Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase #57
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Visual Arts Showcase #57 features 19 local visual artists presenting work in varied media.
Featured Artists: Joan Applebaum, Dan Bacich, Marna Bell, Michael Berman, Judith Brown-Roenbeck, Robert Carroll, Joe Cerio, Anne Childress, Mary Lou Colgin, Shelly Coryell, Ben Donzella, Joy Englehart, Kathy Gibbons, Richard Karuzas, Steve Koh, Allen Kosoff, Joe LeFevre, Yolanda Tooley, Noelle Uebele

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

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

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Gallery Exhibit: Objects and Implications: Jennifer Pepper, Richard Pardee and Hilary Lorenz
Onondaga Community College

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

A compelling exhibit of handmade books, installation pieces and woodcut prints.

Gordon Exhibit: Floating World
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Gordon Student Center Great Room
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exploring the vanished architecture and lifestyles of the Thousand Islands through the photography of Ian Coristine.

Virgil Dombroski: Photographs
Westcott Community Center

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

Off the Wall Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Unlike most gallery shows, this sale allows buyers to purchase fine artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall." A portion of each sales commission helps to support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes the various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Enjoy the artwork of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful opportunity to find one-of-a-kind gifts, so bring your family and friends! Purchases can be made at the main desk.

Heart Gallery Exhibit
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition is a collaboration between the Professional Photographers' Society of Central New York and the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Syracuse Regional Office. This is the second Heart Gallery exhibition in Central New York since 2004. Forty photographers donated their time and talents to create unique portraits of 53 children in foster care that are in need of a family. The Heart Gallery exhibition hopes to find adoptive families for the children participating, as well as to raise awareness around the need for foster and adoptive families here in Central New York and across the state.

African-American Constructs: Designs by Scott Ruff
Community Folk Art Center

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

Ruff is a professor of architecture at Syracuse University. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from Cornell University. He is the recipient of an Alpha Chi Ro Medal for leadership and service. Prior to joining the SU faculty, Ruff taught at Hampton University, the University at Buffalo and Cornell University. Ruff previously worked with the architectural firm of Foit-Albert and Associates.

Ruff formed Ruff Works Studio in 2003. Ruff Works specializes in research and design. One main focus of the studio is the research and cultivation of African-American aesthetics in spatial design. Ruff's publications include an article in Thresholds, "Spatial wRapping: A Speculation on Men's Hip-Hop Fashion," and a book review in the Journal of Architectural Education, "White Papers, Black Marks." He has lectured throughout the United States.

Rik Pinkcombe: Perception and Deception
Light Work Gallery

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

The images in the exhibition, taken mostly in the Syracuse area, are digitally distorted and manipulated to represent the way that people's vision can become altered by outside pressures and influences such as consumerism, religion, government, education, and sports. One of the main themes behind Pinkcombe's work is identity -- he is particularly interested in how outside influences affect who people are. In some photographs he looks at racial identity through images of borders, bridges, and traffic stops, which link communities and also symbolize immigration and emigration. He also creates what he calls "theater images," where the photographs are manipulated and stripped of so much information that they begin to look like film sets or models.

Pinkcombe currently lives in London, England. He attended school at Blackpool College of Lancaster University. Recent exhibition venues include the Stephen Lawrence Gallery in Greenwich and the 921 Gallery in Hackney, Great Britain. Originally trained as a commercial photographer, Pinkcombe shifted to art photography after a prolonged battle with leukemia made him reevaluate his life. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in March 2005. Pinkcombe's residency was sponsored by Autograph: The Association of Black Photographers located in London.

2006 Light Work Grants
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition "2006 Light Work Grants" features the work of three Central New York photographers -- Laura Heyman, Thilde Jensen, and Rishi Singhal -- who were awarded grants through the 2006 Light Work Grant program. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. The grants also aim to foster an understanding and appreciation for photographic arts in Central New York.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

52nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
401 S. Salina St.
(formerly Dey Brothers Department Store building), Syracuse

Artists participating include members of the Camillus Art Association, Marcellus-Skaneateles Art Guild, North Syracuse Art Guild, Onondaga Art Guild, and Syracuse Ceramic Guild, as well as those participating independently, from the Central New York area.

The show and sale features paintings, sculptures, pottery, stained glass, jewelry, fabrics, soaps, wood, ceramics, and more! It's the perfect place to find those special holiday gifts for your friends and family.

ART MART is sponsored by Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc., and is a unique sale of original crafts and fine arts by artists and craftspeople from Central New York. Art Mart is supported, in part, by grants from Senator John A. DeFrancisco and Onondaga County, administered by the Cultural Resources Council of Syracuse and Onondaga County.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Faux Naturel
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cheerfully dark exhibition of young Canadian and American artists ponders deceit, nature, temptation and excess. Seven artists in Philadelphia, Montréal, Syracuse, and Toronto have created stunning visions of larger-than-life sculpture, tragicomedic video, striking collages, and intricate printmaking.

The exhibit contains recent works by Alex Da Corte (Philadelphia), Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby (Syracuse), Nick Lenker (Philadelphia), Annie MacDonell (Toronto), Allyson Mitchell (Toronto), and Andrea Vander Kooij (Montreal).

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Challenges in Contemporary Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Over 40 visual artists in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts are participating in the annual exhibition highlighting new work by the college's faculty. This year, for the first time, the exhibition has been organized on the theme of challenges chosen, faced, discovered and resolved by this diverse group of image and object makers.

As usual the show brings together a broad diversity of media, technique and inspiration. Visitors will be surprised by the range of objects on display and their breadth and depth of intellectual and emotional content. Traditional themes like portraiture, landscape and still life can be seen next to more experimental genres such as interactive installations and time based arts.

Making this exhibition especially interesting are the visual comparisons between artists working in the same subject area. Several artists are intrigued by landscape but their inspiration springs from sources as different as gardening, the subtle yet real transitions that occur in a landscape and discovering visually interesting fragments of urban settings. Other artists found life experience to inspire them: one used her experiences as a pediatric nurse to shape her imagery while another attempted to portray the music of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis through abstract drawings. Yet another used his family as subjects in a series of photographs that documented the family's travails.

The Canary Project
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Canary Project is a photographic presentation of the effects of global warming on 16 landscapes around the world. Its mission is to photograph areas that are exhibiting dramatic transformation due to global warming and to use these photographs to persuade as many people as possible that global warming is already underway and of immediate concern.

Edward and Susannah Morris, co-founders of the Canary Project, have traveled the world documenting the effects global warming is creating. The project derives its unusual name from the canaries once used by miners to warn of deadly methane levels. The project hopes to warn people of the harmful effects of global warming.

The Canary Project is an unusual opportunity to view landscapes affected by the changing global climate. The images comprising this exhibition take the viewer to countries they may never visit, but face the same impact from global warming that we all do.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

Dialogues and Solos: Contemporary Photography, Collage and Installation by Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Since Liliana Porter last presented her prints and paintings at Syracuse University (Crossing Boundaries, 1990), this world-renowned Argentinean artist has continued to explore and grow into new dimensions in photography and installation art. Her figurines and toys, her characters, are social, down to earth human creations, made in society's image and likeness.

Born in Uruguay, Ana Tiscornia was a witness-participant of Latin America's recent painful history. Her world is made out of digitalized photography intermingled with maps, fragmented objects, rolled pieces of paper, leftovers -- what we recall are broken sequences, broken at some critical point in our imagery, in our memory.

About the nature of this exhibit, the artists comment: "In order to say where our work intercepts, first we should establish that both artworks are different. While one is more philosophical, related to recurrent questions (Liliana), the other is more political and relates to current events (Ana). While one is dramatic, the other confronts human tragedy with humor. We do not pretend to erase that diversity but to use it as material for the new constructions. What we want is for the fusion of both languages to give birth to a narrative that could be for all intents and purposes fictional and mysterious, where the visual ambiguity opens new ways of interpretation and uncovers unexpected conflicts."

Music Film Series: No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Onondaga Community College

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

This film, which focuses on the singer-songwriter's life and music from 1961-66, includes never-seen performances and interviews. Directed by Martin Scorsese.

Music Film Series: No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Onondaga Community College

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

This film, which focuses on the singer-songwriter's life and music from 1961-66, includes never-seen performances and interviews. Directed by Martin Scorsese.

Cries and Whispers
Redhouse
Master Directors Film Festival

Price: $6
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Cries and Whispers is a film about the world of four women, offering a glimpse into the emotional and physical pain they endure as they cope with death. His stunning use of color and close shots captures the beauty of anguished souls. (1972, 91 mins, Sweden)

Director Ingmar Bergman worked as a stage director and theatre manager before he started directing films in the 1940s. Universally regarded as one of the greatest masters of modern cinema, Bergman was technically innovative while creating serious and personal stories that wrestle with human relationships. His prolific output tends to return to and elaborate upon recurrent images, subjects and techniques. Bergman works on a small scale, finding invention in theme and variation focusing on mise-en-scene while dealing with the rather bleak subjects of suffering, loneliness, sterility and the anguish of the soul.

This screening is followed by a talk-back hosted by filmmaker Richard Breyer, a member of the faculty of the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. He has been a Fulbright Scholar to India twice. Breyer has been a consultant to Sony Pictures/Colombia, Tristar International, The Asia Society, The Ithaca Ballet Company, the Government of India, The Smithsonian Institute, and the New York State Office of Education. He began his career in Bogota, Colombia where he helped launch a national educational television system.

Can We Be Beautiful in an Ugly World? The Great Theft and the Muslim Imperative
University Lectures
Featuring Khaled Abou El Fadl

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Considered by some to be the most important and influential Islamic thinker in the modern age, Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl is an accomplished Islamic jurist and scholar. A professor at the UCLA School of Law, Abou El Fadl is an expert on Islamic law, immigration, human rights, and international and national security law. As both a world-renowned expert in Islamic law and an American lawyer, Abou El Fadl brings a unique perspective to the current state of issues facing Islam in the West. Abou El Fadl is a staunch advocate for and defender of women's rights, the subject of many of his writings. As a critical and powerful voice against puritan and Wahhabi Islam today, he appears regularly in national and international media, including CNN, NBC, PBS, NPR and Voice of America.

SU Wind Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Billy Joel Visiting Composer Series
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring John Harbison

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

John Harbison will work with students and faculty in preparation for the two public performances of his music on Nov. 14 and 15.

The programs will include Harbison's recent chamber, orchestral and wind music. Featured works include Three City Blocks for wind ensemble, conducted by faculty member John Laverty; orchestral overtures Remembering Gatsby and Darkbloom, conducted by faculty member James Tapia; Suite for Solo Cello, performed by cellist and affiliate artist Caroline Stinson; song cycle The Rewaking, performed by soprano and Setnor affiliate artist Janet Brown with the Cassatt String Quartet; and several chamber and vocal works performed by Setnor students.

Harbison is a composer best known for his operas and large choral works. Among his principal compositions are the cantata The Flight Into Egypt, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1987, and the opera The Great Gatsby, commissioned by The Metropolitan Opera to celebrate Maestro James Levine's 25th anniversary with the company and premiered to great acclaim in 1999. In 2006, he was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance for his composition Mottetti di Montale. One of Harbison's prime interests is furthering the work of young composers, and during his residency at the Setnor School he will work with composition students.

The Billy Joel Visiting Composer Series was endowed using a portion of a gift from entertainer Billy Joel. VPA was one of seven East Coast institutions awarded gifts in fall 2005 as part of Joels long-term commitment to music education and newly established music education initiative.

For more information on the Billy Joel Visiting Composer Series, contact the Setnor School of Music at 315-443-5892.

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase #57
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Visual Arts Showcase #57 features 19 local visual artists presenting work in varied media.
Featured Artists: Joan Applebaum, Dan Bacich, Marna Bell, Michael Berman, Judith Brown-Roenbeck, Robert Carroll, Joe Cerio, Anne Childress, Mary Lou Colgin, Shelly Coryell, Ben Donzella, Joy Englehart, Kathy Gibbons, Richard Karuzas, Steve Koh, Allen Kosoff, Joe LeFevre, Yolanda Tooley, Noelle Uebele

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

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

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Gallery Exhibit: Objects and Implications: Jennifer Pepper, Richard Pardee and Hilary Lorenz
Onondaga Community College

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

A compelling exhibit of handmade books, installation pieces and woodcut prints.

Gordon Exhibit: Floating World
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Gordon Student Center Great Room
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exploring the vanished architecture and lifestyles of the Thousand Islands through the photography of Ian Coristine.

Virgil Dombroski: Photographs
Westcott Community Center

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

Off the Wall Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Unlike most gallery shows, this sale allows buyers to purchase fine artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall." A portion of each sales commission helps to support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes the various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Enjoy the artwork of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful opportunity to find one-of-a-kind gifts, so bring your family and friends! Purchases can be made at the main desk.

African-American Constructs: Designs by Scott Ruff
Community Folk Art Center

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

Ruff is a professor of architecture at Syracuse University. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from Cornell University. He is the recipient of an Alpha Chi Ro Medal for leadership and service. Prior to joining the SU faculty, Ruff taught at Hampton University, the University at Buffalo and Cornell University. Ruff previously worked with the architectural firm of Foit-Albert and Associates.

Ruff formed Ruff Works Studio in 2003. Ruff Works specializes in research and design. One main focus of the studio is the research and cultivation of African-American aesthetics in spatial design. Ruff's publications include an article in Thresholds, "Spatial wRapping: A Speculation on Men's Hip-Hop Fashion," and a book review in the Journal of Architectural Education, "White Papers, Black Marks." He has lectured throughout the United States.

Heart Gallery Exhibit
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition is a collaboration between the Professional Photographers' Society of Central New York and the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Syracuse Regional Office. This is the second Heart Gallery exhibition in Central New York since 2004. Forty photographers donated their time and talents to create unique portraits of 53 children in foster care that are in need of a family. The Heart Gallery exhibition hopes to find adoptive families for the children participating, as well as to raise awareness around the need for foster and adoptive families here in Central New York and across the state.

Rik Pinkcombe: Perception and Deception
Light Work Gallery

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

The images in the exhibition, taken mostly in the Syracuse area, are digitally distorted and manipulated to represent the way that people's vision can become altered by outside pressures and influences such as consumerism, religion, government, education, and sports. One of the main themes behind Pinkcombe's work is identity -- he is particularly interested in how outside influences affect who people are. In some photographs he looks at racial identity through images of borders, bridges, and traffic stops, which link communities and also symbolize immigration and emigration. He also creates what he calls "theater images," where the photographs are manipulated and stripped of so much information that they begin to look like film sets or models.

Pinkcombe currently lives in London, England. He attended school at Blackpool College of Lancaster University. Recent exhibition venues include the Stephen Lawrence Gallery in Greenwich and the 921 Gallery in Hackney, Great Britain. Originally trained as a commercial photographer, Pinkcombe shifted to art photography after a prolonged battle with leukemia made him reevaluate his life. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in March 2005. Pinkcombe's residency was sponsored by Autograph: The Association of Black Photographers located in London.

2006 Light Work Grants
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition "2006 Light Work Grants" features the work of three Central New York photographers -- Laura Heyman, Thilde Jensen, and Rishi Singhal -- who were awarded grants through the 2006 Light Work Grant program. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. The grants also aim to foster an understanding and appreciation for photographic arts in Central New York.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

52nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
401 S. Salina St.
(formerly Dey Brothers Department Store building), Syracuse

Artists participating include members of the Camillus Art Association, Marcellus-Skaneateles Art Guild, North Syracuse Art Guild, Onondaga Art Guild, and Syracuse Ceramic Guild, as well as those participating independently, from the Central New York area.

The show and sale features paintings, sculptures, pottery, stained glass, jewelry, fabrics, soaps, wood, ceramics, and more! It's the perfect place to find those special holiday gifts for your friends and family.

ART MART is sponsored by Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc., and is a unique sale of original crafts and fine arts by artists and craftspeople from Central New York. Art Mart is supported, in part, by grants from Senator John A. DeFrancisco and Onondaga County, administered by the Cultural Resources Council of Syracuse and Onondaga County.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Faux Naturel
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cheerfully dark exhibition of young Canadian and American artists ponders deceit, nature, temptation and excess. Seven artists in Philadelphia, Montréal, Syracuse, and Toronto have created stunning visions of larger-than-life sculpture, tragicomedic video, striking collages, and intricate printmaking.

The exhibit contains recent works by Alex Da Corte (Philadelphia), Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby (Syracuse), Nick Lenker (Philadelphia), Annie MacDonell (Toronto), Allyson Mitchell (Toronto), and Andrea Vander Kooij (Montreal).

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

Challenges in Contemporary Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Over 40 visual artists in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts are participating in the annual exhibition highlighting new work by the college's faculty. This year, for the first time, the exhibition has been organized on the theme of challenges chosen, faced, discovered and resolved by this diverse group of image and object makers.

As usual the show brings together a broad diversity of media, technique and inspiration. Visitors will be surprised by the range of objects on display and their breadth and depth of intellectual and emotional content. Traditional themes like portraiture, landscape and still life can be seen next to more experimental genres such as interactive installations and time based arts.

Making this exhibition especially interesting are the visual comparisons between artists working in the same subject area. Several artists are intrigued by landscape but their inspiration springs from sources as different as gardening, the subtle yet real transitions that occur in a landscape and discovering visually interesting fragments of urban settings. Other artists found life experience to inspire them: one used her experiences as a pediatric nurse to shape her imagery while another attempted to portray the music of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis through abstract drawings. Yet another used his family as subjects in a series of photographs that documented the family's travails.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

The Canary Project
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Canary Project is a photographic presentation of the effects of global warming on 16 landscapes around the world. Its mission is to photograph areas that are exhibiting dramatic transformation due to global warming and to use these photographs to persuade as many people as possible that global warming is already underway and of immediate concern.

Edward and Susannah Morris, co-founders of the Canary Project, have traveled the world documenting the effects global warming is creating. The project derives its unusual name from the canaries once used by miners to warn of deadly methane levels. The project hopes to warn people of the harmful effects of global warming.

The Canary Project is an unusual opportunity to view landscapes affected by the changing global climate. The images comprising this exhibition take the viewer to countries they may never visit, but face the same impact from global warming that we all do.

Dialogues and Solos: Contemporary Photography, Collage and Installation by Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Since Liliana Porter last presented her prints and paintings at Syracuse University (Crossing Boundaries, 1990), this world-renowned Argentinean artist has continued to explore and grow into new dimensions in photography and installation art. Her figurines and toys, her characters, are social, down to earth human creations, made in society's image and likeness.

Born in Uruguay, Ana Tiscornia was a witness-participant of Latin America's recent painful history. Her world is made out of digitalized photography intermingled with maps, fragmented objects, rolled pieces of paper, leftovers -- what we recall are broken sequences, broken at some critical point in our imagery, in our memory.

About the nature of this exhibit, the artists comment: "In order to say where our work intercepts, first we should establish that both artworks are different. While one is more philosophical, related to recurrent questions (Liliana), the other is more political and relates to current events (Ana). While one is dramatic, the other confronts human tragedy with humor. We do not pretend to erase that diversity but to use it as material for the new constructions. What we want is for the fusion of both languages to give birth to a narrative that could be for all intents and purposes fictional and mysterious, where the visual ambiguity opens new ways of interpretation and uncovers unexpected conflicts."

Blow-Up
Redhouse
Master Directors Film Festival

Price: $6
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

A trendy photographer discovers a purpose to his life when he enlarges a picture which may or may not prove that a murder has taken place. The ambiguous situation becomes strangely gripping, questioning the maxim that the camera never lies, and settling into a virtually abstract examination of subjectivity and perception. Antonioni's visual and verbal emphasis is on the environment surrounding the principal character and how it affects him or fails to do so. It won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. (1966, 111 min, UK)

Director Michelangelo Antonioni began writing about film as a student at Bologna University, mercilessly criticizing the fatuous Italian comedies of the 1930s. In 1940 he studied direction at the Centro Sperimentale in Rome. Two years later, he collaborated on consecutive films as a scriptwriter, first with Roberto Rossellini and then Enrico Fulchignoni. His first directorial effort was a documentary. Antonioni's minimalist, yet poignant style, which critics described as structured absence, and his disdain for vulgar commercialism, made him an important influence on post-neorealist Italian cinema. Antonioni's most notable films revolved around the elite and the urban bourgeois depicting his wealthy characters as empty and aimless without romanticizing them. His films tend to have spare plots and dialogue, and much of the screen time is spent lingering on certain settings.

This screening is followed by a talk-back hosted by Dr. Julie Grossman, Chair and Professor of English and director of the film program at Le Moyne College. She teaches and writes on film, literature, gender, and popular culture. She is co-editor of A Due Voci: The Photography of Rita Hammond, and has published essays on film noir and the femme fatale, Todd Haynes; Karen Finley, Oscar Wilde; Thomas Hardy; and Henry James.

Civic Morning Musicals
Razika Djoudi, flute; Aurelien Eulert, piano

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

Debussy's Bilitis, music of Taktakishvili, Doppler, and others.

Billy Joel Visiting Composer Series
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring John Harbison

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

Harbison will work with students and faculty in preparation for the two public performances of his music on Nov. 14 and 15.

The programs will include Harbison's recent chamber, orchestral and wind music. Featured works include Three City Blocks for wind ensemble, conducted by faculty member John Laverty; orchestral overtures Remembering Gatsby and Darkbloom, conducted by faculty member James Tapia; Suite for Solo Cello, performed by cellist and affiliate artist Caroline Stinson; song cycle The Rewaking, performed by soprano and Setnor affiliate artist Janet Brown with the Cassatt String Quartet; and several chamber and vocal works performed by Setnor students.

Harbison is a composer best known for his operas and large choral works. Among his principal compositions are the cantata The Flight Into Egypt, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1987, and the opera The Great Gatsby, commissioned by The Metropolitan Opera to celebrate Maestro James Levine's 25th anniversary with the company and premiered to great acclaim in 1999. In 2006, he was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance for his composition Mottetti di Montale. One of Harbison's prime interests is furthering the work of young composers, and during his residency at the Setnor School he will work with composition students.

The Billy Joel Visiting Composer Series was endowed using a portion of a gift from entertainer Billy Joel. VPA was one of seven East Coast institutions awarded gifts in fall 2005 as part of Joels long-term commitment to music education and newly established music education initiative.

For more information on the Billy Joel Visiting Composer Series, contact the Setnor School of Music at 315-443-5892.

Free parking is available in Irving Garage.

Salvador Plascencia, fiction
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

Thursday, November 16, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase #57
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Visual Arts Showcase #57 features 19 local visual artists presenting work in varied media.
Featured Artists: Joan Applebaum, Dan Bacich, Marna Bell, Michael Berman, Judith Brown-Roenbeck, Robert Carroll, Joe Cerio, Anne Childress, Mary Lou Colgin, Shelly Coryell, Ben Donzella, Joy Englehart, Kathy Gibbons, Richard Karuzas, Steve Koh, Allen Kosoff, Joe LeFevre, Yolanda Tooley, Noelle Uebele

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

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

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Gordon Exhibit: Floating World
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Gordon Student Center Great Room
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exploring the vanished architecture and lifestyles of the Thousand Islands through the photography of Ian Coristine.

Green Towers
The Warehouse Gallery

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

An exhibit exploring the "green" design of the Bank of America tower, currently under construction at 1 Bryant Park in Manhatten.

Virgil Dombroski: Photographs
Westcott Community Center

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

Off the Wall Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Unlike most gallery shows, this sale allows buyers to purchase fine artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall." A portion of each sales commission helps to support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes the various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Enjoy the artwork of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful opportunity to find one-of-a-kind gifts, so bring your family and friends! Purchases can be made at the main desk.

African-American Constructs: Designs by Scott Ruff
Community Folk Art Center

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

Ruff is a professor of architecture at Syracuse University. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from Cornell University. He is the recipient of an Alpha Chi Ro Medal for leadership and service. Prior to joining the SU faculty, Ruff taught at Hampton University, the University at Buffalo and Cornell University. Ruff previously worked with the architectural firm of Foit-Albert and Associates.

Ruff formed Ruff Works Studio in 2003. Ruff Works specializes in research and design. One main focus of the studio is the research and cultivation of African-American aesthetics in spatial design. Ruff's publications include an article in Thresholds, "Spatial wRapping: A Speculation on Men's Hip-Hop Fashion," and a book review in the Journal of Architectural Education, "White Papers, Black Marks." He has lectured throughout the United States.

Heart Gallery Exhibit
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition is a collaboration between the Professional Photographers' Society of Central New York and the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Syracuse Regional Office. This is the second Heart Gallery exhibition in Central New York since 2004. Forty photographers donated their time and talents to create unique portraits of 53 children in foster care that are in need of a family. The Heart Gallery exhibition hopes to find adoptive families for the children participating, as well as to raise awareness around the need for foster and adoptive families here in Central New York and across the state.

Rik Pinkcombe: Perception and Deception
Light Work Gallery

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

The images in the exhibition, taken mostly in the Syracuse area, are digitally distorted and manipulated to represent the way that people's vision can become altered by outside pressures and influences such as consumerism, religion, government, education, and sports. One of the main themes behind Pinkcombe's work is identity -- he is particularly interested in how outside influences affect who people are. In some photographs he looks at racial identity through images of borders, bridges, and traffic stops, which link communities and also symbolize immigration and emigration. He also creates what he calls "theater images," where the photographs are manipulated and stripped of so much information that they begin to look like film sets or models.

Pinkcombe currently lives in London, England. He attended school at Blackpool College of Lancaster University. Recent exhibition venues include the Stephen Lawrence Gallery in Greenwich and the 921 Gallery in Hackney, Great Britain. Originally trained as a commercial photographer, Pinkcombe shifted to art photography after a prolonged battle with leukemia made him reevaluate his life. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in March 2005. Pinkcombe's residency was sponsored by Autograph: The Association of Black Photographers located in London.

2006 Light Work Grants
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition "2006 Light Work Grants" features the work of three Central New York photographers -- Laura Heyman, Thilde Jensen, and Rishi Singhal -- who were awarded grants through the 2006 Light Work Grant program. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. The grants also aim to foster an understanding and appreciation for photographic arts in Central New York.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

52nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
401 S. Salina St.
(formerly Dey Brothers Department Store building), Syracuse

Artists participating include members of the Camillus Art Association, Marcellus-Skaneateles Art Guild, North Syracuse Art Guild, Onondaga Art Guild, and Syracuse Ceramic Guild, as well as those participating independently, from the Central New York area.

The show and sale features paintings, sculptures, pottery, stained glass, jewelry, fabrics, soaps, wood, ceramics, and more! It's the perfect place to find those special holiday gifts for your friends and family.

ART MART is sponsored by Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc., and is a unique sale of original crafts and fine arts by artists and craftspeople from Central New York. Art Mart is supported, in part, by grants from Senator John A. DeFrancisco and Onondaga County, administered by the Cultural Resources Council of Syracuse and Onondaga County.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Faux Naturel
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cheerfully dark exhibition of young Canadian and American artists ponders deceit, nature, temptation and excess. Seven artists in Philadelphia, Montréal, Syracuse, and Toronto have created stunning visions of larger-than-life sculpture, tragicomedic video, striking collages, and intricate printmaking.

The exhibit contains recent works by Alex Da Corte (Philadelphia), Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby (Syracuse), Nick Lenker (Philadelphia), Annie MacDonell (Toronto), Allyson Mitchell (Toronto), and Andrea Vander Kooij (Montreal).

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Challenges in Contemporary Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Over 40 visual artists in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts are participating in the annual exhibition highlighting new work by the college's faculty. This year, for the first time, the exhibition has been organized on the theme of challenges chosen, faced, discovered and resolved by this diverse group of image and object makers.

As usual the show brings together a broad diversity of media, technique and inspiration. Visitors will be surprised by the range of objects on display and their breadth and depth of intellectual and emotional content. Traditional themes like portraiture, landscape and still life can be seen next to more experimental genres such as interactive installations and time based arts.

Making this exhibition especially interesting are the visual comparisons between artists working in the same subject area. Several artists are intrigued by landscape but their inspiration springs from sources as different as gardening, the subtle yet real transitions that occur in a landscape and discovering visually interesting fragments of urban settings. Other artists found life experience to inspire them: one used her experiences as a pediatric nurse to shape her imagery while another attempted to portray the music of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis through abstract drawings. Yet another used his family as subjects in a series of photographs that documented the family's travails.

Artistic Journeys
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibit features watercolors by Linda Abbey, oil paintings by Diane Menzies, mixed media drawings by Fred and Laura J. Wellner, and "Dance Themes: Pas de Deux," art by Judith Hand and Christine Patsos.

Linda Abbey uses the transparency and freshness of the watercolor medium itself to depict flowers and scenes from Venice, Italy. For this exhibit Linda will also be showing works in oil from a series of 40 small birch panels depicting Onondaga Park in Syracuse.

Diane Menzies has a strong passion for the natural world as is depicted in many of her oil paintings. The "North Lake Series" emerges from the Adirondack Mountains. They portray a reverence for this ancient place of deep waters and quietude of woods.

Fred Wellner creates surreal landscapes and abstractions using pencil, charcoal and watercolor. Fred states, "There is this paradoxical dance of order and chaos, suggesting that life cannot be entirely either and therefore must embrace both. When I apply pencil or brush, this resonates in my thoughts, much more so when I'm unfettered by precision, when working on surreal or abstract images."

Laura J. Wellner creates landscapes and abstractions inspired by nature using pencil, watercolor and pastel. Her drawings reflect the intricate wonders of a flower, the pearly surface of a shell, the ruffles of lichen on bark, rocks in water, clouds in sky, and then there are visualizations of music -- Beethoven mostly.

Judith Hand and Christine Patsos are exhibiting art about dance in their collaborative show titled "Dance Themes: Pas de Deux." Judith Hand's watercolors depict the basic positions in ballet. Her images are almost monochromatic paintings with different backgrounds accompanying manikins arranged in each ballet position. Christine Patsos uses pencil and watercolor wash or acrylic stain on Bristol board to portray ballet dancers.

The Canary Project
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Canary Project is a photographic presentation of the effects of global warming on 16 landscapes around the world. Its mission is to photograph areas that are exhibiting dramatic transformation due to global warming and to use these photographs to persuade as many people as possible that global warming is already underway and of immediate concern.

Edward and Susannah Morris, co-founders of the Canary Project, have traveled the world documenting the effects global warming is creating. The project derives its unusual name from the canaries once used by miners to warn of deadly methane levels. The project hopes to warn people of the harmful effects of global warming.

The Canary Project is an unusual opportunity to view landscapes affected by the changing global climate. The images comprising this exhibition take the viewer to countries they may never visit, but face the same impact from global warming that we all do.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

Dialogues and Solos: Contemporary Photography, Collage and Installation by Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Since Liliana Porter last presented her prints and paintings at Syracuse University (Crossing Boundaries, 1990), this world-renowned Argentinean artist has continued to explore and grow into new dimensions in photography and installation art. Her figurines and toys, her characters, are social, down to earth human creations, made in society's image and likeness.

Born in Uruguay, Ana Tiscornia was a witness-participant of Latin America's recent painful history. Her world is made out of digitalized photography intermingled with maps, fragmented objects, rolled pieces of paper, leftovers -- what we recall are broken sequences, broken at some critical point in our imagery, in our memory.

About the nature of this exhibit, the artists comment: "In order to say where our work intercepts, first we should establish that both artworks are different. While one is more philosophical, related to recurrent questions (Liliana), the other is more political and relates to current events (Ana). While one is dramatic, the other confronts human tragedy with humor. We do not pretend to erase that diversity but to use it as material for the new constructions. What we want is for the fusion of both languages to give birth to a narrative that could be for all intents and purposes fictional and mysterious, where the visual ambiguity opens new ways of interpretation and uncovers unexpected conflicts."

Johan Lowie: Call to Silence
Redhouse

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

An exhibition of oil paintings by Belgian artist Johan Lowie focuses on the human drama, while capturing personal stories and emotions in the Surrealist style.

"My work focuses on the human drama, capturing stories and emotions in one image. The story of waking up at four o'clock in the morning will all your negative feelings of doom, despair or the feeling of pure happiness. How does love feel? The loss of a friend, the first days of spring? The tale of sorrow or eufory captured in deep understanding, the theatre of life in a light of color and composition. How do you paint these human travels universally without showing the obvious but deeper meaning with color and composition."

The Perfect Body: Al₂O-2SiO₂-2H₂O
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

Five ceramic artists showcase their version of the perfect body.

Grace Hartigan: Painting the Past and Present
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences
Featuring Robert S. Mattison, Marshall R. Metzgar Professor at Lafayette College

Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Lecture in conjunction with the Special Collections Research Center exhibit "Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School."

This appearance is presented as part of the Syracuse Symposium, a semester-long intellectual and artistic festival that celebrates interdisciplinary thinking, imagination and creation. This year's theme is "Imagination." For more information on symposium events, visit symposium.syr.edu.

An Evening of Art Songs
Eileen Strempel, soprano; Sylvie Beaudette, piano; Sophia Kim, flute

Price: $5
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Clara Schumann Lieder
Nicholas Anthony Ascioti Four Settings of Margaret Atwood
Judith Cloud 3 songs from "Secret History of Water"
Nicholas Anthony Ascioti Natural Questions

SU Women's Choir
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Barbara M. Tagg, conductor

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

The 65-voice ensemble will perform works including David Brunner's Jubilate Deo, Veljo Tormis' Lauliku Lapsepoli, Gregg Smith's arrangement of America the Beautiful, Allister MacGillivray's Away from the Roll of the Sea, Martha Sullivan's recently premiered O Music, and spirituals Get on Board! and Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down by Sean Ivory and Paul Caldwell.

Vocal soloists include Allison Bruen, Kate DeSisto, Kerry McDermott, Amanda Shimkin and Amy Zubieta. Brass quintet includes Nathan Meredith, William Valenti, Kirsten Trachte, Nick Meyer and Eveny Parker. Michelle Di Bona is accompanist for the choir and will play the organ for the opening Jubilate Deo.

Free parking is available in Irving Garage.

A Cappella After Hours
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The one and only chance to see performances from all five of SU's a cappella groups: The Mandarins, Groovestand, Orange Appeal, Oy Cappella, and Main Squeeze.

Hijacked Holiday
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $29.95 plus tax and gratuities (includes meal and show)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive mystery/comedy dinner theater, about the theft of toys from Santa's sleigh.

Foibles and Folly
Cicero-North Syracuse High School

Price: $8 regular, $7 students/seniors
Cicero-North Syracuse High School
6002 State Route 31, Cicero

For more information, phone 315-218-4100.

Friday, November 17, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase #57
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Visual Arts Showcase #57 features 19 local visual artists presenting work in varied media.
Featured Artists: Joan Applebaum, Dan Bacich, Marna Bell, Michael Berman, Judith Brown-Roenbeck, Robert Carroll, Joe Cerio, Anne Childress, Mary Lou Colgin, Shelly Coryell, Ben Donzella, Joy Englehart, Kathy Gibbons, Richard Karuzas, Steve Koh, Allen Kosoff, Joe LeFevre, Yolanda Tooley, Noelle Uebele

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

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

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Gordon Exhibit: Floating World
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Gordon Student Center Great Room
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exploring the vanished architecture and lifestyles of the Thousand Islands through the photography of Ian Coristine.

Green Towers
The Warehouse Gallery

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

An exhibit exploring the "green" design of the Bank of America tower, currently under construction at 1 Bryant Park in Manhatten.

Virgil Dombroski: Photographs
Westcott Community Center

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

Off the Wall Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Unlike most gallery shows, this sale allows buyers to purchase fine artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall." A portion of each sales commission helps to support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes the various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Enjoy the artwork of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful opportunity to find one-of-a-kind gifts, so bring your family and friends! Purchases can be made at the main desk.

African-American Constructs: Designs by Scott Ruff
Community Folk Art Center

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

Ruff is a professor of architecture at Syracuse University. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from Cornell University. He is the recipient of an Alpha Chi Ro Medal for leadership and service. Prior to joining the SU faculty, Ruff taught at Hampton University, the University at Buffalo and Cornell University. Ruff previously worked with the architectural firm of Foit-Albert and Associates.

Ruff formed Ruff Works Studio in 2003. Ruff Works specializes in research and design. One main focus of the studio is the research and cultivation of African-American aesthetics in spatial design. Ruff's publications include an article in Thresholds, "Spatial wRapping: A Speculation on Men's Hip-Hop Fashion," and a book review in the Journal of Architectural Education, "White Papers, Black Marks." He has lectured throughout the United States.

Heart Gallery Exhibit
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition is a collaboration between the Professional Photographers' Society of Central New York and the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Syracuse Regional Office. This is the second Heart Gallery exhibition in Central New York since 2004. Forty photographers donated their time and talents to create unique portraits of 53 children in foster care that are in need of a family. The Heart Gallery exhibition hopes to find adoptive families for the children participating, as well as to raise awareness around the need for foster and adoptive families here in Central New York and across the state.

2006 Light Work Grants
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition "2006 Light Work Grants" features the work of three Central New York photographers -- Laura Heyman, Thilde Jensen, and Rishi Singhal -- who were awarded grants through the 2006 Light Work Grant program. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. The grants also aim to foster an understanding and appreciation for photographic arts in Central New York.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

52nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
401 S. Salina St.
(formerly Dey Brothers Department Store building), Syracuse

Artists participating include members of the Camillus Art Association, Marcellus-Skaneateles Art Guild, North Syracuse Art Guild, Onondaga Art Guild, and Syracuse Ceramic Guild, as well as those participating independently, from the Central New York area.

The show and sale features paintings, sculptures, pottery, stained glass, jewelry, fabrics, soaps, wood, ceramics, and more! It's the perfect place to find those special holiday gifts for your friends and family.

ART MART is sponsored by Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc., and is a unique sale of original crafts and fine arts by artists and craftspeople from Central New York. Art Mart is supported, in part, by grants from Senator John A. DeFrancisco and Onondaga County, administered by the Cultural Resources Council of Syracuse and Onondaga County.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Faux Naturel
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cheerfully dark exhibition of young Canadian and American artists ponders deceit, nature, temptation and excess. Seven artists in Philadelphia, Montréal, Syracuse, and Toronto have created stunning visions of larger-than-life sculpture, tragicomedic video, striking collages, and intricate printmaking.

The exhibit contains recent works by Alex Da Corte (Philadelphia), Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby (Syracuse), Nick Lenker (Philadelphia), Annie MacDonell (Toronto), Allyson Mitchell (Toronto), and Andrea Vander Kooij (Montreal).

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

Challenges in Contemporary Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Over 40 visual artists in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts are participating in the annual exhibition highlighting new work by the college's faculty. This year, for the first time, the exhibition has been organized on the theme of challenges chosen, faced, discovered and resolved by this diverse group of image and object makers.

As usual the show brings together a broad diversity of media, technique and inspiration. Visitors will be surprised by the range of objects on display and their breadth and depth of intellectual and emotional content. Traditional themes like portraiture, landscape and still life can be seen next to more experimental genres such as interactive installations and time based arts.

Making this exhibition especially interesting are the visual comparisons between artists working in the same subject area. Several artists are intrigued by landscape but their inspiration springs from sources as different as gardening, the subtle yet real transitions that occur in a landscape and discovering visually interesting fragments of urban settings. Other artists found life experience to inspire them: one used her experiences as a pediatric nurse to shape her imagery while another attempted to portray the music of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis through abstract drawings. Yet another used his family as subjects in a series of photographs that documented the family's travails.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Artistic Journeys
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibit features watercolors by Linda Abbey, oil paintings by Diane Menzies, mixed media drawings by Fred and Laura J. Wellner, and "Dance Themes: Pas de Deux," art by Judith Hand and Christine Patsos.

Linda Abbey uses the transparency and freshness of the watercolor medium itself to depict flowers and scenes from Venice, Italy. For this exhibit Linda will also be showing works in oil from a series of 40 small birch panels depicting Onondaga Park in Syracuse.

Diane Menzies has a strong passion for the natural world as is depicted in many of her oil paintings. The "North Lake Series" emerges from the Adirondack Mountains. They portray a reverence for this ancient place of deep waters and quietude of woods.

Fred Wellner creates surreal landscapes and abstractions using pencil, charcoal and watercolor. Fred states, "There is this paradoxical dance of order and chaos, suggesting that life cannot be entirely either and therefore must embrace both. When I apply pencil or brush, this resonates in my thoughts, much more so when I'm unfettered by precision, when working on surreal or abstract images."

Laura J. Wellner creates landscapes and abstractions inspired by nature using pencil, watercolor and pastel. Her drawings reflect the intricate wonders of a flower, the pearly surface of a shell, the ruffles of lichen on bark, rocks in water, clouds in sky, and then there are visualizations of music -- Beethoven mostly.

Judith Hand and Christine Patsos are exhibiting art about dance in their collaborative show titled "Dance Themes: Pas de Deux." Judith Hand's watercolors depict the basic positions in ballet. Her images are almost monochromatic paintings with different backgrounds accompanying manikins arranged in each ballet position. Christine Patsos uses pencil and watercolor wash or acrylic stain on Bristol board to portray ballet dancers.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

The Canary Project
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Canary Project is a photographic presentation of the effects of global warming on 16 landscapes around the world. Its mission is to photograph areas that are exhibiting dramatic transformation due to global warming and to use these photographs to persuade as many people as possible that global warming is already underway and of immediate concern.

Edward and Susannah Morris, co-founders of the Canary Project, have traveled the world documenting the effects global warming is creating. The project derives its unusual name from the canaries once used by miners to warn of deadly methane levels. The project hopes to warn people of the harmful effects of global warming.

The Canary Project is an unusual opportunity to view landscapes affected by the changing global climate. The images comprising this exhibition take the viewer to countries they may never visit, but face the same impact from global warming that we all do.

Dialogues and Solos: Contemporary Photography, Collage and Installation by Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Since Liliana Porter last presented her prints and paintings at Syracuse University (Crossing Boundaries, 1990), this world-renowned Argentinean artist has continued to explore and grow into new dimensions in photography and installation art. Her figurines and toys, her characters, are social, down to earth human creations, made in society's image and likeness.

Born in Uruguay, Ana Tiscornia was a witness-participant of Latin America's recent painful history. Her world is made out of digitalized photography intermingled with maps, fragmented objects, rolled pieces of paper, leftovers -- what we recall are broken sequences, broken at some critical point in our imagery, in our memory.

About the nature of this exhibit, the artists comment: "In order to say where our work intercepts, first we should establish that both artworks are different. While one is more philosophical, related to recurrent questions (Liliana), the other is more political and relates to current events (Ana). While one is dramatic, the other confronts human tragedy with humor. We do not pretend to erase that diversity but to use it as material for the new constructions. What we want is for the fusion of both languages to give birth to a narrative that could be for all intents and purposes fictional and mysterious, where the visual ambiguity opens new ways of interpretation and uncovers unexpected conflicts."

Johan Lowie: Call to Silence
Redhouse

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

An exhibition of oil paintings by Belgian artist Johan Lowie focuses on the human drama, while capturing personal stories and emotions in the Surrealist style.

"My work focuses on the human drama, capturing stories and emotions in one image. The story of waking up at four o'clock in the morning will all your negative feelings of doom, despair or the feeling of pure happiness. How does love feel? The loss of a friend, the first days of spring? The tale of sorrow or eufory captured in deep understanding, the theatre of life in a light of color and composition. How do you paint these human travels universally without showing the obvious but deeper meaning with color and composition."

The Nutcracker
Moscow Ballet

Price: $22-$67 adults; $22-$57 children
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Artist Talk: Allyson Mitchell
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In conjunction with Faux Naturel exhibit at The Warehouse Gallery, artist Allyson Mitchell will give a talk. Allyson Mitchell is a maximalist artist, filmmaker, writer, and performer living in Toronto, Canada. She works primarily in the craft tradition, often with found textiles and the abandoned craft projects of others. Mitchell teaches feminist activism and popular culture at York University, and has coined the term Deep Lez for a movement that works to maintain the radical in lesbian.

Signature Concert
Signature Music

Price: $10 adults; $8 with student ID
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Concert featuring Signature Syracuse students playing jazz standards and holiday favorites.

An International Festival of Music and Dance
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Program features the South Asian Students Association, Cheon Ji Korean Drummers, ODESA Ukrainian Dance Troupe, La Familia de la Salsa, Adanfo African Drum and Dance Company

Folkus Project
David Massengill

Price: $10
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Spell-binding songwriter and storyteller.

Redhouse Live: J-san & The Analogue Sons
Redhouse

Price: $10
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Frontman rebel charm and forthright Tuffsoul make J-san & The Analogue Sons a life-force that evoked the integrity of Bob Marley and the romance of Marvin Gaye. With J-san we are united, reminded of struggle, inspired to seek resolution, and left feeling fulfilled and bright.

Classics Series: Mozart's Requiem
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Syracuse University Oratorio Society

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

Rouse Ogoun Badagris
Bartok Music for Strings, Celeste and Percussion
Mozart Requiem

Read a review!

Foibles and Folly
Cicero-North Syracuse High School

Price: $8 regular, $7 students/seniors
Cicero-North Syracuse High School
6002 State Route 31, Cicero

For more information, phone 315-218-4100.

The Man Who Came to Dinner
West Genesee High School Drama Club

Price: $6 regular, $5 students/seniors
West Genesee High School
5201 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-487-4612.

The Skin of Our Teeth
Manlius Pebble Hill Upper-School

Price: $10
Manlius Pebble Hill School
5300 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

For more information, phone 315-446-2452, ext 120.

I Wanna be a Famous Artist (in Musical Theater)
Theatre '90

Price: $15
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Inspired by "Americal Idol" and "So You Think You Can Dance," the show will feature 60 participants aged 8 - 18 all vying for the top prize of $1,000 in each of three age categories.

Caucasian Chalk Circle
Black Box Players

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

The Women of Lockerbie

Price: $10 in advance; $12 at the door
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The fictional story of a mother searching Lockerbie, Scotland for her son's remains after the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing in 1988.

For more information or to reserve tickets, phone 315-415-1809.

Rookery Nook
Syracuse University Drama Department
Elizabeth Ingram, director

Price: $16 regular; $14 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Ben Travers' popular 1920s comedy, Rookery Nook, is one of Travers' nine "Aldwych farces." Rookery Nook is set in 1926 and centers on Gerald Popkiss, a recently married playboy who suddenly finds himself traveling alone when his new wife, Clara, is waylaid by her mother's sudden illness. When Gerald arrives in Rookery Nook, his philandering instincts kick in when he happens upon a pretty young girl dressed only in pink pajamas who has been thrown out of the house next door to his. Hilarity ensues when Gerald struggles to properly outfit the girl and keep her hidden from his sister-in-law, Gertrude, and nosy maid, Mrs. Leverett. Hailed as the "Master of the Farce," Travers enjoyed his greatest popularity during the interwar years, and the good-humored absurdity of his plays is credited as the inspiration for the famous Whitehall farces.

Read a Review!

Saturday, November 18, 2006

Off the Wall Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Unlike most gallery shows, this sale allows buyers to purchase fine artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall." A portion of each sales commission helps to support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes the various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Enjoy the artwork of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful opportunity to find one-of-a-kind gifts, so bring your family and friends! Purchases can be made at the main desk.

Artistic Journeys
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibit features watercolors by Linda Abbey, oil paintings by Diane Menzies, mixed media drawings by Fred and Laura J. Wellner, and "Dance Themes: Pas de Deux," art by Judith Hand and Christine Patsos.

Linda Abbey uses the transparency and freshness of the watercolor medium itself to depict flowers and scenes from Venice, Italy. For this exhibit Linda will also be showing works in oil from a series of 40 small birch panels depicting Onondaga Park in Syracuse.

Diane Menzies has a strong passion for the natural world as is depicted in many of her oil paintings. The "North Lake Series" emerges from the Adirondack Mountains. They portray a reverence for this ancient place of deep waters and quietude of woods.

Fred Wellner creates surreal landscapes and abstractions using pencil, charcoal and watercolor. Fred states, "There is this paradoxical dance of order and chaos, suggesting that life cannot be entirely either and therefore must embrace both. When I apply pencil or brush, this resonates in my thoughts, much more so when I'm unfettered by precision, when working on surreal or abstract images."

Laura J. Wellner creates landscapes and abstractions inspired by nature using pencil, watercolor and pastel. Her drawings reflect the intricate wonders of a flower, the pearly surface of a shell, the ruffles of lichen on bark, rocks in water, clouds in sky, and then there are visualizations of music -- Beethoven mostly.

Judith Hand and Christine Patsos are exhibiting art about dance in their collaborative show titled "Dance Themes: Pas de Deux." Judith Hand's watercolors depict the basic positions in ballet. Her images are almost monochromatic paintings with different backgrounds accompanying manikins arranged in each ballet position. Christine Patsos uses pencil and watercolor wash or acrylic stain on Bristol board to portray ballet dancers.

The Canary Project
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Canary Project is a photographic presentation of the effects of global warming on 16 landscapes around the world. Its mission is to photograph areas that are exhibiting dramatic transformation due to global warming and to use these photographs to persuade as many people as possible that global warming is already underway and of immediate concern.

Edward and Susannah Morris, co-founders of the Canary Project, have traveled the world documenting the effects global warming is creating. The project derives its unusual name from the canaries once used by miners to warn of deadly methane levels. The project hopes to warn people of the harmful effects of global warming.

The Canary Project is an unusual opportunity to view landscapes affected by the changing global climate. The images comprising this exhibition take the viewer to countries they may never visit, but face the same impact from global warming that we all do.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

52nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
401 S. Salina St.
(formerly Dey Brothers Department Store building), Syracuse

Artists participating include members of the Camillus Art Association, Marcellus-Skaneateles Art Guild, North Syracuse Art Guild, Onondaga Art Guild, and Syracuse Ceramic Guild, as well as those participating independently, from the Central New York area.

The show and sale features paintings, sculptures, pottery, stained glass, jewelry, fabrics, soaps, wood, ceramics, and more! It's the perfect place to find those special holiday gifts for your friends and family.

ART MART is sponsored by Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc., and is a unique sale of original crafts and fine arts by artists and craftspeople from Central New York. Art Mart is supported, in part, by grants from Senator John A. DeFrancisco and Onondaga County, administered by the Cultural Resources Council of Syracuse and Onondaga County.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Faux Naturel
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cheerfully dark exhibition of young Canadian and American artists ponders deceit, nature, temptation and excess. Seven artists in Philadelphia, Montréal, Syracuse, and Toronto have created stunning visions of larger-than-life sculpture, tragicomedic video, striking collages, and intricate printmaking.

The exhibit contains recent works by Alex Da Corte (Philadelphia), Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby (Syracuse), Nick Lenker (Philadelphia), Annie MacDonell (Toronto), Allyson Mitchell (Toronto), and Andrea Vander Kooij (Montreal).

African-American Constructs: Designs by Scott Ruff
Community Folk Art Center

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

Ruff is a professor of architecture at Syracuse University. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from Cornell University. He is the recipient of an Alpha Chi Ro Medal for leadership and service. Prior to joining the SU faculty, Ruff taught at Hampton University, the University at Buffalo and Cornell University. Ruff previously worked with the architectural firm of Foit-Albert and Associates.

Ruff formed Ruff Works Studio in 2003. Ruff Works specializes in research and design. One main focus of the studio is the research and cultivation of African-American aesthetics in spatial design. Ruff's publications include an article in Thresholds, "Spatial wRapping: A Speculation on Men's Hip-Hop Fashion," and a book review in the Journal of Architectural Education, "White Papers, Black Marks." He has lectured throughout the United States.

Heart Gallery Exhibit
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition is a collaboration between the Professional Photographers' Society of Central New York and the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Syracuse Regional Office. This is the second Heart Gallery exhibition in Central New York since 2004. Forty photographers donated their time and talents to create unique portraits of 53 children in foster care that are in need of a family. The Heart Gallery exhibition hopes to find adoptive families for the children participating, as well as to raise awareness around the need for foster and adoptive families here in Central New York and across the state.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Challenges in Contemporary Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Over 40 visual artists in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts are participating in the annual exhibition highlighting new work by the college's faculty. This year, for the first time, the exhibition has been organized on the theme of challenges chosen, faced, discovered and resolved by this diverse group of image and object makers.

As usual the show brings together a broad diversity of media, technique and inspiration. Visitors will be surprised by the range of objects on display and their breadth and depth of intellectual and emotional content. Traditional themes like portraiture, landscape and still life can be seen next to more experimental genres such as interactive installations and time based arts.

Making this exhibition especially interesting are the visual comparisons between artists working in the same subject area. Several artists are intrigued by landscape but their inspiration springs from sources as different as gardening, the subtle yet real transitions that occur in a landscape and discovering visually interesting fragments of urban settings. Other artists found life experience to inspire them: one used her experiences as a pediatric nurse to shape her imagery while another attempted to portray the music of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis through abstract drawings. Yet another used his family as subjects in a series of photographs that documented the family's travails.

Johan Lowie: Call to Silence
Redhouse

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

An exhibition of oil paintings by Belgian artist Johan Lowie focuses on the human drama, while capturing personal stories and emotions in the Surrealist style.

"My work focuses on the human drama, capturing stories and emotions in one image. The story of waking up at four o'clock in the morning will all your negative feelings of doom, despair or the feeling of pure happiness. How does love feel? The loss of a friend, the first days of spring? The tale of sorrow or eufory captured in deep understanding, the theatre of life in a light of color and composition. How do you paint these human travels universally without showing the obvious but deeper meaning with color and composition."

One The Movie
Redhouse

Price: $7
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

What types of questions do these spiritual masters answer?
* What happens to you after you die?
* Describe God.
* When is war justifiable?
* What is the meaning of life?
* How would God want us to respond to aggression and terrorism?

A new documentary exploring the meaning of life with interviews from the world's spiritual and religious leaders including Deepak Chopra, Thich Nhat Hanh, Father Thomas Keating, Robert Thurman, the Dalai Lama and more.

As baby boomers mature and a new generation of 'meaning seeking' movie-goers flood into the movie houses in search of films that challenge convention, inspire thought and stir the soul, this backyard film from the Midwest that has been called a "deeply moving film," may just help unite humanity.

Classics Series: Mozart's Requiem
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Syracuse University Oratorio Society

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

Rouse Ogoun Badagris
Bartok Music for Strings, Celeste and Percussion
Mozart Requiem

Read a review!

Aladdin
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

The Man Who Came to Dinner
West Genesee High School Drama Club

Price: $6 regular, $5 students/seniors
West Genesee High School
5201 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-487-4612.

The Scarlet Letter
Syracuse Civic Theatre

Price: $24 regular, $20students/seniors, $16 children 12 and under
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Read a review!

The Man Who Came to Dinner
West Genesee High School Drama Club

Price: $6 regular, $5 students/seniors
West Genesee High School
5201 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-487-4612.

The Skin of Our Teeth
Manlius Pebble Hill Upper-School

Price: $10
Manlius Pebble Hill School
5300 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

For more information, phone 315-446-2452, ext 120.

I Wanna be a Famous Artist (in Musical Theater)
Theatre '90

Price: $15
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Inspired by "Americal Idol" and "So You Think You Can Dance," the show will feature 60 participants aged 8 - 18 all vying for the top prize of $1,000 in each of three age categories.

Caucasian Chalk Circle
Black Box Players

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

The Women of Lockerbie

Price: $10 in advance; $12 at the door
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The fictional story of a mother searching Lockerbie, Scotland for her son's remains after the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing in 1988.

For more information or to reserve tickets, phone 315-415-1809.

Rookery Nook
Syracuse University Drama Department
Elizabeth Ingram, director

Price: $16 regular; $14 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Ben Travers' popular 1920s comedy, Rookery Nook, is one of Travers' nine "Aldwych farces." Rookery Nook is set in 1926 and centers on Gerald Popkiss, a recently married playboy who suddenly finds himself traveling alone when his new wife, Clara, is waylaid by her mother's sudden illness. When Gerald arrives in Rookery Nook, his philandering instincts kick in when he happens upon a pretty young girl dressed only in pink pajamas who has been thrown out of the house next door to his. Hilarity ensues when Gerald struggles to properly outfit the girl and keep her hidden from his sister-in-law, Gertrude, and nosy maid, Mrs. Leverett. Hailed as the "Master of the Farce," Travers enjoyed his greatest popularity during the interwar years, and the good-humored absurdity of his plays is credited as the inspiration for the famous Whitehall farces.

Read a Review!

Sunday, November 19, 2006

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Challenges in Contemporary Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Over 40 visual artists in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts are participating in the annual exhibition highlighting new work by the college's faculty. This year, for the first time, the exhibition has been organized on the theme of challenges chosen, faced, discovered and resolved by this diverse group of image and object makers.

As usual the show brings together a broad diversity of media, technique and inspiration. Visitors will be surprised by the range of objects on display and their breadth and depth of intellectual and emotional content. Traditional themes like portraiture, landscape and still life can be seen next to more experimental genres such as interactive installations and time based arts.

Making this exhibition especially interesting are the visual comparisons between artists working in the same subject area. Several artists are intrigued by landscape but their inspiration springs from sources as different as gardening, the subtle yet real transitions that occur in a landscape and discovering visually interesting fragments of urban settings. Other artists found life experience to inspire them: one used her experiences as a pediatric nurse to shape her imagery while another attempted to portray the music of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis through abstract drawings. Yet another used his family as subjects in a series of photographs that documented the family's travails.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

The Canary Project
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Canary Project is a photographic presentation of the effects of global warming on 16 landscapes around the world. Its mission is to photograph areas that are exhibiting dramatic transformation due to global warming and to use these photographs to persuade as many people as possible that global warming is already underway and of immediate concern.

Edward and Susannah Morris, co-founders of the Canary Project, have traveled the world documenting the effects global warming is creating. The project derives its unusual name from the canaries once used by miners to warn of deadly methane levels. The project hopes to warn people of the harmful effects of global warming.

The Canary Project is an unusual opportunity to view landscapes affected by the changing global climate. The images comprising this exhibition take the viewer to countries they may never visit, but face the same impact from global warming that we all do.

Off the Wall Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Unlike most gallery shows, this sale allows buyers to purchase fine artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall." A portion of each sales commission helps to support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes the various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Enjoy the artwork of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful opportunity to find one-of-a-kind gifts, so bring your family and friends! Purchases can be made at the main desk.

Liverpool Schools Faculty Recital
Arts Alive in Liverpool

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

In Recital: 25 Years with the SSO
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Andrew Zaplatynsky, violin

Price: $15
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Mozart Duo in B-flat for Violin and Viola, K. 424
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet, op. 10
Brahms Sextet for Strings in B-flat, No. 1, op. 18

A Cavalcade of Popular Music
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Phil Klein, piano

Price: $10
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

One-man show highlighting the best in American song of the last 125 years.

Reservations are recommended -- phone 315-469-4675.

Nan Hoffman, family concert
Fayetteville Free Library

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

Spark Contemporary Art Space
Wolf Colonel + Tiger Saw + Annie Palmer

Price: $5
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Wolf Colonel (aka Jason Anderson) has been around. He's been the drummer for Yume Bitsu and the Microphones; he's played keyboards for David Dondero and recorded with Mirah, Calvin Johnson and the Blow. He's toured with Mark Robinson, Little Wings and Son, Ambulance since 2002 he's spent 14 months on the road. With a seemingly insatiable appetite for travel and music, Jason is a true wandering troubadour, playing anywhere and everywhere, and always trying to grow. Represented by K Records.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
SU Flute and Trumpet Ensembles

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

The flute ensemble will appear under the direction of Deborah Coble, adjunct instructor in the Setnor School of Music. Daniel Sapochetti, also an instructor in the Setnor School, will direct the trumpet ensemble. The program will include music by Gossec, McMichael, Scott, Stravinsky, Bozza and Scheidt.

For more information, contact Coble at 315-451-3584.

Free parking is available in Irving Garage.

The Skin of Our Teeth
Manlius Pebble Hill Upper-School

Price: $10
Manlius Pebble Hill School
5300 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

For more information, phone 315-446-2452, ext 120.

Rookery Nook
Syracuse University Drama Department
Elizabeth Ingram, director

Price: $16 regular; $14 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Ben Travers' popular 1920s comedy, Rookery Nook, is one of Travers' nine "Aldwych farces." Rookery Nook is set in 1926 and centers on Gerald Popkiss, a recently married playboy who suddenly finds himself traveling alone when his new wife, Clara, is waylaid by her mother's sudden illness. When Gerald arrives in Rookery Nook, his philandering instincts kick in when he happens upon a pretty young girl dressed only in pink pajamas who has been thrown out of the house next door to his. Hilarity ensues when Gerald struggles to properly outfit the girl and keep her hidden from his sister-in-law, Gertrude, and nosy maid, Mrs. Leverett. Hailed as the "Master of the Farce," Travers enjoyed his greatest popularity during the interwar years, and the good-humored absurdity of his plays is credited as the inspiration for the famous Whitehall farces.

Read a Review!

I Wanna be a Famous Artist (in Musical Theater)
Theatre '90

Price: $15
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Inspired by "Americal Idol" and "So You Think You Can Dance," the show will feature 60 participants aged 8 - 18 all vying for the top prize of $1,000 in each of three age categories.

Caucasian Chalk Circle
Black Box Players

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

Monday, November 20, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase #57
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Visual Arts Showcase #57 features 19 local visual artists presenting work in varied media.
Featured Artists: Joan Applebaum, Dan Bacich, Marna Bell, Michael Berman, Judith Brown-Roenbeck, Robert Carroll, Joe Cerio, Anne Childress, Mary Lou Colgin, Shelly Coryell, Ben Donzella, Joy Englehart, Kathy Gibbons, Richard Karuzas, Steve Koh, Allen Kosoff, Joe LeFevre, Yolanda Tooley, Noelle Uebele

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

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

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Gallery Exhibit: OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Gordon Exhibit: Floating World
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Gordon Student Center Great Room
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exploring the vanished architecture and lifestyles of the Thousand Islands through the photography of Ian Coristine.

Green Towers
The Warehouse Gallery

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

An exhibit exploring the "green" design of the Bank of America tower, currently under construction at 1 Bryant Park in Manhatten.

Virgil Dombroski: Photographs
Westcott Community Center

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

Off the Wall Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Unlike most gallery shows, this sale allows buyers to purchase fine artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall." A portion of each sales commission helps to support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes the various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Enjoy the artwork of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful opportunity to find one-of-a-kind gifts, so bring your family and friends! Purchases can be made at the main desk.

Heart Gallery Exhibit
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition is a collaboration between the Professional Photographers' Society of Central New York and the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Syracuse Regional Office. This is the second Heart Gallery exhibition in Central New York since 2004. Forty photographers donated their time and talents to create unique portraits of 53 children in foster care that are in need of a family. The Heart Gallery exhibition hopes to find adoptive families for the children participating, as well as to raise awareness around the need for foster and adoptive families here in Central New York and across the state.

Rik Pinkcombe: Perception and Deception
Light Work Gallery

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

The images in the exhibition, taken mostly in the Syracuse area, are digitally distorted and manipulated to represent the way that people's vision can become altered by outside pressures and influences such as consumerism, religion, government, education, and sports. One of the main themes behind Pinkcombe's work is identity -- he is particularly interested in how outside influences affect who people are. In some photographs he looks at racial identity through images of borders, bridges, and traffic stops, which link communities and also symbolize immigration and emigration. He also creates what he calls "theater images," where the photographs are manipulated and stripped of so much information that they begin to look like film sets or models.

Pinkcombe currently lives in London, England. He attended school at Blackpool College of Lancaster University. Recent exhibition venues include the Stephen Lawrence Gallery in Greenwich and the 921 Gallery in Hackney, Great Britain. Originally trained as a commercial photographer, Pinkcombe shifted to art photography after a prolonged battle with leukemia made him reevaluate his life. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in March 2005. Pinkcombe's residency was sponsored by Autograph: The Association of Black Photographers located in London.

2006 Light Work Grants
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition "2006 Light Work Grants" features the work of three Central New York photographers -- Laura Heyman, Thilde Jensen, and Rishi Singhal -- who were awarded grants through the 2006 Light Work Grant program. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. The grants also aim to foster an understanding and appreciation for photographic arts in Central New York.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

52nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
401 S. Salina St.
(formerly Dey Brothers Department Store building), Syracuse

Artists participating include members of the Camillus Art Association, Marcellus-Skaneateles Art Guild, North Syracuse Art Guild, Onondaga Art Guild, and Syracuse Ceramic Guild, as well as those participating independently, from the Central New York area.

The show and sale features paintings, sculptures, pottery, stained glass, jewelry, fabrics, soaps, wood, ceramics, and more! It's the perfect place to find those special holiday gifts for your friends and family.

ART MART is sponsored by Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc., and is a unique sale of original crafts and fine arts by artists and craftspeople from Central New York. Art Mart is supported, in part, by grants from Senator John A. DeFrancisco and Onondaga County, administered by the Cultural Resources Council of Syracuse and Onondaga County.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Dialogues and Solos: Contemporary Photography, Collage and Installation by Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Since Liliana Porter last presented her prints and paintings at Syracuse University (Crossing Boundaries, 1990), this world-renowned Argentinean artist has continued to explore and grow into new dimensions in photography and installation art. Her figurines and toys, her characters, are social, down to earth human creations, made in society's image and likeness.

Born in Uruguay, Ana Tiscornia was a witness-participant of Latin America's recent painful history. Her world is made out of digitalized photography intermingled with maps, fragmented objects, rolled pieces of paper, leftovers -- what we recall are broken sequences, broken at some critical point in our imagery, in our memory.

About the nature of this exhibit, the artists comment: "In order to say where our work intercepts, first we should establish that both artworks are different. While one is more philosophical, related to recurrent questions (Liliana), the other is more political and relates to current events (Ana). While one is dramatic, the other confronts human tragedy with humor. We do not pretend to erase that diversity but to use it as material for the new constructions. What we want is for the fusion of both languages to give birth to a narrative that could be for all intents and purposes fictional and mysterious, where the visual ambiguity opens new ways of interpretation and uncovers unexpected conflicts."

Syracuse Set List: Gospel
Redhouse

Price: $10
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Charles Cannon and The Bells of Harmony are celebrating 40 years of singing gospel music with a very special performance at the Redhouse. The show is a part of the Syracuse Set List monthly songwriting series and is going to be recorded. The group's brand new live CD will also be available.

The Bells of Harmony have shared the stage with at sold-out shows with three-time Grammy winners The Mighty Clouds of Joy and with Grammy winner Shirley Ceasar. The group has also been recognized locally with a SAMMY Award, CNY Urban Music Award and various civic awards including the National Council of Negro Women Community Service award.

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase #57
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Visual Arts Showcase #57 features 19 local visual artists presenting work in varied media.
Featured Artists: Joan Applebaum, Dan Bacich, Marna Bell, Michael Berman, Judith Brown-Roenbeck, Robert Carroll, Joe Cerio, Anne Childress, Mary Lou Colgin, Shelly Coryell, Ben Donzella, Joy Englehart, Kathy Gibbons, Richard Karuzas, Steve Koh, Allen Kosoff, Joe LeFevre, Yolanda Tooley, Noelle Uebele

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

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

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Gordon Exhibit: Floating World
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Gordon Student Center Great Room
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exploring the vanished architecture and lifestyles of the Thousand Islands through the photography of Ian Coristine.

Gallery Exhibit: OCC Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Green Towers
The Warehouse Gallery

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

An exhibit exploring the "green" design of the Bank of America tower, currently under construction at 1 Bryant Park in Manhatten.

Off the Wall Show and Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Unlike most gallery shows, this sale allows buyers to purchase fine artwork that can be taken home immediately, and so it's "Off The Wall." A portion of each sales commission helps to support the Manlius Library general fund and the remainder subsidizes the various community activities and educational programs of Associated Artists. Enjoy the artwork of the many talented and well-known members of this group. This is a wonderful opportunity to find one-of-a-kind gifts, so bring your family and friends! Purchases can be made at the main desk.

Heart Gallery Exhibit
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition is a collaboration between the Professional Photographers' Society of Central New York and the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Syracuse Regional Office. This is the second Heart Gallery exhibition in Central New York since 2004. Forty photographers donated their time and talents to create unique portraits of 53 children in foster care that are in need of a family. The Heart Gallery exhibition hopes to find adoptive families for the children participating, as well as to raise awareness around the need for foster and adoptive families here in Central New York and across the state.

African-American Constructs: Designs by Scott Ruff
Community Folk Art Center

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

Ruff is a professor of architecture at Syracuse University. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from Cornell University. He is the recipient of an Alpha Chi Ro Medal for leadership and service. Prior to joining the SU faculty, Ruff taught at Hampton University, the University at Buffalo and Cornell University. Ruff previously worked with the architectural firm of Foit-Albert and Associates.

Ruff formed Ruff Works Studio in 2003. Ruff Works specializes in research and design. One main focus of the studio is the research and cultivation of African-American aesthetics in spatial design. Ruff's publications include an article in Thresholds, "Spatial wRapping: A Speculation on Men's Hip-Hop Fashion," and a book review in the Journal of Architectural Education, "White Papers, Black Marks." He has lectured throughout the United States.

Rik Pinkcombe: Perception and Deception
Light Work Gallery

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

The images in the exhibition, taken mostly in the Syracuse area, are digitally distorted and manipulated to represent the way that people's vision can become altered by outside pressures and influences such as consumerism, religion, government, education, and sports. One of the main themes behind Pinkcombe's work is identity -- he is particularly interested in how outside influences affect who people are. In some photographs he looks at racial identity through images of borders, bridges, and traffic stops, which link communities and also symbolize immigration and emigration. He also creates what he calls "theater images," where the photographs are manipulated and stripped of so much information that they begin to look like film sets or models.

Pinkcombe currently lives in London, England. He attended school at Blackpool College of Lancaster University. Recent exhibition venues include the Stephen Lawrence Gallery in Greenwich and the 921 Gallery in Hackney, Great Britain. Originally trained as a commercial photographer, Pinkcombe shifted to art photography after a prolonged battle with leukemia made him reevaluate his life. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in March 2005. Pinkcombe's residency was sponsored by Autograph: The Association of Black Photographers located in London.

2006 Light Work Grants
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition "2006 Light Work Grants" features the work of three Central New York photographers -- Laura Heyman, Thilde Jensen, and Rishi Singhal -- who were awarded grants through the 2006 Light Work Grant program. The Light Work Grants in Photography program is a part of Light Work's ongoing effort to provide support and encouragement to artists working in photography. The grants also aim to foster an understanding and appreciation for photographic arts in Central New York.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

52nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
401 S. Salina St.
(formerly Dey Brothers Department Store building), Syracuse

Artists participating include members of the Camillus Art Association, Marcellus-Skaneateles Art Guild, North Syracuse Art Guild, Onondaga Art Guild, and Syracuse Ceramic Guild, as well as those participating independently, from the Central New York area.

The show and sale features paintings, sculptures, pottery, stained glass, jewelry, fabrics, soaps, wood, ceramics, and more! It's the perfect place to find those special holiday gifts for your friends and family.

ART MART is sponsored by Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc., and is a unique sale of original crafts and fine arts by artists and craftspeople from Central New York. Art Mart is supported, in part, by grants from Senator John A. DeFrancisco and Onondaga County, administered by the Cultural Resources Council of Syracuse and Onondaga County.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Faux Naturel
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cheerfully dark exhibition of young Canadian and American artists ponders deceit, nature, temptation and excess. Seven artists in Philadelphia, Montréal, Syracuse, and Toronto have created stunning visions of larger-than-life sculpture, tragicomedic video, striking collages, and intricate printmaking.

The exhibit contains recent works by Alex Da Corte (Philadelphia), Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby (Syracuse), Nick Lenker (Philadelphia), Annie MacDonell (Toronto), Allyson Mitchell (Toronto), and Andrea Vander Kooij (Montreal).

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Challenges in Contemporary Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Over 40 visual artists in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts are participating in the annual exhibition highlighting new work by the college's faculty. This year, for the first time, the exhibition has been organized on the theme of challenges chosen, faced, discovered and resolved by this diverse group of image and object makers.

As usual the show brings together a broad diversity of media, technique and inspiration. Visitors will be surprised by the range of objects on display and their breadth and depth of intellectual and emotional content. Traditional themes like portraiture, landscape and still life can be seen next to more experimental genres such as interactive installations and time based arts.

Making this exhibition especially interesting are the visual comparisons between artists working in the same subject area. Several artists are intrigued by landscape but their inspiration springs from sources as different as gardening, the subtle yet real transitions that occur in a landscape and discovering visually interesting fragments of urban settings. Other artists found life experience to inspire them: one used her experiences as a pediatric nurse to shape her imagery while another attempted to portray the music of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis through abstract drawings. Yet another used his family as subjects in a series of photographs that documented the family's travails.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

Dialogues and Solos: Contemporary Photography, Collage and Installation by Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Since Liliana Porter last presented her prints and paintings at Syracuse University (Crossing Boundaries, 1990), this world-renowned Argentinean artist has continued to explore and grow into new dimensions in photography and installation art. Her figurines and toys, her characters, are social, down to earth human creations, made in society's image and likeness.

Born in Uruguay, Ana Tiscornia was a witness-participant of Latin America's recent painful history. Her world is made out of digitalized photography intermingled with maps, fragmented objects, rolled pieces of paper, leftovers -- what we recall are broken sequences, broken at some critical point in our imagery, in our memory.

About the nature of this exhibit, the artists comment: "In order to say where our work intercepts, first we should establish that both artworks are different. While one is more philosophical, related to recurrent questions (Liliana), the other is more political and relates to current events (Ana). While one is dramatic, the other confronts human tragedy with humor. We do not pretend to erase that diversity but to use it as material for the new constructions. What we want is for the fusion of both languages to give birth to a narrative that could be for all intents and purposes fictional and mysterious, where the visual ambiguity opens new ways of interpretation and uncovers unexpected conflicts."