Sunday, September 13, 2009

Barry Anderson: Intermissions
Light Work Gallery

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

Barry Anderson's videos depict purple skies, abstract worlds filled with bubbles, and colorful fragments of semi-familiar scenes. His work reminds people to stop and enjoy the moment.

Anderson's photographs and videos are featured in an innovative art exhibition, Intermissions, which offers a welcome artistic interruption to daily life in a time of economic uncertainty and other societal stresses. Organized by Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run organization on the Syracuse University campus, the fall exhibition will appear at over a dozen venues both on and off campus.

Anderson's colorful video pieces include abstract patterns, nature scenes, and semi-nostalgic images from decade-old advertising. Each piece creates a good-natured, introspective scene that contrasts the busy settings where the work is shown. Intermissions places video art and photographs at multiple venues across Syracuse, making it accessible to the general community and creating many opportunities for meaningful interaction with the work.

Partners in this unique collaboration include SUArt Galleries, Syracuse Symposium, the Tolley Administration Building, Schine Student Center, Orange TV Network, The Warehouse, Community Folk Art Center, the Everson Museum of Art, the Urban Video Project, the Red House Arts Center, and more. Exhibition sites also include public spaces such as billboards and video projections onto windows on campus and buildings in downtown Syracuse.

Barry Anderson was born in Greenville, TX. He holds an MFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown throughout the country, as well as in Thailand, South America, Cuba, and the UK. He lives in Kansas City. Barry participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

The Salted Lip: A Tall Drink of Something Cool
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Ed Feldman's finely crafted pots celebrate the ceremony of drinking and eating with friends, and are infused with a spirit of generosity and indulgence. His pots are completely functional. They add elegance and personality to any dinner table or decor. Each piece is unique due to the introduction of sodium bicarbonate into the atmosphere of the kiln during firing, resulting in luscious and colorful surfaces.

A native Central New Yorker, Ed Feldman started his ceramics studies at SUNY Cortland. Later, he worked as a studio assistant to his professor, John Jessiman. Feldman has exhibited nationally in many shows including History in the Making in Rochester and the prestigious Strictly Functional, in Lancaster, PA. He recently received a MFA in Ceramics at Syracuse University and moved to Cortland to set up his own pottery studio.

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond focuses on the period in the American artist's life when he spent two summers at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, NY, a rustic summer residence in the Hudson Valley region of New York state owned by his principal patron and friend since childhood, Lawson Valentine.

The show brings together 28 of Homer's watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings, and ceramic tiles of the period from galleries, private collections, and museums across the country.

For more information, visit homer.syr.edu.

36th Annual On My Own Time Exhibit
CNY Arts

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

The Cultural Resources Council in partnership with local businesses presents this exhibit featuring artwork in a variety of mediums by 91 artists from 15 companies in the Central New York area.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Follow the Golden Mean: Works of Susan Hadzor and Robert vonHunke
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Skaneateles Artisans is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit featuring stained glass art by Susan Hadzor and oil painting and photography by Robert vonHunke.

Graduate Painting
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition will feature large paintings and installations by first-year graduate students Rachel Van Pelt, Jave Yoshimoto, and Annie Ryerson; second-year graduate students Joey Reyes, Daina Mattis, Alex Schmitz, and Mike Berlant; and third-year graduate students Jessica Sharpe, Gwendolyn Reyes, and Jon Lee.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand, the college's program exhibitions coordinator, at 315-474-1217 or adhavenh@syr.edu.

Westcott Street Cultural Fair

Price: Free
Westcott Business District
Westcott St., Syraucuse

Information: http://www.westcottfair.org/.

Jewish Music and Cultural Festival

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

Information: 315-446-7810, 315-682-8489, or http://syracusejewishfestival.com.

12:00 PM - West of Odessa
12:40 PM - Love & Knishes
1:30 PM - Jonathan Dinkin & Klezmercuse
2:15 PM - Zetz
3:00 PM - Susan Watts, Elaine Hoffman Watts and the Fabulous Shpielkehs
4:45 PM - Syracuse Congregation Cantors
5:15 PM - Keyna Hora Klezmer Band
5:45 PM - Open Jam Session

Other Events:
Marty Kerker (Noon to 12:30 PM)
Rochester Jewish Chorale (12:45 PM to 1:15PM)
West of Odessa (1:30 PM to 2:00 PM)
Kenesseth Shalom Singers (2:15pm to 3:00pm)
JCC Lounge - Klezmer Workshop with Robin Seletsky (2 PM to 3 PM)

Music and Arts Festival

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Presented by the Syracuse University Department of African-American Studies.

Sculptor Mel Edwards, painter Napolean Jpnes-Henderson, Jayne Cortez & the Fire Spitters (jazz, blues and spoken word), Syracuse University's West African Drumming Ensemble. 6:45 PM: Jazz concert with Billy Bang, violin, and the Untempered Ensemble.

An Organ Crawl: Four Churches, Four Organs
Cathedral Square Neighborhood Association and the Syracuse Chapter of the American Guild of Organists

Park Central Presbyterian Church
504 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Visit four churches and get close to the consoles and choir lofts where their organs are played.

2:00 pm: Park Central Presbyterian Church, Fayette & Townsend Streets
Host: Will Headlee, SU professor emeritus
Organ: M.P. Moller, Opus 10313, 1967

2:45 pm: St. Paul's Cathedral, Montgomery & Fayette Streets
Host: James Potts, Canon Musician
Organ: M.P. Moller, Opus 10247, 1967; Quimby, 2002

3:30 pm: Plymouth Congregational Church, E. Onondaga & S. Warren Streets
Host: Dr. Joseph Downing, SU Professor
Organ: M.P. Moller, Opus 5826, 1931

4:15 pm: Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, E. Onondaga St. at Columbus Circle
Host: Dr. Kola Owolabi, SU Organist
Organ: Frank Roosevelt, No. 520, 1892; Schantz, 1980

Lyra Vocal Ensemble

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

Choral group from St. Petersburg, Russia, performs chants from the Russian Orthodox Church and folk songs from Russia.

U.S. Navy band "Country Current"

Price: Free, but tickets required
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Banjo player Keith M. Arneson will lead the seven-piece band through a repertoire that includes work from the songbooks of Boots Randolph, Charlie Daniels, Vince Gill, and David Ball. The band was formed in 1973, and has played at the White House, the Grand Ole Opry and the G-8 Summit.

Tickets available at the Syracuse Parks departments main office at 412 Spencer St., 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. weekdays.

If any tickets for the show at the 650-seat theater go unclaimed, they will be available at the Palace on the day of the show, just before 3:00 p.m.

Robert Auler, piano
Joyful Noise Concert Series

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

Concert pianist Robert Auler will dedicate a new piano in the sanctuary with selections from his recent CD, including a variety of classical and new music. Free parking; building is accessible to all. For more information, phone 315-457-5180.

The Court Band: Bach, Handel, and the Oboe
NYS Baroque
Featuring Debra Nagy, baroque oboe

Price: $25 regular, $20 seniors, $7 students, $5 children 12 and under
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

The oboe and violin are a natural pair. Both boast bright tones and an uncanny ability to mimic the human voice, though via radically different techniques. Bach's Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C Minor, BWV 1060 exemplifies this brilliant combination, which was heard at the finest courts of 18th-century Europe. We celebrate Baroque music for oboe and strings in this concert.

Handel Concerto grosso, op. 3 no. 3, HWV 314
Telemann Trio in G Major, TWV 42:G11
Janitsch Quadro on "O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden" for oboe and strings in G minor
Telemann Concerto in A major for d'amore and strings, TWV51:A2
Bach Concerto for oboe and violin in C minor after BWV 1060

Byron Jones
Syracuse Wurlitzer

Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Byron Jones was born in South Wales, well known as the "land of song," and from a very early age he showed a great interest in music. It was not long before he was playing for his local Sunday school, where he was introduced to an harmonium. He continued piano lessons while at school and upon leaving was asked to play the newly installed Hammond organ in the local miners club. Soon he was accompanying famous West End artists when they appeared in clubs in his native Wales. He now has his own music club with over 600 members. He hosts a number of music festivals per year on both electronic and pipe organs, and has played many of the prime theatre organ venues in England as well as touring throughout the United States. He has broadcast many times on TV and radio and has produced many excellent CDs and Videos. A perennial favorite, he returns to Syracuse for a program on our world famous Wurlitzer Theatre Pipe Organ!

Cirque du Soleil: Alegría

Price: $40-$95 regular, $25 students/seniors
War Memorial at Oncenter
800 S. State St., Syracuse

Alegría is a mood, a state of mind. The themes of the show, whose name means "jubilation" in Spanish, are many. Power and the handing down of power over time, the evolution from ancient monarchies to modern democracies, old age, youth—it is against this backdrop that the characters of Alegría play out their lives. Kings' fools, minstrels, beggars, old aristocrats and children make up its universe, along with the clowns, who alone are able to resist the passing of time and the social transformations that accompany it.

Lend Me a Tenor
Appleseed Productions
Dan Stevens, director

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

This night is the biggest in the history of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company; world famous tenor Tito Morelli is to perform Otello at the gala season opener. The General Manager hopes this will put Cleveland on the operatic map. Morelli is late; when he finally sweeps in it is too late to rehearse with the company. Through a hilarious series of mishaps, Il Stupendo is given a double dose of tranquilizers which mix with the booze he has consumed and he passes out. His pulse is so low that Saunders and his assistant Max believe he is dead. What to do? Max is an aspiring singer and Saunders persuades him to get into Morelli's Otello costume and try to fool the audience into thinking he's Il Stupendo. Max succeeds admirably, but Morelli comes to and gets into his other costume. Now two Otellos are running around in costume and two women are running around in lingerie, each thinking she is with Il Stupendo!

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Cirque du Soleil: Alegría

Price: $40-$95 regular, $25 students/seniors
War Memorial at Oncenter
800 S. State St., Syracuse

Alegría is a mood, a state of mind. The themes of the show, whose name means "jubilation" in Spanish, are many. Power and the handing down of power over time, the evolution from ancient monarchies to modern democracies, old age, youth—it is against this backdrop that the characters of Alegría play out their lives. Kings' fools, minstrels, beggars, old aristocrats and children make up its universe, along with the clowns, who alone are able to resist the passing of time and the social transformations that accompany it.

Monday, September 14, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Gary Trento
Onondaga Community College

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

Gary Trento's entire adult life as a practicing painter has been spent believing in the persuasive power of painting; more specifically, in how representational painting can transform the activity of direct observation of the live model in real time and space into meaningful, pictorial structure. His observation of the live model, like Vermeer, Chardin, Ingre, Degas is not about a desire to possess, rather a desire to contemplate and evaluate the nature of appearance. He wants to experience observation, to bring it close, to examine, interpret, to look 'for', not 'at'. Observation is discriminatory, hence the basis for self-knowledge.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

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

FluXus in German: Works by Robert Burkhart
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

FluXus in German: Fluxus is defined as the wry, post-Dada art movement that flourished in New York and Germany in the 1950s and 60s, and influences many contemporary artists. This is an event and an activity to take part in, a showing of Fluxus with the possibility to learn a different language (yet to be proven).

Rob Burkhart worked in industrial arts through high school and continued to obtain a degree in Construction Technology. He was employed in the areas of carpentry, masonry, painting, flooring, and maintenance, and currently works at Syracuse University. With his hands in the materials, he found a love of painting and became a self-taught artist who has freedom to explore. His style may be committed to nonrealistic modes of art, but it still can hop across a stream of perception. Music is a large factor in the creation of his projects. It sets the cool to guide him or the heat to drip his self-expression through a visual vocabulary. Like many artists, he wants his paintings to speak. So if possible, sip, eavesdrop, saturate, and consider.

Barry Anderson: Intermissions
Light Work Gallery

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

Barry Anderson's videos depict purple skies, abstract worlds filled with bubbles, and colorful fragments of semi-familiar scenes. His work reminds people to stop and enjoy the moment.

Anderson's photographs and videos are featured in an innovative art exhibition, Intermissions, which offers a welcome artistic interruption to daily life in a time of economic uncertainty and other societal stresses. Organized by Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run organization on the Syracuse University campus, the fall exhibition will appear at over a dozen venues both on and off campus.

Anderson's colorful video pieces include abstract patterns, nature scenes, and semi-nostalgic images from decade-old advertising. Each piece creates a good-natured, introspective scene that contrasts the busy settings where the work is shown. Intermissions places video art and photographs at multiple venues across Syracuse, making it accessible to the general community and creating many opportunities for meaningful interaction with the work.

Partners in this unique collaboration include SUArt Galleries, Syracuse Symposium, the Tolley Administration Building, Schine Student Center, Orange TV Network, The Warehouse, Community Folk Art Center, the Everson Museum of Art, the Urban Video Project, the Red House Arts Center, and more. Exhibition sites also include public spaces such as billboards and video projections onto windows on campus and buildings in downtown Syracuse.

Barry Anderson was born in Greenville, TX. He holds an MFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown throughout the country, as well as in Thailand, South America, Cuba, and the UK. He lives in Kansas City. Barry participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

Follow the Golden Mean: Works of Susan Hadzor and Robert vonHunke
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Skaneateles Artisans is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit featuring stained glass art by Susan Hadzor and oil painting and photography by Robert vonHunke.

Kings, Thieves: Video Animation by Barry Anderson
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Point of Contact is proud to be part of this large-scale video exhibition for Kansas City artist Barry Anderson, presented in conjunction with Light Work Gallery. The exhibition, titled Intermissions, features primarily video work and some photography, and takes place in 22 different venues throughout the city of Syracuse and on the Syracuse University campus.

Sitting Pretty
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

The 1948 comedy "Sitting Pretty" stars dapper, distinguished Clifton Webb as Belvedere, who is hired by new parents Robert Young and Maureen O'Hara to be a full-time baby sitter.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Gary Trento
Onondaga Community College

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

Gary Trento's entire adult life as a practicing painter has been spent believing in the persuasive power of painting; more specifically, in how representational painting can transform the activity of direct observation of the live model in real time and space into meaningful, pictorial structure. His observation of the live model, like Vermeer, Chardin, Ingre, Degas is not about a desire to possess, rather a desire to contemplate and evaluate the nature of appearance. He wants to experience observation, to bring it close, to examine, interpret, to look 'for', not 'at'. Observation is discriminatory, hence the basis for self-knowledge.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

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

FluXus in German: Works by Robert Burkhart
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

FluXus in German: Fluxus is defined as the wry, post-Dada art movement that flourished in New York and Germany in the 1950s and 60s, and influences many contemporary artists. This is an event and an activity to take part in, a showing of Fluxus with the possibility to learn a different language (yet to be proven).

Rob Burkhart worked in industrial arts through high school and continued to obtain a degree in Construction Technology. He was employed in the areas of carpentry, masonry, painting, flooring, and maintenance, and currently works at Syracuse University. With his hands in the materials, he found a love of painting and became a self-taught artist who has freedom to explore. His style may be committed to nonrealistic modes of art, but it still can hop across a stream of perception. Music is a large factor in the creation of his projects. It sets the cool to guide him or the heat to drip his self-expression through a visual vocabulary. Like many artists, he wants his paintings to speak. So if possible, sip, eavesdrop, saturate, and consider.

Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective" features 50 years of prints, drawings, collages and sculptures by Catlett, who is an icon of American art. The exhibition was organized with the assistance of Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA.

Born in Washington, DC, Elizabeth Catlett graduated from Howard University with a degree in painting and was the first student to receive an M.F.A. degree in sculpture from the University of Iowa in 1940. She later studied ceramics at the Art Institute of Chicago, and lithography at the Art Students League in New York. In 1943, she studied with sculptor Ossip Zadkine in New York. Catlett was awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1946, under which she travelled to Mexico to study sculpture, mural painting and printmaking. In Mexico, she worked at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura and at the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Arts Workshop), a group of artists who created art that expressed desire for social change. In 1947, she married Mexican artist Francisco Mora, and became a naturalized Mexican citizen in 1962. A lifelong artist, activist and educator, Catlett is known for her depiction of social and political issues, in particular those relating to African American and women's themes.

Elizabeth Catlett has taught at Dillard University, Hampton University, the George Washington Carver School, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, where she became the first female professor and first female department chair at the School of Fine Arts.

She retired in 1976 and makes her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she continues to work in her studio. Her work is featured in many public and private collections around the world, and she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Catlett has been the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees.

Read a review!

Barry Anderson: Intermissions
Light Work Gallery

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

Barry Anderson's videos depict purple skies, abstract worlds filled with bubbles, and colorful fragments of semi-familiar scenes. His work reminds people to stop and enjoy the moment.

Anderson's photographs and videos are featured in an innovative art exhibition, Intermissions, which offers a welcome artistic interruption to daily life in a time of economic uncertainty and other societal stresses. Organized by Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run organization on the Syracuse University campus, the fall exhibition will appear at over a dozen venues both on and off campus.

Anderson's colorful video pieces include abstract patterns, nature scenes, and semi-nostalgic images from decade-old advertising. Each piece creates a good-natured, introspective scene that contrasts the busy settings where the work is shown. Intermissions places video art and photographs at multiple venues across Syracuse, making it accessible to the general community and creating many opportunities for meaningful interaction with the work.

Partners in this unique collaboration include SUArt Galleries, Syracuse Symposium, the Tolley Administration Building, Schine Student Center, Orange TV Network, The Warehouse, Community Folk Art Center, the Everson Museum of Art, the Urban Video Project, the Red House Arts Center, and more. Exhibition sites also include public spaces such as billboards and video projections onto windows on campus and buildings in downtown Syracuse.

Barry Anderson was born in Greenville, TX. He holds an MFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown throughout the country, as well as in Thailand, South America, Cuba, and the UK. He lives in Kansas City. Barry participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

Follow the Golden Mean: Works of Susan Hadzor and Robert vonHunke
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Skaneateles Artisans is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit featuring stained glass art by Susan Hadzor and oil painting and photography by Robert vonHunke.

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond focuses on the period in the American artist's life when he spent two summers at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, NY, a rustic summer residence in the Hudson Valley region of New York state owned by his principal patron and friend since childhood, Lawson Valentine.

The show brings together 28 of Homer's watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings, and ceramic tiles of the period from galleries, private collections, and museums across the country.

For more information, visit homer.syr.edu.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Kings, Thieves: Video Animation by Barry Anderson
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Point of Contact is proud to be part of this large-scale video exhibition for Kansas City artist Barry Anderson, presented in conjunction with Light Work Gallery. The exhibition, titled Intermissions, features primarily video work and some photography, and takes place in 22 different venues throughout the city of Syracuse and on the Syracuse University campus.

Constructing History: A Requiem to Mark the Moment and Afro Chic
Community Folk Art Center

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

These two films by Carrie Mae Weems, an internationally known artist, are being screened in conjunction with Light Work Gallery's City-Wide Collaboration.

My Life as a Font
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring Michael Bierut, Pentagram

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Auditorium
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Music Journeys: Arturo Boscovich, Antonio Torres, and Grupo Pagan
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, students free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Spanish film composer and pianist Arturo Boscovich will perform songs based on Andalusian poetry with baritone Antonio Torres. Splitting the bill is Central New York's own Latin pop-rock-jazz outfit Grupo Pagan.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Gary Trento
Onondaga Community College

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

Gary Trento's entire adult life as a practicing painter has been spent believing in the persuasive power of painting; more specifically, in how representational painting can transform the activity of direct observation of the live model in real time and space into meaningful, pictorial structure. His observation of the live model, like Vermeer, Chardin, Ingre, Degas is not about a desire to possess, rather a desire to contemplate and evaluate the nature of appearance. He wants to experience observation, to bring it close, to examine, interpret, to look 'for', not 'at'. Observation is discriminatory, hence the basis for self-knowledge.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

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

FluXus in German: Works by Robert Burkhart
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

FluXus in German: Fluxus is defined as the wry, post-Dada art movement that flourished in New York and Germany in the 1950s and 60s, and influences many contemporary artists. This is an event and an activity to take part in, a showing of Fluxus with the possibility to learn a different language (yet to be proven).

Rob Burkhart worked in industrial arts through high school and continued to obtain a degree in Construction Technology. He was employed in the areas of carpentry, masonry, painting, flooring, and maintenance, and currently works at Syracuse University. With his hands in the materials, he found a love of painting and became a self-taught artist who has freedom to explore. His style may be committed to nonrealistic modes of art, but it still can hop across a stream of perception. Music is a large factor in the creation of his projects. It sets the cool to guide him or the heat to drip his self-expression through a visual vocabulary. Like many artists, he wants his paintings to speak. So if possible, sip, eavesdrop, saturate, and consider.

Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective" features 50 years of prints, drawings, collages and sculptures by Catlett, who is an icon of American art. The exhibition was organized with the assistance of Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA.

Born in Washington, DC, Elizabeth Catlett graduated from Howard University with a degree in painting and was the first student to receive an M.F.A. degree in sculpture from the University of Iowa in 1940. She later studied ceramics at the Art Institute of Chicago, and lithography at the Art Students League in New York. In 1943, she studied with sculptor Ossip Zadkine in New York. Catlett was awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1946, under which she travelled to Mexico to study sculpture, mural painting and printmaking. In Mexico, she worked at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura and at the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Arts Workshop), a group of artists who created art that expressed desire for social change. In 1947, she married Mexican artist Francisco Mora, and became a naturalized Mexican citizen in 1962. A lifelong artist, activist and educator, Catlett is known for her depiction of social and political issues, in particular those relating to African American and women's themes.

Elizabeth Catlett has taught at Dillard University, Hampton University, the George Washington Carver School, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, where she became the first female professor and first female department chair at the School of Fine Arts.

She retired in 1976 and makes her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she continues to work in her studio. Her work is featured in many public and private collections around the world, and she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Catlett has been the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees.

Read a review!

Barry Anderson: Intermissions
Light Work Gallery

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

Barry Anderson's videos depict purple skies, abstract worlds filled with bubbles, and colorful fragments of semi-familiar scenes. His work reminds people to stop and enjoy the moment.

Anderson's photographs and videos are featured in an innovative art exhibition, Intermissions, which offers a welcome artistic interruption to daily life in a time of economic uncertainty and other societal stresses. Organized by Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run organization on the Syracuse University campus, the fall exhibition will appear at over a dozen venues both on and off campus.

Anderson's colorful video pieces include abstract patterns, nature scenes, and semi-nostalgic images from decade-old advertising. Each piece creates a good-natured, introspective scene that contrasts the busy settings where the work is shown. Intermissions places video art and photographs at multiple venues across Syracuse, making it accessible to the general community and creating many opportunities for meaningful interaction with the work.

Partners in this unique collaboration include SUArt Galleries, Syracuse Symposium, the Tolley Administration Building, Schine Student Center, Orange TV Network, The Warehouse, Community Folk Art Center, the Everson Museum of Art, the Urban Video Project, the Red House Arts Center, and more. Exhibition sites also include public spaces such as billboards and video projections onto windows on campus and buildings in downtown Syracuse.

Barry Anderson was born in Greenville, TX. He holds an MFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown throughout the country, as well as in Thailand, South America, Cuba, and the UK. He lives in Kansas City. Barry participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

Follow the Golden Mean: Works of Susan Hadzor and Robert vonHunke
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Skaneateles Artisans is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit featuring stained glass art by Susan Hadzor and oil painting and photography by Robert vonHunke.

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond focuses on the period in the American artist's life when he spent two summers at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, NY, a rustic summer residence in the Hudson Valley region of New York state owned by his principal patron and friend since childhood, Lawson Valentine.

The show brings together 28 of Homer's watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings, and ceramic tiles of the period from galleries, private collections, and museums across the country.

For more information, visit homer.syr.edu.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Graduate Painting
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition will feature large paintings and installations by first-year graduate students Rachel Van Pelt, Jave Yoshimoto, and Annie Ryerson; second-year graduate students Joey Reyes, Daina Mattis, Alex Schmitz, and Mike Berlant; and third-year graduate students Jessica Sharpe, Gwendolyn Reyes, and Jon Lee.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand, the college's program exhibitions coordinator, at 315-474-1217 or adhavenh@syr.edu.

Don't Feed The Actors
Don't Feed the Actors

Price: $15 adults, $13 students/seniors; $12 in advance
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

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

Kings, Thieves: Video Animation by Barry Anderson
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Point of Contact is proud to be part of this large-scale video exhibition for Kansas City artist Barry Anderson, presented in conjunction with Light Work Gallery. The exhibition, titled Intermissions, features primarily video work and some photography, and takes place in 22 different venues throughout the city of Syracuse and on the Syracuse University campus.

Constructing History: A Requiem to Mark the Moment and Afro Chic
Community Folk Art Center

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

These two films by Carrie Mae Weems, an internationally known artist, are being screened in conjunction with Light Work Gallery's City-Wide Collaboration.

Helvetica
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

A documentary film by Gary Hustwit. Michael Bierut of Pentagram will be a special guest in attendance.

Daphne Stephens, music historian
Civic Morning Musicals

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

A comparison between music and art from the CMM Recital Series and the Turner to Cezanne exhibit.

Kate Greenstreet, poet
Raymond Carver Reading Series

Price: Free
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Greenstreet is the author of The Last 4 Things and case sensitive, both published by Ahsahta Press in 2009 and 2006, respectively. (The former comes with a DVD of her two movies.) She also is the author of three chapbooks, including This Is Why I Hurt You (Lame House Press, 2008). Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including jubilat, Fence, VOLT, the Denver Quarterly and Court Green. "Greenstreet is nothing [but] challenging, electric and crisp," writes Publishers Weekly.

The reading will be preceded by a question and answer session from 3:45-4:30.

Nicole M. Kelby
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Nicole Kelby is the author of several novels, including Whale Season (which she completed while serving as a DWC writer-in-residence), Murder at the Bad Girl's Bar and Grill, and In the Company of Angels. Her short stories have been included on NPR's "Selected Shorts," and in such journals as One Story and Zoetrope All Story. Her two new books are the short story collection A Travel Guide for Restless Hearts and the writing guidebook The Constant Art of Being a Writer: The Life, Art and Business of Fiction, published by Writer's Digest Books. She is now working on a film adaptation of Whale Season with singer/actor Dwight Yoakam.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Gary Trento
Onondaga Community College

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

There will be opening receptions today 11:00-12:00 and 5:00-8:00.

Gary Trento's entire adult life as a practicing painter has been spent believing in the persuasive power of painting; more specifically, in how representational painting can transform the activity of direct observation of the live model in real time and space into meaningful, pictorial structure. His observation of the live model, like Vermeer, Chardin, Ingre, Degas is not about a desire to possess, rather a desire to contemplate and evaluate the nature of appearance. He wants to experience observation, to bring it close, to examine, interpret, to look 'for', not 'at'. Observation is discriminatory, hence the basis for self-knowledge.

Chilton & Johnson
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Chilton & Johnson features recent digital illustrations by Kelly Chilton and abstract paintings by Melissa Johnson. The exhibition is an explosion of color in a mix of fantasy worlds and formal discussions.

Onondaga Lake Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibition featuring over two dozen images drawn primarily from the Onondaga Historical Association collection exploring the evolution of Onondaga Lake over the last 500 years.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

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

FluXus in German: Works by Robert Burkhart
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

FluXus in German: Fluxus is defined as the wry, post-Dada art movement that flourished in New York and Germany in the 1950s and 60s, and influences many contemporary artists. This is an event and an activity to take part in, a showing of Fluxus with the possibility to learn a different language (yet to be proven).

Rob Burkhart worked in industrial arts through high school and continued to obtain a degree in Construction Technology. He was employed in the areas of carpentry, masonry, painting, flooring, and maintenance, and currently works at Syracuse University. With his hands in the materials, he found a love of painting and became a self-taught artist who has freedom to explore. His style may be committed to nonrealistic modes of art, but it still can hop across a stream of perception. Music is a large factor in the creation of his projects. It sets the cool to guide him or the heat to drip his self-expression through a visual vocabulary. Like many artists, he wants his paintings to speak. So if possible, sip, eavesdrop, saturate, and consider.

Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective" features 50 years of prints, drawings, collages and sculptures by Catlett, who is an icon of American art. The exhibition was organized with the assistance of Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA.

Born in Washington, DC, Elizabeth Catlett graduated from Howard University with a degree in painting and was the first student to receive an M.F.A. degree in sculpture from the University of Iowa in 1940. She later studied ceramics at the Art Institute of Chicago, and lithography at the Art Students League in New York. In 1943, she studied with sculptor Ossip Zadkine in New York. Catlett was awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1946, under which she travelled to Mexico to study sculpture, mural painting and printmaking. In Mexico, she worked at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura and at the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Arts Workshop), a group of artists who created art that expressed desire for social change. In 1947, she married Mexican artist Francisco Mora, and became a naturalized Mexican citizen in 1962. A lifelong artist, activist and educator, Catlett is known for her depiction of social and political issues, in particular those relating to African American and women's themes.

Elizabeth Catlett has taught at Dillard University, Hampton University, the George Washington Carver School, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, where she became the first female professor and first female department chair at the School of Fine Arts.

She retired in 1976 and makes her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she continues to work in her studio. Her work is featured in many public and private collections around the world, and she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Catlett has been the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees.

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Barry Anderson: Intermissions
Light Work Gallery

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

Barry Anderson's videos depict purple skies, abstract worlds filled with bubbles, and colorful fragments of semi-familiar scenes. His work reminds people to stop and enjoy the moment.

Anderson's photographs and videos are featured in an innovative art exhibition, Intermissions, which offers a welcome artistic interruption to daily life in a time of economic uncertainty and other societal stresses. Organized by Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run organization on the Syracuse University campus, the fall exhibition will appear at over a dozen venues both on and off campus.

Anderson's colorful video pieces include abstract patterns, nature scenes, and semi-nostalgic images from decade-old advertising. Each piece creates a good-natured, introspective scene that contrasts the busy settings where the work is shown. Intermissions places video art and photographs at multiple venues across Syracuse, making it accessible to the general community and creating many opportunities for meaningful interaction with the work.

Partners in this unique collaboration include SUArt Galleries, Syracuse Symposium, the Tolley Administration Building, Schine Student Center, Orange TV Network, The Warehouse, Community Folk Art Center, the Everson Museum of Art, the Urban Video Project, the Red House Arts Center, and more. Exhibition sites also include public spaces such as billboards and video projections onto windows on campus and buildings in downtown Syracuse.

Barry Anderson was born in Greenville, TX. He holds an MFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown throughout the country, as well as in Thailand, South America, Cuba, and the UK. He lives in Kansas City. Barry participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

The Salted Lip: A Tall Drink of Something Cool
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Ed Feldman's finely crafted pots celebrate the ceremony of drinking and eating with friends, and are infused with a spirit of generosity and indulgence. His pots are completely functional. They add elegance and personality to any dinner table or decor. Each piece is unique due to the introduction of sodium bicarbonate into the atmosphere of the kiln during firing, resulting in luscious and colorful surfaces.

A native Central New Yorker, Ed Feldman started his ceramics studies at SUNY Cortland. Later, he worked as a studio assistant to his professor, John Jessiman. Feldman has exhibited nationally in many shows including History in the Making in Rochester and the prestigious Strictly Functional, in Lancaster, PA. He recently received a MFA in Ceramics at Syracuse University and moved to Cortland to set up his own pottery studio.

Follow the Golden Mean: Works of Susan Hadzor and Robert vonHunke
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Skaneateles Artisans is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit featuring stained glass art by Susan Hadzor and oil painting and photography by Robert vonHunke.

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond focuses on the period in the American artist's life when he spent two summers at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, NY, a rustic summer residence in the Hudson Valley region of New York state owned by his principal patron and friend since childhood, Lawson Valentine.

The show brings together 28 of Homer's watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings, and ceramic tiles of the period from galleries, private collections, and museums across the country.

For more information, visit homer.syr.edu.

Visions
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Artist Barbara Stout will be in attendance 5:00-8:00 pm.

Paintings by Phil Parsons, photography by Bill Storm, and ink drawings by Barbara Stout.

Wild Card Exhibition: Encaustics by Tanya Kirouac
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Graduate Painting
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

A reception will be held from 6:00-8:00 p.m. as part of Syracuse's citywide art open Th3.

The exhibition will feature large paintings and installations by first-year graduate students Rachel Van Pelt, Jave Yoshimoto, and Annie Ryerson; second-year graduate students Joey Reyes, Daina Mattis, Alex Schmitz, and Mike Berlant; and third-year graduate students Jessica Sharpe, Gwendolyn Reyes, and Jon Lee.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand, the college's program exhibitions coordinator, at 315-474-1217 or adhavenh@syr.edu.

Erie Canal Exhibits
Erie Canal Museum

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

A treasure of artifacts, maps, images, interpretive and interactive displays, and the Frank B. Thomson Line Boat, a full size replica canal boat with crew quarters, cargo and passenger areas you can explore.

Young Artist Exhibit
Museum of Young Art

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

Artwork from Seymour Dual Language Academy: 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders.

((audience)): "Last Wishes" by mudboy
Redhouse

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

"Last Wishes" is a kinetic, in-the-dark installation consisting of several light "paintings." The kinetic paintings use handmade optical projectors, LED lights, and open source 8-bit controller technology to project a constant moving image.

The opening of "Last Wishes" also serves as the introduction to ((audience)), the traveling international festival of 5.1 surround sound art works curated by Alexis Bhagat and Lauren Rosati.

mudboy (Raphael Lyon) is an installation and sound artist specializing in the production of wonder in dark spaces, magic in the lit ones, and meditations on the shape of life. He is also closely associated with the concept of "Dark Cinema" and the production of immersive, sound-only narratives. His piece Psicklops, a one hour dark cinema piece, will be featured on the last night of ((audience)).

In addition to "Last Wishes," Red House will also exhibit three pieces from Missouri artist Barry Anderson, in cooperation with Syracuse University's Light Work. Treebeasties (I), Vertical Blinds (II), and Pulp Kali will be on display on Red House's three LCD monitors throughout the building from September 17 until November 19.

Following the opening, the installation can be seen by appointment and during select Red House events.

Opening: American Ream: Works of Marco Maggi
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition features the installation HOTBED (ORANGE), the drawing PLEXI LINE, and the video D-REAMS. The exhibition is intended for audiences of all ages.

Uruguayan-born, New Paltz-based Marco Maggi is best known for his use of everyday materials on which he inscribes a vocabulary that evokes Aztec culture and the art of Joaquín Torres-García. By focusing on visual codes (such as repeated visual symbols that only suggest objects), spatiality, and the political connotations of maps, Maggi's work also reflects Latin American traditions and concerns expressed by many contemporary artists. American Ream (The Warehouse Gallery) and Slow Scandal (The Point of Contact Gallery) are the result of a partnership between both organizations and feature media that the artist chose as a means of responding to both spaces.

Opening: Window Project: This is Not Site-Specific by Nathan Cordero
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Syracuse-based, self-taught Nathan Cordero moved recently from Sacramento, CA, where he worked primarily in public art. For the Window Projects, Cordero has covered the wall with paintings that refer to urban art while also creating an assemblage (through the inclusion of everyday objects into the artwork). An excellent draftsman, his art is about self-expression, protest and the desire to take street art into the galleries.

For this exhibition, Cordero used found objects such as plywood and photographs. He covered a person's face in the photographs to make her/him look like a thief or terrorist, and to reflect upon specific events in his personal life that also refer to issues in today's society. Engraved into the plywood, the paintings manifest the artist's ease in the medium. He uses masking tape or paint to refer to common television talk shows, personal events or books that are part of pop culture. Cordero's work, which was for the most part created within the last few months, demonstrates the artist's capacity of turning daily, banal or threatening events into art. This is his first solo museum exhibition.

Opening: The Beehive Collective
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Opening reception with presentation by the Bees at 6:00 pm; party 7:30pm.

The Beehive Design Collective is a 100% volunteer-driven non-profit political organization that uses graphical media as educational tools to communicate stories of resistance to corporate globalization. The purpose of the group, based in Machias, Maine, is to "Cross-pollinate the grassroots" by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images that can be used as educational and organizing tools. The Beehive Collective is most renowned for its large format pen and ink posters, which seek to provide a visual alternative to deconstruction of complicated social and political issues ranging from globalization, free trade, militarism, resource extraction, and biotechnology.

Opening: Slow Scandal: Works of Marco Maggi
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery and The Warehouse Gallery are pleased to announce the opening of a twofold exhibition by renowned artist Marco Maggi. "Slow Scandal" is the title of the exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery, while The Warehouse Gallery presents "American Ream."

The fundamental nature of this dual experiment, according to Maggi, is perception, the idea of difficult perception, "a precise confusion," Maggi comments during a recent conversation with the show's curators, Anja Chávez of The Warehouse Gallery, and Pedro Cuperman of The Point of Contact Gallery. "The aim is to slow down the viewer, and not make a text. There's no complete message, only a second reality to ponder, to start a dialogue of the viewer with the viewer, not with the work." The experience is more about intimacy than about information, or the vacuum of information, and our necessity to fill the vacuum.

Lucy Mink: Paintings
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

Artist Statement:
If there was ever a place you could go to do surgery as a hobby, I would go. But there isn't.

I cannot simply open up a body and explore shapes, colors, textures, and luminosity. Or keep a collection of deep sea nudibranches. Or make food for the enjoyment of looking at it. Then discarding it. I play with these forms from a physical distance, though they have always been the foundation of my visual language. In my work, they are companions to the creative process. Friendly. Beautiful. Sexual. Peaceful. Curious.

Lucy Mink received her MFA from Minneapolis College of Art & Design.

Kings, Thieves: Video Animation by Barry Anderson
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Point of Contact is proud to be part of this large-scale video exhibition for Kansas City artist Barry Anderson, presented in conjunction with Light Work Gallery. The exhibition, titled Intermissions, features primarily video work and some photography, and takes place in 22 different venues throughout the city of Syracuse and on the Syracuse University campus.

Constructing History: A Requiem to Mark the Moment and Afro Chic
Community Folk Art Center

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

These two films by Carrie Mae Weems, an internationally known artist, are being screened in conjunction with Light Work Gallery's City-Wide Collaboration.

Artist Talk: Ken Solomon
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Ken Solomon will speak about his collaboration with Marco Maggi

Darwin in Malibu
LeMoyne College
Patrick McHugh, director

Price: Free
Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Presented as a part of the Darwin celebration, this staged reading of a contemporary comedy by a British author Crispin Whittel, brings together Darwin, Huxley, Wilburforce, and a California girl to discuss issues of science, ethics, and the afterlife. Mike Barbour will play Darwin; Steve Braddock, Huxley; Alan Fischler, Wilberforce; and Kelsey Moriarty, Sarah.

4th Annual Loretto Legends Concert Series: Bob Newhart

Price: $40 regular, $35 seniors
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Having successfully presented three legendary music theater greats, first with Carol Channing in 2006, followed by the late Robert Goulet in 2007, and then Chita Rivera in 2008, the 4th annual benefit Loretto Legends Concert Series will change things and lighten up a bit this year when it presents an evening with the lovable comedy icon and film and television star, Bob Newhart.

Proceeds from the 4th annual Loretto Legends Concert Series presentation of An Evening with Bob Newhart benefit the Loretto Foundation, which advocates for our elders and raises funds in support of Loretto's mission to enhance the quality of life for older adults in Central New York.

Friday, September 18, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Gary Trento
Onondaga Community College

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

Gary Trento's entire adult life as a practicing painter has been spent believing in the persuasive power of painting; more specifically, in how representational painting can transform the activity of direct observation of the live model in real time and space into meaningful, pictorial structure. His observation of the live model, like Vermeer, Chardin, Ingre, Degas is not about a desire to possess, rather a desire to contemplate and evaluate the nature of appearance. He wants to experience observation, to bring it close, to examine, interpret, to look 'for', not 'at'. Observation is discriminatory, hence the basis for self-knowledge.

Slow Scandal: Works of Marco Maggi
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery and The Warehouse Gallery are pleased to announce the opening of a twofold exhibition by renowned artist Marco Maggi. "Slow Scandal" is the title of the exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery, while The Warehouse Gallery presents "American Ream."

The fundamental nature of this dual experiment, according to Maggi, is perception, the idea of difficult perception, "a precise confusion," Maggi comments during a recent conversation with the show's curators, Anja Chávez of The Warehouse Gallery, and Pedro Cuperman of The Point of Contact Gallery. "The aim is to slow down the viewer, and not make a text. There's no complete message, only a second reality to ponder, to start a dialogue of the viewer with the viewer, not with the work." The experience is more about intimacy than about information, or the vacuum of information, and our necessity to fill the vacuum.

Chilton & Johnson
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Chilton & Johnson features recent digital illustrations by Kelly Chilton and abstract paintings by Melissa Johnson. The exhibition is an explosion of color in a mix of fantasy worlds and formal discussions.

Onondaga Lake Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibition featuring over two dozen images drawn primarily from the Onondaga Historical Association collection exploring the evolution of Onondaga Lake over the last 500 years.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

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

FluXus in German: Works by Robert Burkhart
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

FluXus in German: Fluxus is defined as the wry, post-Dada art movement that flourished in New York and Germany in the 1950s and 60s, and influences many contemporary artists. This is an event and an activity to take part in, a showing of Fluxus with the possibility to learn a different language (yet to be proven).

Rob Burkhart worked in industrial arts through high school and continued to obtain a degree in Construction Technology. He was employed in the areas of carpentry, masonry, painting, flooring, and maintenance, and currently works at Syracuse University. With his hands in the materials, he found a love of painting and became a self-taught artist who has freedom to explore. His style may be committed to nonrealistic modes of art, but it still can hop across a stream of perception. Music is a large factor in the creation of his projects. It sets the cool to guide him or the heat to drip his self-expression through a visual vocabulary. Like many artists, he wants his paintings to speak. So if possible, sip, eavesdrop, saturate, and consider.

Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective" features 50 years of prints, drawings, collages and sculptures by Catlett, who is an icon of American art. The exhibition was organized with the assistance of Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA.

Born in Washington, DC, Elizabeth Catlett graduated from Howard University with a degree in painting and was the first student to receive an M.F.A. degree in sculpture from the University of Iowa in 1940. She later studied ceramics at the Art Institute of Chicago, and lithography at the Art Students League in New York. In 1943, she studied with sculptor Ossip Zadkine in New York. Catlett was awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1946, under which she travelled to Mexico to study sculpture, mural painting and printmaking. In Mexico, she worked at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura and at the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Arts Workshop), a group of artists who created art that expressed desire for social change. In 1947, she married Mexican artist Francisco Mora, and became a naturalized Mexican citizen in 1962. A lifelong artist, activist and educator, Catlett is known for her depiction of social and political issues, in particular those relating to African American and women's themes.

Elizabeth Catlett has taught at Dillard University, Hampton University, the George Washington Carver School, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, where she became the first female professor and first female department chair at the School of Fine Arts.

She retired in 1976 and makes her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she continues to work in her studio. Her work is featured in many public and private collections around the world, and she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Catlett has been the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees.

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Barry Anderson: Intermissions
Light Work Gallery

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

Barry Anderson's videos depict purple skies, abstract worlds filled with bubbles, and colorful fragments of semi-familiar scenes. His work reminds people to stop and enjoy the moment.

Anderson's photographs and videos are featured in an innovative art exhibition, Intermissions, which offers a welcome artistic interruption to daily life in a time of economic uncertainty and other societal stresses. Organized by Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run organization on the Syracuse University campus, the fall exhibition will appear at over a dozen venues both on and off campus.

Anderson's colorful video pieces include abstract patterns, nature scenes, and semi-nostalgic images from decade-old advertising. Each piece creates a good-natured, introspective scene that contrasts the busy settings where the work is shown. Intermissions places video art and photographs at multiple venues across Syracuse, making it accessible to the general community and creating many opportunities for meaningful interaction with the work.

Partners in this unique collaboration include SUArt Galleries, Syracuse Symposium, the Tolley Administration Building, Schine Student Center, Orange TV Network, The Warehouse, Community Folk Art Center, the Everson Museum of Art, the Urban Video Project, the Red House Arts Center, and more. Exhibition sites also include public spaces such as billboards and video projections onto windows on campus and buildings in downtown Syracuse.

Barry Anderson was born in Greenville, TX. He holds an MFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown throughout the country, as well as in Thailand, South America, Cuba, and the UK. He lives in Kansas City. Barry participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

The Salted Lip: A Tall Drink of Something Cool
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Ed Feldman's finely crafted pots celebrate the ceremony of drinking and eating with friends, and are infused with a spirit of generosity and indulgence. His pots are completely functional. They add elegance and personality to any dinner table or decor. Each piece is unique due to the introduction of sodium bicarbonate into the atmosphere of the kiln during firing, resulting in luscious and colorful surfaces.

A native Central New Yorker, Ed Feldman started his ceramics studies at SUNY Cortland. Later, he worked as a studio assistant to his professor, John Jessiman. Feldman has exhibited nationally in many shows including History in the Making in Rochester and the prestigious Strictly Functional, in Lancaster, PA. He recently received a MFA in Ceramics at Syracuse University and moved to Cortland to set up his own pottery studio.

Follow the Golden Mean: Works of Susan Hadzor and Robert vonHunke
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Skaneateles Artisans is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit featuring stained glass art by Susan Hadzor and oil painting and photography by Robert vonHunke.

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond focuses on the period in the American artist's life when he spent two summers at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, NY, a rustic summer residence in the Hudson Valley region of New York state owned by his principal patron and friend since childhood, Lawson Valentine.

The show brings together 28 of Homer's watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings, and ceramic tiles of the period from galleries, private collections, and museums across the country.

For more information, visit homer.syr.edu.

Wild Card Exhibition: Encaustics by Tanya Kirouac
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Visions
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Paintings by Phil Parsons, photography by Bill Storm, and ink drawings by Barbara Stout.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Graduate Painting
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition will feature large paintings and installations by first-year graduate students Rachel Van Pelt, Jave Yoshimoto, and Annie Ryerson; second-year graduate students Joey Reyes, Daina Mattis, Alex Schmitz, and Mike Berlant; and third-year graduate students Jessica Sharpe, Gwendolyn Reyes, and Jon Lee.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand, the college's program exhibitions coordinator, at 315-474-1217 or adhavenh@syr.edu.

Window Project: This is Not Site-Specific by Nathan Cordero
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Syracuse-based, self-taught Nathan Cordero moved recently from Sacramento, CA, where he worked primarily in public art. For the Window Projects, Cordero has covered the wall with paintings that refer to urban art while also creating an assemblage (through the inclusion of everyday objects into the artwork). An excellent draftsman, his art is about self-expression, protest and the desire to take street art into the galleries.

For this exhibition, Cordero used found objects such as plywood and photographs. He covered a person's face in the photographs to make her/him look like a thief or terrorist, and to reflect upon specific events in his personal life that also refer to issues in today's society. Engraved into the plywood, the paintings manifest the artist's ease in the medium. He uses masking tape or paint to refer to common television talk shows, personal events or books that are part of pop culture. Cordero's work, which was for the most part created within the last few months, demonstrates the artist's capacity of turning daily, banal or threatening events into art. This is his first solo museum exhibition.

American Ream: Works of Marco Maggi
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition features the installation HOTBED (ORANGE), the drawing PLEXI LINE, and the video D-REAMS. The exhibition is intended for audiences of all ages.

Uruguayan-born, New Paltz-based Marco Maggi is best known for his use of everyday materials on which he inscribes a vocabulary that evokes Aztec culture and the art of Joaquín Torres-García. By focusing on visual codes (such as repeated visual symbols that only suggest objects), spatiality, and the political connotations of maps, Maggi's work also reflects Latin American traditions and concerns expressed by many contemporary artists. American Ream (The Warehouse Gallery) and Slow Scandal (The Point of Contact Gallery) are the result of a partnership between both organizations and feature media that the artist chose as a means of responding to both spaces.

The Beehive Collective
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The Beehive Design Collective is a 100% volunteer-driven non-profit political organization that uses graphical media as educational tools to communicate stories of resistance to corporate globalization. The purpose of the group, based in Machias, Maine, is to "Cross-pollinate the grassroots" by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images that can be used as educational and organizing tools. The Beehive Collective is most renowned for its large format pen and ink posters, which seek to provide a visual alternative to deconstruction of complicated social and political issues ranging from globalization, free trade, militarism, resource extraction, and biotechnology.

Opening: Celebrating 20 Years
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

A diverse show of 56 creative artists who have previously exhibited at Edgewood Gallery.

Festa Italiana

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

3:00 pm: Augie & Dominick
4:15 pm: Dominic Mantuano
5:30 pm: Jimmy Cavallo
7:30 pm: Atlas with George Feltman
9:30 pm: The Scintas

Kings, Thieves: Video Animation by Barry Anderson
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Point of Contact is proud to be part of this large-scale video exhibition for Kansas City artist Barry Anderson, presented in conjunction with Light Work Gallery. The exhibition, titled Intermissions, features primarily video work and some photography, and takes place in 22 different venues throughout the city of Syracuse and on the Syracuse University campus.

Constructing History: A Requiem to Mark the Moment and Afro Chic
Community Folk Art Center

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

These two films by Carrie Mae Weems, an internationally known artist, are being screened in conjunction with Light Work Gallery's City-Wide Collaboration.

((audience)): Live Experimental Music
Redhouse

Price: $10; or $20 for a full-festival pass
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Red House hosts the United States Premiere of ((audience)), an international, biennial festival of 5.1 Surround Sound artwork presented as "cinema in the dark." ((audience)) explores the cinema as a 21st-century concert hall.

Live experimental music on the Red House stage featuring five unique and innovative artists. The Loud Objects perform live 1-bit circuit bending on an overhead projector. Zach Layton and MV Carbon play sitar, cello, electronic and feedback.

The Loud Objects have set the standard for performative live circuit bending. Wielding soldering irons and a ramshackle overhead projector, the New York City-based trio (composer Tristan Perich, programmer Kunal Gupta, and architect Katie Shima) wire up live musical circuits in pursuit of lo-fi electronic noise. During the opening minutes of their performance, The Loud Objects are surrounded by a bleak silence as they swiftly assemble an initial circuit, their activities starkly projected from their OHP work-surface. Gradually, as more components are added, Perich, Gupta and Shima gradually hack microchips into a swarm of percussive 1-bit noise. Since their debut performance as Columbia University undergraduates in 2005, The Loud Objects have toured Europe, Japan and the United States, including performances at Piksel in Norway, Italy's Screen Music 2, and NIME, Blip and Bent festivals in the U.S.

Zach Layton is a composer, curator, improviser and new media artist based in Brooklyn with an interest in biofeedback, generative algorithms, experimental culture and architecture. His work has been performed by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony and he has performed and exhibited at the Kitchen, Roulette, Joe's Pub, Exit Art, Art Forum Berlin, New York Electronic Art Festival, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Eyebeam, Sculpture Center, Diapason, Issue Project Room, Millenium Film Workshop, Bushwick Arts Project, St. Mark's Ontological Theater, Dumbo Arts Festival, New York Digital Salon, Miguel Abreu Gallery, Participant, Inc., Monkeytown and many other venues in New York, South America and Europe. Layton is also founder of Brooklyn's monthly experimental music series, "Darmstadt: Classics of the Avant-Garde", co-curated with Nick Hallett; co-curator of the PS1 Summer Warm-Up music series and is a Director of Issue Project Room.

MV Carbon uses fragmented field recordings, analog synthesizers, samplers, tape manipulations, and photosensitive oscillators to assimilate structural chaos and decomposition. She creates eerie and unsettling compositions using her voice as an instrument and processing it through tape machines. She plays cello through tape loops and guitar pedals and uses 16mm film imagery as a backdrop for her performances. She is a member of Metalux, Bad Faces, Foamula and the now defunct Bride of No No. She has released music on labels such as 5RC, Load, Hanson, Veglia, No Fun Productions, Nihilist, and Atavistic.

Jonathan Byrd
Folkus Project

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

Eclectic, substantive songs, rich with contemporary imagery and textures yet rooted in tradition

Innovative singer/songwriter Jonathan Byrd is the prototype of the minstrel and storyteller. Byrd blends traditional styles and modern sensibilities as he spins his tales of love, life, and death in America. His stunning instrumental work and soulful singing, full of surprises and spontaneity, give each of his live performances its own magic. Byrd constantly evolves in new musical directions and each incarnation has proven to be masterful. His latest CD, "The Law and the Lonesome," sounds as if Hank Williams and Townes Van Zandt met on the high plains and told ghost stories. Full of desperate people and their dark familiars—crows, coyotes, and sudden storms—these new songs bring together the best of Byrd's southern roots and the increasingly strong influence of Texas.

For reservations, email tickets@folkus.org or call 315-440-7444.

Darwin in Malibu
LeMoyne College
Patrick McHugh, director

Price: Free
Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Presented as a part of the Darwin celebration, this staged reading of a contemporary comedy by a British author Crispin Whittel, brings together Darwin, Huxley, Wilburforce, and a California girl to discuss issues of science, ethics, and the afterlife. Mike Barbour will play Darwin; Steve Braddock, Huxley; Alan Fischler, Wilberforce; and Kelsey Moriarty, Sarah.

Lend Me a Tenor
Appleseed Productions
Dan Stevens, director

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

This night is the biggest in the history of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company; world famous tenor Tito Morelli is to perform Otello at the gala season opener. The General Manager hopes this will put Cleveland on the operatic map. Morelli is late; when he finally sweeps in it is too late to rehearse with the company. Through a hilarious series of mishaps, Il Stupendo is given a double dose of tranquilizers which mix with the booze he has consumed and he passes out. His pulse is so low that Saunders and his assistant Max believe he is dead. What to do? Max is an aspiring singer and Saunders persuades him to get into Morelli's Otello costume and try to fool the audience into thinking he's Il Stupendo. Max succeeds admirably, but Morelli comes to and gets into his other costume. Now two Otellos are running around in costume and two women are running around in lingerie, each thinking she is with Il Stupendo!

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Menopause the Musical

Price: $45, $35, $25
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

For tickets, phone 315-435-8022 or visit www.ticketmaster.com.

Mid-Life! The Crisis Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

This wacky musical about reading glasses, mammograms, weekend warriors, proctology exams—all lampooned a la Saturday Night Live. If you bought some gingko biloba—but can't remember where you put it—then you're ready for MID-LIFE!

Book, music, and lyrics by Bob Walton and Jim Walton; Musical Director Michael Copps. Cast includes Jimmy Curtin, Shawn Forster, Peter Irwin, Tina Lee, Aubry Ludington Panek, and Suzanne Tiffault.

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Improv Comedy Night
Saltine Warrior

Price: $13 regular, $10 students/seniors
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Saltine Warrior is an improv comedy troupe. A Saltine Warrior show is a hilarious blend of short-form games (think the best parts of the hit TV show, "Who's Line Is It, Anyway?"), with the long-form scene styles in the tradition of Second City and Upright Citizen's Brigade.

This is truly interactive, improv comedy at its best! The entire performance is totally unscripted and unrehearsed...with scenes and games based on audience suggestions and participation.

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Wild Card Exhibition: Encaustics by Tanya Kirouac
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Visions
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Artist Phil Parsons will be in attendance 12:00-3:00 pm.

Paintings by Phil Parsons, photography by Bill Storm, and ink drawings by Barbara Stout.

Celebrating 20 Years
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

A diverse show of 56 creative artists who have previously exhibited at Edgewood Gallery.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Follow the Golden Mean: Works of Susan Hadzor and Robert vonHunke
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Skaneateles Artisans is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit featuring stained glass art by Susan Hadzor and oil painting and photography by Robert vonHunke.

Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective" features 50 years of prints, drawings, collages and sculptures by Catlett, who is an icon of American art. The exhibition was organized with the assistance of Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA.

Born in Washington, DC, Elizabeth Catlett graduated from Howard University with a degree in painting and was the first student to receive an M.F.A. degree in sculpture from the University of Iowa in 1940. She later studied ceramics at the Art Institute of Chicago, and lithography at the Art Students League in New York. In 1943, she studied with sculptor Ossip Zadkine in New York. Catlett was awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1946, under which she travelled to Mexico to study sculpture, mural painting and printmaking. In Mexico, she worked at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura and at the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Arts Workshop), a group of artists who created art that expressed desire for social change. In 1947, she married Mexican artist Francisco Mora, and became a naturalized Mexican citizen in 1962. A lifelong artist, activist and educator, Catlett is known for her depiction of social and political issues, in particular those relating to African American and women's themes.

Elizabeth Catlett has taught at Dillard University, Hampton University, the George Washington Carver School, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, where she became the first female professor and first female department chair at the School of Fine Arts.

She retired in 1976 and makes her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she continues to work in her studio. Her work is featured in many public and private collections around the world, and she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Catlett has been the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees.

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The Salted Lip: A Tall Drink of Something Cool
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Ed Feldman's finely crafted pots celebrate the ceremony of drinking and eating with friends, and are infused with a spirit of generosity and indulgence. His pots are completely functional. They add elegance and personality to any dinner table or decor. Each piece is unique due to the introduction of sodium bicarbonate into the atmosphere of the kiln during firing, resulting in luscious and colorful surfaces.

A native Central New Yorker, Ed Feldman started his ceramics studies at SUNY Cortland. Later, he worked as a studio assistant to his professor, John Jessiman. Feldman has exhibited nationally in many shows including History in the Making in Rochester and the prestigious Strictly Functional, in Lancaster, PA. He recently received a MFA in Ceramics at Syracuse University and moved to Cortland to set up his own pottery studio.

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond focuses on the period in the American artist's life when he spent two summers at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, NY, a rustic summer residence in the Hudson Valley region of New York state owned by his principal patron and friend since childhood, Lawson Valentine.

The show brings together 28 of Homer's watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings, and ceramic tiles of the period from galleries, private collections, and museums across the country.

For more information, visit homer.syr.edu.

The Beehive Collective
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The Beehive Design Collective is a 100% volunteer-driven non-profit political organization that uses graphical media as educational tools to communicate stories of resistance to corporate globalization. The purpose of the group, based in Machias, Maine, is to "Cross-pollinate the grassroots" by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images that can be used as educational and organizing tools. The Beehive Collective is most renowned for its large format pen and ink posters, which seek to provide a visual alternative to deconstruction of complicated social and political issues ranging from globalization, free trade, militarism, resource extraction, and biotechnology.

Graduate Painting
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition will feature large paintings and installations by first-year graduate students Rachel Van Pelt, Jave Yoshimoto, and Annie Ryerson; second-year graduate students Joey Reyes, Daina Mattis, Alex Schmitz, and Mike Berlant; and third-year graduate students Jessica Sharpe, Gwendolyn Reyes, and Jon Lee.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand, the college's program exhibitions coordinator, at 315-474-1217 or adhavenh@syr.edu.

American Ream: Works of Marco Maggi
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition features the installation HOTBED (ORANGE), the drawing PLEXI LINE, and the video D-REAMS. The exhibition is intended for audiences of all ages.

Uruguayan-born, New Paltz-based Marco Maggi is best known for his use of everyday materials on which he inscribes a vocabulary that evokes Aztec culture and the art of Joaquín Torres-García. By focusing on visual codes (such as repeated visual symbols that only suggest objects), spatiality, and the political connotations of maps, Maggi's work also reflects Latin American traditions and concerns expressed by many contemporary artists. American Ream (The Warehouse Gallery) and Slow Scandal (The Point of Contact Gallery) are the result of a partnership between both organizations and feature media that the artist chose as a means of responding to both spaces.

Window Project: This is Not Site-Specific by Nathan Cordero
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Syracuse-based, self-taught Nathan Cordero moved recently from Sacramento, CA, where he worked primarily in public art. For the Window Projects, Cordero has covered the wall with paintings that refer to urban art while also creating an assemblage (through the inclusion of everyday objects into the artwork). An excellent draftsman, his art is about self-expression, protest and the desire to take street art into the galleries.

For this exhibition, Cordero used found objects such as plywood and photographs. He covered a person's face in the photographs to make her/him look like a thief or terrorist, and to reflect upon specific events in his personal life that also refer to issues in today's society. Engraved into the plywood, the paintings manifest the artist's ease in the medium. He uses masking tape or paint to refer to common television talk shows, personal events or books that are part of pop culture. Cordero's work, which was for the most part created within the last few months, demonstrates the artist's capacity of turning daily, banal or threatening events into art. This is his first solo museum exhibition.

Festa Italiana

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

1:30 pm: Jimmy Cavallo
3:15 pm: Augie & Dominick
4:20 pm: Dance Centre North
5:10 pm: Bill Ali & Kathy Santangelo
6:00 pm: East Coast Connection Band
7:15 pm: Dominic Mantuano
9:00 pm: The Scintas

Constructing History: A Requiem to Mark the Moment and Afro Chic
Community Folk Art Center

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

These two films by Carrie Mae Weems, an internationally known artist, are being screened in conjunction with Light Work Gallery's City-Wide Collaboration.

Betty y Pancho
Community Folk Art Center

CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

There will be a special screening of the film Betty y Pancho with filmmaker Juan Mora Catlett. The film chronicles the story of Elizabeth Catlett and her husband Francisco Mora. A discussion with the filmmaker will follow.

SaturdaySCREENINGS: Angels and Insects
ArtRage Gallery

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

Angels and Insects (1999), Krostom Scott Thomas, Mark Rylance

Film curator Jeffrey Gorney says: "One of the most intricate, well-made films I've seen. The acting is tremendous, the imagery is subtle yet stunning. A film which makes one think of the intricacies of human relationships. The pilgrimage of the hero from the brutal Amazon to 'civilized' society which he finds to be anything but civilized in spite of the gorgeous trappings of the upper aristocracy. Highly recommended!"

Tipperary Hill Music Festival

Price: Free
Pass Arboretum
Tompkins St., Syracuse

The Meadow
12:10 pm: Sim Redmond Band
1:05 pm: Tipp Hillbillies
1:50 pm: Independent Louis
2:35 pm: The Fabulous Ripcords
3:20 pm: The Tom Dooley Choraliers and the Freeborn Men
4:25 pm: Dusty Pas'cal
5:15 pm: The Mere Mortals
6:10 pm: John Cadley and The Lost Boys

The Grove
12:30 pm: Smart Alec
1:25 pm: The Z-Bones
2:20 pm: Brian Frances
3:15 pm: Adam Fisher Group
4:10 pm: Causeway Giants

The Field
12:30 pm: Kids Talent Show
1:30 pm: Make Rouge
2:00 pm: Young Adults Talent Show
3:00 pm: Quigsy and the Bird
3:30 pm: Adult Talent Show
4:30 pm: Frank & Burns

Rain location: Burnet Park ice rink pavilion

((audience)): Main Program
Redhouse

Price: $10; or $20 for a full-festival pass
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Red House hosts the United States Premiere of ((audience)), an international, biennial festival of 5.1 Surround Sound artwork presented as "cinema in the dark." ((audience)) explores the cinema as a 21st-century concert hall.

The centerpiece of the ((audience)) festival features 2-1/2 hours of surround sound works by eight international artists. Presented as "cinema in the dark" with full 5.1 Surround Sound, the evening promises to be an immersive experience in cinematic audio.

Menopause the Musical

Price: $45, $35, $25
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

For tickets, phone 315-435-8022 or visit www.ticketmaster.com.

Darwin in Malibu
LeMoyne College
Patrick McHugh, director

Price: Free
Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Presented as a part of the Darwin celebration, this staged reading of a contemporary comedy by a British author Crispin Whittel, brings together Darwin, Huxley, Wilburforce, and a California girl to discuss issues of science, ethics, and the afterlife. Mike Barbour will play Darwin; Steve Braddock, Huxley; Alan Fischler, Wilberforce; and Kelsey Moriarty, Sarah.

Death by Disco
Without a Cue Productions

Price: $39.50, includes dinner and show
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

Welcome to the Land of Oz Discoteria and the "3rd Annual World Championship of Disco Championship." Contestants are ready to show their moves, but they don't know that tonight some competition will definitely be stiff. Join us for "Death by Disco." a murderous evening of theater, dancing, and great food!

Lend Me a Tenor
Appleseed Productions
Dan Stevens, director

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

This night is the biggest in the history of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company; world famous tenor Tito Morelli is to perform Otello at the gala season opener. The General Manager hopes this will put Cleveland on the operatic map. Morelli is late; when he finally sweeps in it is too late to rehearse with the company. Through a hilarious series of mishaps, Il Stupendo is given a double dose of tranquilizers which mix with the booze he has consumed and he passes out. His pulse is so low that Saunders and his assistant Max believe he is dead. What to do? Max is an aspiring singer and Saunders persuades him to get into Morelli's Otello costume and try to fool the audience into thinking he's Il Stupendo. Max succeeds admirably, but Morelli comes to and gets into his other costume. Now two Otellos are running around in costume and two women are running around in lingerie, each thinking she is with Il Stupendo!

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Menopause the Musical

Price: $45, $35, $25
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

For tickets, phone 315-435-8022 or visit www.ticketmaster.com.

Mid-Life! The Crisis Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

This wacky musical about reading glasses, mammograms, weekend warriors, proctology exams—all lampooned a la Saturday Night Live. If you bought some gingko biloba—but can't remember where you put it—then you're ready for MID-LIFE!

Book, music, and lyrics by Bob Walton and Jim Walton; Musical Director Michael Copps. Cast includes Jimmy Curtin, Shawn Forster, Peter Irwin, Tina Lee, Aubry Ludington Panek, and Suzanne Tiffault.

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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Barry Anderson: Intermissions
Light Work Gallery

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

Barry Anderson's videos depict purple skies, abstract worlds filled with bubbles, and colorful fragments of semi-familiar scenes. His work reminds people to stop and enjoy the moment.

Anderson's photographs and videos are featured in an innovative art exhibition, Intermissions, which offers a welcome artistic interruption to daily life in a time of economic uncertainty and other societal stresses. Organized by Light Work, a non-profit, artist-run organization on the Syracuse University campus, the fall exhibition will appear at over a dozen venues both on and off campus.

Anderson's colorful video pieces include abstract patterns, nature scenes, and semi-nostalgic images from decade-old advertising. Each piece creates a good-natured, introspective scene that contrasts the busy settings where the work is shown. Intermissions places video art and photographs at multiple venues across Syracuse, making it accessible to the general community and creating many opportunities for meaningful interaction with the work.

Partners in this unique collaboration include SUArt Galleries, Syracuse Symposium, the Tolley Administration Building, Schine Student Center, Orange TV Network, The Warehouse, Community Folk Art Center, the Everson Museum of Art, the Urban Video Project, the Red House Arts Center, and more. Exhibition sites also include public spaces such as billboards and video projections onto windows on campus and buildings in downtown Syracuse.

Barry Anderson was born in Greenville, TX. He holds an MFA from Indiana University. His work has been shown throughout the country, as well as in Thailand, South America, Cuba, and the UK. He lives in Kansas City. Barry participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

2009 Light Work Grants in Photography
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition celebrates the recipients of the 2009 Light Work Grants in Photography: Karen Brummund, Laura Adams Guth, and Stephen Shaner.

The grant program was established in 1975 to encourage the creation of new work and scholarship in Central New York. In addition to an exhibition at Light Work, the grants include a cash award of $2,000 and publication in Contact Sheet. The grant is given annually to three Central New York photographers, critics, or photo-historians.

The Salted Lip: A Tall Drink of Something Cool
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Ed Feldman's finely crafted pots celebrate the ceremony of drinking and eating with friends, and are infused with a spirit of generosity and indulgence. His pots are completely functional. They add elegance and personality to any dinner table or decor. Each piece is unique due to the introduction of sodium bicarbonate into the atmosphere of the kiln during firing, resulting in luscious and colorful surfaces.

A native Central New Yorker, Ed Feldman started his ceramics studies at SUNY Cortland. Later, he worked as a studio assistant to his professor, John Jessiman. Feldman has exhibited nationally in many shows including History in the Making in Rochester and the prestigious Strictly Functional, in Lancaster, PA. He recently received a MFA in Ceramics at Syracuse University and moved to Cortland to set up his own pottery studio.

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Winslow Homer's Empire State: Houghton Farm and Beyond focuses on the period in the American artist's life when he spent two summers at Houghton Farm in Mountainville, NY, a rustic summer residence in the Hudson Valley region of New York state owned by his principal patron and friend since childhood, Lawson Valentine.

The show brings together 28 of Homer's watercolors, drawings, wood engravings, oil paintings, and ceramic tiles of the period from galleries, private collections, and museums across the country.

For more information, visit homer.syr.edu.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Follow the Golden Mean: Works of Susan Hadzor and Robert vonHunke
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Skaneateles Artisans is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit featuring stained glass art by Susan Hadzor and oil painting and photography by Robert vonHunke.

Graduate Painting
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition will feature large paintings and installations by first-year graduate students Rachel Van Pelt, Jave Yoshimoto, and Annie Ryerson; second-year graduate students Joey Reyes, Daina Mattis, Alex Schmitz, and Mike Berlant; and third-year graduate students Jessica Sharpe, Gwendolyn Reyes, and Jon Lee.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand, the college's program exhibitions coordinator, at 315-474-1217 or adhavenh@syr.edu.

Festa Italiana

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

2:15 pm: Letizia & the Z Band
3:30 pm: Jimmy Cavallo
5:30 pm: The Scintas

Spoons, Love is Blue Velvet Box, and Theory of Night
Armory Square Playwrights

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

Three short plays in full production from the pen of member Kyle Bass.

In Theory of Night, a teenage boy relives the disturbing and transformative events of a night spent with his abusive older brother in a shared bedroom, as their parents engage in domestic warfare below. Robert Moss, former Artistic Director at Syracuse Stage, will direct Jeremy Wallace.

Ninety years old and widowed 25 years, Mary Asher quietly observes what would have been her 50th wedding anniversary. In Love is a Blue Velvet Box, she recounts her wistful wedding day, finds strength in the memory of grief, and reminds us that love is sometimes a gift we endure. Garrett Heater directs Rosemary Palladino-Leone.

Spoons introduces Stoaker, a 72-year-old Appalachian man, on the day that he's buried his mother. As dusk settles in around him, Stoaker finds comfort in the memory of family, friends, a life-long love of music, and the lasting power of the past. Al Marshall, who received critical acclaim when the play premiered earlier this summer during Appleseed Production's Summer One Act Festival, will reprise his performance as Stoaker. Donna Stuccio directs.

Playwright Kyle Bass is the author of the full-length drama The Boy Millerd, which was a finalist for the Princess Grace Award, and was featured at the Great Plains Theatre Conference where it received a staged reading hosted by Edward Albee. Kyle's many short plays include Fall/Out, produced as part of the Kitchen Theatre's 48-hour Play Festival; The Heart of Fear, published in the journal Stone Canoe and nominated for the Pushcart Prize; and Northeast, which appeared in the journal Callaloo.

Several of Kyle's dramatic works, including Theory of Night, have received staged readings presented by Armory Square Playhouse, most recently his one-act play Tender, directed by Dan Labeille. Spoons was recently produced by Appleseed Productions. Earlier this year Kyle's play Carver at Tuskegee was produced as part of Syracuse Stage's BackStory! program. As the resident dramaturg at Syracuse Stage, Kyle worked with Ping Chong on the creation of Tales from the Salt City, which had its world premiere at Syracuse Stage in 2008. Kyle is on the faculty at Goddard College in Vermont where he teaches dramatic writing in the M.F.A. Creative Writing program. He also teaches playwriting in the S.U. Drama Department. Kyle holds an M.F.A. in playwriting from Goddard College, is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild, and is currently writing a new full-length play titled Leeboe & Sons.

Lend Me a Tenor
Appleseed Productions
Dan Stevens, director

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

This night is the biggest in the history of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company; world famous tenor Tito Morelli is to perform Otello at the gala season opener. The General Manager hopes this will put Cleveland on the operatic map. Morelli is late; when he finally sweeps in it is too late to rehearse with the company. Through a hilarious series of mishaps, Il Stupendo is given a double dose of tranquilizers which mix with the booze he has consumed and he passes out. His pulse is so low that Saunders and his assistant Max believe he is dead. What to do? Max is an aspiring singer and Saunders persuades him to get into Morelli's Otello costume and try to fool the audience into thinking he's Il Stupendo. Max succeeds admirably, but Morelli comes to and gets into his other costume. Now two Otellos are running around in costume and two women are running around in lingerie, each thinking she is with Il Stupendo!

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