Sunday, February 11, 2007

Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War
Light Work Gallery
Featuring works by William Earle Williams

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

Until the release of the motion picture Glory in 1989, it was not well known that more than 180,000 black soldiers served in the Civil War. The exhibition Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War features over 40 stunning black-and-white photographs by William Earle Williams. The images call attention to the sites made special through these soldiers' contributions, so that their story becomes a part of our American story.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features the work of seniors and graduate students in Syracuse University's Department of Transmedia.

A Journey Towards Hope: Underground Railroad Sites in Oberlin, Ohio
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Coriana Close has photographed the history of Oberlin, Ohio's Underground Railroad for the last few years. The images include large format color photographs of buildings in Oberlin that were essential to the abolitionist movement.

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

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

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

Celestial Images: Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps From the Mendillo Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Celestial Images celebrates the Golden Age of astronomical charts. Some of the world's earliest artistic images, illustrations of cosmologies and heavenly phenomena, entered into a new and lively phase during the Renaissance. The invention of printing in the 15th century improved the means of disseminating scientific knowledge; advances in astronomy in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the portrayal of new information. This fortuitous conjunction created printed astronomical charts of surprising accuracy and delicate beauty. Celestial cartographers combined their scientific quest with a keen aesthetic sense -- each chart had to be an object of beauty, as well as a repository of information. These charts were a celebration of aesthetics as well as scientific knowledge.

Like the twins of Gemini, art and science walked hand-in-hand for over hundred years. By the late 19th century, this unified way of seeing had split into the "two cultures" of art and science that we know today. Overwhelmed by a vast amount of data, astronomical charts of the 20th century eventually changed into functional, unadorned tools intended for the specialists. Tucked away in libraries, museums and private collections, however, are splendid remnants of a bygone era. Assembled here from the Mendillo Collection of Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps are over 80 examples of some of the finest celestial cartography created. There are star charts (maps of the constellations and the full celestial sphere), charts of planetary systems (cosmologies), and a smaller third category, charts of celestial phenomena (such as nebulae, comets, and eclipses). Together, they pay homage to a time when simple systems explained the universe and humankind held friendly commerce with the skies.

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

Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Meaning and Metaphor presents a group of 10 large contemporary paintings and two distinctly different sculptures. Made by American and British artists, the works challenge preconceived notions of what art is and its purpose.

Several pieces reject the idea that art needs to be realistic. Large paintings by Bernard Cohen and Walter Darby Bannard explore abstraction in uniquely different ways. Bannard's Sun Flood, 1972 is an excellent late example of Abstract Expressionism while Cohen's Somewhere Between, 1975 pushed Op Art to its philosophical extreme.

Other works examine the role of narration in art. Robert Birmelin's Night Driving, 1964, Sidney Goodman's Eclipse and Rico Lebrun's Lazarus, 1962 develop stories that leave the viewer with more questions than answers.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

War News and Strange Brews: The Art of Boris Artzybasheff
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Boris Artzybasheff was a Russian émigré artist who painted over 200 cover illustrations for Time magazine. His most important work dates to World War II when he depicted the politicians, military leaders and the issues that governed the course of the conflict. His unique abilities in portraiture led Time to select him to paint several Man of the Year covers including portraits of Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman.

Artzybasheff was possibly more famous for his illustrations that gave machinery human characteristics. His sly talent for choosing just the right amount of human anatomy gave each machine a personality that ranged from sympathetic to sinister. Viewers were therefore compelled to have an emotional reaction to the machine and its purpose.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

On the Edge of Pop
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

On the Edge of Pop presents a selection of paintings, sculpture and prints that examines the pop art movement's later years in the 1970s. Included in the exhibition are works by Pop icons like Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. These originators were joined by later participants including Robert Cottingham, John Clem Clark and Mel Ramos.

Pop established a new order of symbols, images and content that evolved over time. The style began in the late 1950s as a reaction to the intensely personal and gestural look of Abstract Expressionism. Pop artists de-emphasized their role in making art by often using more mechanical techniques usually associated with mass market processes. Their images were often appropriated from popular culture and, as a result, the general public greeted the new work enthusiastically.

By 1970 Pop had evolved into a more mainstream art form as the style broadened its scope. Andy Warhol did a series of paintings and prints of celebrities and other important figures. He took a famous publicity photograph of Marilyn Monroe and made a series of differently colored screenprints. Installed as multiples, the prints reinterpreted the starlet's place in American culture. Robert Rauschenberg had gained such a reputation that in 1969 NASA invited him to Cape Canaveral to witness the launch of Apollo 11 and to use its images in his work. His color screenprint Signs, 1970 prominently features the astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon along with a host of other iconic figures and events from the preceding decade.

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

Atrium Exhibit: Scholastic Art Awards Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

New to You
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

An exhibit of the work of new guild members as well as emerging and seldom shown artists.

In Recital: Art Songs and Arias
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Eric Johnson, basso; with Ida Trebicka, piano

Price: $15; free for students and CMM membership ticket holders
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Stephen Collins Foster:
My Old Kentucky Home, Goodnight, Hard Times Come Again No More, The Glendy Burk, Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair, Thats Whats the Matter

Tommaso Giordani:
Caro mio ben

Alessandro Scarlatti:
Gia il sole dal Gange

Friederich Händel:
Ombra mai fu Georg

Vincenzo Bellini:
Dolente immagine di Fille mia; Vaga luna, che inargenti; Malinconia, Ninfa gentile

W. A. Mozart:
Per questa bella mano

Franz Schubert:
Fischerweise, Der Tod und das Mädchen, Der Lindenbaum, Wasserflut, Die Forelle, An die Musik

Hugo Wolf:
Alles endet, was entstehet

Robert Schumann:
Die beiden Grenadiere

Ludwig Fischer:
Im kühlen Keller sitz ich hier

Albert Lortzing:
Auch ich war ein Jüngling mit lockigem Haar (from Der Waffenschmied)

Jerome Kern:
Ol' Man River (from Showboat)

Winter Concert
Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra
Erik Kibelsbeck, conductor
Featuring Pablo Cohen, guitar

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Mendelssohn Overture for Winds
Beethoven Symphony No. 7
Radames Gnattali Concerto a Brazileira No. 4 (1967)

"Happy Birthday Ella" Cabaret
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Barbara Morrison

Price: $24 general; $16 CNY JAF members; $10 students
Justin's Grille
6400 Yorktown Circle, East Syracuse

Syracuse jazz audiences are well familiar with the talents of Barbara Morrison, veteran of past CNYJO concerts and Jazz in the Square headliner. She'll be taking a break from an international tour to present us with her unique one-woman "Happy Birthday Ella" show commemorating the 90th birthday of America's most loved jazz singing legend, Ella Fitzgerald. Barbara has performed with a virtual "Who's Who" of the Jazz and the Blues worlds including legends Dizzy Gillespie, James Moody, Ron Carter, Jimmy Smith, Dr. John, Kenny Burrell, Terence Blanchard, Joe Sample, Cedar Walton, Nancy Wilson, Mel Torme, Joe Williams, Tony Bennett, and Keb' Mo (Kevin Moore). She has been featured on over 20 recordings in almost every genre from traditional Jazz and Blues to Gospel and Pop.

Cash bar and food stations will be available throughout the event for an additional charge.

Seating is liimited. Please phone Justin's Grill at 315-437-1461 for reservations.

Visions of Sound
Society for New Music

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Presented in collaboration with the dance program at SUNY-Brockport.

Brian Bevelander Synthecisms No. 3
Marc Mellits Fruity Pebbles
Mark Olivieri Piano Trio
Danny Felsenfeld Egypt and A Dirty Little Secret
Dan Coleman Fantasia

TK99 Soundcheck: Mandate of Heaven & Jason Bean
Redhouse

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

Frozen
Redhouse
Gerard E. Moses, director

Price: $25 regular; $20 senior; $16 student; $8 student rush
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

British playwright Bryony Lavery's controversial play begins with a mother waiting for the return of her missing 10-year old daughter. In the wait and over a period of years the mother, the kidnapper, and a psychiatrist come together to confront each other. Its subject matter uncovers new questions and ignites a thick range of emotion for actors and audience members alike. Frozen asks us to look at who we are and why we do what we do.

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The Cocktail Hour
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $20 regular; $15 students/seniors
St. Clare Auditorium
Lodi and Isabella Streets, Syracuse

A. R. Gurney's semi-autobiographical story of an upper-class family in Buffalo in the 1970s.

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Disney's High School Musical
The Talent Company
Christine Lightcap, director

Price: $25 regular, $22 students/seniors, $14 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The Disney Channel smash hit original movie that topped the Billboard music charts and broke video and CD sales records within weeks of its premiere comes to life on stage with the antics of East High students as they audition for the school musical, compete in a scholastic decathlon, and play the championship basketball game. Troy (Tim Quartier), captain of the basketball team, and Gabriella (Ana Thornton), the brainy, shy new girl at school surprise themselves and others by trying out for the lead roles in the musical. They face the objections of Sharpay (Rachel Mulcahy), the thespian queen and president of the drama club, and Ryan (Chris Cory), her brother and vice-president of the drama club, who covet the roles for themselves, and friends Chad (Maoti Gborkorquellie), number two on the Wildcats Basketball Team and Taylor (MiKayla Hawkinson), president of the scholastic club, who want Troy and Gabriella to stick to what they do best - basketball and academics. Other characters in the various cliques at East High are Zeke (Stephfond Brunson), a jock with a secret passion for baking, Martha Cox (Jodie Baum), a brainiac with a secret passion for hip hop, Kelsi Neilson (Paige Goldberg), the composer-pianist of the school musical, and Jack Scott (Alex Allport), the smart-mouthed student P.A. announcer known as the Velvet Fog of East High. Ms. Darbus (Christine Lightcap) the drama teacher, Coach Bolton (Jeff Paduano) the basketball coach, and Ms. Tenny (Dorothy Lennon) the science teacher, preside over the competing school activities.

The stage version features the original musical score including The Start Of Something New, We're All In This Together, Get'cha Head In The Game, Stick To The Status Quo, Bop To The Top, When There Was Me And You, What I've Been Looking For, and Breaking Free, plus three new songs Cellular Fusion, Counting On You, and the song not in the movie but heard on a bonus track of the original cast recording entitled I Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You.

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Monday, February 12, 2007

A Journey Towards Hope: Underground Railroad Sites in Oberlin, Ohio
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Coriana Close has photographed the history of Oberlin, Ohio's Underground Railroad for the last few years. The images include large format color photographs of buildings in Oberlin that were essential to the abolitionist movement.

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

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

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

Atrium Exhibit: Scholastic Art Awards Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

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

The Visual Arts Showcase Committee of the CRC is pleased to present an eclectic offering, featuring work of state and local grant winners since 2000. Special viewing arrangements can be made through the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155.

Gallery Exhibit: Kente Cloth
Onondaga Community College

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

W.E.B. DuBois Traveling Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Living Arrangements
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

Works by Julie Eizenberg

New to You
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

An exhibit of the work of new guild members as well as emerging and seldom shown artists.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features the work of seniors and graduate students in Syracuse University's Department of Transmedia.

Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War
Light Work Gallery
Featuring works by William Earle Williams

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

Until the release of the motion picture Glory in 1989, it was not well known that more than 180,000 black soldiers served in the Civil War. The exhibition Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War features over 40 stunning black-and-white photographs by William Earle Williams. The images call attention to the sites made special through these soldiers' contributions, so that their story becomes a part of our American story.

Syracuse Set List: Blues
Redhouse
Featuring Eric Bibb

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

Bluesman Eric Bibb makes his Syracuse debut as part of the Set List Songwriter's Series.

Eric has appeared on major TV and radio shows including Later with Jools Holland and The Late Late Show. Eric and his band have played at most of the world's major festivals including Glastonbury and the Cambridge Folk Festival in the UK. He joined Robert Cray on two U.S. tour stints in 2001 and 2002 and opened for Ray Charles in the summer of 2002.

Eric's talent for both performing and songwriting has been recognized with a Grammy Nomination (for "Shakin' a Tailfeather") and 4 W.C. Handy nominations (for the albums "Spirit and the Blues," "Home To Me" and "A Ship Called Love;" for "Kokomo" as Best Acoustic Blues Song of the Year, and for Best Acoustic Blues Artist of the Year). His songs have been featured on TV shows such as BBC TV's "Eastenders" and "Casualty", and "The District" in the USA. Eric's version of "I Heard the Angels Singin'" was included in the feature film "The Burial Society" and Eric appears on Jools Holland's double platinum-selling album "Small World, Big Band", singing his own composition "All That You Are". His 2005 release, "Ship Called Love," has been nominated for Acoustic Album of the Year in the 2006 Blues Music Awards.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

A Journey Towards Hope: Underground Railroad Sites in Oberlin, Ohio
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Coriana Close has photographed the history of Oberlin, Ohio's Underground Railroad for the last few years. The images include large format color photographs of buildings in Oberlin that were essential to the abolitionist movement.

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

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

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

Atrium Exhibit: Scholastic Art Awards Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

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

The Visual Arts Showcase Committee of the CRC is pleased to present an eclectic offering, featuring work of state and local grant winners since 2000. Special viewing arrangements can be made through the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155.

W.E.B. DuBois Traveling Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Gallery Exhibit: Kente Cloth
Onondaga Community College

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

Living Arrangements
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

Works by Julie Eizenberg

New to You
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

An exhibit of the work of new guild members as well as emerging and seldom shown artists.

Underground Railroad Made Visible: Photos by William Earle Williams
Community Folk Art Center

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

The photographs are of sites that were once part of the Underground Railroad, including many here in Central New York.

The exhibition is held in conjunction with a simultaneous exhibition at Light Work also featuring Williams' photographs: "Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War."

William Earle Williams received a B.A. degree in History from Hamilton College and an M.F.A. degree in Fine Arts from Yale University. He is a Professor of Fine Arts at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and also a Curator of Photography. Williams participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2003.

Pride and Perseverance: Civil Rights Paintings by Charly Palmer
Community Folk Art Center

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

An artist with a passion for history, Palmer's works chronicle important social and political events, focusing on African American historical subjects and the Civil Rights Movement in particular. Palmer's works make use of bold colors, textures and layers to bring his subjects to life. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and his work can be found in several prominent public and private collections. Palmer has received several major awards and commissions. He has also worked as an educator, instructing students of all ages in drawing, painting, design and illustration.

Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War
Light Work Gallery
Featuring works by William Earle Williams

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

Until the release of the motion picture Glory in 1989, it was not well known that more than 180,000 black soldiers served in the Civil War. The exhibition Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War features over 40 stunning black-and-white photographs by William Earle Williams. The images call attention to the sites made special through these soldiers' contributions, so that their story becomes a part of our American story.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features the work of seniors and graduate students in Syracuse University's Department of Transmedia.

Dreams: Between the Sky and the Earth: Collaborations with Children at Ed Smith School
The Warehouse Gallery

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

"Between the sky and the earth emerge paths to a new way of life where people journey together to a cleaner, safer, more beautiful world." So reads the inscription on a photograph by fifth-grader Shivhari Chathrattil describing his dream and image. It is one of more than 80 photographs -- in addition to a video documentary -- on display in the exhibition, which explores the dreams and visual imaginations of fifth-grade students in the Syracuse City School District (SCSD) and is the culmination of the efforts of an innovative course -- Literacy, Community and Photography -- offered through Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Staging the coldest season as a playground for imagination, The Warehouse Gallery presents Embracing Winter, a group exhibition featuring knitted sculpture, psychedelic video, interactive displays, sly photography, and crisp audio and book works by American, Canadian and Italian artists: Janet Morton, Bruno Munari, Takeshi Murata, Collin Olan, Lisa M. Robinson, and Rudy Shepherd

Syracuse is the perennial winner of the Golden Snowball Award, for the most snowfall in New York State. Embracing Winter celebrates this crystallized precipitation as the key to a delightful set of activities, and as an ephemeral filter to make ordinary surroundings new again.

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Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Meaning and Metaphor presents a group of 10 large contemporary paintings and two distinctly different sculptures. Made by American and British artists, the works challenge preconceived notions of what art is and its purpose.

Several pieces reject the idea that art needs to be realistic. Large paintings by Bernard Cohen and Walter Darby Bannard explore abstraction in uniquely different ways. Bannard's Sun Flood, 1972 is an excellent late example of Abstract Expressionism while Cohen's Somewhere Between, 1975 pushed Op Art to its philosophical extreme.

Other works examine the role of narration in art. Robert Birmelin's Night Driving, 1964, Sidney Goodman's Eclipse and Rico Lebrun's Lazarus, 1962 develop stories that leave the viewer with more questions than answers.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

Celestial Images: Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps From the Mendillo Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Celestial Images celebrates the Golden Age of astronomical charts. Some of the world's earliest artistic images, illustrations of cosmologies and heavenly phenomena, entered into a new and lively phase during the Renaissance. The invention of printing in the 15th century improved the means of disseminating scientific knowledge; advances in astronomy in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the portrayal of new information. This fortuitous conjunction created printed astronomical charts of surprising accuracy and delicate beauty. Celestial cartographers combined their scientific quest with a keen aesthetic sense -- each chart had to be an object of beauty, as well as a repository of information. These charts were a celebration of aesthetics as well as scientific knowledge.

Like the twins of Gemini, art and science walked hand-in-hand for over hundred years. By the late 19th century, this unified way of seeing had split into the "two cultures" of art and science that we know today. Overwhelmed by a vast amount of data, astronomical charts of the 20th century eventually changed into functional, unadorned tools intended for the specialists. Tucked away in libraries, museums and private collections, however, are splendid remnants of a bygone era. Assembled here from the Mendillo Collection of Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps are over 80 examples of some of the finest celestial cartography created. There are star charts (maps of the constellations and the full celestial sphere), charts of planetary systems (cosmologies), and a smaller third category, charts of celestial phenomena (such as nebulae, comets, and eclipses). Together, they pay homage to a time when simple systems explained the universe and humankind held friendly commerce with the skies.

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

War News and Strange Brews: The Art of Boris Artzybasheff
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Boris Artzybasheff was a Russian émigré artist who painted over 200 cover illustrations for Time magazine. His most important work dates to World War II when he depicted the politicians, military leaders and the issues that governed the course of the conflict. His unique abilities in portraiture led Time to select him to paint several Man of the Year covers including portraits of Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman.

Artzybasheff was possibly more famous for his illustrations that gave machinery human characteristics. His sly talent for choosing just the right amount of human anatomy gave each machine a personality that ranged from sympathetic to sinister. Viewers were therefore compelled to have an emotional reaction to the machine and its purpose.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

On the Edge of Pop
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

On the Edge of Pop presents a selection of paintings, sculpture and prints that examines the pop art movement's later years in the 1970s. Included in the exhibition are works by Pop icons like Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. These originators were joined by later participants including Robert Cottingham, John Clem Clark and Mel Ramos.

Pop established a new order of symbols, images and content that evolved over time. The style began in the late 1950s as a reaction to the intensely personal and gestural look of Abstract Expressionism. Pop artists de-emphasized their role in making art by often using more mechanical techniques usually associated with mass market processes. Their images were often appropriated from popular culture and, as a result, the general public greeted the new work enthusiastically.

By 1970 Pop had evolved into a more mainstream art form as the style broadened its scope. Andy Warhol did a series of paintings and prints of celebrities and other important figures. He took a famous publicity photograph of Marilyn Monroe and made a series of differently colored screenprints. Installed as multiples, the prints reinterpreted the starlet's place in American culture. Robert Rauschenberg had gained such a reputation that in 1969 NASA invited him to Cape Canaveral to witness the launch of Apollo 11 and to use its images in his work. His color screenprint Signs, 1970 prominently features the astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon along with a host of other iconic figures and events from the preceding decade.

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

Faculty Chamber Music Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Jeremy Mastrangelo, violin; Fred Karpoff, piano

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

The program includes Beethoven's Sonata in G, Op. 30 No. 3 and Schumann's Sonata in A Minor, Op. 105. The duo will later be joined by David LeDoux, new principal cellist for the SSO, for Brahms' Trio in B Major, Op. 8.

Mastrangelo is associate concert master for the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra and affiliate artist in the Setnor School. Karpoff is associate professor of piano and ensemble arts in the Setnor School.

Parking is available in Irving Garage. Senior citizens may park in Quad I on a space-available basis.

Cirque Dreams: Jungle Fantasy
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $49.50; $39.50; $27.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In the ongoing tradition of spectacular touring productions, Neil Goldberg and Cirque Productions have once again reinvented the circus with European flair, imaginative theatrics and world-class acrobatics. Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy is an all-new adventure that takes audiences soaring into a magical forest through the air and on stage. An international cast of graceful aerialists, spine bending contortionists, vine swinging characters, strong men and balancers bring this jungle dream to life in a lush, Broadway setting filled with wildly unpredictable designs, special effects, inventive choreography, puppeteering and dazzling costumes. Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy is an exhilarating journey the entire family can experience together.

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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

A Journey Towards Hope: Underground Railroad Sites in Oberlin, Ohio
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Coriana Close has photographed the history of Oberlin, Ohio's Underground Railroad for the last few years. The images include large format color photographs of buildings in Oberlin that were essential to the abolitionist movement.

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

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

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

Atrium Exhibit: Scholastic Art Awards Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

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

The Visual Arts Showcase Committee of the CRC is pleased to present an eclectic offering, featuring work of state and local grant winners since 2000. Special viewing arrangements can be made through the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155.

Gallery Exhibit: Kente Cloth
Onondaga Community College

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

W.E.B. DuBois Traveling Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Living Arrangements
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

Works by Julie Eizenberg

New to You
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

An exhibit of the work of new guild members as well as emerging and seldom shown artists.

Pride and Perseverance: Civil Rights Paintings by Charly Palmer
Community Folk Art Center

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

An artist with a passion for history, Palmer's works chronicle important social and political events, focusing on African American historical subjects and the Civil Rights Movement in particular. Palmer's works make use of bold colors, textures and layers to bring his subjects to life. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and his work can be found in several prominent public and private collections. Palmer has received several major awards and commissions. He has also worked as an educator, instructing students of all ages in drawing, painting, design and illustration.

Underground Railroad Made Visible: Photos by William Earle Williams
Community Folk Art Center

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

The photographs are of sites that were once part of the Underground Railroad, including many here in Central New York.

The exhibition is held in conjunction with a simultaneous exhibition at Light Work also featuring Williams' photographs: "Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War."

William Earle Williams received a B.A. degree in History from Hamilton College and an M.F.A. degree in Fine Arts from Yale University. He is a Professor of Fine Arts at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and also a Curator of Photography. Williams participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2003.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features the work of seniors and graduate students in Syracuse University's Department of Transmedia.

Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War
Light Work Gallery
Featuring works by William Earle Williams

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

Until the release of the motion picture Glory in 1989, it was not well known that more than 180,000 black soldiers served in the Civil War. The exhibition Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War features over 40 stunning black-and-white photographs by William Earle Williams. The images call attention to the sites made special through these soldiers' contributions, so that their story becomes a part of our American story.

Dreams: Between the Sky and the Earth: Collaborations with Children at Ed Smith School
The Warehouse Gallery

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

"Between the sky and the earth emerge paths to a new way of life where people journey together to a cleaner, safer, more beautiful world." So reads the inscription on a photograph by fifth-grader Shivhari Chathrattil describing his dream and image. It is one of more than 80 photographs -- in addition to a video documentary -- on display in the exhibition, which explores the dreams and visual imaginations of fifth-grade students in the Syracuse City School District (SCSD) and is the culmination of the efforts of an innovative course -- Literacy, Community and Photography -- offered through Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Staging the coldest season as a playground for imagination, The Warehouse Gallery presents Embracing Winter, a group exhibition featuring knitted sculpture, psychedelic video, interactive displays, sly photography, and crisp audio and book works by American, Canadian and Italian artists: Janet Morton, Bruno Munari, Takeshi Murata, Collin Olan, Lisa M. Robinson, and Rudy Shepherd

Syracuse is the perennial winner of the Golden Snowball Award, for the most snowfall in New York State. Embracing Winter celebrates this crystallized precipitation as the key to a delightful set of activities, and as an ephemeral filter to make ordinary surroundings new again.

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Celestial Images: Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps From the Mendillo Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Celestial Images celebrates the Golden Age of astronomical charts. Some of the world's earliest artistic images, illustrations of cosmologies and heavenly phenomena, entered into a new and lively phase during the Renaissance. The invention of printing in the 15th century improved the means of disseminating scientific knowledge; advances in astronomy in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the portrayal of new information. This fortuitous conjunction created printed astronomical charts of surprising accuracy and delicate beauty. Celestial cartographers combined their scientific quest with a keen aesthetic sense -- each chart had to be an object of beauty, as well as a repository of information. These charts were a celebration of aesthetics as well as scientific knowledge.

Like the twins of Gemini, art and science walked hand-in-hand for over hundred years. By the late 19th century, this unified way of seeing had split into the "two cultures" of art and science that we know today. Overwhelmed by a vast amount of data, astronomical charts of the 20th century eventually changed into functional, unadorned tools intended for the specialists. Tucked away in libraries, museums and private collections, however, are splendid remnants of a bygone era. Assembled here from the Mendillo Collection of Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps are over 80 examples of some of the finest celestial cartography created. There are star charts (maps of the constellations and the full celestial sphere), charts of planetary systems (cosmologies), and a smaller third category, charts of celestial phenomena (such as nebulae, comets, and eclipses). Together, they pay homage to a time when simple systems explained the universe and humankind held friendly commerce with the skies.

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

Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Meaning and Metaphor presents a group of 10 large contemporary paintings and two distinctly different sculptures. Made by American and British artists, the works challenge preconceived notions of what art is and its purpose.

Several pieces reject the idea that art needs to be realistic. Large paintings by Bernard Cohen and Walter Darby Bannard explore abstraction in uniquely different ways. Bannard's Sun Flood, 1972 is an excellent late example of Abstract Expressionism while Cohen's Somewhere Between, 1975 pushed Op Art to its philosophical extreme.

Other works examine the role of narration in art. Robert Birmelin's Night Driving, 1964, Sidney Goodman's Eclipse and Rico Lebrun's Lazarus, 1962 develop stories that leave the viewer with more questions than answers.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

War News and Strange Brews: The Art of Boris Artzybasheff
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Boris Artzybasheff was a Russian émigré artist who painted over 200 cover illustrations for Time magazine. His most important work dates to World War II when he depicted the politicians, military leaders and the issues that governed the course of the conflict. His unique abilities in portraiture led Time to select him to paint several Man of the Year covers including portraits of Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman.

Artzybasheff was possibly more famous for his illustrations that gave machinery human characteristics. His sly talent for choosing just the right amount of human anatomy gave each machine a personality that ranged from sympathetic to sinister. Viewers were therefore compelled to have an emotional reaction to the machine and its purpose.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

On the Edge of Pop
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

On the Edge of Pop presents a selection of paintings, sculpture and prints that examines the pop art movement's later years in the 1970s. Included in the exhibition are works by Pop icons like Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. These originators were joined by later participants including Robert Cottingham, John Clem Clark and Mel Ramos.

Pop established a new order of symbols, images and content that evolved over time. The style began in the late 1950s as a reaction to the intensely personal and gestural look of Abstract Expressionism. Pop artists de-emphasized their role in making art by often using more mechanical techniques usually associated with mass market processes. Their images were often appropriated from popular culture and, as a result, the general public greeted the new work enthusiastically.

By 1970 Pop had evolved into a more mainstream art form as the style broadened its scope. Andy Warhol did a series of paintings and prints of celebrities and other important figures. He took a famous publicity photograph of Marilyn Monroe and made a series of differently colored screenprints. Installed as multiples, the prints reinterpreted the starlet's place in American culture. Robert Rauschenberg had gained such a reputation that in 1969 NASA invited him to Cape Canaveral to witness the launch of Apollo 11 and to use its images in his work. His color screenprint Signs, 1970 prominently features the astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon along with a host of other iconic figures and events from the preceding decade.

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

Setting Up Camp
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring Patricia Morton

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

Looking Inward: A Spiritual Sojourn
Civic Morning Musicals
Phil Eisenman, baritone; Jerry Exline, piano

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

Music and commentary based on the insights of Sydney Banks, featuring music of Ernst Bacon, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Gary Geld, Charles Ives, Hall Johnson, and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Cirque Dreams: Jungle Fantasy
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $49.50; $39.50; $27.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In the ongoing tradition of spectacular touring productions, Neil Goldberg and Cirque Productions have once again reinvented the circus with European flair, imaginative theatrics and world-class acrobatics. Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy is an all-new adventure that takes audiences soaring into a magical forest through the air and on stage. An international cast of graceful aerialists, spine bending contortionists, vine swinging characters, strong men and balancers bring this jungle dream to life in a lush, Broadway setting filled with wildly unpredictable designs, special effects, inventive choreography, puppeteering and dazzling costumes. Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy is an exhilarating journey the entire family can experience together.

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Always ... Patsy Cline
Opening Night Productions

Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

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Thursday, February 15, 2007

A Journey Towards Hope: Underground Railroad Sites in Oberlin, Ohio
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Coriana Close has photographed the history of Oberlin, Ohio's Underground Railroad for the last few years. The images include large format color photographs of buildings in Oberlin that were essential to the abolitionist movement.

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

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

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

Atrium Exhibit: Scholastic Art Awards Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

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

The Visual Arts Showcase Committee of the CRC is pleased to present an eclectic offering, featuring work of state and local grant winners since 2000. Special viewing arrangements can be made through the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155.

W.E.B. DuBois Traveling Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Gallery Exhibit: Kente Cloth
Onondaga Community College

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

Living Arrangements
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

Works by Julie Eizenberg

New to You
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

An exhibit of the work of new guild members as well as emerging and seldom shown artists.

Underground Railroad Made Visible: Photos by William Earle Williams
Community Folk Art Center

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

The photographs are of sites that were once part of the Underground Railroad, including many here in Central New York.

The exhibition is held in conjunction with a simultaneous exhibition at Light Work also featuring Williams' photographs: "Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War."

William Earle Williams received a B.A. degree in History from Hamilton College and an M.F.A. degree in Fine Arts from Yale University. He is a Professor of Fine Arts at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and also a Curator of Photography. Williams participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2003.

Pride and Perseverance: Civil Rights Paintings by Charly Palmer
Community Folk Art Center

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

An artist with a passion for history, Palmer's works chronicle important social and political events, focusing on African American historical subjects and the Civil Rights Movement in particular. Palmer's works make use of bold colors, textures and layers to bring his subjects to life. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and his work can be found in several prominent public and private collections. Palmer has received several major awards and commissions. He has also worked as an educator, instructing students of all ages in drawing, painting, design and illustration.

Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War
Light Work Gallery
Featuring works by William Earle Williams

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

Until the release of the motion picture Glory in 1989, it was not well known that more than 180,000 black soldiers served in the Civil War. The exhibition Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War features over 40 stunning black-and-white photographs by William Earle Williams. The images call attention to the sites made special through these soldiers' contributions, so that their story becomes a part of our American story.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features the work of seniors and graduate students in Syracuse University's Department of Transmedia.

Dreams: Between the Sky and the Earth: Collaborations with Children at Ed Smith School
The Warehouse Gallery

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

"Between the sky and the earth emerge paths to a new way of life where people journey together to a cleaner, safer, more beautiful world." So reads the inscription on a photograph by fifth-grader Shivhari Chathrattil describing his dream and image. It is one of more than 80 photographs -- in addition to a video documentary -- on display in the exhibition, which explores the dreams and visual imaginations of fifth-grade students in the Syracuse City School District (SCSD) and is the culmination of the efforts of an innovative course -- Literacy, Community and Photography -- offered through Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Staging the coldest season as a playground for imagination, The Warehouse Gallery presents Embracing Winter, a group exhibition featuring knitted sculpture, psychedelic video, interactive displays, sly photography, and crisp audio and book works by American, Canadian and Italian artists: Janet Morton, Bruno Munari, Takeshi Murata, Collin Olan, Lisa M. Robinson, and Rudy Shepherd

Syracuse is the perennial winner of the Golden Snowball Award, for the most snowfall in New York State. Embracing Winter celebrates this crystallized precipitation as the key to a delightful set of activities, and as an ephemeral filter to make ordinary surroundings new again.

Read a review!

Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Meaning and Metaphor presents a group of 10 large contemporary paintings and two distinctly different sculptures. Made by American and British artists, the works challenge preconceived notions of what art is and its purpose.

Several pieces reject the idea that art needs to be realistic. Large paintings by Bernard Cohen and Walter Darby Bannard explore abstraction in uniquely different ways. Bannard's Sun Flood, 1972 is an excellent late example of Abstract Expressionism while Cohen's Somewhere Between, 1975 pushed Op Art to its philosophical extreme.

Other works examine the role of narration in art. Robert Birmelin's Night Driving, 1964, Sidney Goodman's Eclipse and Rico Lebrun's Lazarus, 1962 develop stories that leave the viewer with more questions than answers.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

Celestial Images: Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps From the Mendillo Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Celestial Images celebrates the Golden Age of astronomical charts. Some of the world's earliest artistic images, illustrations of cosmologies and heavenly phenomena, entered into a new and lively phase during the Renaissance. The invention of printing in the 15th century improved the means of disseminating scientific knowledge; advances in astronomy in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the portrayal of new information. This fortuitous conjunction created printed astronomical charts of surprising accuracy and delicate beauty. Celestial cartographers combined their scientific quest with a keen aesthetic sense -- each chart had to be an object of beauty, as well as a repository of information. These charts were a celebration of aesthetics as well as scientific knowledge.

Like the twins of Gemini, art and science walked hand-in-hand for over hundred years. By the late 19th century, this unified way of seeing had split into the "two cultures" of art and science that we know today. Overwhelmed by a vast amount of data, astronomical charts of the 20th century eventually changed into functional, unadorned tools intended for the specialists. Tucked away in libraries, museums and private collections, however, are splendid remnants of a bygone era. Assembled here from the Mendillo Collection of Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps are over 80 examples of some of the finest celestial cartography created. There are star charts (maps of the constellations and the full celestial sphere), charts of planetary systems (cosmologies), and a smaller third category, charts of celestial phenomena (such as nebulae, comets, and eclipses). Together, they pay homage to a time when simple systems explained the universe and humankind held friendly commerce with the skies.

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

War News and Strange Brews: The Art of Boris Artzybasheff
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Boris Artzybasheff was a Russian émigré artist who painted over 200 cover illustrations for Time magazine. His most important work dates to World War II when he depicted the politicians, military leaders and the issues that governed the course of the conflict. His unique abilities in portraiture led Time to select him to paint several Man of the Year covers including portraits of Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman.

Artzybasheff was possibly more famous for his illustrations that gave machinery human characteristics. His sly talent for choosing just the right amount of human anatomy gave each machine a personality that ranged from sympathetic to sinister. Viewers were therefore compelled to have an emotional reaction to the machine and its purpose.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

On the Edge of Pop
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

On the Edge of Pop presents a selection of paintings, sculpture and prints that examines the pop art movement's later years in the 1970s. Included in the exhibition are works by Pop icons like Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. These originators were joined by later participants including Robert Cottingham, John Clem Clark and Mel Ramos.

Pop established a new order of symbols, images and content that evolved over time. The style began in the late 1950s as a reaction to the intensely personal and gestural look of Abstract Expressionism. Pop artists de-emphasized their role in making art by often using more mechanical techniques usually associated with mass market processes. Their images were often appropriated from popular culture and, as a result, the general public greeted the new work enthusiastically.

By 1970 Pop had evolved into a more mainstream art form as the style broadened its scope. Andy Warhol did a series of paintings and prints of celebrities and other important figures. He took a famous publicity photograph of Marilyn Monroe and made a series of differently colored screenprints. Installed as multiples, the prints reinterpreted the starlet's place in American culture. Robert Rauschenberg had gained such a reputation that in 1969 NASA invited him to Cape Canaveral to witness the launch of Apollo 11 and to use its images in his work. His color screenprint Signs, 1970 prominently features the astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon along with a host of other iconic figures and events from the preceding decade.

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

The Human Condition
Delavan Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features photography and wood cut prints of West Africa by James Albertson, drawings on issues of forced emigration by Joan Carlon, oil paintings by William Finch, drawings on canvas and linen of West African women by Viginia Hovendon, and watercolor portraits by Stephen Ryan.

Nevis: Abstract Paintings by Rachel Harms
Redhouse

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

Rachel Harms, an English-born and educated artist will exhibit her most recent abstract paintings, which are influenced by the warm, brightly hued, West Indies Island of Nevis. Harms is interested in basic contradictions between nature and life, solidity and fragility, timelessness and change. These paintings beckon the viewer to linger, search, and discover the unexpected. They are refreshing, precisely honed constructions, both beautiful and affecting.

Rachel Harms has exhibited throughout the United Kingdom and the United States, including at the Creaser Gallery in London, the New Waterfront Museum in New York City; and recently at Onondaga Community College and ThInc in Syracuse. Harms earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Parson School of Design in New York City and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the Chelsea School of Art in London. Harms currently lives in Skaneateles with her husband and daughter.

Urban Video Project

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

Experimental outdoor video projections on the exteriors of Th3 venues.

Urban Video Project

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

Experimental outdoor video projections on the exteriors of Th3 venues.

Urban Video Project

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

Experimental outdoor video projections on the exteriors of Th3 venues.

Playthings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Drawing by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma.

Roy Bautista:
I am interested in how I learn things. And how much I learn by looking. And how much more can be learned by looking harder. A longer look at people and how people communicate, and much can be read in a body's posture and movement. The word, understand implies a pose, a stand taken. We understand through our bodies, our own physical limitations of dancing, running, and wrestling. To stop any one pose of the body during any instantaneous action is to elevate it to drama or switch it into a performance, a portent. Micro-expressions flash for an instant that can divulge much information that is not stated verbally, precisely. I am interested in the idea of play, and playing with objects, which can be made to assume poses, fetishes that can be made to represent beings.

Natalia Porter:
I'm interested in creating art that make us reflect on our relationship with objects, on the significance and value we assign to them, particularly those objects which we use everyday.

Ami Suma:
My obsession is to make you giggle and remember childhood feelings, so I am obsessed with fun textures. Textures that give me goose bumps; odd shapes and silhouettes, toys that stimulate the senses of both young and old.

Matrilineage Art Show Opening
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

Artists Open: What's Love got to do With It?
CNY Arts

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

Artists Open provides local artists in a variety of media the opportunity to showcase their work and explore connections between the disciplines in the bistro-like setting of the Everson's Sculpture Court. This Valentine's Day edition of Artists Open features artists whose work explores and addresses the delights, complexities, tensions and multiple definitions of "love."

Featured artists include Ashley Cox, a singer, songwriter and talented musician on both guitar and piano, and Ithaca based sculptor Stiller Zusman. The galleries remain open for viewing.

Film Series: A Panther in Africa
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The story of Pete O'Neal, one of the last American exiles from an era when activists considered themselves at war with the US government. O'Neal sponsors an exchange program between underprivileged African Americans and youths in his exiled Tanzania.

Film Series: A Panther in Africa
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The story of Pete O'Neal, one of the last American exiles from an era when activists considered themselves at war with the US government. O'Neal sponsors an exchange program between underprivileged African Americans and youths in his exiled Tanzania.

Artist Presentation: Takeshi Murata
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building, Room 121
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Exhibition artist Takeshi Murata, of Saugerties, NY, will give a talk and screen videos.

Gallery Talk
The Warehouse Gallery
Featuring Stephen and Mary Lynn Mahan

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

In conjunction with the exhibit "Dreams: Between the Sky and the Earth: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School," photographer Stephen Mahan and Mary Lynn Mahan, art teacher at Edward Smith Elementary School, will describe their passionate commitment to teaching photography as a way to foster self esteem, written and verbal communication skills, and critical thinking in the classroom. Edward Smith classrooms are based on the philosophy of whole school inclusion, which enables every child -- both those with and without disabilities -- to be a member of the classroom community and participate in the arts programming.

A Lesson Yet to be Learned
Syracuse International Film Festival
LeMoyne College
Featuring Paul Rusesabagina

Price: Free
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Over the course of 100 days in 1994, almost one million people were killed in Rwanda. Hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina used his courage to shelter over a thousand refugees from certain death. His actions were portrayed by Don Cheadle in the Academy Award nominated movie, Hotel Rwanda.

Black History Month Commemorative Lecture
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences
Featuring Kevin Powell, author, journalist and social critic

Maxwell Auditorium
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Kevin Powell is best known for his social commentary, essays and reviews for such national publications as Newsweek, The Washington Post, Essence, Code, Rolling Stone and Vibe, where he previously served as a founding staff member and eventually a senior editor. While at Vibe, Powell profiled various hip-hop artists, including the late Tupac Shakur.

Powell has written six books and travels the country speaking on multiculturalism, race, politics and hip-hop music. His most recent book, Someday We'll All Be Free (Soft Skull Press, 2006), is a collection of essays that explores, among other topics, the 2004 presidential election, the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the Hurricane Katrina disaster.

The program is partially funded by the Kaleidoscope Project, a diversity initiative sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs to broaden the understanding of diversity and promote healthy dialogue about related issues at Syracuse University.

Public parking is available in Irving Garage.

Jessica Rylan
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Rylan is a sound artist and electronic musician whose main focus to date has been the design and construction of modular synthesizers, which use analog electronic circuits to create a diversity of sounds. She uses her synthesizers in installations at galleries and also in her high-energy, live musical performances. Her contribution to the male-dominated noise music genre, as well as her increasingly complex and well-respected synthesizer designs have made her a force to be reckoned with in the arts and music communities.

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

Price: $26 plus tax and gratuities (includes meal and show)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Audience participation comedy/mystery dinner theater.

Cirque Dreams: Jungle Fantasy
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $49.50; $39.50; $27.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In the ongoing tradition of spectacular touring productions, Neil Goldberg and Cirque Productions have once again reinvented the circus with European flair, imaginative theatrics and world-class acrobatics. Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy is an all-new adventure that takes audiences soaring into a magical forest through the air and on stage. An international cast of graceful aerialists, spine bending contortionists, vine swinging characters, strong men and balancers bring this jungle dream to life in a lush, Broadway setting filled with wildly unpredictable designs, special effects, inventive choreography, puppeteering and dazzling costumes. Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy is an exhilarating journey the entire family can experience together.

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Stupid Kids
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin
Steve Braddock, director

Price: $5 general public; free to LeMoyne community
Marren Studio Theatre, Coyne Performing Arts Ctr
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A Rebel Without a Cause viewed through the lens of the 1980s, four young adults find love amidst one of the most tumultuous decades of the last century. Four students from Joe McCarthy High School meet in juvie hall. New kid Jim Stark is the James Dean counterpart; brooding, hot headed, and desperate to make a name for himself. His eye is caught by Judy, a popular material girl who is the main squeeze of the local gang leader. Judy befriends Kimberly, a Patti Smith-fixated punk misfit, who carries a secret torch for Judy. Kimberly's friend and co-author of bad, angsty teen poetry is Neeche, who has the closeted hots for Jim.

For more information or tickets, phone 315-445-4523.

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Frozen
Redhouse
Gerard E. Moses, director

Price: $25 regular; $20 senior; $16 student; $8 student rush
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

British playwright Bryony Lavery's controversial play begins with a mother waiting for the return of her missing 10-year old daughter. In the wait and over a period of years the mother, the kidnapper, and a psychiatrist come together to confront each other. Its subject matter uncovers new questions and ignites a thick range of emotion for actors and audience members alike. Frozen asks us to look at who we are and why we do what we do.

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Friday, February 16, 2007

A Journey Towards Hope: Underground Railroad Sites in Oberlin, Ohio
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Coriana Close has photographed the history of Oberlin, Ohio's Underground Railroad for the last few years. The images include large format color photographs of buildings in Oberlin that were essential to the abolitionist movement.

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

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

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

Atrium Exhibit: Scholastic Art Awards Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

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

The Visual Arts Showcase Committee of the CRC is pleased to present an eclectic offering, featuring work of state and local grant winners since 2000. Special viewing arrangements can be made through the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155.

Gallery Exhibit: Kente Cloth
Onondaga Community College

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

W.E.B. DuBois Traveling Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Playthings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Drawing by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma.

Roy Bautista:
I am interested in how I learn things. And how much I learn by looking. And how much more can be learned by looking harder. A longer look at people and how people communicate, and much can be read in a body's posture and movement. The word, understand implies a pose, a stand taken. We understand through our bodies, our own physical limitations of dancing, running, and wrestling. To stop any one pose of the body during any instantaneous action is to elevate it to drama or switch it into a performance, a portent. Micro-expressions flash for an instant that can divulge much information that is not stated verbally, precisely. I am interested in the idea of play, and playing with objects, which can be made to assume poses, fetishes that can be made to represent beings.

Natalia Porter:
I'm interested in creating art that make us reflect on our relationship with objects, on the significance and value we assign to them, particularly those objects which we use everyday.

Ami Suma:
My obsession is to make you giggle and remember childhood feelings, so I am obsessed with fun textures. Textures that give me goose bumps; odd shapes and silhouettes, toys that stimulate the senses of both young and old.

Living Arrangements
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

Works by Julie Eizenberg

New to You
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

An exhibit of the work of new guild members as well as emerging and seldom shown artists.

Pride and Perseverance: Civil Rights Paintings by Charly Palmer
Community Folk Art Center

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

An artist with a passion for history, Palmer's works chronicle important social and political events, focusing on African American historical subjects and the Civil Rights Movement in particular. Palmer's works make use of bold colors, textures and layers to bring his subjects to life. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and his work can be found in several prominent public and private collections. Palmer has received several major awards and commissions. He has also worked as an educator, instructing students of all ages in drawing, painting, design and illustration.

Underground Railroad Made Visible: Photos by William Earle Williams
Community Folk Art Center

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

The photographs are of sites that were once part of the Underground Railroad, including many here in Central New York.

The exhibition is held in conjunction with a simultaneous exhibition at Light Work also featuring Williams' photographs: "Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War."

William Earle Williams received a B.A. degree in History from Hamilton College and an M.F.A. degree in Fine Arts from Yale University. He is a Professor of Fine Arts at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and also a Curator of Photography. Williams participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2003.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features the work of seniors and graduate students in Syracuse University's Department of Transmedia.

Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War
Light Work Gallery
Featuring works by William Earle Williams

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

Until the release of the motion picture Glory in 1989, it was not well known that more than 180,000 black soldiers served in the Civil War. The exhibition Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War features over 40 stunning black-and-white photographs by William Earle Williams. The images call attention to the sites made special through these soldiers' contributions, so that their story becomes a part of our American story.

Dreams: Between the Sky and the Earth: Collaborations with Children at Ed Smith School
The Warehouse Gallery

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

"Between the sky and the earth emerge paths to a new way of life where people journey together to a cleaner, safer, more beautiful world." So reads the inscription on a photograph by fifth-grader Shivhari Chathrattil describing his dream and image. It is one of more than 80 photographs -- in addition to a video documentary -- on display in the exhibition, which explores the dreams and visual imaginations of fifth-grade students in the Syracuse City School District (SCSD) and is the culmination of the efforts of an innovative course -- Literacy, Community and Photography -- offered through Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Staging the coldest season as a playground for imagination, The Warehouse Gallery presents Embracing Winter, a group exhibition featuring knitted sculpture, psychedelic video, interactive displays, sly photography, and crisp audio and book works by American, Canadian and Italian artists: Janet Morton, Bruno Munari, Takeshi Murata, Collin Olan, Lisa M. Robinson, and Rudy Shepherd

Syracuse is the perennial winner of the Golden Snowball Award, for the most snowfall in New York State. Embracing Winter celebrates this crystallized precipitation as the key to a delightful set of activities, and as an ephemeral filter to make ordinary surroundings new again.

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Celestial Images: Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps From the Mendillo Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Celestial Images celebrates the Golden Age of astronomical charts. Some of the world's earliest artistic images, illustrations of cosmologies and heavenly phenomena, entered into a new and lively phase during the Renaissance. The invention of printing in the 15th century improved the means of disseminating scientific knowledge; advances in astronomy in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the portrayal of new information. This fortuitous conjunction created printed astronomical charts of surprising accuracy and delicate beauty. Celestial cartographers combined their scientific quest with a keen aesthetic sense -- each chart had to be an object of beauty, as well as a repository of information. These charts were a celebration of aesthetics as well as scientific knowledge.

Like the twins of Gemini, art and science walked hand-in-hand for over hundred years. By the late 19th century, this unified way of seeing had split into the "two cultures" of art and science that we know today. Overwhelmed by a vast amount of data, astronomical charts of the 20th century eventually changed into functional, unadorned tools intended for the specialists. Tucked away in libraries, museums and private collections, however, are splendid remnants of a bygone era. Assembled here from the Mendillo Collection of Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps are over 80 examples of some of the finest celestial cartography created. There are star charts (maps of the constellations and the full celestial sphere), charts of planetary systems (cosmologies), and a smaller third category, charts of celestial phenomena (such as nebulae, comets, and eclipses). Together, they pay homage to a time when simple systems explained the universe and humankind held friendly commerce with the skies.

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

Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Meaning and Metaphor presents a group of 10 large contemporary paintings and two distinctly different sculptures. Made by American and British artists, the works challenge preconceived notions of what art is and its purpose.

Several pieces reject the idea that art needs to be realistic. Large paintings by Bernard Cohen and Walter Darby Bannard explore abstraction in uniquely different ways. Bannard's Sun Flood, 1972 is an excellent late example of Abstract Expressionism while Cohen's Somewhere Between, 1975 pushed Op Art to its philosophical extreme.

Other works examine the role of narration in art. Robert Birmelin's Night Driving, 1964, Sidney Goodman's Eclipse and Rico Lebrun's Lazarus, 1962 develop stories that leave the viewer with more questions than answers.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

War News and Strange Brews: The Art of Boris Artzybasheff
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Boris Artzybasheff was a Russian émigré artist who painted over 200 cover illustrations for Time magazine. His most important work dates to World War II when he depicted the politicians, military leaders and the issues that governed the course of the conflict. His unique abilities in portraiture led Time to select him to paint several Man of the Year covers including portraits of Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman.

Artzybasheff was possibly more famous for his illustrations that gave machinery human characteristics. His sly talent for choosing just the right amount of human anatomy gave each machine a personality that ranged from sympathetic to sinister. Viewers were therefore compelled to have an emotional reaction to the machine and its purpose.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

On the Edge of Pop
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

On the Edge of Pop presents a selection of paintings, sculpture and prints that examines the pop art movement's later years in the 1970s. Included in the exhibition are works by Pop icons like Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. These originators were joined by later participants including Robert Cottingham, John Clem Clark and Mel Ramos.

Pop established a new order of symbols, images and content that evolved over time. The style began in the late 1950s as a reaction to the intensely personal and gestural look of Abstract Expressionism. Pop artists de-emphasized their role in making art by often using more mechanical techniques usually associated with mass market processes. Their images were often appropriated from popular culture and, as a result, the general public greeted the new work enthusiastically.

By 1970 Pop had evolved into a more mainstream art form as the style broadened its scope. Andy Warhol did a series of paintings and prints of celebrities and other important figures. He took a famous publicity photograph of Marilyn Monroe and made a series of differently colored screenprints. Installed as multiples, the prints reinterpreted the starlet's place in American culture. Robert Rauschenberg had gained such a reputation that in 1969 NASA invited him to Cape Canaveral to witness the launch of Apollo 11 and to use its images in his work. His color screenprint Signs, 1970 prominently features the astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon along with a host of other iconic figures and events from the preceding decade.

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

The Human Condition
Delavan Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features photography and wood cut prints of West Africa by James Albertson, drawings on issues of forced emigration by Joan Carlon, oil paintings by William Finch, drawings on canvas and linen of West African women by Viginia Hovendon, and watercolor portraits by Stephen Ryan.

Nevis: Abstract Paintings by Rachel Harms
Redhouse

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

Rachel Harms, an English-born and educated artist will exhibit her most recent abstract paintings, which are influenced by the warm, brightly hued, West Indies Island of Nevis. Harms is interested in basic contradictions between nature and life, solidity and fragility, timelessness and change. These paintings beckon the viewer to linger, search, and discover the unexpected. They are refreshing, precisely honed constructions, both beautiful and affecting.

Rachel Harms has exhibited throughout the United Kingdom and the United States, including at the Creaser Gallery in London, the New Waterfront Museum in New York City; and recently at Onondaga Community College and ThInc in Syracuse. Harms earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Parson School of Design in New York City and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the Chelsea School of Art in London. Harms currently lives in Skaneateles with her husband and daughter.

Impressions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Oil paintings by Eric Shute, watercolors by Stephen Ryan, and ceramics by Bobbi Lamb.

Lunch Hour Film Series
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: Free
Marriott Hotel Syracuse
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Credo directed by Keith Synder. Experimental (USA) 10 minutes. Best of Fest Nominee 2006.
Credo is a nine-minute original screen musical in which God, realizing 'Thou shalt not kill' has never worked, takes responsibility for setting a bad example and withdraws all endorsement of murder. Credo blends opera, cinema, humor, and verse in a response to those who use religion to justify violence.

Mikey Powell - A Lacrosse Movie. Documentary (USA) 30 minutes. Best of Fest/CNY 2006.
A Lacrosse Movie is an artistic portrayal of Mikey Powell, four time All-American lacrosse player and self proclaimed "athletic entertainer." Combining Super 8mm and digital images, the film chronicles Mikey's life growing up in the legendary Powell family and his role in helping to make lacrosse the fastest growing sport in America.

The Wishing Well directed by Rod Maxwell. Animation (USA) 13 minutes. Best of Fest Nominee 2006.
The Wishing Well is an experimental one-man production, created and staring one person as 26 characters. Love coesn't come so easily, in this romantic comedy of a pop-up book come to life.

Guests are encouraged to bring their lunch or snack and join other film enthusiasts in watching selected films from prior festivals.

Reservations are not required, but are welcomed due to limited seating. To reserve a seat, call the festival headquarters at 315-443-8826.

Lunchtime Art Talk
The Warehouse Gallery
Featuring Artists Janet. Morton and Rudy Shepherd, and scientist Paul Fitzgerald

Price: Free
Community Classroom 3 (first floor behind gallery)
The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Exhibition artists Janet Morton and Rudy Shepherd will talk about their work and Paul Fitzgerald, Associate Professor of Tectonics and Thermochronology in Syracuse University's Department of Earth Sciences, will talk about his research and experiences in the Antarctic.

Light refreshments served.

Onondaga Community College
Quiana Smith

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Quiana Smith will perform "Just Like Water" musical theater songs.

Music Journey's African-American History Month
LeMoyne College
Featuring Sodi Braide, piano

Price: $12 general; $7 seniors; students free.
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Nigerian-born Sodi Braide won attention when he was awarded the Jury Discretionary Prize at the 2005 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. This elegant pianist, a resident of Paris, will play selections from his recent recording of piano works by César Franck, as well as other Romantic favorites.

The Dust Poets
Folkus Project

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

Sarcastic, insightful, and occasionally off-the-wall, the Dust Poets are a five-piece acoustic folk group with roots deep in the Canadian prairie. Formerly called Das Macht Show!, the Dust Poets poke affectionate fun at themselves and the world around them while spreading their own irreverent brand of small town angst. They have performed extensively across Canada and are well known for their infectious spirit, powerful stage presence, genre-bending originals, hot instrumental chops, and juicy harmony singing.

With their unmistakable sound, the Dust Poets create twisted caricatures of small town life and big city delusions, evoking gritty folk-rock, quirky country-bluegrass, and soaring piano-pop. The group performs the original music of veteran singer-songwriter Murray D. Evans, whose wry writer's eye explores themes of hometown losers, travel in foreign lands, and the absurdity of war. Ranging in tone from the darkly humourous to the achingly tender, Evans finds a fertile muse in the joys and disappointments of modern living. Musically restless, the Dust Poets range easily among different styles, including folk, bluegrass, country swing, pop, and ragtime.

It's a Trip: A Cabaret -- Life, Love and the Pursuit of Happiness Set To Music
Featuring Tamaralee Shutt, vocalist; Joshua Smith, music director

Price: $12
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

One woman, a Grand piano and a madcap smorgasbord of song, make for an evening of Cabaret styled entertainment. A humorous look at relationships, family and daily life, as often explored on the Broadway stage  is being re-examined through the eyes and voices of vocalist Tamaralee Shutt (Sammy Nominee for Best Jazz Vocalist) and SALT Award winning Music Director Joshua Smith.

From the songbook of early 20th Century vaudeville tart Sophie Tucker to Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter, and Kander & Ebb, to the likes of Bette Midler, Carole Bayer Sager and Sonny Bono, Smith and Shutt craft a zany and sometimes poignant spin on love and life. This original Cabaret-styled evening is a delightful musical interlude of storytelling at its finest.

For more information or tickets, phone 315-479-7469.

Classics Series: Kern Plays Liszt
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Olga Kern, piano

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

Wagner Parsifal Prelude
Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major
Bruckner Symphony No. 9

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**CANCELLED** An Evening with Claudia Emerson, Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: $8 general public; $5 for DWC/YMCA members and MPH students and faculty
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Claudia Emerson was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her book Late Wife: Poems (LSU Press, 2005). She is also the author of the poetry collections Pharaoh, Pharaoh and Pinion: An Elegy; all volumes are published in Dave Smith's Southern Messenger Poets series. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Southern Review, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, New England Review, and other journals. Her many honors include a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts.

Tickets are limited. To reserve, phone 315-474-6851 x328.

The event has been cancelled due to flight delays and weather. The reading will be rescheduled at a later date.

Stupid Kids
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin
Steve Braddock, director

Price: $5 general public; free to LeMoyne community
Marren Studio Theatre, Coyne Performing Arts Ctr
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A Rebel Without a Cause viewed through the lens of the 1980s, four young adults find love amidst one of the most tumultuous decades of the last century. Four students from Joe McCarthy High School meet in juvie hall. New kid Jim Stark is the James Dean counterpart; brooding, hot headed, and desperate to make a name for himself. His eye is caught by Judy, a popular material girl who is the main squeeze of the local gang leader. Judy befriends Kimberly, a Patti Smith-fixated punk misfit, who carries a secret torch for Judy. Kimberly's friend and co-author of bad, angsty teen poetry is Neeche, who has the closeted hots for Jim.

For more information or tickets, phone 315-445-4523.

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Always ... Patsy Cline
Opening Night Productions

Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

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Frozen
Redhouse
Gerard E. Moses, director

Price: $25 regular; $20 senior; $16 student; $8 student rush
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

British playwright Bryony Lavery's controversial play begins with a mother waiting for the return of her missing 10-year old daughter. In the wait and over a period of years the mother, the kidnapper, and a psychiatrist come together to confront each other. Its subject matter uncovers new questions and ignites a thick range of emotion for actors and audience members alike. Frozen asks us to look at who we are and why we do what we do.

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The Art of Dining
Syracuse University Drama Department
Craig MacDonald, director

Price: $16 regular; $14 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Set at a posh new gourmet restaurant, The Golden Carousel, on a cold and blustery New Jersey evening, The Art of Dining uses food as a running metaphor for many of the pressures, hopes, fears, and stresses that exist in American society. Written and first performed in 1979, this play explores the idea that dining can be not only a time to bring friends and family together, but an opportunity for much more serious issues to be chewed on: body image issues and eating, personality and mental disorders are some of the darker notes in Tina Howe's uproarious, fast-paced comedy.

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Saturday, February 17, 2007

Atrium Exhibit: Scholastic Art Awards Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

New to You
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

An exhibit of the work of new guild members as well as emerging and seldom shown artists.

The Human Condition
Delavan Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features photography and wood cut prints of West Africa by James Albertson, drawings on issues of forced emigration by Joan Carlon, oil paintings by William Finch, drawings on canvas and linen of West African women by Viginia Hovendon, and watercolor portraits by Stephen Ryan.

Impressions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Oil paintings by Eric Shute, watercolors by Stephen Ryan, and ceramics by Bobbi Lamb.

Dreams: Between the Sky and the Earth: Collaborations with Children at Ed Smith School
The Warehouse Gallery

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

"Between the sky and the earth emerge paths to a new way of life where people journey together to a cleaner, safer, more beautiful world." So reads the inscription on a photograph by fifth-grader Shivhari Chathrattil describing his dream and image. It is one of more than 80 photographs -- in addition to a video documentary -- on display in the exhibition, which explores the dreams and visual imaginations of fifth-grade students in the Syracuse City School District (SCSD) and is the culmination of the efforts of an innovative course -- Literacy, Community and Photography -- offered through Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Staging the coldest season as a playground for imagination, The Warehouse Gallery presents Embracing Winter, a group exhibition featuring knitted sculpture, psychedelic video, interactive displays, sly photography, and crisp audio and book works by American, Canadian and Italian artists: Janet Morton, Bruno Munari, Takeshi Murata, Collin Olan, Lisa M. Robinson, and Rudy Shepherd

Syracuse is the perennial winner of the Golden Snowball Award, for the most snowfall in New York State. Embracing Winter celebrates this crystallized precipitation as the key to a delightful set of activities, and as an ephemeral filter to make ordinary surroundings new again.

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Underground Railroad Made Visible: Photos by William Earle Williams
Community Folk Art Center

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

The photographs are of sites that were once part of the Underground Railroad, including many here in Central New York.

The exhibition is held in conjunction with a simultaneous exhibition at Light Work also featuring Williams' photographs: "Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War."

William Earle Williams received a B.A. degree in History from Hamilton College and an M.F.A. degree in Fine Arts from Yale University. He is a Professor of Fine Arts at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and also a Curator of Photography. Williams participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2003.

Pride and Perseverance: Civil Rights Paintings by Charly Palmer
Community Folk Art Center

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

An artist with a passion for history, Palmer's works chronicle important social and political events, focusing on African American historical subjects and the Civil Rights Movement in particular. Palmer's works make use of bold colors, textures and layers to bring his subjects to life. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and his work can be found in several prominent public and private collections. Palmer has received several major awards and commissions. He has also worked as an educator, instructing students of all ages in drawing, painting, design and illustration.

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

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

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

A Journey Towards Hope: Underground Railroad Sites in Oberlin, Ohio
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Coriana Close has photographed the history of Oberlin, Ohio's Underground Railroad for the last few years. The images include large format color photographs of buildings in Oberlin that were essential to the abolitionist movement.

Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Meaning and Metaphor presents a group of 10 large contemporary paintings and two distinctly different sculptures. Made by American and British artists, the works challenge preconceived notions of what art is and its purpose.

Several pieces reject the idea that art needs to be realistic. Large paintings by Bernard Cohen and Walter Darby Bannard explore abstraction in uniquely different ways. Bannard's Sun Flood, 1972 is an excellent late example of Abstract Expressionism while Cohen's Somewhere Between, 1975 pushed Op Art to its philosophical extreme.

Other works examine the role of narration in art. Robert Birmelin's Night Driving, 1964, Sidney Goodman's Eclipse and Rico Lebrun's Lazarus, 1962 develop stories that leave the viewer with more questions than answers.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

Celestial Images: Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps From the Mendillo Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Celestial Images celebrates the Golden Age of astronomical charts. Some of the world's earliest artistic images, illustrations of cosmologies and heavenly phenomena, entered into a new and lively phase during the Renaissance. The invention of printing in the 15th century improved the means of disseminating scientific knowledge; advances in astronomy in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the portrayal of new information. This fortuitous conjunction created printed astronomical charts of surprising accuracy and delicate beauty. Celestial cartographers combined their scientific quest with a keen aesthetic sense -- each chart had to be an object of beauty, as well as a repository of information. These charts were a celebration of aesthetics as well as scientific knowledge.

Like the twins of Gemini, art and science walked hand-in-hand for over hundred years. By the late 19th century, this unified way of seeing had split into the "two cultures" of art and science that we know today. Overwhelmed by a vast amount of data, astronomical charts of the 20th century eventually changed into functional, unadorned tools intended for the specialists. Tucked away in libraries, museums and private collections, however, are splendid remnants of a bygone era. Assembled here from the Mendillo Collection of Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps are over 80 examples of some of the finest celestial cartography created. There are star charts (maps of the constellations and the full celestial sphere), charts of planetary systems (cosmologies), and a smaller third category, charts of celestial phenomena (such as nebulae, comets, and eclipses). Together, they pay homage to a time when simple systems explained the universe and humankind held friendly commerce with the skies.

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

War News and Strange Brews: The Art of Boris Artzybasheff
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Boris Artzybasheff was a Russian émigré artist who painted over 200 cover illustrations for Time magazine. His most important work dates to World War II when he depicted the politicians, military leaders and the issues that governed the course of the conflict. His unique abilities in portraiture led Time to select him to paint several Man of the Year covers including portraits of Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman.

Artzybasheff was possibly more famous for his illustrations that gave machinery human characteristics. His sly talent for choosing just the right amount of human anatomy gave each machine a personality that ranged from sympathetic to sinister. Viewers were therefore compelled to have an emotional reaction to the machine and its purpose.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

On the Edge of Pop
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

On the Edge of Pop presents a selection of paintings, sculpture and prints that examines the pop art movement's later years in the 1970s. Included in the exhibition are works by Pop icons like Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. These originators were joined by later participants including Robert Cottingham, John Clem Clark and Mel Ramos.

Pop established a new order of symbols, images and content that evolved over time. The style began in the late 1950s as a reaction to the intensely personal and gestural look of Abstract Expressionism. Pop artists de-emphasized their role in making art by often using more mechanical techniques usually associated with mass market processes. Their images were often appropriated from popular culture and, as a result, the general public greeted the new work enthusiastically.

By 1970 Pop had evolved into a more mainstream art form as the style broadened its scope. Andy Warhol did a series of paintings and prints of celebrities and other important figures. He took a famous publicity photograph of Marilyn Monroe and made a series of differently colored screenprints. Installed as multiples, the prints reinterpreted the starlet's place in American culture. Robert Rauschenberg had gained such a reputation that in 1969 NASA invited him to Cape Canaveral to witness the launch of Apollo 11 and to use its images in his work. His color screenprint Signs, 1970 prominently features the astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon along with a host of other iconic figures and events from the preceding decade.

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

Nevis: Abstract Paintings by Rachel Harms
Redhouse

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

Rachel Harms, an English-born and educated artist will exhibit her most recent abstract paintings, which are influenced by the warm, brightly hued, West Indies Island of Nevis. Harms is interested in basic contradictions between nature and life, solidity and fragility, timelessness and change. These paintings beckon the viewer to linger, search, and discover the unexpected. They are refreshing, precisely honed constructions, both beautiful and affecting.

Rachel Harms has exhibited throughout the United Kingdom and the United States, including at the Creaser Gallery in London, the New Waterfront Museum in New York City; and recently at Onondaga Community College and ThInc in Syracuse. Harms earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Parson School of Design in New York City and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the Chelsea School of Art in London. Harms currently lives in Skaneateles with her husband and daughter.

CMM Youth Concerto Competition, Final Round
Civic Morning Musicals

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

It's a Trip: A Cabaret -- Life, Love and the Pursuit of Happiness Set To Music
Featuring Tamaralee Shutt, vocalist; Joshua Smith, music director

Price: $12
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

One woman, a Grand piano and a madcap smorgasbord of song, make for an evening of Cabaret styled entertainment. A humorous look at relationships, family and daily life, as often explored on the Broadway stage  is being re-examined through the eyes and voices of vocalist Tamaralee Shutt (Sammy Nominee for Best Jazz Vocalist) and SALT Award winning Music Director Joshua Smith.

From the songbook of early 20th Century vaudeville tart Sophie Tucker to Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter, and Kander & Ebb, to the likes of Bette Midler, Carole Bayer Sager and Sonny Bono, Smith and Shutt craft a zany and sometimes poignant spin on love and life. This original Cabaret-styled evening is a delightful musical interlude of storytelling at its finest.

For more information or tickets, phone 315-479-7469.

Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music
Walden Chamber Players

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

Mozart String Quintet No. 1 in B-flat major, K. 174
Britten Phantasy Quartet for Oboe and Strings, Op. 2
Finzi Interlude for Oboe and String Quartet
Brahms String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Op. 111

Classics Series: Kern Plays Liszt
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Olga Kern, piano

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

Wagner Parsifal Prelude
Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major
Bruckner Symphony No. 9

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Snow White
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive adaptation of the well-known tale.

Stupid Kids
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin
Steve Braddock, director

Price: $5 general public; free to LeMoyne community
Marren Studio Theatre, Coyne Performing Arts Ctr
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A Rebel Without a Cause viewed through the lens of the 1980s, four young adults find love amidst one of the most tumultuous decades of the last century. Four students from Joe McCarthy High School meet in juvie hall. New kid Jim Stark is the James Dean counterpart; brooding, hot headed, and desperate to make a name for himself. His eye is caught by Judy, a popular material girl who is the main squeeze of the local gang leader. Judy befriends Kimberly, a Patti Smith-fixated punk misfit, who carries a secret torch for Judy. Kimberly's friend and co-author of bad, angsty teen poetry is Neeche, who has the closeted hots for Jim.

For more information or tickets, phone 315-445-4523.

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Always ... Patsy Cline
Opening Night Productions

Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

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Frozen
Redhouse
Gerard E. Moses, director

Price: $25 regular; $20 senior; $16 student; $8 student rush
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

British playwright Bryony Lavery's controversial play begins with a mother waiting for the return of her missing 10-year old daughter. In the wait and over a period of years the mother, the kidnapper, and a psychiatrist come together to confront each other. Its subject matter uncovers new questions and ignites a thick range of emotion for actors and audience members alike. Frozen asks us to look at who we are and why we do what we do.

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The Art of Dining
Syracuse University Drama Department
Craig MacDonald, director

Price: $16 regular; $14 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Set at a posh new gourmet restaurant, The Golden Carousel, on a cold and blustery New Jersey evening, The Art of Dining uses food as a running metaphor for many of the pressures, hopes, fears, and stresses that exist in American society. Written and first performed in 1979, this play explores the idea that dining can be not only a time to bring friends and family together, but an opportunity for much more serious issues to be chewed on: body image issues and eating, personality and mental disorders are some of the darker notes in Tina Howe's uproarious, fast-paced comedy.

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Sunday, February 18, 2007

Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War
Light Work Gallery
Featuring works by William Earle Williams

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

Until the release of the motion picture Glory in 1989, it was not well known that more than 180,000 black soldiers served in the Civil War. The exhibition Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War features over 40 stunning black-and-white photographs by William Earle Williams. The images call attention to the sites made special through these soldiers' contributions, so that their story becomes a part of our American story.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features the work of seniors and graduate students in Syracuse University's Department of Transmedia.

A Journey Towards Hope: Underground Railroad Sites in Oberlin, Ohio
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Coriana Close has photographed the history of Oberlin, Ohio's Underground Railroad for the last few years. The images include large format color photographs of buildings in Oberlin that were essential to the abolitionist movement.

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

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

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

Celestial Images: Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps From the Mendillo Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Celestial Images celebrates the Golden Age of astronomical charts. Some of the world's earliest artistic images, illustrations of cosmologies and heavenly phenomena, entered into a new and lively phase during the Renaissance. The invention of printing in the 15th century improved the means of disseminating scientific knowledge; advances in astronomy in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the portrayal of new information. This fortuitous conjunction created printed astronomical charts of surprising accuracy and delicate beauty. Celestial cartographers combined their scientific quest with a keen aesthetic sense -- each chart had to be an object of beauty, as well as a repository of information. These charts were a celebration of aesthetics as well as scientific knowledge.

Like the twins of Gemini, art and science walked hand-in-hand for over hundred years. By the late 19th century, this unified way of seeing had split into the "two cultures" of art and science that we know today. Overwhelmed by a vast amount of data, astronomical charts of the 20th century eventually changed into functional, unadorned tools intended for the specialists. Tucked away in libraries, museums and private collections, however, are splendid remnants of a bygone era. Assembled here from the Mendillo Collection of Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps are over 80 examples of some of the finest celestial cartography created. There are star charts (maps of the constellations and the full celestial sphere), charts of planetary systems (cosmologies), and a smaller third category, charts of celestial phenomena (such as nebulae, comets, and eclipses). Together, they pay homage to a time when simple systems explained the universe and humankind held friendly commerce with the skies.

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

Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Meaning and Metaphor presents a group of 10 large contemporary paintings and two distinctly different sculptures. Made by American and British artists, the works challenge preconceived notions of what art is and its purpose.

Several pieces reject the idea that art needs to be realistic. Large paintings by Bernard Cohen and Walter Darby Bannard explore abstraction in uniquely different ways. Bannard's Sun Flood, 1972 is an excellent late example of Abstract Expressionism while Cohen's Somewhere Between, 1975 pushed Op Art to its philosophical extreme.

Other works examine the role of narration in art. Robert Birmelin's Night Driving, 1964, Sidney Goodman's Eclipse and Rico Lebrun's Lazarus, 1962 develop stories that leave the viewer with more questions than answers.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

War News and Strange Brews: The Art of Boris Artzybasheff
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Boris Artzybasheff was a Russian émigré artist who painted over 200 cover illustrations for Time magazine. His most important work dates to World War II when he depicted the politicians, military leaders and the issues that governed the course of the conflict. His unique abilities in portraiture led Time to select him to paint several Man of the Year covers including portraits of Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman.

Artzybasheff was possibly more famous for his illustrations that gave machinery human characteristics. His sly talent for choosing just the right amount of human anatomy gave each machine a personality that ranged from sympathetic to sinister. Viewers were therefore compelled to have an emotional reaction to the machine and its purpose.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

On the Edge of Pop
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

On the Edge of Pop presents a selection of paintings, sculpture and prints that examines the pop art movement's later years in the 1970s. Included in the exhibition are works by Pop icons like Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. These originators were joined by later participants including Robert Cottingham, John Clem Clark and Mel Ramos.

Pop established a new order of symbols, images and content that evolved over time. The style began in the late 1950s as a reaction to the intensely personal and gestural look of Abstract Expressionism. Pop artists de-emphasized their role in making art by often using more mechanical techniques usually associated with mass market processes. Their images were often appropriated from popular culture and, as a result, the general public greeted the new work enthusiastically.

By 1970 Pop had evolved into a more mainstream art form as the style broadened its scope. Andy Warhol did a series of paintings and prints of celebrities and other important figures. He took a famous publicity photograph of Marilyn Monroe and made a series of differently colored screenprints. Installed as multiples, the prints reinterpreted the starlet's place in American culture. Robert Rauschenberg had gained such a reputation that in 1969 NASA invited him to Cape Canaveral to witness the launch of Apollo 11 and to use its images in his work. His color screenprint Signs, 1970 prominently features the astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon along with a host of other iconic figures and events from the preceding decade.

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

Atrium Exhibit: Scholastic Art Awards Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

New to You
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

An exhibit of the work of new guild members as well as emerging and seldom shown artists.

A Cavalcade of Popular Music
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Phil Klein, piano

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

One-man show highlighting the best in American song of the last 125 years.

Reservations are recommended -- phone 315-469-4675.

Black History Month Cabaret and Stars of Tomorrow
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences
Featuring Barbara Morrison

Price: $5 regular; $3 with student ID
Schine Underground, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Black History Month Cabaret and Stars of Tomorrow with special guest Barbara Morrison in "Happy Birthday Ella," a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, plus student cabaret artists.

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm: Jazz Trio,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm: Stars of Tomorrow
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm: Barbara Morrison

For reservations, phone 315-443-4517.

Frozen
Redhouse
Gerard E. Moses, director

Price: $25 regular; $20 senior; $16 student; $8 student rush
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

British playwright Bryony Lavery's controversial play begins with a mother waiting for the return of her missing 10-year old daughter. In the wait and over a period of years the mother, the kidnapper, and a psychiatrist come together to confront each other. Its subject matter uncovers new questions and ignites a thick range of emotion for actors and audience members alike. Frozen asks us to look at who we are and why we do what we do.

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The Art of Dining
Syracuse University Drama Department
Craig MacDonald, director

Price: $16 regular; $14 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Set at a posh new gourmet restaurant, The Golden Carousel, on a cold and blustery New Jersey evening, The Art of Dining uses food as a running metaphor for many of the pressures, hopes, fears, and stresses that exist in American society. Written and first performed in 1979, this play explores the idea that dining can be not only a time to bring friends and family together, but an opportunity for much more serious issues to be chewed on: body image issues and eating, personality and mental disorders are some of the darker notes in Tina Howe's uproarious, fast-paced comedy.

Read a Review!