Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Windows Project: Waking from Dreams of India
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Upstate New York photographer Neil Chowdhury has created works consisting of three digital photomontages (fit to the dimensions of the windows in the Window Projects) and a multichannel video installation (displayed in the Window Projects space) with a soundtrack of Indian classical music, Hindi pop music, and ambient street sound that address contemporary India as well as clichés and the artist's origins.

Bea Nettles Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

These photographic composites deal with the poetic impact of certain landscapes and aspects of classical architecture and art history on the life of Bea Nettles, and how these influences continue to remain in memory, resurfacing at unexpected moments. The photographs are autobiographical. They represent her effort to clarify, to find meaning and significance in daily existence. Often epiphanies often occur while traveling. Bea is particularly interested in recording a sense of place and the selective, multi-layered nature of memory.

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La Colección/The Collection: Exhibit 1
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A special program to commemorate Point of Contact's 35th anniversary and The Point of Contact Gallery's 5th -- a show of the entire permanent collection in five exhibitions starting in September 2010.

Exhibit 1: Works of Burt Barr, Papo Colo, Gregory Crewdson, Judy Pfaff, Rob Van Erve, Sandy Skoglund

The Silent Scream: Conflict in Novels Without Words
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Library has always had a keen interest in all forms of book illustration, and not surprisingly, novels without words became a significant collecting area. Over time, we have amassed a considerable number of the classic specimens in the genre, and the main practitioners of the art form are well represented within our holdings. We developed this exhibition in keeping with the Syracuse Symposium theme for the coming year, "conflict." The artists upon whom we focused are William Gropper, Laurence Hyde, Frans Masereel, Giacomo Patri, John Vassos, and Lynd Ward.

In addition to conflict, novels without words often portray a quest on the part of the individual. This may assume the form of a journey or a saga about the search for self-fulfillment in artistic or purely personal terms, or the quest may have as its primary objective achieving social justice in a particular context. Because of the historical period in which many of these wordless novels were born, they often depict a struggle between the individual and the industrialized world. Industrialization and, by extension, capitalism, may be seen as forces that are fundamentally antagonistic to the interests of the individual and of society in general. Similarly, the law, the police, and the armed forces may all be viewed as instruments of repression in novels without words.

The creators of novels without words also tend to scrutinize the brutal forms of war and tyranny that are made possible by industrialization. In truth, any injustice may become the subject of such works, and perhaps just the cruel nature of our existential struggle to survive in an inherently hostile environment is all the background that is needed to provide the inspiration for the creation of a novel without words.

Honoring The Masters: Works of Ann Milner and Phil DeMocker
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

"Honoring the Masters," featuring Ann Milner's oriental brush painting and Phil DeMocker's origami, is a tribute to artists of the past setting the standards for today's active artists and gallery goers. Highlighted will be "masters" from noted dynasties. The "Mustard Seed Garden Manual, first published in the mid-1600s, will be the reference for some techniques in both learning and creating pieces of Oriental brush painting. Reproductions of work from ancient and more recent masters will show the background and heritage next to current representations of classical subjects and composition.

Origami pieces will represent Phil's favorite designer/folders and will be labeled to explain why he has chosen those artists.

As with most art, copying the work of an established artist is considered distasteful and cheap. While the art of the Orient to copy a master is considered one highest forms of art. Ann Milner is painting in the Sumie style from the Mustard Seed Manual, a comprehensive work of style, structure and form. Phil DeMocker is working from the works of both past and present masters of origami.

Expressions in Paint
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Nikolay Mikushkin: impressionistic traditional landscape and floral oil paintings on canvas
Bobbi Lamb: ceramics finished in a painterly fashion

84th Annual Juried Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Dogs in Transition: Pit Bulls and Mill Dogs
Community Folk Art Center

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

Cyrus Mejia's art focuses on activism and reflects the ideals of kindness and compassion while shining a light on "speciesism, ignorance and cruelty." Mejia is also co-founder of Best Friends Animal Society, which operates the nation's largest sanctuary for homeless animals near the town of Kanab, Utah. Best Friends is especially known for rehabilitating 22 of the pit bulls rescued from NFL quarterback Michael Vick.

"Pits and Perception" is the first series on view, which portrays pit bulls in a manner that challenges modern-day perceptions of the breed. With increased attention toward dog fighting in the media, many view the pit bull as a vicious and aggressive dog. Through his paintings, Mejia challenges these beliefs by forcing the observer to take a closer look and question public perception.

The second collection, "Mill Dogs Revenge," features dogs rescued from commercial breeding facilities, colloquially known as "puppy mills." Victims of physical abuse, emotional trauma and neglect, these dogs are often subjected to cruel conditions because of human greed for profit. Mejia hopes to raise awareness of the cruelty of puppy mills through his art.

Canaltown Suds: Syracuse Breweries of the Canal Era
Erie Canal Museum

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

Pa Bouje Anko (Don't Move Again): Works by Laura Heyman
Light Work Gallery

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

André Eugene, Jean Hérard Céleur, Rònald Bazile, Pierre Isnel Destimare, Leah Gordon, and Myron Beasley organized the Ghetto Biennale in Haiti's capitol Port-au-Prince to ask the question, "What happens when first world art rubs up against third world art?"

For her project, Laura Heyman explored formal portraiture following the example of artists like Mike Disfarmer, James Van Der Zee and Seydou Keita, who used the commercial and utilitarian aspects of their practice to portray their subjects with a consideration and respect that was both clear-eyed and beautiful.

Objects & Atmospheres
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Nathan Sullivan: Paintings and lithographs
Joshua Primmer: Stoneware vessels
Brenda Edwards: Paintings and drawings

Sullivan's oil on panel "Form Series" are masterfully painted, Vermeer-like in their surface quality. His images of suspended or floating tiny organic objects such as seeds are rendered to large scale in chiaroscuro, resulting in their otherworldly presence.

Primmer is exhibiting his intimately scaled stoneware objects and vessels. While one may consider the relatively small scale of his work, it possesses a monumentality usually restricted to large scale work and architecture.

Edwards' depictions in her soft focus drawings and paintings range from sultry atmospheres to luminous mists. They are moments that catch the play of light in their respective environments.

Joan Lukas Rothenberg: A Retrospective
Redhouse

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

Joan Lukas Rothenberg's art involvement began early in her life. As the director of the "Art Squad" at Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, NY, Joan was awarded the New York Society of Illustrators prize for her poster depicting the plight of children in poverty. She studied art at New York City's Cooper Union before earning her Master of Fine Arts in painting and ceramics from the University of Michigan and further study in drawing and printmaking at Royal University College in Stockholm.

In Syracuse, Joan was recognized as both an artist and activist. She was a founding member of the first women's consciousness-raising group which evolved into the Women's Information Center in 1972. She also founded and operated Auragyns, a women's art gallery. Joan was in the process of completing her PhD in Women's Studies at Syracuse University, studying images of women in the media, at the time of her death in 1990.

In celebration of Joan's spirit, tenacity, and vision, Red House will feature a series of group exhibitions promoting local, professional and student women artists. The retrospective will inaugurate this Emerging Women Artist series. The retrospective and the series are both made possible by a grant from the Joan Rothenberg Family Foundation.

The exhibit will be on display by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 for more information or to schedule a viewing.

Read a review!

4x4: Community Curators and the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Four individuals associated with the Syracuse visual arts community were invited to develop an exhibition using works from SU's permanent collection. Nancy Keefe Rhodes, art critic for the City Eagle newspaper, curated an exhibition of American art made between the two world wars while Jack White, internationally recognized artist and former Syracuse resident, will investigate objects pertaining to hand-to-hand sport, such as boxing and wrestling. Roy Simmons Jr., former SU lacrosse coach and an artist in his own right will examine the work of Ivan Mestrovic, the Croatian artist and former professor from SU's School of Art. The director of the Community Folk Arts Center, Dr. Kheli Willetts, will explore visual interrelationships in the ethnographic and art collections through vice and virtue.

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

Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson was the first museum to collect video art, beginning in the early 1970s. Bill Viola, now one of the world's leading video artists, studied at Syracuse University and began his career at the Everson. A selection of historic videos by Bill Viola from the Everson's pioneering video collection will be shown in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court in conjunction with the Urban Video Project (UVP), which will also be featuring Viola this fall.

Designed to Scale--The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series
Everson Museum of Art

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

Designed to Scale, part three of the 2010 New York State Artists Series showcases significant designers from the Central New York region whose work is recognized in the national and international design arenas. Although modest in scale, the exhibition touches on a broad range of innovative design objects—furniture, lighting, commercial products and dining experiences, unique accessories, toys, and surface patterns.

Read a Review!

Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition explores the collaborative design process employed at Herman Miller, the world-renowned furniture company that has used design to solve problems for the home and workplace for almost 90 years. Good Design showcases archival holdings of concept models, drawings, supplementary photographs, and completed masterworks of design in furniture and decorative art produced by Herman Miller, Inc. Works by Gilbert Rohde, Ray and Charles Eames, George Nelson, Alexander Girard, Robert Probst, Bill Stumpf, Don Chadwick, Ayse Birdsel, and other well known designers are featured. The exhibition was organized and is circulated by the Muskegon Museum of Art in association with The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan.

The Original Art of the Funny Papers
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

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

"The Original Art of the Funny Papers," a collection of famous syndicated cartoons, spans the history of the American comic strip. It features 32 original strips from the SU Library's Special Collections Research Center, including Archie, Beetle Bailey, Prince Valiant, Mutt and Jeff, Blondie, Krazy Kat, Moon Mullins, and Hazel. It also includes more than 20 originals on special loan from SU alumni Brad Anderson (Marmaduke), Greg Walker (Beetle Bailey), and Robb Armstrong (Jump Start).

For more information about the exhibition, call 315-442-2542 during gallery hours, or e-mail jmthom01@syr.edu.

Works of Cui Fei
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Born in Jinan, China, Cui received her BFA degree in painting from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China (now China National Academy of Fine Arts) in 1993, and her MFA degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2001. Nature is a recurring theme in Cui's work; an artist mainly known for her abstract Chinese calligraphy and related installations using twigs or thorns. For this exhibit, she will create works on paper using thorns and an installation consisting of salt, as a reference to Syracuse's history. Her work comments on the central role of nature, her Chinese origins, and current practices in the West. The vault will display a healing piece using sand referring to the tradition of sand paintings by Native Americans, Tibetan monks, Indians, Australian Aborigines, and Latin Americans. Though widely exhibited, this is Cui's first solo museum exhibition.

Read a review!

Holding Phenomenae and Object Transitions
Echo

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

Photographs and assemblages by Sarah Averill.

Americans Who Tell the Truth: Paintings by Robert Shetterly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A collection of portraits intended to remind people of the dignity, courage and importance of some of America's truth tellers. Each portrait includes a moving quote by the subject, and a biography is displayed with each painting. One lesson to be learned from all of these Americans is that the greatness of our country frequently depends not on the letter of the law, but the insistence of a single person that we adhere to the spirit of the law.

Short Films Program
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

880,000 Won, by Il Tiyun Kim (animation, Korea, 8 min.)
It's all about money and your girlfriend. Funny and inventive.

Rotunda, by Judith Shatin and Robert Arnold (experimental/documentary, USA, 15 min.)
The history of the rotunda at University of Virginia told through all seasons and times of day and night.

My City Pizza, by Ala Mohseni (short documentary, Iran, 26 min.)
A unique way of expressing the nature of a culture. Pizza is both popular, a sign of modernity, and unpopular, a sign of loss of tradition, in Iranian society.

Guest, by Roy Krispel (short fiction, Israel, 40 min.)
A dark comedy about an obese man who enters a restaurant just before closing and orders everything on the menu.

Alienated; Pizza with Bullets
Syracuse International Film Festival
Featuring Vincent Pastore

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

Alienated, by Paul Borghese (short fiction, USA, 21 min)
Vincent Pastore stars in this comedy as Gino, a mobster paid to do a "job" but who is interrupted by his total belief that he is somehow connected to aliens.

Pizza with Bullets, by Robert Rothbard (fiction, USA, 100 min.)
Starring Vincent Pastore, this comedy is about a dying mob don who believes a pizza parlor owner is his missing son.

Special festival guest Vincent Pastore of Sopranos fame will be attendance.

Short Films Program
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Forget Me Nots, by Dempsey Rice (documentary, USA, 17 min.)
People who suffer from short term memory loss.

Light of Darkness, by Yu-Lun Shih (documentary, USA, 26 min.)
Syracuse graduate Yu Lun Shih's powerful and beautiful film about a father and his physically disabled son.

Kayatsum, by Grigor Harutyunyan (documentary, Armenia, 59 min.)
Without dialogue, images and sounds trace the history of the genocide against Armenia and the many wars the country has endured. A masterpiece of editing.

Formerly Urban: Projecting Rust Belt Futures
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring Adriaan Geuze

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Auditorium
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Keynote address of a two-day conference on the benefits of creating urbanity in weak-market cities. Adriaan Geuze is one of the founders of West 8 urban design and landscape architecture, a leading urban design practice in Europe.

Andrew and Noah VanNordstrand, guitar, fiddle, banjo, and mandolin
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Andrew and Noah VanNorstrand have been bringing their brand of high-energy contemporary acoustic music to concert halls, festival stages, and dance floors across North America for years. Singers, songwriters and multi-instrumentalists, they focus on twin fiddles, acoustic and electric guitars, tenor guitar, mandolin and banjo. Their original music is an organic, rootsy blend of old-time Country, Bluegrass and Americana, Celtic and Appalachian fiddling, alternative Folk-Rock and vintage Swing, dance tunes from New England to New Orleans and various world music influences.

The Mikado excerpts
Syracuse Opera

Price: Free
Jewish Community Center
5655 Thompson Rd., Dewitt

Join Syracuse Opera's artistic staff and principle artists as they discuss and perform highlights from this classic Gilbert & Sullivan Opera.

A Chorus Line
Broadway in Syracuse

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

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Thursday, October 14, 2010

Windows Project: Waking from Dreams of India
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Upstate New York photographer Neil Chowdhury has created works consisting of three digital photomontages (fit to the dimensions of the windows in the Window Projects) and a multichannel video installation (displayed in the Window Projects space) with a soundtrack of Indian classical music, Hindi pop music, and ambient street sound that address contemporary India as well as clichés and the artist's origins.

Bea Nettles Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

These photographic composites deal with the poetic impact of certain landscapes and aspects of classical architecture and art history on the life of Bea Nettles, and how these influences continue to remain in memory, resurfacing at unexpected moments. The photographs are autobiographical. They represent her effort to clarify, to find meaning and significance in daily existence. Often epiphanies often occur while traveling. Bea is particularly interested in recording a sense of place and the selective, multi-layered nature of memory.

Read a review!

The Silent Scream: Conflict in Novels Without Words
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Library has always had a keen interest in all forms of book illustration, and not surprisingly, novels without words became a significant collecting area. Over time, we have amassed a considerable number of the classic specimens in the genre, and the main practitioners of the art form are well represented within our holdings. We developed this exhibition in keeping with the Syracuse Symposium theme for the coming year, "conflict." The artists upon whom we focused are William Gropper, Laurence Hyde, Frans Masereel, Giacomo Patri, John Vassos, and Lynd Ward.

In addition to conflict, novels without words often portray a quest on the part of the individual. This may assume the form of a journey or a saga about the search for self-fulfillment in artistic or purely personal terms, or the quest may have as its primary objective achieving social justice in a particular context. Because of the historical period in which many of these wordless novels were born, they often depict a struggle between the individual and the industrialized world. Industrialization and, by extension, capitalism, may be seen as forces that are fundamentally antagonistic to the interests of the individual and of society in general. Similarly, the law, the police, and the armed forces may all be viewed as instruments of repression in novels without words.

The creators of novels without words also tend to scrutinize the brutal forms of war and tyranny that are made possible by industrialization. In truth, any injustice may become the subject of such works, and perhaps just the cruel nature of our existential struggle to survive in an inherently hostile environment is all the background that is needed to provide the inspiration for the creation of a novel without words.

Honoring The Masters: Works of Ann Milner and Phil DeMocker
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

"Honoring the Masters," featuring Ann Milner's oriental brush painting and Phil DeMocker's origami, is a tribute to artists of the past setting the standards for today's active artists and gallery goers. Highlighted will be "masters" from noted dynasties. The "Mustard Seed Garden Manual, first published in the mid-1600s, will be the reference for some techniques in both learning and creating pieces of Oriental brush painting. Reproductions of work from ancient and more recent masters will show the background and heritage next to current representations of classical subjects and composition.

Origami pieces will represent Phil's favorite designer/folders and will be labeled to explain why he has chosen those artists.

As with most art, copying the work of an established artist is considered distasteful and cheap. While the art of the Orient to copy a master is considered one highest forms of art. Ann Milner is painting in the Sumie style from the Mustard Seed Manual, a comprehensive work of style, structure and form. Phil DeMocker is working from the works of both past and present masters of origami.

Expressions in Paint
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Nikolay Mikushkin: impressionistic traditional landscape and floral oil paintings on canvas
Bobbi Lamb: ceramics finished in a painterly fashion

84th Annual Juried Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Dogs in Transition: Pit Bulls and Mill Dogs
Community Folk Art Center

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

Cyrus Mejia's art focuses on activism and reflects the ideals of kindness and compassion while shining a light on "speciesism, ignorance and cruelty." Mejia is also co-founder of Best Friends Animal Society, which operates the nation's largest sanctuary for homeless animals near the town of Kanab, Utah. Best Friends is especially known for rehabilitating 22 of the pit bulls rescued from NFL quarterback Michael Vick.

"Pits and Perception" is the first series on view, which portrays pit bulls in a manner that challenges modern-day perceptions of the breed. With increased attention toward dog fighting in the media, many view the pit bull as a vicious and aggressive dog. Through his paintings, Mejia challenges these beliefs by forcing the observer to take a closer look and question public perception.

The second collection, "Mill Dogs Revenge," features dogs rescued from commercial breeding facilities, colloquially known as "puppy mills." Victims of physical abuse, emotional trauma and neglect, these dogs are often subjected to cruel conditions because of human greed for profit. Mejia hopes to raise awareness of the cruelty of puppy mills through his art.

Canaltown Suds: Syracuse Breweries of the Canal Era
Erie Canal Museum

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

Pa Bouje Anko (Don't Move Again): Works by Laura Heyman
Light Work Gallery

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

André Eugene, Jean Hérard Céleur, Rònald Bazile, Pierre Isnel Destimare, Leah Gordon, and Myron Beasley organized the Ghetto Biennale in Haiti's capitol Port-au-Prince to ask the question, "What happens when first world art rubs up against third world art?"

For her project, Laura Heyman explored formal portraiture following the example of artists like Mike Disfarmer, James Van Der Zee and Seydou Keita, who used the commercial and utilitarian aspects of their practice to portray their subjects with a consideration and respect that was both clear-eyed and beautiful.

Objects & Atmospheres
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Nathan Sullivan: Paintings and lithographs
Joshua Primmer: Stoneware vessels
Brenda Edwards: Paintings and drawings

Sullivan's oil on panel "Form Series" are masterfully painted, Vermeer-like in their surface quality. His images of suspended or floating tiny organic objects such as seeds are rendered to large scale in chiaroscuro, resulting in their otherworldly presence.

Primmer is exhibiting his intimately scaled stoneware objects and vessels. While one may consider the relatively small scale of his work, it possesses a monumentality usually restricted to large scale work and architecture.

Edwards' depictions in her soft focus drawings and paintings range from sultry atmospheres to luminous mists. They are moments that catch the play of light in their respective environments.

Joan Lukas Rothenberg: A Retrospective
Redhouse

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

Joan Lukas Rothenberg's art involvement began early in her life. As the director of the "Art Squad" at Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, NY, Joan was awarded the New York Society of Illustrators prize for her poster depicting the plight of children in poverty. She studied art at New York City's Cooper Union before earning her Master of Fine Arts in painting and ceramics from the University of Michigan and further study in drawing and printmaking at Royal University College in Stockholm.

In Syracuse, Joan was recognized as both an artist and activist. She was a founding member of the first women's consciousness-raising group which evolved into the Women's Information Center in 1972. She also founded and operated Auragyns, a women's art gallery. Joan was in the process of completing her PhD in Women's Studies at Syracuse University, studying images of women in the media, at the time of her death in 1990.

In celebration of Joan's spirit, tenacity, and vision, Red House will feature a series of group exhibitions promoting local, professional and student women artists. The retrospective will inaugurate this Emerging Women Artist series. The retrospective and the series are both made possible by a grant from the Joan Rothenberg Family Foundation.

The exhibit will be on display by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 for more information or to schedule a viewing.

Read a review!

4x4: Community Curators and the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Four individuals associated with the Syracuse visual arts community were invited to develop an exhibition using works from SU's permanent collection. Nancy Keefe Rhodes, art critic for the City Eagle newspaper, curated an exhibition of American art made between the two world wars while Jack White, internationally recognized artist and former Syracuse resident, will investigate objects pertaining to hand-to-hand sport, such as boxing and wrestling. Roy Simmons Jr., former SU lacrosse coach and an artist in his own right will examine the work of Ivan Mestrovic, the Croatian artist and former professor from SU's School of Art. The director of the Community Folk Arts Center, Dr. Kheli Willetts, will explore visual interrelationships in the ethnographic and art collections through vice and virtue.

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

Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition explores the collaborative design process employed at Herman Miller, the world-renowned furniture company that has used design to solve problems for the home and workplace for almost 90 years. Good Design showcases archival holdings of concept models, drawings, supplementary photographs, and completed masterworks of design in furniture and decorative art produced by Herman Miller, Inc. Works by Gilbert Rohde, Ray and Charles Eames, George Nelson, Alexander Girard, Robert Probst, Bill Stumpf, Don Chadwick, Ayse Birdsel, and other well known designers are featured. The exhibition was organized and is circulated by the Muskegon Museum of Art in association with The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan.

Designed to Scale--The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series
Everson Museum of Art

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

Designed to Scale, part three of the 2010 New York State Artists Series showcases significant designers from the Central New York region whose work is recognized in the national and international design arenas. Although modest in scale, the exhibition touches on a broad range of innovative design objects—furniture, lighting, commercial products and dining experiences, unique accessories, toys, and surface patterns.

Read a Review!

Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson was the first museum to collect video art, beginning in the early 1970s. Bill Viola, now one of the world's leading video artists, studied at Syracuse University and began his career at the Everson. A selection of historic videos by Bill Viola from the Everson's pioneering video collection will be shown in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court in conjunction with the Urban Video Project (UVP), which will also be featuring Viola this fall.

The Original Art of the Funny Papers
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"The Original Art of the Funny Papers," a collection of famous syndicated cartoons, spans the history of the American comic strip. It features 32 original strips from the SU Library's Special Collections Research Center, including Archie, Beetle Bailey, Prince Valiant, Mutt and Jeff, Blondie, Krazy Kat, Moon Mullins, and Hazel. It also includes more than 20 originals on special loan from SU alumni Brad Anderson (Marmaduke), Greg Walker (Beetle Bailey), and Robb Armstrong (Jump Start).

For more information about the exhibition, call 315-442-2542 during gallery hours, or e-mail jmthom01@syr.edu.

Works of Cui Fei
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Born in Jinan, China, Cui received her BFA degree in painting from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China (now China National Academy of Fine Arts) in 1993, and her MFA degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2001. Nature is a recurring theme in Cui's work; an artist mainly known for her abstract Chinese calligraphy and related installations using twigs or thorns. For this exhibit, she will create works on paper using thorns and an installation consisting of salt, as a reference to Syracuse's history. Her work comments on the central role of nature, her Chinese origins, and current practices in the West. The vault will display a healing piece using sand referring to the tradition of sand paintings by Native Americans, Tibetan monks, Indians, Australian Aborigines, and Latin Americans. Though widely exhibited, this is Cui's first solo museum exhibition.

Read a review!

Holding Phenomenae and Object Transitions
Echo

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

Photographs and assemblages by Sarah Averill.

Americans Who Tell the Truth: Paintings by Robert Shetterly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A collection of portraits intended to remind people of the dignity, courage and importance of some of America's truth tellers. Each portrait includes a moving quote by the subject, and a biography is displayed with each painting. One lesson to be learned from all of these Americans is that the greatness of our country frequently depends not on the letter of the law, but the insistence of a single person that we adhere to the spirit of the law.

Bill Viola: Two Women, 2008
Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Video projection installation on exterior wall.

"Two Women" is part of an extended body of Bill Viola's work titled the Transfigurations series. Inspired by his interest in the Buddhist idea of death as a passage to rebirth, Viola has filmed actors drenched in water and consumed by fire. In Viola's slow-motion world, the viewer senses not only the destructive and violent power of the elements but their transformative and cathartic power as well. For "Two Women," the artist created a physical apparatus in his studio that allows the two actors to effortlessly pass through a wall of water. Viola is known for using a minimum of digital effects. The real time for this performance is only moments but the finished video is nine minutes long, allowing viewers time to savor the beauty of the moving water, light, and figures.

The Transfigurations series is often described as visceral. In his writing Viola states, "I want someone to have the experience that is engaging for their mind, but I also want something that is engaging and involving for their body."

Bill Viola: The Quintet of the Astonished, 2000
Urban Video Project

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

Video projection installation on exterior wall.

"The Quintet of the Astonished" shows the unfolding expressions of five actors in such extreme slow motion that every minute detail of their changing facial expressions and movements can be detected. In this piece artist Bill Viola explores the cathartic power within grief, personal suffering, and bereavement.

Viola's work often exhibits a painterly quality and "The Quintet of the Astonished" clearly references his interests in medieval and classical depictions of emotion. In 1998, while a scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute which that year explored the theme of The Passions, Viola revisited images of medieval and renaissance painting, frescoes, and architecture that had influenced him during his time in Florence, Italy in 1974. Having lost both of his parents by the time he was at the Getty, he found himself drawn to images of devotional art that continue to influence his art today.

The Art of Inclusion and "People Like Me" film premier
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

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

SU celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the University's work in inclusive education with a special community celebration presented by the School of Education, Burton Blatt Institute and Lawrence B. Taishoff Center on Inclusive Higher Education.

The evening features the red carpet premier of "People Like Me," a heartwarming and powerful documentary that traces the success of the Young Actors Workshop, an innovative program now in its 18th year that brings actors with various disabilities from the local community together with undergraduate drama students from SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA).

The film, crafted by Steve Davis, Larry Elin, and Douglas Quin, professors in the Newhouse School, focuses on the creative process and forces that have shaped the program into a sustainable, vibrant and innovative community since its founding in 1992.

The evening will include a performance by Sujeet Desai, an accomplished musician with Down syndrome and former workshop member, who worked with composer/musician and VPA senior Nathaniel Stein on the score.

A panel discussion, moderated by Contessa Brewer, will follow. Panelists will discuss the role of the arts in inclusive education and opportunities they offer individuals both with, and without, disabilities.

Lod Detour; Countdown
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Lod Detour, by Orna Raviv (documentary, Israel, 64 min.)
Powerful study of a high school that is the last resort for students who have failed in other schools seen through the eyes of the school principal.

Countdown, by Khatereh Hanachi (documentary, Iran, 52 min.)
An engaging and dramatic look into the life of a high school senior preparing for her college entrance exam. In Iran, most entrants are girls.

Session
Syracuse International Film Festival
Featuring Haim Bouzaglo, Bar Refaeli

Price: $20 regular, $15 students/seniors
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Session, by Haim Bouzaglo (fiction, Israel/USA, 90 min.)
This is a preview screening of Bouzaglo's newest film. Session was shot in Syracuse and includes such locations as Armory Square, Clinton Square, and bc Restaurant. It is a psychological thriller about a bored psychiatrist, Dr. Jake Tellman (Steven Bauer), who passes his days between his work and a love affair with his assistant, a divorced woman with two children, a sort of "family substitute" for him. One day, his routine is disturbed by a beautiful young waitress, Eden (Bar Refaeli) who is working at the sushi bar where he eats everyday. He offers her a complimentary session with him. As the sessions progress, Dr. Tellman becomes more and more obsessed with Eden as she completely loses touch with reality. The film also stars Tom Bower, Liron Levo, and Gillian Buick.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with Haim Bouzaglo, Bar Refaeli, Steven Bauer, and Tom Bower.

Time's Up; Rosenhill; Les Mots Geles
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Time's Up, by Jan Peters and Marie-Catherine Theiler (short fiction, Czech Republic, 15 min.)
Within the timeframe of Marie's pregnancy, the directors examine with wit and irony how today's society deal with time.

Rosenhill, by Johan Lundborg and Johan Storm (short fiction, Sweden, 30 min.)
Very well directed, acted and visualized story about a woman suffering from dementia but thinking she is in danger.

Les Mots Geles, by Isabelle D'Amours (fiction, Canada, 75 min.)
A fascinating psychological drama about a man, Charles, whose mother is non-communicative. Charles lives in an imaginary world.

Chamleleon; It All Begins at Sea
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Chameleon, by Anna Rettberg (animation, USA, 4 min.)
A clever animation about a chameleon's effort to woo the one he desires.

It All Begins at Sea, by Eitan Green (fiction, Israel/Canada, 96 min.)
Coming of age of a family coping with familiar array of life experiences set into three episodes. Beautifully shot and acted.

Gallery Talks
Syracuse University Art Museum
Featuring Community Curators Nancy Keefe Rhodes, Roy Simmons Jr, and Dr. Kheli Willets

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

The Syndicated Cartoonists
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Cartoonists Brad Anderson (Marmaduke), Greg Walker (Beetle Bailey), and Robb Armstrong (Jump Start) will be joined by Bill Janocha (Beetle Bailey) and moderator Joe Glisson for a panel discussion. The cartoonists will discuss their careers, how they work and the business of cartooning.

Paid parking is available for $4 in Booth Garage. To obtain the special rate, patrons should mention that they are attending the lecture.

Bill Viola in Conversation with David Ross
Everson Museum of Art

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

A conversation with Bill Viola and David Ross, followed by a reception on the Everson Community Plaza. The Quintet of the Astonished (2000), a video installation by Bill Viola, will be projected on the outside of the Museum.

The Russians
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Ron Spigelman, conductor
Featuring Chu-Fang Huang, piano

Price: Free (no tickets required)
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Glinka Russlan and Ludmilla Overture
Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 2 in C minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 18
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36

The concert is part of the expanded partnership between the SSO and Syracuse University, which supports the SSO's 2010-11 season — the orchestra's 50th anniversary.

Patrons may park for free in Irving Garage.

For more information, contact Jennifer Luzzo, SSO Public Relations Coordinator, at 315-424-8222 ext. 261 or jluzzo@syracusesymphony.org.

Lotus, with Mux Mool and Pax Effex
Westcott Theater

Price: $20
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

An Evening with Max Weinberg
Hillel at SU

Price: $5; tickets required -- purchase at Schine box office
Schine Underground, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Drummer Max Weinberg, who the New York Times calls "the rhythmic backbone of [Bruce Springsteen's] E Street Band," is one of the most visible and recorded drummers of the late 20th century.

Weinberg will perform and discuss his role as a drummer with the E-Street Band, his leadership of The Max Weinberg 7 on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," and The Tonight Show Band on "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien," and how his Jewish background has influenced his career.

As a special treat, Weinberg has invited local band the Northbound Traveling Minstrel Jug Band, to jam with him. Four students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts formed the band in 2009. Members Aaron Gittleman (vocals/acoustic guitar/banjo/harmonica), Adam Cohen (lead guitar/mandolin), Lucas Sacks (bass/acoustic guitar) and Dan DiPasquale (drums/bass) combine their love of The Band, Little Feat, Avett Brothers and Allman Brothers for a modern take on Americana and roots music. They play acoustic, folk-infused, bluegrass and jam-based, blues-rock, creating a dynamic not often seen in live music today.

Free parking at Booth Garage (closes at 11:30 p.m.), Waverly and Marion lots.

My Dead Lady
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive comedy/mystery dinner theater.

Professor Barry Biggins has a problem. Azalia Dimwittle has completely failed every attempt to elevate her from Cockney flower girl to aristocratic lady. She simply hasn’t gotten it, never will get it, and now everyone has just about had it. To make matters worse, she’s invited you and the rest of her conniving family over to the Professor's house for her father's birthday party. By George, I think she's going to get it (if she doesn't get them first).

A Chorus Line
Broadway in Syracuse

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

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[title of show]
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

[title of show] is a musical about two nobodies named Hunter and Jeff who decide to write a completely original musical starring themselves and their attractive and talented ladyfriends. Their musical, [title of show], gets into the New York Musical Theatre Festival, then off-Broadway. Then it's announced that their musical is going to Broadway!

Written by Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell; musical director Roy George. The cast features Julia Berger, Shawn Forster, Aubry Panek, and Dana Sovocool.

This show is intended for mature audiences only.

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Friday, October 15, 2010

Windows Project: Waking from Dreams of India
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Upstate New York photographer Neil Chowdhury has created works consisting of three digital photomontages (fit to the dimensions of the windows in the Window Projects) and a multichannel video installation (displayed in the Window Projects space) with a soundtrack of Indian classical music, Hindi pop music, and ambient street sound that address contemporary India as well as clichés and the artist's origins.

Ed Smith: "The Labors"
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

An exhibition of drawing and sculpture by Guggenheim Fellow Ed Smith. His work has been exhibited here and abroad, including at the British Museum, Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Begium, and at Yale University.

Bea Nettles Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

These photographic composites deal with the poetic impact of certain landscapes and aspects of classical architecture and art history on the life of Bea Nettles, and how these influences continue to remain in memory, resurfacing at unexpected moments. The photographs are autobiographical. They represent her effort to clarify, to find meaning and significance in daily existence. Often epiphanies often occur while traveling. Bea is particularly interested in recording a sense of place and the selective, multi-layered nature of memory.

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La Colección/The Collection: Exhibit 1
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A special program to commemorate Point of Contact's 35th anniversary and The Point of Contact Gallery's 5th -- a show of the entire permanent collection in five exhibitions starting in September 2010.

Exhibit 1: Works of Burt Barr, Papo Colo, Gregory Crewdson, Judy Pfaff, Rob Van Erve, Sandy Skoglund

The Silent Scream: Conflict in Novels Without Words
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Library has always had a keen interest in all forms of book illustration, and not surprisingly, novels without words became a significant collecting area. Over time, we have amassed a considerable number of the classic specimens in the genre, and the main practitioners of the art form are well represented within our holdings. We developed this exhibition in keeping with the Syracuse Symposium theme for the coming year, "conflict." The artists upon whom we focused are William Gropper, Laurence Hyde, Frans Masereel, Giacomo Patri, John Vassos, and Lynd Ward.

In addition to conflict, novels without words often portray a quest on the part of the individual. This may assume the form of a journey or a saga about the search for self-fulfillment in artistic or purely personal terms, or the quest may have as its primary objective achieving social justice in a particular context. Because of the historical period in which many of these wordless novels were born, they often depict a struggle between the individual and the industrialized world. Industrialization and, by extension, capitalism, may be seen as forces that are fundamentally antagonistic to the interests of the individual and of society in general. Similarly, the law, the police, and the armed forces may all be viewed as instruments of repression in novels without words.

The creators of novels without words also tend to scrutinize the brutal forms of war and tyranny that are made possible by industrialization. In truth, any injustice may become the subject of such works, and perhaps just the cruel nature of our existential struggle to survive in an inherently hostile environment is all the background that is needed to provide the inspiration for the creation of a novel without words.

Honoring The Masters: Works of Ann Milner and Phil DeMocker
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

"Honoring the Masters," featuring Ann Milner's oriental brush painting and Phil DeMocker's origami, is a tribute to artists of the past setting the standards for today's active artists and gallery goers. Highlighted will be "masters" from noted dynasties. The "Mustard Seed Garden Manual, first published in the mid-1600s, will be the reference for some techniques in both learning and creating pieces of Oriental brush painting. Reproductions of work from ancient and more recent masters will show the background and heritage next to current representations of classical subjects and composition.

Origami pieces will represent Phil's favorite designer/folders and will be labeled to explain why he has chosen those artists.

As with most art, copying the work of an established artist is considered distasteful and cheap. While the art of the Orient to copy a master is considered one highest forms of art. Ann Milner is painting in the Sumie style from the Mustard Seed Manual, a comprehensive work of style, structure and form. Phil DeMocker is working from the works of both past and present masters of origami.

Expressions in Paint
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Nikolay Mikushkin: impressionistic traditional landscape and floral oil paintings on canvas
Bobbi Lamb: ceramics finished in a painterly fashion

84th Annual Juried Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Dogs in Transition: Pit Bulls and Mill Dogs
Community Folk Art Center

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

Cyrus Mejia's art focuses on activism and reflects the ideals of kindness and compassion while shining a light on "speciesism, ignorance and cruelty." Mejia is also co-founder of Best Friends Animal Society, which operates the nation's largest sanctuary for homeless animals near the town of Kanab, Utah. Best Friends is especially known for rehabilitating 22 of the pit bulls rescued from NFL quarterback Michael Vick.

"Pits and Perception" is the first series on view, which portrays pit bulls in a manner that challenges modern-day perceptions of the breed. With increased attention toward dog fighting in the media, many view the pit bull as a vicious and aggressive dog. Through his paintings, Mejia challenges these beliefs by forcing the observer to take a closer look and question public perception.

The second collection, "Mill Dogs Revenge," features dogs rescued from commercial breeding facilities, colloquially known as "puppy mills." Victims of physical abuse, emotional trauma and neglect, these dogs are often subjected to cruel conditions because of human greed for profit. Mejia hopes to raise awareness of the cruelty of puppy mills through his art.

Canaltown Suds: Syracuse Breweries of the Canal Era
Erie Canal Museum

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

Pa Bouje Anko (Don't Move Again): Works by Laura Heyman
Light Work Gallery

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

André Eugene, Jean Hérard Céleur, Rònald Bazile, Pierre Isnel Destimare, Leah Gordon, and Myron Beasley organized the Ghetto Biennale in Haiti's capitol Port-au-Prince to ask the question, "What happens when first world art rubs up against third world art?"

For her project, Laura Heyman explored formal portraiture following the example of artists like Mike Disfarmer, James Van Der Zee and Seydou Keita, who used the commercial and utilitarian aspects of their practice to portray their subjects with a consideration and respect that was both clear-eyed and beautiful.

Objects & Atmospheres
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Nathan Sullivan: Paintings and lithographs
Joshua Primmer: Stoneware vessels
Brenda Edwards: Paintings and drawings

Sullivan's oil on panel "Form Series" are masterfully painted, Vermeer-like in their surface quality. His images of suspended or floating tiny organic objects such as seeds are rendered to large scale in chiaroscuro, resulting in their otherworldly presence.

Primmer is exhibiting his intimately scaled stoneware objects and vessels. While one may consider the relatively small scale of his work, it possesses a monumentality usually restricted to large scale work and architecture.

Edwards' depictions in her soft focus drawings and paintings range from sultry atmospheres to luminous mists. They are moments that catch the play of light in their respective environments.

Joan Lukas Rothenberg: A Retrospective
Redhouse

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

Joan Lukas Rothenberg's art involvement began early in her life. As the director of the "Art Squad" at Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, NY, Joan was awarded the New York Society of Illustrators prize for her poster depicting the plight of children in poverty. She studied art at New York City's Cooper Union before earning her Master of Fine Arts in painting and ceramics from the University of Michigan and further study in drawing and printmaking at Royal University College in Stockholm.

In Syracuse, Joan was recognized as both an artist and activist. She was a founding member of the first women's consciousness-raising group which evolved into the Women's Information Center in 1972. She also founded and operated Auragyns, a women's art gallery. Joan was in the process of completing her PhD in Women's Studies at Syracuse University, studying images of women in the media, at the time of her death in 1990.

In celebration of Joan's spirit, tenacity, and vision, Red House will feature a series of group exhibitions promoting local, professional and student women artists. The retrospective will inaugurate this Emerging Women Artist series. The retrospective and the series are both made possible by a grant from the Joan Rothenberg Family Foundation.

The exhibit will be on display by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 for more information or to schedule a viewing.

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A Sense of Place: The Real Central New York Landscape
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"A Sense of Place: The Real Central New York Landscape" is a different kind of landscape exhibition. The show features painting, photography, and mixed-media art by Central New York artists that explores the interaction between the local landscape and human activity.

Exhibiting artists include Steven Barbash, Rayburn Beale, Willson Cummer, Brenda Edwards, Bob Gates, Nancy Kramer, Jared Landberg, Sarah McCoubrey, Diane Menzies, Phil Parsons, and Lucie Wellner.

4x4: Community Curators and the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Four individuals associated with the Syracuse visual arts community were invited to develop an exhibition using works from SU's permanent collection. Nancy Keefe Rhodes, art critic for the City Eagle newspaper, curated an exhibition of American art made between the two world wars while Jack White, internationally recognized artist and former Syracuse resident, will investigate objects pertaining to hand-to-hand sport, such as boxing and wrestling. Roy Simmons Jr., former SU lacrosse coach and an artist in his own right will examine the work of Ivan Mestrovic, the Croatian artist and former professor from SU's School of Art. The director of the Community Folk Arts Center, Dr. Kheli Willetts, will explore visual interrelationships in the ethnographic and art collections through vice and virtue.

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

Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson was the first museum to collect video art, beginning in the early 1970s. Bill Viola, now one of the world's leading video artists, studied at Syracuse University and began his career at the Everson. A selection of historic videos by Bill Viola from the Everson's pioneering video collection will be shown in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court in conjunction with the Urban Video Project (UVP), which will also be featuring Viola this fall.

Designed to Scale--The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series
Everson Museum of Art

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

Designed to Scale, part three of the 2010 New York State Artists Series showcases significant designers from the Central New York region whose work is recognized in the national and international design arenas. Although modest in scale, the exhibition touches on a broad range of innovative design objects—furniture, lighting, commercial products and dining experiences, unique accessories, toys, and surface patterns.

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Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition explores the collaborative design process employed at Herman Miller, the world-renowned furniture company that has used design to solve problems for the home and workplace for almost 90 years. Good Design showcases archival holdings of concept models, drawings, supplementary photographs, and completed masterworks of design in furniture and decorative art produced by Herman Miller, Inc. Works by Gilbert Rohde, Ray and Charles Eames, George Nelson, Alexander Girard, Robert Probst, Bill Stumpf, Don Chadwick, Ayse Birdsel, and other well known designers are featured. The exhibition was organized and is circulated by the Muskegon Museum of Art in association with The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

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

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

The Original Art of the Funny Papers
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"The Original Art of the Funny Papers," a collection of famous syndicated cartoons, spans the history of the American comic strip. It features 32 original strips from the SU Library's Special Collections Research Center, including Archie, Beetle Bailey, Prince Valiant, Mutt and Jeff, Blondie, Krazy Kat, Moon Mullins, and Hazel. It also includes more than 20 originals on special loan from SU alumni Brad Anderson (Marmaduke), Greg Walker (Beetle Bailey), and Robb Armstrong (Jump Start).

For more information about the exhibition, call 315-442-2542 during gallery hours, or e-mail jmthom01@syr.edu.

Works of Cui Fei
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Born in Jinan, China, Cui received her BFA degree in painting from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China (now China National Academy of Fine Arts) in 1993, and her MFA degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2001. Nature is a recurring theme in Cui's work; an artist mainly known for her abstract Chinese calligraphy and related installations using twigs or thorns. For this exhibit, she will create works on paper using thorns and an installation consisting of salt, as a reference to Syracuse's history. Her work comments on the central role of nature, her Chinese origins, and current practices in the West. The vault will display a healing piece using sand referring to the tradition of sand paintings by Native Americans, Tibetan monks, Indians, Australian Aborigines, and Latin Americans. Though widely exhibited, this is Cui's first solo museum exhibition.

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Holding Phenomenae and Object Transitions
Echo

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

Photographs and assemblages by Sarah Averill.

Americans Who Tell the Truth: Paintings by Robert Shetterly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A collection of portraits intended to remind people of the dignity, courage and importance of some of America's truth tellers. Each portrait includes a moving quote by the subject, and a biography is displayed with each painting. One lesson to be learned from all of these Americans is that the greatness of our country frequently depends not on the letter of the law, but the insistence of a single person that we adhere to the spirit of the law.

Bill Viola: The Quintet of the Astonished, 2000
Urban Video Project

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

Video projection installation on exterior wall.

"The Quintet of the Astonished" shows the unfolding expressions of five actors in such extreme slow motion that every minute detail of their changing facial expressions and movements can be detected. In this piece artist Bill Viola explores the cathartic power within grief, personal suffering, and bereavement.

Viola's work often exhibits a painterly quality and "The Quintet of the Astonished" clearly references his interests in medieval and classical depictions of emotion. In 1998, while a scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute which that year explored the theme of The Passions, Viola revisited images of medieval and renaissance painting, frescoes, and architecture that had influenced him during his time in Florence, Italy in 1974. Having lost both of his parents by the time he was at the Getty, he found himself drawn to images of devotional art that continue to influence his art today.

Bill Viola: Two Women, 2008
Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Video projection installation on exterior wall.

"Two Women" is part of an extended body of Bill Viola's work titled the Transfigurations series. Inspired by his interest in the Buddhist idea of death as a passage to rebirth, Viola has filmed actors drenched in water and consumed by fire. In Viola's slow-motion world, the viewer senses not only the destructive and violent power of the elements but their transformative and cathartic power as well. For "Two Women," the artist created a physical apparatus in his studio that allows the two actors to effortlessly pass through a wall of water. Viola is known for using a minimum of digital effects. The real time for this performance is only moments but the finished video is nine minutes long, allowing viewers time to savor the beauty of the moving water, light, and figures.

The Transfigurations series is often described as visceral. In his writing Viola states, "I want someone to have the experience that is engaging for their mind, but I also want something that is engaging and involving for their body."

Human Error
Syracuse International Film Festival
Featuring Robert M. Young

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

Human Error, by Robert M. Young (fiction, USA, 95 min.)
A weird, imaginative, funny Brazil-like look at three men working at a factory in a toxic environment as they vie for power and manipulate one another. Starring Tom Bower, Robert Knott and Xander Berkeley.

Robert M. Young is this year's Lifelong Achievement Honoree. Tom Bower and Robert Knott who will join Bob in discussion following the screening.

Swimming Pool; Long Distance; Stay Away a Little Closer
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Swimming Pool, by Alexandra Hetmerova (animation, Czech Republic, 7 min.)
A man warns kid playing in a pool he also wants to swim.

Long Distance, by Amikam Goldberg (documentary, Israel, 55 min.)
Every weekend the pay phones in Tel Aviv come alive as migrant workers call home. The film presents its subject in a highly innovative style and structure.

Stay Away a Little Closer, Rick Rogers (short documentary, USA, 50 min.)
Known for his off Broadway success A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, playwright John Ford Noonan went on to face demons of drug addiction and alcoholism. A totally engaging film about a major playwright.

The Lodger: Silent Film & Cool Jazz
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $20 regular, $15 seniors/Le Moyne College faculty and staff, $10 students
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Silent Film and Cool Jazz is a live-music event pairing Hitchcock's little-known film The Lodger, based on the story of the hunt for Jack the Ripper, with original music composed and performed by jazz saxophone player Javon Jackson, with Paul Merrill, trumpet; Claire Tuxill McKenney, French horn; Matt Wright, trombone; Bridget Moriarty, vocalist; with members of Javon Jackson's ensemble, led by saxophonist/composer Jackson, a former Art Blakey Jazz Messengers' sideman.

Outdoor Screening: Taste The Revolution
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: Free
Al's Wine & Whiskey Lounge
321 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Taste the Revolution, by Buthina Canaan Khoury (documentary, Palestine/USA, 27 min.)
Entrepreneurship in Iran as a family brews great beer and takes it to pubs and restaurants across the Israeli-guarded border.

Rampage
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

Rampage, George Gittoes (documentary, Australia/USA, 118 min.)
What the documentary achieves is a raw look at a part of America we usually only see on COPS or in a Hollywood version. There is obvious negativity in these ganglands but Rampage shows us the positive side, which is a fertile place of creativity and culture. Rap music proves to be enmeshed in the lives of these young people. Rampage shows us where this music comes from.

The screening will be followed by a Skype Q&A with George Gittoes live from Afghanistan.

Just Watch; Homewrecka; Sand
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Just Watch, by Sejong University (animation, Korea, 4 min.)
An adult look at television.

Homewrecka, by Joey Huertas (experimental/documentary, USA, 30 min.)
A unique, powerful, imaginative look a the life of domestic violence.

Sand, by Rob Nilsson (fiction, USA, 85 min.)
An acting tour de force about a 70-year-old woman and her 40-ish lover. The film is raw, inventive, and very powerful.

Slap; Baby Blues; Protektor
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Slap, by Grant Barbeito (fiction, USA, 8 min.)
Two auto mechanics argue politics in this fast and funny satire.

Baby Blues, by Elizabeth Greene (experimental, USA, 9 min.)
By SU grad Elizabeth Green, this is a poetic, emotional exploration of a racially mixed marriage and motherhood.

Protektor, by Marek Najbrt (fiction, Czech Republic/Germany, 98 min.)
Nominated for an Academy Award. Set at the beginning of WWII, a Jewish actress and her non-Jewish radio announcer husband struggle to survive the approaching take over of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis.

Puskas Hungary
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

Puskas Hungary, by Tamás Almási (documentary, Hungary, 118 min.)
A great film about the legendary soccer player and the politics and wars surrounding his career in Hungary, Spain, and Argentina.

Blue Velvet
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Blue Velvet, by David Lynch (fiction, USA, 120 min.)
After finding a severed human ear in a field, a young man soon discovers a sinister underworld lying just beneath his idyllic suburban home town.

Artist Talk and Reception
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Artist Ed Smith will speak about his work at 4:00, followed by an opening reception for his art exhibit, "The Labors," 4:40-6:00 pm.

The Great Lakes Guitar Society

Price: Free; donations accepted
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

The Great Lakes Guitar Society will open its inaugural season with a benefit concert. This is the first in a series of three concerts presented by the society that will take place on that weekend.

The three founders of the society, Michael Hardy, Kenneth Meyer, and Evan Drummond, will be performing in Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo to raise awareness and money for the organization whose purpose is to foster an appreciation of the guitar and its repertoire throughout the Great Lakes region of the United States.

This organization is unique in the upstate music scene in that it will encompass the entire area that includes Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo. Additionally, the founders are all well respected teachers and performers in the guitar world. Michael Hardy, the director of the society, has earned degrees from the Peabody Conservatory and the University of Texas and has just recently moved to Rochester. Kenneth Meyer has a Doctorate from the Eastman School of Music and is the professor of guitar at Syracuse University. Evan Drummond is a Doctoral candidate at Eastman and is currently the guitar professor at Buffalo State College. Their goal is to bring a high level of education and performance of the guitar to upstate and also give top performers from around the world a platform with which to reach a larger upstate audience.

For more information about the society or other upcoming concerts, please phone 585-413-4337 or visit www.greatlakesguitarsociety.org.

Kris Delmhorst
Folkus Project

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

With one of the most distinctive voices in American music, Kris Delmhorst writes songs that are elegant, adventurous, lucid, and haunting. Transcending genres and ranging into the borderlands between indie-rock and folk, Delmhorst is a seasoned musician who has found a musical language and means of expression equal to her vision. Her gracefully open lyrics and figures create a casual tone that is carefree and beautiful in its simplicity. Favoring perceptions over conclusions, and showing a willingness to evoke emotion but not pin it down, she leaves the mystery of creation intact at the heart of each song.

Ramsey Lewis Trio
Onondaga Community College

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

Chicago jazz legend Ramsey Lewis is a phenomenal performer and a singular artist who's been captivating fans since the release of his first album, "Ramsey Lewis and the Gentlemen of Swing," by the Ramsey Lewis Trio. By the mid 1960s, he was one of the nation's most successful jazz pianists, topping the charts with smash hits such as "The In Crowd," "Hang on Sloopy," and "Wade in the Water." With three Grammy Awards and seven gold records to his credit, Lewis has been dubbed by many as a living legend. His Syracuse performance will feature his veteran trio sidemen, bassist Larry Gray and drummer Leon Joyce. Together, the trio has played all of the nation's premiere jazz festivals, toured with more than 25 symphony orchestras in the U.S. and Canada, and performed in concert and at jazz festivals worldwide in Europe, Japan, Mexico and the Caribbean.

For ticket information regarding the Legends of Jazz Series, phone 315-498-2787. Tickets are limited and are on a first come first serve basis.

Sharon Van Etten with Sarah Aument
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

Sharon Van Etten is a Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter who is making a stop in Syracuse during her transition from touring with Bowerbirds to touring with Junip (José González project). Van Etten also opened up the Pitchfork Music Festival in July. She released her new album "Epic" in September of 2010.

Sarah Aument is a Syracuse-based singer/songwriter who has been enchanting audiences all over the east coast. She is currently touring in support of her debut full-length album Vertical Lines.

There will be a special opening performance by Yoni Gordon. Yoni Gordon is a singer/songwriter and, moreover, a performer, releasing an album of swampy, spooky, stompy, gospel, country campfire songs. As part of this theme, Yoni will be performing his unique brand of music 20x10' tent in the lawn area behind Spark.

Ghostface Killah, with Sheek Louch (of The Lox), Frank Dukes, DJ Afar, Lifelong, Myles P.
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Peter Makuck and David Lloyd, poets
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Peter Makuck taught at East Carolina University from 1976-2006. Founder of Tar River Poetry and its editor for almost 30 years, he was the English department's first Distinguished Professor. His latest book of poems is Long Lens: New and Selected Poems (BOA Editions, 2010). He is also the author of four previous books of poems, four poetry chapbooks, and two collections of short stories, and co-editor of a book of essays, An Open World, on the Welsh poet Leslie Norris.

David Lloyd directs the Creative Writing Program for the English Department at Le Moyne College. His most recent books include The Everyday Apocalypse (Three Conditions Press, 2002); The Gospel According to Frank (New American Press, 2003); Boys: Stories and a Novella (Syracuse University Press, 2004); and Other Land: Contemporary Poems on Wales and Welsh-American Experience (Parthian Books, 2008). In 2009, New American Press issued an expanded version of The Gospel According to Frank.

[title of show]
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

[title of show] is a musical about two nobodies named Hunter and Jeff who decide to write a completely original musical starring themselves and their attractive and talented ladyfriends. Their musical, [title of show], gets into the New York Musical Theatre Festival, then off-Broadway. Then it's announced that their musical is going to Broadway!

Written by Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell; musical director Roy George. The cast features Julia Berger, Shawn Forster, Aubry Panek, and Dana Sovocool.

This show is intended for mature audiences only.

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Saturday, October 16, 2010

Windows Project: Waking from Dreams of India
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Upstate New York photographer Neil Chowdhury has created works consisting of three digital photomontages (fit to the dimensions of the windows in the Window Projects) and a multichannel video installation (displayed in the Window Projects space) with a soundtrack of Indian classical music, Hindi pop music, and ambient street sound that address contemporary India as well as clichés and the artist's origins.

Ed Smith: "The Labors"
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

An exhibition of drawing and sculpture by Guggenheim Fellow Ed Smith. His work has been exhibited here and abroad, including at the British Museum, Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Begium, and at Yale University.

84th Annual Juried Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Holding Phenomenae and Object Transitions
Echo

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

Photographs and assemblages by Sarah Averill.

Expressions in Paint
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Nikolay Mikushkin: impressionistic traditional landscape and floral oil paintings on canvas
Bobbi Lamb: ceramics finished in a painterly fashion

Canaltown Suds: Syracuse Breweries of the Canal Era
Erie Canal Museum

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

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

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

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

Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition explores the collaborative design process employed at Herman Miller, the world-renowned furniture company that has used design to solve problems for the home and workplace for almost 90 years. Good Design showcases archival holdings of concept models, drawings, supplementary photographs, and completed masterworks of design in furniture and decorative art produced by Herman Miller, Inc. Works by Gilbert Rohde, Ray and Charles Eames, George Nelson, Alexander Girard, Robert Probst, Bill Stumpf, Don Chadwick, Ayse Birdsel, and other well known designers are featured. The exhibition was organized and is circulated by the Muskegon Museum of Art in association with The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan.

Designed to Scale--The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series
Everson Museum of Art

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

Designed to Scale, part three of the 2010 New York State Artists Series showcases significant designers from the Central New York region whose work is recognized in the national and international design arenas. Although modest in scale, the exhibition touches on a broad range of innovative design objects—furniture, lighting, commercial products and dining experiences, unique accessories, toys, and surface patterns.

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Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson was the first museum to collect video art, beginning in the early 1970s. Bill Viola, now one of the world's leading video artists, studied at Syracuse University and began his career at the Everson. A selection of historic videos by Bill Viola from the Everson's pioneering video collection will be shown in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court in conjunction with the Urban Video Project (UVP), which will also be featuring Viola this fall.

Christian Dior 1947-1957
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Seven original designs by the late fashion icon Christian Dior are on view in the exhibition "Christian Dior 1947-1957." The exhibition documents and honors the memory of Dior, who began his design house in 1947 in post-World War II Paris and ruled the fashion world until his death in 1957. The outfits featured are taken from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection and the Martha M. Caldwell Costume Collection, which are housed in the fashion design program at Syracuse University.

Dogs in Transition: Pit Bulls and Mill Dogs
Community Folk Art Center

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

Cyrus Mejia's art focuses on activism and reflects the ideals of kindness and compassion while shining a light on "speciesism, ignorance and cruelty." Mejia is also co-founder of Best Friends Animal Society, which operates the nation's largest sanctuary for homeless animals near the town of Kanab, Utah. Best Friends is especially known for rehabilitating 22 of the pit bulls rescued from NFL quarterback Michael Vick.

"Pits and Perception" is the first series on view, which portrays pit bulls in a manner that challenges modern-day perceptions of the breed. With increased attention toward dog fighting in the media, many view the pit bull as a vicious and aggressive dog. Through his paintings, Mejia challenges these beliefs by forcing the observer to take a closer look and question public perception.

The second collection, "Mill Dogs Revenge," features dogs rescued from commercial breeding facilities, colloquially known as "puppy mills." Victims of physical abuse, emotional trauma and neglect, these dogs are often subjected to cruel conditions because of human greed for profit. Mejia hopes to raise awareness of the cruelty of puppy mills through his art.

A Sense of Place: The Real Central New York Landscape
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

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

"A Sense of Place: The Real Central New York Landscape" is a different kind of landscape exhibition. The show features painting, photography, and mixed-media art by Central New York artists that explores the interaction between the local landscape and human activity.

Exhibiting artists include Steven Barbash, Rayburn Beale, Willson Cummer, Brenda Edwards, Bob Gates, Nancy Kramer, Jared Landberg, Sarah McCoubrey, Diane Menzies, Phil Parsons, and Lucie Wellner.

4x4: Community Curators and the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Four individuals associated with the Syracuse visual arts community were invited to develop an exhibition using works from SU's permanent collection. Nancy Keefe Rhodes, art critic for the City Eagle newspaper, curated an exhibition of American art made between the two world wars while Jack White, internationally recognized artist and former Syracuse resident, will investigate objects pertaining to hand-to-hand sport, such as boxing and wrestling. Roy Simmons Jr., former SU lacrosse coach and an artist in his own right will examine the work of Ivan Mestrovic, the Croatian artist and former professor from SU's School of Art. The director of the Community Folk Arts Center, Dr. Kheli Willetts, will explore visual interrelationships in the ethnographic and art collections through vice and virtue.

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

Americans Who Tell the Truth: Paintings by Robert Shetterly
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A collection of portraits intended to remind people of the dignity, courage and importance of some of America's truth tellers. Each portrait includes a moving quote by the subject, and a biography is displayed with each painting. One lesson to be learned from all of these Americans is that the greatness of our country frequently depends not on the letter of the law, but the insistence of a single person that we adhere to the spirit of the law.

Objects & Atmospheres
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Nathan Sullivan: Paintings and lithographs
Joshua Primmer: Stoneware vessels
Brenda Edwards: Paintings and drawings

Sullivan's oil on panel "Form Series" are masterfully painted, Vermeer-like in their surface quality. His images of suspended or floating tiny organic objects such as seeds are rendered to large scale in chiaroscuro, resulting in their otherworldly presence.

Primmer is exhibiting his intimately scaled stoneware objects and vessels. While one may consider the relatively small scale of his work, it possesses a monumentality usually restricted to large scale work and architecture.

Edwards' depictions in her soft focus drawings and paintings range from sultry atmospheres to luminous mists. They are moments that catch the play of light in their respective environments.

The Original Art of the Funny Papers
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"The Original Art of the Funny Papers," a collection of famous syndicated cartoons, spans the history of the American comic strip. It features 32 original strips from the SU Library's Special Collections Research Center, including Archie, Beetle Bailey, Prince Valiant, Mutt and Jeff, Blondie, Krazy Kat, Moon Mullins, and Hazel. It also includes more than 20 originals on special loan from SU alumni Brad Anderson (Marmaduke), Greg Walker (Beetle Bailey), and Robb Armstrong (Jump Start).

For more information about the exhibition, call 315-442-2542 during gallery hours, or e-mail jmthom01@syr.edu.

Works of Cui Fei
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Born in Jinan, China, Cui received her BFA degree in painting from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China (now China National Academy of Fine Arts) in 1993, and her MFA degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2001. Nature is a recurring theme in Cui's work; an artist mainly known for her abstract Chinese calligraphy and related installations using twigs or thorns. For this exhibit, she will create works on paper using thorns and an installation consisting of salt, as a reference to Syracuse's history. Her work comments on the central role of nature, her Chinese origins, and current practices in the West. The vault will display a healing piece using sand referring to the tradition of sand paintings by Native Americans, Tibetan monks, Indians, Australian Aborigines, and Latin Americans. Though widely exhibited, this is Cui's first solo museum exhibition.

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Bill Viola: Two Women, 2008
Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Video projection installation on exterior wall.

"Two Women" is part of an extended body of Bill Viola's work titled the Transfigurations series. Inspired by his interest in the Buddhist idea of death as a passage to rebirth, Viola has filmed actors drenched in water and consumed by fire. In Viola's slow-motion world, the viewer senses not only the destructive and violent power of the elements but their transformative and cathartic power as well. For "Two Women," the artist created a physical apparatus in his studio that allows the two actors to effortlessly pass through a wall of water. Viola is known for using a minimum of digital effects. The real time for this performance is only moments but the finished video is nine minutes long, allowing viewers time to savor the beauty of the moving water, light, and figures.

The Transfigurations series is often described as visceral. In his writing Viola states, "I want someone to have the experience that is engaging for their mind, but I also want something that is engaging and involving for their body."

Bill Viola: The Quintet of the Astonished, 2000
Urban Video Project

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

Video projection installation on exterior wall.

"The Quintet of the Astonished" shows the unfolding expressions of five actors in such extreme slow motion that every minute detail of their changing facial expressions and movements can be detected. In this piece artist Bill Viola explores the cathartic power within grief, personal suffering, and bereavement.

Viola's work often exhibits a painterly quality and "The Quintet of the Astonished" clearly references his interests in medieval and classical depictions of emotion. In 1998, while a scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute which that year explored the theme of The Passions, Viola revisited images of medieval and renaissance painting, frescoes, and architecture that had influenced him during his time in Florence, Italy in 1974. Having lost both of his parents by the time he was at the Getty, he found himself drawn to images of devotional art that continue to influence his art today.

Vivir de Pie (Living on Your Feet)
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Vivir de Pie, by Valenti Figueras (documentary, Spain, 124 min.)
It is the life of a bricklayer who commanded the 4th army corps during the Spanish Civil War and who defeated Mussolini’s generals; a general who took up the trowel again after the war, but who remained firm in his objective: to kill Franco.

Part of the Fourth Annual Series on Global Cinema and Social Justice — Fall 2010: Culture and Identity.

Defining Beauty: Ms. Wheelchair America
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Defining Beauty: Ms. Wheelchair America, by Alexis Ostrander (documentary, USA, 90 min.)
Entertaining and thought-provoking women from 27 states, with differing disabilities, vie for the honor of becoming Ms. Wheelchair America.

Yesanjok Animation Project; Prank
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Yesanjok Animation Project, by Seung-il Chon (animation, Korea, 13 min.)
A wonderful music score accompanies this cut out animation.

Prank (Tréfa), by Péter Gárdos (fiction, Hungary, 94 min.)
This is a strong social commentary film. In a small parish school run by priests the pupils become increasingly outlandish and destructive in their pranks.

Puskas Hungary
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Puskas Hungary, by Tamás Almási (documentary, Hungary, 118 min.)
A great film about the legendary soccer player and the politics and wars surrounding his career in Hungary, Spain, and Argentina.

Part of the Fourth Annual Series on Global Cinema and Social Justice — Fall 2010: Culture and Identity.

Wretches and Jabberers
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Wretches and Jabberers, by Gerardine Wurzburg (documentary, USA, 94 min.)
Two men with autism embark on a global quest to change prevailing attitudes about disability and intelligence. With limited speech, Tracy Thresher, 42, and Larry Bissonnette, 52, both faced lives of mute isolation in mental institutions or adult disability centers. When they learned as adults to communicate by typing, their lives changed dramatically. The latest film produced by Doug Biklen, Dean of Syracuse University School of Education.

Danis; 8:00 AM; Days of Harvest (I Giorni della Vendemmia)
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Danis, by Sejong University (animation, Korea, 7 min.)
An "office" story about a despondent worker.

8:00 AM, by Pablo Ortega (fiction, Spain, 11 min.)
A clever little film about love and voyeurism.

Days of Harvest (I Giorni della Vendemmia), by Marco Righi (fiction, Italy, 82 min.)
Visually poetic, understated drama about a young boy living with his family on a vineyard. His sexual fantasies collide with his moral beliefs.

The Homekeeper; Shoals; Point Traverse
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The Homekeeper, by Sejong University (animation, Korea, 6 min.)
A teenage babysitter saves twin babies from an evil ninja invader.

Shoals, by Jan Bohuslav (fiction, Czech Republic, 8 min.)
Very clever film about a creator and his imaginary world. Mixes live action with animation.

Point Traverse, by Albert Shin, (fiction, Canada, 103 min.)
Haunting and visually stunning, two 20-something friends discover their true natures after witnessing a murder.

Short Films Program
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A Perm, by Ran-hee Lee (fiction, Korea, 18 min.)
A Korean mother-in-law-to-be prepares her son's Vietnamese bride for her wedding.

Taste the Revolution, by Buthina Canaan Khoury (documentary, Palestine/USA, 27 min.)
Entrepreneurship in Iran as a family brews great beer and takes it to pubs and restaurants across the Israeli-guarded border.

Children of the Bible, by Nitza Gonen (documentary, Israel/Ethiopia, 53 min.)
An Ethiopian rap artist goes back to his Ethiopian roots to relearn the music of his native country.

Part of the Fourth Annual Series on Global Cinema and Social Justice — Fall 2010: Culture and Identity.

Faith and Hope
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Faith and Hope (premier), by Patrick House (documentary, USA, 60 min.)
A creative and emotional look at the South Side of Syracuse. The film deals with drugs, education, crime, and helpful neighbors trying to better the lives of the area's residents.

Carol North Schmuckler New Filmmakers Showcase
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

Marigold, by Susanna Kim (fiction, 10 min.)
A little girl struggles with an abusive father.

Cord, by Kyoungju Kim (fiction, 15 min.)
A poor, middle aged woman takes care of her elderly mother.

I Heart Assassins, by Jaz Moore (fiction, 20 min.)
A comedy about a fun loving group that cleans up after assassins.

Searching for Dead Dogs, by Sook Hyun Kim (documentary, 30 min.)
A mythic search for why dogs die at the home of the filmmaker's grandmother.

Basement Buddies, by Phillips Payson (documentary, 14 min.)
A confessional documentary about innocence and accusation.

A Man Alone, by Jamil Munoz (fiction, 29 min.)
A lonely musician is confronted with the death of his daughter.

Short Films Program
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Martina Y La Luna, by Javier Lourle (fiction, Spain, 12 min.)
Martina dreams of another life away from the bakery where her father has kept her trapped since she was born.

Clementine, by Tal Haim Yoffe (documentary, Israel, 48 min.)
A fascinating voyage through the filmmaker's family tree that includes a Czar Army officer, gold treasure, steel smith learning from a Nazi leader, and the founding of settlements in the new State of Israel.

Pile-Up (Koccanás), by Ferenc Török (fiction, , Hungary, 52 min.)
A totally unique work that uses frozen movement of all the characters caught up in a traffic jam.

Battlestar Galactica: Unfinished Business; Caught
Syracuse International Film Festival
Featuring Robert M. Young

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

Battlestar Galactica: Unfinished Business, by Robert M. Young (fiction, USA, 42 min.)
A look at the events that took place during the year-long gap from the storyline in the Season Two finale. The story reveals the reasons for the rift between Kara ("Starbuck") and Lee ("Apollo").

Caught, by Robert M. Young (fiction, USA, 110 min.)
A tight, sexually charged story about Joe and Betty, owners of a fish store and their real and "adopted" son who vie for Betty's affection. Beautifully shot and fantastic ensemble acting starring Edward James Olmos and Maria Conchita Alonso.

Robert M. Young is this year's Lifelong Achievement Honoree.

Actor/Director/Producer/Composer Edward James Olmos will join Bob in a discussion on Caught and Battlestar Galactica following the screening.

Love Birds; Doppelganger; Homicide Sonata
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

Love Birds, by Brian Lye (fiction, Czech Republic, 6 min.)
An outlandish film in which people play birds, are hunted and served at the dining table.

Doppelganger, by Julian Academy (fiction, Spain, 20 min.)
The story of two Julians merge to the point that one cannot exist without the other.

Homicide Sonata, by Lee Che (fiction, Korea, 84 min.)
Compelling, beautifully constructed narrative about three people caught in traps that result in homicide all tied together by a detective.

The Train; Wrecker; To Catch the Billionaire
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The Train, by FAMU (animation, Czech Republic, 3 min.)
A man tries to save a cat from an approaching train.

Wrecker, by Sejong University (animation, Korea, 10 min.)
Action-packed 3D-animation of wrecker trucks in combat.

To Catch the Billionaire, by Tomas Vorel (fiction, Czech Republic, 96 min.)
Satire, comedy, total craziness abound as a successful businessman is accused of racism. A film about the information age and propaganda.

Bronson
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Bronson, Nicolas Winding Refn (fiction, England, 100 min.)
Based on the story of Britain’s most notorious criminal and his more then 34 years in prison, 30 in solitary confinement. Innovative, and an acting tour de force.

John Ledwon
Syracuse Wurlitzer

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

John Ledwon, a native Californian, has been playing the organ since he was 12 years old. His parents purchased him a 3-manual Wurlitzer when he was 15 and this sparked a lifelong interest in the theatre pipe organ. John has toured the United States, Australia and Europe on several occasions as a concert artist. In the past several years he has released eight recordings from his personally designed 4-manual 52-rank Wurlitzer theatre organ formally installed in his Agoura, CA, home. John has since donated his home instrument to the Nethercutt Collection, and moved to Henderson, NV, a southern suburb of Las Vegas. His latest recording, MAGIC! The Music of the Mouse, includes many of the Disney selections that John uses in his position as staff organist at the El Capitan theatre in Hollywood, CA. Most recently, John is celebrating 10 years on the staff at Disney's El Capitan Theatre where he plays the former San Francisco Fox 4/37 Wurlitzer. While he plays music from all periods, he favors music that has been composed in the past 30 years.

The Susquehanna String Band
First Unitarian Universalist Society Music Series

Price: Suggested donation $10-$15
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

Dan Duggan, John Kirk, Rick Bunting, and Trish Miller perform traditional music for voice, instrumental, and clogging from America and the British Isles.

Alice in Wonderland
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive comedic retelling of the classic tale.

[title of show]
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

[title of show] is a musical about two nobodies named Hunter and Jeff who decide to write a completely original musical starring themselves and their attractive and talented ladyfriends. Their musical, [title of show], gets into the New York Musical Theatre Festival, then off-Broadway. Then it's announced that their musical is going to Broadway!

Written by Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell; musical director Roy George. The cast features Julia Berger, Shawn Forster, Aubry Panek, and Dana Sovocool.

This show is intended for mature audiences only.

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Sunday, October 17, 2010

Windows Project: Waking from Dreams of India
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Upstate New York photographer Neil Chowdhury has created works consisting of three digital photomontages (fit to the dimensions of the windows in the Window Projects) and a multichannel video installation (displayed in the Window Projects space) with a soundtrack of Indian classical music, Hindi pop music, and ambient street sound that address contemporary India as well as clichés and the artist's origins.

Canaltown Suds: Syracuse Breweries of the Canal Era
Erie Canal Museum

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

Christian Dior 1947-1957
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Seven original designs by the late fashion icon Christian Dior are on view in the exhibition "Christian Dior 1947-1957." The exhibition documents and honors the memory of Dior, who began his design house in 1947 in post-World War II Paris and ruled the fashion world until his death in 1957. The outfits featured are taken from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection and the Martha M. Caldwell Costume Collection, which are housed in the fashion design program at Syracuse University.

A Sense of Place: The Real Central New York Landscape
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

"A Sense of Place: The Real Central New York Landscape" is a different kind of landscape exhibition. The show features painting, photography, and mixed-media art by Central New York artists that explores the interaction between the local landscape and human activity.

Exhibiting artists include Steven Barbash, Rayburn Beale, Willson Cummer, Brenda Edwards, Bob Gates, Nancy Kramer, Jared Landberg, Sarah McCoubrey, Diane Menzies, Phil Parsons, and Lucie Wellner.

4x4: Community Curators and the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Four individuals associated with the Syracuse visual arts community were invited to develop an exhibition using works from SU's permanent collection. Nancy Keefe Rhodes, art critic for the City Eagle newspaper, curated an exhibition of American art made between the two world wars while Jack White, internationally recognized artist and former Syracuse resident, will investigate objects pertaining to hand-to-hand sport, such as boxing and wrestling. Roy Simmons Jr., former SU lacrosse coach and an artist in his own right will examine the work of Ivan Mestrovic, the Croatian artist and former professor from SU's School of Art. The director of the Community Folk Arts Center, Dr. Kheli Willetts, will explore visual interrelationships in the ethnographic and art collections through vice and virtue.

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

Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson was the first museum to collect video art, beginning in the early 1970s. Bill Viola, now one of the world's leading video artists, studied at Syracuse University and began his career at the Everson. A selection of historic videos by Bill Viola from the Everson's pioneering video collection will be shown in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court in conjunction with the Urban Video Project (UVP), which will also be featuring Viola this fall.

Designed to Scale--The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series
Everson Museum of Art

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

Designed to Scale, part three of the 2010 New York State Artists Series showcases significant designers from the Central New York region whose work is recognized in the national and international design arenas. Although modest in scale, the exhibition touches on a broad range of innovative design objects—furniture, lighting, commercial products and dining experiences, unique accessories, toys, and surface patterns.

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Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition explores the collaborative design process employed at Herman Miller, the world-renowned furniture company that has used design to solve problems for the home and workplace for almost 90 years. Good Design showcases archival holdings of concept models, drawings, supplementary photographs, and completed masterworks of design in furniture and decorative art produced by Herman Miller, Inc. Works by Gilbert Rohde, Ray and Charles Eames, George Nelson, Alexander Girard, Robert Probst, Bill Stumpf, Don Chadwick, Ayse Birdsel, and other well known designers are featured. The exhibition was organized and is circulated by the Muskegon Museum of Art in association with The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art
CNY Arts

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

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

Ed Smith: "The Labors"
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

An exhibition of drawing and sculpture by Guggenheim Fellow Ed Smith. His work has been exhibited here and abroad, including at the British Museum, Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Begium, and at Yale University.

The Original Art of the Funny Papers
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"The Original Art of the Funny Papers," a collection of famous syndicated cartoons, spans the history of the American comic strip. It features 32 original strips from the SU Library's Special Collections Research Center, including Archie, Beetle Bailey, Prince Valiant, Mutt and Jeff, Blondie, Krazy Kat, Moon Mullins, and Hazel. It also includes more than 20 originals on special loan from SU alumni Brad Anderson (Marmaduke), Greg Walker (Beetle Bailey), and Robb Armstrong (Jump Start).

For more information about the exhibition, call 315-442-2542 during gallery hours, or e-mail jmthom01@syr.edu.

84th Annual Juried Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Bill Viola: The Quintet of the Astonished, 2000
Urban Video Project

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

Video projection installation on exterior wall.

"The Quintet of the Astonished" shows the unfolding expressions of five actors in such extreme slow motion that every minute detail of their changing facial expressions and movements can be detected. In this piece artist Bill Viola explores the cathartic power within grief, personal suffering, and bereavement.

Viola's work often exhibits a painterly quality and "The Quintet of the Astonished" clearly references his interests in medieval and classical depictions of emotion. In 1998, while a scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute which that year explored the theme of The Passions, Viola revisited images of medieval and renaissance painting, frescoes, and architecture that had influenced him during his time in Florence, Italy in 1974. Having lost both of his parents by the time he was at the Getty, he found himself drawn to images of devotional art that continue to influence his art today.

Bill Viola: Two Women, 2008
Urban Video Project

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Video projection installation on exterior wall.

"Two Women" is part of an extended body of Bill Viola's work titled the Transfigurations series. Inspired by his interest in the Buddhist idea of death as a passage to rebirth, Viola has filmed actors drenched in water and consumed by fire. In Viola's slow-motion world, the viewer senses not only the destructive and violent power of the elements but their transformative and cathartic power as well. For "Two Women," the artist created a physical apparatus in his studio that allows the two actors to effortlessly pass through a wall of water. Viola is known for using a minimum of digital effects. The real time for this performance is only moments but the finished video is nine minutes long, allowing viewers time to savor the beauty of the moving water, light, and figures.

The Transfigurations series is often described as visceral. In his writing Viola states, "I want someone to have the experience that is engaging for their mind, but I also want something that is engaging and involving for their body."

Short Films Program
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Out in the Cold, by Colleen Murphy (fiction, Canada, 30 min.)
Two First Nation men, Soft as Snow and Cold as Ice meet Thomas, in a drunken stupor dumped at the side of a road on a cold winter night. Great acting.

One Day Will Be Once, by Anca Miruna Lazarescu (documentary, Germany, 27 min.)
A church in Germany performs John Cage's music composition that lasts for 639 years. Fascinating and beautiful.

Mathias, Mathias, by Felméri Cecilia (animation, , Hungary, 13 min.)
A Renaissance king roams the country side in disguise so he can perform good deeds for the peasants.

Araiadne's Thread, by Bertóti Attila (animation, Romania, 9 min.)
The minotaur meets the knight in shiny armor.

Masterpeace, by Won-jae Choi (experimental animation, Korea, 13 min.)
Pixellation is the technique of this unique work about an artist creating clay people. Funny, and with a great sound track.

Flat Love, by Andrés Sanz (live action/animation, USA/Spain, 15 min.)
A wonderfully inventive fantasy about a man’s dream woman being a story book drawn character.

UFF, by FAMU (experimental, Czech Rep., 13 min.)
Prague at night in a time lapsed split screen.

Pixar Short Films
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 ages 16 and up, free to children under 16
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

The Adventures of Andre & Wally B. (1984, 1:49 min.)
Andre thinks he's a clever guy, able to outsmart and outrun a bee. But like all stinging insects, Wally B. knows better.

Luxo Jr. (1986, 2:08 min.)
A baby lamp finds a ball to play with, and it's all fun and games until the ball bursts. (1986 Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film)

Tin Toy (1988, 4:55 min.)
Babies can be monster-like to a toy. But the tin musical toy, Tinny, isn't scared. He knows his job is to make children laugh, not cry. (1988 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film)

Knick Knack (1989, 3:33 min.)
When a jaded snowman finally breaks free of his glass house, his vacation plans are cut short.

Geri's Game (1998, 4:54 min.)
An aging codger, Geri plays a daylong game of chess against himself in the park. (1997 Academy Award winner for Best Animated Short Film)

For the Birds (2001, 3:05 min.)
A flock of small birds perches on a telephone wire when along a large dopey bird who tries to join them. (2001 Academy Award winner for Best Animated Short Film)

Boundin' (2004, 4:40 min.)
For the high-stepping lamb, life is a waltz until his prairie friends tease him about his freshly sheared look. (2003 Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film)

Jack-Jack Attack (2005, 4:42 min.)
From Disney-Pixar's 2004 Academy Award-winning The Incredibles (Best Animated Feature Film), this short finds Kari believing she's in for a night of routine babysitting.

One Man Band (2006, 4:31 min.)
With one coin to make a wish Tippy encounters two competing street performers who'd prefer the coin find its way into their tip jars. (2005 Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film)

Lifted (2007, 4:22 min.)
A young alien student bungles his first lesson in abduction as an increasingly weary instructor looks on. (2006 Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film)

Presto (2008, 5:14 min.)
When Presto the magician neglects to feed his rabbit one too many times, he finds he isn't the only one with a few tricks up his sleeves! (2008 Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film)

BURN*E (2008, 7:35 min.)
A companion from Disney-Pixar's 2008 Academy-Award-winning WALL*E (Best Animated Feature Film), this short features a welding bot on the Axiom Starliner named BURN*E.

Cars Toon: Rescue Squad Mater (2008, 2:50 min.)
A companion piece to Disney-Pixar's 2006 Academy Award-nominated Cars (Best Animated Feature Film), this short finds Mater part of a rescue squad that has to put out a blaze at the local Gasoline & Match factory.

Cars Toon: Heavy Metal Mater (2009, 3:15 min.)
Mater was once the lead singer in a heavy metal band called "Heavy Metal Mater." The band's single "Dad Gum" hit the top of the charts.

Partly Cloudy (2009, 5:30 min.)
Everyone knows that the stork delivers babies, but where do the storks get the babies from?

Dug's Special Mission (2009, 5:00 min.)
Dug is sent on foolish missions by Alpha, Beta and Gamma so they can hunt for the Bird of Paradise Falls by themselves.

Day & Night (2010, 6:05 min.)
When Day, a sunny fellow, encounters Night, a stranger of distinctly darker moods, sparks fly!

Red Mesa: A Border Story; A Tear is Needed; A Man Who Ate His Cherries
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Red Mesa: A Border Story, by Llana Lapid (fiction, USA, 17 min.)
A girl's grandfather is accidentally shot as he tries to stop her love affair with an illegal Mexican worker.

A Tear is Needed, by FAMU (animation, Czech Republic, 18 min.)
A little girl wakes up in a land of the dead and needs a tear to return to reality.

A Man Who Ate His Cherries, by Payman Haghani (fiction, Iran, 77 min.)
A factory worker returns home to find that his wife wants a divorce. She wants a better life. He is willing to do anything to keep her.

Touching Home
Syracuse International Film Festival
Featuring Ed Harris

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

Touching Home, by Logan and Noah Miller (fiction, USA, 108 min.)
Starring Ed Harris, the plot is based on a true story about a father struggling to make amends with his twin sons as they pursue their dream of becoming professional baseball players.

Special guest Ed Harris and directors Noah and Logan Miller will be in attendance.

The Dream Creatures; The Two Escobars
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The Dream Creatures, by Catherine Kunze and Jacob Wellendorf (fiction, Denmark, 12 min.)
Imaginative and provocative the world as seen through the imagination of a child.

The Two Escobars, by Jeff and Michael Zimbalist (documentary, USA/Columbia, 100 min.)
Fascinating and dramatic film about the Columbia national soccer team’s quest for a world cup in the midst of the terror and brutality of the wars between drug lord cartels. Two Escobars -- one, Andres is a soccer star; the other, Pablo the infamous drug baron.

Pollock
Syracuse International Film Festival
Featuring Ed Harris

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

Pollock, by Ed Harris (fiction, USA, 122 min.)
A film about the life and career of the American painter, Jackson Pollock.

Special guest Ed Harris will be in attendance.

The Jazzuits with Todd Hobin
LeMoyne College

Price: $10 regular, $7 seniors, $5 students
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The Le Moyne College Jazzuits, under the direction of Carol Jacobe, will be joined by rock guitarist and vocalist Todd Hobin for an afternoon of Classic Rock hits! The concert will feature music of Queen, Earth, Wind and Fire, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Billy Joel, Elton John, the Beach Boys, and more. Todd will join the group on guitar as well as performing his own set of his classic tunes.

Reservations are recommended due to limited seating. Phone 315-445-4523 for tickets and information.

Sunday Musicale: Klezmercuse
Fayetteville Free Library

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

A "family" style band with traditional and newer tunes.

Cantus Novus
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Founded in 2009, Cantus Novus is the only student-run new music organization at Syracuse University. Its mission is to promote student composers and performers in the Setnor School of Music, providing opportunities for composers to have their works performed in concert, as well as bringing new music to the SU community. This is the second annual concert at the SUArt Galleries.

Stained Glass Series: The Artful Clarinet
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Ron Spigelman, conductor
Featuring Allan Kolsky, clarinet

Most Holy Rosary Church
111 Roberts Ave., Syracuse

Purcell Abdelazar
Finzi Clarinet Concerto, op. 31
Purcell/Britten Chacony in G minor
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Holst St. Paul's Suite

Classical guitarist Zachary Johnson
Joyful Noise Concert Series

Price: Free (donations accepted)
Liverpool First United Methodist Church
604 Oswego St., Liverpool

Jauchzet dem Herren, alle Welt
Schola Cantorum of Syracuse
Barry Torres, conductor

Price: $15 regular, $10 students/seniors
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

A concert of 17th-century German sacred music, featuring works by Schutz, Pachelbel, Schelle, Buxtehude, Johann Cristoph Bach, and Johann Michael Bach.

The viol consort will perform before the concert at 3:30.

The Jazzuits with Todd Hobin
LeMoyne College

Price: $10 regular, $7 seniors, $5 students
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The Le Moyne College Jazzuits, under the direction of Carol Jacobe, will be joined by rock guitarist and vocalist Todd Hobin for an afternoon of Classic Rock hits! The concert will feature music of Queen, Earth, Wind and Fire, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Billy Joel, Elton John, the Beach Boys, and more. Todd will join the group on guitar as well as performing his own set of his classic tunes.

Reservations are recommended due to limited seating. Phone 315-445-4523 for tickets and information.

Lina Allemano Four
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Price: $8
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Lina Allemano Four, a Toronto-based quartet, has been hailed as one of Canada's most vibrant cutting edge avant-jazz groups. Known for their inventiveness and synergy, they deftly blur the line between composition and improvisation. Their music showcases Lina's progressive and open compositional style combined with her band's exquisite expressiveness and knack for the unexpected. A stimulating dynamic of interaction and spontaneity assures that the group's performances are always lighthearted and full of surprises. The band has toured extensively over the past five years, having released two widely acclaimed CDs, Gridjam (2008) and Pinkeye (2006), and will be releasing their third album, Jargon, this month.

Monday, October 18, 2010

Windows Project: Waking from Dreams of India
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Upstate New York photographer Neil Chowdhury has created works consisting of three digital photomontages (fit to the dimensions of the windows in the Window Projects) and a multichannel video installation (displayed in the Window Projects space) with a soundtrack of Indian classical music, Hindi pop music, and ambient street sound that address contemporary India as well as clichés and the artist's origins.

Ed Smith: "The Labors"
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

An exhibition of drawing and sculpture by Guggenheim Fellow Ed Smith. His work has been exhibited here and abroad, including at the British Museum, Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Begium, and at Yale University.

Bea Nettles Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

These photographic composites deal with the poetic impact of certain landscapes and aspects of classical architecture and art history on the life of Bea Nettles, and how these influences continue to remain in memory, resurfacing at unexpected moments. The photographs are autobiographical. They represent her effort to clarify, to find meaning and significance in daily existence. Often epiphanies often occur while traveling. Bea is particularly interested in recording a sense of place and the selective, multi-layered nature of memory.

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The Silent Scream: Conflict in Novels Without Words
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Library has always had a keen interest in all forms of book illustration, and not surprisingly, novels without words became a significant collecting area. Over time, we have amassed a considerable number of the classic specimens in the genre, and the main practitioners of the art form are well represented within our holdings. We developed this exhibition in keeping with the Syracuse Symposium theme for the coming year, "conflict." The artists upon whom we focused are William Gropper, Laurence Hyde, Frans Masereel, Giacomo Patri, John Vassos, and Lynd Ward.

In addition to conflict, novels without words often portray a quest on the part of the individual. This may assume the form of a journey or a saga about the search for self-fulfillment in artistic or purely personal terms, or the quest may have as its primary objective achieving social justice in a particular context. Because of the historical period in which many of these wordless novels were born, they often depict a struggle between the individual and the industrialized world. Industrialization and, by extension, capitalism, may be seen as forces that are fundamentally antagonistic to the interests of the individual and of society in general. Similarly, the law, the police, and the armed forces may all be viewed as instruments of repression in novels without words.

The creators of novels without words also tend to scrutinize the brutal forms of war and tyranny that are made possible by industrialization. In truth, any injustice may become the subject of such works, and perhaps just the cruel nature of our existential struggle to survive in an inherently hostile environment is all the background that is needed to provide the inspiration for the creation of a novel without words.

Honoring The Masters: Works of Ann Milner and Phil DeMocker
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

"Honoring the Masters," featuring Ann Milner's oriental brush painting and Phil DeMocker's origami, is a tribute to artists of the past setting the standards for today's active artists and gallery goers. Highlighted will be "masters" from noted dynasties. The "Mustard Seed Garden Manual, first published in the mid-1600s, will be the reference for some techniques in both learning and creating pieces of Oriental brush painting. Reproductions of work from ancient and more recent masters will show the background and heritage next to current representations of classical subjects and composition.

Origami pieces will represent Phil's favorite designer/folders and will be labeled to explain why he has chosen those artists.

As with most art, copying the work of an established artist is considered distasteful and cheap. While the art of the Orient to copy a master is considered one highest forms of art. Ann Milner is painting in the Sumie style from the Mustard Seed Manual, a comprehensive work of style, structure and form. Phil DeMocker is working from the works of both past and present masters of origami.

84th Annual Juried Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Canaltown Suds: Syracuse Breweries of the Canal Era
Erie Canal Museum

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

Objects & Atmospheres
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Nathan Sullivan: Paintings and lithographs
Joshua Primmer: Stoneware vessels
Brenda Edwards: Paintings and drawings

Sullivan's oil on panel "Form Series" are masterfully painted, Vermeer-like in their surface quality. His images of suspended or floating tiny organic objects such as seeds are rendered to large scale in chiaroscuro, resulting in their otherworldly presence.

Primmer is exhibiting his intimately scaled stoneware objects and vessels. While one may consider the relatively small scale of his work, it possesses a monumentality usually restricted to large scale work and architecture.

Edwards' depictions in her soft focus drawings and paintings range from sultry atmospheres to luminous mists. They are moments that catch the play of light in their respective environments.

Christian Dior 1947-1957
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Seven original designs by the late fashion icon Christian Dior are on view in the exhibition "Christian Dior 1947-1957." The exhibition documents and honors the memory of Dior, who began his design house in 1947 in post-World War II Paris and ruled the fashion world until his death in 1957. The outfits featured are taken from the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection and the Martha M. Caldwell Costume Collection, which are housed in the fashion design program at Syracuse University.

What If...: Young Aspirations / Young Artists
Gifford Foundation

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

The Gifford Foundation's film series on community revitalization continues with this Emmy-award winning film Young Aspirations/Young Artists. The film shows how, given the right tools and a fertile environment, motivated young people can do extraordinary things. The young artists of YA/YA paint true stories about their own lives, and create murals, fine art pieces, poetry, and rap music that speak out on racism and reflect on community values. YA/YA offers youth the chance to apprentice with professional artists, create public artworks, design merchandise, serve as cultural ambassadors, work as project managers, and mentor others in the arts. Ultimately, these kids learn to be professionally self-sufficient through creative self-expression.

Thanks a Million (1935)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $3 regular, $2.50 members
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

A blowhard politician hires a musical troupe to entertain at his speech rallies. Trouble starts when the troupe's crooner becomes a little too popular with the voters. A witty and highly entertaining musical-comedy. Directed by Roy Del Ruth. Cast includes Dick Powell, Fred Allen, Ann Dvorak, Patsy Kelly, Raymond Walburn, David Rubinoff, Paul Whiteman, The Yacht Club Boys.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Windows Project: Waking from Dreams of India
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Upstate New York photographer Neil Chowdhury has created works consisting of three digital photomontages (fit to the dimensions of the windows in the Window Projects) and a multichannel video installation (displayed in the Window Projects space) with a soundtrack of Indian classical music, Hindi pop music, and ambient street sound that address contemporary India as well as clichés and the artist's origins.