Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Personal Images Art Exhibit
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Sutton Pavillion, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Personal Images, a collaborative exhibit by six Hispanic international painters, features original pieces by Angela M. Arrey-Wastavino, Juan A. Cruz, Oscar Garces, Marcela Hanford, Abisay Puentes, and Esperanza Tielbaard.

The art show offers the public an inner vision of an eclectic group of visual artists whose life experiences have influenced their creative style. This exhibit runs in conjunction with RED, Tony Award-winner play by John Logan about the abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko.

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Being Impossible: Works by Deborah Zlotsky
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Deborah Zlotsky. In this series, the artist manipulates powdered graphite on sheets of mylar, searching for signs of life in the smears and conjuring up blurred boundaries between documenting nature and inventing nature. Zlotsky is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York and presented a solo exhibition in October 2011. She has been the recipient of numerous residencies, including a residency fellowship at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, this past summer. She earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a master's degree in painting and drawing from the University of Connecticut.

For more information, call 315-445-4153.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

Gallery Exhibit: The Narrative Tradition in the 21st Century: The Art of Randy Elliott and Richard Williams
Onondaga Community College

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

About Richard Williams:
As a self-taught illustrator I was able to sidestep the many academic pitfalls that plague contemporary artists, such as the belief that drawing skills are not important. My work is steeped in the tradition of craftsmanship and the importance of the narrative. Art in my opinion serves a social function, which can encompass selling a product to the public or making critical commentary on society and culture, and anything in between. To accomplish this, the artist needs to communicate in a simple, clear and powerful way. To do this one needs to have a firm grasp of the basic skills of draftsmanship, color, painting technique and storytelling.

About Randy Elliott:
Randy Elliott began his professional art career in 1988, inking the Dungeons & Dragons, Dragonlance comic book for DC Comics. That job began a career that continues until the present. Over the course of the last twenty-odd years, Randy has inked and/or penciled comic books for DC, Archie, Marvel, Dark Horse, Valiant and a number of smaller publishers. He has also painted images for clients like, Wizards of the Coast, Alderac Entertainment Group, Battlefront Miniatures, Hasbro and others.

Contain/Constrain: Works by Sam Horowitz
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In today's virtual era, when we can communicate at light speed, inhabit cyber realities, and continually discard the "old" in search for "upgrades", one might expect that technology innovation makes us less burdened, less constrained by time and space. By the same token, so many of us are living rushed unthinking lives, desensitized and isolated from anything real. Are we constrained by our own innovations? We work, live and play inside frames, according to Horowitz, and those frames are mobile or immobile, physical, mental or metaphorical.

In this exhibition, the intrusion of familiar objects with uncharacteristic contents invites the viewer to reconsider the forms, functions and limitations of recognizable, re-purposed relics, and pokes fun at our decreasing flexibility, our increasing demands, and the collective loss of craft, localized-innovation and repair. "The trunks, once utilitarian objects used to carry clothing and other personal items, are now filled for the sake of filling. The cardboard, created initially to contain other entities, functions as contents. Though each framing device no longer holds the contents they were created to contain, they contain nonetheless; it is the humor and irony of this relationship that I strive to illustrate thorough my work."

To create this installation, Horowitz began by collecting trunks, cases and boxes. Though most bore a patina of age, use and neglect, he cleaned, fixed, and saved each piece. Horowitz is able to manipulate cardboard to create the designs and patterns he finds within the lines and corrugation so readily offered. "I have drawn each piece through the gauntlet intentionally, irrationally or purely by necessity," states Horowitz. "Thinking over my work, and planning new directions strays into theory, but in practice, I work, live, and act in this moment."

"Images of Upstate New York" and "Juxtaposed Through Wonderland"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"Images of Upstate New York" features work by Morgan Goodwin and Kate Walseman
"Juxtaposed Through Wonderland" features recent work by KayCie Danniel

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

FOR_PLAY
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring James and Hayes Slade

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

An exhibition of projects by Slade Architecture of New York City designed for or including an element of play.

Creatures Small and Great
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Dana Blythe Stenson (metalsmith jewelry), Candace Rhea (ceramic and mixed media), Alan Hart (acrylic on board), and Diane Menzies (oil paintings) interpret insects and small animals.

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

Design and Aging
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Design and Aging," an exhibition of student design projects focused on solutions to problems associated with aging, features work by students in industrial and interaction design, interior design and advertising design in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. It includes a project that explores how effective design could assist the elderly population of Hong Kong, as well as a series of posters that illustrate potential kiosks that could be targeted to mall walkers at Shoppingtown Mall in DeWitt.

The Design Gallery is located on the first floor of The Warehouse. Patrons should enter via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on W. Fayette St. or the first-floor door on W. Washington St.

For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Creativity through Exhibition Design II
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Creativity through Exhibition Design II" features computer-aided drawings and 3-dimensional models of the gallery space in the State Tower Building adjacent to Hanover Square. Students gained experience in such areas as color selection, spatial arrangement, lighting techniques, typography and universal design principles to put their individual creativity into an upcoming exhibition they are working on titled "Hidden in Plain Site: Sculpture in Syracuse and the Work of the Public Artist in Residence."

Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on W. Fayette St. or the first-floor door on W. Washington St.

Illusionistic
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Painter Kyle Mort's realism and painter Robert Glisson's impressionism are both meant to prompt the viewer's stare. Both Mort and Glisson work with beautiful color, achieved differently in their signature techniques. Mort tends toward extreme realism, bordering on trompe l'oeil in which he is capable of creating a spatial illusion. Glisson's impressionistic pieces, like the styles of those artists who inspire him, create an emotional illusion. Mort leans more toward depicting still life. Glisson endeavors to capture landscapes.

Emilio Sanchez: No Way Home--Images of the Caribbean and New York City
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"No Way Home" features a selection of 24 paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints drawn from the recently acquired collection of work by Cuban-American artist Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999). Best known for his brightly colored, strongly shadowed images of Caribbean and New York City architecture, this exhibition reveals the artist's ongoing interest in repetitive patterns. The show highlights a recent gift to the University Art Collection from the Emilio Sanchez Foundation of over 250 paintings, drawings and prints.

Pressing Print: Contemporary Prints and Process from Universal Limited Art Editions
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Pressing Print: Contemporary Prints and Process from Universal Limited Art Editions" chronicles the recent decade of artwork published by one of the most renowned American printmaking workshops. The exhibition of 60 works illustrates the impact that artists like Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Helen Frankenthaler and Kiki Smith have had on contemporary art, evident through the work of artists Jason Middelbrook, Amy Cutler and Jane Hammond. The show also illustrates how emerging artists recently selected to work with ULAE has influenced the current trend, in both process and concept.

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

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

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

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

The Photographer as Child: Memories of Guatemala
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Born in Guatemala, award-winning photographer Efren Lopez is a student in the Military Photojournalism Program at Syracuse University. He is also an aerial photographer for the U.S. Air Force and the first reservist to be selected to attend Newhouse's Military Photojournalism Program. He now lives in Arizona.

The exhibit features images Lopez captured on a return trip to Guatemala in 2009. "My life began in a bamboo hut at the side of a road in a tiny town named Petaca, Guatemala, in 1966," Lopez writes. "It's a town so small that it is next to impossible to find on most maps of Guatemala, much less Central America."

Lopez has documented real-world situations and the military around the globe and has captured stunning images in Arizona and Guatemala. His work has been featured in various publications, including the book Arizona 24/7, and has been awarded many distinctions, including first place in the Professional Photography category at the 2008 Arizona State Fair, an honorable mention in the pictorial category in the 2009 Military Photographer of the Year competition, and first place in the 2011 Multimedia Team 19th Annual Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photography Workshop.

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In her first US museum solo show, New York City-based Japanese artist Noriko Ambe will create a new site-specific installation in the main gallery reflecting the tragic 2011 events in Japan through the use of video projections and her signature large-scale paper cutouts that evoke waves.

Nature plays an important role in Ambe's work, and it points to larger issues, such as the natural forces determining our global landscape, and the relationship between nature and humans throughout time. A recipient of prestigious awards such as the AICA Award and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ambe's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Japan Society in New York and the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Kyoto, Japan. Her work is also in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.

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I Like America and America Likes Me
XL Projects

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

Artwork of international graduate students in SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will be featured in this exhibition. The graduate students will exhibit work in a variety of media.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Sick at Home: Works of Tonja Torgerson
Echo

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

Artist Statement: Notions of privacy and disclosure are at the core of my work. My portraits and figures deal with the reality of illness while balancing a thin line between expression and discretion. They explore the internal and external factors that compose one’s identity. While these topics could be divisive, the use of color, humor, and childish aesthetic keeps my work welcoming. Vomit, blood and bile appear alongside pinks, paisley and sweet poses. I am interested in this collision of attraction and disgust, and how it creates a difficult beauty and a pleasant anxiety. My work presents a personal side of an ever-increasingly political issue through a girlish lens of soft aesthetics and sad whimsy.

Tonja is currently pursuing an MFA in printmaking at Syracuse University.

Men Only: Vernacular Photographs of Male Affection
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibit of works from the collection of William Knodel looks at masculinity, gender and sexuality in our society. William Knodel was a college student in the 1970s in New York City when he purchased his first second-hand snapshot, a group of young men in assorted swimming attire whose style dated them back to the turn of the century, posing before a camp tent marked with a sign, "Men Only." Since then, he's collected vernacular images of male affection -- tintypes, daguerreotypes and photos -- during his travels to the West Coast, Canada, and Europe, scouring second-hand shops, old photo sales and used book stores. His collection now runs into the hundreds, dating from the mid-19th century and featuring couples and socializing groups from every race and social class. "Men Only" is a gift that incarnates the "gay spirit" that his good friend Harry Hay warned us must be kept alive and a history too often dismissed.

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For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

Our Times
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Arguably contemporary Iran's most famous woman director, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad's Our Times (2002) is a wrenching documentary about the women and children left behind under President Khatami's two-term reformist government. Our Times documents the hysteria leading up to President Khatami's second win in the 2001 elections, which he won with a 70% landslide, but also in which 700 candidates ran for the presidency of which 48 were women.

Evgeniya Krachmarova-Sotirov, mezzo-soprano; Phil Eisenman, basso cantante; Susan Crocker, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Opera duets and arias by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, and Bizet.

Parking available in the OnCenter Garage: maximum $2.50 with CMM stamped ticket.

Red
Syracuse Stage
Penny Metropulos, director

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

This performance will be preceded by the Wednesday@1 Lecture Series, a 1:00 pm lecture in the Sutton Pavilion.

The 2010 Tony Award-winner for Best Play, Red, by John Logan, is an intense and exciting bio-drama of the famed Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko at the time that he was working on a commission for a series of murals for New York's Four Seasons restaurant. On paper, the play has two characters, Rothko and young assistant. On stage, the paintings themselves become characters adding a stunning visual presence and making palpable the intense physical process of the art. As Rothko and his young protégé prepare paint and canvas and assess and reassess each work, they engage in a combative struggle over the methods and purpose of art that is sharp, funny and mentally invigorating.

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Red
Syracuse Stage
Penny Metropulos, director

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

The 2010 Tony Award-winner for Best Play, Red, by John Logan, is an intense and exciting bio-drama of the famed Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko at the time that he was working on a commission for a series of murals for New York's Four Seasons restaurant. On paper, the play has two characters, Rothko and young assistant. On stage, the paintings themselves become characters adding a stunning visual presence and making palpable the intense physical process of the art. As Rothko and his young protégé prepare paint and canvas and assess and reassess each work, they engage in a combative struggle over the methods and purpose of art that is sharp, funny and mentally invigorating.

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Thursday, March 15, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Being Impossible: Works by Deborah Zlotsky
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Deborah Zlotsky. In this series, the artist manipulates powdered graphite on sheets of mylar, searching for signs of life in the smears and conjuring up blurred boundaries between documenting nature and inventing nature. Zlotsky is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York and presented a solo exhibition in October 2011. She has been the recipient of numerous residencies, including a residency fellowship at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, this past summer. She earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a master's degree in painting and drawing from the University of Connecticut.

For more information, call 315-445-4153.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

Gallery Exhibit: The Narrative Tradition in the 21st Century: The Art of Randy Elliott and Richard Williams
Onondaga Community College

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

About Richard Williams:
As a self-taught illustrator I was able to sidestep the many academic pitfalls that plague contemporary artists, such as the belief that drawing skills are not important. My work is steeped in the tradition of craftsmanship and the importance of the narrative. Art in my opinion serves a social function, which can encompass selling a product to the public or making critical commentary on society and culture, and anything in between. To accomplish this, the artist needs to communicate in a simple, clear and powerful way. To do this one needs to have a firm grasp of the basic skills of draftsmanship, color, painting technique and storytelling.

About Randy Elliott:
Randy Elliott began his professional art career in 1988, inking the Dungeons & Dragons, Dragonlance comic book for DC Comics. That job began a career that continues until the present. Over the course of the last twenty-odd years, Randy has inked and/or penciled comic books for DC, Archie, Marvel, Dark Horse, Valiant and a number of smaller publishers. He has also painted images for clients like, Wizards of the Coast, Alderac Entertainment Group, Battlefront Miniatures, Hasbro and others.

"Images of Upstate New York" and "Juxtaposed Through Wonderland"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"Images of Upstate New York" features work by Morgan Goodwin and Kate Walseman
"Juxtaposed Through Wonderland" features recent work by KayCie Danniel

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

FOR_PLAY
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring James and Hayes Slade

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

An exhibition of projects by Slade Architecture of New York City designed for or including an element of play.

Creatures Small and Great
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Dana Blythe Stenson (metalsmith jewelry), Candace Rhea (ceramic and mixed media), Alan Hart (acrylic on board), and Diane Menzies (oil paintings) interpret insects and small animals.

Opening: Academic Art...teachers that do
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception with the artists this evening 5:00-8:00 pm, in conjunction with Th3, the Third Thursday citywide art opening.

Works of Jamessville-Dewitt art teachers Faith Carapella (charcoal, pen and ink, collage) and Steve Pilcher (soda-fired stoneware, both functional and decorative).

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

Design and Aging
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Design and Aging," an exhibition of student design projects focused on solutions to problems associated with aging, features work by students in industrial and interaction design, interior design and advertising design in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. It includes a project that explores how effective design could assist the elderly population of Hong Kong, as well as a series of posters that illustrate potential kiosks that could be targeted to mall walkers at Shoppingtown Mall in DeWitt.

The Design Gallery is located on the first floor of The Warehouse. Patrons should enter via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on W. Fayette St. or the first-floor door on W. Washington St.

For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Creativity through Exhibition Design II
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Creativity through Exhibition Design II" features computer-aided drawings and 3-dimensional models of the gallery space in the State Tower Building adjacent to Hanover Square. Students gained experience in such areas as color selection, spatial arrangement, lighting techniques, typography and universal design principles to put their individual creativity into an upcoming exhibition they are working on titled "Hidden in Plain Site: Sculpture in Syracuse and the Work of the Public Artist in Residence."

Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on W. Fayette St. or the first-floor door on W. Washington St.

Illusionistic
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Artists Robert Glisson and Kyle Mort will be in attendance this evening 5:00-8:00 in conjunction with Th3, the Third Thursday citywide art open.

Painter Kyle Mort's realism and painter Robert Glisson's impressionism are both meant to prompt the viewer's stare. Both Mort and Glisson work with beautiful color, achieved differently in their signature techniques. Mort tends toward extreme realism, bordering on trompe l'oeil in which he is capable of creating a spatial illusion. Glisson's impressionistic pieces, like the styles of those artists who inspire him, create an emotional illusion. Mort leans more toward depicting still life. Glisson endeavors to capture landscapes.

Emilio Sanchez: No Way Home--Images of the Caribbean and New York City
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"No Way Home" features a selection of 24 paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints drawn from the recently acquired collection of work by Cuban-American artist Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999). Best known for his brightly colored, strongly shadowed images of Caribbean and New York City architecture, this exhibition reveals the artist's ongoing interest in repetitive patterns. The show highlights a recent gift to the University Art Collection from the Emilio Sanchez Foundation of over 250 paintings, drawings and prints.

Pressing Print: Contemporary Prints and Process from Universal Limited Art Editions
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Pressing Print: Contemporary Prints and Process from Universal Limited Art Editions" chronicles the recent decade of artwork published by one of the most renowned American printmaking workshops. The exhibition of 60 works illustrates the impact that artists like Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Helen Frankenthaler and Kiki Smith have had on contemporary art, evident through the work of artists Jason Middelbrook, Amy Cutler and Jane Hammond. The show also illustrates how emerging artists recently selected to work with ULAE has influenced the current trend, in both process and concept.

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

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

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

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

The Photographer as Child: Memories of Guatemala
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Born in Guatemala, award-winning photographer Efren Lopez is a student in the Military Photojournalism Program at Syracuse University. He is also an aerial photographer for the U.S. Air Force and the first reservist to be selected to attend Newhouse's Military Photojournalism Program. He now lives in Arizona.

The exhibit features images Lopez captured on a return trip to Guatemala in 2009. "My life began in a bamboo hut at the side of a road in a tiny town named Petaca, Guatemala, in 1966," Lopez writes. "It's a town so small that it is next to impossible to find on most maps of Guatemala, much less Central America."

Lopez has documented real-world situations and the military around the globe and has captured stunning images in Arizona and Guatemala. His work has been featured in various publications, including the book Arizona 24/7, and has been awarded many distinctions, including first place in the Professional Photography category at the 2008 Arizona State Fair, an honorable mention in the pictorial category in the 2009 Military Photographer of the Year competition, and first place in the 2011 Multimedia Team 19th Annual Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photography Workshop.

Contain/Constrain: Works by Sam Horowitz
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In today's virtual era, when we can communicate at light speed, inhabit cyber realities, and continually discard the "old" in search for "upgrades", one might expect that technology innovation makes us less burdened, less constrained by time and space. By the same token, so many of us are living rushed unthinking lives, desensitized and isolated from anything real. Are we constrained by our own innovations? We work, live and play inside frames, according to Horowitz, and those frames are mobile or immobile, physical, mental or metaphorical.

In this exhibition, the intrusion of familiar objects with uncharacteristic contents invites the viewer to reconsider the forms, functions and limitations of recognizable, re-purposed relics, and pokes fun at our decreasing flexibility, our increasing demands, and the collective loss of craft, localized-innovation and repair. "The trunks, once utilitarian objects used to carry clothing and other personal items, are now filled for the sake of filling. The cardboard, created initially to contain other entities, functions as contents. Though each framing device no longer holds the contents they were created to contain, they contain nonetheless; it is the humor and irony of this relationship that I strive to illustrate thorough my work."

To create this installation, Horowitz began by collecting trunks, cases and boxes. Though most bore a patina of age, use and neglect, he cleaned, fixed, and saved each piece. Horowitz is able to manipulate cardboard to create the designs and patterns he finds within the lines and corrugation so readily offered. "I have drawn each piece through the gauntlet intentionally, irrationally or purely by necessity," states Horowitz. "Thinking over my work, and planning new directions strays into theory, but in practice, I work, live, and act in this moment."

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In her first US museum solo show, New York City-based Japanese artist Noriko Ambe will create a new site-specific installation in the main gallery reflecting the tragic 2011 events in Japan through the use of video projections and her signature large-scale paper cutouts that evoke waves.

Nature plays an important role in Ambe's work, and it points to larger issues, such as the natural forces determining our global landscape, and the relationship between nature and humans throughout time. A recipient of prestigious awards such as the AICA Award and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ambe's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Japan Society in New York and the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Kyoto, Japan. Her work is also in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.

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I Like America and America Likes Me
XL Projects

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

Artwork of international graduate students in SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will be featured in this exhibition. The graduate students will exhibit work in a variety of media.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Sick at Home: Works of Tonja Torgerson
Echo

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

Artist Statement: Notions of privacy and disclosure are at the core of my work. My portraits and figures deal with the reality of illness while balancing a thin line between expression and discretion. They explore the internal and external factors that compose one’s identity. While these topics could be divisive, the use of color, humor, and childish aesthetic keeps my work welcoming. Vomit, blood and bile appear alongside pinks, paisley and sweet poses. I am interested in this collision of attraction and disgust, and how it creates a difficult beauty and a pleasant anxiety. My work presents a personal side of an ever-increasingly political issue through a girlish lens of soft aesthetics and sad whimsy.

Tonja is currently pursuing an MFA in printmaking at Syracuse University.

Men Only: Vernacular Photographs of Male Affection
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibit of works from the collection of William Knodel looks at masculinity, gender and sexuality in our society. William Knodel was a college student in the 1970s in New York City when he purchased his first second-hand snapshot, a group of young men in assorted swimming attire whose style dated them back to the turn of the century, posing before a camp tent marked with a sign, "Men Only." Since then, he's collected vernacular images of male affection -- tintypes, daguerreotypes and photos -- during his travels to the West Coast, Canada, and Europe, scouring second-hand shops, old photo sales and used book stores. His collection now runs into the hundreds, dating from the mid-19th century and featuring couples and socializing groups from every race and social class. "Men Only" is a gift that incarnates the "gay spirit" that his good friend Harry Hay warned us must be kept alive and a history too often dismissed.

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Ceramic Tile Exhibition and Demonstration
Syracuse Ceramic Guild

Price: Free
Delavan Center, #119
112 Wyoming St., Syracuse

An exhibition of recent work and a hand-pressed ceramic tile-making demonstration by Guild member Gary Quirk. Quirk currently produces a line of bas relief ceramic tile art. His work is influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement, which advocated the search for a way of life that is simple, contemplative and true. In addition to the SCG, Quirk is a member of the Tile Heritage Foundation, Potter's Council, Friends of Terra Cotta, Handmade Tile Association, Roycrofter's at Large Association, American Crafts Council, Arts and Crafts Society of Central New York, and American Art Pottery Association.

Patrons should use the SCG's entrance on the Wyoming St. side of the Delavan Center.

Solvay School District Art Show
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Exhibit of works by children from kindergarten through 12th grade.

Personal Images Art Exhibit
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Sutton Pavillion, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

There will be an artists' reception this evening 5:30-7:15 pm. Please RSVP at 315-443-8603 or cdcharle@syr.edu.

Personal Images, a collaborative exhibit by six Hispanic international painters, features original pieces by Angela M. Arrey-Wastavino, Juan A. Cruz, Oscar Garces, Marcela Hanford, Abisay Puentes, and Esperanza Tielbaard.

The art show offers the public an inner vision of an eclectic group of visual artists whose life experiences have influenced their creative style. This exhibit runs in conjunction with RED, Tony Award-winner play by John Logan about the abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The video "Flo Flow" is William Wegman's latest in a long line of human-canid collaborations. It was while he was in Long Beach in the 1970s that Wegman got his dog, Man Ray, with whom he began a fruitful collaboration of many years. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman's photographs and videotapes. Ever since, Weimaraner-actors have peopled Wegman's uncanny imaginative universe, a reflection on both the human-ness of "animals" and the strangeness of humans.

William Wegman lives in New York and Maine where he continues to make videos, to take photographs and to make drawings and paintings.

Cinefest 32
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $30/day or $85 for all 4 days
Holiday Inn
Electronics Parkway, Liverpool

9:00 am: Football 40 Years Ago (1931), with Glenn "Pop" Warner
9:10 am: Hello Out There (1949) directed by James Whale, with Harry Morgan
9:45 am: Wife Trouble (1928), with Robert Graves, Adrienne Dore, Muriel Evans
9:55 am: Bell Boy 13 (1923), with Douglas Maclean
10:45 am: Bad Company (1931), with Helen Twelvetrees, Ricardo Cortez

Lunch Break

1:00 pm: Ray Faiola's Trailer Mania Show IV, hosted by Ray Faiola
2:05 pm: Matchmaking Mamma (1928), with Carole Lombard
2:25 pm: The Forbidden Trail (1923), with Jack Hoxie, Evelyn Nelson
3:20 pm: Helen Of Four Gates (1921), with Alma Taylor
4:25 pm: Red Salute (1936), with Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Young

Dinner Break

8:00 pm: N.Y., N.Y. (1957), directed by Francis Thompson
8:10 pm: Crashing Hollywood (1931) directed by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle
8:35 pm: Howard Hughes multicolor demonstration reel
8:55 pm: Street Of Forgotten Men (1926), with Percy Marmont
10:10 pm: Moonlight And Pretzels (1933), with Roger Pryor, Mary Brian
11:35 pm: Hi Diddle Diddle (1942), with Adolphe Menjou, Pola Negri

"What If...?" Film Series: Carved from the Heart
Gifford Foundation

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

By Ellen Frankenstein and Louise Brady.

One man loses his son to a cocaine overdose. Grieving, Stan Marsden, a Tsimpsean wood carver decides to create a totem pole in his son's memory and invites the town of Craig, Alaska to help. Before he is done, the pole becomes a communal project, bringing people of diverse backgrounds and ages together. Carved from the Heart intertwines the process of carving and erecting the Healing Heart totem pole with the participants' stories of personal loss, grief, substance abuse, suicide and violence. This powerful film explores questions of death and dying, family relationships and parenting, domestic violence, and the impact of the war in Vietnam on veterans and their families. It also acknowledges the intergenerational grief growing out of the rapid changes in lifestyle, and the interruptions to the passing on of tradition and knowledge within Alaska Native and American Indian communities like Craig. But, most importantly, Carved from the Heart demonstrates the enormous power of mutual support, culture, art, and ceremony in enabling a community to face tragedy, provide support to its members, and find a path to healing.

Stories from Tipp Hill: An Exploration of the Irish Community in Syracuse
Everson Museum of Art

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

Jeff Costello and Dennis Heaphy, members of the Tipperary Hill Association, will explore the rich Irish heritage found in Syracuse. Historic and touching stories will be shared about the Irish settlers to inhabit Syracuse and the people living in the distinct Tipperary Hill neighborhood of today.

The Great American Songbook
Community Folk Art Center
Featuring Lee Whitted, piano

Price: $3
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Jazz pianist Lee Whitted will be performing a solo concert of timeless melodies of "The Great American Songbook." Enjoy songs from the golden age of songwriting (1920-1960) with special emphasis on the African-American contribution. Whitted will also share stories about the songwriters, including their compositions and inspirations. These popular standards come alive in a passionate, dramatic and joyous musical celebration.

Lunasa Live in Concert
Drumcliffe School of Irish Dance

Price: $22
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Drumcliffe presents Lunasa live on stage, "the hottest Irish acoustic group on planet." Plus performances by the Drumcliffe Irish Dancers.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.drumcliffe.org.

The Jazzuits
Temple Society of Concord

Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

Composed of LeMoyne College students, this vocal jazz ensemble charmed us last spring and we are thrilled to bring then back for a return engagement. Come enjoy these engaging young singers as they perform settings of traditional and popular tunes.

Off the Beaten Path Book Release
Onondaga Historical Association
Featuring Ruth Colvin

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

From the Sunshine Coast of South Africa to a remote ashram in India, Ruth Colvin, one of our community's most treasured individuals, and her husband have traveled around the world providing literacy training in 26 developing countries. The founder of Literacy Volunteers of America, Inc., which later merged with Laubach Literacy to become ProLiteracy, Ms. Colvin was invited to teach native language literacy and English as a second language utilizing the teaching materials she developed with Syracuse University. She met people from all walks of life—a holy man from India, a banned leader and revolutionary in the apartheid system of South Africa, lepers from India, and survivors of Pol Pot's Cambodia, among others. Her most recent book is a collection of stories detailing Colvin's adventures connecting with individuals from vastly different backgrounds and experiences while learning about their cultures and traditions, and discovering the many similarities people share worldwide.

A 1959 graduate of Syracuse University, Ms. Colvin has been the recipient of numerous awards including the President's Volunteer Action Award in 1987 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2006, plus nine honorary doctorates. In 1991, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.

For more information, phone 315-428-1864 x312.

Death Takes a Bow
Acme Mystery Company

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

All the world's a stage, but some stages are worth more than others. Welcome to the historic White Tulip, the seediest theater in London yet one which everyone seems to want. Tonight, a tycoon temptress and her tawdry toady take on a territorial thespian and his trollop of a treasurer in a tussle for title to this theatrical tenement. What valuable secrets lie behind the scenes and how far will someone go to unearth them? Let the buyer beware: at this showplace, greed steals every scene and dying on stage could be more than a figure of speech.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Faith Heritage School
Patricia Camloh, director

Price: $10, $8
Faith Heritage School
3740 Midland Ave., Syracuse

Based on the book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, this stage adaptation features songs from the 1971 movie starring Gene Wilder. Willy Wonka is a scrumdidilyumptious musical guaranteed to delight everyone's sweet tooth. In a troubled world looking for escape, let Willy Wonka take you on a fantasy ride into the land of pure imagination. Words and music by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley.

Tickets available at faithheritageschool.org. Credit card and PayPal accepted.

Reaching for Marsby
Len Fonte, director

Price: $22 regular, $20 students/seniors
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Reaching for Marsby, the second staged comedy by former Post-Standard humor columnist Jeff Kramer, follows brash, bumbling American actor Gary Blenkinsopp, who travels to England in an attempt to save his career. Mayhem ensues in his theater world.

The cast features Mark Eischen, Moe Harrington, Kris Rusho, Michael O'Neill, Karis Wiggins, Brendon Cole and Peter Moller.

Tickets, with processing fees added, also be purchased by calling the box office at 315-435-2121 or by going to ticketmaster.com.

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Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Cicero-North Syracuse High School
Holly Wilson, director

Price: $12 reserved seats; $10 adult; $8 student/seniors
Cicero-North Syracuse High School
6002 State Route 31, Cicero

Based on Disney's movie, "Beauty and the Beast," this show incorporates music from the movie, with additional songs written for the Broadway musical. This classic tale of love is a coming-of-age story, as Belle learns to see the Beast for who he truly is and the Beast discovers what it means to love someone other than himself. Music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, book by Linda Woolverton. Holly Wilson, director; Caryn Patterson, musical director; Lisa Stuart, choreographer.

To reserve tickets, email cpatters@nscsd.org.

Red
Syracuse Stage
Penny Metropulos, director

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

The 2010 Tony Award-winner for Best Play, Red, by John Logan, is an intense and exciting bio-drama of the famed Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko at the time that he was working on a commission for a series of murals for New York's Four Seasons restaurant. On paper, the play has two characters, Rothko and young assistant. On stage, the paintings themselves become characters adding a stunning visual presence and making palpable the intense physical process of the art. As Rothko and his young protégé prepare paint and canvas and assess and reassess each work, they engage in a combative struggle over the methods and purpose of art that is sharp, funny and mentally invigorating.

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Beautiful Child
Rarely Done Productions
Roy Van Nostrand, director

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

How do we love someone who falls outside our moral code? A couple's marriage is called into question when their son comes home for lunch and asks to stay. The world's no longer safe for their son as his secrets are about to become public. They want to help their son, who was once a beautiful child. They want to love him. But how? They arrive at a decision that's painful and restorative. This show is intended for mature audiences only. By Nicky Silver.

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Friday, March 16, 2012

Personal Images Art Exhibit
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Sutton Pavillion, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Personal Images, a collaborative exhibit by six Hispanic international painters, features original pieces by Angela M. Arrey-Wastavino, Juan A. Cruz, Oscar Garces, Marcela Hanford, Abisay Puentes, and Esperanza Tielbaard.

The art show offers the public an inner vision of an eclectic group of visual artists whose life experiences have influenced their creative style. This exhibit runs in conjunction with RED, Tony Award-winner play by John Logan about the abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko.

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Being Impossible: Works by Deborah Zlotsky
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Deborah Zlotsky. In this series, the artist manipulates powdered graphite on sheets of mylar, searching for signs of life in the smears and conjuring up blurred boundaries between documenting nature and inventing nature. Zlotsky is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York and presented a solo exhibition in October 2011. She has been the recipient of numerous residencies, including a residency fellowship at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, this past summer. She earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a master's degree in painting and drawing from the University of Connecticut.

For more information, call 315-445-4153.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

Gallery Exhibit: The Narrative Tradition in the 21st Century: The Art of Randy Elliott and Richard Williams
Onondaga Community College

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

About Richard Williams:
As a self-taught illustrator I was able to sidestep the many academic pitfalls that plague contemporary artists, such as the belief that drawing skills are not important. My work is steeped in the tradition of craftsmanship and the importance of the narrative. Art in my opinion serves a social function, which can encompass selling a product to the public or making critical commentary on society and culture, and anything in between. To accomplish this, the artist needs to communicate in a simple, clear and powerful way. To do this one needs to have a firm grasp of the basic skills of draftsmanship, color, painting technique and storytelling.

About Randy Elliott:
Randy Elliott began his professional art career in 1988, inking the Dungeons & Dragons, Dragonlance comic book for DC Comics. That job began a career that continues until the present. Over the course of the last twenty-odd years, Randy has inked and/or penciled comic books for DC, Archie, Marvel, Dark Horse, Valiant and a number of smaller publishers. He has also painted images for clients like, Wizards of the Coast, Alderac Entertainment Group, Battlefront Miniatures, Hasbro and others.

"Images of Upstate New York" and "Juxtaposed Through Wonderland"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"Images of Upstate New York" features work by Morgan Goodwin and Kate Walseman
"Juxtaposed Through Wonderland" features recent work by KayCie Danniel

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

FOR_PLAY
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring James and Hayes Slade

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

An exhibition of projects by Slade Architecture of New York City designed for or including an element of play.

Creatures Small and Great
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Dana Blythe Stenson (metalsmith jewelry), Candace Rhea (ceramic and mixed media), Alan Hart (acrylic on board), and Diane Menzies (oil paintings) interpret insects and small animals.

Academic Art...teachers that do
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Works of Jamessville-Dewitt art teachers Faith Carapella (charcoal, pen and ink, collage) and Steve Pilcher (soda-fired stoneware, both functional and decorative).

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

Design and Aging
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Design and Aging," an exhibition of student design projects focused on solutions to problems associated with aging, features work by students in industrial and interaction design, interior design and advertising design in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. It includes a project that explores how effective design could assist the elderly population of Hong Kong, as well as a series of posters that illustrate potential kiosks that could be targeted to mall walkers at Shoppingtown Mall in DeWitt.

The Design Gallery is located on the first floor of The Warehouse. Patrons should enter via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on W. Fayette St. or the first-floor door on W. Washington St.

For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Creativity through Exhibition Design II
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Creativity through Exhibition Design II" features computer-aided drawings and 3-dimensional models of the gallery space in the State Tower Building adjacent to Hanover Square. Students gained experience in such areas as color selection, spatial arrangement, lighting techniques, typography and universal design principles to put their individual creativity into an upcoming exhibition they are working on titled "Hidden in Plain Site: Sculpture in Syracuse and the Work of the Public Artist in Residence."

Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on W. Fayette St. or the first-floor door on W. Washington St.

Illusionistic
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Painter Kyle Mort's realism and painter Robert Glisson's impressionism are both meant to prompt the viewer's stare. Both Mort and Glisson work with beautiful color, achieved differently in their signature techniques. Mort tends toward extreme realism, bordering on trompe l'oeil in which he is capable of creating a spatial illusion. Glisson's impressionistic pieces, like the styles of those artists who inspire him, create an emotional illusion. Mort leans more toward depicting still life. Glisson endeavors to capture landscapes.

Emilio Sanchez: No Way Home--Images of the Caribbean and New York City
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"No Way Home" features a selection of 24 paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints drawn from the recently acquired collection of work by Cuban-American artist Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999). Best known for his brightly colored, strongly shadowed images of Caribbean and New York City architecture, this exhibition reveals the artist's ongoing interest in repetitive patterns. The show highlights a recent gift to the University Art Collection from the Emilio Sanchez Foundation of over 250 paintings, drawings and prints.

Pressing Print: Contemporary Prints and Process from Universal Limited Art Editions
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Pressing Print: Contemporary Prints and Process from Universal Limited Art Editions" chronicles the recent decade of artwork published by one of the most renowned American printmaking workshops. The exhibition of 60 works illustrates the impact that artists like Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Helen Frankenthaler and Kiki Smith have had on contemporary art, evident through the work of artists Jason Middelbrook, Amy Cutler and Jane Hammond. The show also illustrates how emerging artists recently selected to work with ULAE has influenced the current trend, in both process and concept.

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

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

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

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

The Photographer as Child: Memories of Guatemala
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Born in Guatemala, award-winning photographer Efren Lopez is a student in the Military Photojournalism Program at Syracuse University. He is also an aerial photographer for the U.S. Air Force and the first reservist to be selected to attend Newhouse's Military Photojournalism Program. He now lives in Arizona.

The exhibit features images Lopez captured on a return trip to Guatemala in 2009. "My life began in a bamboo hut at the side of a road in a tiny town named Petaca, Guatemala, in 1966," Lopez writes. "It's a town so small that it is next to impossible to find on most maps of Guatemala, much less Central America."

Lopez has documented real-world situations and the military around the globe and has captured stunning images in Arizona and Guatemala. His work has been featured in various publications, including the book Arizona 24/7, and has been awarded many distinctions, including first place in the Professional Photography category at the 2008 Arizona State Fair, an honorable mention in the pictorial category in the 2009 Military Photographer of the Year competition, and first place in the 2011 Multimedia Team 19th Annual Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photography Workshop.

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In her first US museum solo show, New York City-based Japanese artist Noriko Ambe will create a new site-specific installation in the main gallery reflecting the tragic 2011 events in Japan through the use of video projections and her signature large-scale paper cutouts that evoke waves.

Nature plays an important role in Ambe's work, and it points to larger issues, such as the natural forces determining our global landscape, and the relationship between nature and humans throughout time. A recipient of prestigious awards such as the AICA Award and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ambe's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Japan Society in New York and the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Kyoto, Japan. Her work is also in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.

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I Like America and America Likes Me
XL Projects

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

Artwork of international graduate students in SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will be featured in this exhibition. The graduate students will exhibit work in a variety of media.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Sick at Home: Works of Tonja Torgerson
Echo

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

Artist Statement: Notions of privacy and disclosure are at the core of my work. My portraits and figures deal with the reality of illness while balancing a thin line between expression and discretion. They explore the internal and external factors that compose one’s identity. While these topics could be divisive, the use of color, humor, and childish aesthetic keeps my work welcoming. Vomit, blood and bile appear alongside pinks, paisley and sweet poses. I am interested in this collision of attraction and disgust, and how it creates a difficult beauty and a pleasant anxiety. My work presents a personal side of an ever-increasingly political issue through a girlish lens of soft aesthetics and sad whimsy.

Tonja is currently pursuing an MFA in printmaking at Syracuse University.

Men Only: Vernacular Photographs of Male Affection
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibit of works from the collection of William Knodel looks at masculinity, gender and sexuality in our society. William Knodel was a college student in the 1970s in New York City when he purchased his first second-hand snapshot, a group of young men in assorted swimming attire whose style dated them back to the turn of the century, posing before a camp tent marked with a sign, "Men Only." Since then, he's collected vernacular images of male affection -- tintypes, daguerreotypes and photos -- during his travels to the West Coast, Canada, and Europe, scouring second-hand shops, old photo sales and used book stores. His collection now runs into the hundreds, dating from the mid-19th century and featuring couples and socializing groups from every race and social class. "Men Only" is a gift that incarnates the "gay spirit" that his good friend Harry Hay warned us must be kept alive and a history too often dismissed.

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For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The video "Flo Flow" is William Wegman's latest in a long line of human-canid collaborations. It was while he was in Long Beach in the 1970s that Wegman got his dog, Man Ray, with whom he began a fruitful collaboration of many years. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman's photographs and videotapes. Ever since, Weimaraner-actors have peopled Wegman's uncanny imaginative universe, a reflection on both the human-ness of "animals" and the strangeness of humans.

William Wegman lives in New York and Maine where he continues to make videos, to take photographs and to make drawings and paintings.

Cinefest 32
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $30/day or $85 for all 4 days
Holiday Inn
Electronics Parkway, Liverpool

9:00 am: Skirmish On The Home Front (1943), with Alan Ladd, Betty Hutton
9:10 am: Contented Calves (1934), with Grady Sutton, June Brewster
9:35 am: His New Lid (1911), with Thomas Ince
9:50 am: Classmates (1914), with Blanche Sweet, Henry B. Walthall
10:55 am: Laughter (1930), with Nancy Carroll, Fredric March, Frank Morgan

Lunch Break

1:10 pm: Laddie (1940), with Tim Holt, Virginia Gilmore, Joan Carroll
2:25 pm: Tillie's Tomato Surprise (1915), with Marie Dressler
2:35 pm: Partners Three (1918), with Enid Bennett, Casson Ferguson
3:50 pm: Just Nuts (1929), with Harold Lloyd, Jane Novak, Roy Stewart
4:05 pm: A Deep Blue Panic (1924), with James Parrott, Mildred June
4:30 pm: Astray From The Steerage (1921), with Billy Bevan,
4:50 pm: Confessions of a Co-ed (1931), with Sylvia Sydney

Dinner Break

8:00 pm: Remembering Richard Gordon, hosted by John Cocchi
8:15 pm: The Toy Shop (1929), with Joseph Swickard, Virginia Marshall
8:25 pm: A Song In The Dark III, hosted By Richard Barrios
9:55 pm: Food And Growth (1920s), informational short
10:05 pm: The Dark Mirror (1920), with Dorothy Dalton, Huntley Gordon
11:00 pm: Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939), with Warren William

Jeffrey Foucault
Folkus Project

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

Jeffrey Foucault's repertoire is pure Americana poetry, combining the honesty of country and the rawboned desperation of blues with the simplicity of folk to achieve an original vision that is timeless and poignant. These are songs of exploration, of loss and discovery, of wide open spaces and the hidden corners of the human heart. The lyrics can be ambiguous and enigmatic, yet they project powerful imagery and a gripping sense of time and place. Driven by Foucault's rough-hewn voice, this is haunting music gets you in the ears and in the gut.

Dark Hollow (Grateful Dead Tribute), with The Easy Ramblers
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Poet Randall Horton
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Randall Horton is a former recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, and is the author of the poetry collections The Lingua Franca of Ninth Street and The Definition of Place, both from Main Street Rag. He is the current editor of Reverie: Midwest African American Literature and co-editor of Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDs from the Black Diaspora (Third World Press, 2007). His poems, fiction and nonfiction have appeared in such journals as Motif: Writing by Ear, Mosaic, Black Renaissance, Crab Orchard Review and The Red Clay Review. Randall currently teaches at the University of New Haven and is the poetry editor of Willow Books.

You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
Henninger High School
Sarah Gentile, director

Price: $6 pre-sale, $8 at door
Henninger High School
600 Robinson St., Syracuse

"You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" is an average day in the life of Charlie Brown. A day made up of little moments picked from all the days of Charlie Brown, from Valentine's Day to the baseball season, from wild optimism to utter despair, all mixed in with the lives of his friends (both human and non-human). It's strung together in a single day, from bright uncertain morning to hopeful starlit evening. Based on the comic strip, Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. Book, music and lyrics by Clark Gesner. Additional dialogue by Michael Mayer. Additional music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa.

Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Cicero-North Syracuse High School
Holly Wilson, director

Price: $12 reserved seats; $10 adult; $8 student/seniors
Cicero-North Syracuse High School
6002 State Route 31, Cicero

Based on Disney's movie, "Beauty and the Beast," this show incorporates music from the movie, with additional songs written for the Broadway musical. This classic tale of love is a coming-of-age story, as Belle learns to see the Beast for who he truly is and the Beast discovers what it means to love someone other than himself. Music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, book by Linda Woolverton. Holly Wilson, director; Caryn Patterson, musical director; Lisa Stuart, choreographer.

To reserve tickets, email cpatters@nscsd.org.

Guys and Dolls
Fabius-Pompey High School
Ron Hebert, director

Price: $8 each; $20 family maximum
Fabius-Pompey High School
1211 Mill St., Fabius

Set in 1940s New York City. With con artist and gambler Nathan Detroit needing a new location and money to run his floating dice game, he makes a bet with fellow gambler and con artist, Sky Masterson, that he cannot get a girl to fly to Havana with him. Sky takes the bet and Nathan chooses virtuous Sarah Brown who runs the Save a Soul Mission. Sky must lure her on the trip in order to win the bet. Meanwhile, showgirl Adelaide, has given up hope of getting Nathan to change his ways and settle down and marry her. Music and lyrics by Frank Loesser.

Ron Hebert, director; Susan Schoonmaker, music director; Susan Hebert, choreographer.

Legally Blonde
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Musical Theater

Price: $10
Fayetteville-Manlius High School
8201 E. Seneca Tpke., Manlius

Sorority star Elle Woods doesn't take "no" for an answer. So when her boyfriend dumps her for someone "serious," Elle puts down the credit card, hits the books, and sets out to go where no Delta Nu has gone before -- Harvard Law. Along the way, Elle proves that being true to yourself never goes out of style.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Faith Heritage School
Patricia Camloh, director

Price: $10, $8
Faith Heritage School
3740 Midland Ave., Syracuse

Based on the book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, this stage adaptation features songs from the 1971 movie starring Gene Wilder. Willy Wonka is a scrumdidilyumptious musical guaranteed to delight everyone's sweet tooth. In a troubled world looking for escape, let Willy Wonka take you on a fantasy ride into the land of pure imagination. Words and music by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley.

Tickets available at faithheritageschool.org. Credit card and PayPal accepted.

The Wiz
Jordan-Elbridge High School

Price: $10 regular, $8 children under 10
Jordan-Elbridge High School
Hamilton Road, Jordan

While similar in plot to "The Wizard of Oz," J-E's "The Wiz" will transform the show into a fun, funky 1970s throwback version. Audience members still see the well-known characters and they'll be introduced to a few new characters along the way. Dorothy, the little girl from Kansas is blown by a tornado into Munchkinland in the Land of Oz. While there she meets the Scarecrow, Tinman and Cowardly Lion on the Yellow Brick Road. She defeats the evil witch and goes to see the powerful Wizard who turns out to be a phony. However, he is able to convince Dorothy that she can do anything she wants if she just believes in herself. Dorothy also realizes the importance of home and her family. Adapted from "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum. Book by William F. Brown, music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls.

Directors: Denise Deapo, director; Diane Crowley, choreography; Marisa Fagliarone, vocal music; Maria Hare, pit orchestra; Drew Deapo, technical director; Rebecca O’Hara, costume design; Gina Clifford, production coordinator.

For reserved seating, visit jecsd.org/drama or call 315-689-8500, ext. 1700.

The Moonlight Room
Appleseed Productions
Alan D. Stillman, director

Price: $18 regular; $15 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

In a hospital emergency room, a young man fights for his life after a drug overdose. In the ER waiting room, his friends and their families must come to grips with his plight, while dealing with the stresses of their own, often complicated, lives. The Moonlight Room, by Tristine Skyler, is a thoughtful and poignant exploration of what it means to be a teenager in the modern world.

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The Drunkard
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Jon J Barden, director

Price: $20 adults; $17 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

A 19th century melodrama musical comedy...with music by Barry Manilow?!

The Drunkard is based on "the world-famous melodrama by W.H.S. Smith." Bro Herrod and the king of 1970s pop take us back to a simpler time in this deliciously coy and exaggerated play about the good, the bad, and the besotted. When Sweet Mary Wilson weds the virtuous Edward, the villainous lawyer Cribbs, determined to foreclose on the quaint little cottage Mary shares with her poor widowed mother, sees to it that the devil's beverage—alcohol—is served. Alas and alack! Edward is lured to the city and ensnared in a web of sin and drunkenness! Can Mary and her innocent young child save her inebriated husband from the evils of the bottle? And what of the diabolical Cribbs? Come join us for a fun hilarious evening. Complimentary desserts and hot beverages are served at intermission.

Jon Barden, director; Deborah Taylor, associate director; Steve Borek, producer; Dan Williams, music director (assisted by Michael Stapleton & Phill Sterling)

Reaching for Marsby
Len Fonte, director

Price: $22 regular, $20 students/seniors
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Reaching for Marsby, the second staged comedy by former Post-Standard humor columnist Jeff Kramer, follows brash, bumbling American actor Gary Blenkinsopp, who travels to England in an attempt to save his career. Mayhem ensues in his theater world.

The cast features Mark Eischen, Moe Harrington, Kris Rusho, Michael O'Neill, Karis Wiggins, Brendon Cole and Peter Moller.

Tickets, with processing fees added, also be purchased by calling the box office at 315-435-2121 or by going to ticketmaster.com.

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Beautiful Child
Rarely Done Productions
Roy Van Nostrand, director

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

How do we love someone who falls outside our moral code? A couple's marriage is called into question when their son comes home for lunch and asks to stay. The world's no longer safe for their son as his secrets are about to become public. They want to help their son, who was once a beautiful child. They want to love him. But how? They arrive at a decision that's painful and restorative. This show is intended for mature audiences only. By Nicky Silver.

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Red
Syracuse Stage
Penny Metropulos, director

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

The 2010 Tony Award-winner for Best Play, Red, by John Logan, is an intense and exciting bio-drama of the famed Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko at the time that he was working on a commission for a series of murals for New York's Four Seasons restaurant. On paper, the play has two characters, Rothko and young assistant. On stage, the paintings themselves become characters adding a stunning visual presence and making palpable the intense physical process of the art. As Rothko and his young protégé prepare paint and canvas and assess and reassess each work, they engage in a combative struggle over the methods and purpose of art that is sharp, funny and mentally invigorating.

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Saturday, March 17, 2012

Personal Images Art Exhibit
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Sutton Pavillion, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Personal Images, a collaborative exhibit by six Hispanic international painters, features original pieces by Angela M. Arrey-Wastavino, Juan A. Cruz, Oscar Garces, Marcela Hanford, Abisay Puentes, and Esperanza Tielbaard.

The art show offers the public an inner vision of an eclectic group of visual artists whose life experiences have influenced their creative style. This exhibit runs in conjunction with RED, Tony Award-winner play by John Logan about the abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko.

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Being Impossible: Works by Deborah Zlotsky
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Deborah Zlotsky. In this series, the artist manipulates powdered graphite on sheets of mylar, searching for signs of life in the smears and conjuring up blurred boundaries between documenting nature and inventing nature. Zlotsky is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York and presented a solo exhibition in October 2011. She has been the recipient of numerous residencies, including a residency fellowship at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, this past summer. She earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a master's degree in painting and drawing from the University of Connecticut.

For more information, call 315-445-4153.

Yarn Cupboard's Winter Fiber Arts Market

Price: $ regular, $ students/seniors
Christ the King Retreat House and Conference Center
500 Brookford Rd., Syracuse

The Marketplace, which is open to the public, is taking place in conjunction with a weekend fiber arts retreat.

For more information, phone 315-399-5148 or visit the blog.

Creatures Small and Great
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Dana Blythe Stenson (metalsmith jewelry), Candace Rhea (ceramic and mixed media), Alan Hart (acrylic on board), and Diane Menzies (oil paintings) interpret insects and small animals.

Academic Art...teachers that do
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Works of Jamessville-Dewitt art teachers Faith Carapella (charcoal, pen and ink, collage) and Steve Pilcher (soda-fired stoneware, both functional and decorative).

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

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

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

Illusionistic
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Painter Kyle Mort's realism and painter Robert Glisson's impressionism are both meant to prompt the viewer's stare. Both Mort and Glisson work with beautiful color, achieved differently in their signature techniques. Mort tends toward extreme realism, bordering on trompe l'oeil in which he is capable of creating a spatial illusion. Glisson's impressionistic pieces, like the styles of those artists who inspire him, create an emotional illusion. Mort leans more toward depicting still life. Glisson endeavors to capture landscapes.

Sick at Home: Works of Tonja Torgerson
Echo

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

Artist Statement: Notions of privacy and disclosure are at the core of my work. My portraits and figures deal with the reality of illness while balancing a thin line between expression and discretion. They explore the internal and external factors that compose one’s identity. While these topics could be divisive, the use of color, humor, and childish aesthetic keeps my work welcoming. Vomit, blood and bile appear alongside pinks, paisley and sweet poses. I am interested in this collision of attraction and disgust, and how it creates a difficult beauty and a pleasant anxiety. My work presents a personal side of an ever-increasingly political issue through a girlish lens of soft aesthetics and sad whimsy.

Tonja is currently pursuing an MFA in printmaking at Syracuse University.

Pressing Print: Contemporary Prints and Process from Universal Limited Art Editions
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Pressing Print: Contemporary Prints and Process from Universal Limited Art Editions" chronicles the recent decade of artwork published by one of the most renowned American printmaking workshops. The exhibition of 60 works illustrates the impact that artists like Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Helen Frankenthaler and Kiki Smith have had on contemporary art, evident through the work of artists Jason Middelbrook, Amy Cutler and Jane Hammond. The show also illustrates how emerging artists recently selected to work with ULAE has influenced the current trend, in both process and concept.

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

Emilio Sanchez: No Way Home--Images of the Caribbean and New York City
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"No Way Home" features a selection of 24 paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints drawn from the recently acquired collection of work by Cuban-American artist Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999). Best known for his brightly colored, strongly shadowed images of Caribbean and New York City architecture, this exhibition reveals the artist's ongoing interest in repetitive patterns. The show highlights a recent gift to the University Art Collection from the Emilio Sanchez Foundation of over 250 paintings, drawings and prints.

Closing: Men Only: Vernacular Photographs of Male Affection
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibit of works from the collection of William Knodel looks at masculinity, gender and sexuality in our society. William Knodel was a college student in the 1970s in New York City when he purchased his first second-hand snapshot, a group of young men in assorted swimming attire whose style dated them back to the turn of the century, posing before a camp tent marked with a sign, "Men Only." Since then, he's collected vernacular images of male affection -- tintypes, daguerreotypes and photos -- during his travels to the West Coast, Canada, and Europe, scouring second-hand shops, old photo sales and used book stores. His collection now runs into the hundreds, dating from the mid-19th century and featuring couples and socializing groups from every race and social class. "Men Only" is a gift that incarnates the "gay spirit" that his good friend Harry Hay warned us must be kept alive and a history too often dismissed.

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Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In her first US museum solo show, New York City-based Japanese artist Noriko Ambe will create a new site-specific installation in the main gallery reflecting the tragic 2011 events in Japan through the use of video projections and her signature large-scale paper cutouts that evoke waves.

Nature plays an important role in Ambe's work, and it points to larger issues, such as the natural forces determining our global landscape, and the relationship between nature and humans throughout time. A recipient of prestigious awards such as the AICA Award and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ambe's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Japan Society in New York and the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Kyoto, Japan. Her work is also in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.

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I Like America and America Likes Me
XL Projects

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

Artwork of international graduate students in SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will be featured in this exhibition. The graduate students will exhibit work in a variety of media.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

SUArt KIDS
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Introduce yourself and your family to the process of printmaking with SUArt KIDS, an interactive art gallery experience that includes guided exhibition tours, projects, and art related stories at the Syracuse University Art Galleries. This week's program is designed specifically to engage your family with the exhibition "Pressing Print: Universal Limited Art Editions 2000-2010," including artwork by artists Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Kiki Smith, Jane Hammond and more.

Let us know you're interested! Please RSVP to suart@syr.edu or on Facebook.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The video "Flo Flow" is William Wegman's latest in a long line of human-canid collaborations. It was while he was in Long Beach in the 1970s that Wegman got his dog, Man Ray, with whom he began a fruitful collaboration of many years. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman's photographs and videotapes. Ever since, Weimaraner-actors have peopled Wegman's uncanny imaginative universe, a reflection on both the human-ness of "animals" and the strangeness of humans.

William Wegman lives in New York and Maine where he continues to make videos, to take photographs and to make drawings and paintings.

Coleman's Irish Hooley

Price: $15 adults, $5 children (includes all-day parking)
OnCenter Convention Center
800 South State St., Syracuse

The parade party's back and it's better than ever! For years, Parade Day meant the after-party at the Hotel Syracuse. Everyone who was anyone went to the hotel on parade day. Well, the downtown party is back, but it's moved to The Oncenter and it's hosted by Coleman's Irish Pub. They're known to throw great parties, and this will be no exception!

Fun for the whole family includes live entertainment, face painting and crafts, corned beef sandwich (for adults) and chicken tenders (for children).

Ballroom:
12:30-3:30 pm: Flyin Column
4:00-6:00 pm: New Day

Atrium Stage:
Traditional Irish entertainment: fiddlers, Irish step dancers, and bagpipers.

Tickets are available online at Ticketmaster, at The Oncenter Box Office (720 S. State Street) or at Coleman's Authentic Irish Pub (100 S. Lowell Ave).

Cinefest 32
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $30/day or $85 for all 4 days
Holiday Inn
Electronics Parkway, Liverpool

7:45 am: Buses will begin to load from the front entrance of the Holiday Inn for the 35mm presentations at the Palace Theatre. Last bus leaves the Holiday Inn at 8:00 am.

No Children (1928), with Smitty and his pals
The Janitor (1919), with Hank Mann, Madge Kirby
The Pest (1922), with Stan Laurel, Vera Reynolds, Mae Laurel
Their First Execution (1913), with Ford Sterling
Get Your Man (1927), with Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers
Mr Fix-it (1918), with Douglas Fairbanks, Wanda Hawley

Lunch Break

Hail The Woman (1921), with Florence Vedor, Lloyd Hughes
One A Minute (1921), with Douglas Maclean, Marian Debeck
Surprise, Surprise (1937), with The Three Stooges
Once In A Lifetime (1933), with Jack Oakie, Sidney Fox

The buses will leave the Palace Theatre immediately after the presentations.

Dinner Break

8:10 pm: A Trip To The Moon (1902), directed by Georges Mèliés
8:20 pm: The Music Makers (1929), with Willie And Eugene Howard
8:30 pm: to be announced
10:05 pm: Mamba (1929), with Jean Hersholt, Eleanor Boardman, Ralph Forbes
11:20 pm: King of the Kongo, Ep. 5 (1929), with Walter Miller
11:40 pm: Exile Express (1939), with Anna Sten, Alan Marshal

In America
ArtRage Gallery

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

Join film curator Jeffrey Gorney and film critic Nancy Keefe Rhodes for a discussion following the film screening. Written and directed by Jim Sheridan, and based on his own experiences as an Irish immigrant in America, the film chronicles the first year struggles and triumphs of an Irish couple and their two young daughters. Johnny is out of work and while he struggles to find parts as an actor, his wife Sarah must take a job at a nearby ice cream parlor until she finds employment as a teacher. They must scrounge every penny and sell their car to pay the rent on their shabby, rundown apartment in a building inhabited mostly by vagrants. (Jim Sheridan, 2002, 105 minutes)

The Little Mermaid
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive adaptation of the children's classic.

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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Faith Heritage School
Patricia Camloh, director

Price: $10, $8
Faith Heritage School
3740 Midland Ave., Syracuse

Based on the book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, this stage adaptation features songs from the 1971 movie starring Gene Wilder. Willy Wonka is a scrumdidilyumptious musical guaranteed to delight everyone's sweet tooth. In a troubled world looking for escape, let Willy Wonka take you on a fantasy ride into the land of pure imagination. Words and music by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley.

Tickets available at faithheritageschool.org. Credit card and PayPal accepted.

Guys and Dolls
Fabius-Pompey High School
Ron Hebert, director

Price: $8 each; $20 family maximum
Fabius-Pompey High School
1211 Mill St., Fabius

Set in 1940s New York City. With con artist and gambler Nathan Detroit needing a new location and money to run his floating dice game, he makes a bet with fellow gambler and con artist, Sky Masterson, that he cannot get a girl to fly to Havana with him. Sky takes the bet and Nathan chooses virtuous Sarah Brown who runs the Save a Soul Mission. Sky must lure her on the trip in order to win the bet. Meanwhile, showgirl Adelaide, has given up hope of getting Nathan to change his ways and settle down and marry her. Music and lyrics by Frank Loesser.

Ron Hebert, director; Susan Schoonmaker, music director; Susan Hebert, choreographer.

Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Cicero-North Syracuse High School
Holly Wilson, director

Price: $12 reserved seats; $10 adult; $8 student/seniors
Cicero-North Syracuse High School
6002 State Route 31, Cicero

Based on Disney's movie, "Beauty and the Beast," this show incorporates music from the movie, with additional songs written for the Broadway musical. This classic tale of love is a coming-of-age story, as Belle learns to see the Beast for who he truly is and the Beast discovers what it means to love someone other than himself. Music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, book by Linda Woolverton. Holly Wilson, director; Caryn Patterson, musical director; Lisa Stuart, choreographer.

To reserve tickets, email cpatters@nscsd.org.

Red
Syracuse Stage
Penny Metropulos, director

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

The 2010 Tony Award-winner for Best Play, Red, by John Logan, is an intense and exciting bio-drama of the famed Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko at the time that he was working on a commission for a series of murals for New York's Four Seasons restaurant. On paper, the play has two characters, Rothko and young assistant. On stage, the paintings themselves become characters adding a stunning visual presence and making palpable the intense physical process of the art. As Rothko and his young protégé prepare paint and canvas and assess and reassess each work, they engage in a combative struggle over the methods and purpose of art that is sharp, funny and mentally invigorating.

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Guys and Dolls
Fabius-Pompey High School
Ron Hebert, director

Price: $8 each; $20 family maximum
Fabius-Pompey High School
1211 Mill St., Fabius

Set in 1940s New York City. With con artist and gambler Nathan Detroit needing a new location and money to run his floating dice game, he makes a bet with fellow gambler and con artist, Sky Masterson, that he cannot get a girl to fly to Havana with him. Sky takes the bet and Nathan chooses virtuous Sarah Brown who runs the Save a Soul Mission. Sky must lure her on the trip in order to win the bet. Meanwhile, showgirl Adelaide, has given up hope of getting Nathan to change his ways and settle down and marry her. Music and lyrics by Frank Loesser.

Ron Hebert, director; Susan Schoonmaker, music director; Susan Hebert, choreographer.

Legally Blonde
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Musical Theater

Price: $10
Fayetteville-Manlius High School
8201 E. Seneca Tpke., Manlius

Sorority star Elle Woods doesn't take "no" for an answer. So when her boyfriend dumps her for someone "serious," Elle puts down the credit card, hits the books, and sets out to go where no Delta Nu has gone before -- Harvard Law. Along the way, Elle proves that being true to yourself never goes out of style.

You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
Henninger High School
Sarah Gentile, director

Price: $6 pre-sale, $8 at door
Henninger High School
600 Robinson St., Syracuse

"You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" is an average day in the life of Charlie Brown. A day made up of little moments picked from all the days of Charlie Brown, from Valentine's Day to the baseball season, from wild optimism to utter despair, all mixed in with the lives of his friends (both human and non-human). It's strung together in a single day, from bright uncertain morning to hopeful starlit evening. Based on the comic strip, Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. Book, music and lyrics by Clark Gesner. Additional dialogue by Michael Mayer. Additional music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa.

The Drunkard
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Jon J Barden, director

Price: $20 adults; $17 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

A 19th century melodrama musical comedy...with music by Barry Manilow?!

The Drunkard is based on "the world-famous melodrama by W.H.S. Smith." Bro Herrod and the king of 1970s pop take us back to a simpler time in this deliciously coy and exaggerated play about the good, the bad, and the besotted. When Sweet Mary Wilson weds the virtuous Edward, the villainous lawyer Cribbs, determined to foreclose on the quaint little cottage Mary shares with her poor widowed mother, sees to it that the devil's beverage—alcohol—is served. Alas and alack! Edward is lured to the city and ensnared in a web of sin and drunkenness! Can Mary and her innocent young child save her inebriated husband from the evils of the bottle? And what of the diabolical Cribbs? Come join us for a fun hilarious evening. Complimentary desserts and hot beverages are served at intermission.

Jon Barden, director; Deborah Taylor, associate director; Steve Borek, producer; Dan Williams, music director (assisted by Michael Stapleton & Phill Sterling)

The Wiz
Jordan-Elbridge High School

Price: $10 regular, $8 children under 10
Jordan-Elbridge High School
Hamilton Road, Jordan

While similar in plot to "The Wizard of Oz," J-E's "The Wiz" will transform the show into a fun, funky 1970s throwback version. Audience members still see the well-known characters and they'll be introduced to a few new characters along the way. Dorothy, the little girl from Kansas is blown by a tornado into Munchkinland in the Land of Oz. While there she meets the Scarecrow, Tinman and Cowardly Lion on the Yellow Brick Road. She defeats the evil witch and goes to see the powerful Wizard who turns out to be a phony. However, he is able to convince Dorothy that she can do anything she wants if she just believes in herself. Dorothy also realizes the importance of home and her family. Adapted from "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum. Book by William F. Brown, music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls.

Directors: Denise Deapo, director; Diane Crowley, choreography; Marisa Fagliarone, vocal music; Maria Hare, pit orchestra; Drew Deapo, technical director; Rebecca O’Hara, costume design; Gina Clifford, production coordinator.

For reserved seating, visit jecsd.org/drama or call 315-689-8500, ext. 1700.

The Moonlight Room
Appleseed Productions
Alan D. Stillman, director

Price: $18 regular; $15 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

In a hospital emergency room, a young man fights for his life after a drug overdose. In the ER waiting room, his friends and their families must come to grips with his plight, while dealing with the stresses of their own, often complicated, lives. The Moonlight Room, by Tristine Skyler, is a thoughtful and poignant exploration of what it means to be a teenager in the modern world.

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Reaching for Marsby
Len Fonte, director

Price: $22 regular, $20 students/seniors
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Reaching for Marsby, the second staged comedy by former Post-Standard humor columnist Jeff Kramer, follows brash, bumbling American actor Gary Blenkinsopp, who travels to England in an attempt to save his career. Mayhem ensues in his theater world.

The cast features Mark Eischen, Moe Harrington, Kris Rusho, Michael O'Neill, Karis Wiggins, Brendon Cole and Peter Moller.

Tickets, with processing fees added, also be purchased by calling the box office at 315-435-2121 or by going to ticketmaster.com.

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Red
Syracuse Stage
Penny Metropulos, director

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

The 2010 Tony Award-winner for Best Play, Red, by John Logan, is an intense and exciting bio-drama of the famed Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko at the time that he was working on a commission for a series of murals for New York's Four Seasons restaurant. On paper, the play has two characters, Rothko and young assistant. On stage, the paintings themselves become characters adding a stunning visual presence and making palpable the intense physical process of the art. As Rothko and his young protégé prepare paint and canvas and assess and reassess each work, they engage in a combative struggle over the methods and purpose of art that is sharp, funny and mentally invigorating.

Read a Review!

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Personal Images Art Exhibit
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Sutton Pavillion, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Personal Images, a collaborative exhibit by six Hispanic international painters, features original pieces by Angela M. Arrey-Wastavino, Juan A. Cruz, Oscar Garces, Marcela Hanford, Abisay Puentes, and Esperanza Tielbaard.

The art show offers the public an inner vision of an eclectic group of visual artists whose life experiences have influenced their creative style. This exhibit runs in conjunction with RED, Tony Award-winner play by John Logan about the abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko.

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Yarn Cupboard's Winter Fiber Arts Market

Price: $ regular, $ students/seniors
Christ the King Retreat House and Conference Center
500 Brookford Rd., Syracuse

The Marketplace, which is open to the public, is taking place in conjunction with a weekend fiber arts retreat.

For more information, phone 315-399-5148 or visit the blog.

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

Illusionistic
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Painter Kyle Mort's realism and painter Robert Glisson's impressionism are both meant to prompt the viewer's stare. Both Mort and Glisson work with beautiful color, achieved differently in their signature techniques. Mort tends toward extreme realism, bordering on trompe l'oeil in which he is capable of creating a spatial illusion. Glisson's impressionistic pieces, like the styles of those artists who inspire him, create an emotional illusion. Mort leans more toward depicting still life. Glisson endeavors to capture landscapes.

Pressing Print: Contemporary Prints and Process from Universal Limited Art Editions
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"Pressing Print: Contemporary Prints and Process from Universal Limited Art Editions" chronicles the recent decade of artwork published by one of the most renowned American printmaking workshops. The exhibition of 60 works illustrates the impact that artists like Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Helen Frankenthaler and Kiki Smith have had on contemporary art, evident through the work of artists Jason Middelbrook, Amy Cutler and Jane Hammond. The show also illustrates how emerging artists recently selected to work with ULAE has influenced the current trend, in both process and concept.

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

Emilio Sanchez: No Way Home--Images of the Caribbean and New York City
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"No Way Home" features a selection of 24 paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints drawn from the recently acquired collection of work by Cuban-American artist Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999). Best known for his brightly colored, strongly shadowed images of Caribbean and New York City architecture, this exhibition reveals the artist's ongoing interest in repetitive patterns. The show highlights a recent gift to the University Art Collection from the Emilio Sanchez Foundation of over 250 paintings, drawings and prints.

Academic Art...teachers that do
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Works of Jamessville-Dewitt art teachers Faith Carapella (charcoal, pen and ink, collage) and Steve Pilcher (soda-fired stoneware, both functional and decorative).

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

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

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

Being Impossible: Works by Deborah Zlotsky
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Deborah Zlotsky. In this series, the artist manipulates powdered graphite on sheets of mylar, searching for signs of life in the smears and conjuring up blurred boundaries between documenting nature and inventing nature. Zlotsky is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York and presented a solo exhibition in October 2011. She has been the recipient of numerous residencies, including a residency fellowship at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, this past summer. She earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a master's degree in painting and drawing from the University of Connecticut.

For more information, call 315-445-4153.

I Like America and America Likes Me
XL Projects

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

Artwork of international graduate students in SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will be featured in this exhibition. The graduate students will exhibit work in a variety of media.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Opening The Reflections Series: Works by Nevin Mercede
Redhouse

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

There will be a gallery reception this evening 5:00-8:00 pm.

These digital prints are composed from photographs taken while traveling in Russia. Conversations with artists, politicians and educators encountered there provide the majority of companion texts. Since 1995 Mercede has woven images with texts reflecting on social, political and educational issues or situations.

SUArt KIDS
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Introduce yourself and your family to the process of printmaking with SUArt KIDS, an interactive art gallery experience that includes guided exhibition tours, projects, and art related stories at the Syracuse University Art Galleries. This week's program is designed specifically to engage your family with the exhibition "Pressing Print: Universal Limited Art Editions 2000-2010," including artwork by artists Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Kiki Smith, Jane Hammond and more.

Let us know you're interested! Please RSVP to suart@syr.edu or on Facebook.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The video "Flo Flow" is William Wegman's latest in a long line of human-canid collaborations. It was while he was in Long Beach in the 1970s that Wegman got his dog, Man Ray, with whom he began a fruitful collaboration of many years. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman's photographs and videotapes. Ever since, Weimaraner-actors have peopled Wegman's uncanny imaginative universe, a reflection on both the human-ness of "animals" and the strangeness of humans.

William Wegman lives in New York and Maine where he continues to make videos, to take photographs and to make drawings and paintings.

Cinefest 32
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $30/day or $85 for all 4 days
Holiday Inn
Electronics Parkway, Liverpool

9:00 am: Love Thy Neighbor (1940), with Jack Benny, Fred Allen
10:30 am: The Auction (2012), hosted by Leonard Maltin
12 noon: Justin Herman Show IV (1950s Paramount Toppers)
12:35 pm: Without Regret (1936), with Elissa Landi, Paul Cavanaugh
1:55 pm: The Untamed (1920), with Tom Mix, Pauline Starke
2:50 pm: Champagne Waltz (1937), with Gladys Swarthout, Fred Macmurray

Octagon Houses and Self-Culture in 19th-Century America
Preservation Association of Central New York
Featuring Irene Cheng

Mansion on James (Barnes Hiscock Mansion)
930 James St., Syracuse

Nineteenth-century octagon houses dot the landscape of central New York, but few people know about the radical ideology that motivated this short-lived trend of the 1850s-60s. Join us for a delightful talk on Orson Fowler and Octagon Houses and Self-Culture in 19th-Century America. Irene Cheng will explore the ideas of the principal instigator behind these eight-sided houses: Orson Fowler, a Jacksonian-era writer involved in a variety of radical reform movements. Reading Fowler's widely popular 1848 book A Home for All in conjunction with his writings on health, sexuality, and phrenology reveals that he saw the house as a tool for cultivating the bodies of individuals, families, and the nation at large.

Irene Cheng is a Ph.D. candidate in architecture history and theory at Columbia University. Her research focuses on 19th-century American architecture and culture, with an emphasis on utopian movements, the history of science, and radical politics. She holds a Masters in Architecture from Columbia and a B.A. in Social Studies from Harvard University. Irene is also a founding partner of Cheng + Snyder, a multidisciplinary design firm based in New York City and Syracuse.

For more information, contact Jeff Romano, president of PACNY, 315-559-3590.

Annual Folk Music Series: The Youth Movement
Arts Alive in Liverpool
Featuring Andrew & Noah Van Norstrand

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

Composers and perfomers Andrew & Noah Van Norstrand from Fulton play guitar, fiddle, and mandolin.

Joe Carello & John Rohde Saxophone Extraordinaire
Fayetteville Free Library

Price: $5 suggested donation
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

Handguns, with Daybreaker, Give Us Jersey, Maker, The American Scene
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Jimmy Van Heusen Cabaret with Marissa Mulder
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $30 regular at door, $25 subscribers/donors/advance; $12 with student ID
Sheraton Syracuse University Grand Ballroom
801 University Ave., Syracuse

Emerging New York City star--and Syracuse native--Marissa Mulder is a frequent performer in the Big Apple and has been featured in all-star tributes to Mickey Leonard and Jimmy Van Heusen. Her recent debut at NYC's "Don't Tell Mama" piano bar/cabaret was directed by her mentor (and another another Syracuse native) Karen Oberlin. Syracuse native Jimmy Van Heusen was a master songwriter who won multiple Academy Awards and an Emmy. His most recorded songs include "Ain't That a Kick in the Head," "High Hopes," and "Love and Marriage."

Doors open at 4:00 pm, followed by an instrumental set at 5:00 pm, and Mulder's one-hour show at 6:00 pm.

Those who buy advance $25 admissions will receive a CNY Jazz Club Discount Card good for 10% off food and drink for this cabaret and all remaining events of the CNY Jazz 2011-2012 Season. Sheraton SU will offer a cash bar and menu themed for the occasion at affordable buffet stations. All attendees will receive validated parking in the Sheraton SU garage.

The Moonlight Room
Appleseed Productions
Alan D. Stillman, director

Price: $18 regular; $15 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

In a hospital emergency room, a young man fights for his life after a drug overdose. In the ER waiting room, his friends and their families must come to grips with his plight, while dealing with the stresses of their own, often complicated, lives. The Moonlight Room, by Tristine Skyler, is a thoughtful and poignant exploration of what it means to be a teenager in the modern world.

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Red
Syracuse Stage
Penny Metropulos, director

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

The 2010 Tony Award-winner for Best Play, Red, by John Logan, is an intense and exciting bio-drama of the famed Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko at the time that he was working on a commission for a series of murals for New York's Four Seasons restaurant. On paper, the play has two characters, Rothko and young assistant. On stage, the paintings themselves become characters adding a stunning visual presence and making palpable the intense physical process of the art. As Rothko and his young protégé prepare paint and canvas and assess and reassess each work, they engage in a combative struggle over the methods and purpose of art that is sharp, funny and mentally invigorating.

Read a Review!

Red
Syracuse Stage
Penny Metropulos, director

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

The 2010 Tony Award-winner for Best Play, Red, by John Logan, is an intense and exciting bio-drama of the famed Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko at the time that he was working on a commission for a series of murals for New York's Four Seasons restaurant. On paper, the play has two characters, Rothko and young assistant. On stage, the paintings themselves become characters adding a stunning visual presence and making palpable the intense physical process of the art. As Rothko and his young protégé prepare paint and canvas and assess and reassess each work, they engage in a combative struggle over the methods and purpose of art that is sharp, funny and mentally invigorating.

Read a Review!

Monday, March 19, 2012

Personal Images Art Exhibit
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Sutton Pavillion, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Personal Images, a collaborative exhibit by six Hispanic international painters, features original pieces by Angela M. Arrey-Wastavino, Juan A. Cruz, Oscar Garces, Marcela Hanford, Abisay Puentes, and Esperanza Tielbaard.

The art show offers the public an inner vision of an eclectic group of visual artists whose life experiences have influenced their creative style. This exhibit runs in conjunction with RED, Tony Award-winner play by John Logan about the abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko.

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Being Impossible: Works by Deborah Zlotsky
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Deborah Zlotsky. In this series, the artist manipulates powdered graphite on sheets of mylar, searching for signs of life in the smears and conjuring up blurred boundaries between documenting nature and inventing nature. Zlotsky is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York and presented a solo exhibition in October 2011. She has been the recipient of numerous residencies, including a residency fellowship at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, this past summer. She earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a master's degree in painting and drawing from the University of Connecticut.

For more information, call 315-445-4153.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

Gallery Exhibit: The Narrative Tradition in the 21st Century: The Art of Randy Elliott and Richard Williams
Onondaga Community College

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

About Richard Williams:
As a self-taught illustrator I was able to sidestep the many academic pitfalls that plague contemporary artists, such as the belief that drawing skills are not important. My work is steeped in the tradition of craftsmanship and the importance of the narrative. Art in my opinion serves a social function, which can encompass selling a product to the public or making critical commentary on society and culture, and anything in between. To accomplish this, the artist needs to communicate in a simple, clear and powerful way. To do this one needs to have a firm grasp of the basic skills of draftsmanship, color, painting technique and storytelling.

About Randy Elliott:
Randy Elliott began his professional art career in 1988, inking the Dungeons & Dragons, Dragonlance comic book for DC Comics. That job began a career that continues until the present. Over the course of the last twenty-odd years, Randy has inked and/or penciled comic books for DC, Archie, Marvel, Dark Horse, Valiant and a number of smaller publishers. He has also painted images for clients like, Wizards of the Coast, Alderac Entertainment Group, Battlefront Miniatures, Hasbro and others.

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Academic Art...teachers that do
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Works of Jamessville-Dewitt art teachers Faith Carapella (charcoal, pen and ink, collage) and Steve Pilcher (soda-fired stoneware, both functional and decorative).

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

Design and Aging
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Design and Aging," an exhibition of student design projects focused on solutions to problems associated with aging, features work by students in industrial and interaction design, interior design and advertising design in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. It includes a project that explores how effective design could assist the elderly population of Hong Kong, as well as a series of posters that illustrate potential kiosks that could be targeted to mall walkers at Shoppingtown Mall in DeWitt.

The Design Gallery is located on the first floor of The Warehouse. Patrons should enter via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on W. Fayette St. or the first-floor door on W. Washington St.

For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Creativity through Exhibition Design II
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Creativity through Exhibition Design II" features computer-aided drawings and 3-dimensional models of the gallery space in the State Tower Building adjacent to Hanover Square. Students gained experience in such areas as color selection, spatial arrangement, lighting techniques, typography and universal design principles to put their individual creativity into an upcoming exhibition they are working on titled "Hidden in Plain Site: Sculpture in Syracuse and the Work of the Public Artist in Residence."

Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on W. Fayette St. or the first-floor door on W. Washington St.

The Photographer as Child: Memories of Guatemala
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Born in Guatemala, award-winning photographer Efren Lopez is a student in the Military Photojournalism Program at Syracuse University. He is also an aerial photographer for the U.S. Air Force and the first reservist to be selected to attend Newhouse's Military Photojournalism Program. He now lives in Arizona.

The exhibit features images Lopez captured on a return trip to Guatemala in 2009. "My life began in a bamboo hut at the side of a road in a tiny town named Petaca, Guatemala, in 1966," Lopez writes. "It's a town so small that it is next to impossible to find on most maps of Guatemala, much less Central America."

Lopez has documented real-world situations and the military around the globe and has captured stunning images in Arizona and Guatemala. His work has been featured in various publications, including the book Arizona 24/7, and has been awarded many distinctions, including first place in the Professional Photography category at the 2008 Arizona State Fair, an honorable mention in the pictorial category in the 2009 Military Photographer of the Year competition, and first place in the 2011 Multimedia Team 19th Annual Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photography Workshop.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Personal Images Art Exhibit
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Sutton Pavillion, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Personal Images, a collaborative exhibit by six Hispanic international painters, features original pieces by Angela M. Arrey-Wastavino, Juan A. Cruz, Oscar Garces, Marcela Hanford, Abisay Puentes, and Esperanza Tielbaard.

The art show offers the public an inner vision of an eclectic group of visual artists whose life experiences have influenced their creative style. This exhibit runs in conjunction with RED, Tony Award-winner play by John Logan about the abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko.

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Being Impossible: Works by Deborah Zlotsky
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Deborah Zlotsky. In this series, the artist manipulates powdered graphite on sheets of mylar, searching for signs of life in the smears and conjuring up blurred boundaries between documenting nature and inventing nature. Zlotsky is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in New York and presented a solo exhibition in October 2011. She has been the recipient of numerous residencies, including a residency fellowship at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, this past summer. She earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a master's degree in painting and drawing from the University of Connecticut.

For more information, call 315-445-4153.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

Gallery Exhibit: The Narrative Tradition in the 21st Century: The Art of Randy Elliott and Richard Williams
Onondaga Community College

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

About Richard Williams:
As a self-taught illustrator I was able to sidestep the many academic pitfalls that plague contemporary artists, such as the belief that drawing skills are not important. My work is steeped in the tradition of craftsmanship and the importance of the narrative. Art in my opinion serves a social function, which can encompass selling a product to the public or making critical commentary on society and culture, and anything in between. To accomplish this, the artist needs to communicate in a simple, clear and powerful way. To do this one needs to have a firm grasp of the basic skills of draftsmanship, color, painting technique and storytelling.

About Randy Elliott:
Randy Elliott began his professional art career in 1988, inking the Dungeons & Dragons, Dragonlance comic book for DC Comics. That job began a career that continues until the present. Over the course of the last twenty-odd years, Randy has inked and/or penciled comic books for DC, Archie, Marvel, Dark Horse, Valiant and a number of smaller publishers. He has also painted images for clients like, Wizards of the Coast, Alderac Entertainment Group, Battlefront Miniatures, Hasbro and others.

"Images of Upstate New York" and "Juxtaposed Through Wonderland"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"Images of Upstate New York" features work by Morgan Goodwin and Kate Walseman
"Juxtaposed Through Wonderland" features recent work by KayCie Danniel

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Creatures Small and Great
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Dana Blythe Stenson (metalsmith jewelry), Candace Rhea (ceramic and mixed media), Alan Hart (acrylic on board), and Diane Menzies (oil paintings) interpret insects and small animals.

Academic Art...teachers that do
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Works of Jamessville-Dewitt art teachers Faith Carapella (charcoal, pen and ink, collage) and Steve Pilcher (soda-fired stoneware, both functional and decorative).

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery