Thursday, September 13, 2007

Gallery Exhibit: John Dargan
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Focusing on the iconic, mundane or the banal, John Dargan's paintings delineate every discrete object within them with equal emphasis. This allows the eye to move around the image in a time-based way. The viewer can focus on every single 'moment' within an image and explore the relationship between objects. The implications of the symbolic content of these objects bring us to new realizations about the way we, as a group of individuals, have ended up creating the spaces we inhabit. This intense looking builds a portrait of a place, space, culture or society. John Dargan is visiting from London England.

Collage
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Collage: described in stylistic terms as the art of recycling, as a sub-genre of modernism. It could also be described, as proven by Marcel Duchamp, as its demise: a bridge, or an itch. The Point of Contact Gallery presents an assemblage of rare collages from private collections that include works by Pérez Celis, Jane Hammond, Nam June Paik and Liliana Porter.

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

Mixed Media Art of Heidi Kuhl
Westcott Community Center

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

Annual Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Thea Reidy, artist, designer and educator is jurying the show.

A Faith Ringgold Retrospective: Story Quilts and Children's Books
Community Folk Art Center

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

An icon of American art and activism, Ringgold was born in Harlem, New York. From a young age, she was encouraged in her creative endeavors by her mother, Willi Posey Jones, who was a fashion designer and seamstress. Ringgold received her Bachelor's degree in Fine Art and Education and her Master's degree in Art at City College of New York. From 1955-1973, she taught art in the New York City public schools. In the mid-to late 1960s, Ringgold began portraying political and Civil Rights themes in her paintings. She abandoned traditional painting in the early 1970's, and began creating large unstretched paintings with elaborate fabric borders, similar to Tibetan tankas. She also began making fabric dolls, masks and soft sculptures, some of which were used in performance pieces. In the early 1980s, she began creating large story quilts, featuring painted images along with handwritten text. She adapted her story quilt Tar Beach into a children's book in 1990, and has since written and illustrated several children's books, and has also published her memoirs.

From 1984 to 2002, Ringgold was a Professor of Art at University of California San Diego. She has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions since the 1960s. She has received many honors and awards for her achievements, including the National Endowment for the Arts awards in sculpture and painting, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and more than 15 honorary doctorates.

2007 Light Work Grants Exhibit: Works by Brantley Carroll, Ella Gant, and David Moore
Light Work Gallery

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

One Week's Dead: Works of Binh Danh
Light Work Gallery

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

Vietnamese-American photographer Binh Danh has quietly gained recognition on the international art scene for his Vietnam War-inspired work. This exhibition features his most recognizable work, comprising appropriated war images that are printed directly onto leaves or grass, a process Danh invented while in college. On his first trip to Vietnam since his family immigrated to the United States, Danh was confronted by the remains of the war, such as bomb craters that had been converted into rice paddies, and he observed that memories of the war's devastation had become part of daily life. It was this experience that inspired him to create chlorophyll prints of found images from the Vietnam War with tropical leaves, sharing, in his words, the "epiphany that the memory of those people and events will reverberate forever through the country's landscape."

Of his work, Danh states, "Much of my research has explored my own personal history and has become a way of visually and physically recollecting my family's history and honoring their collective memory." These concepts are very real with regard to any culture that has immigrated to the United States, looking at the stories families tell and the disconnected feeling experienced by the second generation.

Danh was born in Vietnam in 1977. He received a BFA degree from San Jose State University and an MFA degree from Stanford University. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, including the George Eastman House in Rochester, the Asia Society Museum in New York City, the University of Hawaii Art Museum, and the Haines Gallery in San Francisco. He lives and works in San Jose, CA. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

The Lost Photos of Vietnam: Works of Al Fasoldt
Light Work Gallery

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

During the Vietnam War, Al Fasoldt was a photographer for Stars & Stripes. When he left Vietnam to come home, he left his negatives behind and brought a few 8"x10" prints and contact sheets of his work. Since then, the Pentagon has ordered all negatives of Stars & Stripes photographers be destroyed. Over the past few years, Fasoldt has been working to repair the prints and contact sheets he brought home years ago, using them to make prints of his Vietnam War images for exhibition.

COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze
The Warehouse Gallery
Featuring works of Jo-Anne Balcaen, Juliet Jacobson, Rachel Rampleman

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

This bold new exhibition, COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze, focuses on the psychological, social, cultural and political dimensions of desire, subjectivity and -- pleasure.

COME ON presents an array of ideas, imagery and experiences on the topic of sexuality from the perspective of women in their 20s through mid 30s. The artists in this exhibition employ diverse media, including large-scale drawing, video installation, text work and ephemeral sculpture. COME ON reveals what is not represented in popular culture and provides a counterbalance to the ubiquitous imagery of sexualized female bodies created for mainstream heterosexual male sensibilities.

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

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

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

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

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

Icarus and Stravinsky: Color Prints by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Swietlin Nicholas Kraczyna is a Polish-born, American-raised artist who lives in Florence, Italy in the former studio of the Renaissance master painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. He teaches printmaking at Syracuse University's Florence campus and is spending the fall semester in Syracuse as a visiting artist. This exhibit presents a selection of Kraczyna's color etchings on two of the artist's favorite subjects: the myth of Icarus and Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Kraczyna binds these two different subjects together through their interest in pushing the limits of convention. Icarus was able to fly as a result of wings constructed by his father. The Rite of Spring was Igor Stravinsky's ground breaking and controversial ballet score that premiered in Paris in 1913. Many experts think modern orchestral music began with the score's dissonant, unpredictable composition.

The images of Icarus often present the winged boy in unconventional settings. One of the more recent etchings, Icarus Flying out the Window, 2002, portrays him flying out of a contemporary building's upper floor window. Kraczyna's technical dexterity and a vivid palette are on clear display in this multi-plate etching. In The Rite of Spring prints the artist places Stravinsky's handwritten musical notes and markings from the score in the image. They act as a foundation upon which are added the figures of the ballet dancers. The notes become either costume decorations or independent decorative patterns in the spaces between the figures.

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

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Eyes on the World: Photographs from the Alexia Foundation for World Peace and Cultural Understanding
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition features work by 18 photojournalists, three of whom -- Wesley Law, Ezra Shaw, and Justin Yurkanin -- are SU graduates. The subjects are diverse, ranging from the current conflicts in Africa to the legacy of Chernobyl. American topics focus on the Confederate flag controversy, life on the Navajo reservation and the 1997 reunion of people associated with The Farm, the Tennessee community that was America's largest hippie commune.

The Alexia Foundation was begun by the parents of Alexia Tsairis, a Newhouse School of Public Communications undergraduate student who was killed in the Pan Am 103 bombing in 1988. Each year the foundation gives grants to selected student and professional photographers so they can pursue their interests in photojournalism. To date, the foundation has awarded over $500,000 in grants to 80 undergraduate photographers and 11 professionals.

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

Real Places, Imagined Spaces
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring abstract paintings by Michael Berman, mixed media by Sandy Clift, photography by John Dowling, Finger Lakes photography by John Francis McCarthy, and metal sculptures by Michael Moberg.

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art
Everson Museum of Art

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

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art, an exhibition organized by the Longyear Museum of Anthropology at Colgate University, includes 85 religious objects, most of them from the 20th century, such as figures, masks and headdresses, divination trays, staffs, vessels, and shrine furniture. Much of the art figures in the veneration of divinities and ancestors, and the control of supernatural powers associated with nature, medicine, and witchcraft.

Tom Mazzullo Drawings
Everson Museum of Art

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

Tom Mazzullo is quietly turning the age-old idea of still-life upside down. In Tom Mazzullo Drawings, fruits and vegetables no longer rest among plentiful pre-arranged settings atop tablecloths dressed with lacey doilies and wrinkles that fall gracefully to the floor. There are no half-filled water glasses for light to dance in or mirrored reflections to play tricks on the eye.

The objects are meticulously drawn to scale, an invitation to move in for a closer look. The delicate, silverpoint lines become more apparent, reflecting light as one's eye wanders fervently over the layered network of cross-hatching where every line counts. Mazzullo wants the viewer to "concentrate on one subject, one idea at a time." The artist feels he has succeeded when "a drawing's pale, perfect surface elicits a liveliness and presence greater than the simplicity of its construction."

Tom Mazzullo Drawings, which includes 20 silverpoint and four conté crayon drawings, is the artist's first solo museum exhibition.

The Phantom of the Opera
Broadway in Syracuse

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

With some of the most lavish sets, costumes and special effects ever to have been created for the stage, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera directed by Harold Prince traces the tragic love story of a beautiful opera singer and a young composer shamed by his physical appearance into a shadowy existence beneath the majestic Paris Opera House. Adapted from Gaston Leroux's classic novel of mystery and suspense, this award-winning musical has woven its magical spell over standing room audiences in more than 100 cities worldwide and is now the longest running show in Broadway history.

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The Phantom of the Opera
Broadway in Syracuse

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

With some of the most lavish sets, costumes and special effects ever to have been created for the stage, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera directed by Harold Prince traces the tragic love story of a beautiful opera singer and a young composer shamed by his physical appearance into a shadowy existence beneath the majestic Paris Opera House. Adapted from Gaston Leroux's classic novel of mystery and suspense, this award-winning musical has woven its magical spell over standing room audiences in more than 100 cities worldwide and is now the longest running show in Broadway history.

Read a Review!

Friday, September 14, 2007

Gallery Exhibit: John Dargan
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Focusing on the iconic, mundane or the banal, John Dargan's paintings delineate every discrete object within them with equal emphasis. This allows the eye to move around the image in a time-based way. The viewer can focus on every single 'moment' within an image and explore the relationship between objects. The implications of the symbolic content of these objects bring us to new realizations about the way we, as a group of individuals, have ended up creating the spaces we inhabit. This intense looking builds a portrait of a place, space, culture or society. John Dargan is visiting from London England.

Collage
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Collage: described in stylistic terms as the art of recycling, as a sub-genre of modernism. It could also be described, as proven by Marcel Duchamp, as its demise: a bridge, or an itch. The Point of Contact Gallery presents an assemblage of rare collages from private collections that include works by Pérez Celis, Jane Hammond, Nam June Paik and Liliana Porter.

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

Mixed Media Art of Heidi Kuhl
Westcott Community Center

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

Annual Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Thea Reidy, artist, designer and educator is jurying the show.

A Faith Ringgold Retrospective: Story Quilts and Children's Books
Community Folk Art Center

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

An icon of American art and activism, Ringgold was born in Harlem, New York. From a young age, she was encouraged in her creative endeavors by her mother, Willi Posey Jones, who was a fashion designer and seamstress. Ringgold received her Bachelor's degree in Fine Art and Education and her Master's degree in Art at City College of New York. From 1955-1973, she taught art in the New York City public schools. In the mid-to late 1960s, Ringgold began portraying political and Civil Rights themes in her paintings. She abandoned traditional painting in the early 1970's, and began creating large unstretched paintings with elaborate fabric borders, similar to Tibetan tankas. She also began making fabric dolls, masks and soft sculptures, some of which were used in performance pieces. In the early 1980s, she began creating large story quilts, featuring painted images along with handwritten text. She adapted her story quilt Tar Beach into a children's book in 1990, and has since written and illustrated several children's books, and has also published her memoirs.

From 1984 to 2002, Ringgold was a Professor of Art at University of California San Diego. She has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions since the 1960s. She has received many honors and awards for her achievements, including the National Endowment for the Arts awards in sculpture and painting, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and more than 15 honorary doctorates.

The Lost Photos of Vietnam: Works of Al Fasoldt
Light Work Gallery

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

During the Vietnam War, Al Fasoldt was a photographer for Stars & Stripes. When he left Vietnam to come home, he left his negatives behind and brought a few 8"x10" prints and contact sheets of his work. Since then, the Pentagon has ordered all negatives of Stars & Stripes photographers be destroyed. Over the past few years, Fasoldt has been working to repair the prints and contact sheets he brought home years ago, using them to make prints of his Vietnam War images for exhibition.

One Week's Dead: Works of Binh Danh
Light Work Gallery

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

Vietnamese-American photographer Binh Danh has quietly gained recognition on the international art scene for his Vietnam War-inspired work. This exhibition features his most recognizable work, comprising appropriated war images that are printed directly onto leaves or grass, a process Danh invented while in college. On his first trip to Vietnam since his family immigrated to the United States, Danh was confronted by the remains of the war, such as bomb craters that had been converted into rice paddies, and he observed that memories of the war's devastation had become part of daily life. It was this experience that inspired him to create chlorophyll prints of found images from the Vietnam War with tropical leaves, sharing, in his words, the "epiphany that the memory of those people and events will reverberate forever through the country's landscape."

Of his work, Danh states, "Much of my research has explored my own personal history and has become a way of visually and physically recollecting my family's history and honoring their collective memory." These concepts are very real with regard to any culture that has immigrated to the United States, looking at the stories families tell and the disconnected feeling experienced by the second generation.

Danh was born in Vietnam in 1977. He received a BFA degree from San Jose State University and an MFA degree from Stanford University. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, including the George Eastman House in Rochester, the Asia Society Museum in New York City, the University of Hawaii Art Museum, and the Haines Gallery in San Francisco. He lives and works in San Jose, CA. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

2007 Light Work Grants Exhibit: Works by Brantley Carroll, Ella Gant, and David Moore
Light Work Gallery

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

COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze
The Warehouse Gallery
Featuring works of Jo-Anne Balcaen, Juliet Jacobson, Rachel Rampleman

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

This bold new exhibition, COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze, focuses on the psychological, social, cultural and political dimensions of desire, subjectivity and -- pleasure.

COME ON presents an array of ideas, imagery and experiences on the topic of sexuality from the perspective of women in their 20s through mid 30s. The artists in this exhibition employ diverse media, including large-scale drawing, video installation, text work and ephemeral sculpture. COME ON reveals what is not represented in popular culture and provides a counterbalance to the ubiquitous imagery of sexualized female bodies created for mainstream heterosexual male sensibilities.

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

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

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

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

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

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Icarus and Stravinsky: Color Prints by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Swietlin Nicholas Kraczyna is a Polish-born, American-raised artist who lives in Florence, Italy in the former studio of the Renaissance master painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. He teaches printmaking at Syracuse University's Florence campus and is spending the fall semester in Syracuse as a visiting artist. This exhibit presents a selection of Kraczyna's color etchings on two of the artist's favorite subjects: the myth of Icarus and Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Kraczyna binds these two different subjects together through their interest in pushing the limits of convention. Icarus was able to fly as a result of wings constructed by his father. The Rite of Spring was Igor Stravinsky's ground breaking and controversial ballet score that premiered in Paris in 1913. Many experts think modern orchestral music began with the score's dissonant, unpredictable composition.

The images of Icarus often present the winged boy in unconventional settings. One of the more recent etchings, Icarus Flying out the Window, 2002, portrays him flying out of a contemporary building's upper floor window. Kraczyna's technical dexterity and a vivid palette are on clear display in this multi-plate etching. In The Rite of Spring prints the artist places Stravinsky's handwritten musical notes and markings from the score in the image. They act as a foundation upon which are added the figures of the ballet dancers. The notes become either costume decorations or independent decorative patterns in the spaces between the figures.

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

Eyes on the World: Photographs from the Alexia Foundation for World Peace and Cultural Understanding
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition features work by 18 photojournalists, three of whom -- Wesley Law, Ezra Shaw, and Justin Yurkanin -- are SU graduates. The subjects are diverse, ranging from the current conflicts in Africa to the legacy of Chernobyl. American topics focus on the Confederate flag controversy, life on the Navajo reservation and the 1997 reunion of people associated with The Farm, the Tennessee community that was America's largest hippie commune.

The Alexia Foundation was begun by the parents of Alexia Tsairis, a Newhouse School of Public Communications undergraduate student who was killed in the Pan Am 103 bombing in 1988. Each year the foundation gives grants to selected student and professional photographers so they can pursue their interests in photojournalism. To date, the foundation has awarded over $500,000 in grants to 80 undergraduate photographers and 11 professionals.

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

Real Places, Imagined Spaces
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring abstract paintings by Michael Berman, mixed media by Sandy Clift, photography by John Dowling, Finger Lakes photography by John Francis McCarthy, and metal sculptures by Michael Moberg.

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art
Everson Museum of Art

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

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art, an exhibition organized by the Longyear Museum of Anthropology at Colgate University, includes 85 religious objects, most of them from the 20th century, such as figures, masks and headdresses, divination trays, staffs, vessels, and shrine furniture. Much of the art figures in the veneration of divinities and ancestors, and the control of supernatural powers associated with nature, medicine, and witchcraft.

Tom Mazzullo Drawings
Everson Museum of Art

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

Tom Mazzullo is quietly turning the age-old idea of still-life upside down. In Tom Mazzullo Drawings, fruits and vegetables no longer rest among plentiful pre-arranged settings atop tablecloths dressed with lacey doilies and wrinkles that fall gracefully to the floor. There are no half-filled water glasses for light to dance in or mirrored reflections to play tricks on the eye.

The objects are meticulously drawn to scale, an invitation to move in for a closer look. The delicate, silverpoint lines become more apparent, reflecting light as one's eye wanders fervently over the layered network of cross-hatching where every line counts. Mazzullo wants the viewer to "concentrate on one subject, one idea at a time." The artist feels he has succeeded when "a drawing's pale, perfect surface elicits a liveliness and presence greater than the simplicity of its construction."

Tom Mazzullo Drawings, which includes 20 silverpoint and four conté crayon drawings, is the artist's first solo museum exhibition.

Notes on Paper: Watercolors of Musicians by Steve Ryan
Lucas Gallery

Price: Free
Lucas Gallery
33 Jordan St., Skaneateles

Ryan's work is impressionistic, wet-to-wet watercolors, painted on crescent textured illustration board. The board and paints are wetted repetitively and some areas are defined later with pastel conte pencil. Subjects include musicians, both children and adults, in the jazz as well as the classical genre.

Festa Italiana

Price: Free
Washington St. (in front of City Hall)
Syracuse

4:00-5:00 pm: Augie & Dominick
5:00-5:30 pm: Chef Nick Stellino
6:00-7:00 pm: Leonard Colella and the Stan Colella Orchestra
7:30-9:00 pm: Jimmy Cavallo & The Delinquents
9:30-11:00 pm: Atlas

Lyra Choir
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Russian Vocal Ensemble of St. Petersburg will be performing Russian sacred music, folk songs, and songs of famous Russian composers. The concert will be followed by a Russian vocal literature master class with 4 OCC students singing.

An American Treasure: Frank Glazer. piano
Civic Morning Musicals

Price: $25 admission only; $40 admission and reception
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Schoenberg Sechs Kleine Klavierstucke, op. 19
Brahms Waltzes, op. 39
Schubert Sonata in A major, D. 959
Chopin Berceuse, op. 57; Impromptu in G-flat major; Scherzo in C-sharp minor, op. 39

Lyra Vocal Ensemble

Price: $10 suggested donation
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Vocal ensemble from St. Petersburg, Russia, performs chants of the Russian Orthodox Church and folk songs from Russia.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Harlem String Quartet

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

First-place laureate of the Sphinx Competition, the quartet promotes diversity in classical music by engaging audiences through varied repertoire and works by minority composers. The performance will feature a world premiere of a Judith Lang Zaimont work commissioned by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the Central New York Humanities Corridor, which includes the University of Rochester, SU and Cornell University.

The Phantom of the Opera
Broadway in Syracuse

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

With some of the most lavish sets, costumes and special effects ever to have been created for the stage, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera directed by Harold Prince traces the tragic love story of a beautiful opera singer and a young composer shamed by his physical appearance into a shadowy existence beneath the majestic Paris Opera House. Adapted from Gaston Leroux's classic novel of mystery and suspense, this award-winning musical has woven its magical spell over standing room audiences in more than 100 cities worldwide and is now the longest running show in Broadway history.

Read a Review!

Our Town
Appleseed Productions
Sharee Lemos, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Juxtaposed against the broader background of time, social history and the universality of normal events, we are engaged in the lives of two families as they they journey though the stages of daily life, love and marriage and death, and become as familiar to us as our own. They will make you laugh, touch you with their humanity and move you to realize that these are the important things that make life what it is and has always been. When asked what Our Town was about, playwright Thornton Wilder replied: "The play is an attempt to find a value above all price for the smallest events in our daily life."

Read a Review!

The Musical of Musicals: The Musical!
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Silly, smart, juicy, merciless - just a few of the one-word adjectives used to describe this 5-act romp that lovingly parodies the musicals of Rogers & Hammerstein, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Herman, and Kander & Ebb. Starring Aubry Ludington Panek, Peter Irwin, Jodi Baum, and Greg Halpen, with musical director Michael Copps.

Read a Review!

Guilt by Association
Simply New Theatre

New Renaissance Theater
1119 Townsend St. (in Little Italy), Syracuse

Written by Thomas Michael Quinn and featuring Karis Wiggins.

For more information, phone 315-558-9124.

Read a review!

Saturday, September 15, 2007

Annual Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Thea Reidy, artist, designer and educator is jurying the show.

Real Places, Imagined Spaces
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring abstract paintings by Michael Berman, mixed media by Sandy Clift, photography by John Dowling, Finger Lakes photography by John Francis McCarthy, and metal sculptures by Michael Moberg.

Tom Mazzullo Drawings
Everson Museum of Art

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

Tom Mazzullo is quietly turning the age-old idea of still-life upside down. In Tom Mazzullo Drawings, fruits and vegetables no longer rest among plentiful pre-arranged settings atop tablecloths dressed with lacey doilies and wrinkles that fall gracefully to the floor. There are no half-filled water glasses for light to dance in or mirrored reflections to play tricks on the eye.

The objects are meticulously drawn to scale, an invitation to move in for a closer look. The delicate, silverpoint lines become more apparent, reflecting light as one's eye wanders fervently over the layered network of cross-hatching where every line counts. Mazzullo wants the viewer to "concentrate on one subject, one idea at a time." The artist feels he has succeeded when "a drawing's pale, perfect surface elicits a liveliness and presence greater than the simplicity of its construction."

Tom Mazzullo Drawings, which includes 20 silverpoint and four conté crayon drawings, is the artist's first solo museum exhibition.

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art
Everson Museum of Art

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

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art, an exhibition organized by the Longyear Museum of Anthropology at Colgate University, includes 85 religious objects, most of them from the 20th century, such as figures, masks and headdresses, divination trays, staffs, vessels, and shrine furniture. Much of the art figures in the veneration of divinities and ancestors, and the control of supernatural powers associated with nature, medicine, and witchcraft.

Notes on Paper: Watercolors of Musicians by Steve Ryan
Lucas Gallery

Price: Free
Lucas Gallery
33 Jordan St., Skaneateles

Ryan's work is impressionistic, wet-to-wet watercolors, painted on crescent textured illustration board. The board and paints are wetted repetitively and some areas are defined later with pastel conte pencil. Subjects include musicians, both children and adults, in the jazz as well as the classical genre.

A Faith Ringgold Retrospective: Story Quilts and Children's Books
Community Folk Art Center

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

An icon of American art and activism, Ringgold was born in Harlem, New York. From a young age, she was encouraged in her creative endeavors by her mother, Willi Posey Jones, who was a fashion designer and seamstress. Ringgold received her Bachelor's degree in Fine Art and Education and her Master's degree in Art at City College of New York. From 1955-1973, she taught art in the New York City public schools. In the mid-to late 1960s, Ringgold began portraying political and Civil Rights themes in her paintings. She abandoned traditional painting in the early 1970's, and began creating large unstretched paintings with elaborate fabric borders, similar to Tibetan tankas. She also began making fabric dolls, masks and soft sculptures, some of which were used in performance pieces. In the early 1980s, she began creating large story quilts, featuring painted images along with handwritten text. She adapted her story quilt Tar Beach into a children's book in 1990, and has since written and illustrated several children's books, and has also published her memoirs.

From 1984 to 2002, Ringgold was a Professor of Art at University of California San Diego. She has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions since the 1960s. She has received many honors and awards for her achievements, including the National Endowment for the Arts awards in sculpture and painting, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and more than 15 honorary doctorates.

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

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

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

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

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

Icarus and Stravinsky: Color Prints by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Swietlin Nicholas Kraczyna is a Polish-born, American-raised artist who lives in Florence, Italy in the former studio of the Renaissance master painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. He teaches printmaking at Syracuse University's Florence campus and is spending the fall semester in Syracuse as a visiting artist. This exhibit presents a selection of Kraczyna's color etchings on two of the artist's favorite subjects: the myth of Icarus and Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Kraczyna binds these two different subjects together through their interest in pushing the limits of convention. Icarus was able to fly as a result of wings constructed by his father. The Rite of Spring was Igor Stravinsky's ground breaking and controversial ballet score that premiered in Paris in 1913. Many experts think modern orchestral music began with the score's dissonant, unpredictable composition.

The images of Icarus often present the winged boy in unconventional settings. One of the more recent etchings, Icarus Flying out the Window, 2002, portrays him flying out of a contemporary building's upper floor window. Kraczyna's technical dexterity and a vivid palette are on clear display in this multi-plate etching. In The Rite of Spring prints the artist places Stravinsky's handwritten musical notes and markings from the score in the image. They act as a foundation upon which are added the figures of the ballet dancers. The notes become either costume decorations or independent decorative patterns in the spaces between the figures.

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

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Eyes on the World: Photographs from the Alexia Foundation for World Peace and Cultural Understanding
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition features work by 18 photojournalists, three of whom -- Wesley Law, Ezra Shaw, and Justin Yurkanin -- are SU graduates. The subjects are diverse, ranging from the current conflicts in Africa to the legacy of Chernobyl. American topics focus on the Confederate flag controversy, life on the Navajo reservation and the 1997 reunion of people associated with The Farm, the Tennessee community that was America's largest hippie commune.

The Alexia Foundation was begun by the parents of Alexia Tsairis, a Newhouse School of Public Communications undergraduate student who was killed in the Pan Am 103 bombing in 1988. Each year the foundation gives grants to selected student and professional photographers so they can pursue their interests in photojournalism. To date, the foundation has awarded over $500,000 in grants to 80 undergraduate photographers and 11 professionals.

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

COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze
The Warehouse Gallery
Featuring works of Jo-Anne Balcaen, Juliet Jacobson, Rachel Rampleman

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

This bold new exhibition, COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze, focuses on the psychological, social, cultural and political dimensions of desire, subjectivity and -- pleasure.

COME ON presents an array of ideas, imagery and experiences on the topic of sexuality from the perspective of women in their 20s through mid 30s. The artists in this exhibition employ diverse media, including large-scale drawing, video installation, text work and ephemeral sculpture. COME ON reveals what is not represented in popular culture and provides a counterbalance to the ubiquitous imagery of sexualized female bodies created for mainstream heterosexual male sensibilities.

Festa Italiana

Price: Free
Washington St. (in front of City Hall)
Syracuse

2:00-2:30 pm: Chef Nick Stellino
3:00-4:00 pm: Dance Centre North
4:30-6:00 pm: Nancy Kelly
6:30-7:00 pm: Chef Nick Stellino
7:30-9:00 pm: These Three Tenors
9:30-11:00 pm: Jimmy Cavallo & The Delinquents

Dan Duggan, dulcimer

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

Information: 315-445-0817.

An Evening of Spirituals
First Unitarian Universalist Society Music Series
Featuring Mary Virginia Willie Gauthier; Harlan London; and Curtis Finney, accompanist

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

An evening of spirituals with discussion of the Negro spiritual in the development of American music.

For more information, phone 315-446-2714.

The Bang Project: Kickoff Show; The Sister Lovers + Thing-One + Magic Hour + DJ A-KO on turntables
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Music by Women Composers
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Harlem String Quartet

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

The concert will feature the music of women composers, including a world premiere by Judith Lang Zaimont that was specially commissioned by the Mellon Foundation. The concert will be performed by The Harlem Quartet along with musicians from Cornell University, Syracuse University, and the Eastman School of Music.

Hansel and Gretel
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive version of the children's classic.

The Phantom of the Opera
Broadway in Syracuse

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

With some of the most lavish sets, costumes and special effects ever to have been created for the stage, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera directed by Harold Prince traces the tragic love story of a beautiful opera singer and a young composer shamed by his physical appearance into a shadowy existence beneath the majestic Paris Opera House. Adapted from Gaston Leroux's classic novel of mystery and suspense, this award-winning musical has woven its magical spell over standing room audiences in more than 100 cities worldwide and is now the longest running show in Broadway history.

Read a Review!

Our Town
Appleseed Productions
Sharee Lemos, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Juxtaposed against the broader background of time, social history and the universality of normal events, we are engaged in the lives of two families as they they journey though the stages of daily life, love and marriage and death, and become as familiar to us as our own. They will make you laugh, touch you with their humanity and move you to realize that these are the important things that make life what it is and has always been. When asked what Our Town was about, playwright Thornton Wilder replied: "The play is an attempt to find a value above all price for the smallest events in our daily life."

Read a Review!

The Phantom of the Opera
Broadway in Syracuse

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

With some of the most lavish sets, costumes and special effects ever to have been created for the stage, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera directed by Harold Prince traces the tragic love story of a beautiful opera singer and a young composer shamed by his physical appearance into a shadowy existence beneath the majestic Paris Opera House. Adapted from Gaston Leroux's classic novel of mystery and suspense, this award-winning musical has woven its magical spell over standing room audiences in more than 100 cities worldwide and is now the longest running show in Broadway history.

Read a Review!

The Musical of Musicals: The Musical!
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Silly, smart, juicy, merciless - just a few of the one-word adjectives used to describe this 5-act romp that lovingly parodies the musicals of Rogers & Hammerstein, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Herman, and Kander & Ebb. Starring Aubry Ludington Panek, Peter Irwin, Jodi Baum, and Greg Halpen, with musical director Michael Copps.

Read a Review!

Guilt by Association
Simply New Theatre

New Renaissance Theater
1119 Townsend St. (in Little Italy), Syracuse

Written by Thomas Michael Quinn and featuring Karis Wiggins.

For more information, phone 315-558-9124.

Read a review!

Sunday, September 16, 2007

2007 Light Work Grants Exhibit: Works by Brantley Carroll, Ella Gant, and David Moore
Light Work Gallery

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

One Week's Dead: Works of Binh Danh
Light Work Gallery

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

Vietnamese-American photographer Binh Danh has quietly gained recognition on the international art scene for his Vietnam War-inspired work. This exhibition features his most recognizable work, comprising appropriated war images that are printed directly onto leaves or grass, a process Danh invented while in college. On his first trip to Vietnam since his family immigrated to the United States, Danh was confronted by the remains of the war, such as bomb craters that had been converted into rice paddies, and he observed that memories of the war's devastation had become part of daily life. It was this experience that inspired him to create chlorophyll prints of found images from the Vietnam War with tropical leaves, sharing, in his words, the "epiphany that the memory of those people and events will reverberate forever through the country's landscape."

Of his work, Danh states, "Much of my research has explored my own personal history and has become a way of visually and physically recollecting my family's history and honoring their collective memory." These concepts are very real with regard to any culture that has immigrated to the United States, looking at the stories families tell and the disconnected feeling experienced by the second generation.

Danh was born in Vietnam in 1977. He received a BFA degree from San Jose State University and an MFA degree from Stanford University. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, including the George Eastman House in Rochester, the Asia Society Museum in New York City, the University of Hawaii Art Museum, and the Haines Gallery in San Francisco. He lives and works in San Jose, CA. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

The Lost Photos of Vietnam: Works of Al Fasoldt
Light Work Gallery

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

During the Vietnam War, Al Fasoldt was a photographer for Stars & Stripes. When he left Vietnam to come home, he left his negatives behind and brought a few 8"x10" prints and contact sheets of his work. Since then, the Pentagon has ordered all negatives of Stars & Stripes photographers be destroyed. Over the past few years, Fasoldt has been working to repair the prints and contact sheets he brought home years ago, using them to make prints of his Vietnam War images for exhibition.

Notes on Paper: Watercolors of Musicians by Steve Ryan
Lucas Gallery

Price: Free
Lucas Gallery
33 Jordan St., Skaneateles

Ryan's work is impressionistic, wet-to-wet watercolors, painted on crescent textured illustration board. The board and paints are wetted repetitively and some areas are defined later with pastel conte pencil. Subjects include musicians, both children and adults, in the jazz as well as the classical genre.

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

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

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

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

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

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Icarus and Stravinsky: Color Prints by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Swietlin Nicholas Kraczyna is a Polish-born, American-raised artist who lives in Florence, Italy in the former studio of the Renaissance master painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. He teaches printmaking at Syracuse University's Florence campus and is spending the fall semester in Syracuse as a visiting artist. This exhibit presents a selection of Kraczyna's color etchings on two of the artist's favorite subjects: the myth of Icarus and Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Kraczyna binds these two different subjects together through their interest in pushing the limits of convention. Icarus was able to fly as a result of wings constructed by his father. The Rite of Spring was Igor Stravinsky's ground breaking and controversial ballet score that premiered in Paris in 1913. Many experts think modern orchestral music began with the score's dissonant, unpredictable composition.

The images of Icarus often present the winged boy in unconventional settings. One of the more recent etchings, Icarus Flying out the Window, 2002, portrays him flying out of a contemporary building's upper floor window. Kraczyna's technical dexterity and a vivid palette are on clear display in this multi-plate etching. In The Rite of Spring prints the artist places Stravinsky's handwritten musical notes and markings from the score in the image. They act as a foundation upon which are added the figures of the ballet dancers. The notes become either costume decorations or independent decorative patterns in the spaces between the figures.

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

Eyes on the World: Photographs from the Alexia Foundation for World Peace and Cultural Understanding
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition features work by 18 photojournalists, three of whom -- Wesley Law, Ezra Shaw, and Justin Yurkanin -- are SU graduates. The subjects are diverse, ranging from the current conflicts in Africa to the legacy of Chernobyl. American topics focus on the Confederate flag controversy, life on the Navajo reservation and the 1997 reunion of people associated with The Farm, the Tennessee community that was America's largest hippie commune.

The Alexia Foundation was begun by the parents of Alexia Tsairis, a Newhouse School of Public Communications undergraduate student who was killed in the Pan Am 103 bombing in 1988. Each year the foundation gives grants to selected student and professional photographers so they can pursue their interests in photojournalism. To date, the foundation has awarded over $500,000 in grants to 80 undergraduate photographers and 11 professionals.

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

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art
Everson Museum of Art

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

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art, an exhibition organized by the Longyear Museum of Anthropology at Colgate University, includes 85 religious objects, most of them from the 20th century, such as figures, masks and headdresses, divination trays, staffs, vessels, and shrine furniture. Much of the art figures in the veneration of divinities and ancestors, and the control of supernatural powers associated with nature, medicine, and witchcraft.

Tom Mazzullo Drawings
Everson Museum of Art

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

Tom Mazzullo is quietly turning the age-old idea of still-life upside down. In Tom Mazzullo Drawings, fruits and vegetables no longer rest among plentiful pre-arranged settings atop tablecloths dressed with lacey doilies and wrinkles that fall gracefully to the floor. There are no half-filled water glasses for light to dance in or mirrored reflections to play tricks on the eye.

The objects are meticulously drawn to scale, an invitation to move in for a closer look. The delicate, silverpoint lines become more apparent, reflecting light as one's eye wanders fervently over the layered network of cross-hatching where every line counts. Mazzullo wants the viewer to "concentrate on one subject, one idea at a time." The artist feels he has succeeded when "a drawing's pale, perfect surface elicits a liveliness and presence greater than the simplicity of its construction."

Tom Mazzullo Drawings, which includes 20 silverpoint and four conté crayon drawings, is the artist's first solo museum exhibition.

Annual Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Thea Reidy, artist, designer and educator is jurying the show.

Festa Italiana

Price: Free
Washington St. (in front of City Hall)
Syracuse

1:00-2:00 pm: Augie & Dominick
2:30-4:00 pm: Letizia & The Z Band
4:30-6:00 pm: Jimmy Cavallo & The Delinquents
6:30-8:00 pm: Primetime

Percussion Day

Price: Free
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

Five different local percussion groups will be featured: Adanfo African Drummers, La Rumba Cubana, the OCC Percussion Ensemble, Kambuyu Marimba Ensemble, and the SU Brazilian Ensemble.

Adanfo, led by Ghanaian master drummer Etse Nyadedzor, performs traditional West African music on both hand and stick drums. La Rumba Cubana is a group of drummers from Havana, Cuba that specializes in folkloric Afro-Cuban percussion styles. The OCC Percussion Ensemble, led by Robert Bridge, plays a wide variety of both traditional and composed music for all kinds of percussion instruments. Kambuyu Marimba Ensemble plays music of the Shona people from the southern African nation of Zimbabwe. They use several different sizes of marimba to create music that is both melodic and rhythmic. The SU Brazilian Ensemble, led by Josh and Elisa Dekaney, play a variety of Brazilian music, including the percussion-based samba and batucada styles.

Each group will play a set of its own music, and then all the musicians will combine forces for a trans-national percussion jam.

Parking is available in the park. This is a fair-weather event.

Our Town
Appleseed Productions
Sharee Lemos, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Juxtaposed against the broader background of time, social history and the universality of normal events, we are engaged in the lives of two families as they they journey though the stages of daily life, love and marriage and death, and become as familiar to us as our own. They will make you laugh, touch you with their humanity and move you to realize that these are the important things that make life what it is and has always been. When asked what Our Town was about, playwright Thornton Wilder replied: "The play is an attempt to find a value above all price for the smallest events in our daily life."

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The Phantom of the Opera
Broadway in Syracuse

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

With some of the most lavish sets, costumes and special effects ever to have been created for the stage, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera directed by Harold Prince traces the tragic love story of a beautiful opera singer and a young composer shamed by his physical appearance into a shadowy existence beneath the majestic Paris Opera House. Adapted from Gaston Leroux's classic novel of mystery and suspense, this award-winning musical has woven its magical spell over standing room audiences in more than 100 cities worldwide and is now the longest running show in Broadway history.

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The Musical of Musicals: The Musical!
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

Silly, smart, juicy, merciless - just a few of the one-word adjectives used to describe this 5-act romp that lovingly parodies the musicals of Rogers & Hammerstein, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Herman, and Kander & Ebb. Starring Aubry Ludington Panek, Peter Irwin, Jodi Baum, and Greg Halpen, with musical director Michael Copps.

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The Phantom of the Opera
Broadway in Syracuse

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

With some of the most lavish sets, costumes and special effects ever to have been created for the stage, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera directed by Harold Prince traces the tragic love story of a beautiful opera singer and a young composer shamed by his physical appearance into a shadowy existence beneath the majestic Paris Opera House. Adapted from Gaston Leroux's classic novel of mystery and suspense, this award-winning musical has woven its magical spell over standing room audiences in more than 100 cities worldwide and is now the longest running show in Broadway history.

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Monday, September 17, 2007

Species Unknown
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Species Unknown, mixed media work by Diane Worth Doty, is a personal creation of false science using simple or modest materials such as needle and thread, cotton cloth, paper, coffee, tea, hair, and a manual typewriter. The artist explores the quiet rhythm of stitching with her interest in ornithology, combining women's craft through creative writing and choice of theoretical and scientific depiction of migratory patterns of birds and humans as the driving force.

Gallery Exhibit: John Dargan
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Focusing on the iconic, mundane or the banal, John Dargan's paintings delineate every discrete object within them with equal emphasis. This allows the eye to move around the image in a time-based way. The viewer can focus on every single 'moment' within an image and explore the relationship between objects. The implications of the symbolic content of these objects bring us to new realizations about the way we, as a group of individuals, have ended up creating the spaces we inhabit. This intense looking builds a portrait of a place, space, culture or society. John Dargan is visiting from London England.

Collage
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Collage: described in stylistic terms as the art of recycling, as a sub-genre of modernism. It could also be described, as proven by Marcel Duchamp, as its demise: a bridge, or an itch. The Point of Contact Gallery presents an assemblage of rare collages from private collections that include works by Pérez Celis, Jane Hammond, Nam June Paik and Liliana Porter.

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

Mixed Media Art of Heidi Kuhl
Westcott Community Center

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

Annual Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Thea Reidy, artist, designer and educator is jurying the show.

The Lost Photos of Vietnam: Works of Al Fasoldt
Light Work Gallery

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

During the Vietnam War, Al Fasoldt was a photographer for Stars & Stripes. When he left Vietnam to come home, he left his negatives behind and brought a few 8"x10" prints and contact sheets of his work. Since then, the Pentagon has ordered all negatives of Stars & Stripes photographers be destroyed. Over the past few years, Fasoldt has been working to repair the prints and contact sheets he brought home years ago, using them to make prints of his Vietnam War images for exhibition.

One Week's Dead: Works of Binh Danh
Light Work Gallery

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

Vietnamese-American photographer Binh Danh has quietly gained recognition on the international art scene for his Vietnam War-inspired work. This exhibition features his most recognizable work, comprising appropriated war images that are printed directly onto leaves or grass, a process Danh invented while in college. On his first trip to Vietnam since his family immigrated to the United States, Danh was confronted by the remains of the war, such as bomb craters that had been converted into rice paddies, and he observed that memories of the war's devastation had become part of daily life. It was this experience that inspired him to create chlorophyll prints of found images from the Vietnam War with tropical leaves, sharing, in his words, the "epiphany that the memory of those people and events will reverberate forever through the country's landscape."

Of his work, Danh states, "Much of my research has explored my own personal history and has become a way of visually and physically recollecting my family's history and honoring their collective memory." These concepts are very real with regard to any culture that has immigrated to the United States, looking at the stories families tell and the disconnected feeling experienced by the second generation.

Danh was born in Vietnam in 1977. He received a BFA degree from San Jose State University and an MFA degree from Stanford University. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, including the George Eastman House in Rochester, the Asia Society Museum in New York City, the University of Hawaii Art Museum, and the Haines Gallery in San Francisco. He lives and works in San Jose, CA. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

2007 Light Work Grants Exhibit: Works by Brantley Carroll, Ella Gant, and David Moore
Light Work Gallery

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

Retrospect on My Life as a Photographer
Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs
Featuring Pablo Bartholomew, a photographer and photojournalist

Newhouse I
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Pablo Bartholomew's talk begins with his B&W documentary work from the 1970s (called "a luminous exercise in visual diary-keeping," by the Telegraph) and continues to his work as a photo journalist in South Asia from 1983 to 2000. In the second part of the talk, he will discuss two major projects: the Nagas of Northeast India, and Indian immigrants in North America.

Currently based in New Delhi, Pablo Bartholomew divides his time between photography, running photography workshops, and managing a software company that specializes in photo databases solutions and server-based digital archiving systems. Named the "Best Young Photographer," by the Press Institute of India in 1975, Pablo won the 1976 World Press Photo award for Picture Story with the series: "Morphine Addicts in India," and the World Press Photo Picture of the Year Award for "the Bhopal Gas Tragedy" (1985). Pablo Bartholomew's photographs have been published in Newsweek, Time, National Geographic, Life, Le Figaro Magazine (France), and Geo (France) amongst other prestigious journals.

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Species Unknown
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Species Unknown, mixed media work by Diane Worth Doty, is a personal creation of false science using simple or modest materials such as needle and thread, cotton cloth, paper, coffee, tea, hair, and a manual typewriter. The artist explores the quiet rhythm of stitching with her interest in ornithology, combining women's craft through creative writing and choice of theoretical and scientific depiction of migratory patterns of birds and humans as the driving force.

Gallery Exhibit: John Dargan
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Focusing on the iconic, mundane or the banal, John Dargan's paintings delineate every discrete object within them with equal emphasis. This allows the eye to move around the image in a time-based way. The viewer can focus on every single 'moment' within an image and explore the relationship between objects. The implications of the symbolic content of these objects bring us to new realizations about the way we, as a group of individuals, have ended up creating the spaces we inhabit. This intense looking builds a portrait of a place, space, culture or society. John Dargan is visiting from London England.

Collage
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Collage: described in stylistic terms as the art of recycling, as a sub-genre of modernism. It could also be described, as proven by Marcel Duchamp, as its demise: a bridge, or an itch. The Point of Contact Gallery presents an assemblage of rare collages from private collections that include works by Pérez Celis, Jane Hammond, Nam June Paik and Liliana Porter.

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

Mixed Media Art of Heidi Kuhl
Westcott Community Center

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

Annual Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Thea Reidy, artist, designer and educator is jurying the show.

A Faith Ringgold Retrospective: Story Quilts and Children's Books
Community Folk Art Center

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

An icon of American art and activism, Ringgold was born in Harlem, New York. From a young age, she was encouraged in her creative endeavors by her mother, Willi Posey Jones, who was a fashion designer and seamstress. Ringgold received her Bachelor's degree in Fine Art and Education and her Master's degree in Art at City College of New York. From 1955-1973, she taught art in the New York City public schools. In the mid-to late 1960s, Ringgold began portraying political and Civil Rights themes in her paintings. She abandoned traditional painting in the early 1970's, and began creating large unstretched paintings with elaborate fabric borders, similar to Tibetan tankas. She also began making fabric dolls, masks and soft sculptures, some of which were used in performance pieces. In the early 1980s, she began creating large story quilts, featuring painted images along with handwritten text. She adapted her story quilt Tar Beach into a children's book in 1990, and has since written and illustrated several children's books, and has also published her memoirs.

From 1984 to 2002, Ringgold was a Professor of Art at University of California San Diego. She has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions since the 1960s. She has received many honors and awards for her achievements, including the National Endowment for the Arts awards in sculpture and painting, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and more than 15 honorary doctorates.

2007 Light Work Grants Exhibit: Works by Brantley Carroll, Ella Gant, and David Moore
Light Work Gallery

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

One Week's Dead: Works of Binh Danh
Light Work Gallery

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

Vietnamese-American photographer Binh Danh has quietly gained recognition on the international art scene for his Vietnam War-inspired work. This exhibition features his most recognizable work, comprising appropriated war images that are printed directly onto leaves or grass, a process Danh invented while in college. On his first trip to Vietnam since his family immigrated to the United States, Danh was confronted by the remains of the war, such as bomb craters that had been converted into rice paddies, and he observed that memories of the war's devastation had become part of daily life. It was this experience that inspired him to create chlorophyll prints of found images from the Vietnam War with tropical leaves, sharing, in his words, the "epiphany that the memory of those people and events will reverberate forever through the country's landscape."

Of his work, Danh states, "Much of my research has explored my own personal history and has become a way of visually and physically recollecting my family's history and honoring their collective memory." These concepts are very real with regard to any culture that has immigrated to the United States, looking at the stories families tell and the disconnected feeling experienced by the second generation.

Danh was born in Vietnam in 1977. He received a BFA degree from San Jose State University and an MFA degree from Stanford University. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, including the George Eastman House in Rochester, the Asia Society Museum in New York City, the University of Hawaii Art Museum, and the Haines Gallery in San Francisco. He lives and works in San Jose, CA. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

The Lost Photos of Vietnam: Works of Al Fasoldt
Light Work Gallery

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

During the Vietnam War, Al Fasoldt was a photographer for Stars & Stripes. When he left Vietnam to come home, he left his negatives behind and brought a few 8"x10" prints and contact sheets of his work. Since then, the Pentagon has ordered all negatives of Stars & Stripes photographers be destroyed. Over the past few years, Fasoldt has been working to repair the prints and contact sheets he brought home years ago, using them to make prints of his Vietnam War images for exhibition.

COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze
The Warehouse Gallery
Featuring works of Jo-Anne Balcaen, Juliet Jacobson, Rachel Rampleman

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

This bold new exhibition, COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze, focuses on the psychological, social, cultural and political dimensions of desire, subjectivity and -- pleasure.

COME ON presents an array of ideas, imagery and experiences on the topic of sexuality from the perspective of women in their 20s through mid 30s. The artists in this exhibition employ diverse media, including large-scale drawing, video installation, text work and ephemeral sculpture. COME ON reveals what is not represented in popular culture and provides a counterbalance to the ubiquitous imagery of sexualized female bodies created for mainstream heterosexual male sensibilities.

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

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

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

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

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

Icarus and Stravinsky: Color Prints by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Swietlin Nicholas Kraczyna is a Polish-born, American-raised artist who lives in Florence, Italy in the former studio of the Renaissance master painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. He teaches printmaking at Syracuse University's Florence campus and is spending the fall semester in Syracuse as a visiting artist. This exhibit presents a selection of Kraczyna's color etchings on two of the artist's favorite subjects: the myth of Icarus and Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Kraczyna binds these two different subjects together through their interest in pushing the limits of convention. Icarus was able to fly as a result of wings constructed by his father. The Rite of Spring was Igor Stravinsky's ground breaking and controversial ballet score that premiered in Paris in 1913. Many experts think modern orchestral music began with the score's dissonant, unpredictable composition.

The images of Icarus often present the winged boy in unconventional settings. One of the more recent etchings, Icarus Flying out the Window, 2002, portrays him flying out of a contemporary building's upper floor window. Kraczyna's technical dexterity and a vivid palette are on clear display in this multi-plate etching. In The Rite of Spring prints the artist places Stravinsky's handwritten musical notes and markings from the score in the image. They act as a foundation upon which are added the figures of the ballet dancers. The notes become either costume decorations or independent decorative patterns in the spaces between the figures.

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

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Eyes on the World: Photographs from the Alexia Foundation for World Peace and Cultural Understanding
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition features work by 18 photojournalists, three of whom -- Wesley Law, Ezra Shaw, and Justin Yurkanin -- are SU graduates. The subjects are diverse, ranging from the current conflicts in Africa to the legacy of Chernobyl. American topics focus on the Confederate flag controversy, life on the Navajo reservation and the 1997 reunion of people associated with The Farm, the Tennessee community that was America's largest hippie commune.

The Alexia Foundation was begun by the parents of Alexia Tsairis, a Newhouse School of Public Communications undergraduate student who was killed in the Pan Am 103 bombing in 1988. Each year the foundation gives grants to selected student and professional photographers so they can pursue their interests in photojournalism. To date, the foundation has awarded over $500,000 in grants to 80 undergraduate photographers and 11 professionals.

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

Works from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

B-Fest Night: Basket Case (1982)
Alternative Movies and Events

Price: $5
Funk 'n Waffles University
727 S. Crouse Ave. (Campus Plaza, behind Marshall , Syracuse

Duane Bradley (Kevin Van Hentenryck) has a secret in his wicker basket, which he carries with him constantly. Inside is his mutant Siamese twin Belial, who was cut from his side as a child and left for dead. Now the two, who share a telepathic link, have traveled to New York City to wreak bloody revenge on the thoughtless surgeons who separated them. Belial is not about to let anything get in his was, least of all the budding romance between his brother Duane and a beautiful young receptionist.

The Calcutta Quartet
Syracuse University's South Asia Center

Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Devshankar and Jyotishankar, violins, are popularly known as Violin Brothers in India. They are the leading disciples of sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, and also played for the music compositions of Sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar, Oscar-winning film director Satyajit Ray, and many others.

Also featured are Pandit S. Sekhar, mridangam; and Subhen Chatterjee, tabla.

The Phantom of the Opera
Broadway in Syracuse

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

With some of the most lavish sets, costumes and special effects ever to have been created for the stage, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera directed by Harold Prince traces the tragic love story of a beautiful opera singer and a young composer shamed by his physical appearance into a shadowy existence beneath the majestic Paris Opera House. Adapted from Gaston Leroux's classic novel of mystery and suspense, this award-winning musical has woven its magical spell over standing room audiences in more than 100 cities worldwide and is now the longest running show in Broadway history.

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Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Species Unknown
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Species Unknown, mixed media work by Diane Worth Doty, is a personal creation of false science using simple or modest materials such as needle and thread, cotton cloth, paper, coffee, tea, hair, and a manual typewriter. The artist explores the quiet rhythm of stitching with her interest in ornithology, combining women's craft through creative writing and choice of theoretical and scientific depiction of migratory patterns of birds and humans as the driving force.

Gallery Exhibit: John Dargan
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Focusing on the iconic, mundane or the banal, John Dargan's paintings delineate every discrete object within them with equal emphasis. This allows the eye to move around the image in a time-based way. The viewer can focus on every single 'moment' within an image and explore the relationship between objects. The implications of the symbolic content of these objects bring us to new realizations about the way we, as a group of individuals, have ended up creating the spaces we inhabit. This intense looking builds a portrait of a place, space, culture or society. John Dargan is visiting from London England.

Collage
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Collage: described in stylistic terms as the art of recycling, as a sub-genre of modernism. It could also be described, as proven by Marcel Duchamp, as its demise: a bridge, or an itch. The Point of Contact Gallery presents an assemblage of rare collages from private collections that include works by Pérez Celis, Jane Hammond, Nam June Paik and Liliana Porter.

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

Mixed Media Art of Heidi Kuhl
Westcott Community Center

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

Annual Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Thea Reidy, artist, designer and educator is jurying the show.

A Faith Ringgold Retrospective: Story Quilts and Children's Books
Community Folk Art Center

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

An icon of American art and activism, Ringgold was born in Harlem, New York. From a young age, she was encouraged in her creative endeavors by her mother, Willi Posey Jones, who was a fashion designer and seamstress. Ringgold received her Bachelor's degree in Fine Art and Education and her Master's degree in Art at City College of New York. From 1955-1973, she taught art in the New York City public schools. In the mid-to late 1960s, Ringgold began portraying political and Civil Rights themes in her paintings. She abandoned traditional painting in the early 1970's, and began creating large unstretched paintings with elaborate fabric borders, similar to Tibetan tankas. She also began making fabric dolls, masks and soft sculptures, some of which were used in performance pieces. In the early 1980s, she began creating large story quilts, featuring painted images along with handwritten text. She adapted her story quilt Tar Beach into a children's book in 1990, and has since written and illustrated several children's books, and has also published her memoirs.

From 1984 to 2002, Ringgold was a Professor of Art at University of California San Diego. She has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions since the 1960s. She has received many honors and awards for her achievements, including the National Endowment for the Arts awards in sculpture and painting, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and more than 15 honorary doctorates.

The Lost Photos of Vietnam: Works of Al Fasoldt
Light Work Gallery

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

During the Vietnam War, Al Fasoldt was a photographer for Stars & Stripes. When he left Vietnam to come home, he left his negatives behind and brought a few 8"x10" prints and contact sheets of his work. Since then, the Pentagon has ordered all negatives of Stars & Stripes photographers be destroyed. Over the past few years, Fasoldt has been working to repair the prints and contact sheets he brought home years ago, using them to make prints of his Vietnam War images for exhibition.

One Week's Dead: Works of Binh Danh
Light Work Gallery

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

Vietnamese-American photographer Binh Danh has quietly gained recognition on the international art scene for his Vietnam War-inspired work. This exhibition features his most recognizable work, comprising appropriated war images that are printed directly onto leaves or grass, a process Danh invented while in college. On his first trip to Vietnam since his family immigrated to the United States, Danh was confronted by the remains of the war, such as bomb craters that had been converted into rice paddies, and he observed that memories of the war's devastation had become part of daily life. It was this experience that inspired him to create chlorophyll prints of found images from the Vietnam War with tropical leaves, sharing, in his words, the "epiphany that the memory of those people and events will reverberate forever through the country's landscape."

Of his work, Danh states, "Much of my research has explored my own personal history and has become a way of visually and physically recollecting my family's history and honoring their collective memory." These concepts are very real with regard to any culture that has immigrated to the United States, looking at the stories families tell and the disconnected feeling experienced by the second generation.

Danh was born in Vietnam in 1977. He received a BFA degree from San Jose State University and an MFA degree from Stanford University. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, including the George Eastman House in Rochester, the Asia Society Museum in New York City, the University of Hawaii Art Museum, and the Haines Gallery in San Francisco. He lives and works in San Jose, CA. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

2007 Light Work Grants Exhibit: Works by Brantley Carroll, Ella Gant, and David Moore
Light Work Gallery

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

COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze
The Warehouse Gallery
Featuring works of Jo-Anne Balcaen, Juliet Jacobson, Rachel Rampleman

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

This bold new exhibition, COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze, focuses on the psychological, social, cultural and political dimensions of desire, subjectivity and -- pleasure.

COME ON presents an array of ideas, imagery and experiences on the topic of sexuality from the perspective of women in their 20s through mid 30s. The artists in this exhibition employ diverse media, including large-scale drawing, video installation, text work and ephemeral sculpture. COME ON reveals what is not represented in popular culture and provides a counterbalance to the ubiquitous imagery of sexualized female bodies created for mainstream heterosexual male sensibilities.

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

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

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

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

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

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Icarus and Stravinsky: Color Prints by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Swietlin Nicholas Kraczyna is a Polish-born, American-raised artist who lives in Florence, Italy in the former studio of the Renaissance master painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. He teaches printmaking at Syracuse University's Florence campus and is spending the fall semester in Syracuse as a visiting artist. This exhibit presents a selection of Kraczyna's color etchings on two of the artist's favorite subjects: the myth of Icarus and Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Kraczyna binds these two different subjects together through their interest in pushing the limits of convention. Icarus was able to fly as a result of wings constructed by his father. The Rite of Spring was Igor Stravinsky's ground breaking and controversial ballet score that premiered in Paris in 1913. Many experts think modern orchestral music began with the score's dissonant, unpredictable composition.

The images of Icarus often present the winged boy in unconventional settings. One of the more recent etchings, Icarus Flying out the Window, 2002, portrays him flying out of a contemporary building's upper floor window. Kraczyna's technical dexterity and a vivid palette are on clear display in this multi-plate etching. In The Rite of Spring prints the artist places Stravinsky's handwritten musical notes and markings from the score in the image. They act as a foundation upon which are added the figures of the ballet dancers. The notes become either costume decorations or independent decorative patterns in the spaces between the figures.

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

Eyes on the World: Photographs from the Alexia Foundation for World Peace and Cultural Understanding
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition features work by 18 photojournalists, three of whom -- Wesley Law, Ezra Shaw, and Justin Yurkanin -- are SU graduates. The subjects are diverse, ranging from the current conflicts in Africa to the legacy of Chernobyl. American topics focus on the Confederate flag controversy, life on the Navajo reservation and the 1997 reunion of people associated with The Farm, the Tennessee community that was America's largest hippie commune.

The Alexia Foundation was begun by the parents of Alexia Tsairis, a Newhouse School of Public Communications undergraduate student who was killed in the Pan Am 103 bombing in 1988. Each year the foundation gives grants to selected student and professional photographers so they can pursue their interests in photojournalism. To date, the foundation has awarded over $500,000 in grants to 80 undergraduate photographers and 11 professionals.

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

Works from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Phantom of the Opera
Broadway in Syracuse

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

With some of the most lavish sets, costumes and special effects ever to have been created for the stage, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera directed by Harold Prince traces the tragic love story of a beautiful opera singer and a young composer shamed by his physical appearance into a shadowy existence beneath the majestic Paris Opera House. Adapted from Gaston Leroux's classic novel of mystery and suspense, this award-winning musical has woven its magical spell over standing room audiences in more than 100 cities worldwide and is now the longest running show in Broadway history.

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Thursday, September 20, 2007

Species Unknown
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Species Unknown, mixed media work by Diane Worth Doty, is a personal creation of false science using simple or modest materials such as needle and thread, cotton cloth, paper, coffee, tea, hair, and a manual typewriter. The artist explores the quiet rhythm of stitching with her interest in ornithology, combining women's craft through creative writing and choice of theoretical and scientific depiction of migratory patterns of birds and humans as the driving force.

Gallery Exhibit: John Dargan
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Focusing on the iconic, mundane or the banal, John Dargan's paintings delineate every discrete object within them with equal emphasis. This allows the eye to move around the image in a time-based way. The viewer can focus on every single 'moment' within an image and explore the relationship between objects. The implications of the symbolic content of these objects bring us to new realizations about the way we, as a group of individuals, have ended up creating the spaces we inhabit. This intense looking builds a portrait of a place, space, culture or society. John Dargan is visiting from London England.

Collage
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Collage: described in stylistic terms as the art of recycling, as a sub-genre of modernism. It could also be described, as proven by Marcel Duchamp, as its demise: a bridge, or an itch. The Point of Contact Gallery presents an assemblage of rare collages from private collections that include works by Pérez Celis, Jane Hammond, Nam June Paik and Liliana Porter.

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

Mixed Media Art of Heidi Kuhl
Westcott Community Center

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

Annual Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Thea Reidy, artist, designer and educator is jurying the show.

A Faith Ringgold Retrospective: Story Quilts and Children's Books
Community Folk Art Center

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

An icon of American art and activism, Ringgold was born in Harlem, New York. From a young age, she was encouraged in her creative endeavors by her mother, Willi Posey Jones, who was a fashion designer and seamstress. Ringgold received her Bachelor's degree in Fine Art and Education and her Master's degree in Art at City College of New York. From 1955-1973, she taught art in the New York City public schools. In the mid-to late 1960s, Ringgold began portraying political and Civil Rights themes in her paintings. She abandoned traditional painting in the early 1970's, and began creating large unstretched paintings with elaborate fabric borders, similar to Tibetan tankas. She also began making fabric dolls, masks and soft sculptures, some of which were used in performance pieces. In the early 1980s, she began creating large story quilts, featuring painted images along with handwritten text. She adapted her story quilt Tar Beach into a children's book in 1990, and has since written and illustrated several children's books, and has also published her memoirs.

From 1984 to 2002, Ringgold was a Professor of Art at University of California San Diego. She has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions since the 1960s. She has received many honors and awards for her achievements, including the National Endowment for the Arts awards in sculpture and painting, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and more than 15 honorary doctorates.

2007 Light Work Grants Exhibit: Works by Brantley Carroll, Ella Gant, and David Moore
Light Work Gallery

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

One Week's Dead: Works of Binh Danh
Light Work Gallery

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

Vietnamese-American photographer Binh Danh has quietly gained recognition on the international art scene for his Vietnam War-inspired work. This exhibition features his most recognizable work, comprising appropriated war images that are printed directly onto leaves or grass, a process Danh invented while in college. On his first trip to Vietnam since his family immigrated to the United States, Danh was confronted by the remains of the war, such as bomb craters that had been converted into rice paddies, and he observed that memories of the war's devastation had become part of daily life. It was this experience that inspired him to create chlorophyll prints of found images from the Vietnam War with tropical leaves, sharing, in his words, the "epiphany that the memory of those people and events will reverberate forever through the country's landscape."

Of his work, Danh states, "Much of my research has explored my own personal history and has become a way of visually and physically recollecting my family's history and honoring their collective memory." These concepts are very real with regard to any culture that has immigrated to the United States, looking at the stories families tell and the disconnected feeling experienced by the second generation.

Danh was born in Vietnam in 1977. He received a BFA degree from San Jose State University and an MFA degree from Stanford University. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, including the George Eastman House in Rochester, the Asia Society Museum in New York City, the University of Hawaii Art Museum, and the Haines Gallery in San Francisco. He lives and works in San Jose, CA. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

The Lost Photos of Vietnam: Works of Al Fasoldt
Light Work Gallery

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

During the Vietnam War, Al Fasoldt was a photographer for Stars & Stripes. When he left Vietnam to come home, he left his negatives behind and brought a few 8"x10" prints and contact sheets of his work. Since then, the Pentagon has ordered all negatives of Stars & Stripes photographers be destroyed. Over the past few years, Fasoldt has been working to repair the prints and contact sheets he brought home years ago, using them to make prints of his Vietnam War images for exhibition.

COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze
The Warehouse Gallery
Featuring works of Jo-Anne Balcaen, Juliet Jacobson, Rachel Rampleman

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

This bold new exhibition, COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze, focuses on the psychological, social, cultural and political dimensions of desire, subjectivity and -- pleasure.

COME ON presents an array of ideas, imagery and experiences on the topic of sexuality from the perspective of women in their 20s through mid 30s. The artists in this exhibition employ diverse media, including large-scale drawing, video installation, text work and ephemeral sculpture. COME ON reveals what is not represented in popular culture and provides a counterbalance to the ubiquitous imagery of sexualized female bodies created for mainstream heterosexual male sensibilities.

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

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

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

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

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

Icarus and Stravinsky: Color Prints by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Swietlin Nicholas Kraczyna is a Polish-born, American-raised artist who lives in Florence, Italy in the former studio of the Renaissance master painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. He teaches printmaking at Syracuse University's Florence campus and is spending the fall semester in Syracuse as a visiting artist. This exhibit presents a selection of Kraczyna's color etchings on two of the artist's favorite subjects: the myth of Icarus and Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Kraczyna binds these two different subjects together through their interest in pushing the limits of convention. Icarus was able to fly as a result of wings constructed by his father. The Rite of Spring was Igor Stravinsky's ground breaking and controversial ballet score that premiered in Paris in 1913. Many experts think modern orchestral music began with the score's dissonant, unpredictable composition.

The images of Icarus often present the winged boy in unconventional settings. One of the more recent etchings, Icarus Flying out the Window, 2002, portrays him flying out of a contemporary building's upper floor window. Kraczyna's technical dexterity and a vivid palette are on clear display in this multi-plate etching. In The Rite of Spring prints the artist places Stravinsky's handwritten musical notes and markings from the score in the image. They act as a foundation upon which are added the figures of the ballet dancers. The notes become either costume decorations or independent decorative patterns in the spaces between the figures.

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

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

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

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

Eyes on the World: Photographs from the Alexia Foundation for World Peace and Cultural Understanding
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition features work by 18 photojournalists, three of whom -- Wesley Law, Ezra Shaw, and Justin Yurkanin -- are SU graduates. The subjects are diverse, ranging from the current conflicts in Africa to the legacy of Chernobyl. American topics focus on the Confederate flag controversy, life on the Navajo reservation and the 1997 reunion of people associated with The Farm, the Tennessee community that was America's largest hippie commune.

The Alexia Foundation was begun by the parents of Alexia Tsairis, a Newhouse School of Public Communications undergraduate student who was killed in the Pan Am 103 bombing in 1988. Each year the foundation gives grants to selected student and professional photographers so they can pursue their interests in photojournalism. To date, the foundation has awarded over $500,000 in grants to 80 undergraduate photographers and 11 professionals.

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

Real Places, Imagined Spaces
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring abstract paintings by Michael Berman, mixed media by Sandy Clift, photography by John Dowling, Finger Lakes photography by John Francis McCarthy, and metal sculptures by Michael Moberg.

Works from the Permanent Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The opening reception will feature a reading by Martin Walls at approximately 7:30 p.m.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Collage
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Collage: described in stylistic terms as the art of recycling, as a sub-genre of modernism. It could also be described, as proven by Marcel Duchamp, as its demise: a bridge, or an itch. The Point of Contact Gallery presents an assemblage of rare collages from private collections that include works by Pérez Celis, Jane Hammond, Nam June Paik and Liliana Porter.

Cosmology: Works by Alan Singer
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Alan Singer utilizes traditional painting and drawing techniques combined with high-tech digital tools and printmaking techniques to create his abstract environments. William Zimmer, New York Times' art critic, commented that "Singer's art has the refreshing jauntiness found in the pioneering American abstractionists."

Alan Singer says: "My subjects are derived from visual and physical phenomena related to space (in the geometric sense), and our human interactions with nature. I think about how our environment interweaves things we can see and things which we can only feel, like the wind. I am very conscious of the elements in our natural world and the forces that are exerted on us, and how we adapt. I try to open my art to representations of physical and social forces that may draw upon literary, scientific or mathematical resources. Patterns in my painting find correlations to the textures and rhythms of music, dance, textile arts and more."

2nd Annual Syracuse University MFA Invitational
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

All MFA Candidates from the Departments of Art and Transmedia at Syracuse University have been invited to exhibit their artwork. There will be a "Meet & Greet" opening reception with the artists in attendance.

Alterity
ThINC

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

A group show of art drawn from alternative art movements. The 20 works included in the exhibition represent a range of so-called "outsider" art made by those who do not work within the sphere of the traditional art world: prisoners, people with various compulsive agendas (the evils of taxes, for instance), and individuals with such significant disabilities as schizophrenia and autism. Dan Miller, currently featured at White Columns Gallery in New York, and one of whose drawings was recently purchased by The Museum of Modern Art in New York, is one of the artists whose art those who visit the exhibition will be able to enjoy; he is represented by several works in ThINC's exhibition. Also on view are drawings and objects produced by prisoners and former prison inmates who participated in programs at the Center for Community Alternatives in Syracuse. In addition, there are three sculptures by Edward Nagrodzki, a self-appointed 'tax rebel'. The sculptures are representative of the wide array of creative forms he used to protest the imposition of taxes.

Artist Talk
The Warehouse Gallery
Featuring Juliet Jacobson

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

Talk in conjunction with the exhibit Come On.

Artist Talk
The Warehouse Gallery
Featuring Rachel Rampleman

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

Talk in conjunction with the exhibit Come On.

Transcending Tragedy
Syracuse University Art Museum
Featuring Dr. Peter Tsairis, Aphrodite Tsairis, and Teru Kuwayama

Price: Free
Hall of Languages, Room 107
Syracuse University, Syracuse

A lecture from Dr. Peter Tsairis and Aphrodite Tsairis, founders of the Alexia Foundation, and photojournalist Teru Kuwayama, Alexia Foundation Professional Grant recipient. This lecture is presented in conjunction with the "Eyes on the World" photography exhibition currently on display at the SUArt Galleries. A reception for the exhibition will immediately follow the lecture in the Galleries from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.

The Man and His Music
Featuring Robert Goulet

Price: $50 regular, $100 patron
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Concert with singer and actor Robert Goulet and a 15-piece orchestra made up of area musicians, conducted by Syracuse-native Vincent Falcone, Frank Sinatra's long-time musical director. Proceeds will benefit Loretto.

To purchase tickets, call the Loretto Foundation at 315-446-5538, ext. 3031.

Death Joins the Club
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive dinner theater murder mystery.

The Phantom of the Opera
Broadway in Syracuse

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

With some of the most lavish sets, costumes and special effects ever to have been created for the stage, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera directed by Harold Prince traces the tragic love story of a beautiful opera singer and a young composer shamed by his physical appearance into a shadowy existence beneath the majestic Paris Opera House. Adapted from Gaston Leroux's classic novel of mystery and suspense, this award-winning musical has woven its magical spell over standing room audiences in more than 100 cities worldwide and is now the longest running show in Broadway history.

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Oedipus Rex
Black Box Players
Nick Pescosolido, director

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