Friday, April 11, 2008

OCC Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Annual student exhibit.

New Paintings of Melissa Johnson: Spaces Between
LeMoyne College

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

Gallery Exhibit: Carles Vives
Onondaga Community College

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

An exhibit by Carles Vives, internationally renowned ceramic sculptor from Spain. Born in Barcelona, Spain in 1957, Carles Vives studied art at Massana School of Art in Barcelona. His art is on display in museums and galleries throughout Spain, Italy, Australia, Mongolia, Peru and the United States (Everson Museum of Syracuse and in Miami). In addition, Vives' art has been exhibited in Portugal, Taiwan, Korea and New Zealand.

Most recently Vives was selected to participate in the Sino-Spain Ceramic Art Residency Program in Fuping, China in June, to celebrate the addition of the new Ceramic Art Museum of Spain to the FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums of Fuping.

Onondaga art professor Andrew Schuster met Carles Vives several years ago while lecturing at a workshop in Spain. The two sculptors formed a professional relationship and have collaborated on many artistic endeavors. Professor Schuster was instrumental in securing this prominent artist's exhibit for Onondaga in what will be Vives' first visit to the United States.

Vives has worked for the last 25 years at a studio in Canovelles near Barcelona. In 2004, he received the honorary diploma of Master Craftsman by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government Institution.)

Labyrinths
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A life-size maze of mirrors and dreams reveals an exceptional collection of works by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna: a fugue-like series of 25 drawings and etchings inspired by the Borgian notion of the labyrinth, with Icarus as protagonist. Twenty-three 7-foot tall mirrored panels form this massive installation that complicates and multiplies the space of the gallery, and infiltrates the observer.

Paintings and Sculpture
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists exhibiting include Rachael Baldanza, Amber Balding, Alex Betancourt, Anna, Cinquemani, Sally Dutko, Bob Rose, Helena Cooper, Jeanne Dupre, Peg Hewitt, Nicholas Ruth, Sylvia Steen, Joan Stier, Karen Tashkovski, Leigh Yardley, Louise Woodard, and members of the North Syracuse Art Guild. Includes digital photography, mixed-media collages, art quilts, fiber compositions, and landscapes.

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Good for What Ails You!
Westcott Community Center

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

Women healing from loss...from loss of loved ones, loss of health, loss of dreams, loss of youth. We heal ourselves. We heal others. We heal through stories, through reframing memories, through engagement in our art; we heal by redefining ourselves and rebirthing. It is a story of sadness and honesty and transformation. It is about connection and growth. Ultimately it is a story of triumph.

Paintings, mixed media, fibers, photography, ceramic sculpture, creative compuer art, and poetry by Maria Brown, Melissa DeStevens-Valensuela, Linda Esterly, Patrice Fitzsimmons, Cathy Gibbons, Vanessa Johnson, Amy Patricia Komar, Suzanne Masters, Georgia Popoff, and Elaine Quick.

Patterns of Perception: Works by Mary Raineri
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

Works by Steven Fland and Ed Levine
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Exhibit featuring Steven Fland's wildlife sculptures and Ed Levine's watercolors.

MFA 2008
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates.

17 artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography, and sculpture. The exhibition contains a number of artists who explore the idea of identity, while others challenge accepted notions of wealth, time, and reality. Khanh Le explores his identity as a Vietnamese-born American by combining images of his own family life, fashion and home magazines, and well known images from the Vietnam War to create a "new historical narrative". Stacey VanWaldick playfully addresses what jewelry has come to stand for in today's commercial society by fabricating "precious stones" out of bronze and chocolate. Stephanie Koenig experiments with the idea of "recyclable nostalgia" by reclaiming 70's period style to outfit the interior of her interactive life-size pirate ship. Allison Fox forms intricately detailed thin sheets of clear plastic into organic shapes through which she shines light to create ambiguous undulating shadows. The relationship between the sculpture and the shadows on the wall establishes a vibration between reality and illusion.

Other featured artists include Jen Betton, Seunghee Chung, Jennifer Gandee, Jessica Lance, Tzu Cheng Liu, Thon Lorenz, Jennifer Marsh, Frank McCauley, Ge Maggie Mu, María José Pérez (Pepa Santamaria), David Serotkin, Carrie Will, Sue Hershberger Yoder

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

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Visual Arts Showcase #63: Elements
CNY Arts

The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A juried show of works created by upstate New York artists.

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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Self, House, Self
Redhouse

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

An exhibition of drawings and sculptures by Marion Wilson and Michael Burkard. Both Wilson and Burkard utilize the metaphor of "house" and "home" in the artwork.

Marion Wilson is the Director of Community Initiatives in the Visual Arts at Syracuse University's College of Visual & Performing Arts and teaches in the Sculpture Department. Wilson started MLAB, a collaborative design team of art and architecture students throughout Syracuse University, as part of her belief in the revitalization of urban life through the arts. Wilson regularly exhibits artwork both nationally and internationally including Art Basel: Miami, Exit Art, and New Museum of Contemporary Art.

Michael Burkard is an Associate Professor of English in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University. He has published ten poetry collections. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and many other magazines.

Spring Dance Concert
LeMoyne College
Le Moyne Student Dance Company

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

Features choreography from area professionals along with that of Le Moyne students.

The Ground Truth
Maxwell's Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflict and the Public Affairs Program

Price: Free
Maxwell Auditorium
Syracuse University, Syracuse

A screening of the award-winning film on Iraq, followed by a panel panel discussion by veterans and family members affected by the war, with audience participation.

The Ground Truth is a 70-minute documentary focusing on the lives of men and women who served in Iraq and how the war affected them. The film maker's subjects are patriotic young men and women -- ordinary young men and women who heeded the call for military service in Iraq -- who experience recruitment, training, combat, homecoming, and the struggle to reintegrate with families and communities.

Panel members include:
Joe Godfrey: Father of three Army veterans, two of whom served in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. His eldest son returned from Iraq in the spring of 2004 and shortly thereafter was granted a medical retirement, suffering from symptoms of PTSD. After less than three months at home he was killed in a robbery/murder, a result (his family believes) of the government's failure to provide adequate medical treatment. Joe has sought to increase public awareness of this country's failure to adequately care for our veterans by telling his son's story.

Mike Blake: An Iraq war veteran from Binghamton, he enlisted at 18 in 2001 to serve his country and earn money for college. In April of 2003 his Army unit, the 4th Infantry Division was sent to Iraq. He served in Iraq until March 2004 as a Humvee and supply truck driver for a tank battalion. He applied for conscientious objector status based on his experience in Iraq and received an honorable discharge in 2004. He is currently a student at SUNY-Cortland studying elementary education.

Bill Cross: West Point graduate and Viet Nam veteran who served from Sept. 64-Sept. 65 as an adviser with a Vietnamese Armored Cavalry Troop. Saw combat and was awarded the Combat Infantryman's Badge and two medals for valor. He resigned from the Army as a Major, after 10 years in service. The last 3 years were spent back at West Point teaching leadership. He is currently a Professor of Psychology at OCC and in private practice helps veterans with stress disorders and their families.

Gloriously Free; Truths & Transformations
Reel Queer Film Festival

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

Gloriously Free
A powerful profile of gay immigrants to Canada. Among them are Al-Hussein from Jordan; Julian, blackmailed and blacklisted in his homeland of Mexico; Bruno, who immigrated from Brazil; David, a former port captain with a prominent Texas-based drilling company; and Frantz, a graphic artist from Jamaica. Excluded from the opportunity to live freely in their native countries, these resilient young men tell stories of blackmail, torture and violence.

Truths & Transformations
Truths & Transformations probes whether the gay community should embrace traditional institutions or find ways to preserve their queer identity now that marriage is becoming legal. A lightening rod for self examination and dialogue, the film offers a glimpse into the lives of people who struggle with their personal, familial, and sexual identities. Abandonment, incest, consumerism, semantics, conformity, and ignorance play against a stirring political backdrop leaving viewers to decide whether we should all be reaching for wedding rings.

Additional selected short films will be screened.

Vocal Repertory Class of Professor Richard McCullough
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Jerk Framed
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Price: $5
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Celebrating 5 solid years of dedication to expressing student voices/views. Music from DJ AKO, Minutes Per Second, and Anorexic Beauty Queen.

Martha Collins, poet
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Martha Collins is the author of the book-length poem Blue Front (Graywolf, 2006), which focuses on a lynching her father witnessed when he was five years old. Blue Front won an Anisfield-Wolf Award and an Ohioana Award, and was chosen as one of "25 Books to Remember from 2006" by the New York Public Library. Collins has published four earlier collections of poems, including Some Things Words Can Do (Sheep Meadow, 1998), and two chapbooks, Gone So Far and Sheer (Barnwood, 2005, 2008), as well two collections of co-translations of poetry from the Vietnamese. Other awards include fellowships from the NEA, the Witter Bynner Foundation, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation, as well as three Pushcart Prizes and a Lannan Foundation residency.

The Mystery at Twickenham Vicarage and Other Oddities by David Ives
LeMoyne College

Marren Studio Theatre, Coyne Performing Arts Ctr
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Brain candy of the first order and offering laughs from many angles, the plays tweak everything from highbrow English Mysteries (Prime Suspect meets Miss Marple), to simultaneous translations ("well..." says a customer. "A deep hole in the ground" the interpreter interprets), psycho-analysis meets Stephen Hawking. Fun for the well read and thinly read alike. The titles of the individual plays are The Mystery at Twickenham Vicarage, Arabian Nights, Enigma Variations and The Philadelphia. Not for the faint of heart or humor impaired.

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Romance
Rarely Done Productions
Judith Harris, director

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

A screwball look at political correctness, jurisprudence, and hilariously misquoted Shakespeare. The characters reveal to us their bigotry -- against religion, against race, against national origin, against sexual orientation -- all in rhythm with David Mamet's unique storytelling style. Be prepared to be offended and yet laugh through this 2005 comedy sometimes referred to as "Kafka Meets Monty Python." Mature audiences only.

Seating for each show is limited. To reserve tickets, phone the box office at 315-546-3224.

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The Beard of Avon
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Ronald Bell, director

Price: $10
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exciting, satirical and comical look at the age-old question of who wrote Shakespeare. Playwright Amy Freed, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her Freedomland, takes us on a journey that few playwrights have tackled before; the origins of Shakespeare's works. Ms. Freed applies her cinematic approach to the theatrical realm as she follows the Bard from his marriage in Stratford to London and back again and traces his journey for us to behold. For all you Shakespeare in Love fans, this is the play you've been waiting for.

For reservations, please phone 315-476-1835 or e-mail bell444@gmail.com.

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The Bomb-itty of Errors
Syracuse Stage
Andy Goldberg, director

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

Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors has its origins in ancient Rome in Plautus's wild comedy The Menaechmi. Two sets of identical twins and multiple cases of mistaken identity make for a riotous comic event. This latest incarnation is a hip-hop, rap romp retelling of the famous comedy. Four gifted performers hit the street to launch an assault of non-stop, lightning-paced, side-splitting comedy. After all, the Bard was a master of "word."

Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Wit's End Players

Price: $20
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Famed comedian and former Saturday Night Live alum Steve Martin's Off-Broadway comedy finds Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso and a time-traveling Elvis meeting in a Paris café (The Nimble Rabbit) in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with Cubism. Martin's brilliant script plays fast and loose with fact, fame and fortune as these three geniuses, and a zany cast of characters, muse on the century's achievements and prospects as well as other fanciful topics with infectious hilarity!

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Saturday, April 12, 2008

OCC Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Annual student exhibit.

Patterns of Perception: Works by Mary Raineri
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

Read a review!

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Works by Steven Fland and Ed Levine
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Exhibit featuring Steven Fland's wildlife sculptures and Ed Levine's watercolors.

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

MFA 2008
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates.

17 artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography, and sculpture. The exhibition contains a number of artists who explore the idea of identity, while others challenge accepted notions of wealth, time, and reality. Khanh Le explores his identity as a Vietnamese-born American by combining images of his own family life, fashion and home magazines, and well known images from the Vietnam War to create a "new historical narrative". Stacey VanWaldick playfully addresses what jewelry has come to stand for in today's commercial society by fabricating "precious stones" out of bronze and chocolate. Stephanie Koenig experiments with the idea of "recyclable nostalgia" by reclaiming 70's period style to outfit the interior of her interactive life-size pirate ship. Allison Fox forms intricately detailed thin sheets of clear plastic into organic shapes through which she shines light to create ambiguous undulating shadows. The relationship between the sculpture and the shadows on the wall establishes a vibration between reality and illusion.

Other featured artists include Jen Betton, Seunghee Chung, Jennifer Gandee, Jessica Lance, Tzu Cheng Liu, Thon Lorenz, Jennifer Marsh, Frank McCauley, Ge Maggie Mu, María José Pérez (Pepa Santamaria), David Serotkin, Carrie Will, Sue Hershberger Yoder

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

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Visual Arts Showcase #63: Elements
CNY Arts

The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A juried show of works created by upstate New York artists.

New Paintings of Melissa Johnson: Spaces Between
LeMoyne College

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

Spring Dance Concert
LeMoyne College
Le Moyne Student Dance Company

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

Features choreography from area professionals along with that of Le Moyne students.

Spring Dance Concert
LeMoyne College
Le Moyne Student Dance Company

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

Features choreography from area professionals along with that of Le Moyne students.

Itty Bitty Titty Committee
Reel Queer Film Festival

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

Itty Bitty Titty Committee
Winner of the 2007 award for Best Film at South by Southwest, Itty Bitty Titty Committee follows a recent high school grad's transformation from a shy, insecure girl to a radical womyn, full of the righteous indignation needed to take action and change the world. Full of mosh pits, power fists and utter charm, Jamie Babbit's (But I'm a Cheerleader) latest film is as fun as a romantic comedy can get.

Additional selected short films will be screened.

Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music
Beaux Arts Trio

Price: $20 regular, $15 senior, $10 student, children under 13 free
Lincoln Middle School
1613 James St., Syracuse

Ravel Trio in A minor
Kurtag Work for Piano Trio
Schubert Trio No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 100

Second Saturday Series: Charlie King and Colleen Kattau
Westcott Community Center

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

Extraordinary music, sweet harmonies, incendiary lyrics -- a journey of humor, heartache and hope.

Charlie King and Colleen Kattau sing with a common passion that makes you believe the world can be saved by beauty. Their songs are like flowers growing from the hard soil of political realities, rooted in the belief that music can cultivate a new reality by embodying visions in song. Best known for the work they do independent of each other, they've performed together sporadically since 1993. The common repertoire they've developed is rich, harmonious and brimming with comic relief.

Charlie King has been at the heart of American folk music for over 40 years. His songs have been recorded and sung by other performers such as Pete Seeger, Holly Near, Ronnie Gilbert, John McCutcheon, Arlo Guthrie, Peggy Seeger, Chad Mitchell and Judy Small. Honors include an "Indie" award for one of the top three folk recordings of 1984. In May of 1998 the War Resisters League gave their Peacemaker Award to Charlie and to Odetta. Pete Seeger nominated Charlie for the Sacco-Vanzetti Social Justice Award, which he received in November 1999. Charlie has released a dozen solo albums since 1976. He has also released three albums with the touring ensemble Bright Morning Star, and numerous compilation albums with other artists.

Colleen Kattau, a bi-lingual singer songwriter of New Song and Nueva Canción, performs original alternative acoustic music in a mix of poetry and rhythm. Her voice can be both strong and tender and has been likened to that of Joni Mitchell, Natalie Merchant, and Shawn Colvin. Colleen has performed for diverse audiences at colleges and universities, women's festivals, environmental festivals and Latin American and labor solidarity events.

The Singin' Solar System
Open Hand Theater
Tom Knight

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

Tom Knight is back with a delightful whirl around songs and puppets and celestial objects.

The Bomb-itty of Errors
Syracuse Stage
Andy Goldberg, director

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

Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors has its origins in ancient Rome in Plautus's wild comedy The Menaechmi. Two sets of identical twins and multiple cases of mistaken identity make for a riotous comic event. This latest incarnation is a hip-hop, rap romp retelling of the famous comedy. Four gifted performers hit the street to launch an assault of non-stop, lightning-paced, side-splitting comedy. After all, the Bard was a master of "word."

The X-Prize and the Heroic Theory of Invention
Redhouse
Featuring Lewis Colburn

Price: $8 Adults and $5 Students/Seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The X-Prize and The Herotic Theory of Invention is a new performance by artist Lewis Colburn, that mixes elements of spaceflight, science fiction with aspects of theatre. The performance will be followed by a Q&A session with the artist and a chance to interact with the homemade space vehicles.

This event is part of a celebration of Yuri's Night World Space Party. Yuri's Night: World Space Party is like the St. Patrick's Day or Cinco de Mayo for Spacetravel. Yuri's Night takes its name from Russian Cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space. Every year for the past 7 years on April 12th, Yuri's Night is celebrated all around the world -- this year there are over 120 events or parties scheduled in over 40 countries worldwide. The range of events is as diverse as the people who hold them -- even the residents of the International Space Station are joining in the fun! At Redhouse we will have the The X-Prize and The Herotic Theory of Invention performance, followed by music, dancing, prizes for best costume and space trivia.

The Mystery at Twickenham Vicarage and Other Oddities by David Ives
LeMoyne College

Marren Studio Theatre, Coyne Performing Arts Ctr
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Brain candy of the first order and offering laughs from many angles, the plays tweak everything from highbrow English Mysteries (Prime Suspect meets Miss Marple), to simultaneous translations ("well..." says a customer. "A deep hole in the ground" the interpreter interprets), psycho-analysis meets Stephen Hawking. Fun for the well read and thinly read alike. The titles of the individual plays are The Mystery at Twickenham Vicarage, Arabian Nights, Enigma Variations and The Philadelphia. Not for the faint of heart or humor impaired.

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Romance
Rarely Done Productions
Judith Harris, director

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

A screwball look at political correctness, jurisprudence, and hilariously misquoted Shakespeare. The characters reveal to us their bigotry -- against religion, against race, against national origin, against sexual orientation -- all in rhythm with David Mamet's unique storytelling style. Be prepared to be offended and yet laugh through this 2005 comedy sometimes referred to as "Kafka Meets Monty Python." Mature audiences only.

Seating for each show is limited. To reserve tickets, phone the box office at 315-546-3224.

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The Beard of Avon
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Ronald Bell, director

Price: $10
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exciting, satirical and comical look at the age-old question of who wrote Shakespeare. Playwright Amy Freed, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her Freedomland, takes us on a journey that few playwrights have tackled before; the origins of Shakespeare's works. Ms. Freed applies her cinematic approach to the theatrical realm as she follows the Bard from his marriage in Stratford to London and back again and traces his journey for us to behold. For all you Shakespeare in Love fans, this is the play you've been waiting for.

For reservations, please phone 315-476-1835 or e-mail bell444@gmail.com.

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The Bomb-itty of Errors
Syracuse Stage
Andy Goldberg, director

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

Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors has its origins in ancient Rome in Plautus's wild comedy The Menaechmi. Two sets of identical twins and multiple cases of mistaken identity make for a riotous comic event. This latest incarnation is a hip-hop, rap romp retelling of the famous comedy. Four gifted performers hit the street to launch an assault of non-stop, lightning-paced, side-splitting comedy. After all, the Bard was a master of "word."

Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Wit's End Players

Price: $20
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Famed comedian and former Saturday Night Live alum Steve Martin's Off-Broadway comedy finds Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso and a time-traveling Elvis meeting in a Paris café (The Nimble Rabbit) in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with Cubism. Martin's brilliant script plays fast and loose with fact, fame and fortune as these three geniuses, and a zany cast of characters, muse on the century's achievements and prospects as well as other fanciful topics with infectious hilarity!

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Sunday, April 13, 2008

WRAP (World Reclamation Art Project)
International Fiber Collaborative

Price: Free
2301 E. Colvin St.
(corner of Nottingham), Syracuse

Artist Jennifer Marsh and participants from all over the world have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3-foot square fiber panels that express concern about the world's extreme dependency on oil. The panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station.

For more information, visit internationalfibercollaborative.com.

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

MFA 2008
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates.

17 artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography, and sculpture. The exhibition contains a number of artists who explore the idea of identity, while others challenge accepted notions of wealth, time, and reality. Khanh Le explores his identity as a Vietnamese-born American by combining images of his own family life, fashion and home magazines, and well known images from the Vietnam War to create a "new historical narrative". Stacey VanWaldick playfully addresses what jewelry has come to stand for in today's commercial society by fabricating "precious stones" out of bronze and chocolate. Stephanie Koenig experiments with the idea of "recyclable nostalgia" by reclaiming 70's period style to outfit the interior of her interactive life-size pirate ship. Allison Fox forms intricately detailed thin sheets of clear plastic into organic shapes through which she shines light to create ambiguous undulating shadows. The relationship between the sculpture and the shadows on the wall establishes a vibration between reality and illusion.

Other featured artists include Jen Betton, Seunghee Chung, Jennifer Gandee, Jessica Lance, Tzu Cheng Liu, Thon Lorenz, Jennifer Marsh, Frank McCauley, Ge Maggie Mu, María José Pérez (Pepa Santamaria), David Serotkin, Carrie Will, Sue Hershberger Yoder

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

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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OCC Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Annual student exhibit.

Works by Steven Fland and Ed Levine
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Exhibit featuring Steven Fland's wildlife sculptures and Ed Levine's watercolors.

Patterns of Perception: Works by Mary Raineri
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Flute and Piano Recital
Martha Grener, flute; Marnya Mazhukhova, piano

Price: Free
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Works by Prokofiev, Poulenc, Handel, Faure, and Scott.

Stained Glass Series: Recorder Virtuoso
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Syracuse University Oratorio Society
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Michala Petri, recorders; Lianne Coble, soprano; Quinn Patrick, mezzo-soprano; Robert Allen, tenor; Timothy LeFebvre, bass-baritone

Most Holy Rosary Church
111 Roberts Ave., Syracuse

Telemann Concerto in C major for Alto Recorder, Strings, and Basso Continuo
Bach Concerto in G minor for Recorder, Strings, and Basso Continuo
Haydn Mass in C major, Mass in Time of War

TK99 Sound Check
Redhouse
Featuring The Fabulous Ripcords and The Action

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

Romance
Rarely Done Productions
Judith Harris, director

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

A screwball look at political correctness, jurisprudence, and hilariously misquoted Shakespeare. The characters reveal to us their bigotry -- against religion, against race, against national origin, against sexual orientation -- all in rhythm with David Mamet's unique storytelling style. Be prepared to be offended and yet laugh through this 2005 comedy sometimes referred to as "Kafka Meets Monty Python." Mature audiences only.

Seating for each show is limited. To reserve tickets, phone the box office at 315-546-3224.

Read a Review!

The Beard of Avon
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Ronald Bell, director

Price: $10
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exciting, satirical and comical look at the age-old question of who wrote Shakespeare. Playwright Amy Freed, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her Freedomland, takes us on a journey that few playwrights have tackled before; the origins of Shakespeare's works. Ms. Freed applies her cinematic approach to the theatrical realm as she follows the Bard from his marriage in Stratford to London and back again and traces his journey for us to behold. For all you Shakespeare in Love fans, this is the play you've been waiting for.

For reservations, please phone 315-476-1835 or e-mail bell444@gmail.com.

Read a Review!

Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Wit's End Players

Price: $20
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Famed comedian and former Saturday Night Live alum Steve Martin's Off-Broadway comedy finds Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso and a time-traveling Elvis meeting in a Paris café (The Nimble Rabbit) in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with Cubism. Martin's brilliant script plays fast and loose with fact, fame and fortune as these three geniuses, and a zany cast of characters, muse on the century's achievements and prospects as well as other fanciful topics with infectious hilarity!

Read a Review!

Monday, April 14, 2008

WRAP (World Reclamation Art Project)
International Fiber Collaborative

Price: Free
2301 E. Colvin St.
(corner of Nottingham), Syracuse

Artist Jennifer Marsh and participants from all over the world have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3-foot square fiber panels that express concern about the world's extreme dependency on oil. The panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station.

For more information, visit internationalfibercollaborative.com.

OCC Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Annual student exhibit.

Gallery Exhibit: Carles Vives
Onondaga Community College

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

An exhibit by Carles Vives, internationally renowned ceramic sculptor from Spain. Born in Barcelona, Spain in 1957, Carles Vives studied art at Massana School of Art in Barcelona. His art is on display in museums and galleries throughout Spain, Italy, Australia, Mongolia, Peru and the United States (Everson Museum of Syracuse and in Miami). In addition, Vives' art has been exhibited in Portugal, Taiwan, Korea and New Zealand.

Most recently Vives was selected to participate in the Sino-Spain Ceramic Art Residency Program in Fuping, China in June, to celebrate the addition of the new Ceramic Art Museum of Spain to the FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums of Fuping.

Onondaga art professor Andrew Schuster met Carles Vives several years ago while lecturing at a workshop in Spain. The two sculptors formed a professional relationship and have collaborated on many artistic endeavors. Professor Schuster was instrumental in securing this prominent artist's exhibit for Onondaga in what will be Vives' first visit to the United States.

Vives has worked for the last 25 years at a studio in Canovelles near Barcelona. In 2004, he received the honorary diploma of Master Craftsman by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government Institution.)

Labyrinths
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A life-size maze of mirrors and dreams reveals an exceptional collection of works by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna: a fugue-like series of 25 drawings and etchings inspired by the Borgian notion of the labyrinth, with Icarus as protagonist. Twenty-three 7-foot tall mirrored panels form this massive installation that complicates and multiplies the space of the gallery, and infiltrates the observer.

Paintings and Sculpture
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists exhibiting include Rachael Baldanza, Amber Balding, Alex Betancourt, Anna, Cinquemani, Sally Dutko, Bob Rose, Helena Cooper, Jeanne Dupre, Peg Hewitt, Nicholas Ruth, Sylvia Steen, Joan Stier, Karen Tashkovski, Leigh Yardley, Louise Woodard, and members of the North Syracuse Art Guild. Includes digital photography, mixed-media collages, art quilts, fiber compositions, and landscapes.

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Good for What Ails You!
Westcott Community Center

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

Women healing from loss...from loss of loved ones, loss of health, loss of dreams, loss of youth. We heal ourselves. We heal others. We heal through stories, through reframing memories, through engagement in our art; we heal by redefining ourselves and rebirthing. It is a story of sadness and honesty and transformation. It is about connection and growth. Ultimately it is a story of triumph.

Paintings, mixed media, fibers, photography, ceramic sculpture, creative compuer art, and poetry by Maria Brown, Melissa DeStevens-Valensuela, Linda Esterly, Patrice Fitzsimmons, Cathy Gibbons, Vanessa Johnson, Amy Patricia Komar, Suzanne Masters, Georgia Popoff, and Elaine Quick.

Patterns of Perception: Works by Mary Raineri
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Works by Steven Fland and Ed Levine
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Exhibit featuring Steven Fland's wildlife sculptures and Ed Levine's watercolors.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a 1939 mystery starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as the detective and his doctor friend. Ida Lupino joins them to stop Professor Moriarty's plot to steal the crown jewels.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

WRAP (World Reclamation Art Project)
International Fiber Collaborative

Price: Free
2301 E. Colvin St.
(corner of Nottingham), Syracuse

Artist Jennifer Marsh and participants from all over the world have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3-foot square fiber panels that express concern about the world's extreme dependency on oil. The panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station.

For more information, visit internationalfibercollaborative.com.

OCC Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Annual student exhibit.

The Materials of Color: Paintings by Italian artist Maria Grazia Facchinetti
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Carles Vives
Onondaga Community College

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

An exhibit by Carles Vives, internationally renowned ceramic sculptor from Spain. Born in Barcelona, Spain in 1957, Carles Vives studied art at Massana School of Art in Barcelona. His art is on display in museums and galleries throughout Spain, Italy, Australia, Mongolia, Peru and the United States (Everson Museum of Syracuse and in Miami). In addition, Vives' art has been exhibited in Portugal, Taiwan, Korea and New Zealand.

Most recently Vives was selected to participate in the Sino-Spain Ceramic Art Residency Program in Fuping, China in June, to celebrate the addition of the new Ceramic Art Museum of Spain to the FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums of Fuping.

Onondaga art professor Andrew Schuster met Carles Vives several years ago while lecturing at a workshop in Spain. The two sculptors formed a professional relationship and have collaborated on many artistic endeavors. Professor Schuster was instrumental in securing this prominent artist's exhibit for Onondaga in what will be Vives' first visit to the United States.

Vives has worked for the last 25 years at a studio in Canovelles near Barcelona. In 2004, he received the honorary diploma of Master Craftsman by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government Institution.)

Labyrinths
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A life-size maze of mirrors and dreams reveals an exceptional collection of works by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna: a fugue-like series of 25 drawings and etchings inspired by the Borgian notion of the labyrinth, with Icarus as protagonist. Twenty-three 7-foot tall mirrored panels form this massive installation that complicates and multiplies the space of the gallery, and infiltrates the observer.

Paintings and Sculpture
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists exhibiting include Rachael Baldanza, Amber Balding, Alex Betancourt, Anna, Cinquemani, Sally Dutko, Bob Rose, Helena Cooper, Jeanne Dupre, Peg Hewitt, Nicholas Ruth, Sylvia Steen, Joan Stier, Karen Tashkovski, Leigh Yardley, Louise Woodard, and members of the North Syracuse Art Guild. Includes digital photography, mixed-media collages, art quilts, fiber compositions, and landscapes.

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Good for What Ails You!
Westcott Community Center

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

Women healing from loss...from loss of loved ones, loss of health, loss of dreams, loss of youth. We heal ourselves. We heal others. We heal through stories, through reframing memories, through engagement in our art; we heal by redefining ourselves and rebirthing. It is a story of sadness and honesty and transformation. It is about connection and growth. Ultimately it is a story of triumph.

Paintings, mixed media, fibers, photography, ceramic sculpture, creative compuer art, and poetry by Maria Brown, Melissa DeStevens-Valensuela, Linda Esterly, Patrice Fitzsimmons, Cathy Gibbons, Vanessa Johnson, Amy Patricia Komar, Suzanne Masters, Georgia Popoff, and Elaine Quick.

Patterns of Perception: Works by Mary Raineri
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

MFA 2008
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates.

17 artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography, and sculpture. The exhibition contains a number of artists who explore the idea of identity, while others challenge accepted notions of wealth, time, and reality. Khanh Le explores his identity as a Vietnamese-born American by combining images of his own family life, fashion and home magazines, and well known images from the Vietnam War to create a "new historical narrative". Stacey VanWaldick playfully addresses what jewelry has come to stand for in today's commercial society by fabricating "precious stones" out of bronze and chocolate. Stephanie Koenig experiments with the idea of "recyclable nostalgia" by reclaiming 70's period style to outfit the interior of her interactive life-size pirate ship. Allison Fox forms intricately detailed thin sheets of clear plastic into organic shapes through which she shines light to create ambiguous undulating shadows. The relationship between the sculpture and the shadows on the wall establishes a vibration between reality and illusion.

Other featured artists include Jen Betton, Seunghee Chung, Jennifer Gandee, Jessica Lance, Tzu Cheng Liu, Thon Lorenz, Jennifer Marsh, Frank McCauley, Ge Maggie Mu, María José Pérez (Pepa Santamaria), David Serotkin, Carrie Will, Sue Hershberger Yoder

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

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Visual Arts Showcase #63: Elements
CNY Arts

The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A juried show of works created by upstate New York artists.

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith
The Warehouse Gallery
Community Folk Art Center

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

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith is artist Terry Adkins' multi-media tribute to Smith, known as the Empress of the Blues. Working with a variety of materials Adkins weaves sculpture into a narrative installation that is both a tribute to and a lament for the transformative power of Smith's vocal artistry.

In an essay that accompanies the exhibition Dr. Kheli R. Willetts, academic director of CFAC and assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Syracuse University writes, "Adkins' work creates an environment which challenges us to engage with Smith beyond her status as a legendary musical performer. He has resurrected her as a creative deity whose stage has now become a temple and the viewers are transformed into her devotees as they enter the space."

Smith is regarded as one of the greatest blues singers of all time. She was the highest-paid black performer of her day and arguably reached a level of success greater than that of any African American recording artist before her. Yet in her adopted home of Philadelphia she remains unsung and even her grave remained unmarked until 1970.

Adkins commutes regularly from New York to Philadelphia where he teaches in the Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania. This exhibition is a continued exploration of his use of figures in history whose contributions to society are overlooked, under appreciated, or just not given the stature that he believes they should have in society. Although Adkins work emanates from an activist position, it evolves from abstract forms with the intent of educating the public about historical figures through ways that are not image based or narrative-based but that challenge the viewer to think abstractly in relating to the stories of the lives of the people concerned.

Terry Adkins has been exhibiting internationally since 1980. He is Associate Professor of Fine Art at the University of Pennsylvania where he recently installed Darkwater: A Recital in Four Dominions, a tribute to W. E. B. Du Bois at the Arthur Ross Gallery. Adkins has published numerous essays and has completed several significant public commissions. In addition to being a highly respected artist and sought after guest lecturer, his artworks have been placed in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among other significant museums and collections. He received his B.S. from Fisk University and his M.F.A from the University of Kentucky.

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Mary Oliver
Friends of the Central Library Author Series

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

Oliver is a Pulitzer Prize-winning and National Book Award-winning poet whose work is compared to that of Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson. Her precise imagery connects the reader to nature, showing the uncommon and extraordinary discoveries to be found in the everyday world. She has written more than 15 collections of prose and poetry including American Primitive, The Leaf and the Cloud, and Blue Iris: Poems and Essays.

Piano at the Panasci
LeMoyne College
Fred Karpoff and The Boccaccio Trio

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

Pianist Fred Karpoff leads an ensemble comprised of violinists Jeremy and Sara Mastrangelo, violist Amy Diefes, and cellist David LeDoux in Schubert's Piano Trio in B-flat major and Brahms's Piano Quintet.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
SU's Morton Schiff Jazz Ensemble

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

The ensemble performs under the direction of faculty members Joseph Riposo and John Coggiola. The program includes jazz compositions by Charles Mingus, Sammy Nestico, Thad Jones, Charlie Parker and many more jazz standards. The concert will also feature SU's Jazz Saxophone Ensemble.

Parking is available in Irving Garage.

For more information, contact Riposo at 315-443-2191.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

WRAP (World Reclamation Art Project)
International Fiber Collaborative

Price: Free
2301 E. Colvin St.
(corner of Nottingham), Syracuse

Artist Jennifer Marsh and participants from all over the world have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3-foot square fiber panels that express concern about the world's extreme dependency on oil. The panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station.

For more information, visit internationalfibercollaborative.com.

OCC Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Annual student exhibit.

The Materials of Color: Paintings by Italian artist Maria Grazia Facchinetti
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Carles Vives
Onondaga Community College

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

An exhibit by Carles Vives, internationally renowned ceramic sculptor from Spain. Born in Barcelona, Spain in 1957, Carles Vives studied art at Massana School of Art in Barcelona. His art is on display in museums and galleries throughout Spain, Italy, Australia, Mongolia, Peru and the United States (Everson Museum of Syracuse and in Miami). In addition, Vives' art has been exhibited in Portugal, Taiwan, Korea and New Zealand.

Most recently Vives was selected to participate in the Sino-Spain Ceramic Art Residency Program in Fuping, China in June, to celebrate the addition of the new Ceramic Art Museum of Spain to the FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums of Fuping.

Onondaga art professor Andrew Schuster met Carles Vives several years ago while lecturing at a workshop in Spain. The two sculptors formed a professional relationship and have collaborated on many artistic endeavors. Professor Schuster was instrumental in securing this prominent artist's exhibit for Onondaga in what will be Vives' first visit to the United States.

Vives has worked for the last 25 years at a studio in Canovelles near Barcelona. In 2004, he received the honorary diploma of Master Craftsman by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government Institution.)

Labyrinths
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A life-size maze of mirrors and dreams reveals an exceptional collection of works by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna: a fugue-like series of 25 drawings and etchings inspired by the Borgian notion of the labyrinth, with Icarus as protagonist. Twenty-three 7-foot tall mirrored panels form this massive installation that complicates and multiplies the space of the gallery, and infiltrates the observer.

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Good for What Ails You!
Westcott Community Center

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

Women healing from loss...from loss of loved ones, loss of health, loss of dreams, loss of youth. We heal ourselves. We heal others. We heal through stories, through reframing memories, through engagement in our art; we heal by redefining ourselves and rebirthing. It is a story of sadness and honesty and transformation. It is about connection and growth. Ultimately it is a story of triumph.

Paintings, mixed media, fibers, photography, ceramic sculpture, creative compuer art, and poetry by Maria Brown, Melissa DeStevens-Valensuela, Linda Esterly, Patrice Fitzsimmons, Cathy Gibbons, Vanessa Johnson, Amy Patricia Komar, Suzanne Masters, Georgia Popoff, and Elaine Quick.

Patterns of Perception: Works by Mary Raineri
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

Works by Steven Fland and Ed Levine
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Exhibit featuring Steven Fland's wildlife sculptures and Ed Levine's watercolors.

MFA 2008
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates.

17 artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography, and sculpture. The exhibition contains a number of artists who explore the idea of identity, while others challenge accepted notions of wealth, time, and reality. Khanh Le explores his identity as a Vietnamese-born American by combining images of his own family life, fashion and home magazines, and well known images from the Vietnam War to create a "new historical narrative". Stacey VanWaldick playfully addresses what jewelry has come to stand for in today's commercial society by fabricating "precious stones" out of bronze and chocolate. Stephanie Koenig experiments with the idea of "recyclable nostalgia" by reclaiming 70's period style to outfit the interior of her interactive life-size pirate ship. Allison Fox forms intricately detailed thin sheets of clear plastic into organic shapes through which she shines light to create ambiguous undulating shadows. The relationship between the sculpture and the shadows on the wall establishes a vibration between reality and illusion.

Other featured artists include Jen Betton, Seunghee Chung, Jennifer Gandee, Jessica Lance, Tzu Cheng Liu, Thon Lorenz, Jennifer Marsh, Frank McCauley, Ge Maggie Mu, María José Pérez (Pepa Santamaria), David Serotkin, Carrie Will, Sue Hershberger Yoder

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

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Visual Arts Showcase #63: Elements
CNY Arts

The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A juried show of works created by upstate New York artists.

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith
The Warehouse Gallery
Community Folk Art Center

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

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith is artist Terry Adkins' multi-media tribute to Smith, known as the Empress of the Blues. Working with a variety of materials Adkins weaves sculpture into a narrative installation that is both a tribute to and a lament for the transformative power of Smith's vocal artistry.

In an essay that accompanies the exhibition Dr. Kheli R. Willetts, academic director of CFAC and assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Syracuse University writes, "Adkins' work creates an environment which challenges us to engage with Smith beyond her status as a legendary musical performer. He has resurrected her as a creative deity whose stage has now become a temple and the viewers are transformed into her devotees as they enter the space."

Smith is regarded as one of the greatest blues singers of all time. She was the highest-paid black performer of her day and arguably reached a level of success greater than that of any African American recording artist before her. Yet in her adopted home of Philadelphia she remains unsung and even her grave remained unmarked until 1970.

Adkins commutes regularly from New York to Philadelphia where he teaches in the Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania. This exhibition is a continued exploration of his use of figures in history whose contributions to society are overlooked, under appreciated, or just not given the stature that he believes they should have in society. Although Adkins work emanates from an activist position, it evolves from abstract forms with the intent of educating the public about historical figures through ways that are not image based or narrative-based but that challenge the viewer to think abstractly in relating to the stories of the lives of the people concerned.

Terry Adkins has been exhibiting internationally since 1980. He is Associate Professor of Fine Art at the University of Pennsylvania where he recently installed Darkwater: A Recital in Four Dominions, a tribute to W. E. B. Du Bois at the Arthur Ross Gallery. Adkins has published numerous essays and has completed several significant public commissions. In addition to being a highly respected artist and sought after guest lecturer, his artworks have been placed in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among other significant museums and collections. He received his B.S. from Fisk University and his M.F.A from the University of Kentucky.

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Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Cindy Josbena, piano

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

Cindy Josbena will be heard in the Beethoven Tempest Sonata, a selection of Debussy Preludes, and will close with a Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody. In addition to those pieces, Ms. Josbena will open the recital with a composition of her own.

LeMoyne College
Le Moyne College Jazz Ensemble; The Young Lions of CNY; Small Works
Featuring Matt Wilson, drummer

Price: $15 regular; $10 seniors; students free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Drummer Matt Wilson returns to Syracuse after the electrifying performance by his quartet at Le Moyne College in September of 2004. Wilson headlines this Spring Jazz Concert, performing his own compositions with the Le Moyne College Jazz Ensemble arranged by Le Moyne Jazz Director JC Sanford. Also on the bill are a pre-college big band, The Young Lions of CNY directed by Joe Colombo, and a student quintet, Small Works directed by Le Moyne trumpeter Brandon Nater.

Ellen Litman, fiction
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

Thursday, April 17, 2008

WRAP (World Reclamation Art Project)
International Fiber Collaborative

Price: Free
2301 E. Colvin St.
(corner of Nottingham), Syracuse

Artist Jennifer Marsh and participants from all over the world have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3-foot square fiber panels that express concern about the world's extreme dependency on oil. The panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station.

For more information, visit internationalfibercollaborative.com.

OCC Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Annual student exhibit.

The Materials of Color: Paintings by Italian artist Maria Grazia Facchinetti
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Opening reception 5:00-7:00 pm, in conjunction with Th3.

Gallery Exhibit: Carles Vives
Onondaga Community College

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

An exhibit by Carles Vives, internationally renowned ceramic sculptor from Spain. Born in Barcelona, Spain in 1957, Carles Vives studied art at Massana School of Art in Barcelona. His art is on display in museums and galleries throughout Spain, Italy, Australia, Mongolia, Peru and the United States (Everson Museum of Syracuse and in Miami). In addition, Vives' art has been exhibited in Portugal, Taiwan, Korea and New Zealand.

Most recently Vives was selected to participate in the Sino-Spain Ceramic Art Residency Program in Fuping, China in June, to celebrate the addition of the new Ceramic Art Museum of Spain to the FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums of Fuping.

Onondaga art professor Andrew Schuster met Carles Vives several years ago while lecturing at a workshop in Spain. The two sculptors formed a professional relationship and have collaborated on many artistic endeavors. Professor Schuster was instrumental in securing this prominent artist's exhibit for Onondaga in what will be Vives' first visit to the United States.

Vives has worked for the last 25 years at a studio in Canovelles near Barcelona. In 2004, he received the honorary diploma of Master Craftsman by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government Institution.)

Labyrinths
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A life-size maze of mirrors and dreams reveals an exceptional collection of works by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna: a fugue-like series of 25 drawings and etchings inspired by the Borgian notion of the labyrinth, with Icarus as protagonist. Twenty-three 7-foot tall mirrored panels form this massive installation that complicates and multiplies the space of the gallery, and infiltrates the observer.

There will be a discussion with the artist from 5:00 - 8:00 pm as part of Th3.

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Good for What Ails You!
Westcott Community Center

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

Women healing from loss...from loss of loved ones, loss of health, loss of dreams, loss of youth. We heal ourselves. We heal others. We heal through stories, through reframing memories, through engagement in our art; we heal by redefining ourselves and rebirthing. It is a story of sadness and honesty and transformation. It is about connection and growth. Ultimately it is a story of triumph.

Paintings, mixed media, fibers, photography, ceramic sculpture, creative compuer art, and poetry by Maria Brown, Melissa DeStevens-Valensuela, Linda Esterly, Patrice Fitzsimmons, Cathy Gibbons, Vanessa Johnson, Amy Patricia Komar, Suzanne Masters, Georgia Popoff, and Elaine Quick.

Patterns of Perception: Works by Mary Raineri
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

Works by Steven Fland and Ed Levine
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Exhibit featuring Steven Fland's wildlife sculptures and Ed Levine's watercolors.

MFA 2008
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Artist reception 5:00-7:00 pm, in conjunction with Th3.

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates.

17 artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography, and sculpture. The exhibition contains a number of artists who explore the idea of identity, while others challenge accepted notions of wealth, time, and reality. Khanh Le explores his identity as a Vietnamese-born American by combining images of his own family life, fashion and home magazines, and well known images from the Vietnam War to create a "new historical narrative". Stacey VanWaldick playfully addresses what jewelry has come to stand for in today's commercial society by fabricating "precious stones" out of bronze and chocolate. Stephanie Koenig experiments with the idea of "recyclable nostalgia" by reclaiming 70's period style to outfit the interior of her interactive life-size pirate ship. Allison Fox forms intricately detailed thin sheets of clear plastic into organic shapes through which she shines light to create ambiguous undulating shadows. The relationship between the sculpture and the shadows on the wall establishes a vibration between reality and illusion.

Other featured artists include Jen Betton, Seunghee Chung, Jennifer Gandee, Jessica Lance, Tzu Cheng Liu, Thon Lorenz, Jennifer Marsh, Frank McCauley, Ge Maggie Mu, María José Pérez (Pepa Santamaria), David Serotkin, Carrie Will, Sue Hershberger Yoder

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

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Visual Arts Showcase #63: Elements
CNY Arts

The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A juried show of works created by upstate New York artists.

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

The Sweetest Battle: Works by Rebecca Murtaugh
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Artist Statement:
I am intrigued by the space between painting and sculpture and the history of objects. Much of my work is based in installation with materials and techniques that vary to serve the needs of my intentions. I engage in processes of often altering everyday materials so that they draw from the language of each material's history and at once, transcend that history to provide an experience of the sublime. My work maintains a balance of formal and conceptual motivations. I aim for the work to be playful, sexy, visually engaging, and a rewarding intellectual experience for those viewers who seek to look further.

Artist Biography:
Rebecca Murtaugh currently splits her time between Brooklyn and Central New York. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University, Bachelor of Science from the Pennsylvania State University, and was raised in Philadelphia. Her work has been exhibited nationally in both solo and group exhibitions at venues such as the Contemporary Art Fair with Thatcher Projects in New York City, Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia, the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Northern California, the Athens Institute of Contemporary Art in Atlanta, Current Gallery in Baltimore, and the District of Columbia Art Center. Upcoming exhibitions in 2008 include Seductions at 1708 Gallery in Richmond, Virginia; Part Object, Part Sculpture at the Brew House: Space 101 in Pittsburgh; and Keeping the Conceptual Momentum at the Kelly and Weber Gallery in Philadelphia. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York where she teaches Sculpture and Critical Theory.

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith
The Warehouse Gallery
Community Folk Art Center

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

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith is artist Terry Adkins' multi-media tribute to Smith, known as the Empress of the Blues. Working with a variety of materials Adkins weaves sculpture into a narrative installation that is both a tribute to and a lament for the transformative power of Smith's vocal artistry.

In an essay that accompanies the exhibition Dr. Kheli R. Willetts, academic director of CFAC and assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Syracuse University writes, "Adkins' work creates an environment which challenges us to engage with Smith beyond her status as a legendary musical performer. He has resurrected her as a creative deity whose stage has now become a temple and the viewers are transformed into her devotees as they enter the space."

Smith is regarded as one of the greatest blues singers of all time. She was the highest-paid black performer of her day and arguably reached a level of success greater than that of any African American recording artist before her. Yet in her adopted home of Philadelphia she remains unsung and even her grave remained unmarked until 1970.

Adkins commutes regularly from New York to Philadelphia where he teaches in the Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania. This exhibition is a continued exploration of his use of figures in history whose contributions to society are overlooked, under appreciated, or just not given the stature that he believes they should have in society. Although Adkins work emanates from an activist position, it evolves from abstract forms with the intent of educating the public about historical figures through ways that are not image based or narrative-based but that challenge the viewer to think abstractly in relating to the stories of the lives of the people concerned.

Terry Adkins has been exhibiting internationally since 1980. He is Associate Professor of Fine Art at the University of Pennsylvania where he recently installed Darkwater: A Recital in Four Dominions, a tribute to W. E. B. Du Bois at the Arthur Ross Gallery. Adkins has published numerous essays and has completed several significant public commissions. In addition to being a highly respected artist and sought after guest lecturer, his artworks have been placed in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among other significant museums and collections. He received his B.S. from Fisk University and his M.F.A from the University of Kentucky.

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Let Them Eat Cake
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Sugar artist Jen Comfort Interactive cupcake mural and cookie installation to mark the first Th3 Monthly Drawing.

From the Bottom of My Heart: Opening Reception for New Installation
Redhouse

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

Redhouse will a unveil a new permanent installation called From the Bottom of My Heart, by artist Matthew Gehring.

From the Bottom of My Heart is an interactive installation that uses ultrasonic sonar to detect the presence of someone in front of each of the mirrors in the men's and women's restrooms in Redhouse. When a presence is detected, a series of audio tracks are initiated complimenting whoever is in front of the mirror on how good they look. The bathroom mirror is the place where we primp, checking our appearance. Hence, it is the logical placement for this work, since Gehring is interested in manipulating behaviors and calling ones own self-confidence, or lack thereof, into question. Vanity, as well, is under fire here. The compliments issued by each mirror are meant both as a genuine gesture and as sarcasm. While the artist expects audience members to smile and chuckle as the mirrors are speaking to them, Gehring also expects there to be a level of recognition of certain facts. Since the same compliments will be issued to every single person who interacts with the piece and since it is an automated system, these compliments, while nice to hear, are entirely hollow and without meaning.

Jake Gillespie: Works on Paper
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

Jake Gillespie is a painter, multi-media artist, and co-founder of a non-profit art gallery in his home of Lincoln, Nebraska. His work has shown in galleries and museums throughout Kansas City, Chicago, and Nebraska. This exhibition highlights several recent series of drawings on paper. Gillespie's work features nearly narrative depictions of human interactions, as well as portraits both intimate and comical. His drawing technique is strongly influenced by his training as a painter and is distinct in its heavy chalking and thick graphite line work.

How to Steer the Wheel
Redhouse

Price: $15 Adults and $12 Students/Seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

An experimental animation and live cinema performance; Heath Hanlin has been working with 3D animation as his main visual toolbox for more than 10 years. He creates the soundtracks to his animations, which have always been of equal importance to the visuals. Most of Heath's music and sound work over the last several years is synthetic, or noise music.

In How to Steer the Wheel, Heath takes a more traditional musical approach. In this work, the guitar is an armature; all other sounds and the imagery are built around carefully articulated musical compositions for guitar. The music is a thread of reason in an abstract visual landscape, using the composition as the narrative.

Opening for Hanlin is a multi-media performance by artist Blake Carrington, You Would Do As Well Never Moving From Here, an investigation into a detached, expanded time and space. The work's central element is a single phrase sung by a vocal quartet, which is stretched to 60 times its original length. The phrase is taken from Italo Calvino's novel Invisible Cities. In the novel, the traveler Marco Polo speaks with the aging Mongol emperor Kublai Khan, describing each of the cities of the Khan's kingdom. Kublai responds, "My gaze is that of a man meditating, lost in thought -- I admit it. But yours? You cross archipelagos, tundras, mountain ranges. You would do as well never moving from here."

A Story of the Thuban Journey House
Everson Museum of Art

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

Lori Covington, founder of the Thuban Journey Organization, will trace the route of the African and the African Diaspora slave's journey and describe how ancestors of the African Diaspora Slaves have worked to rebuild their culture and communities decades later.

Urban Cowgirls: Lesbians in Corporate America
University Neighbors Lecture Series
Featuring Julie Gedro

Price: $10 regular, $5 with student ID
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Dr. Julie Gedro is an assistant professor of Business, Management and Economics at SUNY Empire State College and she is a strategic human resources management consultant. Dr. Gedro earned her Ed.D at the University of Georgia in 2000 with a dissertation on "Urban Cowgirls: How Lesbians Have Learned to Negotiate the Heterosexism of Corporate America." She is widely published in academia and in the popular press. She regularly presents at conferences and business and community workshops around the country.

JC Sanford Quartet
LeMoyne College
Featuring Matt Wilson, drummer

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Trombonist and composer JC Sanford leads a quartet of New York City-based musicians -- guitarist Nate Radley, bassist Dave Ambrosio, and drummer Matt Wilson -- in an evening of lesser known standards and original compositions.

Cassatt String Quartet
Newhouse School of Public Communications

Price: Free
Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse 3
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Acclaimed as one of America's outstanding ensembles, the New York City-based Cassatt String Quartet served as quartet-in-residence at the Setnor School of Music in SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts from 1996 until this year. The Newhouse concert will inaugurate the new Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium as a chamber music auditorium. The quartet will perform music by Maurice Ravel and Antonín Dvorak.

The Cassatt String Quartet has performed throughout North America, Europe, and the Far East, with prestigious appearances at Alice Tully Hall and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City; the Tanglewood Music Theatre in Lenox, Mass.; the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Library of Congress in Washington, DC; the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris; and Maeda Hall in Tokyo. Named three times by The New Yorker magazine's Best of the Year CD Selection, they have recorded for the Koch, New World, Albany and CRI Labels.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
SU Women's Choir
Barbara M. Tagg, conductor

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

The concert is in preparation for the choir's participation in the New York University Women's Choir Festival on April 19 at Manhattan Church of Christ. Concert repertoire for both events will include selections by Stephen Paulus, Michael Torke, Pierre Passereau, Gregg Smith, Stuart Calvert, Einojuhani Rautavaara and Moses Hogan.

For more information, contact Tagg at 315-443-5750 or btagg@syr.edu.

Parking is available in Irving Garage.

A Capella After Hours
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

A night of a cappella you don't want to miss! Features all five of SU's a cappella groups: Orange Appeal, Main Squeeze, The Mandarins, Oy Cappella, and Groovestand.

Preview Performance: The Medium and Pagliacci
Syracuse Opera

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

A free preview of the double bill of Menotti's The Medium and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. The two operas share a similar premise, with protagonists who go over the edge of sanity and commit murder.

During the preview, Syracuse Opera's director of music, Douglas Kinney Frost, will discuss the opera and introduce members of the cast, who will perform highlights. The Medium features mezzo-soprano Sondra Kelly as Madame Flora, local soprano Julia Ebner as Monica, and baritone Jason Detwiler as Mr. Gobineau. Pagliacci stars Detwiler as Silvio, soprano Jee Hyun Lim as Nedda, tenor Todd Geer as tortured clown Canio, local baritone Jimi James as the scheming Tonio, and local tenor Jonathan Howell as Beppe.

Parking will be available at a discounted rate in Irving Garage. Patrons should alert the attendant that they are attending the opera preview.

Poetry Reading by Jennifer Pashley
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

As a special event for Th3, Delavan Art Gallery will be hosting a poetry reading by Jennifer Pashley as part of the Stone Canoe Writers' Series.

Jennifer Pashley is a fiction instructor at the YMCA's Downtown Writer's Center in Syracuse, and an adjunct instructor at Le Moyne College. Her book of short fiction, States, was published in 2007. She lives in Central New York with her husband and two sons and is currently at work on a novel.

Florence of Moravia
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive mystery/comedy dinner theater.

Friday, April 18, 2008

WRAP (World Reclamation Art Project)
International Fiber Collaborative

Price: Free
2301 E. Colvin St.
(corner of Nottingham), Syracuse

Artist Jennifer Marsh and participants from all over the world have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3-foot square fiber panels that express concern about the world's extreme dependency on oil. The panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station.

For more information, visit internationalfibercollaborative.com.

Icons

Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Artists include Father Andrew Szebenyi, digitally manipulated images; Meg Gentile, acrylic on canvas; Dustin Angell, photography; Sarah Reale, Sharpie portraits on canvas; Mick Mather, monotype, monotype with linocut, tempera with linocut, and watercolor; Eddie Colelli, photography; Kevin Lucas, acrylic on canvas; David McKenney, photography.

OCC Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Annual student exhibit.

The Materials of Color: Paintings by Italian artist Maria Grazia Facchinetti
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Carles Vives
Onondaga Community College

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

An exhibit by Carles Vives, internationally renowned ceramic sculptor from Spain. Born in Barcelona, Spain in 1957, Carles Vives studied art at Massana School of Art in Barcelona. His art is on display in museums and galleries throughout Spain, Italy, Australia, Mongolia, Peru and the United States (Everson Museum of Syracuse and in Miami). In addition, Vives' art has been exhibited in Portugal, Taiwan, Korea and New Zealand.

Most recently Vives was selected to participate in the Sino-Spain Ceramic Art Residency Program in Fuping, China in June, to celebrate the addition of the new Ceramic Art Museum of Spain to the FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums of Fuping.

Onondaga art professor Andrew Schuster met Carles Vives several years ago while lecturing at a workshop in Spain. The two sculptors formed a professional relationship and have collaborated on many artistic endeavors. Professor Schuster was instrumental in securing this prominent artist's exhibit for Onondaga in what will be Vives' first visit to the United States.

Vives has worked for the last 25 years at a studio in Canovelles near Barcelona. In 2004, he received the honorary diploma of Master Craftsman by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government Institution.)

Labyrinths
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A life-size maze of mirrors and dreams reveals an exceptional collection of works by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna: a fugue-like series of 25 drawings and etchings inspired by the Borgian notion of the labyrinth, with Icarus as protagonist. Twenty-three 7-foot tall mirrored panels form this massive installation that complicates and multiplies the space of the gallery, and infiltrates the observer.

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Good for What Ails You!
Westcott Community Center

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

Women healing from loss...from loss of loved ones, loss of health, loss of dreams, loss of youth. We heal ourselves. We heal others. We heal through stories, through reframing memories, through engagement in our art; we heal by redefining ourselves and rebirthing. It is a story of sadness and honesty and transformation. It is about connection and growth. Ultimately it is a story of triumph.

Paintings, mixed media, fibers, photography, ceramic sculpture, creative compuer art, and poetry by Maria Brown, Melissa DeStevens-Valensuela, Linda Esterly, Patrice Fitzsimmons, Cathy Gibbons, Vanessa Johnson, Amy Patricia Komar, Suzanne Masters, Georgia Popoff, and Elaine Quick.

Patterns of Perception: Works by Mary Raineri
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

Works by Steven Fland and Ed Levine
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Exhibit featuring Steven Fland's wildlife sculptures and Ed Levine's watercolors.

MFA 2008
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates.

17 artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography, and sculpture. The exhibition contains a number of artists who explore the idea of identity, while others challenge accepted notions of wealth, time, and reality. Khanh Le explores his identity as a Vietnamese-born American by combining images of his own family life, fashion and home magazines, and well known images from the Vietnam War to create a "new historical narrative". Stacey VanWaldick playfully addresses what jewelry has come to stand for in today's commercial society by fabricating "precious stones" out of bronze and chocolate. Stephanie Koenig experiments with the idea of "recyclable nostalgia" by reclaiming 70's period style to outfit the interior of her interactive life-size pirate ship. Allison Fox forms intricately detailed thin sheets of clear plastic into organic shapes through which she shines light to create ambiguous undulating shadows. The relationship between the sculpture and the shadows on the wall establishes a vibration between reality and illusion.

Other featured artists include Jen Betton, Seunghee Chung, Jennifer Gandee, Jessica Lance, Tzu Cheng Liu, Thon Lorenz, Jennifer Marsh, Frank McCauley, Ge Maggie Mu, María José Pérez (Pepa Santamaria), David Serotkin, Carrie Will, Sue Hershberger Yoder

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

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Visual Arts Showcase #63: Elements
CNY Arts

The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A juried show of works created by upstate New York artists.

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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The Sweetest Battle: Works by Rebecca Murtaugh
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Artist Statement:
I am intrigued by the space between painting and sculpture and the history of objects. Much of my work is based in installation with materials and techniques that vary to serve the needs of my intentions. I engage in processes of often altering everyday materials so that they draw from the language of each material's history and at once, transcend that history to provide an experience of the sublime. My work maintains a balance of formal and conceptual motivations. I aim for the work to be playful, sexy, visually engaging, and a rewarding intellectual experience for those viewers who seek to look further.

Artist Biography:
Rebecca Murtaugh currently splits her time between Brooklyn and Central New York. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University, Bachelor of Science from the Pennsylvania State University, and was raised in Philadelphia. Her work has been exhibited nationally in both solo and group exhibitions at venues such as the Contemporary Art Fair with Thatcher Projects in New York City, Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia, the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Northern California, the Athens Institute of Contemporary Art in Atlanta, Current Gallery in Baltimore, and the District of Columbia Art Center. Upcoming exhibitions in 2008 include Seductions at 1708 Gallery in Richmond, Virginia; Part Object, Part Sculpture at the Brew House: Space 101 in Pittsburgh; and Keeping the Conceptual Momentum at the Kelly and Weber Gallery in Philadelphia. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York where she teaches Sculpture and Critical Theory.

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith
The Warehouse Gallery
Community Folk Art Center

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

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith is artist Terry Adkins' multi-media tribute to Smith, known as the Empress of the Blues. Working with a variety of materials Adkins weaves sculpture into a narrative installation that is both a tribute to and a lament for the transformative power of Smith's vocal artistry.

In an essay that accompanies the exhibition Dr. Kheli R. Willetts, academic director of CFAC and assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Syracuse University writes, "Adkins' work creates an environment which challenges us to engage with Smith beyond her status as a legendary musical performer. He has resurrected her as a creative deity whose stage has now become a temple and the viewers are transformed into her devotees as they enter the space."

Smith is regarded as one of the greatest blues singers of all time. She was the highest-paid black performer of her day and arguably reached a level of success greater than that of any African American recording artist before her. Yet in her adopted home of Philadelphia she remains unsung and even her grave remained unmarked until 1970.

Adkins commutes regularly from New York to Philadelphia where he teaches in the Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania. This exhibition is a continued exploration of his use of figures in history whose contributions to society are overlooked, under appreciated, or just not given the stature that he believes they should have in society. Although Adkins work emanates from an activist position, it evolves from abstract forms with the intent of educating the public about historical figures through ways that are not image based or narrative-based but that challenge the viewer to think abstractly in relating to the stories of the lives of the people concerned.

Terry Adkins has been exhibiting internationally since 1980. He is Associate Professor of Fine Art at the University of Pennsylvania where he recently installed Darkwater: A Recital in Four Dominions, a tribute to W. E. B. Du Bois at the Arthur Ross Gallery. Adkins has published numerous essays and has completed several significant public commissions. In addition to being a highly respected artist and sought after guest lecturer, his artworks have been placed in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among other significant museums and collections. He received his B.S. from Fisk University and his M.F.A from the University of Kentucky.

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Photography by Julieve Jubin
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Opening reception.

Jake Gillespie: Works on Paper
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

Jake Gillespie is a painter, multi-media artist, and co-founder of a non-profit art gallery in his home of Lincoln, Nebraska. His work has shown in galleries and museums throughout Kansas City, Chicago, and Nebraska. This exhibition highlights several recent series of drawings on paper. Gillespie's work features nearly narrative depictions of human interactions, as well as portraits both intimate and comical. His drawing technique is strongly influenced by his training as a painter and is distinct in its heavy chalking and thick graphite line work.

How to Steer the Wheel
Redhouse

Price: $15 Adults and $12 Students/Seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

An experimental animation and live cinema performance; Heath Hanlin has been working with 3D animation as his main visual toolbox for more than 10 years. He creates the soundtracks to his animations, which have always been of equal importance to the visuals. Most of Heath's music and sound work over the last several years is synthetic, or noise music.

In How to Steer the Wheel, Heath takes a more traditional musical approach. In this work, the guitar is an armature; all other sounds and the imagery are built around carefully articulated musical compositions for guitar. The music is a thread of reason in an abstract visual landscape, using the composition as the narrative.

Opening for Hanlin is a multi-media performance by artist Blake Carrington, You Would Do As Well Never Moving From Here, an investigation into a detached, expanded time and space. The work's central element is a single phrase sung by a vocal quartet, which is stretched to 60 times its original length. The phrase is taken from Italo Calvino's novel Invisible Cities. In the novel, the traveler Marco Polo speaks with the aging Mongol emperor Kublai Khan, describing each of the cities of the Khan's kingdom. Kublai responds, "My gaze is that of a man meditating, lost in thought -- I admit it. But yours? You cross archipelagos, tundras, mountain ranges. You would do as well never moving from here."

OCC Flute Choir
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

David Mallett
Folkus Project

Price: $15
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Evocative songs celebrate small-town life and the struggles of the common man.

The cool breezes of Maine's northlands have flowed through the songs of David Mallett for more than four decades. Although rooted in place, his songs speak to the essential things that move us all: our joys, heartaches, failures, and triumphs. Filled with passion, evocative imagery, and a sense of the inevitable passage of time, his songs explore life and love in small town New England with an eye for detail and an ear for melody. Mallett's songs have received international acclaim and one of them, The Garden Song, has become one of America's most popular folk songs.

Padmashree Prabha Atre, Indian classical singer and composer

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

As part of the "Music Moves Religion: Performance Networks in Indian Ocean Cultures" three-day conference this week at Syracuse University, Prabha Atre, an internationally acclaimed singer and composer of Indian classical music, will perform.

Atre is one of the finest living exponents of the Kirana performance style, noted for its tonal purity and improvisation. Atre has received two of the most coveted awards from the government of India: Padmashree and Padmabhushan. Her musical compositions are known for their originality, poetic beauty and melodic intricacy.

The "Music Moves Religion" conference is presented by the Cultures and Religions Cluster of the Central New York Humanities Corridor and is organized by Tazim R. Kassam, chair of SU's Department of Religion. The principal program coordinator of the Religion and Culture Cluster of the CNY Humanities Corridor is Ann Grodzins Gold, professor of religion and anthropology and director of SU's South Asia Center.

Kathleen Flenniken and Laure-Anne Bosselaar, poets
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Kathleen Flenniken's first poetry collection, Famous (University of Nebraska Press, 2006)
won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and was named a Notable Book by the American Library Association in 2007.

Laure-Anne Bosselaar is the author of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf and Small Gods of Grief, winner of the 2001 Isabella Gardner Prize for Poetry. Ausable Press published her latest book, A New Hunger, in 2007. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and at the MFA in Creative Writing Program of Pine Manor College.

Romance
Rarely Done Productions
Judith Harris, director

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

A screwball look at political correctness, jurisprudence, and hilariously misquoted Shakespeare. The characters reveal to us their bigotry -- against religion, against race, against national origin, against sexual orientation -- all in rhythm with David Mamet's unique storytelling style. Be prepared to be offended and yet laugh through this 2005 comedy sometimes referred to as "Kafka Meets Monty Python." Mature audiences only.

Seating for each show is limited. To reserve tickets, phone the box office at 315-546-3224.

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The Beard of Avon
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Ronald Bell, director

Price: $10
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exciting, satirical and comical look at the age-old question of who wrote Shakespeare. Playwright Amy Freed, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her Freedomland, takes us on a journey that few playwrights have tackled before; the origins of Shakespeare's works. Ms. Freed applies her cinematic approach to the theatrical realm as she follows the Bard from his marriage in Stratford to London and back again and traces his journey for us to behold. For all you Shakespeare in Love fans, this is the play you've been waiting for.

For reservations, please phone 315-476-1835 or e-mail bell444@gmail.com.

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Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Wit's End Players

Price: $20
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Famed comedian and former Saturday Night Live alum Steve Martin's Off-Broadway comedy finds Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso and a time-traveling Elvis meeting in a Paris café (The Nimble Rabbit) in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with Cubism. Martin's brilliant script plays fast and loose with fact, fame and fortune as these three geniuses, and a zany cast of characters, muse on the century's achievements and prospects as well as other fanciful topics with infectious hilarity!

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