Sunday, November 11, 2007

Syracuse Builds: After the Master Plan
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

The exhibition presents 13 architectural and landscape projects currently in development for the Syracuse University campus and the city of Syracuse, including a new residence hall on the main campus by Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems headquarters designed by Toshiko Mori Architect, and a community InfoCenter for the Near Westside Initiative project in Syracuse designed by Syracuse Architecture professors Tim Stenson and Scott Ruff.

Angelika Rinnhofer: Sammelsurium
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, featuring the work of German-born artist Angelika Rinnhofer, will feature her large-format color prints from three related series, Menschenkunde, Felsenfest, and Seelensucht. She describes her series Menschenkunde as portraits that combine facts, beauty, and irony in a Renaissance-style. Rinnhofer's series Felsenfest continues the same aesthetics in its re-interpretations of martyrs and saints into a modern context. Rinnhofer remembers being frightened as a child when viewing the horrific images of tortured saints commonly found in churches in her hometown Nürnberg, Germany. She now casts a critical eye, juxtaposing religious figures with modern-looking scientists. Seelensucht takes Rinnhofer back to the traditional single-figure portrait, also capturing the themes of martyrs.

Angelika lives in Beacon, NY. She is a commercial photographer and artist. She is the recipient of a Kodak European Gold Award and received a fellowship in photography from the Dutchess County Arts Council. She participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2005.

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Train of Thought: Serial Images from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features the work of five artists -- Hollis Frampton, Arnold Gassan, Peter Max Kandhola, Judy Natal, and Aaron Siskind -- all of whom generously donated either a series of prints or a portfolio of prints to the Light Work Collection. This exhibition provides us with an opportunity to investigate the artists' use of duplication and repetition to explore a single subject or idea. The images in this exhibition are produced using a variety of techniques, including photogravures, ektacolor, silver gelatin prints, and chromogenic prints.

Artist Showcase: Images by Brian Arnold
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition is comprised of recent acquisitions to the Light Work Collection that come from multiple series that Ithaca-based photographer Brian Arnold has been working on. He utilizes traditional black-and-white processes, remaining committed to what he refers to as "the alchemy of photography." All of his photographs are unique silver gelatin prints, toned with a combination of selenium, sulfur, and gold chloride. Arnold also creates unique limited edition books, two of which are included in this exhibition. He teaches photography and electronic arts at the New York State College of Art and Engineering at Alfred University.

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

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

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For the first time ever in central New York, the SUArt Galleries will be presenting a complete, First Edition of Francisco de Goya's monumental graphic statement, The Disasters of War. Considered by many to be unrivaled in its graphic depiction of cruelty, terror, and the inhumanity of man toward his fellow man, the Disasters were not printed in their entirety during the artist's lifetime. Originally conceived and partially executed during the Peninsula War of 1808-1814 and the immediate post-war years, Goya dared not publish the series during his lifetime. The immediacy of the images, the bluntness of his approach to depicting the violence of war, and the fact that the post-war Spanish regime decreed that the War was to be forgotten made publication of the series impossible until 35 years after Goya's death.

Set against a backdrop of war, political turmoil, dictatorship, military occupation, and a growing sense of nationalism, the Disasters may be both the beginning and highlight of modern graphics. When the "fatal consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte and other emphatic caprices" (as it had been described by Goya and his son Javier) was published in 1863 by the Royal Academy of San Fernando, it revolutionized the role of the artist as journalist and an observer of war. Goya, to a large extent, recorded what he saw and purposefully maintained the independence of the observed facts as distinct from his personal reactions to the cruelty, injustice, or whatever emotion the horror he witnessed might have engendered, in order to give greater clarity to the facts.

This series of prints has transcended the specific references to a Napoleonic era war that was borne of imperialist aspirations and has become synonymous with the gross brutality of war and its impact on the innocents of every conflict. In fact, it is not uncommon to hear contemporary war photographers pay homage to Goya and his brilliant concepts that abound in The Disasters of War.

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

Yves Saint Front
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition contains 31 images primarily of Tahiti and Chausey, France, created between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s.

A descendant of mariners, St. Front preferred coastal scenes, often including boats at anchor, seaside villages and beaches. A number of his works include members of his family and the Tahitian natives, occasionally in an arrangement of small peripheral images around a central landscape. There are also a number of sensitively designed interiors; one that is particularly strong shows his wife Isabella standing at a telephone while their cat sleeps on a floor mat.

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

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

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

Since 1974, the Cultural Resources Council, in cooperation with the Everson, has presented On My Own Time. A celebration of artwork created by employees of local businesses on their own time, the exhibition is meant to promote creativity and artistic endeavors by those who are not full-time artists.

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

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

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Four to the Fore
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

The exhibits highlights the varied work of four members, Barbara Emmons, Judith Jaquith, Elizabeth Pilbeam, and Clara Towell.

Newfoundland and Other Journeys
Fayetteville Free Library

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

A showing of original pigment prints by Donal and Shel Little.

Savion Glover
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: $20 general public; $15 SU faculty, staff and alumni; $8 SU students with valid SU ID; $15 registered SU family members and guests
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

During SU Family Weekend, the Tony Award-winning choreographer (“Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk”) and tap dancer Savion Glover will perform. Glover made his Broadway debut at age 10. In addition to Broadway credits, he has appeared in and choreographed feature films, music videos and television commercials and specials; was a series regular on “Sesame Street;” created two dance companies, NYOTs (Not Your Ordinary Tappers) and Ti Dii; and most recently tap danced in a motion-capture suit that transformed his hoofing into the animation that became the moves of lead character Mumble in the animated film “Happy Feet.

Contemporary Film Series: The Yellow Wallpaper and Invocation: Maya Deren
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Yellow Wallpaper

This short dramatic film brings to life the classic Charlotte Perkins Gilman story of the same name, which has become an important addition to American literature. Set in the late 1800s, the story features Elizabeth, an aspiring writer who becomes ill and is forced by her doctor and husband to take a "rest cure." Completely isolated, her mind creates a word inside the wallpaper in her room - a world in which a woman is trapped and unable to escape. (Directed by Marie Ashton, 14 minutes, 1977)

Invocation: Maya Deren

Maya Deren is a legend of avant-garde cinema. This authoritative biography of the charismatic filmmaker, poet and anthropologist features excerpts from her pioneering Meshes of the Afternoon and her unfinished documentary on Haiti, interviews with Stan Brakhage and Jonas Mekas, and recordings of her lectures. Narrated by actress Helen Mirren, this definitive documentary offers startling insights into one of the most intriguing, accomplished figures in cinema history. (Directed by Jo Ann Kaplan, 53 minutes, 1987)

SSYO Fall Concert
Syracuse Youth Orchestras
Kenneth Andrews and Ronald Hebert, conductor

Price: $12 adults, $8 students
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

John Rutter A-Roving from Suite for Strings
Ralph Vaughan-Williams Prelude: 49th Parallel
A Cole Porter Salute
Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischutz overture
Michael Daugherty Sundown on South Street from Philadelphia Stories
Aaron Copland Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo

Soundcheck Live from Redhouse
Redhouse

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

Geek Romeo and Dave Snediker will be performing live at Redhouse.

Starting this weekend, with our once-a-month 'live' broadcast from the Redhouse Theatre, Soundcheck will now be heard on 96.9 WOUR Utica/Rome, as well as on TK99/TK105.

Young Playwrights in Progress
Redhouse

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

Young Playwrights in Progress will present a reading of their work. The short plays are written by Manlius Pebble Hill School seniors Carina Sposato, Mohammad Seraji, and Katie Yates. They are playwriting students of Armory Square Playhouse member Donna Stuccio.

This performance is a script-in-hand presentation of plays in progress. A talkback discussion with the playwrights will follow the reading.

Please contact stucciod@sunyocc.edu with any questions.

Grease and 101 Dalmations Preview
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Price: Free
Barnes & Noble
3454 Erie Blvd. E., Dewitt

Misery
Syracuse Stage
Emma Griffin, director

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

The perfect Halloween treat from the "king of horror, Stephen King. A psychological thriller that serves up gasps and laughs aplenty. A must for King lovers.

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New Play Workshop: The Meaning of Life and Other Useless Pieces of Information
Syracuse University Drama Department

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

Questions like "Who am I?" and "What is the meaning of life?" can catch us when we're least expecting them, stifling us with their scope and depth. We can be staring peacefully at the night sky or stumbling through our morning routine and suddenly realize how small our lives -- and even planet -- are. "What is the meaning of life?" we wonder. "Why am I here? And why do I force myself out of bed and through the day? What's the point?"

In his new play, The Meaning of Life and Other Useless Pieces of Information, 2004 SU Drama grad Matte O'Brien begs a slightly different, but profound question: If life does have meaning beyond the immediate and discernible -- does it even matter? Or is the meaning of life actually just a useless piece of information?

Workshopping is a crucial, but seldom-seen-by-the-public part of the playwriting process. Plays are three-dimensional works of art meant to be seen and heard. In order to truly understand how a moment or character or scene will work, playwrights often need to physically see the play. A group of student actors will actually stage The Meaning of Life and O'Brien will attend rehearsals and performances, reworking and rewriting parts based on what he sees and hears.

The performances are intended to be sketches to give the author a feel of the whole work. The performances will have only a minimal set, no lights or costumes; actors will only use rough props. Audiences will have the rare and fascinating opportunity to watch not just a cast of characters grow and change, but a new work of drama itself as well.

All matinee performances are followed by talk-back sessions with the cast and director.

For seating availability, phone 315-443-2102 or e-mail meaningoflifesu@hotmail.com.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Syracuse University Drama Department
Gerardine Clark, director

Price: $15 regular, $13 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a drama about a Southern family in crisis and the turbulent relationship between husband and wife Brick Pollitt and Maggie "The Cat" Pollitt. The childless Pollitts arrive at a gathering of the family on their Mississippi Delta estate unaware that patriarch Big Daddy has cancer, which revelation puts them in competition with their relatives for a substantial serving from Big Daddy's will. Originating on Broadway in 1955, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was revived four times, and has been adapted for both film and television.

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Footloose
The Talent Company
Bob Durkin, director

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

Based on the motion picture hit about a young man who comes to town and changes the lives of everyone there, Footloose is propelled by the rockin' rhythm of its Oscar-nominated Top 40 score, with music by Tom Snow and lyrics by Dean Pitchford. The soundtrack album spent 10 weeks at #1 on the Billboard charts featuring such popular '80s tunes as "Let's Hear It For The Boy," "Almost Paradise," "The Girl Gets Around," "Holding Out For A Hero," and the title song, "Footloose." When the film was released in 1984, there were at least 65 communities in the United States that had some sort of law on the books outlawing dancing. One such town was Elmore City, OK, the original inspiration for the unbelievable story of Footloose. Ever since the town's inception in 1861, dancing had been illegal. In 1980, when Elmore City teens protested the ordinance at City Hall, a firestorm of controversy followed; when it was all over, the town saw its first dance in over 100 years.

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Monday, November 12, 2007

Syracuse Builds: After the Master Plan
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

The exhibition presents 13 architectural and landscape projects currently in development for the Syracuse University campus and the city of Syracuse, including a new residence hall on the main campus by Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems headquarters designed by Toshiko Mori Architect, and a community InfoCenter for the Near Westside Initiative project in Syracuse designed by Syracuse Architecture professors Tim Stenson and Scott Ruff.

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Newfoundland and Other Journeys
Fayetteville Free Library

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

A showing of original pigment prints by Donal and Shel Little.

The Eye of the FaithKeeper: The Haudenosaunee Art of Oren Lyons
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

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

Tango
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Tango, a large format folio published by Iris Editions in New York (1991) with eight intaglio prints by Nancy Graves and 13 pages of text by Pedro Cuperman that gaze at the aesthetics of this Latin American dance.

Tango proposes an evening of music, dance, and food transposed into videoa sort of "performance" projected into the space of the gallery where audience and art become intertwined in the field of representation.

"Graves conceived of the prints in the folio as a continued exploration of pattern in nature and as a tonal study of black and white," writes Thomas Padon in his book, Nancy Graves, Excavations in Print A Catalogue Raisonné (1996). "More than once the artist has asserted, 'There is nothing more challenging and meaningful than to make prints in black and white.' For an admitted colorist, it is ironic that the nine prints Graves has made in black and white are among her most powerful." The cryptic titles of the prints in the folio were selected by Graves from Cuperman's text for Tango. The poet speaks of the dance as a gradually unfolding ritual, stating near the conclusion, "Tango helps you find your own levels of proximity."

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

The exhibition features abstract artwork from 16 New York State artists. Artists exhibiting: Anatoli Truskalo, Linda Bigness, Bob Gates, Amber Blanding, Hunter O'Reilly, Stan Bowman, Lynne Taetzsch, Paul McMillan, Cheyne Rood, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, Barbara Page, Barbara Mink, Len Fishman, Melissa Tiffany and Al D'Agostino. The show holds a number of different and unique mediums including paintings, sculptures, glass work, photographs, collage, drawings, and giclee prints on canvas.

The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the execution for murder of two Italian anarchist laborers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a selection of period ephemera issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee together with a plethora of books associated with the trial that have been published in the intervening years by Paul Avrich, Felix Frankfurter, and Eugene Lyons, among others. The exhibit features artistic expressions (cartoons, illustrations, novels, plays, poems, songs and music) inspired by the trial, including the work of Maxwell Anderson, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Howard Fast, Woodie Guthrie, William Gropper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rockwell Kent, Katherine Anne Porter, Pete Seeger, and Upton Sinclair. The story of the Sacco and Vanzetti mural by Ben Shahn on the east wall of H. B. Crouse will also be explored.

Four to the Fore
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

The exhibits highlights the varied work of four members, Barbara Emmons, Judith Jaquith, Elizabeth Pilbeam, and Clara Towell.

Artist Showcase: Images by Brian Arnold
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition is comprised of recent acquisitions to the Light Work Collection that come from multiple series that Ithaca-based photographer Brian Arnold has been working on. He utilizes traditional black-and-white processes, remaining committed to what he refers to as "the alchemy of photography." All of his photographs are unique silver gelatin prints, toned with a combination of selenium, sulfur, and gold chloride. Arnold also creates unique limited edition books, two of which are included in this exhibition. He teaches photography and electronic arts at the New York State College of Art and Engineering at Alfred University.

Train of Thought: Serial Images from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features the work of five artists -- Hollis Frampton, Arnold Gassan, Peter Max Kandhola, Judy Natal, and Aaron Siskind -- all of whom generously donated either a series of prints or a portfolio of prints to the Light Work Collection. This exhibition provides us with an opportunity to investigate the artists' use of duplication and repetition to explore a single subject or idea. The images in this exhibition are produced using a variety of techniques, including photogravures, ektacolor, silver gelatin prints, and chromogenic prints.

Angelika Rinnhofer: Sammelsurium
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, featuring the work of German-born artist Angelika Rinnhofer, will feature her large-format color prints from three related series, Menschenkunde, Felsenfest, and Seelensucht. She describes her series Menschenkunde as portraits that combine facts, beauty, and irony in a Renaissance-style. Rinnhofer's series Felsenfest continues the same aesthetics in its re-interpretations of martyrs and saints into a modern context. Rinnhofer remembers being frightened as a child when viewing the horrific images of tortured saints commonly found in churches in her hometown Nürnberg, Germany. She now casts a critical eye, juxtaposing religious figures with modern-looking scientists. Seelensucht takes Rinnhofer back to the traditional single-figure portrait, also capturing the themes of martyrs.

Angelika lives in Beacon, NY. She is a commercial photographer and artist. She is the recipient of a Kodak European Gold Award and received a fellowship in photography from the Dutchess County Arts Council. She participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2005.

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Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

Show and sale of original fine art and crafts.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Six of a Kind
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

This vintage silliness from Paramount teams W.C. Fields, Charlie Ruggles, Mary Boland, Alison Skipworth, George Burns and Gracie Allen in a 1934 free-for-all.

Anberlin

Price: $13
New Renaissance Theater
1119 Townsend St. (in Little Italy), Syracuse

Information: 315-473-0952 ext. 311.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Syracuse Builds: After the Master Plan
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

The exhibition presents 13 architectural and landscape projects currently in development for the Syracuse University campus and the city of Syracuse, including a new residence hall on the main campus by Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems headquarters designed by Toshiko Mori Architect, and a community InfoCenter for the Near Westside Initiative project in Syracuse designed by Syracuse Architecture professors Tim Stenson and Scott Ruff.

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Newfoundland and Other Journeys
Fayetteville Free Library

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

A showing of original pigment prints by Donal and Shel Little.

Gallery Exhibit: OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

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

The Eye of the FaithKeeper: The Haudenosaunee Art of Oren Lyons
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Tango
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Tango, a large format folio published by Iris Editions in New York (1991) with eight intaglio prints by Nancy Graves and 13 pages of text by Pedro Cuperman that gaze at the aesthetics of this Latin American dance.

Tango proposes an evening of music, dance, and food transposed into videoa sort of "performance" projected into the space of the gallery where audience and art become intertwined in the field of representation.

"Graves conceived of the prints in the folio as a continued exploration of pattern in nature and as a tonal study of black and white," writes Thomas Padon in his book, Nancy Graves, Excavations in Print A Catalogue Raisonné (1996). "More than once the artist has asserted, 'There is nothing more challenging and meaningful than to make prints in black and white.' For an admitted colorist, it is ironic that the nine prints Graves has made in black and white are among her most powerful." The cryptic titles of the prints in the folio were selected by Graves from Cuperman's text for Tango. The poet speaks of the dance as a gradually unfolding ritual, stating near the conclusion, "Tango helps you find your own levels of proximity."

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

The exhibition features abstract artwork from 16 New York State artists. Artists exhibiting: Anatoli Truskalo, Linda Bigness, Bob Gates, Amber Blanding, Hunter O'Reilly, Stan Bowman, Lynne Taetzsch, Paul McMillan, Cheyne Rood, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, Barbara Page, Barbara Mink, Len Fishman, Melissa Tiffany and Al D'Agostino. The show holds a number of different and unique mediums including paintings, sculptures, glass work, photographs, collage, drawings, and giclee prints on canvas.

The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the execution for murder of two Italian anarchist laborers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a selection of period ephemera issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee together with a plethora of books associated with the trial that have been published in the intervening years by Paul Avrich, Felix Frankfurter, and Eugene Lyons, among others. The exhibit features artistic expressions (cartoons, illustrations, novels, plays, poems, songs and music) inspired by the trial, including the work of Maxwell Anderson, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Howard Fast, Woodie Guthrie, William Gropper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rockwell Kent, Katherine Anne Porter, Pete Seeger, and Upton Sinclair. The story of the Sacco and Vanzetti mural by Ben Shahn on the east wall of H. B. Crouse will also be explored.

Four to the Fore
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

The exhibits highlights the varied work of four members, Barbara Emmons, Judith Jaquith, Elizabeth Pilbeam, and Clara Towell.

Visual Arts Showcase #61, Tribal
CNY Arts

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

A juried exhibit in which a dozen regional artists have individually interpreted the concept of "Tribal."

Gullah Lifestyles: A Culture Under Attack and Confederate Currency: The Color of Money
Community Folk Art Center

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

Paintings by John W. Jones and Leroy Campbell

The Art of George Mayocole
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Suggested donation $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

This exhibition features vibrant, abstract, mixed media works on paper by this New York City-based artist.

Train of Thought: Serial Images from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features the work of five artists -- Hollis Frampton, Arnold Gassan, Peter Max Kandhola, Judy Natal, and Aaron Siskind -- all of whom generously donated either a series of prints or a portfolio of prints to the Light Work Collection. This exhibition provides us with an opportunity to investigate the artists' use of duplication and repetition to explore a single subject or idea. The images in this exhibition are produced using a variety of techniques, including photogravures, ektacolor, silver gelatin prints, and chromogenic prints.

Artist Showcase: Images by Brian Arnold
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition is comprised of recent acquisitions to the Light Work Collection that come from multiple series that Ithaca-based photographer Brian Arnold has been working on. He utilizes traditional black-and-white processes, remaining committed to what he refers to as "the alchemy of photography." All of his photographs are unique silver gelatin prints, toned with a combination of selenium, sulfur, and gold chloride. Arnold also creates unique limited edition books, two of which are included in this exhibition. He teaches photography and electronic arts at the New York State College of Art and Engineering at Alfred University.

Angelika Rinnhofer: Sammelsurium
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, featuring the work of German-born artist Angelika Rinnhofer, will feature her large-format color prints from three related series, Menschenkunde, Felsenfest, and Seelensucht. She describes her series Menschenkunde as portraits that combine facts, beauty, and irony in a Renaissance-style. Rinnhofer's series Felsenfest continues the same aesthetics in its re-interpretations of martyrs and saints into a modern context. Rinnhofer remembers being frightened as a child when viewing the horrific images of tortured saints commonly found in churches in her hometown Nürnberg, Germany. She now casts a critical eye, juxtaposing religious figures with modern-looking scientists. Seelensucht takes Rinnhofer back to the traditional single-figure portrait, also capturing the themes of martyrs.

Angelika lives in Beacon, NY. She is a commercial photographer and artist. She is the recipient of a Kodak European Gold Award and received a fellowship in photography from the Dutchess County Arts Council. She participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2005.

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Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

Show and sale of original fine art and crafts.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

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

Yves Saint Front
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition contains 31 images primarily of Tahiti and Chausey, France, created between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s.

A descendant of mariners, St. Front preferred coastal scenes, often including boats at anchor, seaside villages and beaches. A number of his works include members of his family and the Tahitian natives, occasionally in an arrangement of small peripheral images around a central landscape. There are also a number of sensitively designed interiors; one that is particularly strong shows his wife Isabella standing at a telephone while their cat sleeps on a floor mat.

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

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For the first time ever in central New York, the SUArt Galleries will be presenting a complete, First Edition of Francisco de Goya's monumental graphic statement, The Disasters of War. Considered by many to be unrivaled in its graphic depiction of cruelty, terror, and the inhumanity of man toward his fellow man, the Disasters were not printed in their entirety during the artist's lifetime. Originally conceived and partially executed during the Peninsula War of 1808-1814 and the immediate post-war years, Goya dared not publish the series during his lifetime. The immediacy of the images, the bluntness of his approach to depicting the violence of war, and the fact that the post-war Spanish regime decreed that the War was to be forgotten made publication of the series impossible until 35 years after Goya's death.

Set against a backdrop of war, political turmoil, dictatorship, military occupation, and a growing sense of nationalism, the Disasters may be both the beginning and highlight of modern graphics. When the "fatal consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte and other emphatic caprices" (as it had been described by Goya and his son Javier) was published in 1863 by the Royal Academy of San Fernando, it revolutionized the role of the artist as journalist and an observer of war. Goya, to a large extent, recorded what he saw and purposefully maintained the independence of the observed facts as distinct from his personal reactions to the cruelty, injustice, or whatever emotion the horror he witnessed might have engendered, in order to give greater clarity to the facts.

This series of prints has transcended the specific references to a Napoleonic era war that was borne of imperialist aspirations and has become synonymous with the gross brutality of war and its impact on the innocents of every conflict. In fact, it is not uncommon to hear contemporary war photographers pay homage to Goya and his brilliant concepts that abound in The Disasters of War.

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

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

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

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Genetic Self-Portrait: Works by Gary Schneider
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The show includes 55 photo-based works that South African-born, NYC-based artist Gary Schneider produced when he was offered a chance to create a new body of work inspired by the Human Genome Project (HGP). The HGP, a scientific race to uncover the mysteries of DNA, began formally in the 1990s and was completed in 2003. During that period, Schneider was able to collaborate with a number of scientists and was given access to advanced imaging systems from electron microscopes to x-ray machines.

The work in the exhibition ranges from images of his individual chromosomes made by a light microscope to panoramic dental x-rays. Schneider is known as a master photographic printer, and by combining his skill as a craftsman and selecting specimens for their aesthetic qualities, he moved beyond scientific descriptions to produce a personal portrait that asks us to consider how we are unique and where we stand on common ground.

Schneider had always been interested in alternative imaging techniques, and previous to this project he had been making images by imprinting his hands onto film emulsions. When he decided to include these prints along with the images he had been making with scientists, he realized that what he had been creating was a new kind of portrait. Ann Thomas, curator of photographs at the National Gallery of Canada, described it as a new approach that "challenges the traditional definition of the portrait, and revises our understanding of what it means to be revealed before the camera's lens."

By merging scientific accuracy with poetic resonance, Schneider has created a very personal illumination of how our individual identity is so closely linked to our broader understanding and use of the information contained in the human building blocks of our DNA. Through the personal exploration that went into creating genetic self-portrait, Schneider reveals that while we may always want to think of ourselves as more than the sum of our parts, our real promise might be found in looking at the 99 percent of ourselves we have in common with everyone else.

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A Look of Portrait
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

Image installations by Jinwoo Lee. Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition

2008 Festival Prescreening
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

The Syracuse International Film Festival hosts a prescreening evening. A team of local writers, actors, producers and film critics will make up a professional prescreening team who will watch a handful of the hundreds of entries received by the festival organizers. The general public is invited to join the prescreening sessions and give their impressions of the films.

The space is limited, so please call 315-442-8700 to reserve a spot.

Other prescreening events are already scheduled LeMoyne College (November 13).

The Shalants + Remote Islands
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Syracuse University Singers
John Warren, conductor

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

With Bridget Moriarty, assistant conductor. Performing works of Ola Gjeilo, Thomas Tomkins, W.A. Mozart, Charles Wood, Edward Elgar, Paul Hindemith, Eric Whitacre, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Robert Sund, and Moses Hogan.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage and University Ave. Garage on a limited space-available basis. You must mention the University Singers concert in order to obtain free parking.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Syracuse Builds: After the Master Plan
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

The exhibition presents 13 architectural and landscape projects currently in development for the Syracuse University campus and the city of Syracuse, including a new residence hall on the main campus by Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems headquarters designed by Toshiko Mori Architect, and a community InfoCenter for the Near Westside Initiative project in Syracuse designed by Syracuse Architecture professors Tim Stenson and Scott Ruff.

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Newfoundland and Other Journeys
Fayetteville Free Library

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

A showing of original pigment prints by Donal and Shel Little.

The Eye of the FaithKeeper: The Haudenosaunee Art of Oren Lyons
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

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

Tango
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Tango, a large format folio published by Iris Editions in New York (1991) with eight intaglio prints by Nancy Graves and 13 pages of text by Pedro Cuperman that gaze at the aesthetics of this Latin American dance.

Tango proposes an evening of music, dance, and food transposed into videoa sort of "performance" projected into the space of the gallery where audience and art become intertwined in the field of representation.

"Graves conceived of the prints in the folio as a continued exploration of pattern in nature and as a tonal study of black and white," writes Thomas Padon in his book, Nancy Graves, Excavations in Print A Catalogue Raisonné (1996). "More than once the artist has asserted, 'There is nothing more challenging and meaningful than to make prints in black and white.' For an admitted colorist, it is ironic that the nine prints Graves has made in black and white are among her most powerful." The cryptic titles of the prints in the folio were selected by Graves from Cuperman's text for Tango. The poet speaks of the dance as a gradually unfolding ritual, stating near the conclusion, "Tango helps you find your own levels of proximity."

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

The exhibition features abstract artwork from 16 New York State artists. Artists exhibiting: Anatoli Truskalo, Linda Bigness, Bob Gates, Amber Blanding, Hunter O'Reilly, Stan Bowman, Lynne Taetzsch, Paul McMillan, Cheyne Rood, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, Barbara Page, Barbara Mink, Len Fishman, Melissa Tiffany and Al D'Agostino. The show holds a number of different and unique mediums including paintings, sculptures, glass work, photographs, collage, drawings, and giclee prints on canvas.

The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the execution for murder of two Italian anarchist laborers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a selection of period ephemera issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee together with a plethora of books associated with the trial that have been published in the intervening years by Paul Avrich, Felix Frankfurter, and Eugene Lyons, among others. The exhibit features artistic expressions (cartoons, illustrations, novels, plays, poems, songs and music) inspired by the trial, including the work of Maxwell Anderson, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Howard Fast, Woodie Guthrie, William Gropper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rockwell Kent, Katherine Anne Porter, Pete Seeger, and Upton Sinclair. The story of the Sacco and Vanzetti mural by Ben Shahn on the east wall of H. B. Crouse will also be explored.

Four to the Fore
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

The exhibits highlights the varied work of four members, Barbara Emmons, Judith Jaquith, Elizabeth Pilbeam, and Clara Towell.

The Art of George Mayocole
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Suggested donation $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

This exhibition features vibrant, abstract, mixed media works on paper by this New York City-based artist.

Gullah Lifestyles: A Culture Under Attack and Confederate Currency: The Color of Money
Community Folk Art Center

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

Paintings by John W. Jones and Leroy Campbell

Artist Showcase: Images by Brian Arnold
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition is comprised of recent acquisitions to the Light Work Collection that come from multiple series that Ithaca-based photographer Brian Arnold has been working on. He utilizes traditional black-and-white processes, remaining committed to what he refers to as "the alchemy of photography." All of his photographs are unique silver gelatin prints, toned with a combination of selenium, sulfur, and gold chloride. Arnold also creates unique limited edition books, two of which are included in this exhibition. He teaches photography and electronic arts at the New York State College of Art and Engineering at Alfred University.

Train of Thought: Serial Images from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features the work of five artists -- Hollis Frampton, Arnold Gassan, Peter Max Kandhola, Judy Natal, and Aaron Siskind -- all of whom generously donated either a series of prints or a portfolio of prints to the Light Work Collection. This exhibition provides us with an opportunity to investigate the artists' use of duplication and repetition to explore a single subject or idea. The images in this exhibition are produced using a variety of techniques, including photogravures, ektacolor, silver gelatin prints, and chromogenic prints.

Angelika Rinnhofer: Sammelsurium
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, featuring the work of German-born artist Angelika Rinnhofer, will feature her large-format color prints from three related series, Menschenkunde, Felsenfest, and Seelensucht. She describes her series Menschenkunde as portraits that combine facts, beauty, and irony in a Renaissance-style. Rinnhofer's series Felsenfest continues the same aesthetics in its re-interpretations of martyrs and saints into a modern context. Rinnhofer remembers being frightened as a child when viewing the horrific images of tortured saints commonly found in churches in her hometown Nürnberg, Germany. She now casts a critical eye, juxtaposing religious figures with modern-looking scientists. Seelensucht takes Rinnhofer back to the traditional single-figure portrait, also capturing the themes of martyrs.

Angelika lives in Beacon, NY. She is a commercial photographer and artist. She is the recipient of a Kodak European Gold Award and received a fellowship in photography from the Dutchess County Arts Council. She participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2005.

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Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

Show and sale of original fine art and crafts.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

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

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For the first time ever in central New York, the SUArt Galleries will be presenting a complete, First Edition of Francisco de Goya's monumental graphic statement, The Disasters of War. Considered by many to be unrivaled in its graphic depiction of cruelty, terror, and the inhumanity of man toward his fellow man, the Disasters were not printed in their entirety during the artist's lifetime. Originally conceived and partially executed during the Peninsula War of 1808-1814 and the immediate post-war years, Goya dared not publish the series during his lifetime. The immediacy of the images, the bluntness of his approach to depicting the violence of war, and the fact that the post-war Spanish regime decreed that the War was to be forgotten made publication of the series impossible until 35 years after Goya's death.

Set against a backdrop of war, political turmoil, dictatorship, military occupation, and a growing sense of nationalism, the Disasters may be both the beginning and highlight of modern graphics. When the "fatal consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte and other emphatic caprices" (as it had been described by Goya and his son Javier) was published in 1863 by the Royal Academy of San Fernando, it revolutionized the role of the artist as journalist and an observer of war. Goya, to a large extent, recorded what he saw and purposefully maintained the independence of the observed facts as distinct from his personal reactions to the cruelty, injustice, or whatever emotion the horror he witnessed might have engendered, in order to give greater clarity to the facts.

This series of prints has transcended the specific references to a Napoleonic era war that was borne of imperialist aspirations and has become synonymous with the gross brutality of war and its impact on the innocents of every conflict. In fact, it is not uncommon to hear contemporary war photographers pay homage to Goya and his brilliant concepts that abound in The Disasters of War.

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

Yves Saint Front
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition contains 31 images primarily of Tahiti and Chausey, France, created between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s.

A descendant of mariners, St. Front preferred coastal scenes, often including boats at anchor, seaside villages and beaches. A number of his works include members of his family and the Tahitian natives, occasionally in an arrangement of small peripheral images around a central landscape. There are also a number of sensitively designed interiors; one that is particularly strong shows his wife Isabella standing at a telephone while their cat sleeps on a floor mat.

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

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

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

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Genetic Self-Portrait: Works by Gary Schneider
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The show includes 55 photo-based works that South African-born, NYC-based artist Gary Schneider produced when he was offered a chance to create a new body of work inspired by the Human Genome Project (HGP). The HGP, a scientific race to uncover the mysteries of DNA, began formally in the 1990s and was completed in 2003. During that period, Schneider was able to collaborate with a number of scientists and was given access to advanced imaging systems from electron microscopes to x-ray machines.

The work in the exhibition ranges from images of his individual chromosomes made by a light microscope to panoramic dental x-rays. Schneider is known as a master photographic printer, and by combining his skill as a craftsman and selecting specimens for their aesthetic qualities, he moved beyond scientific descriptions to produce a personal portrait that asks us to consider how we are unique and where we stand on common ground.

Schneider had always been interested in alternative imaging techniques, and previous to this project he had been making images by imprinting his hands onto film emulsions. When he decided to include these prints along with the images he had been making with scientists, he realized that what he had been creating was a new kind of portrait. Ann Thomas, curator of photographs at the National Gallery of Canada, described it as a new approach that "challenges the traditional definition of the portrait, and revises our understanding of what it means to be revealed before the camera's lens."

By merging scientific accuracy with poetic resonance, Schneider has created a very personal illumination of how our individual identity is so closely linked to our broader understanding and use of the information contained in the human building blocks of our DNA. Through the personal exploration that went into creating genetic self-portrait, Schneider reveals that while we may always want to think of ourselves as more than the sum of our parts, our real promise might be found in looking at the 99 percent of ourselves we have in common with everyone else.

Read a review!

A Look of Portrait
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

Image installations by Jinwoo Lee. Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition

The Global City: a New Frontier
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring Saskia Sassen

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

Renowned sociologist Saskia Sassen of Columbia University, a noted scholar of the effects of globalization on the world economy, will present this keynote address for the school's "Upstate: Writing the City" symposium being held on Nov. 15.

Sassen's research and writing focus on social, economic and political dimensions of globalization; immigration; global cities (including cities and terrorism); new networked technologies; and changes within the liberal state that result from current transnational conditions. Sassen's vast contributions to the study of globalization challenge shorthand notions of "the global economy" that have captured the popular imagination. She conceptualizes the global economy as a network of some 40 "global cities," characterized by world-market orientations and significant concentrations of company headquarters, specialized corporate services and asset-management institutions. Much of Sassen's work draws attention to the harmful effects of the cultural split between the well-off, educated workers running the global firms in these areas and the poorer, less educated workers servicing them.

Born in the Netherlands, Sassen grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and earned a joint Ph.D. in sociology and economics at the University of Notre Dame. She is now the Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University after a decade at the University of Chicago and the London School of Economics. She recently completed a five-year project for UNESCO on sustainable human settlement for which she set up a network of researchers and activists in more than 30 countries; the work is published as one of the volumes of the "Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems" (Oxford, UK: EOLSS Publishers).

Her recent books are "Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages" (Princeton University Press 2006) and "A Sociology of Globalization" (Norton, 2007). Her books are translated into 16 languages. She has written for The Guardian, The New York Times, Le Monde Diplomatique, the International Herald Tribune, Newsweek International and the Financial Times, among other publications.

She serves on several editorial boards and is an advisor to several international bodies. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Cities, and was chair of the Information Technology and International Cooperation Committee of the Social Science Research Council (USA).

For information on parking at The Warehouse, call (315) 443-8238.

Onondaga Community College
Corn-Bred, Native American Rhythm and Blues band

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Native American musicians performing original songs of swing, rockabilly, blues, blazing harmonica, jumping guitar, traditional wooden flute, and toe tappin two-step music.

Co-sponsored with Multicultural Resources and Diversity Awareness in honor of Native American/Indian Heritage Month.

Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Lake Effect Winds; Susan Crocker, piano

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

Danzi Quintet, Op. 41, and trios.

Freedom Sings
Syracuse University
Featuring Joanne Shenandoah

Price: Free, but tickets required
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"Freedom Sings" is a live multimedia performance that tells the musical and visual story of three centuries of banned music in America. Grammy Award-winning Native American musician, songwriter and Central New York resident Joanne Shenandoah will join the cast in performing a song during the event.

Songs such as "The Star Spangled Banner," "Rescue Me" and "With a Little Help From My Friends" are among the hundreds of popular American songs that have been challenged or suppressed because of controversy over their content. Using musical performance, film, photographs and narration, the critically acclaimed, 90-minute program invites the audience to take a fresh look at the First Amendment and the impact of the right of freedom of speech.

"Freedom Sings" features an all-star cast of musicians, including Grammy Award winners Ashley Cleveland, Don Henry ("Where've You Been," recorded by Kathy Mattea) and Craig Krampf (mega-hit drummer and producer). Other cast members include Bill Lloyd of the popular duo Foster and Lloyd; innovative singer and songwriter Jason White (author of the top ten hit "Red Rag Top" for Tim McGraw); and acclaimed singer Jonell Mosser, whose voice is heard in recordings and movies including "Hope Floats" and "Boys to the Side." Completing the band are keyboardist Joseph Wooten from the Steve Miller Band and Jacqueline Patterson, formerly of the historic Fisk Jubilee Singers from Fisk University.

A 10-time Native American Award-winning artist and Wolf Clan member of the Iroquois Confederacy, Shenandoah is one of the most acclaimed Native American recording artists of her time. Since emerging as an artist in 1989, she has performed at Carnegie Hall, the White House, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Woodstock '94. She has channeled her love of pop, folk and classical music into her ancestrally inspired music. Her music has been used in many soundtracks. She is also an educator and actress, and plays a major role in "The Last Winter," a film on global warming released last year.

Gene Policinski, vice president and executive director of the First Amendment Center, narrates "Freedom Sings." He will be joined by co-narrator and Newseum producer Sonya Gavankar.

The event is sponsored by the Tully Center for Free Speech in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications; the 2007 Syracuse Symposium, presented by SU's College of Arts and Sciences; and the First Amendment Center in Nashville, Tenn., is part of the Newhouse School's Year of the First Amendment.

Free tickets may be obtained at the Schine Box Office, 315-443-4517. Parking is available in the University Avenue Garage for $3.50 (garage closes at 10 pm).

Christopher Kennedy, poetry
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

Vagón (Boxcar) and La casa de Bernarda Alba (The House of Bernarda Alba)
LeMoyne College
Repertorio Español

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Vagón (Boxcar) A moving play based on a true story reported on CNN in 1987 about several men that crossed the border in a boxcar. Winning play of the MetLife Nuestras Voces National Playwriting Competition. La casa de Bernarda Alba (The House of Bernarda Alba) was Lorca's final play: he was assassinated in the same year at the beginning of the war. New York City based theatre company Repertorio Español has been a leader in Spanish-language theatre for almost 40 years. Their performances are in Spanish with simultaneous English translation available.

For reservations and ticket information, phone 212-889-2850.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Syracuse University Drama Department
Gerardine Clark, director

Price: $15 regular, $13 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a drama about a Southern family in crisis and the turbulent relationship between husband and wife Brick Pollitt and Maggie "The Cat" Pollitt. The childless Pollitts arrive at a gathering of the family on their Mississippi Delta estate unaware that patriarch Big Daddy has cancer, which revelation puts them in competition with their relatives for a substantial serving from Big Daddy's will. Originating on Broadway in 1955, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was revived four times, and has been adapted for both film and television.

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Thursday, November 15, 2007

Syracuse Builds: After the Master Plan
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

The exhibition presents 13 architectural and landscape projects currently in development for the Syracuse University campus and the city of Syracuse, including a new residence hall on the main campus by Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems headquarters designed by Toshiko Mori Architect, and a community InfoCenter for the Near Westside Initiative project in Syracuse designed by Syracuse Architecture professors Tim Stenson and Scott Ruff.

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Newfoundland and Other Journeys
Fayetteville Free Library

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

A showing of original pigment prints by Donal and Shel Little.

Gallery Exhibit: OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

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

The Eye of the FaithKeeper: The Haudenosaunee Art of Oren Lyons
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Tango
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Tango, a large format folio published by Iris Editions in New York (1991) with eight intaglio prints by Nancy Graves and 13 pages of text by Pedro Cuperman that gaze at the aesthetics of this Latin American dance.

Tango proposes an evening of music, dance, and food transposed into videoa sort of "performance" projected into the space of the gallery where audience and art become intertwined in the field of representation.

"Graves conceived of the prints in the folio as a continued exploration of pattern in nature and as a tonal study of black and white," writes Thomas Padon in his book, Nancy Graves, Excavations in Print A Catalogue Raisonné (1996). "More than once the artist has asserted, 'There is nothing more challenging and meaningful than to make prints in black and white.' For an admitted colorist, it is ironic that the nine prints Graves has made in black and white are among her most powerful." The cryptic titles of the prints in the folio were selected by Graves from Cuperman's text for Tango. The poet speaks of the dance as a gradually unfolding ritual, stating near the conclusion, "Tango helps you find your own levels of proximity."

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

The exhibition features abstract artwork from 16 New York State artists. Artists exhibiting: Anatoli Truskalo, Linda Bigness, Bob Gates, Amber Blanding, Hunter O'Reilly, Stan Bowman, Lynne Taetzsch, Paul McMillan, Cheyne Rood, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, Barbara Page, Barbara Mink, Len Fishman, Melissa Tiffany and Al D'Agostino. The show holds a number of different and unique mediums including paintings, sculptures, glass work, photographs, collage, drawings, and giclee prints on canvas.

The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the execution for murder of two Italian anarchist laborers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a selection of period ephemera issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee together with a plethora of books associated with the trial that have been published in the intervening years by Paul Avrich, Felix Frankfurter, and Eugene Lyons, among others. The exhibit features artistic expressions (cartoons, illustrations, novels, plays, poems, songs and music) inspired by the trial, including the work of Maxwell Anderson, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Howard Fast, Woodie Guthrie, William Gropper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rockwell Kent, Katherine Anne Porter, Pete Seeger, and Upton Sinclair. The story of the Sacco and Vanzetti mural by Ben Shahn on the east wall of H. B. Crouse will also be explored.

Four to the Fore
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

The exhibits highlights the varied work of four members, Barbara Emmons, Judith Jaquith, Elizabeth Pilbeam, and Clara Towell.

Gullah Lifestyles: A Culture Under Attack and Confederate Currency: The Color of Money
Community Folk Art Center

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

Paintings by John W. Jones and Leroy Campbell

The Art of George Mayocole
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Suggested donation $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

This exhibition features vibrant, abstract, mixed media works on paper by this New York City-based artist.

Train of Thought: Serial Images from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features the work of five artists -- Hollis Frampton, Arnold Gassan, Peter Max Kandhola, Judy Natal, and Aaron Siskind -- all of whom generously donated either a series of prints or a portfolio of prints to the Light Work Collection. This exhibition provides us with an opportunity to investigate the artists' use of duplication and repetition to explore a single subject or idea. The images in this exhibition are produced using a variety of techniques, including photogravures, ektacolor, silver gelatin prints, and chromogenic prints.

Artist Showcase: Images by Brian Arnold
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition is comprised of recent acquisitions to the Light Work Collection that come from multiple series that Ithaca-based photographer Brian Arnold has been working on. He utilizes traditional black-and-white processes, remaining committed to what he refers to as "the alchemy of photography." All of his photographs are unique silver gelatin prints, toned with a combination of selenium, sulfur, and gold chloride. Arnold also creates unique limited edition books, two of which are included in this exhibition. He teaches photography and electronic arts at the New York State College of Art and Engineering at Alfred University.

Angelika Rinnhofer: Sammelsurium
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, featuring the work of German-born artist Angelika Rinnhofer, will feature her large-format color prints from three related series, Menschenkunde, Felsenfest, and Seelensucht. She describes her series Menschenkunde as portraits that combine facts, beauty, and irony in a Renaissance-style. Rinnhofer's series Felsenfest continues the same aesthetics in its re-interpretations of martyrs and saints into a modern context. Rinnhofer remembers being frightened as a child when viewing the horrific images of tortured saints commonly found in churches in her hometown Nürnberg, Germany. She now casts a critical eye, juxtaposing religious figures with modern-looking scientists. Seelensucht takes Rinnhofer back to the traditional single-figure portrait, also capturing the themes of martyrs.

Angelika lives in Beacon, NY. She is a commercial photographer and artist. She is the recipient of a Kodak European Gold Award and received a fellowship in photography from the Dutchess County Arts Council. She participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2005.

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Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Million Dollar Blocks: Justice and the City
ThINC

Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

The United States currently has more than 2 million people locked up in jails and prisons. A disproportionate number of them come from a very few neighborhoods in the country's biggest cities. In many places, the concentration is so dense that states are spending in excess of a million dollars a year to incarcerate the residents of single census blocks. When these people are released and reenter their communities, roughly 40% do not stay more than three years before they are reincarcerated.

Using rarely accessible data from the criminal justice system, the Spatial Information Design Lab and the Justice Mapping Center have created maps of these "million dollar blocks" and of the city-prison-city-prison migration for of the nation's cities. The maps suggest that the criminal justice system has become the predominant government institution in these communities and that public investment in this system has resulted in significant costs to other elements of our civic infrastructure -- education, housing, health, and family.

The maps pose difficult ethical and political questions for policymakers and designers. When they are linked to other urban social and economic indicators of incarceration they also suggest new strategies for approaching urban design and criminal justice reform together.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

Show and sale of original fine art and crafts.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

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

Yves Saint Front
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition contains 31 images primarily of Tahiti and Chausey, France, created between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s.

A descendant of mariners, St. Front preferred coastal scenes, often including boats at anchor, seaside villages and beaches. A number of his works include members of his family and the Tahitian natives, occasionally in an arrangement of small peripheral images around a central landscape. There are also a number of sensitively designed interiors; one that is particularly strong shows his wife Isabella standing at a telephone while their cat sleeps on a floor mat.

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

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For the first time ever in central New York, the SUArt Galleries will be presenting a complete, First Edition of Francisco de Goya's monumental graphic statement, The Disasters of War. Considered by many to be unrivaled in its graphic depiction of cruelty, terror, and the inhumanity of man toward his fellow man, the Disasters were not printed in their entirety during the artist's lifetime. Originally conceived and partially executed during the Peninsula War of 1808-1814 and the immediate post-war years, Goya dared not publish the series during his lifetime. The immediacy of the images, the bluntness of his approach to depicting the violence of war, and the fact that the post-war Spanish regime decreed that the War was to be forgotten made publication of the series impossible until 35 years after Goya's death.

Set against a backdrop of war, political turmoil, dictatorship, military occupation, and a growing sense of nationalism, the Disasters may be both the beginning and highlight of modern graphics. When the "fatal consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte and other emphatic caprices" (as it had been described by Goya and his son Javier) was published in 1863 by the Royal Academy of San Fernando, it revolutionized the role of the artist as journalist and an observer of war. Goya, to a large extent, recorded what he saw and purposefully maintained the independence of the observed facts as distinct from his personal reactions to the cruelty, injustice, or whatever emotion the horror he witnessed might have engendered, in order to give greater clarity to the facts.

This series of prints has transcended the specific references to a Napoleonic era war that was borne of imperialist aspirations and has become synonymous with the gross brutality of war and its impact on the innocents of every conflict. In fact, it is not uncommon to hear contemporary war photographers pay homage to Goya and his brilliant concepts that abound in The Disasters of War.

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

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

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

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Genetic Self-Portrait: Works by Gary Schneider
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The show includes 55 photo-based works that South African-born, NYC-based artist Gary Schneider produced when he was offered a chance to create a new body of work inspired by the Human Genome Project (HGP). The HGP, a scientific race to uncover the mysteries of DNA, began formally in the 1990s and was completed in 2003. During that period, Schneider was able to collaborate with a number of scientists and was given access to advanced imaging systems from electron microscopes to x-ray machines.

The work in the exhibition ranges from images of his individual chromosomes made by a light microscope to panoramic dental x-rays. Schneider is known as a master photographic printer, and by combining his skill as a craftsman and selecting specimens for their aesthetic qualities, he moved beyond scientific descriptions to produce a personal portrait that asks us to consider how we are unique and where we stand on common ground.

Schneider had always been interested in alternative imaging techniques, and previous to this project he had been making images by imprinting his hands onto film emulsions. When he decided to include these prints along with the images he had been making with scientists, he realized that what he had been creating was a new kind of portrait. Ann Thomas, curator of photographs at the National Gallery of Canada, described it as a new approach that "challenges the traditional definition of the portrait, and revises our understanding of what it means to be revealed before the camera's lens."

By merging scientific accuracy with poetic resonance, Schneider has created a very personal illumination of how our individual identity is so closely linked to our broader understanding and use of the information contained in the human building blocks of our DNA. Through the personal exploration that went into creating genetic self-portrait, Schneider reveals that while we may always want to think of ourselves as more than the sum of our parts, our real promise might be found in looking at the 99 percent of ourselves we have in common with everyone else.

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Wrapping Up the Season
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring mixed media by Amy E. Bartell, monoprints and mixed media by Tara Hogan and works by the Syracuse Ceramic Guild.

Amy E. Bartell is showing a new series of mixed media works titled "Archeological Memoir." In her artist statement she describes the body of work as "a glimpse into memory and a quest for directional clues amidst the maps, signs, mysteries, scraps of writing and the compass of magnetic north." Bartell's artwork can be found in the collections of numerous individuals and organizations including Carleton College, California State University, Syracuse University and SUNY New York. She is known as a mural artist around the country and as the former Gallery Coordinator of Delavan Art Gallery. Currently, she is a faculty member of the art department at SUNY Oswego. Bartell's approach in her new series raises the question "What do we see when we scan the horizons of our lives? Where do we dig; does 'X' really mark the spot?"

Tara Hogan is exhibiting a collection of monoprints and mixed media from a new series of work titled "Conversations With Nature." The body of work conveys a dialogue between humans, animals and nature inspired by an interest in environmental consciousness. Hogan has been a graphic designer since earning her BFA in Illustration from Syracuse University eight years ago. Her art has been published in American Illustration, CMYK Magazine, Domino Magazine online and on the back of Bear Magazine. About her distinct style, Hogan explains, "I have a loving appreciation for nature's intricate beauty combined with modern urban style."

Syracuse Ceramic Guild's exhibition features ceramics by 10 its members. Selected works include eclectic ceramics by Lory and Walt Black, porcelain and stoneware by Sue Canizares, Raku sculpture by Dona Flaherty, Raku pottery by Dee Gage, abstract sculptural stoneware by Jane T. Gillett, ceramic story boxes by Amy Patricia Komar, "Biomorpheus," a body of abstract works by Ron Kalinoski, high-fired porcelain and stoneware by Bobbi Lamb and soda fired works by Steven Pilcher. The Syracuse Ceramic Guild, established in 1947, is a not-for-profit organization of potters dedicated to the promotion of awareness and understanding of the ceramic medium.

Where I Live in Tuscany
Redhouse

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

An exhibition of landscapes by international artist Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna. The exhibition is curated by Daniela Mosko-Wozniak and signifies the first collaboration between the College of Visual and Performing Arts and the Redhouse gallery.

Where I Live in Tuscany shows recent landscapes, views from the artist's house revealing the unique beauty of the Italian landscape colored by the changing seasons. Kraczyna allows us a glimpse into his private world, a unique insight into his colorful palette, which marks all his series, whether he interprets themes of Icarus, Chinese Calligraphy, the Venice Carnival, or generally the labyrinths of life. The exhibit features the distinct multi-plate color etching technique that has earned Kraczyna notoriety not just in Italy, but also internationally.

Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. He teaches printmaking and art-on-paper classes for the studio arts program at Syracuse University's Florence Center. He lives and works in his adopted country of Italy from his studio in the house of the Italian Master Domenico Ghirlandaio, the teacher of Michelangelo. Born on the Polish-Russian border in 1940, Kraczyna immigrated to the United States after WWII. Kraczyna first traveled to Italy 1961 on a scholarship from RISD, and after completing a Master's degree, returned to live and work there, allowing the particular character of the country to inform his work. In his studio, overlooking the city of Florence, he teaches Master Classes for advanced students in his own multi-plate color etching technique, in addition to his summer workshops in Barga.

He is the founder and former director of Il Bisonte International School of Advanced Printmaking in Florence, where he taught the techniques of color etching, and is co-author of I Segni Incisi, the first Italian textbook on the history and techniques of etching. He has directed "Studio for Color Etching" workshops in Barga, Lucca, and at the International Symposium for Color Etching at Palacky University, Czech Republic. His work has been shown in more than 139 solo exhibitions in the United States, Italy, Germany, England, Mexico, Columbia, the Czech Republic, and Japan, and is represented in the Uffizi Print Collection.

Free parking is conveniently located directly behind the Redhouse building.

A Look of Portrait
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

Image installations by Jinwoo Lee. Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition

A Gala Holiday Art Exhibit
Westcott Community Center

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

Mary Stebbins Taitt: digital paintings
John "Jaw's" McGrath: pen and ink landscapes
Karen Tashkovski: paper collage
Amber Blanding: glass work
Mary Fragapane: pastel paintings and prints
Mick Mather: photographs
Kirsten Moore: acrylic and oil paintings
John Swank: photography

Perte de Signal
Urban Video Project

Fayette Firefighters Memorial Park
Fayette St., Syracuse

The Urban Video Project (UVP) will present "Perte de Signal," its sixth volume of outdoor multimedia projections. "Perte de Signal" features four video works distributed from the artist-run media arts center Perte de Signal based in Montreal. Curator of the show is the Avalanche Collective, an artist group led by three graduate students from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Blake Carrington, Christopher Gianunzio and Colin Todd.

The projections will take place regardless of weather conditions.

100 Years of Color Photography
Light Work Gallery
Featuring Hugh Tifft, photographer

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

This presentation will include examples of the Autochrome process and its historical context, period and contemporary written materials, and examples of other early color processes. The discussion will last less than 90 minutes and conclude with an informal talk about starting a photography collection.

Artist Open: Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

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

Join us for a special edition of Artist Open. Three artists from Under One Roof Reprise will guide visitors through the exhibition. Mary Giehl, Anne Beffel and Jude Lewis will each present their work and engage visitors in conversation about the various sources of inspiration, as well as the technical processes utilized in making their work. Visitors will be invited to find meaning and discuss their own interpretation of the objects.

Artist Talk
Redhouse

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

Artist Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna and curator Daniela Mosko-Wozniak will discuss the new exhibit Where I Live in Tuscany

An Evening with Amory Lovins
University Lectures

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An Evening with Amory Lovins, physicist, resource analyst, and cofounder of the Rocky Mountain Institute.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Syracuse University Women's Choir

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

A Cappella After Hours
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Featuring all 5 of SU's a cappella groups - The Mandarins, Groovestand, Main Squeeze, Oy Cappella, and Orange Appeal -- this once a semester event is sure to satisfy your a cappella cravings!

Pirates of the Yuletide
Acme Mystery Company

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

London 1757: The world's hardiest pirates are planning to raid the North Pole and kidnap Santa. Interactive mystery/comedy dinner theater.

Vagón (Boxcar) and La casa de Bernarda Alba (The House of Bernarda Alba)
LeMoyne College
Repertorio Español

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Vagón (Boxcar) A moving play based on a true story reported on CNN in 1987 about several men that crossed the border in a boxcar. Winning play of the MetLife Nuestras Voces National Playwriting Competition. La casa de Bernarda Alba (The House of Bernarda Alba) was Lorca's final play: he was assassinated in the same year at the beginning of the war. New York City based theatre company Repertorio Español has been a leader in Spanish-language theatre for almost 40 years. Their performances are in Spanish with simultaneous English translation available.

For reservations and ticket information, phone 212-889-2850.

Memorandum
Redhouse
W.h.A.t. (The Warehouse Architecture Theatre)

Price: $6 adult; $3 students
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The Warehouse Architecture Theatre is returning to Redhouse to produce "Memorandum" by Vaclav Havel and directed by Morgan Shaw. They will also present a short performance of "Fresh Air (of Expectaton)" by Alex Coulombe.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Syracuse University Drama Department
Gerardine Clark, director

Price: $15 regular, $13 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a drama about a Southern family in crisis and the turbulent relationship between husband and wife Brick Pollitt and Maggie "The Cat" Pollitt. The childless Pollitts arrive at a gathering of the family on their Mississippi Delta estate unaware that patriarch Big Daddy has cancer, which revelation puts them in competition with their relatives for a substantial serving from Big Daddy's will. Originating on Broadway in 1955, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was revived four times, and has been adapted for both film and television.

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Friday, November 16, 2007

Syracuse Builds: After the Master Plan
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

The exhibition presents 13 architectural and landscape projects currently in development for the Syracuse University campus and the city of Syracuse, including a new residence hall on the main campus by Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems headquarters designed by Toshiko Mori Architect, and a community InfoCenter for the Near Westside Initiative project in Syracuse designed by Syracuse Architecture professors Tim Stenson and Scott Ruff.

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Eye of the FaithKeeper: The Haudenosaunee Art of Oren Lyons
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

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

Tango
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Tango, a large format folio published by Iris Editions in New York (1991) with eight intaglio prints by Nancy Graves and 13 pages of text by Pedro Cuperman that gaze at the aesthetics of this Latin American dance.

Tango proposes an evening of music, dance, and food transposed into videoa sort of "performance" projected into the space of the gallery where audience and art become intertwined in the field of representation.

"Graves conceived of the prints in the folio as a continued exploration of pattern in nature and as a tonal study of black and white," writes Thomas Padon in his book, Nancy Graves, Excavations in Print A Catalogue Raisonné (1996). "More than once the artist has asserted, 'There is nothing more challenging and meaningful than to make prints in black and white.' For an admitted colorist, it is ironic that the nine prints Graves has made in black and white are among her most powerful." The cryptic titles of the prints in the folio were selected by Graves from Cuperman's text for Tango. The poet speaks of the dance as a gradually unfolding ritual, stating near the conclusion, "Tango helps you find your own levels of proximity."

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

The exhibition features abstract artwork from 16 New York State artists. Artists exhibiting: Anatoli Truskalo, Linda Bigness, Bob Gates, Amber Blanding, Hunter O'Reilly, Stan Bowman, Lynne Taetzsch, Paul McMillan, Cheyne Rood, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, Barbara Page, Barbara Mink, Len Fishman, Melissa Tiffany and Al D'Agostino. The show holds a number of different and unique mediums including paintings, sculptures, glass work, photographs, collage, drawings, and giclee prints on canvas.

The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the execution for murder of two Italian anarchist laborers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a selection of period ephemera issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee together with a plethora of books associated with the trial that have been published in the intervening years by Paul Avrich, Felix Frankfurter, and Eugene Lyons, among others. The exhibit features artistic expressions (cartoons, illustrations, novels, plays, poems, songs and music) inspired by the trial, including the work of Maxwell Anderson, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Howard Fast, Woodie Guthrie, William Gropper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rockwell Kent, Katherine Anne Porter, Pete Seeger, and Upton Sinclair. The story of the Sacco and Vanzetti mural by Ben Shahn on the east wall of H. B. Crouse will also be explored.

A Gala Holiday Art Exhibit
Westcott Community Center

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

Mary Stebbins Taitt: digital paintings
John "Jaw's" McGrath: pen and ink landscapes
Karen Tashkovski: paper collage
Amber Blanding: glass work
Mary Fragapane: pastel paintings and prints
Mick Mather: photographs
Kirsten Moore: acrylic and oil paintings
John Swank: photography

Four to the Fore
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

The exhibits highlights the varied work of four members, Barbara Emmons, Judith Jaquith, Elizabeth Pilbeam, and Clara Towell.

The Art of George Mayocole
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Suggested donation $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

This exhibition features vibrant, abstract, mixed media works on paper by this New York City-based artist.

Gullah Lifestyles: A Culture Under Attack and Confederate Currency: The Color of Money
Community Folk Art Center

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

Paintings by John W. Jones and Leroy Campbell

Newfoundland and Other Journeys
Fayetteville Free Library

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

A showing of original pigment prints by Donal and Shel Little.

Artist Showcase: Images by Brian Arnold
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition is comprised of recent acquisitions to the Light Work Collection that come from multiple series that Ithaca-based photographer Brian Arnold has been working on. He utilizes traditional black-and-white processes, remaining committed to what he refers to as "the alchemy of photography." All of his photographs are unique silver gelatin prints, toned with a combination of selenium, sulfur, and gold chloride. Arnold also creates unique limited edition books, two of which are included in this exhibition. He teaches photography and electronic arts at the New York State College of Art and Engineering at Alfred University.

Train of Thought: Serial Images from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features the work of five artists -- Hollis Frampton, Arnold Gassan, Peter Max Kandhola, Judy Natal, and Aaron Siskind -- all of whom generously donated either a series of prints or a portfolio of prints to the Light Work Collection. This exhibition provides us with an opportunity to investigate the artists' use of duplication and repetition to explore a single subject or idea. The images in this exhibition are produced using a variety of techniques, including photogravures, ektacolor, silver gelatin prints, and chromogenic prints.

Angelika Rinnhofer: Sammelsurium
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, featuring the work of German-born artist Angelika Rinnhofer, will feature her large-format color prints from three related series, Menschenkunde, Felsenfest, and Seelensucht. She describes her series Menschenkunde as portraits that combine facts, beauty, and irony in a Renaissance-style. Rinnhofer's series Felsenfest continues the same aesthetics in its re-interpretations of martyrs and saints into a modern context. Rinnhofer remembers being frightened as a child when viewing the horrific images of tortured saints commonly found in churches in her hometown Nürnberg, Germany. She now casts a critical eye, juxtaposing religious figures with modern-looking scientists. Seelensucht takes Rinnhofer back to the traditional single-figure portrait, also capturing the themes of martyrs.

Angelika lives in Beacon, NY. She is a commercial photographer and artist. She is the recipient of a Kodak European Gold Award and received a fellowship in photography from the Dutchess County Arts Council. She participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2005.

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Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Where I Live in Tuscany
Redhouse

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

An exhibition of landscapes by international artist Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna. The exhibition is curated by Daniela Mosko-Wozniak and signifies the first collaboration between the College of Visual and Performing Arts and the Redhouse gallery.

Where I Live in Tuscany shows recent landscapes, views from the artist's house revealing the unique beauty of the Italian landscape colored by the changing seasons. Kraczyna allows us a glimpse into his private world, a unique insight into his colorful palette, which marks all his series, whether he interprets themes of Icarus, Chinese Calligraphy, the Venice Carnival, or generally the labyrinths of life. The exhibit features the distinct multi-plate color etching technique that has earned Kraczyna notoriety not just in Italy, but also internationally.

Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. He teaches printmaking and art-on-paper classes for the studio arts program at Syracuse University's Florence Center. He lives and works in his adopted country of Italy from his studio in the house of the Italian Master Domenico Ghirlandaio, the teacher of Michelangelo. Born on the Polish-Russian border in 1940, Kraczyna immigrated to the United States after WWII. Kraczyna first traveled to Italy 1961 on a scholarship from RISD, and after completing a Master's degree, returned to live and work there, allowing the particular character of the country to inform his work. In his studio, overlooking the city of Florence, he teaches Master Classes for advanced students in his own multi-plate color etching technique, in addition to his summer workshops in Barga.

He is the founder and former director of Il Bisonte International School of Advanced Printmaking in Florence, where he taught the techniques of color etching, and is co-author of I Segni Incisi, the first Italian textbook on the history and techniques of etching. He has directed "Studio for Color Etching" workshops in Barga, Lucca, and at the International Symposium for Color Etching at Palacky University, Czech Republic. His work has been shown in more than 139 solo exhibitions in the United States, Italy, Germany, England, Mexico, Columbia, the Czech Republic, and Japan, and is represented in the Uffizi Print Collection.

Free parking is conveniently located directly behind the Redhouse building.

Million Dollar Blocks: Justice and the City
ThINC

Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

The United States currently has more than 2 million people locked up in jails and prisons. A disproportionate number of them come from a very few neighborhoods in the country's biggest cities. In many places, the concentration is so dense that states are spending in excess of a million dollars a year to incarcerate the residents of single census blocks. When these people are released and reenter their communities, roughly 40% do not stay more than three years before they are reincarcerated.

Using rarely accessible data from the criminal justice system, the Spatial Information Design Lab and the Justice Mapping Center have created maps of these "million dollar blocks" and of the city-prison-city-prison migration for of the nation's cities. The maps suggest that the criminal justice system has become the predominant government institution in these communities and that public investment in this system has resulted in significant costs to other elements of our civic infrastructure -- education, housing, health, and family.

The maps pose difficult ethical and political questions for policymakers and designers. When they are linked to other urban social and economic indicators of incarceration they also suggest new strategies for approaching urban design and criminal justice reform together.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

Show and sale of original fine art and crafts.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

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

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For the first time ever in central New York, the SUArt Galleries will be presenting a complete, First Edition of Francisco de Goya's monumental graphic statement, The Disasters of War. Considered by many to be unrivaled in its graphic depiction of cruelty, terror, and the inhumanity of man toward his fellow man, the Disasters were not printed in their entirety during the artist's lifetime. Originally conceived and partially executed during the Peninsula War of 1808-1814 and the immediate post-war years, Goya dared not publish the series during his lifetime. The immediacy of the images, the bluntness of his approach to depicting the violence of war, and the fact that the post-war Spanish regime decreed that the War was to be forgotten made publication of the series impossible until 35 years after Goya's death.

Set against a backdrop of war, political turmoil, dictatorship, military occupation, and a growing sense of nationalism, the Disasters may be both the beginning and highlight of modern graphics. When the "fatal consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte and other emphatic caprices" (as it had been described by Goya and his son Javier) was published in 1863 by the Royal Academy of San Fernando, it revolutionized the role of the artist as journalist and an observer of war. Goya, to a large extent, recorded what he saw and purposefully maintained the independence of the observed facts as distinct from his personal reactions to the cruelty, injustice, or whatever emotion the horror he witnessed might have engendered, in order to give greater clarity to the facts.

This series of prints has transcended the specific references to a Napoleonic era war that was borne of imperialist aspirations and has become synonymous with the gross brutality of war and its impact on the innocents of every conflict. In fact, it is not uncommon to hear contemporary war photographers pay homage to Goya and his brilliant concepts that abound in The Disasters of War.

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

Yves Saint Front
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition contains 31 images primarily of Tahiti and Chausey, France, created between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s.

A descendant of mariners, St. Front preferred coastal scenes, often including boats at anchor, seaside villages and beaches. A number of his works include members of his family and the Tahitian natives, occasionally in an arrangement of small peripheral images around a central landscape. There are also a number of sensitively designed interiors; one that is particularly strong shows his wife Isabella standing at a telephone while their cat sleeps on a floor mat.

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

Wrapping Up the Season
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring mixed media by Amy E. Bartell, monoprints and mixed media by Tara Hogan and works by the Syracuse Ceramic Guild.

Amy E. Bartell is showing a new series of mixed media works titled "Archeological Memoir." In her artist statement she describes the body of work as "a glimpse into memory and a quest for directional clues amidst the maps, signs, mysteries, scraps of writing and the compass of magnetic north." Bartell's artwork can be found in the collections of numerous individuals and organizations including Carleton College, California State University, Syracuse University and SUNY New York. She is known as a mural artist around the country and as the former Gallery Coordinator of Delavan Art Gallery. Currently, she is a faculty member of the art department at SUNY Oswego. Bartell's approach in her new series raises the question "What do we see when we scan the horizons of our lives? Where do we dig; does 'X' really mark the spot?"

Tara Hogan is exhibiting a collection of monoprints and mixed media from a new series of work titled "Conversations With Nature." The body of work conveys a dialogue between humans, animals and nature inspired by an interest in environmental consciousness. Hogan has been a graphic designer since earning her BFA in Illustration from Syracuse University eight years ago. Her art has been published in American Illustration, CMYK Magazine, Domino Magazine online and on the back of Bear Magazine. About her distinct style, Hogan explains, "I have a loving appreciation for nature's intricate beauty combined with modern urban style."

Syracuse Ceramic Guild's exhibition features ceramics by 10 its members. Selected works include eclectic ceramics by Lory and Walt Black, porcelain and stoneware by Sue Canizares, Raku sculpture by Dona Flaherty, Raku pottery by Dee Gage, abstract sculptural stoneware by Jane T. Gillett, ceramic story boxes by Amy Patricia Komar, "Biomorpheus," a body of abstract works by Ron Kalinoski, high-fired porcelain and stoneware by Bobbi Lamb and soda fired works by Steven Pilcher. The Syracuse Ceramic Guild, established in 1947, is a not-for-profit organization of potters dedicated to the promotion of awareness and understanding of the ceramic medium.

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

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

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Genetic Self-Portrait: Works by Gary Schneider
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The show includes 55 photo-based works that South African-born, NYC-based artist Gary Schneider produced when he was offered a chance to create a new body of work inspired by the Human Genome Project (HGP). The HGP, a scientific race to uncover the mysteries of DNA, began formally in the 1990s and was completed in 2003. During that period, Schneider was able to collaborate with a number of scientists and was given access to advanced imaging systems from electron microscopes to x-ray machines.

The work in the exhibition ranges from images of his individual chromosomes made by a light microscope to panoramic dental x-rays. Schneider is known as a master photographic printer, and by combining his skill as a craftsman and selecting specimens for their aesthetic qualities, he moved beyond scientific descriptions to produce a personal portrait that asks us to consider how we are unique and where we stand on common ground.

Schneider had always been interested in alternative imaging techniques, and previous to this project he had been making images by imprinting his hands onto film emulsions. When he decided to include these prints along with the images he had been making with scientists, he realized that what he had been creating was a new kind of portrait. Ann Thomas, curator of photographs at the National Gallery of Canada, described it as a new approach that "challenges the traditional definition of the portrait, and revises our understanding of what it means to be revealed before the camera's lens."

By merging scientific accuracy with poetic resonance, Schneider has created a very personal illumination of how our individual identity is so closely linked to our broader understanding and use of the information contained in the human building blocks of our DNA. Through the personal exploration that went into creating genetic self-portrait, Schneider reveals that while we may always want to think of ourselves as more than the sum of our parts, our real promise might be found in looking at the 99 percent of ourselves we have in common with everyone else.

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A Look of Portrait
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

Image installations by Jinwoo Lee. Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition

Recital by the Vocal Repertory Class of Professor Loftus
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Folkus Project
Ryan Fitzsimmons with Greg Klyma and Tom Bianchi

Price: $10
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Songs rich in imagery and emotion, buoyed by inspired guitar playing.

Classics Series: The Pines of Rome
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Cello: Julie Albers, Priscilla Lee, Caroline Stinson, Laura Bontrager
Daniel Hege, conductor

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

Brahms Symphony No. 3
Waggoner Stretched on the Beauty
Respighi The Pines of Rome

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An Aria Evening
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring soprano Sharon Cheng, with pianist Kyle Davies

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

Program includes arias by Handel, Mozart, Weber, Donizetti, Verdi, Offenbach, Massenet, Dvorak, Puccini, and Moore.

**SOLD OUT** Poet Claudia Emerson
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: $8 general public; $5 DWC/YMCA members
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Claudia Emerson was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her book Late Wife: Poems (LSU Press, 2005). She is also the author of the poetry collections Pharaoh, Pharaoh, and Pinion: An Elegy. Her many awards include a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts.

PLEASE NOTE: Tickets from Claudia Emerson's postponed spring reading WILL be honored at this rescheduled event.

Memorandum
Redhouse
W.h.A.t. (The Warehouse Architecture Theatre)

Price: $8 adult; $4 students
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The Warehouse Architecture Theatre is returning to Redhouse to produce "Memorandum" by Vaclav Havel and directed by Morgan Shaw. They will also present a short performance of "Fresh Air (of Expectaton)" by Alex Coulombe.

Endgame
Simply New Theatre

Price: $25 regular; $20 students/seniors
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

New Play Workshop: The Meaning of Life and Other Useless Pieces of Information
Syracuse University Drama Department

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

Questions like "Who am I?" and "What is the meaning of life?" can catch us when we're least expecting them, stifling us with their scope and depth. We can be staring peacefully at the night sky or stumbling through our morning routine and suddenly realize how small our lives -- and even planet -- are. "What is the meaning of life?" we wonder. "Why am I here? And why do I force myself out of bed and through the day? What's the point?"

In his new play, The Meaning of Life and Other Useless Pieces of Information, 2004 SU Drama grad Matte O'Brien begs a slightly different, but profound question: If life does have meaning beyond the immediate and discernible -- does it even matter? Or is the meaning of life actually just a useless piece of information?

Workshopping is a crucial, but seldom-seen-by-the-public part of the playwriting process. Plays are three-dimensional works of art meant to be seen and heard. In order to truly understand how a moment or character or scene will work, playwrights often need to physically see the play. A group of student actors will actually stage The Meaning of Life and O'Brien will attend rehearsals and performances, reworking and rewriting parts based on what he sees and hears.

The performances are intended to be sketches to give the author a feel of the whole work. The performances will have only a minimal set, no lights or costumes; actors will only use rough props. Audiences will have the rare and fascinating opportunity to watch not just a cast of characters grow and change, but a new work of drama itself as well.

All matinee performances are followed by talk-back sessions with the cast and director.

For seating availability, phone 315-443-2102 or e-mail meaningoflifesu@hotmail.com.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Syracuse University Drama Department
Gerardine Clark, director

Price: $15 regular, $13 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a drama about a Southern family in crisis and the turbulent relationship between husband and wife Brick Pollitt and Maggie "The Cat" Pollitt. The childless Pollitts arrive at a gathering of the family on their Mississippi Delta estate unaware that patriarch Big Daddy has cancer, which revelation puts them in competition with their relatives for a substantial serving from Big Daddy's will. Originating on Broadway in 1955, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was revived four times, and has been adapted for both film and television.

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Footloose
The Talent Company
Bob Durkin, director

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

Based on the motion picture hit about a young man who comes to town and changes the lives of everyone there, Footloose is propelled by the rockin' rhythm of its Oscar-nominated Top 40 score, with music by Tom Snow and lyrics by Dean Pitchford. The soundtrack album spent 10 weeks at #1 on the Billboard charts featuring such popular '80s tunes as "Let's Hear It For The Boy," "Almost Paradise," "The Girl Gets Around," "Holding Out For A Hero," and the title song, "Footloose." When the film was released in 1984, there were at least 65 communities in the United States that had some sort of law on the books outlawing dancing. One such town was Elmore City, OK, the original inspiration for the unbelievable story of Footloose. Ever since the town's inception in 1861, dancing had been illegal. In 1980, when Elmore City teens protested the ordinance at City Hall, a firestorm of controversy followed; when it was all over, the town saw its first dance in over 100 years.

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Saturday, November 17, 2007

Syracuse Builds: After the Master Plan
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

The exhibition presents 13 architectural and landscape projects currently in development for the Syracuse University campus and the city of Syracuse, including a new residence hall on the main campus by Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam, the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems headquarters designed by Toshiko Mori Architect, and a community InfoCenter for the Near Westside Initiative project in Syracuse designed by Syracuse Architecture professors Tim Stenson and Scott Ruff.

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Off the Wall Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Unlike most gallery shows, this Associated Artists sale allows everyone the opportunity to purchase fine original artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall". A portion of each sale helps support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Please join us and enjoy the creations of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful chance to find one-of-a-kind gifts!

Wrapping Up the Season
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring mixed media by Amy E. Bartell, monoprints and mixed media by Tara Hogan and works by the Syracuse Ceramic Guild.

Amy E. Bartell is showing a new series of mixed media works titled "Archeological Memoir." In her artist statement she describes the body of work as "a glimpse into memory and a quest for directional clues amidst the maps, signs, mysteries, scraps of writing and the compass of magnetic north." Bartell's artwork can be found in the collections of numerous individuals and organizations including Carleton College, California State University, Syracuse University and SUNY New York. She is known as a mural artist around the country and as the former Gallery Coordinator of Delavan Art Gallery. Currently, she is a faculty member of the art department at SUNY Oswego. Bartell's approach in her new series raises the question "What do we see when we scan the horizons of our lives? Where do we dig; does 'X' really mark the spot?"

Tara Hogan is exhibiting a collection of monoprints and mixed media from a new series of work titled "Conversations With Nature." The body of work conveys a dialogue between humans, animals and nature inspired by an interest in environmental consciousness. Hogan has been a graphic designer since earning her BFA in Illustration from Syracuse University eight years ago. Her art has been published in American Illustration, CMYK Magazine, Domino Magazine online and on the back of Bear Magazine. About her distinct style, Hogan explains, "I have a loving appreciation for nature's intricate beauty combined with modern urban style."

Syracuse Ceramic Guild's exhibition features ceramics by 10 its members. Selected works include eclectic ceramics by Lory and Walt Black, porcelain and stoneware by Sue Canizares, Raku sculpture by Dona Flaherty, Raku pottery by Dee Gage, abstract sculptural stoneware by Jane T. Gillett, ceramic story boxes by Amy Patricia Komar, "Biomorpheus," a body of abstract works by Ron Kalinoski, high-fired porcelain and stoneware by Bobbi Lamb and soda fired works by Steven Pilcher. The Syracuse Ceramic Guild, established in 1947, is a not-for-profit organization of potters dedicated to the promotion of awareness and understanding of the ceramic medium.

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

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

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Newfoundland and Other Journeys
Fayetteville Free Library

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

A showing of original pigment prints by Donal and Shel Little.

Million Dollar Blocks: Justice and the City
ThINC

Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

The United States currently has more than 2 million people locked up in jails and prisons. A disproportionate number of them come from a very few neighborhoods in the country's biggest cities. In many places, the concentration is so dense that states are spending in excess of a million dollars a year to incarcerate the residents of single census blocks. When these people are released and reenter their communities, roughly 40% do not stay more than three years before they are reincarcerated.

Using rarely accessible data from the criminal justice system, the Spatial Information Design Lab and the Justice Mapping Center have created maps of these "million dollar blocks" and of the city-prison-city-prison migration for of the nation's cities. The maps suggest that the criminal justice system has become the predominant government institution in these communities and that public investment in this system has resulted in significant costs to other elements of our civic infrastructure -- education, housing, health, and family.

The maps pose difficult ethical and political questions for policymakers and designers. When they are linked to other urban social and economic indicators of incarceration they also suggest new strategies for approaching urban design and criminal justice reform together.

Gullah Lifestyles: A Culture Under Attack and Confederate Currency: The Color of Money
Community Folk Art Center

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

Paintings by John W. Jones and Leroy Campbell

The Art of George Mayocole
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Suggested donation $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

This exhibition features vibrant, abstract, mixed media works on paper by this New York City-based artist.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

Show and sale of original fine art and crafts.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

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

Yves Saint Front
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition contains 31 images primarily of Tahiti and Chausey, France, created between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s.

A descendant of mariners, St. Front preferred coastal scenes, often including boats at anchor, seaside villages and beaches. A number of his works include members of his family and the Tahitian natives, occasionally in an arrangement of small peripheral images around a central landscape. There are also a number of sensitively designed interiors; one that is particularly strong shows his wife Isabella standing at a telephone while their cat sleeps on a floor mat.

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

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For the first time ever in central New York, the SUArt Galleries will be presenting a complete, First Edition of Francisco de Goya's monumental graphic statement, The Disasters of War. Considered by many to be unrivaled in its graphic depiction of cruelty, terror, and the inhumanity of man toward his fellow man, the Disasters were not printed in their entirety during the artist's lifetime. Originally conceived and partially executed during the Peninsula War of 1808-1814 and the immediate post-war years, Goya dared not publish the series during his lifetime. The immediacy of the images, the bluntness of his approach to depicting the violence of war, and the fact that the post-war Spanish regime decreed that the War was to be forgotten made publication of the series impossible until 35 years after Goya's death.

Set against a backdrop of war, political turmoil, dictatorship, military occupation, and a growing sense of nationalism, the Disasters may be both the beginning and highlight of modern graphics. When the "fatal consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte and other emphatic caprices" (as it had been described by Goya and his son Javier) was published in 1863 by the Royal Academy of San Fernando, it revolutionized the role of the artist as journalist and an observer of war. Goya, to a large extent, recorded what he saw and purposefully maintained the independence of the observed facts as distinct from his personal reactions to the cruelty, injustice, or whatever emotion the horror he witnessed might have engendered, in order to give greater clarity to the facts.

This series of prints has transcended the specific references to a Napoleonic era war that was borne of imperialist aspirations and has become synonymous with the gross brutality of war and its impact on the innocents of every conflict. In fact, it is not uncommon to hear contemporary war photographers pay homage to Goya and his brilliant concepts that abound in The Disasters of War.

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

Genetic Self-Portrait: Works by Gary Schneider
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The show includes 55 photo-based works that South African-born, NYC-based artist Gary Schneider produced when he was offered a chance to create a new body of work inspired by the Human Genome Project (HGP). The HGP, a scientific race to uncover the mysteries of DNA, began formally in the 1990s and was completed in 2003. During that period, Schneider was able to collaborate with a number of scientists and was given access to advanced imaging systems from electron microscopes to x-ray machines.

The work in the exhibition ranges from images of his individual chromosomes made by a light microscope to panoramic dental x-rays. Schneider is known as a master photographic printer, and by combining his skill as a craftsman and selecting specimens for their aesthetic qualities, he moved beyond scientific descriptions to produce a personal portrait that asks us to consider how we are unique and where we stand on common ground.

Schneider had always been interested in alternative imaging techniques, and previous to this project he had been making images by imprinting his hands onto film emulsions. When he decided to include these prints along with the images he had been making with scientists, he realized that what he had been creating was a new kind of portrait. Ann Thomas, curator of photographs at the National Gallery of Canada, described it as a new approach that "challenges the traditional definition of the portrait, and revises our understanding of what it means to be revealed before the camera's lens."

By merging scientific accuracy with poetic resonance, Schneider has created a very personal illumination of how our individual identity is so closely linked to our broader understanding and use of the information contained in the human building blocks of our DNA. Through the personal exploration that went into creating genetic self-portrait, Schneider reveals that while we may always want to think of ourselves as more than the sum of our parts, our real promise might be found in looking at the 99 percent of ourselves we have in common with everyone else.

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A Look of Portrait
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

Image installations by Jinwoo Lee. Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition

Scholastic Jazz Jam
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $6 adult; $3 with student ID
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Aspiring jazz instrumentalists "learn the ropes" of public performance, backed by the area's finest jazz professionals. Play tunes of your choice in a supportive atmosphere. All experience levels welcome! Call 315-479-5299 for more information.

Action Music
Society for New Music
Cindi Johnston Turner, conductor

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Rob Smith Sprint, 2006
Nicholas Omiccioli Waves, 2006
Dan Trueman Triptick, 2006
Robert Morris Society Sounds, 2006
Jeffrey Nytch ... and the wind spoke, 2005

...so many pleasures
Quintessential Vocal Ensemble

Price: $10 regular; $5 students/seniors
Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts
728 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A concert of music spanning 500 years of agony and ecstasy in song, featuring works by William Cornysh, Juan Vasquez, John Morley, Hans Leo Hassler, Josquin DesPres, Michael McGlynn, J. W. Hobbs, Arthur Sullivan, and Sergei Rachmaninov.

Quintessential is made up of five singers from the Syracuse area who met while singing with the Syracuse Vocal Ensemble. Their shared passion for choral music brought them together in 2006 to form a vocal consort whose format, while not unique, is unusual: their singing explores the use of men's voices only, performing music which spans the full range of vocal writing  including the range usually covered by female singers or unchanged voices. This use of all male voices produces a characteristically dense and colorful sound, richer in overtones and more uniform in texture than an ensemble with both men and women. It has been made famous in our time by groups such as The King's Singers and Chanticleer.

Quintessential members are Stephen Stewart and Roderick Etzel, countertenors; Stephen Zumchak and Thomas Sauvé, tenors; Michael Chellis, bass.

Classics Series: The Pines of Rome
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Cello: Julie Albers, Priscilla Lee, Caroline Stinson, Laura Bontrager
Daniel Hege, conductor

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

Brahms Symphony No. 3
Waggoner Stretched on the Beauty
Respighi The Pines of Rome

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Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Syracuse University Woodwind Quintet

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

Larry Hoyt's Acoustic Showcase
Westcott Community Center

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

Program features Dana "Short Order" Cooke, Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers, the a capella duo Glass of Water, and Michael Gordon. For more information, phone 315-428-9909.

Sleeping Beauty
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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