Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Mute
ThINC

Price: Free
Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

MUTE is an exhibition of silent videos from a selection of international artists that will run 24/7 March 14 through April 15th 2007.

MUTE creates a diorama out of the gallery, exposing it as space that is fractured and fragile; MUTE pulls the viewer towards the screen, searching.

During the exhibition, viewers will see the videos by peering through the windows at the running projection. "By presenting an exhibition that places this obstacle between the viewer and their expectancies, MUTE makes manifest the silence that denotes the unifying quality that connects an array of otherwise very different works. MUTE closes the space of the gallery literally and temporally," says Andrew Mount, Executive Director of ThINC.

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

Atrium Exhibit: OCC Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Gallery Exhibit: SU Touring Art Show: Above and Below
Onondaga Community College

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

An exhibition of prints that examines the urban transformation of New York City during the first half of the 20th century and how it affected the city's residents and their lifestyles.

Beyond the Silver Screen: works of Maestro Nano Campeggi
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Italian artist Silvano Campeggi, better known as Nano, produced over 3000 billboard posters for major Hollywood films during the post-war period. In the realm of cinema-graphic advertising, he is an Italian institution. This exhibition features the masterful, contemporary works that define his signature style, going beyond the silver screen and offering a rare glimpse of his original drawings and paintings. Combining his skills as an illustrator and painter, Nano plays with images, deliberately pairing modern film icons with art history's iconic historic counterparts, each culminating in a whimsical, idealized creation. The deft, essential strokes of vibrant color and black line successfully bridge the distance between the nostalgia provoked by poster art tradition, and the post-war film genre that Nano himself nurtured. His pastiche of style and ideas are interconnected through a visual vocabulary that is both familiar and evocative of a Pop Art sensibility. Nano's poster art evolved from and at the same time blossomed into these timeless works, treasures whose influence and reach is still seen in the contemporary work of both fine artists and graphic designers today.

This exhibit is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse International Film and Video Festival.

Paintings: Daniel Kishman
Westcott Community Center

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

Dan Kishman paints in a non-objective abstract style with acrylic paints, sometimes incorporating mat medium or gesso. Mr. Kishman is a lifelong Syracuse area resident who has shown his work in a variety of local venues, including the Central Library at the Galleries Downtown, in Syracuse. He has won numerous awards, including Masters Division at the Adirondack Open Exhibit in Old Forge and, most recently, Second Place, Professional Class, at the New York State Fair.

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Environmental Injustice and the Artist Response to Hurricane Katrina
Community Folk Art Center

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

When photographers Donn Young and Gus Bennett, Jr., stared loss in the face after Hurricane Katrina they searched through their emotional and physical lives, assessed the damage and moved on. They entered spaces and captured images and rescued items that were difficult to see, but needed to be saved in order to help tell the story of New Orleans.

Donn Young returned to New Orleans to find his studio and over one million images taken during his 25 year career virtually eliminated. In light of this, he began documenting the devastation of not just his life, but the lives of others in the City as well. Gus Bennett documented the efforts of curator and archivist Linda Hill to rescue a collection of African antiquities that were left unattended and deteriorating on a local university campus. She endured the hazardous environment, located the items, removed them and began working to restore them.

For those who make New Orleans their home after Katrina, it is not always easy to find the beauty that has been covered up by the debris of the storm. This exhibition is about three remarkable individuals who chose to help save New Orleans through their individual efforts and are now sharing those efforts collectively; a metaphor for what it takes to live in New Orleans
­ today.

This exhibition will challenge your senses, in part, because we dare to display the images of objects that under different circumstances would be gazed upon with notions of beauty, humor and historic documentation. In this context, however, we are sharing those objects in their vulnerable state, straddling the line, in appearance, of art and refuse. This is a story about seeing devastation, experiencing the pain and moving forward by will and choice.

Read a review!

Dodji Koudakpo: An African Experiences
Community Folk Art Center

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

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

Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Cycle of Life - Green Lakes: Photographs by Marna Bell
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The show is a collection of digital photographs which chart the changing seasons of Green Lakes State Park in Fayetteville, NY.

MFA 2007
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates. Fourteen artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography and sculpture.

MFA 2007 encompasses a broad range of both media and content. Some of the artists use personal experience and family as a central concept and inspiration. Others make statements on industrialization and the human condition. There are traditional processes: the expressive paintings and drawings by Elena Peteva speak to personal relationships as well as physical process. The photographs and film by Latoya Frazier document a family member's struggle with addiction.

Additionally, there is a variety of new media: Stacey Barton explores issues of the identity of the modern woman through video projection. A virtual installation by Sarah Howell engages the viewer to interact with her work in order to uncover new meaning in "the seemingly arbitrary and everyday."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lecture: Who Were the Suitcase Owners?
Everson Museum of Art

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

Darby Penny, President of Community Consortium, will describe the lives of several of the suitcase owners in greater detail than they are spelled out in the exhibit, and will examine some common themes and recurring issues raised by their lives both pre-and post-institutionalization. She will also compare and contrast today's mental health system with the system during the time preiod the suitcase owners were incarcerated, and lay out an agenda for change.

SU Brazilian Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The SU Brazilian Ensemble performs with Rio de Janeiro guest artist Eduardo Lakschevitz.

Parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, contact the Setnor School of Music at 315-443-2191.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Mute
ThINC

Price: Free
Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

MUTE is an exhibition of silent videos from a selection of international artists that will run 24/7 March 14 through April 15th 2007.

MUTE creates a diorama out of the gallery, exposing it as space that is fractured and fragile; MUTE pulls the viewer towards the screen, searching.

During the exhibition, viewers will see the videos by peering through the windows at the running projection. "By presenting an exhibition that places this obstacle between the viewer and their expectancies, MUTE makes manifest the silence that denotes the unifying quality that connects an array of otherwise very different works. MUTE closes the space of the gallery literally and temporally," says Andrew Mount, Executive Director of ThINC.

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

Atrium Exhibit: OCC Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Gallery Exhibit: SU Touring Art Show: Above and Below
Onondaga Community College

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

An exhibition of prints that examines the urban transformation of New York City during the first half of the 20th century and how it affected the city's residents and their lifestyles.

Beyond the Silver Screen: works of Maestro Nano Campeggi
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Italian artist Silvano Campeggi, better known as Nano, produced over 3000 billboard posters for major Hollywood films during the post-war period. In the realm of cinema-graphic advertising, he is an Italian institution. This exhibition features the masterful, contemporary works that define his signature style, going beyond the silver screen and offering a rare glimpse of his original drawings and paintings. Combining his skills as an illustrator and painter, Nano plays with images, deliberately pairing modern film icons with art history's iconic historic counterparts, each culminating in a whimsical, idealized creation. The deft, essential strokes of vibrant color and black line successfully bridge the distance between the nostalgia provoked by poster art tradition, and the post-war film genre that Nano himself nurtured. His pastiche of style and ideas are interconnected through a visual vocabulary that is both familiar and evocative of a Pop Art sensibility. Nano's poster art evolved from and at the same time blossomed into these timeless works, treasures whose influence and reach is still seen in the contemporary work of both fine artists and graphic designers today.

This exhibit is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse International Film and Video Festival.

Paintings: Daniel Kishman
Westcott Community Center

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

Dan Kishman paints in a non-objective abstract style with acrylic paints, sometimes incorporating mat medium or gesso. Mr. Kishman is a lifelong Syracuse area resident who has shown his work in a variety of local venues, including the Central Library at the Galleries Downtown, in Syracuse. He has won numerous awards, including Masters Division at the Adirondack Open Exhibit in Old Forge and, most recently, Second Place, Professional Class, at the New York State Fair.

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Dodji Koudakpo: An African Experiences
Community Folk Art Center

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

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

Environmental Injustice and the Artist Response to Hurricane Katrina
Community Folk Art Center

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

When photographers Donn Young and Gus Bennett, Jr., stared loss in the face after Hurricane Katrina they searched through their emotional and physical lives, assessed the damage and moved on. They entered spaces and captured images and rescued items that were difficult to see, but needed to be saved in order to help tell the story of New Orleans.

Donn Young returned to New Orleans to find his studio and over one million images taken during his 25 year career virtually eliminated. In light of this, he began documenting the devastation of not just his life, but the lives of others in the City as well. Gus Bennett documented the efforts of curator and archivist Linda Hill to rescue a collection of African antiquities that were left unattended and deteriorating on a local university campus. She endured the hazardous environment, located the items, removed them and began working to restore them.

For those who make New Orleans their home after Katrina, it is not always easy to find the beauty that has been covered up by the debris of the storm. This exhibition is about three remarkable individuals who chose to help save New Orleans through their individual efforts and are now sharing those efforts collectively; a metaphor for what it takes to live in New Orleans
­ today.

This exhibition will challenge your senses, in part, because we dare to display the images of objects that under different circumstances would be gazed upon with notions of beauty, humor and historic documentation. In this context, however, we are sharing those objects in their vulnerable state, straddling the line, in appearance, of art and refuse. This is a story about seeing devastation, experiencing the pain and moving forward by will and choice.

Read a review!

Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Cycle of Life - Green Lakes: Photographs by Marna Bell
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The show is a collection of digital photographs which chart the changing seasons of Green Lakes State Park in Fayetteville, NY.

MFA 2007
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates. Fourteen artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography and sculpture.

MFA 2007 encompasses a broad range of both media and content. Some of the artists use personal experience and family as a central concept and inspiration. Others make statements on industrialization and the human condition. There are traditional processes: the expressive paintings and drawings by Elena Peteva speak to personal relationships as well as physical process. The photographs and film by Latoya Frazier document a family member's struggle with addiction.

Additionally, there is a variety of new media: Stacey Barton explores issues of the identity of the modern woman through video projection. A virtual installation by Sarah Howell engages the viewer to interact with her work in order to uncover new meaning in "the seemingly arbitrary and everyday."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

French and American Music
Civic Morning Musicals
Lavender Trio

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

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Cassatt String Quartet

Price: Free
Bird Library, Peter Graham Scholarly Commons
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The program will feature Beethoven's String Quartet Op. 18 No. 5 in A major and Dvorak's String Quartet Op. 105 in A flat major.

Based in New York City, the Cassatt is the Setnor School's quartet-in-residence. The quartet plays the masterpieces of chamber music, while commissioning, concertizing and recording new works from eminent composers. The quartet performs internationally, with concerts at Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall in New York City; the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.; the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris; and Maeda Hall in Tokyo. Garnering top prizes at the Fischoff, Coleman and Banff international competitions, the Cassatt also won Chamber Music America/ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming. Named three times by The New Yorker magazine for its "Best of ..." CD selections, the Cassatt records for the Koch International, New World, Point, CRI, Tzadik and Albany labels.

Paid parking is available in Booth Garage.

Death of a Salesman
Syracuse Stage
Tim Ocel, director

Price: $40, $36, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Its status as an American classic makes it easy to hurl superlatives at this great play without truly considering Arthur Miller's achievement. In creating Willy Loman, Miller, like Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams, examines the shaky illusions at the foundation of so many American lives and finds tragedy within. Miller fearlessly assesses the small life of a common man, the shattered hopes and dreams, and insists "attention must be paid."

Read a Review!

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Mute
ThINC

Price: Free
Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

MUTE is an exhibition of silent videos from a selection of international artists that will run 24/7 March 14 through April 15th 2007.

MUTE creates a diorama out of the gallery, exposing it as space that is fractured and fragile; MUTE pulls the viewer towards the screen, searching.

During the exhibition, viewers will see the videos by peering through the windows at the running projection. "By presenting an exhibition that places this obstacle between the viewer and their expectancies, MUTE makes manifest the silence that denotes the unifying quality that connects an array of otherwise very different works. MUTE closes the space of the gallery literally and temporally," says Andrew Mount, Executive Director of ThINC.

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

Atrium Exhibit: OCC Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Gallery Exhibit: SU Touring Art Show: Above and Below
Onondaga Community College

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

An exhibition of prints that examines the urban transformation of New York City during the first half of the 20th century and how it affected the city's residents and their lifestyles.

Beyond the Silver Screen: works of Maestro Nano Campeggi
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Italian artist Silvano Campeggi, better known as Nano, produced over 3000 billboard posters for major Hollywood films during the post-war period. In the realm of cinema-graphic advertising, he is an Italian institution. This exhibition features the masterful, contemporary works that define his signature style, going beyond the silver screen and offering a rare glimpse of his original drawings and paintings. Combining his skills as an illustrator and painter, Nano plays with images, deliberately pairing modern film icons with art history's iconic historic counterparts, each culminating in a whimsical, idealized creation. The deft, essential strokes of vibrant color and black line successfully bridge the distance between the nostalgia provoked by poster art tradition, and the post-war film genre that Nano himself nurtured. His pastiche of style and ideas are interconnected through a visual vocabulary that is both familiar and evocative of a Pop Art sensibility. Nano's poster art evolved from and at the same time blossomed into these timeless works, treasures whose influence and reach is still seen in the contemporary work of both fine artists and graphic designers today.

This exhibit is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse International Film and Video Festival.

Paintings: Daniel Kishman
Westcott Community Center

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

Dan Kishman paints in a non-objective abstract style with acrylic paints, sometimes incorporating mat medium or gesso. Mr. Kishman is a lifelong Syracuse area resident who has shown his work in a variety of local venues, including the Central Library at the Galleries Downtown, in Syracuse. He has won numerous awards, including Masters Division at the Adirondack Open Exhibit in Old Forge and, most recently, Second Place, Professional Class, at the New York State Fair.

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Environmental Injustice and the Artist Response to Hurricane Katrina
Community Folk Art Center

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

When photographers Donn Young and Gus Bennett, Jr., stared loss in the face after Hurricane Katrina they searched through their emotional and physical lives, assessed the damage and moved on. They entered spaces and captured images and rescued items that were difficult to see, but needed to be saved in order to help tell the story of New Orleans.

Donn Young returned to New Orleans to find his studio and over one million images taken during his 25 year career virtually eliminated. In light of this, he began documenting the devastation of not just his life, but the lives of others in the City as well. Gus Bennett documented the efforts of curator and archivist Linda Hill to rescue a collection of African antiquities that were left unattended and deteriorating on a local university campus. She endured the hazardous environment, located the items, removed them and began working to restore them.

For those who make New Orleans their home after Katrina, it is not always easy to find the beauty that has been covered up by the debris of the storm. This exhibition is about three remarkable individuals who chose to help save New Orleans through their individual efforts and are now sharing those efforts collectively; a metaphor for what it takes to live in New Orleans
­ today.

This exhibition will challenge your senses, in part, because we dare to display the images of objects that under different circumstances would be gazed upon with notions of beauty, humor and historic documentation. In this context, however, we are sharing those objects in their vulnerable state, straddling the line, in appearance, of art and refuse. This is a story about seeing devastation, experiencing the pain and moving forward by will and choice.

Read a review!

Dodji Koudakpo: An African Experiences
Community Folk Art Center

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

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

Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Cycle of Life - Green Lakes: Photographs by Marna Bell
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The show is a collection of digital photographs which chart the changing seasons of Green Lakes State Park in Fayetteville, NY.

MFA 2007
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates. Fourteen artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography and sculpture.

MFA 2007 encompasses a broad range of both media and content. Some of the artists use personal experience and family as a central concept and inspiration. Others make statements on industrialization and the human condition. There are traditional processes: the expressive paintings and drawings by Elena Peteva speak to personal relationships as well as physical process. The photographs and film by Latoya Frazier document a family member's struggle with addiction.

Additionally, there is a variety of new media: Stacey Barton explores issues of the identity of the modern woman through video projection. A virtual installation by Sarah Howell engages the viewer to interact with her work in order to uncover new meaning in "the seemingly arbitrary and everyday."

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

Art Across Generations
Delavan Art Gallery

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

This exhibit features acrylic paintings by A. Brooks Decker, photographs by Vivian Geiger, photographs by Jessica Taylor and art by students in three Syracuse School District Elementary Schools: Blodgett, Seymour Magnet and Solace.

For A. Brooks Decker, childhood memories are entwined in the subject matter of her paintings in a style she calls "romantic realism." Also included in this show are paintings of garden doors inspired by photographs by her daughter, Jessica Taylor, whose work is also included in this exhibit.

Vivian Geiger is a widely respected photographer who is showcasing a new series of abstracts and a new technique of using pastels on photographs.

Jessica Taylor is exhibiting many of her cloudscapes in this exhibit along side her mother, A. Brooks Decker's paintings.

For the fourth year, Delavan Art Gallery is pleased to host the work of children from Blodgett, Seymour Magnet and Solace Elementary Schools. Students from the classes of Stacy Griffin, Kelly Moser and Simone Montgomery have the chance to see their work in a professional setting and to sell the work to raise money for themselves as burgeoning artists and for school art supplies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Film Series: Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

"Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train" is a documentary profiling the life and times of Howard Zinn, author of the best-selling classic, A People's History of the United States. Featuring rare archival materials, interviews with Zinn, colleagues and friends, the documentary captures the essence of this activist and thinker who has been a catalyst for progressive change for more than 60 years.

**NOTE: Today's appearance by Howard Zinn has been cancelled due to a flight cancellation because of inclement weather.

Video Now 2007
Everson Museum of Art

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

Fresh, original, and experiemntal short videos by students from Syracuse University's Art Media Studies Department. (USA, 90 minutes, 2007)

Film Series: Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

"Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train" is a documentary profiling the life and times of Howard Zinn, author of the best-selling classic, A People's History of the United States. Featuring rare archival materials, interviews with Zinn, colleagues and friends, the documentary captures the essence of this activist and thinker who has been a catalyst for progressive change for more than 60 years.

From the Ottoman Empire to the Empire State: The Musical Culture of Bosnian Refugees
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences
Featuring Dr. Richard March

Price: Free
Eggers Hall, Room 220
Maxwell School, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Dr. Richard March is a folk and community arts specialist from the Wisconsin Arts Board. The talk will be followed by a performance by the Bosnian MAH Band and Bosnian folk art demonstrations by Emina Bajric and Hava Tihic in Eggers Commons.

For more information, contact Felicia McMahon, 315-443-4860.

Azar Nafisi
Friends of the Central Library Author Series

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

In the 1990s, Nafisi spent two years secretly meeting with female students at the University of Tehran, to discuss literature. She wrote about this experience in her book, Reading 'Lolita' in Tehran: A Memoir in Books. She is currently a contributing writer to The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, and she teaches at Johns Hopkins.

An Evening with Midori in Coversation with Daniel Hege
University Lectures

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Midori is an accomplished classical violinist who has performed recital appearances with many of the world's major orchestras. While in Syracuse -- in addition to performing with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra -- Midori will conduct a master class for local violin students. Her University Lectures presentation will include a performance and a conversation with Syracuse Symphony Orchestra Director Daniel Hege. Beyond her music, Midori is known for having founded five outreach organizations to address an issue she believes to be of crucial and ever-growing importance -- access to music for all. Her first organization, Midori & Friends, was started in 1992 in response to serious cutbacks in music education in New York City schools.

Music by Bosnian Musicians
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Eggers Commons
Maxwell School, Syracuse University, Syracuse

A performance by the Bosnian MAH Band and Bosnian folk art demonstrations by Emina Bajric and Hava Tihic. Mirela, Aldis and Haris (MAH) will perform traditional Bosnian music as well as turbo-pop music played in the Bosnian club scene.

For more information, contact Felicia McMahon, 315-443-4860.

Deadly Inheritance
Acme Mystery Company

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

Death of a Salesman
Syracuse Stage
Tim Ocel, director

Price: $35, $31, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Its status as an American classic makes it easy to hurl superlatives at this great play without truly considering Arthur Miller's achievement. In creating Willy Loman, Miller, like Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams, examines the shaky illusions at the foundation of so many American lives and finds tragedy within. Miller fearlessly assesses the small life of a common man, the shattered hopes and dreams, and insists "attention must be paid."

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West Side Story
First Year Players

Price: $7 general public; $4 for S.U. faculty, staff and students with ID
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The musical includes 26 first year (freshmen and transfer student) cast members and 50 staff members. Tickets are available at the Schine Box Office by calling 315-443-4517.

Friday, April 13, 2007

Mute
ThINC

Price: Free
Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

MUTE is an exhibition of silent videos from a selection of international artists that will run 24/7 March 14 through April 15th 2007.

MUTE creates a diorama out of the gallery, exposing it as space that is fractured and fragile; MUTE pulls the viewer towards the screen, searching.

During the exhibition, viewers will see the videos by peering through the windows at the running projection. "By presenting an exhibition that places this obstacle between the viewer and their expectancies, MUTE makes manifest the silence that denotes the unifying quality that connects an array of otherwise very different works. MUTE closes the space of the gallery literally and temporally," says Andrew Mount, Executive Director of ThINC.

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

Atrium Exhibit: OCC Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Gallery Exhibit: SU Touring Art Show: Above and Below
Onondaga Community College

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

An exhibition of prints that examines the urban transformation of New York City during the first half of the 20th century and how it affected the city's residents and their lifestyles.

Beyond the Silver Screen: works of Maestro Nano Campeggi
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Italian artist Silvano Campeggi, better known as Nano, produced over 3000 billboard posters for major Hollywood films during the post-war period. In the realm of cinema-graphic advertising, he is an Italian institution. This exhibition features the masterful, contemporary works that define his signature style, going beyond the silver screen and offering a rare glimpse of his original drawings and paintings. Combining his skills as an illustrator and painter, Nano plays with images, deliberately pairing modern film icons with art history's iconic historic counterparts, each culminating in a whimsical, idealized creation. The deft, essential strokes of vibrant color and black line successfully bridge the distance between the nostalgia provoked by poster art tradition, and the post-war film genre that Nano himself nurtured. His pastiche of style and ideas are interconnected through a visual vocabulary that is both familiar and evocative of a Pop Art sensibility. Nano's poster art evolved from and at the same time blossomed into these timeless works, treasures whose influence and reach is still seen in the contemporary work of both fine artists and graphic designers today.

This exhibit is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse International Film and Video Festival.

Paintings: Daniel Kishman
Westcott Community Center

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

Dan Kishman paints in a non-objective abstract style with acrylic paints, sometimes incorporating mat medium or gesso. Mr. Kishman is a lifelong Syracuse area resident who has shown his work in a variety of local venues, including the Central Library at the Galleries Downtown, in Syracuse. He has won numerous awards, including Masters Division at the Adirondack Open Exhibit in Old Forge and, most recently, Second Place, Professional Class, at the New York State Fair.

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Dodji Koudakpo: An African Experiences
Community Folk Art Center

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

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

Environmental Injustice and the Artist Response to Hurricane Katrina
Community Folk Art Center

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

When photographers Donn Young and Gus Bennett, Jr., stared loss in the face after Hurricane Katrina they searched through their emotional and physical lives, assessed the damage and moved on. They entered spaces and captured images and rescued items that were difficult to see, but needed to be saved in order to help tell the story of New Orleans.

Donn Young returned to New Orleans to find his studio and over one million images taken during his 25 year career virtually eliminated. In light of this, he began documenting the devastation of not just his life, but the lives of others in the City as well. Gus Bennett documented the efforts of curator and archivist Linda Hill to rescue a collection of African antiquities that were left unattended and deteriorating on a local university campus. She endured the hazardous environment, located the items, removed them and began working to restore them.

For those who make New Orleans their home after Katrina, it is not always easy to find the beauty that has been covered up by the debris of the storm. This exhibition is about three remarkable individuals who chose to help save New Orleans through their individual efforts and are now sharing those efforts collectively; a metaphor for what it takes to live in New Orleans
­ today.

This exhibition will challenge your senses, in part, because we dare to display the images of objects that under different circumstances would be gazed upon with notions of beauty, humor and historic documentation. In this context, however, we are sharing those objects in their vulnerable state, straddling the line, in appearance, of art and refuse. This is a story about seeing devastation, experiencing the pain and moving forward by will and choice.

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Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Cycle of Life - Green Lakes: Photographs by Marna Bell
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The show is a collection of digital photographs which chart the changing seasons of Green Lakes State Park in Fayetteville, NY.

MFA 2007
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates. Fourteen artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography and sculpture.

MFA 2007 encompasses a broad range of both media and content. Some of the artists use personal experience and family as a central concept and inspiration. Others make statements on industrialization and the human condition. There are traditional processes: the expressive paintings and drawings by Elena Peteva speak to personal relationships as well as physical process. The photographs and film by Latoya Frazier document a family member's struggle with addiction.

Additionally, there is a variety of new media: Stacey Barton explores issues of the identity of the modern woman through video projection. A virtual installation by Sarah Howell engages the viewer to interact with her work in order to uncover new meaning in "the seemingly arbitrary and everyday."

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

Art Across Generations
Delavan Art Gallery

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

This exhibit features acrylic paintings by A. Brooks Decker, photographs by Vivian Geiger, photographs by Jessica Taylor and art by students in three Syracuse School District Elementary Schools: Blodgett, Seymour Magnet and Solace.

For A. Brooks Decker, childhood memories are entwined in the subject matter of her paintings in a style she calls "romantic realism." Also included in this show are paintings of garden doors inspired by photographs by her daughter, Jessica Taylor, whose work is also included in this exhibit.

Vivian Geiger is a widely respected photographer who is showcasing a new series of abstracts and a new technique of using pastels on photographs.

Jessica Taylor is exhibiting many of her cloudscapes in this exhibit along side her mother, A. Brooks Decker's paintings.

For the fourth year, Delavan Art Gallery is pleased to host the work of children from Blodgett, Seymour Magnet and Solace Elementary Schools. Students from the classes of Stacy Griffin, Kelly Moser and Simone Montgomery have the chance to see their work in a professional setting and to sell the work to raise money for themselves as burgeoning artists and for school art supplies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Visual Arts Showcase #59
CNY Arts

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

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

Don't You Love Me?
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

A group show, featuring artwork from Lewis Colburn, Stephanie Koenig, Jennifer Marsh, and Arjan Zazueta, that explores the realm of need, approval and desire. These four artists, although working in different media, approach identity as a subject to be embraced, questioned, beaten up and lampooned. All four artists are currently candidates in the MFA sculpture program at Syracuse University.

Laurence Juber, guitar
Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts
Guitar League

Price: $18
Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts
728 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Laurence Juber is the guitarist for Paul McCartney's Wings

Classics Series: Midori
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Midori, violin

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

Brahms Intermezzo No. 2 in A Major, op. 118 "Black Swan" (orch. Sheng)
Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, op. 25 (orch. Schoenberg)
Tchaikovsky Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra, op. 35

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Poet Liam Rector
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Liam Rector's most recent book of poems is The Executive Director of the Fallen World (University of Chicago, 2006); his other books include American Prodigal and The Sorrow of Architecture. His poems have appeared in such journals as Paris Review, American Poetry Review, and Ploughshares. Rector's many honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He founded and directs the graduate Writing Seminars at Bennington College, and has also administered literary programs at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the NEA, and the Academy of American Poets.

Steel Magnolias
Theatre '90

Price: $20 regular; $18 students/seniors; $14 children under 12
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Some may equate Steel Magnolias to the consummate "chick flick." It is, however, more accurately described as the ultimate "feel good" theater piece that all adults will enjoy. A great girls' night out, as well as a guy-girl thing; a mother and daughter time together as well as an entire audience filled with strangers enjoying similar feelings while on the same wave-length. Steel Magnolias is one of the most popular theater productions in the country because it has it all: comedy, drama, excitement, laughter, and poignancy.

For more information, phone 315-479-5495.

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West Side Story
First Year Players

Price: $7 general public; $4 for S.U. faculty, staff and students with ID
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The musical includes 26 first year (freshmen and transfer student) cast members and 50 staff members. Tickets are available at the Schine Box Office by calling 315-443-4517.

Sin: A Cardinal Deposed
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

In the tradition of outstanding "docu-dramas" like The Laramie Project and Execution of Justice, Michael Murphy's Sin is a collage of testimonies of, by and surrounding Cardinal Bernard F. Law - the Catholic leader whose governance of his diocese was questioned and scrutinized when years of sexual abuse by diocesan priests finally came to light. This searing and emotional work examines our dedication to religion, our faith in our legal system and the strength of our own convictions - in the words of Cardinal Law himself.

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Kiss of the Spider Woman
Simply New Theatre

Price: $25
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Adapted from the acclaimed novel on which the film and hit musical are based, the original play is gripping drama about two men imprisoned - one a window dresser, the other a socialist rebel. Locked up for their beliefs and forced to share a cell, each man finds comfort in the other's company as politics and eroticism blend together in the shadows of their cell.

Due to the graphic nature of this piece and male nudity, all audience members under the age of 18 need to be accompanied by an adult.

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Saturday, April 14, 2007

Mute
ThINC

Price: Free
Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

MUTE is an exhibition of silent videos from a selection of international artists that will run 24/7 March 14 through April 15th 2007.

MUTE creates a diorama out of the gallery, exposing it as space that is fractured and fragile; MUTE pulls the viewer towards the screen, searching.

During the exhibition, viewers will see the videos by peering through the windows at the running projection. "By presenting an exhibition that places this obstacle between the viewer and their expectancies, MUTE makes manifest the silence that denotes the unifying quality that connects an array of otherwise very different works. MUTE closes the space of the gallery literally and temporally," says Andrew Mount, Executive Director of ThINC.

Atrium Exhibit: OCC Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Art Across Generations
Delavan Art Gallery

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

This exhibit features acrylic paintings by A. Brooks Decker, photographs by Vivian Geiger, photographs by Jessica Taylor and art by students in three Syracuse School District Elementary Schools: Blodgett, Seymour Magnet and Solace.

For A. Brooks Decker, childhood memories are entwined in the subject matter of her paintings in a style she calls "romantic realism." Also included in this show are paintings of garden doors inspired by photographs by her daughter, Jessica Taylor, whose work is also included in this exhibit.

Vivian Geiger is a widely respected photographer who is showcasing a new series of abstracts and a new technique of using pastels on photographs.

Jessica Taylor is exhibiting many of her cloudscapes in this exhibit along side her mother, A. Brooks Decker's paintings.

For the fourth year, Delavan Art Gallery is pleased to host the work of children from Blodgett, Seymour Magnet and Solace Elementary Schools. Students from the classes of Stacy Griffin, Kelly Moser and Simone Montgomery have the chance to see their work in a professional setting and to sell the work to raise money for themselves as burgeoning artists and for school art supplies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jazz Age Virtues: Works of Richard Merkin and Jason King
Lucas Gallery

Lucas Gallery
33 Jordan St., Skaneateles

Richard Merkin's work conjures up scenes that evoke the raucous spirit of the 1920s, 30s and 40s. In his witty, often eccentric illustrations, Merkin depicts movie stars, jazz musicians, sports heroes and literary impresarios co-mingling with more personal references. In his highly stylized approach to the figure, Merkin privileges color relationships, balance and juxtaposition over strictly literal descriptions of his subjects. He reconstitutes their Jazz Age virtues on canvas in cubist, comic-laced landscapes of tropical color. And humor; there's always humor.

Merkin began teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1963 and remained there for nearly 40 years. During this time, he built his reputation in New York. He is represented in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Smithsonian Institution and the Whitney Museum as well as many others. Mr. Merkin has been a Contributing Editor for Vanity Fair since 1986 and a regular contributor of illustrations to The New Yorker since 1988, as well as Harpers and The New York Times Sunday Magazine. From 1988-1991 he wrote a monthly style column for Gentlemen's Quarterly. In 1995, he illustrated the book, Leagues Apart: The Men and Times of the Negro Baseball Leagues, (by Larry Ritter). He wrote the text and captions for The Tijuana Bibles, (Simon & Schuster, 1997)

Jason King is a local artist who also captures the Jazz Age with convincing visual narration. His unique illustration like styling and deceptively simple compositions combine to produce a very real and universally shared memory of rural life in the American 20s.

Jason graduated Cum Laude from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts as a painting major in 1989. He has since had several showings of his art including one in Charlotte, VT and most recently at Mocha Maya's Coffee House in Shelburne Falls, MA. He has also successfully executed many commissions including the design for sculptures at Sycamore Hill Farm and Gardens in Marcellus. His painting "Otto on Fish Creek" was a winning entry at the New York State Fair in August of 2006.

Jason executes portraiture in acrylics that create a universal sense of nostalgia by working from old photographs and slides of rural America from the first half of the 20th century.

This show is designed to be of special interest to interior designers as well as collectors.

Cycle of Life - Green Lakes: Photographs by Marna Bell
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The show is a collection of digital photographs which chart the changing seasons of Green Lakes State Park in Fayetteville, NY.

Environmental Injustice and the Artist Response to Hurricane Katrina
Community Folk Art Center

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

When photographers Donn Young and Gus Bennett, Jr., stared loss in the face after Hurricane Katrina they searched through their emotional and physical lives, assessed the damage and moved on. They entered spaces and captured images and rescued items that were difficult to see, but needed to be saved in order to help tell the story of New Orleans.

Donn Young returned to New Orleans to find his studio and over one million images taken during his 25 year career virtually eliminated. In light of this, he began documenting the devastation of not just his life, but the lives of others in the City as well. Gus Bennett documented the efforts of curator and archivist Linda Hill to rescue a collection of African antiquities that were left unattended and deteriorating on a local university campus. She endured the hazardous environment, located the items, removed them and began working to restore them.

For those who make New Orleans their home after Katrina, it is not always easy to find the beauty that has been covered up by the debris of the storm. This exhibition is about three remarkable individuals who chose to help save New Orleans through their individual efforts and are now sharing those efforts collectively; a metaphor for what it takes to live in New Orleans
­ today.

This exhibition will challenge your senses, in part, because we dare to display the images of objects that under different circumstances would be gazed upon with notions of beauty, humor and historic documentation. In this context, however, we are sharing those objects in their vulnerable state, straddling the line, in appearance, of art and refuse. This is a story about seeing devastation, experiencing the pain and moving forward by will and choice.

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Dodji Koudakpo: An African Experiences
Community Folk Art Center

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

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

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

MFA 2007
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates. Fourteen artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography and sculpture.

MFA 2007 encompasses a broad range of both media and content. Some of the artists use personal experience and family as a central concept and inspiration. Others make statements on industrialization and the human condition. There are traditional processes: the expressive paintings and drawings by Elena Peteva speak to personal relationships as well as physical process. The photographs and film by Latoya Frazier document a family member's struggle with addiction.

Additionally, there is a variety of new media: Stacey Barton explores issues of the identity of the modern woman through video projection. A virtual installation by Sarah Howell engages the viewer to interact with her work in order to uncover new meaning in "the seemingly arbitrary and everyday."

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

Tom Paxton Live, with Folkstrings
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $45. All proceeds benefit the Everson.
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Tom Paxton has been an integral part of the songwriting and folk music community since the early 60s Greenwich Village scene, and continues to be a primary influence on today's "New Folk" performers.

Doors open at 6:30pm and a cash bar will be available in the Sculpture Court. Paxton will be available to signs CDs and books in the Green Room following the performance.

To purchase tickets, phone 1-877-725-8849 or visit www.ticketalternative.com.

For more information, phone 315-263-2254.

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Drum the Ecstatic International
Featuring Jim Donovan

Price: $10 in advance $15 at the door
Ballybay Pub Ballroom
550 Richmond Ave., Syracuse

Jim Donovan's dynamic new drum and vocal group, Drum the Ecstatic International, is a captivating live performance experience that can be best described as an exhilarating blend of the drums of early Rusted Root, the positivity of Bob Marley and the thumping soul of an African village. This rare performance will also feature the astounding master drummer Etse Nyadezdor from Ghana, West Africa.

Multi-platinum recording artist Jim Donovan rose to international prominence as a founding member and drummer for the multi-platinum band, Rusted Root.

For more information, phone 315-636-7133 or 315-447-6287 or email bbromka@twcny.rr.com

Bridge to Peace concert
Featuring Theodore Bikel

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

World-renowned folk singer and stage and screen actor Theodore Bikel will join a group of internationally known musicians for an inter-ethnic concert weaving together music from different cultures and faiths.

The concert will also feature Dutch singer Shura Lipovsky, Bosnian accordionist Merima Kljuco and conductor Tamara Brooks, among other instrumentalists. The program will include pieces from Sephardic, Yiddish, Bosnian, Greek, French, Hebrew and American traditions, among others.

Bikel is a world-renowned stage and screen actor as well as one of the worlds most beloved singers of folk musicespecially known for his vast knowledge of international songs. For the past 50 years, he has appeared in concerts throughout the United States, Canada and Europe, as well as in Australia, Israel and New Zealand. He is also an accomplished translator of song lyrics and has recorded more than 20 albums.

Lipvosky is one of the best-known singers of Yiddish/Jewish songs in Europe and specializes in Judaic mysticism and dance. She teaches master classes for singers and Yiddish repertoire classes, and gives workshops in Hasidic dance, songs and stories, including the Oxford Summer University in England and the Jewish Spiritual Retreat Center Elat Chayim in upstate New York. She has performed and taught in Canada, Europe, Russia and the United States.

Kljuco studied accordion at the Srednja Muzika Kola in Sarajevo and the Rotterdam Conservatory, and completed a specialization in contemporary music at the Hochschule für die Kunste Bremen. She has worked internationally with many renowned artists and ensembles, including MusikFabrik, Gelberklang and Joaquim Sabate. As a soloist, she has performed with the Philharmonische Orchester Bremen and the Holland Symphonia. She has a wide range of experience as a performer of klezmer and Balkan music with various ensembles.

Brooks is a conductor whose career has spanned more than 35 years. She has performed with ensembles around the world and conducted and commissioned contemporary compositions. She has made numerous recordings, including a Grammy-nominated recording of the music of Vincent Persichetti. A graduate of the Julliard School of Music with degrees in piano and conducting, Brooks has combined a performing career with a love of teaching throughout her professional life. She was president of the New School of Music, has served on the faculty of several institutions, and was a guest conductor at Syracuse University.

Classical Concert Series
Redhouse
Featuring Alexander Hurd, baritone

Price: $22 regular; $18 senior; $15 student
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Baritone Alexander Hurd has appeared throughout the United States and Europe in concert and opera. Mr. Hurd has received numerous awards and prizes including the Joy of Singing Award, Second Prize at the 2004 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, First Prize in the Vocal Artists Resource Network Song Competition, and fellowships to the Aspen Music Festival and the Tanglewood Music Center.

His operatic credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream, Casanova's Homecoming, Cosi fan tutte, The Mother of Us All, Les Mamelles da Tiresias, Slow Dusk, and Amahl and the Night Visitors.

As a graduate of Oberlin College, he holds bachelor's degrees in Modern European History and Voice Performance as well as a master's degree in Voice Performance from the University of Cincinnati.

Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music
Pacifica Quartet

Price: $20 regular, $15 senior, $10 student, children under 13 free
H. W. Smith School Auditorium
1130 Salt Springs Rd., Syracuse

Mendelssohn Quartet No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 12
Bartok Quartet No. 4
Beethoven Quartet No. 13 in B-flat major, Op. 130 with Grosse Fuge

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Classics Series: Midori
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Midori, violin

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

Brahms Intermezzo No. 2 in A Major, op. 118 "Black Swan" (orch. Sheng)
Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, op. 25 (orch. Schoenberg)
Tchaikovsky Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra, op. 35

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Second Saturday Series: Eve Goldberg
Westcott Community Center

Price: $10
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Eve Goldberg sings music that feeds the soul. An engaging performer with a warm, relaxed stage presence, Eve's clear, expressive voice will pull you in, whether she's singing a capella or accompanying herself on fingerstyle or flatpicked guitar. Her music is an appealing blend of the many styles that have deeply influenced her, including folk, blues, bluegrass, swing, jazz, old-time, gospel and more. Singing a mixture of her own songs, songs by other writers, and traditional material, she combines a heartfelt respect for the music of earlier times with a love of contemporary folk styles. Perhaps this is why Eve's own songs have been described as indistinguishable from enduring classics. Audiences love the rich musical texture of her performances, as she sings a quiet ballad one minute, picks a guitar instrumental the next, belts out a blues the next, and tops it off with an uplifting a capella chorus. But more than anything, listeners respond to Eve's music because it is about the everyday lives of ordinary people - their joys, hopes, struggles and triumphs.

The Little Mermaid
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive adaption of the children's favorite.

Death of a Salesman
Syracuse Stage
Tim Ocel, director

Price: $40, $36, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Its status as an American classic makes it easy to hurl superlatives at this great play without truly considering Arthur Miller's achievement. In creating Willy Loman, Miller, like Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams, examines the shaky illusions at the foundation of so many American lives and finds tragedy within. Miller fearlessly assesses the small life of a common man, the shattered hopes and dreams, and insists "attention must be paid."

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Steel Magnolias
Theatre '90

Price: $20 regular; $18 students/seniors; $14 children under 12
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Some may equate Steel Magnolias to the consummate "chick flick." It is, however, more accurately described as the ultimate "feel good" theater piece that all adults will enjoy. A great girls' night out, as well as a guy-girl thing; a mother and daughter time together as well as an entire audience filled with strangers enjoying similar feelings while on the same wave-length. Steel Magnolias is one of the most popular theater productions in the country because it has it all: comedy, drama, excitement, laughter, and poignancy.

For more information, phone 315-479-5495.

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West Side Story
First Year Players

Price: $7 general public; $4 for S.U. faculty, staff and students with ID
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The musical includes 26 first year (freshmen and transfer student) cast members and 50 staff members. Tickets are available at the Schine Box Office by calling 315-443-4517.

Sin: A Cardinal Deposed
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

In the tradition of outstanding "docu-dramas" like The Laramie Project and Execution of Justice, Michael Murphy's Sin is a collage of testimonies of, by and surrounding Cardinal Bernard F. Law - the Catholic leader whose governance of his diocese was questioned and scrutinized when years of sexual abuse by diocesan priests finally came to light. This searing and emotional work examines our dedication to religion, our faith in our legal system and the strength of our own convictions - in the words of Cardinal Law himself.

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Kiss of the Spider Woman
Simply New Theatre

Price: $25
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Adapted from the acclaimed novel on which the film and hit musical are based, the original play is gripping drama about two men imprisoned - one a window dresser, the other a socialist rebel. Locked up for their beliefs and forced to share a cell, each man finds comfort in the other's company as politics and eroticism blend together in the shadows of their cell.

Due to the graphic nature of this piece and male nudity, all audience members under the age of 18 need to be accompanied by an adult.

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Death of a Salesman
Syracuse Stage
Tim Ocel, director

Price: $44, $39, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Its status as an American classic makes it easy to hurl superlatives at this great play without truly considering Arthur Miller's achievement. In creating Willy Loman, Miller, like Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams, examines the shaky illusions at the foundation of so many American lives and finds tragedy within. Miller fearlessly assesses the small life of a common man, the shattered hopes and dreams, and insists "attention must be paid."

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Sunday, April 15, 2007

Mute
ThINC

Price: Free
Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

MUTE is an exhibition of silent videos from a selection of international artists that will run 24/7 March 14 through April 15th 2007.

MUTE creates a diorama out of the gallery, exposing it as space that is fractured and fragile; MUTE pulls the viewer towards the screen, searching.

During the exhibition, viewers will see the videos by peering through the windows at the running projection. "By presenting an exhibition that places this obstacle between the viewer and their expectancies, MUTE makes manifest the silence that denotes the unifying quality that connects an array of otherwise very different works. MUTE closes the space of the gallery literally and temporally," says Andrew Mount, Executive Director of ThINC.

Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Jazz Age Virtues: Works of Richard Merkin and Jason King
Lucas Gallery

Lucas Gallery
33 Jordan St., Skaneateles

Richard Merkin's work conjures up scenes that evoke the raucous spirit of the 1920s, 30s and 40s. In his witty, often eccentric illustrations, Merkin depicts movie stars, jazz musicians, sports heroes and literary impresarios co-mingling with more personal references. In his highly stylized approach to the figure, Merkin privileges color relationships, balance and juxtaposition over strictly literal descriptions of his subjects. He reconstitutes their Jazz Age virtues on canvas in cubist, comic-laced landscapes of tropical color. And humor; there's always humor.

Merkin began teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1963 and remained there for nearly 40 years. During this time, he built his reputation in New York. He is represented in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Smithsonian Institution and the Whitney Museum as well as many others. Mr. Merkin has been a Contributing Editor for Vanity Fair since 1986 and a regular contributor of illustrations to The New Yorker since 1988, as well as Harpers and The New York Times Sunday Magazine. From 1988-1991 he wrote a monthly style column for Gentlemen's Quarterly. In 1995, he illustrated the book, Leagues Apart: The Men and Times of the Negro Baseball Leagues, (by Larry Ritter). He wrote the text and captions for The Tijuana Bibles, (Simon & Schuster, 1997)

Jason King is a local artist who also captures the Jazz Age with convincing visual narration. His unique illustration like styling and deceptively simple compositions combine to produce a very real and universally shared memory of rural life in the American 20s.

Jason graduated Cum Laude from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts as a painting major in 1989. He has since had several showings of his art including one in Charlotte, VT and most recently at Mocha Maya's Coffee House in Shelburne Falls, MA. He has also successfully executed many commissions including the design for sculptures at Sycamore Hill Farm and Gardens in Marcellus. His painting "Otto on Fish Creek" was a winning entry at the New York State Fair in August of 2006.

Jason executes portraiture in acrylics that create a universal sense of nostalgia by working from old photographs and slides of rural America from the first half of the 20th century.

This show is designed to be of special interest to interior designers as well as collectors.

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

MFA 2007
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates. Fourteen artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography and sculpture.

MFA 2007 encompasses a broad range of both media and content. Some of the artists use personal experience and family as a central concept and inspiration. Others make statements on industrialization and the human condition. There are traditional processes: the expressive paintings and drawings by Elena Peteva speak to personal relationships as well as physical process. The photographs and film by Latoya Frazier document a family member's struggle with addiction.

Additionally, there is a variety of new media: Stacey Barton explores issues of the identity of the modern woman through video projection. A virtual installation by Sarah Howell engages the viewer to interact with her work in order to uncover new meaning in "the seemingly arbitrary and everyday."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Atrium Exhibit: OCC Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Titicut Follies
Everson Museum of Art

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

Titicut Follies, banned for nearly 25 years, gives audiences a shocking look inside an asylum for the criminally insane. Released in 1967, the film is a stark and graphic portrayal of the conditions that existed at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. It documents the various ways the inmates are treated by the guards, social workers and psychiatrists.

Director Frederick Wiseman brings the audience an almost voyeuristic look into the daily lives of both inmates and hospital staff, but eschews any sort of "slant" to his film, instead allowing the camera to tell the story for him. This cold and clinical approach to the subject matter is far more successful in showing the true plight of the inmates than any amouth of interviewing and question-asking could ever achieve. (1967, 84 minutes)

PreFestival Screening: Screamers
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $5
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Documentary feature examining why genocides keep occurring -- from the Armenian genocide in 1915, to the Holocaust, Bosnia, Rwanda and now Darfur -- through the eyes and music of the Grammy award-winning rock band "System of a Down," based in Los Angeles, whose members are all grandchildren of genocide survivors. As the band tours the world and touches on the locations and stories of genocide in the last century, the film follows the personal story of the lead singer's grandfather, a 96-year old survivor of the Armenian genocide, one of the few remaining survivors from his village in Turkey. With the arguments of Harvard Professor Samantha Power, the personal stories of survivors from Armenia, Rwanda and Darfur, policy critics and whistleblowers - the "screamers" - the film targets the problem of genocide denial, with specific reference to the Turkish government's current campaign to stop its citizens from discussing the genocide. When the band arrives back in the United States, they confront the hypocrisy of U.S. foreign policy in the debate on genocide recognition, with Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, actively blocking a vote in Congress. Through the band's efforts to get Dennis to "Do the Right Thing" and Power's thesis that America's interest has always been to stay neutral, no matter how wide-scale the carnage, the film shows how successive Presidents and corporate interests have conspired to turn a blind eye to genocides as they are happening -- whether it be Iraqi Kurds in the 80s, Rwanda in the 90s or Darfur today. After the Holocaust, we may say 'never again' -- but we don't mean it.

LeMoyne College
Le Moyne Jazzuits

James Commons
Le Moyne College, Syracuse

The Jazzuits host ensembles from Syracuse University and Ithaca College for an afternoon of music from the swing era to the present. For more information, phone 315-445-4523.

Ethos Percussion Ensemble
Malmgren Concert Series
Featuring Christopher Marks, organ

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

For more than 15 years, Ethos Percussion Group has inspired audiences throughout the country with its exceptional music-making and collective devotion to the incredibly diverse world of percussion music. Their substantial combined expertise is the source of Ethos' innovative programming, which integrates global instruments and playing styles into the conventions of Western chamber music to create a visually and aurally compelling experience. The ensemble's critically acclaimed performances regularly feature numerous commissions and world premieres, traditional rhythms from India, West Africa and the Middle East, and landmark works by composers such as John Cage, Lou Harrison, and Steve Reich.

This program will include the world premiere of a piece of Nicolas Scherzinger.

Scott Foppiano
Syracuse Wurlitzer

Price: $15 adults; $2 children
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Critically acclaimed and sought-after as a recitalist, theater organist and silent film accompanist, Foppiano has played and recorded on some of the greatest classical and theatre pipe organs in the U.S., Canada, and Europe.

Tiff Jimber: "Perfectly"

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

TK99 Soundcheck
Redhouse

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

Kiss of the Spider Woman
Simply New Theatre

Price: $25
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Adapted from the acclaimed novel on which the film and hit musical are based, the original play is gripping drama about two men imprisoned - one a window dresser, the other a socialist rebel. Locked up for their beliefs and forced to share a cell, each man finds comfort in the other's company as politics and eroticism blend together in the shadows of their cell.

Due to the graphic nature of this piece and male nudity, all audience members under the age of 18 need to be accompanied by an adult.

Read a review!

Death of a Salesman
Syracuse Stage
Tim Ocel, director

Price: $40, $36, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Its status as an American classic makes it easy to hurl superlatives at this great play without truly considering Arthur Miller's achievement. In creating Willy Loman, Miller, like Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams, examines the shaky illusions at the foundation of so many American lives and finds tragedy within. Miller fearlessly assesses the small life of a common man, the shattered hopes and dreams, and insists "attention must be paid."

Read a Review!

Steel Magnolias
Theatre '90

Price: $20 regular; $18 students/seniors; $14 children under 12
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Some may equate Steel Magnolias to the consummate "chick flick." It is, however, more accurately described as the ultimate "feel good" theater piece that all adults will enjoy. A great girls' night out, as well as a guy-girl thing; a mother and daughter time together as well as an entire audience filled with strangers enjoying similar feelings while on the same wave-length. Steel Magnolias is one of the most popular theater productions in the country because it has it all: comedy, drama, excitement, laughter, and poignancy.

For more information, phone 315-479-5495.

Read a Review!

Death of a Salesman
Syracuse Stage
Tim Ocel, director

Price: $35, $31, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Its status as an American classic makes it easy to hurl superlatives at this great play without truly considering Arthur Miller's achievement. In creating Willy Loman, Miller, like Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams, examines the shaky illusions at the foundation of so many American lives and finds tragedy within. Miller fearlessly assesses the small life of a common man, the shattered hopes and dreams, and insists "attention must be paid."

Read a Review!

Monday, April 16, 2007

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

Atrium Exhibit: OCC Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Visual Arts Showcase #59
CNY Arts

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

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

Gallery Exhibit: SU Touring Art Show: Above and Below
Onondaga Community College

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

An exhibition of prints that examines the urban transformation of New York City during the first half of the 20th century and how it affected the city's residents and their lifestyles.

Beyond the Silver Screen: works of Maestro Nano Campeggi
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Italian artist Silvano Campeggi, better known as Nano, produced over 3000 billboard posters for major Hollywood films during the post-war period. In the realm of cinema-graphic advertising, he is an Italian institution. This exhibition features the masterful, contemporary works that define his signature style, going beyond the silver screen and offering a rare glimpse of his original drawings and paintings. Combining his skills as an illustrator and painter, Nano plays with images, deliberately pairing modern film icons with art history's iconic historic counterparts, each culminating in a whimsical, idealized creation. The deft, essential strokes of vibrant color and black line successfully bridge the distance between the nostalgia provoked by poster art tradition, and the post-war film genre that Nano himself nurtured. His pastiche of style and ideas are interconnected through a visual vocabulary that is both familiar and evocative of a Pop Art sensibility. Nano's poster art evolved from and at the same time blossomed into these timeless works, treasures whose influence and reach is still seen in the contemporary work of both fine artists and graphic designers today.

This exhibit is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse International Film and Video Festival.

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Syracuse Set List: Native American Music
Redhouse

Price: $10
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

Atrium Exhibit: OCC Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Visual Arts Showcase #59
CNY Arts

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

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

Gallery Exhibit: SU Touring Art Show: Above and Below
Onondaga Community College

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

An exhibition of prints that examines the urban transformation of New York City during the first half of the 20th century and how it affected the city's residents and their lifestyles.

Beyond the Silver Screen: works of Maestro Nano Campeggi
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Italian artist Silvano Campeggi, better known as Nano, produced over 3000 billboard posters for major Hollywood films during the post-war period. In the realm of cinema-graphic advertising, he is an Italian institution. This exhibition features the masterful, contemporary works that define his signature style, going beyond the silver screen and offering a rare glimpse of his original drawings and paintings. Combining his skills as an illustrator and painter, Nano plays with images, deliberately pairing modern film icons with art history's iconic historic counterparts, each culminating in a whimsical, idealized creation. The deft, essential strokes of vibrant color and black line successfully bridge the distance between the nostalgia provoked by poster art tradition, and the post-war film genre that Nano himself nurtured. His pastiche of style and ideas are interconnected through a visual vocabulary that is both familiar and evocative of a Pop Art sensibility. Nano's poster art evolved from and at the same time blossomed into these timeless works, treasures whose influence and reach is still seen in the contemporary work of both fine artists and graphic designers today.

This exhibit is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse International Film and Video Festival.

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Dodji Koudakpo: An African Experiences
Community Folk Art Center

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

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

Environmental Injustice and the Artist Response to Hurricane Katrina
Community Folk Art Center

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

When photographers Donn Young and Gus Bennett, Jr., stared loss in the face after Hurricane Katrina they searched through their emotional and physical lives, assessed the damage and moved on. They entered spaces and captured images and rescued items that were difficult to see, but needed to be saved in order to help tell the story of New Orleans.

Donn Young returned to New Orleans to find his studio and over one million images taken during his 25 year career virtually eliminated. In light of this, he began documenting the devastation of not just his life, but the lives of others in the City as well. Gus Bennett documented the efforts of curator and archivist Linda Hill to rescue a collection of African antiquities that were left unattended and deteriorating on a local university campus. She endured the hazardous environment, located the items, removed them and began working to restore them.

For those who make New Orleans their home after Katrina, it is not always easy to find the beauty that has been covered up by the debris of the storm. This exhibition is about three remarkable individuals who chose to help save New Orleans through their individual efforts and are now sharing those efforts collectively; a metaphor for what it takes to live in New Orleans
­ today.

This exhibition will challenge your senses, in part, because we dare to display the images of objects that under different circumstances would be gazed upon with notions of beauty, humor and historic documentation. In this context, however, we are sharing those objects in their vulnerable state, straddling the line, in appearance, of art and refuse. This is a story about seeing devastation, experiencing the pain and moving forward by will and choice.

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Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Networked Nature
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

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

Cycle of Life - Green Lakes: Photographs by Marna Bell
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The show is a collection of digital photographs which chart the changing seasons of Green Lakes State Park in Fayetteville, NY.

MFA 2007
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates. Fourteen artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography and sculpture.

MFA 2007 encompasses a broad range of both media and content. Some of the artists use personal experience and family as a central concept and inspiration. Others make statements on industrialization and the human condition. There are traditional processes: the expressive paintings and drawings by Elena Peteva speak to personal relationships as well as physical process. The photographs and film by Latoya Frazier document a family member's struggle with addiction.

Additionally, there is a variety of new media: Stacey Barton explores issues of the identity of the modern woman through video projection. A virtual installation by Sarah Howell engages the viewer to interact with her work in order to uncover new meaning in "the seemingly arbitrary and everyday."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PreFestival Screening: Don't Look Down
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The audience will be provided a very rare opportunity. Renowned Argentinian filmmaker Eliseo Subiela will screen and discuss No mires para abajo (Don't Look Down), his newest film in its unfinished state. In this film a young man falls in love with a woman who initiates him into sexual practices that allow him to explore unknown realms of spirituality and reality. It's the story of two young people who seek to get closer to God through love and sex.

Visiting Artist and Speakers Program: Stephen Talasnik
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Maxwell Auditorium
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Visiting Artist and Speakers Program will present a lecture by New York City-based artist Stephen Talasnik, whose work is inspired by his interests in such areas as engineering, architecture, product and graphic design, and the aesthetics of invention. A native of Philadelphia, he earned a master of fine arts degree from Temple University's Tyler School of Art. He also studied in Rome and lived in Tokyo, two cities that further influenced his work.

Talasnik's drawings and sculpture have been acquired by numerous international museum collections, including the Albertina in Vienna, the British Museum in London, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the State Museum of Berlin. He is represented by Marlborough Gallery in New York City.

Parking is available in Irving Garage.

Valans Russian Children's Chorus

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

The choir is touring the Northeastern United States for the first time; previously, they have given successful performances in France, Finland, Bulgaria and several cities of the Russian Federation. They have received awards at festivals in Bulgaria, Moscow and St. Petersburg, and have recorded two CDs of religious and folk music.

The choir, from the island of Valaam near St. Petersburg, Russia, consists of four children, ages 11-17, and two adult assistants. Their repertoire includes Orthodox liturgical music, both classic and contemporary, and folk music.

For more information, phone the church at 315-446-2112 or email rwinjoyce@twcny.rr.com.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Windjammer Vocal Jazz Ensemble
Bill DiCosimo, conductor

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

The group will perform classic jazz standards from the Great American Songbook, including "Time After Time," "It Had to Be You," "On a Clear Day" and "I Love Being Here with You."

Free parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, contact the Setnor School at 315-443-2191.