Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Christopher & Richard Williams: "Art as Catharsis: Watch Out I Need to Purge"
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Join us for an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and sketches by brothers Christopher and Richards Williams. The brothers share a conviction that art is a representation of ideas that reflect and comment on our social disorder. Creating images that are disturbing, allegorical, and provocative, the artists challenge the viewer to see the world through their eyes.

Christopher Williams has exhibited his work throughout the U.S. Richard Williams is a professional illustrator and portrait artist. His work is in the private collections of Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Howard Stern.

Silk: Photographs by Courtney Rile
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Recent Work by Michael Flanagan and Tyrone Johnson-Neuland
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

The exhibit showcases a series of mixed media works.

The Silent Scream: Conflict in Novels Without Words
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Library has always had a keen interest in all forms of book illustration, and not surprisingly, novels without words became a significant collecting area. Over time, we have amassed a considerable number of the classic specimens in the genre, and the main practitioners of the art form are well represented within our holdings. We developed this exhibition in keeping with the Syracuse Symposium theme for the coming year, "conflict." The artists upon whom we focused are William Gropper, Laurence Hyde, Frans Masereel, Giacomo Patri, John Vassos, and Lynd Ward.

In addition to conflict, novels without words often portray a quest on the part of the individual. This may assume the form of a journey or a saga about the search for self-fulfillment in artistic or purely personal terms, or the quest may have as its primary objective achieving social justice in a particular context. Because of the historical period in which many of these wordless novels were born, they often depict a struggle between the individual and the industrialized world. Industrialization and, by extension, capitalism, may be seen as forces that are fundamentally antagonistic to the interests of the individual and of society in general. Similarly, the law, the police, and the armed forces may all be viewed as instruments of repression in novels without words.

The creators of novels without words also tend to scrutinize the brutal forms of war and tyranny that are made possible by industrialization. In truth, any injustice may become the subject of such works, and perhaps just the cruel nature of our existential struggle to survive in an inherently hostile environment is all the background that is needed to provide the inspiration for the creation of a novel without words.

Visual Trips, No Passport Required
Westcott Community Art Gallery
The Syracuse Photographers Association

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

"Visual Trips, No Passport Required" is a collection of works by members of The Syracuse Photographers Association, and "Partially Abandoned Factory," a solo show within the show, is by the group's organizer and founding member, Mindy Lee Tarry. Color and creativity abounds and many of the framed ink jet prints are for sale, to help raise money for the WCC.

The "Visual Trips, No Passport Required" collection showcases a rich variety of creative viewpoints ranging from stunning landscape prints to ornate and fascinating interior location shots. Viewing this collection will reinforce the fact that there is no shortage of imagination or scenes which inspire members to create wonderful photographic art. The "Partially Abandoned Factory" series narrows the focus with visually engaging interior and exterior studies of a captivating ramshackle former factory. Six of these images are currently featured in COLOR magazine November issue #10.

Resin*ating Metal: Arlene Abend Retrospective
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

The sculpture of Arlene Abend, representing over 30 years of creating in resin, bronze, and steel

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

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

Dogs in Transition: Pit Bulls and Mill Dogs
Community Folk Art Center

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

Cyrus Mejia's art focuses on activism and reflects the ideals of kindness and compassion while shining a light on "speciesism, ignorance and cruelty." Mejia is also co-founder of Best Friends Animal Society, which operates the nation's largest sanctuary for homeless animals near the town of Kanab, Utah. Best Friends is especially known for rehabilitating 22 of the pit bulls rescued from NFL quarterback Michael Vick.

"Pits and Perception" is the first series on view, which portrays pit bulls in a manner that challenges modern-day perceptions of the breed. With increased attention toward dog fighting in the media, many view the pit bull as a vicious and aggressive dog. Through his paintings, Mejia challenges these beliefs by forcing the observer to take a closer look and question public perception.

The second collection, "Mill Dogs Revenge," features dogs rescued from commercial breeding facilities, colloquially known as "puppy mills." Victims of physical abuse, emotional trauma and neglect, these dogs are often subjected to cruel conditions because of human greed for profit. Mejia hopes to raise awareness of the cruelty of puppy mills through his art.

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular, $4 seniors, $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The delicious aroma of ginger and candy waft through the air leading you to the second floor gallery. Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms it into a festive 1800s street scene, with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers. Visit us again or for the first time to enjoy the sights and scents of the Gingerbread Gallery!

A Sip
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

A Sip, a celebration of the drinking vessel featuring works by 18 artists from across the country, features cups, mugs and glasses, along with teapots, decanters and flasks.

A Sip features the work of regional artists David MacDonald, a ceramics artist from Syracuse; Jason Howard, a glass artist from Skaneateles; Jen Gandee, a ceramics artist from Fabius; Jeremy Randall, a ceramics artist and co-owner of the gallery, from Tully; Sarah Panzarella, a ceramics artist and co-owner of the gallery, from Tully; and Snake Oil Glassworks of Skaneateles; as well as artists from Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, and Vermont.

Archipelago: Works by Yolanda del Amo
Light Work Gallery

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

Powerful forces deep below the surface of the earth form archipelagos, which are chains or clusters of individual islands. In her series Archipelago, artist Yolanda del Amo depicts the powerful forces between people—their conflicting needs for intimacy and connection, independence and individuality. In Archipelago, these competing needs seem to have reached a peaceful if temporary stasis. These beautiful images show people who, although in the presence of another, appear surrounded on all sides not by water but by silence.

Del Amo leaves the relationships of her subjects to each other deliberately vague, which makes her images all the more universal and compelling. Each photograph represents a fragile time in any relationship when two people—whether they are mother and son, husband and wife, or simply friends—momentarily live alone, together.

Read a review!

Darryl Furtkamp: Measure for Measure and Jim Ridlon: Intimate Reflections
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Darryl Furtkamp is a mixed media artist working in the post-modern tradition. His assemblages and paintings and works on paper incorporate painting, drawing, collage and mixed media arranged in hand-crafted frames or appropriated found objects in an altarpiece-like format. Images and material are layered and subtly glazed to disguise some areas while illuminating others.

Jim Ridlon's new assemblages are comprised of multiples that have been woven into single themes. The result is the individual assemblages act like chapters in a book, with each work making a statement that adds to a broader context. In his artist statement, Ridlon explains, "My intent has been to create short puzzling narratives and assemble them into discontinuous aesthetic theater."

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

Emerging Women of CNY #1
Redhouse

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

Artwork by Taye Wright-hirry, Maria Janina Rizzo, Alexandara Crosby, and Kristie Hayes.

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Second Continuing Group Show
Szozda Gallery

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

Among the area artists included in this show are photographers Robert Carroll and John Dowling; painters John Fitzsimmons, Robert Glisson, Diana Godfrey, Joyce Day Homan, Diane Menzies, Bob Niedzwiecki, Karen Thomas-Lillie and Deborah Walsh; printmaker Ruth Wynn; and glass artist Carmel Nicoletti.

56nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

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

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York presents, for the first time in Syracuse, recent and new work by 21 young New York City artists. Included in the exhibition's wide array of media are several installation pieces created specifically for the SUArt Galleries. Co-curated by SU alumnus Eric Gleason, Sales Director at Marlborough Chelsea, and David Prince, Associate Director at the SUArt Galleries, the show illustrates conceptual and aesthetic trends in contemporary art.

Synonymous with "spread the word," Run and Tell That! is a phrase attributed to Antoine Dodson of Huntsville, AL, whose flamboyant July 28, 2010 television interview following the attempted sexual assault on his sister, quickly became an internet sensation. The phrase has since been integrated into contemporary vernacular; a phenomenon that could only happen now, in a time when information is digested and distributed constantly via the internet. The artists in Run and Tell That! take advantage of this wide spectrum of media to develop a conceptual focus that characterizes this younger generation.

Painters Kamrooz Aram, Steven Charles, Inka Essenhigh, Aaron Johnson, Liz Markus, Tom Sanford, Ryan Schneider and Aya Uekawa use personal experience, art history, abstraction, and social commentary to keep the medium fresh and relevant. Sculpture becomes a widely encompassing term as pieces by Robert Lazzarini, Diana Al-Hadid, Will Ryman, and Ethan Greenbaum broaden the definition. In the series of 13 prints entitled Ars Magica, William Powhida continues his astute satirization of the art world by likening its practices to sorcery. In her Mother Goddess series, Turkish photographer Pinar Yolacan examines pre-neolithic deity figures that were the archetype of beauty in her geographic region thousands of years ago.

Site-specific installations include a first-time collaboration between Ethan Greenbaum and Adam Krueger; a dynamic wall-length installation in which a tree violently emerges from a Hudson River School painting by Valerie Hegarty; Virginia Overton's minimal trompe l'oeil construction using only an eight-foot 2 x 4 and two sheets of mirrored plexiglas; Vlatka Horvat's repurposed ceiling fan and aluminum ladder; and individual projects by Wade Kavanagh and Stephen B. Nguyen whose monumental collaborative installation White Stag, 2010 is currently on view at Mass MoCA.

Also in the exhibition will be Rashaad Newsome: Video and Performance, 2005-2010, an intimate retrospective of the artist's multi-media work exploring innovative forms of communication and expression in contemporary African American urban culture. This work was recently featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and in Greater New York 2010 at the PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY.

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From the Studio to the Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In collaboration with The Dahesh Museum of Art and the Syracuse University Art Galleries, students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorship course in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies have worked together to present a drawing exhibition that highlights some of the prominent themes and techniques of 19th-century Academic Art. The exhibition will present over 40 drawings on loan from The Dahesh Museum of Art, as well as selected Academic paintings drawn from the Syracuse University Art Collection.

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

Haudenosaunee: Elements
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The act of creating works of art is embedded in the Haudenosaunee way of life and has been for centuries. This exhibition presents works by contemporary Haudenosaunee artists from the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy—Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga and Tuscarora. The artists range from those with well established careers to new and notable talents. Among those exhibiting are Jay Carrier, Harold Farmer, Katsitsionni Fox and Ed Burnam, Ronni-Leigh Goeman, Stonehorse Goeman, Tom Huff, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Ada Jacques, G. Peter Jemison, Peter B. Jones, Linley Logan, Shelley Niro, Aweñheeyoh Powless, Jolene Rickard, Clint Shenandoah, Leah Shenandoah, Natasha Smoke Santiago, Smiley Summers, Tammy Tarbell-Boehing, and Tracy Thomas.

"Haudenosaunee: Elements" does not attempt to provide a survey of contemporary art—the talented artists working in our region are too numerous to be represented in this exhibition—but rather to introduce viewers to the broad range of media and art forms by which contemporary artists continue to create their own individual visual language while never straying far from their cultural heritage.

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Yui Kugimiya: Live Paintings
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based artist Yui Kugimiya presents "live paintings" for the final installment of the 2010 Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series. Kugimiya creates stop-motion animation using expressionistic paintings and actual objects typically found in the home as shown here in her most recent work, Breakfast. This video animation involves the use of paintings in conjunction with a variety of kitchen utensils and vegetables mixed with sound recorded directly from the live action. The artist states, "The animation parallels the psychological space, reveals the thoughts of making, and unfolds the inspiration of the daily-life-mundane."

The video animations are lighthearted and playful with a hint of dark drama. For each frame, a scene is painted on the canvas with fluid, gestural brush strokes loaded with rich color, captured on video and then the scene disappears before one's eyes as the next phase of the narrative unfolds. The exhibition includes new video work as well as a selection of paintings in the creative process so viewers can experience the richness of Kugimiya's paintings alongside her enlivening video works.

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Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson was the first museum to collect video art, beginning in the early 1970s. Bill Viola, now one of the world's leading video artists, studied at Syracuse University and began his career at the Everson. A selection of historic videos by Bill Viola from the Everson's pioneering video collection will be shown in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court in conjunction with the Urban Video Project (UVP), which will also be featuring Viola this fall.

Jules Olitski: An Inside View
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

One of America's pre-eminent painters, Jules Olitski (1922-2007) is celebrated for his large-format, lyrical abstractions that shimmer with color. Less well-known are his smaller, more intimate prints in a variety of media, which both parallel and depart from the abstract imagery of his paintings.

"An Inside View" includes 40 prints in a variety of media—intaglio, silkscreen, lithograph, and monotype—spanning the artist's career of more than five decades.

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Snow
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Snow" is an exhibition of traditional representations of snow scenes as well as nontraditional and conceptual interpretations. It is curated by Yvonne Buchanan, assistant professor of illustration in the School of Art and Design's Department of Art. The exhibition's theme was inspired by “Bliz-aard Ball Sale,” a 1983 New York City performance piece by artist David Hammons.

For more information, contact Yvonne Buchanan, yebuchan@syr.edu, or phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Rigo 23: Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024
The Warehouse Gallery

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

San Francisco based artist Rigo 23 is known nationally and internationally for his highly political site-specific work. Intercultural relations and justice issues are often present in his work which includes working with political prisoners, such as Leonard Peltier, who is the subject of this show. The exhibition title refers specifically to Peltier's given name in Lakota (Tate Wikikuwa), to his next hearing in 2024, and to Rigo 23's former project at the De Young Museum in San Francisco (1999). The Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024 will focus on the artwork, life, and status of this Native American whose case has been an international controversy since the 1970s. This exhibition will showcase Peltier through the visual arts (oil paintings) as well as educational components such as talks and a symposium sponsored by the Humanities Center at Syracuse University.

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Pop 66: Pop Can Pinhole Photos of Route 66
Echo

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

A meditation by Wes Pope 1998-2010.

Using 33 pinhole cameras made out of 66 pop cans, Wes Pope photographed the people and places along Route 66 since 1998. The resulting black and white images look distorted and old -- while portraying a contemporary portrait of life in the American West and Midwest.

The pinhole pop can cameras will also be on display.

Tonto Revisited: Native American Stereotypes
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

What do Land 'o Lakes, Argo Cornstarch and Syracuse minor league baseball have in common? Stereotyped images of Native Americans. This exhibit is curated by Tom Huff, a Seneca/Cayuga artist living and working in his sculpture studio on the Onondaga Nation. It exposes the cultural mythology surrounding Native Americans. The images and objects associated with "Indians" are dictated and defined by the dominant non-Indian culture. Many of the resulting representations are culturally and socially incorrect, even racist, with exaggerated misrepresentations of Native Americans.

Huff's collection of portrayals of menacing warriors wielding tomahawks, knives, and bows and arrows found in posters, advertisements, toys, sports logos and more will be on display. He has been collecting "Indian Kitsch" for over 25 years. While many may not think of them individually as destructive, this exhibit helps to illustrate how these pervasive negative preconceptions trivialize the tragedy wrought on indigenous peoples everywhere. We hope to both dispel the myths surrounding Native Americans and to encourage a new understanding of native peoples.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

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*CANCELLED* "What If...?" Film Series: Tocar y Luchar
Gifford Foundation

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

Tocar y Luchar (To Play and to Fight) presents the captivating story of the Venezuelan Youth Orchestra System, a network of hundreds of orchestras formed within most of Venezuela's towns and villages. Once a modest program designed to expose rural children to the wonders of music, "el sistema" has become one of the most important and beautiful social phenomena in modern history. Tocar y Luchar is in Spanish with English subtitles.

Reviewers have called the film "a transcendent journey that showcases the power of music and its ability to promote positive social change" (AFIFEST) and "a visually, aurally and emotionally rewarding film" (Vancouver International Film Festival).

Annual Christmas Concert
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Jerry Exline, Dolce Flutes, and choral ensemble

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

Seasonal favorites and novelties.

Irish Tenors CHristmas Reunion Tour

Price: $50.50 - $75.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Irish Tenors -- Finbar Wright, Anthony Kearns, and Ronan Tynan -- have been reunited for exclusive dates this December. The combination that mesmerized audiences with their highly
successful PBS Specials including the groundbreaking Ellis Island Project which spawned a million selling album and DVD, and was so hugely popular on PBS stations across America establishing The Irish Tenors as one of the most successful ever touring acts in America.

A Christmas Story
Syracuse Stage
Seth Gordon, director

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

A smoking furnace, a bully named Farkus, a pack of thieving-baying hounds, a dingblang-fuzzle-whizzin-mouthed old man, a prized leg lamp that's more leg than lamp—and a bunny suit: Is this the stuff of Christmas? It is for Ralphie, and all he really wants is a legendary official Red Ryder 200-Shot Carbine Action Range Model Air Rifle with a compass and this thing which tells time built right into the stock. Brighten the holidays with this hilarious and critically acclaimed stage adaptation of Jean Shepherd's wry and witty tale of a special Christmas past and journey back to a time when we all had less and it felt like more. Based on the motion picture by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark; adapted by Philip Grecian.

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Thursday, December 16, 2010

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Christopher & Richard Williams: "Art as Catharsis: Watch Out I Need to Purge"
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Join us for an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and sketches by brothers Christopher and Richards Williams. The brothers share a conviction that art is a representation of ideas that reflect and comment on our social disorder. Creating images that are disturbing, allegorical, and provocative, the artists challenge the viewer to see the world through their eyes.

Christopher Williams has exhibited his work throughout the U.S. Richard Williams is a professional illustrator and portrait artist. His work is in the private collections of Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Howard Stern.

Silk: Photographs by Courtney Rile
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Recent Work by Michael Flanagan and Tyrone Johnson-Neuland
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

The exhibit showcases a series of mixed media works.

The Silent Scream: Conflict in Novels Without Words
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Library has always had a keen interest in all forms of book illustration, and not surprisingly, novels without words became a significant collecting area. Over time, we have amassed a considerable number of the classic specimens in the genre, and the main practitioners of the art form are well represented within our holdings. We developed this exhibition in keeping with the Syracuse Symposium theme for the coming year, "conflict." The artists upon whom we focused are William Gropper, Laurence Hyde, Frans Masereel, Giacomo Patri, John Vassos, and Lynd Ward.

In addition to conflict, novels without words often portray a quest on the part of the individual. This may assume the form of a journey or a saga about the search for self-fulfillment in artistic or purely personal terms, or the quest may have as its primary objective achieving social justice in a particular context. Because of the historical period in which many of these wordless novels were born, they often depict a struggle between the individual and the industrialized world. Industrialization and, by extension, capitalism, may be seen as forces that are fundamentally antagonistic to the interests of the individual and of society in general. Similarly, the law, the police, and the armed forces may all be viewed as instruments of repression in novels without words.

The creators of novels without words also tend to scrutinize the brutal forms of war and tyranny that are made possible by industrialization. In truth, any injustice may become the subject of such works, and perhaps just the cruel nature of our existential struggle to survive in an inherently hostile environment is all the background that is needed to provide the inspiration for the creation of a novel without words.

Visual Trips, No Passport Required
Westcott Community Art Gallery
The Syracuse Photographers Association

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

Meet the founders of the Syracuse Photographers Association tonight, in conjunction with Th3, the Third Thursday citywide art open house.

"Visual Trips, No Passport Required" is a collection of works by members of The Syracuse Photographers Association, and "Partially Abandoned Factory," a solo show within the show, is by the group's organizer and founding member, Mindy Lee Tarry. Color and creativity abounds and many of the framed ink jet prints are for sale, to help raise money for the WCC.

The "Visual Trips, No Passport Required" collection showcases a rich variety of creative viewpoints ranging from stunning landscape prints to ornate and fascinating interior location shots. Viewing this collection will reinforce the fact that there is no shortage of imagination or scenes which inspire members to create wonderful photographic art. The "Partially Abandoned Factory" series narrows the focus with visually engaging interior and exterior studies of a captivating ramshackle former factory. Six of these images are currently featured in COLOR magazine November issue #10.

Resin*ating Metal: Arlene Abend Retrospective
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

The sculpture of Arlene Abend, representing over 30 years of creating in resin, bronze, and steel

Read a Review!

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

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

Dogs in Transition: Pit Bulls and Mill Dogs
Community Folk Art Center

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

Cyrus Mejia's art focuses on activism and reflects the ideals of kindness and compassion while shining a light on "speciesism, ignorance and cruelty." Mejia is also co-founder of Best Friends Animal Society, which operates the nation's largest sanctuary for homeless animals near the town of Kanab, Utah. Best Friends is especially known for rehabilitating 22 of the pit bulls rescued from NFL quarterback Michael Vick.

"Pits and Perception" is the first series on view, which portrays pit bulls in a manner that challenges modern-day perceptions of the breed. With increased attention toward dog fighting in the media, many view the pit bull as a vicious and aggressive dog. Through his paintings, Mejia challenges these beliefs by forcing the observer to take a closer look and question public perception.

The second collection, "Mill Dogs Revenge," features dogs rescued from commercial breeding facilities, colloquially known as "puppy mills." Victims of physical abuse, emotional trauma and neglect, these dogs are often subjected to cruel conditions because of human greed for profit. Mejia hopes to raise awareness of the cruelty of puppy mills through his art.

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular, $4 seniors, $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The delicious aroma of ginger and candy waft through the air leading you to the second floor gallery. Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms it into a festive 1800s street scene, with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers. Visit us again or for the first time to enjoy the sights and scents of the Gingerbread Gallery!

A Sip
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

A Sip, a celebration of the drinking vessel featuring works by 18 artists from across the country, features cups, mugs and glasses, along with teapots, decanters and flasks.

A Sip features the work of regional artists David MacDonald, a ceramics artist from Syracuse; Jason Howard, a glass artist from Skaneateles; Jen Gandee, a ceramics artist from Fabius; Jeremy Randall, a ceramics artist and co-owner of the gallery, from Tully; Sarah Panzarella, a ceramics artist and co-owner of the gallery, from Tully; and Snake Oil Glassworks of Skaneateles; as well as artists from Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, and Vermont.

Archipelago: Works by Yolanda del Amo
Light Work Gallery

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

Powerful forces deep below the surface of the earth form archipelagos, which are chains or clusters of individual islands. In her series Archipelago, artist Yolanda del Amo depicts the powerful forces between people—their conflicting needs for intimacy and connection, independence and individuality. In Archipelago, these competing needs seem to have reached a peaceful if temporary stasis. These beautiful images show people who, although in the presence of another, appear surrounded on all sides not by water but by silence.

Del Amo leaves the relationships of her subjects to each other deliberately vague, which makes her images all the more universal and compelling. Each photograph represents a fragile time in any relationship when two people—whether they are mother and son, husband and wife, or simply friends—momentarily live alone, together.

Read a review!

Darryl Furtkamp: Measure for Measure and Jim Ridlon: Intimate Reflections
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Darryl Furtkamp is a mixed media artist working in the post-modern tradition. His assemblages and paintings and works on paper incorporate painting, drawing, collage and mixed media arranged in hand-crafted frames or appropriated found objects in an altarpiece-like format. Images and material are layered and subtly glazed to disguise some areas while illuminating others.

Jim Ridlon's new assemblages are comprised of multiples that have been woven into single themes. The result is the individual assemblages act like chapters in a book, with each work making a statement that adds to a broader context. In his artist statement, Ridlon explains, "My intent has been to create short puzzling narratives and assemble them into discontinuous aesthetic theater."

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

Emerging Women of CNY #1
Redhouse

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

Artwork by Taye Wright-hirry, Maria Janina Rizzo, Alexandara Crosby, and Kristie Hayes.

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Second Continuing Group Show
Szozda Gallery

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

Among the area artists included in this show are photographers Robert Carroll and John Dowling; painters John Fitzsimmons, Robert Glisson, Diana Godfrey, Joyce Day Homan, Diane Menzies, Bob Niedzwiecki, Karen Thomas-Lillie and Deborah Walsh; printmaker Ruth Wynn; and glass artist Carmel Nicoletti.

Holiday Group Show
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit.

The exhibition will feature jewelry, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include David Church (Pompey), Julie Crosby (Trumansburg), Jen Gandee (Fabius), Laurie Gerace (Fabius), Martha Grover (Helena, MT), Forrest Lesch Middelton (Fairfax, CA), David MacDonald (Syracuse), Shawn O'Connor (Gatlinburg, TN), Sarah Saulson (Syracuse), Lucie Wellner (Pompey), and Errol Willett (Fabius).

56nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

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

From the Studio to the Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In collaboration with The Dahesh Museum of Art and the Syracuse University Art Galleries, students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorship course in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies have worked together to present a drawing exhibition that highlights some of the prominent themes and techniques of 19th-century Academic Art. The exhibition will present over 40 drawings on loan from The Dahesh Museum of Art, as well as selected Academic paintings drawn from the Syracuse University Art Collection.

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

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York presents, for the first time in Syracuse, recent and new work by 21 young New York City artists. Included in the exhibition's wide array of media are several installation pieces created specifically for the SUArt Galleries. Co-curated by SU alumnus Eric Gleason, Sales Director at Marlborough Chelsea, and David Prince, Associate Director at the SUArt Galleries, the show illustrates conceptual and aesthetic trends in contemporary art.

Synonymous with "spread the word," Run and Tell That! is a phrase attributed to Antoine Dodson of Huntsville, AL, whose flamboyant July 28, 2010 television interview following the attempted sexual assault on his sister, quickly became an internet sensation. The phrase has since been integrated into contemporary vernacular; a phenomenon that could only happen now, in a time when information is digested and distributed constantly via the internet. The artists in Run and Tell That! take advantage of this wide spectrum of media to develop a conceptual focus that characterizes this younger generation.

Painters Kamrooz Aram, Steven Charles, Inka Essenhigh, Aaron Johnson, Liz Markus, Tom Sanford, Ryan Schneider and Aya Uekawa use personal experience, art history, abstraction, and social commentary to keep the medium fresh and relevant. Sculpture becomes a widely encompassing term as pieces by Robert Lazzarini, Diana Al-Hadid, Will Ryman, and Ethan Greenbaum broaden the definition. In the series of 13 prints entitled Ars Magica, William Powhida continues his astute satirization of the art world by likening its practices to sorcery. In her Mother Goddess series, Turkish photographer Pinar Yolacan examines pre-neolithic deity figures that were the archetype of beauty in her geographic region thousands of years ago.

Site-specific installations include a first-time collaboration between Ethan Greenbaum and Adam Krueger; a dynamic wall-length installation in which a tree violently emerges from a Hudson River School painting by Valerie Hegarty; Virginia Overton's minimal trompe l'oeil construction using only an eight-foot 2 x 4 and two sheets of mirrored plexiglas; Vlatka Horvat's repurposed ceiling fan and aluminum ladder; and individual projects by Wade Kavanagh and Stephen B. Nguyen whose monumental collaborative installation White Stag, 2010 is currently on view at Mass MoCA.

Also in the exhibition will be Rashaad Newsome: Video and Performance, 2005-2010, an intimate retrospective of the artist's multi-media work exploring innovative forms of communication and expression in contemporary African American urban culture. This work was recently featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and in Greater New York 2010 at the PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY.

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Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson was the first museum to collect video art, beginning in the early 1970s. Bill Viola, now one of the world's leading video artists, studied at Syracuse University and began his career at the Everson. A selection of historic videos by Bill Viola from the Everson's pioneering video collection will be shown in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court in conjunction with the Urban Video Project (UVP), which will also be featuring Viola this fall.

Yui Kugimiya: Live Paintings
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based artist Yui Kugimiya presents "live paintings" for the final installment of the 2010 Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series. Kugimiya creates stop-motion animation using expressionistic paintings and actual objects typically found in the home as shown here in her most recent work, Breakfast. This video animation involves the use of paintings in conjunction with a variety of kitchen utensils and vegetables mixed with sound recorded directly from the live action. The artist states, "The animation parallels the psychological space, reveals the thoughts of making, and unfolds the inspiration of the daily-life-mundane."

The video animations are lighthearted and playful with a hint of dark drama. For each frame, a scene is painted on the canvas with fluid, gestural brush strokes loaded with rich color, captured on video and then the scene disappears before one's eyes as the next phase of the narrative unfolds. The exhibition includes new video work as well as a selection of paintings in the creative process so viewers can experience the richness of Kugimiya's paintings alongside her enlivening video works.

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Haudenosaunee: Elements
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The act of creating works of art is embedded in the Haudenosaunee way of life and has been for centuries. This exhibition presents works by contemporary Haudenosaunee artists from the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy—Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga and Tuscarora. The artists range from those with well established careers to new and notable talents. Among those exhibiting are Jay Carrier, Harold Farmer, Katsitsionni Fox and Ed Burnam, Ronni-Leigh Goeman, Stonehorse Goeman, Tom Huff, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Ada Jacques, G. Peter Jemison, Peter B. Jones, Linley Logan, Shelley Niro, Aweñheeyoh Powless, Jolene Rickard, Clint Shenandoah, Leah Shenandoah, Natasha Smoke Santiago, Smiley Summers, Tammy Tarbell-Boehing, and Tracy Thomas.

"Haudenosaunee: Elements" does not attempt to provide a survey of contemporary art—the talented artists working in our region are too numerous to be represented in this exhibition—but rather to introduce viewers to the broad range of media and art forms by which contemporary artists continue to create their own individual visual language while never straying far from their cultural heritage.

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Jules Olitski: An Inside View
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

One of America's pre-eminent painters, Jules Olitski (1922-2007) is celebrated for his large-format, lyrical abstractions that shimmer with color. Less well-known are his smaller, more intimate prints in a variety of media, which both parallel and depart from the abstract imagery of his paintings.

"An Inside View" includes 40 prints in a variety of media—intaglio, silkscreen, lithograph, and monotype—spanning the artist's career of more than five decades.

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Betty Munro Retrospective Exhibition
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park

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

A major retrospective art exhibition featuring the watercolor paintings of local artist Betty Munro, now 91 years old and living in Madison, WI, who became well-known for setting up her easel across the street from the construction site of the Civic Center as it was being built, and documenting in watercolor the construction of the building.

In addition, Munro painted local area landmarks such as Clinton Square, lower Fayetteville, City Hall, area churches, and many other buildings and landscapes that are easily recognizable through her whimsical, semi-expressionistic watercolor paintings. Throughout her life, well into her early 80s, Munro painted tirelessly, offering the Syracuse area a legacy of beauty.

All of her available watercolor paintings -- a total of over 200 paintings, both framed and unframed -- will be on view. All are for sale. The 27 Civic Center paintings will be shown as a unit in The Spring's Conference Room, and will only be sold as a unit. Over 40 framed watercolors of a variety of local scenes will be exhibited in the Gathering Room at The Spring. The remaining art will be displayed in plastic sleeves in racks and may be purchased individually.

The exhibition is made possible through the generosity and collaboration of Munro's former neighbor Joan Gardner, David Rudd of Dalton Antiques, The Spring, and Stone Quarry Hill Art Park. Proceeds of art sales will go to Munro, to The Spring, and to Stone Quarry Hill Art Park. For more information, contact Patsy Scala, Program Director at The Spring, at 315-382-0444, or email her at patsy7154@aol.com.

Snow
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Snow" is an exhibition of traditional representations of snow scenes as well as nontraditional and conceptual interpretations. It is curated by Yvonne Buchanan, assistant professor of illustration in the School of Art and Design's Department of Art. The exhibition's theme was inspired by “Bliz-aard Ball Sale,” a 1983 New York City performance piece by artist David Hammons.

For more information, contact Yvonne Buchanan, yebuchan@syr.edu, or phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Rigo 23: Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024
The Warehouse Gallery

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

San Francisco based artist Rigo 23 is known nationally and internationally for his highly political site-specific work. Intercultural relations and justice issues are often present in his work which includes working with political prisoners, such as Leonard Peltier, who is the subject of this show. The exhibition title refers specifically to Peltier's given name in Lakota (Tate Wikikuwa), to his next hearing in 2024, and to Rigo 23's former project at the De Young Museum in San Francisco (1999). The Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024 will focus on the artwork, life, and status of this Native American whose case has been an international controversy since the 1970s. This exhibition will showcase Peltier through the visual arts (oil paintings) as well as educational components such as talks and a symposium sponsored by the Humanities Center at Syracuse University.

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Pop 66: Pop Can Pinhole Photos of Route 66
Echo

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

A meditation by Wes Pope 1998-2010.

Using 33 pinhole cameras made out of 66 pop cans, Wes Pope photographed the people and places along Route 66 since 1998. The resulting black and white images look distorted and old -- while portraying a contemporary portrait of life in the American West and Midwest.

The pinhole pop can cameras will also be on display.

Tonto Revisited: Native American Stereotypes
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

What do Land 'o Lakes, Argo Cornstarch and Syracuse minor league baseball have in common? Stereotyped images of Native Americans. This exhibit is curated by Tom Huff, a Seneca/Cayuga artist living and working in his sculpture studio on the Onondaga Nation. It exposes the cultural mythology surrounding Native Americans. The images and objects associated with "Indians" are dictated and defined by the dominant non-Indian culture. Many of the resulting representations are culturally and socially incorrect, even racist, with exaggerated misrepresentations of Native Americans.

Huff's collection of portrayals of menacing warriors wielding tomahawks, knives, and bows and arrows found in posters, advertisements, toys, sports logos and more will be on display. He has been collecting "Indian Kitsch" for over 25 years. While many may not think of them individually as destructive, this exhibit helps to illustrate how these pervasive negative preconceptions trivialize the tragedy wrought on indigenous peoples everywhere. We hope to both dispel the myths surrounding Native Americans and to encourage a new understanding of native peoples.

¡Feliz Navidad!: La Colección/The Collection: Exhibit 4
Point of Contact Gallery

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

There will be a special holiday celebration/opening reception co-hosted by the Spanish Action League, with live Parranda music from 6:00-9:00 pm.

Guest artists Jane Hammond and Izhar Patkin will be in attendance.

A special program to commemorate Point of Contact's 35th anniversary and The Point of Contact Gallery's 5th -- a show of the entire permanent collection in five exhibitions starting in September 2010.

Exhibit 4: Works of Jane Hammond, Hung Liu, Luis Felipe Noe, Izhar Patkin, and Ursula Von Rydingsvard.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

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Artist Open with G. Peter Jemison
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Join G. Peter Jemison, one of the artists in Haudenosaunee: Elements, to learn more about his inspirations, techniques, and processes.

Hijacked Holiday
Acme Mystery Company

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

Millie the copy girl has packed her favorite portfolio of copies and headed for the North Pole with hopes of marrying the big guy. Things go South fast, however, when she finds she's stepped into a crime scene. Someone has stolen all the Christmas toys right before they were to be packed into Santa's sleigh and now everyone is a suspect. It's going to be one heck of a Christmas Eve figuring out who's been naughty or nice.

Evening at the Museum
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: $10 ($8 OHA members). Reservations required.
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In the spirit of Ghost Walk, on the third Thursday of each month, after regular business hours, pay a visit to the Onondaga Historical Association for Evening at the Museum. OHA has collected innumerable stories from Syracuse and Central New York for 150 years. Now you have the opportunity to explore our past in a fun and unique way. Accompany our knowledgeable night watchman to experience our exhibits in a new light and see who comes out of the woodwork to bring Salt City history to life. For reservations, phone 315-428-1864, ext. 370. Groups of 15 maximum.

A Christmas Story
Syracuse Stage
Seth Gordon, director

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

A smoking furnace, a bully named Farkus, a pack of thieving-baying hounds, a dingblang-fuzzle-whizzin-mouthed old man, a prized leg lamp that's more leg than lamp—and a bunny suit: Is this the stuff of Christmas? It is for Ralphie, and all he really wants is a legendary official Red Ryder 200-Shot Carbine Action Range Model Air Rifle with a compass and this thing which tells time built right into the stock. Brighten the holidays with this hilarious and critically acclaimed stage adaptation of Jean Shepherd's wry and witty tale of a special Christmas past and journey back to a time when we all had less and it felt like more. Based on the motion picture by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark; adapted by Philip Grecian.

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Friday, December 17, 2010

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Christopher & Richard Williams: "Art as Catharsis: Watch Out I Need to Purge"
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Join us for an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and sketches by brothers Christopher and Richards Williams. The brothers share a conviction that art is a representation of ideas that reflect and comment on our social disorder. Creating images that are disturbing, allegorical, and provocative, the artists challenge the viewer to see the world through their eyes.

Christopher Williams has exhibited his work throughout the U.S. Richard Williams is a professional illustrator and portrait artist. His work is in the private collections of Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Howard Stern.

Silk: Photographs by Courtney Rile
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

La Colección/The Collection: Exhibit 4
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A special program to commemorate Point of Contact's 35th anniversary and The Point of Contact Gallery's 5th -- a show of the entire permanent collection in five exhibitions starting in September 2010.

Exhibit 4: Works of Jane Hammond, Hung Liu, Luis Felipe Noe, Izhar Patkin, and Ursula Von Rydingsvard.

Recent Work by Michael Flanagan and Tyrone Johnson-Neuland
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

The exhibit showcases a series of mixed media works.

The Silent Scream: Conflict in Novels Without Words
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Library has always had a keen interest in all forms of book illustration, and not surprisingly, novels without words became a significant collecting area. Over time, we have amassed a considerable number of the classic specimens in the genre, and the main practitioners of the art form are well represented within our holdings. We developed this exhibition in keeping with the Syracuse Symposium theme for the coming year, "conflict." The artists upon whom we focused are William Gropper, Laurence Hyde, Frans Masereel, Giacomo Patri, John Vassos, and Lynd Ward.

In addition to conflict, novels without words often portray a quest on the part of the individual. This may assume the form of a journey or a saga about the search for self-fulfillment in artistic or purely personal terms, or the quest may have as its primary objective achieving social justice in a particular context. Because of the historical period in which many of these wordless novels were born, they often depict a struggle between the individual and the industrialized world. Industrialization and, by extension, capitalism, may be seen as forces that are fundamentally antagonistic to the interests of the individual and of society in general. Similarly, the law, the police, and the armed forces may all be viewed as instruments of repression in novels without words.

The creators of novels without words also tend to scrutinize the brutal forms of war and tyranny that are made possible by industrialization. In truth, any injustice may become the subject of such works, and perhaps just the cruel nature of our existential struggle to survive in an inherently hostile environment is all the background that is needed to provide the inspiration for the creation of a novel without words.

Visual Trips, No Passport Required
Westcott Community Art Gallery
The Syracuse Photographers Association

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

"Visual Trips, No Passport Required" is a collection of works by members of The Syracuse Photographers Association, and "Partially Abandoned Factory," a solo show within the show, is by the group's organizer and founding member, Mindy Lee Tarry. Color and creativity abounds and many of the framed ink jet prints are for sale, to help raise money for the WCC.

The "Visual Trips, No Passport Required" collection showcases a rich variety of creative viewpoints ranging from stunning landscape prints to ornate and fascinating interior location shots. Viewing this collection will reinforce the fact that there is no shortage of imagination or scenes which inspire members to create wonderful photographic art. The "Partially Abandoned Factory" series narrows the focus with visually engaging interior and exterior studies of a captivating ramshackle former factory. Six of these images are currently featured in COLOR magazine November issue #10.

Resin*ating Metal: Arlene Abend Retrospective
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

The sculpture of Arlene Abend, representing over 30 years of creating in resin, bronze, and steel

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

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

Dogs in Transition: Pit Bulls and Mill Dogs
Community Folk Art Center

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

Cyrus Mejia's art focuses on activism and reflects the ideals of kindness and compassion while shining a light on "speciesism, ignorance and cruelty." Mejia is also co-founder of Best Friends Animal Society, which operates the nation's largest sanctuary for homeless animals near the town of Kanab, Utah. Best Friends is especially known for rehabilitating 22 of the pit bulls rescued from NFL quarterback Michael Vick.

"Pits and Perception" is the first series on view, which portrays pit bulls in a manner that challenges modern-day perceptions of the breed. With increased attention toward dog fighting in the media, many view the pit bull as a vicious and aggressive dog. Through his paintings, Mejia challenges these beliefs by forcing the observer to take a closer look and question public perception.

The second collection, "Mill Dogs Revenge," features dogs rescued from commercial breeding facilities, colloquially known as "puppy mills." Victims of physical abuse, emotional trauma and neglect, these dogs are often subjected to cruel conditions because of human greed for profit. Mejia hopes to raise awareness of the cruelty of puppy mills through his art.

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular, $4 seniors, $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The delicious aroma of ginger and candy waft through the air leading you to the second floor gallery. Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms it into a festive 1800s street scene, with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers. Visit us again or for the first time to enjoy the sights and scents of the Gingerbread Gallery!

A Sip
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

A Sip, a celebration of the drinking vessel featuring works by 18 artists from across the country, features cups, mugs and glasses, along with teapots, decanters and flasks.

A Sip features the work of regional artists David MacDonald, a ceramics artist from Syracuse; Jason Howard, a glass artist from Skaneateles; Jen Gandee, a ceramics artist from Fabius; Jeremy Randall, a ceramics artist and co-owner of the gallery, from Tully; Sarah Panzarella, a ceramics artist and co-owner of the gallery, from Tully; and Snake Oil Glassworks of Skaneateles; as well as artists from Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, and Vermont.

Archipelago: Works by Yolanda del Amo
Light Work Gallery

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

Powerful forces deep below the surface of the earth form archipelagos, which are chains or clusters of individual islands. In her series Archipelago, artist Yolanda del Amo depicts the powerful forces between people—their conflicting needs for intimacy and connection, independence and individuality. In Archipelago, these competing needs seem to have reached a peaceful if temporary stasis. These beautiful images show people who, although in the presence of another, appear surrounded on all sides not by water but by silence.

Del Amo leaves the relationships of her subjects to each other deliberately vague, which makes her images all the more universal and compelling. Each photograph represents a fragile time in any relationship when two people—whether they are mother and son, husband and wife, or simply friends—momentarily live alone, together.

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Darryl Furtkamp: Measure for Measure and Jim Ridlon: Intimate Reflections
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Darryl Furtkamp is a mixed media artist working in the post-modern tradition. His assemblages and paintings and works on paper incorporate painting, drawing, collage and mixed media arranged in hand-crafted frames or appropriated found objects in an altarpiece-like format. Images and material are layered and subtly glazed to disguise some areas while illuminating others.

Jim Ridlon's new assemblages are comprised of multiples that have been woven into single themes. The result is the individual assemblages act like chapters in a book, with each work making a statement that adds to a broader context. In his artist statement, Ridlon explains, "My intent has been to create short puzzling narratives and assemble them into discontinuous aesthetic theater."

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

Emerging Women of CNY #1
Redhouse

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

Artwork by Taye Wright-hirry, Maria Janina Rizzo, Alexandara Crosby, and Kristie Hayes.

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Second Continuing Group Show
Szozda Gallery

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

Among the area artists included in this show are photographers Robert Carroll and John Dowling; painters John Fitzsimmons, Robert Glisson, Diana Godfrey, Joyce Day Homan, Diane Menzies, Bob Niedzwiecki, Karen Thomas-Lillie and Deborah Walsh; printmaker Ruth Wynn; and glass artist Carmel Nicoletti.

Holiday Group Show
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit.

The exhibition will feature jewelry, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include David Church (Pompey), Julie Crosby (Trumansburg), Jen Gandee (Fabius), Laurie Gerace (Fabius), Martha Grover (Helena, MT), Forrest Lesch Middelton (Fairfax, CA), David MacDonald (Syracuse), Shawn O'Connor (Gatlinburg, TN), Sarah Saulson (Syracuse), Lucie Wellner (Pompey), and Errol Willett (Fabius).

56nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

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

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York presents, for the first time in Syracuse, recent and new work by 21 young New York City artists. Included in the exhibition's wide array of media are several installation pieces created specifically for the SUArt Galleries. Co-curated by SU alumnus Eric Gleason, Sales Director at Marlborough Chelsea, and David Prince, Associate Director at the SUArt Galleries, the show illustrates conceptual and aesthetic trends in contemporary art.

Synonymous with "spread the word," Run and Tell That! is a phrase attributed to Antoine Dodson of Huntsville, AL, whose flamboyant July 28, 2010 television interview following the attempted sexual assault on his sister, quickly became an internet sensation. The phrase has since been integrated into contemporary vernacular; a phenomenon that could only happen now, in a time when information is digested and distributed constantly via the internet. The artists in Run and Tell That! take advantage of this wide spectrum of media to develop a conceptual focus that characterizes this younger generation.

Painters Kamrooz Aram, Steven Charles, Inka Essenhigh, Aaron Johnson, Liz Markus, Tom Sanford, Ryan Schneider and Aya Uekawa use personal experience, art history, abstraction, and social commentary to keep the medium fresh and relevant. Sculpture becomes a widely encompassing term as pieces by Robert Lazzarini, Diana Al-Hadid, Will Ryman, and Ethan Greenbaum broaden the definition. In the series of 13 prints entitled Ars Magica, William Powhida continues his astute satirization of the art world by likening its practices to sorcery. In her Mother Goddess series, Turkish photographer Pinar Yolacan examines pre-neolithic deity figures that were the archetype of beauty in her geographic region thousands of years ago.

Site-specific installations include a first-time collaboration between Ethan Greenbaum and Adam Krueger; a dynamic wall-length installation in which a tree violently emerges from a Hudson River School painting by Valerie Hegarty; Virginia Overton's minimal trompe l'oeil construction using only an eight-foot 2 x 4 and two sheets of mirrored plexiglas; Vlatka Horvat's repurposed ceiling fan and aluminum ladder; and individual projects by Wade Kavanagh and Stephen B. Nguyen whose monumental collaborative installation White Stag, 2010 is currently on view at Mass MoCA.

Also in the exhibition will be Rashaad Newsome: Video and Performance, 2005-2010, an intimate retrospective of the artist's multi-media work exploring innovative forms of communication and expression in contemporary African American urban culture. This work was recently featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and in Greater New York 2010 at the PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY.

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Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson was the first museum to collect video art, beginning in the early 1970s. Bill Viola, now one of the world's leading video artists, studied at Syracuse University and began his career at the Everson. A selection of historic videos by Bill Viola from the Everson's pioneering video collection will be shown in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court in conjunction with the Urban Video Project (UVP), which will also be featuring Viola this fall.

Haudenosaunee: Elements
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The act of creating works of art is embedded in the Haudenosaunee way of life and has been for centuries. This exhibition presents works by contemporary Haudenosaunee artists from the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy—Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga and Tuscarora. The artists range from those with well established careers to new and notable talents. Among those exhibiting are Jay Carrier, Harold Farmer, Katsitsionni Fox and Ed Burnam, Ronni-Leigh Goeman, Stonehorse Goeman, Tom Huff, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Ada Jacques, G. Peter Jemison, Peter B. Jones, Linley Logan, Shelley Niro, Aweñheeyoh Powless, Jolene Rickard, Clint Shenandoah, Leah Shenandoah, Natasha Smoke Santiago, Smiley Summers, Tammy Tarbell-Boehing, and Tracy Thomas.

"Haudenosaunee: Elements" does not attempt to provide a survey of contemporary art—the talented artists working in our region are too numerous to be represented in this exhibition—but rather to introduce viewers to the broad range of media and art forms by which contemporary artists continue to create their own individual visual language while never straying far from their cultural heritage.

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Yui Kugimiya: Live Paintings
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based artist Yui Kugimiya presents "live paintings" for the final installment of the 2010 Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series. Kugimiya creates stop-motion animation using expressionistic paintings and actual objects typically found in the home as shown here in her most recent work, Breakfast. This video animation involves the use of paintings in conjunction with a variety of kitchen utensils and vegetables mixed with sound recorded directly from the live action. The artist states, "The animation parallels the psychological space, reveals the thoughts of making, and unfolds the inspiration of the daily-life-mundane."

The video animations are lighthearted and playful with a hint of dark drama. For each frame, a scene is painted on the canvas with fluid, gestural brush strokes loaded with rich color, captured on video and then the scene disappears before one's eyes as the next phase of the narrative unfolds. The exhibition includes new video work as well as a selection of paintings in the creative process so viewers can experience the richness of Kugimiya's paintings alongside her enlivening video works.

Read a review!

Jules Olitski: An Inside View
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

One of America's pre-eminent painters, Jules Olitski (1922-2007) is celebrated for his large-format, lyrical abstractions that shimmer with color. Less well-known are his smaller, more intimate prints in a variety of media, which both parallel and depart from the abstract imagery of his paintings.

"An Inside View" includes 40 prints in a variety of media—intaglio, silkscreen, lithograph, and monotype—spanning the artist's career of more than five decades.

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Betty Munro Retrospective Exhibition
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park

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

A major retrospective art exhibition featuring the watercolor paintings of local artist Betty Munro, now 91 years old and living in Madison, WI, who became well-known for setting up her easel across the street from the construction site of the Civic Center as it was being built, and documenting in watercolor the construction of the building.

In addition, Munro painted local area landmarks such as Clinton Square, lower Fayetteville, City Hall, area churches, and many other buildings and landscapes that are easily recognizable through her whimsical, semi-expressionistic watercolor paintings. Throughout her life, well into her early 80s, Munro painted tirelessly, offering the Syracuse area a legacy of beauty.

All of her available watercolor paintings -- a total of over 200 paintings, both framed and unframed -- will be on view. All are for sale. The 27 Civic Center paintings will be shown as a unit in The Spring's Conference Room, and will only be sold as a unit. Over 40 framed watercolors of a variety of local scenes will be exhibited in the Gathering Room at The Spring. The remaining art will be displayed in plastic sleeves in racks and may be purchased individually.

The exhibition is made possible through the generosity and collaboration of Munro's former neighbor Joan Gardner, David Rudd of Dalton Antiques, The Spring, and Stone Quarry Hill Art Park. Proceeds of art sales will go to Munro, to The Spring, and to Stone Quarry Hill Art Park. For more information, contact Patsy Scala, Program Director at The Spring, at 315-382-0444, or email her at patsy7154@aol.com.

Snow
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Snow" is an exhibition of traditional representations of snow scenes as well as nontraditional and conceptual interpretations. It is curated by Yvonne Buchanan, assistant professor of illustration in the School of Art and Design's Department of Art. The exhibition's theme was inspired by “Bliz-aard Ball Sale,” a 1983 New York City performance piece by artist David Hammons.

For more information, contact Yvonne Buchanan, yebuchan@syr.edu, or phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Rigo 23: Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024
The Warehouse Gallery

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

San Francisco based artist Rigo 23 is known nationally and internationally for his highly political site-specific work. Intercultural relations and justice issues are often present in his work which includes working with political prisoners, such as Leonard Peltier, who is the subject of this show. The exhibition title refers specifically to Peltier's given name in Lakota (Tate Wikikuwa), to his next hearing in 2024, and to Rigo 23's former project at the De Young Museum in San Francisco (1999). The Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024 will focus on the artwork, life, and status of this Native American whose case has been an international controversy since the 1970s. This exhibition will showcase Peltier through the visual arts (oil paintings) as well as educational components such as talks and a symposium sponsored by the Humanities Center at Syracuse University.

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Pop 66: Pop Can Pinhole Photos of Route 66
Echo

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

A meditation by Wes Pope 1998-2010.

Using 33 pinhole cameras made out of 66 pop cans, Wes Pope photographed the people and places along Route 66 since 1998. The resulting black and white images look distorted and old -- while portraying a contemporary portrait of life in the American West and Midwest.

The pinhole pop can cameras will also be on display.

Tonto Revisited: Native American Stereotypes
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

What do Land 'o Lakes, Argo Cornstarch and Syracuse minor league baseball have in common? Stereotyped images of Native Americans. This exhibit is curated by Tom Huff, a Seneca/Cayuga artist living and working in his sculpture studio on the Onondaga Nation. It exposes the cultural mythology surrounding Native Americans. The images and objects associated with "Indians" are dictated and defined by the dominant non-Indian culture. Many of the resulting representations are culturally and socially incorrect, even racist, with exaggerated misrepresentations of Native Americans.

Huff's collection of portrayals of menacing warriors wielding tomahawks, knives, and bows and arrows found in posters, advertisements, toys, sports logos and more will be on display. He has been collecting "Indian Kitsch" for over 25 years. While many may not think of them individually as destructive, this exhibit helps to illustrate how these pervasive negative preconceptions trivialize the tragedy wrought on indigenous peoples everywhere. We hope to both dispel the myths surrounding Native Americans and to encourage a new understanding of native peoples.

Friday Night Live
Featuring KD the Comic

Price: $15
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-832-2565.

Friday Night Live
KD Productions

Price: $15
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Stand up comedy from mind of KD the Comic from Last Comic Standing.

Improv Comedy with Satan's Closet
Salt City Improv Theater

Price: $6
Salt City Improv Theatre
Shoppingtown Mall, Sears Wing, Dewitt

This is our final show for 2010. Closing out the year will be the long-form improv insanity of Satan's Closet. As a special way of saying thanks to all our fans and friends, and to wish everyone a joyous holiday season, tickets for this show are only $6. If you've never been to a live improv comedy show, this is your chance to check it out for a really low price.

Once Upon a Christmas
Syracuse School of Dance

Price: $10 regular, $7 seniors, $5 children under 12
H. W. Smith School Auditorium
1130 Salt Springs Rd., Syracuse

Celebrate the holidays with local students under the direction of Shannon Holmes.

As Marie falls asleep reading her Christmas book of Wishes and Dreams, the stories in her book come to life. Enjoy dances performed in ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, and musical theatre to your favorite Christmas songs.

For ticket information, phone 315-289-5338 or visit www.syracuseschoolofdance.com.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

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Christmas Around the World

Price: $1
Ste. Marie Among the Iroquois
106 Lake Dr., Liverpool

Celebrate the origins of the Christmas holiday and other winter holidays. Traditionally decorated trees, international Santas, games and hands-on crafts are all part of the festivities. Nightly musical entertainment, special appearances by St. Nick, and outside at the mission (weather permitting), our costumed interpreters and their holiday celebration.

Christmas at the Palace
DeSantis Orchestra

Price: $17
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Featuring Joe Magnarelli, trumpet, and Ronnie Leigh, Keith Condon, and Maria DeSantis, vocalists.

A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Guardian Angel Society.

For tickets or more information, phone the DeSantis office at 315-488-7611, the Guardian Angel Society at 315-422-7218, or email info@desantisorchestra.com.

The Burns Sisters
Folkus Project

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

Renowned for their pure harmony singing and joyful energy, the Burns Sisters create uplifting, transcendent music to convey the hope and joy of the season. The exuberance of their voices complements the spiritual essence of the holiday songs. On their CD, "Tradition," they turned their expressive talents to such ancient chestnuts as "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel," "Golden Cradle," "Silent Night," "What Child Is This," and "Greensleeves." Their tight harmonies and lively spirit bring a fervent beauty to their music and joy to the hearts of those who hear it.

Pops Series: Holiday Pops
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Ron Spigelman, conductor

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

This dazzling seasonal celebration features holiday traditions such as the always-popular Audience Sing-Along, and lots of special touches that will surprise and delight!

The Butterfingers Angel, Mary & Joseph, Herod the Nut & The Slaughter of 12 Hit Carols in a Pear Tree
Appleseed Productions
Sharee Lemos, director

Price: $18 regular; $15 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Dealing with the story of Mary and Joseph and the birth of Jesus from a fresh and richly creative point of view, the author combines a series of deftly constructed short scenes, traditional Christmas music, and often antic characterizations into a wholly original theatre piece. The flow of the action follows the Biblical recounting, but is enhanced by a tree, a sheep and a donkey who talk (and most amusingly); a beguiling Mary who had heretofore decided that men and marriage were not for her; a suddenly-cautious Joseph who now contends that he is too old for his intended (having earlier scoffed at Mary for expressing the same thought); and a flustered boy-angel who directs the action from a promptbook and manages to get only the most strangled, bleating sounds from his trumpet. But, through all the lively and resourceful happenings, the true significance of the occasion is never lost, and the underlying mood and spirit of reverence is, if anything, enhanced and made new by the distinctive approach of this joyful and unique retelling. By William Gibson.

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Amahl and the Night Visitors
Open Hand Theater

Price: $15 in advance, $20 at the door
First English Lutheran Church
Corner of James and Townsend Streets, Syracuse

Open Hand Theater's acclaimed larger-than-life production of this beloved holiday operetta features fine vocal performances and exquisite grand scale puppetry.

A Christmas Story
Syracuse Stage
Seth Gordon, director

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

A smoking furnace, a bully named Farkus, a pack of thieving-baying hounds, a dingblang-fuzzle-whizzin-mouthed old man, a prized leg lamp that's more leg than lamp—and a bunny suit: Is this the stuff of Christmas? It is for Ralphie, and all he really wants is a legendary official Red Ryder 200-Shot Carbine Action Range Model Air Rifle with a compass and this thing which tells time built right into the stock. Brighten the holidays with this hilarious and critically acclaimed stage adaptation of Jean Shepherd's wry and witty tale of a special Christmas past and journey back to a time when we all had less and it felt like more. Based on the motion picture by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark; adapted by Philip Grecian.

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Saturday, December 18, 2010

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Resin*ating Metal: Arlene Abend Retrospective
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

The sculpture of Arlene Abend, representing over 30 years of creating in resin, bronze, and steel

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

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

Pop 66: Pop Can Pinhole Photos of Route 66
Echo

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

A meditation by Wes Pope 1998-2010.

Using 33 pinhole cameras made out of 66 pop cans, Wes Pope photographed the people and places along Route 66 since 1998. The resulting black and white images look distorted and old -- while portraying a contemporary portrait of life in the American West and Midwest.

The pinhole pop can cameras will also be on display.

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular, $4 seniors, $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The delicious aroma of ginger and candy waft through the air leading you to the second floor gallery. Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms it into a festive 1800s street scene, with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers. Visit us again or for the first time to enjoy the sights and scents of the Gingerbread Gallery!

Jules Olitski: An Inside View
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

One of America's pre-eminent painters, Jules Olitski (1922-2007) is celebrated for his large-format, lyrical abstractions that shimmer with color. Less well-known are his smaller, more intimate prints in a variety of media, which both parallel and depart from the abstract imagery of his paintings.

"An Inside View" includes 40 prints in a variety of media—intaglio, silkscreen, lithograph, and monotype—spanning the artist's career of more than five decades.

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Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson was the first museum to collect video art, beginning in the early 1970s. Bill Viola, now one of the world's leading video artists, studied at Syracuse University and began his career at the Everson. A selection of historic videos by Bill Viola from the Everson's pioneering video collection will be shown in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court in conjunction with the Urban Video Project (UVP), which will also be featuring Viola this fall.

Yui Kugimiya: Live Paintings
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based artist Yui Kugimiya presents "live paintings" for the final installment of the 2010 Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series. Kugimiya creates stop-motion animation using expressionistic paintings and actual objects typically found in the home as shown here in her most recent work, Breakfast. This video animation involves the use of paintings in conjunction with a variety of kitchen utensils and vegetables mixed with sound recorded directly from the live action. The artist states, "The animation parallels the psychological space, reveals the thoughts of making, and unfolds the inspiration of the daily-life-mundane."

The video animations are lighthearted and playful with a hint of dark drama. For each frame, a scene is painted on the canvas with fluid, gestural brush strokes loaded with rich color, captured on video and then the scene disappears before one's eyes as the next phase of the narrative unfolds. The exhibition includes new video work as well as a selection of paintings in the creative process so viewers can experience the richness of Kugimiya's paintings alongside her enlivening video works.

Read a review!

Haudenosaunee: Elements
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The act of creating works of art is embedded in the Haudenosaunee way of life and has been for centuries. This exhibition presents works by contemporary Haudenosaunee artists from the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy—Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga and Tuscarora. The artists range from those with well established careers to new and notable talents. Among those exhibiting are Jay Carrier, Harold Farmer, Katsitsionni Fox and Ed Burnam, Ronni-Leigh Goeman, Stonehorse Goeman, Tom Huff, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Ada Jacques, G. Peter Jemison, Peter B. Jones, Linley Logan, Shelley Niro, Aweñheeyoh Powless, Jolene Rickard, Clint Shenandoah, Leah Shenandoah, Natasha Smoke Santiago, Smiley Summers, Tammy Tarbell-Boehing, and Tracy Thomas.

"Haudenosaunee: Elements" does not attempt to provide a survey of contemporary art—the talented artists working in our region are too numerous to be represented in this exhibition—but rather to introduce viewers to the broad range of media and art forms by which contemporary artists continue to create their own individual visual language while never straying far from their cultural heritage.

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A Sip
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

A Sip, a celebration of the drinking vessel featuring works by 18 artists from across the country, features cups, mugs and glasses, along with teapots, decanters and flasks.

A Sip features the work of regional artists David MacDonald, a ceramics artist from Syracuse; Jason Howard, a glass artist from Skaneateles; Jen Gandee, a ceramics artist from Fabius; Jeremy Randall, a ceramics artist and co-owner of the gallery, from Tully; Sarah Panzarella, a ceramics artist and co-owner of the gallery, from Tully; and Snake Oil Glassworks of Skaneateles; as well as artists from Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, and Vermont.

Second Continuing Group Show
Szozda Gallery

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

Among the area artists included in this show are photographers Robert Carroll and John Dowling; painters John Fitzsimmons, Robert Glisson, Diana Godfrey, Joyce Day Homan, Diane Menzies, Bob Niedzwiecki, Karen Thomas-Lillie and Deborah Walsh; printmaker Ruth Wynn; and glass artist Carmel Nicoletti.

Dogs in Transition: Pit Bulls and Mill Dogs
Community Folk Art Center

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

Cyrus Mejia's art focuses on activism and reflects the ideals of kindness and compassion while shining a light on "speciesism, ignorance and cruelty." Mejia is also co-founder of Best Friends Animal Society, which operates the nation's largest sanctuary for homeless animals near the town of Kanab, Utah. Best Friends is especially known for rehabilitating 22 of the pit bulls rescued from NFL quarterback Michael Vick.

"Pits and Perception" is the first series on view, which portrays pit bulls in a manner that challenges modern-day perceptions of the breed. With increased attention toward dog fighting in the media, many view the pit bull as a vicious and aggressive dog. Through his paintings, Mejia challenges these beliefs by forcing the observer to take a closer look and question public perception.

The second collection, "Mill Dogs Revenge," features dogs rescued from commercial breeding facilities, colloquially known as "puppy mills." Victims of physical abuse, emotional trauma and neglect, these dogs are often subjected to cruel conditions because of human greed for profit. Mejia hopes to raise awareness of the cruelty of puppy mills through his art.

Holiday Group Show
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit.

The exhibition will feature jewelry, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include David Church (Pompey), Julie Crosby (Trumansburg), Jen Gandee (Fabius), Laurie Gerace (Fabius), Martha Grover (Helena, MT), Forrest Lesch Middelton (Fairfax, CA), David MacDonald (Syracuse), Shawn O'Connor (Gatlinburg, TN), Sarah Saulson (Syracuse), Lucie Wellner (Pompey), and Errol Willett (Fabius).

56nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

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

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York presents, for the first time in Syracuse, recent and new work by 21 young New York City artists. Included in the exhibition's wide array of media are several installation pieces created specifically for the SUArt Galleries. Co-curated by SU alumnus Eric Gleason, Sales Director at Marlborough Chelsea, and David Prince, Associate Director at the SUArt Galleries, the show illustrates conceptual and aesthetic trends in contemporary art.

Synonymous with "spread the word," Run and Tell That! is a phrase attributed to Antoine Dodson of Huntsville, AL, whose flamboyant July 28, 2010 television interview following the attempted sexual assault on his sister, quickly became an internet sensation. The phrase has since been integrated into contemporary vernacular; a phenomenon that could only happen now, in a time when information is digested and distributed constantly via the internet. The artists in Run and Tell That! take advantage of this wide spectrum of media to develop a conceptual focus that characterizes this younger generation.

Painters Kamrooz Aram, Steven Charles, Inka Essenhigh, Aaron Johnson, Liz Markus, Tom Sanford, Ryan Schneider and Aya Uekawa use personal experience, art history, abstraction, and social commentary to keep the medium fresh and relevant. Sculpture becomes a widely encompassing term as pieces by Robert Lazzarini, Diana Al-Hadid, Will Ryman, and Ethan Greenbaum broaden the definition. In the series of 13 prints entitled Ars Magica, William Powhida continues his astute satirization of the art world by likening its practices to sorcery. In her Mother Goddess series, Turkish photographer Pinar Yolacan examines pre-neolithic deity figures that were the archetype of beauty in her geographic region thousands of years ago.

Site-specific installations include a first-time collaboration between Ethan Greenbaum and Adam Krueger; a dynamic wall-length installation in which a tree violently emerges from a Hudson River School painting by Valerie Hegarty; Virginia Overton's minimal trompe l'oeil construction using only an eight-foot 2 x 4 and two sheets of mirrored plexiglas; Vlatka Horvat's repurposed ceiling fan and aluminum ladder; and individual projects by Wade Kavanagh and Stephen B. Nguyen whose monumental collaborative installation White Stag, 2010 is currently on view at Mass MoCA.

Also in the exhibition will be Rashaad Newsome: Video and Performance, 2005-2010, an intimate retrospective of the artist's multi-media work exploring innovative forms of communication and expression in contemporary African American urban culture. This work was recently featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and in Greater New York 2010 at the PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY.

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From the Studio to the Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In collaboration with The Dahesh Museum of Art and the Syracuse University Art Galleries, students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorship course in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies have worked together to present a drawing exhibition that highlights some of the prominent themes and techniques of 19th-century Academic Art. The exhibition will present over 40 drawings on loan from The Dahesh Museum of Art, as well as selected Academic paintings drawn from the Syracuse University Art Collection.

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

Tonto Revisited: Native American Stereotypes
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

What do Land 'o Lakes, Argo Cornstarch and Syracuse minor league baseball have in common? Stereotyped images of Native Americans. This exhibit is curated by Tom Huff, a Seneca/Cayuga artist living and working in his sculpture studio on the Onondaga Nation. It exposes the cultural mythology surrounding Native Americans. The images and objects associated with "Indians" are dictated and defined by the dominant non-Indian culture. Many of the resulting representations are culturally and socially incorrect, even racist, with exaggerated misrepresentations of Native Americans.

Huff's collection of portrayals of menacing warriors wielding tomahawks, knives, and bows and arrows found in posters, advertisements, toys, sports logos and more will be on display. He has been collecting "Indian Kitsch" for over 25 years. While many may not think of them individually as destructive, this exhibit helps to illustrate how these pervasive negative preconceptions trivialize the tragedy wrought on indigenous peoples everywhere. We hope to both dispel the myths surrounding Native Americans and to encourage a new understanding of native peoples.

Darryl Furtkamp: Measure for Measure and Jim Ridlon: Intimate Reflections
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Darryl Furtkamp is a mixed media artist working in the post-modern tradition. His assemblages and paintings and works on paper incorporate painting, drawing, collage and mixed media arranged in hand-crafted frames or appropriated found objects in an altarpiece-like format. Images and material are layered and subtly glazed to disguise some areas while illuminating others.

Jim Ridlon's new assemblages are comprised of multiples that have been woven into single themes. The result is the individual assemblages act like chapters in a book, with each work making a statement that adds to a broader context. In his artist statement, Ridlon explains, "My intent has been to create short puzzling narratives and assemble them into discontinuous aesthetic theater."

Betty Munro Retrospective Exhibition
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park

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

A major retrospective art exhibition featuring the watercolor paintings of local artist Betty Munro, now 91 years old and living in Madison, WI, who became well-known for setting up her easel across the street from the construction site of the Civic Center as it was being built, and documenting in watercolor the construction of the building.

In addition, Munro painted local area landmarks such as Clinton Square, lower Fayetteville, City Hall, area churches, and many other buildings and landscapes that are easily recognizable through her whimsical, semi-expressionistic watercolor paintings. Throughout her life, well into her early 80s, Munro painted tirelessly, offering the Syracuse area a legacy of beauty.

All of her available watercolor paintings -- a total of over 200 paintings, both framed and unframed -- will be on view. All are for sale. The 27 Civic Center paintings will be shown as a unit in The Spring's Conference Room, and will only be sold as a unit. Over 40 framed watercolors of a variety of local scenes will be exhibited in the Gathering Room at The Spring. The remaining art will be displayed in plastic sleeves in racks and may be purchased individually.

The exhibition is made possible through the generosity and collaboration of Munro's former neighbor Joan Gardner, David Rudd of Dalton Antiques, The Spring, and Stone Quarry Hill Art Park. Proceeds of art sales will go to Munro, to The Spring, and to Stone Quarry Hill Art Park. For more information, contact Patsy Scala, Program Director at The Spring, at 315-382-0444, or email her at patsy7154@aol.com.

Snow
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Snow" is an exhibition of traditional representations of snow scenes as well as nontraditional and conceptual interpretations. It is curated by Yvonne Buchanan, assistant professor of illustration in the School of Art and Design's Department of Art. The exhibition's theme was inspired by “Bliz-aard Ball Sale,” a 1983 New York City performance piece by artist David Hammons.

For more information, contact Yvonne Buchanan, yebuchan@syr.edu, or phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Rigo 23: Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024
The Warehouse Gallery

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

San Francisco based artist Rigo 23 is known nationally and internationally for his highly political site-specific work. Intercultural relations and justice issues are often present in his work which includes working with political prisoners, such as Leonard Peltier, who is the subject of this show. The exhibition title refers specifically to Peltier's given name in Lakota (Tate Wikikuwa), to his next hearing in 2024, and to Rigo 23's former project at the De Young Museum in San Francisco (1999). The Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024 will focus on the artwork, life, and status of this Native American whose case has been an international controversy since the 1970s. This exhibition will showcase Peltier through the visual arts (oil paintings) as well as educational components such as talks and a symposium sponsored by the Humanities Center at Syracuse University.

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Once Upon a Christmas
Syracuse School of Dance

Price: $10 regular, $7 seniors, $5 children under 12
H. W. Smith School Auditorium
1130 Salt Springs Rd., Syracuse

Celebrate the holidays with local students under the direction of Shannon Holmes.

As Marie falls asleep reading her Christmas book of Wishes and Dreams, the stories in her book come to life. Enjoy dances performed in ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, and musical theatre to your favorite Christmas songs.

For ticket information, phone 315-289-5338 or visit www.syracuseschoolofdance.com.

Once Upon a Christmas
Syracuse School of Dance

Price: $10 regular, $7 seniors, $5 children under 12
H. W. Smith School Auditorium
1130 Salt Springs Rd., Syracuse

Celebrate the holidays with local students under the direction of Shannon Holmes.

As Marie falls asleep reading her Christmas book of Wishes and Dreams, the stories in her book come to life. Enjoy dances performed in ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, and musical theatre to your favorite Christmas songs.

For ticket information, phone 315-289-5338 or visit www.syracuseschoolofdance.com.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

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SaturdaySCREENINGS: Little Women
ArtRage Gallery

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

Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, MA, in the 1860s.

With their father fighting in the civil war, the sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth, are at home with their mother—a very outspoken women for her time. The story is of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world. Cast includes June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Margaret O'Brien, Elizabeth Taylor, and Janet Leigh. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy.

Gallery Walk with Tom Huff
Everson Museum of Art

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

Artist Tom Huff will walk visitors through the current exhibition "Haudenosaunne: Elements."

Family Series: The Snowman and the Grinch
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Ron Spigelman, conductor

Price: $10 adults; $5 children
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Enjoy an animated version of Raymond Briggs's endearing tale with the Syracuse Symphony performing the award-winning musical score, PLUS holiday fun with The Grinch!

The Goettel Trio

Price: Free
Jefferson Clinton Hotel lobby
416 South Clinton St., Syracuse

Take a break from Christmas shopping in Armory Square and enjoy free refreshments and entertainment. The Goettel Trio is composed of guitarist and vocalist Dennis Goettel and his sons bassist and vocalist Alexander, and drummer Matthew.

Christmas Around the World

Price: $1
Ste. Marie Among the Iroquois
106 Lake Dr., Liverpool

Celebrate the origins of the Christmas holiday and other winter holidays. Traditionally decorated trees, international Santas, games and hands-on crafts are all part of the festivities. Nightly musical entertainment, special appearances by St. Nick, and outside at the mission (weather permitting), our costumed interpreters and their holiday celebration.

Jazz Christmas 2010 with Spyro Gyra
Dunbar Association, with WAER and Syracuse Jazzfest

Price: $25, $35, $55
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Spyro Gyra performing selections from their Grammy-winning "A Night Before Christmas" CD.

Tickets available at Sound Garden in Armory Square, or by calling 315-395-9869.

The Andrew and Noah Band

Price: $15 regular, $10 with student ID
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The Andrew and Noah Band featuring Andrew and Noah VanNorstrand, Rachel Bell, Kevin Dorsey, Dana Billings, Kaitlyn Wright and Chris Miller, creates an organic sound with intricate arrangements, explosive improvisation and deep, danceable grooves. Their material is mostly original and is unique combination of roots music and folk-rock.

For more information, visit www.andrewandnoah.com or 315-663-6432.

Leo Crandall
Redhouse

Price: $15 regular, $12 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Multi-instrumentalist and erstwhile Gonstermacher Leo Crandall returns to Red House fresh from trips to Africa and Jazz Central. Crandall's unique vocal style, virtuoso arrangements, and artistic flair amazed the Red House audience in May, and his return at the height of the holiday season promises to do so again.

Crandall will be joined by Bob Alexander on accordion, Rich Curry on washtub bass, and multi-instrumentalist Mike Fierce. They will perform a mix of Gonstermacher favorites, selections from Crandall's new CD, as well as some new work and possibly, just possibly, some yet to be named holiday music.

Pops Series: Holiday Pops
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Ron Spigelman, conductor

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

This dazzling seasonal celebration features holiday traditions such as the always-popular Audience Sing-Along, and lots of special touches that will surprise and delight!

Dark Hollow, with special guests
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Alice in Wonderland
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive comedic retelling of the classic tale.

Amahl and the Night Visitors
Open Hand Theater

Price: $15 in advance, $20 at the door
First English Lutheran Church
Corner of James and Townsend Streets, Syracuse

Open Hand Theater's acclaimed larger-than-life production of this beloved holiday operetta features fine vocal performances and exquisite grand scale puppetry.

A Christmas Story
Syracuse Stage
Seth Gordon, director

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

A smoking furnace, a bully named Farkus, a pack of thieving-baying hounds, a dingblang-fuzzle-whizzin-mouthed old man, a prized leg lamp that's more leg than lamp—and a bunny suit: Is this the stuff of Christmas? It is for Ralphie, and all he really wants is a legendary official Red Ryder 200-Shot Carbine Action Range Model Air Rifle with a compass and this thing which tells time built right into the stock. Brighten the holidays with this hilarious and critically acclaimed stage adaptation of Jean Shepherd's wry and witty tale of a special Christmas past and journey back to a time when we all had less and it felt like more. Based on the motion picture by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark; adapted by Philip Grecian.

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Stop Kiss
Encore Presentations

Price: $37.50 includes dinner and show
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

Friendship between two women in New York City turns into love, but their first kiss leads to a vicious attack by an angry bystander, and one of the women is seriously injured.

For reservations, phone 315-469-6969.

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The Butterfingers Angel, Mary & Joseph, Herod the Nut & The Slaughter of 12 Hit Carols in a Pear Tree
Appleseed Productions
Sharee Lemos, director

Price: $18 regular; $15 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Dealing with the story of Mary and Joseph and the birth of Jesus from a fresh and richly creative point of view, the author combines a series of deftly constructed short scenes, traditional Christmas music, and often antic characterizations into a wholly original theatre piece. The flow of the action follows the Biblical recounting, but is enhanced by a tree, a sheep and a donkey who talk (and most amusingly); a beguiling Mary who had heretofore decided that men and marriage were not for her; a suddenly-cautious Joseph who now contends that he is too old for his intended (having earlier scoffed at Mary for expressing the same thought); and a flustered boy-angel who directs the action from a promptbook and manages to get only the most strangled, bleating sounds from his trumpet. But, through all the lively and resourceful happenings, the true significance of the occasion is never lost, and the underlying mood and spirit of reverence is, if anything, enhanced and made new by the distinctive approach of this joyful and unique retelling. By William Gibson.

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A Christmas Story
Syracuse Stage
Seth Gordon, director

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

A smoking furnace, a bully named Farkus, a pack of thieving-baying hounds, a dingblang-fuzzle-whizzin-mouthed old man, a prized leg lamp that's more leg than lamp—and a bunny suit: Is this the stuff of Christmas? It is for Ralphie, and all he really wants is a legendary official Red Ryder 200-Shot Carbine Action Range Model Air Rifle with a compass and this thing which tells time built right into the stock. Brighten the holidays with this hilarious and critically acclaimed stage adaptation of Jean Shepherd's wry and witty tale of a special Christmas past and journey back to a time when we all had less and it felt like more. Based on the motion picture by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark; adapted by Philip Grecian.

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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular, $4 seniors, $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The delicious aroma of ginger and candy waft through the air leading you to the second floor gallery. Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms it into a festive 1800s street scene, with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers. Visit us again or for the first time to enjoy the sights and scents of the Gingerbread Gallery!

Archipelago: Works by Yolanda del Amo
Light Work Gallery

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

Powerful forces deep below the surface of the earth form archipelagos, which are chains or clusters of individual islands. In her series Archipelago, artist Yolanda del Amo depicts the powerful forces between people—their conflicting needs for intimacy and connection, independence and individuality. In Archipelago, these competing needs seem to have reached a peaceful if temporary stasis. These beautiful images show people who, although in the presence of another, appear surrounded on all sides not by water but by silence.

Del Amo leaves the relationships of her subjects to each other deliberately vague, which makes her images all the more universal and compelling. Each photograph represents a fragile time in any relationship when two people—whether they are mother and son, husband and wife, or simply friends—momentarily live alone, together.

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Second Continuing Group Show
Szozda Gallery

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

Among the area artists included in this show are photographers Robert Carroll and John Dowling; painters John Fitzsimmons, Robert Glisson, Diana Godfrey, Joyce Day Homan, Diane Menzies, Bob Niedzwiecki, Karen Thomas-Lillie and Deborah Walsh; printmaker Ruth Wynn; and glass artist Carmel Nicoletti.

Holiday Group Show
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit.

The exhibition will feature jewelry, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include David Church (Pompey), Julie Crosby (Trumansburg), Jen Gandee (Fabius), Laurie Gerace (Fabius), Martha Grover (Helena, MT), Forrest Lesch Middelton (Fairfax, CA), David MacDonald (Syracuse), Shawn O'Connor (Gatlinburg, TN), Sarah Saulson (Syracuse), Lucie Wellner (Pompey), and Errol Willett (Fabius).

A Sip
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

A Sip, a celebration of the drinking vessel featuring works by 18 artists from across the country, features cups, mugs and glasses, along with teapots, decanters and flasks.

A Sip features the work of regional artists David MacDonald, a ceramics artist from Syracuse; Jason Howard, a glass artist from Skaneateles; Jen Gandee, a ceramics artist from Fabius; Jeremy Randall, a ceramics artist and co-owner of the gallery, from Tully; Sarah Panzarella, a ceramics artist and co-owner of the gallery, from Tully; and Snake Oil Glassworks of Skaneateles; as well as artists from Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, and Vermont.

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

From the Studio to the Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

In collaboration with The Dahesh Museum of Art and the Syracuse University Art Galleries, students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorship course in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies have worked together to present a drawing exhibition that highlights some of the prominent themes and techniques of 19th-century Academic Art. The exhibition will present over 40 drawings on loan from The Dahesh Museum of Art, as well as selected Academic paintings drawn from the Syracuse University Art Collection.

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

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Run and Tell That! New Work from New York presents, for the first time in Syracuse, recent and new work by 21 young New York City artists. Included in the exhibition's wide array of media are several installation pieces created specifically for the SUArt Galleries. Co-curated by SU alumnus Eric Gleason, Sales Director at Marlborough Chelsea, and David Prince, Associate Director at the SUArt Galleries, the show illustrates conceptual and aesthetic trends in contemporary art.

Synonymous with "spread the word," Run and Tell That! is a phrase attributed to Antoine Dodson of Huntsville, AL, whose flamboyant July 28, 2010 television interview following the attempted sexual assault on his sister, quickly became an internet sensation. The phrase has since been integrated into contemporary vernacular; a phenomenon that could only happen now, in a time when information is digested and distributed constantly via the internet. The artists in Run and Tell That! take advantage of this wide spectrum of media to develop a conceptual focus that characterizes this younger generation.

Painters Kamrooz Aram, Steven Charles, Inka Essenhigh, Aaron Johnson, Liz Markus, Tom Sanford, Ryan Schneider and Aya Uekawa use personal experience, art history, abstraction, and social commentary to keep the medium fresh and relevant. Sculpture becomes a widely encompassing term as pieces by Robert Lazzarini, Diana Al-Hadid, Will Ryman, and Ethan Greenbaum broaden the definition. In the series of 13 prints entitled Ars Magica, William Powhida continues his astute satirization of the art world by likening its practices to sorcery. In her Mother Goddess series, Turkish photographer Pinar Yolacan examines pre-neolithic deity figures that were the archetype of beauty in her geographic region thousands of years ago.

Site-specific installations include a first-time collaboration between Ethan Greenbaum and Adam Krueger; a dynamic wall-length installation in which a tree violently emerges from a Hudson River School painting by Valerie Hegarty; Virginia Overton's minimal trompe l'oeil construction using only an eight-foot 2 x 4 and two sheets of mirrored plexiglas; Vlatka Horvat's repurposed ceiling fan and aluminum ladder; and individual projects by Wade Kavanagh and Stephen B. Nguyen whose monumental collaborative installation White Stag, 2010 is currently on view at Mass MoCA.

Also in the exhibition will be Rashaad Newsome: Video and Performance, 2005-2010, an intimate retrospective of the artist's multi-media work exploring innovative forms of communication and expression in contemporary African American urban culture. This work was recently featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and in Greater New York 2010 at the PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY.

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Jules Olitski: An Inside View
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

One of America's pre-eminent painters, Jules Olitski (1922-2007) is celebrated for his large-format, lyrical abstractions that shimmer with color. Less well-known are his smaller, more intimate prints in a variety of media, which both parallel and depart from the abstract imagery of his paintings.

"An Inside View" includes 40 prints in a variety of media—intaglio, silkscreen, lithograph, and monotype—spanning the artist's career of more than five decades.

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Bill Viola Video Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson was the first museum to collect video art, beginning in the early 1970s. Bill Viola, now one of the world's leading video artists, studied at Syracuse University and began his career at the Everson. A selection of historic videos by Bill Viola from the Everson's pioneering video collection will be shown in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court in conjunction with the Urban Video Project (UVP), which will also be featuring Viola this fall.

Haudenosaunee: Elements
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The act of creating works of art is embedded in the Haudenosaunee way of life and has been for centuries. This exhibition presents works by contemporary Haudenosaunee artists from the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy—Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga and Tuscarora. The artists range from those with well established careers to new and notable talents. Among those exhibiting are Jay Carrier, Harold Farmer, Katsitsionni Fox and Ed Burnam, Ronni-Leigh Goeman, Stonehorse Goeman, Tom Huff, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Ada Jacques, G. Peter Jemison, Peter B. Jones, Linley Logan, Shelley Niro, Aweñheeyoh Powless, Jolene Rickard, Clint Shenandoah, Leah Shenandoah, Natasha Smoke Santiago, Smiley Summers, Tammy Tarbell-Boehing, and Tracy Thomas.

"Haudenosaunee: Elements" does not attempt to provide a survey of contemporary art—the talented artists working in our region are too numerous to be represented in this exhibition—but rather to introduce viewers to the broad range of media and art forms by which contemporary artists continue to create their own individual visual language while never straying far from their cultural heritage.

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Yui Kugimiya: Live Paintings
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Brooklyn-based artist Yui Kugimiya presents "live paintings" for the final installment of the 2010 Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series. Kugimiya creates stop-motion animation using expressionistic paintings and actual objects typically found in the home as shown here in her most recent work, Breakfast. This video animation involves the use of paintings in conjunction with a variety of kitchen utensils and vegetables mixed with sound recorded directly from the live action. The artist states, "The animation parallels the psychological space, reveals the thoughts of making, and unfolds the inspiration of the daily-life-mundane."

The video animations are lighthearted and playful with a hint of dark drama. For each frame, a scene is painted on the canvas with fluid, gestural brush strokes loaded with rich color, captured on video and then the scene disappears before one's eyes as the next phase of the narrative unfolds. The exhibition includes new video work as well as a selection of paintings in the creative process so viewers can experience the richness of Kugimiya's paintings alongside her enlivening video works.

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Snow
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Snow" is an exhibition of traditional representations of snow scenes as well as nontraditional and conceptual interpretations. It is curated by Yvonne Buchanan, assistant professor of illustration in the School of Art and Design's Department of Art. The exhibition's theme was inspired by “Bliz-aard Ball Sale,” a 1983 New York City performance piece by artist David Hammons.

For more information, contact Yvonne Buchanan, yebuchan@syr.edu, or phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

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

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

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

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A Christmas Program with Wendell Rotter
Syracuse Wurlitzer

Price: $15 adults, $2 children
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Wendell Rotter is the house organist of the Empire New Times Theatre during the annual Great New York State Fair, where he has performed for countless audiences for nearly 10 years. Wendell has also performed concerts in Rome, NY as well as special presentations on our own Wurlitzer. He was in charge of the maintenance of our Wurlitzer for several years, and under his leadership, spearheaded a major overhaul and restoration of the console. He had our "tuba" rank of pipes professionally restored and voiced, and has tuned the instrument many times in preparation for concerts and other programs.

A Georgian Christmas with Jane Austen
The Jane Austen Singing School for Young Ladies

Price: Free will donation
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Experience the magic of Christmas music and English country dancing from Jane Austen's time, readings from her novels and letters as well as poetry, letters, Christmas lists, and stories by her family and contemporaries. The Syracuse chapter of the Jane Austen Society of North America and the Jane Austen Singing School for Young Ladies partner for the first time to bring you this holiday celebration performed by young ladies and gentlemen from Skaneateles, Marcellus, Tully, and Ithaca.

25th Anniversary "Coming Home" Winter Solstice Concert
Syracuse Community Choir
Karen Mihalyi, conductor

Price: $10-$25 sliding scale, children free, no one turned away
Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The concert will include performances by the Syracuse Community Choir children and teen ensembles and special guest performances by internationally-renowned musicians Francisco Herrera, Kim and Reggie Harris, and Pat Humphries and Sandy Opetow (emmas' revolution).

The afternoon will also include a presentation of the 2010 People's Peace Award to community organizer Geneva Hayden. The People's Peace Award acknowledges ordinary people doing extraordinary things in the name of social justice and peace.

To purchase presale tickets for the concert, call 315-428-8151, email syracusecommunitychoir@gmail.com or stop by the Syracuse Cultural Workers store.

Annual Christmas Concert
MasterWorks Chorale
Maureen McCauley, conductor

Price: $8 regular, $6 seniors/students, free for 12 and younger
St. Mary's of the Lake Church
81 Jordan St., Skaneateles

Concert features John Rutter's Gloria.

Shepherds, Angels, Kings, and a Star
Schola Cantorum of Syracuse
Barry Torres, conductor

Price: $15 regular, $10 students/seniors
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

Medieval and Renaissance music for the season for the high and low, rich and poor, including Ciconia's Gloria and Lasso's Cum natus esset Jesus.

The viol consort will perform before the concert at 3:30.

A Christmas Story
Syracuse Stage
Seth Gordon, director

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

A smoking furnace, a bully named Farkus, a pack of thieving-baying hounds, a dingblang-fuzzle-whizzin-mouthed old man, a prized leg lamp that's more leg than lamp—and a bunny suit: Is this the stuff of Christmas? It is for Ralphie, and all he really wants is a legendary official Red Ryder 200-Shot Carbine Action Range Model Air Rifle with a compass and this thing which tells time built right into the stock. Brighten the holidays with this hilarious and critically acclaimed stage adaptation of Jean Shepherd's wry and witty tale of a special Christmas past and journey back to a time when we all had less and it felt like more. Based on the motion picture by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark; adapted by Philip Grecian.

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Monday, December 20, 2010

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Silk: Photographs by Courtney Rile
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

La Colección/The Collection: Exhibit 4
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A special program to commemorate Point of Contact's 35th anniversary and The Point of Contact Gallery's 5th -- a show of the entire permanent collection in five exhibitions starting in September 2010.

Exhibit 4: Works of Jane Hammond, Hung Liu, Luis Felipe Noe, Izhar Patkin, and Ursula Von Rydingsvard.

The Silent Scream: Conflict in Novels Without Words
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

The Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Library has always had a keen interest in all forms of book illustration, and not surprisingly, novels without words became a significant collecting area. Over time, we have amassed a considerable number of the classic specimens in the genre, and the main practitioners of the art form are well represented within our holdings. We developed this exhibition in keeping with the Syracuse Symposium theme for the coming year, "conflict." The artists upon whom we focused are William Gropper, Laurence Hyde, Frans Masereel, Giacomo Patri, John Vassos, and Lynd Ward.

In addition to conflict, novels without words often portray a quest on the part of the individual. This may assume the form of a journey or a saga about the search for self-fulfillment in artistic or purely personal terms, or the quest may have as its primary objective achieving social justice in a particular context. Because of the historical period in which many of these wordless novels were born, they often depict a struggle between the individual and the industrialized world. Industrialization and, by extension, capitalism, may be seen as forces that are fundamentally antagonistic to the interests of the individual and of society in general. Similarly, the law, the police, and the armed forces may all be viewed as instruments of repression in novels without words.

The creators of novels without words also tend to scrutinize the brutal forms of war and tyranny that are made possible by industrialization. In truth, any injustice may become the subject of such works, and perhaps just the cruel nature of our existential struggle to survive in an inherently hostile environment is all the background that is needed to provide the inspiration for the creation of a novel without words.

Visual Trips, No Passport Required
Westcott Community Art Gallery
The Syracuse Photographers Association

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

"Visual Trips, No Passport Required" is a collection of works by members of The Syracuse Photographers Association, and "Partially Abandoned Factory," a solo show within the show, is by the group's organizer and founding member, Mindy Lee Tarry. Color and creativity abounds and many of the framed ink jet prints are for sale, to help raise money for the WCC.

The "Visual Trips, No Passport Required" collection showcases a rich variety of creative viewpoints ranging from stunning landscape prints to ornate and fascinating interior location shots. Viewing this collection will reinforce the fact that there is no shortage of imagination or scenes which inspire members to create wonderful photographic art. The "Partially Abandoned Factory" series narrows the focus with visually engaging interior and exterior studies of a captivating ramshackle former factory. Six of these images are currently featured in COLOR magazine November issue #10.

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

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

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular, $4 seniors, $2 children 12 and under
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The delicious aroma of ginger and candy waft through the air leading you to the second floor gallery. Each year the Erie Canal Museum transforms it into a festive 1800s street scene, with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers. Visit us again or for the first time to enjoy the sights and scents of the Gingerbread Gallery!

A Sip
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

A Sip, a celebration of the drinking vessel featuring works by 18 artists from across the country, features cups, mugs and glasses, along with teapots, decanters and flasks.

A Sip features the work of regional artists David MacDonald, a ceramics artist from Syracuse; Jason Howard, a glass artist from Skaneateles; Jen Gandee, a ceramics artist from Fabius; Jeremy Randall, a ceramics artist and co-owner of the gallery, from Tully; Sarah Panzarella, a ceramics artist and co-owner of the gallery, from Tully; and Snake Oil Glassworks of Skaneateles; as well as artists from Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, and Vermont.

Archipelago: Works by Yolanda del Amo
Light Work Gallery

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

Powerful forces deep below the surface of the earth form archipelagos, which are chains or clusters of individual islands. In her series Archipelago, artist Yolanda del Amo depicts the powerful forces between people—their conflicting needs for intimacy and connection, independence and individuality. In Archipelago, these competing needs seem to have reached a peaceful if temporary stasis. These beautiful images show people who, although in the presence of another, appear surrounded on all sides not by water but by silence.

Del Amo leaves the relationships of her subjects to each other deliberately vague, which makes her images all the more universal and compelling. Each photograph represents a fragile time in any relationship when two people—whether they are mother and son, husband and wife, or simply friends—momentarily live alone, together.

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Darryl Furtkamp: Measure for Measure and Jim Ridlon: Intimate Reflections
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Darryl Furtkamp is a mixed media artist working in the post-modern tradition. His assemblages and paintings and works on paper incorporate painting, drawing, collage and mixed media arranged in hand-crafted frames or appropriated found objects in an altarpiece-like format. Images and material are layered and subtly glazed to disguise some areas while illuminating others.

Jim Ridlon's new assemblages are comprised of multiples that have been woven into single themes. The result is the individual assemblages act like chapters in a book, with each work making a statement that adds to a broader context. In his artist statement, Ridlon explains, "My intent has been to create short puzzling narratives and assemble them into discontinuous aesthetic theater."

Second Continuing Group Show
Szozda Gallery

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

Among the area artists included in this show are photographers Robert Carroll and John Dowling; painters John Fitzsimmons, Robert Glisson, Diana Godfrey, Joyce Day Homan, Diane Menzies, Bob Niedzwiecki, Karen Thomas-Lillie and Deborah Walsh; printmaker Ruth Wynn; and glass artist Carmel Nicoletti.

56nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

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

Rigo 23: Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024
The Warehouse Gallery

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

San Francisco based artist Rigo 23 is known nationally and internationally for his highly political site-specific work. Intercultural relations and justice issues are often present in his work which includes working with political prisoners, such as Leonard Peltier, who is the subject of this show. The exhibition title refers specifically to Peltier's given name in Lakota (Tate Wikikuwa), to his next hearing in 2024, and to Rigo 23's former project at the De Young Museum in San Francisco (1999). The Tate Wikikuwa Museum: North America 2024 will focus on the artwork, life, and status of this Native American whose case has been an international controversy since the 1970s. This exhibition will showcase Peltier through the visual arts (oil paintings) as well as educational components such as talks and a symposium sponsored by the Humanities Center at Syracuse University.

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Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Windows Project: Oil is Why
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Native American Tom Huff will present an installation on Leonard Peltier consisting of a mural and sculptural elements that relate to the main gallery's exhibition about Peltier by Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum: North America. Public programming has been organized in conjunction with the Everson Museum of Art and ArtRage Gallery.

Silk: Photographs by Courtney Rile
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Recent Work by Michael Flanagan and Tyrone Johnson-Neuland
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium