Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Storytelling: An Experiment In Visual Narrative -- Works by Pedro Roth
Point of Contact Gallery

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

From Buenos Aires, Argentina, following two superbly triumphant solo exhibitions at the Sivori Museum and at the prestigious Recoleta Center this year, Pedro Roth comes to The Point of Contact Gallery to present "Storytelling...an experiment in visual narrative.

For this rich display of drawings that is a development of the work he presented in Argentina, "Roth invents a world of multiple figures, drawn to life in a Buenos Aires café while listening to stories about lost loves, departed pets, and friends, and the refusal to go out and love again..." writes the show's curator, Pedro Cuperman.

The Power of Four
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

The Power of Four features recent work by Judith Benedict, Lindsey Guile, Mary Pierce, and Carla Senecal. From abstract to representational, conceptual to narrative, traditional to emerging, this group of artist produces something for everyone.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Twenty-two pieces of Bond's work was donated to the SU's Bird Library by alumnus Carl Armani. The exhibition, which includes these works, is a retrospective of 30 years of Bond's creative work highlighting the photographer's mastery of abstraction, proximity, pattern, texture, and landscape.

Presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

Stone Canoe Journal Exhbit
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The annual display of artwork from the fourth edition of Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts and Ideas from Upstate New York features the work of 30 artists with local ties, ranging from those with international reputations to those who have not previously published or exhibited their work.

Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

Windows Project: Confederacy of Dunces
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Hamilton-based Lynette K. Stephenson created an installation about New Orleans consisting of 60 hand-felted wool dunce caps. This exhibition is inspired by John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) set in New Orleans, where Stephenson's family home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and based on her previous body of paintings, The Red Cross Series, which led to the idea for this site-specific project. In this work Stephenson engages in a dialogue about present-day social issues referring to New Orleans, the tragedy of the Hurricane and the universal symbol of the Red Cross.

Alyson Shotz: Drawing Through Space
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

With the assistance of Syracuse University students, Brooklyn-based Shotz created her works on site, thus turning The Warehouse Gallery into a form of laboratory. Shotz is one of today's ground-breaking artists transforming contemporary art through a fusion of technology and handcrafted steel wire and yarn artworks. Her use of this material is a means of combining sculpture with drawing to address issues of light, space, time and motion. Strikingly beautiful, her wire sculpture in the vault and three wall drawings project optical experiences where questions of perception and misperception lead to further examination of the impact of 21st-century technology on the arts.

Read a review!

Breach of Peace: Eric Etheridge's Photographs of the Freedom Riders
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans—blacks and whites, men and women—converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge state segregation laws. The Freedom Riders, as they came to be known, were determined to open up the South to civil rights: it was illegal for bus and train stations to discriminate, but most did and were not interested in change. Over 300 people were arrested and convicted of the charge "breach of the peace."

Artist and author Eric Etheridge's exhibit, Breach of Peace, collects the mug shots of those arrested, which were only recently made public, and juxtaposes them with present-day photographs of the Riders and their recollections about the experience. The group, half black and half white (a quarter were women), was remarkably young; in their faces we see strength, courage, defiance, dignity, and, occasionally, fear.

Eyes on the Prize
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Eight segments from the award-winning series will be shown on four consecutive nights. The series covers all the major events of the civil rights movement through contemporary interviews and historical footage. Narrated by Julian Bond. Even if you have seen parts of this before, come again and bring a young friend, student, or family member who hasn't!

Ain't scared of your jails (1960-1961): Covers lunch counter sit-ins and their impact on the Kennedy and Nixon presidential race of 1960, the formation of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, and the freedom rides of 1961.

No easy walk (1961-1963): Visits the cities where the tactics of nonviolent protest met both success and failure. Also covers the high point of those emotional times, the 1963 March on Washington, and the violence that followed.

Community Sing-A-Long
Syracuse Community Choir
Karen Mihalyi, conductor

Price: $5-$25 sliding scale
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Community sing-along for all ages! Warm a winter evening with songs led by director Karen Mihalyi and choir members. Songs for peace and justice and some just for fun!

For more information, phone 315-428-8151 or email kmihalyi@a-znet.com.

Wicked
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $40 to $125
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

So much happened before Dorothy dropped in.

Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One—born with emerald green skin—is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most complete and completely satisfying new musical in a long time (USA Today).

On Broadway and around the world, Wicked has worked its magic on critics and audiences alike. Winner of 20 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards, Wicked is Broadway's biggest blockbuster (The New York Times).

Read a review!

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Storytelling: An Experiment In Visual Narrative -- Works by Pedro Roth
Point of Contact Gallery

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

From Buenos Aires, Argentina, following two superbly triumphant solo exhibitions at the Sivori Museum and at the prestigious Recoleta Center this year, Pedro Roth comes to The Point of Contact Gallery to present "Storytelling...an experiment in visual narrative.

For this rich display of drawings that is a development of the work he presented in Argentina, "Roth invents a world of multiple figures, drawn to life in a Buenos Aires café while listening to stories about lost loves, departed pets, and friends, and the refusal to go out and love again..." writes the show's curator, Pedro Cuperman.

The Power of Four
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

The Power of Four features recent work by Judith Benedict, Lindsey Guile, Mary Pierce, and Carla Senecal. From abstract to representational, conceptual to narrative, traditional to emerging, this group of artist produces something for everyone.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Twenty-two pieces of Bond's work was donated to the SU's Bird Library by alumnus Carl Armani. The exhibition, which includes these works, is a retrospective of 30 years of Bond's creative work highlighting the photographer's mastery of abstraction, proximity, pattern, texture, and landscape.

Presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

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

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

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

Holiday Show 09
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit.

The exhibition will feature photography, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include: Jen Allen (Morgantown, WV), Ed Feldman (Cortland), Shanna Fliegel (Tarrytown, NY), Bob Gates (Jamesville), Shawn O'Connor (Syracuse), Davie Reneau (Glasgow, KY), Brenda Edwards (Oswego), Kathy Barry (Syracuse), Nancy Kramer (Skaneateles), Brooke Noble (Saranac Lake, NY), Erin Murphy (Syracuse), Lucy Mink (Syracuse), Jeremy Randall (Tully), Lucie Wellner (Pompey), Forrest Lesch-Middelton (Fairfax, CA), and Jen Gandee (Fabius).

Stone Canoe Journal Exhbit
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The annual display of artwork from the fourth edition of Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts and Ideas from Upstate New York features the work of 30 artists with local ties, ranging from those with international reputations to those who have not previously published or exhibited their work.

Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

Alyson Shotz: Drawing Through Space
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

With the assistance of Syracuse University students, Brooklyn-based Shotz created her works on site, thus turning The Warehouse Gallery into a form of laboratory. Shotz is one of today's ground-breaking artists transforming contemporary art through a fusion of technology and handcrafted steel wire and yarn artworks. Her use of this material is a means of combining sculpture with drawing to address issues of light, space, time and motion. Strikingly beautiful, her wire sculpture in the vault and three wall drawings project optical experiences where questions of perception and misperception lead to further examination of the impact of 21st-century technology on the arts.

Read a review!

Windows Project: Confederacy of Dunces
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Hamilton-based Lynette K. Stephenson created an installation about New Orleans consisting of 60 hand-felted wool dunce caps. This exhibition is inspired by John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) set in New Orleans, where Stephenson's family home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and based on her previous body of paintings, The Red Cross Series, which led to the idea for this site-specific project. In this work Stephenson engages in a dialogue about present-day social issues referring to New Orleans, the tragedy of the Hurricane and the universal symbol of the Red Cross.

Breach of Peace: Eric Etheridge's Photographs of the Freedom Riders
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans—blacks and whites, men and women—converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge state segregation laws. The Freedom Riders, as they came to be known, were determined to open up the South to civil rights: it was illegal for bus and train stations to discriminate, but most did and were not interested in change. Over 300 people were arrested and convicted of the charge "breach of the peace."

Artist and author Eric Etheridge's exhibit, Breach of Peace, collects the mug shots of those arrested, which were only recently made public, and juxtaposes them with present-day photographs of the Riders and their recollections about the experience. The group, half black and half white (a quarter were women), was remarkably young; in their faces we see strength, courage, defiance, dignity, and, occasionally, fear.

Eyes on the Prize
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Eight segments from the award-winning series will be shown on four consecutive nights. The series covers all the major events of the civil rights movement through contemporary interviews and historical footage. Narrated by Julian Bond. Even if you have seen parts of this before, come again and bring a young friend, student, or family member who hasn't!

Mississippi: is this America? (1962-1964): Focuses on the right to vote. Tells how the black citizens who had been denied the right to vote stepped forward and demanded a place in the political process. Medgar Evers, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and others, died trying to help them. Shows the formation of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to challenge the 1964 Democratic Party Convention.

Bridge to freedom (1965): When civil rights protesters marching from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama were assaulted by police, national outrage over the brutality led to President Johnson providing the protection of federal troops, and ultimately to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Wicked
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $40 to $125
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

So much happened before Dorothy dropped in.

Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One—born with emerald green skin—is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most complete and completely satisfying new musical in a long time (USA Today).

On Broadway and around the world, Wicked has worked its magic on critics and audiences alike. Winner of 20 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards, Wicked is Broadway's biggest blockbuster (The New York Times).

Read a review!

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

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

You and the rest of the Bangalone Gang are in deep trouble. Big Louie's been beaned by a bocci ball and now he ain't thinking so good. The gang's got to figure out what to do before arch rival gang leader "Muscles" Marinara has you rubbed out. You better move fast. Word on the street is that ruthless hitman Jake "The Weasel" is on the way.

Wicked
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $40 to $125
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

So much happened before Dorothy dropped in.

Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One—born with emerald green skin—is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most complete and completely satisfying new musical in a long time (USA Today).

On Broadway and around the world, Wicked has worked its magic on critics and audiences alike. Winner of 20 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards, Wicked is Broadway's biggest blockbuster (The New York Times).

Read a review!

Friday, January 15, 2010

Storytelling: An Experiment In Visual Narrative -- Works by Pedro Roth
Point of Contact Gallery

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

From Buenos Aires, Argentina, following two superbly triumphant solo exhibitions at the Sivori Museum and at the prestigious Recoleta Center this year, Pedro Roth comes to The Point of Contact Gallery to present "Storytelling...an experiment in visual narrative.

For this rich display of drawings that is a development of the work he presented in Argentina, "Roth invents a world of multiple figures, drawn to life in a Buenos Aires café while listening to stories about lost loves, departed pets, and friends, and the refusal to go out and love again..." writes the show's curator, Pedro Cuperman.

Opening: Markings of Time and Place
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception tonight 6:00-8:00 pm.

Amy Bartell: Acrylic and mixed-media paintings examining the topography of time and an ever-changing horizon
Paul Molesky: Sculptural and functional stoneware ceramics finished with clay slip and shino glazes
Ban Bacich: Mixed-media box assemblages combining fragments that invoke a narrative

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

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

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

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

Holiday Show 09
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit.

The exhibition will feature photography, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include: Jen Allen (Morgantown, WV), Ed Feldman (Cortland), Shanna Fliegel (Tarrytown, NY), Bob Gates (Jamesville), Shawn O'Connor (Syracuse), Davie Reneau (Glasgow, KY), Brenda Edwards (Oswego), Kathy Barry (Syracuse), Nancy Kramer (Skaneateles), Brooke Noble (Saranac Lake, NY), Erin Murphy (Syracuse), Lucy Mink (Syracuse), Jeremy Randall (Tully), Lucie Wellner (Pompey), Forrest Lesch-Middelton (Fairfax, CA), and Jen Gandee (Fabius).

Stone Canoe Journal Exhbit
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The annual display of artwork from the fourth edition of Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts and Ideas from Upstate New York features the work of 30 artists with local ties, ranging from those with international reputations to those who have not previously published or exhibited their work.

Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

Windows Project: Confederacy of Dunces
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Hamilton-based Lynette K. Stephenson created an installation about New Orleans consisting of 60 hand-felted wool dunce caps. This exhibition is inspired by John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) set in New Orleans, where Stephenson's family home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and based on her previous body of paintings, The Red Cross Series, which led to the idea for this site-specific project. In this work Stephenson engages in a dialogue about present-day social issues referring to New Orleans, the tragedy of the Hurricane and the universal symbol of the Red Cross.

Alyson Shotz: Drawing Through Space
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

With the assistance of Syracuse University students, Brooklyn-based Shotz created her works on site, thus turning The Warehouse Gallery into a form of laboratory. Shotz is one of today's ground-breaking artists transforming contemporary art through a fusion of technology and handcrafted steel wire and yarn artworks. Her use of this material is a means of combining sculpture with drawing to address issues of light, space, time and motion. Strikingly beautiful, her wire sculpture in the vault and three wall drawings project optical experiences where questions of perception and misperception lead to further examination of the impact of 21st-century technology on the arts.

Read a review!

Breach of Peace: Eric Etheridge's Photographs of the Freedom Riders
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans—blacks and whites, men and women—converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge state segregation laws. The Freedom Riders, as they came to be known, were determined to open up the South to civil rights: it was illegal for bus and train stations to discriminate, but most did and were not interested in change. Over 300 people were arrested and convicted of the charge "breach of the peace."

Artist and author Eric Etheridge's exhibit, Breach of Peace, collects the mug shots of those arrested, which were only recently made public, and juxtaposes them with present-day photographs of the Riders and their recollections about the experience. The group, half black and half white (a quarter were women), was remarkably young; in their faces we see strength, courage, defiance, dignity, and, occasionally, fear.

DFtA
Don't Feed the Actors

Price: $12
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

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

An Evening of Improv
Lazlo's Closet

Price: $13
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The Renegades comedy troupe features the extremely talented cast of Brandon Dyer, Tim Hogarth, Jeff White, Deidre Dyer, Aaron Geiskopf, Ron Sweet, and Lou Leonardo. Their high-energy stage show is a live comedy experience unlike any other in the area. They incorporate improv games, sketches, digital shorts, and long form improv to produce a show that's equal parts Saturday Night Live, Whose Line is it Anyway?, and Monty Python.

Eyes on the Prize
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Eight segments from the award-winning series will be shown on four consecutive nights. The series covers all the major events of the civil rights movement through contemporary interviews and historical footage. Narrated by Julian Bond. Even if you have seen parts of this before, come again and bring a young friend, student, or family member who hasn't!

The time has come (1964-1966): Malcolm X...Stokely Carmichael..."Black Power". After a decade-long cry for justice, a new sound is on the horizon: the insistent call for power.

Two societies (1965-1968): Chicago...Detroit...the Kerner Commission. Examine the color lines outside of the south with rarely seen, personal testimony by Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young, and others who survived the times.

Lucy Kaplansky
Folkus Project

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

One of folk music's most respected singer/songwriters, Lucy Kaplansky performs deeply passionate songs taken from her personal experiences and filled with astute observations on contemporary themes. Her songs are beautiful, intimate and authentic. Her performances are riveting; the nuance, power and texture in her voice are matched by the imagery and emotion of her lyrics and melodies. She gets to the heart of a song, touching listeners and leaving them wanting more.

Andrew Waggoner and Open End
Redhouse

Price: $25 regular; $10 students
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Andrew Waggoner, composer-in-residence at Syracuse University's Setnor School of Music and Chair of the Composition and Theory Department, will host a fundraiser for the Red House Arts Center music programs. Waggoner and his five-piece ensemble Open End, will donate their time and talent for one very special evening of classical music on the Red House stage.

Open End is Michael Jinsoo Lim and Andrew Waggoner (violins), Melia Watras (viola), Caroline Stinson (cello), and Molly Morkoski (piano). Formed in 2005, Open End's mission is the reclaiming of improvisation as the birthright of all musicians. Open End seeks nothing less than to engage audiences in an experience that is wonderful, intimate, challenging and beautiful.

Open End will perform selections from Anna Weesner, Gyorgy Ligeti, Atar Arad, Cornell professor and Pulitzer Prize winner Steven Stucky, as well as Waggoner himself. His piece, Inventory of Terrors, was commissioned by Red House in 2008 and premiered there in 2009. In addition, Open End will perform four improvisational works.

For more information, please call Mike Intaglietta at 315-425-0405, Monday through Friday, 10AM - 5PM.

All proceeds from this event will directly benefit the Red House Music program.

Big Eyed Phish (Dave Matthews Cover Band)
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Wicked
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $40 to $125
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

So much happened before Dorothy dropped in.

Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One—born with emerald green skin—is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most complete and completely satisfying new musical in a long time (USA Today).

On Broadway and around the world, Wicked has worked its magic on critics and audiences alike. Winner of 20 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards, Wicked is Broadway's biggest blockbuster (The New York Times).

Read a review!

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Markings of Time and Place
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Amy Bartell: Acrylic and mixed-media paintings examining the topography of time and an ever-changing horizon
Paul Molesky: Sculptural and functional stoneware ceramics finished with clay slip and shino glazes
Ban Bacich: Mixed-media box assemblages combining fragments that invoke a narrative

Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

Holiday Show 09
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit.

The exhibition will feature photography, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include: Jen Allen (Morgantown, WV), Ed Feldman (Cortland), Shanna Fliegel (Tarrytown, NY), Bob Gates (Jamesville), Shawn O'Connor (Syracuse), Davie Reneau (Glasgow, KY), Brenda Edwards (Oswego), Kathy Barry (Syracuse), Nancy Kramer (Skaneateles), Brooke Noble (Saranac Lake, NY), Erin Murphy (Syracuse), Lucy Mink (Syracuse), Jeremy Randall (Tully), Lucie Wellner (Pompey), Forrest Lesch-Middelton (Fairfax, CA), and Jen Gandee (Fabius).

Stone Canoe Journal Exhbit
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The annual display of artwork from the fourth edition of Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts and Ideas from Upstate New York features the work of 30 artists with local ties, ranging from those with international reputations to those who have not previously published or exhibited their work.

Breach of Peace: Eric Etheridge's Photographs of the Freedom Riders
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans—blacks and whites, men and women—converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge state segregation laws. The Freedom Riders, as they came to be known, were determined to open up the South to civil rights: it was illegal for bus and train stations to discriminate, but most did and were not interested in change. Over 300 people were arrested and convicted of the charge "breach of the peace."

Artist and author Eric Etheridge's exhibit, Breach of Peace, collects the mug shots of those arrested, which were only recently made public, and juxtaposes them with present-day photographs of the Riders and their recollections about the experience. The group, half black and half white (a quarter were women), was remarkably young; in their faces we see strength, courage, defiance, dignity, and, occasionally, fear.

Alyson Shotz: Drawing Through Space
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

With the assistance of Syracuse University students, Brooklyn-based Shotz created her works on site, thus turning The Warehouse Gallery into a form of laboratory. Shotz is one of today's ground-breaking artists transforming contemporary art through a fusion of technology and handcrafted steel wire and yarn artworks. Her use of this material is a means of combining sculpture with drawing to address issues of light, space, time and motion. Strikingly beautiful, her wire sculpture in the vault and three wall drawings project optical experiences where questions of perception and misperception lead to further examination of the impact of 21st-century technology on the arts.

Read a review!

Windows Project: Confederacy of Dunces
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Hamilton-based Lynette K. Stephenson created an installation about New Orleans consisting of 60 hand-felted wool dunce caps. This exhibition is inspired by John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) set in New Orleans, where Stephenson's family home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and based on her previous body of paintings, The Red Cross Series, which led to the idea for this site-specific project. In this work Stephenson engages in a dialogue about present-day social issues referring to New Orleans, the tragedy of the Hurricane and the universal symbol of the Red Cross.

SaturdaySCREENINGS: Citizen King (2004)
ArtRage Gallery

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

Acclaimed documentary features interviews with people that reveal the controversial last five years of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, then an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War, and an advocate for America's have-nots, regardless of race. First aired on PBS' The American Experience. Directed by Orlando Bagwell, Noland Walker. Human Rights Award: Locarno Festival.

JCC Battle of the Bands

Price: $9 VIP seating, $6 general seating
Jewish Community Center
5655 Thompson Rd., Dewitt

The 8th annual Battle of the Bands will feature 10 bands from area schools, competing for cash prizes, recording time, and a photo shoot. Participating bands include:
Seventeen Come Sunday (OCC)
SEB (Christian Brothers Academy)
Brickyard Falls (Fayetteville-Manlius)
Chains of Honor (Cicero-North Syracuse)
Potentially Essential (Onondaga Central)
Roman Revival (C.W. Baker)
Sovereign (Tully)
Crimson Six (Jamesville-Dewitt)
Cinema Chaos (Jamesville-Dewitt)
The Soul Within (Liverpool)

An Evening with Bill Ali and Kathleen Santangelo
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $8
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Tenor Bill Ali, also known as "Producer Bill" from the Jim Reith Show on Newsradio 570 WSYR, teams up with accompanist Kathleen Santangelo for a night of Broadway and pop classics to benefit the CNY Jazz Arts Foundation.

For reservations or more information, phone 315-479-5299.

The Timothy Wood Band
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Beauty and the Beast
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive adaptation of the children's classic.

Wicked
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $40 to $125
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

So much happened before Dorothy dropped in.

Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One—born with emerald green skin—is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most complete and completely satisfying new musical in a long time (USA Today).

On Broadway and around the world, Wicked has worked its magic on critics and audiences alike. Winner of 20 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards, Wicked is Broadway's biggest blockbuster (The New York Times).

Read a review!

Death by Disco
Without a Cue Productions

Price: $34.50 includes dinner and show
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

Welcome to the Land of Oz Discoteria, the world's first and thankfully, only, disco-cafeteria. A place where disco never dies as long as the mirror balls glint in the light of the sterno flames. Contestants have gathered for the moderately aptly named "3rd Annual World Championship of Disco Championship." The dancers are ready to show their moves, but they might not realize that tonight some of the competition will definitely be stiff.

The show is an interactive murder mystery show that gets members of the audience involved. If you love disco, and even if you despise it, this show will have you intrigued, laughing, and of course dancing, by the end of the night.

For reservations, phone 315-469-6969.

Wicked
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $40 to $125
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

So much happened before Dorothy dropped in.

Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One—born with emerald green skin—is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most complete and completely satisfying new musical in a long time (USA Today).

On Broadway and around the world, Wicked has worked its magic on critics and audiences alike. Winner of 20 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards, Wicked is Broadway's biggest blockbuster (The New York Times).

Read a review!

Well-Aged Words: Storytelling for Adults
Open Hand Theater
Featuring Len Cabral

Price: $18 in advance; $20 at the door; artist reception $5
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

A storyteller of Cape Verdean ancestry, Len brings his unique perspective to the celebration of African American heritage with stories from Africa, the Caribbean, the Cape Verde Islands, and the southern United States. Len Cabral is an American storyteller who was awarded the Circle of Excellence in 2001 by the National Storytelling Network and recognized by his peers as a master storyteller. He is best known for his enthusiastic hand gestures and character voices. Among his favorite stories are Fable of the Animals and the Story of Pat Divers.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

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

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

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

Holiday Show 09
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit.

The exhibition will feature photography, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include: Jen Allen (Morgantown, WV), Ed Feldman (Cortland), Shanna Fliegel (Tarrytown, NY), Bob Gates (Jamesville), Shawn O'Connor (Syracuse), Davie Reneau (Glasgow, KY), Brenda Edwards (Oswego), Kathy Barry (Syracuse), Nancy Kramer (Skaneateles), Brooke Noble (Saranac Lake, NY), Erin Murphy (Syracuse), Lucy Mink (Syracuse), Jeremy Randall (Tully), Lucie Wellner (Pompey), Forrest Lesch-Middelton (Fairfax, CA), and Jen Gandee (Fabius).

Stone Canoe Journal Exhbit
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The annual display of artwork from the fourth edition of Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts and Ideas from Upstate New York features the work of 30 artists with local ties, ranging from those with international reputations to those who have not previously published or exhibited their work.

Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

Highland Winds
Fayetteville Free Library

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

3rd Annual Folk Music Series: Folk Songs from New York's Farms
Liverpool Public Library
Featuring David Ruch

Price: Free
Liverpool Public Library
310 Tulip St., Liverpool

The Perfect Balance: Gamba Consort Sextets
Schola Cantorum of Syracuse
Barry Torres, conductor

Price: Freewill donation
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

The Schola Cantorum Viol Consort presents the program of Sextets in the church atrium, in the traditional Renaissance "Surround Sound" setting. A rare opportunity to hear the most acoustically balanced viola da gamba ensemble works by W. Byrd, J. Coperario, J. Ward, O. Gibbons, C. Tye, T. Tomkins and T. Lupo.

Protect Your Pair Cancer Benefit
Westcott Theater
From The Ashes, Spire, Fazeshift, and Kaelestis

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Wicked
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $40 to $125
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

So much happened before Dorothy dropped in.

Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One—born with emerald green skin—is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most complete and completely satisfying new musical in a long time (USA Today).

On Broadway and around the world, Wicked has worked its magic on critics and audiences alike. Winner of 20 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards, Wicked is Broadway's biggest blockbuster (The New York Times).

Read a review!

Wicked
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $40 to $125
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

So much happened before Dorothy dropped in.

Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One—born with emerald green skin—is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most complete and completely satisfying new musical in a long time (USA Today).

On Broadway and around the world, Wicked has worked its magic on critics and audiences alike. Winner of 20 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards, Wicked is Broadway's biggest blockbuster (The New York Times).

Read a review!

Monday, January 18, 2010

Storytelling: An Experiment In Visual Narrative -- Works by Pedro Roth
Point of Contact Gallery

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

From Buenos Aires, Argentina, following two superbly triumphant solo exhibitions at the Sivori Museum and at the prestigious Recoleta Center this year, Pedro Roth comes to The Point of Contact Gallery to present "Storytelling...an experiment in visual narrative.

For this rich display of drawings that is a development of the work he presented in Argentina, "Roth invents a world of multiple figures, drawn to life in a Buenos Aires café while listening to stories about lost loves, departed pets, and friends, and the refusal to go out and love again..." writes the show's curator, Pedro Cuperman.

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

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

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

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Storytelling: An Experiment In Visual Narrative -- Works by Pedro Roth
Point of Contact Gallery

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

From Buenos Aires, Argentina, following two superbly triumphant solo exhibitions at the Sivori Museum and at the prestigious Recoleta Center this year, Pedro Roth comes to The Point of Contact Gallery to present "Storytelling...an experiment in visual narrative.

For this rich display of drawings that is a development of the work he presented in Argentina, "Roth invents a world of multiple figures, drawn to life in a Buenos Aires café while listening to stories about lost loves, departed pets, and friends, and the refusal to go out and love again..." writes the show's curator, Pedro Cuperman.

Markings of Time and Place
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Amy Bartell: Acrylic and mixed-media paintings examining the topography of time and an ever-changing horizon
Paul Molesky: Sculptural and functional stoneware ceramics finished with clay slip and shino glazes
Ban Bacich: Mixed-media box assemblages combining fragments that invoke a narrative

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

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

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

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

Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

Windows Project: Confederacy of Dunces
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Hamilton-based Lynette K. Stephenson created an installation about New Orleans consisting of 60 hand-felted wool dunce caps. This exhibition is inspired by John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) set in New Orleans, where Stephenson's family home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and based on her previous body of paintings, The Red Cross Series, which led to the idea for this site-specific project. In this work Stephenson engages in a dialogue about present-day social issues referring to New Orleans, the tragedy of the Hurricane and the universal symbol of the Red Cross.

Alyson Shotz: Drawing Through Space
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

With the assistance of Syracuse University students, Brooklyn-based Shotz created her works on site, thus turning The Warehouse Gallery into a form of laboratory. Shotz is one of today's ground-breaking artists transforming contemporary art through a fusion of technology and handcrafted steel wire and yarn artworks. Her use of this material is a means of combining sculpture with drawing to address issues of light, space, time and motion. Strikingly beautiful, her wire sculpture in the vault and three wall drawings project optical experiences where questions of perception and misperception lead to further examination of the impact of 21st-century technology on the arts.

Read a review!

Wicked
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $40 to $125
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

So much happened before Dorothy dropped in.

Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One—born with emerald green skin—is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most complete and completely satisfying new musical in a long time (USA Today).

On Broadway and around the world, Wicked has worked its magic on critics and audiences alike. Winner of 20 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards, Wicked is Broadway's biggest blockbuster (The New York Times).

Read a review!

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Storytelling: An Experiment In Visual Narrative -- Works by Pedro Roth
Point of Contact Gallery

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

From Buenos Aires, Argentina, following two superbly triumphant solo exhibitions at the Sivori Museum and at the prestigious Recoleta Center this year, Pedro Roth comes to The Point of Contact Gallery to present "Storytelling...an experiment in visual narrative.

For this rich display of drawings that is a development of the work he presented in Argentina, "Roth invents a world of multiple figures, drawn to life in a Buenos Aires café while listening to stories about lost loves, departed pets, and friends, and the refusal to go out and love again..." writes the show's curator, Pedro Cuperman.

Markings of Time and Place
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Amy Bartell: Acrylic and mixed-media paintings examining the topography of time and an ever-changing horizon
Paul Molesky: Sculptural and functional stoneware ceramics finished with clay slip and shino glazes
Ban Bacich: Mixed-media box assemblages combining fragments that invoke a narrative

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

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

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

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

Stone Canoe Journal Exhbit
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The annual display of artwork from the fourth edition of Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts and Ideas from Upstate New York features the work of 30 artists with local ties, ranging from those with international reputations to those who have not previously published or exhibited their work.

Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

Alyson Shotz: Drawing Through Space
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

With the assistance of Syracuse University students, Brooklyn-based Shotz created her works on site, thus turning The Warehouse Gallery into a form of laboratory. Shotz is one of today's ground-breaking artists transforming contemporary art through a fusion of technology and handcrafted steel wire and yarn artworks. Her use of this material is a means of combining sculpture with drawing to address issues of light, space, time and motion. Strikingly beautiful, her wire sculpture in the vault and three wall drawings project optical experiences where questions of perception and misperception lead to further examination of the impact of 21st-century technology on the arts.

Read a review!

Windows Project: Confederacy of Dunces
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Hamilton-based Lynette K. Stephenson created an installation about New Orleans consisting of 60 hand-felted wool dunce caps. This exhibition is inspired by John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) set in New Orleans, where Stephenson's family home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and based on her previous body of paintings, The Red Cross Series, which led to the idea for this site-specific project. In this work Stephenson engages in a dialogue about present-day social issues referring to New Orleans, the tragedy of the Hurricane and the universal symbol of the Red Cross.

Breach of Peace: Eric Etheridge's Photographs of the Freedom Riders
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans—blacks and whites, men and women—converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge state segregation laws. The Freedom Riders, as they came to be known, were determined to open up the South to civil rights: it was illegal for bus and train stations to discriminate, but most did and were not interested in change. Over 300 people were arrested and convicted of the charge "breach of the peace."

Artist and author Eric Etheridge's exhibit, Breach of Peace, collects the mug shots of those arrested, which were only recently made public, and juxtaposes them with present-day photographs of the Riders and their recollections about the experience. The group, half black and half white (a quarter were women), was remarkably young; in their faces we see strength, courage, defiance, dignity, and, occasionally, fear.

William-John Newbrough, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Dr. Newbrough is Artist-in-Residence at Houghton College, and has appeared in Syracuse on several occasions. He has been acclaimed on three continents, is a winner of several competitions, and has recordings and a DVD to his credit. Dr. Newbrough's program is a tour of European keyboard music, including works of Scarlatti, Schubert, Kodaly, and Debussy.

Wicked
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $40 to $125
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

So much happened before Dorothy dropped in.

Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One—born with emerald green skin—is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most complete and completely satisfying new musical in a long time (USA Today).

On Broadway and around the world, Wicked has worked its magic on critics and audiences alike. Winner of 20 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards, Wicked is Broadway's biggest blockbuster (The New York Times).

Read a review!