Thursday, April 12, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

The Reflections Series: Works by Nevin Mercede
Redhouse

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

These digital prints are composed from photographs taken while traveling in Russia. Conversations with artists, politicians and educators encountered there provide the majority of companion texts. Since 1995 Mercede has woven images with texts reflecting on social, political and educational issues or situations.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

OCC Student Art and Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

A juried showcase of art and photography by Onondaga Community College students.

"Images of Upstate New York" and "Juxtaposed Through Wonderland"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"Images of Upstate New York" features work by Morgan Goodwin and Kate Walseman
"Juxtaposed Through Wonderland" features recent work by KayCie Danniel

Patently Syracuse
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

A visual exploration of inventions, designs and innovations created in Central New York.

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Reflection and Identity: Works by W. Michelle Harris and Michael Roman
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition features recent work by Rochester Institute of Technology associate professor and artist W. Michelle Harris and Atlanta-based artist and Syracuse University alum Michael Roman. These two young artists embrace questions of gender, identity, and societal expectations.

While the materials used by each artist sit at the opposite ends of the technological spectrum, both individuals seek to examine topics of an interrelated and highly personal nature.

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Academic Art...teachers that do
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Works of Jamessville-Dewitt art teachers Faith Carapella (charcoal, pen and ink, collage) and Steve Pilcher (soda-fired stoneware, both functional and decorative).

Reliquaries: New Work by Drew Goerlitz
Everson Museum of Art

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

Well-known for his graceful yet imposing steel sculpture, Drew Goerlitz, Associate Professor of Sculpture at the State University of New York Plattsburg, presents a new body of work at the Everson Museum of Art. Reliquaries continues the reoccurring theme of containment, concealment and privacy best described by Goerlitz himself: "My interpretation of reliquary is not to hold a sacred object or relic, but to engage the viewer with the form and tension of the unknown interior. The adornment of these objects relates to architectural details and the idea of facade. Facade is what we are presented with upon first appearance, whether speaking of people or architecture, and it isn't until we look inside that we discover the true structure."

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 adults, $8 students/seniors, $30 family pack (2 adults, 4 children))
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

Reception: CNY Art Showcase: Juried Preview of Live Auction
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

There will be a Preview Reception this evening 5:30-7:00 pm. Enjoy refreshments, pre-bid on works of art, and purchase discounted tickets to the Live Auction! The reception is free and open to the public.

CNY Arts Showcase: Juried Preview of the Live Auction, presented in conjunction with the Eastwood Rotary Club, highlights the great and diverse artistic talents within our community. The exhibition at the Everson will precede the Eastwood Rotary Club's Annual CNY Art Showcase Live Auction on April 20.

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

Educational Toys by Roy Wilson
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Genet Design Gallery
The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

There will be a reception this afternoon 12:30-1:30 pm.

Designer Roy Wilson, a 1970 alumnus of Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, will exhibit his award-winning educational toy designs. The exhibit features Wilson's work from the Learning Curve Toy Co., including the 1992 Thomas Wooden Railway project and the 1994 Lamaze Infant Development System, which he researched, designed, engineered and manufactured. The exhibition will also include his most recent invention in toys, TRAK2BRIK Adapters. Introduced in February at the American International Toy Fair, TRAK2BRIK is a system of adapters that links wooden railway track to pegged construction bricks and has dozens of slide-on toy accessories.

Wilson's career evolved from an early fascination with mechanical, scientific and electrical products. While at SU studying industrial design, he wrote his graduating thesis on preschool educational developmental toys. He started his own design business, Creative International, in 1967 and decided to remain independent and/or work on long-term contracts. To date, he has won 47 national and international awards for design excellence.

Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on West Fayette Street or the first-floor door on West Washington Street. For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

9th Annual Kids' Benefit Art Show
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The school year's hard work in art programs at Meachem and Seymour Dual-Language Academy Elementary schools netted some students the opportunity to display their art in a professional gallery.

Between the two schools, some 950 students are enrolled in the art programs, in no small measure due to the dedication and expertise of their teachers, Stacy Griffin at Meachem and Kelly Moser-Vogler at Seymour, who have served in the Syracuse School District for a combined 26 years. Another reason for the success of the schools' art programs is the unique way each teacher chooses to nurture the students' interest by targeting their total development in academic curriculum, including study of various cultures, math concepts, and literacy. Further, these teachers go beyond the level of their students, using different means to encourage parents' involvement. And, every year, the teachers also move beyond their own arts departments to involve the rest of each school's student body by busing in all classmates for a special gallery kids' reception.

Sales from the show are split between the schools and students.

Self Portrait Show
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The show features self portraits in a variety of mediums by gallery members.

Kala Stein: Form & Plenty
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Kala Stein's exhibition Form and Plenty showcases her innovative ceramics based on archetypal utilitarian forms, like vases, bottles, and cups. By manipulating clay primarily though the slip casting of molds, she creates sculptural silhouettes, which merge multiple forms and planes into a single vessel. Stein says of her work, "Filtering the forms through abstraction, simplification and a limited color palette allows me to make compositional arrangements that depart from the symbol of the object itself."

Stein received her Master of Fine Arts at New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University where she currently is a visiting instructor. She shows her work nationally and maintains her home and studio in Canadice, NY.

Time, Again Time: Works by Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In "Time, again time," the artist reflects on ordered fragments of a disordered world. An activist and renowned Latin American artist, Ana Tiscornia brings a mixed-media installation that curator Pedro Cuperman describes as "the outcome of a tale, where we have a fragmented world, where the pieces are somehow geometrically organic, logical... a kind of architecture of catastrophe. It is about the artist's obsession with organizing her world after having lived through the tragedies of military dictatorships in her home land, and the present catastrophes, wars that we endure in our own time. Ana's work demands from the viewer a sort of reconstruction, reintegration of the work, and our world.

MFA 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

MFA 2012 presents the work of 22 artists concluding their graduate careers in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. On view will be a wide range of traditional and contemporary media, including painting, ceramics, photography, interactive and experimental sculpture, video, and conceptual installations. The artists participating in MFA 2012 are Maximilian Bauer, Lauren Boldon, J. S. Jin Choi, Rose Marie Cromwell, Zach Dunn, Michael Giannattasio, Eugenie Michelle Giasson, Holland Houdek, Tessa J. Kennedy, Kyoungju Kim, Jay Muhlin, Yiming Nie, Vasilios Papaioannu, Annie Ryerson, James Stevens, Jennifer Turner, Rachel Van Pelt, Claire Ying-Chin Wang, Jennifer Leigh Wright, Elif Yoney, Jave Yoshimoto, Xiaowen Zhu.

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 are not available, the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

The Photographer as Child: Memories of Guatemala
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Born in Guatemala, award-winning photographer Efren Lopez is a student in the Military Photojournalism Program at Syracuse University. He is also an aerial photographer for the U.S. Air Force and the first reservist to be selected to attend Newhouse's Military Photojournalism Program. He now lives in Arizona.

The exhibit features images Lopez captured on a return trip to Guatemala in 2009. "My life began in a bamboo hut at the side of a road in a tiny town named Petaca, Guatemala, in 1966," Lopez writes. "It's a town so small that it is next to impossible to find on most maps of Guatemala, much less Central America."

Lopez has documented real-world situations and the military around the globe and has captured stunning images in Arizona and Guatemala. His work has been featured in various publications, including the book Arizona 24/7, and has been awarded many distinctions, including first place in the Professional Photography category at the 2008 Arizona State Fair, an honorable mention in the pictorial category in the 2009 Military Photographer of the Year competition, and first place in the 2011 Multimedia Team 19th Annual Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photography Workshop.

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In her first US museum solo show, New York City-based Japanese artist Noriko Ambe will create a new site-specific installation in the main gallery reflecting the tragic 2011 events in Japan through the use of video projections and her signature large-scale paper cutouts that evoke waves.

Nature plays an important role in Ambe's work, and it points to larger issues, such as the natural forces determining our global landscape, and the relationship between nature and humans throughout time. A recipient of prestigious awards such as the AICA Award and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ambe's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Japan Society in New York and the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Kyoto, Japan. Her work is also in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.

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The "Gnome Show"
XL Projects

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

Each fall, Department of Design faculty members review student projects on display in the department's home at The Warehouse and place a gnome statue next to the most deserving work in a variety of categories. The "Gnome Show" is an exhibition of last fall's gnome-winning projects.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

The Black Series
Echo

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

Photography by Amanda Zackem. On display will be 17 silver-gelatin prints and a short film.

RESOURCED/response: The Art of the Justseeds Artists Cooperative and SU Fiber Arts
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibition is a look into the environmental devastation that plagues the earth and its beings. It is also a look into the environmental justice movement that works to correct and heal the destruction. RESOURCED is a portfolio of hand-produced prints organized and created by the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative in 2010, focusing on resource extraction and climate issues, which will be used to help ask important questions about our environment. At the beginning of the spring semester 2012, students from the introduction to fibers course at Syracuse University viewed images from RESOURCED.

Students selected the poster that held most significance to them, either for the visual content of the work or the environmental issue it addressed. Then each student created a hand-dyed textile in response to the original work, using a variety of dye techniques, relief printing techniques and methods of stitching. These were both applied traditionally and adapted to suit the students' intentions and individual visual language.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The video "Flo Flow" is William Wegman's latest in a long line of human-canid collaborations. It was while he was in Long Beach in the 1970s that Wegman got his dog, Man Ray, with whom he began a fruitful collaboration of many years. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman's photographs and videotapes. Ever since, Weimaraner-actors have peopled Wegman's uncanny imaginative universe, a reflection on both the human-ness of "animals" and the strangeness of humans.

William Wegman lives in New York and Maine where he continues to make videos, to take photographs and to make drawings and paintings.

Lo, Here I Burn: Musical Figurations and Fantasies of Male Desire in Early Modern England
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences
Ray Smith Symposium
Featuring Linda Phyllis Austern, musicologist

Price: Free
Heroy Auditorium, Heroy Geology Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Linda Phyllis Austern is an expert in Renaissance and Baroque musical-cultural relations, gender and feminist theory, European iconography, music as it pertains to visual art and the early history of science. She will discuss how music in early modern England reflected and affected contemporary notions of masculinity.

Austern's book projects include Music in English Life and Thought: 1550-1650 (forthcoming) and Music in English Children's Drama of the Later Renaissance (Routledge, 1992). She is editor of Psalms in the Early Modern World (Ashgate Publishing, 2011), the first book to explore the use, interpretation, development, translation and influence of the Psalms from the 1400s-1800s; Music of the Sirens (Indiana University Press, 2006); and Music, Sensation and Sensuality (Routledge, 2002).

Morton Schiff Jazz Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The Morton Schiff Jazz Ensemble will perform various jazz compositions under the direction of Joseph Riposo. The concert will also feature the Syracuse University Super Sax Ensemble.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage; parking for patrons with disabilities is available in the Q1 lot. Patrons should mention that they are attending the concert.

The Heavy Pets, with Lee Terrace, Haewa
Westcott Theater

Price: $12
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

In Defense of the Book as Object: Poetry Book Fair
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Point of Contact Gallery inaugurates its first Poetry Book Fair to showcase books by poets from the Syracuse area. All poets are invited to engage in an informal dialogue that evening to discuss "the book as object."

Featured poets include Michael Burkard, Pedro Cuperman, Sarah Coleman Harwell, Ana María Fuster Lavín, Jules Gibbs, Michael Jennings, Tamara Kamenszain, Christopher Kennedy, Phillip Memmer, Edgar Paiewonsky-Conde, Georgia Popoff, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Lena Retamoso, Suzanne Shane, Bruce Smith, Jenny Terrero.

"Take the Mic" Poetry Slam
Verbal Blend

Price: Free
Schine Underground, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The poetry slam is a competition of 12 poets who were selected from an audition process that included students from SU, SUNY-ESF and Onondaga Community College. They will read or recite original material up to three minutes. The competition consists of two rounds that will be based on: originality; stage presence; content; delivery and time. Trophies will be awarded to the students who finish in first, second and third place.

Verbal Blend is a spoken-word poetry program designed to enhance students' confidence in writing and performance of original poems. The program comprises of a six-week workshop series on poetry forms, formats, journal entries and peer reviews.

Participants have showcased their work at public venues such as themed open mic nights, Light Work's 2009 Night Artist Reading/Reception with Admas Habteslasie, a day workshop with poet Quraysh Ali Lansana, SU's annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, Take the Mic Poetry Slams, and a special reading with author Tracy Sugarman.

Admission to the event requires an SU/SUNY-ESF ID or personal ID from community members. For more information, contact Cedric Bolton, 315-443-9676.

Death Takes a Bow
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $32.50 (includes meal, show, tax and gratuities)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

All the world's a stage, but some stages are worth more than others. Welcome to the historic White Tulip, the seediest theater in London yet one which everyone seems to want. Tonight, a tycoon temptress and her tawdry toady take on a territorial thespian and his trollop of a treasurer in a tussle for title to this theatrical tenement. What valuable secrets lie behind the scenes and how far will someone go to unearth them? Let the buyer beware: at this showplace, greed steals every scene and dying on stage could be more than a figure of speech.

La Pasion Segun Antigona Perez
Black Box Players
Jorge Lopez, director

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

La Pasion Segun Antigona Perez, written by Luis Rafael Sanchez, is based on the Greek play Antigone and the life of Olga Sanchez, a Puerto Rican nationalist who was imprisoned for opposing the U.S. government in Puerto Rico. In the play, Antigona Perez has been imprisoned and sentenced to death for burying the bodies of two men who attempted to kill the dictator, Creon. You will not want to miss this new adaption of a classic Greek story, performed in Spanish.

To reserve a seat, email blackboxplayerstickets@gmail.com.

The Drowsy Chaperone
First Year Players

Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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Around the World in 80 Days
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $4 students and Le Moyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Stampeding elephants! Raging typhoons! Runaway trains! Hold onto your seats for the original amazing race! Fearless adventurer Phileas Fogg has agreed to an outrageous wager that puts his fortune and his life at risk as he sets out to circle the globe in an unheard-of 80 days. Danger, romance and comic surprises abound in this whirlwind of a show as five actors portraying 39 characters traverse seven continents in this new adaptation of one of the great adventures of all time. Written by by Jules Verne, stage adaptation by Mark Brown.

Reservations suggested. For more information, call 315-445-4523.

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Preview: My First Time
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

First sexual experiences are one of the few things that almost every person on this planet has in common, whether you're Paris Hilton or P. Diddy, George Clooney or George Washington, yet we rarely talk about them. Until now...

In 1998, a decade before blogging began, a website was created that allowed people to anonymously share their own true stories about their First Times. The website became an instant phenomenon as over 40,000 stories poured in from around the globe that were silly, sweet, absurd, funny, shy, sexy and everything in between.

And now, these true stories and all of the unique characters in them are brought to life by four amazing actors in the acclaimed play, My First Time, by Ken Davenport, producer of Altar Boyz and creator of The Awesome 80s Prom.

This show is intended for mature audiences only.

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Friday, April 13, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

The Reflections Series: Works by Nevin Mercede
Redhouse

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

These digital prints are composed from photographs taken while traveling in Russia. Conversations with artists, politicians and educators encountered there provide the majority of companion texts. Since 1995 Mercede has woven images with texts reflecting on social, political and educational issues or situations.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

OCC Student Art and Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

A juried showcase of art and photography by Onondaga Community College students.

"Images of Upstate New York" and "Juxtaposed Through Wonderland"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"Images of Upstate New York" features work by Morgan Goodwin and Kate Walseman
"Juxtaposed Through Wonderland" features recent work by KayCie Danniel

Patently Syracuse
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

A visual exploration of inventions, designs and innovations created in Central New York.

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Annual High School Seniors' Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

High school seniors within a 30 mile radius of Syracuse are invited to exhibit at Edgewood Gallery and be juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Time, Again Time: Works by Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In "Time, again time," the artist reflects on ordered fragments of a disordered world. An activist and renowned Latin American artist, Ana Tiscornia brings a mixed-media installation that curator Pedro Cuperman describes as "the outcome of a tale, where we have a fragmented world, where the pieces are somehow geometrically organic, logical... a kind of architecture of catastrophe. It is about the artist's obsession with organizing her world after having lived through the tragedies of military dictatorships in her home land, and the present catastrophes, wars that we endure in our own time. Ana's work demands from the viewer a sort of reconstruction, reintegration of the work, and our world.

Reflection and Identity: Works by W. Michelle Harris and Michael Roman
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition features recent work by Rochester Institute of Technology associate professor and artist W. Michelle Harris and Atlanta-based artist and Syracuse University alum Michael Roman. These two young artists embrace questions of gender, identity, and societal expectations.

While the materials used by each artist sit at the opposite ends of the technological spectrum, both individuals seek to examine topics of an interrelated and highly personal nature.

Read a review!

Academic Art...teachers that do
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Works of Jamessville-Dewitt art teachers Faith Carapella (charcoal, pen and ink, collage) and Steve Pilcher (soda-fired stoneware, both functional and decorative).

CNY Art Showcase: Juried Preview of Live Auction
Everson Museum of Art

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

CNY Arts Showcase: Juried Preview of the Live Auction, presented in conjunction with the Eastwood Rotary Club, highlights the great and diverse artistic talents within our community. The exhibition at the Everson will precede the Eastwood Rotary Club's Annual CNY Art Showcase Live Auction on April 20.

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 adults, $8 students/seniors, $30 family pack (2 adults, 4 children))
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

Reliquaries: New Work by Drew Goerlitz
Everson Museum of Art

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

Well-known for his graceful yet imposing steel sculpture, Drew Goerlitz, Associate Professor of Sculpture at the State University of New York Plattsburg, presents a new body of work at the Everson Museum of Art. Reliquaries continues the reoccurring theme of containment, concealment and privacy best described by Goerlitz himself: "My interpretation of reliquary is not to hold a sacred object or relic, but to engage the viewer with the form and tension of the unknown interior. The adornment of these objects relates to architectural details and the idea of facade. Facade is what we are presented with upon first appearance, whether speaking of people or architecture, and it isn't until we look inside that we discover the true structure."

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

Educational Toys by Roy Wilson
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Genet Design Gallery
The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Designer Roy Wilson, a 1970 alumnus of Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, will exhibit his award-winning educational toy designs. The exhibit features Wilson's work from the Learning Curve Toy Co., including the 1992 Thomas Wooden Railway project and the 1994 Lamaze Infant Development System, which he researched, designed, engineered and manufactured. The exhibition will also include his most recent invention in toys, TRAK2BRIK Adapters. Introduced in February at the American International Toy Fair, TRAK2BRIK is a system of adapters that links wooden railway track to pegged construction bricks and has dozens of slide-on toy accessories.

Wilson's career evolved from an early fascination with mechanical, scientific and electrical products. While at SU studying industrial design, he wrote his graduating thesis on preschool educational developmental toys. He started his own design business, Creative International, in 1967 and decided to remain independent and/or work on long-term contracts. To date, he has won 47 national and international awards for design excellence.

Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on West Fayette Street or the first-floor door on West Washington Street. For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

9th Annual Kids' Benefit Art Show
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

The school year's hard work in art programs at Meachem and Seymour Dual-Language Academy Elementary schools netted some students the opportunity to display their art in a professional gallery.

Between the two schools, some 950 students are enrolled in the art programs, in no small measure due to the dedication and expertise of their teachers, Stacy Griffin at Meachem and Kelly Moser-Vogler at Seymour, who have served in the Syracuse School District for a combined 26 years. Another reason for the success of the schools' art programs is the unique way each teacher chooses to nurture the students' interest by targeting their total development in academic curriculum, including study of various cultures, math concepts, and literacy. Further, these teachers go beyond the level of their students, using different means to encourage parents' involvement. And, every year, the teachers also move beyond their own arts departments to involve the rest of each school's student body by busing in all classmates for a special gallery kids' reception.

Sales from the show are split between the schools and students.

Self Portrait Show
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The show features self portraits in a variety of mediums by gallery members.

Kala Stein: Form & Plenty
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Kala Stein's exhibition Form and Plenty showcases her innovative ceramics based on archetypal utilitarian forms, like vases, bottles, and cups. By manipulating clay primarily though the slip casting of molds, she creates sculptural silhouettes, which merge multiple forms and planes into a single vessel. Stein says of her work, "Filtering the forms through abstraction, simplification and a limited color palette allows me to make compositional arrangements that depart from the symbol of the object itself."

Stein received her Master of Fine Arts at New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University where she currently is a visiting instructor. She shows her work nationally and maintains her home and studio in Canadice, NY.

MFA 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

MFA 2012 presents the work of 22 artists concluding their graduate careers in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. On view will be a wide range of traditional and contemporary media, including painting, ceramics, photography, interactive and experimental sculpture, video, and conceptual installations. The artists participating in MFA 2012 are Maximilian Bauer, Lauren Boldon, J. S. Jin Choi, Rose Marie Cromwell, Zach Dunn, Michael Giannattasio, Eugenie Michelle Giasson, Holland Houdek, Tessa J. Kennedy, Kyoungju Kim, Jay Muhlin, Yiming Nie, Vasilios Papaioannu, Annie Ryerson, James Stevens, Jennifer Turner, Rachel Van Pelt, Claire Ying-Chin Wang, Jennifer Leigh Wright, Elif Yoney, Jave Yoshimoto, Xiaowen Zhu.

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 are not available, the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

The Photographer as Child: Memories of Guatemala
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Born in Guatemala, award-winning photographer Efren Lopez is a student in the Military Photojournalism Program at Syracuse University. He is also an aerial photographer for the U.S. Air Force and the first reservist to be selected to attend Newhouse's Military Photojournalism Program. He now lives in Arizona.

The exhibit features images Lopez captured on a return trip to Guatemala in 2009. "My life began in a bamboo hut at the side of a road in a tiny town named Petaca, Guatemala, in 1966," Lopez writes. "It's a town so small that it is next to impossible to find on most maps of Guatemala, much less Central America."

Lopez has documented real-world situations and the military around the globe and has captured stunning images in Arizona and Guatemala. His work has been featured in various publications, including the book Arizona 24/7, and has been awarded many distinctions, including first place in the Professional Photography category at the 2008 Arizona State Fair, an honorable mention in the pictorial category in the 2009 Military Photographer of the Year competition, and first place in the 2011 Multimedia Team 19th Annual Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photography Workshop.

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In her first US museum solo show, New York City-based Japanese artist Noriko Ambe will create a new site-specific installation in the main gallery reflecting the tragic 2011 events in Japan through the use of video projections and her signature large-scale paper cutouts that evoke waves.

Nature plays an important role in Ambe's work, and it points to larger issues, such as the natural forces determining our global landscape, and the relationship between nature and humans throughout time. A recipient of prestigious awards such as the AICA Award and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ambe's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Japan Society in New York and the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Kyoto, Japan. Her work is also in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.

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The "Gnome Show"
XL Projects

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

Each fall, Department of Design faculty members review student projects on display in the department's home at The Warehouse and place a gnome statue next to the most deserving work in a variety of categories. The "Gnome Show" is an exhibition of last fall's gnome-winning projects.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

The Black Series
Echo

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

Photography by Amanda Zackem. On display will be 17 silver-gelatin prints and a short film.

RESOURCED/response: The Art of the Justseeds Artists Cooperative and SU Fiber Arts
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibition is a look into the environmental devastation that plagues the earth and its beings. It is also a look into the environmental justice movement that works to correct and heal the destruction. RESOURCED is a portfolio of hand-produced prints organized and created by the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative in 2010, focusing on resource extraction and climate issues, which will be used to help ask important questions about our environment. At the beginning of the spring semester 2012, students from the introduction to fibers course at Syracuse University viewed images from RESOURCED.

Students selected the poster that held most significance to them, either for the visual content of the work or the environmental issue it addressed. Then each student created a hand-dyed textile in response to the original work, using a variety of dye techniques, relief printing techniques and methods of stitching. These were both applied traditionally and adapted to suit the students' intentions and individual visual language.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The video "Flo Flow" is William Wegman's latest in a long line of human-canid collaborations. It was while he was in Long Beach in the 1970s that Wegman got his dog, Man Ray, with whom he began a fruitful collaboration of many years. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman's photographs and videotapes. Ever since, Weimaraner-actors have peopled Wegman's uncanny imaginative universe, a reflection on both the human-ness of "animals" and the strangeness of humans.

William Wegman lives in New York and Maine where he continues to make videos, to take photographs and to make drawings and paintings.

An Evening with Aziz Ansari
University Union Performing Arts

Price: $30
War Memorial at Oncenter
800 S. State St., Syracuse

A night of stand-up comedy with actor, writer and comedian Aziz Ansari. Best known for his roles in hit television shows such as "Parks and Recreation" and "Human Giant," Ansari began his career as a stand-up comedian in New York City while attending NYU in 2004. He has toured with the comedic duo Flight on the Concords and headlined his own cross-country comedy tour, The Glow in the Dark Tour, in late 2008. Ansari's newest stand-up special, the Dangerously Delicious Tour, is slated to begin in 2012. In addition to his work in stand-up comedy and television, Ansari has starred in a number of Hollywood films, including "30 Seconds or Less" and "Get Him to the Greek."

Tickets are available through Ticketmaster and in person at the Oncenter Box Office.

Redhouse Live Comedy Improv
Redhouse

Price: $10 regular, $5 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

A troupe of seasoned actors and comedians improvise hysterical scenes and games.

Diavolo Dance Theater
Arts Engage

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5students (max $35/family); free with SU student, faculty or staff ID (with reserved ticket)
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

This internationally renowned modern acrobatic dance company will perform their original piece Transit Space as part of a weeklong residency at Syracuse University. "Transit Space is a piece about the spaces we are in, emotionally and physically. We are in constant motion, in constant shift, the same way skateboarders are."

To reserve or purchase tickets, call 315-443-0296 or email SUArtsPresenter@syr.edu.

Johannes Moller, guitar
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Get ready for a captivating, charismatic and soulful performance by Swedish guitar player and composer Johannes Moller. Stay around after the concert to learn about technique, precision and more during a master class Moller is hosting from 12:30-2:30 p.m.

After playing his first concert at the age of 13, Moller's performances now total more than 500 and span Europe, Asia, South America and North America. In 2010, he was awarded first prize in the Guitar Foundation of America Artist Competition, considered by many to be the most prestigious guitar competition in the world. As a result of the award, Moller is currently on a 50-concert tour and recording with the Naxos label.

Jazz@Sitrus
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Jeff Houston Experience

Sitrus on the Hill
Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel, Syracuse

Legends of Jazz Series: Allen Toussaint
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free, but tickets required
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Free tickets available at Sound Garden in Armory Square beginning Sat., 3/31 at 10:00am, while they last, limit two per customer.

The legendary Allen Toussaint is an American treasure and musical genius of the first magnitude, whose multi-dimensional skills as a musician, composer, songwriter, hit-maker, record producer, and arranger makes him one of the most influential figures in the history of New Orleans R&B.

In the early 1960s, Toussaint wrote and produced a string of hits for New Orleans R&B artists including Ernie K-Doe, Irma Thomas, Art and Aaron Neville, The Showmen, and Lee Dorsey. In 1964, "A Certain Girl" (originally by Ernie K-Do) was the B-side of the first single release by The Yardbirds; the song was released again in 1980 by Warren Zevon. The simple but effective "Fortune Teller" was covered by many 1960s rock groups including The Rolling Stones, The Nashville Teens, The Who, The Hollies, ex-Searchers founder member Tony Jackson and more recently by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss.

Along with many of his contemporaries, Toussaint found that interest in his compositions was rekindled when his work began to be sampled by hip hop artists in the 1980s and 1990s. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 and, in 2009, into the prestigious Louisiana Music Hall of Fame. Toussaint also performed a duet with Paul McCartney of a song by fellow New Orleans musician and resident Fats Domino, "I Want to Walk You Home," as their contribution to Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino.

Yarn, with Cabinet
Westcott Theater

Price: $10
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Love vs. Time
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Ronnie Bell, director

Price: $12 regular, $10 students/seniors, $5 SU students/faculty/staff/alumni
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This exciting world premiere show, Love vs. Time, is based on 28 of Shakespeare's sonnets and their interpretation through music, dance, theatre, choral reading, dramatic presentation, film, photography, video, poetry and the combination of presentation modes simultaneously. Two narrators will advocate their positions to the audience throughout the show. The audience will be asked to decide the question, "What's the most important force in your life, love or time?" at the end of each act.

Creative partners include Stephen Mahan, director of SU's Photography and Literacy Project, and his brother, Michael Mahan; Renaissance music and dance group Bells and Motley; the Syracuse English Country Dancers; musical act Ben de la Garza Bassett; choreographer Erin Reid and My Fusion Flow dance troupe; filmmaker Amy Doherty; and local poets from the Underground Poetry Spot: Seneca Wilson, Rae of Sunshine, Mozart Guerrier, and Lanika Mabrey. In addition graphics, photography and videos are provided by SU's Newhouse students, Angela Laurello and Stephanie Keefe, through the Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service.

Conceived and directed by SSF's executive director Ronnie Bell. Original music by John Bromka, Sondra Bromka, Ben de la Garza Bassett, Mercury in the Derby, Steve Orlando and Bob Reid. Book by SSF's producing artistic director Jamie Bruno. Starring Jennifer Byrne and Trevor Hill as the opposing attorneys and featuring the duos of Sarah Constable/Thad Striffler and Sarah Bradstreet/Aaron Alexander as the Love Chorus and Time Chorus, respectively.

Tickets available at TicketLeap.com or at the door. Advance purchase recommended. Free parking available in SU's Warehouse lot on Washington Street.

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La Pasion Segun Antigona Perez
Black Box Players
Jorge Lopez, director

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

La Pasion Segun Antigona Perez, written by Luis Rafael Sanchez, is based on the Greek play Antigone and the life of Olga Sanchez, a Puerto Rican nationalist who was imprisoned for opposing the U.S. government in Puerto Rico. In the play, Antigona Perez has been imprisoned and sentenced to death for burying the bodies of two men who attempted to kill the dictator, Creon. You will not want to miss this new adaption of a classic Greek story, performed in Spanish.

To reserve a seat, email blackboxplayerstickets@gmail.com.

The Drowsy Chaperone
First Year Players

Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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Around the World in 80 Days
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $4 students and Le Moyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Stampeding elephants! Raging typhoons! Runaway trains! Hold onto your seats for the original amazing race! Fearless adventurer Phileas Fogg has agreed to an outrageous wager that puts his fortune and his life at risk as he sets out to circle the globe in an unheard-of 80 days. Danger, romance and comic surprises abound in this whirlwind of a show as five actors portraying 39 characters traverse seven continents in this new adaptation of one of the great adventures of all time. Written by by Jules Verne, stage adaptation by Mark Brown.

Reservations suggested. For more information, call 315-445-4523.

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My First Time
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

First sexual experiences are one of the few things that almost every person on this planet has in common, whether you're Paris Hilton or P. Diddy, George Clooney or George Washington, yet we rarely talk about them. Until now...

In 1998, a decade before blogging began, a website was created that allowed people to anonymously share their own true stories about their First Times. The website became an instant phenomenon as over 40,000 stories poured in from around the globe that were silly, sweet, absurd, funny, shy, sexy and everything in between.

And now, these true stories and all of the unique characters in them are brought to life by four amazing actors in the acclaimed play, My First Time, by Ken Davenport, producer of Altar Boyz and creator of The Awesome 80s Prom.

This show is intended for mature audiences only.

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Saturday, April 14, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

The Reflections Series: Works by Nevin Mercede
Redhouse

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

These digital prints are composed from photographs taken while traveling in Russia. Conversations with artists, politicians and educators encountered there provide the majority of companion texts. Since 1995 Mercede has woven images with texts reflecting on social, political and educational issues or situations.

OCC Student Art and Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

A juried showcase of art and photography by Onondaga Community College students.

Annual High School Seniors' Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

High school seniors within a 30 mile radius of Syracuse are invited to exhibit at Edgewood Gallery and be juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Academic Art...teachers that do
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Works of Jamessville-Dewitt art teachers Faith Carapella (charcoal, pen and ink, collage) and Steve Pilcher (soda-fired stoneware, both functional and decorative).

Reliquaries: New Work by Drew Goerlitz
Everson Museum of Art

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

Well-known for his graceful yet imposing steel sculpture, Drew Goerlitz, Associate Professor of Sculpture at the State University of New York Plattsburg, presents a new body of work at the Everson Museum of Art. Reliquaries continues the reoccurring theme of containment, concealment and privacy best described by Goerlitz himself: "My interpretation of reliquary is not to hold a sacred object or relic, but to engage the viewer with the form and tension of the unknown interior. The adornment of these objects relates to architectural details and the idea of facade. Facade is what we are presented with upon first appearance, whether speaking of people or architecture, and it isn't until we look inside that we discover the true structure."

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 adults, $8 students/seniors, $30 family pack (2 adults, 4 children))
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

CNY Art Showcase: Juried Preview of Live Auction
Everson Museum of Art

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

CNY Arts Showcase: Juried Preview of the Live Auction, presented in conjunction with the Eastwood Rotary Club, highlights the great and diverse artistic talents within our community. The exhibition at the Everson will precede the Eastwood Rotary Club's Annual CNY Art Showcase Live Auction on April 20.

Self Portrait Show
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The show features self portraits in a variety of mediums by gallery members.

There will be a gourd loon mask-making demonstration by Andree Dennis Newton today 11:00 am-3:00 pm.

Carrying on the traditions of her culture, Abenaki Indian and Old Forge resident Andree Dennis Newton will design a dynamic mask. Using the popular Adirondack bird as subject,she will use a hard-shell gourd as the base, adding detail with burning pen, dremel, and acrylic paint. Feathers and beads will be added to finish. She will also "show and tell" each phase of gourd mask making.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

9th Annual Kids' Benefit Art Show
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The school year's hard work in art programs at Meachem and Seymour Dual-Language Academy Elementary schools netted some students the opportunity to display their art in a professional gallery.

Between the two schools, some 950 students are enrolled in the art programs, in no small measure due to the dedication and expertise of their teachers, Stacy Griffin at Meachem and Kelly Moser-Vogler at Seymour, who have served in the Syracuse School District for a combined 26 years. Another reason for the success of the schools' art programs is the unique way each teacher chooses to nurture the students' interest by targeting their total development in academic curriculum, including study of various cultures, math concepts, and literacy. Further, these teachers go beyond the level of their students, using different means to encourage parents' involvement. And, every year, the teachers also move beyond their own arts departments to involve the rest of each school's student body by busing in all classmates for a special gallery kids' reception.

Sales from the show are split between the schools and students.

Reflection and Identity: Works by W. Michelle Harris and Michael Roman
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition features recent work by Rochester Institute of Technology associate professor and artist W. Michelle Harris and Atlanta-based artist and Syracuse University alum Michael Roman. These two young artists embrace questions of gender, identity, and societal expectations.

While the materials used by each artist sit at the opposite ends of the technological spectrum, both individuals seek to examine topics of an interrelated and highly personal nature.

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The Black Series
Echo

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

Photography by Amanda Zackem. On display will be 17 silver-gelatin prints and a short film.

Kala Stein: Form & Plenty
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Kala Stein's exhibition Form and Plenty showcases her innovative ceramics based on archetypal utilitarian forms, like vases, bottles, and cups. By manipulating clay primarily though the slip casting of molds, she creates sculptural silhouettes, which merge multiple forms and planes into a single vessel. Stein says of her work, "Filtering the forms through abstraction, simplification and a limited color palette allows me to make compositional arrangements that depart from the symbol of the object itself."

Stein received her Master of Fine Arts at New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University where she currently is a visiting instructor. She shows her work nationally and maintains her home and studio in Canadice, NY.

MFA 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

MFA 2012 presents the work of 22 artists concluding their graduate careers in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. On view will be a wide range of traditional and contemporary media, including painting, ceramics, photography, interactive and experimental sculpture, video, and conceptual installations. The artists participating in MFA 2012 are Maximilian Bauer, Lauren Boldon, J. S. Jin Choi, Rose Marie Cromwell, Zach Dunn, Michael Giannattasio, Eugenie Michelle Giasson, Holland Houdek, Tessa J. Kennedy, Kyoungju Kim, Jay Muhlin, Yiming Nie, Vasilios Papaioannu, Annie Ryerson, James Stevens, Jennifer Turner, Rachel Van Pelt, Claire Ying-Chin Wang, Jennifer Leigh Wright, Elif Yoney, Jave Yoshimoto, Xiaowen Zhu.

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 are not available, the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

RESOURCED/response: The Art of the Justseeds Artists Cooperative and SU Fiber Arts
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibition is a look into the environmental devastation that plagues the earth and its beings. It is also a look into the environmental justice movement that works to correct and heal the destruction. RESOURCED is a portfolio of hand-produced prints organized and created by the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative in 2010, focusing on resource extraction and climate issues, which will be used to help ask important questions about our environment. At the beginning of the spring semester 2012, students from the introduction to fibers course at Syracuse University viewed images from RESOURCED.

Students selected the poster that held most significance to them, either for the visual content of the work or the environmental issue it addressed. Then each student created a hand-dyed textile in response to the original work, using a variety of dye techniques, relief printing techniques and methods of stitching. These were both applied traditionally and adapted to suit the students' intentions and individual visual language.

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In her first US museum solo show, New York City-based Japanese artist Noriko Ambe will create a new site-specific installation in the main gallery reflecting the tragic 2011 events in Japan through the use of video projections and her signature large-scale paper cutouts that evoke waves.

Nature plays an important role in Ambe's work, and it points to larger issues, such as the natural forces determining our global landscape, and the relationship between nature and humans throughout time. A recipient of prestigious awards such as the AICA Award and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ambe's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Japan Society in New York and the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Kyoto, Japan. Her work is also in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.

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The "Gnome Show"
XL Projects

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

Each fall, Department of Design faculty members review student projects on display in the department's home at The Warehouse and place a gnome statue next to the most deserving work in a variety of categories. The "Gnome Show" is an exhibition of last fall's gnome-winning projects.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The video "Flo Flow" is William Wegman's latest in a long line of human-canid collaborations. It was while he was in Long Beach in the 1970s that Wegman got his dog, Man Ray, with whom he began a fruitful collaboration of many years. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman's photographs and videotapes. Ever since, Weimaraner-actors have peopled Wegman's uncanny imaginative universe, a reflection on both the human-ness of "animals" and the strangeness of humans.

William Wegman lives in New York and Maine where he continues to make videos, to take photographs and to make drawings and paintings.

Daniel Tosh

Price: $59.50, $49.50, $39.50
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Tickets can be purchased through the Landmark box office Monday-Friday 10:00 am-5:00 pm or through Ticketmaster.com. Phone 315-475-7980 for more information.

Daniel Tosh

Price: $59.50, $49.50, $39.50
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Tickets can be purchased through the Landmark box office Monday-Friday 10:00 am-5:00 pm or through Ticketmaster.com. Phone 315-475-7980 for more information.

Salt City Horror Film Festival 2012

Price: $15 includes all movies
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Eight movies to die for, plus vendors, food, beer (21 + with valid ID) and other surprises.

Films and schedule are subject to change.

Very limited number of 3D glasses available. Purchase your tickets at Resurrected Tattoo, 125 W. Fayette St, Syracuse to guarantee your seat and a pair of 3D glasses. Phone 315-436-4723 for more information.

Age 17 and over only unless accompanied by a parent or legal adult guardian.

Tentative schedule:
12:00 pm: Bride of Frankenstein (75 minutes, 1935, not rated)
1:15 pm: Creature from the Black Lagoon (79 minutes, 1954, not rated)
2:45 pm: Tremors (96 minutes, 1990, PG-13)
4:30 pm: Troll Hunter (103 minutes, 2010, PG-13)
7:30 pm: Popcorn (91 minutes, 1991, R)
9:00 pm: Army of Darkness (81 minutes, R)
10:30 pm: Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (100 minutes, 1986, not rated)
12:00 am: Last House on Dead End Street (1977, not rated)

One-Take Super-8 Event

Price: $5
The Vault
451 S. Warren St., Syracuse

No cuts, no splices -- 26 original Super-8 films made by local people.

For more information, visit super8syracuse.blogspot.com.

Festival Film Series: A Matter of Degrees and When You Need Them
ArtRage Gallery
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

A Matter of Degrees by Rick Godin (USA, documentary, 24 minutes)
See the Adirondacks in a time when mastodons roamed its valleys, tapirs swam its rivers, and whales slid above places where towns stand today. Exclusively produced for The Wild Centers wide-screen theater, this original film takes you an epic trip and shows how much climate shapes our lives.

When You Need Them by Pablo Cubarle (USA, experimental, 24 minutes)
Meet Marcos: a lonely Argentinean computer whiz -- think geek squad, not Genius Bar -- living in New York City. All those gadgets and technology networks comfort Marcos yet isolate him from most social interaction. Attempting to achieve a balance between techno and human companionship, Marcos awkwardly navigates his way through a dating website where he finally thinks he’s found life-long romance -- or has he?

In the Mood

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

In the Mood celebrates America's Greatest Generation through the music of Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Erskine Hawkins, The Andrews Sisters, Frank Sinatra and other idols of the 1940s. The show's music arrangements, costumes and choreography are as authentic as it gets.

This brassy, upbeat 1940s musical revue features a company of 19 on stage: the blistering thirteen-piece String of Pearls Big Band Orchestras and the In The Mood Singers and Dancers including a high-energy swing dance couple.

In the Mood recreates the era with sizzling choreography, sassy costumes and over 40 unforgettable songs performed live on stage, like Chattanooga Choo Choo; Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (of Company B); In The Mood; Tuxedo Junction; Sing, Sing, Sing; and more.

It's a sentimental, romantic, nostalgic, jazzy and patriotic tribute to America's Greatest Generation that's of interest to swing fans of all ages. Come hear the music that moved the nation's spirit and helped win a war! In the Mood is celebrating its 18th year of national touring.

Tickets are available through Ticketmaster and in person at the Oncenter Box Office.

British Invasion Night
Kellish Hill Farm

Price: $5 or more suggested donation
Kellish Hill Farm
3192 Pompey Center Rd., Pompey

Music from 1960s British Invasion bands like The Beatles, Chad and Jeremy, Peter and Gordon, The Animals, Manfred Mann, Petula Clark, Freddie and the Dreamers, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, Herman's Hermits, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Troggs, and Donovan.

Music jam will start at 6:00 pm in the Lodge. At 7:00 pm, the band Spectrum will take the stage in the Music Barn. 8:00 pm stage is time for the sign-up acts (including Ted and Paul Shepard honoring the Kinks). After the sign-up acts, the band The Guise duo will take the stage at 9:00 pm and who knows -- we might end the night with an All-Star Jam

Donations accepted for the musicians and to keep the music alive and well up on the Hill.

Spring Concert
Syracuse University Brass Ensemble
James T. Spencer, conductor

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Joint concert with the University of Rochester Brass Choir, conducted by Josef Hanson.

Pirate Jam
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

This is an open jam that brings local musicians from all around the area together to get down and do what they love most -- meet and jam with other musicians -- and a chance for fans of the local music scene to see new bands and interesting combinations of musicians they know and new musicians they haven't seen yet.

In the Mood

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

In the Mood celebrates America's Greatest Generation through the music of Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Erskine Hawkins, The Andrews Sisters, Frank Sinatra and other idols of the 1940s. The show's music arrangements, costumes and choreography are as authentic as it gets.

This brassy, upbeat 1940s musical revue features a company of 19 on stage: the blistering thirteen-piece String of Pearls Big Band Orchestras and the In The Mood Singers and Dancers including a high-energy swing dance couple.

In the Mood recreates the era with sizzling choreography, sassy costumes and over 40 unforgettable songs performed live on stage, like Chattanooga Choo Choo; Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (of Company B); In The Mood; Tuxedo Junction; Sing, Sing, Sing; and more.

It's a sentimental, romantic, nostalgic, jazzy and patriotic tribute to America's Greatest Generation that's of interest to swing fans of all ages. Come hear the music that moved the nation's spirit and helped win a war! In the Mood is celebrating its 18th year of national touring.

Tickets are available through Ticketmaster and in person at the Oncenter Box Office.

Joanne Perry & The Unstoppables
Steeple Coffeehouse

Price: $10 includes dessert and beverage
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Relay for Life Benefit Concert
Onondaga Community College
Featuring Dusty Pas'cal, Loren Barrigar, Mark Mazengarb

Price: $10
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Tickets are available through the SRC Arena Box Office and can be purchased in person or via phone for pick up at the box office. Phone 315-498-2772, hours are M-F 9:00-5:00, 10:00-2:00 pm.

Second Annual Syracuse Air Guitar Competition
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

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

All air guitarists in the Greater Central New York area are welcome to strut their stuff -- real guitars not permitted -- before a panel of CNY celebrity judges. The winner will gain CNY fame and admiration and a spot at the U.S. Air Guitar Regional Competition in June, plus funds to support the trip.

Competitors are encouraged to pre-register by emailing Sydney Hutchinson, assistant professor of ethnomusicology in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences. Competitors must bring to the competition their one-minute songs on a CD. Competition rules are located on the U.S. Air Guitar website. Further information about the Syracuse competition can be found on the Syracuse Air Guitar blog.

The Syracuse Air Guitar competition is produced in association with U.S. Air Guitar and presented by the Department of Art and Music Histories in SU's College of Arts and Sciences, the Office of the Chancellor, and SU's Arts Adventure Learning Community. Prizes are provided by The Sound Garden, 310 W. Jefferson St., and Wings Over Syracuse.

Dan Duggan and Peggy Lynn
Westcott Community Center

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

The remarkable duo of Dan Duggan and Peggy Lynn combine original and traditional songs with masterful harmonies and inventive arrangements. On stage they have a chemistry rarely seen in traditional music circles, matching instrumental virtuosity with the warm intimacy of their voices.

Duggan is known nationally for his wizardry on hammered dulcimer and flat picking guitar. He has entertained audiences nationwide with his inspired performances of traditional melodies and well-loved classics. Lynn has been referred to as "The Voice of the Mountains" for her soulful songwriting and extraordinary vocal versatility. Her most powerful message, her passion, is for the contributions and burdens of women.

For this special concert, they'll be joined by Henry Jankiewicz on fiddle and Tom Hodgson on guitar.

The Amazing Gnip Gnop Circus
Open Hand Theater
Z Puppets Rosenschnoz

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

Step right up to the one and only ping pong ball circus in the world! See spectacular feats of daring before your very eyes! Z Puppets Rosenschnoz of Minneapolis, Minnesota presents this 100% glow-in-the-dark black-light performance, an Amazing Miniature Circus you won't want to miss.

The Little Mermaid
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive adaptation of the children's classic.

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La Pasion Segun Antigona Perez
Black Box Players
Jorge Lopez, director

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

La Pasion Segun Antigona Perez, written by Luis Rafael Sanchez, is based on the Greek play Antigone and the life of Olga Sanchez, a Puerto Rican nationalist who was imprisoned for opposing the U.S. government in Puerto Rico. In the play, Antigona Perez has been imprisoned and sentenced to death for burying the bodies of two men who attempted to kill the dictator, Creon. You will not want to miss this new adaption of a classic Greek story, performed in Spanish.

To reserve a seat, email blackboxplayerstickets@gmail.com.

Love vs. Time
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Ronnie Bell, director

Price: $12 regular, $10 students/seniors, $5 SU students/faculty/staff/alumni
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This exciting world premiere show, Love vs. Time, is based on 28 of Shakespeare's sonnets and their interpretation through music, dance, theatre, choral reading, dramatic presentation, film, photography, video, poetry and the combination of presentation modes simultaneously. Two narrators will advocate their positions to the audience throughout the show. The audience will be asked to decide the question, "What's the most important force in your life, love or time?" at the end of each act.

Creative partners include Stephen Mahan, director of SU's Photography and Literacy Project, and his brother, Michael Mahan; Renaissance music and dance group Bells and Motley; the Syracuse English Country Dancers; musical act Ben de la Garza Bassett; choreographer Erin Reid and My Fusion Flow dance troupe; filmmaker Amy Doherty; and local poets from the Underground Poetry Spot: Seneca Wilson, Rae of Sunshine, Mozart Guerrier, and Lanika Mabrey. In addition graphics, photography and videos are provided by SU's Newhouse students, Angela Laurello and Stephanie Keefe, through the Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service.

Conceived and directed by SSF's executive director Ronnie Bell. Original music by John Bromka, Sondra Bromka, Ben de la Garza Bassett, Mercury in the Derby, Steve Orlando and Bob Reid. Book by SSF's producing artistic director Jamie Bruno. Starring Jennifer Byrne and Trevor Hill as the opposing attorneys and featuring the duos of Sarah Constable/Thad Striffler and Sarah Bradstreet/Aaron Alexander as the Love Chorus and Time Chorus, respectively.

Tickets available at TicketLeap.com or at the door. Advance purchase recommended. Free parking available in SU's Warehouse lot on Washington Street.

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La Pasion Segun Antigona Perez
Black Box Players
Jorge Lopez, director

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

La Pasion Segun Antigona Perez, written by Luis Rafael Sanchez, is based on the Greek play Antigone and the life of Olga Sanchez, a Puerto Rican nationalist who was imprisoned for opposing the U.S. government in Puerto Rico. In the play, Antigona Perez has been imprisoned and sentenced to death for burying the bodies of two men who attempted to kill the dictator, Creon. You will not want to miss this new adaption of a classic Greek story, performed in Spanish.

To reserve a seat, email blackboxplayerstickets@gmail.com.

The Drowsy Chaperone
First Year Players

Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

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Around the World in 80 Days
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $4 students and Le Moyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Stampeding elephants! Raging typhoons! Runaway trains! Hold onto your seats for the original amazing race! Fearless adventurer Phileas Fogg has agreed to an outrageous wager that puts his fortune and his life at risk as he sets out to circle the globe in an unheard-of 80 days. Danger, romance and comic surprises abound in this whirlwind of a show as five actors portraying 39 characters traverse seven continents in this new adaptation of one of the great adventures of all time. Written by by Jules Verne, stage adaptation by Mark Brown.

Reservations suggested. For more information, call 315-445-4523.

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My First Time
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

First sexual experiences are one of the few things that almost every person on this planet has in common, whether you're Paris Hilton or P. Diddy, George Clooney or George Washington, yet we rarely talk about them. Until now...

In 1998, a decade before blogging began, a website was created that allowed people to anonymously share their own true stories about their First Times. The website became an instant phenomenon as over 40,000 stories poured in from around the globe that were silly, sweet, absurd, funny, shy, sexy and everything in between.

And now, these true stories and all of the unique characters in them are brought to life by four amazing actors in the acclaimed play, My First Time, by Ken Davenport, producer of Altar Boyz and creator of The Awesome 80s Prom.

This show is intended for mature audiences only.

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Sunday, April 15, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

OCC Student Art and Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

A juried showcase of art and photography by Onondaga Community College students.

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

9th Annual Kids' Benefit Art Show
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The school year's hard work in art programs at Meachem and Seymour Dual-Language Academy Elementary schools netted some students the opportunity to display their art in a professional gallery.

Between the two schools, some 950 students are enrolled in the art programs, in no small measure due to the dedication and expertise of their teachers, Stacy Griffin at Meachem and Kelly Moser-Vogler at Seymour, who have served in the Syracuse School District for a combined 26 years. Another reason for the success of the schools' art programs is the unique way each teacher chooses to nurture the students' interest by targeting their total development in academic curriculum, including study of various cultures, math concepts, and literacy. Further, these teachers go beyond the level of their students, using different means to encourage parents' involvement. And, every year, the teachers also move beyond their own arts departments to involve the rest of each school's student body by busing in all classmates for a special gallery kids' reception.

Sales from the show are split between the schools and students.

Self Portrait Show
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The show features self portraits in a variety of mediums by gallery members.

Kala Stein: Form & Plenty
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Kala Stein's exhibition Form and Plenty showcases her innovative ceramics based on archetypal utilitarian forms, like vases, bottles, and cups. By manipulating clay primarily though the slip casting of molds, she creates sculptural silhouettes, which merge multiple forms and planes into a single vessel. Stein says of her work, "Filtering the forms through abstraction, simplification and a limited color palette allows me to make compositional arrangements that depart from the symbol of the object itself."

Stein received her Master of Fine Arts at New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University where she currently is a visiting instructor. She shows her work nationally and maintains her home and studio in Canadice, NY.

MFA 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

MFA 2012 presents the work of 22 artists concluding their graduate careers in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. On view will be a wide range of traditional and contemporary media, including painting, ceramics, photography, interactive and experimental sculpture, video, and conceptual installations. The artists participating in MFA 2012 are Maximilian Bauer, Lauren Boldon, J. S. Jin Choi, Rose Marie Cromwell, Zach Dunn, Michael Giannattasio, Eugenie Michelle Giasson, Holland Houdek, Tessa J. Kennedy, Kyoungju Kim, Jay Muhlin, Yiming Nie, Vasilios Papaioannu, Annie Ryerson, James Stevens, Jennifer Turner, Rachel Van Pelt, Claire Ying-Chin Wang, Jennifer Leigh Wright, Elif Yoney, Jave Yoshimoto, Xiaowen Zhu.

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 are not available, the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Academic Art...teachers that do
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Works of Jamessville-Dewitt art teachers Faith Carapella (charcoal, pen and ink, collage) and Steve Pilcher (soda-fired stoneware, both functional and decorative).

CNY Art Showcase: Juried Preview of Live Auction
Everson Museum of Art

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

CNY Arts Showcase: Juried Preview of the Live Auction, presented in conjunction with the Eastwood Rotary Club, highlights the great and diverse artistic talents within our community. The exhibition at the Everson will precede the Eastwood Rotary Club's Annual CNY Art Showcase Live Auction on April 20.

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 adults, $8 students/seniors, $30 family pack (2 adults, 4 children))
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

Reliquaries: New Work by Drew Goerlitz
Everson Museum of Art

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

Well-known for his graceful yet imposing steel sculpture, Drew Goerlitz, Associate Professor of Sculpture at the State University of New York Plattsburg, presents a new body of work at the Everson Museum of Art. Reliquaries continues the reoccurring theme of containment, concealment and privacy best described by Goerlitz himself: "My interpretation of reliquary is not to hold a sacred object or relic, but to engage the viewer with the form and tension of the unknown interior. The adornment of these objects relates to architectural details and the idea of facade. Facade is what we are presented with upon first appearance, whether speaking of people or architecture, and it isn't until we look inside that we discover the true structure."

The "Gnome Show"
XL Projects

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

Each fall, Department of Design faculty members review student projects on display in the department's home at The Warehouse and place a gnome statue next to the most deserving work in a variety of categories. The "Gnome Show" is an exhibition of last fall's gnome-winning projects.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

The Reflections Series: Works by Nevin Mercede
Redhouse

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

These digital prints are composed from photographs taken while traveling in Russia. Conversations with artists, politicians and educators encountered there provide the majority of companion texts. Since 1995 Mercede has woven images with texts reflecting on social, political and educational issues or situations.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The video "Flo Flow" is William Wegman's latest in a long line of human-canid collaborations. It was while he was in Long Beach in the 1970s that Wegman got his dog, Man Ray, with whom he began a fruitful collaboration of many years. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman's photographs and videotapes. Ever since, Weimaraner-actors have peopled Wegman's uncanny imaginative universe, a reflection on both the human-ness of "animals" and the strangeness of humans.

William Wegman lives in New York and Maine where he continues to make videos, to take photographs and to make drawings and paintings.

Gabriel Iglesias

Price: $40
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Tickets can be purchased through the Landmark box office Monday-Friday 10:00 am-5:00 pm or through Ticketmaster.com. Phone 315-475-7980 for more information.

Stately Streets: Allen and Cambridge Westcott Architecture and History Walking Tour
Westcott East Neighborhood Association
Featuring Sam Gruber, architectural historian

Price: Free
Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

Tour begins and ends at Petit Library. Rain date: Sunday, April 29.

For more information, contact Westcott East Neighborhood Association, 315-440-9341.

The Art of Bel Canto
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Marcus Haddock, tenor; Kathleen Haddock, piano

Price: $25 adults, $15 students with ID
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A concert of 18th and 19th century vocal repertoire and commentary, to benefit Civic Morning Musicals. For more information, phone 315-699-5856.

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Treehouse Musicians
Fayetteville Free Library

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

The Treehouse Musicians is a professional chamber music group that seeks to open up classical music to new audiences through the use of improvisation, world music fusion, audience participation, and collaborations with composers, poets, and dancers. The ensemble is made up of Laura Enslin, soprano; Alina Plourde, oboe and English horn; Anita Gustafson, violin; Eric Gustafson, viola; Zachary Sweet, cello.

This concert will include music by J. S. Bach, Benjamin Britten, Villa-Lobos and a newly-commissioned work by New York City based composer Leanne Darling.

Faculty Piano Recital
Onondaga Community College
Featuring Kevin Moore, piano

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Featuring works of Grieg, Grainger and Moore

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

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

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage; patrons should mention that they are attending the concert.

CNYJO Big Band with the Morton Schiff SU Jazz Ensemble
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $30 regular, $25 subscribers/donors
Sheraton Syracuse University Grand Ballroom
801 University Ave., Syracuse

The concert includes world premieres of Through a Child's Eyes by Joe Riposo, a saxophonist who directs the jazz studies program and SU's Morton Schiff Jazz Ensemble; Roman Notes by John LaBarbera, a former Cornell music professor (now at the University of Louisville), considered one of jazz's preeminent trumpeters; and Gerry's Timepiece by Mike Conrad, a master's candidate at the Eastman School of Music, where he plays lead trombone in the Eastman Jazz Band.

"The music recalls, celebrates and demonstrates the stylistic legacies of three jazz icons from Central New York," says Larry Luttinger, founder and executive director of CNY Jazz Central. "Roman Notes is a tribute to saxophonist Joe Romano, whose career included major stints with Lionel Hampton, Buddy Rich and Frank Sinatra. Through a Child's Eyes is an ode to Woody Herman saxophonist Sal Nistico, with whom Joe Riposo worked at the Three Rivers Resort [in Oswego County] in the 1970s and '80s. And Gerry's Timepiece is an elegy to saxophonist Gerry Niewood, a longtime member of Chuck Mangione's band who died tragically in the 2009 Buffalo plane crash."

The first half of the April 15 concert will feature Riposo and the Morton Schiff Jazz Ensemble performing the aforementioned pieces. During intermission, Joe Carello, saxophonist and director of the City of Syracuse’s Stan Colella All-Star Band, will be honored with CNY Jazz's "Jazz Educator of the Year Award." Afterward, the CNY Jazz Orchestra, led by music director Bret Zvacek, will perform cuts from its album "Then, Now, and Again" (CNY Jazz Records, 2008) and from its standard repertoire.

The three new works were produced through the Cultural Corridor Commission Project, an interdisciplinary partnership of Syracuse University, Cornell University, and the University of Rochester. The commissions will also be performed by the Cornell and Eastman jazz ensembles on their campuses, and the works will be permanently housed in the music libraries of the universities.

String Chamber Music
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

S.U.'s String Chamber Ensembles will perform.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage; patrons should mention that they are attending the concert.

*SOLD OUT* Laidback Luke, with Mikey Parkay, Kayo, Contact, GTA
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Love vs. Time
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Ronnie Bell, director

Price: $12 regular, $10 students/seniors, $5 SU students/faculty/staff/alumni
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This exciting world premiere show, Love vs. Time, is based on 28 of Shakespeare's sonnets and their interpretation through music, dance, theatre, choral reading, dramatic presentation, film, photography, video, poetry and the combination of presentation modes simultaneously. Two narrators will advocate their positions to the audience throughout the show. The audience will be asked to decide the question, "What's the most important force in your life, love or time?" at the end of each act.

Creative partners include Stephen Mahan, director of SU's Photography and Literacy Project, and his brother, Michael Mahan; Renaissance music and dance group Bells and Motley; the Syracuse English Country Dancers; musical act Ben de la Garza Bassett; choreographer Erin Reid and My Fusion Flow dance troupe; filmmaker Amy Doherty; and local poets from the Underground Poetry Spot: Seneca Wilson, Rae of Sunshine, Mozart Guerrier, and Lanika Mabrey. In addition graphics, photography and videos are provided by SU's Newhouse students, Angela Laurello and Stephanie Keefe, through the Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service.

Conceived and directed by SSF's executive director Ronnie Bell. Original music by John Bromka, Sondra Bromka, Ben de la Garza Bassett, Mercury in the Derby, Steve Orlando and Bob Reid. Book by SSF's producing artistic director Jamie Bruno. Starring Jennifer Byrne and Trevor Hill as the opposing attorneys and featuring the duos of Sarah Constable/Thad Striffler and Sarah Bradstreet/Aaron Alexander as the Love Chorus and Time Chorus, respectively.

Tickets available at TicketLeap.com or at the door. Advance purchase recommended. Free parking available in SU's Warehouse lot on Washington Street.

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Monday, April 16, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

OCC Student Art and Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

A juried showcase of art and photography by Onondaga Community College students.

Patently Syracuse
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

A visual exploration of inventions, designs and innovations created in Central New York.

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Time, Again Time: Works by Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In "Time, again time," the artist reflects on ordered fragments of a disordered world. An activist and renowned Latin American artist, Ana Tiscornia brings a mixed-media installation that curator Pedro Cuperman describes as "the outcome of a tale, where we have a fragmented world, where the pieces are somehow geometrically organic, logical... a kind of architecture of catastrophe. It is about the artist's obsession with organizing her world after having lived through the tragedies of military dictatorships in her home land, and the present catastrophes, wars that we endure in our own time. Ana's work demands from the viewer a sort of reconstruction, reintegration of the work, and our world.

Reflection and Identity: Works by W. Michelle Harris and Michael Roman
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition features recent work by Rochester Institute of Technology associate professor and artist W. Michelle Harris and Atlanta-based artist and Syracuse University alum Michael Roman. These two young artists embrace questions of gender, identity, and societal expectations.

While the materials used by each artist sit at the opposite ends of the technological spectrum, both individuals seek to examine topics of an interrelated and highly personal nature.

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Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

Educational Toys by Roy Wilson
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Genet Design Gallery
The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Designer Roy Wilson, a 1970 alumnus of Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, will exhibit his award-winning educational toy designs. The exhibit features Wilson's work from the Learning Curve Toy Co., including the 1992 Thomas Wooden Railway project and the 1994 Lamaze Infant Development System, which he researched, designed, engineered and manufactured. The exhibition will also include his most recent invention in toys, TRAK2BRIK Adapters. Introduced in February at the American International Toy Fair, TRAK2BRIK is a system of adapters that links wooden railway track to pegged construction bricks and has dozens of slide-on toy accessories.

Wilson's career evolved from an early fascination with mechanical, scientific and electrical products. While at SU studying industrial design, he wrote his graduating thesis on preschool educational developmental toys. He started his own design business, Creative International, in 1967 and decided to remain independent and/or work on long-term contracts. To date, he has won 47 national and international awards for design excellence.

Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on West Fayette Street or the first-floor door on West Washington Street. For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Self Portrait Show
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The show features self portraits in a variety of mediums by gallery members.

The Photographer as Child: Memories of Guatemala
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Born in Guatemala, award-winning photographer Efren Lopez is a student in the Military Photojournalism Program at Syracuse University. He is also an aerial photographer for the U.S. Air Force and the first reservist to be selected to attend Newhouse's Military Photojournalism Program. He now lives in Arizona.

The exhibit features images Lopez captured on a return trip to Guatemala in 2009. "My life began in a bamboo hut at the side of a road in a tiny town named Petaca, Guatemala, in 1966," Lopez writes. "It's a town so small that it is next to impossible to find on most maps of Guatemala, much less Central America."

Lopez has documented real-world situations and the military around the globe and has captured stunning images in Arizona and Guatemala. His work has been featured in various publications, including the book Arizona 24/7, and has been awarded many distinctions, including first place in the Professional Photography category at the 2008 Arizona State Fair, an honorable mention in the pictorial category in the 2009 Military Photographer of the Year competition, and first place in the 2011 Multimedia Team 19th Annual Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photography Workshop.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

"What If...?" Film Series: Trust: Second Acts in Young Lives
Gifford Foundation

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Many who are familiar with Chicago's theater scene know of the Albany Park Theater Project's (APTP) amazing work with youth. Nancy Kelly's formidable new documentary Trust allows us an in-depth look at APTP's story-telling process and how their work helps transform the lives of young people. The story of Marlin, originally from Honduras, is one of sexual violence, separation from her mother, and the harsh realities of immigration. Trust follows her harrowing, personal story that then becomes the basis for an original play. The film captures the respect, support and tenderness that APTP's ensemble members show Marlin and beautifully illustrates the healing power of art and community.

Higher and Higher (1943)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $3.50 non-members, $3 members
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Directed by Tim Whelan. Cast includes Frank Sinatra, Michele Morgan, Jack Haley, Leon Errol, Victor Borge, Marcy McGuire, Mel Torme, Dooley Wilson, Paul and Grace Hartman, Mary Wickes, Barbara Hale.

Sinatra's first major film is a lively musical-comedy about a scheme to pass off a drab housemaid (Morgan) as a high-society debutante. Lots of laughs, plus such great Sinatra hits as "The Music Stopped," "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night," and "This is a Lovely Way To Spend an Evening."

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

OCC Student Art and Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

A juried showcase of art and photography by Onondaga Community College students.

Patently Syracuse
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

A visual exploration of inventions, designs and innovations created in Central New York.

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Tsao and McKown Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Annual High School Seniors' Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

High school seniors within a 30 mile radius of Syracuse are invited to exhibit at Edgewood Gallery and be juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Reflection and Identity: Works by W. Michelle Harris and Michael Roman
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition features recent work by Rochester Institute of Technology associate professor and artist W. Michelle Harris and Atlanta-based artist and Syracuse University alum Michael Roman. These two young artists embrace questions of gender, identity, and societal expectations.

While the materials used by each artist sit at the opposite ends of the technological spectrum, both individuals seek to examine topics of an interrelated and highly personal nature.

Read a review!

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

Educational Toys by Roy Wilson
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Genet Design Gallery
The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Designer Roy Wilson, a 1970 alumnus of Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, will exhibit his award-winning educational toy designs. The exhibit features Wilson's work from the Learning Curve Toy Co., including the 1992 Thomas Wooden Railway project and the 1994 Lamaze Infant Development System, which he researched, designed, engineered and manufactured. The exhibition will also include his most recent invention in toys, TRAK2BRIK Adapters. Introduced in February at the American International Toy Fair, TRAK2BRIK is a system of adapters that links wooden railway track to pegged construction bricks and has dozens of slide-on toy accessories.

Wilson's career evolved from an early fascination with mechanical, scientific and electrical products. While at SU studying industrial design, he wrote his graduating thesis on preschool educational developmental toys. He started his own design business, Creative International, in 1967 and decided to remain independent and/or work on long-term contracts. To date, he has won 47 national and international awards for design excellence.

Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on West Fayette Street or the first-floor door on West Washington Street. For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Self Portrait Show
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The show features self portraits in a variety of mediums by gallery members.

Time, Again Time: Works by Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In "Time, again time," the artist reflects on ordered fragments of a disordered world. An activist and renowned Latin American artist, Ana Tiscornia brings a mixed-media installation that curator Pedro Cuperman describes as "the outcome of a tale, where we have a fragmented world, where the pieces are somehow geometrically organic, logical... a kind of architecture of catastrophe. It is about the artist's obsession with organizing her world after having lived through the tragedies of military dictatorships in her home land, and the present catastrophes, wars that we endure in our own time. Ana's work demands from the viewer a sort of reconstruction, reintegration of the work, and our world.

MFA 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

MFA 2012 presents the work of 22 artists concluding their graduate careers in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. On view will be a wide range of traditional and contemporary media, including painting, ceramics, photography, interactive and experimental sculpture, video, and conceptual installations. The artists participating in MFA 2012 are Maximilian Bauer, Lauren Boldon, J. S. Jin Choi, Rose Marie Cromwell, Zach Dunn, Michael Giannattasio, Eugenie Michelle Giasson, Holland Houdek, Tessa J. Kennedy, Kyoungju Kim, Jay Muhlin, Yiming Nie, Vasilios Papaioannu, Annie Ryerson, James Stevens, Jennifer Turner, Rachel Van Pelt, Claire Ying-Chin Wang, Jennifer Leigh Wright, Elif Yoney, Jave Yoshimoto, Xiaowen Zhu.

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 are not available, the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Reliquaries: New Work by Drew Goerlitz
Everson Museum of Art

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

Well-known for his graceful yet imposing steel sculpture, Drew Goerlitz, Associate Professor of Sculpture at the State University of New York Plattsburg, presents a new body of work at the Everson Museum of Art. Reliquaries continues the reoccurring theme of containment, concealment and privacy best described by Goerlitz himself: "My interpretation of reliquary is not to hold a sacred object or relic, but to engage the viewer with the form and tension of the unknown interior. The adornment of these objects relates to architectural details and the idea of facade. Facade is what we are presented with upon first appearance, whether speaking of people or architecture, and it isn't until we look inside that we discover the true structure."

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 adults, $8 students/seniors, $30 family pack (2 adults, 4 children))
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

CNY Art Showcase: Juried Preview of Live Auction
Everson Museum of Art

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

CNY Arts Showcase: Juried Preview of the Live Auction, presented in conjunction with the Eastwood Rotary Club, highlights the great and diverse artistic talents within our community. The exhibition at the Everson will precede the Eastwood Rotary Club's Annual CNY Art Showcase Live Auction on April 20.

The Photographer as Child: Memories of Guatemala
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Born in Guatemala, award-winning photographer Efren Lopez is a student in the Military Photojournalism Program at Syracuse University. He is also an aerial photographer for the U.S. Air Force and the first reservist to be selected to attend Newhouse's Military Photojournalism Program. He now lives in Arizona.

The exhibit features images Lopez captured on a return trip to Guatemala in 2009. "My life began in a bamboo hut at the side of a road in a tiny town named Petaca, Guatemala, in 1966," Lopez writes. "It's a town so small that it is next to impossible to find on most maps of Guatemala, much less Central America."

Lopez has documented real-world situations and the military around the globe and has captured stunning images in Arizona and Guatemala. His work has been featured in various publications, including the book Arizona 24/7, and has been awarded many distinctions, including first place in the Professional Photography category at the 2008 Arizona State Fair, an honorable mention in the pictorial category in the 2009 Military Photographer of the Year competition, and first place in the 2011 Multimedia Team 19th Annual Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photography Workshop.

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In her first US museum solo show, New York City-based Japanese artist Noriko Ambe will create a new site-specific installation in the main gallery reflecting the tragic 2011 events in Japan through the use of video projections and her signature large-scale paper cutouts that evoke waves.

Nature plays an important role in Ambe's work, and it points to larger issues, such as the natural forces determining our global landscape, and the relationship between nature and humans throughout time. A recipient of prestigious awards such as the AICA Award and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ambe's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Japan Society in New York and the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Kyoto, Japan. Her work is also in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.

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The Black Series
Echo

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

Photography by Amanda Zackem. On display will be 17 silver-gelatin prints and a short film.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

Unsung Heroes Film Series: A Mother's Courage
Redhouse

Price: $8 regular, $5 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This documentary by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson tells the story of Margret, a mother who has done everything in her power to help her son. She embarks on an inspirational journey that leads her to realize that perhaps it is possible to break down the wall of autism and get to know the individual behind it.

This screening will benefit ARC of Onondaga Art Surge Program. Artwork from the program will be on display in the Redhouse Café.

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

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

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage; patrons should mention that they are attending the concert.

Stomp
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $17.50 to $72.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Back with new surprises! Stomp is explosive, provocative, sophisticated, sexy, utterly unique and appeals to audiences of all ages. The international percussion sensation has garnered an armful of awards and rave reviews, and has appeared on numerous national television shows. The 8-member troupe uses everything but conventional percussion instruments—matchboxes, wooden poles, brooms, garbage cans, Zippo lighters, hubcaps—to fill the stage with magnificent rhythms. As USA Today says, Stomp finds beautiful noises in the strangest places. Stomp. See what all the noise is about.

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.