Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Annual Le Moyne College Student Art Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exhibition of student work from the Art and Photography Department. It is an annual exhibit that showcases some of the best work produced by Onondaga student in the preceding academic year.

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

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

Selected by Essence magazine as "30 Women to Watch," Kim Mayhorn is a multi-media artist whose works encompasses installation, video and theatre. Mayhorn has been a video editor for over 10 years and in 1998 she embarked on a new challenge and began creating installations and was awarded her first solo show at HERE Arts Center in New York City entitled "A Woman Was Lynched the Other Day..." This work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

New Works by Michael Weismore
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Michael Weismore will be displaying 25 of his new original abstract oil paintings, including a set of 10 paintings titled "Ode to Pollock." For this group of paintings, Weismore has incorporated Jackson Pollock's drip technique over his own original paintings.

The artist has a form of color blindness that affects less then 1% of people. Color blindness has only "hindered one of his paintings. He accidentally painted the sky and trees purple in an ocean landscape. It ended up being one of the first paintings of his that was ever sold by an art dealer.

In 2006, Michael was commissioned to do a painting for rock and roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis. A few years later, the artist received the 2009 Best Abstract Award from the Everson Museum.

Annual High School Seniors Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

High schools within a 30-mile radius of Syracuse are invited to display seniors' artwork and have them juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

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

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Darryl Hughto & Susan Roth: New Paintings and Sculptures
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibition will feature paintings by both artists created specifically for this exhibition, as well as recent sculptures. A full color exhibition catalog will be available which will include an essay by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

MFA MMX (2010)
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual exhibition of masters of fine arts candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts will include 20 artists displaying a broad range of traditional and contemporary work, including painting, ceramics and sculpture, as well as digital photography, installation, and computer art.

While the artists work independently on their thesis concepts, themes have routinely emerged within the group—crossing the boundaries of media and style. This year's exhibition is no exception; the work exudes a highly developed sense of technique and thought. In MFA MMX, however, the artists engage the viewer, both physically and psychologically, in a way not seen in previous MFA exhibitions. The narrative photography of Jared Landberg, a documentary film by Sonya Pollard, and the video installation of Esther Probst are examples of the thematic way many the artists record their personal history or specific experiences. Another pervading theme in the exhibition is interaction: walking through the unique environments created by painters Gwendolyn Mercado-Reyes and Jessica Sharpe, playing the autobiographical video game created by Ryan Marchand, or taking one of the hundreds of ceramic cups thrown by Shawn O'Connor; the viewer is invited to physically take part in the artistic experience.

Fresh Produce
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An exhibit of works by S.U. School of Art and Design first- and second-year M.F.A. students.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Boys & Girls: The Art of Diane Menzies and Mary Giehl
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Each year in America over 3 million children are abused, nearly 2,000 die, some run away, others are abandoned, all have their own challenges with this sojourn through adolescence. Each day in America, 6 children die from abuse, 100,000 children are homeless, 8 children die from guns, 219 children die before their first birthday, 1,534 babies are born to teenage girls.

In the paintings by Diane Menzies and installations by Mary Giehl, there are hints of darkness and confinement along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness. The work challenges the viewer to take a deeper look at what these images of childhood are telling us.

Tom McKay, clarinet; Sabine Krantz, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Works by Finzi, Hindemith, and Gershwin.

Smile Empty Soul + Soil
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Annual Le Moyne College Student Art Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exhibition of student work from the Art and Photography Department. It is an annual exhibit that showcases some of the best work produced by Onondaga student in the preceding academic year.

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

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

Selected by Essence magazine as "30 Women to Watch," Kim Mayhorn is a multi-media artist whose works encompasses installation, video and theatre. Mayhorn has been a video editor for over 10 years and in 1998 she embarked on a new challenge and began creating installations and was awarded her first solo show at HERE Arts Center in New York City entitled "A Woman Was Lynched the Other Day..." This work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place" and "Experimental Urbanism"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

There will be an artist reception this evening 5:00-7:00 pm in conjunction with Th3.

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place," in Gallery A, featuring photographs by Jane Winslow and Mindy Ostrow. This exhibition invites the viewer to see the world through the lens of two of the regions most talented photographers.

"Experimental Urbanism," in Gallery B, features work by internationally known installation artist, Richard Metzgar. This particular exhibit showcases a series of prints that challenge the viewer to rethink the ways they document place and experience.

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

New Works by Michael Weismore
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

From 6:00-8:00 pm, in conjunction with Th3, there will be an abstract painting demo: Artist Michael Weismore will use his unique style to create a one of a kind colorful, original oil painting.

Michael Weismore will be displaying 25 of his new original abstract oil paintings, including a set of 10 paintings titled "Ode to Pollock." For this group of paintings, Weismore has incorporated Jackson Pollock's drip technique over his own original paintings.

The artist has a form of color blindness that affects less then 1% of people. Color blindness has only "hindered one of his paintings. He accidentally painted the sky and trees purple in an ocean landscape. It ended up being one of the first paintings of his that was ever sold by an art dealer.

In 2006, Michael was commissioned to do a painting for rock and roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis. A few years later, the artist received the 2009 Best Abstract Award from the Everson Museum.

Annual High School Seniors Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

High schools within a 30-mile radius of Syracuse are invited to display seniors' artwork and have them juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

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

There will be a Gallery Lecture at 6:00 pm by Dr. Alejandro Garcia.

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Darryl Hughto & Susan Roth: New Paintings and Sculptures
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibition will feature paintings by both artists created specifically for this exhibition, as well as recent sculptures. A full color exhibition catalog will be available which will include an essay by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

Act 2: Recent Work by Michelle DaRin
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Act 2 represents a pivotal moment in life and art for artist, Michelle DaRin. Known regionally and nationally as a designer of fine art jewelry, Michelle also creates sculptural assemblages. These combine found objects, reclaimed wood, fiber, and metal, and objects cast in bronze. Michelle's jewelry also incorporates various elements, including forged and enameled copper, cast silver, fiber, resin, and stones. Her jewelry and sculpture will both be featured in this exhibition.

MFA MMX (2010)
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This evening from 6:007:30 pm, computer artists Stephen Belovarich and Ryan Marchand will discuss their installations in this year's MFA exhibition, in conjunction with Th3.

The annual exhibition of masters of fine arts candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts will include 20 artists displaying a broad range of traditional and contemporary work, including painting, ceramics and sculpture, as well as digital photography, installation, and computer art.

While the artists work independently on their thesis concepts, themes have routinely emerged within the group—crossing the boundaries of media and style. This year's exhibition is no exception; the work exudes a highly developed sense of technique and thought. In MFA MMX, however, the artists engage the viewer, both physically and psychologically, in a way not seen in previous MFA exhibitions. The narrative photography of Jared Landberg, a documentary film by Sonya Pollard, and the video installation of Esther Probst are examples of the thematic way many the artists record their personal history or specific experiences. Another pervading theme in the exhibition is interaction: walking through the unique environments created by painters Gwendolyn Mercado-Reyes and Jessica Sharpe, playing the autobiographical video game created by Ryan Marchand, or taking one of the hundreds of ceramic cups thrown by Shawn O'Connor; the viewer is invited to physically take part in the artistic experience.

The Color of Spring
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

What better way to welcome spring? The Color of Spring is a collection of lush batiks by Marilyn Forth and vibrant watercolors by Elizabeth M. Hueber and Louise Woodard. In addition to the colorful dramatic imagery, the works of all three artists lay claim to another harbinger of spring—the awakening joy that the new season brings, especially in the sharing of the creative process with viewers.

Wild Card Exhibition: Continuing Works
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A selection of work by over 60 artists who have previously shown at the gallery.

Rodger Mack Exhibition
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park

Price: Free
The Spring: Center for Spiritual & Cultural Unity
200 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibit will feature a total of 104 paintings by the late Rodger Mack, one of Syracuse's most well-known and well-loved artists. Internationally known for his sculptures, Mack was also a dynamic painter who created colorful, vibrant works.

The paintings are provided by Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, and the exhibition is made possible by a collaboration between the Park, The Spring and Syracuse University. Proceeds from the sale of Mack's art will go equally to the three not-for-profits.

Fresh Produce
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An exhibit of works by S.U. School of Art and Design first- and second-year M.F.A. students.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Boys & Girls: The Art of Diane Menzies and Mary Giehl
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Each year in America over 3 million children are abused, nearly 2,000 die, some run away, others are abandoned, all have their own challenges with this sojourn through adolescence. Each day in America, 6 children die from abuse, 100,000 children are homeless, 8 children die from guns, 219 children die before their first birthday, 1,534 babies are born to teenage girls.

In the paintings by Diane Menzies and installations by Mary Giehl, there are hints of darkness and confinement along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness. The work challenges the viewer to take a deeper look at what these images of childhood are telling us.

Works of Fred Fisher
Brian's Art Gallery

Brian's Art Gallery
201 Wolf St. (former Keybank building), Syracuse

Exhibit of oil paintings by the late Fred Fisher who studied the old world masters and reinterpreted their techniques and style.

Ceramic Exhibit
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

Exhibit features the work of ceramic artists from Onondaga Community College, including Andy Schuster, Paul Molesky, Dave Webster, and Meg Conner, as well as selected student works.

Uncommon Creatures, Singing Things: Works by Bertha Rogers
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This series of images is based on her own translations of Anglo-Saxon riddle poems, which are displayed along with the work.

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.

Syracuse Poster Project Exhibit
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

The Project's 2010 posters will be on display.

Opening: elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Opening reception 5:00-8:00, with an Artist Talk at 7:00 pm.

Drawn from details of the death of a former friend and bandmate of artist Paul Lloyd Sargent, "elegy" is presented through a multimedia installation of mashed-up, remixed, and recontextualized historical ephemera collected from mixtapes, amateur videos, zines, photographs, band fliers, sketchbook pages, song lyrics, and more. A lament for the death of youth despite the overwhelming persistence of youth culture, "elegy: society for a dead society" paints nostalgia and cynicism as two shades within the same dark palette.

Paul Lloyd Sargent splits his time between Brooklyn and Wellesley Island, NY. He was raised in Syracuse and graduated from Nottingham High School in 1989 and Hamilton College in 1993. After stints in Las Vegas, Boston, and Venice Beach, in 2000, he received his MFA in video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Artist Open: Westcott Community Center Open Figure Drawing
Everson Museum of Art

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

Enjoy an evening of figure drawing in the Everson's Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court. The public is invited to create drawings through the study of a nude model. Bring your own sketchbooks and pencils (no charcoal, pastels, paint permitted). Easels will be provided. If you don't wish to draw, stop by to see artists at work and enjoy musical entertainment.

Syracuse: The Sun Gave Up
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

The exhibit features works in sculpture, photography and other media produced during the last three years by transplanted West Coast art couple Julian Ansell and Kelli Pennington

The show has been conceived as a micro-retrospective, and aims to be as complete a record of the work produced during this period as possible, and will include pieces in the various media of ceramics, cast metal, painting, drawing, photography, video and music.

Cooking History: 6 Wars-10 Recipes-60,361,024 Dead

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

A documentary film about army cooks and how the everyday needs of thousands of armed stomachs affect victory and defeat. From France to the Balkans to Russia, this film is based on eleven recipes from cooks since World War II to the current war in Chechnya. War veterans from World War II, the Algerian War, the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the Occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968, the Balkan Wars and the war in Chechnya tell their stories.

"Cooking History" will be introduced by film editor Marek `ulík.

La Raiz Olvidada/The Forgotten Root
Community Folk Art Center

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

A film by Rafael Rebollar Corona.

Video Now! 2010
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An evening of original, experimental short-form video works by undergraduate and graduate students in the Art Video program of Syracuse University's Department of Transmedia.

Fantastic video work, high-end large screen projection, brilliant sound, theatre seating, refreshments...

Songwriters Live at OCC
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Gordon Student Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The 4th installment of "Songwriters Live at OCC" will feature songwriters One Black Voice, Tony Famiglietti, and hosts Dan Cleveland and Mark Zane. Four songwriters performing their original songs in the round where they may even describe their songwriting process and jam together a bit.

The Y-Files: Where are the Cows?
Acme Mystery Company

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

Sheriff Shelly Moganagle is calling an emergency town meeting for you and everybody else in Pine Bluffs to try and figure out where in the heck all these cows are disappearing to. Roland McBurger's new hamburger joint? Cattle rustlers? Down at the Crazy Kegger folks are saying it's alien cow abduction! The Sheriff is taking no chances and has called in the FBI. Be there when Special Agents Molding and Sulky arrive. They'll need all the help they can get.

Preview: Sylvia
CNY Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: $10 suggested donation
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This performance is a benefit for ArtRage Gallery.

Greg and Kate have moved to Manhattan after 22 years of child-raising in the suburbs. Greg's career as a financial trader is winding down, while Kate's career, as a public-school English teacher, is beginning to offer her more opportunities. Greg brings home a dog he found in the park—or that has found him—bearing only the name "Sylvia" on her name tag. A street-smart mixture of Lab and Poodle, Sylvia becomes a major bone of contention between husband and wife. She offers Greg an escape from the frustrations of his job and the unknowns of middle age. To Kate, Sylvia becomes a rival for affection. And Sylvia thinks Kate just doesn't understand the relationship between man and dog. The marriage is put in serious jeopardy until, after a series of hilarious and touching complications, Greg and Kate learn to compromise, and Sylvia becomes a valued part of their lives. Play by A.R. Gurney.

Performance stars Heather J. Roach, J. Brazil, Binaifer Dabu, and Gerrit Vander Werff Jr.

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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
First Year Players

Price: $7 regular, $4 SU students with ID
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is based on a popular 1988 film by the same title. It's about two fraudsters, Lawrence Jameson and Freddy Benson, living on the French Riviera. Lawrence is a cultivated and suave gentleman who cons rich ladies out of their money. Freddy, on the other hand, is a small time American thief who cons women into giving him money by telling made up stories about his sick grandmother. One day they meet on the train and try to setup some work together, but soon find out that the small French town they live in isn't big enough to support two scammers. So they setup a challenge, they agree that the first person to successfully steal $50,000 from a young Chistine Colgate will get to stay in town, while the loser gets to leave. The battle between them then starts, with many twists and laughs along the way.

The Fall of Lucifer and Other Medieval Plays
LeMoyne College
Michael Barbour, director

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Three short medieval plays from the 1400s.

The Fall of Lucifer, the first play in the British medieval Chester Cycle, begins with the creation of the world and ends with a revolt by Gods two brightest angels, Lucifer and Lightbourne. They are transformed on stage to devils and thrown into Hell.

Meat Pie, Fruit Pie is a wonderful medieval French farce, translated into entertaining couplets. Two tricksters succeed in fooling a baker's wife into giving them a fabulous meat pie (featuring ham, lamb, clam, veal, eel and orange peel) only to be caught trying to get the fruit pie.

The third play is a Dutch medieval morality play, The Blessed Apple Tree. Featuring characters such as Lusty Youth, Reckless Living, the Devil, Death, and God, the moral lesson (trust in God truly and He'll take care of you) is learned by all those who try to remove the fruit from a poor farmer's enchanted apple tree.

Depending on the weather, the plays will either be performed outside on the campus green or inside in the Marren Studio, which is upstairs at the PAC.

Friday, April 16, 2010

Annual Le Moyne College Student Art Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exhibition of student work from the Art and Photography Department. It is an annual exhibit that showcases some of the best work produced by Onondaga student in the preceding academic year.

Uncommon Creatures, Singing Things: Works by Bertha Rogers
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This series of images is based on her own translations of Anglo-Saxon riddle poems, which are displayed along with the work.

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

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

Selected by Essence magazine as "30 Women to Watch," Kim Mayhorn is a multi-media artist whose works encompasses installation, video and theatre. Mayhorn has been a video editor for over 10 years and in 1998 she embarked on a new challenge and began creating installations and was awarded her first solo show at HERE Arts Center in New York City entitled "A Woman Was Lynched the Other Day..." This work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place" and "Experimental Urbanism"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place," in Gallery A, featuring photographs by Jane Winslow and Mindy Ostrow. This exhibition invites the viewer to see the world through the lens of two of the regions most talented photographers.

"Experimental Urbanism," in Gallery B, features work by internationally known installation artist, Richard Metzgar. This particular exhibit showcases a series of prints that challenge the viewer to rethink the ways they document place and experience.

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

New Works by Michael Weismore
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Michael Weismore will be displaying 25 of his new original abstract oil paintings, including a set of 10 paintings titled "Ode to Pollock." For this group of paintings, Weismore has incorporated Jackson Pollock's drip technique over his own original paintings.

The artist has a form of color blindness that affects less then 1% of people. Color blindness has only "hindered one of his paintings. He accidentally painted the sky and trees purple in an ocean landscape. It ended up being one of the first paintings of his that was ever sold by an art dealer.

In 2006, Michael was commissioned to do a painting for rock and roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis. A few years later, the artist received the 2009 Best Abstract Award from the Everson Museum.

Annual High School Seniors Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

High schools within a 30-mile radius of Syracuse are invited to display seniors' artwork and have them juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

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

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Darryl Hughto & Susan Roth: New Paintings and Sculptures
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibition will feature paintings by both artists created specifically for this exhibition, as well as recent sculptures. A full color exhibition catalog will be available which will include an essay by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Drawn from details of the death of a former friend and bandmate of artist Paul Lloyd Sargent, "elegy" is presented through a multimedia installation of mashed-up, remixed, and recontextualized historical ephemera collected from mixtapes, amateur videos, zines, photographs, band fliers, sketchbook pages, song lyrics, and more. A lament for the death of youth despite the overwhelming persistence of youth culture, "elegy: society for a dead society" paints nostalgia and cynicism as two shades within the same dark palette.

Paul Lloyd Sargent splits his time between Brooklyn and Wellesley Island, NY. He was raised in Syracuse and graduated from Nottingham High School in 1989 and Hamilton College in 1993. After stints in Las Vegas, Boston, and Venice Beach, in 2000, he received his MFA in video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Act 2: Recent Work by Michelle DaRin
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Act 2 represents a pivotal moment in life and art for artist, Michelle DaRin. Known regionally and nationally as a designer of fine art jewelry, Michelle also creates sculptural assemblages. These combine found objects, reclaimed wood, fiber, and metal, and objects cast in bronze. Michelle's jewelry also incorporates various elements, including forged and enameled copper, cast silver, fiber, resin, and stones. Her jewelry and sculpture will both be featured in this exhibition.

MFA MMX (2010)
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual exhibition of masters of fine arts candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts will include 20 artists displaying a broad range of traditional and contemporary work, including painting, ceramics and sculpture, as well as digital photography, installation, and computer art.

While the artists work independently on their thesis concepts, themes have routinely emerged within the group—crossing the boundaries of media and style. This year's exhibition is no exception; the work exudes a highly developed sense of technique and thought. In MFA MMX, however, the artists engage the viewer, both physically and psychologically, in a way not seen in previous MFA exhibitions. The narrative photography of Jared Landberg, a documentary film by Sonya Pollard, and the video installation of Esther Probst are examples of the thematic way many the artists record their personal history or specific experiences. Another pervading theme in the exhibition is interaction: walking through the unique environments created by painters Gwendolyn Mercado-Reyes and Jessica Sharpe, playing the autobiographical video game created by Ryan Marchand, or taking one of the hundreds of ceramic cups thrown by Shawn O'Connor; the viewer is invited to physically take part in the artistic experience.

The Color of Spring
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

What better way to welcome spring? The Color of Spring is a collection of lush batiks by Marilyn Forth and vibrant watercolors by Elizabeth M. Hueber and Louise Woodard. In addition to the colorful dramatic imagery, the works of all three artists lay claim to another harbinger of spring—the awakening joy that the new season brings, especially in the sharing of the creative process with viewers.

Wild Card Exhibition: Continuing Works
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A selection of work by over 60 artists who have previously shown at the gallery.

Rodger Mack Exhibition
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park

Price: Free
The Spring: Center for Spiritual & Cultural Unity
200 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibit will feature a total of 104 paintings by the late Rodger Mack, one of Syracuse's most well-known and well-loved artists. Internationally known for his sculptures, Mack was also a dynamic painter who created colorful, vibrant works.

The paintings are provided by Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, and the exhibition is made possible by a collaboration between the Park, The Spring and Syracuse University. Proceeds from the sale of Mack's art will go equally to the three not-for-profits.

Fresh Produce
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An exhibit of works by S.U. School of Art and Design first- and second-year M.F.A. students.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Boys & Girls: The Art of Diane Menzies and Mary Giehl
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Each year in America over 3 million children are abused, nearly 2,000 die, some run away, others are abandoned, all have their own challenges with this sojourn through adolescence. Each day in America, 6 children die from abuse, 100,000 children are homeless, 8 children die from guns, 219 children die before their first birthday, 1,534 babies are born to teenage girls.

In the paintings by Diane Menzies and installations by Mary Giehl, there are hints of darkness and confinement along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness. The work challenges the viewer to take a deeper look at what these images of childhood are telling us.

Opening: Isaac Bidwell: The Big Three-Oh
Echo

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

There will be an opening reception this evening.

A solo exhibition of art work by Isaac Bidwell. For this show, Isaac has arranged a collection of 30 original ink drawings, paintings and digital illustrations. As his first exhibition in Syracuse since 2008, The Big Three-Oh not only displays a body of new and unseen works, but the end of Isaac's twenties.

Syracuse: The Sun Gave Up
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

The exhibit features works in sculpture, photography and other media produced during the last three years by transplanted West Coast art couple Julian Ansell and Kelli Pennington

The show has been conceived as a micro-retrospective, and aims to be as complete a record of the work produced during this period as possible, and will include pieces in the various media of ceramics, cast metal, painting, drawing, photography, video and music.

700 Space pARTy

Price: Free
700 Block of North Salina St.
Syracuse

Rain or shine, join the Northside Collaboratory and the 700 block of North Salina St. in a celebration of art, music, and space(s). The evening will showcase five bands, ten artists,
and a whole spaceship full of inter-galactic entertainment. Come one, come all and by all means
come in costume.

Thinking at the Movies: Coen, Coen, and Noir -- Fargo
Syracuse International Film Festival

Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Talk: "The Coen brothers film I really love is Fargo", by William Rothman, Professor, Motion Pictures, School of Communication, University of Miami. The discussion will be followed by a screening of Fargo (1996).

Hardcore Histories: Syracuse Style
Redhouse
Featuring Paul Lloyd Sargent, artist

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

As an extension of the opening reception for "elegy: society for a dead society," artist Paul Lloyd Sargent and other notables from the Syracuse punk and hardcore scenes will lead a low-key oral history discussion and potluck on the Red House stage.

Third Space

Price: $10 adults; $7 students
Manlius Pebble Hill School
5300 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

An 8-member jazz-funk fusion band from New York City.

For more information, phone 315-446-2452, ext. 142.

Cheryl Wheeler
Folkus Project

Price: $20
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

One of the preeminent singer-songwriters of the past 25 years, Cheryl Wheeler has always taken the world on her own terms. Her concerts are brilliantly hysterical and have made her among the folk circuit's headliners. With her offhand charm,she is a consummate entertainer. It sometimes seems that there are two Wheelers; Wheeler the poet, writer of some of the prettiest, most alluring and intelligent ballads on the modern folk scene. Her world-wise alto is sweet and warm as she sings about life's ordinary joys: a lazy country drive, knowing your neighbors, and love that expresses itself in small kindnesses; and there is Wheeler's evil twin, a savagely funny social critic with a wicked wit. She is a hilarious satirist, skewering our lives and times with acute insight and a welcoming wink. The result is a wonderful contrast between poetry and comedy.

The Brew + Same Blood Folk Band, Juice
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Opera Karaoke
Syracuse Opera

Opus Restaurant
218 Walton St., Syracuse

Syracuse Opera provides the sheet music and pianist; you provide the vocals!

For more information, email info@syracuseopera.com or call the office at 315-475-5915.

Trouble in Tahiti
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

As a jazz trio praises the joys of suburbia, Sam and Dinah quarrel over breakfast, as they do every day. They are due to attend a school play in which their son has the leading role, but neither attends the play. They go to a movie titled "Trouble in Tahiti," seeking on the silver screen a substitute for the happiness they are still unable to find together. By Leonard Bernstein.

Cast includes Phil Eisenman as Sam, Melanie Brunet Relyea as Dinah, and Abby Ottenjohn, Peter Irwin, and David Cotter as the trio.

Read a review!

Bertha Rogers, poet, and Greg Ames, novelist
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Bertha Rogers' poetry collections include Even the Hemlock: Poems, Illuminations, Reliquaries (Six Swans Artists Editions, NY, 2005); The Fourth Beast (Snark Press, IL, 2004); A House of Corners (Three Conditions Press); and Sleeper, You Wake (Mellen, 1991). Her translation of Beowulf was published in 2000 (Birch Brook Press, NY), and her translation of the riddle-poems from the Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book, Uncommon Creatures, Singing Things, will be published in 2010 (Birch Brook Press, NY). Her newest collection, Heart Turned Back, will also appear in 2010 (Salmon Poetry Publishing, Ireland).

Greg Ames is the author of Buffalo Lockjaw, winner of the 2009 NAIBA Book of the Year Award. His stories have appeared in the Best American Non-required Reading, McSweeneys, Open City and The Sun, and have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Mamma Mia!
Broadway in Syracuse

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

A mother. A daughter. 3 possible dads. And a trip down the aisle you'll never forget! Over 40 million people all around the world have fallen in love with the characters, the story and the music that make Mamma Mia! the ultimate feel-good show.

Writer Catherine Johnson's sunny, funny tale unfolds on a Greek island paradise. On the eve of her wedding, a daughter's quest to discover the identity of her father brings three men from her mother's past back to the island they last visited 20 years ago. The story-telling magic of ABBA's timeless songs propels this enchanting tale of love, laughter and friendship, and every night everyone's having the time of their lives. With more productions playing internationally than any other musical, Mamma Mia! is the World's No.1 Show!

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
First Year Players

Price: $7 regular, $4 SU students with ID
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is based on a popular 1988 film by the same title. It's about two fraudsters, Lawrence Jameson and Freddy Benson, living on the French Riviera. Lawrence is a cultivated and suave gentleman who cons rich ladies out of their money. Freddy, on the other hand, is a small time American thief who cons women into giving him money by telling made up stories about his sick grandmother. One day they meet on the train and try to setup some work together, but soon find out that the small French town they live in isn't big enough to support two scammers. So they setup a challenge, they agree that the first person to successfully steal $50,000 from a young Chistine Colgate will get to stay in town, while the loser gets to leave. The battle between them then starts, with many twists and laughs along the way.

The Fall of Lucifer and Other Medieval Plays
LeMoyne College
Michael Barbour, director

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Three short medieval plays from the 1400s.

The Fall of Lucifer, the first play in the British medieval Chester Cycle, begins with the creation of the world and ends with a revolt by Gods two brightest angels, Lucifer and Lightbourne. They are transformed on stage to devils and thrown into Hell.

Meat Pie, Fruit Pie is a wonderful medieval French farce, translated into entertaining couplets. Two tricksters succeed in fooling a baker's wife into giving them a fabulous meat pie (featuring ham, lamb, clam, veal, eel and orange peel) only to be caught trying to get the fruit pie.

The third play is a Dutch medieval morality play, The Blessed Apple Tree. Featuring characters such as Lusty Youth, Reckless Living, the Devil, Death, and God, the moral lesson (trust in God truly and He'll take care of you) is learned by all those who try to remove the fruit from a poor farmer's enchanted apple tree.

Depending on the weather, the plays will either be performed outside on the campus green or inside in the Marren Studio, which is upstairs at the PAC.

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Annual Le Moyne College Student Art Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

The Color of Spring
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

What better way to welcome spring? The Color of Spring is a collection of lush batiks by Marilyn Forth and vibrant watercolors by Elizabeth M. Hueber and Louise Woodard. In addition to the colorful dramatic imagery, the works of all three artists lay claim to another harbinger of spring—the awakening joy that the new season brings, especially in the sharing of the creative process with viewers.

Wild Card Exhibition: Continuing Works
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A selection of work by over 60 artists who have previously shown at the gallery.

Annual High School Seniors Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

High schools within a 30-mile radius of Syracuse are invited to display seniors' artwork and have them juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

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Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

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

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

Act 2: Recent Work by Michelle DaRin
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Act 2 represents a pivotal moment in life and art for artist, Michelle DaRin. Known regionally and nationally as a designer of fine art jewelry, Michelle also creates sculptural assemblages. These combine found objects, reclaimed wood, fiber, and metal, and objects cast in bronze. Michelle's jewelry also incorporates various elements, including forged and enameled copper, cast silver, fiber, resin, and stones. Her jewelry and sculpture will both be featured in this exhibition.

MFA MMX (2010)
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual exhibition of masters of fine arts candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts will include 20 artists displaying a broad range of traditional and contemporary work, including painting, ceramics and sculpture, as well as digital photography, installation, and computer art.

While the artists work independently on their thesis concepts, themes have routinely emerged within the group—crossing the boundaries of media and style. This year's exhibition is no exception; the work exudes a highly developed sense of technique and thought. In MFA MMX, however, the artists engage the viewer, both physically and psychologically, in a way not seen in previous MFA exhibitions. The narrative photography of Jared Landberg, a documentary film by Sonya Pollard, and the video installation of Esther Probst are examples of the thematic way many the artists record their personal history or specific experiences. Another pervading theme in the exhibition is interaction: walking through the unique environments created by painters Gwendolyn Mercado-Reyes and Jessica Sharpe, playing the autobiographical video game created by Ryan Marchand, or taking one of the hundreds of ceramic cups thrown by Shawn O'Connor; the viewer is invited to physically take part in the artistic experience.

Boys & Girls: The Art of Diane Menzies and Mary Giehl
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Each year in America over 3 million children are abused, nearly 2,000 die, some run away, others are abandoned, all have their own challenges with this sojourn through adolescence. Each day in America, 6 children die from abuse, 100,000 children are homeless, 8 children die from guns, 219 children die before their first birthday, 1,534 babies are born to teenage girls.

In the paintings by Diane Menzies and installations by Mary Giehl, there are hints of darkness and confinement along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness. The work challenges the viewer to take a deeper look at what these images of childhood are telling us.

Isaac Bidwell: The Big Three-Oh
Echo

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

A solo exhibition of art work by Isaac Bidwell. For this show, Isaac has arranged a collection of 30 original ink drawings, paintings and digital illustrations. As his first exhibition in Syracuse since 2008, The Big Three-Oh not only displays a body of new and unseen works, but the end of Isaac's twenties.

Darryl Hughto & Susan Roth: New Paintings and Sculptures
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibition will feature paintings by both artists created specifically for this exhibition, as well as recent sculptures. A full color exhibition catalog will be available which will include an essay by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exhibition of student work from the Art and Photography Department. It is an annual exhibit that showcases some of the best work produced by Onondaga student in the preceding academic year.

Fresh Produce
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An exhibit of works by S.U. School of Art and Design first- and second-year M.F.A. students.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Syracuse: The Sun Gave Up
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

The exhibit features works in sculpture, photography and other media produced during the last three years by transplanted West Coast art couple Julian Ansell and Kelli Pennington

The show has been conceived as a micro-retrospective, and aims to be as complete a record of the work produced during this period as possible, and will include pieces in the various media of ceramics, cast metal, painting, drawing, photography, video and music.

Thinking at the Movies: Coen, Coen, and Noir -- The Man Who Wasn't There
Syracuse International Film Festival

Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Talk: "Joel and Ethan Coen, The Man Who Wasn't There", by Gail Hamner, Department of Religion, Syracuse University. The discussion will be followed by a screening of The Man Who Wasn't There (2001).

Contemporary Film Series: Video Now
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson's annual screening of fresh, innovative, and experimental short videos by students in Syracuse University's Transmedia Department. Light refreshments will be served during an intermission reception where the public can meet the artists.

Senior Percussion Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Kenneth Hom, percussion

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

Kenneth Hom, a senior music education student, will present a percussion recital with works by John Willmarth, Ney Rosauro, Russell Peck, Mark Ford, and Minoru Miki. The concert will also feature Brian Ludwig and Steve Glor on percussion and conductor Erica Smithson.

Parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, phone 315-443-2191.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
SU Wind Quintet

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

Parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, phone 315-443-2191.

Trouble in Tahiti
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

As a jazz trio praises the joys of suburbia, Sam and Dinah quarrel over breakfast, as they do every day. They are due to attend a school play in which their son has the leading role, but neither attends the play. They go to a movie titled "Trouble in Tahiti," seeking on the silver screen a substitute for the happiness they are still unable to find together. By Leonard Bernstein.

Cast includes Phil Eisenman as Sam, Melanie Brunet Relyea as Dinah, and Abby Ottenjohn, Peter Irwin, and David Cotter as the trio.

Read a review!

Aladdin
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the classic tale.

Mamma Mia!
Broadway in Syracuse

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

A mother. A daughter. 3 possible dads. And a trip down the aisle you'll never forget! Over 40 million people all around the world have fallen in love with the characters, the story and the music that make Mamma Mia! the ultimate feel-good show.

Writer Catherine Johnson's sunny, funny tale unfolds on a Greek island paradise. On the eve of her wedding, a daughter's quest to discover the identity of her father brings three men from her mother's past back to the island they last visited 20 years ago. The story-telling magic of ABBA's timeless songs propels this enchanting tale of love, laughter and friendship, and every night everyone's having the time of their lives. With more productions playing internationally than any other musical, Mamma Mia! is the World's No.1 Show!

Idol Assassination
Without a Cue Productions
Sara Caliva, director

Price: $37.25 includes dinner and show
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

It's the final night of Big American Star, and America is going to get a chance to vote for its next...big American star. The contestants are at each other's throats, dangerously close to ripping out one another's vocal chords, while the judges and host stir up drama to boost sagging ratings. By the time the contestants are ready to sing, the atmosphere has turned murderous, and the contestants may "knock 'em dead" in more ways than one.

The show is an interactive murder mystery that involves the members of the audience.

Mamma Mia!
Broadway in Syracuse

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

A mother. A daughter. 3 possible dads. And a trip down the aisle you'll never forget! Over 40 million people all around the world have fallen in love with the characters, the story and the music that make Mamma Mia! the ultimate feel-good show.

Writer Catherine Johnson's sunny, funny tale unfolds on a Greek island paradise. On the eve of her wedding, a daughter's quest to discover the identity of her father brings three men from her mother's past back to the island they last visited 20 years ago. The story-telling magic of ABBA's timeless songs propels this enchanting tale of love, laughter and friendship, and every night everyone's having the time of their lives. With more productions playing internationally than any other musical, Mamma Mia! is the World's No.1 Show!

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
First Year Players

Price: $7 regular, $4 SU students with ID
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is based on a popular 1988 film by the same title. It's about two fraudsters, Lawrence Jameson and Freddy Benson, living on the French Riviera. Lawrence is a cultivated and suave gentleman who cons rich ladies out of their money. Freddy, on the other hand, is a small time American thief who cons women into giving him money by telling made up stories about his sick grandmother. One day they meet on the train and try to setup some work together, but soon find out that the small French town they live in isn't big enough to support two scammers. So they setup a challenge, they agree that the first person to successfully steal $50,000 from a young Chistine Colgate will get to stay in town, while the loser gets to leave. The battle between them then starts, with many twists and laughs along the way.

The Fall of Lucifer and Other Medieval Plays
LeMoyne College
Michael Barbour, director

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Three short medieval plays from the 1400s.

The Fall of Lucifer, the first play in the British medieval Chester Cycle, begins with the creation of the world and ends with a revolt by Gods two brightest angels, Lucifer and Lightbourne. They are transformed on stage to devils and thrown into Hell.

Meat Pie, Fruit Pie is a wonderful medieval French farce, translated into entertaining couplets. Two tricksters succeed in fooling a baker's wife into giving them a fabulous meat pie (featuring ham, lamb, clam, veal, eel and orange peel) only to be caught trying to get the fruit pie.

The third play is a Dutch medieval morality play, The Blessed Apple Tree. Featuring characters such as Lusty Youth, Reckless Living, the Devil, Death, and God, the moral lesson (trust in God truly and He'll take care of you) is learned by all those who try to remove the fruit from a poor farmer's enchanted apple tree.

Depending on the weather, the plays will either be performed outside on the campus green or inside in the Marren Studio, which is upstairs at the PAC.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Act 2: Recent Work by Michelle DaRin
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Act 2 represents a pivotal moment in life and art for artist, Michelle DaRin. Known regionally and nationally as a designer of fine art jewelry, Michelle also creates sculptural assemblages. These combine found objects, reclaimed wood, fiber, and metal, and objects cast in bronze. Michelle's jewelry also incorporates various elements, including forged and enameled copper, cast silver, fiber, resin, and stones. Her jewelry and sculpture will both be featured in this exhibition.

MFA MMX (2010)
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual exhibition of masters of fine arts candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts will include 20 artists displaying a broad range of traditional and contemporary work, including painting, ceramics and sculpture, as well as digital photography, installation, and computer art.

While the artists work independently on their thesis concepts, themes have routinely emerged within the group—crossing the boundaries of media and style. This year's exhibition is no exception; the work exudes a highly developed sense of technique and thought. In MFA MMX, however, the artists engage the viewer, both physically and psychologically, in a way not seen in previous MFA exhibitions. The narrative photography of Jared Landberg, a documentary film by Sonya Pollard, and the video installation of Esther Probst are examples of the thematic way many the artists record their personal history or specific experiences. Another pervading theme in the exhibition is interaction: walking through the unique environments created by painters Gwendolyn Mercado-Reyes and Jessica Sharpe, playing the autobiographical video game created by Ryan Marchand, or taking one of the hundreds of ceramic cups thrown by Shawn O'Connor; the viewer is invited to physically take part in the artistic experience.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

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Annual Le Moyne College Student Art Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exhibition of student work from the Art and Photography Department. It is an annual exhibit that showcases some of the best work produced by Onondaga student in the preceding academic year.

Fresh Produce
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An exhibit of works by S.U. School of Art and Design first- and second-year M.F.A. students.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Vision of Sound
Society for New Music

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

New music with dance - Premieres of new works by Mark Olivieri, Elizabeth Luttinger, Edward Ruchalski

Presented in collaboration with the SUNY Brockport Dance Department.

Thinking at the Movies: Coen, Coen, and Noir -- Sunset Boulevard
Syracuse International Film Festival

Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Talk: "Ready for Her Close-up: On Sunset Boulevard", by Julie Grossman, Department of English and Interim Dean of Arts and Sciences, Le Moyne College. The discussion will be followed by a screening of Sunset Boulevard (1950).

Good Acoustics with Larry Hoyt
Fayetteville Free Library

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

3rd Annual Folk Music Series: German Dance Music
Liverpool Public Library
Featuring Enzian Bavarian Band

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

Graduate Conducting Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Andrea Rommel

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

Andrea Rommel, a graduate conducting student, will present a conducting recital featuring chamber works by Edward Elgar, Malcolm Arnold, Georges Bizet, and P.D.Q. Bach. The recital will showcase the musical talent of both students and faculty of the Setnor School of Music and will include music for flute choir, woodwind octet, and percussion quartet. The SU Trumpet Ensemble and the SU Wind Ensemble will also be featured.

Parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, contact Rommel at amrommel@syr.edu.

Haydn's Creation
Syracuse Chorale
Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra
Warren Ottey, conductor

Most Holy Rosary Church
111 Roberts Ave., Syracuse

Spring Concert
Hendricks Chapel
Hendricks Chapel Choir

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Church Choir Festival
University United Methodist, Park Central Presbyterian, DeWitt Community Church, Hendricks Chapel

Price: Free; donations accepted for American Red Cross Haiti relief
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Four Syracuse-area choirs will celebrate spring with a Church Choir Festival.

Performances will be given by choirs from University United Methodist Church, conducted by Martha Sutter; Park Central Presbyterian Church, conducted by Julie Pretzat; DeWitt Community Church, conducted by Carolyn Weber; and the Hendricks Chapel Choir, conducted by John Warren.

The choirs will sing individually and combine to perform Ralph Vaughan Williams' "O Clap Your Hands," accompanied by University Organist Kola Owolabi and a student brass ensemble.

Free parking will be available in the Irving Garage. For more information on the festival, contact Hendricks Chapel at 315-443-2901.

Tish Oney: The Peggy Lee Project
Pulse Performing Arts Series

Price: $15 regular; $10 SU faculty, staff, and CNY Jazz members; $3 with SU student ID
Grant Auditorium, College of Law
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Celebrated vocalist and arranger Tish Oney, a 2001 and 2004 Syracuse Area Music Awards (SAMMY) nominee, will bring her nationally touring production "Tish OneyThe Peggy Lee Project" to Syracuse.

Oney is the artistic director of three nationally touring productions, including "The Peggy Lee Project." She completed her doctor of musical arts degree in the field of jazz studies at the University of Southern Californias renowned Thornton School of Music. "The Peggy Lee Project," resulting from her dissertation research, features updated, contemporary jazz arrangements of original songs by singer Peggy Lee. Oney's collaboration with Lee's former music director and guitarist, John Chiodini, and his jazz trio has produced an unparalleled tribute to a prolific, but relatively underappreciated songwriter.

Her latest CD, "Dear Peg," earned international recognition in WHLI Radio's Top 50 Releases of 2009 and attained 2010 Grammy Award consideration for "Best Jazz Vocal Album" and "Best Traditional Pop Album." Oney has performed and recorded with several noted jazz artists, including Les Brown, Donald Byrd, Bill Watrous, Bob Rozario, Bob Sachs, Ray Brinker, Mark Sherman, Ken Wild, Alan Steinberger, Joel Hamilton, Kendall Kay, Bob Leatherbarrow, Ron Anthony, Joe Riposo, Steve Brown, Bill Harris and George Reed.

Oney maintains a very active touring and recording career. Her singing has been featured internationally on both radio and television. In 2009, she embarked on a national tour to kick off the release of Dear Peg, and she continues to appear as a touring vocal artist worldwide. Her jazz festival credits include Earshot Jazz Festival (Kirkland, WA), Syracuse Jazz Fest, Fulton Jazz Festival, Crystal City Jazz Festival and Jazz in the City.

Tickets can be purchased at the Schine Student Center Box Office. For more information, phone 315-443-4517. Free parking will be available in the Waverly, Marion, Lehman and Harrison lots.

A Dessert Concert
Junior Pro Art

Price: Suggested donation $5 - $15
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

Classical gems, Broadway fare, and the ensemble grand finale--Maple Leaf Rag. Plus delightful confectionery creations. Proceeds benefit First Unitarian Universalist Society.

Martin Sexton with Ryan Montbleau Band
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Mamma Mia!
Broadway in Syracuse

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

A mother. A daughter. 3 possible dads. And a trip down the aisle you'll never forget! Over 40 million people all around the world have fallen in love with the characters, the story and the music that make Mamma Mia! the ultimate feel-good show.

Writer Catherine Johnson's sunny, funny tale unfolds on a Greek island paradise. On the eve of her wedding, a daughter's quest to discover the identity of her father brings three men from her mother's past back to the island they last visited 20 years ago. The story-telling magic of ABBA's timeless songs propels this enchanting tale of love, laughter and friendship, and every night everyone's having the time of their lives. With more productions playing internationally than any other musical, Mamma Mia! is the World's No.1 Show!

Mamma Mia!
Broadway in Syracuse

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

A mother. A daughter. 3 possible dads. And a trip down the aisle you'll never forget! Over 40 million people all around the world have fallen in love with the characters, the story and the music that make Mamma Mia! the ultimate feel-good show.

Writer Catherine Johnson's sunny, funny tale unfolds on a Greek island paradise. On the eve of her wedding, a daughter's quest to discover the identity of her father brings three men from her mother's past back to the island they last visited 20 years ago. The story-telling magic of ABBA's timeless songs propels this enchanting tale of love, laughter and friendship, and every night everyone's having the time of their lives. With more productions playing internationally than any other musical, Mamma Mia! is the World's No.1 Show!

Monday, April 19, 2010

Annual Le Moyne College Student Art Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exhibition of student work from the Art and Photography Department. It is an annual exhibit that showcases some of the best work produced by Onondaga student in the preceding academic year.

Uncommon Creatures, Singing Things: Works by Bertha Rogers
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This series of images is based on her own translations of Anglo-Saxon riddle poems, which are displayed along with the work.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

New Works by Michael Weismore
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Michael Weismore will be displaying 25 of his new original abstract oil paintings, including a set of 10 paintings titled "Ode to Pollock." For this group of paintings, Weismore has incorporated Jackson Pollock's drip technique over his own original paintings.

The artist has a form of color blindness that affects less then 1% of people. Color blindness has only "hindered one of his paintings. He accidentally painted the sky and trees purple in an ocean landscape. It ended up being one of the first paintings of his that was ever sold by an art dealer.

In 2006, Michael was commissioned to do a painting for rock and roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis. A few years later, the artist received the 2009 Best Abstract Award from the Everson Museum.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Darryl Hughto & Susan Roth: New Paintings and Sculptures
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibition will feature paintings by both artists created specifically for this exhibition, as well as recent sculptures. A full color exhibition catalog will be available which will include an essay by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Drawn from details of the death of a former friend and bandmate of artist Paul Lloyd Sargent, "elegy" is presented through a multimedia installation of mashed-up, remixed, and recontextualized historical ephemera collected from mixtapes, amateur videos, zines, photographs, band fliers, sketchbook pages, song lyrics, and more. A lament for the death of youth despite the overwhelming persistence of youth culture, "elegy: society for a dead society" paints nostalgia and cynicism as two shades within the same dark palette.

Paul Lloyd Sargent splits his time between Brooklyn and Wellesley Island, NY. He was raised in Syracuse and graduated from Nottingham High School in 1989 and Hamilton College in 1993. After stints in Las Vegas, Boston, and Venice Beach, in 2000, he received his MFA in video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

"What if..." Film Series: Philadelphia: The Holy Experiment
Gifford Foundation

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

The Gifford Foundation presents the "What if..." film series, featuring films about community revitalization efforts around the United States. Each film documents the successes and struggles communities have experienced, and their varying methods of revitalizing these neighborhoods, from murals and gardens to community activism. Each will be followed by a moderated discussion.

Philadelphia: The Holy Experiment, hosted by actor David Morse, describes how concerned citizens like activists Doris Gualtney and Iris Brown, muralist Jane Golden, sculptor Lily Yeh, musician Kenny Gamble, gardener Mary Corby, restauranteur Judy Wicks, grieving father Ed Elliss, and the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's "Philly Green" initiative have all combined to grow a new title—Farmadelphia—for the city.

For further information about the "What If..." series, contact Lindsay McClung at lmcclung@giffordfd.org or by phone at 315-474-2489. Details are also available on the Foundation website or Facebook page.

SU Showcase
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Bassnectar + DJ Vadim
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Annual Le Moyne College Student Art Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

Uncommon Creatures, Singing Things: Works by Bertha Rogers
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This series of images is based on her own translations of Anglo-Saxon riddle poems, which are displayed along with the work.

Gallery Exhibition: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Feats of Clay spotlights the varied and creative ceramics art education programs in our high schools throughout Onondaga County and Central New York. The continued success of Feats of Clay rests with the talented and dedicated high school art teachers and art students.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place" and "Experimental Urbanism"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place," in Gallery A, featuring photographs by Jane Winslow and Mindy Ostrow. This exhibition invites the viewer to see the world through the lens of two of the regions most talented photographers.

"Experimental Urbanism," in Gallery B, features work by internationally known installation artist, Richard Metzgar. This particular exhibit showcases a series of prints that challenge the viewer to rethink the ways they document place and experience.

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

New Works by Michael Weismore
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Michael Weismore will be displaying 25 of his new original abstract oil paintings, including a set of 10 paintings titled "Ode to Pollock." For this group of paintings, Weismore has incorporated Jackson Pollock's drip technique over his own original paintings.

The artist has a form of color blindness that affects less then 1% of people. Color blindness has only "hindered one of his paintings. He accidentally painted the sky and trees purple in an ocean landscape. It ended up being one of the first paintings of his that was ever sold by an art dealer.

In 2006, Michael was commissioned to do a painting for rock and roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis. A few years later, the artist received the 2009 Best Abstract Award from the Everson Museum.

Annual High School Seniors Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

High schools within a 30-mile radius of Syracuse are invited to display seniors' artwork and have them juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Darryl Hughto & Susan Roth: New Paintings and Sculptures
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibition will feature paintings by both artists created specifically for this exhibition, as well as recent sculptures. A full color exhibition catalog will be available which will include an essay by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Drawn from details of the death of a former friend and bandmate of artist Paul Lloyd Sargent, "elegy" is presented through a multimedia installation of mashed-up, remixed, and recontextualized historical ephemera collected from mixtapes, amateur videos, zines, photographs, band fliers, sketchbook pages, song lyrics, and more. A lament for the death of youth despite the overwhelming persistence of youth culture, "elegy: society for a dead society" paints nostalgia and cynicism as two shades within the same dark palette.

Paul Lloyd Sargent splits his time between Brooklyn and Wellesley Island, NY. He was raised in Syracuse and graduated from Nottingham High School in 1989 and Hamilton College in 1993. After stints in Las Vegas, Boston, and Venice Beach, in 2000, he received his MFA in video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

MFA MMX (2010)
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual exhibition of masters of fine arts candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts will include 20 artists displaying a broad range of traditional and contemporary work, including painting, ceramics and sculpture, as well as digital photography, installation, and computer art.

While the artists work independently on their thesis concepts, themes have routinely emerged within the group—crossing the boundaries of media and style. This year's exhibition is no exception; the work exudes a highly developed sense of technique and thought. In MFA MMX, however, the artists engage the viewer, both physically and psychologically, in a way not seen in previous MFA exhibitions. The narrative photography of Jared Landberg, a documentary film by Sonya Pollard, and the video installation of Esther Probst are examples of the thematic way many the artists record their personal history or specific experiences. Another pervading theme in the exhibition is interaction: walking through the unique environments created by painters Gwendolyn Mercado-Reyes and Jessica Sharpe, playing the autobiographical video game created by Ryan Marchand, or taking one of the hundreds of ceramic cups thrown by Shawn O'Connor; the viewer is invited to physically take part in the artistic experience.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

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Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
SU Clarinet Choir

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

Parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, phone 315-443-2191.

Cowboy Junkies
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

LeMoyne College
Le Moyne College Chamber Orchestra
Featuring Andrew Russo, piano

Price: $10 adults; free for students
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Borodin Polovtsian Dances
Chopin "Larghetto from Piano Concerto No. 2
Daniel Godfrey From a Dream of Russia
Schubert Nocturne

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Annual Le Moyne College Student Art Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

Uncommon Creatures, Singing Things: Works by Bertha Rogers
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This series of images is based on her own translations of Anglo-Saxon riddle poems, which are displayed along with the work.

Gallery Exhibition: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Feats of Clay spotlights the varied and creative ceramics art education programs in our high schools throughout Onondaga County and Central New York. The continued success of Feats of Clay rests with the talented and dedicated high school art teachers and art students.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place" and "Experimental Urbanism"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place," in Gallery A, featuring photographs by Jane Winslow and Mindy Ostrow. This exhibition invites the viewer to see the world through the lens of two of the regions most talented photographers.

"Experimental Urbanism," in Gallery B, features work by internationally known installation artist, Richard Metzgar. This particular exhibit showcases a series of prints that challenge the viewer to rethink the ways they document place and experience.

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

New Works by Michael Weismore
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Michael Weismore will be displaying 25 of his new original abstract oil paintings, including a set of 10 paintings titled "Ode to Pollock." For this group of paintings, Weismore has incorporated Jackson Pollock's drip technique over his own original paintings.

The artist has a form of color blindness that affects less then 1% of people. Color blindness has only "hindered one of his paintings. He accidentally painted the sky and trees purple in an ocean landscape. It ended up being one of the first paintings of his that was ever sold by an art dealer.

In 2006, Michael was commissioned to do a painting for rock and roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis. A few years later, the artist received the 2009 Best Abstract Award from the Everson Museum.

Annual High School Seniors Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

High schools within a 30-mile radius of Syracuse are invited to display seniors' artwork and have them juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Darryl Hughto & Susan Roth: New Paintings and Sculptures
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibition will feature paintings by both artists created specifically for this exhibition, as well as recent sculptures. A full color exhibition catalog will be available which will include an essay by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Drawn from details of the death of a former friend and bandmate of artist Paul Lloyd Sargent, "elegy" is presented through a multimedia installation of mashed-up, remixed, and recontextualized historical ephemera collected from mixtapes, amateur videos, zines, photographs, band fliers, sketchbook pages, song lyrics, and more. A lament for the death of youth despite the overwhelming persistence of youth culture, "elegy: society for a dead society" paints nostalgia and cynicism as two shades within the same dark palette.

Paul Lloyd Sargent splits his time between Brooklyn and Wellesley Island, NY. He was raised in Syracuse and graduated from Nottingham High School in 1989 and Hamilton College in 1993. After stints in Las Vegas, Boston, and Venice Beach, in 2000, he received his MFA in video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

MFA MMX (2010)
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual exhibition of masters of fine arts candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts will include 20 artists displaying a broad range of traditional and contemporary work, including painting, ceramics and sculpture, as well as digital photography, installation, and computer art.

While the artists work independently on their thesis concepts, themes have routinely emerged within the group—crossing the boundaries of media and style. This year's exhibition is no exception; the work exudes a highly developed sense of technique and thought. In MFA MMX, however, the artists engage the viewer, both physically and psychologically, in a way not seen in previous MFA exhibitions. The narrative photography of Jared Landberg, a documentary film by Sonya Pollard, and the video installation of Esther Probst are examples of the thematic way many the artists record their personal history or specific experiences. Another pervading theme in the exhibition is interaction: walking through the unique environments created by painters Gwendolyn Mercado-Reyes and Jessica Sharpe, playing the autobiographical video game created by Ryan Marchand, or taking one of the hundreds of ceramic cups thrown by Shawn O'Connor; the viewer is invited to physically take part in the artistic experience.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

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Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Isaac Bidwell: The Big Three-Oh
Echo

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

A solo exhibition of art work by Isaac Bidwell. For this show, Isaac has arranged a collection of 30 original ink drawings, paintings and digital illustrations. As his first exhibition in Syracuse since 2008, The Big Three-Oh not only displays a body of new and unseen works, but the end of Isaac's twenties.

Boys & Girls: The Art of Diane Menzies and Mary Giehl
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Each year in America over 3 million children are abused, nearly 2,000 die, some run away, others are abandoned, all have their own challenges with this sojourn through adolescence. Each day in America, 6 children die from abuse, 100,000 children are homeless, 8 children die from guns, 219 children die before their first birthday, 1,534 babies are born to teenage girls.

In the paintings by Diane Menzies and installations by Mary Giehl, there are hints of darkness and confinement along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness. The work challenges the viewer to take a deeper look at what these images of childhood are telling us.

One Night Only Series: Dance Night
Rarely Done Productions

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

An evening of dance sponsored by The Camillus Dance Centre and The Humor Advantage, Inc., featuring the choreography of some of Central New York's talented teachers -- Ellen Ayer, Laura Metallo, Katie Romeo, Danielle Knapp, Erika Bailey, and Sandra Pietraszek -- and starring wonderful young dancers from our community.

For more information or to reserve tickets, phone 315-546-3224.

The Cove
ArtRage Gallery

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

This Oscar-winning documentary about the secretive slaughter of dolphins in Taiji, Japan, has exposed the dark secret of the ties between dolphin entertainment shows and the slaughter of dolphins for meat. The largest supplier of both live dolphins and their meat in the world is located in the picturesque town of Taiji, Japan. But the town has a dark, horrifying secret that it doesnt want the rest of the world to know. Part environmental documentary, part horror film, part spy thriller, "The Cove" is as suspenseful as it is enlightening. This film shows the killing of dolphins -- viewer discretion advised.

Kathleen Magee Querec, soprano; Cindy Josbena, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Works by Walton, Schrecker, and Liszt.

Alan Shapiro, poetry
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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