Thursday, March 11, 2010

(re)circulate(d): studies in 'collage': Works of Scott Herrmann
LeMoyne College

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

Scott Herrmann is a graduate of the art programs of Syracuse University and Onondaga Community College. A lifelong resident of Central New York, he resides in Liverpool with his wife and son. He recently participated in the "Collage + Assemblage" exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn. This is his first solo show.

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

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

Selected by Essence magazine as "30 Women to Watch," Kim Mayhorn is a multi-media artist whose works encompasses installation, video and theatre. Mayhorn has been a video editor for over 10 years and in 1998 she embarked on a new challenge and began creating installations and was awarded her first solo show at HERE Arts Center in New York City entitled "A Woman Was Lynched the Other Day..." This work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

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

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

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

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

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

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

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

Remembrance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lorraine Savidge: "painting with thread" -- hand-guided original machine embroidery depicting landscape and design
Paula Burke: decorative and functional ceramics
Barbara Kellogg: abstract water media collages based on places visited
Lauren Bristol: string objects/garments referencing ancient rituals and record keeping

Works of Bill Reddick
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Exhibition of Bill Reddick, renowned Canadian international porcelain artist. Reddick designed the Official State Dinnerware for Canada. His work can be seen at Rideau Hall, the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, and the Porcelain Institute in Jingdexhen, China.

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

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

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

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

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

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

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

Phantoms
Redhouse

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

Red House Arts Center presents "Phantoms," a New Media art exhibition curated by New York City based gallerist and curator Stephan Stoayanov.

We can attribute the present art and pop-cult fascination with the paranormal and vampires with our ongoing human interest in metamorphosis.The mystery of the unknown will always be something that we obsess about. Our brain creates illusions of words and phrases.

The nine artists included in the exhibition "Phantoms" create illusions through their artwork, which evoke the paranormal and mystical on both personal and universal level. "Phantoms" features the work of Phil Argent (United Kingdom), Heather Bennett (United States), Amelie Chabannes (France), Lieven de Boeck (Belgium), Cliff Evans (Australia), Ellen Harvey (United States), Dominik Lejman (Poland), Marie Maillard (France), and Trine Lise Nedreaas (Norway).

Art: 2003-2009
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

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Wild Card Exhibit: Blodgett & Seymour Benefit Art Show
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A Wild Card exhibition of work by the elementary students at Blodgett and Seymour schools to help raise funds for their art programs.

For the past six years, this student art exhibit has proven to be a win-win happening that celebrates young people's talent, motivates parent involvement, delights the general public, and strengthens the arts programs at both schools through sale of the works displayed. The basis for such success evolves from collaboration among Blodgett and Seymour school art teachers—Stacy Griffin, Kristin Dugger, and Kelly Moser-Vogler—and gallery director and manger, Bill Delavan and Caroline Szozda-McGowan.

This show of students' works covers a spectrum of different mediums including prints, clay, glass, collage, painting, hand-made journals and portraiture in finished dimensional pieces showcasing elephants, owls, fish, peacocks, ducks, pigs, Kokopelli's, Aztec Gods, Mehendi Hands and Rangoli. Art works are priced between $10-$30 with half of the sale going to the student and half to their art teacher for supplies. However, more importantly, art teachers agree that the real benefit of the show is in the prestige students experience in having their works displayed in a professional gallery where the encouragement fostered there furthers appreciation of the arts for students and their families alike.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Rodger Mack Exhibition
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park

Price: Free
The Spring: Center for Spiritual & Cultural Unity
200 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibit will feature a total of 104 paintings by the late Rodger Mack, one of Syracuse's most well-known and well-loved artists. Internationally known for his sculptures, Mack was also a dynamic painter who created colorful, vibrant works.

The paintings are provided by Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, and the exhibition is made possible by a collaboration between the Park, The Spring and Syracuse University. Proceeds from the sale of Mack's art will go equally to the three not-for-profits.

Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Curated by Lisa Erf, program director, JPMorgan Chase, New York City.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Boys & Girls: The Art of Diane Menzies and Mary Giehl
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Each year in America over 3 million children are abused, nearly 2,000 die, some run away, others are abandoned, all have their own challenges with this sojourn through adolescence. Each day in America, 6 children die from abuse, 100,000 children are homeless, 8 children die from guns, 219 children die before their first birthday, 1,534 babies are born to teenage girls.

In the paintings by Diane Menzies and installations by Mary Giehl, there are hints of darkness and confinement along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness. The work challenges the viewer to take a deeper look at what these images of childhood are telling us.

The Photographs of Aaron Blum, Kelli Pennington, and Jared Landberg
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

Join in celebrating the products of three years of research, with the most recent and complete showing of these artists' photographic bodies of thesis work.

This Boy's Life
ArtRage Gallery

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

Moving from one unhealthy relationship to another, Caroline (Ellen Barkin) and her son, Toby (Leonardo DiCaprio), roam the country and finally end up in Washington state, where she marries Dwight (Robert De Niro), a modest mechanic. But Dwight fails to be the role model she had hoped for, and Toby is desperate to escape from under his heavy, abusive hand. Michael Caton-Jones's gripping drama is based on Tobias Wolff's autobiography of the same name.

Photographic Adventures in the American West
Syracuse University Library Associates
Featuring Karen Halverson

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

Landscape photographer Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In "Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River" (2008), a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

She will speak about the photographic process and land use issues while presenting selected works. An exhibition of her work will be available and guests are encouraged to arrive at least a half hour early to view it before the talk.

Halverson graduated from Nottingham High School and Stanford University and holds master's degrees from Brandeis and Columbia universities. Her work has appeared at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art, the Corcoran Gallery, and the Library of Congress.

Free event parking is available in Booth Garage, on the corner of Waverly and Comstock avenues.

Trendsetters
Society for New Music
SU Contemporary Directions Ensemble
Armando Bayolo, conductor
Featuring Philip von Maltzahn, cello

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors; students free with SU ID
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

James Welsch Till the sun grows cold..., 2010, premiere, for flute, oboe, French horn, and harp
Armando Bayolo Orfei Mors (Death of Orpheus), 2010, premiere, for cello and chamber orchestra
Carter Pann Summer Songs, 2009, 2nd performance (presented in conjunction with the Skaneateles Festival), for clarinet, violin, cello, piano and narrator
Samson Young Fractured Atlas, 2009, for clarinet, horn, piano, violin, viola, and cello
Virgil Thomson The Plow That Broke the Plains

The Y-Files: Where are the Cows?
Acme Mystery Company

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

Sheriff Shelly Moganagle is calling an emergency town meeting for you and everybody else in Pine Bluffs to try and figure out where in the heck all these cows are disappearing to. Roland McBurger's new hamburger joint? Cattle rustlers? Down at the Crazy Kegger folks are saying it's alien cow abduction! The Sheriff is taking no chances and has called in the FBI. Be there when Special Agents Molding and Sulky arrive. They'll need all the help they can get.

Lookingglass Alice
Syracuse Stage

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

In your wildest imaginings, you've never imagined Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass like this! Staged with endless wit, astonishing physicality, breathtaking aerial acrobatics, and theatrical daring, Alice, The Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and all of Lewis Carroll's enchanting characters come to dizzyingly, playful, gravity-defying life in a circus-like spectacle sure to amaze kids and adults alike. By David Catlin.

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Preview: The Shape of Things
Rarely Done Productions
Roy VanNorstrand, director

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

How far would you go for love? For art? What would you be willing to change? Which price might you pay? A young student drifts into an ever-changing relationship with an art major while his best friends' engagement crumbles, so unleashing a drama that peels back the skin of two modern-day relationships, exposing the raw meat and gristle that lie beneath. By Neil LaBute.

Intended for mature audiences only.

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Friday, March 12, 2010

(re)circulate(d): studies in 'collage': Works of Scott Herrmann
LeMoyne College

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

Scott Herrmann is a graduate of the art programs of Syracuse University and Onondaga Community College. A lifelong resident of Central New York, he resides in Liverpool with his wife and son. He recently participated in the "Collage + Assemblage" exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn. This is his first solo show.

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

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

Selected by Essence magazine as "30 Women to Watch," Kim Mayhorn is a multi-media artist whose works encompasses installation, video and theatre. Mayhorn has been a video editor for over 10 years and in 1998 she embarked on a new challenge and began creating installations and was awarded her first solo show at HERE Arts Center in New York City entitled "A Woman Was Lynched the Other Day..." This work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

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

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

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

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

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

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

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

Opening Life's Closet: Acrylics and Fabric by Anne-Margaret Childress
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

There will be an opening reception from 5:00-8:00 pm.

Remembrance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lorraine Savidge: "painting with thread" -- hand-guided original machine embroidery depicting landscape and design
Paula Burke: decorative and functional ceramics
Barbara Kellogg: abstract water media collages based on places visited
Lauren Bristol: string objects/garments referencing ancient rituals and record keeping

Works of Bill Reddick
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Exhibition of Bill Reddick, renowned Canadian international porcelain artist. Reddick designed the Official State Dinnerware for Canada. His work can be seen at Rideau Hall, the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, and the Porcelain Institute in Jingdexhen, China.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Opening: Darryl Hughto & Susan Roth: New Paintings and Sculptures
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

There will be an opening reception this evening 6:00-8:00 p.m.

The exhibition will feature paintings by both artists created specifically for this exhibition, as well as recent sculptures. A full color exhibition catalog will be available which will include an essay by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

Phantoms
Redhouse

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

Red House Arts Center presents "Phantoms," a New Media art exhibition curated by New York City based gallerist and curator Stephan Stoayanov.

We can attribute the present art and pop-cult fascination with the paranormal and vampires with our ongoing human interest in metamorphosis.The mystery of the unknown will always be something that we obsess about. Our brain creates illusions of words and phrases.

The nine artists included in the exhibition "Phantoms" create illusions through their artwork, which evoke the paranormal and mystical on both personal and universal level. "Phantoms" features the work of Phil Argent (United Kingdom), Heather Bennett (United States), Amelie Chabannes (France), Lieven de Boeck (Belgium), Cliff Evans (Australia), Ellen Harvey (United States), Dominik Lejman (Poland), Marie Maillard (France), and Trine Lise Nedreaas (Norway).

Wild Card Exhibit: Blodgett & Seymour Benefit Art Show
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A Wild Card exhibition of work by the elementary students at Blodgett and Seymour schools to help raise funds for their art programs.

For the past six years, this student art exhibit has proven to be a win-win happening that celebrates young people's talent, motivates parent involvement, delights the general public, and strengthens the arts programs at both schools through sale of the works displayed. The basis for such success evolves from collaboration among Blodgett and Seymour school art teachers—Stacy Griffin, Kristin Dugger, and Kelly Moser-Vogler—and gallery director and manger, Bill Delavan and Caroline Szozda-McGowan.

This show of students' works covers a spectrum of different mediums including prints, clay, glass, collage, painting, hand-made journals and portraiture in finished dimensional pieces showcasing elephants, owls, fish, peacocks, ducks, pigs, Kokopelli's, Aztec Gods, Mehendi Hands and Rangoli. Art works are priced between $10-$30 with half of the sale going to the student and half to their art teacher for supplies. However, more importantly, art teachers agree that the real benefit of the show is in the prestige students experience in having their works displayed in a professional gallery where the encouragement fostered there furthers appreciation of the arts for students and their families alike.

Art: 2003-2009
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Read a review!

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

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

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

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

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

Rodger Mack Exhibition
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park

Price: Free
The Spring: Center for Spiritual & Cultural Unity
200 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibit will feature a total of 104 paintings by the late Rodger Mack, one of Syracuse's most well-known and well-loved artists. Internationally known for his sculptures, Mack was also a dynamic painter who created colorful, vibrant works.

The paintings are provided by Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, and the exhibition is made possible by a collaboration between the Park, The Spring and Syracuse University. Proceeds from the sale of Mack's art will go equally to the three not-for-profits.

Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Curated by Lisa Erf, program director, JPMorgan Chase, New York City.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Boys & Girls: The Art of Diane Menzies and Mary Giehl
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Each year in America over 3 million children are abused, nearly 2,000 die, some run away, others are abandoned, all have their own challenges with this sojourn through adolescence. Each day in America, 6 children die from abuse, 100,000 children are homeless, 8 children die from guns, 219 children die before their first birthday, 1,534 babies are born to teenage girls.

In the paintings by Diane Menzies and installations by Mary Giehl, there are hints of darkness and confinement along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness. The work challenges the viewer to take a deeper look at what these images of childhood are telling us.

A Fashion Show to Benefit Haiti
Delavan Art Gallery
Featuring Bilaya's Billie Dreams Couture; Me'Lisa's Jema Couture

Price: $15
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Bilaya Jackson and Me'Lisa Matthews will introduce their designs at a Delavan Art Gallery special event. Net proceeds from the admission fee are being donated to Catholic Relief Services Haiti Relief Fund.

The special event boasts some notable headliners. The Hon. Van B. Robinson, President, City of Syracuse Common Council and his wife, Linda Brown-Robinson, president and owner of an event planning company are Honorary Co-Chairs. Community-theater treasure, Maureen "Moe" Harrington is host for the evening. Joseph G. Slavik, President, Catholic Charities and Community Services will speak briefly about his work as coordinator of the Haiti Relief Fund.

Bilaya Jackson's "Billie Dream's Couture" refers to her alter ego named Billie who, she says, "is the voice inside me that dreams big and has high expectations of success." She says further, "when a young woman wears one of my garments, I want her to feel the same confidence and empowerment that being fashionable instills in me." Jackson's overall theme for her segments of the fashion show is "Concrete Jungle," signifying a mix of brilliant color, shown in the first half as a more masculine dress-up military look and the second part instilled with a vibrant collection of tribal accessories of feathers and beads.

For her line of couture, Matthews implores her middle name, Jema, which means 'my beautiful jewel,' saying she chose it because "my creations are as precious to me as a piece of jewelry is to someone else." She adds, "My clothes really represent both sides of my personality — my wild, free spirited outgoing side and my feminine, girly sensitive side." For the fashion show, Matthews presents two themes for her segments, justifying her dual persona. "Glamrock" designs are colorful and fun with a punk rock feel amid the glitter and rhinestones. "Sea Goddess" designs are more feminine and flow with hues of blues, greens and violets representing the sea, and shimmering gold hues representing a goddess.

Amaus Health Services Benefit Concert

Price: $10
Immaculate Conception Church
400 Salt Springs St., Fayetteville

This concert features nearly 20 local performers and genres including classical, jazz, show tunes, and dance. Performing will be jazz pianist Jerry Exline, tenors Bruce Campbell and Shawn Hebert, Immaculate Conception cantor Sherrie Hale, the Cazenovia College Chorale and Cazenovia High School Chamber Choir, among others.

Amaus provides free health care to the homeless and economically vulnerable in downtown Syracuse. The clinic's services are provided by doctors, nurses and clerical staff who graciously donate their time and professional services. The clinic is entirely dependent on donations, and all proceeds from this performance will benefit the clinic.

Doo Wop Rocks

Price: $52, $62, $77
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Donny Most, with Jay Siegel and the Tokens, The Tymes, The Toys with Barbara Harris, Cathy Jean and the Roommates, George Galfo's Mystics, Kayla Starr and the Super Girl Group (with members of The Cookies, The Jaynettes, Reparata and the Delrons, The Exciters, and The Raindrops)

Classics Series: The Classical Piano
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Jon Nakamatsu, piano; Andrew Russo, piano

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

Haydn Symphony No. 22, The Philosopher
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23
Stravinsky Pulcinella: Suite
Mozart Concerto No. 10 for Two Pianos

Tony Trischka
Westcott Community Center

Price: $15 regular, $12 for WCC members
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Concert rescheduled from Feb. 13.

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

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

Mujeres de Arena: Testimony of Women from Ciudad Juárez
Community Folk Art Center

CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

According to reports, since 1993 more than 576 women have been murdered and over 600 are still missing in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. The climate of violence and impunity continues to grow without any concrete actions being taken to put an end to this femicide. They are young women employed in maquilas or sweat shops, migrants. The murdered women are more than a statistic. They have names, faces, and stories that are too often neglected.

This evening's performance will be in Spanish; the Saturday afternoon performance will be in English.

The Good Doctor
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Jon Barden, director

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

The Good Doctor is Neil Simon's tribute to one of his play writing idols—the Russian playwright Anton Chekov. The play is a series of scenes and vignettes (12 in all) written as Chekov farces with that wonderful funny and poignant Simon touch.

The cast includes Mark Baker, Denise Ballou, Jay Burris, Camille Chace, Stephanie Long, Cole Salo and Josh Taylor.

Pippin
Manlius Pebble Hill School

Price: $10
Manlius Pebble Hill School
5300 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

A Night of Israel Horovitz: The Indian Wants the Bronx and It's Called the Sugar Plum
Appleseed Productions
Jon Wilson, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

The Indian Wants the Bronx
An East Indian (played by Navroz N. Dabu) gets lost on his first day in New York as two teenage punks find him waiting at a lonely bus stop. He cannot understand English, and the boys have some fun with him -- at least it starts out as fun. But as the minutes go by and the bus doesn't come, they get bored; then annoyed; then vicious. As the nightmare spell of the play takes hold, and the boys torture their victim with increasing relish, we are brought to a shocking awareness of how thin the veneer of civilization can be, of how close beneath the surface of all men lurks the primitive impulse to hurt and humiliate those whose very helplessness and inability to communicate can only frustrate and enrage.

It's Called the Sugar Plum
Zuckerman, a college student, ran over and killed a young man riding a skate board. As the play opens he is in his room pasting newspaper clippings into a scrapbook, humming contentedly, as he listens to a report of the accident on the radio. There is a knock at the door. Joanna, the fiancee of the dead man, enters in tears of accusation. After her initial tirade, it's not long before they end up in each other's arms, quarreling over the amount of space devoted to each of them in the newspaper's report of the accident. Zuckerman's outrage during the quarrel seems to be the only emotion he feels, whereas shedding tears is no problem for Joanna. But what amuses and disturbs them most is the chilling speed with which their instinctive self-concern overcomes the grief of the one and the guilt of the other.

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The Shape of Things
Rarely Done Productions
Roy VanNorstrand, director

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

How far would you go for love? For art? What would you be willing to change? Which price might you pay? A young student drifts into an ever-changing relationship with an art major while his best friends' engagement crumbles, so unleashing a drama that peels back the skin of two modern-day relationships, exposing the raw meat and gristle that lie beneath. By Neil LaBute.

Intended for mature audiences only.

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Lookingglass Alice
Syracuse Stage

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

In your wildest imaginings, you've never imagined Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass like this! Staged with endless wit, astonishing physicality, breathtaking aerial acrobatics, and theatrical daring, Alice, The Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and all of Lewis Carroll's enchanting characters come to dizzyingly, playful, gravity-defying life in a circus-like spectacle sure to amaze kids and adults alike. By David Catlin.

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Saturday, March 13, 2010

Works of Bill Reddick
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Exhibition of Bill Reddick, renowned Canadian international porcelain artist. Reddick designed the Official State Dinnerware for Canada. His work can be seen at Rideau Hall, the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, and the Porcelain Institute in Jingdexhen, China.

(re)circulate(d): studies in 'collage': Works of Scott Herrmann
LeMoyne College

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

Scott Herrmann is a graduate of the art programs of Syracuse University and Onondaga Community College. A lifelong resident of Central New York, he resides in Liverpool with his wife and son. He recently participated in the "Collage + Assemblage" exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn. This is his first solo show.

Art: 2003-2009
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

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Wild Card Exhibit: Blodgett & Seymour Benefit Art Show
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A Wild Card exhibition of work by the elementary students at Blodgett and Seymour schools to help raise funds for their art programs.

For the past six years, this student art exhibit has proven to be a win-win happening that celebrates young people's talent, motivates parent involvement, delights the general public, and strengthens the arts programs at both schools through sale of the works displayed. The basis for such success evolves from collaboration among Blodgett and Seymour school art teachers—Stacy Griffin, Kristin Dugger, and Kelly Moser-Vogler—and gallery director and manger, Bill Delavan and Caroline Szozda-McGowan.

This show of students' works covers a spectrum of different mediums including prints, clay, glass, collage, painting, hand-made journals and portraiture in finished dimensional pieces showcasing elephants, owls, fish, peacocks, ducks, pigs, Kokopelli's, Aztec Gods, Mehendi Hands and Rangoli. Art works are priced between $10-$30 with half of the sale going to the student and half to their art teacher for supplies. However, more importantly, art teachers agree that the real benefit of the show is in the prestige students experience in having their works displayed in a professional gallery where the encouragement fostered there furthers appreciation of the arts for students and their families alike.

Remembrance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lorraine Savidge: "painting with thread" -- hand-guided original machine embroidery depicting landscape and design
Paula Burke: decorative and functional ceramics
Barbara Kellogg: abstract water media collages based on places visited
Lauren Bristol: string objects/garments referencing ancient rituals and record keeping

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Boys & Girls: The Art of Diane Menzies and Mary Giehl
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Each year in America over 3 million children are abused, nearly 2,000 die, some run away, others are abandoned, all have their own challenges with this sojourn through adolescence. Each day in America, 6 children die from abuse, 100,000 children are homeless, 8 children die from guns, 219 children die before their first birthday, 1,534 babies are born to teenage girls.

In the paintings by Diane Menzies and installations by Mary Giehl, there are hints of darkness and confinement along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness. The work challenges the viewer to take a deeper look at what these images of childhood are telling us.

Darryl Hughto & Susan Roth: New Paintings and Sculptures
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibition will feature paintings by both artists created specifically for this exhibition, as well as recent sculptures. A full color exhibition catalog will be available which will include an essay by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

Rodger Mack Exhibition
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park

Price: Free
The Spring: Center for Spiritual & Cultural Unity
200 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibit will feature a total of 104 paintings by the late Rodger Mack, one of Syracuse's most well-known and well-loved artists. Internationally known for his sculptures, Mack was also a dynamic painter who created colorful, vibrant works.

The paintings are provided by Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, and the exhibition is made possible by a collaboration between the Park, The Spring and Syracuse University. Proceeds from the sale of Mack's art will go equally to the three not-for-profits.

Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Curated by Lisa Erf, program director, JPMorgan Chase, New York City.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

DFtA ArtRage Benefit
Don't Feed the Actors

Price: $12 in advance; $15 regular, $13 students/seniors at the door
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Audience-interactive improv comedy with some of Syracuse's finest comedic actors.

This performance is a benefit for ArtRage Gallery

Classics Series: The Classical Piano
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Jon Nakamatsu, piano; Andrew Russo, piano

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

Haydn Symphony No. 22, The Philosopher
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23
Stravinsky Pulcinella: Suite
Mozart Concerto No. 10 for Two Pianos

Rakhmaninov's Vespers (The All-Night Vigil)
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Robert Cowles, conductor

Price: $14 regular, $12 students/seniors
St. Mary's Church of Minoa
401 North Main St., Minoa

Considered by many to be one of the greatest a cappella choral works ever composed, the All-Night Vigil by Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff is a work of extraordinary power and beauty. Rachmaninoff himself considered it his greatest achievement. Written in less than two weeks in 1915, the All-Night Vigil received its first performance in Moscow at an extraordinarily tense time, coming as it did on the eve of the Bolshevik Revolution. Perhaps this grave political circumstance is what inspired the not-so-religious Rachmaninoff to write a liturgical work of such astonishing depth. Whatever the reason, this is a work for the ages.

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Second Saturday Series: John Cadley and the Lost Boys
Westcott Community Center

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

John Cadly, guitar, mandolin, and vocals, started playing guitar at age 13 after getting a Kingston Trio record from his Aunt Molly and deciding he wanted to be just like Bob Shane. He formed a folk group at boarding school called The Rum Runners and has played in one band or another ever since. His songs have been recorded by Jim Hurst & Missy Raines, Lou Reid, Tony Trischka, John Rossbach, and Silk City (Danny Weiss, Barry Mitterhoff and Larry Cohen).

Raven's Feast
Open Hand Theater
Steve Abrams

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

Steve Abrams created "Raven's Feast" for World Peace Day in 1995, and these three Native American tales are now performed widely in schools and fine arts centers throughout the eastern US. A professional puppeteer for 25 years, he has given more than 4,000 performances. Best known for his great rapport with children, Steve also has a fine reputation among adults as a teacher and entertainer.

Beauty and the Beast
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive adaptation of the children's classic.

Mujeres de Arena: Testimony of Women from Ciudad Juárez
Community Folk Art Center

CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

According to reports, since 1993 more than 576 women have been murdered and over 600 are still missing in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. The climate of violence and impunity continues to grow without any concrete actions being taken to put an end to this femicide. They are young women employed in maquilas or sweat shops, migrants. The murdered women are more than a statistic. They have names, faces, and stories that are too often neglected.

This afternoon performance's will be in English; the Friday evening performance (3/12) will be in Spanish.

Lookingglass Alice
Syracuse Stage

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

In your wildest imaginings, you've never imagined Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass like this! Staged with endless wit, astonishing physicality, breathtaking aerial acrobatics, and theatrical daring, Alice, The Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and all of Lewis Carroll's enchanting characters come to dizzyingly, playful, gravity-defying life in a circus-like spectacle sure to amaze kids and adults alike. By David Catlin.

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Idol Assassination
Without a Cue Productions
Sara Caliva, director

Price: $37.25 includes dinner and show
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

It's the final night of Big American Star, and America is going to get a chance to vote for its next...big American star. The contestants are at each other's throats, dangerously close to ripping out one another's vocal chords, while the judges and host stir up drama to boost sagging ratings. By the time the contestants are ready to sing, the atmosphere has turned murderous, and the contestants may "knock 'em dead" in more ways than one.

The show is an interactive murder mystery that involves the members of the audience.

The Good Doctor
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Jon Barden, director

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

The Good Doctor is Neil Simon's tribute to one of his play writing idols—the Russian playwright Anton Chekov. The play is a series of scenes and vignettes (12 in all) written as Chekov farces with that wonderful funny and poignant Simon touch.

The cast includes Mark Baker, Denise Ballou, Jay Burris, Camille Chace, Stephanie Long, Cole Salo and Josh Taylor.

Pippin
Manlius Pebble Hill School

Price: $10
Manlius Pebble Hill School
5300 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

A Night of Israel Horovitz: The Indian Wants the Bronx and It's Called the Sugar Plum
Appleseed Productions
Jon Wilson, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

The Indian Wants the Bronx
An East Indian (played by Navroz N. Dabu) gets lost on his first day in New York as two teenage punks find him waiting at a lonely bus stop. He cannot understand English, and the boys have some fun with him -- at least it starts out as fun. But as the minutes go by and the bus doesn't come, they get bored; then annoyed; then vicious. As the nightmare spell of the play takes hold, and the boys torture their victim with increasing relish, we are brought to a shocking awareness of how thin the veneer of civilization can be, of how close beneath the surface of all men lurks the primitive impulse to hurt and humiliate those whose very helplessness and inability to communicate can only frustrate and enrage.

It's Called the Sugar Plum
Zuckerman, a college student, ran over and killed a young man riding a skate board. As the play opens he is in his room pasting newspaper clippings into a scrapbook, humming contentedly, as he listens to a report of the accident on the radio. There is a knock at the door. Joanna, the fiancee of the dead man, enters in tears of accusation. After her initial tirade, it's not long before they end up in each other's arms, quarreling over the amount of space devoted to each of them in the newspaper's report of the accident. Zuckerman's outrage during the quarrel seems to be the only emotion he feels, whereas shedding tears is no problem for Joanna. But what amuses and disturbs them most is the chilling speed with which their instinctive self-concern overcomes the grief of the one and the guilt of the other.

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The Shape of Things
Rarely Done Productions
Roy VanNorstrand, director

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

How far would you go for love? For art? What would you be willing to change? Which price might you pay? A young student drifts into an ever-changing relationship with an art major while his best friends' engagement crumbles, so unleashing a drama that peels back the skin of two modern-day relationships, exposing the raw meat and gristle that lie beneath. By Neil LaBute.

Intended for mature audiences only.

Read a Review!

Lookingglass Alice
Syracuse Stage

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

In your wildest imaginings, you've never imagined Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass like this! Staged with endless wit, astonishing physicality, breathtaking aerial acrobatics, and theatrical daring, Alice, The Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and all of Lewis Carroll's enchanting characters come to dizzyingly, playful, gravity-defying life in a circus-like spectacle sure to amaze kids and adults alike. By David Catlin.

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Sunday, March 14, 2010

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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(re)circulate(d): studies in 'collage': Works of Scott Herrmann
LeMoyne College

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

Scott Herrmann is a graduate of the art programs of Syracuse University and Onondaga Community College. A lifelong resident of Central New York, he resides in Liverpool with his wife and son. He recently participated in the "Collage + Assemblage" exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn. This is his first solo show.

Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Curated by Lisa Erf, program director, JPMorgan Chase, New York City.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Side-by-Side Concert
Syracuse Youth Orchestras
Daniel Hege, conductor

Price: $12
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Performance features the Syracuse Symphony Youth Orchestra, the Syracuse Symphony Youth String Orchestra, and the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. Winners of the 40th annual Youth Concerto Competition will be featured: Cecelia Lee, violin, a senior at Fayetteville-Manlius High School; Adam Rothenberg, piano, a junior at Liverpool High School; and Mark Sieling, piano, a senior at Manlius Pebble Hill School. Program will feature Marc Mellits Octet, Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Overture, Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture, and Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture.

Singing Together for Haiti

Price: $10 suggested donation
First United Methodist Church of Baldwinsville
17 W. Genesee St., Baldwinsville

The concert will include local singers Tom Anzalone, Rebecca Horning, Nancy James, Elisabeth Kisselstein, and Jim Shults, who are affiliated with the Syracuse Opera Chorus and the music faculties at Syracuse University and SUNY Oswego. Members of the choirs of Baldwinsville First United Methodist Church and Fairmount Community Church will also perform. Proceeds will benefit KONPAY (www.konpay.org.

For more information, email elisabeth.kisselstein@gmail.com or phone 315-450-2894.

Syracuse School District All-City Instrumental Music Festival

Price: Free
Henninger High School
600 Robinson St., Syracuse

Concert features orchestras and elementary, junior high, and senior high bands. For more information, phone 315-435-4181.

Silver Screen Spectacular
Syracuse University Brass Ensemble
James T. Spencer, conductor

Price: Suggested donation: $6 family, $5 regular, $2 seniors
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Silver Screen Spectacular is a multimedia event featuring live music and projected images by Larry Royer, owner of Syracuse-based Animotion Inc. The program includes a popular James Bond medley, as well as selections from Aladdin, Mary Poppins, The Mission, Silverado, How the West Was Won and Hook.

All donations will benefit the SU Brass Ensemble.

For more information, phone 315-786-2458.

Rakhmaninov's Vespers (The All-Night Vigil)
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Robert Cowles, conductor

Price: $14 regular, $12 students/seniors
St. Patrick's Church
216 N. Lowell Ave., Tipperary Hill, Syracuse

Considered by many to be one of the greatest a cappella choral works ever composed, the All-Night Vigil by Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff is a work of extraordinary power and beauty. Rachmaninoff himself considered it his greatest achievement. Written in less than two weeks in 1915, the All-Night Vigil received its first performance in Moscow at an extraordinarily tense time, coming as it did on the eve of the Bolshevik Revolution. Perhaps this grave political circumstance is what inspired the not-so-religious Rachmaninoff to write a liturgical work of such astonishing depth. Whatever the reason, this is a work for the ages.

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A Night of Israel Horovitz: The Indian Wants the Bronx and It's Called the Sugar Plum
Appleseed Productions
Jon Wilson, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

The Indian Wants the Bronx
An East Indian (played by Navroz N. Dabu) gets lost on his first day in New York as two teenage punks find him waiting at a lonely bus stop. He cannot understand English, and the boys have some fun with him -- at least it starts out as fun. But as the minutes go by and the bus doesn't come, they get bored; then annoyed; then vicious. As the nightmare spell of the play takes hold, and the boys torture their victim with increasing relish, we are brought to a shocking awareness of how thin the veneer of civilization can be, of how close beneath the surface of all men lurks the primitive impulse to hurt and humiliate those whose very helplessness and inability to communicate can only frustrate and enrage.

It's Called the Sugar Plum
Zuckerman, a college student, ran over and killed a young man riding a skate board. As the play opens he is in his room pasting newspaper clippings into a scrapbook, humming contentedly, as he listens to a report of the accident on the radio. There is a knock at the door. Joanna, the fiancee of the dead man, enters in tears of accusation. After her initial tirade, it's not long before they end up in each other's arms, quarreling over the amount of space devoted to each of them in the newspaper's report of the accident. Zuckerman's outrage during the quarrel seems to be the only emotion he feels, whereas shedding tears is no problem for Joanna. But what amuses and disturbs them most is the chilling speed with which their instinctive self-concern overcomes the grief of the one and the guilt of the other.

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Lookingglass Alice
Syracuse Stage

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

In your wildest imaginings, you've never imagined Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass like this! Staged with endless wit, astonishing physicality, breathtaking aerial acrobatics, and theatrical daring, Alice, The Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and all of Lewis Carroll's enchanting characters come to dizzyingly, playful, gravity-defying life in a circus-like spectacle sure to amaze kids and adults alike. By David Catlin.

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Monday, March 15, 2010

(re)circulate(d): studies in 'collage': Works of Scott Herrmann
LeMoyne College

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

Scott Herrmann is a graduate of the art programs of Syracuse University and Onondaga Community College. A lifelong resident of Central New York, he resides in Liverpool with his wife and son. He recently participated in the "Collage + Assemblage" exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn. This is his first solo show.

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

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

Selected by Essence magazine as "30 Women to Watch," Kim Mayhorn is a multi-media artist whose works encompasses installation, video and theatre. Mayhorn has been a video editor for over 10 years and in 1998 she embarked on a new challenge and began creating installations and was awarded her first solo show at HERE Arts Center in New York City entitled "A Woman Was Lynched the Other Day..." This work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

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

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

Life's Closet: Acrylics and Fabric by Anne-Margaret Childress
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Darryl Hughto & Susan Roth: New Paintings and Sculptures
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibition will feature paintings by both artists created specifically for this exhibition, as well as recent sculptures. A full color exhibition catalog will be available which will include an essay by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

Fiction Reading: Meena Arora Nayak
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Reilly Room, Reilly Hall
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Novelist Meena Arora Nayak will read from two of her novels set in India, About Daddy and Endless Rain, and from a rewriting of the Hindu epic, The Mahabharata, considered one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. Nayak is an assistant professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College in Loudoun.

For more information, phone 315-445-4292.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

(re)circulate(d): studies in 'collage': Works of Scott Herrmann
LeMoyne College

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

Scott Herrmann is a graduate of the art programs of Syracuse University and Onondaga Community College. A lifelong resident of Central New York, he resides in Liverpool with his wife and son. He recently participated in the "Collage + Assemblage" exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn. This is his first solo show.

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

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

Selected by Essence magazine as "30 Women to Watch," Kim Mayhorn is a multi-media artist whose works encompasses installation, video and theatre. Mayhorn has been a video editor for over 10 years and in 1998 she embarked on a new challenge and began creating installations and was awarded her first solo show at HERE Arts Center in New York City entitled "A Woman Was Lynched the Other Day..." This work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

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

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

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

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

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

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

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

Life's Closet: Acrylics and Fabric by Anne-Margaret Childress
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Remembrance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lorraine Savidge: "painting with thread" -- hand-guided original machine embroidery depicting landscape and design
Paula Burke: decorative and functional ceramics
Barbara Kellogg: abstract water media collages based on places visited
Lauren Bristol: string objects/garments referencing ancient rituals and record keeping

Works of Bill Reddick
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Exhibition of Bill Reddick, renowned Canadian international porcelain artist. Reddick designed the Official State Dinnerware for Canada. His work can be seen at Rideau Hall, the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, and the Porcelain Institute in Jingdexhen, China.

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

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

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

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Darryl Hughto & Susan Roth: New Paintings and Sculptures
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibition will feature paintings by both artists created specifically for this exhibition, as well as recent sculptures. A full color exhibition catalog will be available which will include an essay by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

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

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

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

Read a review!

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

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

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

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

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

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Richard Russo
Friends of the Central Library Author Series

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

Richard Russo, is an Upstate New Yorker, who received his BA in English and Ph.D. in American Literature at the University of Arizona. He also earned a master of fine arts degree in creative writing in 1981. In addition to being a novelist he was a former fiction instructor and professor of creative writing. He writes about blue collar life and "Main Street USA." He is the author of Empire Falls, Straight Man, and Nobody's Fool.

Music Journeys: Around the Globe and Home Again!
LeMoyne College
Featuring Debu Nayak, Joe Driscoll

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

West Bengali tabla virtuoso Debu Nayak begins the evening with a trio of musicians through an exploration of classical Indian songs and Bollywood hits.

Following is Syracuse's own Joe Driscoll. Although a lone figure on stage and in the studio, Joe Driscoll is able to create the complete soundscape of a full band utilizing heavy vocal percussion, an array of instruments, a loop pedal, and a lot of imagination. His revolutionary take on music is without boundaries.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

(re)circulate(d): studies in 'collage': Works of Scott Herrmann
LeMoyne College

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

Scott Herrmann is a graduate of the art programs of Syracuse University and Onondaga Community College. A lifelong resident of Central New York, he resides in Liverpool with his wife and son. He recently participated in the "Collage + Assemblage" exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn. This is his first solo show.

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

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

Selected by Essence magazine as "30 Women to Watch," Kim Mayhorn is a multi-media artist whose works encompasses installation, video and theatre. Mayhorn has been a video editor for over 10 years and in 1998 she embarked on a new challenge and began creating installations and was awarded her first solo show at HERE Arts Center in New York City entitled "A Woman Was Lynched the Other Day..." This work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

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

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

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

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

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

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

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

Life's Closet: Acrylics and Fabric by Anne-Margaret Childress
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Remembrance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lorraine Savidge: "painting with thread" -- hand-guided original machine embroidery depicting landscape and design
Paula Burke: decorative and functional ceramics
Barbara Kellogg: abstract water media collages based on places visited
Lauren Bristol: string objects/garments referencing ancient rituals and record keeping

Works of Bill Reddick
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Exhibition of Bill Reddick, renowned Canadian international porcelain artist. Reddick designed the Official State Dinnerware for Canada. His work can be seen at Rideau Hall, the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, and the Porcelain Institute in Jingdexhen, China.

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

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

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

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Darryl Hughto & Susan Roth: New Paintings and Sculptures
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibition will feature paintings by both artists created specifically for this exhibition, as well as recent sculptures. A full color exhibition catalog will be available which will include an essay by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Curated by Lisa Erf, program director, JPMorgan Chase, New York City.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Boys & Girls: The Art of Diane Menzies and Mary Giehl
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Each year in America over 3 million children are abused, nearly 2,000 die, some run away, others are abandoned, all have their own challenges with this sojourn through adolescence. Each day in America, 6 children die from abuse, 100,000 children are homeless, 8 children die from guns, 219 children die before their first birthday, 1,534 babies are born to teenage girls.

In the paintings by Diane Menzies and installations by Mary Giehl, there are hints of darkness and confinement along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness. The work challenges the viewer to take a deeper look at what these images of childhood are telling us.

Dolce Flutes
Civic Morning Musicals

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

A quartet of flute virtuosi (Dana DiGennaro, Kelly Covert, Martha Grener, Jeannie Pizzuto-Sauve) will perform works by McMichael, Caliendo, Bozza, Sutton, plus an arrangement of "Danny Boy."

Thursday, March 18, 2010

(re)circulate(d): studies in 'collage': Works of Scott Herrmann
LeMoyne College

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

Scott Herrmann is a graduate of the art programs of Syracuse University and Onondaga Community College. A lifelong resident of Central New York, he resides in Liverpool with his wife and son. He recently participated in the "Collage + Assemblage" exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn. This is his first solo show.

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

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

Selected by Essence magazine as "30 Women to Watch," Kim Mayhorn is a multi-media artist whose works encompasses installation, video and theatre. Mayhorn has been a video editor for over 10 years and in 1998 she embarked on a new challenge and began creating installations and was awarded her first solo show at HERE Arts Center in New York City entitled "A Woman Was Lynched the Other Day..." This work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

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

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

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

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

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

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

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

Life's Closet: Acrylics and Fabric by Anne-Margaret Childress
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Remembrance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lorraine Savidge: "painting with thread" -- hand-guided original machine embroidery depicting landscape and design
Paula Burke: decorative and functional ceramics
Barbara Kellogg: abstract water media collages based on places visited
Lauren Bristol: string objects/garments referencing ancient rituals and record keeping

Works of Bill Reddick
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Exhibition of Bill Reddick, renowned Canadian international porcelain artist. Reddick designed the Official State Dinnerware for Canada. His work can be seen at Rideau Hall, the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, and the Porcelain Institute in Jingdexhen, China.

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

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

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

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Darryl Hughto & Susan Roth: New Paintings and Sculptures
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibition will feature paintings by both artists created specifically for this exhibition, as well as recent sculptures. A full color exhibition catalog will be available which will include an essay by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

Act 2: Recent Work by Michelle DaRin
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Act 2 represents a pivotal moment in life and art for artist, Michelle DaRin. Known regionally and nationally as a designer of fine art jewelry, Michelle also creates sculptural assemblages. These combine found objects, reclaimed wood, fiber, and metal, and objects cast in bronze. Michelle's jewelry also incorporates various elements, including forged and enameled copper, cast silver, fiber, resin, and stones. Her jewelry and sculpture will both be featured in this exhibition.

Opening: Wild Card Exhibit: CNY Scholastic Art Awards Show
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception from 5:00-8:00 as part of Th3.

Art: 2003-2009
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rodger Mack Exhibition
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park

Price: Free
The Spring: Center for Spiritual & Cultural Unity
200 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibit will feature a total of 104 paintings by the late Rodger Mack, one of Syracuse's most well-known and well-loved artists. Internationally known for his sculptures, Mack was also a dynamic painter who created colorful, vibrant works.

The paintings are provided by Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, and the exhibition is made possible by a collaboration between the Park, The Spring and Syracuse University. Proceeds from the sale of Mack's art will go equally to the three not-for-profits.

Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Curated by Lisa Erf, program director, JPMorgan Chase, New York City.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Boys & Girls: The Art of Diane Menzies and Mary Giehl
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Each year in America over 3 million children are abused, nearly 2,000 die, some run away, others are abandoned, all have their own challenges with this sojourn through adolescence. Each day in America, 6 children die from abuse, 100,000 children are homeless, 8 children die from guns, 219 children die before their first birthday, 1,534 babies are born to teenage girls.

In the paintings by Diane Menzies and installations by Mary Giehl, there are hints of darkness and confinement along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness. The work challenges the viewer to take a deeper look at what these images of childhood are telling us.

Opening: Reassemblages
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

Mark Povinelli is curating this exhibition of over 80 or more of his most recent drawings. He navigates mythaglyphic language within the matrix of drawings as captured portals.

Also on display is a window installation designed by Mark Povinelli.

Erie Canal Exhibits
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

A treasure of artifacts, maps, images, interpretive and interactive displays, and the Frank B. Thomson Line Boat, a full size replica canal boat with crew quarters, cargo and passenger areas you can explore.

Meet the Artist Night: Erin Lachut
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Erin Lachut, local artist, author, and illustrator, will be on-hand to sign editions of her children's book Tree Frogs' First Annual Ice Cream Social, and show her jewelry for children and adults. Light refreshments.

Opening {un}familiar
Redhouse

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

There will be an opening reception 5:00-8:00 p.m. as part of TH3, and there will be an Artist Talk with the curator and selected artists at 7:00 p.m.

{un}familiar, curated by Maeve Mulrennan of the Galway Arts Centre in Ireland, takes as its starting point research by Professor Olaf Blanke into out-of-body-experiences. The selected artists have been invited to make a new work for the exhibition. They have been given research texts by the curator, which include Prof. Blanke's case studies, Foucault's Of Other Spaces, Heterotopias and Alice's Adventure's In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

The artists were selected not because they have explored this territory before: it is because they each show a need to investigate the unknown, to immerse themselves in the unheimlich and reveal fears, myths and truths surrounding their subjects. Each artist works in various media, including performance, video, painting, drawing, collage and sculpture.

{un}familiar features the work of Michelle Browne, Benji de Burca, Cecilia Danell, Vera Klute, Sabina MacMahon, and Julia Pallone. The opening reception will include a performance of "The World Could Wait No Longer" by Mark Clare on the Red House stage. A video of this performance will be shown throughout the remainder of the exhibition.

Who Does She Think She Is?
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

In a half-changed world, women often feel they need to choose: mothering or working? Your children's well-being or your own? Who Does She Think She Is?, a documentary by Academy Award winning filmmaker Pamela Tanner Boll, features five women artists who navigate the economic, psychological, and spiritual challenges of making work outside the elite art world. Through their lives, we explore some of the most problematic intersections of our time: mothering and creativity, partnering and independence, economics and art. The film invites us to consider both ancient legacies of women worshipped as cultural muses and more modern times when most people cannot even name a handful of female artists.

Interviews with experts like Riane Eisler (The Chalice and the Blade), Maura Reilly (Sackler Center for Feminist Art-Brooklyn Museum) and the Guerrilla Girls add a cultural context for these women's uplifting journeys. It is not accolades they seek; it's simply the radical opportunity to live whole. (82 minutes)

Following the screening, there will be a panel discussion with local women artists.

Third Thursday Screening: Bajo La Misma Luna/Under the Same Moon
Community Folk Art Center

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

Directed Patricia Riggen, the film tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico. Unexpected circumstances drive both Rosario and Carlitos to embark on their own journeys in a desperate attempt to reunite. Along the way, mother and son face challenges and obstacles but never lose hope that they will one day be together again.

Artist Open: Jennifer Pepper
Everson Museum of Art

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

Jennifer Pepper's work explores the intersection between language and the body, and their interaction with the physical and emotional environment. Pepper will present and discuss selected works including drawings, sculpture, and site-specific projects.

Artist Talk: Jesse Stiles
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Jesse Stiles will discuss his new site-specific work for the main gallery and the Window Projects.

Jumpin' Jazz Jam
Featuring Jane Monheit, vocals

Price: $10 regular; $6 students/seniors
Liverpool High School Auditorium
4338 Wetzel Rd., Liverpool

Jane Monheit will perform songs from her latest CD, "The Lovers, the Dreamers and Me," and more. The nationally-acclaimed jazz vocalist also will work with the high school jazz ensemble, performing "I Can't Dance, Don't Ask Me." That will include a duet, with Liverpool senior Nick Blaney taking on the role.

Tom Bronzetti, who graduated from Liverpool in 2003, will be the guitarist in Monheit's band. Rick Montalbano, Jr., is Monheit's drummer and husband.

For more information or to reserve tickets, phone 315-453-1500, ext. 4326.

Essayist Gregory Orfalea
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Reilly Room, Reilly Hall
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Gregory Orfalea, who teachesg Middle Eastern and Eurasian Emigre Literature at Georgetown University, will be reading from his recent collection of memoirs and essays, Angeleno Days, published in 2009 by the University of Arizona Press. The reading will touch on Arab-American women and discrimination of the community.

For more information, phone 315-445-4390 or 315-446-6186.

"Stone Canoe" Reading
Featuring Laurie Stone and Richard Toon

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

Authors Laurie Stone and Richard Toon, contributors to the arts journal Stone Canoe, will read from their works as part of Th3.

A longtime writer for the Village Voice, Stone has been theater critic for The Nation, critic-at-large on "Fresh Air" and a member of The Bat Theater Company. Currently her stories and essays appear in Open City, Exquisite Corpse and Stone Canoe #4. In 2005, she participated in "Novel: An Installation," writing a book and living in a house designed by architects Salazar/Davis in Flux Factory's gallery space. She has just finished a residency at Yaddo, in Saratoga Springs, NY, where she worked on "My Life as an Animal: A Memoir in Stories." She is also co-author of "Unmarked Trail: a Romance in Stories" and a "Guide to Setting up a Writing Partnership" in collaboration with Toon.

Toon is director of research at the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University, where he also teaches museum studies. He has published many essays in the field in such publications as Museum Revolutions, Reshaping Museum Space and Curator. In 2006, he was awarded a residency at Yaddo, where he worked on "Pictures at an Exhibition." This essay collection includes stories of an English boyhood and meditations on jumping across class and culture boundaries. Several of his nonfiction essays have appeared in Superstition Review and Our Town. His memoir "Ticket to Ride" appears in the anthology "The Face in the Mirror." In addition to continuing his writing partnership with Stone, he is currently at work on the book Sugar Time, a memoir about diabetes and the British class system. This year, he was appointed a fellow at the Sandra Day O'Connor House for his research on domestic violence.

The Y-Files: Where are the Cows?
Acme Mystery Company

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

Sheriff Shelly Moganagle is calling an emergency town meeting for you and everybody else in Pine Bluffs to try and figure out where in the heck all these cows are disappearing to. Roland McBurger's new hamburger joint? Cattle rustlers? Down at the Crazy Kegger folks are saying it's alien cow abduction! The Sheriff is taking no chances and has called in the FBI. Be there when Special Agents Molding and Sulky arrive. They'll need all the help they can get.

The Music Man
Faith Heritage School

Price: $6 - $8
Faith Heritage School
3740 Midland Ave., Syracuse

Molière Than Thou
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Timothy Mooney will perform his one-man play, Molière Than Thou.

When Molière wrote his comedies, he drained the comic vein in a way no one had before or has since. He knew better than anyone how to fill a situation with the hot air of pretension or hypocrisy, and to pop it with the needle of comic invective.

Timothy Mooney has adapted 15 Molière plays to the stage. Molière Than Thou is drawn entirely from his new versions of these plays, and has received rave reviews all over the U.S. and Canada while turning a new generation on to Molière. Mooney previously served as artistic director of Stage Two Theatre, taught acting at Northern Illinois University and wrote The Script Review, a newsletter for playwrights and producers.