that marketed fashion and glamour through evocation. Warhol's penchant for combining art and advertisement quickly made him one of the most well known illustrators of women's fashion in New York. His talen' was sought out by fashion publication giants, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar; and women's footwear designer and retailer, I. Miller Shoe Company.

The exhibition presents 18 of Warhol's rarely seen shoe illustrations including Fantasy Shoes (ca. 1956), a whimsical and humorous take on women's footwear design. Exhibited also are drawings of women's accessories and fashion figures, including Female Fashion Figure (1950s); a vibrant depiction of a chic model alongside an equally stylish car.

Warhol's unique well-wrought line also translated to commissions of large-scale window displays for New York stores, including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's. One example of the artist's window displays is featured in this exhibition in the illustrated reproduction, Miss Dior (1950s); and a 1997 3-dimensional re-creation of Warhol's 1957 Bonwit Teller Window Display, which includes glass perfume bottles and colorful reproduction of a window display screen. Warhol's early drawings and interest in art, identity, and consumerism informed his later pop-icon status, when product and identity literally became his art, and was used to fuel his experimental factory era films.

This exhibition is curated by Natalie Sanderson, Curator of Education at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. The original exhibition, Andy Warhol Presents, was first exhibited at the University Art Museum in 2007.

Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th Century Superstar
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Local artist and designer Jeffrey Mayer will present a post-modern installation of 20th century fashion design inspired by the 18th century fashion sense of Marie Antoinette. Although Marie Antoinette did not really create a style that was personally unique, what she did for fashion in the 1770s was to solidify, refine and intensify the rococo style created by her grandfather-in-law, Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who died in 1764, six years before the 14-year-old Princess even arrived from Austria. Through the exhibition and a publication to be released in the fall, Mayer will be reinterpreting and discussing Marie Antoinette's key concepts of Fantasy, Luxury, and Exoticism.

Marie Antoinette was originally displayed in 2007 in a small space in Syracuse University's Fashion Design Department where Mayer has been Associate Professor of Fashion History and Design since 1992. For the Everson's installation, Mayer has expanded the visual experience to include more than 40 garments displayed on vintage mannequins, an eclectic collection of contemporary fashion accessories, an interactive audio component, and many unique, custom-designed and hand-made objects.

Stained Glass Series: Vivaldi's Spring
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Caitlin Tully, violin

Most Holy Rosary Church
111 Roberts Ave., Syracuse

C.P.E. Bach Symphony in B-flat Major
Haydn Violin Concerto in C Major
Vivaldi "Spring" from The Four Seasons
Haydn Symphony No. 95

Syracuse University Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The Wind Ensemble performs under the direction of John Laverty, director of bands at SU. The program will include works by Nelson and Sparke.

The Symphony Band performs under the direction of Bradley Ethington, director of the Setnor School, and Justin Mertz, assistant director of bands at SU. The program will include works by Sousa, Khachaturian, Ito and Gillingham.

Free parking is available in Irving Garage.

Steel Pier
Syracuse University Drama Department
David Wanstreet, director

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

When the Great Depression hit the States in the 1930s, many Americans did anything they could to keep from going under. The Steel Pier Marathon Dance emerged around this time, offering performers not only the opportunity to win food, housing, and money, but also a chance to break into show business. Set in 1933 at the Atlantic City amusement park, this 1997 Tony-nominated Broadway production is credited by well-known collaborators Kander and Ebb, who previously teamed up to create Cabaret and the revival of Chicago. Bill Kelly, an adventurous pilot, falls out of the sky and into the arms of Rita Racine, a dancer and the wife of evil Steel Pier manager Mick Hamilton. Entertainment and plenty of razzle-dazzle dancing ensue when Rita and Bill pair up for the marathon.

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Monday, October 13, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

They are testaments to the impact of terrorism: sculptures portraying mothers going back to the exact moment they learned their child died in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some are screaming; others are weeping. Some are curled into a ball; others have fists raised in anger. The 76 larger-than-life figures that comprise the Dark Elegy collection were created by Montauk, NY-based artist Suse Lowenstein, the mother of a Pan Am 103 student victim.

Four of these sculptures will be on display as part of the University's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy.

Migrating Memories, Migrating Arts: Photographic Retrospective
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition celebrates the formative cultural fermentation occurring in the present regional landscape of Central New York. These photographs document Folk Arts: Soul of Syracuse, a series of community-University collaborative programs hosted by the Department of Anthropology in SU's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs with Catholic Charities Refugee Resettlement Services, the Center for New Americans, St. Vincent de Paul Church, and Tabernacle Baptist Church in 2007 and 2008. This exhibit is part of the 2008 Syracuse Symposium: Migration.

Paintings by DeLoss McGraw on Poems by W.D. Snodgrass
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.D. Snodgrass and internationally acclaimed artist DeLoss McGraw have collaborated for over 30 years. This latest series of works, being shown for the first time at the YMCA's gallerY, consists of paintings created by Mr. McGraw directly on pages torn from Snodgrass' acclaimed poetry collection Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems. The end product is an extraordinary exhibit that adds an evocative dimension to a poetic achievement that stands among the best of the late 20th century.

DeLoss McGraw's work has been exhibited around the globe, and is collected by such eminent institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, and many universities. His illustrated version of Alice in Wonderland won the Illustrator's Society Book of the Year Award for 2002. W.D. Snodgrass is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, translation, and criticism, including Heart's Needle, which was awarded the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and De/Compositions, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.

Gallery Exhibition: Matt Moyer
Onondaga Community College

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

Photojournalist Matt Moyer has worked on assignment for publication such as The New York Times, The Guardian, and National Geographic magazine. For more than 15 years, he has been committed to telling stories that put a human face on the day's news.

Paik & Cage
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The exhibit is a verbal and visual testimony of a friendship: "Paik & Cage" is a defining encounter of two 1960s masters, Korean video-art precursor Nam June Paik and American composer John Cage.

Nam June Paik's newly digitized, uncut version of Suite (212), which combines 12 short videos starting with The Selling of New York will screen for the duration of the show. This is one of the more significant pieces from the legendary Synapse program that pioneered video as an art form right here in Syracuse in the 1970s.

As a noteworthy accompaniment, the exhibit introduces a never-before-shown photographic profile of John Cage by Cuban artist Raoul Sentenat.

In addition, the exhibit will include a headset-equipped audio installation for the piece Indeterminacy, new aspect of form in instrumental and electronic music, which has John Cage narrating a series of 1-minute Zen Buddhist tales and meditations.

Avant-garde artist and composer, Nam June Paik (1932-2006) pioneered into video as an art form in the 1960s by combining multiple TV screens with sculpture, music and live performers. Trained in music, aesthetics and philosophy, he was a member of the 1960s art movement Fluxus, which was in part inspired by composer John Cage's use of everyday sound in music.

American composer John Cage (1912-1992) was an explorer of electronic music and the non-standard use of musical instruments. Many think of him as the most influential composer of the 20th century. He was instrumental in the development of modern dance and is best known for his 1952 composition 4'33", which is performed without a single note being played.

Think Tech Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Art with a "techie" theme by Anna Soltyk, Ben Applebaum, Bob Gates, Derek Chalfant, Elizabeth Chalfant, Elizabeth Groat, Delores Herringshaw, Jennifer Jeffery, Jerry Russell, Maria Aridgides, Saba Khan, Sharon Bottle Souva, Smita Rane; plus posters from the Syracuse Poster Project.

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Dawn of a New Age: The Immigrant Contribution to the Arts in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"Dawn of a New Age" tells the story of five artists who immigrated to the United States during the first half of the 20th century: Adolph Bolm, a Russian dancer and choreographer who performed with the Mariinsky Ballet and Ballets Russes; William Lescaze, a Swiss architect who was one of the pioneers of modernism; Louis Lozowick, a Russian printmaker known for his Art Deco and Precision lithographs; Miklós Rózsa, a Hungarian composer of more than 100 film scores, including Ben Hur; and John Vassos, a Greek illustrator and industrial designer. The exhibition draws from the rich holdings of SCRC and showcases more than 50 of the artists' personal papers, manuscripts, photos and artifacts.

This exhibit is part of this year's Syracuse Symposium on the theme "Migration."

Art Not Apathy: Works of Barbara Higgens
Westcott Community Center

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

Ernesto Pujol Exhibition: Walk #1
Light Work Gallery

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

The black-and-white digital images in this exhibition follow a figure clad in a black robe, Pujol himself, walking through a Civil War cemetery in South Carolina. The photographs are arranged in sequential order in the gallery, depicting a dialogue between the figure, nature, and architecture. According to René Paul Barilleaux, "A lush Southern landscape, ornate Victorian cast ironwork, carved marble statuary, and other picturesque elements appear as a counterpoint to the dark, nearly motionless walker."

Pujol conceived this series as a combination between a performance (the walking) and installation. According to Pujol, he had avoided going to the cemetery for some time, but "When I first set foot in that city of the dead, I suddenly realized that it was the familiar environment I had dreamed about for years. I had experienced recurring dreams of marble arches and colonnades surrounded by gated gardens and water." After beginning to photograph the area in a documentary style, he quickly realized that he needed to walk through the space in a performative way, which resulted in the photographs depicted in this exhibition.

In addition to the digital images, this exhibition also features the black robe worn in the photographs, displayed on a mannequin in the center of the gallery, as well as twelve small, framed, hand-blown glass plates hanging on the wall with the images. Each plate has a word painted on it, meant to evoke a personal or emotional response from the viewers in the gallery. Ernesto Pujol

Pujol was born in Cuba and grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He received his BA in humanities and painting from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, and his MFA in interdisciplinary art practice from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been exhibited internationally, and he has received numerous awards and fellowships. In addition, Pujol's work is included in various permanent collections, including at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University; Casa de las Americas in Havana, Cuba; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; among many others. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 1999.

Rita Hammond Exhibition: Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman
Light Work Gallery

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

A nationally recognized artist and photographer, Rita Hammond (1924-1999) was a dynamic and greatly admired presence in the Central New York art community. With audacity, intelligence, and humor, Hammond's work reflected on major figures from the history of art and photography. "Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman" offers a body of photographs from Hammond's long-time collaboration with Lynn Moser. The series juxtaposes images of Moser as a young girl in 1967 with images of her as a woman 20 years later, revealing the dramatic and intimate effects of time, reflected in both the subject and the perspective of the photographer.

Works of Jim Ridlon
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The Ipcress File (1965)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $3 regular, $2.50 members
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Eric Vincent En Concert
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Eric Vincent is a French singer, songwriter and guitarist considered to be one of the best contemporary singers of the chanson française. The event includes a performance by Mr. Vincent and a one-hour workshop. Mr. Vincent began his career in Paris at the famous "Port du Salut" with Coluche. This amazing performer lives downtown Paris on a beautiful "péniche" and has a special passion for taking his music to every corner of the globe.

Adventures in Great Music
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Eileen Strempel, soprano; Rachel Lee, violin

Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The program will include works by Haydn, Copland, Bernstein, a performance of Libby Larsen's This Unbearable Stillness: Songs from the Balcony (commissioned by Myma Root), and a world premiere of the orchestrated version of four songs (originally composed as a work for soprano and string quartet) adapted from the work of Arab poets Dima Hilal and Sekeena Shaben.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

They are testaments to the impact of terrorism: sculptures portraying mothers going back to the exact moment they learned their child died in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some are screaming; others are weeping. Some are curled into a ball; others have fists raised in anger. The 76 larger-than-life figures that comprise the Dark Elegy collection were created by Montauk, NY-based artist Suse Lowenstein, the mother of a Pan Am 103 student victim.

Four of these sculptures will be on display as part of the University's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy.

Migrating Memories, Migrating Arts: Photographic Retrospective
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition celebrates the formative cultural fermentation occurring in the present regional landscape of Central New York. These photographs document Folk Arts: Soul of Syracuse, a series of community-University collaborative programs hosted by the Department of Anthropology in SU's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs with Catholic Charities Refugee Resettlement Services, the Center for New Americans, St. Vincent de Paul Church, and Tabernacle Baptist Church in 2007 and 2008. This exhibit is part of the 2008 Syracuse Symposium: Migration.

Paintings by DeLoss McGraw on Poems by W.D. Snodgrass
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.D. Snodgrass and internationally acclaimed artist DeLoss McGraw have collaborated for over 30 years. This latest series of works, being shown for the first time at the YMCA's gallerY, consists of paintings created by Mr. McGraw directly on pages torn from Snodgrass' acclaimed poetry collection Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems. The end product is an extraordinary exhibit that adds an evocative dimension to a poetic achievement that stands among the best of the late 20th century.

DeLoss McGraw's work has been exhibited around the globe, and is collected by such eminent institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, and many universities. His illustrated version of Alice in Wonderland won the Illustrator's Society Book of the Year Award for 2002. W.D. Snodgrass is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, translation, and criticism, including Heart's Needle, which was awarded the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and De/Compositions, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.

Gallery Exhibition: Matt Moyer
Onondaga Community College

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

Photojournalist Matt Moyer has worked on assignment for publication such as The New York Times, The Guardian, and National Geographic magazine. For more than 15 years, he has been committed to telling stories that put a human face on the day's news.

Paik & Cage
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The exhibit is a verbal and visual testimony of a friendship: "Paik & Cage" is a defining encounter of two 1960s masters, Korean video-art precursor Nam June Paik and American composer John Cage.

Nam June Paik's newly digitized, uncut version of Suite (212), which combines 12 short videos starting with The Selling of New York will screen for the duration of the show. This is one of the more significant pieces from the legendary Synapse program that pioneered video as an art form right here in Syracuse in the 1970s.

As a noteworthy accompaniment, the exhibit introduces a never-before-shown photographic profile of John Cage by Cuban artist Raoul Sentenat.

In addition, the exhibit will include a headset-equipped audio installation for the piece Indeterminacy, new aspect of form in instrumental and electronic music, which has John Cage narrating a series of 1-minute Zen Buddhist tales and meditations.

Avant-garde artist and composer, Nam June Paik (1932-2006) pioneered into video as an art form in the 1960s by combining multiple TV screens with sculpture, music and live performers. Trained in music, aesthetics and philosophy, he was a member of the 1960s art movement Fluxus, which was in part inspired by composer John Cage's use of everyday sound in music.

American composer John Cage (1912-1992) was an explorer of electronic music and the non-standard use of musical instruments. Many think of him as the most influential composer of the 20th century. He was instrumental in the development of modern dance and is best known for his 1952 composition 4'33", which is performed without a single note being played.

Mapping Linguistics, Revisited: Works by Kelly Roe
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

Price: Free
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse

Kelly Roe's mixed media work will be on display. A professor in the Graphic Design Program at SUNY Oswego, Roe has a background in graphic design, bookmaking and printmaking and sees herself as an anthropologist, artist, editor and scribe. The Mapping Linguistics exhibition explores relationships in linguistics, psychology and child development.

Visual Journals: Recent Works by SUNY Oswego Faculty
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

Price: Free
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse

Art exhibition featuring recent work by SUNY Oswego faculty members Amy Bartell, Cynthia Clabough, Paul Pearce, Cara Brewer Thompson.

Think Tech Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Art with a "techie" theme by Anna Soltyk, Ben Applebaum, Bob Gates, Derek Chalfant, Elizabeth Chalfant, Elizabeth Groat, Delores Herringshaw, Jennifer Jeffery, Jerry Russell, Maria Aridgides, Saba Khan, Sharon Bottle Souva, Smita Rane; plus posters from the Syracuse Poster Project.

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Dawn of a New Age: The Immigrant Contribution to the Arts in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"Dawn of a New Age" tells the story of five artists who immigrated to the United States during the first half of the 20th century: Adolph Bolm, a Russian dancer and choreographer who performed with the Mariinsky Ballet and Ballets Russes; William Lescaze, a Swiss architect who was one of the pioneers of modernism; Louis Lozowick, a Russian printmaker known for his Art Deco and Precision lithographs; Miklós Rózsa, a Hungarian composer of more than 100 film scores, including Ben Hur; and John Vassos, a Greek illustrator and industrial designer. The exhibition draws from the rich holdings of SCRC and showcases more than 50 of the artists' personal papers, manuscripts, photos and artifacts.

This exhibit is part of this year's Syracuse Symposium on the theme "Migration."

Art Not Apathy: Works of Barbara Higgens
Westcott Community Center

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

March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
Community Folk Art Center

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

Original illustrated works by London Ladd

Founding Visionaries: Herb Williams and Jack White
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Community Folk Art Center is proud to exhibit this unique collection of sculptures, drawings and prints by two CFAC founders, Herb Williams and Jack White.

Celebrating Herb Williams: His Life, His Work, and His Art: As CFAC founding director, Herb Williams (1938-1999) devoted his life to promoting the work of diverse artists and ensuring that a large audience could experience their work. His dedication to the collective vision of the founding members kept Williams busy and while he avidly supported and promoted other artist he rarely took time exhibit his own work. This will be the first large-scale exhibition of Williams work in Upstate New York. Though he identified himself primarily as a sculptor, Williams worked across various artistic mediums; manipulating wood, plaster and bronze into figurative and abstract forms. His lithographs and etchings not only indicate the measure of his artistic skill and creativity but also serve as a chronicle of his literal, figurative journey as an artist.

Jack White: An Ancestral Image is a collection of the works by CFAC co-founder and artist Jack White. Since the late 1960s, Jack White's mixed media abstract work, defined as "abstract impressionism," has been inspired by African art forms and symbolism. The works included in the Ancestral Image exhibition are outside the boundaries of traditional painting or sculpture. They contain elements of the spiritual, the artistic, and the utilitarian that define African art.

Ernesto Pujol Exhibition: Walk #1
Light Work Gallery

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

The black-and-white digital images in this exhibition follow a figure clad in a black robe, Pujol himself, walking through a Civil War cemetery in South Carolina. The photographs are arranged in sequential order in the gallery, depicting a dialogue between the figure, nature, and architecture. According to René Paul Barilleaux, "A lush Southern landscape, ornate Victorian cast ironwork, carved marble statuary, and other picturesque elements appear as a counterpoint to the dark, nearly motionless walker."

Pujol conceived this series as a combination between a performance (the walking) and installation. According to Pujol, he had avoided going to the cemetery for some time, but "When I first set foot in that city of the dead, I suddenly realized that it was the familiar environment I had dreamed about for years. I had experienced recurring dreams of marble arches and colonnades surrounded by gated gardens and water." After beginning to photograph the area in a documentary style, he quickly realized that he needed to walk through the space in a performative way, which resulted in the photographs depicted in this exhibition.

In addition to the digital images, this exhibition also features the black robe worn in the photographs, displayed on a mannequin in the center of the gallery, as well as twelve small, framed, hand-blown glass plates hanging on the wall with the images. Each plate has a word painted on it, meant to evoke a personal or emotional response from the viewers in the gallery. Ernesto Pujol

Pujol was born in Cuba and grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He received his BA in humanities and painting from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, and his MFA in interdisciplinary art practice from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been exhibited internationally, and he has received numerous awards and fellowships. In addition, Pujol's work is included in various permanent collections, including at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University; Casa de las Americas in Havana, Cuba; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; among many others. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 1999.

Rita Hammond Exhibition: Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman
Light Work Gallery

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

A nationally recognized artist and photographer, Rita Hammond (1924-1999) was a dynamic and greatly admired presence in the Central New York art community. With audacity, intelligence, and humor, Hammond's work reflected on major figures from the history of art and photography. "Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman" offers a body of photographs from Hammond's long-time collaboration with Lynn Moser. The series juxtaposes images of Moser as a young girl in 1967 with images of her as a woman 20 years later, revealing the dramatic and intimate effects of time, reflected in both the subject and the perspective of the photographer.

Works of Jim Ridlon
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition explores multiple facets of Michelangelo's life, art and reputation with more than 25 works by the master and artists contemporary to him, including 14 original works by Michelangelo chosen to illustrate the broad range of his interests and creative activities. Figural studies associated with the Sistine Chapel and other paintings appear alongside original architectural plans and sketches of ancient Roman monuments. Printed books complement autograph examples of the artist's poetry. Eight of the Michelangelo works in the exhibition -- five drawings, including "Study for a Gate" and "Christ in Limbo," and three manuscript pages -- have never been seen in this country.

Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th Century Superstar
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Local artist and designer Jeffrey Mayer will present a post-modern installation of 20th century fashion design inspired by the 18th century fashion sense of Marie Antoinette. Although Marie Antoinette did not really create a style that was personally unique, what she did for fashion in the 1770s was to solidify, refine and intensify the rococo style created by her grandfather-in-law, Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who died in 1764, six years before the 14-year-old Princess even arrived from Austria. Through the exhibition and a publication to be released in the fall, Mayer will be reinterpreting and discussing Marie Antoinette's key concepts of Fantasy, Luxury, and Exoticism.

Marie Antoinette was originally displayed in 2007 in a small space in Syracuse University's Fashion Design Department where Mayer has been Associate Professor of Fashion History and Design since 1992. For the Everson's installation, Mayer has expanded the visual experience to include more than 40 garments displayed on vintage mannequins, an eclectic collection of contemporary fashion accessories, an interactive audio component, and many unique, custom-designed and hand-made objects.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

Warhol Presents highlights the early commercial career of Andy Warhol, whose whimsical drawings from the 1950s created fantasies that marketed fashion and glamour through evocation. Warhol's penchant for combining art and advertisement quickly made him one of the most well known illustrators of women's fashion in New York. His talen' was sought out by fashion publication giants, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar; and women's footwear designer and retailer, I. Miller Shoe Company.

The exhibition presents 18 of Warhol's rarely seen shoe illustrations including Fantasy Shoes (ca. 1956), a whimsical and humorous take on women's footwear design. Exhibited also are drawings of women's accessories and fashion figures, including Female Fashion Figure (1950s); a vibrant depiction of a chic model alongside an equally stylish car.

Warhol's unique well-wrought line also translated to commissions of large-scale window displays for New York stores, including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's. One example of the artist's window displays is featured in this exhibition in the illustrated reproduction, Miss Dior (1950s); and a 1997 3-dimensional re-creation of Warhol's 1957 Bonwit Teller Window Display, which includes glass perfume bottles and colorful reproduction of a window display screen. Warhol's early drawings and interest in art, identity, and consumerism informed his later pop-icon status, when product and identity literally became his art, and was used to fuel his experimental factory era films.

This exhibition is curated by Natalie Sanderson, Curator of Education at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. The original exhibition, Andy Warhol Presents, was first exhibited at the University Art Museum in 2007.

Dreams of Promise and Peril
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The role that artists play as cultural barometers always seems to be heightened in times of change and uncertainty. Although they employ different approaches, from timely reportage to futuristic illusions, all of the artists in the exhibition explore the terrain where hopes and dreams collide. By making visible the complex emotions we all sometimes experience the artists in this exhibition ask us to deeply consider the promise and peril that exists both in the fantasies we create and the realities we deny.

All of the work in this exhibition was borrowed from the JGS, Inc. collection, a non-profit photography organization based in New York City. JGS and Syracuse University have entered into an agreement to collaborate on traveling exhibitions, research, publications, and other projects utilizing work from the JGS collection that includes over 8,000 photographs spanning the history of the medium. This exhibition is an example of that collaboration and at the conclusion of the exhibition SUArt Galleries will create traveling solo exhibitions by each of the four artists.

Art in the Afternoon
Everson Museum of Art

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

Join the education department for a lively group discussion about the fantastical world of Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th-Century Superstar. Participants will share ideas and interpretations by engaging with the work and each other to find meaning.

Friends of the Central Library Author Series
Featuring David Remnick

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

Syracuse University Jazz Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Joseph Riposo and John Coggiola, conductor

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

The program includes works by Stan Kenton, Thad Jones, Buddy Rich and Don Menza.

Youtheatre: Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters
CNY Arts
Dallas Children's Theater

Price: $8
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A performance of John Steptoe's gorgeous Caldecott Award-winning Cinderella tale adapted for the stage by Karen Abbott.

Youtheatre: Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters
CNY Arts
Dallas Children's Theater

Price: $8
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A performance of John Steptoe's gorgeous Caldecott Award-winning Cinderella tale adapted for the stage by Karen Abbott.

Don't Look Back: Stories from the Salt City
Syracuse Stage
Ping Chong, director

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

World Premiere. A powerful exploration of the changing face of Syracuse through an interview-based theatre work, Don't Look Back presents the first-hand narratives of citizens of Syracuse -- both recent arrivals and long-standing residents -- who are in some way living outside the dominant culture. Created by theatrical innovator Ping Chong and constructed as a chamber piece of storytelling, the performance features real people telling their personal experiences of creating cultural identity out of rich and complex histories. Ping Chong continues the compelling work he has done throughout the United States exploring the divergent lives that make up our communities. These stories will carry us around the globe and bring us home with a more complete understanding of how the world out there is the world right here.

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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

They are testaments to the impact of terrorism: sculptures portraying mothers going back to the exact moment they learned their child died in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some are screaming; others are weeping. Some are curled into a ball; others have fists raised in anger. The 76 larger-than-life figures that comprise the Dark Elegy collection were created by Montauk, NY-based artist Suse Lowenstein, the mother of a Pan Am 103 student victim.

Four of these sculptures will be on display as part of the University's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy.

Migrating Memories, Migrating Arts: Photographic Retrospective
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition celebrates the formative cultural fermentation occurring in the present regional landscape of Central New York. These photographs document Folk Arts: Soul of Syracuse, a series of community-University collaborative programs hosted by the Department of Anthropology in SU's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs with Catholic Charities Refugee Resettlement Services, the Center for New Americans, St. Vincent de Paul Church, and Tabernacle Baptist Church in 2007 and 2008. This exhibit is part of the 2008 Syracuse Symposium: Migration.

Paintings by DeLoss McGraw on Poems by W.D. Snodgrass
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.D. Snodgrass and internationally acclaimed artist DeLoss McGraw have collaborated for over 30 years. This latest series of works, being shown for the first time at the YMCA's gallerY, consists of paintings created by Mr. McGraw directly on pages torn from Snodgrass' acclaimed poetry collection Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems. The end product is an extraordinary exhibit that adds an evocative dimension to a poetic achievement that stands among the best of the late 20th century.

DeLoss McGraw's work has been exhibited around the globe, and is collected by such eminent institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, and many universities. His illustrated version of Alice in Wonderland won the Illustrator's Society Book of the Year Award for 2002. W.D. Snodgrass is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, translation, and criticism, including Heart's Needle, which was awarded the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and De/Compositions, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.

Gallery Exhibition: Matt Moyer
Onondaga Community College

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

Photojournalist Matt Moyer has worked on assignment for publication such as The New York Times, The Guardian, and National Geographic magazine. For more than 15 years, he has been committed to telling stories that put a human face on the day's news.

Paik & Cage
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The exhibit is a verbal and visual testimony of a friendship: "Paik & Cage" is a defining encounter of two 1960s masters, Korean video-art precursor Nam June Paik and American composer John Cage.

Nam June Paik's newly digitized, uncut version of Suite (212), which combines 12 short videos starting with The Selling of New York will screen for the duration of the show. This is one of the more significant pieces from the legendary Synapse program that pioneered video as an art form right here in Syracuse in the 1970s.

As a noteworthy accompaniment, the exhibit introduces a never-before-shown photographic profile of John Cage by Cuban artist Raoul Sentenat.

In addition, the exhibit will include a headset-equipped audio installation for the piece Indeterminacy, new aspect of form in instrumental and electronic music, which has John Cage narrating a series of 1-minute Zen Buddhist tales and meditations.

Avant-garde artist and composer, Nam June Paik (1932-2006) pioneered into video as an art form in the 1960s by combining multiple TV screens with sculpture, music and live performers. Trained in music, aesthetics and philosophy, he was a member of the 1960s art movement Fluxus, which was in part inspired by composer John Cage's use of everyday sound in music.

American composer John Cage (1912-1992) was an explorer of electronic music and the non-standard use of musical instruments. Many think of him as the most influential composer of the 20th century. He was instrumental in the development of modern dance and is best known for his 1952 composition 4'33", which is performed without a single note being played.

Visual Journals: Recent Works by SUNY Oswego Faculty
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

Price: Free
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse

Art exhibition featuring recent work by SUNY Oswego faculty members Amy Bartell, Cynthia Clabough, Paul Pearce, Cara Brewer Thompson.

Mapping Linguistics, Revisited: Works by Kelly Roe
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

Price: Free
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse

Kelly Roe's mixed media work will be on display. A professor in the Graphic Design Program at SUNY Oswego, Roe has a background in graphic design, bookmaking and printmaking and sees herself as an anthropologist, artist, editor and scribe. The Mapping Linguistics exhibition explores relationships in linguistics, psychology and child development.

Think Tech Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Art with a "techie" theme by Anna Soltyk, Ben Applebaum, Bob Gates, Derek Chalfant, Elizabeth Chalfant, Elizabeth Groat, Delores Herringshaw, Jennifer Jeffery, Jerry Russell, Maria Aridgides, Saba Khan, Sharon Bottle Souva, Smita Rane; plus posters from the Syracuse Poster Project.

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Dawn of a New Age: The Immigrant Contribution to the Arts in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"Dawn of a New Age" tells the story of five artists who immigrated to the United States during the first half of the 20th century: Adolph Bolm, a Russian dancer and choreographer who performed with the Mariinsky Ballet and Ballets Russes; William Lescaze, a Swiss architect who was one of the pioneers of modernism; Louis Lozowick, a Russian printmaker known for his Art Deco and Precision lithographs; Miklós Rózsa, a Hungarian composer of more than 100 film scores, including Ben Hur; and John Vassos, a Greek illustrator and industrial designer. The exhibition draws from the rich holdings of SCRC and showcases more than 50 of the artists' personal papers, manuscripts, photos and artifacts.

This exhibit is part of this year's Syracuse Symposium on the theme "Migration."

Art Not Apathy: Works of Barbara Higgens
Westcott Community Center

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

Founding Visionaries: Herb Williams and Jack White
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Community Folk Art Center is proud to exhibit this unique collection of sculptures, drawings and prints by two CFAC founders, Herb Williams and Jack White.

Celebrating Herb Williams: His Life, His Work, and His Art: As CFAC founding director, Herb Williams (1938-1999) devoted his life to promoting the work of diverse artists and ensuring that a large audience could experience their work. His dedication to the collective vision of the founding members kept Williams busy and while he avidly supported and promoted other artist he rarely took time exhibit his own work. This will be the first large-scale exhibition of Williams work in Upstate New York. Though he identified himself primarily as a sculptor, Williams worked across various artistic mediums; manipulating wood, plaster and bronze into figurative and abstract forms. His lithographs and etchings not only indicate the measure of his artistic skill and creativity but also serve as a chronicle of his literal, figurative journey as an artist.

Jack White: An Ancestral Image is a collection of the works by CFAC co-founder and artist Jack White. Since the late 1960s, Jack White's mixed media abstract work, defined as "abstract impressionism," has been inspired by African art forms and symbolism. The works included in the Ancestral Image exhibition are outside the boundaries of traditional painting or sculpture. They contain elements of the spiritual, the artistic, and the utilitarian that define African art.

March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
Community Folk Art Center

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

Original illustrated works by London Ladd

Ernesto Pujol Exhibition: Walk #1
Light Work Gallery

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

The black-and-white digital images in this exhibition follow a figure clad in a black robe, Pujol himself, walking through a Civil War cemetery in South Carolina. The photographs are arranged in sequential order in the gallery, depicting a dialogue between the figure, nature, and architecture. According to René Paul Barilleaux, "A lush Southern landscape, ornate Victorian cast ironwork, carved marble statuary, and other picturesque elements appear as a counterpoint to the dark, nearly motionless walker."

Pujol conceived this series as a combination between a performance (the walking) and installation. According to Pujol, he had avoided going to the cemetery for some time, but "When I first set foot in that city of the dead, I suddenly realized that it was the familiar environment I had dreamed about for years. I had experienced recurring dreams of marble arches and colonnades surrounded by gated gardens and water." After beginning to photograph the area in a documentary style, he quickly realized that he needed to walk through the space in a performative way, which resulted in the photographs depicted in this exhibition.

In addition to the digital images, this exhibition also features the black robe worn in the photographs, displayed on a mannequin in the center of the gallery, as well as twelve small, framed, hand-blown glass plates hanging on the wall with the images. Each plate has a word painted on it, meant to evoke a personal or emotional response from the viewers in the gallery. Ernesto Pujol

Pujol was born in Cuba and grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He received his BA in humanities and painting from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, and his MFA in interdisciplinary art practice from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been exhibited internationally, and he has received numerous awards and fellowships. In addition, Pujol's work is included in various permanent collections, including at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University; Casa de las Americas in Havana, Cuba; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; among many others. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 1999.

Rita Hammond Exhibition: Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman
Light Work Gallery

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

A nationally recognized artist and photographer, Rita Hammond (1924-1999) was a dynamic and greatly admired presence in the Central New York art community. With audacity, intelligence, and humor, Hammond's work reflected on major figures from the history of art and photography. "Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman" offers a body of photographs from Hammond's long-time collaboration with Lynn Moser. The series juxtaposes images of Moser as a young girl in 1967 with images of her as a woman 20 years later, revealing the dramatic and intimate effects of time, reflected in both the subject and the perspective of the photographer.

Works of Jim Ridlon
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Exploring History With Art: Childhood Through The Years
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The latest exhibit in the Exploring History with Art series features paintings from the permanent collection. 19th-century portraits of children, focusing on children of prominent local families, convey historical circumstances as well as social ideals. 20th-century genre paintings show children in their element: in the bathtub, at recess, and on vacation. The exhibit also features historical objects that enliven the space and impart a sense of the experience of childhood from the cradle to school days and play time. Childhood Through The Years is not only an excellent opportunity to delve into the history of childhood but also the exhibition represents a moment, as fleeting as childhood itself, for parents and children to share their experiences through the interplay of art and history.

Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition explores multiple facets of Michelangelo's life, art and reputation with more than 25 works by the master and artists contemporary to him, including 14 original works by Michelangelo chosen to illustrate the broad range of his interests and creative activities. Figural studies associated with the Sistine Chapel and other paintings appear alongside original architectural plans and sketches of ancient Roman monuments. Printed books complement autograph examples of the artist's poetry. Eight of the Michelangelo works in the exhibition -- five drawings, including "Study for a Gate" and "Christ in Limbo," and three manuscript pages -- have never been seen in this country.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

Warhol Presents highlights the early commercial career of Andy Warhol, whose whimsical drawings from the 1950s created fantasies that marketed fashion and glamour through evocation. Warhol's penchant for combining art and advertisement quickly made him one of the most well known illustrators of women's fashion in New York. His talen' was sought out by fashion publication giants, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar; and women's footwear designer and retailer, I. Miller Shoe Company.

The exhibition presents 18 of Warhol's rarely seen shoe illustrations including Fantasy Shoes (ca. 1956), a whimsical and humorous take on women's footwear design. Exhibited also are drawings of women's accessories and fashion figures, including Female Fashion Figure (1950s); a vibrant depiction of a chic model alongside an equally stylish car.

Warhol's unique well-wrought line also translated to commissions of large-scale window displays for New York stores, including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's. One example of the artist's window displays is featured in this exhibition in the illustrated reproduction, Miss Dior (1950s); and a 1997 3-dimensional re-creation of Warhol's 1957 Bonwit Teller Window Display, which includes glass perfume bottles and colorful reproduction of a window display screen. Warhol's early drawings and interest in art, identity, and consumerism informed his later pop-icon status, when product and identity literally became his art, and was used to fuel his experimental factory era films.

This exhibition is curated by Natalie Sanderson, Curator of Education at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. The original exhibition, Andy Warhol Presents, was first exhibited at the University Art Museum in 2007.

Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th Century Superstar
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Local artist and designer Jeffrey Mayer will present a post-modern installation of 20th century fashion design inspired by the 18th century fashion sense of Marie Antoinette. Although Marie Antoinette did not really create a style that was personally unique, what she did for fashion in the 1770s was to solidify, refine and intensify the rococo style created by her grandfather-in-law, Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who died in 1764, six years before the 14-year-old Princess even arrived from Austria. Through the exhibition and a publication to be released in the fall, Mayer will be reinterpreting and discussing Marie Antoinette's key concepts of Fantasy, Luxury, and Exoticism.

Marie Antoinette was originally displayed in 2007 in a small space in Syracuse University's Fashion Design Department where Mayer has been Associate Professor of Fashion History and Design since 1992. For the Everson's installation, Mayer has expanded the visual experience to include more than 40 garments displayed on vintage mannequins, an eclectic collection of contemporary fashion accessories, an interactive audio component, and many unique, custom-designed and hand-made objects.

Dreams of Promise and Peril
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The role that artists play as cultural barometers always seems to be heightened in times of change and uncertainty. Although they employ different approaches, from timely reportage to futuristic illusions, all of the artists in the exhibition explore the terrain where hopes and dreams collide. By making visible the complex emotions we all sometimes experience the artists in this exhibition ask us to deeply consider the promise and peril that exists both in the fantasies we create and the realities we deny.

All of the work in this exhibition was borrowed from the JGS, Inc. collection, a non-profit photography organization based in New York City. JGS and Syracuse University have entered into an agreement to collaborate on traveling exhibitions, research, publications, and other projects utilizing work from the JGS collection that includes over 8,000 photographs spanning the history of the medium. This exhibition is an example of that collaboration and at the conclusion of the exhibition SUArt Galleries will create traveling solo exhibitions by each of the four artists.

Combat Paper
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Combat Paper" is a collaborative project initiated by Drew Matott and Drew Cameron along with members of the Iraq Veterans Against the War. Utilizing uniforms worn in combat in Iraq, veterans cut, cook, beat and form sheets of paper out of their uniforms. In this way, veterans are able to use the transformation processes of papermaking to reclaim their uniform as art and begin to reconcile their experiences as a soldier in Iraq.

The Combat Paper project is an art therapy that utilizes paper as its medium and has been generating hope and inspiration for war veterans all across the country. The project has a positive impact on veterans, serves as a visceral statement of the long lasting effects of combat and acts as a catalyst for community discussion and activism.

Civic Morning Musicals
Sharon I-Chun Cheng, soprano; Emily Gibson soprano

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

Art songs for two sopranos by Handel, Donizetti, Schumann, Chausson, Debussy, and Britten's Underneath the Abject Willow

Brooks Haxton, poetry
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

Don't Look Back: Stories from the Salt City
Syracuse Stage
Ping Chong, director

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

World Premiere. A powerful exploration of the changing face of Syracuse through an interview-based theatre work, Don't Look Back presents the first-hand narratives of citizens of Syracuse -- both recent arrivals and long-standing residents -- who are in some way living outside the dominant culture. Created by theatrical innovator Ping Chong and constructed as a chamber piece of storytelling, the performance features real people telling their personal experiences of creating cultural identity out of rich and complex histories. Ping Chong continues the compelling work he has done throughout the United States exploring the divergent lives that make up our communities. These stories will carry us around the globe and bring us home with a more complete understanding of how the world out there is the world right here.

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Colour Me Streisand
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director
Featuring Jimmy Wachter

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Colour Me Streisand was written by and stars Jimmy Wachter as Barbra Streisand with Josh Smith, music director and special surprise guest appearances. This is a part of Rarely Done Productions' "One Night Only" series.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

They are testaments to the impact of terrorism: sculptures portraying mothers going back to the exact moment they learned their child died in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some are screaming; others are weeping. Some are curled into a ball; others have fists raised in anger. The 76 larger-than-life figures that comprise the Dark Elegy collection were created by Montauk, NY-based artist Suse Lowenstein, the mother of a Pan Am 103 student victim.

Four of these sculptures will be on display as part of the University's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy.

Migrating Memories, Migrating Arts: Photographic Retrospective
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition celebrates the formative cultural fermentation occurring in the present regional landscape of Central New York. These photographs document Folk Arts: Soul of Syracuse, a series of community-University collaborative programs hosted by the Department of Anthropology in SU's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs with Catholic Charities Refugee Resettlement Services, the Center for New Americans, St. Vincent de Paul Church, and Tabernacle Baptist Church in 2007 and 2008. This exhibit is part of the 2008 Syracuse Symposium: Migration.

Paintings by DeLoss McGraw on Poems by W.D. Snodgrass
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.D. Snodgrass and internationally acclaimed artist DeLoss McGraw have collaborated for over 30 years. This latest series of works, being shown for the first time at the YMCA's gallerY, consists of paintings created by Mr. McGraw directly on pages torn from Snodgrass' acclaimed poetry collection Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems. The end product is an extraordinary exhibit that adds an evocative dimension to a poetic achievement that stands among the best of the late 20th century.

DeLoss McGraw's work has been exhibited around the globe, and is collected by such eminent institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, and many universities. His illustrated version of Alice in Wonderland won the Illustrator's Society Book of the Year Award for 2002. W.D. Snodgrass is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, translation, and criticism, including Heart's Needle, which was awarded the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and De/Compositions, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.

Gallery Exhibition: Matt Moyer
Onondaga Community College

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

Photojournalist Matt Moyer has worked on assignment for publication such as The New York Times, The Guardian, and National Geographic magazine. For more than 15 years, he has been committed to telling stories that put a human face on the day's news.

Paik & Cage
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The exhibit is a verbal and visual testimony of a friendship: "Paik & Cage" is a defining encounter of two 1960s masters, Korean video-art precursor Nam June Paik and American composer John Cage.

Nam June Paik's newly digitized, uncut version of Suite (212), which combines 12 short videos starting with The Selling of New York will screen for the duration of the show. This is one of the more significant pieces from the legendary Synapse program that pioneered video as an art form right here in Syracuse in the 1970s.

As a noteworthy accompaniment, the exhibit introduces a never-before-shown photographic profile of John Cage by Cuban artist Raoul Sentenat.

In addition, the exhibit will include a headset-equipped audio installation for the piece Indeterminacy, new aspect of form in instrumental and electronic music, which has John Cage narrating a series of 1-minute Zen Buddhist tales and meditations.

Avant-garde artist and composer, Nam June Paik (1932-2006) pioneered into video as an art form in the 1960s by combining multiple TV screens with sculpture, music and live performers. Trained in music, aesthetics and philosophy, he was a member of the 1960s art movement Fluxus, which was in part inspired by composer John Cage's use of everyday sound in music.

American composer John Cage (1912-1992) was an explorer of electronic music and the non-standard use of musical instruments. Many think of him as the most influential composer of the 20th century. He was instrumental in the development of modern dance and is best known for his 1952 composition 4'33", which is performed without a single note being played.

Visual Journals: Recent Works by SUNY Oswego Faculty
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

Price: Free
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse

Art exhibition featuring recent work by SUNY Oswego faculty members Amy Bartell, Cynthia Clabough, Paul Pearce, Cara Brewer Thompson.

Mapping Linguistics, Revisited: Works by Kelly Roe
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

Price: Free
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium
2 Clinton Square, Syracuse

Kelly Roe's mixed media work will be on display. A professor in the Graphic Design Program at SUNY Oswego, Roe has a background in graphic design, bookmaking and printmaking and sees herself as an anthropologist, artist, editor and scribe. The Mapping Linguistics exhibition explores relationships in linguistics, psychology and child development.

Think Tech Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Art with a "techie" theme by Anna Soltyk, Ben Applebaum, Bob Gates, Derek Chalfant, Elizabeth Chalfant, Elizabeth Groat, Delores Herringshaw, Jennifer Jeffery, Jerry Russell, Maria Aridgides, Saba Khan, Sharon Bottle Souva, Smita Rane; plus posters from the Syracuse Poster Project.

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Dawn of a New Age: The Immigrant Contribution to the Arts in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"Dawn of a New Age" tells the story of five artists who immigrated to the United States during the first half of the 20th century: Adolph Bolm, a Russian dancer and choreographer who performed with the Mariinsky Ballet and Ballets Russes; William Lescaze, a Swiss architect who was one of the pioneers of modernism; Louis Lozowick, a Russian printmaker known for his Art Deco and Precision lithographs; Miklós Rózsa, a Hungarian composer of more than 100 film scores, including Ben Hur; and John Vassos, a Greek illustrator and industrial designer. The exhibition draws from the rich holdings of SCRC and showcases more than 50 of the artists' personal papers, manuscripts, photos and artifacts.

This exhibit is part of this year's Syracuse Symposium on the theme "Migration."

Art Not Apathy: Works of Barbara Higgens
Westcott Community Center

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

March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
Community Folk Art Center

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

Original illustrated works by London Ladd

Founding Visionaries: Herb Williams and Jack White
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Community Folk Art Center is proud to exhibit this unique collection of sculptures, drawings and prints by two CFAC founders, Herb Williams and Jack White.

Celebrating Herb Williams: His Life, His Work, and His Art: As CFAC founding director, Herb Williams (1938-1999) devoted his life to promoting the work of diverse artists and ensuring that a large audience could experience their work. His dedication to the collective vision of the founding members kept Williams busy and while he avidly supported and promoted other artist he rarely took time exhibit his own work. This will be the first large-scale exhibition of Williams work in Upstate New York. Though he identified himself primarily as a sculptor, Williams worked across various artistic mediums; manipulating wood, plaster and bronze into figurative and abstract forms. His lithographs and etchings not only indicate the measure of his artistic skill and creativity but also serve as a chronicle of his literal, figurative journey as an artist.

Jack White: An Ancestral Image is a collection of the works by CFAC co-founder and artist Jack White. Since the late 1960s, Jack White's mixed media abstract work, defined as "abstract impressionism," has been inspired by African art forms and symbolism. The works included in the Ancestral Image exhibition are outside the boundaries of traditional painting or sculpture. They contain elements of the spiritual, the artistic, and the utilitarian that define African art.

How the Barge Canal Energized New York
Erie Canal Museum

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

Exhibit includes photographs of hydroelectric generating facilities along the Barge Canal system.

Ernesto Pujol Exhibition: Walk #1
Light Work Gallery

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

The black-and-white digital images in this exhibition follow a figure clad in a black robe, Pujol himself, walking through a Civil War cemetery in South Carolina. The photographs are arranged in sequential order in the gallery, depicting a dialogue between the figure, nature, and architecture. According to René Paul Barilleaux, "A lush Southern landscape, ornate Victorian cast ironwork, carved marble statuary, and other picturesque elements appear as a counterpoint to the dark, nearly motionless walker."

Pujol conceived this series as a combination between a performance (the walking) and installation. According to Pujol, he had avoided going to the cemetery for some time, but "When I first set foot in that city of the dead, I suddenly realized that it was the familiar environment I had dreamed about for years. I had experienced recurring dreams of marble arches and colonnades surrounded by gated gardens and water." After beginning to photograph the area in a documentary style, he quickly realized that he needed to walk through the space in a performative way, which resulted in the photographs depicted in this exhibition.

In addition to the digital images, this exhibition also features the black robe worn in the photographs, displayed on a mannequin in the center of the gallery, as well as twelve small, framed, hand-blown glass plates hanging on the wall with the images. Each plate has a word painted on it, meant to evoke a personal or emotional response from the viewers in the gallery. Ernesto Pujol

Pujol was born in Cuba and grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He received his BA in humanities and painting from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, and his MFA in interdisciplinary art practice from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been exhibited internationally, and he has received numerous awards and fellowships. In addition, Pujol's work is included in various permanent collections, including at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University; Casa de las Americas in Havana, Cuba; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; among many others. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 1999.

Rita Hammond Exhibition: Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman
Light Work Gallery

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

A nationally recognized artist and photographer, Rita Hammond (1924-1999) was a dynamic and greatly admired presence in the Central New York art community. With audacity, intelligence, and humor, Hammond's work reflected on major figures from the history of art and photography. "Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman" offers a body of photographs from Hammond's long-time collaboration with Lynn Moser. The series juxtaposes images of Moser as a young girl in 1967 with images of her as a woman 20 years later, revealing the dramatic and intimate effects of time, reflected in both the subject and the perspective of the photographer.

Works of Jim Ridlon
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Exploring History With Art: Childhood Through The Years
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The latest exhibit in the Exploring History with Art series features paintings from the permanent collection. 19th-century portraits of children, focusing on children of prominent local families, convey historical circumstances as well as social ideals. 20th-century genre paintings show children in their element: in the bathtub, at recess, and on vacation. The exhibit also features historical objects that enliven the space and impart a sense of the experience of childhood from the cradle to school days and play time. Childhood Through The Years is not only an excellent opportunity to delve into the history of childhood but also the exhibition represents a moment, as fleeting as childhood itself, for parents and children to share their experiences through the interplay of art and history.

Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition explores multiple facets of Michelangelo's life, art and reputation with more than 25 works by the master and artists contemporary to him, including 14 original works by Michelangelo chosen to illustrate the broad range of his interests and creative activities. Figural studies associated with the Sistine Chapel and other paintings appear alongside original architectural plans and sketches of ancient Roman monuments. Printed books complement autograph examples of the artist's poetry. Eight of the Michelangelo works in the exhibition -- five drawings, including "Study for a Gate" and "Christ in Limbo," and three manuscript pages -- have never been seen in this country.

Five Years at Delavan
Delavan Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features prints by the Atelier Four (Amy Georgia Buchholz, Bruce Muirhead, Jake Muirhead and Bill Salzillo) as well as sculptures by Dexter Benedict and Donald S. Sottile.

The Atelier Four is a group of artists associated with Hamilton College working together in the collaborative workshop spirit often found among printmakers. Linked philosophically to the Arts and Crafts Movement that has deep roots in Upstate New York, this group is committed to keeping the tradition of studio printmaking alive while promoting its contemporary relevance. The selection of intaglio prints exhibited here compares and contrasts the working methods of the four whose teacher/student relationships developed into life-long friendships that have shaped their art and careers. From a historical perspective the selection also references the important influences of the upstate New York printmaking laboratories centered around Robert Marx at Syracuse University and Harvey Breverman at The University of Buffalo.

Despite similar goals, each of the four artists represents a different approach to intaglio printmaking. Bruce Muirhead is a self-defined painter/print-maker in the romantic mold. William Salzillo's new prints reference historical styles. Amy Georgia Buchholz's recent dry points, based on nature subjects, reference the aesthetic philosophy of the Etching Revival. And Jake Muirhead has participated in numerous national and international print competitions. He is currently Associate in Charge of Etching at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Maryland in addition to teaching drawing at Montgomery College and printmaking at the Washington Waldorf School.

Dexter Benedict is a sculptor and the owner/operator of the Fire Works Foundry and sculpture studio in Yates County, New York. He is known for a number of commissions ranging from small commemorative awards to monumental bronze portrait figures.

Donald S. Sottile of Penn Yan, NY, is an accomplished sculptor working in both bronze and wood.

Wild Card Exhibit: Political Cartoons by Joe Glisson
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Joe Glisson is a political cartoonist with a new book being released titled Seems Like Old Times. The book is a political cartoon retrospective of work published in the Syracuse New Times, featuring major events and politicians of the past 25 years, including local topics and persons.

Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th Century Superstar
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Local artist and designer Jeffrey Mayer will present a post-modern installation of 20th century fashion design inspired by the 18th century fashion sense of Marie Antoinette. Although Marie Antoinette did not really create a style that was personally unique, what she did for fashion in the 1770s was to solidify, refine and intensify the rococo style created by her grandfather-in-law, Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who died in 1764, six years before the 14-year-old Princess even arrived from Austria. Through the exhibition and a publication to be released in the fall, Mayer will be reinterpreting and discussing Marie Antoinette's key concepts of Fantasy, Luxury, and Exoticism.

Marie Antoinette was originally displayed in 2007 in a small space in Syracuse University's Fashion Design Department where Mayer has been Associate Professor of Fashion History and Design since 1992. For the Everson's installation, Mayer has expanded the visual experience to include more than 40 garments displayed on vintage mannequins, an eclectic collection of contemporary fashion accessories, an interactive audio component, and many unique, custom-designed and hand-made objects.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

Warhol Presents highlights the early commercial career of Andy Warhol, whose whimsical drawings from the 1950s created fantasies that marketed fashion and glamour through evocation. Warhol's penchant for combining art and advertisement quickly made him one of the most well known illustrators of women's fashion in New York. His talen' was sought out by fashion publication giants, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar; and women's footwear designer and retailer, I. Miller Shoe Company.

The exhibition presents 18 of Warhol's rarely seen shoe illustrations including Fantasy Shoes (ca. 1956), a whimsical and humorous take on women's footwear design. Exhibited also are drawings of women's accessories and fashion figures, including Female Fashion Figure (1950s); a vibrant depiction of a chic model alongside an equally stylish car.

Warhol's unique well-wrought line also translated to commissions of large-scale window displays for New York stores, including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's. One example of the artist's window displays is featured in this exhibition in the illustrated reproduction, Miss Dior (1950s); and a 1997 3-dimensional re-creation of Warhol's 1957 Bonwit Teller Window Display, which includes glass perfume bottles and colorful reproduction of a window display screen. Warhol's early drawings and interest in art, identity, and consumerism informed his later pop-icon status, when product and identity literally became his art, and was used to fuel his experimental factory era films.

This exhibition is curated by Natalie Sanderson, Curator of Education at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. The original exhibition, Andy Warhol Presents, was first exhibited at the University Art Museum in 2007.

Dreams of Promise and Peril
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The role that artists play as cultural barometers always seems to be heightened in times of change and uncertainty. Although they employ different approaches, from timely reportage to futuristic illusions, all of the artists in the exhibition explore the terrain where hopes and dreams collide. By making visible the complex emotions we all sometimes experience the artists in this exhibition ask us to deeply consider the promise and peril that exists both in the fantasies we create and the realities we deny.

All of the work in this exhibition was borrowed from the JGS, Inc. collection, a non-profit photography organization based in New York City. JGS and Syracuse University have entered into an agreement to collaborate on traveling exhibitions, research, publications, and other projects utilizing work from the JGS collection that includes over 8,000 photographs spanning the history of the medium. This exhibition is an example of that collaboration and at the conclusion of the exhibition SUArt Galleries will create traveling solo exhibitions by each of the four artists.

Combat Paper
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Combat Paper" is a collaborative project initiated by Drew Matott and Drew Cameron along with members of the Iraq Veterans Against the War. Utilizing uniforms worn in combat in Iraq, veterans cut, cook, beat and form sheets of paper out of their uniforms. In this way, veterans are able to use the transformation processes of papermaking to reclaim their uniform as art and begin to reconcile their experiences as a soldier in Iraq.

The Combat Paper project is an art therapy that utilizes paper as its medium and has been generating hope and inspiration for war veterans all across the country. The project has a positive impact on veterans, serves as a visceral statement of the long lasting effects of combat and acts as a catalyst for community discussion and activism.

Ceramics Exhibition
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

Exhibition featuring the sculptural work of Marv Bjurlin in addition to Clayscapes staff, Shenfeld Studio Tiles, and other select works.

Meet the Artist: Jennifer Locke
Eureka Crafts

Price: Free
Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Felted wool mittens, children's clothing and accessories from old and forgotten textiles.

Opening Reception and Inaugural Exhibit
Museum of Young Art

Museum of Young Art
110 W. Fayette St., One Lincoln Center, Syracuse

An exhibit is the artwork of students from Chestnut Hill Elementary School in Liverpool. Visitors also can enjoy hands-on activities, including drawing with chalk on a soapstone table.

In Fine Fettle
Orange Line Gallery

Price: Free
Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

"In Fine Fettle" (fettle, noun; Webster's) refers to a state of condition of fitness or order, state of mind. The themes discussed in this show vary widely: government and environmental issues, dreams of becoming a rock star, appreciation of the natural beauty around us. The pieces go from moody to serious contemplation to plain fun.

New to the OL are artists Brandon Hall, mixed media/collage, and Chris Luchsinger, acrylic and spraypaint on canvas. New works relevant to the theme include pieces from the ongoing collection of Orange Line artists: David McKenney, Debra Parry Trichilo, Dustin Angell, Father Andrew Szebenyi, Jace Collins, Kevin Lucas, Meg Gentile, Melissa Tiffany, Mick Mather and Spencer Baker.

IVAW Documentary & Warrior Writer's Reading
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Screening of Iraq Veterans Against the War performance and Warrior Writers' readings documentary (40 minutes) followed by LIVE readings from IVAW members.

Bl[r]O-BO[o]T/Ecosophical Apparatus + Skizoid Machines
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring François Roche

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Auditorium
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

François Roche, visiting professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and his firm, R&Sie(n), are internationally recognized for their investigative approach to architecture which focuses on developing technological experiments from which they can create "scenarios."

Roche was born in Paris and originally trained and worked as a mathematician. He studied architecture at the École d'Architecture de Versailles from which he graduated in 1987. He founded his office in 1989, leading it with varying names and partners before consolidating his practice as R&Sie(n) in 2004 with partners Stéphanie Lavaux and Jean Navarro. François Roche is probably the most idiosyncratic French architect at present, with a unique and highly original conceptual approach to making architecture. In many of his projects he has worked together with important contemporary artists such as Rirkrit Tiravanija, Pierre Huyghe, and Philippe Parreno. Roche has lectured widely at universities including Harvard, Columbia, and UCLA. He was a visiting professor at the Bartlett School of London, the Vienna University of Technology, ESARQ in Barcelona, and the University of Pennsylvania. R&Sie(n) has exhibited their work at institutions around the world, including the Pompidou Center in Paris, Tate Modern in London, the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris, and The Media Lab at MIT in Cambridge, MA. In 2005, the firm received the Design Merit Feidad Award for its urban fiction project.

Adrian Tomine, cartoonist, illustrator, and graphic novelist
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The Village Voice describes Tomine as "the most masterful cartoonist of his generation" and his latest graphic novel, Shortcomings (Drawn & Quarterly, 2007), as "... equal parts poignant, hilarious and sad." The lecture is presented as part of the 2008 Syracuse Symposium: Migration.