Saturday, December 13, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

They are testaments to the impact of terrorism: sculptures portraying mothers going back to the exact moment they learned their child died in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some are screaming; others are weeping. Some are curled into a ball; others have fists raised in anger. The 76 larger-than-life figures that comprise the Dark Elegy collection were created by Montauk, NY-based artist Suse Lowenstein, the mother of a Pan Am 103 student victim.

Four of these sculptures will be on display as part of the University's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy.

Special Exhibit: Shadows
Delavan Art Gallery

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

When viewing lighted objects, it's easy to overlook the shadows they create. The Delavan Art Gallery has expanded on this concept to produce a one-of-its-kind exhibit devoted entirely to shadows and featuring works by a host of noted Central New York artists.

The Shadows Exhibit was conceived with two ideas in mind: how shadows are made (by an object, a light source and a background), and Bill Delavan's special professional interest in lighting the Gallery's exhibitions, sometimes playfully turning shadows into their own art form.

Featured artists in this exhibit include Arlene Abend, Reginald Adams, Anahid Ajemian, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Hillary Gifford, Barre Hunt, Lauren Ritchie, Jeffrey Schuessler, Andy Schuster and Matthew Vural.

Art for the Holidays
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring mixed media illustrations by Katya Krenina, monotypes and mixed media works by Thea Reidy as well as ceramics by the Clayscapes Pottery (Donald Seymour, Shawn McGuire, Jolee M. Romano, Tim See and Sallie Thompson).

The Color of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Watercolor paintings by Laura Wilk, glassworks of Carmel Nicoletti, and felted bags and ruffled scarves of Sherry Gordon.

23rd Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular; $4 seniors; $2 children
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The annual event features more than 40 gingerbread creations, including buildings, Victorian village storefronts, street scenes, and much more.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

Warhol Presents highlights the early commercial career of Andy Warhol, whose whimsical drawings from the 1950s created fantasies that marketed fashion and glamour through evocation. Warhol's penchant for combining art and advertisement quickly made him one of the most well known illustrators of women's fashion in New York. His talen' was sought out by fashion publication giants, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar; and women's footwear designer and retailer, I. Miller Shoe Company.

The exhibition presents 18 of Warhol's rarely seen shoe illustrations including Fantasy Shoes (ca. 1956), a whimsical and humorous take on women's footwear design. Exhibited also are drawings of women's accessories and fashion figures, including Female Fashion Figure (1950s); a vibrant depiction of a chic model alongside an equally stylish car.

Warhol's unique well-wrought line also translated to commissions of large-scale window displays for New York stores, including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's. One example of the artist's window displays is featured in this exhibition in the illustrated reproduction, Miss Dior (1950s); and a 1997 3-dimensional re-creation of Warhol's 1957 Bonwit Teller Window Display, which includes glass perfume bottles and colorful reproduction of a window display screen. Warhol's early drawings and interest in art, identity, and consumerism informed his later pop-icon status, when product and identity literally became his art, and was used to fuel his experimental factory era films.

This exhibition is curated by Natalie Sanderson, Curator of Education at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. The original exhibition, Andy Warhol Presents, was first exhibited at the University Art Museum in 2007.

Everson Unwrapped: A Winter Celebration
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5; children under 5 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A new winter tradition -- Everson Unwrapped: A Winter Celebration. It's a whole new way of celebrating the holiday season. This weeklong celebration of art will delight participants with a myriad of decorations and unique displays. Going beyond decorated trees, the displays are different, surprising, and beautiful. This year will be sure to provide new surprises and bring out the holiday spirit in the whole community.

Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th Century Superstar
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Local artist and designer Jeffrey Mayer will present a post-modern installation of 20th century fashion design inspired by the 18th century fashion sense of Marie Antoinette. Although Marie Antoinette did not really create a style that was personally unique, what she did for fashion in the 1770s was to solidify, refine and intensify the rococo style created by her grandfather-in-law, Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who died in 1764, six years before the 14-year-old Princess even arrived from Austria. Through the exhibition and a publication to be released in the fall, Mayer will be reinterpreting and discussing Marie Antoinette's key concepts of Fantasy, Luxury, and Exoticism.

Marie Antoinette was originally displayed in 2007 in a small space in Syracuse University's Fashion Design Department where Mayer has been Associate Professor of Fashion History and Design since 1992. For the Everson's installation, Mayer has expanded the visual experience to include more than 40 garments displayed on vintage mannequins, an eclectic collection of contemporary fashion accessories, an interactive audio component, and many unique, custom-designed and hand-made objects.

Founding Visionaries: Herb Williams and Jack White
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Community Folk Art Center is proud to exhibit this unique collection of sculptures, drawings and prints by two CFAC founders, Herb Williams and Jack White.

Celebrating Herb Williams: His Life, His Work, and His Art: As CFAC founding director, Herb Williams (1938-1999) devoted his life to promoting the work of diverse artists and ensuring that a large audience could experience their work. His dedication to the collective vision of the founding members kept Williams busy and while he avidly supported and promoted other artist he rarely took time exhibit his own work. This will be the first large-scale exhibition of Williams work in Upstate New York. Though he identified himself primarily as a sculptor, Williams worked across various artistic mediums; manipulating wood, plaster and bronze into figurative and abstract forms. His lithographs and etchings not only indicate the measure of his artistic skill and creativity but also serve as a chronicle of his literal, figurative journey as an artist.

Jack White: An Ancestral Image is a collection of the works by CFAC co-founder and artist Jack White. Since the late 1960s, Jack White's mixed media abstract work, defined as "abstract impressionism," has been inspired by African art forms and symbolism. The works included in the Ancestral Image exhibition are outside the boundaries of traditional painting or sculpture. They contain elements of the spiritual, the artistic, and the utilitarian that define African art.

March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
Community Folk Art Center

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

Original illustrated works by London Ladd

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

Show and sale of original fine arts and crafts by Central New York artists and craftspeople. For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Exploring History With Art: Childhood Through The Years
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The latest exhibit in the Exploring History with Art series features paintings from the permanent collection. 19th-century portraits of children, focusing on children of prominent local families, convey historical circumstances as well as social ideals. 20th-century genre paintings show children in their element: in the bathtub, at recess, and on vacation. The exhibit also features historical objects that enliven the space and impart a sense of the experience of childhood from the cradle to school days and play time. Childhood Through The Years is not only an excellent opportunity to delve into the history of childhood but also the exhibition represents a moment, as fleeting as childhood itself, for parents and children to share their experiences through the interplay of art and history.

Warren Kimble's America
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Folk artist Warren Kimble is creator to some of the most successful 20th century Americana. His quaint depictions have graced stationery cards to decorative accessories for the home. Still, few individuals outside of Vermont know him as the artist behind the celebrated imagery that's as American as apple pie.

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is pleased to present a retrospective of the Syracuse alumnus' work including his most recent series Widows of War, which illustrates his personal reaction to the War in Iraq and its effect on women.

Kimble is best known for his patchwork-like paintings of the American flag, bucolic farm animals, and antique barns and homes. His varying flag designs are a symbol of patriotism, a theme which the artist uses often. Portraits of oversized farm animals, from heavy pigs to stocky cows, allude to an 18th-century practice of selecting prize winning livestock for their size. Kimble's stylized barns and farm houses also reveal a penchant for abstract design over architectural accuracy.

In 2005 Kimble began work on Widows of War. After purchasing a black, antique dressmaking mannequin, Kimble saw in it a visual metaphor for the loss and sorrow felt by American wives and mothers during the war. Contrary to the idyllic scenes and colorful animals, the black-and-white series remains a solemn representation of Kimble's sadness and frustration with the war's events and its toll on American lives. The paintings and sculpture, which are intermittently marked by splats of red and barbed wire, further reinforce the feminine connection through symbolic clothespins and textile patterns.

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

Syracuse Cultural Workers InsideOUT
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Syracuse Cultural Workers (SCW) presents a familiar face (or, rather, several familiar faces) to the progressive community in Syracuse. The calendars, posters, cards, and T-shirts they publish are well-known; and the banners, drums, and willing bodies are a ready resource for just about any event designed to educate/agitate.

With this exhibit, they celebrate their 25th anniversary with a behind-the-scenes look at some of the less obvious aspects of what it means to be an international "peace and justice publisher and distributor." Topics include: the poster process, from brainstorm to finished product; customer feedback when they don't get it right (and when they do); a poster/calendar/art collages featuring activist art spanning 30 years, and more. This exhibit promises to be a show filled with surprising, entertaining, and visually stimulating perspectives.

The Art of Pochade: Works of Eric W. Shute
LeMoyne College

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

A pochade is a small sketch in which the artist records, usually in color, the atmospheric effects and general impressions of a landscape. They are small, rapidly executed oil color sketches painted out of doors or plein air. These small paintings are often used as preliminary studies for larger works executed in the studio at a later time. The artist will be exhibiting 16 to 20 of these small works, many of them scenes from the Jonesport and Beals Island area in Down East Maine. The works are quickly conceived and rapidly executed to try and capture the light and conditions of the moment. Because these small paintings are usually considered a reference for larger works they are not often seen by the public.

The artist will be showing one larger work along side the pochade painting that was used as a reference. Patrons may compare the two paintings and see the evolution and thought process of the artist from the original concept in the small color sketch to completion in the much larger finished painting.

Eric Schute's work has appeared at Syracuse's Delavan Art Gallery, Gallery 210, the Everson Museum of Art and the Alden Gallery in Provincetown, MA. For more information, phone 315-445-4323.

The OL Holiday Show
Orange Line Gallery

Price: Free
Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

New to Orange Line Gallery for this show include Jacqueline Adamo, oil painting; J. Francis Maloni, oil painting; Amber Blanding, glass sculpture; and Jennifer Cutter, jewelry. Also on display are the works of recent artists Brandon Hall- mixed media / collage, Chris Luchsinger- acrylic & spraypaint on canvas, David McKenney, photography; Debra Parry Trichilo, photography; Jim Reed, acrylic on canvas; Dustin Angell, photography; Father Andrew Szebenyi, digital paintings; Jace Collins, oil, acrylic and paper on Plexiglas; Melissa Tiffany, collage; Mick Mather, digital manipulations; and Spencer Baker, photography.

The Northside Mosaic
Our Northside Community Gallery

Price: Free
Our Northside Community Gallery
745 N. Salina St., Syracuse

The Northside Mosaic is a multidisciplinary exhibit, celebrating the myriad of people, cultures and histories that compose Our Northside neighborhood. The exhibit features pieces collected throughout 2007 and 2008 and produced predominantly by people living or working in our community. Through this project, we intend to showcase the brilliant individual lives and rich cultural diversity that exist within the Northside, heighten people's awareness of the struggles and injustices that are present within our neighborhoods, help citizens develop a deeper sense of pride for and ownership of their neighborhoods, bring aesthetic beauty to the area, and catalyze relationships and future collaborative projects among diverse groups of people.

Framing Identities: Collaborations with Students at Nottingham High School
The Warehouse Gallery

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

An exhibition of photography guided by student mentors in Professor Judith Meighan's "Literacy, Community, Art" course in the Syracuse University's School of Art and Design. The Nottingham High School students exhibiting work are enrolled in Randy Weatherby's "Black and White Photography" course.

Roiling Infill by Alex Schweder; Blind Spot by Kim Waale
The Warehouse Gallery

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

This solo exhibition by Seattle/Berlin-based artist Alex Schweder, Roiling Infill, consists of a video projection, Jealous Poché (2004), and an architectural installation titled Snowballing Doorway (2007). Both components of the exhibition accomplish in very different ways the artist's ongoing interest in the intersection between architecture, sculpture and performance art.

Jealous Poché is a seven-minute architectural fly-through of a space somewhere between body and building. The word poché was coined in France's École de Beaux Arts during a neoclassical moment to refer to the space between the surfaces of walls. Here, the camera path and viewer's position are actually inside the viscous poché looking into the voids on the other side of the wall's surface. The camera work in this video shows an attention by the artist to a liminal moment (the skin of the wall) between expanse and engulfment. Made in collaboration with gastroenterologist Jim Wagonfeld, a 25-gallon vat of strawberry Jell-O mixed with blocks of resin was filmed with an endoscope. Schweder's decision to use an imaging device normally employed to visualize the human body's own poché in turn represents the architectural space in the video as fleshy. This is in contrast to architecture's historical representation of and fantasies of perfect bodies.

Snowballing Doorway moves from the world of represented architectural fleshiness to architectural flesh itself. Two sac-like arches made from a combination of opaque and clear vinyl pass the same volume of poché (in this case air) back and forth until one of the two completely bulges to fill the aperture in which they are installed. This shifting skin is an example of what Schweder calls "a building that performs itself." Here he is interested in how the codes of architecture act like a score for how occupants are supposed to "perform" the building. In this case, the arch prompts an occupant to "pass through" it. Schweder's unstable arch, however, changes this instruction to its opposite when the poché passes into the upside-down arch on top. In this way, a viewer becomes aware of the way buildings structure the behavior in them.

Both works point to a permeability between buildings and the bodies that occupy them. The video, made using an edible treat, makes it unclear where insides and outsides of buildings and bodies start and stop. The inflatable instructions make explicit that buildings construct us in as much as we construct them.

Also on display, in the Window Projects Gallery, is Blind Spot, a site-specific installation using wax-encrusted wire forms designed to simultaneously emulate the roots and branches of trees and the retina and optic nerve of the human eye. These "references to nature as it exists outside and within the human body underscore the trouble we as humans have in seeing and thinking about ourselves as organisms that are part of the natural world" (Waale, artist statement).

Waale blurs the boundaries between sculpture and drawing as she moves from Vocalizations, a series of preliminary drawings for the project, to sculptural elements that will fill the space.

The Adventures of Rudolph
Center of Ballet & Dance Arts

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

It is a week before Christmas and Santa's elves are busy making presents. The evil Witch Winter Grey kidnaps the elves so that they might make presents just for her. Only Santa's reindeer Rudolph can penetrate the gloom around the witchs castle with his bright nose. When he arrives at the castle, he and the elves make a plan to escape from the witch.

One of the gifts the elves make for the witch is a magic mirror of truth which will show the witch what she really is -- an ugly hag. The elves and Rudolph refuse to tell her the secret of the mirror until she agrees to release them and change her evil ways. The witch agrees and is transformed into the beautiful Witch Winter White.

When the elves, Rudolph and Witch Winter White return to Santa's workshop, it is Christmas Eve. They find Santa disheartened because there is no snow and the reindeer, who move through the air by stepping on snowflakes, will not be able to fly. Witch Winter White offers her help and begins her magical dance that fills the air with snowflakes. The reindeer can fly and Christmas will come after all.

Great Russian Nutcracker
Moscow Ballet

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

A Latin American Christmas Pie
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Robert Cowles, conductor

Price: $17 regular, $14 seniors, $5 children
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

This exuberant program will begin with Spanish Renaissance works which migrated to Latin America during the 16th century and a sampling of original works by contemporary Latin American composers. Highlighting the concert theme and the holiday season will be the exploration of various Latin American Christmas carols and folk idioms. Members of Samba Laranja, SU's acclaimed Brazilian-style percussion ensemble, under the direction of Joshua Dekaney, and classical guitarist Kenneth Meyer will join SVE for this memorable evening. This concert is followed by SVE's annual pie reception of prodigious proportions.

Contemporary Holiday Classics
Redhouse

Price: $15 general admission; $5 children under 12; $20 family pack;
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Redhouse presents the second installment of its Mixed Media Series curated by Robert Van Slyke. This concert is a multi-media performance including modern orchestration of classic holiday tunes as well as traditional carols. Musical styles explored in the work include Jazz, Funk, Classical and New Age. The performance will also feature video projection, modern dance and staged reading. Syracuse-area artists featured include Brent Spinner, Bill Verity, Eric Elky, Krista Lewandowski, Keil Feher and Amanda Carnie.

Westcott Community Center
John Cadley and the Lost Boys

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

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

Youtheatre: The Adventures of Rudolph
CNY Arts

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

For more information or reservation, contact Bob Dwyer, 315-435-2162.

World of Puppets: Mr. Punch's Christmas Carol
Open Hand Theater
Crabgrass Puppet Theatre

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

Snow White
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive children's show -- help Snow White and the dwarfs foil the schemes of the Wicked Queen.

Black Nativity
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
William H. Rowland II and Annette Adams-Brown, director

Price: $20 regular, $15 studetns/seniors
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Black Nativity, by Langston Hughes, is a foot stomping, hand clapping, jump to your feet shouting gospel drama that will delight the entire family. Hughes called it a "gospel song play." Black Nativity is a re-telling of the classic Nativity story with a non-traditional cast. Traditional Christmas carols along with a few musical numbers created specially for the show are sung in gospel style by The PRPAC Choral Ensemble. A multi-generational cast of singers, narrators, poets, dancers and soloists will fill the theater with jubilation and praise. Through the vibrations of African drums and percussion, the birth of Jesus becomes one of the most dramatic scenes of the show. Mary and Joseph will dance right into your hearts. The show was first performed on Broadway on December 11, 1961, and was one of the first plays written by an African-American to do so.

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Godspell
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj, director

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

This energetic musical based on the gospel of St. Matthew is a celebration of worldwide community, filled with popular hit songs and irresistible good will. From the UN to India to China to Darfur to Syracuse prepare ye the way of hope, brotherhood and sisterhood as the time for tolerance and inclusiveness draws nearer Day by Day. A groundbreaking musical in its time, this colorful update features world dance-inspired choreography and multimedia projections.

Conceived by John-Michael Tebelak; music and new lyrics by Stephen Schwartz; choreographed by Anthony Salatino.

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The Santaland Diaries
Syracuse Stage
James Edmondson, director

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

For those who like a little jeer with their Christmas cheer, humorist David Sedaris' The Santaland Diaries is a gem of a lump of coal. Meet Crumpet, a 33-year-old starving artist turned Macy's elf. It's the most wonderful time of the year, but you wouldn't know it from the bad Santas, naughty elves, cranky kids and pushy parents who test Crumpet's last elfin nerve as he struggles to remain sane and perky(!) amid the absurdity of the holiday season. With sardonic wit, and a sometimes razor-sharp, sometimes velvet-soft tongue, Sedaris takes us all playfully to task for plunging into the Christmas spirit but missing the point. For mature elves only.

Adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello.

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Black Nativity
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
William H. Rowland II and Annette Adams-Brown, director

Price: $20 regular, $15 studetns/seniors
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Black Nativity, by Langston Hughes, is a foot stomping, hand clapping, jump to your feet shouting gospel drama that will delight the entire family. Hughes called it a "gospel song play." Black Nativity is a re-telling of the classic Nativity story with a non-traditional cast. Traditional Christmas carols along with a few musical numbers created specially for the show are sung in gospel style by The PRPAC Choral Ensemble. A multi-generational cast of singers, narrators, poets, dancers and soloists will fill the theater with jubilation and praise. Through the vibrations of African drums and percussion, the birth of Jesus becomes one of the most dramatic scenes of the show. Mary and Joseph will dance right into your hearts. The show was first performed on Broadway on December 11, 1961, and was one of the first plays written by an African-American to do so.

Read a review!

The Santaland Diaries
Syracuse Stage
James Edmondson, director

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

For those who like a little jeer with their Christmas cheer, humorist David Sedaris' The Santaland Diaries is a gem of a lump of coal. Meet Crumpet, a 33-year-old starving artist turned Macy's elf. It's the most wonderful time of the year, but you wouldn't know it from the bad Santas, naughty elves, cranky kids and pushy parents who test Crumpet's last elfin nerve as he struggles to remain sane and perky(!) amid the absurdity of the holiday season. With sardonic wit, and a sometimes razor-sharp, sometimes velvet-soft tongue, Sedaris takes us all playfully to task for plunging into the Christmas spirit but missing the point. For mature elves only.

Adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello.

Read a Review!

Godspell
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj, director

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

This energetic musical based on the gospel of St. Matthew is a celebration of worldwide community, filled with popular hit songs and irresistible good will. From the UN to India to China to Darfur to Syracuse prepare ye the way of hope, brotherhood and sisterhood as the time for tolerance and inclusiveness draws nearer Day by Day. A groundbreaking musical in its time, this colorful update features world dance-inspired choreography and multimedia projections.

Conceived by John-Michael Tebelak; music and new lyrics by Stephen Schwartz; choreographed by Anthony Salatino.

Read a Review!

Communicating Doors
Appleseed Productions
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

This intricate time traveling comic thriller is about a London sex specialist from the future stumbles into a murder plot that sends her, compliments of a unique set of hotel doors, traveling back in time. She and two women who were murdered in 1998 and 1978 race back and forth in time trying to rewrite history and prevent their own violent ends. The frantic race begins when Poopay is hired for an evening at the Regal Hotel by an old man who eschews a fling in favor of confessing his role in the demise of his wives. Now a target, Poopay flees into the vestibule and somehow triggers the time machine. Written by Alan Ayckbourn.

Production features Roy vanNorstrand, Jennifer DeCook, Nora O'Dea, Rick Signorelli, Anne Fitzgerald, and David J. Hubert.

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Amahl and the Night Visitors
Open Hand Theater

Price: $15 in advance; $20 at the door
First English Lutheran Church
Corner of James and Townsend Streets, Syracuse

The Christmas classic featuring Open Hand's giant puppets.

To reserve tickets, phone 315-476-0466.

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The Eight: Reindeer Monologues; Seven Santas
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

The Eight: Reindeer Monologues:
A wickedly funny alternative to traditional candy-cane cheer. Scandal erupts at the North Pole when one of Santa's eight tiny reindeer accuses him of sexual harassment. As the mass media descends upon the event, the other members of the sleigh team demand to share their perspectives, and a horrific tale of corruption and perversion emerges -which seems to implicate everyone from the teeniest elf to the tainted Saint himself. With each deer's stunning confession, the truth behind the shocking allegations becomes clearer...and murkier.

Seven Santas:
Scandal erupts at the North Pole when the most powerful man on Earth is sentenced to rehab for a minor traffic violation. But when he finds himself in a detox program run by the estranged Mrs. Claus, Santa's desperate struggle to conceal the truth about his arrest uncovers yet another sordid secret that could mean the end of Christmas-as-we-know-it.

No one under the age of 18 admitted.

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Sunday, December 14, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

They are testaments to the impact of terrorism: sculptures portraying mothers going back to the exact moment they learned their child died in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some are screaming; others are weeping. Some are curled into a ball; others have fists raised in anger. The 76 larger-than-life figures that comprise the Dark Elegy collection were created by Montauk, NY-based artist Suse Lowenstein, the mother of a Pan Am 103 student victim.

Four of these sculptures will be on display as part of the University's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy.

23rd Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular; $4 seniors; $2 children
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The annual event features more than 40 gingerbread creations, including buildings, Victorian village storefronts, street scenes, and much more.

Everson Unwrapped: A Winter Celebration
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $5; children under 5 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A new winter tradition -- Everson Unwrapped: A Winter Celebration. It's a whole new way of celebrating the holiday season. This weeklong celebration of art will delight participants with a myriad of decorations and unique displays. Going beyond decorated trees, the displays are different, surprising, and beautiful. This year will be sure to provide new surprises and bring out the holiday spirit in the whole community.

Tracing Memory: Photographs by Angie Buckley, Pedro Isztin, Cyrus Karimipour, and Paula Luttringer
Light Work Gallery

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

Guest curator Miriam Romais of En Foco curated this exhibition to explore what makes a thought become a memory. The artists included in this exhibition create photographs that look at the idea of remembrance -- of letting go and making sense of past events, and using those memories to understand who they are today.

Growing up with a mother from Thailand and a Caucasian American father, Angie Buckley did not know her family history for many years. She relied on the conflicting memories and stories of relatives to piece together her heritage. Her images are created with a pinhole camera and cutouts of old family photographs, resulting in work that lies somewhere in between the real world and imagination. Buckley received her BFA in Photography from Ohio University and her MFA in Photography from Arizona State University. She has received various awards, and her work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Southern Light Gallery in Texas, the McDuffy Arts Center in Virginia, and New York University.

Pedro Isztin's color portraits metaphorically integrate formative childhood memories, using them to heal the adult that the child has become. Part of a larger series that emulates a life journey, Destino III: Transformation revisits, in Isztin's words, "the pain, joy, and suffering that our psyches are stamped with, no matter how little or large those experiences as a child." Isztin was born to a Colombian mother and Hungarian father; his work explores his diverse heritage. He lives in Ottawa, Canada, and has exhibited internationally. He has received numerous awards and grants, including a Photography Project Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and an Ontario Arts Council Award.

Cyrus Karimipour revels in the flexibility of memories and uses his images to visually recreate them and depict how he remembers an event or encounter. In his series Invented Memory, he creates scenarios by heavily manipulating his negatives and rearranging their fragments to then be re-photographed. His imagery becomes ambiguous, as if looking in on someone else's dream. Karimipour received his BA from Oakland University in Michigan and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. His work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of New Art in Michigan, and the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio. His art has also appeared in Harper's Magazine and The Detroit News, among other publications.

Paula Luttringer faces her own traumatic past, infusing her imagery with what other women remember about being abducted and held captive during Argentina's Dirty War. Lamento de Los Muros (The Wailing of the Walls) consists of large black-and-white images that depict the interior of the detention centers where thousands of people were held, tortured, and "disappeared." The images capture both history and memory. Luttringer was awarded a fellowship by the Guggenheim Foundation in 2001. Her work appears in the collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; the Museum of Fine Arts in Texas; and George Eastman House in New York. She currently lives and works in Buenos Aires and Paris.

2008 Light Work Grant Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Works of Kathy Morris, Paul Pearce, and Nancy Keefe Rhodes, the recipients of the 34th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. Kathy Morris and Paul Pearce are imagemakers. Nancy Keefe Rhodes received the award for a photo-historian project on local documentary photographer Marjory Wilkins.

Exploring History With Art: Childhood Through The Years
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The latest exhibit in the Exploring History with Art series features paintings from the permanent collection. 19th-century portraits of children, focusing on children of prominent local families, convey historical circumstances as well as social ideals. 20th-century genre paintings show children in their element: in the bathtub, at recess, and on vacation. The exhibit also features historical objects that enliven the space and impart a sense of the experience of childhood from the cradle to school days and play time. Childhood Through The Years is not only an excellent opportunity to delve into the history of childhood but also the exhibition represents a moment, as fleeting as childhood itself, for parents and children to share their experiences through the interplay of art and history.

Warren Kimble's America
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Folk artist Warren Kimble is creator to some of the most successful 20th century Americana. His quaint depictions have graced stationery cards to decorative accessories for the home. Still, few individuals outside of Vermont know him as the artist behind the celebrated imagery that's as American as apple pie.

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is pleased to present a retrospective of the Syracuse alumnus' work including his most recent series Widows of War, which illustrates his personal reaction to the War in Iraq and its effect on women.

Kimble is best known for his patchwork-like paintings of the American flag, bucolic farm animals, and antique barns and homes. His varying flag designs are a symbol of patriotism, a theme which the artist uses often. Portraits of oversized farm animals, from heavy pigs to stocky cows, allude to an 18th-century practice of selecting prize winning livestock for their size. Kimble's stylized barns and farm houses also reveal a penchant for abstract design over architectural accuracy.

In 2005 Kimble began work on Widows of War. After purchasing a black, antique dressmaking mannequin, Kimble saw in it a visual metaphor for the loss and sorrow felt by American wives and mothers during the war. Contrary to the idyllic scenes and colorful animals, the black-and-white series remains a solemn representation of Kimble's sadness and frustration with the war's events and its toll on American lives. The paintings and sculpture, which are intermittently marked by splats of red and barbed wire, further reinforce the feminine connection through symbolic clothespins and textile patterns.

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

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

Warhol Presents highlights the early commercial career of Andy Warhol, whose whimsical drawings from the 1950s created fantasies that marketed fashion and glamour through evocation. Warhol's penchant for combining art and advertisement quickly made him one of the most well known illustrators of women's fashion in New York. His talen' was sought out by fashion publication giants, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar; and women's footwear designer and retailer, I. Miller Shoe Company.

The exhibition presents 18 of Warhol's rarely seen shoe illustrations including Fantasy Shoes (ca. 1956), a whimsical and humorous take on women's footwear design. Exhibited also are drawings of women's accessories and fashion figures, including Female Fashion Figure (1950s); a vibrant depiction of a chic model alongside an equally stylish car.

Warhol's unique well-wrought line also translated to commissions of large-scale window displays for New York stores, including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's. One example of the artist's window displays is featured in this exhibition in the illustrated reproduction, Miss Dior (1950s); and a 1997 3-dimensional re-creation of Warhol's 1957 Bonwit Teller Window Display, which includes glass perfume bottles and colorful reproduction of a window display screen. Warhol's early drawings and interest in art, identity, and consumerism informed his later pop-icon status, when product and identity literally became his art, and was used to fuel his experimental factory era films.

This exhibition is curated by Natalie Sanderson, Curator of Education at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. The original exhibition, Andy Warhol Presents, was first exhibited at the University Art Museum in 2007.

Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th Century Superstar
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Local artist and designer Jeffrey Mayer will present a post-modern installation of 20th century fashion design inspired by the 18th century fashion sense of Marie Antoinette. Although Marie Antoinette did not really create a style that was personally unique, what she did for fashion in the 1770s was to solidify, refine and intensify the rococo style created by her grandfather-in-law, Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who died in 1764, six years before the 14-year-old Princess even arrived from Austria. Through the exhibition and a publication to be released in the fall, Mayer will be reinterpreting and discussing Marie Antoinette's key concepts of Fantasy, Luxury, and Exoticism.

Marie Antoinette was originally displayed in 2007 in a small space in Syracuse University's Fashion Design Department where Mayer has been Associate Professor of Fashion History and Design since 1992. For the Everson's installation, Mayer has expanded the visual experience to include more than 40 garments displayed on vintage mannequins, an eclectic collection of contemporary fashion accessories, an interactive audio component, and many unique, custom-designed and hand-made objects.

The Art of Pochade: Works of Eric W. Shute
LeMoyne College

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

A pochade is a small sketch in which the artist records, usually in color, the atmospheric effects and general impressions of a landscape. They are small, rapidly executed oil color sketches painted out of doors or plein air. These small paintings are often used as preliminary studies for larger works executed in the studio at a later time. The artist will be exhibiting 16 to 20 of these small works, many of them scenes from the Jonesport and Beals Island area in Down East Maine. The works are quickly conceived and rapidly executed to try and capture the light and conditions of the moment. Because these small paintings are usually considered a reference for larger works they are not often seen by the public.

The artist will be showing one larger work along side the pochade painting that was used as a reference. Patrons may compare the two paintings and see the evolution and thought process of the artist from the original concept in the small color sketch to completion in the much larger finished painting.

Eric Schute's work has appeared at Syracuse's Delavan Art Gallery, Gallery 210, the Everson Museum of Art and the Alden Gallery in Provincetown, MA. For more information, phone 315-445-4323.

A Christmas Story

Price: $3 regular; children 5 and under free
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Join us for A Christmas Story, starring Peter Billingsly as the little boy that wants a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas, and Darren McGavin as his doubting father ("You'll shoot your eye out, kid!")

Concessions will be available for purchase. For more information call 315-475-7980.

A continued tradition this year includes a discount for Lights on the Lake. Bring your movie ticket stub to Lights on the Lake and get $1 off a carload. In turn, bring your Lights on the Lake ticket stub to the Landmark Theatre and get $1 off a maximum of 4 adult movie tickets.

Holiday Reflections: Ornaments
Onondaga Historical Association
Featuring Dr. David Speck

Price: $5 OHA non-members; $3 OHA members
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The OHA is honored to host Dr. David Speck, ophthalmologist by day, Christmas tree ornament collector by night. Dr. Speck will present ornaments from different places around the world and during different time periods. His extensive collection will provide the audience with diversity and the history of Christmas tree ornaments.

For more information, phone 315-428-1864.

Stained Glass Series; Handel's Messiah
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Syracuse University Oratorio Society
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Janet Brown, soprano; Jimi James, bass-baritone

Most Holy Rosary Church
111 Roberts Ave., Syracuse

Handel Messiah

A Latin American Christmas Pie
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Robert Cowles, conductor

Price: $17 regular, $14 seniors, $5 children
Cicero United Methodist Church
8416 North Main St., Cicero

This exuberant program will begin with Spanish Renaissance works which migrated to Latin America during the 16th century and a sampling of original works by contemporary Latin American composers. Highlighting the concert theme and the holiday season will be the exploration of various Latin American Christmas carols and folk idioms. Members of Samba Laranja, SU's acclaimed Brazilian-style percussion ensemble, under the direction of Joshua Dekaney, and classical guitarist Kenneth Meyer will join SVE for this memorable evening. This concert is followed by SVE's annual pie reception of prodigious proportions.

Syracuse Wurlitzer
Featuring Ned Spain, theater organ

Price: $15 adults, $2 children
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Youtheatre: The Adventures of Rudolph
CNY Arts

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

For more information or reservation, contact Bob Dwyer, 315-435-2162.

Communicating Doors
Appleseed Productions
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

This intricate time traveling comic thriller is about a London sex specialist from the future stumbles into a murder plot that sends her, compliments of a unique set of hotel doors, traveling back in time. She and two women who were murdered in 1998 and 1978 race back and forth in time trying to rewrite history and prevent their own violent ends. The frantic race begins when Poopay is hired for an evening at the Regal Hotel by an old man who eschews a fling in favor of confessing his role in the demise of his wives. Now a target, Poopay flees into the vestibule and somehow triggers the time machine. Written by Alan Ayckbourn.

Production features Roy vanNorstrand, Jennifer DeCook, Nora O'Dea, Rick Signorelli, Anne Fitzgerald, and David J. Hubert.

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Amahl and the Night Visitors
Open Hand Theater

Price: $15 in advance; $20 at the door
First English Lutheran Church
Corner of James and Townsend Streets, Syracuse

The Christmas classic featuring Open Hand's giant puppets.

To reserve tickets, phone 315-476-0466.

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Godspell
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj, director

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

This energetic musical based on the gospel of St. Matthew is a celebration of worldwide community, filled with popular hit songs and irresistible good will. From the UN to India to China to Darfur to Syracuse prepare ye the way of hope, brotherhood and sisterhood as the time for tolerance and inclusiveness draws nearer Day by Day. A groundbreaking musical in its time, this colorful update features world dance-inspired choreography and multimedia projections.

Conceived by John-Michael Tebelak; music and new lyrics by Stephen Schwartz; choreographed by Anthony Salatino.

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The Santaland Diaries
Syracuse Stage
James Edmondson, director

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

For those who like a little jeer with their Christmas cheer, humorist David Sedaris' The Santaland Diaries is a gem of a lump of coal. Meet Crumpet, a 33-year-old starving artist turned Macy's elf. It's the most wonderful time of the year, but you wouldn't know it from the bad Santas, naughty elves, cranky kids and pushy parents who test Crumpet's last elfin nerve as he struggles to remain sane and perky(!) amid the absurdity of the holiday season. With sardonic wit, and a sometimes razor-sharp, sometimes velvet-soft tongue, Sedaris takes us all playfully to task for plunging into the Christmas spirit but missing the point. For mature elves only.

Adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello.

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Black Nativity
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
William H. Rowland II and Annette Adams-Brown, director

Price: $20 regular, $15 studetns/seniors
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Black Nativity, by Langston Hughes, is a foot stomping, hand clapping, jump to your feet shouting gospel drama that will delight the entire family. Hughes called it a "gospel song play." Black Nativity is a re-telling of the classic Nativity story with a non-traditional cast. Traditional Christmas carols along with a few musical numbers created specially for the show are sung in gospel style by The PRPAC Choral Ensemble. A multi-generational cast of singers, narrators, poets, dancers and soloists will fill the theater with jubilation and praise. Through the vibrations of African drums and percussion, the birth of Jesus becomes one of the most dramatic scenes of the show. Mary and Joseph will dance right into your hearts. The show was first performed on Broadway on December 11, 1961, and was one of the first plays written by an African-American to do so.

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Monday, December 15, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

They are testaments to the impact of terrorism: sculptures portraying mothers going back to the exact moment they learned their child died in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some are screaming; others are weeping. Some are curled into a ball; others have fists raised in anger. The 76 larger-than-life figures that comprise the Dark Elegy collection were created by Montauk, NY-based artist Suse Lowenstein, the mother of a Pan Am 103 student victim.

Four of these sculptures will be on display as part of the University's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy.

The Art of Pochade: Works of Eric W. Shute
LeMoyne College

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

A pochade is a small sketch in which the artist records, usually in color, the atmospheric effects and general impressions of a landscape. They are small, rapidly executed oil color sketches painted out of doors or plein air. These small paintings are often used as preliminary studies for larger works executed in the studio at a later time. The artist will be exhibiting 16 to 20 of these small works, many of them scenes from the Jonesport and Beals Island area in Down East Maine. The works are quickly conceived and rapidly executed to try and capture the light and conditions of the moment. Because these small paintings are usually considered a reference for larger works they are not often seen by the public.

The artist will be showing one larger work along side the pochade painting that was used as a reference. Patrons may compare the two paintings and see the evolution and thought process of the artist from the original concept in the small color sketch to completion in the much larger finished painting.

Eric Schute's work has appeared at Syracuse's Delavan Art Gallery, Gallery 210, the Everson Museum of Art and the Alden Gallery in Provincetown, MA. For more information, phone 315-445-4323.

Gallery Exhibition: Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

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

The Golem: Visual Visitations
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A major collective exhibit of seven world class artists titled "The Golem: Visual Visitations," inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' poem "El Golem." This is the third edition of a program that began in Prague in 2002 through the initiative of the Argentinean Embassy in that city, and it was introduced by the renowned poet Václav Havel, then President of the Czech Republic. A second version was later produced with tremendous success at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2003, also introduced by then President of the country, Néstor Kirchner. Now the program travels to the United States for the first time to be shown exclusively at Syracuse University.

The Golem exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery features original works especially commissioned for this exhibit, created by seven artists: from Argentina (Leandro Katz; Pedro Roth); Uruguay (Marta Chilindrón); Puerto Rico (Víctor Vázquez); Syracuse (Tom Sherman; Doug Dubois) and New York (Sarah Kipp). It combines photography, installation and video art.

Dawn of a New Age: The Immigrant Contribution to the Arts in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"Dawn of a New Age" tells the story of five artists who immigrated to the United States during the first half of the 20th century: Adolph Bolm, a Russian dancer and choreographer who performed with the Mariinsky Ballet and Ballets Russes; William Lescaze, a Swiss architect who was one of the pioneers of modernism; Louis Lozowick, a Russian printmaker known for his Art Deco and Precision lithographs; Miklós Rózsa, a Hungarian composer of more than 100 film scores, including Ben Hur; and John Vassos, a Greek illustrator and industrial designer. The exhibition draws from the rich holdings of SCRC and showcases more than 50 of the artists' personal papers, manuscripts, photos and artifacts.

This exhibit is part of this year's Syracuse Symposium on the theme "Migration."

Viewpoints: A Collaborative Collection
Westcott Community Center

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

The Syracuse Photography Meetup Group proudly presents a collection of photographic images at their very first collaborative gallery exhibit. Creatively capturing images from the commonplace to the unexpected, photographers catch the light and special moments in time. This collection of images will serve to captivate your eye and draw you in closer to view a new world in each and every photo.

Members have long exhibited their works on the unique "underground" galleries of cyberspace, but now further realize their works, by bringing them to life in print for this collaborative effort. We hope you enjoy the variety of work, as well as appreciate the varied levels of expertise represented here, from the active beginner, serious amateur, aspiring professional, and working professionals. It is safe to say that each image is a labor of love, born out of an enthusiasm to create something new and wonderful.

23rd Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular; $4 seniors; $2 children
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The annual event features more than 40 gingerbread creations, including buildings, Victorian village storefronts, street scenes, and much more.

2008 Light Work Grant Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Works of Kathy Morris, Paul Pearce, and Nancy Keefe Rhodes, the recipients of the 34th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. Kathy Morris and Paul Pearce are imagemakers. Nancy Keefe Rhodes received the award for a photo-historian project on local documentary photographer Marjory Wilkins.

Tracing Memory: Photographs by Angie Buckley, Pedro Isztin, Cyrus Karimipour, and Paula Luttringer
Light Work Gallery

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

Guest curator Miriam Romais of En Foco curated this exhibition to explore what makes a thought become a memory. The artists included in this exhibition create photographs that look at the idea of remembrance -- of letting go and making sense of past events, and using those memories to understand who they are today.

Growing up with a mother from Thailand and a Caucasian American father, Angie Buckley did not know her family history for many years. She relied on the conflicting memories and stories of relatives to piece together her heritage. Her images are created with a pinhole camera and cutouts of old family photographs, resulting in work that lies somewhere in between the real world and imagination. Buckley received her BFA in Photography from Ohio University and her MFA in Photography from Arizona State University. She has received various awards, and her work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Southern Light Gallery in Texas, the McDuffy Arts Center in Virginia, and New York University.

Pedro Isztin's color portraits metaphorically integrate formative childhood memories, using them to heal the adult that the child has become. Part of a larger series that emulates a life journey, Destino III: Transformation revisits, in Isztin's words, "the pain, joy, and suffering that our psyches are stamped with, no matter how little or large those experiences as a child." Isztin was born to a Colombian mother and Hungarian father; his work explores his diverse heritage. He lives in Ottawa, Canada, and has exhibited internationally. He has received numerous awards and grants, including a Photography Project Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and an Ontario Arts Council Award.

Cyrus Karimipour revels in the flexibility of memories and uses his images to visually recreate them and depict how he remembers an event or encounter. In his series Invented Memory, he creates scenarios by heavily manipulating his negatives and rearranging their fragments to then be re-photographed. His imagery becomes ambiguous, as if looking in on someone else's dream. Karimipour received his BA from Oakland University in Michigan and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. His work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of New Art in Michigan, and the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio. His art has also appeared in Harper's Magazine and The Detroit News, among other publications.

Paula Luttringer faces her own traumatic past, infusing her imagery with what other women remember about being abducted and held captive during Argentina's Dirty War. Lamento de Los Muros (The Wailing of the Walls) consists of large black-and-white images that depict the interior of the detention centers where thousands of people were held, tortured, and "disappeared." The images capture both history and memory. Luttringer was awarded a fellowship by the Guggenheim Foundation in 2001. Her work appears in the collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; the Museum of Fine Arts in Texas; and George Eastman House in New York. She currently lives and works in Buenos Aires and Paris.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

Show and sale of original fine arts and crafts by Central New York artists and craftspeople. For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

They are testaments to the impact of terrorism: sculptures portraying mothers going back to the exact moment they learned their child died in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some are screaming; others are weeping. Some are curled into a ball; others have fists raised in anger. The 76 larger-than-life figures that comprise the Dark Elegy collection were created by Montauk, NY-based artist Suse Lowenstein, the mother of a Pan Am 103 student victim.

Four of these sculptures will be on display as part of the University's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy.

The Art of Pochade: Works of Eric W. Shute
LeMoyne College

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

A pochade is a small sketch in which the artist records, usually in color, the atmospheric effects and general impressions of a landscape. They are small, rapidly executed oil color sketches painted out of doors or plein air. These small paintings are often used as preliminary studies for larger works executed in the studio at a later time. The artist will be exhibiting 16 to 20 of these small works, many of them scenes from the Jonesport and Beals Island area in Down East Maine. The works are quickly conceived and rapidly executed to try and capture the light and conditions of the moment. Because these small paintings are usually considered a reference for larger works they are not often seen by the public.

The artist will be showing one larger work along side the pochade painting that was used as a reference. Patrons may compare the two paintings and see the evolution and thought process of the artist from the original concept in the small color sketch to completion in the much larger finished painting.

Eric Schute's work has appeared at Syracuse's Delavan Art Gallery, Gallery 210, the Everson Museum of Art and the Alden Gallery in Provincetown, MA. For more information, phone 315-445-4323.

Gallery Exhibition: Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

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

The Golem: Visual Visitations
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A major collective exhibit of seven world class artists titled "The Golem: Visual Visitations," inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' poem "El Golem." This is the third edition of a program that began in Prague in 2002 through the initiative of the Argentinean Embassy in that city, and it was introduced by the renowned poet Václav Havel, then President of the Czech Republic. A second version was later produced with tremendous success at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2003, also introduced by then President of the country, Néstor Kirchner. Now the program travels to the United States for the first time to be shown exclusively at Syracuse University.

The Golem exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery features original works especially commissioned for this exhibit, created by seven artists: from Argentina (Leandro Katz; Pedro Roth); Uruguay (Marta Chilindrón); Puerto Rico (Víctor Vázquez); Syracuse (Tom Sherman; Doug Dubois) and New York (Sarah Kipp). It combines photography, installation and video art.

Mapping Linguistics, Revisited: Works by Kelly Roe
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Kelly Roe's mixed media work will be on display. A professor in the Graphic Design Program at SUNY Oswego, Roe has a background in graphic design, bookmaking and printmaking and sees herself as an anthropologist, artist, editor and scribe. The Mapping Linguistics exhibition explores relationships in linguistics, psychology and child development.

Visual Journals: Recent Works by SUNY Oswego Faculty
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Art exhibition featuring recent work by SUNY Oswego faculty members Amy Bartell, Cynthia Clabough, Paul Pearce, Cara Brewer Thompson.

Dawn of a New Age: The Immigrant Contribution to the Arts in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"Dawn of a New Age" tells the story of five artists who immigrated to the United States during the first half of the 20th century: Adolph Bolm, a Russian dancer and choreographer who performed with the Mariinsky Ballet and Ballets Russes; William Lescaze, a Swiss architect who was one of the pioneers of modernism; Louis Lozowick, a Russian printmaker known for his Art Deco and Precision lithographs; Miklós Rózsa, a Hungarian composer of more than 100 film scores, including Ben Hur; and John Vassos, a Greek illustrator and industrial designer. The exhibition draws from the rich holdings of SCRC and showcases more than 50 of the artists' personal papers, manuscripts, photos and artifacts.

This exhibit is part of this year's Syracuse Symposium on the theme "Migration."

Viewpoints: A Collaborative Collection
Westcott Community Center

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

The Syracuse Photography Meetup Group proudly presents a collection of photographic images at their very first collaborative gallery exhibit. Creatively capturing images from the commonplace to the unexpected, photographers catch the light and special moments in time. This collection of images will serve to captivate your eye and draw you in closer to view a new world in each and every photo.

Members have long exhibited their works on the unique "underground" galleries of cyberspace, but now further realize their works, by bringing them to life in print for this collaborative effort. We hope you enjoy the variety of work, as well as appreciate the varied levels of expertise represented here, from the active beginner, serious amateur, aspiring professional, and working professionals. It is safe to say that each image is a labor of love, born out of an enthusiasm to create something new and wonderful.

The Color of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Watercolor paintings by Laura Wilk, glassworks of Carmel Nicoletti, and felted bags and ruffled scarves of Sherry Gordon.

23rd Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular; $4 seniors; $2 children
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The annual event features more than 40 gingerbread creations, including buildings, Victorian village storefronts, street scenes, and much more.

Tracing Memory: Photographs by Angie Buckley, Pedro Isztin, Cyrus Karimipour, and Paula Luttringer
Light Work Gallery

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

Guest curator Miriam Romais of En Foco curated this exhibition to explore what makes a thought become a memory. The artists included in this exhibition create photographs that look at the idea of remembrance -- of letting go and making sense of past events, and using those memories to understand who they are today.

Growing up with a mother from Thailand and a Caucasian American father, Angie Buckley did not know her family history for many years. She relied on the conflicting memories and stories of relatives to piece together her heritage. Her images are created with a pinhole camera and cutouts of old family photographs, resulting in work that lies somewhere in between the real world and imagination. Buckley received her BFA in Photography from Ohio University and her MFA in Photography from Arizona State University. She has received various awards, and her work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Southern Light Gallery in Texas, the McDuffy Arts Center in Virginia, and New York University.

Pedro Isztin's color portraits metaphorically integrate formative childhood memories, using them to heal the adult that the child has become. Part of a larger series that emulates a life journey, Destino III: Transformation revisits, in Isztin's words, "the pain, joy, and suffering that our psyches are stamped with, no matter how little or large those experiences as a child." Isztin was born to a Colombian mother and Hungarian father; his work explores his diverse heritage. He lives in Ottawa, Canada, and has exhibited internationally. He has received numerous awards and grants, including a Photography Project Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and an Ontario Arts Council Award.

Cyrus Karimipour revels in the flexibility of memories and uses his images to visually recreate them and depict how he remembers an event or encounter. In his series Invented Memory, he creates scenarios by heavily manipulating his negatives and rearranging their fragments to then be re-photographed. His imagery becomes ambiguous, as if looking in on someone else's dream. Karimipour received his BA from Oakland University in Michigan and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. His work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of New Art in Michigan, and the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio. His art has also appeared in Harper's Magazine and The Detroit News, among other publications.

Paula Luttringer faces her own traumatic past, infusing her imagery with what other women remember about being abducted and held captive during Argentina's Dirty War. Lamento de Los Muros (The Wailing of the Walls) consists of large black-and-white images that depict the interior of the detention centers where thousands of people were held, tortured, and "disappeared." The images capture both history and memory. Luttringer was awarded a fellowship by the Guggenheim Foundation in 2001. Her work appears in the collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; the Museum of Fine Arts in Texas; and George Eastman House in New York. She currently lives and works in Buenos Aires and Paris.

2008 Light Work Grant Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Works of Kathy Morris, Paul Pearce, and Nancy Keefe Rhodes, the recipients of the 34th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. Kathy Morris and Paul Pearce are imagemakers. Nancy Keefe Rhodes received the award for a photo-historian project on local documentary photographer Marjory Wilkins.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

Show and sale of original fine arts and crafts by Central New York artists and craftspeople. For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Warren Kimble's America
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Folk artist Warren Kimble is creator to some of the most successful 20th century Americana. His quaint depictions have graced stationery cards to decorative accessories for the home. Still, few individuals outside of Vermont know him as the artist behind the celebrated imagery that's as American as apple pie.

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is pleased to present a retrospective of the Syracuse alumnus' work including his most recent series Widows of War, which illustrates his personal reaction to the War in Iraq and its effect on women.

Kimble is best known for his patchwork-like paintings of the American flag, bucolic farm animals, and antique barns and homes. His varying flag designs are a symbol of patriotism, a theme which the artist uses often. Portraits of oversized farm animals, from heavy pigs to stocky cows, allude to an 18th-century practice of selecting prize winning livestock for their size. Kimble's stylized barns and farm houses also reveal a penchant for abstract design over architectural accuracy.

In 2005 Kimble began work on Widows of War. After purchasing a black, antique dressmaking mannequin, Kimble saw in it a visual metaphor for the loss and sorrow felt by American wives and mothers during the war. Contrary to the idyllic scenes and colorful animals, the black-and-white series remains a solemn representation of Kimble's sadness and frustration with the war's events and its toll on American lives. The paintings and sculpture, which are intermittently marked by splats of red and barbed wire, further reinforce the feminine connection through symbolic clothespins and textile patterns.

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

Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th Century Superstar
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Local artist and designer Jeffrey Mayer will present a post-modern installation of 20th century fashion design inspired by the 18th century fashion sense of Marie Antoinette. Although Marie Antoinette did not really create a style that was personally unique, what she did for fashion in the 1770s was to solidify, refine and intensify the rococo style created by her grandfather-in-law, Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who died in 1764, six years before the 14-year-old Princess even arrived from Austria. Through the exhibition and a publication to be released in the fall, Mayer will be reinterpreting and discussing Marie Antoinette's key concepts of Fantasy, Luxury, and Exoticism.

Marie Antoinette was originally displayed in 2007 in a small space in Syracuse University's Fashion Design Department where Mayer has been Associate Professor of Fashion History and Design since 1992. For the Everson's installation, Mayer has expanded the visual experience to include more than 40 garments displayed on vintage mannequins, an eclectic collection of contemporary fashion accessories, an interactive audio component, and many unique, custom-designed and hand-made objects.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

Warhol Presents highlights the early commercial career of Andy Warhol, whose whimsical drawings from the 1950s created fantasies that marketed fashion and glamour through evocation. Warhol's penchant for combining art and advertisement quickly made him one of the most well known illustrators of women's fashion in New York. His talen' was sought out by fashion publication giants, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar; and women's footwear designer and retailer, I. Miller Shoe Company.

The exhibition presents 18 of Warhol's rarely seen shoe illustrations including Fantasy Shoes (ca. 1956), a whimsical and humorous take on women's footwear design. Exhibited also are drawings of women's accessories and fashion figures, including Female Fashion Figure (1950s); a vibrant depiction of a chic model alongside an equally stylish car.

Warhol's unique well-wrought line also translated to commissions of large-scale window displays for New York stores, including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's. One example of the artist's window displays is featured in this exhibition in the illustrated reproduction, Miss Dior (1950s); and a 1997 3-dimensional re-creation of Warhol's 1957 Bonwit Teller Window Display, which includes glass perfume bottles and colorful reproduction of a window display screen. Warhol's early drawings and interest in art, identity, and consumerism informed his later pop-icon status, when product and identity literally became his art, and was used to fuel his experimental factory era films.

This exhibition is curated by Natalie Sanderson, Curator of Education at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. The original exhibition, Andy Warhol Presents, was first exhibited at the University Art Museum in 2007.

The Northside Mosaic
Our Northside Community Gallery

Price: Free
Our Northside Community Gallery
745 N. Salina St., Syracuse

The Northside Mosaic is a multidisciplinary exhibit, celebrating the myriad of people, cultures and histories that compose Our Northside neighborhood. The exhibit features pieces collected throughout 2007 and 2008 and produced predominantly by people living or working in our community. Through this project, we intend to showcase the brilliant individual lives and rich cultural diversity that exist within the Northside, heighten people's awareness of the struggles and injustices that are present within our neighborhoods, help citizens develop a deeper sense of pride for and ownership of their neighborhoods, bring aesthetic beauty to the area, and catalyze relationships and future collaborative projects among diverse groups of people.

Framing Identities: Collaborations with Students at Nottingham High School
The Warehouse Gallery

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

An exhibition of photography guided by student mentors in Professor Judith Meighan's "Literacy, Community, Art" course in the Syracuse University's School of Art and Design. The Nottingham High School students exhibiting work are enrolled in Randy Weatherby's "Black and White Photography" course.

Roiling Infill by Alex Schweder; Blind Spot by Kim Waale
The Warehouse Gallery

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

This solo exhibition by Seattle/Berlin-based artist Alex Schweder, Roiling Infill, consists of a video projection, Jealous Poché (2004), and an architectural installation titled Snowballing Doorway (2007). Both components of the exhibition accomplish in very different ways the artist's ongoing interest in the intersection between architecture, sculpture and performance art.

Jealous Poché is a seven-minute architectural fly-through of a space somewhere between body and building. The word poché was coined in France's École de Beaux Arts during a neoclassical moment to refer to the space between the surfaces of walls. Here, the camera path and viewer's position are actually inside the viscous poché looking into the voids on the other side of the wall's surface. The camera work in this video shows an attention by the artist to a liminal moment (the skin of the wall) between expanse and engulfment. Made in collaboration with gastroenterologist Jim Wagonfeld, a 25-gallon vat of strawberry Jell-O mixed with blocks of resin was filmed with an endoscope. Schweder's decision to use an imaging device normally employed to visualize the human body's own poché in turn represents the architectural space in the video as fleshy. This is in contrast to architecture's historical representation of and fantasies of perfect bodies.

Snowballing Doorway moves from the world of represented architectural fleshiness to architectural flesh itself. Two sac-like arches made from a combination of opaque and clear vinyl pass the same volume of poché (in this case air) back and forth until one of the two completely bulges to fill the aperture in which they are installed. This shifting skin is an example of what Schweder calls "a building that performs itself." Here he is interested in how the codes of architecture act like a score for how occupants are supposed to "perform" the building. In this case, the arch prompts an occupant to "pass through" it. Schweder's unstable arch, however, changes this instruction to its opposite when the poché passes into the upside-down arch on top. In this way, a viewer becomes aware of the way buildings structure the behavior in them.

Both works point to a permeability between buildings and the bodies that occupy them. The video, made using an edible treat, makes it unclear where insides and outsides of buildings and bodies start and stop. The inflatable instructions make explicit that buildings construct us in as much as we construct them.

Also on display, in the Window Projects Gallery, is Blind Spot, a site-specific installation using wax-encrusted wire forms designed to simultaneously emulate the roots and branches of trees and the retina and optic nerve of the human eye. These "references to nature as it exists outside and within the human body underscore the trouble we as humans have in seeing and thinking about ourselves as organisms that are part of the natural world" (Waale, artist statement).

Waale blurs the boundaries between sculpture and drawing as she moves from Vocalizations, a series of preliminary drawings for the project, to sculptural elements that will fill the space.

The Santaland Diaries
Syracuse Stage
James Edmondson, director

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

For those who like a little jeer with their Christmas cheer, humorist David Sedaris' The Santaland Diaries is a gem of a lump of coal. Meet Crumpet, a 33-year-old starving artist turned Macy's elf. It's the most wonderful time of the year, but you wouldn't know it from the bad Santas, naughty elves, cranky kids and pushy parents who test Crumpet's last elfin nerve as he struggles to remain sane and perky(!) amid the absurdity of the holiday season. With sardonic wit, and a sometimes razor-sharp, sometimes velvet-soft tongue, Sedaris takes us all playfully to task for plunging into the Christmas spirit but missing the point. For mature elves only.

Adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello.

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Godspell
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj, director

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

This energetic musical based on the gospel of St. Matthew is a celebration of worldwide community, filled with popular hit songs and irresistible good will. From the UN to India to China to Darfur to Syracuse prepare ye the way of hope, brotherhood and sisterhood as the time for tolerance and inclusiveness draws nearer Day by Day. A groundbreaking musical in its time, this colorful update features world dance-inspired choreography and multimedia projections.

Conceived by John-Michael Tebelak; music and new lyrics by Stephen Schwartz; choreographed by Anthony Salatino.

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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

They are testaments to the impact of terrorism: sculptures portraying mothers going back to the exact moment they learned their child died in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some are screaming; others are weeping. Some are curled into a ball; others have fists raised in anger. The 76 larger-than-life figures that comprise the Dark Elegy collection were created by Montauk, NY-based artist Suse Lowenstein, the mother of a Pan Am 103 student victim.

Four of these sculptures will be on display as part of the University's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy.

The Art of Pochade: Works of Eric W. Shute
LeMoyne College

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

A pochade is a small sketch in which the artist records, usually in color, the atmospheric effects and general impressions of a landscape. They are small, rapidly executed oil color sketches painted out of doors or plein air. These small paintings are often used as preliminary studies for larger works executed in the studio at a later time. The artist will be exhibiting 16 to 20 of these small works, many of them scenes from the Jonesport and Beals Island area in Down East Maine. The works are quickly conceived and rapidly executed to try and capture the light and conditions of the moment. Because these small paintings are usually considered a reference for larger works they are not often seen by the public.

The artist will be showing one larger work along side the pochade painting that was used as a reference. Patrons may compare the two paintings and see the evolution and thought process of the artist from the original concept in the small color sketch to completion in the much larger finished painting.

Eric Schute's work has appeared at Syracuse's Delavan Art Gallery, Gallery 210, the Everson Museum of Art and the Alden Gallery in Provincetown, MA. For more information, phone 315-445-4323.

Gallery Exhibition: Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

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

The Golem: Visual Visitations
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A major collective exhibit of seven world class artists titled "The Golem: Visual Visitations," inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' poem "El Golem." This is the third edition of a program that began in Prague in 2002 through the initiative of the Argentinean Embassy in that city, and it was introduced by the renowned poet Václav Havel, then President of the Czech Republic. A second version was later produced with tremendous success at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2003, also introduced by then President of the country, Néstor Kirchner. Now the program travels to the United States for the first time to be shown exclusively at Syracuse University.

The Golem exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery features original works especially commissioned for this exhibit, created by seven artists: from Argentina (Leandro Katz; Pedro Roth); Uruguay (Marta Chilindrón); Puerto Rico (Víctor Vázquez); Syracuse (Tom Sherman; Doug Dubois) and New York (Sarah Kipp). It combines photography, installation and video art.

Visual Journals: Recent Works by SUNY Oswego Faculty
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Art exhibition featuring recent work by SUNY Oswego faculty members Amy Bartell, Cynthia Clabough, Paul Pearce, Cara Brewer Thompson.

Mapping Linguistics, Revisited: Works by Kelly Roe
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Kelly Roe's mixed media work will be on display. A professor in the Graphic Design Program at SUNY Oswego, Roe has a background in graphic design, bookmaking and printmaking and sees herself as an anthropologist, artist, editor and scribe. The Mapping Linguistics exhibition explores relationships in linguistics, psychology and child development.

Dawn of a New Age: The Immigrant Contribution to the Arts in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"Dawn of a New Age" tells the story of five artists who immigrated to the United States during the first half of the 20th century: Adolph Bolm, a Russian dancer and choreographer who performed with the Mariinsky Ballet and Ballets Russes; William Lescaze, a Swiss architect who was one of the pioneers of modernism; Louis Lozowick, a Russian printmaker known for his Art Deco and Precision lithographs; Miklós Rózsa, a Hungarian composer of more than 100 film scores, including Ben Hur; and John Vassos, a Greek illustrator and industrial designer. The exhibition draws from the rich holdings of SCRC and showcases more than 50 of the artists' personal papers, manuscripts, photos and artifacts.

This exhibit is part of this year's Syracuse Symposium on the theme "Migration."

Viewpoints: A Collaborative Collection
Westcott Community Center

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

The Syracuse Photography Meetup Group proudly presents a collection of photographic images at their very first collaborative gallery exhibit. Creatively capturing images from the commonplace to the unexpected, photographers catch the light and special moments in time. This collection of images will serve to captivate your eye and draw you in closer to view a new world in each and every photo.

Members have long exhibited their works on the unique "underground" galleries of cyberspace, but now further realize their works, by bringing them to life in print for this collaborative effort. We hope you enjoy the variety of work, as well as appreciate the varied levels of expertise represented here, from the active beginner, serious amateur, aspiring professional, and working professionals. It is safe to say that each image is a labor of love, born out of an enthusiasm to create something new and wonderful.

The Color of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Watercolor paintings by Laura Wilk, glassworks of Carmel Nicoletti, and felted bags and ruffled scarves of Sherry Gordon.

23rd Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular; $4 seniors; $2 children
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The annual event features more than 40 gingerbread creations, including buildings, Victorian village storefronts, street scenes, and much more.

2008 Light Work Grant Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Works of Kathy Morris, Paul Pearce, and Nancy Keefe Rhodes, the recipients of the 34th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. Kathy Morris and Paul Pearce are imagemakers. Nancy Keefe Rhodes received the award for a photo-historian project on local documentary photographer Marjory Wilkins.

Tracing Memory: Photographs by Angie Buckley, Pedro Isztin, Cyrus Karimipour, and Paula Luttringer
Light Work Gallery

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

Guest curator Miriam Romais of En Foco curated this exhibition to explore what makes a thought become a memory. The artists included in this exhibition create photographs that look at the idea of remembrance -- of letting go and making sense of past events, and using those memories to understand who they are today.

Growing up with a mother from Thailand and a Caucasian American father, Angie Buckley did not know her family history for many years. She relied on the conflicting memories and stories of relatives to piece together her heritage. Her images are created with a pinhole camera and cutouts of old family photographs, resulting in work that lies somewhere in between the real world and imagination. Buckley received her BFA in Photography from Ohio University and her MFA in Photography from Arizona State University. She has received various awards, and her work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Southern Light Gallery in Texas, the McDuffy Arts Center in Virginia, and New York University.

Pedro Isztin's color portraits metaphorically integrate formative childhood memories, using them to heal the adult that the child has become. Part of a larger series that emulates a life journey, Destino III: Transformation revisits, in Isztin's words, "the pain, joy, and suffering that our psyches are stamped with, no matter how little or large those experiences as a child." Isztin was born to a Colombian mother and Hungarian father; his work explores his diverse heritage. He lives in Ottawa, Canada, and has exhibited internationally. He has received numerous awards and grants, including a Photography Project Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and an Ontario Arts Council Award.

Cyrus Karimipour revels in the flexibility of memories and uses his images to visually recreate them and depict how he remembers an event or encounter. In his series Invented Memory, he creates scenarios by heavily manipulating his negatives and rearranging their fragments to then be re-photographed. His imagery becomes ambiguous, as if looking in on someone else's dream. Karimipour received his BA from Oakland University in Michigan and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. His work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of New Art in Michigan, and the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio. His art has also appeared in Harper's Magazine and The Detroit News, among other publications.

Paula Luttringer faces her own traumatic past, infusing her imagery with what other women remember about being abducted and held captive during Argentina's Dirty War. Lamento de Los Muros (The Wailing of the Walls) consists of large black-and-white images that depict the interior of the detention centers where thousands of people were held, tortured, and "disappeared." The images capture both history and memory. Luttringer was awarded a fellowship by the Guggenheim Foundation in 2001. Her work appears in the collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; the Museum of Fine Arts in Texas; and George Eastman House in New York. She currently lives and works in Buenos Aires and Paris.

Exploring History With Art: Childhood Through The Years
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The latest exhibit in the Exploring History with Art series features paintings from the permanent collection. 19th-century portraits of children, focusing on children of prominent local families, convey historical circumstances as well as social ideals. 20th-century genre paintings show children in their element: in the bathtub, at recess, and on vacation. The exhibit also features historical objects that enliven the space and impart a sense of the experience of childhood from the cradle to school days and play time. Childhood Through The Years is not only an excellent opportunity to delve into the history of childhood but also the exhibition represents a moment, as fleeting as childhood itself, for parents and children to share their experiences through the interplay of art and history.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

Show and sale of original fine arts and crafts by Central New York artists and craftspeople. For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Warren Kimble's America
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Folk artist Warren Kimble is creator to some of the most successful 20th century Americana. His quaint depictions have graced stationery cards to decorative accessories for the home. Still, few individuals outside of Vermont know him as the artist behind the celebrated imagery that's as American as apple pie.

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is pleased to present a retrospective of the Syracuse alumnus' work including his most recent series Widows of War, which illustrates his personal reaction to the War in Iraq and its effect on women.

Kimble is best known for his patchwork-like paintings of the American flag, bucolic farm animals, and antique barns and homes. His varying flag designs are a symbol of patriotism, a theme which the artist uses often. Portraits of oversized farm animals, from heavy pigs to stocky cows, allude to an 18th-century practice of selecting prize winning livestock for their size. Kimble's stylized barns and farm houses also reveal a penchant for abstract design over architectural accuracy.

In 2005 Kimble began work on Widows of War. After purchasing a black, antique dressmaking mannequin, Kimble saw in it a visual metaphor for the loss and sorrow felt by American wives and mothers during the war. Contrary to the idyllic scenes and colorful animals, the black-and-white series remains a solemn representation of Kimble's sadness and frustration with the war's events and its toll on American lives. The paintings and sculpture, which are intermittently marked by splats of red and barbed wire, further reinforce the feminine connection through symbolic clothespins and textile patterns.

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

Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th Century Superstar
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Local artist and designer Jeffrey Mayer will present a post-modern installation of 20th century fashion design inspired by the 18th century fashion sense of Marie Antoinette. Although Marie Antoinette did not really create a style that was personally unique, what she did for fashion in the 1770s was to solidify, refine and intensify the rococo style created by her grandfather-in-law, Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who died in 1764, six years before the 14-year-old Princess even arrived from Austria. Through the exhibition and a publication to be released in the fall, Mayer will be reinterpreting and discussing Marie Antoinette's key concepts of Fantasy, Luxury, and Exoticism.

Marie Antoinette was originally displayed in 2007 in a small space in Syracuse University's Fashion Design Department where Mayer has been Associate Professor of Fashion History and Design since 1992. For the Everson's installation, Mayer has expanded the visual experience to include more than 40 garments displayed on vintage mannequins, an eclectic collection of contemporary fashion accessories, an interactive audio component, and many unique, custom-designed and hand-made objects.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

Warhol Presents highlights the early commercial career of Andy Warhol, whose whimsical drawings from the 1950s created fantasies that marketed fashion and glamour through evocation. Warhol's penchant for combining art and advertisement quickly made him one of the most well known illustrators of women's fashion in New York. His talen' was sought out by fashion publication giants, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar; and women's footwear designer and retailer, I. Miller Shoe Company.

The exhibition presents 18 of Warhol's rarely seen shoe illustrations including Fantasy Shoes (ca. 1956), a whimsical and humorous take on women's footwear design. Exhibited also are drawings of women's accessories and fashion figures, including Female Fashion Figure (1950s); a vibrant depiction of a chic model alongside an equally stylish car.

Warhol's unique well-wrought line also translated to commissions of large-scale window displays for New York stores, including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's. One example of the artist's window displays is featured in this exhibition in the illustrated reproduction, Miss Dior (1950s); and a 1997 3-dimensional re-creation of Warhol's 1957 Bonwit Teller Window Display, which includes glass perfume bottles and colorful reproduction of a window display screen. Warhol's early drawings and interest in art, identity, and consumerism informed his later pop-icon status, when product and identity literally became his art, and was used to fuel his experimental factory era films.

This exhibition is curated by Natalie Sanderson, Curator of Education at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. The original exhibition, Andy Warhol Presents, was first exhibited at the University Art Museum in 2007.

The Northside Mosaic
Our Northside Community Gallery

Price: Free
Our Northside Community Gallery
745 N. Salina St., Syracuse

The Northside Mosaic is a multidisciplinary exhibit, celebrating the myriad of people, cultures and histories that compose Our Northside neighborhood. The exhibit features pieces collected throughout 2007 and 2008 and produced predominantly by people living or working in our community. Through this project, we intend to showcase the brilliant individual lives and rich cultural diversity that exist within the Northside, heighten people's awareness of the struggles and injustices that are present within our neighborhoods, help citizens develop a deeper sense of pride for and ownership of their neighborhoods, bring aesthetic beauty to the area, and catalyze relationships and future collaborative projects among diverse groups of people.

Framing Identities: Collaborations with Students at Nottingham High School
The Warehouse Gallery

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

An exhibition of photography guided by student mentors in Professor Judith Meighan's "Literacy, Community, Art" course in the Syracuse University's School of Art and Design. The Nottingham High School students exhibiting work are enrolled in Randy Weatherby's "Black and White Photography" course.

Roiling Infill by Alex Schweder; Blind Spot by Kim Waale
The Warehouse Gallery

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

This solo exhibition by Seattle/Berlin-based artist Alex Schweder, Roiling Infill, consists of a video projection, Jealous Poché (2004), and an architectural installation titled Snowballing Doorway (2007). Both components of the exhibition accomplish in very different ways the artist's ongoing interest in the intersection between architecture, sculpture and performance art.

Jealous Poché is a seven-minute architectural fly-through of a space somewhere between body and building. The word poché was coined in France's École de Beaux Arts during a neoclassical moment to refer to the space between the surfaces of walls. Here, the camera path and viewer's position are actually inside the viscous poché looking into the voids on the other side of the wall's surface. The camera work in this video shows an attention by the artist to a liminal moment (the skin of the wall) between expanse and engulfment. Made in collaboration with gastroenterologist Jim Wagonfeld, a 25-gallon vat of strawberry Jell-O mixed with blocks of resin was filmed with an endoscope. Schweder's decision to use an imaging device normally employed to visualize the human body's own poché in turn represents the architectural space in the video as fleshy. This is in contrast to architecture's historical representation of and fantasies of perfect bodies.

Snowballing Doorway moves from the world of represented architectural fleshiness to architectural flesh itself. Two sac-like arches made from a combination of opaque and clear vinyl pass the same volume of poché (in this case air) back and forth until one of the two completely bulges to fill the aperture in which they are installed. This shifting skin is an example of what Schweder calls "a building that performs itself." Here he is interested in how the codes of architecture act like a score for how occupants are supposed to "perform" the building. In this case, the arch prompts an occupant to "pass through" it. Schweder's unstable arch, however, changes this instruction to its opposite when the poché passes into the upside-down arch on top. In this way, a viewer becomes aware of the way buildings structure the behavior in them.

Both works point to a permeability between buildings and the bodies that occupy them. The video, made using an edible treat, makes it unclear where insides and outsides of buildings and bodies start and stop. The inflatable instructions make explicit that buildings construct us in as much as we construct them.

Also on display, in the Window Projects Gallery, is Blind Spot, a site-specific installation using wax-encrusted wire forms designed to simultaneously emulate the roots and branches of trees and the retina and optic nerve of the human eye. These "references to nature as it exists outside and within the human body underscore the trouble we as humans have in seeing and thinking about ourselves as organisms that are part of the natural world" (Waale, artist statement).

Waale blurs the boundaries between sculpture and drawing as she moves from Vocalizations, a series of preliminary drawings for the project, to sculptural elements that will fill the space.

Syracuse Cultural Workers InsideOUT
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Syracuse Cultural Workers (SCW) presents a familiar face (or, rather, several familiar faces) to the progressive community in Syracuse. The calendars, posters, cards, and T-shirts they publish are well-known; and the banners, drums, and willing bodies are a ready resource for just about any event designed to educate/agitate.

With this exhibit, they celebrate their 25th anniversary with a behind-the-scenes look at some of the less obvious aspects of what it means to be an international "peace and justice publisher and distributor." Topics include: the poster process, from brainstorm to finished product; customer feedback when they don't get it right (and when they do); a poster/calendar/art collages featuring activist art spanning 30 years, and more. This exhibit promises to be a show filled with surprising, entertaining, and visually stimulating perspectives.

A Holiday Journey
Civic Morning Musicals

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

CMM presents its special Christmas Holiday Concert. In this program, put together by Jerry Exline, you will experience the holiday spirit by the sounds of the CMM Choral Ensemble, the wonderful Dolce Flute Quartet, Jeff Stockham on trumpet, and John Harnois on violin. Many traditional carols and songs will be heard, as well as the music of Holst, Billings, and an arrangement by Howard Boatwright.

A Keyboard Christmas
Featuring Sandy Murphy, piano

Price: Free
Bellevue Heights United Methodist Church
2112 S. Geddes St., Syracuse

Modern piano arrangements of traditional holiday favorites. Reception to follow.

Godspell
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj, director

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

This energetic musical based on the gospel of St. Matthew is a celebration of worldwide community, filled with popular hit songs and irresistible good will. From the UN to India to China to Darfur to Syracuse prepare ye the way of hope, brotherhood and sisterhood as the time for tolerance and inclusiveness draws nearer Day by Day. A groundbreaking musical in its time, this colorful update features world dance-inspired choreography and multimedia projections.

Conceived by John-Michael Tebelak; music and new lyrics by Stephen Schwartz; choreographed by Anthony Salatino.

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The Santaland Diaries
Syracuse Stage
James Edmondson, director

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

For those who like a little jeer with their Christmas cheer, humorist David Sedaris' The Santaland Diaries is a gem of a lump of coal. Meet Crumpet, a 33-year-old starving artist turned Macy's elf. It's the most wonderful time of the year, but you wouldn't know it from the bad Santas, naughty elves, cranky kids and pushy parents who test Crumpet's last elfin nerve as he struggles to remain sane and perky(!) amid the absurdity of the holiday season. With sardonic wit, and a sometimes razor-sharp, sometimes velvet-soft tongue, Sedaris takes us all playfully to task for plunging into the Christmas spirit but missing the point. For mature elves only.

Adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello.

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Godspell
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj, director

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

This energetic musical based on the gospel of St. Matthew is a celebration of worldwide community, filled with popular hit songs and irresistible good will. From the UN to India to China to Darfur to Syracuse prepare ye the way of hope, brotherhood and sisterhood as the time for tolerance and inclusiveness draws nearer Day by Day. A groundbreaking musical in its time, this colorful update features world dance-inspired choreography and multimedia projections.

Conceived by John-Michael Tebelak; music and new lyrics by Stephen Schwartz; choreographed by Anthony Salatino.

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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

They are testaments to the impact of terrorism: sculptures portraying mothers going back to the exact moment they learned their child died in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some are screaming; others are weeping. Some are curled into a ball; others have fists raised in anger. The 76 larger-than-life figures that comprise the Dark Elegy collection were created by Montauk, NY-based artist Suse Lowenstein, the mother of a Pan Am 103 student victim.

Four of these sculptures will be on display as part of the University's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy.

The Art of Pochade: Works of Eric W. Shute
LeMoyne College

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

A pochade is a small sketch in which the artist records, usually in color, the atmospheric effects and general impressions of a landscape. They are small, rapidly executed oil color sketches painted out of doors or plein air. These small paintings are often used as preliminary studies for larger works executed in the studio at a later time. The artist will be exhibiting 16 to 20 of these small works, many of them scenes from the Jonesport and Beals Island area in Down East Maine. The works are quickly conceived and rapidly executed to try and capture the light and conditions of the moment. Because these small paintings are usually considered a reference for larger works they are not often seen by the public.

The artist will be showing one larger work along side the pochade painting that was used as a reference. Patrons may compare the two paintings and see the evolution and thought process of the artist from the original concept in the small color sketch to completion in the much larger finished painting.

Eric Schute's work has appeared at Syracuse's Delavan Art Gallery, Gallery 210, the Everson Museum of Art and the Alden Gallery in Provincetown, MA. For more information, phone 315-445-4323.

The Golem: Visual Visitations
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A major collective exhibit of seven world class artists titled "The Golem: Visual Visitations," inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' poem "El Golem." This is the third edition of a program that began in Prague in 2002 through the initiative of the Argentinean Embassy in that city, and it was introduced by the renowned poet Václav Havel, then President of the Czech Republic. A second version was later produced with tremendous success at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2003, also introduced by then President of the country, Néstor Kirchner. Now the program travels to the United States for the first time to be shown exclusively at Syracuse University.

The Golem exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery features original works especially commissioned for this exhibit, created by seven artists: from Argentina (Leandro Katz; Pedro Roth); Uruguay (Marta Chilindrón); Puerto Rico (Víctor Vázquez); Syracuse (Tom Sherman; Doug Dubois) and New York (Sarah Kipp). It combines photography, installation and video art.

Mapping Linguistics, Revisited: Works by Kelly Roe
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Kelly Roe's mixed media work will be on display. A professor in the Graphic Design Program at SUNY Oswego, Roe has a background in graphic design, bookmaking and printmaking and sees herself as an anthropologist, artist, editor and scribe. The Mapping Linguistics exhibition explores relationships in linguistics, psychology and child development.

Visual Journals: Recent Works by SUNY Oswego Faculty
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Art exhibition featuring recent work by SUNY Oswego faculty members Amy Bartell, Cynthia Clabough, Paul Pearce, Cara Brewer Thompson.

Dawn of a New Age: The Immigrant Contribution to the Arts in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"Dawn of a New Age" tells the story of five artists who immigrated to the United States during the first half of the 20th century: Adolph Bolm, a Russian dancer and choreographer who performed with the Mariinsky Ballet and Ballets Russes; William Lescaze, a Swiss architect who was one of the pioneers of modernism; Louis Lozowick, a Russian printmaker known for his Art Deco and Precision lithographs; Miklós Rózsa, a Hungarian composer of more than 100 film scores, including Ben Hur; and John Vassos, a Greek illustrator and industrial designer. The exhibition draws from the rich holdings of SCRC and showcases more than 50 of the artists' personal papers, manuscripts, photos and artifacts.

This exhibit is part of this year's Syracuse Symposium on the theme "Migration."

Viewpoints: A Collaborative Collection
Westcott Community Center

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

The Syracuse Photography Meetup Group proudly presents a collection of photographic images at their very first collaborative gallery exhibit. Creatively capturing images from the commonplace to the unexpected, photographers catch the light and special moments in time. This collection of images will serve to captivate your eye and draw you in closer to view a new world in each and every photo.

Members have long exhibited their works on the unique "underground" galleries of cyberspace, but now further realize their works, by bringing them to life in print for this collaborative effort. We hope you enjoy the variety of work, as well as appreciate the varied levels of expertise represented here, from the active beginner, serious amateur, aspiring professional, and working professionals. It is safe to say that each image is a labor of love, born out of an enthusiasm to create something new and wonderful.

The Color of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Watercolor paintings by Laura Wilk, glassworks of Carmel Nicoletti, and felted bags and ruffled scarves of Sherry Gordon.

23rd Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular; $4 seniors; $2 children
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The annual event features more than 40 gingerbread creations, including buildings, Victorian village storefronts, street scenes, and much more.

Tracing Memory: Photographs by Angie Buckley, Pedro Isztin, Cyrus Karimipour, and Paula Luttringer
Light Work Gallery

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

Guest curator Miriam Romais of En Foco curated this exhibition to explore what makes a thought become a memory. The artists included in this exhibition create photographs that look at the idea of remembrance -- of letting go and making sense of past events, and using those memories to understand who they are today.

Growing up with a mother from Thailand and a Caucasian American father, Angie Buckley did not know her family history for many years. She relied on the conflicting memories and stories of relatives to piece together her heritage. Her images are created with a pinhole camera and cutouts of old family photographs, resulting in work that lies somewhere in between the real world and imagination. Buckley received her BFA in Photography from Ohio University and her MFA in Photography from Arizona State University. She has received various awards, and her work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Southern Light Gallery in Texas, the McDuffy Arts Center in Virginia, and New York University.

Pedro Isztin's color portraits metaphorically integrate formative childhood memories, using them to heal the adult that the child has become. Part of a larger series that emulates a life journey, Destino III: Transformation revisits, in Isztin's words, "the pain, joy, and suffering that our psyches are stamped with, no matter how little or large those experiences as a child." Isztin was born to a Colombian mother and Hungarian father; his work explores his diverse heritage. He lives in Ottawa, Canada, and has exhibited internationally. He has received numerous awards and grants, including a Photography Project Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and an Ontario Arts Council Award.

Cyrus Karimipour revels in the flexibility of memories and uses his images to visually recreate them and depict how he remembers an event or encounter. In his series Invented Memory, he creates scenarios by heavily manipulating his negatives and rearranging their fragments to then be re-photographed. His imagery becomes ambiguous, as if looking in on someone else's dream. Karimipour received his BA from Oakland University in Michigan and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. His work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of New Art in Michigan, and the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio. His art has also appeared in Harper's Magazine and The Detroit News, among other publications.

Paula Luttringer faces her own traumatic past, infusing her imagery with what other women remember about being abducted and held captive during Argentina's Dirty War. Lamento de Los Muros (The Wailing of the Walls) consists of large black-and-white images that depict the interior of the detention centers where thousands of people were held, tortured, and "disappeared." The images capture both history and memory. Luttringer was awarded a fellowship by the Guggenheim Foundation in 2001. Her work appears in the collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; the Museum of Fine Arts in Texas; and George Eastman House in New York. She currently lives and works in Buenos Aires and Paris.

2008 Light Work Grant Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Works of Kathy Morris, Paul Pearce, and Nancy Keefe Rhodes, the recipients of the 34th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. Kathy Morris and Paul Pearce are imagemakers. Nancy Keefe Rhodes received the award for a photo-historian project on local documentary photographer Marjory Wilkins.

Exploring History With Art: Childhood Through The Years
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The latest exhibit in the Exploring History with Art series features paintings from the permanent collection. 19th-century portraits of children, focusing on children of prominent local families, convey historical circumstances as well as social ideals. 20th-century genre paintings show children in their element: in the bathtub, at recess, and on vacation. The exhibit also features historical objects that enliven the space and impart a sense of the experience of childhood from the cradle to school days and play time. Childhood Through The Years is not only an excellent opportunity to delve into the history of childhood but also the exhibition represents a moment, as fleeting as childhood itself, for parents and children to share their experiences through the interplay of art and history.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

Show and sale of original fine arts and crafts by Central New York artists and craftspeople. For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Warren Kimble's America
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Folk artist Warren Kimble is creator to some of the most successful 20th century Americana. His quaint depictions have graced stationery cards to decorative accessories for the home. Still, few individuals outside of Vermont know him as the artist behind the celebrated imagery that's as American as apple pie.

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is pleased to present a retrospective of the Syracuse alumnus' work including his most recent series Widows of War, which illustrates his personal reaction to the War in Iraq and its effect on women.

Kimble is best known for his patchwork-like paintings of the American flag, bucolic farm animals, and antique barns and homes. His varying flag designs are a symbol of patriotism, a theme which the artist uses often. Portraits of oversized farm animals, from heavy pigs to stocky cows, allude to an 18th-century practice of selecting prize winning livestock for their size. Kimble's stylized barns and farm houses also reveal a penchant for abstract design over architectural accuracy.

In 2005 Kimble began work on Widows of War. After purchasing a black, antique dressmaking mannequin, Kimble saw in it a visual metaphor for the loss and sorrow felt by American wives and mothers during the war. Contrary to the idyllic scenes and colorful animals, the black-and-white series remains a solemn representation of Kimble's sadness and frustration with the war's events and its toll on American lives. The paintings and sculpture, which are intermittently marked by splats of red and barbed wire, further reinforce the feminine connection through symbolic clothespins and textile patterns.

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

Art for the Holidays
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring mixed media illustrations by Katya Krenina, monotypes and mixed media works by Thea Reidy as well as ceramics by the Clayscapes Pottery (Donald Seymour, Shawn McGuire, Jolee M. Romano, Tim See and Sallie Thompson).

Special Exhibit: Shadows
Delavan Art Gallery

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

When viewing lighted objects, it's easy to overlook the shadows they create. The Delavan Art Gallery has expanded on this concept to produce a one-of-its-kind exhibit devoted entirely to shadows and featuring works by a host of noted Central New York artists.

The Shadows Exhibit was conceived with two ideas in mind: how shadows are made (by an object, a light source and a background), and Bill Delavan's special professional interest in lighting the Gallery's exhibitions, sometimes playfully turning shadows into their own art form.

Featured artists in this exhibit include Arlene Abend, Reginald Adams, Anahid Ajemian, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Hillary Gifford, Barre Hunt, Lauren Ritchie, Jeffrey Schuessler, Andy Schuster and Matthew Vural.

Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th Century Superstar
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Local artist and designer Jeffrey Mayer will present a post-modern installation of 20th century fashion design inspired by the 18th century fashion sense of Marie Antoinette. Although Marie Antoinette did not really create a style that was personally unique, what she did for fashion in the 1770s was to solidify, refine and intensify the rococo style created by her grandfather-in-law, Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who died in 1764, six years before the 14-year-old Princess even arrived from Austria. Through the exhibition and a publication to be released in the fall, Mayer will be reinterpreting and discussing Marie Antoinette's key concepts of Fantasy, Luxury, and Exoticism.

Marie Antoinette was originally displayed in 2007 in a small space in Syracuse University's Fashion Design Department where Mayer has been Associate Professor of Fashion History and Design since 1992. For the Everson's installation, Mayer has expanded the visual experience to include more than 40 garments displayed on vintage mannequins, an eclectic collection of contemporary fashion accessories, an interactive audio component, and many unique, custom-designed and hand-made objects.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

Warhol Presents highlights the early commercial career of Andy Warhol, whose whimsical drawings from the 1950s created fantasies that marketed fashion and glamour through evocation. Warhol's penchant for combining art and advertisement quickly made him one of the most well known illustrators of women's fashion in New York. His talen' was sought out by fashion publication giants, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar; and women's footwear designer and retailer, I. Miller Shoe Company.

The exhibition presents 18 of Warhol's rarely seen shoe illustrations including Fantasy Shoes (ca. 1956), a whimsical and humorous take on women's footwear design. Exhibited also are drawings of women's accessories and fashion figures, including Female Fashion Figure (1950s); a vibrant depiction of a chic model alongside an equally stylish car.

Warhol's unique well-wrought line also translated to commissions of large-scale window displays for New York stores, including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's. One example of the artist's window displays is featured in this exhibition in the illustrated reproduction, Miss Dior (1950s); and a 1997 3-dimensional re-creation of Warhol's 1957 Bonwit Teller Window Display, which includes glass perfume bottles and colorful reproduction of a window display screen. Warhol's early drawings and interest in art, identity, and consumerism informed his later pop-icon status, when product and identity literally became his art, and was used to fuel his experimental factory era films.

This exhibition is curated by Natalie Sanderson, Curator of Education at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. The original exhibition, Andy Warhol Presents, was first exhibited at the University Art Museum in 2007.

The Northside Mosaic
Our Northside Community Gallery

Price: Free
Our Northside Community Gallery
745 N. Salina St., Syracuse

The Northside Mosaic is a multidisciplinary exhibit, celebrating the myriad of people, cultures and histories that compose Our Northside neighborhood. The exhibit features pieces collected throughout 2007 and 2008 and produced predominantly by people living or working in our community. Through this project, we intend to showcase the brilliant individual lives and rich cultural diversity that exist within the Northside, heighten people's awareness of the struggles and injustices that are present within our neighborhoods, help citizens develop a deeper sense of pride for and ownership of their neighborhoods, bring aesthetic beauty to the area, and catalyze relationships and future collaborative projects among diverse groups of people.

Framing Identities: Collaborations with Students at Nottingham High School
The Warehouse Gallery

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

An exhibition of photography guided by student mentors in Professor Judith Meighan's "Literacy, Community, Art" course in the Syracuse University's School of Art and Design. The Nottingham High School students exhibiting work are enrolled in Randy Weatherby's "Black and White Photography" course.

Roiling Infill by Alex Schweder; Blind Spot by Kim Waale
The Warehouse Gallery

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

This solo exhibition by Seattle/Berlin-based artist Alex Schweder, Roiling Infill, consists of a video projection, Jealous Poché (2004), and an architectural installation titled Snowballing Doorway (2007). Both components of the exhibition accomplish in very different ways the artist's ongoing interest in the intersection between architecture, sculpture and performance art.

Jealous Poché is a seven-minute architectural fly-through of a space somewhere between body and building. The word poché was coined in France's École de Beaux Arts during a neoclassical moment to refer to the space between the surfaces of walls. Here, the camera path and viewer's position are actually inside the viscous poché looking into the voids on the other side of the wall's surface. The camera work in this video shows an attention by the artist to a liminal moment (the skin of the wall) between expanse and engulfment. Made in collaboration with gastroenterologist Jim Wagonfeld, a 25-gallon vat of strawberry Jell-O mixed with blocks of resin was filmed with an endoscope. Schweder's decision to use an imaging device normally employed to visualize the human body's own poché in turn represents the architectural space in the video as fleshy. This is in contrast to architecture's historical representation of and fantasies of perfect bodies.

Snowballing Doorway moves from the world of represented architectural fleshiness to architectural flesh itself. Two sac-like arches made from a combination of opaque and clear vinyl pass the same volume of poché (in this case air) back and forth until one of the two completely bulges to fill the aperture in which they are installed. This shifting skin is an example of what Schweder calls "a building that performs itself." Here he is interested in how the codes of architecture act like a score for how occupants are supposed to "perform" the building. In this case, the arch prompts an occupant to "pass through" it. Schweder's unstable arch, however, changes this instruction to its opposite when the poché passes into the upside-down arch on top. In this way, a viewer becomes aware of the way buildings structure the behavior in them.

Both works point to a permeability between buildings and the bodies that occupy them. The video, made using an edible treat, makes it unclear where insides and outsides of buildings and bodies start and stop. The inflatable instructions make explicit that buildings construct us in as much as we construct them.

Also on display, in the Window Projects Gallery, is Blind Spot, a site-specific installation using wax-encrusted wire forms designed to simultaneously emulate the roots and branches of trees and the retina and optic nerve of the human eye. These "references to nature as it exists outside and within the human body underscore the trouble we as humans have in seeing and thinking about ourselves as organisms that are part of the natural world" (Waale, artist statement).

Waale blurs the boundaries between sculpture and drawing as she moves from Vocalizations, a series of preliminary drawings for the project, to sculptural elements that will fill the space.

Syracuse Cultural Workers InsideOUT
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Syracuse Cultural Workers (SCW) presents a familiar face (or, rather, several familiar faces) to the progressive community in Syracuse. The calendars, posters, cards, and T-shirts they publish are well-known; and the banners, drums, and willing bodies are a ready resource for just about any event designed to educate/agitate.

With this exhibit, they celebrate their 25th anniversary with a behind-the-scenes look at some of the less obvious aspects of what it means to be an international "peace and justice publisher and distributor." Topics include: the poster process, from brainstorm to finished product; customer feedback when they don't get it right (and when they do); a poster/calendar/art collages featuring activist art spanning 30 years, and more. This exhibit promises to be a show filled with surprising, entertaining, and visually stimulating perspectives.

There will be a guided tour of the exhibit between 5:00-6:00 pm with Karen Kerney, Syracuse Cultural Workers co-founder and Dik Cool, SCW co-founder and publisher.

Works of Paul Molesky
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

Exhibition of ceramics, featuring the rustic wood-fired work of Paul Molesky. In addition, there are ceramics by Marv Bjurlin, Ron Nasca, Clayscapes Staff, Shenfeld Studio Tiles, and other select works. Reception.

Holiday Works for Th3
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Children's Exhibit
Museum of Young Art

Price: Free
Museum of Young Art
110 W. Fayette St., One Lincoln Center, Syracuse

An exhibit is the artwork of students from Chestnut Hill Elementary School in Liverpool. Visitors also can enjoy hands-on activities, including drawing with chalk on a soapstone table.

Th3 Open House
Open Hand Theater

Price: Free
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Come browse Open Hand's magical gift shop. Maria Jackson, Stampin' Up! independent demonstrator will provide free gift wrapping, complete with tag and bow. Sip some tea or cocoa or sample gourmet foods provided by Sheila Dion, consultant for Tastefully Simple. Wander around the World Room Gallery featuring "The Art of Giants" puppets.

The OL Holiday Show
Orange Line Gallery

Price: Free
Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

New to Orange Line Gallery for this show include Jacqueline Adamo, oil painting; J. Francis Maloni, oil painting; Amber Blanding, glass sculpture; and Jennifer Cutter, jewelry. Also on display are the works of recent artists Brandon Hall- mixed media / collage, Chris Luchsinger- acrylic & spraypaint on canvas, David McKenney, photography; Debra Parry Trichilo, photography; Jim Reed, acrylic on canvas; Dustin Angell, photography; Father Andrew Szebenyi, digital paintings; Jace Collins, oil, acrylic and paper on Plexiglas; Melissa Tiffany, collage; Mick Mather, digital manipulations; and Spencer Baker, photography.

As part of Th3, the artists participating in the show will be in attendance for a special event which has been planned to highlight their work further. This show, "The Art of Colour", as the name implies, is about the art of color. The entire gallery and the artwork will be illuminated with special theatrical lighting fixtures that will create an amazing atmosphere of ever-changing deep saturated colors of illumination all around, giving guests a view of the artwork in a different light. This is a special one-evening show. Refreshments will be served and jazzy house music will be provided by DJ Sik60Six.

Opening: Works of Pavel Vulkov
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Behind the quiet contemplative character of the rare aquatints of Pavel Vulkov (1908-1956), one feels the presence of an artist who was very well aware of social problems. The artist wished to paint the world as he saw it at any given moment; it was his belief as a man and as an artist, that beauty lay in our ordinary day-to-day experience.

This exhibit is calming, visually engaging, and a rewarding intellectual experience for those viewers who seek to look further.

The Black Candle
Community Folk Art Center

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

The landmark film documentary, The Black Candle, by award-winning director M.K. Asante Jr. and featuring narration by Maya Angelou is a triumphant film tracing the history of Kwanza.

A Bells & Motley Celtic Christmas
Bells & Motley Consort

Price: Free
Salina Free Library
100 Belmont St., Mattydale

Celebrate the season with the music of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, resplendent on Celtic harp, hurdy gurdy, button accordeon, hammer dulcimer, bodhran, and more. Festivities will include a Merry Bagpipe Regale, in a program that is sure to delight the entire family. For more information, phone 315-454-4524.

Nick Saint, Private Elf
Acme Mystery Company

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

The Island of Misfit Toys is the dark, seamy underbelly of Santa's Toyland Town, and Nick Saint will need some help when he heads there on an investigation.

Godspell
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj, director

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

This energetic musical based on the gospel of St. Matthew is a celebration of worldwide community, filled with popular hit songs and irresistible good will. From the UN to India to China to Darfur to Syracuse prepare ye the way of hope, brotherhood and sisterhood as the time for tolerance and inclusiveness draws nearer Day by Day. A groundbreaking musical in its time, this colorful update features world dance-inspired choreography and multimedia projections.

Conceived by John-Michael Tebelak; music and new lyrics by Stephen Schwartz; choreographed by Anthony Salatino.

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The Santaland Diaries
Syracuse Stage
James Edmondson, director

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

For those who like a little jeer with their Christmas cheer, humorist David Sedaris' The Santaland Diaries is a gem of a lump of coal. Meet Crumpet, a 33-year-old starving artist turned Macy's elf. It's the most wonderful time of the year, but you wouldn't know it from the bad Santas, naughty elves, cranky kids and pushy parents who test Crumpet's last elfin nerve as he struggles to remain sane and perky(!) amid the absurdity of the holiday season. With sardonic wit, and a sometimes razor-sharp, sometimes velvet-soft tongue, Sedaris takes us all playfully to task for plunging into the Christmas spirit but missing the point. For mature elves only.

Adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello.

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Bathhouse: The Musical
Rarely Done Productions

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

Four men, four doors, four bath towels--and lots of bawdy music! Need we say more?
This show is a musical comedy for mature audiences, with adult themes, language, and scantily clad men!

cast includes Alex Allport, David Cotter, Peter Irwin, Jimmy Wachter

Friday, December 19, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

They are testaments to the impact of terrorism: sculptures portraying mothers going back to the exact moment they learned their child died in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some are screaming; others are weeping. Some are curled into a ball; others have fists raised in anger. The 76 larger-than-life figures that comprise the Dark Elegy collection were created by Montauk, NY-based artist Suse Lowenstein, the mother of a Pan Am 103 student victim.

Four of these sculptures will be on display as part of the University's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy.

The Art of Pochade: Works of Eric W. Shute
LeMoyne College

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

A pochade is a small sketch in which the artist records, usually in color, the atmospheric effects and general impressions of a landscape. They are small, rapidly executed oil color sketches painted out of doors or plein air. These small paintings are often used as preliminary studies for larger works executed in the studio at a later time. The artist will be exhibiting 16 to 20 of these small works, many of them scenes from the Jonesport and Beals Island area in Down East Maine. The works are quickly conceived and rapidly executed to try and capture the light and conditions of the moment. Because these small paintings are usually considered a reference for larger works they are not often seen by the public.

The artist will be showing one larger work along side the pochade painting that was used as a reference. Patrons may compare the two paintings and see the evolution and thought process of the artist from the original concept in the small color sketch to completion in the much larger finished painting.

Eric Schute's work has appeared at Syracuse's Delavan Art Gallery, Gallery 210, the Everson Museum of Art and the Alden Gallery in Provincetown, MA. For more information, phone 315-445-4323.

The Golem: Visual Visitations
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A major collective exhibit of seven world class artists titled "The Golem: Visual Visitations," inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' poem "El Golem." This is the third edition of a program that began in Prague in 2002 through the initiative of the Argentinean Embassy in that city, and it was introduced by the renowned poet Václav Havel, then President of the Czech Republic. A second version was later produced with tremendous success at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2003, also introduced by then President of the country, Néstor Kirchner. Now the program travels to the United States for the first time to be shown exclusively at Syracuse University.

The Golem exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery features original works especially commissioned for this exhibit, created by seven artists: from Argentina (Leandro Katz; Pedro Roth); Uruguay (Marta Chilindrón); Puerto Rico (Víctor Vázquez); Syracuse (Tom Sherman; Doug Dubois) and New York (Sarah Kipp). It combines photography, installation and video art.

Visual Journals: Recent Works by SUNY Oswego Faculty
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Art exhibition featuring recent work by SUNY Oswego faculty members Amy Bartell, Cynthia Clabough, Paul Pearce, Cara Brewer Thompson.

Mapping Linguistics, Revisited: Works by Kelly Roe
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Kelly Roe's mixed media work will be on display. A professor in the Graphic Design Program at SUNY Oswego, Roe has a background in graphic design, bookmaking and printmaking and sees herself as an anthropologist, artist, editor and scribe. The Mapping Linguistics exhibition explores relationships in linguistics, psychology and child development.

Dawn of a New Age: The Immigrant Contribution to the Arts in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"Dawn of a New Age" tells the story of five artists who immigrated to the United States during the first half of the 20th century: Adolph Bolm, a Russian dancer and choreographer who performed with the Mariinsky Ballet and Ballets Russes; William Lescaze, a Swiss architect who was one of the pioneers of modernism; Louis Lozowick, a Russian printmaker known for his Art Deco and Precision lithographs; Miklós Rózsa, a Hungarian composer of more than 100 film scores, including Ben Hur; and John Vassos, a Greek illustrator and industrial designer. The exhibition draws from the rich holdings of SCRC and showcases more than 50 of the artists' personal papers, manuscripts, photos and artifacts.

This exhibit is part of this year's Syracuse Symposium on the theme "Migration."

Viewpoints: A Collaborative Collection
Westcott Community Center

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

The Syracuse Photography Meetup Group proudly presents a collection of photographic images at their very first collaborative gallery exhibit. Creatively capturing images from the commonplace to the unexpected, photographers catch the light and special moments in time. This collection of images will serve to captivate your eye and draw you in closer to view a new world in each and every photo.

Members have long exhibited their works on the unique "underground" galleries of cyberspace, but now further realize their works, by bringing them to life in print for this collaborative effort. We hope you enjoy the variety of work, as well as appreciate the varied levels of expertise represented here, from the active beginner, serious amateur, aspiring professional, and working professionals. It is safe to say that each image is a labor of love, born out of an enthusiasm to create something new and wonderful.

The Color of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Watercolor paintings by Laura Wilk, glassworks of Carmel Nicoletti, and felted bags and ruffled scarves of Sherry Gordon.

23rd Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular; $4 seniors; $2 children
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The annual event features more than 40 gingerbread creations, including buildings, Victorian village storefronts, street scenes, and much more.

2008 Light Work Grant Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Works of Kathy Morris, Paul Pearce, and Nancy Keefe Rhodes, the recipients of the 34th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. Kathy Morris and Paul Pearce are imagemakers. Nancy Keefe Rhodes received the award for a photo-historian project on local documentary photographer Marjory Wilkins.

Tracing Memory: Photographs by Angie Buckley, Pedro Isztin, Cyrus Karimipour, and Paula Luttringer
Light Work Gallery

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

Guest curator Miriam Romais of En Foco curated this exhibition to explore what makes a thought become a memory. The artists included in this exhibition create photographs that look at the idea of remembrance -- of letting go and making sense of past events, and using those memories to understand who they are today.

Growing up with a mother from Thailand and a Caucasian American father, Angie Buckley did not know her family history for many years. She relied on the conflicting memories and stories of relatives to piece together her heritage. Her images are created with a pinhole camera and cutouts of old family photographs, resulting in work that lies somewhere in between the real world and imagination. Buckley received her BFA in Photography from Ohio University and her MFA in Photography from Arizona State University. She has received various awards, and her work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Southern Light Gallery in Texas, the McDuffy Arts Center in Virginia, and New York University.

Pedro Isztin's color portraits metaphorically integrate formative childhood memories, using them to heal the adult that the child has become. Part of a larger series that emulates a life journey, Destino III: Transformation revisits, in Isztin's words, "the pain, joy, and suffering that our psyches are stamped with, no matter how little or large those experiences as a child." Isztin was born to a Colombian mother and Hungarian father; his work explores his diverse heritage. He lives in Ottawa, Canada, and has exhibited internationally. He has received numerous awards and grants, including a Photography Project Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and an Ontario Arts Council Award.

Cyrus Karimipour revels in the flexibility of memories and uses his images to visually recreate them and depict how he remembers an event or encounter. In his series Invented Memory, he creates scenarios by heavily manipulating his negatives and rearranging their fragments to then be re-photographed. His imagery becomes ambiguous, as if looking in on someone else's dream. Karimipour received his BA from Oakland University in Michigan and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. His work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of New Art in Michigan, and the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio. His art has also appeared in Harper's Magazine and The Detroit News, among other publications.

Paula Luttringer faces her own traumatic past, infusing her imagery with what other women remember about being abducted and held captive during Argentina's Dirty War. Lamento de Los Muros (The Wailing of the Walls) consists of large black-and-white images that depict the interior of the detention centers where thousands of people were held, tortured, and "disappeared." The images capture both history and memory. Luttringer was awarded a fellowship by the Guggenheim Foundation in 2001. Her work appears in the collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; the Museum of Fine Arts in Texas; and George Eastman House in New York. She currently lives and works in Buenos Aires and Paris.

Exploring History With Art: Childhood Through The Years
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The latest exhibit in the Exploring History with Art series features paintings from the permanent collection. 19th-century portraits of children, focusing on children of prominent local families, convey historical circumstances as well as social ideals. 20th-century genre paintings show children in their element: in the bathtub, at recess, and on vacation. The exhibit also features historical objects that enliven the space and impart a sense of the experience of childhood from the cradle to school days and play time. Childhood Through The Years is not only an excellent opportunity to delve into the history of childhood but also the exhibition represents a moment, as fleeting as childhood itself, for parents and children to share their experiences through the interplay of art and history.

Works of Pavel Vulkov
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Behind the quiet contemplative character of the rare aquatints of Pavel Vulkov (1908-1956), one feels the presence of an artist who was very well aware of social problems. The artist wished to paint the world as he saw it at any given moment; it was his belief as a man and as an artist, that beauty lay in our ordinary day-to-day experience.

This exhibit is calming, visually engaging, and a rewarding intellectual experience for those viewers who seek to look further.

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

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

Show and sale of original fine arts and crafts by Central New York artists and craftspeople. For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Warren Kimble's America
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Folk artist Warren Kimble is creator to some of the most successful 20th century Americana. His quaint depictions have graced stationery cards to decorative accessories for the home. Still, few individuals outside of Vermont know him as the artist behind the celebrated imagery that's as American as apple pie.

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is pleased to present a retrospective of the Syracuse alumnus' work including his most recent series Widows of War, which illustrates his personal reaction to the War in Iraq and its effect on women.

Kimble is best known for his patchwork-like paintings of the American flag, bucolic farm animals, and antique barns and homes. His varying flag designs are a symbol of patriotism, a theme which the artist uses often. Portraits of oversized farm animals, from heavy pigs to stocky cows, allude to an 18th-century practice of selecting prize winning livestock for their size. Kimble's stylized barns and farm houses also reveal a penchant for abstract design over architectural accuracy.

In 2005 Kimble began work on Widows of War. After purchasing a black, antique dressmaking mannequin, Kimble saw in it a visual metaphor for the loss and sorrow felt by American wives and mothers during the war. Contrary to the idyllic scenes and colorful animals, the black-and-white series remains a solemn representation of Kimble's sadness and frustration with the war's events and its toll on American lives. The paintings and sculpture, which are intermittently marked by splats of red and barbed wire, further reinforce the feminine connection through symbolic clothespins and textile patterns.

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

Special Exhibit: Shadows
Delavan Art Gallery

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

When viewing lighted objects, it's easy to overlook the shadows they create. The Delavan Art Gallery has expanded on this concept to produce a one-of-its-kind exhibit devoted entirely to shadows and featuring works by a host of noted Central New York artists.

The Shadows Exhibit was conceived with two ideas in mind: how shadows are made (by an object, a light source and a background), and Bill Delavan's special professional interest in lighting the Gallery's exhibitions, sometimes playfully turning shadows into their own art form.

Featured artists in this exhibit include Arlene Abend, Reginald Adams, Anahid Ajemian, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Hillary Gifford, Barre Hunt, Lauren Ritchie, Jeffrey Schuessler, Andy Schuster and Matthew Vural.

Art for the Holidays
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring mixed media illustrations by Katya Krenina, monotypes and mixed media works by Thea Reidy as well as ceramics by the Clayscapes Pottery (Donald Seymour, Shawn McGuire, Jolee M. Romano, Tim See and Sallie Thompson).

Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th Century Superstar
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Local artist and designer Jeffrey Mayer will present a post-modern installation of 20th century fashion design inspired by the 18th century fashion sense of Marie Antoinette. Although Marie Antoinette did not really create a style that was personally unique, what she did for fashion in the 1770s was to solidify, refine and intensify the rococo style created by her grandfather-in-law, Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who died in 1764, six years before the 14-year-old Princess even arrived from Austria. Through the exhibition and a publication to be released in the fall, Mayer will be reinterpreting and discussing Marie Antoinette's key concepts of Fantasy, Luxury, and Exoticism.

Marie Antoinette was originally displayed in 2007 in a small space in Syracuse University's Fashion Design Department where Mayer has been Associate Professor of Fashion History and Design since 1992. For the Everson's installation, Mayer has expanded the visual experience to include more than 40 garments displayed on vintage mannequins, an eclectic collection of contemporary fashion accessories, an interactive audio component, and many unique, custom-designed and hand-made objects.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

Warhol Presents highlights the early commercial career of Andy Warhol, whose whimsical drawings from the 1950s created fantasies that marketed fashion and glamour through evocation. Warhol's penchant for combining art and advertisement quickly made him one of the most well known illustrators of women's fashion in New York. His talen' was sought out by fashion publication giants, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar; and women's footwear designer and retailer, I. Miller Shoe Company.

The exhibition presents 18 of Warhol's rarely seen shoe illustrations including Fantasy Shoes (ca. 1956), a whimsical and humorous take on women's footwear design. Exhibited also are drawings of women's accessories and fashion figures, including Female Fashion Figure (1950s); a vibrant depiction of a chic model alongside an equally stylish car.

Warhol's unique well-wrought line also translated to commissions of large-scale window displays for New York stores, including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's. One example of the artist's window displays is featured in this exhibition in the illustrated reproduction, Miss Dior (1950s); and a 1997 3-dimensional re-creation of Warhol's 1957 Bonwit Teller Window Display, which includes glass perfume bottles and colorful reproduction of a window display screen. Warhol's early drawings and interest in art, identity, and consumerism informed his later pop-icon status, when product and identity literally became his art, and was used to fuel his experimental factory era films.

This exhibition is curated by Natalie Sanderson, Curator of Education at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. The original exhibition, Andy Warhol Presents, was first exhibited at the University Art Museum in 2007.

The Northside Mosaic
Our Northside Community Gallery

Price: Free
Our Northside Community Gallery
745 N. Salina St., Syracuse

The Northside Mosaic is a multidisciplinary exhibit, celebrating the myriad of people, cultures and histories that compose Our Northside neighborhood. The exhibit features pieces collected throughout 2007 and 2008 and produced predominantly by people living or working in our community. Through this project, we intend to showcase the brilliant individual lives and rich cultural diversity that exist within the Northside, heighten people's awareness of the struggles and injustices that are present within our neighborhoods, help citizens develop a deeper sense of pride for and ownership of their neighborhoods, bring aesthetic beauty to the area, and catalyze relationships and future collaborative projects among diverse groups of people.

Framing Identities: Collaborations with Students at Nottingham High School
The Warehouse Gallery

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

An exhibition of photography guided by student mentors in Professor Judith Meighan's "Literacy, Community, Art" course in the Syracuse University's School of Art and Design. The Nottingham High School students exhibiting work are enrolled in Randy Weatherby's "Black and White Photography" course.

Roiling Infill by Alex Schweder; Blind Spot by Kim Waale
The Warehouse Gallery

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

This solo exhibition by Seattle/Berlin-based artist Alex Schweder, Roiling Infill, consists of a video projection, Jealous Poché (2004), and an architectural installation titled Snowballing Doorway (2007). Both components of the exhibition accomplish in very different ways the artist's ongoing interest in the intersection between architecture, sculpture and performance art.

Jealous Poché is a seven-minute architectural fly-through of a space somewhere between body and building. The word poché was coined in France's École de Beaux Arts during a neoclassical moment to refer to the space between the surfaces of walls. Here, the camera path and viewer's position are actually inside the viscous poché looking into the voids on the other side of the wall's surface. The camera work in this video shows an attention by the artist to a liminal moment (the skin of the wall) between expanse and engulfment. Made in collaboration with gastroenterologist Jim Wagonfeld, a 25-gallon vat of strawberry Jell-O mixed with blocks of resin was filmed with an endoscope. Schweder's decision to use an imaging device normally employed to visualize the human body's own poché in turn represents the architectural space in the video as fleshy. This is in contrast to architecture's historical representation of and fantasies of perfect bodies.

Snowballing Doorway moves from the world of represented architectural fleshiness to architectural flesh itself. Two sac-like arches made from a combination of opaque and clear vinyl pass the same volume of poché (in this case air) back and forth until one of the two completely bulges to fill the aperture in which they are installed. This shifting skin is an example of what Schweder calls "a building that performs itself." Here he is interested in how the codes of architecture act like a score for how occupants are supposed to "perform" the building. In this case, the arch prompts an occupant to "pass through" it. Schweder's unstable arch, however, changes this instruction to its opposite when the poché passes into the upside-down arch on top. In this way, a viewer becomes aware of the way buildings structure the behavior in them.

Both works point to a permeability between buildings and the bodies that occupy them. The video, made using an edible treat, makes it unclear where insides and outsides of buildings and bodies start and stop. The inflatable instructions make explicit that buildings construct us in as much as we construct them.

Also on display, in the Window Projects Gallery, is Blind Spot, a site-specific installation using wax-encrusted wire forms designed to simultaneously emulate the roots and branches of trees and the retina and optic nerve of the human eye. These "references to nature as it exists outside and within the human body underscore the trouble we as humans have in seeing and thinking about ourselves as organisms that are part of the natural world" (Waale, artist statement).

Waale blurs the boundaries between sculpture and drawing as she moves from Vocalizations, a series of preliminary drawings for the project, to sculptural elements that will fill the space.

Syracuse Cultural Workers InsideOUT
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Syracuse Cultural Workers (SCW) presents a familiar face (or, rather, several familiar faces) to the progressive community in Syracuse. The calendars, posters, cards, and T-shirts they publish are well-known; and the banners, drums, and willing bodies are a ready resource for just about any event designed to educate/agitate.

With this exhibit, they celebrate their 25th anniversary with a behind-the-scenes look at some of the less obvious aspects of what it means to be an international "peace and justice publisher and distributor." Topics include: the poster process, from brainstorm to finished product; customer feedback when they don't get it right (and when they do); a poster/calendar/art collages featuring activist art spanning 30 years, and more. This exhibit promises to be a show filled with surprising, entertaining, and visually stimulating perspectives.

The OL Holiday Show
Orange Line Gallery

Price: Free
Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

New to Orange Line Gallery for this show include Jacqueline Adamo, oil painting; J. Francis Maloni, oil painting; Amber Blanding, glass sculpture; and Jennifer Cutter, jewelry. Also on display are the works of recent artists Brandon Hall- mixed media / collage, Chris Luchsinger- acrylic & spraypaint on canvas, David McKenney, photography; Debra Parry Trichilo, photography; Jim Reed, acrylic on canvas; Dustin Angell, photography; Father Andrew Szebenyi, digital paintings; Jace Collins, oil, acrylic and paper on Plexiglas; Melissa Tiffany, collage; Mick Mather, digital manipulations; and Spencer Baker, photography.

**CANCELLED** Christmas at the Palace
Featuring The DeSantis Orchestra and guests

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

A musical holiday celebration!
The DeSantis Orchestra performs spectacular arrangements by Jay Owen and Joe Riposo of both inspirational and holiday favorites. Also enjoy the superb acoustic blend of these musicians in the DeSantis Small Group: Mark Copani, guitar; Brian Scherer, flute and saxophone; Dave Welsch, bass; Jimmy Johns, percussion; and Mario DeSantis, keyboards. Featured vocalists include Keith Condon, Amanda Carnie, Ronnie Leigh, Doug Moncrief, and Maria DeSantis.

A portion of the proceeds will benefit Fr. Champlin's Guardian Angel Society.

For more information or to reserve tickets, phone the Desantis office at 315-488-7611, the Guardian Angel office at 315-422-7218, or email info@desantisorchestra.com.

[confirmed to be taking place] Teada, and Syracuse Irish Session
Folkus Project

Price: $17
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

With their driving energy and a rollicking sense of fun, Teada has emerged as one of the most exciting traditional Irish bands of recent years. Marked by exuberant performances, their shows conjure up a great night at an Irish pub. The band clearly enjoys playing for audiences and knows how to connect with them. Raucous one minute, sensitive and serene the next, their inventive arrangements keep the crowd, and the band, on their toes. With skillful musicianship and contagious enthusiasm, Teada has gained a reputation for electrifying shows.

Inspired by respect for centuries of Celtic tradition, Teada (which means "strings" in the Irish language) draws inspiration from the past, emphasizing melody and charm rather than fancy arrangements. Most of the group's members grew up in rural Ireland, learning traditional music from older musicians. Though they're in their early 20s, they play like they've each been at the music for longer than their collective years. There's strong chemistry and marvelous interplay among the quintet's members. The band moves deftly among a variety of moods and tempos, the changes between tunes like smooth hand-offs in a relay race. Their proficiency is exhilarating, with a flair for originality and a passion for tradition.

Opening for Teada will be the Syracuse Irish Session, performing tunes from the dance traditions of Ireland and the British Isles.

[confirmed to be taking place] Pops Series: Holiday Pops
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Onondaga County Select High School Chorus
Ron Spigelman, conductor
Featuring Margaret Carlson, vocalist; Scott Stephenson, piano

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

Ron Spigelman leads this lively seasonal extravaganza featuring guest vocalist Margaret Carlson and highlighted by favorite holiday melodies including Calvin Custer's Holiday Medley and The Little Drummer Boy, the popular annual Audience Sing-Along, a generous dash of humor and lots of surprises!

Black Nativity
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
William H. Rowland II and Annette Adams-Brown, director

Price: $20 regular, $15 students/seniors
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Black Nativity, by Langston Hughes, is a foot stomping, hand clapping, jump to your feet shouting gospel drama that will delight the entire family. Hughes called it a "gospel song play." Black Nativity is a re-telling of the classic Nativity story with a non-traditional cast. Traditional Christmas carols along with a few musical numbers created specially for the show are sung in gospel style by The PRPAC Choral Ensemble. A multi-generational cast of singers, narrators, poets, dancers and soloists will fill the theater with jubilation and praise. Through the vibrations of African drums and percussion, the birth of Jesus becomes one of the most dramatic scenes of the show. Mary and Joseph will dance right into your hearts. The show was first performed on Broadway on December 11, 1961, and was one of the first plays written by an African-American to do so.

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**CANCELLED** The Santaland Diaries
Syracuse Stage
James Edmondson, director

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

Tonight's performance is cancelled due to weather. Call the box office on Saturday or Sunday for a refund or to exchange tickets, 315-443-3275.

For those who like a little jeer with their Christmas cheer, humorist David Sedaris' The Santaland Diaries is a gem of a lump of coal. Meet Crumpet, a 33-year-old starving artist turned Macy's elf. It's the most wonderful time of the year, but you wouldn't know it from the bad Santas, naughty elves, cranky kids and pushy parents who test Crumpet's last elfin nerve as he struggles to remain sane and perky(!) amid the absurdity of the holiday season. With sardonic wit, and a sometimes razor-sharp, sometimes velvet-soft tongue, Sedaris takes us all playfully to task for plunging into the Christmas spirit but missing the point. For mature elves only.

Adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello.

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**CANCELLED** Godspell
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj, director

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

Tonight's performance is cancelled due to weather. Call the box office on Saturday or Sunday for a refund or to exchange tickets, 315-443-3275.

This energetic musical based on the gospel of St. Matthew is a celebration of worldwide community, filled with popular hit songs and irresistible good will. From the UN to India to China to Darfur to Syracuse prepare ye the way of hope, brotherhood and sisterhood as the time for tolerance and inclusiveness draws nearer Day by Day. A groundbreaking musical in its time, this colorful update features world dance-inspired choreography and multimedia projections.

Conceived by John-Michael Tebelak; music and new lyrics by Stephen Schwartz; choreographed by Anthony Salatino.

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Communicating Doors
Appleseed Productions
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

This intricate time traveling comic thriller is about a London sex specialist from the future stumbles into a murder plot that sends her, compliments of a unique set of hotel doors, traveling back in time. She and two women who were murdered in 1998 and 1978 race back and forth in time trying to rewrite history and prevent their own violent ends. The frantic race begins when Poopay is hired for an evening at the Regal Hotel by an old man who eschews a fling in favor of confessing his role in the demise of his wives. Now a target, Poopay flees into the vestibule and somehow triggers the time machine. Written by Alan Ayckbourn.

Production features Roy vanNorstrand, Jennifer DeCook, Nora O'Dea, Rick Signorelli, Anne Fitzgerald, and David J. Hubert.

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Amahl and the Night Visitors
Open Hand Theater

Price: $15 in advance; $20 at the door
First English Lutheran Church
Corner of James and Townsend Streets, Syracuse

The Christmas classic featuring Open Hand's giant puppets.

To reserve tickets, phone 315-476-0466.

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**CANCELLED** The Eight: Reindeer Monologues; Seven Santas
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

The Eight: Reindeer Monologues:
A wickedly funny alternative to traditional candy-cane cheer. Scandal erupts at the North Pole when one of Santa's eight tiny reindeer accuses him of sexual harassment. As the mass media descends upon the event, the other members of the sleigh team demand to share their perspectives, and a horrific tale of corruption and perversion emerges -which seems to implicate everyone from the teeniest elf to the tainted Saint himself. With each deer's stunning confession, the truth behind the shocking allegations becomes clearer...and murkier.

Seven Santas:
Scandal erupts at the North Pole when the most powerful man on Earth is sentenced to rehab for a minor traffic violation. But when he finds himself in a detox program run by the estranged Mrs. Claus, Santa's desperate struggle to conceal the truth about his arrest uncovers yet another sordid secret that could mean the end of Christmas-as-we-know-it.

No one under the age of 18 admitted.

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Friday Night Live
Redhouse

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Friday Night Live from Redhouse is a high-energy improvisational comedy show similar to the hit television series Whose Line Is It Anyway? The troupe will perform a series of games and scenarios based on audience suggestion and participation. The troupe is headed up by Second City veterans Tim Mahar and Laura Austin. TK99 Radio personality Glen Gomez Adams hosts the show and is joined by the wildly talented Mike Borden, Andy Friedson, and Emmett Van Slyke. We guarantee wild laughter and no bodily injuries.

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

They are testaments to the impact of terrorism: sculptures portraying mothers going back to the exact moment they learned their child died in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some are screaming; others are weeping. Some are curled into a ball; others have fists raised in anger. The 76 larger-than-life figures that comprise the Dark Elegy collection were created by Montauk, NY-based artist Suse Lowenstein, the mother of a Pan Am 103 student victim.

Four of these sculptures will be on display as part of the University's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy.

Art for the Holidays
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring mixed media illustrations by Katya Krenina, monotypes and mixed media works by Thea Reidy as well as ceramics by the Clayscapes Pottery (Donald Seymour, Shawn McGuire, Jolee M. Romano, Tim See and Sallie Thompson).

Special Exhibit: Shadows
Delavan Art Gallery

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

When viewing lighted objects, it's easy to overlook the shadows they create. The Delavan Art Gallery has expanded on this concept to produce a one-of-its-kind exhibit devoted entirely to shadows and featuring works by a host of noted Central New York artists.

The Shadows Exhibit was conceived with two ideas in mind: how shadows are made (by an object, a light source and a background), and Bill Delavan's special professional interest in lighting the Gallery's exhibitions, sometimes playfully turning shadows into their own art form.

Featured artists in this exhibit include Arlene Abend, Reginald Adams, Anahid Ajemian, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Hillary Gifford, Barre Hunt, Lauren Ritchie, Jeffrey Schuessler, Andy Schuster and Matthew Vural.

The Color of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Watercolor paintings by Laura Wilk, glassworks of Carmel Nicoletti, and felted bags and ruffled scarves of Sherry Gordon.

23rd Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular; $4 seniors; $2 children
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The annual event features more than 40 gingerbread creations, including buildings, Victorian village storefronts, street scenes, and much more.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

Warhol Presents highlights the early commercial career of Andy Warhol, whose whimsical drawings from the 1950s created fantasies that marketed fashion and glamour through evocation. Warhol's penchant for combining art and advertisement quickly made him one of the most well known illustrators of women's fashion in New York. His talen' was sought out by fashion publication giants, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar; and women's footwear designer and retailer, I. Miller Shoe Company.

The exhibition presents 18 of Warhol's rarely seen shoe illustrations including Fantasy Shoes (ca. 1956), a whimsical and humorous take on women's footwear design. Exhibited also are drawings of women's accessories and fashion figures, including Female Fashion Figure (1950s); a vibrant depiction of a chic model alongside an equally stylish car.

Warhol's unique well-wrought line also translated to commissions of large-scale window displays for New York stores, including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's. One example of the artist's window displays is featured in this exhibition in the illustrated reproduction, Miss Dior (1950s); and a 1997 3-dimensional re-creation of Warhol's 1957 Bonwit Teller Window Display, which includes glass perfume bottles and colorful reproduction of a window display screen. Warhol's early drawings and interest in art, identity, and consumerism informed his later pop-icon status, when product and identity literally became his art, and was used to fuel his experimental factory era films.

This exhibition is curated by Natalie Sanderson, Curator of Education at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. The original exhibition, Andy Warhol Presents, was first exhibited at the University Art Museum in 2007.