Monday, November 10, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

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

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

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

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Gallery Exhibition: Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A mixed media show with works from Onondaga's own faculty members.

The Golem: Visual Visitations
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A major collective exhibit of seven world class artists titled "The Golem: Visual Visitations," inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' poem "El Golem." This is the third edition of a program that began in Prague in 2002 through the initiative of the Argentinean Embassy in that city, and it was introduced by the renowned poet Václav Havel, then President of the Czech Republic. A second version was later produced with tremendous success at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2003, also introduced by then President of the country, Néstor Kirchner. Now the program travels to the United States for the first time to be shown exclusively at Syracuse University.

The Golem exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery features original works especially commissioned for this exhibit, created by seven artists: from Argentina (Leandro Katz; Pedro Roth); Uruguay (Marta Chilindrón); Puerto Rico (Víctor Vázquez); Syracuse (Tom Sherman; Doug Dubois) and New York (Sarah Kipp). It combines photography, installation and video art.

Think Tech Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

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

Read a review!

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

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

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

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

Viewpoints: A Collaborative Collection
Westcott Community Center

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

The Syracuse Photography Meetup Group proudly presents a collection of photographic images at their very first collaborative gallery exhibit. Creatively capturing images from the commonplace to the unexpected, photographers catch the light and special moments in time. This collection of images will serve to captivate your eye and draw you in closer to view a new world in each and every photo.

Members have long exhibited their works on the unique "underground" galleries of cyberspace, but now further realize their works, by bringing them to life in print for this collaborative effort. We hope you enjoy the variety of work, as well as appreciate the varied levels of expertise represented here, from the active beginner, serious amateur, aspiring professional, and working professionals. It is safe to say that each image is a labor of love, born out of an enthusiasm to create something new and wonderful.

Tracing Memory: Photographs by Angie Buckley, Pedro Isztin, Cyrus Karimipour, and Paula Luttringer
Light Work Gallery

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

Guest curator Miriam Romais of En Foco curated this exhibition to explore what makes a thought become a memory. The artists included in this exhibition create photographs that look at the idea of remembrance -- of letting go and making sense of past events, and using those memories to understand who they are today.

Growing up with a mother from Thailand and a Caucasian American father, Angie Buckley did not know her family history for many years. She relied on the conflicting memories and stories of relatives to piece together her heritage. Her images are created with a pinhole camera and cutouts of old family photographs, resulting in work that lies somewhere in between the real world and imagination. Buckley received her BFA in Photography from Ohio University and her MFA in Photography from Arizona State University. She has received various awards, and her work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Southern Light Gallery in Texas, the McDuffy Arts Center in Virginia, and New York University.

Pedro Isztin's color portraits metaphorically integrate formative childhood memories, using them to heal the adult that the child has become. Part of a larger series that emulates a life journey, Destino III: Transformation revisits, in Isztin's words, "the pain, joy, and suffering that our psyches are stamped with, no matter how little or large those experiences as a child." Isztin was born to a Colombian mother and Hungarian father; his work explores his diverse heritage. He lives in Ottawa, Canada, and has exhibited internationally. He has received numerous awards and grants, including a Photography Project Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and an Ontario Arts Council Award.

Cyrus Karimipour revels in the flexibility of memories and uses his images to visually recreate them and depict how he remembers an event or encounter. In his series Invented Memory, he creates scenarios by heavily manipulating his negatives and rearranging their fragments to then be re-photographed. His imagery becomes ambiguous, as if looking in on someone else's dream. Karimipour received his BA from Oakland University in Michigan and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. His work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of New Art in Michigan, and the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio. His art has also appeared in Harper's Magazine and The Detroit News, among other publications.

Paula Luttringer faces her own traumatic past, infusing her imagery with what other women remember about being abducted and held captive during Argentina's Dirty War. Lamento de Los Muros (The Wailing of the Walls) consists of large black-and-white images that depict the interior of the detention centers where thousands of people were held, tortured, and "disappeared." The images capture both history and memory. Luttringer was awarded a fellowship by the Guggenheim Foundation in 2001. Her work appears in the collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; the Museum of Fine Arts in Texas; and George Eastman House in New York. She currently lives and works in Buenos Aires and Paris.

2008 Light Work Grant Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Works of Kathy Morris, Paul Pearce, and Nancy Keefe Rhodes, the recipients of the 34th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. Kathy Morris and Paul Pearce are imagemakers. Nancy Keefe Rhodes received the award for a photo-historian project on local documentary photographer Marjory Wilkins.

Works of Donna Smith and Nancy Smith
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Donna Smith (jewelry) and Nancy Smith (handbags).

Trail of the Vigilantes (1940)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

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

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

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

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Gallery Exhibition: Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A mixed media show with works from Onondaga's own faculty members.

The Golem: Visual Visitations
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A major collective exhibit of seven world class artists titled "The Golem: Visual Visitations," inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' poem "El Golem." This is the third edition of a program that began in Prague in 2002 through the initiative of the Argentinean Embassy in that city, and it was introduced by the renowned poet Václav Havel, then President of the Czech Republic. A second version was later produced with tremendous success at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2003, also introduced by then President of the country, Néstor Kirchner. Now the program travels to the United States for the first time to be shown exclusively at Syracuse University.

The Golem exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery features original works especially commissioned for this exhibit, created by seven artists: from Argentina (Leandro Katz; Pedro Roth); Uruguay (Marta Chilindrón); Puerto Rico (Víctor Vázquez); Syracuse (Tom Sherman; Doug Dubois) and New York (Sarah Kipp). It combines photography, installation and video art.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Think Tech Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

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

Read a review!

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

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

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

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

Viewpoints: A Collaborative Collection
Westcott Community Center

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

The Syracuse Photography Meetup Group proudly presents a collection of photographic images at their very first collaborative gallery exhibit. Creatively capturing images from the commonplace to the unexpected, photographers catch the light and special moments in time. This collection of images will serve to captivate your eye and draw you in closer to view a new world in each and every photo.

Members have long exhibited their works on the unique "underground" galleries of cyberspace, but now further realize their works, by bringing them to life in print for this collaborative effort. We hope you enjoy the variety of work, as well as appreciate the varied levels of expertise represented here, from the active beginner, serious amateur, aspiring professional, and working professionals. It is safe to say that each image is a labor of love, born out of an enthusiasm to create something new and wonderful.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Original illustrated works by London Ladd

2008 Light Work Grant Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Works of Kathy Morris, Paul Pearce, and Nancy Keefe Rhodes, the recipients of the 34th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. Kathy Morris and Paul Pearce are imagemakers. Nancy Keefe Rhodes received the award for a photo-historian project on local documentary photographer Marjory Wilkins.

Tracing Memory: Photographs by Angie Buckley, Pedro Isztin, Cyrus Karimipour, and Paula Luttringer
Light Work Gallery

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

Guest curator Miriam Romais of En Foco curated this exhibition to explore what makes a thought become a memory. The artists included in this exhibition create photographs that look at the idea of remembrance -- of letting go and making sense of past events, and using those memories to understand who they are today.

Growing up with a mother from Thailand and a Caucasian American father, Angie Buckley did not know her family history for many years. She relied on the conflicting memories and stories of relatives to piece together her heritage. Her images are created with a pinhole camera and cutouts of old family photographs, resulting in work that lies somewhere in between the real world and imagination. Buckley received her BFA in Photography from Ohio University and her MFA in Photography from Arizona State University. She has received various awards, and her work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Southern Light Gallery in Texas, the McDuffy Arts Center in Virginia, and New York University.

Pedro Isztin's color portraits metaphorically integrate formative childhood memories, using them to heal the adult that the child has become. Part of a larger series that emulates a life journey, Destino III: Transformation revisits, in Isztin's words, "the pain, joy, and suffering that our psyches are stamped with, no matter how little or large those experiences as a child." Isztin was born to a Colombian mother and Hungarian father; his work explores his diverse heritage. He lives in Ottawa, Canada, and has exhibited internationally. He has received numerous awards and grants, including a Photography Project Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and an Ontario Arts Council Award.

Cyrus Karimipour revels in the flexibility of memories and uses his images to visually recreate them and depict how he remembers an event or encounter. In his series Invented Memory, he creates scenarios by heavily manipulating his negatives and rearranging their fragments to then be re-photographed. His imagery becomes ambiguous, as if looking in on someone else's dream. Karimipour received his BA from Oakland University in Michigan and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. His work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of New Art in Michigan, and the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio. His art has also appeared in Harper's Magazine and The Detroit News, among other publications.

Paula Luttringer faces her own traumatic past, infusing her imagery with what other women remember about being abducted and held captive during Argentina's Dirty War. Lamento de Los Muros (The Wailing of the Walls) consists of large black-and-white images that depict the interior of the detention centers where thousands of people were held, tortured, and "disappeared." The images capture both history and memory. Luttringer was awarded a fellowship by the Guggenheim Foundation in 2001. Her work appears in the collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; the Museum of Fine Arts in Texas; and George Eastman House in New York. She currently lives and works in Buenos Aires and Paris.

Works of Donna Smith and Nancy Smith
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Donna Smith (jewelry) and Nancy Smith (handbags).

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Friends of the Central Library Author Series
Featuring Carl Hiaasen

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

Race, Desegregation and American Public Schooling
University Lectures
Featuring James Anderson and William Trent

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

James Anderson is chair and professor of educational policy studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His current research focuses on the history of African American public higher education and the development of African American school achievement in the 20th century.

William Trent is also a professor of education policy studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has performed research on educational inequality, race and ethnicity, and complex organization/social change/policy, and is principal investigator for an educational reform project focused on understanding the role of race, ethnicity, class and gender in school reform.

The discussion will be modified by Dean Douglas Biklen of the School of Education.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
S.U. Brazilian Ensemble

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

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

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

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

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

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Gallery Exhibition: Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A mixed media show with works from Onondaga's own faculty members.

The Golem: Visual Visitations
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A major collective exhibit of seven world class artists titled "The Golem: Visual Visitations," inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' poem "El Golem." This is the third edition of a program that began in Prague in 2002 through the initiative of the Argentinean Embassy in that city, and it was introduced by the renowned poet Václav Havel, then President of the Czech Republic. A second version was later produced with tremendous success at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2003, also introduced by then President of the country, Néstor Kirchner. Now the program travels to the United States for the first time to be shown exclusively at Syracuse University.

The Golem exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery features original works especially commissioned for this exhibit, created by seven artists: from Argentina (Leandro Katz; Pedro Roth); Uruguay (Marta Chilindrón); Puerto Rico (Víctor Vázquez); Syracuse (Tom Sherman; Doug Dubois) and New York (Sarah Kipp). It combines photography, installation and video art.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Think Tech Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

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

Read a review!

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

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

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

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

Viewpoints: A Collaborative Collection
Westcott Community Center

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

The Syracuse Photography Meetup Group proudly presents a collection of photographic images at their very first collaborative gallery exhibit. Creatively capturing images from the commonplace to the unexpected, photographers catch the light and special moments in time. This collection of images will serve to captivate your eye and draw you in closer to view a new world in each and every photo.

Members have long exhibited their works on the unique "underground" galleries of cyberspace, but now further realize their works, by bringing them to life in print for this collaborative effort. We hope you enjoy the variety of work, as well as appreciate the varied levels of expertise represented here, from the active beginner, serious amateur, aspiring professional, and working professionals. It is safe to say that each image is a labor of love, born out of an enthusiasm to create something new and wonderful.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Original illustrated works by London Ladd

Tracing Memory: Photographs by Angie Buckley, Pedro Isztin, Cyrus Karimipour, and Paula Luttringer
Light Work Gallery

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

Guest curator Miriam Romais of En Foco curated this exhibition to explore what makes a thought become a memory. The artists included in this exhibition create photographs that look at the idea of remembrance -- of letting go and making sense of past events, and using those memories to understand who they are today.

Growing up with a mother from Thailand and a Caucasian American father, Angie Buckley did not know her family history for many years. She relied on the conflicting memories and stories of relatives to piece together her heritage. Her images are created with a pinhole camera and cutouts of old family photographs, resulting in work that lies somewhere in between the real world and imagination. Buckley received her BFA in Photography from Ohio University and her MFA in Photography from Arizona State University. She has received various awards, and her work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Southern Light Gallery in Texas, the McDuffy Arts Center in Virginia, and New York University.

Pedro Isztin's color portraits metaphorically integrate formative childhood memories, using them to heal the adult that the child has become. Part of a larger series that emulates a life journey, Destino III: Transformation revisits, in Isztin's words, "the pain, joy, and suffering that our psyches are stamped with, no matter how little or large those experiences as a child." Isztin was born to a Colombian mother and Hungarian father; his work explores his diverse heritage. He lives in Ottawa, Canada, and has exhibited internationally. He has received numerous awards and grants, including a Photography Project Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and an Ontario Arts Council Award.

Cyrus Karimipour revels in the flexibility of memories and uses his images to visually recreate them and depict how he remembers an event or encounter. In his series Invented Memory, he creates scenarios by heavily manipulating his negatives and rearranging their fragments to then be re-photographed. His imagery becomes ambiguous, as if looking in on someone else's dream. Karimipour received his BA from Oakland University in Michigan and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. His work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of New Art in Michigan, and the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio. His art has also appeared in Harper's Magazine and The Detroit News, among other publications.

Paula Luttringer faces her own traumatic past, infusing her imagery with what other women remember about being abducted and held captive during Argentina's Dirty War. Lamento de Los Muros (The Wailing of the Walls) consists of large black-and-white images that depict the interior of the detention centers where thousands of people were held, tortured, and "disappeared." The images capture both history and memory. Luttringer was awarded a fellowship by the Guggenheim Foundation in 2001. Her work appears in the collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; the Museum of Fine Arts in Texas; and George Eastman House in New York. She currently lives and works in Buenos Aires and Paris.

2008 Light Work Grant Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Works of Kathy Morris, Paul Pearce, and Nancy Keefe Rhodes, the recipients of the 34th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. Kathy Morris and Paul Pearce are imagemakers. Nancy Keefe Rhodes received the award for a photo-historian project on local documentary photographer Marjory Wilkins.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Works of Donna Smith and Nancy Smith
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Donna Smith (jewelry) and Nancy Smith (handbags).

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Syracuse Cultural Workers InsideOUT
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Syracuse Cultural Workers (SCW) presents a familiar face (or, rather, several familiar faces) to the progressive community in Syracuse. The calendars, posters, cards, and T-shirts they publish are well-known; and the banners, drums, and willing bodies are a ready resource for just about any event designed to educate/agitate.

With this exhibit, they celebrate their 25th anniversary with a behind-the-scenes look at some of the less obvious aspects of what it means to be an international "peace and justice publisher and distributor." Topics include: the poster process, from brainstorm to finished product; customer feedback when they don't get it right (and when they do); a poster/calendar/art collages featuring activist art spanning 30 years, and more. This exhibit promises to be a show filled with surprising, entertaining, and visually stimulating perspectives.

Flute and Piano Duos in 20th Century New York State
Civic Morning Musicals
Jeanne Sperber, flute; Pej Reitz, piano

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

Works include Hanson Serenade, Op. 35, Griffes Poem, Barber Canzone, and Copland Duo.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Syracuse University Singers

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

Terrance Hayes, poetry
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Pine Nuts
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

16mm film installation by Lasse Lau, 20 min., 2008; Sound Editor, Pejk Malinovski; Music by Raed El-Khazen

Lasse Lau's latest film "Pine Nuts" examines the political and social relevance of Horsh Beirut Park (also known as Horch al-Sanawbar or Forêt des Pins). The film deals with the interesting story of this unusual park, as told by the immigrants of the Lebanese Disapora. At around 70 acres, Horsh Beirut is the largest of the few city parks that exist in Beirut. It used to be a landscaped pine tree forest that protected the city from sand and dust storms. The history of the planted forest can be dated back to the time of the Crusades, Emir Fakhreddean al-Ma'ani II, and the Ottomans. Horsh Beirut first became a defined park during the expanding urbanization of Beirut during the 1950s and 60s. Characterized by its triangular shape, the park is located at the edge of the city center and now divides the city from its surrounding suburbs. Today, there are three religious neighborhoods bordering the park: Shia, Sunnis, and Christians. During the civil war the park became part of the Green Line that separated the Christians from the Muslims. Horsh Beirut was rebuilt and re-landscaped in the mid-1990s, which included the planting of hundreds of new pine trees and was sponsored by Ile-de-France. Nearly 20 years after the end of the civil strife, the park has still not officially reopened to the general public. This places the park in an unclear position, creating an unofficial boundary point rather than a site for democratic socialization. The reconciliation between the park's triangulated religious ideologies has not been satisfactory resolved. As we will see in "Pine Nuts," this is how Horsh Beirut became a park of the imagination.

Lasse Lau, born in 1974 in Denmark, is a social activist, visual artist and filmmaker based in Brussels and Copenhagen. He studied at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in New York and at the Funen Academy of Fine Art in Denmark. Lasse Lau has exhibited in Hamburger Bahnhof and Wolfsburg Kunstverein in Germany, Aarhus Art Museum and Brandts Klaedefabrik in Denmark, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Croatia, The Turin Biennial of Contemporary Art in Italy, the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, Smack Mellon Gallery and PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York.

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

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

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

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

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Gallery Exhibition: Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A mixed media show with works from Onondaga's own faculty members.

The Golem: Visual Visitations
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A major collective exhibit of seven world class artists titled "The Golem: Visual Visitations," inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' poem "El Golem." This is the third edition of a program that began in Prague in 2002 through the initiative of the Argentinean Embassy in that city, and it was introduced by the renowned poet Václav Havel, then President of the Czech Republic. A second version was later produced with tremendous success at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2003, also introduced by then President of the country, Néstor Kirchner. Now the program travels to the United States for the first time to be shown exclusively at Syracuse University.

The Golem exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery features original works especially commissioned for this exhibit, created by seven artists: from Argentina (Leandro Katz; Pedro Roth); Uruguay (Marta Chilindrón); Puerto Rico (Víctor Vázquez); Syracuse (Tom Sherman; Doug Dubois) and New York (Sarah Kipp). It combines photography, installation and video art.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Think Tech Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

Viewpoints: A Collaborative Collection
Westcott Community Center

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

The Syracuse Photography Meetup Group proudly presents a collection of photographic images at their very first collaborative gallery exhibit. Creatively capturing images from the commonplace to the unexpected, photographers catch the light and special moments in time. This collection of images will serve to captivate your eye and draw you in closer to view a new world in each and every photo.

Members have long exhibited their works on the unique "underground" galleries of cyberspace, but now further realize their works, by bringing them to life in print for this collaborative effort. We hope you enjoy the variety of work, as well as appreciate the varied levels of expertise represented here, from the active beginner, serious amateur, aspiring professional, and working professionals. It is safe to say that each image is a labor of love, born out of an enthusiasm to create something new and wonderful.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Original illustrated works by London Ladd

Opening: 2008 Light Work Grant Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

An opening reception will be held 5:00 - 7:00 pm.

Works of Kathy Morris, Paul Pearce, and Nancy Keefe Rhodes, the recipients of the 34th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. Kathy Morris and Paul Pearce are imagemakers. Nancy Keefe Rhodes received the award for a photo-historian project on local documentary photographer Marjory Wilkins.

Opening: Tracing Memory: Photographs by Angie Buckley, Pedro Isztin, Cyrus Karimipour, and Paula Luttringer
Light Work Gallery

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

An opening reception will be held 5:00 - 7:00 pm.

Guest curator Miriam Romais of En Foco curated this exhibition to explore what makes a thought become a memory. The artists included in this exhibition create photographs that look at the idea of remembrance -- of letting go and making sense of past events, and using those memories to understand who they are today.

Growing up with a mother from Thailand and a Caucasian American father, Angie Buckley did not know her family history for many years. She relied on the conflicting memories and stories of relatives to piece together her heritage. Her images are created with a pinhole camera and cutouts of old family photographs, resulting in work that lies somewhere in between the real world and imagination. Buckley received her BFA in Photography from Ohio University and her MFA in Photography from Arizona State University. She has received various awards, and her work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Southern Light Gallery in Texas, the McDuffy Arts Center in Virginia, and New York University.

Pedro Isztin's color portraits metaphorically integrate formative childhood memories, using them to heal the adult that the child has become. Part of a larger series that emulates a life journey, Destino III: Transformation revisits, in Isztin's words, "the pain, joy, and suffering that our psyches are stamped with, no matter how little or large those experiences as a child." Isztin was born to a Colombian mother and Hungarian father; his work explores his diverse heritage. He lives in Ottawa, Canada, and has exhibited internationally. He has received numerous awards and grants, including a Photography Project Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and an Ontario Arts Council Award.

Cyrus Karimipour revels in the flexibility of memories and uses his images to visually recreate them and depict how he remembers an event or encounter. In his series Invented Memory, he creates scenarios by heavily manipulating his negatives and rearranging their fragments to then be re-photographed. His imagery becomes ambiguous, as if looking in on someone else's dream. Karimipour received his BA from Oakland University in Michigan and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. His work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of New Art in Michigan, and the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio. His art has also appeared in Harper's Magazine and The Detroit News, among other publications.

Paula Luttringer faces her own traumatic past, infusing her imagery with what other women remember about being abducted and held captive during Argentina's Dirty War. Lamento de Los Muros (The Wailing of the Walls) consists of large black-and-white images that depict the interior of the detention centers where thousands of people were held, tortured, and "disappeared." The images capture both history and memory. Luttringer was awarded a fellowship by the Guggenheim Foundation in 2001. Her work appears in the collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; the Museum of Fine Arts in Texas; and George Eastman House in New York. She currently lives and works in Buenos Aires and Paris.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Works of Donna Smith and Nancy Smith
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Donna Smith (jewelry) and Nancy Smith (handbags).

Art for the Holidays
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring mixed media illustrations by Katya Krenina, monotypes and mixed media works by Thea Reidy as well as ceramics by the Clayscapes Pottery (Donald Seymour, Shawn McGuire, Jolee M. Romano, Tim See and Sallie Thompson).

Wild Card Exhibit: Art by Elena Rall
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Works in pastel, watercolor and colored pencil by Elena Rall. Rall has been gaining attention as an emerging artist since high school, earning awards in numerous state competitions including the New York State Fair Fine Arts and Scholastic Arts competitions. With two artists in her family, her mother and grandfather, her interest in the arts has always been supported. Since an early age Rall has been exposed to various art events and has continuously been supplied with tools and given opportunities to study with local artists, including Nicora Gangi. In 2007, she embarked on a trip to China which still inspires much of her work. Recently she studied fine art at Onondaga Community College, graduating with honors in the spring of 2008. Her first love is working with portraits.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Opening: Roiling Infill by Alex Schweder; Blind Spot by Kim Waale
The Warehouse Gallery

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

An opening reception will be held from 5:00-8:00 pm with the artists in attendance.

This solo exhibition by Seattle/Berlin-based artist Alex Schweder, Roiling Infill, consists of a video projection, Jealous Poché (2004), and an architectural installation titled Snowballing Doorway (2007). Both components of the exhibition accomplish in very different ways the artist's ongoing interest in the intersection between architecture, sculpture and performance art.

Jealous Poché is a seven-minute architectural fly-through of a space somewhere between body and building. The word poché was coined in France's École de Beaux Arts during a neoclassical moment to refer to the space between the surfaces of walls. Here, the camera path and viewer's position are actually inside the viscous poché looking into the voids on the other side of the wall's surface. The camera work in this video shows an attention by the artist to a liminal moment (the skin of the wall) between expanse and engulfment. Made in collaboration with gastroenterologist Jim Wagonfeld, a 25-gallon vat of strawberry Jell-O mixed with blocks of resin was filmed with an endoscope. Schweder's decision to use an imaging device normally employed to visualize the human body's own poché in turn represents the architectural space in the video as fleshy. This is in contrast to architecture's historical representation of and fantasies of perfect bodies.

Snowballing Doorway moves from the world of represented architectural fleshiness to architectural flesh itself. Two sac-like arches made from a combination of opaque and clear vinyl pass the same volume of poché (in this case air) back and forth until one of the two completely bulges to fill the aperture in which they are installed. This shifting skin is an example of what Schweder calls "a building that performs itself." Here he is interested in how the codes of architecture act like a score for how occupants are supposed to "perform" the building. In this case, the arch prompts an occupant to "pass through" it. Schweder's unstable arch, however, changes this instruction to its opposite when the poché passes into the upside-down arch on top. In this way, a viewer becomes aware of the way buildings structure the behavior in them.

Both works point to a permeability between buildings and the bodies that occupy them. The video, made using an edible treat, makes it unclear where insides and outsides of buildings and bodies start and stop. The inflatable instructions make explicit that buildings construct us in as much as we construct them.

Also on display, in the Window Projects Gallery, is Blind Spot, a site-specific installation using wax-encrusted wire forms designed to simultaneously emulate the roots and branches of trees and the retina and optic nerve of the human eye. These "references to nature as it exists outside and within the human body underscore the trouble we as humans have in seeing and thinking about ourselves as organisms that are part of the natural world" (Waale, artist statement).

Waale blurs the boundaries between sculpture and drawing as she moves from Vocalizations, a series of preliminary drawings for the project, to sculptural elements that will fill the space.

Syracuse Cultural Workers InsideOUT
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Syracuse Cultural Workers (SCW) presents a familiar face (or, rather, several familiar faces) to the progressive community in Syracuse. The calendars, posters, cards, and T-shirts they publish are well-known; and the banners, drums, and willing bodies are a ready resource for just about any event designed to educate/agitate.

With this exhibit, they celebrate their 25th anniversary with a behind-the-scenes look at some of the less obvious aspects of what it means to be an international "peace and justice publisher and distributor." Topics include: the poster process, from brainstorm to finished product; customer feedback when they don't get it right (and when they do); a poster/calendar/art collages featuring activist art spanning 30 years, and more. This exhibit promises to be a show filled with surprising, entertaining, and visually stimulating perspectives.

In Fine Fettle
Orange Line Gallery

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

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

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

Piano at the Panasci
LeMoyne College
Featuring Adam Marks, piano

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, students free
Panasci Family Chapel
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Aaron Copland El Salon Mexico
John Adams China Gates
Frederic Rzewski De Profundis

In 2008, Adam made history as the first American laureate of the prestigious Orleans International Competition for music written after 1900, leading to engagements throughout the U.S. and Europe. An ambassador for contemporary music, Marks created Curated Concerts -- informal and interactive programs -- to contextualize music of all styles.

He has performed at the Salle Cortot in Paris, Carnegie Hall and the Pritzker Pavillion in Chicago. Marks is a graduate of Brandeis University and the Manhattan School of Music. He is currently a doctoral candidate at New York University.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
S.U. Women's Choir

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

Poetry Reading
LeMoyne College
Featuring David Lloyd and Robert Minhinnick

Reilly Room, Reilly Hall
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Le Moyne professor David Lloyd will read from the poetry anthology he edited titled Other Land: Contemporary Poems on Wales and the Welsh-American Experience. Welsh poet Robert Minhinnick will read from his recently published poetry collection, King Driftwood.

Nick Saint, Private Elf
Acme Mystery Company

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

The Island of Misfit Toys is the dark, seamy underbelly of Santa's Toyland Town, and Nick Saint will need some help when he heads there on an investigation.

Friday, November 14, 2008

Pine Nuts
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

16mm film installation by Lasse Lau, 20 min., 2008; Sound Editor, Pejk Malinovski; Music by Raed El-Khazen

Lasse Lau's latest film "Pine Nuts" examines the political and social relevance of Horsh Beirut Park (also known as Horch al-Sanawbar or Forêt des Pins). The film deals with the interesting story of this unusual park, as told by the immigrants of the Lebanese Disapora. At around 70 acres, Horsh Beirut is the largest of the few city parks that exist in Beirut. It used to be a landscaped pine tree forest that protected the city from sand and dust storms. The history of the planted forest can be dated back to the time of the Crusades, Emir Fakhreddean al-Ma'ani II, and the Ottomans. Horsh Beirut first became a defined park during the expanding urbanization of Beirut during the 1950s and 60s. Characterized by its triangular shape, the park is located at the edge of the city center and now divides the city from its surrounding suburbs. Today, there are three religious neighborhoods bordering the park: Shia, Sunnis, and Christians. During the civil war the park became part of the Green Line that separated the Christians from the Muslims. Horsh Beirut was rebuilt and re-landscaped in the mid-1990s, which included the planting of hundreds of new pine trees and was sponsored by Ile-de-France. Nearly 20 years after the end of the civil strife, the park has still not officially reopened to the general public. This places the park in an unclear position, creating an unofficial boundary point rather than a site for democratic socialization. The reconciliation between the park's triangulated religious ideologies has not been satisfactory resolved. As we will see in "Pine Nuts," this is how Horsh Beirut became a park of the imagination.

Lasse Lau, born in 1974 in Denmark, is a social activist, visual artist and filmmaker based in Brussels and Copenhagen. He studied at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in New York and at the Funen Academy of Fine Art in Denmark. Lasse Lau has exhibited in Hamburger Bahnhof and Wolfsburg Kunstverein in Germany, Aarhus Art Museum and Brandts Klaedefabrik in Denmark, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Croatia, The Turin Biennial of Contemporary Art in Italy, the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, Smack Mellon Gallery and PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York.

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

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

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

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

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Gallery Exhibition: Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A mixed media show with works from Onondaga's own faculty members.

The Golem: Visual Visitations
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A major collective exhibit of seven world class artists titled "The Golem: Visual Visitations," inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' poem "El Golem." This is the third edition of a program that began in Prague in 2002 through the initiative of the Argentinean Embassy in that city, and it was introduced by the renowned poet Václav Havel, then President of the Czech Republic. A second version was later produced with tremendous success at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2003, also introduced by then President of the country, Néstor Kirchner. Now the program travels to the United States for the first time to be shown exclusively at Syracuse University.

The Golem exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery features original works especially commissioned for this exhibit, created by seven artists: from Argentina (Leandro Katz; Pedro Roth); Uruguay (Marta Chilindrón); Puerto Rico (Víctor Vázquez); Syracuse (Tom Sherman; Doug Dubois) and New York (Sarah Kipp). It combines photography, installation and video art.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Think Tech Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

Viewpoints: A Collaborative Collection
Westcott Community Center

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

The Syracuse Photography Meetup Group proudly presents a collection of photographic images at their very first collaborative gallery exhibit. Creatively capturing images from the commonplace to the unexpected, photographers catch the light and special moments in time. This collection of images will serve to captivate your eye and draw you in closer to view a new world in each and every photo.

Members have long exhibited their works on the unique "underground" galleries of cyberspace, but now further realize their works, by bringing them to life in print for this collaborative effort. We hope you enjoy the variety of work, as well as appreciate the varied levels of expertise represented here, from the active beginner, serious amateur, aspiring professional, and working professionals. It is safe to say that each image is a labor of love, born out of an enthusiasm to create something new and wonderful.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Original illustrated works by London Ladd

Tracing Memory: Photographs by Angie Buckley, Pedro Isztin, Cyrus Karimipour, and Paula Luttringer
Light Work Gallery

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

Guest curator Miriam Romais of En Foco curated this exhibition to explore what makes a thought become a memory. The artists included in this exhibition create photographs that look at the idea of remembrance -- of letting go and making sense of past events, and using those memories to understand who they are today.

Growing up with a mother from Thailand and a Caucasian American father, Angie Buckley did not know her family history for many years. She relied on the conflicting memories and stories of relatives to piece together her heritage. Her images are created with a pinhole camera and cutouts of old family photographs, resulting in work that lies somewhere in between the real world and imagination. Buckley received her BFA in Photography from Ohio University and her MFA in Photography from Arizona State University. She has received various awards, and her work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Southern Light Gallery in Texas, the McDuffy Arts Center in Virginia, and New York University.

Pedro Isztin's color portraits metaphorically integrate formative childhood memories, using them to heal the adult that the child has become. Part of a larger series that emulates a life journey, Destino III: Transformation revisits, in Isztin's words, "the pain, joy, and suffering that our psyches are stamped with, no matter how little or large those experiences as a child." Isztin was born to a Colombian mother and Hungarian father; his work explores his diverse heritage. He lives in Ottawa, Canada, and has exhibited internationally. He has received numerous awards and grants, including a Photography Project Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and an Ontario Arts Council Award.

Cyrus Karimipour revels in the flexibility of memories and uses his images to visually recreate them and depict how he remembers an event or encounter. In his series Invented Memory, he creates scenarios by heavily manipulating his negatives and rearranging their fragments to then be re-photographed. His imagery becomes ambiguous, as if looking in on someone else's dream. Karimipour received his BA from Oakland University in Michigan and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. His work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of New Art in Michigan, and the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio. His art has also appeared in Harper's Magazine and The Detroit News, among other publications.

Paula Luttringer faces her own traumatic past, infusing her imagery with what other women remember about being abducted and held captive during Argentina's Dirty War. Lamento de Los Muros (The Wailing of the Walls) consists of large black-and-white images that depict the interior of the detention centers where thousands of people were held, tortured, and "disappeared." The images capture both history and memory. Luttringer was awarded a fellowship by the Guggenheim Foundation in 2001. Her work appears in the collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; the Museum of Fine Arts in Texas; and George Eastman House in New York. She currently lives and works in Buenos Aires and Paris.

2008 Light Work Grant Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Works of Kathy Morris, Paul Pearce, and Nancy Keefe Rhodes, the recipients of the 34th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. Kathy Morris and Paul Pearce are imagemakers. Nancy Keefe Rhodes received the award for a photo-historian project on local documentary photographer Marjory Wilkins.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Works of Donna Smith and Nancy Smith
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Donna Smith (jewelry) and Nancy Smith (handbags).

Art for the Holidays
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring mixed media illustrations by Katya Krenina, monotypes and mixed media works by Thea Reidy as well as ceramics by the Clayscapes Pottery (Donald Seymour, Shawn McGuire, Jolee M. Romano, Tim See and Sallie Thompson).

Wild Card Exhibit: Art by Elena Rall
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Works in pastel, watercolor and colored pencil by Elena Rall. Rall has been gaining attention as an emerging artist since high school, earning awards in numerous state competitions including the New York State Fair Fine Arts and Scholastic Arts competitions. With two artists in her family, her mother and grandfather, her interest in the arts has always been supported. Since an early age Rall has been exposed to various art events and has continuously been supplied with tools and given opportunities to study with local artists, including Nicora Gangi. In 2007, she embarked on a trip to China which still inspires much of her work. Recently she studied fine art at Onondaga Community College, graduating with honors in the spring of 2008. Her first love is working with portraits.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Roiling Infill by Alex Schweder; Blind Spot by Kim Waale
The Warehouse Gallery

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

This solo exhibition by Seattle/Berlin-based artist Alex Schweder, Roiling Infill, consists of a video projection, Jealous Poché (2004), and an architectural installation titled Snowballing Doorway (2007). Both components of the exhibition accomplish in very different ways the artist's ongoing interest in the intersection between architecture, sculpture and performance art.

Jealous Poché is a seven-minute architectural fly-through of a space somewhere between body and building. The word poché was coined in France's École de Beaux Arts during a neoclassical moment to refer to the space between the surfaces of walls. Here, the camera path and viewer's position are actually inside the viscous poché looking into the voids on the other side of the wall's surface. The camera work in this video shows an attention by the artist to a liminal moment (the skin of the wall) between expanse and engulfment. Made in collaboration with gastroenterologist Jim Wagonfeld, a 25-gallon vat of strawberry Jell-O mixed with blocks of resin was filmed with an endoscope. Schweder's decision to use an imaging device normally employed to visualize the human body's own poché in turn represents the architectural space in the video as fleshy. This is in contrast to architecture's historical representation of and fantasies of perfect bodies.

Snowballing Doorway moves from the world of represented architectural fleshiness to architectural flesh itself. Two sac-like arches made from a combination of opaque and clear vinyl pass the same volume of poché (in this case air) back and forth until one of the two completely bulges to fill the aperture in which they are installed. This shifting skin is an example of what Schweder calls "a building that performs itself." Here he is interested in how the codes of architecture act like a score for how occupants are supposed to "perform" the building. In this case, the arch prompts an occupant to "pass through" it. Schweder's unstable arch, however, changes this instruction to its opposite when the poché passes into the upside-down arch on top. In this way, a viewer becomes aware of the way buildings structure the behavior in them.

Both works point to a permeability between buildings and the bodies that occupy them. The video, made using an edible treat, makes it unclear where insides and outsides of buildings and bodies start and stop. The inflatable instructions make explicit that buildings construct us in as much as we construct them.

Also on display, in the Window Projects Gallery, is Blind Spot, a site-specific installation using wax-encrusted wire forms designed to simultaneously emulate the roots and branches of trees and the retina and optic nerve of the human eye. These "references to nature as it exists outside and within the human body underscore the trouble we as humans have in seeing and thinking about ourselves as organisms that are part of the natural world" (Waale, artist statement).

Waale blurs the boundaries between sculpture and drawing as she moves from Vocalizations, a series of preliminary drawings for the project, to sculptural elements that will fill the space.

Syracuse Cultural Workers InsideOUT
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Syracuse Cultural Workers (SCW) presents a familiar face (or, rather, several familiar faces) to the progressive community in Syracuse. The calendars, posters, cards, and T-shirts they publish are well-known; and the banners, drums, and willing bodies are a ready resource for just about any event designed to educate/agitate.

With this exhibit, they celebrate their 25th anniversary with a behind-the-scenes look at some of the less obvious aspects of what it means to be an international "peace and justice publisher and distributor." Topics include: the poster process, from brainstorm to finished product; customer feedback when they don't get it right (and when they do); a poster/calendar/art collages featuring activist art spanning 30 years, and more. This exhibit promises to be a show filled with surprising, entertaining, and visually stimulating perspectives.

In Fine Fettle
Orange Line Gallery

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

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

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

Everybody Dance Now!
LeMoyne College
Le Moyne College Student Dance Company

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors, $3 students and LeMoyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This celebration of dance includes choreography by both students and professional dancers, performed by the Le Moyne College Student Dance Company. Styles represented in this semester's concert are modern, jazz, and lyrical. The performance will also feature the Le Moyne Dolphin Step Team.

The Words and Music Songwriter Showcase: Jamie Notarthomas with Tom Stahl and Juliet Lloyd
Folkus Project

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

This month's featured songwriter is veteran troubadour Jamie Notarthomas, who's celebrating the release of his new CD, The Crow Convention. The showcase's opening set features witty pop-rocker Tom Stahl from Buffalo, and Juliet Lloyd, who was recently dubbed "on the cusp of stardom" by the Boston Globe.

The series is hosted by singer-songwriter, author, and NPR contributor Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers.

Each monthly show includes a featured artist performing a full set, four songwriters in the round, original music by Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers, The Song Schmooze, where musicians and music lovers mingle over a drink and a bite to eat. Plus special guests, surprise collaborations, and the Soundbite of the Night, where Rodgers shares a memorable moment from his extraordinary archive of interviews with artists such as Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Jerry Garcia, Ani DiFranco, and Dave Matthews.

In Achord Showcase

Price: $8 at door, $6 in advance
Jamesville-Dewitt High School
Edinger Drive, Dewitt

Jamesville-Dewitt High School's In Achord performs songs from Wicked and Once on this Island. For more information, phone 315-445-8228.

Pops Series: An Evening with Chuck Mangione
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Featuring Chuck Mangione, conductor/flugelhorn

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

We promise to make you Feel So Good. Expect boundless energy, unabashed enthusiasm and pure joy radiating from the stage. The performance will highlight Chuck Mangione's Grammy-winning compositions such as Bellavia and Children of Sanchez.

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Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Crane School of Music Orchestra

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

La Tragédie de Carmen
Redhouse
Syracuse Opera

Price: $48
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

If you think you've seen Carmen in all her blazing persona, wait until you experience this more intimate version of Bizet's famous opera by Peter Brook, the provocative English theatre and film director. Designed to intensify the psychological state of Carmen, Brook's adaptation (with Marius Constant and Jean-Claude Carrière) focuses solely on the three main characters: Carmen, Don Jose, Micaela. The New York Times called Brook's innovative version of Carmen "a raw, brutal tale of mutual self destruction that's fueled by both lust and existential bloodlust -- and is as deadly for others as it is for themselves." The performance features singers from Syracuse Opera's new Resident Artist Program.

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Poets Barbara Ungar and Monica Youn
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Monica Youn's new Ignatz poems are based on George Herriman's Krazy Kat comic strip of the 1910s-40s. Youn's first book of poems, Barter, was published by Graywolf Press in 2003. She was recently named a Witter Bynner Fellow of the Library of Congress by former US Poet Laureate Charles Simic.

Barbara Ungar is currently an Associate Professor at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY. Her recent poetry collection, The Origin of the Milky Way, won the Gival Press Poetry Award. Her other books of poems include Thrift (WordTech Editions, 2005) and Sequel (Finishing Line Press, 2004).

Rhinoceros
Onondaga Community College
OCC Drama Club

Price: $5
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-350-0101.

The Front Page
west Genesee Drama Connection

Price: $6 regular, $4 students/seniors
West Genesee High School
5201 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-487-2179.

The Nerd
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Korrie Strodel, director

Price: $15 adults; $12 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

The Fever
Black Box Players
Chris Dall'au, director

Price: Free
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The Fever is traditionally a one-man show, but it has been converted to an ensemble-based choral piece. The play was originally written by Wallace Shawn to be performed in private readings, beginning in 1990. The Fever opened on Broadway in January 2007 and ran for three months. The play was later turned adapted into an HBO film in June 2007, leading to a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.

The traveler says, "I always say to my friends, We should celebrate life." But how does one celebrate life while slowly becoming aware that the poverty and oppressed condition of other human beings are a direct consequence of one's own pleasurable existence? What does one do when forced to consider the political persecution that may be occurring just beyond the traveler's hotel window? The Fever is a coruscating, eloquent meditation on whether it is possible to live in an ethical relationship with others in the world.

Seating is limited, so please arrive at least a half-hour prior to the performance to assure seating. To make reservations, leave a message on the Black Box Players' voice mailbox at 315-443-2102. All requests will receive a follow-up phone call from the box office.

The Rimers of Eldritch
Syracuse University Drama Department
Gerardine Clark, director

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

A serious crime has been committed in the tiny Midwestern town of Eldritch. Rumors fly, townspeople mingle, and secrets are exposed. With a mosaic of eccentric characters and an anti-chronological plot, solving the murder mystery turns into a giant puzzle -- will anyone ever find out what really happened? Written by Lanford Wilson.

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The Producers
The Talent Company
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $25 regular, $22 students/seniors, $16 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The Producers, adapted by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan from Brooks' 1968 film, with music and lyrics by Brooks, skewers Broadway traditions and takes no prisoners as it proudly proclaims itself an "equal opportunity offender!" The story line is a comedy classic: a crooked producer Max Bialystock and his anxiety ridden accountant Leo Bloom cook up a scheme to produce the worst musical ever and pocket their investors' money before the curtain falls. Instead of bilking their investors (rich little old ladies) and escaping the tax guys by producing a flop, the duo's Springtime for Hitler becomes a huge hit.

They start their scheme by finding Franz Liebkind, author of the worst play ever written. Then they secure the worst director in New York, Roger De Bris, and his assistant, Carmen Ghia, to stage the show that will present New York's worst actors. Complications arise when the show opens on Broadway and is unexpectedly a huge success!

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Saturday, November 15, 2008

Pine Nuts
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

16mm film installation by Lasse Lau, 20 min., 2008; Sound Editor, Pejk Malinovski; Music by Raed El-Khazen

Lasse Lau's latest film "Pine Nuts" examines the political and social relevance of Horsh Beirut Park (also known as Horch al-Sanawbar or Forêt des Pins). The film deals with the interesting story of this unusual park, as told by the immigrants of the Lebanese Disapora. At around 70 acres, Horsh Beirut is the largest of the few city parks that exist in Beirut. It used to be a landscaped pine tree forest that protected the city from sand and dust storms. The history of the planted forest can be dated back to the time of the Crusades, Emir Fakhreddean al-Ma'ani II, and the Ottomans. Horsh Beirut first became a defined park during the expanding urbanization of Beirut during the 1950s and 60s. Characterized by its triangular shape, the park is located at the edge of the city center and now divides the city from its surrounding suburbs. Today, there are three religious neighborhoods bordering the park: Shia, Sunnis, and Christians. During the civil war the park became part of the Green Line that separated the Christians from the Muslims. Horsh Beirut was rebuilt and re-landscaped in the mid-1990s, which included the planting of hundreds of new pine trees and was sponsored by Ile-de-France. Nearly 20 years after the end of the civil strife, the park has still not officially reopened to the general public. This places the park in an unclear position, creating an unofficial boundary point rather than a site for democratic socialization. The reconciliation between the park's triangulated religious ideologies has not been satisfactory resolved. As we will see in "Pine Nuts," this is how Horsh Beirut became a park of the imagination.

Lasse Lau, born in 1974 in Denmark, is a social activist, visual artist and filmmaker based in Brussels and Copenhagen. He studied at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in New York and at the Funen Academy of Fine Art in Denmark. Lasse Lau has exhibited in Hamburger Bahnhof and Wolfsburg Kunstverein in Germany, Aarhus Art Museum and Brandts Klaedefabrik in Denmark, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Croatia, The Turin Biennial of Contemporary Art in Italy, the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, Smack Mellon Gallery and PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York.

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

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

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

Art for the Holidays
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring mixed media illustrations by Katya Krenina, monotypes and mixed media works by Thea Reidy as well as ceramics by the Clayscapes Pottery (Donald Seymour, Shawn McGuire, Jolee M. Romano, Tim See and Sallie Thompson).

Wild Card Exhibit: Art by Elena Rall
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Works in pastel, watercolor and colored pencil by Elena Rall. Rall has been gaining attention as an emerging artist since high school, earning awards in numerous state competitions including the New York State Fair Fine Arts and Scholastic Arts competitions. With two artists in her family, her mother and grandfather, her interest in the arts has always been supported. Since an early age Rall has been exposed to various art events and has continuously been supplied with tools and given opportunities to study with local artists, including Nicora Gangi. In 2007, she embarked on a trip to China which still inspires much of her work. Recently she studied fine art at Onondaga Community College, graduating with honors in the spring of 2008. Her first love is working with portraits.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Works of Donna Smith and Nancy Smith
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Donna Smith (jewelry) and Nancy Smith (handbags).

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

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

Original illustrated works by London Ladd

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

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

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

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

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Syracuse Cultural Workers InsideOUT
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Syracuse Cultural Workers (SCW) presents a familiar face (or, rather, several familiar faces) to the progressive community in Syracuse. The calendars, posters, cards, and T-shirts they publish are well-known; and the banners, drums, and willing bodies are a ready resource for just about any event designed to educate/agitate.

With this exhibit, they celebrate their 25th anniversary with a behind-the-scenes look at some of the less obvious aspects of what it means to be an international "peace and justice publisher and distributor." Topics include: the poster process, from brainstorm to finished product; customer feedback when they don't get it right (and when they do); a poster/calendar/art collages featuring activist art spanning 30 years, and more. This exhibit promises to be a show filled with surprising, entertaining, and visually stimulating perspectives.

In Fine Fettle
Orange Line Gallery

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

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

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

Roiling Infill by Alex Schweder; Blind Spot by Kim Waale
The Warehouse Gallery

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

This solo exhibition by Seattle/Berlin-based artist Alex Schweder, Roiling Infill, consists of a video projection, Jealous Poché (2004), and an architectural installation titled Snowballing Doorway (2007). Both components of the exhibition accomplish in very different ways the artist's ongoing interest in the intersection between architecture, sculpture and performance art.

Jealous Poché is a seven-minute architectural fly-through of a space somewhere between body and building. The word poché was coined in France's École de Beaux Arts during a neoclassical moment to refer to the space between the surfaces of walls. Here, the camera path and viewer's position are actually inside the viscous poché looking into the voids on the other side of the wall's surface. The camera work in this video shows an attention by the artist to a liminal moment (the skin of the wall) between expanse and engulfment. Made in collaboration with gastroenterologist Jim Wagonfeld, a 25-gallon vat of strawberry Jell-O mixed with blocks of resin was filmed with an endoscope. Schweder's decision to use an imaging device normally employed to visualize the human body's own poché in turn represents the architectural space in the video as fleshy. This is in contrast to architecture's historical representation of and fantasies of perfect bodies.

Snowballing Doorway moves from the world of represented architectural fleshiness to architectural flesh itself. Two sac-like arches made from a combination of opaque and clear vinyl pass the same volume of poché (in this case air) back and forth until one of the two completely bulges to fill the aperture in which they are installed. This shifting skin is an example of what Schweder calls "a building that performs itself." Here he is interested in how the codes of architecture act like a score for how occupants are supposed to "perform" the building. In this case, the arch prompts an occupant to "pass through" it. Schweder's unstable arch, however, changes this instruction to its opposite when the poché passes into the upside-down arch on top. In this way, a viewer becomes aware of the way buildings structure the behavior in them.

Both works point to a permeability between buildings and the bodies that occupy them. The video, made using an edible treat, makes it unclear where insides and outsides of buildings and bodies start and stop. The inflatable instructions make explicit that buildings construct us in as much as we construct them.

Also on display, in the Window Projects Gallery, is Blind Spot, a site-specific installation using wax-encrusted wire forms designed to simultaneously emulate the roots and branches of trees and the retina and optic nerve of the human eye. These "references to nature as it exists outside and within the human body underscore the trouble we as humans have in seeing and thinking about ourselves as organisms that are part of the natural world" (Waale, artist statement).

Waale blurs the boundaries between sculpture and drawing as she moves from Vocalizations, a series of preliminary drawings for the project, to sculptural elements that will fill the space.

Everybody Dance Now!
LeMoyne College
Le Moyne College Student Dance Company

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors, $3 students and LeMoyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This celebration of dance includes choreography by both students and professional dancers, performed by the Le Moyne College Student Dance Company. Styles represented in this semester's concert are modern, jazz, and lyrical. The performance will also feature the Le Moyne Dolphin Step Team.

Everybody Dance Now!
LeMoyne College
Le Moyne College Student Dance Company

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors, $3 students and LeMoyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This celebration of dance includes choreography by both students and professional dancers, performed by the Le Moyne College Student Dance Company. Styles represented in this semester's concert are modern, jazz, and lyrical. The performance will also feature the Le Moyne Dolphin Step Team.

Illustrating a Children's Book
Delavan Art Gallery
Featuring Katya Krenina

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Presentation by Katya Krenina on the process of illustrating a children's book.

Family Series: Music, Music Everywhere!
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Benjamin Loeb, conductor
Featuring Picardy Penguin

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

Projected on a giant screen above the orchestra -- his dialogue and motions triggered by a computer -- Picardy interacts with the conductor, orchestra and audience.

Soprano Laura Enslin in Concert
First Unitarian Universalist Society Music Series

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

For more information, phone 315-446-5940.

In Achord Showcase

Price: $8 at door, $6 in advance
Jamesville-Dewitt High School
Edinger Drive, Dewitt

Jamesville-Dewitt High School's In Achord performs songs from Wicked and Once on this Island. For more information, phone 315-445-8228.

Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music
Jupiter String Quartet

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

Winners of the 2005 Young Concert Artists International Auditions and other prestigious prizes, this dynamic foursome has been selected to join Lincoln Center's Chamber Music Society Two for a three-year residency. Their concert at the 2007 Skaneateles Festival was a triumphant success.

Haydn Quartet in F Major, Op. 77, No. 2
Britten Quartet No. 2 in C Major, Op. 36
Beethoven Quartet in E Minor, Op. 59, No. 2

Pops Series: An Evening with Chuck Mangione
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Featuring Chuck Mangione, conductor/flugelhorn

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

We promise to make you Feel So Good. Expect boundless energy, unabashed enthusiasm and pure joy radiating from the stage. The performance will highlight Chuck Mangione's Grammy-winning compositions such as Bellavia and Children of Sanchez.

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La Tragédie de Carmen
Redhouse
Syracuse Opera

Price: $48
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

If you think you've seen Carmen in all her blazing persona, wait until you experience this more intimate version of Bizet's famous opera by Peter Brook, the provocative English theatre and film director. Designed to intensify the psychological state of Carmen, Brook's adaptation (with Marius Constant and Jean-Claude Carrière) focuses solely on the three main characters: Carmen, Don Jose, Micaela. The New York Times called Brook's innovative version of Carmen "a raw, brutal tale of mutual self destruction that's fueled by both lust and existential bloodlust -- and is as deadly for others as it is for themselves." The performance features singers from Syracuse Opera's new Resident Artist Program.

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Snow White
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

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

Rhinoceros
Onondaga Community College
OCC Drama Club

Price: $5
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-350-0101.

Lord of the Flies
Syracuse Civic Theatre

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Based on William Golding's novel, the story deals with a group of schoolboys who, as castaways, become animalistic as they fight for survival.

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The Nerd
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Korrie Strodel, director

Price: $15 adults; $12 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

The Fever
Black Box Players
Chris Dall'au, director

Price: Free
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The Fever is traditionally a one-man show, but it has been converted to an ensemble-based choral piece. The play was originally written by Wallace Shawn to be performed in private readings, beginning in 1990. The Fever opened on Broadway in January 2007 and ran for three months. The play was later turned adapted into an HBO film in June 2007, leading to a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.

The traveler says, "I always say to my friends, We should celebrate life." But how does one celebrate life while slowly becoming aware that the poverty and oppressed condition of other human beings are a direct consequence of one's own pleasurable existence? What does one do when forced to consider the political persecution that may be occurring just beyond the traveler's hotel window? The Fever is a coruscating, eloquent meditation on whether it is possible to live in an ethical relationship with others in the world.

Seating is limited, so please arrive at least a half-hour prior to the performance to assure seating. To make reservations, leave a message on the Black Box Players' voice mailbox at 315-443-2102. All requests will receive a follow-up phone call from the box office.

Well Aged Words: Weaving Spells with the Magic of Words
Open Hand Theater
Featuring Heather Forest

Price: $18 advance sale, $20 at the door, $5 extra for artist reception
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Adult storytelling series.

The Rimers of Eldritch
Syracuse University Drama Department
Gerardine Clark, director

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

A serious crime has been committed in the tiny Midwestern town of Eldritch. Rumors fly, townspeople mingle, and secrets are exposed. With a mosaic of eccentric characters and an anti-chronological plot, solving the murder mystery turns into a giant puzzle -- will anyone ever find out what really happened? Written by Lanford Wilson.

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The Producers
The Talent Company
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $25 regular, $22 students/seniors, $16 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The Producers, adapted by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan from Brooks' 1968 film, with music and lyrics by Brooks, skewers Broadway traditions and takes no prisoners as it proudly proclaims itself an "equal opportunity offender!" The story line is a comedy classic: a crooked producer Max Bialystock and his anxiety ridden accountant Leo Bloom cook up a scheme to produce the worst musical ever and pocket their investors' money before the curtain falls. Instead of bilking their investors (rich little old ladies) and escaping the tax guys by producing a flop, the duo's Springtime for Hitler becomes a huge hit.

They start their scheme by finding Franz Liebkind, author of the worst play ever written. Then they secure the worst director in New York, Roger De Bris, and his assistant, Carmen Ghia, to stage the show that will present New York's worst actors. Complications arise when the show opens on Broadway and is unexpectedly a huge success!

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Sunday, November 16, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

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

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

2008 Light Work Grant Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Works of Kathy Morris, Paul Pearce, and Nancy Keefe Rhodes, the recipients of the 34th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. Kathy Morris and Paul Pearce are imagemakers. Nancy Keefe Rhodes received the award for a photo-historian project on local documentary photographer Marjory Wilkins.

Tracing Memory: Photographs by Angie Buckley, Pedro Isztin, Cyrus Karimipour, and Paula Luttringer
Light Work Gallery

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

Guest curator Miriam Romais of En Foco curated this exhibition to explore what makes a thought become a memory. The artists included in this exhibition create photographs that look at the idea of remembrance -- of letting go and making sense of past events, and using those memories to understand who they are today.

Growing up with a mother from Thailand and a Caucasian American father, Angie Buckley did not know her family history for many years. She relied on the conflicting memories and stories of relatives to piece together her heritage. Her images are created with a pinhole camera and cutouts of old family photographs, resulting in work that lies somewhere in between the real world and imagination. Buckley received her BFA in Photography from Ohio University and her MFA in Photography from Arizona State University. She has received various awards, and her work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Southern Light Gallery in Texas, the McDuffy Arts Center in Virginia, and New York University.

Pedro Isztin's color portraits metaphorically integrate formative childhood memories, using them to heal the adult that the child has become. Part of a larger series that emulates a life journey, Destino III: Transformation revisits, in Isztin's words, "the pain, joy, and suffering that our psyches are stamped with, no matter how little or large those experiences as a child." Isztin was born to a Colombian mother and Hungarian father; his work explores his diverse heritage. He lives in Ottawa, Canada, and has exhibited internationally. He has received numerous awards and grants, including a Photography Project Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and an Ontario Arts Council Award.

Cyrus Karimipour revels in the flexibility of memories and uses his images to visually recreate them and depict how he remembers an event or encounter. In his series Invented Memory, he creates scenarios by heavily manipulating his negatives and rearranging their fragments to then be re-photographed. His imagery becomes ambiguous, as if looking in on someone else's dream. Karimipour received his BA from Oakland University in Michigan and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. His work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of New Art in Michigan, and the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio. His art has also appeared in Harper's Magazine and The Detroit News, among other publications.

Paula Luttringer faces her own traumatic past, infusing her imagery with what other women remember about being abducted and held captive during Argentina's Dirty War. Lamento de Los Muros (The Wailing of the Walls) consists of large black-and-white images that depict the interior of the detention centers where thousands of people were held, tortured, and "disappeared." The images capture both history and memory. Luttringer was awarded a fellowship by the Guggenheim Foundation in 2001. Her work appears in the collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; the Museum of Fine Arts in Texas; and George Eastman House in New York. She currently lives and works in Buenos Aires and Paris.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Works of Donna Smith and Nancy Smith
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Donna Smith (jewelry) and Nancy Smith (handbags).

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Liverpool Schools Faculty Recital
Arts Alive in Liverpool

Price: Free
Liverpool Public Library
310 Tulip St., Liverpool

Annual Fesko concert.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
S.U. Woodwind Qunitet

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

Hans and Ulrika Davidsson, Organ and Piano Duo
Malmgren Concert Series

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Hans Davidsson is Professor of Organ at the Eastman School of Music and Project Director of the Eastman Rochester Organ Initiative, a project which will bring several significant new and historic organs to the Rochester, NY area. As part of this project, a large Italian baroque organ built in the 17th and 18th centuries was installed in Rochester's Memorial Art Gallery in 2005, and a replica of a late 18th century German baroque organ will be installed in Christ Church Episcopal, later this fall.

Ulrika Davidsson is Assistant Professor of Historical Keyboards at the Eastman School of Music and Music Director of the Rochester City Ballet. Together, the Davidssons have performed and lectured throughout Canada and the US, in Scandinavia, England, Germany, Netherlands and Japan. This concert will offer a unique chance to hear the sounds of the organ and piano together in works by Buxtehude, Dupré, Sowerby and Nilsson.

Messiah
MasterWorks Chorale
Maureen McCauley, conductor

First English Lutheran Church
Corner of James and Townsend Streets, Syracuse

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Syracuse University Flute Ensemble

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

The ensemble performs under the direction of faculty member Deborah Coble. The program will also feature music for flute and piano by students of Cornelia Brewster.

La Tragédie de Carmen
Redhouse
Syracuse Opera

Price: $48
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

If you think you've seen Carmen in all her blazing persona, wait until you experience this more intimate version of Bizet's famous opera by Peter Brook, the provocative English theatre and film director. Designed to intensify the psychological state of Carmen, Brook's adaptation (with Marius Constant and Jean-Claude Carrière) focuses solely on the three main characters: Carmen, Don Jose, Micaela. The New York Times called Brook's innovative version of Carmen "a raw, brutal tale of mutual self destruction that's fueled by both lust and existential bloodlust -- and is as deadly for others as it is for themselves." The performance features singers from Syracuse Opera's new Resident Artist Program.

A talkback session will follow the matinee.

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The Rimers of Eldritch
Syracuse University Drama Department
Gerardine Clark, director

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

A serious crime has been committed in the tiny Midwestern town of Eldritch. Rumors fly, townspeople mingle, and secrets are exposed. With a mosaic of eccentric characters and an anti-chronological plot, solving the murder mystery turns into a giant puzzle -- will anyone ever find out what really happened? Written by Lanford Wilson.

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The Producers
The Talent Company
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $25 regular, $22 students/seniors, $16 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The Producers, adapted by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan from Brooks' 1968 film, with music and lyrics by Brooks, skewers Broadway traditions and takes no prisoners as it proudly proclaims itself an "equal opportunity offender!" The story line is a comedy classic: a crooked producer Max Bialystock and his anxiety ridden accountant Leo Bloom cook up a scheme to produce the worst musical ever and pocket their investors' money before the curtain falls. Instead of bilking their investors (rich little old ladies) and escaping the tax guys by producing a flop, the duo's Springtime for Hitler becomes a huge hit.

They start their scheme by finding Franz Liebkind, author of the worst play ever written. Then they secure the worst director in New York, Roger De Bris, and his assistant, Carmen Ghia, to stage the show that will present New York's worst actors. Complications arise when the show opens on Broadway and is unexpectedly a huge success!

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The Nerd
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Korrie Strodel, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

The Fever
Black Box Players
Chris Dall'au, director

Price: Free
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The Fever is traditionally a one-man show, but it has been converted to an ensemble-based choral piece. The play was originally written by Wallace Shawn to be performed in private readings, beginning in 1990. The Fever opened on Broadway in January 2007 and ran for three months. The play was later turned adapted into an HBO film in June 2007, leading to a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.

The traveler says, "I always say to my friends, We should celebrate life." But how does one celebrate life while slowly becoming aware that the poverty and oppressed condition of other human beings are a direct consequence of one's own pleasurable existence? What does one do when forced to consider the political persecution that may be occurring just beyond the traveler's hotel window? The Fever is a coruscating, eloquent meditation on whether it is possible to live in an ethical relationship with others in the world.

Seating is limited, so please arrive at least a half-hour prior to the performance to assure seating. To make reservations, leave a message on the Black Box Players' voice mailbox at 315-443-2102. All requests will receive a follow-up phone call from the box office.

Monday, November 17, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

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

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

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

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Gallery Exhibition: Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A mixed media show with works from Onondaga's own faculty members.

The Golem: Visual Visitations
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A major collective exhibit of seven world class artists titled "The Golem: Visual Visitations," inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' poem "El Golem." This is the third edition of a program that began in Prague in 2002 through the initiative of the Argentinean Embassy in that city, and it was introduced by the renowned poet Václav Havel, then President of the Czech Republic. A second version was later produced with tremendous success at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2003, also introduced by then President of the country, Néstor Kirchner. Now the program travels to the United States for the first time to be shown exclusively at Syracuse University.

The Golem exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery features original works especially commissioned for this exhibit, created by seven artists: from Argentina (Leandro Katz; Pedro Roth); Uruguay (Marta Chilindrón); Puerto Rico (Víctor Vázquez); Syracuse (Tom Sherman; Doug Dubois) and New York (Sarah Kipp). It combines photography, installation and video art.

Think Tech Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

Viewpoints: A Collaborative Collection
Westcott Community Center

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

The Syracuse Photography Meetup Group proudly presents a collection of photographic images at their very first collaborative gallery exhibit. Creatively capturing images from the commonplace to the unexpected, photographers catch the light and special moments in time. This collection of images will serve to captivate your eye and draw you in closer to view a new world in each and every photo.

Members have long exhibited their works on the unique "underground" galleries of cyberspace, but now further realize their works, by bringing them to life in print for this collaborative effort. We hope you enjoy the variety of work, as well as appreciate the varied levels of expertise represented here, from the active beginner, serious amateur, aspiring professional, and working professionals. It is safe to say that each image is a labor of love, born out of an enthusiasm to create something new and wonderful.

Tracing Memory: Photographs by Angie Buckley, Pedro Isztin, Cyrus Karimipour, and Paula Luttringer
Light Work Gallery

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

Guest curator Miriam Romais of En Foco curated this exhibition to explore what makes a thought become a memory. The artists included in this exhibition create photographs that look at the idea of remembrance -- of letting go and making sense of past events, and using those memories to understand who they are today.

Growing up with a mother from Thailand and a Caucasian American father, Angie Buckley did not know her family history for many years. She relied on the conflicting memories and stories of relatives to piece together her heritage. Her images are created with a pinhole camera and cutouts of old family photographs, resulting in work that lies somewhere in between the real world and imagination. Buckley received her BFA in Photography from Ohio University and her MFA in Photography from Arizona State University. She has received various awards, and her work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Southern Light Gallery in Texas, the McDuffy Arts Center in Virginia, and New York University.

Pedro Isztin's color portraits metaphorically integrate formative childhood memories, using them to heal the adult that the child has become. Part of a larger series that emulates a life journey, Destino III: Transformation revisits, in Isztin's words, "the pain, joy, and suffering that our psyches are stamped with, no matter how little or large those experiences as a child." Isztin was born to a Colombian mother and Hungarian father; his work explores his diverse heritage. He lives in Ottawa, Canada, and has exhibited internationally. He has received numerous awards and grants, including a Photography Project Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and an Ontario Arts Council Award.

Cyrus Karimipour revels in the flexibility of memories and uses his images to visually recreate them and depict how he remembers an event or encounter. In his series Invented Memory, he creates scenarios by heavily manipulating his negatives and rearranging their fragments to then be re-photographed. His imagery becomes ambiguous, as if looking in on someone else's dream. Karimipour received his BA from Oakland University in Michigan and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. His work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of New Art in Michigan, and the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio. His art has also appeared in Harper's Magazine and The Detroit News, among other publications.

Paula Luttringer faces her own traumatic past, infusing her imagery with what other women remember about being abducted and held captive during Argentina's Dirty War. Lamento de Los Muros (The Wailing of the Walls) consists of large black-and-white images that depict the interior of the detention centers where thousands of people were held, tortured, and "disappeared." The images capture both history and memory. Luttringer was awarded a fellowship by the Guggenheim Foundation in 2001. Her work appears in the collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; the Museum of Fine Arts in Texas; and George Eastman House in New York. She currently lives and works in Buenos Aires and Paris.

2008 Light Work Grant Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Works of Kathy Morris, Paul Pearce, and Nancy Keefe Rhodes, the recipients of the 34th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. Kathy Morris and Paul Pearce are imagemakers. Nancy Keefe Rhodes received the award for a photo-historian project on local documentary photographer Marjory Wilkins.

Works of Donna Smith and Nancy Smith
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Donna Smith (jewelry) and Nancy Smith (handbags).

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Show and sale of original fine arts and crafts by Central New York artists and craftspeople. For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Chasing Happiness: A Documentary by Ellen Kotzin

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

What do a 40-year-old gay female Elvis impersonator, a 20-year-old Marine heading off to Iraq, a 90-year-old mother who's outlived two of her children, a 10-year-old boy from Fairmount and a 60-year-old retired psychiatric nurse and Vietnam veteran have in common? They're all subjects of local filmmaker Ellen Kotzin's new short documentary.

Kotzin wondered how people at various stages in their lives defined happiness, and how those definitions varied with their ages and life experience. The result is her film titled Chasing Happiness. Kotzin interviewed seven interesting people, all but one from the Syracuse area, who shared with her their views on life and happiness. All the participants were at milestone ages. They include:
a 10-year-old boy from Fairmount;
a 20-year-old Marine Infantry Mortarman from Baldwinsville;
a 30-year-old stay-at-home mother from Manlius;
a 40-year-old gay female Elvis impersonator from Eastwood;
a 60-year-old Vietnam veteran and retired psychiatric nurse living in Seattle, WA;
a 90-year-old widowed mother from Jamesville; and
a 100-year-old woman who still lives on her own in Onondaga Hill.

Kotzin has invited the subjects of the film to attend the screening, and says she's looking forward to having them see the final result. "It's interesting to see the contrasts on how they differ in their outlooks on life and what makes them happy," she said. "It should be interesting getting them together to see how they react to themselves and each other."

Kotzin has submitted her documentary to the 2009 Syracuse International Film Festival.

Evergreen (1934)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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