Thursday, March 15, 2007

Mute
ThINC

Price: Free
Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

MUTE is an exhibition of silent videos from a selection of international artists that will run 24/7 March 14 through April 15th 2007.

MUTE creates a diorama out of the gallery, exposing it as space that is fractured and fragile; MUTE pulls the viewer towards the screen, searching.

During the exhibition, viewers will see the videos by peering through the windows at the running projection. "By presenting an exhibition that places this obstacle between the viewer and their expectancies, MUTE makes manifest the silence that denotes the unifying quality that connects an array of otherwise very different works. MUTE closes the space of the gallery literally and temporally," says Andrew Mount, Executive Director of ThINC.

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

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

The Visual Arts Showcase Committee of the CRC is pleased to present an eclectic offering, featuring work of state and local grant winners since 2000. Special viewing arrangements can be made through the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155.

Gallery Exhibit: Aida Khalil, Stephen Datz and Syau-Cheng Lai
Onondaga Community College

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

A stunning exhibit of paintings, sculpture and mixed media works.

Playthings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Drawing by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma.

Roy Bautista:
I am interested in how I learn things. And how much I learn by looking. And how much more can be learned by looking harder. A longer look at people and how people communicate, and much can be read in a body's posture and movement. The word, understand implies a pose, a stand taken. We understand through our bodies, our own physical limitations of dancing, running, and wrestling. To stop any one pose of the body during any instantaneous action is to elevate it to drama or switch it into a performance, a portent. Micro-expressions flash for an instant that can divulge much information that is not stated verbally, precisely. I am interested in the idea of play, and playing with objects, which can be made to assume poses, fetishes that can be made to represent beings.

Natalia Porter:
I'm interested in creating art that make us reflect on our relationship with objects, on the significance and value we assign to them, particularly those objects which we use everyday.

Ami Suma:
My obsession is to make you giggle and remember childhood feelings, so I am obsessed with fun textures. Textures that give me goose bumps; odd shapes and silhouettes, toys that stimulate the senses of both young and old.

Works of Garofalo Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

Garofalo Architects was recently recognized as part of "The New Vanguard" in Architectural Record and the "Emerging Voices" program at the Architectural LEague of New York.

Impressions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Oil paintings by Eric Shute, watercolors by Stephen Ryan, and ceramics by Bobbi Lamb.

Environmental Injustice and the Artist Response to Hurricane Katrina
Community Folk Art Center

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

When photographers Donn Young and Gus Bennett, Jr., stared loss in the face after Hurricane Katrina they searched through their emotional and physical lives, assessed the damage and moved on. They entered spaces and captured images and rescued items that were difficult to see, but needed to be saved in order to help tell the story of New Orleans.

Donn Young returned to New Orleans to find his studio and over one million images taken during his 25 year career virtually eliminated. In light of this, he began documenting the devastation of not just his life, but the lives of others in the City as well. Gus Bennett documented the efforts of curator and archivist Linda Hill to rescue a collection of African antiquities that were left unattended and deteriorating on a local university campus. She endured the hazardous environment, located the items, removed them and began working to restore them.

For those who make New Orleans their home after Katrina, it is not always easy to find the beauty that has been covered up by the debris of the storm. This exhibition is about three remarkable individuals who chose to help save New Orleans through their individual efforts and are now sharing those efforts collectively; a metaphor for what it takes to live in New Orleans
­ today.

This exhibition will challenge your senses, in part, because we dare to display the images of objects that under different circumstances would be gazed upon with notions of beauty, humor and historic documentation. In this context, however, we are sharing those objects in their vulnerable state, straddling the line, in appearance, of art and refuse. This is a story about seeing devastation, experiencing the pain and moving forward by will and choice.

Read a review!

Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War
Light Work Gallery
Featuring works by William Earle Williams

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

Until the release of the motion picture Glory in 1989, it was not well known that more than 180,000 black soldiers served in the Civil War. The exhibition Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War features over 40 stunning black-and-white photographs by William Earle Williams. The images call attention to the sites made special through these soldiers' contributions, so that their story becomes a part of our American story.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features the work of seniors and graduate students in Syracuse University's Department of Transmedia.

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Staging the coldest season as a playground for imagination, The Warehouse Gallery presents Embracing Winter, a group exhibition featuring knitted sculpture, psychedelic video, interactive displays, sly photography, and crisp audio and book works by American, Canadian and Italian artists: Janet Morton, Bruno Munari, Takeshi Murata, Collin Olan, Lisa M. Robinson, and Rudy Shepherd

Syracuse is the perennial winner of the Golden Snowball Award, for the most snowfall in New York State. Embracing Winter celebrates this crystallized precipitation as the key to a delightful set of activities, and as an ephemeral filter to make ordinary surroundings new again.

Read a review!

The Language of Art
Delavan Art Gallery

Price: Free
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Barbara Kellogg: watermedia
Nives Marzocchi: varied works
An exhibit of artists whose work is shown in the new cultural magazine, Stone Canoe Journal

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

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

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

A New Refutation of Time (Still Images in Sequence)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Syracuse City School District high school students worked at the e-tags gallery and studio with video artist Ryan Tebo. After four weeks, students created a visual representation of their own concept of time through still photography, which was then sequenced into one-minute video shorts. Student artists include: Corbin Bryant and Susan Drake from Nottingham High School; Varvara Mikushkina, Manual Bova and Teddy Bratt from Henninger High School; and Ryan Gallagher and Leah Bucher from Corcoran High School.

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

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

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

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

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

Nevis: Abstract Paintings by Rachel Harms
Redhouse

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

Rachel Harms, an English-born and educated artist will exhibit her most recent abstract paintings, which are influenced by the warm, brightly hued, West Indies Island of Nevis. Harms is interested in basic contradictions between nature and life, solidity and fragility, timelessness and change. These paintings beckon the viewer to linger, search, and discover the unexpected. They are refreshing, precisely honed constructions, both beautiful and affecting.

Rachel Harms has exhibited throughout the United Kingdom and the United States, including at the Creaser Gallery in London, the New Waterfront Museum in New York City; and recently at Onondaga Community College and ThInc in Syracuse. Harms earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Parson School of Design in New York City and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the Chelsea School of Art in London. Harms currently lives in Skaneateles with her husband and daughter.

Playthings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Drawing by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma.

Roy Bautista:
I am interested in how I learn things. And how much I learn by looking. And how much more can be learned by looking harder. A longer look at people and how people communicate, and much can be read in a body's posture and movement. The word, understand implies a pose, a stand taken. We understand through our bodies, our own physical limitations of dancing, running, and wrestling. To stop any one pose of the body during any instantaneous action is to elevate it to drama or switch it into a performance, a portent. Micro-expressions flash for an instant that can divulge much information that is not stated verbally, precisely. I am interested in the idea of play, and playing with objects, which can be made to assume poses, fetishes that can be made to represent beings.

Natalia Porter:
I'm interested in creating art that make us reflect on our relationship with objects, on the significance and value we assign to them, particularly those objects which we use everyday.

Ami Suma:
My obsession is to make you giggle and remember childhood feelings, so I am obsessed with fun textures. Textures that give me goose bumps; odd shapes and silhouettes, toys that stimulate the senses of both young and old.

John Hill and the Urban Video Project: Projections, Installation and Performance
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

John Hill: Hill's works on paper reveal a highly subjective fusion of hybrid characters, spaces, and styles. The figures that occupy his works are often caricatures of an infinite variety of possible selves. Much of his work deals with the creation of a meaningful reflection of the emotional states inherent in everyday experience. Often employing the comic or the grotesque, these drawings are multiple and fractured personalities looking for a cobbled identity. John Hill received his BFA in Painting from Winthrop University in 2003. He is currently pursuing his Masters.

Urban Video Project: Volume 2 features installations at Spark Contemporary Art Space. Using multiple video projections, 6-channel sound, and performance, UVP explores new forms of cartography that challenges traditional functions and perceptions of urban space and identity. In addition, documentation of other public actions The Avalanche Collective has recently completed will be shown.

The Urban Video Project is an extension of the newly formed Avalanche Collective based in Syracuse. Choosing to work outside the confines of a traditional gallery structure, the focus of the Urban Video Project is to produce events that explore notions of spatial practice, authorship, hybrid cartography, performance and alternative cinema experiences.

Paintings: Daniel Kishman
Westcott Community Center

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

Dan Kishman paints in a non-objective abstract style with acrylic paints, sometimes incorporating mat medium or gesso. Mr. Kishman is a lifelong Syracuse area resident who has shown his work in a variety of local venues, including the Central Library at the Galleries Downtown, in Syracuse. He has won numerous awards, including Masters Division at the Adirondack Open Exhibit in Old Forge and, most recently, Second Place, Professional Class, at the New York State Fair.

Cinefest 27
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $25 for the day; $70 for all four days
Holiday Inn
Electronics Parkway, Liverpool

9:00 AM: Dick Tracy Returns - Chapter 14 (1938) with Jerry Tucker
9:20 AM: The Battle Of Paris (1929) Gertrude Lawrence, Charles Ruggles, Arthur Treacher
10:35 AM: Under The Red Robe (1937) with Conrad Veidt, Annabella, Raymond Massey

LUNCH BREAK

1:10 PM: I Was A Spy (1933) with Madeline Carroll, Herbert Marshall, Conrad Veidt, Edmund Gwenn, Nigel Bruce, Brian Ahern
2:40 PM: Richard W. Bann presents Hal Roach Rarities (SHOW #1)
The Boy Friend (1928) All-Stars Series; La Estación De Gasolina (1930); Spanish language version of the Harry Langdon two-reeler The Big Kick; Brats (1930) (showing with the long lost original soundtrack, not the 1937 re-release!)
3:50 PM: The Still Alarm (1926) Helene Chadwick, William Russell
5:10 PM: Whispering Wires (1926) Anita Stewart

DINNER BREAK

8:15 PM: Beau Brummel (1924) John Barrymore, Mary Astor
9:35 PM: Just Around The Corner (1933) WB short featuring Joan Blondell, Bette Davis, Dick Powell, Warren William
9:55 PM: They Knew What They Wanted (1938) with Charles Laughton
11:30 PM: White Savage (1943) with Maria Montez, Sabu, Turhan Bey, Jon Hall, Sidney Toler

Collecting Arts and Crafts Furniture
Syracuse University Library Associates
Featuring David Rudd

Price: Free
Bird Library
Syracuse University, Syracuse

David Rudd is the president of the Central New York Arts and Crafts Society and proprietor of Dalton's American Decorative Arts.

The American Arts and Crafts Movement defined a decorative arts, architectural, and furniture style popular from the late 1800s to early 1900s. As a design movement, its popularity remained strong until the 1930s. Furniture-maker Gustav Stickley helped define this style and was an important figure in the Arts and Crafts Movement with his founding of the Craftsman Workshops in Syracuse in 1904.

Few people are more qualified than Rudd to discuss the collecting of Arts and Crafts furniture. His Dalton's American Decorative Arts is known internationally as a source of high quality Arts and Crafts furnishings and decorative accessories. For more than 26 years, Rudd has been a dealer and appraiser of decorative arts from all periods. He is a columnist for the quarterly magazine American Bungalow. He studied art history and design at Buffalo State and at Syracuse University.

Pay parking is available in the Marion lot.

Deadly Inheritance
Acme Mystery Company

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

The Seagull
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin
Anjalee Nadkarni, director

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, recently translated by Tom Stoppard, is a serious comedy with writers at its core that examines some similar themes: How do we measure success? What is the cost of fame? What are we willing to sacrifice for public recognition and acclaim? Can we become the authors of our own lives? How do we take responsibility for our own happiness? Although it was written a century ago, the truth and richness of Chekhovs play, a mosaic of needs and desires and the power of giving and taking, still resonates today.

Read a Review!

Friday, March 16, 2007

Mute
ThINC

Price: Free
Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

MUTE is an exhibition of silent videos from a selection of international artists that will run 24/7 March 14 through April 15th 2007.

MUTE creates a diorama out of the gallery, exposing it as space that is fractured and fragile; MUTE pulls the viewer towards the screen, searching.

During the exhibition, viewers will see the videos by peering through the windows at the running projection. "By presenting an exhibition that places this obstacle between the viewer and their expectancies, MUTE makes manifest the silence that denotes the unifying quality that connects an array of otherwise very different works. MUTE closes the space of the gallery literally and temporally," says Andrew Mount, Executive Director of ThINC.

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

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

The Visual Arts Showcase Committee of the CRC is pleased to present an eclectic offering, featuring work of state and local grant winners since 2000. Special viewing arrangements can be made through the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155.

Gallery Exhibit: Aida Khalil, Stephen Datz and Syau-Cheng Lai
Onondaga Community College

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

A stunning exhibit of paintings, sculpture and mixed media works.

Playthings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Drawing by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma.

Roy Bautista:
I am interested in how I learn things. And how much I learn by looking. And how much more can be learned by looking harder. A longer look at people and how people communicate, and much can be read in a body's posture and movement. The word, understand implies a pose, a stand taken. We understand through our bodies, our own physical limitations of dancing, running, and wrestling. To stop any one pose of the body during any instantaneous action is to elevate it to drama or switch it into a performance, a portent. Micro-expressions flash for an instant that can divulge much information that is not stated verbally, precisely. I am interested in the idea of play, and playing with objects, which can be made to assume poses, fetishes that can be made to represent beings.

Natalia Porter:
I'm interested in creating art that make us reflect on our relationship with objects, on the significance and value we assign to them, particularly those objects which we use everyday.

Ami Suma:
My obsession is to make you giggle and remember childhood feelings, so I am obsessed with fun textures. Textures that give me goose bumps; odd shapes and silhouettes, toys that stimulate the senses of both young and old.

Works of Garofalo Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

Garofalo Architects was recently recognized as part of "The New Vanguard" in Architectural Record and the "Emerging Voices" program at the Architectural LEague of New York.

Paintings: Daniel Kishman
Westcott Community Center

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

Dan Kishman paints in a non-objective abstract style with acrylic paints, sometimes incorporating mat medium or gesso. Mr. Kishman is a lifelong Syracuse area resident who has shown his work in a variety of local venues, including the Central Library at the Galleries Downtown, in Syracuse. He has won numerous awards, including Masters Division at the Adirondack Open Exhibit in Old Forge and, most recently, Second Place, Professional Class, at the New York State Fair.

Impressions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Oil paintings by Eric Shute, watercolors by Stephen Ryan, and ceramics by Bobbi Lamb.

Environmental Injustice and the Artist Response to Hurricane Katrina
Community Folk Art Center

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

When photographers Donn Young and Gus Bennett, Jr., stared loss in the face after Hurricane Katrina they searched through their emotional and physical lives, assessed the damage and moved on. They entered spaces and captured images and rescued items that were difficult to see, but needed to be saved in order to help tell the story of New Orleans.

Donn Young returned to New Orleans to find his studio and over one million images taken during his 25 year career virtually eliminated. In light of this, he began documenting the devastation of not just his life, but the lives of others in the City as well. Gus Bennett documented the efforts of curator and archivist Linda Hill to rescue a collection of African antiquities that were left unattended and deteriorating on a local university campus. She endured the hazardous environment, located the items, removed them and began working to restore them.

For those who make New Orleans their home after Katrina, it is not always easy to find the beauty that has been covered up by the debris of the storm. This exhibition is about three remarkable individuals who chose to help save New Orleans through their individual efforts and are now sharing those efforts collectively; a metaphor for what it takes to live in New Orleans
­ today.

This exhibition will challenge your senses, in part, because we dare to display the images of objects that under different circumstances would be gazed upon with notions of beauty, humor and historic documentation. In this context, however, we are sharing those objects in their vulnerable state, straddling the line, in appearance, of art and refuse. This is a story about seeing devastation, experiencing the pain and moving forward by will and choice.

Read a review!

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

The exhibition features the work of seniors and graduate students in Syracuse University's Department of Transmedia.

Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War
Light Work Gallery
Featuring works by William Earle Williams

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

Until the release of the motion picture Glory in 1989, it was not well known that more than 180,000 black soldiers served in the Civil War. The exhibition Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War features over 40 stunning black-and-white photographs by William Earle Williams. The images call attention to the sites made special through these soldiers' contributions, so that their story becomes a part of our American story.

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Staging the coldest season as a playground for imagination, The Warehouse Gallery presents Embracing Winter, a group exhibition featuring knitted sculpture, psychedelic video, interactive displays, sly photography, and crisp audio and book works by American, Canadian and Italian artists: Janet Morton, Bruno Munari, Takeshi Murata, Collin Olan, Lisa M. Robinson, and Rudy Shepherd

Syracuse is the perennial winner of the Golden Snowball Award, for the most snowfall in New York State. Embracing Winter celebrates this crystallized precipitation as the key to a delightful set of activities, and as an ephemeral filter to make ordinary surroundings new again.

Read a review!

The Language of Art
Delavan Art Gallery

Price: Free
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Barbara Kellogg: watermedia
Nives Marzocchi: varied works
An exhibit of artists whose work is shown in the new cultural magazine, Stone Canoe Journal

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

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

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

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

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

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

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

A New Refutation of Time (Still Images in Sequence)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Syracuse City School District high school students worked at the e-tags gallery and studio with video artist Ryan Tebo. After four weeks, students created a visual representation of their own concept of time through still photography, which was then sequenced into one-minute video shorts. Student artists include: Corbin Bryant and Susan Drake from Nottingham High School; Varvara Mikushkina, Manual Bova and Teddy Bratt from Henninger High School; and Ryan Gallagher and Leah Bucher from Corcoran High School.

Nevis: Abstract Paintings by Rachel Harms
Redhouse

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

Rachel Harms, an English-born and educated artist will exhibit her most recent abstract paintings, which are influenced by the warm, brightly hued, West Indies Island of Nevis. Harms is interested in basic contradictions between nature and life, solidity and fragility, timelessness and change. These paintings beckon the viewer to linger, search, and discover the unexpected. They are refreshing, precisely honed constructions, both beautiful and affecting.

Rachel Harms has exhibited throughout the United Kingdom and the United States, including at the Creaser Gallery in London, the New Waterfront Museum in New York City; and recently at Onondaga Community College and ThInc in Syracuse. Harms earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Parson School of Design in New York City and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the Chelsea School of Art in London. Harms currently lives in Skaneateles with her husband and daughter.

Cinefest 27
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $25 for the day; $70 for all four days
Holiday Inn
Electronics Parkway, Liverpool

9:00 AM: Amateur Daddy (1931) with Warner Baxter, Marian Nixon
10:20 AM: The New York Idea (1920) with Alice Brady, Lowell Sherman
11:20 AM: Arms & The Girl (1917) with Billie Burke, Thomas Meighan

LUNCH BREAK

1:15 PM: Things To Come (1936) with Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Margaretta Scott, Cedric Hardwicke. (With additional footage)
3:05 PM: The Jerry Tucker Show, with Jerry Tucker. Hi'-Neighbor! (1934)
4:10 PM: A Child Of The Paris Streets (1916) Supervised by D.W. Griffith; Mae Marsh, Robert Harron
4:45 PM: Jennie Gerhardt (1933) with Sylvia Sidney, Donald Cook, Mary Astor, Edward Arnold

DINNER BREAK

8:15 PM: Shifting Sands (1918) Gloria Swanson
9:15 PM: Richard W. Bann presents Hal Roach Rarities (Show #2)
Le Joueur De Golf (1930), a 46-minute French language version of the Charley Chase two-reeler All Teed Up (American Premiere)
10:15 PM: Pretty Ladies (1925) with Zazu Pitts, Llyan Tashman, Joan Crawford
11:20 PM: Island Of Lost Men (1939) Anna May Wong, J. Carrol Naish, Anthony Quinn, Eric Blore, Broderick Crawford

Lunch Hour Film Series
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: Free
Marriott Hotel Syracuse
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Mannequin, directed by Sun-sook Hwang, animation (China), 7 minutes.
A piece of fabric flown from an imaginary world is turned into a closet in a room.

The Santa Claus Happy Tyme Show, directed by Alex George, animation (USA), 30 minutes.
Murder...Betrayal! It's the holiday classic for bad children! String puppetry fuses with digital effects in this subversive and frenetic comedy/adventur of elves on strike at Santa's Little Sweatshop.

Lucky, directed by Avie Luthra, fiction (England), 20 minutes.
Lucky is a South African AIDS orphan who learns about life through an unlikely bond with a racist Indian woman.

Due to limited seating, reservations are suggested, but not required. Bring your lunch if you choose. SIFF will provide the popcorn. To reserve a seat, call 315-443-8826.

The Lonesome Sisters, with special guest McWilliams Hardware
Folkus Project

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

Drawing inspiration from Appalachian fiddlers, old time music, bluegrass ballads, and early southern gospel, the Lonesome Sisters match their powerful harmonies with well-chosen classics and homespun originals into a performance of sincere tenderness and beauty.

Sarah Hawker and Debra Clifford are known for their hard-hitting country and mountain harmonies and their love of singing about tragedy and heartache in all its forms. Hawker (lead vocals) and Clifford (harmony vocals, acoustic guitar, and mandolin) mix traditional standards and original material, but their own compositions are indistinguishable in spirit and quality from the old time tunes. The song writing is powerful and the performances are heartfelt. The Sisters keep it simple, employing only soulful vocals, rhythm guitar, and an occasional fiddle or banjo. The austere arrangements in a classic country style serve to highlight the astonishing harmonies and emphasize their introspective themes of tragedy, loss, and heartache. The overall musical effect will put you in mind of Gillian Welch, but with an even firmer stranglehold on the merits of a sincere melody.

The Sisters first met in a singing class at the Ashokan Fiddle and Dance Camp and discovered the pure joy of harmonizing together. They have performed at venues such as the Newport Folk Festival and the Kaufman Center, Merkin Hall in New York City. They have played with Jesse Winchester, the Levon Helm Band, Hazel Dickens, Alice Gerrard, Laurie Lewis, Dudley Connell, Marshall Wilborn, Tony Trischka, Mike Marshal & Darol Anger, and Riley Baugus. They were also selected to perform in juried showcases at the 2005 Western Arts Alliance in Albuquerque, New Mexico; the Performing Arts Exchange in Memphis, Tennessee; and the Roots & Branches Stage at the International Bluegrass Music Association 2005 Conference in Nashville.

Opening will be McWilliams Hardware: Ernest and Glen McWilliams are a pair old-time country-style musicians and singers recently emerging on the Central New York scene, and hailing from uncertain origins. Ernest McWilliams plays banjo and guitar and sings in a gentle tenor reminiscent of Eddy Arnold and Hank Snow. Glen -- who calls himself "cousin Glen" but confesses also to being Ernest's half-brother, brother-in-law, and stepfather -- plays guitar and mandolin, and sings in a strained tenor reminiscent of an accosted duck. In a style sometimes described as "anachronistic" and "irksome," the boys serve up songs ranging from traditional chestnuts identified with hillbillies and Celtic ancestors, up to and including contemporary bluegrass and ditties they wrote just last week.

Tom Gilbo and the Blue Suedes
Simply New Theatre

Price: $22.50 (no credit cards)
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Don't miss your chance to see this award-winning Elvis Impersonator as he and his band perform live and take us along for their acclaimed musical tribute to the King of Rock and Roll!

This live Elvis Review is a magnificent stroll down memory lane, back to that first kiss, your first prom, or maybe even that moment when you met your first love, all with the tender strains of Elvis Presley serenading you. This night will take you from Elvis' younger years, when every move he made set the 50s girls' hearts soaring, to the last years of his life, when both he and his music finally earned the respect they deserved. "Elvis" appears in one of his famous jumpsuits and the magical transition that takes place when he steps back on stage is amazing. Whether your eyes are wide open or have drifted shut dreamily, his voice and music will take you on a journey that you will want to travel again and again.

Seating is limited. To reserve a seat, phone 315-558-9124.

Eastman School Gamelan Ensemble
Redhouse

Price: $14 adults; $10 students
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

A Night at the Opera-atorio
Syracuse Chorale
Warren Ottey, conductor

Price: $15 regular, $12 students/seniors, $8 children 15 and under ($3 discount for advance purchase prior to 3/12)
North Syracuse Baptist Church
420 S. Main St., North Syracuse

Enjoy many of the most well known opera and oratorio choruses including Lacrymosa from Mozart's Requiem, Inflammatus from Stabat Mater, Habenera from Carmen, the Humming Chorus from Turandot, and more.

Pops Series: Tales and Travels
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Grant Cooper, conductor
Featuring Deborah Henson-Conant, harp

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

Part storyteller, part musician and all-around ambassador of fun, Deborah Henson-Conant is a truly one-of-a-kind entertainer who will take you on a musical journey from the sizzling sounds of Latin Jazz to the heart-tugging tunes of the Irish isles. Armed with her electric blue harp and keen sense of humor, Deborah will lead you on a musical journey you will not soon forget!

Read a review!

The Octette Bridge Club
Appleseed Productions
Linda Lance, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 seniors/students
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

On alternate Friday evenings, eight sisters meet to play bridge and gossip. The first act takes place in 1934; the second 10 years later during a Halloween bridge party where each acts out her costume's persona. The emotionally distraught youngest, who does a hilarious Salome belly dance, has just gotten out of a sanitarium and knows that she must cut the bonds to her smothering family and strike out on her own. A sentimental comedy by P.J. Barry about American life in a bygone era.

Read a Review!

The Seagull
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin
Anjalee Nadkarni, director

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, recently translated by Tom Stoppard, is a serious comedy with writers at its core that examines some similar themes: How do we measure success? What is the cost of fame? What are we willing to sacrifice for public recognition and acclaim? Can we become the authors of our own lives? How do we take responsibility for our own happiness? Although it was written a century ago, the truth and richness of Chekhovs play, a mosaic of needs and desires and the power of giving and taking, still resonates today.

Read a Review!

Much Is Blue About Nothing, and The Mysterious Messenger
Open Hand Theater

Price: $14 at the door; $12 in advance regular; $10 in advance students/seniors
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Inspired by the Italian Commedia Dell'arte and the great American melodrama, featuring the daring dynamic deeds of the Open Hand Theater ensemble.

The Fantastiks
Wit's End Players

Price: $21.00 regular; $19.00 seniors; $14.00 children
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

A girl, a boy, a wall between them... This charming show, the longest running musical in history, tells a timeless story of young love. Beautiful songs include "Try to Remember."

For more information, phone 315-345-8001.

Read a Review!

Saturday, March 17, 2007

Mute
ThINC

Price: Free
Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

MUTE is an exhibition of silent videos from a selection of international artists that will run 24/7 March 14 through April 15th 2007.

MUTE creates a diorama out of the gallery, exposing it as space that is fractured and fragile; MUTE pulls the viewer towards the screen, searching.

During the exhibition, viewers will see the videos by peering through the windows at the running projection. "By presenting an exhibition that places this obstacle between the viewer and their expectancies, MUTE makes manifest the silence that denotes the unifying quality that connects an array of otherwise very different works. MUTE closes the space of the gallery literally and temporally," says Andrew Mount, Executive Director of ThINC.

The Language of Art
Delavan Art Gallery

Price: Free
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Barbara Kellogg: watermedia
Nives Marzocchi: varied works
An exhibit of artists whose work is shown in the new cultural magazine, Stone Canoe Journal

Impressions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Oil paintings by Eric Shute, watercolors by Stephen Ryan, and ceramics by Bobbi Lamb.

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

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

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

A New Refutation of Time (Still Images in Sequence)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Syracuse City School District high school students worked at the e-tags gallery and studio with video artist Ryan Tebo. After four weeks, students created a visual representation of their own concept of time through still photography, which was then sequenced into one-minute video shorts. Student artists include: Corbin Bryant and Susan Drake from Nottingham High School; Varvara Mikushkina, Manual Bova and Teddy Bratt from Henninger High School; and Ryan Gallagher and Leah Bucher from Corcoran High School.

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

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

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

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

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

Jazz Age Virtues: Works of Richard Merkin and Jason King
Lucas Gallery

Lucas Gallery
33 Jordan St., Skaneateles

Richard Merkin's work conjures up scenes that evoke the raucous spirit of the 1920s, 30s and 40s. In his witty, often eccentric illustrations, Merkin depicts movie stars, jazz musicians, sports heroes and literary impresarios co-mingling with more personal references. In his highly stylized approach to the figure, Merkin privileges color relationships, balance and juxtaposition over strictly literal descriptions of his subjects. He reconstitutes their Jazz Age virtues on canvas in cubist, comic-laced landscapes of tropical color. And humor; there's always humor.

Merkin began teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1963 and remained there for nearly 40 years. During this time, he built his reputation in New York. He is represented in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Smithsonian Institution and the Whitney Museum as well as many others. Mr. Merkin has been a Contributing Editor for Vanity Fair since 1986 and a regular contributor of illustrations to The New Yorker since 1988, as well as Harpers and The New York Times Sunday Magazine. From 1988-1991 he wrote a monthly style column for Gentlemen's Quarterly. In 1995, he illustrated the book, Leagues Apart: The Men and Times of the Negro Baseball Leagues, (by Larry Ritter). He wrote the text and captions for The Tijuana Bibles, (Simon & Schuster, 1997)

Jason King is a local artist who also captures the Jazz Age with convincing visual narration. His unique illustration like styling and deceptively simple compositions combine to produce a very real and universally shared memory of rural life in the American 20s.

Jason graduated Cum Laude from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts as a painting major in 1989. He has since had several showings of his art including one in Charlotte, VT and most recently at Mocha Maya's Coffee House in Shelburne Falls, MA. He has also successfully executed many commissions including the design for sculptures at Sycamore Hill Farm and Gardens in Marcellus. His painting "Otto on Fish Creek" was a winning entry at the New York State Fair in August of 2006.

Jason executes portraiture in acrylics that create a universal sense of nostalgia by working from old photographs and slides of rural America from the first half of the 20th century.

This show is designed to be of special interest to interior designers as well as collectors.

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Staging the coldest season as a playground for imagination, The Warehouse Gallery presents Embracing Winter, a group exhibition featuring knitted sculpture, psychedelic video, interactive displays, sly photography, and crisp audio and book works by American, Canadian and Italian artists: Janet Morton, Bruno Munari, Takeshi Murata, Collin Olan, Lisa M. Robinson, and Rudy Shepherd

Syracuse is the perennial winner of the Golden Snowball Award, for the most snowfall in New York State. Embracing Winter celebrates this crystallized precipitation as the key to a delightful set of activities, and as an ephemeral filter to make ordinary surroundings new again.

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Cycle of Life - Green Lakes: Photographs by Marna Bell
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The show is a collection of digital photographs which chart the changing seasons of Green Lakes State Park in Fayetteville, NY.

Environmental Injustice and the Artist Response to Hurricane Katrina
Community Folk Art Center

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

When photographers Donn Young and Gus Bennett, Jr., stared loss in the face after Hurricane Katrina they searched through their emotional and physical lives, assessed the damage and moved on. They entered spaces and captured images and rescued items that were difficult to see, but needed to be saved in order to help tell the story of New Orleans.

Donn Young returned to New Orleans to find his studio and over one million images taken during his 25 year career virtually eliminated. In light of this, he began documenting the devastation of not just his life, but the lives of others in the City as well. Gus Bennett documented the efforts of curator and archivist Linda Hill to rescue a collection of African antiquities that were left unattended and deteriorating on a local university campus. She endured the hazardous environment, located the items, removed them and began working to restore them.

For those who make New Orleans their home after Katrina, it is not always easy to find the beauty that has been covered up by the debris of the storm. This exhibition is about three remarkable individuals who chose to help save New Orleans through their individual efforts and are now sharing those efforts collectively; a metaphor for what it takes to live in New Orleans
­ today.

This exhibition will challenge your senses, in part, because we dare to display the images of objects that under different circumstances would be gazed upon with notions of beauty, humor and historic documentation. In this context, however, we are sharing those objects in their vulnerable state, straddling the line, in appearance, of art and refuse. This is a story about seeing devastation, experiencing the pain and moving forward by will and choice.

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Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

Nevis: Abstract Paintings by Rachel Harms
Redhouse

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

Rachel Harms, an English-born and educated artist will exhibit her most recent abstract paintings, which are influenced by the warm, brightly hued, West Indies Island of Nevis. Harms is interested in basic contradictions between nature and life, solidity and fragility, timelessness and change. These paintings beckon the viewer to linger, search, and discover the unexpected. They are refreshing, precisely honed constructions, both beautiful and affecting.

Rachel Harms has exhibited throughout the United Kingdom and the United States, including at the Creaser Gallery in London, the New Waterfront Museum in New York City; and recently at Onondaga Community College and ThInc in Syracuse. Harms earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Parson School of Design in New York City and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the Chelsea School of Art in London. Harms currently lives in Skaneateles with her husband and daughter.

Cinefest 27
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Within The Law (1923) with Norma Talmadge
How A Cowboy Makes His Lariat (1917)
A Movie Trip Through Filmland (1921)
Her Husband's Trademark (1922) with Gloria Swanson
The Spoilers (1930) with Gary Cooper, Kay Johnson

Cinefest 27
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $25 for the afternoon and evenings
Holiday Inn
Electronics Parkway, Liverpool

3:00 PM: While Paris Sleeps (1932) with Victor McLaglen, Helen Mack
4:10 PM: Richard W. Bann presents Hal Roach Rarities (Show #3)
The Way Of All Pants (1927) with Charley Chase; Came The Dawn (1928) with Max Davidson; Hurdy Gurdy (1929) (the second talkie from the Hal Roach Studios with Max Davidson, Edgar Kennedy, Thelma Todd); Love Fever (1931); The Boy Friends
5:15 PM: Once In A Blue Moon (1935) with Jimmy Savo

DINNER BREAK

8:20 PM: Asbury Park Murder Mystery (1930) with William J. Burns
8:30 PM: The Captain Hates The Sea (1934) with John Gilbert, Victor McLaglen
10:00 PM: The Night Of Love (1927) with Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky, Montagu Love
11:30 PM: Behind That Curtain (1929) with Warner Baxter, Lois Moran, Boris Karloff

Family Series: My Wild Irish Harp
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Grant Cooper, conductor
Featuring Deborah Henson-Conant, harp

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

Take an unforgettable musical journey with the always entertaining and never predictable harpist, storyteller and all-around entertainer Deborah Henson-Conant as she presents My Wild Irish Harp. From sizzling Latin rhythms to traditional Irish reels, you won't want to miss this season highlight performance.

Tom Gilbo and the Blue Suedes
Simply New Theatre

Price: $22.50 (no credit cards)
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Don't miss your chance to see this award-winning Elvis Impersonator as he and his band perform live and take us along for their acclaimed musical tribute to the King of Rock and Roll!

This live Elvis Review is a magnificent stroll down memory lane, back to that first kiss, your first prom, or maybe even that moment when you met your first love, all with the tender strains of Elvis Presley serenading you. This night will take you from Elvis' younger years, when every move he made set the 50s girls' hearts soaring, to the last years of his life, when both he and his music finally earned the respect they deserved. "Elvis" appears in one of his famous jumpsuits and the magical transition that takes place when he steps back on stage is amazing. Whether your eyes are wide open or have drifted shut dreamily, his voice and music will take you on a journey that you will want to travel again and again.

Seating is limited. To reserve a seat, phone 315-558-9124.

Pops Series: Tales and Travels
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Grant Cooper, conductor
Featuring Deborah Henson-Conant, harp

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

Part storyteller, part musician and all-around ambassador of fun, Deborah Henson-Conant is a truly one-of-a-kind entertainer who will take you on a musical journey from the sizzling sounds of Latin Jazz to the heart-tugging tunes of the Irish isles. Armed with her electric blue harp and keen sense of humor, Deborah will lead you on a musical journey you will not soon forget!

Read a review!

Snow White
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive adaptation of the well-known tale.

The Diary of Anne Frank
Syracuse Civic Theatre

Price: $20 regular, $18 students/seniors, $16 children 12 and under
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Read a review!

The Octette Bridge Club
Appleseed Productions
Linda Lance, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 seniors/students
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

On alternate Friday evenings, eight sisters meet to play bridge and gossip. The first act takes place in 1934; the second 10 years later during a Halloween bridge party where each acts out her costume's persona. The emotionally distraught youngest, who does a hilarious Salome belly dance, has just gotten out of a sanitarium and knows that she must cut the bonds to her smothering family and strike out on her own. A sentimental comedy by P.J. Barry about American life in a bygone era.

Read a Review!

The Seagull
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin
Anjalee Nadkarni, director

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, recently translated by Tom Stoppard, is a serious comedy with writers at its core that examines some similar themes: How do we measure success? What is the cost of fame? What are we willing to sacrifice for public recognition and acclaim? Can we become the authors of our own lives? How do we take responsibility for our own happiness? Although it was written a century ago, the truth and richness of Chekhovs play, a mosaic of needs and desires and the power of giving and taking, still resonates today.

Read a Review!

Much Is Blue About Nothing, and The Mysterious Messenger
Open Hand Theater

Price: $14 at the door; $12 in advance regular; $10 in advance students/seniors
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Inspired by the Italian Commedia Dell'arte and the great American melodrama, featuring the daring dynamic deeds of the Open Hand Theater ensemble.

The Fantastiks
Wit's End Players

Price: $21.00 regular; $19.00 seniors; $14.00 children
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

A girl, a boy, a wall between them... This charming show, the longest running musical in history, tells a timeless story of young love. Beautiful songs include "Try to Remember."

For more information, phone 315-345-8001.

Read a Review!

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Mute
ThINC

Price: Free
Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

MUTE is an exhibition of silent videos from a selection of international artists that will run 24/7 March 14 through April 15th 2007.

MUTE creates a diorama out of the gallery, exposing it as space that is fractured and fragile; MUTE pulls the viewer towards the screen, searching.

During the exhibition, viewers will see the videos by peering through the windows at the running projection. "By presenting an exhibition that places this obstacle between the viewer and their expectancies, MUTE makes manifest the silence that denotes the unifying quality that connects an array of otherwise very different works. MUTE closes the space of the gallery literally and temporally," says Andrew Mount, Executive Director of ThINC.

Jazz Age Virtues: Works of Richard Merkin and Jason King
Lucas Gallery

Lucas Gallery
33 Jordan St., Skaneateles

Richard Merkin's work conjures up scenes that evoke the raucous spirit of the 1920s, 30s and 40s. In his witty, often eccentric illustrations, Merkin depicts movie stars, jazz musicians, sports heroes and literary impresarios co-mingling with more personal references. In his highly stylized approach to the figure, Merkin privileges color relationships, balance and juxtaposition over strictly literal descriptions of his subjects. He reconstitutes their Jazz Age virtues on canvas in cubist, comic-laced landscapes of tropical color. And humor; there's always humor.

Merkin began teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1963 and remained there for nearly 40 years. During this time, he built his reputation in New York. He is represented in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Smithsonian Institution and the Whitney Museum as well as many others. Mr. Merkin has been a Contributing Editor for Vanity Fair since 1986 and a regular contributor of illustrations to The New Yorker since 1988, as well as Harpers and The New York Times Sunday Magazine. From 1988-1991 he wrote a monthly style column for Gentlemen's Quarterly. In 1995, he illustrated the book, Leagues Apart: The Men and Times of the Negro Baseball Leagues, (by Larry Ritter). He wrote the text and captions for The Tijuana Bibles, (Simon & Schuster, 1997)

Jason King is a local artist who also captures the Jazz Age with convincing visual narration. His unique illustration like styling and deceptively simple compositions combine to produce a very real and universally shared memory of rural life in the American 20s.

Jason graduated Cum Laude from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts as a painting major in 1989. He has since had several showings of his art including one in Charlotte, VT and most recently at Mocha Maya's Coffee House in Shelburne Falls, MA. He has also successfully executed many commissions including the design for sculptures at Sycamore Hill Farm and Gardens in Marcellus. His painting "Otto on Fish Creek" was a winning entry at the New York State Fair in August of 2006.

Jason executes portraiture in acrylics that create a universal sense of nostalgia by working from old photographs and slides of rural America from the first half of the 20th century.

This show is designed to be of special interest to interior designers as well as collectors.

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

A New Refutation of Time (Still Images in Sequence)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Syracuse City School District high school students worked at the e-tags gallery and studio with video artist Ryan Tebo. After four weeks, students created a visual representation of their own concept of time through still photography, which was then sequenced into one-minute video shorts. Student artists include: Corbin Bryant and Susan Drake from Nottingham High School; Varvara Mikushkina, Manual Bova and Teddy Bratt from Henninger High School; and Ryan Gallagher and Leah Bucher from Corcoran High School.

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

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

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

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

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

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

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

Cinefest 27
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $25 for the day
Holiday Inn
Electronics Parkway, Liverpool

9:00 AM: Man About Town (1939) with Jack Benny, Dorothy Lamour, Edward Arnold, Betty Grable, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson
10:30 AM: The Auction (2007) Hosted by Leonard Maltin, Lafe McKee, Jr.
12:00 PM: Jimmy And Sally (1933) with James Dunn, Claire Trevor
1:15 PM: Meet The Girls (1938) with June Lang, Lynn Bari, Robert Allen, Gene Lockhart
2:20 PM: Road Demon (1938) with Henry Arthur, Joan Valerie, Henry Armetta, Lon Chaney Jr.
3:30 PM: Society Smugglers (1939) with Preston Foster, Irene Hervey, Walter Woolf King

Hearts Unarmored
Redhouse

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

Hearts Unarmored is Radu Olievschi's first feature-length film. It was completed on a shoestring budget and with the invaluable support of Syracuse University. A man and a woman meet at an old train station, where time seems to have stood still. She carries a book, he carries a gun. She is waiting for a train, he is waiting for answers. She is married to a soldier with war in his heart. Their eyes harbor words unspoken. Their lives will be forever changed.

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

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

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

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

Rory O'Bannion
Liverpool is the Place

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

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with tunes by the Camillus songwriter specializing in Irish music and folk-rock.

A Night at the Opera-atorio
Syracuse Chorale
Warren Ottey, conductor

Price: $15 regular, $12 students/seniors, $8 children 15 and under ($3 discount for advance purchase prior to 3/12)
Holy Cross Church
4112 E. Genesee St., Dewitt

Enjoy many of the most well known opera and oratorio choruses including Lacrymosa from Mozart's Requiem, Inflammatus from Stabat Mater, Habenera from Carmen, the Humming Chorus from Turandot, and more.

A Special Fundraising Program
Syracuse Wurlitzer
Featuring Bob Milne, piano

Price: $10 in advance, $12 at the door, $5 students
First English Lutheran Church
Corner of James and Townsend Streets, Syracuse

A special afternoon with ragtime and boogie-woogie pianist Bob Milne.

For advance tickets, phone 315-458-4755 or 315-451-4943.

LeMoyne College
The Jazzuits, with Jerry Exline and Friends

Price: $10 adults, $5 students
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Jerry Exline and Friends will perform a benefit concert for the Le Moyne College Jazzuits. Jerry Exline and Friends includes Bill Quick on drums, George Marlette on trumpet, and Luciano Iorizzo on bass, along with Jerry Exline on piano.

The Jazzuits is Le Moyne College's vocal jazz ensemble, directed by Carol Jacobe. The group consists of 14 vocalists and a complete rhythm section of piano, bass, and drums. They have performed at many Central New York venues in the last two years, including the Landmark Theater and the 2006 NYSSMA Winter Convention in Rochester.

The concert will include many popular standards performed by both groups.

Tickets can be purchased in advance by calling 315-638-9485.

The Octette Bridge Club
Appleseed Productions
Linda Lance, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 seniors/students
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

On alternate Friday evenings, eight sisters meet to play bridge and gossip. The first act takes place in 1934; the second 10 years later during a Halloween bridge party where each acts out her costume's persona. The emotionally distraught youngest, who does a hilarious Salome belly dance, has just gotten out of a sanitarium and knows that she must cut the bonds to her smothering family and strike out on her own. A sentimental comedy by P.J. Barry about American life in a bygone era.

Read a Review!

The Fantastiks
Wit's End Players

Price: $21.00 regular; $19.00 seniors; $14.00 children
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

A girl, a boy, a wall between them... This charming show, the longest running musical in history, tells a timeless story of young love. Beautiful songs include "Try to Remember."

For more information, phone 315-345-8001.

Read a Review!

Monday, March 19, 2007

Mute
ThINC

Price: Free
Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

MUTE is an exhibition of silent videos from a selection of international artists that will run 24/7 March 14 through April 15th 2007.

MUTE creates a diorama out of the gallery, exposing it as space that is fractured and fragile; MUTE pulls the viewer towards the screen, searching.

During the exhibition, viewers will see the videos by peering through the windows at the running projection. "By presenting an exhibition that places this obstacle between the viewer and their expectancies, MUTE makes manifest the silence that denotes the unifying quality that connects an array of otherwise very different works. MUTE closes the space of the gallery literally and temporally," says Andrew Mount, Executive Director of ThINC.

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

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

The Visual Arts Showcase Committee of the CRC is pleased to present an eclectic offering, featuring work of state and local grant winners since 2000. Special viewing arrangements can be made through the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155.

Gallery Exhibit: Aida Khalil, Stephen Datz and Syau-Cheng Lai
Onondaga Community College

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

A stunning exhibit of paintings, sculpture and mixed media works.

Playthings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Drawing by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma.

Roy Bautista:
I am interested in how I learn things. And how much I learn by looking. And how much more can be learned by looking harder. A longer look at people and how people communicate, and much can be read in a body's posture and movement. The word, understand implies a pose, a stand taken. We understand through our bodies, our own physical limitations of dancing, running, and wrestling. To stop any one pose of the body during any instantaneous action is to elevate it to drama or switch it into a performance, a portent. Micro-expressions flash for an instant that can divulge much information that is not stated verbally, precisely. I am interested in the idea of play, and playing with objects, which can be made to assume poses, fetishes that can be made to represent beings.

Natalia Porter:
I'm interested in creating art that make us reflect on our relationship with objects, on the significance and value we assign to them, particularly those objects which we use everyday.

Ami Suma:
My obsession is to make you giggle and remember childhood feelings, so I am obsessed with fun textures. Textures that give me goose bumps; odd shapes and silhouettes, toys that stimulate the senses of both young and old.

Works of Garofalo Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

Garofalo Architects was recently recognized as part of "The New Vanguard" in Architectural Record and the "Emerging Voices" program at the Architectural LEague of New York.

Paintings: Daniel Kishman
Westcott Community Center

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

Dan Kishman paints in a non-objective abstract style with acrylic paints, sometimes incorporating mat medium or gesso. Mr. Kishman is a lifelong Syracuse area resident who has shown his work in a variety of local venues, including the Central Library at the Galleries Downtown, in Syracuse. He has won numerous awards, including Masters Division at the Adirondack Open Exhibit in Old Forge and, most recently, Second Place, Professional Class, at the New York State Fair.

Syracuse Set List: Latino Music
Redhouse

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

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Mute
ThINC

Price: Free
Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

MUTE is an exhibition of silent videos from a selection of international artists that will run 24/7 March 14 through April 15th 2007.

MUTE creates a diorama out of the gallery, exposing it as space that is fractured and fragile; MUTE pulls the viewer towards the screen, searching.

During the exhibition, viewers will see the videos by peering through the windows at the running projection. "By presenting an exhibition that places this obstacle between the viewer and their expectancies, MUTE makes manifest the silence that denotes the unifying quality that connects an array of otherwise very different works. MUTE closes the space of the gallery literally and temporally," says Andrew Mount, Executive Director of ThINC.

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

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

The Visual Arts Showcase Committee of the CRC is pleased to present an eclectic offering, featuring work of state and local grant winners since 2000. Special viewing arrangements can be made through the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155.

Gallery Exhibit: Aida Khalil, Stephen Datz and Syau-Cheng Lai
Onondaga Community College

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

A stunning exhibit of paintings, sculpture and mixed media works.

Playthings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Drawing by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma.

Roy Bautista:
I am interested in how I learn things. And how much I learn by looking. And how much more can be learned by looking harder. A longer look at people and how people communicate, and much can be read in a body's posture and movement. The word, understand implies a pose, a stand taken. We understand through our bodies, our own physical limitations of dancing, running, and wrestling. To stop any one pose of the body during any instantaneous action is to elevate it to drama or switch it into a performance, a portent. Micro-expressions flash for an instant that can divulge much information that is not stated verbally, precisely. I am interested in the idea of play, and playing with objects, which can be made to assume poses, fetishes that can be made to represent beings.

Natalia Porter:
I'm interested in creating art that make us reflect on our relationship with objects, on the significance and value we assign to them, particularly those objects which we use everyday.

Ami Suma:
My obsession is to make you giggle and remember childhood feelings, so I am obsessed with fun textures. Textures that give me goose bumps; odd shapes and silhouettes, toys that stimulate the senses of both young and old.

Works of Garofalo Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

Garofalo Architects was recently recognized as part of "The New Vanguard" in Architectural Record and the "Emerging Voices" program at the Architectural LEague of New York.

Paintings: Daniel Kishman
Westcott Community Center

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

Dan Kishman paints in a non-objective abstract style with acrylic paints, sometimes incorporating mat medium or gesso. Mr. Kishman is a lifelong Syracuse area resident who has shown his work in a variety of local venues, including the Central Library at the Galleries Downtown, in Syracuse. He has won numerous awards, including Masters Division at the Adirondack Open Exhibit in Old Forge and, most recently, Second Place, Professional Class, at the New York State Fair.

Impressions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Oil paintings by Eric Shute, watercolors by Stephen Ryan, and ceramics by Bobbi Lamb.

Environmental Injustice and the Artist Response to Hurricane Katrina
Community Folk Art Center

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

When photographers Donn Young and Gus Bennett, Jr., stared loss in the face after Hurricane Katrina they searched through their emotional and physical lives, assessed the damage and moved on. They entered spaces and captured images and rescued items that were difficult to see, but needed to be saved in order to help tell the story of New Orleans.

Donn Young returned to New Orleans to find his studio and over one million images taken during his 25 year career virtually eliminated. In light of this, he began documenting the devastation of not just his life, but the lives of others in the City as well. Gus Bennett documented the efforts of curator and archivist Linda Hill to rescue a collection of African antiquities that were left unattended and deteriorating on a local university campus. She endured the hazardous environment, located the items, removed them and began working to restore them.

For those who make New Orleans their home after Katrina, it is not always easy to find the beauty that has been covered up by the debris of the storm. This exhibition is about three remarkable individuals who chose to help save New Orleans through their individual efforts and are now sharing those efforts collectively; a metaphor for what it takes to live in New Orleans
­ today.

This exhibition will challenge your senses, in part, because we dare to display the images of objects that under different circumstances would be gazed upon with notions of beauty, humor and historic documentation. In this context, however, we are sharing those objects in their vulnerable state, straddling the line, in appearance, of art and refuse. This is a story about seeing devastation, experiencing the pain and moving forward by will and choice.

Read a review!

Cycle of Life - Green Lakes: Photographs by Marna Bell
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The show is a collection of digital photographs which chart the changing seasons of Green Lakes State Park in Fayetteville, NY.

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Staging the coldest season as a playground for imagination, The Warehouse Gallery presents Embracing Winter, a group exhibition featuring knitted sculpture, psychedelic video, interactive displays, sly photography, and crisp audio and book works by American, Canadian and Italian artists: Janet Morton, Bruno Munari, Takeshi Murata, Collin Olan, Lisa M. Robinson, and Rudy Shepherd

Syracuse is the perennial winner of the Golden Snowball Award, for the most snowfall in New York State. Embracing Winter celebrates this crystallized precipitation as the key to a delightful set of activities, and as an ephemeral filter to make ordinary surroundings new again.

Read a review!

MFA 2007
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates. Fourteen artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography and sculpture.

MFA 2007 encompasses a broad range of both media and content. Some of the artists use personal experience and family as a central concept and inspiration. Others make statements on industrialization and the human condition. There are traditional processes: the expressive paintings and drawings by Elena Peteva speak to personal relationships as well as physical process. The photographs and film by Latoya Frazier document a family member's struggle with addiction.

Additionally, there is a variety of new media: Stacey Barton explores issues of the identity of the modern woman through video projection. A virtual installation by Sarah Howell engages the viewer to interact with her work in order to uncover new meaning in "the seemingly arbitrary and everyday."

Weekend and evening Galleries 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

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

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

A New Refutation of Time (Still Images in Sequence)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Syracuse City School District high school students worked at the e-tags gallery and studio with video artist Ryan Tebo. After four weeks, students created a visual representation of their own concept of time through still photography, which was then sequenced into one-minute video shorts. Student artists include: Corbin Bryant and Susan Drake from Nottingham High School; Varvara Mikushkina, Manual Bova and Teddy Bratt from Henninger High School; and Ryan Gallagher and Leah Bucher from Corcoran High School.

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

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

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

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

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

An Evening with Gloria Steinem

Price: $5 regular, $3 with SU student ID
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Feminist, journalist and Ms. magazine founder Gloria Steinem will talk about her rise to journalistic fame as an undercover Playboy bunny, her years as an editor for New York magazine, and, most famously, Ms. Magazine -- the nation's first feminist magazine -- and her steadfast commitment to the women's rights movement.

Steinem is a trailblazer in journalism and feminism. She was inducted into the Women's Hall of Fame in 1993 and into the American Society of Magazine Editors Hall of Fame in 1998. She is the author or co-author of more than a dozen books and founded the Ms. Foundation for Women. Steinem also co-founded the National Women's Political Caucus and the Women's Action Alliance.

The event is sponsored by the Syracuse University chapters of Women in Communications and Ed2010. Tickets are on sale at the Schine Student Center Box Office.

Margaret McCann, painter
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Maxwell Auditorium
Syracuse University, Syracuse

McCann is currently a visiting professor of painting in the School of Art and Design. She exhibits paintings of giants in architecture, macrocosmic still lifes and surreal self-portraits at Galleria Antonia Jannone in Milan, Italy, and with the Zeuxis group. A recipient of an Ingram Merrill grant and a Fulbright to Italy, she taught art in Rome, Italy, for eight years and had a residency at the Cite des Arts in Paris. McCann studied at Yale University, where she earned a master of fine arts degree; Washington University in St. Louis, where she earned a bachelor of fine arts degree; and at the New York Studio School. She writes art reviews for Art New England and the satirical column "Woman on the Street" online for The Wire (www.wirenh.com).

Parking is available in Irving Garage.

For more information, contact Kathy Tills at (315) 443-2186 or kmtills@syr.edu.

Riverdance
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $39.50-$59.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Rediscover the original Riverdance. This highly acclaimed celebration of Irish music, song and dance features an international company that has touched the hearts of millions around the world. "A Phenomenon" raves The New York Times. "An explosion of sight and sound that simply takes your breath away," cheers the Chicago Tribune. You've heard about this electrifying spectacle, now it's your chance to experience Riverdance live.

Read a review!

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Mute
ThINC

Price: Free
Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

MUTE is an exhibition of silent videos from a selection of international artists that will run 24/7 March 14 through April 15th 2007.

MUTE creates a diorama out of the gallery, exposing it as space that is fractured and fragile; MUTE pulls the viewer towards the screen, searching.

During the exhibition, viewers will see the videos by peering through the windows at the running projection. "By presenting an exhibition that places this obstacle between the viewer and their expectancies, MUTE makes manifest the silence that denotes the unifying quality that connects an array of otherwise very different works. MUTE closes the space of the gallery literally and temporally," says Andrew Mount, Executive Director of ThINC.

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

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

The Visual Arts Showcase Committee of the CRC is pleased to present an eclectic offering, featuring work of state and local grant winners since 2000. Special viewing arrangements can be made through the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155.

Gallery Exhibit: Aida Khalil, Stephen Datz and Syau-Cheng Lai
Onondaga Community College

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

A stunning exhibit of paintings, sculpture and mixed media works.

Playthings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Drawing by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma.

Roy Bautista:
I am interested in how I learn things. And how much I learn by looking. And how much more can be learned by looking harder. A longer look at people and how people communicate, and much can be read in a body's posture and movement. The word, understand implies a pose, a stand taken. We understand through our bodies, our own physical limitations of dancing, running, and wrestling. To stop any one pose of the body during any instantaneous action is to elevate it to drama or switch it into a performance, a portent. Micro-expressions flash for an instant that can divulge much information that is not stated verbally, precisely. I am interested in the idea of play, and playing with objects, which can be made to assume poses, fetishes that can be made to represent beings.

Natalia Porter:
I'm interested in creating art that make us reflect on our relationship with objects, on the significance and value we assign to them, particularly those objects which we use everyday.

Ami Suma:
My obsession is to make you giggle and remember childhood feelings, so I am obsessed with fun textures. Textures that give me goose bumps; odd shapes and silhouettes, toys that stimulate the senses of both young and old.

Works of Garofalo Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

Garofalo Architects was recently recognized as part of "The New Vanguard" in Architectural Record and the "Emerging Voices" program at the Architectural LEague of New York.

Paintings: Daniel Kishman
Westcott Community Center

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

Dan Kishman paints in a non-objective abstract style with acrylic paints, sometimes incorporating mat medium or gesso. Mr. Kishman is a lifelong Syracuse area resident who has shown his work in a variety of local venues, including the Central Library at the Galleries Downtown, in Syracuse. He has won numerous awards, including Masters Division at the Adirondack Open Exhibit in Old Forge and, most recently, Second Place, Professional Class, at the New York State Fair.

Impressions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Oil paintings by Eric Shute, watercolors by Stephen Ryan, and ceramics by Bobbi Lamb.

Environmental Injustice and the Artist Response to Hurricane Katrina
Community Folk Art Center

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

When photographers Donn Young and Gus Bennett, Jr., stared loss in the face after Hurricane Katrina they searched through their emotional and physical lives, assessed the damage and moved on. They entered spaces and captured images and rescued items that were difficult to see, but needed to be saved in order to help tell the story of New Orleans.

Donn Young returned to New Orleans to find his studio and over one million images taken during his 25 year career virtually eliminated. In light of this, he began documenting the devastation of not just his life, but the lives of others in the City as well. Gus Bennett documented the efforts of curator and archivist Linda Hill to rescue a collection of African antiquities that were left unattended and deteriorating on a local university campus. She endured the hazardous environment, located the items, removed them and began working to restore them.

For those who make New Orleans their home after Katrina, it is not always easy to find the beauty that has been covered up by the debris of the storm. This exhibition is about three remarkable individuals who chose to help save New Orleans through their individual efforts and are now sharing those efforts collectively; a metaphor for what it takes to live in New Orleans
­ today.

This exhibition will challenge your senses, in part, because we dare to display the images of objects that under different circumstances would be gazed upon with notions of beauty, humor and historic documentation. In this context, however, we are sharing those objects in their vulnerable state, straddling the line, in appearance, of art and refuse. This is a story about seeing devastation, experiencing the pain and moving forward by will and choice.

Read a review!

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Staging the coldest season as a playground for imagination, The Warehouse Gallery presents Embracing Winter, a group exhibition featuring knitted sculpture, psychedelic video, interactive displays, sly photography, and crisp audio and book works by American, Canadian and Italian artists: Janet Morton, Bruno Munari, Takeshi Murata, Collin Olan, Lisa M. Robinson, and Rudy Shepherd

Syracuse is the perennial winner of the Golden Snowball Award, for the most snowfall in New York State. Embracing Winter celebrates this crystallized precipitation as the key to a delightful set of activities, and as an ephemeral filter to make ordinary surroundings new again.

Read a review!

Cycle of Life - Green Lakes: Photographs by Marna Bell
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The show is a collection of digital photographs which chart the changing seasons of Green Lakes State Park in Fayetteville, NY.

MFA 2007
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates. Fourteen artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography and sculpture.

MFA 2007 encompasses a broad range of both media and content. Some of the artists use personal experience and family as a central concept and inspiration. Others make statements on industrialization and the human condition. There are traditional processes: the expressive paintings and drawings by Elena Peteva speak to personal relationships as well as physical process. The photographs and film by Latoya Frazier document a family member's struggle with addiction.

Additionally, there is a variety of new media: Stacey Barton explores issues of the identity of the modern woman through video projection. A virtual installation by Sarah Howell engages the viewer to interact with her work in order to uncover new meaning in "the seemingly arbitrary and everyday."

Weekend and evening Galleries 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

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

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

A New Refutation of Time (Still Images in Sequence)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Syracuse City School District high school students worked at the e-tags gallery and studio with video artist Ryan Tebo. After four weeks, students created a visual representation of their own concept of time through still photography, which was then sequenced into one-minute video shorts. Student artists include: Corbin Bryant and Susan Drake from Nottingham High School; Varvara Mikushkina, Manual Bova and Teddy Bratt from Henninger High School; and Ryan Gallagher and Leah Bucher from Corcoran High School.

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

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

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

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

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

Gallery Talk: Constructed Improvisation
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring Mark Lindner

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

Spiritual and Metaphysical Songs
Civic Morning Musicals
Leon Carapetyan, baritone; Todd Graber, tenor; Rebecca Horning, piano

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

Dan Chaon, fiction
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

The reading will be preceded by a question and answer session from 3:45-4:30 p.m.

Riverdance
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $39.50-$59.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Rediscover the original Riverdance. This highly acclaimed celebration of Irish music, song and dance features an international company that has touched the hearts of millions around the world. "A Phenomenon" raves The New York Times. "An explosion of sight and sound that simply takes your breath away," cheers the Chicago Tribune. You've heard about this electrifying spectacle, now it's your chance to experience Riverdance live.

Read a review!

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Mute
ThINC

Price: Free
Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

MUTE is an exhibition of silent videos from a selection of international artists that will run 24/7 March 14 through April 15th 2007.

MUTE creates a diorama out of the gallery, exposing it as space that is fractured and fragile; MUTE pulls the viewer towards the screen, searching.

During the exhibition, viewers will see the videos by peering through the windows at the running projection. "By presenting an exhibition that places this obstacle between the viewer and their expectancies, MUTE makes manifest the silence that denotes the unifying quality that connects an array of otherwise very different works. MUTE closes the space of the gallery literally and temporally," says Andrew Mount, Executive Director of ThINC.

A reception for the exhibition will be held outside the gallery at 7:00 PM.

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

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

The Visual Arts Showcase Committee of the CRC is pleased to present an eclectic offering, featuring work of state and local grant winners since 2000. Special viewing arrangements can be made through the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155.

Gallery Exhibit: Aida Khalil, Stephen Datz and Syau-Cheng Lai
Onondaga Community College

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

A stunning exhibit of paintings, sculpture and mixed media works.

Playthings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Drawing by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma.

Roy Bautista:
I am interested in how I learn things. And how much I learn by looking. And how much more can be learned by looking harder. A longer look at people and how people communicate, and much can be read in a body's posture and movement. The word, understand implies a pose, a stand taken. We understand through our bodies, our own physical limitations of dancing, running, and wrestling. To stop any one pose of the body during any instantaneous action is to elevate it to drama or switch it into a performance, a portent. Micro-expressions flash for an instant that can divulge much information that is not stated verbally, precisely. I am interested in the idea of play, and playing with objects, which can be made to assume poses, fetishes that can be made to represent beings.

Natalia Porter:
I'm interested in creating art that make us reflect on our relationship with objects, on the significance and value we assign to them, particularly those objects which we use everyday.

Ami Suma:
My obsession is to make you giggle and remember childhood feelings, so I am obsessed with fun textures. Textures that give me goose bumps; odd shapes and silhouettes, toys that stimulate the senses of both young and old.

Works of Garofalo Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

Garofalo Architects was recently recognized as part of "The New Vanguard" in Architectural Record and the "Emerging Voices" program at the Architectural LEague of New York.

Paintings: Daniel Kishman
Westcott Community Center

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

Dan Kishman paints in a non-objective abstract style with acrylic paints, sometimes incorporating mat medium or gesso. Mr. Kishman is a lifelong Syracuse area resident who has shown his work in a variety of local venues, including the Central Library at the Galleries Downtown, in Syracuse. He has won numerous awards, including Masters Division at the Adirondack Open Exhibit in Old Forge and, most recently, Second Place, Professional Class, at the New York State Fair.

Impressions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Oil paintings by Eric Shute, watercolors by Stephen Ryan, and ceramics by Bobbi Lamb.

Environmental Injustice and the Artist Response to Hurricane Katrina
Community Folk Art Center

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

When photographers Donn Young and Gus Bennett, Jr., stared loss in the face after Hurricane Katrina they searched through their emotional and physical lives, assessed the damage and moved on. They entered spaces and captured images and rescued items that were difficult to see, but needed to be saved in order to help tell the story of New Orleans.

Donn Young returned to New Orleans to find his studio and over one million images taken during his 25 year career virtually eliminated. In light of this, he began documenting the devastation of not just his life, but the lives of others in the City as well. Gus Bennett documented the efforts of curator and archivist Linda Hill to rescue a collection of African antiquities that were left unattended and deteriorating on a local university campus. She endured the hazardous environment, located the items, removed them and began working to restore them.

For those who make New Orleans their home after Katrina, it is not always easy to find the beauty that has been covered up by the debris of the storm. This exhibition is about three remarkable individuals who chose to help save New Orleans through their individual efforts and are now sharing those efforts collectively; a metaphor for what it takes to live in New Orleans
­ today.

This exhibition will challenge your senses, in part, because we dare to display the images of objects that under different circumstances would be gazed upon with notions of beauty, humor and historic documentation. In this context, however, we are sharing those objects in their vulnerable state, straddling the line, in appearance, of art and refuse. This is a story about seeing devastation, experiencing the pain and moving forward by will and choice.

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Cycle of Life - Green Lakes: Photographs by Marna Bell
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The show is a collection of digital photographs which chart the changing seasons of Green Lakes State Park in Fayetteville, NY.

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Staging the coldest season as a playground for imagination, The Warehouse Gallery presents Embracing Winter, a group exhibition featuring knitted sculpture, psychedelic video, interactive displays, sly photography, and crisp audio and book works by American, Canadian and Italian artists: Janet Morton, Bruno Munari, Takeshi Murata, Collin Olan, Lisa M. Robinson, and Rudy Shepherd

Syracuse is the perennial winner of the Golden Snowball Award, for the most snowfall in New York State. Embracing Winter celebrates this crystallized precipitation as the key to a delightful set of activities, and as an ephemeral filter to make ordinary surroundings new again.

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MFA 2007
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates. Fourteen artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography and sculpture.

MFA 2007 encompasses a broad range of both media and content. Some of the artists use personal experience and family as a central concept and inspiration. Others make statements on industrialization and the human condition. There are traditional processes: the expressive paintings and drawings by Elena Peteva speak to personal relationships as well as physical process. The photographs and film by Latoya Frazier document a family member's struggle with addiction.

Additionally, there is a variety of new media: Stacey Barton explores issues of the identity of the modern woman through video projection. A virtual installation by Sarah Howell engages the viewer to interact with her work in order to uncover new meaning in "the seemingly arbitrary and everyday."

Weekend and evening Galleries 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 aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

The Language of Art
Delavan Art Gallery

Price: Free
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Barbara Kellogg: watermedia
Nives Marzocchi: varied works
An exhibit of artists whose work is shown in the new cultural magazine, Stone Canoe Journal

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

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

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

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

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

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

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

A New Refutation of Time (Still Images in Sequence)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Syracuse City School District high school students worked at the e-tags gallery and studio with video artist Ryan Tebo. After four weeks, students created a visual representation of their own concept of time through still photography, which was then sequenced into one-minute video shorts. Student artists include: Corbin Bryant and Susan Drake from Nottingham High School; Varvara Mikushkina, Manual Bova and Teddy Bratt from Henninger High School; and Ryan Gallagher and Leah Bucher from Corcoran High School.

Nevis: Abstract Paintings by Rachel Harms
Redhouse

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

Rachel Harms, an English-born and educated artist will exhibit her most recent abstract paintings, which are influenced by the warm, brightly hued, West Indies Island of Nevis. Harms is interested in basic contradictions between nature and life, solidity and fragility, timelessness and change. These paintings beckon the viewer to linger, search, and discover the unexpected. They are refreshing, precisely honed constructions, both beautiful and affecting.

Rachel Harms has exhibited throughout the United Kingdom and the United States, including at the Creaser Gallery in London, the New Waterfront Museum in New York City; and recently at Onondaga Community College and ThInc in Syracuse. Harms earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Parson School of Design in New York City and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the Chelsea School of Art in London. Harms currently lives in Skaneateles with her husband and daughter.

Cinema Thursday: Robert, Mary and Katrina
Community Folk Art Center

Price: $5 adults; $3 students; $1 ages 3 and under
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The film, directed by Marjoleine Boonstra, is about how one New Orleans family, led by Mary and Robert Manuel, aged 70 and 72 respectively, survive Hurricane Katrina.

Negro Spiritual Workshop
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

A workshop on the Negro spiritual in the history of American music. The workshop will give a chronological review of the Negro spirituals, interpretation of some personal messages found in them, a display of pioneering composers, choral groups, and a list of references and recordings. The workshop is presented by Mary Virginia Willie Gauthier, a retired music educator from Syracuse, and Dr. Harlan London, professor emeritus of Syracuse University. Both presenters will sing individually and as a duet, as well as engage the audience in dialogue and singing.

For more information, contact London at 315-446-2714 or Bradley Ethington, chair of the Setnor School, at 315-443-5892.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
SU Women's Choir and Men's Glee Club

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

The concert will open with the Men's Glee Club under the direction of faculty member Lon Beery. The program includes Confitemini Domino by Allessandro Costantini, Rise Up, My Love, My Fair One by James McCray, Cross the Wide Missouri arranged by Don Besig and Nancy Price, The Whiffenpoof Song arranged by Lou Perry, and The Best of Doo-Wop arranged by Ed Lojeski.

The Women's Choir will perform under the direction of faculty member Barbara Tagg. The program includes the SU alma mater arranged by Melissa Rashford, Canticum Novum by faculty member Diego Vega, Sanctus-Benedictus by Gyorgy Orban, Child with the Starry Crayon by Eleanor Daly, The Snow by Edward Elgar, and It Was a Lover and His Lass by David Willcocks.

Parking is available in SU pay lots. For more information, contact the Setnor School at 315-443-2191 or Tagg at 315-443-5750.

Silky Thefts: poems by Michael Jennings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Reception with the author, poetry reading and book signing.

Silky Thefts is a story of deserts and gardens, place and displacement, love and loss, time and the timeless. It posits a morally complex, troubled world, yet one where beauty still abides and the authenticity of voice and experience remains a viability -- one man's record of travel, a song of the self.

Deadly Inheritance
Acme Mystery Company

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

Riverdance
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $39.50-$59.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Rediscover the original Riverdance. This highly acclaimed celebration of Irish music, song and dance features an international company that has touched the hearts of millions around the world. "A Phenomenon" raves The New York Times. "An explosion of sight and sound that simply takes your breath away," cheers the Chicago Tribune. You've heard about this electrifying spectacle, now it's your chance to experience Riverdance live.

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The Seagull
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin
Anjalee Nadkarni, director

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, recently translated by Tom Stoppard, is a serious comedy with writers at its core that examines some similar themes: How do we measure success? What is the cost of fame? What are we willing to sacrifice for public recognition and acclaim? Can we become the authors of our own lives? How do we take responsibility for our own happiness? Although it was written a century ago, the truth and richness of Chekhovs play, a mosaic of needs and desires and the power of giving and taking, still resonates today.

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Picasso at the Lapin Agile and A Public Affair
Redhouse
WhAT: Warehouse Architecture Theater

Price: $8 adult; $4 student
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

WhAT presents a double bill, Picasso at the Lapin Agile written by Steve Martin and directed by Ian Nicholson, and A Public Affair, a new play written and directed by Alex Coulombe.