Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Once Upon a Time: Works of Katya Krenina
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Art Exhibition: Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

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

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

Gallery Exhibition: James Williams II
Onondaga Community College

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

James Williams II believes that the vital essence of life starts with our relationships. Without relationships we have no identity, self-worth, or defining of involvement to the world we live in. For example, a father's identity comes from his relationship with his children, just as a wife's identity comes from her relationship with her husband. It is through his relationship with God that brings his identity as a Christian and the focus of his work together. It is the purpose of Williams' work to separate the distant religious experience from the close relationship with God experience.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Everything is Illustrated and Winter Solstice
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Everything is Illustrated: Gallery A
Recent work by Eva Calazada, Tian Chen, Barbara Morey, and Benjamin Petrie

Winter Solstice: Gallery B
Works by Cala Glatz, Julia Kester, Jonathan LaPlante, and Beth Mand

The Loneliness of Nature: Works by James Domroe
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Photographs of "The Loneliness of Nature" were manipulated in Photoshop to heighten and bring contrast to the starkness of the photos.

Also a short film, "How to be Happy", running time 5 min.

Markings of Time and Place
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Amy Bartell: Acrylic and mixed-media paintings examining the topography of time and an ever-changing horizon
Paul Molesky: Sculptural and functional stoneware ceramics finished with clay slip and shino glazes
Ban Bacich: Mixed-media box assemblages combining fragments that invoke a narrative

Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

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

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

Cryptopocalypse: Tattoo Art of David "D.J." Rose
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

David "D.J." Rose is a tattooist and artist in the folk art tradition. He has no formal art training. His devotion to his craft has driven him deeply into the study of symbolism, as to best manifest his clients' desires to transform their lives using crude tools to apply ancient talismans. He co-owns Halo Tattoo in Syracuse, New York. He is driven to create and proclaim as is commanded "both for glory and for beauty".

The gallery is open by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 to make an appointment.

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

Read a review!

The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Elongating the Thread
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Elongating the Thread" features the work of fiber and textile artists Jappie King Black, Anne Cofer, Annet Couwenberg, Jennifer Gandee, Mary Kester, Susan Krueger, Laura Reinhard, Barbara Jean Weingart, and Victoria Zacek.

The selected work in "Elongating the Thread" highlights the breadth of work based in the fiber and textile arts program in VPA's School of Art and Design and the success of the participants to explore their individual studio practices on a national level. The diversity of the group is evident through the variety of media (wool, silk, copper, steel, clay, and doilies) and concepts (weight, domesticity, identity, nature, war, and the subconscious) explored by the artists.

The exhibition is curated and coordinated by Cofer, Mary Giehl, and Olivia Robinson, all faculty members in the fiber and textile arts program. Many of the exhibiting artists are active members of the local artistic community and continue to make Central New York their home.

For more information, email Robinson at orobinso@syr.edu, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours, or visit vpa.syr.edu/xlprojects.

Alyson Shotz: Drawing Through Space
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

With the assistance of Syracuse University students, Brooklyn-based Shotz created her works on site, thus turning The Warehouse Gallery into a form of laboratory. Shotz is one of today's ground-breaking artists transforming contemporary art through a fusion of technology and handcrafted steel wire and yarn artworks. Her use of this material is a means of combining sculpture with drawing to address issues of light, space, time and motion. Strikingly beautiful, her wire sculpture in the vault and three wall drawings project optical experiences where questions of perception and misperception lead to further examination of the impact of 21st-century technology on the arts.

Read a review!

Windows Project: Confederacy of Dunces
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Hamilton-based Lynette K. Stephenson created an installation about New Orleans consisting of 60 hand-felted wool dunce caps. This exhibition is inspired by John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) set in New Orleans, where Stephenson's family home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and based on her previous body of paintings, The Red Cross Series, which led to the idea for this site-specific project. In this work Stephenson engages in a dialogue about present-day social issues referring to New Orleans, the tragedy of the Hurricane and the universal symbol of the Red Cross.

Breach of Peace: Eric Etheridge's Photographs of the Freedom Riders
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans—blacks and whites, men and women—converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge state segregation laws. The Freedom Riders, as they came to be known, were determined to open up the South to civil rights: it was illegal for bus and train stations to discriminate, but most did and were not interested in change. Over 300 people were arrested and convicted of the charge "breach of the peace."

Artist and author Eric Etheridge's exhibit, Breach of Peace, collects the mug shots of those arrested, which were only recently made public, and juxtaposes them with present-day photographs of the Riders and their recollections about the experience. The group, half black and half white (a quarter were women), was remarkably young; in their faces we see strength, courage, defiance, dignity, and, occasionally, fear.

Kevin Moore, piano; Andrew Zaplatynski, violin
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Excerpts from their complete Beethoven Violin Sonata cycle.

The Ghost Inside, with For The Fallen Dreams, Suffokate, and more
Westcott Theater

Price: $13 at the door, $10 in advance
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Price
Syracuse Stage

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

It's flat out great drama the way only a modern master like Arthur Miller can write it. From the author of American classics such as All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The Crucible, Miller's The Price is taut, truthful and deeply engaging, and belongs with the best of his plays. In an overstuffed attic apartment, two long-estranged brothers, one a cop, the other a doctor, agree to meet to sell off what remains of their deceased father's furniture and find themselves in an emotional renegotiation of the past. Regrets, resentments, and recriminations expose the high price each has paid for lost opportunities and lessons learned. A drama of redemptive power.

Read a Review!

Cirque Dreams Illumination
Broadway in Syracuse

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

Get ready for the all new Cirque Dreams Illumination from the creators of the groundbreaking hit and only show of its kind to ever perform on Broadway, Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy.
Journey with fascination into the depths of a city that ignites with illumination when Cirque Dreams imagination, suspense, and theatrical innovation turns everyday ordinary into bright and extraordinary. Audiences of all ages will marvel as city dwellers reinvent familiar objects, balance on wires, leap tall buildings, and redefine the risks of flight in a story filled with astounding occurrences. One-of-a-kind artists populate the streets of this magical metropolis and breathe energy into its landscape with urban acrobatics and never before seen phenomenal thrills of disbelief. Cirque Dreams critically acclaimed dazzling costumes come alive to the sounds of jazz, ballroom, pop, and more in this original score.

The Price
Syracuse Stage

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

It's flat out great drama the way only a modern master like Arthur Miller can write it. From the author of American classics such as All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The Crucible, Miller's The Price is taut, truthful and deeply engaging, and belongs with the best of his plays. In an overstuffed attic apartment, two long-estranged brothers, one a cop, the other a doctor, agree to meet to sell off what remains of their deceased father's furniture and find themselves in an emotional renegotiation of the past. Regrets, resentments, and recriminations expose the high price each has paid for lost opportunities and lessons learned. A drama of redemptive power.

Read a Review!

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Once Upon a Time: Works of Katya Krenina
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Art Exhibition: Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

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

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

Gallery Exhibition: James Williams II
Onondaga Community College

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

James Williams II believes that the vital essence of life starts with our relationships. Without relationships we have no identity, self-worth, or defining of involvement to the world we live in. For example, a father's identity comes from his relationship with his children, just as a wife's identity comes from her relationship with her husband. It is through his relationship with God that brings his identity as a Christian and the focus of his work together. It is the purpose of Williams' work to separate the distant religious experience from the close relationship with God experience.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Everything is Illustrated and Winter Solstice
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Everything is Illustrated: Gallery A
Recent work by Eva Calazada, Tian Chen, Barbara Morey, and Benjamin Petrie

Winter Solstice: Gallery B
Works by Cala Glatz, Julia Kester, Jonathan LaPlante, and Beth Mand

The Loneliness of Nature: Works by James Domroe
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Photographs of "The Loneliness of Nature" were manipulated in Photoshop to heighten and bring contrast to the starkness of the photos.

Also a short film, "How to be Happy", running time 5 min.

Markings of Time and Place
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Amy Bartell: Acrylic and mixed-media paintings examining the topography of time and an ever-changing horizon
Paul Molesky: Sculptural and functional stoneware ceramics finished with clay slip and shino glazes
Ban Bacich: Mixed-media box assemblages combining fragments that invoke a narrative

Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

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

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

Cryptopocalypse: Tattoo Art of David "D.J." Rose
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

David "D.J." Rose is a tattooist and artist in the folk art tradition. He has no formal art training. His devotion to his craft has driven him deeply into the study of symbolism, as to best manifest his clients' desires to transform their lives using crude tools to apply ancient talismans. He co-owns Halo Tattoo in Syracuse, New York. He is driven to create and proclaim as is commanded "both for glory and for beauty".

The gallery is open by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 to make an appointment.

Domestic Flourish: Works by Jen Allen
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jen Allen is a passionate potter. She proudly proclaims "Handcrafted pottery has the capacity to nourish the home, the hand and the mind." Her goal as an artist is to keep the handmade an integral part of the contemporary home, and her beautifully crafted pottery on view reflects this philosophy.

Allen's utilitarian pottery forms "describe contrasts between modesty and generosity, grace and awkwardness" while they relate to her love of sewing through details such as folds, seams, darts, and pillow-like handles. The exterior surfaces, inspired by a fondness for textile design, juxtapose bold pattern with quiet, glazed expanses. All of her work is created with porcelain because of the material's inherit brightness and luminosity.

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

Art: 2003-2009
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Art: 2003-2009" pays tribute to a group of artists aligned with the gallery since its inception over six years ago. The exhibit runs the gamut of artistic endeavors. Among the artists included in the show are: Lydia Benscher, Jamie Ashlaw, Eric W. Shute, A. Brooks Decker, Frank Calidonna, Harry R. Freeman-Jones, Diana Godfrey, Tom Hussey, John Dowling, Roscha Folger, Ruth Wynn, Wendy Harris, R. Jason Howard, Stephen Perrone, Kathleen Schneider, Arthur Brangman, Crystal LaPoint, Thomas Barnes, Tom Townsley, Kyle Mort, Andrea Hall, Stephen Ryan, Patrice Downes Centore, Robert Glisson, James Skvarch, and Vincent Fitches. The gallery is also planning to show works by Amy E. Bartell, Jim Dieso, Douglas Biklen, Tom Champion, Diane Lansing, Robert Carroll, Lauren Ritchie, Phil Austin, Sandy Clift, James R. Walker, Vivian Geiger, Richard Karuzas, Rudy Hellmann, Jennifer Colvin, Richard Schultz, Fred Wellner, Laura J. Wellner, Joyce Day Homan, Linda Esterley, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Mary Kester, and C. J. Hodge.

Read a review!

Wild Card Exhibit: Serious Art for Children
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A new collection of works by noted illustrator and painter Connie Carroll, created for children of any age, meant to encourage an appreciation for the arts even in young children. This group of paintings bears a lighthearted and whimsical approach. The work in this series adds colorful dimension to common enjoyable experiences or fantasies for children, such as space travel or other adventures. In her artist statement, Carroll thanks "children of all ages, from one to one hundred" for joining her in exploring the fantasies depicted in these paintings.

The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

Read a review!

Elongating the Thread
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Elongating the Thread" features the work of fiber and textile artists Jappie King Black, Anne Cofer, Annet Couwenberg, Jennifer Gandee, Mary Kester, Susan Krueger, Laura Reinhard, Barbara Jean Weingart, and Victoria Zacek.

The selected work in "Elongating the Thread" highlights the breadth of work based in the fiber and textile arts program in VPA's School of Art and Design and the success of the participants to explore their individual studio practices on a national level. The diversity of the group is evident through the variety of media (wool, silk, copper, steel, clay, and doilies) and concepts (weight, domesticity, identity, nature, war, and the subconscious) explored by the artists.

The exhibition is curated and coordinated by Cofer, Mary Giehl, and Olivia Robinson, all faculty members in the fiber and textile arts program. Many of the exhibiting artists are active members of the local artistic community and continue to make Central New York their home.

For more information, email Robinson at orobinso@syr.edu, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours, or visit vpa.syr.edu/xlprojects.

Windows Project: Confederacy of Dunces
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Hamilton-based Lynette K. Stephenson created an installation about New Orleans consisting of 60 hand-felted wool dunce caps. This exhibition is inspired by John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) set in New Orleans, where Stephenson's family home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and based on her previous body of paintings, The Red Cross Series, which led to the idea for this site-specific project. In this work Stephenson engages in a dialogue about present-day social issues referring to New Orleans, the tragedy of the Hurricane and the universal symbol of the Red Cross.

Alyson Shotz: Drawing Through Space
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

With the assistance of Syracuse University students, Brooklyn-based Shotz created her works on site, thus turning The Warehouse Gallery into a form of laboratory. Shotz is one of today's ground-breaking artists transforming contemporary art through a fusion of technology and handcrafted steel wire and yarn artworks. Her use of this material is a means of combining sculpture with drawing to address issues of light, space, time and motion. Strikingly beautiful, her wire sculpture in the vault and three wall drawings project optical experiences where questions of perception and misperception lead to further examination of the impact of 21st-century technology on the arts.

Read a review!

Breach of Peace: Eric Etheridge's Photographs of the Freedom Riders
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans—blacks and whites, men and women—converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge state segregation laws. The Freedom Riders, as they came to be known, were determined to open up the South to civil rights: it was illegal for bus and train stations to discriminate, but most did and were not interested in change. Over 300 people were arrested and convicted of the charge "breach of the peace."

Artist and author Eric Etheridge's exhibit, Breach of Peace, collects the mug shots of those arrested, which were only recently made public, and juxtaposes them with present-day photographs of the Riders and their recollections about the experience. The group, half black and half white (a quarter were women), was remarkably young; in their faces we see strength, courage, defiance, dignity, and, occasionally, fear.

Overcoming the Spectacle: A Cinema of Pure Means
Redhouse

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

The Overcoming the Spectacle film program continues with a screening of Jean-Luc Godard's controversial film Le Gai Savoir (1969). Professor Owen Shapiro will introduce the film and lead the discussion afterward.

Le Gai Savoir is an exploration of learning, discourse and the path to revolution, using images of the student revolt in Paris, the Vietnam War, and other images of the turbulent 1960s as a backdrop. The film was originally rejected by French television before moving to the cinema, where it was subsequently banned by the French government.

Godard remains one of cinema's most innovative and influential filmmakers. According to biographer Colin MacCabe, "From Hollywood to the Third World, from the mainstream to the Avant-Garde, Godard's name is perhaps the only one that occurs wherever cinema is discussed or produced."

Owen Shapiro is a Senior Professor of Film at Syracuse University, the founder of the BFA and MFA film programs, and the creator of the Syracuse International Film Festival. Shapiro has made over 30 films and a dozen videos on a wide range of subjects, all exploring the boundaries between documentary, narrative, and experimental genres.

LeMoyne College
Le Moyne Jazz Ensemble
Featuring Steve Wilson, saxophone

Price: $15 regular, $10 senior, free for students and LeMoyne community
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

The Le Moyne College Jazz Ensemble celebrates African-American History Month with music by guest saxophonist Steve Wilson. Also on the bill, excerpts from ensemble director JC Sanford's soundtrack to the 1925 silent film Ben Hur.

Composer David Lang
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 senior, free for students and LeMoyne community
Panasci Family Chapel
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang joins Andrew Russo, Rob Bridge, and friends for an evening of his classic solo and small ensemble works.

Poetry & Rebellion
ArtRage Gallery
Cultural Eclectic

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Cultural Eclectic will perform 100+ years of poetry and writings of African Americans. Cultural Eclectic is a performance troupe directed by Mark Wright and features Cheryl Wilkins Mitchell, Carol Charles, Vanessa Johnson, and Tony Brown. They will perform a sampling of selected poetry and verse representing commentary and expressions of the struggles of African Americans fighting for freedom and equality in America. The writings of Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sonia Sanchez, Langston Hughes, Claude Mckay, James Weldon Johnson, Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks, and some lesser known poets, will show the way they used words to fight for the right to be free and equal. Some were forerunners of the official Civil Rights Movement and some were products of the Movement. The performance will be followed by a discussion. We also invite local poets to come and share their poems and stories.

Big Louie and the Gang that Couldn't Think Straight
Acme Mystery Company

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

You and the rest of the Bangalone Gang are in deep trouble. Big Louie's been beaned by a bocci ball and now he ain't thinking so good. The gang's got to figure out what to do before arch rival gang leader "Muscles" Marinara has you rubbed out. You better move fast. Word on the street is that ruthless hitman Jake "The Weasel" is on the way.

Cirque Dreams Illumination
Broadway in Syracuse

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

Get ready for the all new Cirque Dreams Illumination from the creators of the groundbreaking hit and only show of its kind to ever perform on Broadway, Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy.
Journey with fascination into the depths of a city that ignites with illumination when Cirque Dreams imagination, suspense, and theatrical innovation turns everyday ordinary into bright and extraordinary. Audiences of all ages will marvel as city dwellers reinvent familiar objects, balance on wires, leap tall buildings, and redefine the risks of flight in a story filled with astounding occurrences. One-of-a-kind artists populate the streets of this magical metropolis and breathe energy into its landscape with urban acrobatics and never before seen phenomenal thrills of disbelief. Cirque Dreams critically acclaimed dazzling costumes come alive to the sounds of jazz, ballroom, pop, and more in this original score.

The Price
Syracuse Stage

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

It's flat out great drama the way only a modern master like Arthur Miller can write it. From the author of American classics such as All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The Crucible, Miller's The Price is taut, truthful and deeply engaging, and belongs with the best of his plays. In an overstuffed attic apartment, two long-estranged brothers, one a cop, the other a doctor, agree to meet to sell off what remains of their deceased father's furniture and find themselves in an emotional renegotiation of the past. Regrets, resentments, and recriminations expose the high price each has paid for lost opportunities and lessons learned. A drama of redemptive power.

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Friday, February 12, 2010

Once Upon a Time: Works of Katya Krenina
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Art Exhibition: Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

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

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

Gallery Exhibition: James Williams II
Onondaga Community College

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

James Williams II believes that the vital essence of life starts with our relationships. Without relationships we have no identity, self-worth, or defining of involvement to the world we live in. For example, a father's identity comes from his relationship with his children, just as a wife's identity comes from her relationship with her husband. It is through his relationship with God that brings his identity as a Christian and the focus of his work together. It is the purpose of Williams' work to separate the distant religious experience from the close relationship with God experience.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Everything is Illustrated and Winter Solstice
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Everything is Illustrated: Gallery A
Recent work by Eva Calazada, Tian Chen, Barbara Morey, and Benjamin Petrie

Winter Solstice: Gallery B
Works by Cala Glatz, Julia Kester, Jonathan LaPlante, and Beth Mand

The Loneliness of Nature: Works by James Domroe
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Photographs of "The Loneliness of Nature" were manipulated in Photoshop to heighten and bring contrast to the starkness of the photos.

Also a short film, "How to be Happy", running time 5 min.

Markings of Time and Place
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Amy Bartell: Acrylic and mixed-media paintings examining the topography of time and an ever-changing horizon
Paul Molesky: Sculptural and functional stoneware ceramics finished with clay slip and shino glazes
Ban Bacich: Mixed-media box assemblages combining fragments that invoke a narrative

Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

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

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

Cryptopocalypse: Tattoo Art of David "D.J." Rose
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

David "D.J." Rose is a tattooist and artist in the folk art tradition. He has no formal art training. His devotion to his craft has driven him deeply into the study of symbolism, as to best manifest his clients' desires to transform their lives using crude tools to apply ancient talismans. He co-owns Halo Tattoo in Syracuse, New York. He is driven to create and proclaim as is commanded "both for glory and for beauty".

The gallery is open by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 to make an appointment.

Domestic Flourish: Works by Jen Allen
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jen Allen is a passionate potter. She proudly proclaims "Handcrafted pottery has the capacity to nourish the home, the hand and the mind." Her goal as an artist is to keep the handmade an integral part of the contemporary home, and her beautifully crafted pottery on view reflects this philosophy.

Allen's utilitarian pottery forms "describe contrasts between modesty and generosity, grace and awkwardness" while they relate to her love of sewing through details such as folds, seams, darts, and pillow-like handles. The exterior surfaces, inspired by a fondness for textile design, juxtapose bold pattern with quiet, glazed expanses. All of her work is created with porcelain because of the material's inherit brightness and luminosity.

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

Wild Card Exhibit: Serious Art for Children
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A new collection of works by noted illustrator and painter Connie Carroll, created for children of any age, meant to encourage an appreciation for the arts even in young children. This group of paintings bears a lighthearted and whimsical approach. The work in this series adds colorful dimension to common enjoyable experiences or fantasies for children, such as space travel or other adventures. In her artist statement, Carroll thanks "children of all ages, from one to one hundred" for joining her in exploring the fantasies depicted in these paintings.

Art: 2003-2009
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Art: 2003-2009" pays tribute to a group of artists aligned with the gallery since its inception over six years ago. The exhibit runs the gamut of artistic endeavors. Among the artists included in the show are: Lydia Benscher, Jamie Ashlaw, Eric W. Shute, A. Brooks Decker, Frank Calidonna, Harry R. Freeman-Jones, Diana Godfrey, Tom Hussey, John Dowling, Roscha Folger, Ruth Wynn, Wendy Harris, R. Jason Howard, Stephen Perrone, Kathleen Schneider, Arthur Brangman, Crystal LaPoint, Thomas Barnes, Tom Townsley, Kyle Mort, Andrea Hall, Stephen Ryan, Patrice Downes Centore, Robert Glisson, James Skvarch, and Vincent Fitches. The gallery is also planning to show works by Amy E. Bartell, Jim Dieso, Douglas Biklen, Tom Champion, Diane Lansing, Robert Carroll, Lauren Ritchie, Phil Austin, Sandy Clift, James R. Walker, Vivian Geiger, Richard Karuzas, Rudy Hellmann, Jennifer Colvin, Richard Schultz, Fred Wellner, Laura J. Wellner, Joyce Day Homan, Linda Esterley, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Mary Kester, and C. J. Hodge.

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Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

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The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Elongating the Thread
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Elongating the Thread" features the work of fiber and textile artists Jappie King Black, Anne Cofer, Annet Couwenberg, Jennifer Gandee, Mary Kester, Susan Krueger, Laura Reinhard, Barbara Jean Weingart, and Victoria Zacek.

The selected work in "Elongating the Thread" highlights the breadth of work based in the fiber and textile arts program in VPA's School of Art and Design and the success of the participants to explore their individual studio practices on a national level. The diversity of the group is evident through the variety of media (wool, silk, copper, steel, clay, and doilies) and concepts (weight, domesticity, identity, nature, war, and the subconscious) explored by the artists.

The exhibition is curated and coordinated by Cofer, Mary Giehl, and Olivia Robinson, all faculty members in the fiber and textile arts program. Many of the exhibiting artists are active members of the local artistic community and continue to make Central New York their home.

For more information, email Robinson at orobinso@syr.edu, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours, or visit vpa.syr.edu/xlprojects.

Alyson Shotz: Drawing Through Space
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

With the assistance of Syracuse University students, Brooklyn-based Shotz created her works on site, thus turning The Warehouse Gallery into a form of laboratory. Shotz is one of today's ground-breaking artists transforming contemporary art through a fusion of technology and handcrafted steel wire and yarn artworks. Her use of this material is a means of combining sculpture with drawing to address issues of light, space, time and motion. Strikingly beautiful, her wire sculpture in the vault and three wall drawings project optical experiences where questions of perception and misperception lead to further examination of the impact of 21st-century technology on the arts.

Read a review!

Windows Project: Confederacy of Dunces
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Hamilton-based Lynette K. Stephenson created an installation about New Orleans consisting of 60 hand-felted wool dunce caps. This exhibition is inspired by John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) set in New Orleans, where Stephenson's family home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and based on her previous body of paintings, The Red Cross Series, which led to the idea for this site-specific project. In this work Stephenson engages in a dialogue about present-day social issues referring to New Orleans, the tragedy of the Hurricane and the universal symbol of the Red Cross.

Breach of Peace: Eric Etheridge's Photographs of the Freedom Riders
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans—blacks and whites, men and women—converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge state segregation laws. The Freedom Riders, as they came to be known, were determined to open up the South to civil rights: it was illegal for bus and train stations to discriminate, but most did and were not interested in change. Over 300 people were arrested and convicted of the charge "breach of the peace."

Artist and author Eric Etheridge's exhibit, Breach of Peace, collects the mug shots of those arrested, which were only recently made public, and juxtaposes them with present-day photographs of the Riders and their recollections about the experience. The group, half black and half white (a quarter were women), was remarkably young; in their faces we see strength, courage, defiance, dignity, and, occasionally, fear.

DFtA Imagines Syracuse in Love
Don't Feed the Actors

Price: $15 adults, $10 high school students
Dewitt Community Church
3600 Erie Blvd. East, Dewitt

Audience-interactive improv comedy with some of Syracuse's finest comedic actors. This performance is a fundraiser for Imagine Syracuse.

The Gender Defenders

Price: $20 in advance; $30 day of show
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

This show features four comedians, Bobby Slayton, Thea Vidale, Vic Henley, and Maureen Langan, giving their points of view on men, women, relationships, and life.

Lecture/Performance: David Lang
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

"There is no name yet for this kind of music," writes Los Angeles Times music critic Mark Swed. But audiences around the globe are hearing more and more of David Lang's work: In performances by organizations such as the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Santa Fe Opera, and the New York Philharmonic. This lecture/performance is a part of a consortium with SUNY Oswego and LeMoyne College that brings musicians to Syracuse for 3-4 days to perform and educate at each venue.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

An Evening with E.S.P.

Price: $5
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

For more information and reservations, phone 315-935-9435.

Classics Series: Romeo & Juliet
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Kazuyoshi Akiyama, conductor
Featuring Cecile Licad, piano

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

Argento Valentino Dances
Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet excerpts

Graduate Clarinet Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Ruth Samuels, clarinet

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

Samuels will perform works by Milhaud, Brahms, Schubert, Mayer, Hartley, and Messager. The recital will feature Nathan Sumrall and Samuel Emanuel on piano and Henryk Lotyczewski on trumpet.

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

Sam Slam XXXIV, with Turnip Stampede, The Brethren, Ruha, and more
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Steve Almond
Downtown Writer's Center

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

Steve Almond is the author of the story collections My Life in Heavy Metal and The Evil B.B. Chow, the novel Which Brings Me to You (with Julianna Baggott), and the non-fiction books Candyfreak and (Not That You Asked). His new book, Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life, will be out in 2010. He is also, crazily, self-publishing a book called This Won't Take But a Minute, Honey, composed of 30 short-short stories, and 30 brief essays on the psychology and practice of writing.

Macbeth
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $10 regular; $5 with SU student ID, $7.50 with SU faculty/staff ID
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

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One Moe Time...With Love
Appleseed Productions

Price: $20 regular; $17 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Moe Harrington — the name, the face, the talent — is no stranger to the Greater Syracuse theater audience. This SAMMY nominee has brought her energetic, often fiery talent to such demanding roles as The Unsinkable Molly Brown and Funny Girl, and her soft ballad interpretations to Tapestry, the Music of Carole King. As she continues her cabaret journey, Moe takes her audience on a musical voyage that can lure them into warmth and wonder, then plummet them into the wild and wacky. The show will feature love songs by such noted theatrical composers as Stephen Sondheim, Cy Coleman, and Maltby & Shire. Jeff Unaitis provides the music direction with Bob Papaleoni on drums. Special guests will be announced.

The Price
Syracuse Stage

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

It's flat out great drama the way only a modern master like Arthur Miller can write it. From the author of American classics such as All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The Crucible, Miller's The Price is taut, truthful and deeply engaging, and belongs with the best of his plays. In an overstuffed attic apartment, two long-estranged brothers, one a cop, the other a doctor, agree to meet to sell off what remains of their deceased father's furniture and find themselves in an emotional renegotiation of the past. Regrets, resentments, and recriminations expose the high price each has paid for lost opportunities and lessons learned. A drama of redemptive power.

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Saturday, February 13, 2010

Once Upon a Time: Works of Katya Krenina
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Art: 2003-2009
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Art: 2003-2009" pays tribute to a group of artists aligned with the gallery since its inception over six years ago. The exhibit runs the gamut of artistic endeavors. Among the artists included in the show are: Lydia Benscher, Jamie Ashlaw, Eric W. Shute, A. Brooks Decker, Frank Calidonna, Harry R. Freeman-Jones, Diana Godfrey, Tom Hussey, John Dowling, Roscha Folger, Ruth Wynn, Wendy Harris, R. Jason Howard, Stephen Perrone, Kathleen Schneider, Arthur Brangman, Crystal LaPoint, Thomas Barnes, Tom Townsley, Kyle Mort, Andrea Hall, Stephen Ryan, Patrice Downes Centore, Robert Glisson, James Skvarch, and Vincent Fitches. The gallery is also planning to show works by Amy E. Bartell, Jim Dieso, Douglas Biklen, Tom Champion, Diane Lansing, Robert Carroll, Lauren Ritchie, Phil Austin, Sandy Clift, James R. Walker, Vivian Geiger, Richard Karuzas, Rudy Hellmann, Jennifer Colvin, Richard Schultz, Fred Wellner, Laura J. Wellner, Joyce Day Homan, Linda Esterley, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Mary Kester, and C. J. Hodge.

Read a review!

Wild Card Exhibit: Serious Art for Children
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A new collection of works by noted illustrator and painter Connie Carroll, created for children of any age, meant to encourage an appreciation for the arts even in young children. This group of paintings bears a lighthearted and whimsical approach. The work in this series adds colorful dimension to common enjoyable experiences or fantasies for children, such as space travel or other adventures. In her artist statement, Carroll thanks "children of all ages, from one to one hundred" for joining her in exploring the fantasies depicted in these paintings.

Markings of Time and Place
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Amy Bartell: Acrylic and mixed-media paintings examining the topography of time and an ever-changing horizon
Paul Molesky: Sculptural and functional stoneware ceramics finished with clay slip and shino glazes
Ban Bacich: Mixed-media box assemblages combining fragments that invoke a narrative

The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

Read a review!

Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

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

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

Domestic Flourish: Works by Jen Allen
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jen Allen is a passionate potter. She proudly proclaims "Handcrafted pottery has the capacity to nourish the home, the hand and the mind." Her goal as an artist is to keep the handmade an integral part of the contemporary home, and her beautifully crafted pottery on view reflects this philosophy.

Allen's utilitarian pottery forms "describe contrasts between modesty and generosity, grace and awkwardness" while they relate to her love of sewing through details such as folds, seams, darts, and pillow-like handles. The exterior surfaces, inspired by a fondness for textile design, juxtapose bold pattern with quiet, glazed expanses. All of her work is created with porcelain because of the material's inherit brightness and luminosity.

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

Breach of Peace: Eric Etheridge's Photographs of the Freedom Riders
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans—blacks and whites, men and women—converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge state segregation laws. The Freedom Riders, as they came to be known, were determined to open up the South to civil rights: it was illegal for bus and train stations to discriminate, but most did and were not interested in change. Over 300 people were arrested and convicted of the charge "breach of the peace."

Artist and author Eric Etheridge's exhibit, Breach of Peace, collects the mug shots of those arrested, which were only recently made public, and juxtaposes them with present-day photographs of the Riders and their recollections about the experience. The group, half black and half white (a quarter were women), was remarkably young; in their faces we see strength, courage, defiance, dignity, and, occasionally, fear.

Art Exhibition: Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

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

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

Elongating the Thread
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Elongating the Thread" features the work of fiber and textile artists Jappie King Black, Anne Cofer, Annet Couwenberg, Jennifer Gandee, Mary Kester, Susan Krueger, Laura Reinhard, Barbara Jean Weingart, and Victoria Zacek.

The selected work in "Elongating the Thread" highlights the breadth of work based in the fiber and textile arts program in VPA's School of Art and Design and the success of the participants to explore their individual studio practices on a national level. The diversity of the group is evident through the variety of media (wool, silk, copper, steel, clay, and doilies) and concepts (weight, domesticity, identity, nature, war, and the subconscious) explored by the artists.

The exhibition is curated and coordinated by Cofer, Mary Giehl, and Olivia Robinson, all faculty members in the fiber and textile arts program. Many of the exhibiting artists are active members of the local artistic community and continue to make Central New York their home.

For more information, email Robinson at orobinso@syr.edu, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours, or visit vpa.syr.edu/xlprojects.

Windows Project: Confederacy of Dunces
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Hamilton-based Lynette K. Stephenson created an installation about New Orleans consisting of 60 hand-felted wool dunce caps. This exhibition is inspired by John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) set in New Orleans, where Stephenson's family home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and based on her previous body of paintings, The Red Cross Series, which led to the idea for this site-specific project. In this work Stephenson engages in a dialogue about present-day social issues referring to New Orleans, the tragedy of the Hurricane and the universal symbol of the Red Cross.

Alyson Shotz: Drawing Through Space
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

With the assistance of Syracuse University students, Brooklyn-based Shotz created her works on site, thus turning The Warehouse Gallery into a form of laboratory. Shotz is one of today's ground-breaking artists transforming contemporary art through a fusion of technology and handcrafted steel wire and yarn artworks. Her use of this material is a means of combining sculpture with drawing to address issues of light, space, time and motion. Strikingly beautiful, her wire sculpture in the vault and three wall drawings project optical experiences where questions of perception and misperception lead to further examination of the impact of 21st-century technology on the arts.

Read a review!

Don't Feed the Actors Dinner Theater
Don't Feed the Actors

Price: Dinner theater: $27.50 single; $47.50 couple. Show only: $15 on day of show if seating available
Pucello's Restaurant
1 Village Blvd., Baldwinsville

The DFtA crew present a special Valentine's day dinner theater engagement. Come laugh with your beloved all night long. Or bring your single friends and laugh away the holiday! Made up of heralded local actors the DFtA crew puts on their unique blend of audience interactive improv where you the audience can get involved.

Dinner 6:30 pm, show begins at 8:00 pm.

SaturdaySCREENINGS: Valentine Movie Marathon
ArtRage Gallery

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

Celebrate Valentine's Day a little early with these charming films about love and the human animal. Come for one or all three!

6:00 pm: Two Weeks With Love (1950)
Two young sisters find romance during a tuneful holiday at Kissimee-in-the-Catskills. Starring Jane Powell, Ricardo Montalban, and Debbie Reynolds.

8:15 pm: The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Directed by George Cukor, with Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Stewart. Oscars for Best Actor (Stewart) and Best Screenplay. AFI: One of top 100 American films! "perfect comedy -- what is says about the nature of love still counts" - filmcritic.com

10:00 pm: The Way We Were (1973)
Directed by Sidney Pollack, with Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand. Modern classic about romance between two people with differing political views and convictions.

Annual CMM/SSO Youth Concerto Competition Final Round
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Junior Flute Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Stephanie Burke, flute

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

Stephanie Burke, a junior music industry student with performance honors, will perform works by Bach, Muczynski, Copland, Ibert and Nielsen. The recital will also feature Maryna Mazhukova on piano and Stephen Chuba on clarinet.

Parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information or concert updates, phone 315-443-2191.

Harmony for Haiti
Syracuse Opera

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

A benefit concert featuring the Syracuse Opera Chorus singing excerpts from well-known musicals and operas. Music from Madama Butterfly, Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera, Carmen, and others will be featured during the performance.

All proceeds benefit the American Red Cross International Response Fund.

A Cappella for the Fellas

Price: $12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

"A cappella for the Fellas," a concert raising support to feed, clothe, shelter and equip homeless men at the Rescue Mission, will feature a cappella groups from four Central New York colleges and universities—"Closer Still" from SUNY Oswego, "The Crosbys" from SUNY Binghamton, "Ithacappella" from Ithaca College, and "Orange Appeal" from Syracuse University—plus special guests "Five to Life" and "no Xcuse."

"A cappella for the Fellas" is the brainchild of local physician John Finkenstadt. He brought his a cappella group, "no Xcuse," to the Rescue Mission in 2007 to entertain its residents. The concert was so well-received that Dr. Finkenstadt approached the Rescue Mission about doing a full-fledged benefit featuring his and other a cappella groups.

Parking is available on campus nearby in Lot 4.

Tickets are available online at rmsyr.org or by calling 315-478-9710 or by visiting Musculoskeletal Medicine P.C., Madison-Irving Medical Center, 475 Irving Avenue, Suite 402, Syracuse.

Teen's Only Valentine's Dance Party
Westcott Theater
Featuring DJ Busta

Price: $10
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Only those 18 and under admitted. Must have Student ID.

Classics Series: Romeo & Juliet
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Kazuyoshi Akiyama, conductor
Featuring Cecile Licad, piano

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

Argento Valentino Dances
Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet excerpts

**POSTPONED** Tony Trischka
Westcott Community Center

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

Concert has been postponed to Fri., March 12. If you have purchased tickets for the Feb. 13 show, they will be honored on March 12. Or if you need a refund, please contact the Westcott Center at 315-478-8634.

Tony Trischka is perhaps the most influential banjo player in the roots music world. For more than 35 years, his stylings have inspired a whole generation of bluegrass and acoustic musicians. He was not only considered among the very best pickers, he was also one of the instrument's top teachers, and created numerous instructional books, teaching video tapes and cassettes. With fearless musical curiosity as the guiding force, Tony Trischka's "Territory" roams widely through the banjo's creative terrain.

"Territory" (Smithsonian Folkways/Ryko) is considerably more than a showcase for the virtuoso banjo playing of Tony Trischka, though that may seem like its principal function. The album is a full-bore banjo tutorial. Mr. Trischka's track-by-track notes include 20 tunings and occasional tips--and a familial jaunt through folk and bluegrass terrain. Featured on the CD are two up-and-coming acoustic artists who have toured extensively with Tony: guitarist and singer Michael Daves, and fiddler Brittany Haas. Mr. Trischka provides a steady connecting line, weaving into his folk and bluegrass musical mix not only Celtic reels but also West African kora music and Hawaiian slide guitar.

Second Saturday Series: Larrypalooza
Westcott Community Center

Price: Request donation $5 - $10
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Performance featuring some of Central New York's most talented acoustic performers:

Larry Hoyt & the Good Acoustics — folk and acoustic music from vocalist and guitarist Larry Hoyt, with vocalist Eileen Rose playing mountain dulcimer and Judy Stanton on violin and backing vocals. Always an eclectic, entertaining mix of folk, old-time country, pop and oldies.

Dana "Short Order" Cooke — one of Central New York's most talented singer/songwriters, Cooke also performs favorites and rarities from the Great American Folk Songbook.

Hondo Mesa and Midnight Mike (aka Dennis Kinsey and Mike Petroff) — fiery acoustic blues and originals, accented by Midnight Mike's too-hot-to-handle harp!

Dana Klipp — one of Central New York's most accomplished acoustic performers, playing traditional songs and old-time country blues.

Judy Stanton — known to many as one of the finest violinists in Central New York, Stanton also is establishing herself as one of this area's most gifted singer/songwriters. Come hear Judy sing some of her originals.

Grandfather Frost's Stories of Russia
Open Hand Theater

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

Silver the Cat is back again with his mischief, and with Baba Yaga telling the story of two sisters lost in the Russian forest. They each learn the secrets of the legendary Grandfather Frost in their own particular way. This beautiful folktale is performed with traditional music and imaginative puppetry in a uniquely Russian style, featuring Open Hand's international Artist-in-Residence Vladimir Vasyagin and musician Leslie Archer.

Beauty and the Beast
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive adaptation of the children's classic.

The Price
Syracuse Stage

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

It's flat out great drama the way only a modern master like Arthur Miller can write it. From the author of American classics such as All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The Crucible, Miller's The Price is taut, truthful and deeply engaging, and belongs with the best of his plays. In an overstuffed attic apartment, two long-estranged brothers, one a cop, the other a doctor, agree to meet to sell off what remains of their deceased father's furniture and find themselves in an emotional renegotiation of the past. Regrets, resentments, and recriminations expose the high price each has paid for lost opportunities and lessons learned. A drama of redemptive power.

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Death by Disco
Without a Cue Productions

Price: $34.50 includes dinner and show
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

Welcome to the Land of Oz Discoteria, the world's first and thankfully, only, disco-cafeteria. A place where disco never dies as long as the mirror balls glint in the light of the sterno flames. Contestants have gathered for the moderately aptly named "3rd Annual World Championship of Disco Championship." The dancers are ready to show their moves, but they might not realize that tonight some of the competition will definitely be stiff.

The show is an interactive murder mystery show that gets members of the audience involved. If you love disco, and even if you despise it, this show will have you intrigued, laughing, and of course dancing, by the end of the night.

For reservations, phone 315-469-6969.

Macbeth
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $10 regular; $5 with SU student ID, $7.50 with SU faculty/staff ID
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

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One Moe Time...With Love
Appleseed Productions

Price: $20 regular; $17 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Moe Harrington — the name, the face, the talent — is no stranger to the Greater Syracuse theater audience. This SAMMY nominee has brought her energetic, often fiery talent to such demanding roles as The Unsinkable Molly Brown and Funny Girl, and her soft ballad interpretations to Tapestry, the Music of Carole King. As she continues her cabaret journey, Moe takes her audience on a musical voyage that can lure them into warmth and wonder, then plummet them into the wild and wacky. The show will feature love songs by such noted theatrical composers as Stephen Sondheim, Cy Coleman, and Maltby & Shire. Jeff Unaitis provides the music direction with Bob Papaleoni on drums. Special guests will be announced.

The Price
Syracuse Stage

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

It's flat out great drama the way only a modern master like Arthur Miller can write it. From the author of American classics such as All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The Crucible, Miller's The Price is taut, truthful and deeply engaging, and belongs with the best of his plays. In an overstuffed attic apartment, two long-estranged brothers, one a cop, the other a doctor, agree to meet to sell off what remains of their deceased father's furniture and find themselves in an emotional renegotiation of the past. Regrets, resentments, and recriminations expose the high price each has paid for lost opportunities and lessons learned. A drama of redemptive power.

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Sunday, February 14, 2010

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Domestic Flourish: Works by Jen Allen
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jen Allen is a passionate potter. She proudly proclaims "Handcrafted pottery has the capacity to nourish the home, the hand and the mind." Her goal as an artist is to keep the handmade an integral part of the contemporary home, and her beautifully crafted pottery on view reflects this philosophy.

Allen's utilitarian pottery forms "describe contrasts between modesty and generosity, grace and awkwardness" while they relate to her love of sewing through details such as folds, seams, darts, and pillow-like handles. The exterior surfaces, inspired by a fondness for textile design, juxtapose bold pattern with quiet, glazed expanses. All of her work is created with porcelain because of the material's inherit brightness and luminosity.

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

Read a review!

The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Once Upon a Time: Works of Katya Krenina
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Art Exhibition: Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

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

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

Elongating the Thread
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Elongating the Thread" features the work of fiber and textile artists Jappie King Black, Anne Cofer, Annet Couwenberg, Jennifer Gandee, Mary Kester, Susan Krueger, Laura Reinhard, Barbara Jean Weingart, and Victoria Zacek.

The selected work in "Elongating the Thread" highlights the breadth of work based in the fiber and textile arts program in VPA's School of Art and Design and the success of the participants to explore their individual studio practices on a national level. The diversity of the group is evident through the variety of media (wool, silk, copper, steel, clay, and doilies) and concepts (weight, domesticity, identity, nature, war, and the subconscious) explored by the artists.

The exhibition is curated and coordinated by Cofer, Mary Giehl, and Olivia Robinson, all faculty members in the fiber and textile arts program. Many of the exhibiting artists are active members of the local artistic community and continue to make Central New York their home.

For more information, email Robinson at orobinso@syr.edu, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours, or visit vpa.syr.edu/xlprojects.

An American in Paris
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors; $15 champagne and dessert party following the film
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Join SYRFILM as we celebrate love with a film classic followed by dessert. Enjoy an enchanting afternoon with the dancing of Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron, a classic score by George Gershwin, and the romantic settings of the City of Lights.

For more information or to reserve tickets to the dessert party, phone 315-443-8826.

John Cadley and Blue Grass Group
Fayetteville Free Library

Price: Free
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

Choral Evensong with Organ Recital
St. Paul's Cathedral Choir

Price: Free
St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Black History Month Cabaret
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Antoinette Montague

Price: $25 regular, $22 subscribers, $12 students
Hotel Syracuse Persian Terrace
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

A bona fide blues and jazz legend -- think Etta Jones, only sassier!

For new patrons, note that affordable food stations and cash bar are available once inside.

Macbeth
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $10 regular; $5 with SU student ID, $7.50 with SU faculty/staff ID
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Read a Review!

The Price
Syracuse Stage

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

It's flat out great drama the way only a modern master like Arthur Miller can write it. From the author of American classics such as All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The Crucible, Miller's The Price is taut, truthful and deeply engaging, and belongs with the best of his plays. In an overstuffed attic apartment, two long-estranged brothers, one a cop, the other a doctor, agree to meet to sell off what remains of their deceased father's furniture and find themselves in an emotional renegotiation of the past. Regrets, resentments, and recriminations expose the high price each has paid for lost opportunities and lessons learned. A drama of redemptive power.

Read a Review!

Monday, February 15, 2010

Once Upon a Time: Works of Katya Krenina
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Art Exhibition: Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

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

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

Gallery Exhibition: James Williams II
Onondaga Community College

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

James Williams II believes that the vital essence of life starts with our relationships. Without relationships we have no identity, self-worth, or defining of involvement to the world we live in. For example, a father's identity comes from his relationship with his children, just as a wife's identity comes from her relationship with her husband. It is through his relationship with God that brings his identity as a Christian and the focus of his work together. It is the purpose of Williams' work to separate the distant religious experience from the close relationship with God experience.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

The Loneliness of Nature: Works by James Domroe
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Photographs of "The Loneliness of Nature" were manipulated in Photoshop to heighten and bring contrast to the starkness of the photos.

Also a short film, "How to be Happy", running time 5 min.

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

Out All Night and Lost My Shoes
SU Center on Human Policy, Law and Disability Studies
Featuring writer/comedian Terry Galloway

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

Terry Galloway is a deaf, queer writer and performer, who tours her one-woman shows, Out All Night and Lost My Shoes and Lardo Weeping, in venues around the country and internationally. In her hometown of Austin, TX, she gained a reputation for playing comic male roles while studying at the University of Texas. Galloway also co-founded Actual Lives, a writing and performance workshop for adults with and without disabilities. Currently residing in Tallahasee, FL, she leads the Mickee Faust Academy for the REALLY Dramatic Arts and is co-founder of the Mickee Faust Club, a performance group known for its parodies of disability-related media. She has held visiting artist appointments at the California Institute of the Arts, Florida State University and the University of Texas at Austin.

Humorous and shocking, Out All Night and Lost My Shoes is Galloway's outrageous autobiographical show. The anger and fear of her self-loathing childhood are transformed by ribald humor as she describes her emergence into a complicated and often cruel world.

ASL will be provided.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Once Upon a Time: Works of Katya Krenina
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Art Exhibition: Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

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

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

Gallery Exhibition: James Williams II
Onondaga Community College

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

James Williams II believes that the vital essence of life starts with our relationships. Without relationships we have no identity, self-worth, or defining of involvement to the world we live in. For example, a father's identity comes from his relationship with his children, just as a wife's identity comes from her relationship with her husband. It is through his relationship with God that brings his identity as a Christian and the focus of his work together. It is the purpose of Williams' work to separate the distant religious experience from the close relationship with God experience.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Everything is Illustrated and Winter Solstice
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Everything is Illustrated: Gallery A
Recent work by Eva Calazada, Tian Chen, Barbara Morey, and Benjamin Petrie

Winter Solstice: Gallery B
Works by Cala Glatz, Julia Kester, Jonathan LaPlante, and Beth Mand

The Loneliness of Nature: Works by James Domroe
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Photographs of "The Loneliness of Nature" were manipulated in Photoshop to heighten and bring contrast to the starkness of the photos.

Also a short film, "How to be Happy", running time 5 min.

Markings of Time and Place
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Amy Bartell: Acrylic and mixed-media paintings examining the topography of time and an ever-changing horizon
Paul Molesky: Sculptural and functional stoneware ceramics finished with clay slip and shino glazes
Ban Bacich: Mixed-media box assemblages combining fragments that invoke a narrative

Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

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

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

Read a review!

Alyson Shotz: Drawing Through Space
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

With the assistance of Syracuse University students, Brooklyn-based Shotz created her works on site, thus turning The Warehouse Gallery into a form of laboratory. Shotz is one of today's ground-breaking artists transforming contemporary art through a fusion of technology and handcrafted steel wire and yarn artworks. Her use of this material is a means of combining sculpture with drawing to address issues of light, space, time and motion. Strikingly beautiful, her wire sculpture in the vault and three wall drawings project optical experiences where questions of perception and misperception lead to further examination of the impact of 21st-century technology on the arts.

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Windows Project: Confederacy of Dunces
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Hamilton-based Lynette K. Stephenson created an installation about New Orleans consisting of 60 hand-felted wool dunce caps. This exhibition is inspired by John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) set in New Orleans, where Stephenson's family home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and based on her previous body of paintings, The Red Cross Series, which led to the idea for this site-specific project. In this work Stephenson engages in a dialogue about present-day social issues referring to New Orleans, the tragedy of the Hurricane and the universal symbol of the Red Cross.

Count Basie Orchestra

Price: $15 adults, $10 students, children under 5 free
Henninger High School
600 Robinson St., Syracuse

Big band jazz.

Organ Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Andrew Scanlon, organist

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

Andrew Scanlon, an instructor of organ and sacred music at East Carolina University (ECU), will perform works by de Grigny, Buxtehude, Bach, Langlais and Messiaen.

A native of Methuen, MA, Scanlon is a member of the keyboard faculty at ECU and is also the organist-choirmaster at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Greenville, NC. Prior to his appointment at ECU, he was a member of the organ faculty at Duquesne University, director of music at the First Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh and director of the Pittsburgh Compline Choir. He formerly held positions at St. Paul's Cathedral (Buffalo, N.Y.), Christ & St. Stephen's Church (New York City) and Marquand Chapel at Yale Divinity School.

As a recitalist, Scanlon maintains a busy concert schedule, performing throughout the United States as well as in Canada and Europe, including appearances at national conventions of the American Guild of Organists (AGO) and the Organ Historical Society. He has been broadcast on NPR's nationally syndicated radio program "Pipedreams" as well as on WQED-FM in Pittsburgh, WBFO-FM and WNED in Buffalo, and WCRB-FM in Boston, and he is featured on two OHS documentary recordings: "Historic Organs of Boston" and "Historic Organs of Buffalo." Actively involved in the AGO, he holds the fellowship diploma and is a member of the National Board of Examiners in Professional Certification.

Parking is available in the Irving Garage. For more information, contact the Setnor School at 315-443-5043.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Once Upon a Time: Works of Katya Krenina
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Art Exhibition: Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

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

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

Gallery Exhibition: James Williams II
Onondaga Community College

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

James Williams II believes that the vital essence of life starts with our relationships. Without relationships we have no identity, self-worth, or defining of involvement to the world we live in. For example, a father's identity comes from his relationship with his children, just as a wife's identity comes from her relationship with her husband. It is through his relationship with God that brings his identity as a Christian and the focus of his work together. It is the purpose of Williams' work to separate the distant religious experience from the close relationship with God experience.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Everything is Illustrated and Winter Solstice
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Everything is Illustrated: Gallery A
Recent work by Eva Calazada, Tian Chen, Barbara Morey, and Benjamin Petrie

Winter Solstice: Gallery B
Works by Cala Glatz, Julia Kester, Jonathan LaPlante, and Beth Mand

The Loneliness of Nature: Works by James Domroe
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Photographs of "The Loneliness of Nature" were manipulated in Photoshop to heighten and bring contrast to the starkness of the photos.

Also a short film, "How to be Happy", running time 5 min.

Markings of Time and Place
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Amy Bartell: Acrylic and mixed-media paintings examining the topography of time and an ever-changing horizon
Paul Molesky: Sculptural and functional stoneware ceramics finished with clay slip and shino glazes
Ban Bacich: Mixed-media box assemblages combining fragments that invoke a narrative

Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

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

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

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The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Elongating the Thread
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Elongating the Thread" features the work of fiber and textile artists Jappie King Black, Anne Cofer, Annet Couwenberg, Jennifer Gandee, Mary Kester, Susan Krueger, Laura Reinhard, Barbara Jean Weingart, and Victoria Zacek.

The selected work in "Elongating the Thread" highlights the breadth of work based in the fiber and textile arts program in VPA's School of Art and Design and the success of the participants to explore their individual studio practices on a national level. The diversity of the group is evident through the variety of media (wool, silk, copper, steel, clay, and doilies) and concepts (weight, domesticity, identity, nature, war, and the subconscious) explored by the artists.

The exhibition is curated and coordinated by Cofer, Mary Giehl, and Olivia Robinson, all faculty members in the fiber and textile arts program. Many of the exhibiting artists are active members of the local artistic community and continue to make Central New York their home.

For more information, email Robinson at orobinso@syr.edu, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours, or visit vpa.syr.edu/xlprojects.

Windows Project: Confederacy of Dunces
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Hamilton-based Lynette K. Stephenson created an installation about New Orleans consisting of 60 hand-felted wool dunce caps. This exhibition is inspired by John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) set in New Orleans, where Stephenson's family home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and based on her previous body of paintings, The Red Cross Series, which led to the idea for this site-specific project. In this work Stephenson engages in a dialogue about present-day social issues referring to New Orleans, the tragedy of the Hurricane and the universal symbol of the Red Cross.

Alyson Shotz: Drawing Through Space
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

With the assistance of Syracuse University students, Brooklyn-based Shotz created her works on site, thus turning The Warehouse Gallery into a form of laboratory. Shotz is one of today's ground-breaking artists transforming contemporary art through a fusion of technology and handcrafted steel wire and yarn artworks. Her use of this material is a means of combining sculpture with drawing to address issues of light, space, time and motion. Strikingly beautiful, her wire sculpture in the vault and three wall drawings project optical experiences where questions of perception and misperception lead to further examination of the impact of 21st-century technology on the arts.

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Breach of Peace: Eric Etheridge's Photographs of the Freedom Riders
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans—blacks and whites, men and women—converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge state segregation laws. The Freedom Riders, as they came to be known, were determined to open up the South to civil rights: it was illegal for bus and train stations to discriminate, but most did and were not interested in change. Over 300 people were arrested and convicted of the charge "breach of the peace."

Artist and author Eric Etheridge's exhibit, Breach of Peace, collects the mug shots of those arrested, which were only recently made public, and juxtaposes them with present-day photographs of the Riders and their recollections about the experience. The group, half black and half white (a quarter were women), was remarkably young; in their faces we see strength, courage, defiance, dignity, and, occasionally, fear.

Martha Grener, flute; Maryna Mazhukova, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Works for flute and piano by Serge Prokofieff, Rhonda Larson, Pierre Sancan, Gary Schocker, and
Astor Piazzola.