Wednesday, April 16, 2008

WRAP (World Reclamation Art Project)
International Fiber Collaborative

Price: Free
2301 E. Colvin St.
(corner of Nottingham), Syracuse

Artist Jennifer Marsh and participants from all over the world have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3-foot square fiber panels that express concern about the world's extreme dependency on oil. The panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station.

For more information, visit internationalfibercollaborative.com.

OCC Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Annual student exhibit.

The Materials of Color: Paintings by Italian artist Maria Grazia Facchinetti
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Carles Vives
Onondaga Community College

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

An exhibit by Carles Vives, internationally renowned ceramic sculptor from Spain. Born in Barcelona, Spain in 1957, Carles Vives studied art at Massana School of Art in Barcelona. His art is on display in museums and galleries throughout Spain, Italy, Australia, Mongolia, Peru and the United States (Everson Museum of Syracuse and in Miami). In addition, Vives' art has been exhibited in Portugal, Taiwan, Korea and New Zealand.

Most recently Vives was selected to participate in the Sino-Spain Ceramic Art Residency Program in Fuping, China in June, to celebrate the addition of the new Ceramic Art Museum of Spain to the FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums of Fuping.

Onondaga art professor Andrew Schuster met Carles Vives several years ago while lecturing at a workshop in Spain. The two sculptors formed a professional relationship and have collaborated on many artistic endeavors. Professor Schuster was instrumental in securing this prominent artist's exhibit for Onondaga in what will be Vives' first visit to the United States.

Vives has worked for the last 25 years at a studio in Canovelles near Barcelona. In 2004, he received the honorary diploma of Master Craftsman by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government Institution.)

Labyrinths
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A life-size maze of mirrors and dreams reveals an exceptional collection of works by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna: a fugue-like series of 25 drawings and etchings inspired by the Borgian notion of the labyrinth, with Icarus as protagonist. Twenty-three 7-foot tall mirrored panels form this massive installation that complicates and multiplies the space of the gallery, and infiltrates the observer.

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Good for What Ails You!
Westcott Community Center

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

Women healing from loss...from loss of loved ones, loss of health, loss of dreams, loss of youth. We heal ourselves. We heal others. We heal through stories, through reframing memories, through engagement in our art; we heal by redefining ourselves and rebirthing. It is a story of sadness and honesty and transformation. It is about connection and growth. Ultimately it is a story of triumph.

Paintings, mixed media, fibers, photography, ceramic sculpture, creative compuer art, and poetry by Maria Brown, Melissa DeStevens-Valensuela, Linda Esterly, Patrice Fitzsimmons, Cathy Gibbons, Vanessa Johnson, Amy Patricia Komar, Suzanne Masters, Georgia Popoff, and Elaine Quick.

Patterns of Perception: Works by Mary Raineri
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

Works by Steven Fland and Ed Levine
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Exhibit featuring Steven Fland's wildlife sculptures and Ed Levine's watercolors.

MFA 2008
Syracuse University Art Museum

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.

17 artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography, and sculpture. The exhibition contains a number of artists who explore the idea of identity, while others challenge accepted notions of wealth, time, and reality. Khanh Le explores his identity as a Vietnamese-born American by combining images of his own family life, fashion and home magazines, and well known images from the Vietnam War to create a "new historical narrative". Stacey VanWaldick playfully addresses what jewelry has come to stand for in today's commercial society by fabricating "precious stones" out of bronze and chocolate. Stephanie Koenig experiments with the idea of "recyclable nostalgia" by reclaiming 70's period style to outfit the interior of her interactive life-size pirate ship. Allison Fox forms intricately detailed thin sheets of clear plastic into organic shapes through which she shines light to create ambiguous undulating shadows. The relationship between the sculpture and the shadows on the wall establishes a vibration between reality and illusion.

Other featured artists include Jen Betton, Seunghee Chung, Jennifer Gandee, Jessica Lance, Tzu Cheng Liu, Thon Lorenz, Jennifer Marsh, Frank McCauley, Ge Maggie Mu, María José Pérez (Pepa Santamaria), David Serotkin, Carrie Will, Sue Hershberger Yoder

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

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Visual Arts Showcase #63: Elements
CNY Arts

The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A juried show of works created by upstate New York artists.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith
The Warehouse Gallery
Community Folk Art Center

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

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith is artist Terry Adkins' multi-media tribute to Smith, known as the Empress of the Blues. Working with a variety of materials Adkins weaves sculpture into a narrative installation that is both a tribute to and a lament for the transformative power of Smith's vocal artistry.

In an essay that accompanies the exhibition Dr. Kheli R. Willetts, academic director of CFAC and assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Syracuse University writes, "Adkins' work creates an environment which challenges us to engage with Smith beyond her status as a legendary musical performer. He has resurrected her as a creative deity whose stage has now become a temple and the viewers are transformed into her devotees as they enter the space."

Smith is regarded as one of the greatest blues singers of all time. She was the highest-paid black performer of her day and arguably reached a level of success greater than that of any African American recording artist before her. Yet in her adopted home of Philadelphia she remains unsung and even her grave remained unmarked until 1970.

Adkins commutes regularly from New York to Philadelphia where he teaches in the Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania. This exhibition is a continued exploration of his use of figures in history whose contributions to society are overlooked, under appreciated, or just not given the stature that he believes they should have in society. Although Adkins work emanates from an activist position, it evolves from abstract forms with the intent of educating the public about historical figures through ways that are not image based or narrative-based but that challenge the viewer to think abstractly in relating to the stories of the lives of the people concerned.

Terry Adkins has been exhibiting internationally since 1980. He is Associate Professor of Fine Art at the University of Pennsylvania where he recently installed Darkwater: A Recital in Four Dominions, a tribute to W. E. B. Du Bois at the Arthur Ross Gallery. Adkins has published numerous essays and has completed several significant public commissions. In addition to being a highly respected artist and sought after guest lecturer, his artworks have been placed in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among other significant museums and collections. He received his B.S. from Fisk University and his M.F.A from the University of Kentucky.

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Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Cindy Josbena, piano

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

Cindy Josbena will be heard in the Beethoven Tempest Sonata, a selection of Debussy Preludes, and will close with a Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody. In addition to those pieces, Ms. Josbena will open the recital with a composition of her own.

LeMoyne College
Le Moyne College Jazz Ensemble; The Young Lions of CNY; Small Works
Featuring Matt Wilson, drummer

Price: $15 regular; $10 seniors; students free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Drummer Matt Wilson returns to Syracuse after the electrifying performance by his quartet at Le Moyne College in September of 2004. Wilson headlines this Spring Jazz Concert, performing his own compositions with the Le Moyne College Jazz Ensemble arranged by Le Moyne Jazz Director JC Sanford. Also on the bill are a pre-college big band, The Young Lions of CNY directed by Joe Colombo, and a student quintet, Small Works directed by Le Moyne trumpeter Brandon Nater.

Ellen Litman, fiction
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

Thursday, April 17, 2008

WRAP (World Reclamation Art Project)
International Fiber Collaborative

Price: Free
2301 E. Colvin St.
(corner of Nottingham), Syracuse

Artist Jennifer Marsh and participants from all over the world have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3-foot square fiber panels that express concern about the world's extreme dependency on oil. The panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station.

For more information, visit internationalfibercollaborative.com.

OCC Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Annual student exhibit.

The Materials of Color: Paintings by Italian artist Maria Grazia Facchinetti
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Opening reception 5:00-7:00 pm, in conjunction with Th3.

Gallery Exhibit: Carles Vives
Onondaga Community College

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

An exhibit by Carles Vives, internationally renowned ceramic sculptor from Spain. Born in Barcelona, Spain in 1957, Carles Vives studied art at Massana School of Art in Barcelona. His art is on display in museums and galleries throughout Spain, Italy, Australia, Mongolia, Peru and the United States (Everson Museum of Syracuse and in Miami). In addition, Vives' art has been exhibited in Portugal, Taiwan, Korea and New Zealand.

Most recently Vives was selected to participate in the Sino-Spain Ceramic Art Residency Program in Fuping, China in June, to celebrate the addition of the new Ceramic Art Museum of Spain to the FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums of Fuping.

Onondaga art professor Andrew Schuster met Carles Vives several years ago while lecturing at a workshop in Spain. The two sculptors formed a professional relationship and have collaborated on many artistic endeavors. Professor Schuster was instrumental in securing this prominent artist's exhibit for Onondaga in what will be Vives' first visit to the United States.

Vives has worked for the last 25 years at a studio in Canovelles near Barcelona. In 2004, he received the honorary diploma of Master Craftsman by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government Institution.)

Labyrinths
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A life-size maze of mirrors and dreams reveals an exceptional collection of works by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna: a fugue-like series of 25 drawings and etchings inspired by the Borgian notion of the labyrinth, with Icarus as protagonist. Twenty-three 7-foot tall mirrored panels form this massive installation that complicates and multiplies the space of the gallery, and infiltrates the observer.

There will be a discussion with the artist from 5:00 - 8:00 pm as part of Th3.

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Good for What Ails You!
Westcott Community Center

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

Women healing from loss...from loss of loved ones, loss of health, loss of dreams, loss of youth. We heal ourselves. We heal others. We heal through stories, through reframing memories, through engagement in our art; we heal by redefining ourselves and rebirthing. It is a story of sadness and honesty and transformation. It is about connection and growth. Ultimately it is a story of triumph.

Paintings, mixed media, fibers, photography, ceramic sculpture, creative compuer art, and poetry by Maria Brown, Melissa DeStevens-Valensuela, Linda Esterly, Patrice Fitzsimmons, Cathy Gibbons, Vanessa Johnson, Amy Patricia Komar, Suzanne Masters, Georgia Popoff, and Elaine Quick.

Patterns of Perception: Works by Mary Raineri
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

Works by Steven Fland and Ed Levine
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Exhibit featuring Steven Fland's wildlife sculptures and Ed Levine's watercolors.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

MFA 2008
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Artist reception 5:00-7:00 pm, in conjunction with Th3.

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates.

17 artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography, and sculpture. The exhibition contains a number of artists who explore the idea of identity, while others challenge accepted notions of wealth, time, and reality. Khanh Le explores his identity as a Vietnamese-born American by combining images of his own family life, fashion and home magazines, and well known images from the Vietnam War to create a "new historical narrative". Stacey VanWaldick playfully addresses what jewelry has come to stand for in today's commercial society by fabricating "precious stones" out of bronze and chocolate. Stephanie Koenig experiments with the idea of "recyclable nostalgia" by reclaiming 70's period style to outfit the interior of her interactive life-size pirate ship. Allison Fox forms intricately detailed thin sheets of clear plastic into organic shapes through which she shines light to create ambiguous undulating shadows. The relationship between the sculpture and the shadows on the wall establishes a vibration between reality and illusion.

Other featured artists include Jen Betton, Seunghee Chung, Jennifer Gandee, Jessica Lance, Tzu Cheng Liu, Thon Lorenz, Jennifer Marsh, Frank McCauley, Ge Maggie Mu, María José Pérez (Pepa Santamaria), David Serotkin, Carrie Will, Sue Hershberger Yoder

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

Visual Arts Showcase #63: Elements
CNY Arts

The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A juried show of works created by upstate New York artists.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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The Sweetest Battle: Works by Rebecca Murtaugh
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Artist Statement:
I am intrigued by the space between painting and sculpture and the history of objects. Much of my work is based in installation with materials and techniques that vary to serve the needs of my intentions. I engage in processes of often altering everyday materials so that they draw from the language of each material's history and at once, transcend that history to provide an experience of the sublime. My work maintains a balance of formal and conceptual motivations. I aim for the work to be playful, sexy, visually engaging, and a rewarding intellectual experience for those viewers who seek to look further.

Artist Biography:
Rebecca Murtaugh currently splits her time between Brooklyn and Central New York. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University, Bachelor of Science from the Pennsylvania State University, and was raised in Philadelphia. Her work has been exhibited nationally in both solo and group exhibitions at venues such as the Contemporary Art Fair with Thatcher Projects in New York City, Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia, the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Northern California, the Athens Institute of Contemporary Art in Atlanta, Current Gallery in Baltimore, and the District of Columbia Art Center. Upcoming exhibitions in 2008 include Seductions at 1708 Gallery in Richmond, Virginia; Part Object, Part Sculpture at the Brew House: Space 101 in Pittsburgh; and Keeping the Conceptual Momentum at the Kelly and Weber Gallery in Philadelphia. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York where she teaches Sculpture and Critical Theory.

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith
The Warehouse Gallery
Community Folk Art Center

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

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith is artist Terry Adkins' multi-media tribute to Smith, known as the Empress of the Blues. Working with a variety of materials Adkins weaves sculpture into a narrative installation that is both a tribute to and a lament for the transformative power of Smith's vocal artistry.

In an essay that accompanies the exhibition Dr. Kheli R. Willetts, academic director of CFAC and assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Syracuse University writes, "Adkins' work creates an environment which challenges us to engage with Smith beyond her status as a legendary musical performer. He has resurrected her as a creative deity whose stage has now become a temple and the viewers are transformed into her devotees as they enter the space."

Smith is regarded as one of the greatest blues singers of all time. She was the highest-paid black performer of her day and arguably reached a level of success greater than that of any African American recording artist before her. Yet in her adopted home of Philadelphia she remains unsung and even her grave remained unmarked until 1970.

Adkins commutes regularly from New York to Philadelphia where he teaches in the Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania. This exhibition is a continued exploration of his use of figures in history whose contributions to society are overlooked, under appreciated, or just not given the stature that he believes they should have in society. Although Adkins work emanates from an activist position, it evolves from abstract forms with the intent of educating the public about historical figures through ways that are not image based or narrative-based but that challenge the viewer to think abstractly in relating to the stories of the lives of the people concerned.

Terry Adkins has been exhibiting internationally since 1980. He is Associate Professor of Fine Art at the University of Pennsylvania where he recently installed Darkwater: A Recital in Four Dominions, a tribute to W. E. B. Du Bois at the Arthur Ross Gallery. Adkins has published numerous essays and has completed several significant public commissions. In addition to being a highly respected artist and sought after guest lecturer, his artworks have been placed in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among other significant museums and collections. He received his B.S. from Fisk University and his M.F.A from the University of Kentucky.

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Let Them Eat Cake
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Sugar artist Jen Comfort Interactive cupcake mural and cookie installation to mark the first Th3 Monthly Drawing.

From the Bottom of My Heart: Opening Reception for New Installation
Redhouse

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

Redhouse will a unveil a new permanent installation called From the Bottom of My Heart, by artist Matthew Gehring.

From the Bottom of My Heart is an interactive installation that uses ultrasonic sonar to detect the presence of someone in front of each of the mirrors in the men's and women's restrooms in Redhouse. When a presence is detected, a series of audio tracks are initiated complimenting whoever is in front of the mirror on how good they look. The bathroom mirror is the place where we primp, checking our appearance. Hence, it is the logical placement for this work, since Gehring is interested in manipulating behaviors and calling ones own self-confidence, or lack thereof, into question. Vanity, as well, is under fire here. The compliments issued by each mirror are meant both as a genuine gesture and as sarcasm. While the artist expects audience members to smile and chuckle as the mirrors are speaking to them, Gehring also expects there to be a level of recognition of certain facts. Since the same compliments will be issued to every single person who interacts with the piece and since it is an automated system, these compliments, while nice to hear, are entirely hollow and without meaning.

Jake Gillespie: Works on Paper
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

Jake Gillespie is a painter, multi-media artist, and co-founder of a non-profit art gallery in his home of Lincoln, Nebraska. His work has shown in galleries and museums throughout Kansas City, Chicago, and Nebraska. This exhibition highlights several recent series of drawings on paper. Gillespie's work features nearly narrative depictions of human interactions, as well as portraits both intimate and comical. His drawing technique is strongly influenced by his training as a painter and is distinct in its heavy chalking and thick graphite line work.

How to Steer the Wheel
Redhouse

Price: $15 Adults and $12 Students/Seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

An experimental animation and live cinema performance; Heath Hanlin has been working with 3D animation as his main visual toolbox for more than 10 years. He creates the soundtracks to his animations, which have always been of equal importance to the visuals. Most of Heath's music and sound work over the last several years is synthetic, or noise music.

In How to Steer the Wheel, Heath takes a more traditional musical approach. In this work, the guitar is an armature; all other sounds and the imagery are built around carefully articulated musical compositions for guitar. The music is a thread of reason in an abstract visual landscape, using the composition as the narrative.

Opening for Hanlin is a multi-media performance by artist Blake Carrington, You Would Do As Well Never Moving From Here, an investigation into a detached, expanded time and space. The work's central element is a single phrase sung by a vocal quartet, which is stretched to 60 times its original length. The phrase is taken from Italo Calvino's novel Invisible Cities. In the novel, the traveler Marco Polo speaks with the aging Mongol emperor Kublai Khan, describing each of the cities of the Khan's kingdom. Kublai responds, "My gaze is that of a man meditating, lost in thought -- I admit it. But yours? You cross archipelagos, tundras, mountain ranges. You would do as well never moving from here."

A Story of the Thuban Journey House
Everson Museum of Art

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

Lori Covington, founder of the Thuban Journey Organization, will trace the route of the African and the African Diaspora slave's journey and describe how ancestors of the African Diaspora Slaves have worked to rebuild their culture and communities decades later.

Urban Cowgirls: Lesbians in Corporate America
University Neighbors Lecture Series
Featuring Julie Gedro

Price: $10 regular, $5 with student ID
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Dr. Julie Gedro is an assistant professor of Business, Management and Economics at SUNY Empire State College and she is a strategic human resources management consultant. Dr. Gedro earned her Ed.D at the University of Georgia in 2000 with a dissertation on "Urban Cowgirls: How Lesbians Have Learned to Negotiate the Heterosexism of Corporate America." She is widely published in academia and in the popular press. She regularly presents at conferences and business and community workshops around the country.

JC Sanford Quartet
LeMoyne College
Featuring Matt Wilson, drummer

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Trombonist and composer JC Sanford leads a quartet of New York City-based musicians -- guitarist Nate Radley, bassist Dave Ambrosio, and drummer Matt Wilson -- in an evening of lesser known standards and original compositions.

Cassatt String Quartet
Newhouse School of Public Communications

Price: Free
Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse 3
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Acclaimed as one of America's outstanding ensembles, the New York City-based Cassatt String Quartet served as quartet-in-residence at the Setnor School of Music in SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts from 1996 until this year. The Newhouse concert will inaugurate the new Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium as a chamber music auditorium. The quartet will perform music by Maurice Ravel and Antonín Dvorak.

The Cassatt String Quartet has performed throughout North America, Europe, and the Far East, with prestigious appearances at Alice Tully Hall and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City; the Tanglewood Music Theatre in Lenox, Mass.; the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Library of Congress in Washington, DC; the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris; and Maeda Hall in Tokyo. Named three times by The New Yorker magazine's Best of the Year CD Selection, they have recorded for the Koch, New World, Albany and CRI Labels.

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

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

The concert is in preparation for the choir's participation in the New York University Women's Choir Festival on April 19 at Manhattan Church of Christ. Concert repertoire for both events will include selections by Stephen Paulus, Michael Torke, Pierre Passereau, Gregg Smith, Stuart Calvert, Einojuhani Rautavaara and Moses Hogan.

For more information, contact Tagg at 315-443-5750 or btagg@syr.edu.

Parking is available in Irving Garage.

A Capella After Hours
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

A night of a cappella you don't want to miss! Features all five of SU's a cappella groups: Orange Appeal, Main Squeeze, The Mandarins, Oy Cappella, and Groovestand.

Preview Performance: The Medium and Pagliacci
Syracuse Opera

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

A free preview of the double bill of Menotti's The Medium and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. The two operas share a similar premise, with protagonists who go over the edge of sanity and commit murder.

During the preview, Syracuse Opera's director of music, Douglas Kinney Frost, will discuss the opera and introduce members of the cast, who will perform highlights. The Medium features mezzo-soprano Sondra Kelly as Madame Flora, local soprano Julia Ebner as Monica, and baritone Jason Detwiler as Mr. Gobineau. Pagliacci stars Detwiler as Silvio, soprano Jee Hyun Lim as Nedda, tenor Todd Geer as tortured clown Canio, local baritone Jimi James as the scheming Tonio, and local tenor Jonathan Howell as Beppe.

Parking will be available at a discounted rate in Irving Garage. Patrons should alert the attendant that they are attending the opera preview.

Poetry Reading by Jennifer Pashley
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

As a special event for Th3, Delavan Art Gallery will be hosting a poetry reading by Jennifer Pashley as part of the Stone Canoe Writers' Series.

Jennifer Pashley is a fiction instructor at the YMCA's Downtown Writer's Center in Syracuse, and an adjunct instructor at Le Moyne College. Her book of short fiction, States, was published in 2007. She lives in Central New York with her husband and two sons and is currently at work on a novel.

Florence of Moravia
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive mystery/comedy dinner theater.

Friday, April 18, 2008

WRAP (World Reclamation Art Project)
International Fiber Collaborative

Price: Free
2301 E. Colvin St.
(corner of Nottingham), Syracuse

Artist Jennifer Marsh and participants from all over the world have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3-foot square fiber panels that express concern about the world's extreme dependency on oil. The panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station.

For more information, visit internationalfibercollaborative.com.

Icons

Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Artists include Father Andrew Szebenyi, digitally manipulated images; Meg Gentile, acrylic on canvas; Dustin Angell, photography; Sarah Reale, Sharpie portraits on canvas; Mick Mather, monotype, monotype with linocut, tempera with linocut, and watercolor; Eddie Colelli, photography; Kevin Lucas, acrylic on canvas; David McKenney, photography.

OCC Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Annual student exhibit.

The Materials of Color: Paintings by Italian artist Maria Grazia Facchinetti
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Carles Vives
Onondaga Community College

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

An exhibit by Carles Vives, internationally renowned ceramic sculptor from Spain. Born in Barcelona, Spain in 1957, Carles Vives studied art at Massana School of Art in Barcelona. His art is on display in museums and galleries throughout Spain, Italy, Australia, Mongolia, Peru and the United States (Everson Museum of Syracuse and in Miami). In addition, Vives' art has been exhibited in Portugal, Taiwan, Korea and New Zealand.

Most recently Vives was selected to participate in the Sino-Spain Ceramic Art Residency Program in Fuping, China in June, to celebrate the addition of the new Ceramic Art Museum of Spain to the FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums of Fuping.

Onondaga art professor Andrew Schuster met Carles Vives several years ago while lecturing at a workshop in Spain. The two sculptors formed a professional relationship and have collaborated on many artistic endeavors. Professor Schuster was instrumental in securing this prominent artist's exhibit for Onondaga in what will be Vives' first visit to the United States.

Vives has worked for the last 25 years at a studio in Canovelles near Barcelona. In 2004, he received the honorary diploma of Master Craftsman by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government Institution.)

Labyrinths
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A life-size maze of mirrors and dreams reveals an exceptional collection of works by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna: a fugue-like series of 25 drawings and etchings inspired by the Borgian notion of the labyrinth, with Icarus as protagonist. Twenty-three 7-foot tall mirrored panels form this massive installation that complicates and multiplies the space of the gallery, and infiltrates the observer.

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Good for What Ails You!
Westcott Community Center

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

Women healing from loss...from loss of loved ones, loss of health, loss of dreams, loss of youth. We heal ourselves. We heal others. We heal through stories, through reframing memories, through engagement in our art; we heal by redefining ourselves and rebirthing. It is a story of sadness and honesty and transformation. It is about connection and growth. Ultimately it is a story of triumph.

Paintings, mixed media, fibers, photography, ceramic sculpture, creative compuer art, and poetry by Maria Brown, Melissa DeStevens-Valensuela, Linda Esterly, Patrice Fitzsimmons, Cathy Gibbons, Vanessa Johnson, Amy Patricia Komar, Suzanne Masters, Georgia Popoff, and Elaine Quick.

Patterns of Perception: Works by Mary Raineri
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

Works by Steven Fland and Ed Levine
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Exhibit featuring Steven Fland's wildlife sculptures and Ed Levine's watercolors.

MFA 2008
Syracuse University Art Museum

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.

17 artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography, and sculpture. The exhibition contains a number of artists who explore the idea of identity, while others challenge accepted notions of wealth, time, and reality. Khanh Le explores his identity as a Vietnamese-born American by combining images of his own family life, fashion and home magazines, and well known images from the Vietnam War to create a "new historical narrative". Stacey VanWaldick playfully addresses what jewelry has come to stand for in today's commercial society by fabricating "precious stones" out of bronze and chocolate. Stephanie Koenig experiments with the idea of "recyclable nostalgia" by reclaiming 70's period style to outfit the interior of her interactive life-size pirate ship. Allison Fox forms intricately detailed thin sheets of clear plastic into organic shapes through which she shines light to create ambiguous undulating shadows. The relationship between the sculpture and the shadows on the wall establishes a vibration between reality and illusion.

Other featured artists include Jen Betton, Seunghee Chung, Jennifer Gandee, Jessica Lance, Tzu Cheng Liu, Thon Lorenz, Jennifer Marsh, Frank McCauley, Ge Maggie Mu, María José Pérez (Pepa Santamaria), David Serotkin, Carrie Will, Sue Hershberger Yoder

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

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Visual Arts Showcase #63: Elements
CNY Arts

The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A juried show of works created by upstate New York artists.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

The Sweetest Battle: Works by Rebecca Murtaugh
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Artist Statement:
I am intrigued by the space between painting and sculpture and the history of objects. Much of my work is based in installation with materials and techniques that vary to serve the needs of my intentions. I engage in processes of often altering everyday materials so that they draw from the language of each material's history and at once, transcend that history to provide an experience of the sublime. My work maintains a balance of formal and conceptual motivations. I aim for the work to be playful, sexy, visually engaging, and a rewarding intellectual experience for those viewers who seek to look further.

Artist Biography:
Rebecca Murtaugh currently splits her time between Brooklyn and Central New York. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University, Bachelor of Science from the Pennsylvania State University, and was raised in Philadelphia. Her work has been exhibited nationally in both solo and group exhibitions at venues such as the Contemporary Art Fair with Thatcher Projects in New York City, Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia, the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Northern California, the Athens Institute of Contemporary Art in Atlanta, Current Gallery in Baltimore, and the District of Columbia Art Center. Upcoming exhibitions in 2008 include Seductions at 1708 Gallery in Richmond, Virginia; Part Object, Part Sculpture at the Brew House: Space 101 in Pittsburgh; and Keeping the Conceptual Momentum at the Kelly and Weber Gallery in Philadelphia. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York where she teaches Sculpture and Critical Theory.

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith
The Warehouse Gallery
Community Folk Art Center

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

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith is artist Terry Adkins' multi-media tribute to Smith, known as the Empress of the Blues. Working with a variety of materials Adkins weaves sculpture into a narrative installation that is both a tribute to and a lament for the transformative power of Smith's vocal artistry.

In an essay that accompanies the exhibition Dr. Kheli R. Willetts, academic director of CFAC and assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Syracuse University writes, "Adkins' work creates an environment which challenges us to engage with Smith beyond her status as a legendary musical performer. He has resurrected her as a creative deity whose stage has now become a temple and the viewers are transformed into her devotees as they enter the space."

Smith is regarded as one of the greatest blues singers of all time. She was the highest-paid black performer of her day and arguably reached a level of success greater than that of any African American recording artist before her. Yet in her adopted home of Philadelphia she remains unsung and even her grave remained unmarked until 1970.

Adkins commutes regularly from New York to Philadelphia where he teaches in the Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania. This exhibition is a continued exploration of his use of figures in history whose contributions to society are overlooked, under appreciated, or just not given the stature that he believes they should have in society. Although Adkins work emanates from an activist position, it evolves from abstract forms with the intent of educating the public about historical figures through ways that are not image based or narrative-based but that challenge the viewer to think abstractly in relating to the stories of the lives of the people concerned.

Terry Adkins has been exhibiting internationally since 1980. He is Associate Professor of Fine Art at the University of Pennsylvania where he recently installed Darkwater: A Recital in Four Dominions, a tribute to W. E. B. Du Bois at the Arthur Ross Gallery. Adkins has published numerous essays and has completed several significant public commissions. In addition to being a highly respected artist and sought after guest lecturer, his artworks have been placed in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among other significant museums and collections. He received his B.S. from Fisk University and his M.F.A from the University of Kentucky.

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Photography by Julieve Jubin
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Opening reception.

Jake Gillespie: Works on Paper
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

Jake Gillespie is a painter, multi-media artist, and co-founder of a non-profit art gallery in his home of Lincoln, Nebraska. His work has shown in galleries and museums throughout Kansas City, Chicago, and Nebraska. This exhibition highlights several recent series of drawings on paper. Gillespie's work features nearly narrative depictions of human interactions, as well as portraits both intimate and comical. His drawing technique is strongly influenced by his training as a painter and is distinct in its heavy chalking and thick graphite line work.

How to Steer the Wheel
Redhouse

Price: $15 Adults and $12 Students/Seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

An experimental animation and live cinema performance; Heath Hanlin has been working with 3D animation as his main visual toolbox for more than 10 years. He creates the soundtracks to his animations, which have always been of equal importance to the visuals. Most of Heath's music and sound work over the last several years is synthetic, or noise music.

In How to Steer the Wheel, Heath takes a more traditional musical approach. In this work, the guitar is an armature; all other sounds and the imagery are built around carefully articulated musical compositions for guitar. The music is a thread of reason in an abstract visual landscape, using the composition as the narrative.

Opening for Hanlin is a multi-media performance by artist Blake Carrington, You Would Do As Well Never Moving From Here, an investigation into a detached, expanded time and space. The work's central element is a single phrase sung by a vocal quartet, which is stretched to 60 times its original length. The phrase is taken from Italo Calvino's novel Invisible Cities. In the novel, the traveler Marco Polo speaks with the aging Mongol emperor Kublai Khan, describing each of the cities of the Khan's kingdom. Kublai responds, "My gaze is that of a man meditating, lost in thought -- I admit it. But yours? You cross archipelagos, tundras, mountain ranges. You would do as well never moving from here."

OCC Flute Choir
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

David Mallett
Folkus Project

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

Evocative songs celebrate small-town life and the struggles of the common man.

The cool breezes of Maine's northlands have flowed through the songs of David Mallett for more than four decades. Although rooted in place, his songs speak to the essential things that move us all: our joys, heartaches, failures, and triumphs. Filled with passion, evocative imagery, and a sense of the inevitable passage of time, his songs explore life and love in small town New England with an eye for detail and an ear for melody. Mallett's songs have received international acclaim and one of them, The Garden Song, has become one of America's most popular folk songs.

Padmashree Prabha Atre, Indian classical singer and composer

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

As part of the "Music Moves Religion: Performance Networks in Indian Ocean Cultures" three-day conference this week at Syracuse University, Prabha Atre, an internationally acclaimed singer and composer of Indian classical music, will perform.

Atre is one of the finest living exponents of the Kirana performance style, noted for its tonal purity and improvisation. Atre has received two of the most coveted awards from the government of India: Padmashree and Padmabhushan. Her musical compositions are known for their originality, poetic beauty and melodic intricacy.

The "Music Moves Religion" conference is presented by the Cultures and Religions Cluster of the Central New York Humanities Corridor and is organized by Tazim R. Kassam, chair of SU's Department of Religion. The principal program coordinator of the Religion and Culture Cluster of the CNY Humanities Corridor is Ann Grodzins Gold, professor of religion and anthropology and director of SU's South Asia Center.

Kathleen Flenniken and Laure-Anne Bosselaar, poets
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Kathleen Flenniken's first poetry collection, Famous (University of Nebraska Press, 2006)
won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and was named a Notable Book by the American Library Association in 2007.

Laure-Anne Bosselaar is the author of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf and Small Gods of Grief, winner of the 2001 Isabella Gardner Prize for Poetry. Ausable Press published her latest book, A New Hunger, in 2007. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and at the MFA in Creative Writing Program of Pine Manor College.

Romance
Rarely Done Productions
Judith Harris, director

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

A screwball look at political correctness, jurisprudence, and hilariously misquoted Shakespeare. The characters reveal to us their bigotry -- against religion, against race, against national origin, against sexual orientation -- all in rhythm with David Mamet's unique storytelling style. Be prepared to be offended and yet laugh through this 2005 comedy sometimes referred to as "Kafka Meets Monty Python." Mature audiences only.

Seating for each show is limited. To reserve tickets, phone the box office at 315-546-3224.

Read a Review!

The Beard of Avon
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Ronald Bell, director

Price: $10
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exciting, satirical and comical look at the age-old question of who wrote Shakespeare. Playwright Amy Freed, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her Freedomland, takes us on a journey that few playwrights have tackled before; the origins of Shakespeare's works. Ms. Freed applies her cinematic approach to the theatrical realm as she follows the Bard from his marriage in Stratford to London and back again and traces his journey for us to behold. For all you Shakespeare in Love fans, this is the play you've been waiting for.

For reservations, please phone 315-476-1835 or e-mail bell444@gmail.com.

Read a Review!

Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Wit's End Players

Price: $20
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Famed comedian and former Saturday Night Live alum Steve Martin's Off-Broadway comedy finds Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso and a time-traveling Elvis meeting in a Paris café (The Nimble Rabbit) in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with Cubism. Martin's brilliant script plays fast and loose with fact, fame and fortune as these three geniuses, and a zany cast of characters, muse on the century's achievements and prospects as well as other fanciful topics with infectious hilarity!

Read a Review!

Saturday, April 19, 2008

WRAP (World Reclamation Art Project)
International Fiber Collaborative

Price: Free
2301 E. Colvin St.
(corner of Nottingham), Syracuse

Artist Jennifer Marsh and participants from all over the world have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3-foot square fiber panels that express concern about the world's extreme dependency on oil. The panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station.

For more information, visit internationalfibercollaborative.com.

OCC Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Annual student exhibit.

The Materials of Color: Paintings by Italian artist Maria Grazia Facchinetti
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Patterns of Perception: Works by Mary Raineri
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

Read a review!

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Photography by Julieve Jubin
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Works by Steven Fland and Ed Levine
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Exhibit featuring Steven Fland's wildlife sculptures and Ed Levine's watercolors.

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

MFA 2008
Syracuse University Art Museum

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.

17 artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography, and sculpture. The exhibition contains a number of artists who explore the idea of identity, while others challenge accepted notions of wealth, time, and reality. Khanh Le explores his identity as a Vietnamese-born American by combining images of his own family life, fashion and home magazines, and well known images from the Vietnam War to create a "new historical narrative". Stacey VanWaldick playfully addresses what jewelry has come to stand for in today's commercial society by fabricating "precious stones" out of bronze and chocolate. Stephanie Koenig experiments with the idea of "recyclable nostalgia" by reclaiming 70's period style to outfit the interior of her interactive life-size pirate ship. Allison Fox forms intricately detailed thin sheets of clear plastic into organic shapes through which she shines light to create ambiguous undulating shadows. The relationship between the sculpture and the shadows on the wall establishes a vibration between reality and illusion.

Other featured artists include Jen Betton, Seunghee Chung, Jennifer Gandee, Jessica Lance, Tzu Cheng Liu, Thon Lorenz, Jennifer Marsh, Frank McCauley, Ge Maggie Mu, María José Pérez (Pepa Santamaria), David Serotkin, Carrie Will, Sue Hershberger Yoder

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

Visual Arts Showcase #63: Elements
CNY Arts

The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A juried show of works created by upstate New York artists.

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Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Artists include Father Andrew Szebenyi, digitally manipulated images; Meg Gentile, acrylic on canvas; Dustin Angell, photography; Sarah Reale, Sharpie portraits on canvas; Mick Mather, monotype, monotype with linocut, tempera with linocut, and watercolor; Eddie Colelli, photography; Kevin Lucas, acrylic on canvas; David McKenney, photography.

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith
The Warehouse Gallery
Community Folk Art Center

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

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith is artist Terry Adkins' multi-media tribute to Smith, known as the Empress of the Blues. Working with a variety of materials Adkins weaves sculpture into a narrative installation that is both a tribute to and a lament for the transformative power of Smith's vocal artistry.

In an essay that accompanies the exhibition Dr. Kheli R. Willetts, academic director of CFAC and assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Syracuse University writes, "Adkins' work creates an environment which challenges us to engage with Smith beyond her status as a legendary musical performer. He has resurrected her as a creative deity whose stage has now become a temple and the viewers are transformed into her devotees as they enter the space."

Smith is regarded as one of the greatest blues singers of all time. She was the highest-paid black performer of her day and arguably reached a level of success greater than that of any African American recording artist before her. Yet in her adopted home of Philadelphia she remains unsung and even her grave remained unmarked until 1970.

Adkins commutes regularly from New York to Philadelphia where he teaches in the Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania. This exhibition is a continued exploration of his use of figures in history whose contributions to society are overlooked, under appreciated, or just not given the stature that he believes they should have in society. Although Adkins work emanates from an activist position, it evolves from abstract forms with the intent of educating the public about historical figures through ways that are not image based or narrative-based but that challenge the viewer to think abstractly in relating to the stories of the lives of the people concerned.

Terry Adkins has been exhibiting internationally since 1980. He is Associate Professor of Fine Art at the University of Pennsylvania where he recently installed Darkwater: A Recital in Four Dominions, a tribute to W. E. B. Du Bois at the Arthur Ross Gallery. Adkins has published numerous essays and has completed several significant public commissions. In addition to being a highly respected artist and sought after guest lecturer, his artworks have been placed in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among other significant museums and collections. He received his B.S. from Fisk University and his M.F.A from the University of Kentucky.

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How to Steer the Wheel
Redhouse

Price: $15 Adults and $12 Students/Seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

An experimental animation and live cinema performance; Heath Hanlin has been working with 3D animation as his main visual toolbox for more than 10 years. He creates the soundtracks to his animations, which have always been of equal importance to the visuals. Most of Heath's music and sound work over the last several years is synthetic, or noise music.

In How to Steer the Wheel, Heath takes a more traditional musical approach. In this work, the guitar is an armature; all other sounds and the imagery are built around carefully articulated musical compositions for guitar. The music is a thread of reason in an abstract visual landscape, using the composition as the narrative.

Opening for Hanlin is a multi-media performance by artist Blake Carrington, You Would Do As Well Never Moving From Here, an investigation into a detached, expanded time and space. The work's central element is a single phrase sung by a vocal quartet, which is stretched to 60 times its original length. The phrase is taken from Italo Calvino's novel Invisible Cities. In the novel, the traveler Marco Polo speaks with the aging Mongol emperor Kublai Khan, describing each of the cities of the Khan's kingdom. Kublai responds, "My gaze is that of a man meditating, lost in thought -- I admit it. But yours? You cross archipelagos, tundras, mountain ranges. You would do as well never moving from here."

Tarik and Julia Banzi of Al-Andalus ensemble

Price: Free
Kilian Room, 500 Hall of Languages
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Jazzuits Spring Concert
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Le Moyne College's vocal ensemble The Jazzuits, under the direction of Carol Jacobe, will perform several selections featuring Latin, Be Bop, and Swing styles. Alongside several group numbers, members of the ensemble will be featured on jazz standard solos and duets.

Bill Cole's Untempered Ensemble

Kittredge Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Performers include Bill Cole, Warren Smith, Joe Daley, William Parker, Atticus Cole, Sam Kininger, and Shayna Dulberger.

Alice in Wonderland
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive family performance.

Romance
Rarely Done Productions
Judith Harris, director

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

A screwball look at political correctness, jurisprudence, and hilariously misquoted Shakespeare. The characters reveal to us their bigotry -- against religion, against race, against national origin, against sexual orientation -- all in rhythm with David Mamet's unique storytelling style. Be prepared to be offended and yet laugh through this 2005 comedy sometimes referred to as "Kafka Meets Monty Python." Mature audiences only.

Seating for each show is limited. To reserve tickets, phone the box office at 315-546-3224.

Read a Review!

The Beard of Avon
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Ronald Bell, director

Price: $10
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exciting, satirical and comical look at the age-old question of who wrote Shakespeare. Playwright Amy Freed, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her Freedomland, takes us on a journey that few playwrights have tackled before; the origins of Shakespeare's works. Ms. Freed applies her cinematic approach to the theatrical realm as she follows the Bard from his marriage in Stratford to London and back again and traces his journey for us to behold. For all you Shakespeare in Love fans, this is the play you've been waiting for.

For reservations, please phone 315-476-1835 or e-mail bell444@gmail.com.

Read a Review!

Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Wit's End Players

Price: $20
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Famed comedian and former Saturday Night Live alum Steve Martin's Off-Broadway comedy finds Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso and a time-traveling Elvis meeting in a Paris café (The Nimble Rabbit) in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with Cubism. Martin's brilliant script plays fast and loose with fact, fame and fortune as these three geniuses, and a zany cast of characters, muse on the century's achievements and prospects as well as other fanciful topics with infectious hilarity!

Read a Review!

Sunday, April 20, 2008

WRAP (World Reclamation Art Project)
International Fiber Collaborative

Price: Free
2301 E. Colvin St.
(corner of Nottingham), Syracuse

Artist Jennifer Marsh and participants from all over the world have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3-foot square fiber panels that express concern about the world's extreme dependency on oil. The panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station.

For more information, visit internationalfibercollaborative.com.

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

MFA 2008
Syracuse University Art Museum

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.

17 artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography, and sculpture. The exhibition contains a number of artists who explore the idea of identity, while others challenge accepted notions of wealth, time, and reality. Khanh Le explores his identity as a Vietnamese-born American by combining images of his own family life, fashion and home magazines, and well known images from the Vietnam War to create a "new historical narrative". Stacey VanWaldick playfully addresses what jewelry has come to stand for in today's commercial society by fabricating "precious stones" out of bronze and chocolate. Stephanie Koenig experiments with the idea of "recyclable nostalgia" by reclaiming 70's period style to outfit the interior of her interactive life-size pirate ship. Allison Fox forms intricately detailed thin sheets of clear plastic into organic shapes through which she shines light to create ambiguous undulating shadows. The relationship between the sculpture and the shadows on the wall establishes a vibration between reality and illusion.

Other featured artists include Jen Betton, Seunghee Chung, Jennifer Gandee, Jessica Lance, Tzu Cheng Liu, Thon Lorenz, Jennifer Marsh, Frank McCauley, Ge Maggie Mu, María José Pérez (Pepa Santamaria), David Serotkin, Carrie Will, Sue Hershberger Yoder

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

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

Read a review!

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

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Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Artists include Father Andrew Szebenyi, digitally manipulated images; Meg Gentile, acrylic on canvas; Dustin Angell, photography; Sarah Reale, Sharpie portraits on canvas; Mick Mather, monotype, monotype with linocut, tempera with linocut, and watercolor; Eddie Colelli, photography; Kevin Lucas, acrylic on canvas; David McKenney, photography.

OCC Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Annual student exhibit.

Works by Steven Fland and Ed Levine
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Exhibit featuring Steven Fland's wildlife sculptures and Ed Levine's watercolors.

Patterns of Perception: Works by Mary Raineri
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Gems of the Baroque
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Kola Owolabi, organ

Price: $15 regular, students free
First Presbyterian Church of Syracuse
620 W. Genesee St, Syracuse

Frescobaldi Toccata Nona
Suzanne van Soldt 16th Century Dances
Scheidemann Canzona in F, Christ lag in Todesbanden
Walther Partita on "Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns vend"
J.S. Bach Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
plus additional works and commentary

Recital to Dedicate Grand Piano
Onondaga Community College
Featuring Kevin Moore, piano

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Onondaga Music Professor Dr. Kevin Moore will perform a concert featuring the works of Haydn, Beethoven, and Schumann to dedicate the College's new grand piano.

CD Release Party
Danielle and the State Street Band

Price: Free
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Danielle and the State Street Band are releasing their first CD, Life is Like a Song, and announce the addition of jazz saxophonist John Kane to the band.

CD's will be available for purchase. Featured songs are "Over the Rainbow," "Feelin' Alright," "At Last," and "One for my Baby." The CD was recorded, produced and mixed by Ron Keck, SubCat Studios.

SU Flute and Trumpet Ensembles
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The shared concert features music by Effinger, Via, DiMartino, Ewazen, Gabrieli, and Tomasi, as well as "Porch Music for Flute Ensemble" composed by Diane Jones, a graduate student in the Setnor School and a Billy Joel Fellow in Composition.

The Adventures of Nate the Great
Stagewrights Youth Theatre

Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts
728 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The Beard of Avon
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Ronald Bell, director

Price: $10
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exciting, satirical and comical look at the age-old question of who wrote Shakespeare. Playwright Amy Freed, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her Freedomland, takes us on a journey that few playwrights have tackled before; the origins of Shakespeare's works. Ms. Freed applies her cinematic approach to the theatrical realm as she follows the Bard from his marriage in Stratford to London and back again and traces his journey for us to behold. For all you Shakespeare in Love fans, this is the play you've been waiting for.

For reservations, please phone 315-476-1835 or e-mail bell444@gmail.com.

Read a Review!

Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Wit's End Players

Price: $20
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Famed comedian and former Saturday Night Live alum Steve Martin's Off-Broadway comedy finds Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso and a time-traveling Elvis meeting in a Paris café (The Nimble Rabbit) in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with Cubism. Martin's brilliant script plays fast and loose with fact, fame and fortune as these three geniuses, and a zany cast of characters, muse on the century's achievements and prospects as well as other fanciful topics with infectious hilarity!

Read a Review!

Monday, April 21, 2008

WRAP (World Reclamation Art Project)
International Fiber Collaborative

Price: Free
2301 E. Colvin St.
(corner of Nottingham), Syracuse

Artist Jennifer Marsh and participants from all over the world have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3-foot square fiber panels that express concern about the world's extreme dependency on oil. The panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station.

For more information, visit internationalfibercollaborative.com.

Icons

Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Artists include Father Andrew Szebenyi, digitally manipulated images; Meg Gentile, acrylic on canvas; Dustin Angell, photography; Sarah Reale, Sharpie portraits on canvas; Mick Mather, monotype, monotype with linocut, tempera with linocut, and watercolor; Eddie Colelli, photography; Kevin Lucas, acrylic on canvas; David McKenney, photography.

OCC Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Annual student exhibit.

The Materials of Color: Paintings by Italian artist Maria Grazia Facchinetti
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Carles Vives
Onondaga Community College

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

An exhibit by Carles Vives, internationally renowned ceramic sculptor from Spain. Born in Barcelona, Spain in 1957, Carles Vives studied art at Massana School of Art in Barcelona. His art is on display in museums and galleries throughout Spain, Italy, Australia, Mongolia, Peru and the United States (Everson Museum of Syracuse and in Miami). In addition, Vives' art has been exhibited in Portugal, Taiwan, Korea and New Zealand.

Most recently Vives was selected to participate in the Sino-Spain Ceramic Art Residency Program in Fuping, China in June, to celebrate the addition of the new Ceramic Art Museum of Spain to the FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums of Fuping.

Onondaga art professor Andrew Schuster met Carles Vives several years ago while lecturing at a workshop in Spain. The two sculptors formed a professional relationship and have collaborated on many artistic endeavors. Professor Schuster was instrumental in securing this prominent artist's exhibit for Onondaga in what will be Vives' first visit to the United States.

Vives has worked for the last 25 years at a studio in Canovelles near Barcelona. In 2004, he received the honorary diploma of Master Craftsman by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government Institution.)

Labyrinths
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A life-size maze of mirrors and dreams reveals an exceptional collection of works by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna: a fugue-like series of 25 drawings and etchings inspired by the Borgian notion of the labyrinth, with Icarus as protagonist. Twenty-three 7-foot tall mirrored panels form this massive installation that complicates and multiplies the space of the gallery, and infiltrates the observer.

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Good for What Ails You!
Westcott Community Center

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

Women healing from loss...from loss of loved ones, loss of health, loss of dreams, loss of youth. We heal ourselves. We heal others. We heal through stories, through reframing memories, through engagement in our art; we heal by redefining ourselves and rebirthing. It is a story of sadness and honesty and transformation. It is about connection and growth. Ultimately it is a story of triumph.

Paintings, mixed media, fibers, photography, ceramic sculpture, creative compuer art, and poetry by Maria Brown, Melissa DeStevens-Valensuela, Linda Esterly, Patrice Fitzsimmons, Cathy Gibbons, Vanessa Johnson, Amy Patricia Komar, Suzanne Masters, Georgia Popoff, and Elaine Quick.

Patterns of Perception: Works by Mary Raineri
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Photography by Julieve Jubin
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Works by Steven Fland and Ed Levine
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Exhibit featuring Steven Fland's wildlife sculptures and Ed Levine's watercolors.

The Cruel Sea
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $3 non-members, $2.50 members
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

The Cruel Sea, a 1953 adventure starring Jack Hawkins as the captain of a British Royal Navy ship. It is adapted from Nicholas Monsarrat's World War II book and also stars Virginia McKenna and Denholm Elliott.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

WRAP (World Reclamation Art Project)
International Fiber Collaborative

Price: Free
2301 E. Colvin St.
(corner of Nottingham), Syracuse

Artist Jennifer Marsh and participants from all over the world have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3-foot square fiber panels that express concern about the world's extreme dependency on oil. The panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station.

For more information, visit internationalfibercollaborative.com.

Icons

Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Artists include Father Andrew Szebenyi, digitally manipulated images; Meg Gentile, acrylic on canvas; Dustin Angell, photography; Sarah Reale, Sharpie portraits on canvas; Mick Mather, monotype, monotype with linocut, tempera with linocut, and watercolor; Eddie Colelli, photography; Kevin Lucas, acrylic on canvas; David McKenney, photography.

The Materials of Color: Paintings by Italian artist Maria Grazia Facchinetti
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Carles Vives
Onondaga Community College

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

An exhibit by Carles Vives, internationally renowned ceramic sculptor from Spain. Born in Barcelona, Spain in 1957, Carles Vives studied art at Massana School of Art in Barcelona. His art is on display in museums and galleries throughout Spain, Italy, Australia, Mongolia, Peru and the United States (Everson Museum of Syracuse and in Miami). In addition, Vives' art has been exhibited in Portugal, Taiwan, Korea and New Zealand.

Most recently Vives was selected to participate in the Sino-Spain Ceramic Art Residency Program in Fuping, China in June, to celebrate the addition of the new Ceramic Art Museum of Spain to the FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums of Fuping.

Onondaga art professor Andrew Schuster met Carles Vives several years ago while lecturing at a workshop in Spain. The two sculptors formed a professional relationship and have collaborated on many artistic endeavors. Professor Schuster was instrumental in securing this prominent artist's exhibit for Onondaga in what will be Vives' first visit to the United States.

Vives has worked for the last 25 years at a studio in Canovelles near Barcelona. In 2004, he received the honorary diploma of Master Craftsman by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government Institution.)

Labyrinths
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A life-size maze of mirrors and dreams reveals an exceptional collection of works by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna: a fugue-like series of 25 drawings and etchings inspired by the Borgian notion of the labyrinth, with Icarus as protagonist. Twenty-three 7-foot tall mirrored panels form this massive installation that complicates and multiplies the space of the gallery, and infiltrates the observer.

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Good for What Ails You!
Westcott Community Center

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

Women healing from loss...from loss of loved ones, loss of health, loss of dreams, loss of youth. We heal ourselves. We heal others. We heal through stories, through reframing memories, through engagement in our art; we heal by redefining ourselves and rebirthing. It is a story of sadness and honesty and transformation. It is about connection and growth. Ultimately it is a story of triumph.

Paintings, mixed media, fibers, photography, ceramic sculpture, creative compuer art, and poetry by Maria Brown, Melissa DeStevens-Valensuela, Linda Esterly, Patrice Fitzsimmons, Cathy Gibbons, Vanessa Johnson, Amy Patricia Komar, Suzanne Masters, Georgia Popoff, and Elaine Quick.

Patterns of Perception: Works by Mary Raineri
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Photography by Julieve Jubin
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

MFA 2008
Syracuse University Art Museum

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.

17 artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography, and sculpture. The exhibition contains a number of artists who explore the idea of identity, while others challenge accepted notions of wealth, time, and reality. Khanh Le explores his identity as a Vietnamese-born American by combining images of his own family life, fashion and home magazines, and well known images from the Vietnam War to create a "new historical narrative". Stacey VanWaldick playfully addresses what jewelry has come to stand for in today's commercial society by fabricating "precious stones" out of bronze and chocolate. Stephanie Koenig experiments with the idea of "recyclable nostalgia" by reclaiming 70's period style to outfit the interior of her interactive life-size pirate ship. Allison Fox forms intricately detailed thin sheets of clear plastic into organic shapes through which she shines light to create ambiguous undulating shadows. The relationship between the sculpture and the shadows on the wall establishes a vibration between reality and illusion.

Other featured artists include Jen Betton, Seunghee Chung, Jennifer Gandee, Jessica Lance, Tzu Cheng Liu, Thon Lorenz, Jennifer Marsh, Frank McCauley, Ge Maggie Mu, María José Pérez (Pepa Santamaria), David Serotkin, Carrie Will, Sue Hershberger Yoder

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

Visual Arts Showcase #63: Elements
CNY Arts

The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A juried show of works created by upstate New York artists.

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith
The Warehouse Gallery
Community Folk Art Center

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

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith is artist Terry Adkins' multi-media tribute to Smith, known as the Empress of the Blues. Working with a variety of materials Adkins weaves sculpture into a narrative installation that is both a tribute to and a lament for the transformative power of Smith's vocal artistry.

In an essay that accompanies the exhibition Dr. Kheli R. Willetts, academic director of CFAC and assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Syracuse University writes, "Adkins' work creates an environment which challenges us to engage with Smith beyond her status as a legendary musical performer. He has resurrected her as a creative deity whose stage has now become a temple and the viewers are transformed into her devotees as they enter the space."

Smith is regarded as one of the greatest blues singers of all time. She was the highest-paid black performer of her day and arguably reached a level of success greater than that of any African American recording artist before her. Yet in her adopted home of Philadelphia she remains unsung and even her grave remained unmarked until 1970.

Adkins commutes regularly from New York to Philadelphia where he teaches in the Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania. This exhibition is a continued exploration of his use of figures in history whose contributions to society are overlooked, under appreciated, or just not given the stature that he believes they should have in society. Although Adkins work emanates from an activist position, it evolves from abstract forms with the intent of educating the public about historical figures through ways that are not image based or narrative-based but that challenge the viewer to think abstractly in relating to the stories of the lives of the people concerned.

Terry Adkins has been exhibiting internationally since 1980. He is Associate Professor of Fine Art at the University of Pennsylvania where he recently installed Darkwater: A Recital in Four Dominions, a tribute to W. E. B. Du Bois at the Arthur Ross Gallery. Adkins has published numerous essays and has completed several significant public commissions. In addition to being a highly respected artist and sought after guest lecturer, his artworks have been placed in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among other significant museums and collections. He received his B.S. from Fisk University and his M.F.A from the University of Kentucky.

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Recent Acquisition Talk
Everson Museum of Art

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

Join Debora Ryan, Everson Museum of Art Senior Curator, for an introduction to the most recent addition to the Everson's permanent collection. Ryan will discuss the importance of Jenny Holzer's Memorandum for Condoleezza Rice Green.

Memorandum for Condoleezza Rice Green will be on view as a part of the permanent collection re-installation opening April 4. Many permanent collection artworks that have not been on view recently will be returning to the public eye in this exhibit.

Art Works Symposium Opening Ceremony: Working: A Celebration of Syracuse Workers in Words, Photography, and Music
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Maxwell Auditorium
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An evening of music and readings featuring Latin-American acoustic guitarist Francisco Herrera; singer-songwriter Tom Juravich, professor of Labor Studies and director of the Labor Center at the University of Massachusetts; and readings from Working: An Anthology of Writing and Photography (SU Press, 2008).

This event is part of the 2008 Ray Smith Symposium entitled "Artworks: The Role of the Arts in U.S. Workers Struggles."

Who We Are
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Who We Are, a play written and performed by Syracuse University SEIU 200 United Workers, was created with the guidance of performance artist Marty Pottenger, writer and director of the Abundance Project. The Abundance Project is a community arts performance project about money as told through the stories of common folks in the United States, which culminated in an Off-Broadway production in the spring of 2003.

This event is part of the 2008 Ray Smith Symposium entitled "Artworks: The Role of the Arts in U.S. Workers Struggles."

Le Moyne College Community Chamber Orchestra
LeMoyne College
Featuring Michael Schelle, guest composer

Price: Free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Artist-in-residence Andrew Russo leads Le Moyne College's first ever Community Chamber Orchestra concert in a wide-ranging evening of short classical and popular works, including excerpts of Mozart's Requiem, Marc Mellits' Phase Inc. (a play on 'Funkytown') and a medley from Pirates of the Caribbean. Capping the evening is Michael Schelle's jazz-chamber music masterpiece, Godzilla, with the composer on piano.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

WRAP (World Reclamation Art Project)
International Fiber Collaborative

Price: Free
2301 E. Colvin St.
(corner of Nottingham), Syracuse

Artist Jennifer Marsh and participants from all over the world have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3-foot square fiber panels that express concern about the world's extreme dependency on oil. The panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station.

For more information, visit internationalfibercollaborative.com.

Icons

Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Artists include Father Andrew Szebenyi, digitally manipulated images; Meg Gentile, acrylic on canvas; Dustin Angell, photography; Sarah Reale, Sharpie portraits on canvas; Mick Mather, monotype, monotype with linocut, tempera with linocut, and watercolor; Eddie Colelli, photography; Kevin Lucas, acrylic on canvas; David McKenney, photography.

The Materials of Color: Paintings by Italian artist Maria Grazia Facchinetti
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Carles Vives
Onondaga Community College

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

An exhibit by Carles Vives, internationally renowned ceramic sculptor from Spain. Born in Barcelona, Spain in 1957, Carles Vives studied art at Massana School of Art in Barcelona. His art is on display in museums and galleries throughout Spain, Italy, Australia, Mongolia, Peru and the United States (Everson Museum of Syracuse and in Miami). In addition, Vives' art has been exhibited in Portugal, Taiwan, Korea and New Zealand.

Most recently Vives was selected to participate in the Sino-Spain Ceramic Art Residency Program in Fuping, China in June, to celebrate the addition of the new Ceramic Art Museum of Spain to the FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums of Fuping.

Onondaga art professor Andrew Schuster met Carles Vives several years ago while lecturing at a workshop in Spain. The two sculptors formed a professional relationship and have collaborated on many artistic endeavors. Professor Schuster was instrumental in securing this prominent artist's exhibit for Onondaga in what will be Vives' first visit to the United States.

Vives has worked for the last 25 years at a studio in Canovelles near Barcelona. In 2004, he received the honorary diploma of Master Craftsman by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government Institution.)

Labyrinths
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A life-size maze of mirrors and dreams reveals an exceptional collection of works by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna: a fugue-like series of 25 drawings and etchings inspired by the Borgian notion of the labyrinth, with Icarus as protagonist. Twenty-three 7-foot tall mirrored panels form this massive installation that complicates and multiplies the space of the gallery, and infiltrates the observer.

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Good for What Ails You!
Westcott Community Center

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

Women healing from loss...from loss of loved ones, loss of health, loss of dreams, loss of youth. We heal ourselves. We heal others. We heal through stories, through reframing memories, through engagement in our art; we heal by redefining ourselves and rebirthing. It is a story of sadness and honesty and transformation. It is about connection and growth. Ultimately it is a story of triumph.

Paintings, mixed media, fibers, photography, ceramic sculpture, creative compuer art, and poetry by Maria Brown, Melissa DeStevens-Valensuela, Linda Esterly, Patrice Fitzsimmons, Cathy Gibbons, Vanessa Johnson, Amy Patricia Komar, Suzanne Masters, Georgia Popoff, and Elaine Quick.

Patterns of Perception: Works by Mary Raineri
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Photography by Julieve Jubin
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

Works by Steven Fland and Ed Levine
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Exhibit featuring Steven Fland's wildlife sculptures and Ed Levine's watercolors.

MFA 2008
Syracuse University Art Museum

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.

17 artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography, and sculpture. The exhibition contains a number of artists who explore the idea of identity, while others challenge accepted notions of wealth, time, and reality. Khanh Le explores his identity as a Vietnamese-born American by combining images of his own family life, fashion and home magazines, and well known images from the Vietnam War to create a "new historical narrative". Stacey VanWaldick playfully addresses what jewelry has come to stand for in today's commercial society by fabricating "precious stones" out of bronze and chocolate. Stephanie Koenig experiments with the idea of "recyclable nostalgia" by reclaiming 70's period style to outfit the interior of her interactive life-size pirate ship. Allison Fox forms intricately detailed thin sheets of clear plastic into organic shapes through which she shines light to create ambiguous undulating shadows. The relationship between the sculpture and the shadows on the wall establishes a vibration between reality and illusion.

Other featured artists include Jen Betton, Seunghee Chung, Jennifer Gandee, Jessica Lance, Tzu Cheng Liu, Thon Lorenz, Jennifer Marsh, Frank McCauley, Ge Maggie Mu, María José Pérez (Pepa Santamaria), David Serotkin, Carrie Will, Sue Hershberger Yoder

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

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

The Sweetest Battle: Works by Rebecca Murtaugh
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Artist Statement:
I am intrigued by the space between painting and sculpture and the history of objects. Much of my work is based in installation with materials and techniques that vary to serve the needs of my intentions. I engage in processes of often altering everyday materials so that they draw from the language of each material's history and at once, transcend that history to provide an experience of the sublime. My work maintains a balance of formal and conceptual motivations. I aim for the work to be playful, sexy, visually engaging, and a rewarding intellectual experience for those viewers who seek to look further.

Artist Biography:
Rebecca Murtaugh currently splits her time between Brooklyn and Central New York. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University, Bachelor of Science from the Pennsylvania State University, and was raised in Philadelphia. Her work has been exhibited nationally in both solo and group exhibitions at venues such as the Contemporary Art Fair with Thatcher Projects in New York City, Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia, the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Northern California, the Athens Institute of Contemporary Art in Atlanta, Current Gallery in Baltimore, and the District of Columbia Art Center. Upcoming exhibitions in 2008 include Seductions at 1708 Gallery in Richmond, Virginia; Part Object, Part Sculpture at the Brew House: Space 101 in Pittsburgh; and Keeping the Conceptual Momentum at the Kelly and Weber Gallery in Philadelphia. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York where she teaches Sculpture and Critical Theory.

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith
The Warehouse Gallery
Community Folk Art Center

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

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith is artist Terry Adkins' multi-media tribute to Smith, known as the Empress of the Blues. Working with a variety of materials Adkins weaves sculpture into a narrative installation that is both a tribute to and a lament for the transformative power of Smith's vocal artistry.

In an essay that accompanies the exhibition Dr. Kheli R. Willetts, academic director of CFAC and assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Syracuse University writes, "Adkins' work creates an environment which challenges us to engage with Smith beyond her status as a legendary musical performer. He has resurrected her as a creative deity whose stage has now become a temple and the viewers are transformed into her devotees as they enter the space."

Smith is regarded as one of the greatest blues singers of all time. She was the highest-paid black performer of her day and arguably reached a level of success greater than that of any African American recording artist before her. Yet in her adopted home of Philadelphia she remains unsung and even her grave remained unmarked until 1970.

Adkins commutes regularly from New York to Philadelphia where he teaches in the Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania. This exhibition is a continued exploration of his use of figures in history whose contributions to society are overlooked, under appreciated, or just not given the stature that he believes they should have in society. Although Adkins work emanates from an activist position, it evolves from abstract forms with the intent of educating the public about historical figures through ways that are not image based or narrative-based but that challenge the viewer to think abstractly in relating to the stories of the lives of the people concerned.

Terry Adkins has been exhibiting internationally since 1980. He is Associate Professor of Fine Art at the University of Pennsylvania where he recently installed Darkwater: A Recital in Four Dominions, a tribute to W. E. B. Du Bois at the Arthur Ross Gallery. Adkins has published numerous essays and has completed several significant public commissions. In addition to being a highly respected artist and sought after guest lecturer, his artworks have been placed in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among other significant museums and collections. He received his B.S. from Fisk University and his M.F.A from the University of Kentucky.

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Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Steven Rosenfeld, piano

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

Steven Rosenfeld will be playing the first three listed sonatas from Domenico Scarlatti's vast output, and the great Schubert A Major Sonata, D. 959. Dr. Rosenfeld is known for his interpretations of both Schubert, and more recently, Scarlatti, which he is presently recording.

SU Wind Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
John M. Laverty, conductor

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

The Wind Ensemble will perform works by Johanson and Maslanka. Guitarist Ken Meyer will appear as guest soloist.

Free parking will be available in Irving Garage.

For more information, phone 315-443-2194.

Denis Johnson, fiction
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

Preview: The Fantasticks
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

New York City's longest running musical (more than 17,000 performances off-Broadway), The Fantasticks is charming, funny, and a celebration of the bloom of first love. A girl and a boy grow up next door to each other. They are perfect for each other and they fall in love. To ensure the success of their romance, their oh-so-sly fathers devise every scheme to keep them apart. Filled with delightful songs.

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