Thursday, August 14, 2008

Lost and Found
Center for New Americans

Price: Free
Center for New Americans
503 N. Prospect Ave., Syracuse

The exhibit features artifacts, artwork, family heirlooms, poems and other objects that tell the stories of loss and discovery which form a major part of the refugee experience. The refugees featured in the exhibit come from Vietnam, Burma, Sudan and Cuba.

Invasion! The Culture of Fear in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This student-curated exhibition illustrates the concept of fear in the United States. The students, members of the Renee Crown University Honors Program taking the Spring 2008 course American Fear, felt that the theme of "invasion" underlies many of our historical anxieties relating to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and a host of other issues. The idea that different people, aliens or even epidemics, like the AIDS virus during the 1980s, might infiltrate society and bring about sweeping change has been cause for extreme fear in the American experience. The exhibition raises questions of identity, and the class hopes that visitors will "understand their differences and be less discriminating in their actions."

Among the exhibited works that illuminate the roots of our culture of fear are a 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan," Cotton Mather's 1693 account of the Salem Witch trials, the literature of the Red Scare, a variety of pulp science fiction magazines and Werner Pfeiffer's sculptural tribute to the victims of 9/11 "Out of the Sky."

Survivors' Art Exhibit
Westcott Community Center

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

Survivors' Art Exhibit includes 27 individual posters and one collaborative collage, all of which celebrate the power of artistic creativity as a tool for healing. Exhibit participants include women, teens and children who are victims of domestic or sexual violence. Using various mediums, each survivor has transformed very personal experiences into compelling images for public display. Each piece incorporates a colorful, digitally stylized rendering of the artist's original image, printed on 100% cotton art stock using archival inks, and strikingly framed. All posters are available for sale to benefit the mission and services of Vera House.

A Lot on Your Plate
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

An exhibit of ceramic plates designed by 14 area artists.

The Whipping Post: Photos by Brantley Carroll
Community Folk Art Center

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

Blending historical images and engravings or text, Brantley Carroll's exhibition explores the legacy of The Middle Passage and the American Plantation System of Slavery in the United States. The exhibition engages the viewer in a visual tête-à-tête with colonial slavery and starkly captures the instrumentation of abuses that slaves endured. Each photograph draws you in to witness and read the digitally interwoven images and text taken from antebellum slave auctions, warrants, historical maps and documents.

In a piece entitled Thomas Jefferson's Slave Sally Hemmings, a young woman looks out beyond the words and signatures pearled together to constitute the foundation of a country. This piece holds a special significance to the artist, amongst commonly recognized filigree marks -- Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, and Benjamin Franklin -- is a Charles Carroll, the artist's great, great, great-grandfather. "My father, Walter Carroll was reportedly very ashamed when as a young man he learned that he was the descendant of Charles Carroll. Carroll was a founding father and signer of the Declaration of Independence. An Irish Catholic immigrant, Carroll became a wealthy landowner in Maryland who founded the first industrial Iron Works in Baltimore and owned a large tobacco plantation. He owned one thousand slaves."

Artist Brantley Carroll contends, "that a nation, like an individual, must face its sins and make amends if it is to move toward greatness and enlightenment. It is the goal of my work to more fully understand and educate people about what the sins and realities of slavery and more importantly how its legacy pervades today."

Color Remembered: Works of Linda Bigness
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Price: Free
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Solor exhibition of paintings by Linda Bigness, featuring color-charged abstracts on canvas, paper, and encaustics.

Exploring History with Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibit depicting the visual history of occupations and places of work in Onondaga County.

Works of Holly Knott and Liz and Rich Micho
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Holly Knott (contemporary art quilts) and Liz and Rich Micho (stained glass).

Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition explores multiple facets of Michelangelo's life, art and reputation with more than 25 works by the master and artists contemporary to him, including 14 original works by Michelangelo chosen to illustrate the broad range of his interests and creative activities. Figural studies associated with the Sistine Chapel and other paintings appear alongside original architectural plans and sketches of ancient Roman monuments. Printed books complement autograph examples of the artist's poetry. Eight of the Michelangelo works in the exhibition -- five drawings, including "Study for a Gate" and "Christ in Limbo," and three manuscript pages -- have never been seen in this country.

Syracuse Ceramic Guild: 2008 Juried Exhibition
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Syracuse Ceramic Guild: 2008 Juried Exhibition presents new functional and non-functional work in clay involving a variety of clay bodies, construction, glazing and firing techniques, all of which were selected by Jo Buffalo, a local ceramic artist who has been a professor of art at Cazenovia College for 23 years.

The Object and Beyond: 2008 Everson Biennial
Everson Museum of Art

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

In celebration of the 2008 Everson Biennial the Everson has devoted the entire second floor of the Museum to the display of current artwork created by artists from the Central New York region. This year's call for entries elicited a strong response from artists of all ages and diverse practices. More than 266 artists residing in the Central New York region submitted more than 1,000 works for consideration by juror Edward Winkleman. Winkleman is an independent curator and director of Winkleman Gallery in Chelsea, New York who specializes in contemporary art. He selected works by 55 artists for the exhibition which will occupy all four galleries on the second floor of the Museum.

Artists represented in the exhibition are diverse in their practices as well as their techniques, materials, and presentation. Winkleman's eye was on the look out for fine quality and craftsmanship and his goal was to showcase the broad spectrum of artwork being produced in the Central New York community from traditional to conceptual art.

Other Options
Redhouse

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

Other Options is a traveling and evolving exhibition which features artists' projects which re-interpret, alter and create infrastructure that affect their everyday lives. In an attempt to explore the nature of such flaws and contradictions in the nonprofit system such as the way these organizations are made to function in society, Other Options asks the question: How does the current matrix of specific regulations and compliances to which non-profit organizations are forced to adhere, affect the creative output, imagination, and flexibility of such organizations?

Other Options includes work by Forays (Montreal/New York City), Josh Greene (San Francisco, CA), Material Exchange (Chicago, IL), Mikey Merrill (Portland, OR), Phil Orr/Ryan Thompson (Urbana-Champaign, IL), ReTool (Pittsburgh, PA), and Joanna Spitzner (Syracuse, NY).

Unchained Memories: Readings from Slave Narratives
Community Folk Art Center

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

In the early 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project mounted a project to transcribe the memories of former African-American slaves who were still living. The result was a massive collection of notes, documents, and recordings, all of which found their way into the Library of Congress. Co-produced by the Library and the HBO cable channel, Unchained Memories: Readings From the Slave Narratives features a truly impressive array of black performers sharing the reminiscences of those who lived under the yoke of slavery. Directors Ed Bell and Thomas Lennon complement the words with vivid images culled from contemporary photographs of the years 1850-1935.

Unchained Memories will be screening in the Herbert T. Williams Gallery throughout The Whipping Post exhibition. Come sit for a moment with 'elders' and listen to this stunning collection of slave stories.

Jazz in the City: Little Italy Party
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Tony Monaco, Hammond B3 Jazz Organ Wizard; with special guests Joe Carello and Jeff Stockham

Price: Free
Little Italy
600 Block of North Salina St., Syracuse

Bring your own lawn chairs. Food and beverages will be available. No alcohol, please.

Wordplay, Part 1
Skaneateles Festival

Price: $22, $18 regular; $19, $15 students/seniors; children under 13 free
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Copland 12 Poems of Emily Dickinson (selected)
August Klughardt Reed Songs for Oboe, Viola, and Piano
Schubert String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D. 810 "Death and the Maiden"

Performers include Sari Gruber, soprano; Marka Gustavsson, viola; Miró Quartet; James Roe, oboe; Cameron Stowe, piano

Read a review!

The Comedy of Errors
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: Free
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

Read a review!

Hello: My Name is Death
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive murder-mystery dinner theater.

Friday, August 15, 2008

Lost and Found
Center for New Americans

Price: Free
Center for New Americans
503 N. Prospect Ave., Syracuse

The exhibit features artifacts, artwork, family heirlooms, poems and other objects that tell the stories of loss and discovery which form a major part of the refugee experience. The refugees featured in the exhibit come from Vietnam, Burma, Sudan and Cuba.

Invasion! The Culture of Fear in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This student-curated exhibition illustrates the concept of fear in the United States. The students, members of the Renee Crown University Honors Program taking the Spring 2008 course American Fear, felt that the theme of "invasion" underlies many of our historical anxieties relating to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and a host of other issues. The idea that different people, aliens or even epidemics, like the AIDS virus during the 1980s, might infiltrate society and bring about sweeping change has been cause for extreme fear in the American experience. The exhibition raises questions of identity, and the class hopes that visitors will "understand their differences and be less discriminating in their actions."

Among the exhibited works that illuminate the roots of our culture of fear are a 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan," Cotton Mather's 1693 account of the Salem Witch trials, the literature of the Red Scare, a variety of pulp science fiction magazines and Werner Pfeiffer's sculptural tribute to the victims of 9/11 "Out of the Sky."

Survivors' Art Exhibit
Westcott Community Center

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

Survivors' Art Exhibit includes 27 individual posters and one collaborative collage, all of which celebrate the power of artistic creativity as a tool for healing. Exhibit participants include women, teens and children who are victims of domestic or sexual violence. Using various mediums, each survivor has transformed very personal experiences into compelling images for public display. Each piece incorporates a colorful, digitally stylized rendering of the artist's original image, printed on 100% cotton art stock using archival inks, and strikingly framed. All posters are available for sale to benefit the mission and services of Vera House.

A Lot on Your Plate
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

An exhibit of ceramic plates designed by 14 area artists.

The Whipping Post: Photos by Brantley Carroll
Community Folk Art Center

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

Blending historical images and engravings or text, Brantley Carroll's exhibition explores the legacy of The Middle Passage and the American Plantation System of Slavery in the United States. The exhibition engages the viewer in a visual tête-à-tête with colonial slavery and starkly captures the instrumentation of abuses that slaves endured. Each photograph draws you in to witness and read the digitally interwoven images and text taken from antebellum slave auctions, warrants, historical maps and documents.

In a piece entitled Thomas Jefferson's Slave Sally Hemmings, a young woman looks out beyond the words and signatures pearled together to constitute the foundation of a country. This piece holds a special significance to the artist, amongst commonly recognized filigree marks -- Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, and Benjamin Franklin -- is a Charles Carroll, the artist's great, great, great-grandfather. "My father, Walter Carroll was reportedly very ashamed when as a young man he learned that he was the descendant of Charles Carroll. Carroll was a founding father and signer of the Declaration of Independence. An Irish Catholic immigrant, Carroll became a wealthy landowner in Maryland who founded the first industrial Iron Works in Baltimore and owned a large tobacco plantation. He owned one thousand slaves."

Artist Brantley Carroll contends, "that a nation, like an individual, must face its sins and make amends if it is to move toward greatness and enlightenment. It is the goal of my work to more fully understand and educate people about what the sins and realities of slavery and more importantly how its legacy pervades today."

Color Remembered: Works of Linda Bigness
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Price: Free
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Solor exhibition of paintings by Linda Bigness, featuring color-charged abstracts on canvas, paper, and encaustics.

Exploring History with Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibit depicting the visual history of occupations and places of work in Onondaga County.

Works of Holly Knott and Liz and Rich Micho
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Holly Knott (contemporary art quilts) and Liz and Rich Micho (stained glass).

Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition explores multiple facets of Michelangelo's life, art and reputation with more than 25 works by the master and artists contemporary to him, including 14 original works by Michelangelo chosen to illustrate the broad range of his interests and creative activities. Figural studies associated with the Sistine Chapel and other paintings appear alongside original architectural plans and sketches of ancient Roman monuments. Printed books complement autograph examples of the artist's poetry. Eight of the Michelangelo works in the exhibition -- five drawings, including "Study for a Gate" and "Christ in Limbo," and three manuscript pages -- have never been seen in this country.

Syracuse Ceramic Guild: 2008 Juried Exhibition
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Syracuse Ceramic Guild: 2008 Juried Exhibition presents new functional and non-functional work in clay involving a variety of clay bodies, construction, glazing and firing techniques, all of which were selected by Jo Buffalo, a local ceramic artist who has been a professor of art at Cazenovia College for 23 years.

The Object and Beyond: 2008 Everson Biennial
Everson Museum of Art

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

In celebration of the 2008 Everson Biennial the Everson has devoted the entire second floor of the Museum to the display of current artwork created by artists from the Central New York region. This year's call for entries elicited a strong response from artists of all ages and diverse practices. More than 266 artists residing in the Central New York region submitted more than 1,000 works for consideration by juror Edward Winkleman. Winkleman is an independent curator and director of Winkleman Gallery in Chelsea, New York who specializes in contemporary art. He selected works by 55 artists for the exhibition which will occupy all four galleries on the second floor of the Museum.

Artists represented in the exhibition are diverse in their practices as well as their techniques, materials, and presentation. Winkleman's eye was on the look out for fine quality and craftsmanship and his goal was to showcase the broad spectrum of artwork being produced in the Central New York community from traditional to conceptual art.

Other Options
Redhouse

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

Other Options is a traveling and evolving exhibition which features artists' projects which re-interpret, alter and create infrastructure that affect their everyday lives. In an attempt to explore the nature of such flaws and contradictions in the nonprofit system such as the way these organizations are made to function in society, Other Options asks the question: How does the current matrix of specific regulations and compliances to which non-profit organizations are forced to adhere, affect the creative output, imagination, and flexibility of such organizations?

Other Options includes work by Forays (Montreal/New York City), Josh Greene (San Francisco, CA), Material Exchange (Chicago, IL), Mikey Merrill (Portland, OR), Phil Orr/Ryan Thompson (Urbana-Champaign, IL), ReTool (Pittsburgh, PA), and Joanna Spitzner (Syracuse, NY).

Unchained Memories: Readings from Slave Narratives
Community Folk Art Center

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

In the early 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project mounted a project to transcribe the memories of former African-American slaves who were still living. The result was a massive collection of notes, documents, and recordings, all of which found their way into the Library of Congress. Co-produced by the Library and the HBO cable channel, Unchained Memories: Readings From the Slave Narratives features a truly impressive array of black performers sharing the reminiscences of those who lived under the yoke of slavery. Directors Ed Bell and Thomas Lennon complement the words with vivid images culled from contemporary photographs of the years 1850-1935.

Unchained Memories will be screening in the Herbert T. Williams Gallery throughout The Whipping Post exhibition. Come sit for a moment with 'elders' and listen to this stunning collection of slave stories.

Dancing Under the Stars

Price: Free
Burnet Park
Grand Ave., Syracuse

Skaneateles Community Band Concert

Price: Free
Clift Park
Genesee St., Skaneateles

Bring a blanket or lawn chair. Rain location: Austin Park Pavilion.

For more information, phone 315-685-0552.

Wordplay, Part 2
Skaneateles Festival

Price: $22, $18 regular; $19, $15 students/seniors; children under 13 free
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Prokofiev Three Pieces from Romeo and Juliet for Violin and Piano
Beethoven String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135, Es Muss Sein! ("It Must Be!")
Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op. 4

Performers include Marka Gustavsson, viola; Miró Quartet; Cameron Stowe, piano; David Ying, cello

Read a review!

The Comedy of Errors
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: Free
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

Read a review!

The Tales of Molly Malloy
Stagewrights Youth Theatre

Price: $5
Grace Episcopal Church
819 Madison St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-559-9892.

Les Miserables
Syracuse School District Summer Theater Program

Price: $8 at the door, $5 in advance
Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Performance by students from five Syracuse high schools. For tickets, phone 315-435-4181.

Eugene Ionesco's The Lesson
The CORA Foundation and the sugar pearl players
Yair Sherman, director

Price: $15 advance sale; $18 at the door
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Eugene Ionesco's absurdist classic The Lesson is a one act comic-drama, at its darkest best.

A young student arrives to her first lesson with the Professor...
Who creates the rules, and why must we obey?
What shall we learn, and who should be taught?
Do not expect the mercy of the maid,
The Professor will have it his way-
Or no way at all.
Along with thirty nine others,
Will you be the 40th coffin?

The Lesson embodies a pure drama that represents an exemplary action of universal nature.

This event is a fundraiser for ArtRage Gallery, and will be preceded by dessert and coffee at 7:00 p.m. For reservations, phone 315-422-7427.

Saturday, August 16, 2008

A Lot on Your Plate
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

An exhibit of ceramic plates designed by 14 area artists.

Syracuse Ceramic Guild: 2008 Juried Exhibition
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Syracuse Ceramic Guild: 2008 Juried Exhibition presents new functional and non-functional work in clay involving a variety of clay bodies, construction, glazing and firing techniques, all of which were selected by Jo Buffalo, a local ceramic artist who has been a professor of art at Cazenovia College for 23 years.

The Object and Beyond: 2008 Everson Biennial
Everson Museum of Art

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

In celebration of the 2008 Everson Biennial the Everson has devoted the entire second floor of the Museum to the display of current artwork created by artists from the Central New York region. This year's call for entries elicited a strong response from artists of all ages and diverse practices. More than 266 artists residing in the Central New York region submitted more than 1,000 works for consideration by juror Edward Winkleman. Winkleman is an independent curator and director of Winkleman Gallery in Chelsea, New York who specializes in contemporary art. He selected works by 55 artists for the exhibition which will occupy all four galleries on the second floor of the Museum.

Artists represented in the exhibition are diverse in their practices as well as their techniques, materials, and presentation. Winkleman's eye was on the look out for fine quality and craftsmanship and his goal was to showcase the broad spectrum of artwork being produced in the Central New York community from traditional to conceptual art.

Color Remembered: Works of Linda Bigness
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Price: Free
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Solor exhibition of paintings by Linda Bigness, featuring color-charged abstracts on canvas, paper, and encaustics.

Works of Holly Knott and Liz and Rich Micho
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Holly Knott (contemporary art quilts) and Liz and Rich Micho (stained glass).

Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition explores multiple facets of Michelangelo's life, art and reputation with more than 25 works by the master and artists contemporary to him, including 14 original works by Michelangelo chosen to illustrate the broad range of his interests and creative activities. Figural studies associated with the Sistine Chapel and other paintings appear alongside original architectural plans and sketches of ancient Roman monuments. Printed books complement autograph examples of the artist's poetry. Eight of the Michelangelo works in the exhibition -- five drawings, including "Study for a Gate" and "Christ in Limbo," and three manuscript pages -- have never been seen in this country.

The Whipping Post: Photos by Brantley Carroll
Community Folk Art Center

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

Blending historical images and engravings or text, Brantley Carroll's exhibition explores the legacy of The Middle Passage and the American Plantation System of Slavery in the United States. The exhibition engages the viewer in a visual tête-à-tête with colonial slavery and starkly captures the instrumentation of abuses that slaves endured. Each photograph draws you in to witness and read the digitally interwoven images and text taken from antebellum slave auctions, warrants, historical maps and documents.

In a piece entitled Thomas Jefferson's Slave Sally Hemmings, a young woman looks out beyond the words and signatures pearled together to constitute the foundation of a country. This piece holds a special significance to the artist, amongst commonly recognized filigree marks -- Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, and Benjamin Franklin -- is a Charles Carroll, the artist's great, great, great-grandfather. "My father, Walter Carroll was reportedly very ashamed when as a young man he learned that he was the descendant of Charles Carroll. Carroll was a founding father and signer of the Declaration of Independence. An Irish Catholic immigrant, Carroll became a wealthy landowner in Maryland who founded the first industrial Iron Works in Baltimore and owned a large tobacco plantation. He owned one thousand slaves."

Artist Brantley Carroll contends, "that a nation, like an individual, must face its sins and make amends if it is to move toward greatness and enlightenment. It is the goal of my work to more fully understand and educate people about what the sins and realities of slavery and more importantly how its legacy pervades today."

Exploring History with Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibit depicting the visual history of occupations and places of work in Onondaga County.

Unchained Memories: Readings from Slave Narratives
Community Folk Art Center

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

In the early 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project mounted a project to transcribe the memories of former African-American slaves who were still living. The result was a massive collection of notes, documents, and recordings, all of which found their way into the Library of Congress. Co-produced by the Library and the HBO cable channel, Unchained Memories: Readings From the Slave Narratives features a truly impressive array of black performers sharing the reminiscences of those who lived under the yoke of slavery. Directors Ed Bell and Thomas Lennon complement the words with vivid images culled from contemporary photographs of the years 1850-1935.

Unchained Memories will be screening in the Herbert T. Williams Gallery throughout The Whipping Post exhibition. Come sit for a moment with 'elders' and listen to this stunning collection of slave stories.

Chamber Orchestra Concert
Skaneateles Festival
Robert Moody, conductor
Featuring Sari Gruber, soprano

Price: $26, $20 adults; children under 13 free
Brook Farm
2.5 miles south of the village on Route 41A, Skaneateles

Rossini Overture to The Italian Girl in Algiers
Barber Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Handel Overture to Judas Maccabaeus
Haydn Symphony No. 60 in C major, "Il distratto" (The Distracted)

Rain location: Skaneateles High School, 49 E. Elizabeth St., Skaneateles.

Read a review!

Candlelight Series: Mario DeSantis Orchestra

Price: Free
Armory Square
Clinton and Jefferson St., Syracuse

The Tales of Molly Malloy
Stagewrights Youth Theatre

Price: $5
Grace Episcopal Church
819 Madison St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-559-9892.

The Comedy of Errors
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: Free
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

Read a review!

Les Miserables
Syracuse School District Summer Theater Program

Price: $8 at the door, $5 in advance
Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Performance by students from five Syracuse high schools. For tickets, phone 315-435-4181.

Eugene Ionesco's The Lesson
The CORA Foundation and the sugar pearl players
Yair Sherman, director

Price: $15 advance sale; $18 at the door
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Eugene Ionesco's absurdist classic The Lesson is a one act comic-drama, at its darkest best.

A young student arrives to her first lesson with the Professor...
Who creates the rules, and why must we obey?
What shall we learn, and who should be taught?
Do not expect the mercy of the maid,
The Professor will have it his way-
Or no way at all.
Along with thirty nine others,
Will you be the 40th coffin?

The Lesson embodies a pure drama that represents an exemplary action of universal nature.

This event is a fundraiser for ArtRage Gallery, and will be preceded by dessert and coffee at 7:00 p.m. For reservations, phone 315-422-7427.

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition explores multiple facets of Michelangelo's life, art and reputation with more than 25 works by the master and artists contemporary to him, including 14 original works by Michelangelo chosen to illustrate the broad range of his interests and creative activities. Figural studies associated with the Sistine Chapel and other paintings appear alongside original architectural plans and sketches of ancient Roman monuments. Printed books complement autograph examples of the artist's poetry. Eight of the Michelangelo works in the exhibition -- five drawings, including "Study for a Gate" and "Christ in Limbo," and three manuscript pages -- have never been seen in this country.

Exploring History with Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibit depicting the visual history of occupations and places of work in Onondaga County.

Works of Holly Knott and Liz and Rich Micho
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Holly Knott (contemporary art quilts) and Liz and Rich Micho (stained glass).

Syracuse Ceramic Guild: 2008 Juried Exhibition
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Syracuse Ceramic Guild: 2008 Juried Exhibition presents new functional and non-functional work in clay involving a variety of clay bodies, construction, glazing and firing techniques, all of which were selected by Jo Buffalo, a local ceramic artist who has been a professor of art at Cazenovia College for 23 years.

The Object and Beyond: 2008 Everson Biennial
Everson Museum of Art

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

In celebration of the 2008 Everson Biennial the Everson has devoted the entire second floor of the Museum to the display of current artwork created by artists from the Central New York region. This year's call for entries elicited a strong response from artists of all ages and diverse practices. More than 266 artists residing in the Central New York region submitted more than 1,000 works for consideration by juror Edward Winkleman. Winkleman is an independent curator and director of Winkleman Gallery in Chelsea, New York who specializes in contemporary art. He selected works by 55 artists for the exhibition which will occupy all four galleries on the second floor of the Museum.

Artists represented in the exhibition are diverse in their practices as well as their techniques, materials, and presentation. Winkleman's eye was on the look out for fine quality and craftsmanship and his goal was to showcase the broad spectrum of artwork being produced in the Central New York community from traditional to conceptual art.

Soundcheck Live at 30

Price: $5
Inner Harbor
W. Kirkpatrick St., Syracuse

30th anniversary celebration of the popular weekly local music program Soundcheck.

3:00pm - Honor Bright
4:00pm - Simplelife
5:00pm - Mike Ryan
6:15pm - Mark Doyle and Joe Whiting
7:30pm - The Flash Cubes
9:00pm - Little Georgie and the Shuffling Hungarians

Les Miserables
Syracuse School District Summer Theater Program

Price: $8 at the door, $5 in advance
Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Performance by students from five Syracuse high schools. For tickets, phone 315-435-4181.

The Comedy of Errors
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: Free
Thornden Park Amphitheater
Ostrom Ave., Syracuse

Read a review!

Monday, August 18, 2008

Lost and Found
Center for New Americans

Price: Free
Center for New Americans
503 N. Prospect Ave., Syracuse

The exhibit features artifacts, artwork, family heirlooms, poems and other objects that tell the stories of loss and discovery which form a major part of the refugee experience. The refugees featured in the exhibit come from Vietnam, Burma, Sudan and Cuba.

Invasion! The Culture of Fear in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This student-curated exhibition illustrates the concept of fear in the United States. The students, members of the Renee Crown University Honors Program taking the Spring 2008 course American Fear, felt that the theme of "invasion" underlies many of our historical anxieties relating to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and a host of other issues. The idea that different people, aliens or even epidemics, like the AIDS virus during the 1980s, might infiltrate society and bring about sweeping change has been cause for extreme fear in the American experience. The exhibition raises questions of identity, and the class hopes that visitors will "understand their differences and be less discriminating in their actions."

Among the exhibited works that illuminate the roots of our culture of fear are a 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan," Cotton Mather's 1693 account of the Salem Witch trials, the literature of the Red Scare, a variety of pulp science fiction magazines and Werner Pfeiffer's sculptural tribute to the victims of 9/11 "Out of the Sky."

Survivors' Art Exhibit
Westcott Community Center

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

Survivors' Art Exhibit includes 27 individual posters and one collaborative collage, all of which celebrate the power of artistic creativity as a tool for healing. Exhibit participants include women, teens and children who are victims of domestic or sexual violence. Using various mediums, each survivor has transformed very personal experiences into compelling images for public display. Each piece incorporates a colorful, digitally stylized rendering of the artist's original image, printed on 100% cotton art stock using archival inks, and strikingly framed. All posters are available for sale to benefit the mission and services of Vera House.

Color Remembered: Works of Linda Bigness
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Price: Free
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Solor exhibition of paintings by Linda Bigness, featuring color-charged abstracts on canvas, paper, and encaustics.

Works of Holly Knott and Liz and Rich Micho
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Holly Knott (contemporary art quilts) and Liz and Rich Micho (stained glass).

The Maria DeSantis Band
Liverpool is the Place

Price: Free
Johnson Park
Corner of Vine and Oswego Streets, Liverpool

A program of music from swing to soul.
Rain date: Tues., Aug. 19

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Lost and Found
Center for New Americans

Price: Free
Center for New Americans
503 N. Prospect Ave., Syracuse

The exhibit features artifacts, artwork, family heirlooms, poems and other objects that tell the stories of loss and discovery which form a major part of the refugee experience. The refugees featured in the exhibit come from Vietnam, Burma, Sudan and Cuba.

Invasion! The Culture of Fear in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This student-curated exhibition illustrates the concept of fear in the United States. The students, members of the Renee Crown University Honors Program taking the Spring 2008 course American Fear, felt that the theme of "invasion" underlies many of our historical anxieties relating to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and a host of other issues. The idea that different people, aliens or even epidemics, like the AIDS virus during the 1980s, might infiltrate society and bring about sweeping change has been cause for extreme fear in the American experience. The exhibition raises questions of identity, and the class hopes that visitors will "understand their differences and be less discriminating in their actions."

Among the exhibited works that illuminate the roots of our culture of fear are a 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan," Cotton Mather's 1693 account of the Salem Witch trials, the literature of the Red Scare, a variety of pulp science fiction magazines and Werner Pfeiffer's sculptural tribute to the victims of 9/11 "Out of the Sky."

Survivors' Art Exhibit
Westcott Community Center

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

Survivors' Art Exhibit includes 27 individual posters and one collaborative collage, all of which celebrate the power of artistic creativity as a tool for healing. Exhibit participants include women, teens and children who are victims of domestic or sexual violence. Using various mediums, each survivor has transformed very personal experiences into compelling images for public display. Each piece incorporates a colorful, digitally stylized rendering of the artist's original image, printed on 100% cotton art stock using archival inks, and strikingly framed. All posters are available for sale to benefit the mission and services of Vera House.

A Lot on Your Plate
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

An exhibit of ceramic plates designed by 14 area artists.

Color Remembered: Works of Linda Bigness
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Price: Free
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Solor exhibition of paintings by Linda Bigness, featuring color-charged abstracts on canvas, paper, and encaustics.

Works of Holly Knott and Liz and Rich Micho
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Holly Knott (contemporary art quilts) and Liz and Rich Micho (stained glass).

Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition explores multiple facets of Michelangelo's life, art and reputation with more than 25 works by the master and artists contemporary to him, including 14 original works by Michelangelo chosen to illustrate the broad range of his interests and creative activities. Figural studies associated with the Sistine Chapel and other paintings appear alongside original architectural plans and sketches of ancient Roman monuments. Printed books complement autograph examples of the artist's poetry. Eight of the Michelangelo works in the exhibition -- five drawings, including "Study for a Gate" and "Christ in Limbo," and three manuscript pages -- have never been seen in this country.

Syracuse Ceramic Guild: 2008 Juried Exhibition
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Syracuse Ceramic Guild: 2008 Juried Exhibition presents new functional and non-functional work in clay involving a variety of clay bodies, construction, glazing and firing techniques, all of which were selected by Jo Buffalo, a local ceramic artist who has been a professor of art at Cazenovia College for 23 years.

The Object and Beyond: 2008 Everson Biennial
Everson Museum of Art

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

In celebration of the 2008 Everson Biennial the Everson has devoted the entire second floor of the Museum to the display of current artwork created by artists from the Central New York region. This year's call for entries elicited a strong response from artists of all ages and diverse practices. More than 266 artists residing in the Central New York region submitted more than 1,000 works for consideration by juror Edward Winkleman. Winkleman is an independent curator and director of Winkleman Gallery in Chelsea, New York who specializes in contemporary art. He selected works by 55 artists for the exhibition which will occupy all four galleries on the second floor of the Museum.

Artists represented in the exhibition are diverse in their practices as well as their techniques, materials, and presentation. Winkleman's eye was on the look out for fine quality and craftsmanship and his goal was to showcase the broad spectrum of artwork being produced in the Central New York community from traditional to conceptual art.

Dreams of Promise and Peril
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The role that artists play as cultural barometers always seems to be heightened in times of change and uncertainty. Although they employ different approaches, from timely reportage to futuristic illusions, all of the artists in the exhibition explore the terrain where hopes and dreams collide. By making visible the complex emotions we all sometimes experience the artists in this exhibition ask us to deeply consider the promise and peril that exists both in the fantasies we create and the realities we deny.

All of the work in this exhibition was borrowed from the JGS, Inc. collection, a non-profit photography organization based in New York City. JGS and Syracuse University have entered into an agreement to collaborate on traveling exhibitions, research, publications, and other projects utilizing work from the JGS collection that includes over 8,000 photographs spanning the history of the medium. This exhibition is an example of that collaboration and at the conclusion of the exhibition SUArt Galleries will create traveling solo exhibitions by each of the four artists.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Lost and Found
Center for New Americans

Price: Free
Center for New Americans
503 N. Prospect Ave., Syracuse

The exhibit features artifacts, artwork, family heirlooms, poems and other objects that tell the stories of loss and discovery which form a major part of the refugee experience. The refugees featured in the exhibit come from Vietnam, Burma, Sudan and Cuba.

Invasion! The Culture of Fear in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This student-curated exhibition illustrates the concept of fear in the United States. The students, members of the Renee Crown University Honors Program taking the Spring 2008 course American Fear, felt that the theme of "invasion" underlies many of our historical anxieties relating to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and a host of other issues. The idea that different people, aliens or even epidemics, like the AIDS virus during the 1980s, might infiltrate society and bring about sweeping change has been cause for extreme fear in the American experience. The exhibition raises questions of identity, and the class hopes that visitors will "understand their differences and be less discriminating in their actions."

Among the exhibited works that illuminate the roots of our culture of fear are a 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan," Cotton Mather's 1693 account of the Salem Witch trials, the literature of the Red Scare, a variety of pulp science fiction magazines and Werner Pfeiffer's sculptural tribute to the victims of 9/11 "Out of the Sky."

Survivors' Art Exhibit
Westcott Community Center

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

Survivors' Art Exhibit includes 27 individual posters and one collaborative collage, all of which celebrate the power of artistic creativity as a tool for healing. Exhibit participants include women, teens and children who are victims of domestic or sexual violence. Using various mediums, each survivor has transformed very personal experiences into compelling images for public display. Each piece incorporates a colorful, digitally stylized rendering of the artist's original image, printed on 100% cotton art stock using archival inks, and strikingly framed. All posters are available for sale to benefit the mission and services of Vera House.

A Lot on Your Plate
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

An exhibit of ceramic plates designed by 14 area artists.

Color Remembered: Works of Linda Bigness
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Price: Free
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Solor exhibition of paintings by Linda Bigness, featuring color-charged abstracts on canvas, paper, and encaustics.

Exploring History with Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibit depicting the visual history of occupations and places of work in Onondaga County.

Works of Holly Knott and Liz and Rich Micho
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Holly Knott (contemporary art quilts) and Liz and Rich Micho (stained glass).

Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition explores multiple facets of Michelangelo's life, art and reputation with more than 25 works by the master and artists contemporary to him, including 14 original works by Michelangelo chosen to illustrate the broad range of his interests and creative activities. Figural studies associated with the Sistine Chapel and other paintings appear alongside original architectural plans and sketches of ancient Roman monuments. Printed books complement autograph examples of the artist's poetry. Eight of the Michelangelo works in the exhibition -- five drawings, including "Study for a Gate" and "Christ in Limbo," and three manuscript pages -- have never been seen in this country.

Syracuse Ceramic Guild: 2008 Juried Exhibition
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Syracuse Ceramic Guild: 2008 Juried Exhibition presents new functional and non-functional work in clay involving a variety of clay bodies, construction, glazing and firing techniques, all of which were selected by Jo Buffalo, a local ceramic artist who has been a professor of art at Cazenovia College for 23 years.

The Object and Beyond: 2008 Everson Biennial
Everson Museum of Art

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

In celebration of the 2008 Everson Biennial the Everson has devoted the entire second floor of the Museum to the display of current artwork created by artists from the Central New York region. This year's call for entries elicited a strong response from artists of all ages and diverse practices. More than 266 artists residing in the Central New York region submitted more than 1,000 works for consideration by juror Edward Winkleman. Winkleman is an independent curator and director of Winkleman Gallery in Chelsea, New York who specializes in contemporary art. He selected works by 55 artists for the exhibition which will occupy all four galleries on the second floor of the Museum.

Artists represented in the exhibition are diverse in their practices as well as their techniques, materials, and presentation. Winkleman's eye was on the look out for fine quality and craftsmanship and his goal was to showcase the broad spectrum of artwork being produced in the Central New York community from traditional to conceptual art.

Other Options
Redhouse

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

Other Options is a traveling and evolving exhibition which features artists' projects which re-interpret, alter and create infrastructure that affect their everyday lives. In an attempt to explore the nature of such flaws and contradictions in the nonprofit system such as the way these organizations are made to function in society, Other Options asks the question: How does the current matrix of specific regulations and compliances to which non-profit organizations are forced to adhere, affect the creative output, imagination, and flexibility of such organizations?

Other Options includes work by Forays (Montreal/New York City), Josh Greene (San Francisco, CA), Material Exchange (Chicago, IL), Mikey Merrill (Portland, OR), Phil Orr/Ryan Thompson (Urbana-Champaign, IL), ReTool (Pittsburgh, PA), and Joanna Spitzner (Syracuse, NY).

Dreams of Promise and Peril
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The role that artists play as cultural barometers always seems to be heightened in times of change and uncertainty. Although they employ different approaches, from timely reportage to futuristic illusions, all of the artists in the exhibition explore the terrain where hopes and dreams collide. By making visible the complex emotions we all sometimes experience the artists in this exhibition ask us to deeply consider the promise and peril that exists both in the fantasies we create and the realities we deny.

All of the work in this exhibition was borrowed from the JGS, Inc. collection, a non-profit photography organization based in New York City. JGS and Syracuse University have entered into an agreement to collaborate on traveling exhibitions, research, publications, and other projects utilizing work from the JGS collection that includes over 8,000 photographs spanning the history of the medium. This exhibition is an example of that collaboration and at the conclusion of the exhibition SUArt Galleries will create traveling solo exhibitions by each of the four artists.

Alan Taylor & Friends
Liverpool is the Place

Price: Free
Johnson Park
Corner of Vine and Oswego Streets, Liverpool

The annual John Denver Memorial Food Drive concert, featuring songs of the 1960s.
Rain date: Thurs., Aug. 21

Turn-of-the-Century Paris Organ Recital
Skaneateles Festival
Featuring David Higgs, organ

Price: $15 adults; children under 13 free
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Back by popular demand! Join us for a lively evening of music and commentary, as world-renowned organist David Higgs recreates an organ recital from turn-of-the-century Paris.

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Thursday, August 21, 2008

Invasion! The Culture of Fear in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This student-curated exhibition illustrates the concept of fear in the United States. The students, members of the Renee Crown University Honors Program taking the Spring 2008 course American Fear, felt that the theme of "invasion" underlies many of our historical anxieties relating to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and a host of other issues. The idea that different people, aliens or even epidemics, like the AIDS virus during the 1980s, might infiltrate society and bring about sweeping change has been cause for extreme fear in the American experience. The exhibition raises questions of identity, and the class hopes that visitors will "understand their differences and be less discriminating in their actions."

Among the exhibited works that illuminate the roots of our culture of fear are a 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan," Cotton Mather's 1693 account of the Salem Witch trials, the literature of the Red Scare, a variety of pulp science fiction magazines and Werner Pfeiffer's sculptural tribute to the victims of 9/11 "Out of the Sky."

Survivors' Art Exhibit
Westcott Community Center

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

Survivors' Art Exhibit includes 27 individual posters and one collaborative collage, all of which celebrate the power of artistic creativity as a tool for healing. Exhibit participants include women, teens and children who are victims of domestic or sexual violence. Using various mediums, each survivor has transformed very personal experiences into compelling images for public display. Each piece incorporates a colorful, digitally stylized rendering of the artist's original image, printed on 100% cotton art stock using archival inks, and strikingly framed. All posters are available for sale to benefit the mission and services of Vera House.

A Lot on Your Plate
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

An exhibit of ceramic plates designed by 14 area artists.

Color Remembered: Works of Linda Bigness
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Price: Free
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Solor exhibition of paintings by Linda Bigness, featuring color-charged abstracts on canvas, paper, and encaustics.

Exploring History with Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibit depicting the visual history of occupations and places of work in Onondaga County.

Works of Holly Knott and Liz and Rich Micho
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Holly Knott (contemporary art quilts) and Liz and Rich Micho (stained glass).

Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition explores multiple facets of Michelangelo's life, art and reputation with more than 25 works by the master and artists contemporary to him, including 14 original works by Michelangelo chosen to illustrate the broad range of his interests and creative activities. Figural studies associated with the Sistine Chapel and other paintings appear alongside original architectural plans and sketches of ancient Roman monuments. Printed books complement autograph examples of the artist's poetry. Eight of the Michelangelo works in the exhibition -- five drawings, including "Study for a Gate" and "Christ in Limbo," and three manuscript pages -- have never been seen in this country.

Syracuse Ceramic Guild: 2008 Juried Exhibition
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Syracuse Ceramic Guild: 2008 Juried Exhibition presents new functional and non-functional work in clay involving a variety of clay bodies, construction, glazing and firing techniques, all of which were selected by Jo Buffalo, a local ceramic artist who has been a professor of art at Cazenovia College for 23 years.

The Object and Beyond: 2008 Everson Biennial
Everson Museum of Art

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

In celebration of the 2008 Everson Biennial the Everson has devoted the entire second floor of the Museum to the display of current artwork created by artists from the Central New York region. This year's call for entries elicited a strong response from artists of all ages and diverse practices. More than 266 artists residing in the Central New York region submitted more than 1,000 works for consideration by juror Edward Winkleman. Winkleman is an independent curator and director of Winkleman Gallery in Chelsea, New York who specializes in contemporary art. He selected works by 55 artists for the exhibition which will occupy all four galleries on the second floor of the Museum.

Artists represented in the exhibition are diverse in their practices as well as their techniques, materials, and presentation. Winkleman's eye was on the look out for fine quality and craftsmanship and his goal was to showcase the broad spectrum of artwork being produced in the Central New York community from traditional to conceptual art.

Other Options
Redhouse

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

Other Options is a traveling and evolving exhibition which features artists' projects which re-interpret, alter and create infrastructure that affect their everyday lives. In an attempt to explore the nature of such flaws and contradictions in the nonprofit system such as the way these organizations are made to function in society, Other Options asks the question: How does the current matrix of specific regulations and compliances to which non-profit organizations are forced to adhere, affect the creative output, imagination, and flexibility of such organizations?

Other Options includes work by Forays (Montreal/New York City), Josh Greene (San Francisco, CA), Material Exchange (Chicago, IL), Mikey Merrill (Portland, OR), Phil Orr/Ryan Thompson (Urbana-Champaign, IL), ReTool (Pittsburgh, PA), and Joanna Spitzner (Syracuse, NY).

Dreams of Promise and Peril
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The role that artists play as cultural barometers always seems to be heightened in times of change and uncertainty. Although they employ different approaches, from timely reportage to futuristic illusions, all of the artists in the exhibition explore the terrain where hopes and dreams collide. By making visible the complex emotions we all sometimes experience the artists in this exhibition ask us to deeply consider the promise and peril that exists both in the fantasies we create and the realities we deny.

All of the work in this exhibition was borrowed from the JGS, Inc. collection, a non-profit photography organization based in New York City. JGS and Syracuse University have entered into an agreement to collaborate on traveling exhibitions, research, publications, and other projects utilizing work from the JGS collection that includes over 8,000 photographs spanning the history of the medium. This exhibition is an example of that collaboration and at the conclusion of the exhibition SUArt Galleries will create traveling solo exhibitions by each of the four artists.

YMCA's 150th Anniversary Exhibit
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Exhibit featuring images and words that trace the evolution of the local YMCA chapter through its various programs, buildings, and events. Curated by Onondaga Historical Association.

Inner Brainscape: Paintings of Universal Energy
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Artist Ken Nichols displays his paintings with intricate colors and shapes. Light refreshments will be available.

Exploring History with Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibit depicting the visual history of occupations and places of work in Onondaga County.

Works of Nam June Paik
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Works from the collection by Nam June Paik including recently digitized video artwork.

Open House and Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Meet and greet entrepreneurs, business associates, local artists and many more as you view the artwork created by local artists.

Unique to this show is that we have encouraged our artists to present a "techie" theme, or artwork that looks "techie", or that used technology equipment to make the artwork happen.

We promise a fun night in an informal atmosphere, with refreshments, snacks, and a jazz quartet.

Reservations are not required but are appreciated by calling 315-474-0910 or email Annina@TheTechGarden.com.

ArtPlay: Summer Art Exhibit Opening

Price: Free
Lipe Art Park
W. Fayette St. between Armory Square and Tipp Hill, Syracuse

Featuring Aleks Slota's inflatable artwork and Chelsea Cramer's interactive sculptures.

Artist Open: The Object and Beyond
Everson Museum of Art

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

Immerse yourself in the method and material of some of Everson's 2008 Biennial featured artists. Michael Barletta and Michael Swatt will engage guests with a live painting demonstration, and a series of discussions and mini-demonstrations will offer insight into works by Thomas Gokey, Jennifer Wilkey, Eric Serritella, and more.

Annual Film Under the Stars: Destination Moon, 1950
Everson Museum of Art

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

Bring your own lawn chair or picnic blanket for this annual film under the stars. Free popcorn will be served at this summer night screening, an annual Syracuse favorite.

This 1950 sci-fi classic, directed by Irving Pitchel, revolves around military conquest of the moon: the country that controls the moon will control the Earth, and cold war paranoia fuels the mission of the rocket ship Luna, which blasts off from the Mojave Desert carrying four daring astronauts. Destination Moon bursts with the awe and enthusiasm that would eventually lead to "one giant step for mankind."

Gallery Talk -- Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth
Syracuse University Art Museum
Featuring Gary Radke

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

Prof. Gary Radke, the leading scholar for the exhibition, will speak about the exhibit, followed by a guided tour at 6:00 pm.

Jazz in the City
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Matt Marshak, R&B, funk, worldbeat, and jazz guitarist; with special guest Evan Knight, sax phenom

Price: Free
POMCO lot
(across from Cummings Field in Eastwood), Syracuse

Bring your own lawn chairs. Food and beverages will be available. No alcohol, please.

As the Century Turns: An Evening in Old Vienna
Skaneateles Festival

Price: $22, $18 regular; $19, $15 students/seniors; children under 13 free
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Selection of songs for baritone and piano by Zemlinsky, Wolf, and Schoenberg
Webern Three Little Pieces for Cello and Piano, Op. 11
Mahler Piano Quartet Movement in A minor
Brahms Piano Trio in B Major, Op. 8

Performers include Melvin Chen, piano; Elinor Freer, piano; Alexis Pia Gerlach, cello; Randall Scarlata, baritone; Ittai Shapira, violin; Phillip Ying, viola; David Ying, cello

Hello: My Name is Death
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive murder-mystery dinner theater.