Tuesday, April 17, 2012

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

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

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

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

OCC Student Art and Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

A juried showcase of art and photography by Onondaga Community College students.

Patently Syracuse
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

A visual exploration of inventions, designs and innovations created in Central New York.

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

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

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

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

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

Tsao and McKown Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Annual High School Seniors' Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

High school seniors within a 30 mile radius of Syracuse are invited to exhibit at Edgewood Gallery and be juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Reflection and Identity: Works by W. Michelle Harris and Michael Roman
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition features recent work by Rochester Institute of Technology associate professor and artist W. Michelle Harris and Atlanta-based artist and Syracuse University alum Michael Roman. These two young artists embrace questions of gender, identity, and societal expectations.

While the materials used by each artist sit at the opposite ends of the technological spectrum, both individuals seek to examine topics of an interrelated and highly personal nature.

Read a review!

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Educational Toys by Roy Wilson
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Designer Roy Wilson, a 1970 alumnus of Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, will exhibit his award-winning educational toy designs. The exhibit features Wilson's work from the Learning Curve Toy Co., including the 1992 Thomas Wooden Railway project and the 1994 Lamaze Infant Development System, which he researched, designed, engineered and manufactured. The exhibition will also include his most recent invention in toys, TRAK2BRIK Adapters. Introduced in February at the American International Toy Fair, TRAK2BRIK is a system of adapters that links wooden railway track to pegged construction bricks and has dozens of slide-on toy accessories.

Wilson's career evolved from an early fascination with mechanical, scientific and electrical products. While at SU studying industrial design, he wrote his graduating thesis on preschool educational developmental toys. He started his own design business, Creative International, in 1967 and decided to remain independent and/or work on long-term contracts. To date, he has won 47 national and international awards for design excellence.

Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on West Fayette Street or the first-floor door on West Washington Street. For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Self Portrait Show
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The show features self portraits in a variety of mediums by gallery members.

Time, Again Time: Works by Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In "Time, again time," the artist reflects on ordered fragments of a disordered world. An activist and renowned Latin American artist, Ana Tiscornia brings a mixed-media installation that curator Pedro Cuperman describes as "the outcome of a tale, where we have a fragmented world, where the pieces are somehow geometrically organic, logical... a kind of architecture of catastrophe. It is about the artist's obsession with organizing her world after having lived through the tragedies of military dictatorships in her home land, and the present catastrophes, wars that we endure in our own time. Ana's work demands from the viewer a sort of reconstruction, reintegration of the work, and our world.

MFA 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

MFA 2012 presents the work of 22 artists concluding their graduate careers in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. On view will be a wide range of traditional and contemporary media, including painting, ceramics, photography, interactive and experimental sculpture, video, and conceptual installations. The artists participating in MFA 2012 are Maximilian Bauer, Lauren Boldon, J. S. Jin Choi, Rose Marie Cromwell, Zach Dunn, Michael Giannattasio, Eugenie Michelle Giasson, Holland Houdek, Tessa J. Kennedy, Kyoungju Kim, Jay Muhlin, Yiming Nie, Vasilios Papaioannu, Annie Ryerson, James Stevens, Jennifer Turner, Rachel Van Pelt, Claire Ying-Chin Wang, Jennifer Leigh Wright, Elif Yoney, Jave Yoshimoto, Xiaowen Zhu.

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

Reliquaries: New Work by Drew Goerlitz
Everson Museum of Art

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

Well-known for his graceful yet imposing steel sculpture, Drew Goerlitz, Associate Professor of Sculpture at the State University of New York Plattsburg, presents a new body of work at the Everson Museum of Art. Reliquaries continues the reoccurring theme of containment, concealment and privacy best described by Goerlitz himself: "My interpretation of reliquary is not to hold a sacred object or relic, but to engage the viewer with the form and tension of the unknown interior. The adornment of these objects relates to architectural details and the idea of facade. Facade is what we are presented with upon first appearance, whether speaking of people or architecture, and it isn't until we look inside that we discover the true structure."

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

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

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

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

CNY Art Showcase: Juried Preview of Live Auction
Everson Museum of Art

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

CNY Arts Showcase: Juried Preview of the Live Auction, presented in conjunction with the Eastwood Rotary Club, highlights the great and diverse artistic talents within our community. The exhibition at the Everson will precede the Eastwood Rotary Club's Annual CNY Art Showcase Live Auction on April 20.

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

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

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

Read a review!

The Black Series
Echo

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

Photography by Amanda Zackem. On display will be 17 silver-gelatin prints and a short film.

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

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

Unsung Heroes Film Series: A Mother's Courage
Redhouse

Price: $8 regular, $5 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This documentary by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson tells the story of Margret, a mother who has done everything in her power to help her son. She embarks on an inspirational journey that leads her to realize that perhaps it is possible to break down the wall of autism and get to know the individual behind it.

This screening will benefit ARC of Onondaga Art Surge Program. Artwork from the program will be on display in the Redhouse Café.

S.U. Samba Laranja Brazilian Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage; patrons should mention that they are attending the concert.

Stomp
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $17.50 to $72.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Back with new surprises! Stomp is explosive, provocative, sophisticated, sexy, utterly unique and appeals to audiences of all ages. The international percussion sensation has garnered an armful of awards and rave reviews, and has appeared on numerous national television shows. The 8-member troupe uses everything but conventional percussion instruments—matchboxes, wooden poles, brooms, garbage cans, Zippo lighters, hubcaps—to fill the stage with magnificent rhythms. As USA Today says, Stomp finds beautiful noises in the strangest places. Stomp. See what all the noise is about.

Read a review!

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

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

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

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

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

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Feats of Clay spotlights the varied and creative ceramics art education programs in our high schools throughout Onondaga County and Central New York. The continued success of Feats of Clay rests with the talented and dedicated high school art teachers and art students.

Patently Syracuse
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

A visual exploration of inventions, designs and innovations created in Central New York.

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

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

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

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

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

Tsao and McKown Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Annual High School Seniors' Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

High school seniors within a 30 mile radius of Syracuse are invited to exhibit at Edgewood Gallery and be juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Time, Again Time: Works by Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In "Time, again time," the artist reflects on ordered fragments of a disordered world. An activist and renowned Latin American artist, Ana Tiscornia brings a mixed-media installation that curator Pedro Cuperman describes as "the outcome of a tale, where we have a fragmented world, where the pieces are somehow geometrically organic, logical... a kind of architecture of catastrophe. It is about the artist's obsession with organizing her world after having lived through the tragedies of military dictatorships in her home land, and the present catastrophes, wars that we endure in our own time. Ana's work demands from the viewer a sort of reconstruction, reintegration of the work, and our world.

Reflection and Identity: Works by W. Michelle Harris and Michael Roman
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition features recent work by Rochester Institute of Technology associate professor and artist W. Michelle Harris and Atlanta-based artist and Syracuse University alum Michael Roman. These two young artists embrace questions of gender, identity, and societal expectations.

While the materials used by each artist sit at the opposite ends of the technological spectrum, both individuals seek to examine topics of an interrelated and highly personal nature.

Read a review!

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

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

9th Annual Kids' Benefit Art Show
Szozda Gallery

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

The school year's hard work in art programs at Meachem and Seymour Dual-Language Academy Elementary schools netted some students the opportunity to display their art in a professional gallery.

Between the two schools, some 950 students are enrolled in the art programs, in no small measure due to the dedication and expertise of their teachers, Stacy Griffin at Meachem and Kelly Moser-Vogler at Seymour, who have served in the Syracuse School District for a combined 26 years. Another reason for the success of the schools' art programs is the unique way each teacher chooses to nurture the students' interest by targeting their total development in academic curriculum, including study of various cultures, math concepts, and literacy. Further, these teachers go beyond the level of their students, using different means to encourage parents' involvement. And, every year, the teachers also move beyond their own arts departments to involve the rest of each school's student body by busing in all classmates for a special gallery kids' reception.

Sales from the show are split between the schools and students.

Self Portrait Show
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The show features self portraits in a variety of mediums by gallery members.

MFA 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

MFA 2012 presents the work of 22 artists concluding their graduate careers in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. On view will be a wide range of traditional and contemporary media, including painting, ceramics, photography, interactive and experimental sculpture, video, and conceptual installations. The artists participating in MFA 2012 are Maximilian Bauer, Lauren Boldon, J. S. Jin Choi, Rose Marie Cromwell, Zach Dunn, Michael Giannattasio, Eugenie Michelle Giasson, Holland Houdek, Tessa J. Kennedy, Kyoungju Kim, Jay Muhlin, Yiming Nie, Vasilios Papaioannu, Annie Ryerson, James Stevens, Jennifer Turner, Rachel Van Pelt, Claire Ying-Chin Wang, Jennifer Leigh Wright, Elif Yoney, Jave Yoshimoto, Xiaowen Zhu.

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

CNY Art Showcase: Juried Preview of Live Auction
Everson Museum of Art

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

CNY Arts Showcase: Juried Preview of the Live Auction, presented in conjunction with the Eastwood Rotary Club, highlights the great and diverse artistic talents within our community. The exhibition at the Everson will precede the Eastwood Rotary Club's Annual CNY Art Showcase Live Auction on April 20.

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

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

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

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

Reliquaries: New Work by Drew Goerlitz
Everson Museum of Art

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

Well-known for his graceful yet imposing steel sculpture, Drew Goerlitz, Associate Professor of Sculpture at the State University of New York Plattsburg, presents a new body of work at the Everson Museum of Art. Reliquaries continues the reoccurring theme of containment, concealment and privacy best described by Goerlitz himself: "My interpretation of reliquary is not to hold a sacred object or relic, but to engage the viewer with the form and tension of the unknown interior. The adornment of these objects relates to architectural details and the idea of facade. Facade is what we are presented with upon first appearance, whether speaking of people or architecture, and it isn't until we look inside that we discover the true structure."

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

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

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

Read a review!

The "Gnome Show"
XL Projects

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

Each fall, Department of Design faculty members review student projects on display in the department's home at The Warehouse and place a gnome statue next to the most deserving work in a variety of categories. The "Gnome Show" is an exhibition of last fall's gnome-winning projects.

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

The Black Series
Echo

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

Photography by Amanda Zackem. On display will be 17 silver-gelatin prints and a short film.

RESOURCED/response: The Art of the Justseeds Artists Cooperative and SU Fiber Arts
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibition is a look into the environmental devastation that plagues the earth and its beings. It is also a look into the environmental justice movement that works to correct and heal the destruction. RESOURCED is a portfolio of hand-produced prints organized and created by the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative in 2010, focusing on resource extraction and climate issues, which will be used to help ask important questions about our environment. At the beginning of the spring semester 2012, students from the introduction to fibers course at Syracuse University viewed images from RESOURCED.

Students selected the poster that held most significance to them, either for the visual content of the work or the environmental issue it addressed. Then each student created a hand-dyed textile in response to the original work, using a variety of dye techniques, relief printing techniques and methods of stitching. These were both applied traditionally and adapted to suit the students' intentions and individual visual language.

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

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

Wednesday Film Series: Blue
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Auditorium
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Derek Jarman, 1993, 79 minutes

IMAGES? Precisely!
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

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

The cultural politics of images is the subject of the next installment of "IMAGES? Precisely!," a lecture series organized by Mark Linder, inaugural Chancellor's Fellow in the Humanities. Linder will moderate a panel discussion involving Shimon Attie, a renowned visual artist; David Campbell, an internationally active curator and professor of cultural and political geography at Durham University (United Kingdom); and Mark Robbins, dean of SU's School of Architecture, whose projects are shown worldwide.

For more information, call The SU Humanities Center at 315-443-5708, or visit syracusehumanities.org.

Artists of Junior Pro Art
Civic Morning Musicals

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

This group of outstanding young musicians meets throughout the season in mutual support and collegiality. They choose their finest performances for this concert.

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

S.U. University Singers
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The repertoire will include the premiere of "Pentecost" by Michael Rickelton, a Ph.D. candidate at the Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University who won the Setnor School of Music's second Gregg Smith National Choral Competition Contest.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage; patrons should mention that they are attending the concert.

Stomp
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $17.50 to $72.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Back with new surprises! Stomp is explosive, provocative, sophisticated, sexy, utterly unique and appeals to audiences of all ages. The international percussion sensation has garnered an armful of awards and rave reviews, and has appeared on numerous national television shows. The 8-member troupe uses everything but conventional percussion instruments—matchboxes, wooden poles, brooms, garbage cans, Zippo lighters, hubcaps—to fill the stage with magnificent rhythms. As USA Today says, Stomp finds beautiful noises in the strangest places. Stomp. See what all the noise is about.

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Preview: The Brothers Size
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney is an exciting new voice in American Theatre and his award-winning The Brothers Size proves why. In the Louisiana bayou, big brother Ogun Size is hardworking and steady. Younger brother Oshoosi is just out of prison and aimless. Elegba, Oshoosi's old prison mate, is a mysterious complication. A simple circle defines a world that begins in ritual and evolves into a tough and tender drama of what it means to brother and be brothered. Flights of poetry, music, dance and West African mythology combine in a contemporary tale that explores the tenuousness of freedom and the need to belong somewhere, to something, to someone.

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Thursday, April 19, 2012

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

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

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

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

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Feats of Clay spotlights the varied and creative ceramics art education programs in our high schools throughout Onondaga County and Central New York. The continued success of Feats of Clay rests with the talented and dedicated high school art teachers and art students.

Patently Syracuse
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

A visual exploration of inventions, designs and innovations created in Central New York.

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

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

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

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

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

Tsao and McKown Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Annual High School Seniors' Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

High school seniors within a 30 mile radius of Syracuse are invited to exhibit at Edgewood Gallery and be juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Reflection and Identity: Works by W. Michelle Harris and Michael Roman
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition features recent work by Rochester Institute of Technology associate professor and artist W. Michelle Harris and Atlanta-based artist and Syracuse University alum Michael Roman. These two young artists embrace questions of gender, identity, and societal expectations.

While the materials used by each artist sit at the opposite ends of the technological spectrum, both individuals seek to examine topics of an interrelated and highly personal nature.

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Academic Art...Teachers that Do Series
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

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

Featuring the art work of Liverpool art teachers.
Deb Dahlin: Pastels and hand dyed scarves
Stacey Pope: Landscapes of the Adirondacks and the Finger Lakes in soft pastel and glicee prints

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

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

9th Annual Kids' Benefit Art Show
Szozda Gallery

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

The school year's hard work in art programs at Meachem and Seymour Dual-Language Academy Elementary schools netted some students the opportunity to display their art in a professional gallery.

Between the two schools, some 950 students are enrolled in the art programs, in no small measure due to the dedication and expertise of their teachers, Stacy Griffin at Meachem and Kelly Moser-Vogler at Seymour, who have served in the Syracuse School District for a combined 26 years. Another reason for the success of the schools' art programs is the unique way each teacher chooses to nurture the students' interest by targeting their total development in academic curriculum, including study of various cultures, math concepts, and literacy. Further, these teachers go beyond the level of their students, using different means to encourage parents' involvement. And, every year, the teachers also move beyond their own arts departments to involve the rest of each school's student body by busing in all classmates for a special gallery kids' reception.

Sales from the show are split between the schools and students.

Self Portrait Show
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The show features self portraits in a variety of mediums by gallery members.

Kala Stein: Form & Plenty
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Kala Stein's exhibition Form and Plenty showcases her innovative ceramics based on archetypal utilitarian forms, like vases, bottles, and cups. By manipulating clay primarily though the slip casting of molds, she creates sculptural silhouettes, which merge multiple forms and planes into a single vessel. Stein says of her work, "Filtering the forms through abstraction, simplification and a limited color palette allows me to make compositional arrangements that depart from the symbol of the object itself."

Stein received her Master of Fine Arts at New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University where she currently is a visiting instructor. She shows her work nationally and maintains her home and studio in Canadice, NY.

Time, Again Time: Works by Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In "Time, again time," the artist reflects on ordered fragments of a disordered world. An activist and renowned Latin American artist, Ana Tiscornia brings a mixed-media installation that curator Pedro Cuperman describes as "the outcome of a tale, where we have a fragmented world, where the pieces are somehow geometrically organic, logical... a kind of architecture of catastrophe. It is about the artist's obsession with organizing her world after having lived through the tragedies of military dictatorships in her home land, and the present catastrophes, wars that we endure in our own time. Ana's work demands from the viewer a sort of reconstruction, reintegration of the work, and our world.

MFA 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

MFA 2012 presents the work of 22 artists concluding their graduate careers in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. On view will be a wide range of traditional and contemporary media, including painting, ceramics, photography, interactive and experimental sculpture, video, and conceptual installations. The artists participating in MFA 2012 are Maximilian Bauer, Lauren Boldon, J. S. Jin Choi, Rose Marie Cromwell, Zach Dunn, Michael Giannattasio, Eugenie Michelle Giasson, Holland Houdek, Tessa J. Kennedy, Kyoungju Kim, Jay Muhlin, Yiming Nie, Vasilios Papaioannu, Annie Ryerson, James Stevens, Jennifer Turner, Rachel Van Pelt, Claire Ying-Chin Wang, Jennifer Leigh Wright, Elif Yoney, Jave Yoshimoto, Xiaowen Zhu.

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

Reliquaries: New Work by Drew Goerlitz
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Well-known for his graceful yet imposing steel sculpture, Drew Goerlitz, Associate Professor of Sculpture at the State University of New York Plattsburg, presents a new body of work at the Everson Museum of Art. Reliquaries continues the reoccurring theme of containment, concealment and privacy best described by Goerlitz himself: "My interpretation of reliquary is not to hold a sacred object or relic, but to engage the viewer with the form and tension of the unknown interior. The adornment of these objects relates to architectural details and the idea of facade. Facade is what we are presented with upon first appearance, whether speaking of people or architecture, and it isn't until we look inside that we discover the true structure."

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

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

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

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

CNY Art Showcase: Juried Preview of Live Auction
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

CNY Arts Showcase: Juried Preview of the Live Auction, presented in conjunction with the Eastwood Rotary Club, highlights the great and diverse artistic talents within our community. The exhibition at the Everson will precede the Eastwood Rotary Club's Annual CNY Art Showcase Live Auction on April 20.

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

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

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

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The "Gnome Show"
XL Projects

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

There will be a reception this evening 6:00-8:00 pm, held in conjunction with Th3, the Third Thursday citywide art open.

Each fall, Department of Design faculty members review student projects on display in the department's home at The Warehouse and place a gnome statue next to the most deserving work in a variety of categories. The "Gnome Show" is an exhibition of last fall's gnome-winning projects.

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

The Black Series
Echo

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

Photography by Amanda Zackem. On display will be 17 silver-gelatin prints and a short film.

RESOURCED/response: The Art of the Justseeds Artists Cooperative and SU Fiber Arts
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibition is a look into the environmental devastation that plagues the earth and its beings. It is also a look into the environmental justice movement that works to correct and heal the destruction. RESOURCED is a portfolio of hand-produced prints organized and created by the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative in 2010, focusing on resource extraction and climate issues, which will be used to help ask important questions about our environment. At the beginning of the spring semester 2012, students from the introduction to fibers course at Syracuse University viewed images from RESOURCED.

Students selected the poster that held most significance to them, either for the visual content of the work or the environmental issue it addressed. Then each student created a hand-dyed textile in response to the original work, using a variety of dye techniques, relief printing techniques and methods of stitching. These were both applied traditionally and adapted to suit the students' intentions and individual visual language.

Hidden in Plain Site: Urban Sculpture and the Work of the Syracuse Public Artist in Residence

Price: Free
SPAR Space
State Tower Building, 109 S. Warren St., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this evening, 5:00-7:00 pm.

Syracuse's public sculpture, and the current work of Brendan Rose, the city's public artist in residence, is the subject of a new photographic survey. The exhibit was researched, organized, designed and installed by first-year graduate museum studies students in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Suzanne Masters: Healing Through Art and Other Journeys
Petit Branch Library

Price: Free
Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

Suzanne Masters is a Reiki Master who uses her intuitive guidance to create and teach others for the purpose of healing personal issues through art. She is also a henna artist. This exhibit of her work includes acrylics on canvas, many with sewn, created, and found "extensions."

PAL Project: I Understand Everything
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Opening reception for the exhibition "I Understand Everything," work from the Photography and Literacy Project collaboration with Edward Smith School fifth graders.

Syracuse Poster Project Series Unveiling

Price: $ regular, $ students/seniors
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

The Syracuse Poster Project will unveil its 11th annual poster series. The Poster Project brings together community poets and Syracuse University artists to create an annual series of posters for the city's poster panels. Each of the 16 posters features an illustrated poem about the downtown, city, or surrounding countryside.

The unveiling gathers the artists and poets, friends of public art, and the larger community. Better Than Bowling, a five-member band, will perform for the event.

For more information, call 315-424-8099, or visit www.posterproject.org.

Pottery and Artist Demonstrations
Syracuse Ceramic Guild

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

Four artists will be represented at the event, including Robin Winsor, Carol Adamec, Carol Stone, and Pualani Wiley. "Spring" is the evening's theme, with ceramic designs that reflect nature and renewal. You will see beautiful statues, sculptures and wall pieces for the garden and deck.

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

For more information, contact Karen Nadolski at 315-443-3972 or knadolsk@uc.syr.edu.

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

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Gallery Talk: Robert Henri
Everson Museum of Art
Featuring Sarah Gryzmala

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

Join Assistant Curator Sarah Grzymala on a gallery walk and explore the stunning portrait and landscape paintings by Robert Henri in "From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland." The Irish Session Band will perform immediately following the talk.

The Hunger Games Controversy: An Open Conversation on Oppression and Liberation
Hendricks Chapel

Price: Free
Noble Room, Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

What is it about "The Hunger Games" that has captivated our collective imagination? Is Panem a thinly veiled reflection of our own world? Does the economic injustice of Panem resonate with complaints about the concentration of wealth in the top 1 percent of our nation? Is the Capitol a parallel polis to repressive regimes around the world and perhaps in our own backyard? What does the story say to us about the intricate relationships between class, gender, age, ethnicity and ability? Are we, too, citizens of Panem?

This open conversation will explore the controversies and debates "The Hunger Games" has ignited.

For more information, Hendricks Chapel at 315-443-5044 or visit Facebook.

Ceramic Arts Lecture
Everson Museum of Art
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts
Featuring Bobby Silverman

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

The Everson Museum of Art and the ceramics program in SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts present their second annual Ceramic Arts Lecture, featuring ceramist Bobby Silverman. A reception will follow in the Sculpture Court.

Silverman's work has been exhibited internationally and is in many collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, the European Ceramic Work Center, the Mint Museum and the Renwick Gallery/Smithsonian American Art Museum. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council for the Arts and the Louisiana State Council for the Arts. He has taught and lectured in China, the United States, Europe and the Middle East.

Creating Culture
Community Folk Art Center
Low End Theory

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

A concert of original music by Mwata Bowden's Low End Theory, featuring Paul Steinbeck, assistant professor of musicology in SU's Department of African American Studies, and percussionist Thurman Barker.

Steinbeck is a bassist/improviser/composer whose original music reflects his experience playing everything from free jazz to hip-hop. His third recording as leader, "Sun Set" (Engine e022, 2007), is an impressive artistic statement that blends adventurous collective improvisation and a range of musical styles, from R&B and gospel to expressive, coloristic percussion pieces. Steinbeck performs in the United States and internationally with several groups--his new experimental ensemble, THUMP; the Low End Theory with former Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians President Mwata Bowden; and a French-American quintet with saxophonist Pierrick Menuau.

Barker began his professional career at the age of 16 playing for blues singer Mighty Joe Young. Classically trained at the American Conservatory of Music, his reputation as a drummer grew quickly. He has played backup for Billy Eckstein, Marvin Gaye, Bette Midler and Vicki Carr. He was the house drummer at the Schubert Theatre in Chicago for 10 years, where he played for national touring companies in Hair; The Wiz; The Me Nobody Knows; Promises, Promises; 1776; Bubblin' Brown Sugar; Raisin in the Sun; Grease; One Mo' Time and Ain't Misbehavin'. Barker is a charter member of AACM and has performed and is known worldwide. He has recorded with Cecil Taylor, Muhal Richard Abrams, Amina Claudine Meyers, Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, Sam Rivers, Billy Bang, Joseph Jarman and Henry Threadgill. He has taught and developed the jazz program at Bard College since 1993, and is an associate professor of jazz studies there.

A native of Memphis, Bowden attended Chicago's DuSable High School, where he studied music with the legendary Captain Walter Dyett, and later at Chicago's American Conservatory of Music, and before touring with the rhythm and blues group the Chi-Lites. In 1974, he became active in Chicago's AACM, playing with the AACM Big Band with Muhal Richard Abrams and others. He plays the family of clarinets, tenor and baritone saxophones, as well as the flute and the didjeridu. He has performed at jazz and blues festivals throughout Chicago and around the world. Bowden has received the Outstanding Artist Service Award for dedication to children through music, recognition in Downbeat magazine's annual Critic's Poll from 1990 to 2003, and the 1994 Arts Midwest Jazz Masters Award. His Sound Spectrum strives to reflect the energy and musical heritage of Chicago as well as the ongoing legacy of great black music.

For more information, call 315-442-2230 or email cfac@syr.edu.

The Irish Session
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Syracuse Irish Session has been performing in Central New York since 1995. Their music originates in the dance traditions of Ireland and the British Isles but also includes related music from America, Canada, and elsewhere. The musicians perform in a "session" ("seisiún" in Gaelic) which is a spontaneous social gathering. Tunes are drawn from the thousands of jigs, reels, hornpipes and other dance melodies, which have been passed from generation to generation. The music is unpredictable, joyous, thrilling, and always fun.

Bill Horrace Trio with jazz vocalists

Price: No cover charge
Sutton Pavillion, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Students from Syracuse University's Department of Drama join the Bill Horrace Trio (Bill Horrace, bass; Dave Solazzo, piano; Tom Bronzetti, guitar) in jazz standards

Bill Horrace Trio with jazz vocalists

Price: No cover charge
Phoebe's Garden Cafe
900 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Students from Syracuse University's Department of Drama join the Bill Horrace Trio (Bill Horrace, bass; Dave Solazzo, piano; Tom Bronzetti, guitar) in jazz standards

Adam and Anthony LIVE: Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp
Syracuse University Pulse Performing Arts Series

Price: $20 regular, $16 faculty/staff/alumni/Pulse Partners, $5 students with SU ID
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Members of the original cast of Rent perform songs from that show and others, as well as original material.

S.U. Women's Choir
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Janel Brown, soprano

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

J.S. Bach Domine Deus, featuring Edgar Tumajian, violin
Michelle Roueché Lux Aeterna
Eric Whitacre She Weeps Over Rahoun, conducted by graduate student Lauren Estes and featuring Philomena Duffy, English horn
Amazing Grace, arranged by Francisco Nunez
Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory Lay Earth's Burden Down, with Jared Bloch, percussion
David Brunner All I Was Doing Was Breathing, with guest artist Janet Brown, soprano, and University student Mina Raj, dancer. Additional instrumentalists for the presentation will be William Anderson, Cristiana Marks, Emma Logan and Jared Bloch, percussion.

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

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage; parking for patrons with disabilities is available in the Q1 lot. Patrons should mention that they are attending the concert.

Trampled By Turtles, with These United States
Westcott Theater

Price: $20
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Cruel April Poetry Happening
Point of Contact Gallery
Featuring John Beer

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

John Beer, a Syracuse native, is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in the MFA Program at Portland State University. He is the author of The Waste Land and Other Poems (Canarium 2010), which received the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America in 2011.

The reading will be followed by a reception with the poet.

Word Thursday
601 Tully
Featuring Bruce Smith and Jules Gibbs, poets

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Bruce Smith has been an NEA grant recipient, a National Book Award finalist, and a two-time Pulitzer Prize Finalist. The author of six volumes of poetry, his most recent, Devotions, was named among the best books of 2011 by Publisher's Weekly. He teaches in the Creative Writing program at Syracuse University.

Jules Gibbs is the author of the poetry book, The Bulk of the Mailable Universe. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals, and in the anthology Best New Poets, 2009. She is a two-time recipient of the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize for Poetry, and received a Ucross Foundation Fellowship in 2007.

The readings will be followed by an open mic reading in which all are invited to participate.

Salt City Poetry Slam
ArtRage Gallery
Underground Poetry Spot

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Seneca Wilson and Mozart Guerrier from the Underground Poetry Spot will be hosting the new Salt City Poetry Slam series, premiering tonight and continuing monthly until September. Tonight's event will feature two guest artists: Cedric "Blackman Preach" Bolton from Syracuse University's Office of Multicultural Affairs, and Crystal Leigh Endsley from Hamilton College.

Each night of Salt City Slam, judges will be picked from the audience and competitors present will be randomly selected to perform three-minute poems to impress judges and audience members for scores.

Syracuse Salt City Slam was awarded $1000 by Salt City DISHES to develop the art of performance poetry locally and register a venue and slam team in Syracuse.

For more information, contact Mozart Guerrier, Salt City Slams Project Manager, slamsaltcity@gmail.com or Lanika Mabrey, Underground Outreach Coordinator, outreach@undergroundpoetryspot.com.

Death Takes a Bow
Acme Mystery Company

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

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

Preview: The Brothers Size
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney is an exciting new voice in American Theatre and his award-winning The Brothers Size proves why. In the Louisiana bayou, big brother Ogun Size is hardworking and steady. Younger brother Oshoosi is just out of prison and aimless. Elegba, Oshoosi's old prison mate, is a mysterious complication. A simple circle defines a world that begins in ritual and evolves into a tough and tender drama of what it means to brother and be brothered. Flights of poetry, music, dance and West African mythology combine in a contemporary tale that explores the tenuousness of freedom and the need to belong somewhere, to something, to someone.

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Around the World in 80 Days
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $4 students and Le Moyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Stampeding elephants! Raging typhoons! Runaway trains! Hold onto your seats for the original amazing race! Fearless adventurer Phileas Fogg has agreed to an outrageous wager that puts his fortune and his life at risk as he sets out to circle the globe in an unheard-of 80 days. Danger, romance and comic surprises abound in this whirlwind of a show as five actors portraying 39 characters traverse seven continents in this new adaptation of one of the great adventures of all time. Written by by Jules Verne, stage adaptation by Mark Brown.

Reservations suggested. For more information, call 315-445-4523.

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My First Time
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

First sexual experiences are one of the few things that almost every person on this planet has in common, whether you're Paris Hilton or P. Diddy, George Clooney or George Washington, yet we rarely talk about them. Until now...

In 1998, a decade before blogging began, a website was created that allowed people to anonymously share their own true stories about their First Times. The website became an instant phenomenon as over 40,000 stories poured in from around the globe that were silly, sweet, absurd, funny, shy, sexy and everything in between.

And now, these true stories and all of the unique characters in them are brought to life by four amazing actors in the acclaimed play, My First Time, by Ken Davenport, producer of Altar Boyz and creator of The Awesome 80s Prom.

This show is intended for mature audiences only.

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Friday, April 20, 2012

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

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

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

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

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Feats of Clay spotlights the varied and creative ceramics art education programs in our high schools throughout Onondaga County and Central New York. The continued success of Feats of Clay rests with the talented and dedicated high school art teachers and art students.

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

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

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

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

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

Tsao and McKown Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Annual High School Seniors' Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

High school seniors within a 30 mile radius of Syracuse are invited to exhibit at Edgewood Gallery and be juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Time, Again Time: Works by Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In "Time, again time," the artist reflects on ordered fragments of a disordered world. An activist and renowned Latin American artist, Ana Tiscornia brings a mixed-media installation that curator Pedro Cuperman describes as "the outcome of a tale, where we have a fragmented world, where the pieces are somehow geometrically organic, logical... a kind of architecture of catastrophe. It is about the artist's obsession with organizing her world after having lived through the tragedies of military dictatorships in her home land, and the present catastrophes, wars that we endure in our own time. Ana's work demands from the viewer a sort of reconstruction, reintegration of the work, and our world.

Reflection and Identity: Works by W. Michelle Harris and Michael Roman
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition features recent work by Rochester Institute of Technology associate professor and artist W. Michelle Harris and Atlanta-based artist and Syracuse University alum Michael Roman. These two young artists embrace questions of gender, identity, and societal expectations.

While the materials used by each artist sit at the opposite ends of the technological spectrum, both individuals seek to examine topics of an interrelated and highly personal nature.

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Academic Art...Teachers that Do Series
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Featuring the art work of Liverpool art teachers.
Deb Dahlin: Pastels and hand dyed scarves
Stacey Pope: Landscapes of the Adirondacks and the Finger Lakes in soft pastel and glicee prints

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

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

9th Annual Kids' Benefit Art Show
Szozda Gallery

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

The school year's hard work in art programs at Meachem and Seymour Dual-Language Academy Elementary schools netted some students the opportunity to display their art in a professional gallery.

Between the two schools, some 950 students are enrolled in the art programs, in no small measure due to the dedication and expertise of their teachers, Stacy Griffin at Meachem and Kelly Moser-Vogler at Seymour, who have served in the Syracuse School District for a combined 26 years. Another reason for the success of the schools' art programs is the unique way each teacher chooses to nurture the students' interest by targeting their total development in academic curriculum, including study of various cultures, math concepts, and literacy. Further, these teachers go beyond the level of their students, using different means to encourage parents' involvement. And, every year, the teachers also move beyond their own arts departments to involve the rest of each school's student body by busing in all classmates for a special gallery kids' reception.

Sales from the show are split between the schools and students.

Self Portrait Show
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The show features self portraits in a variety of mediums by gallery members.

Kala Stein: Form & Plenty
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Kala Stein's exhibition Form and Plenty showcases her innovative ceramics based on archetypal utilitarian forms, like vases, bottles, and cups. By manipulating clay primarily though the slip casting of molds, she creates sculptural silhouettes, which merge multiple forms and planes into a single vessel. Stein says of her work, "Filtering the forms through abstraction, simplification and a limited color palette allows me to make compositional arrangements that depart from the symbol of the object itself."

Stein received her Master of Fine Arts at New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University where she currently is a visiting instructor. She shows her work nationally and maintains her home and studio in Canadice, NY.

MFA 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

MFA 2012 presents the work of 22 artists concluding their graduate careers in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. On view will be a wide range of traditional and contemporary media, including painting, ceramics, photography, interactive and experimental sculpture, video, and conceptual installations. The artists participating in MFA 2012 are Maximilian Bauer, Lauren Boldon, J. S. Jin Choi, Rose Marie Cromwell, Zach Dunn, Michael Giannattasio, Eugenie Michelle Giasson, Holland Houdek, Tessa J. Kennedy, Kyoungju Kim, Jay Muhlin, Yiming Nie, Vasilios Papaioannu, Annie Ryerson, James Stevens, Jennifer Turner, Rachel Van Pelt, Claire Ying-Chin Wang, Jennifer Leigh Wright, Elif Yoney, Jave Yoshimoto, Xiaowen Zhu.

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

Stickley Furniture: the Evolution of a Design
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

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

L. & J.G. Stickley Inc., one of America's most legendary furniture companies, recently introduced its Finger Lakes Collection, which features solid cherry pieces with a distressed, rustic finish. In this exhibition, patrons can follow the design process from inspiration to finished product through the Bristol Chair, a chair that was inspired by a piece in the Stickley Museum Collection.

The Design Gallery is located on the first floor of The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse. Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on West Fayette Street or the first-floor door on West Washington Street.

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

Reliquaries: New Work by Drew Goerlitz
Everson Museum of Art

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

Well-known for his graceful yet imposing steel sculpture, Drew Goerlitz, Associate Professor of Sculpture at the State University of New York Plattsburg, presents a new body of work at the Everson Museum of Art. Reliquaries continues the reoccurring theme of containment, concealment and privacy best described by Goerlitz himself: "My interpretation of reliquary is not to hold a sacred object or relic, but to engage the viewer with the form and tension of the unknown interior. The adornment of these objects relates to architectural details and the idea of facade. Facade is what we are presented with upon first appearance, whether speaking of people or architecture, and it isn't until we look inside that we discover the true structure."

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

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

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

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

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

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Hidden in Plain Site: Urban Sculpture and the Work of the Syracuse Public Artist in Residence

Price: Free
SPAR Space
State Tower Building, 109 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Syracuse's public sculpture, and the current work of Brendan Rose, the city's public artist in residence, is the subject of a new photographic survey. The exhibit was researched, organized, designed and installed by first-year graduate museum studies students in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

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

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The "Gnome Show"
XL Projects

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

Each fall, Department of Design faculty members review student projects on display in the department's home at The Warehouse and place a gnome statue next to the most deserving work in a variety of categories. The "Gnome Show" is an exhibition of last fall's gnome-winning projects.

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

The Black Series
Echo

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

Photography by Amanda Zackem. On display will be 17 silver-gelatin prints and a short film.

RESOURCED/response: The Art of the Justseeds Artists Cooperative and SU Fiber Arts
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibition is a look into the environmental devastation that plagues the earth and its beings. It is also a look into the environmental justice movement that works to correct and heal the destruction. RESOURCED is a portfolio of hand-produced prints organized and created by the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative in 2010, focusing on resource extraction and climate issues, which will be used to help ask important questions about our environment. At the beginning of the spring semester 2012, students from the introduction to fibers course at Syracuse University viewed images from RESOURCED.

Students selected the poster that held most significance to them, either for the visual content of the work or the environmental issue it addressed. Then each student created a hand-dyed textile in response to the original work, using a variety of dye techniques, relief printing techniques and methods of stitching. These were both applied traditionally and adapted to suit the students' intentions and individual visual language.

CNY Art Showcase Live Auction!
Eastwood Rotary Club

Price: $40 at the door/$35 pre-sale
Links at Erie Village
5904 N. Burdick St., East Syracuse

You are invited to experience the best in Central New York's artistic talent, while supporting the Everson Museum of Art and the Eastwood Rotary Club Foundation. Join us for an exceptional evening at the Live Auction! -- a lively party with musical entertainment, hors d'oeuvres, buffet and cash bar. The true highlight will be the Live Auction! and silent auction for stunning works of art by local artists.

The event is presented by the Eastwood Rotary Club. For more information, please visit www.eastwoodrotary.org.

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

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

La Mama Series: In Retrospect
Redhouse
LOCO7 Dance Puppet Theatre

Price: $20 adult, $15 Redhouse members, $10 children under 18
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

LOCO7 Dance Puppet Theatre's newest production, "In Retrospect," is a magical, multimedia piece incorporating giant puppets, marionette scenery, masks, choreography, acrobatics and live original music and video. "In Retrospect" premiered at New York's highly acclaimed La MaMa in 2010 to receive glowing reviews.

The show investigates how we each construct our personal memory box: how we keep our memories fresh and preserve the things that made us who we are. These include our mothers' embraces, lost loves, childhood dreams, ideals of youth and struggles of age, loss and birth. The music was written by award-winning composer Elizabeth Swados and marks her fifth collaboration with the LOCO7 company.

Under the direction and vision of Federico Restrepo, Loco7 has been in existence since 1985. Loco7's mission has been to develop the use of puppetry as an instrument for the dancer, a style which incorporates dance and design. Utilizing rhythmic music, dancers, body puppets, and larger-than-life marionettes, Restrepo weaves a choreography which extends beyond the body of the dancer. Dealing with themes such as South American Culture & History, the immigrants’ experience and urban life, Restrepo creates an animated movement, in an ever-changing and surreal environment, bringing the stage to life.

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Papers: Stories of Undocumented Youth
La Casita Cultural Center

Price: Free
La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

From April 9 to 17, a group of 15 undocumented youth and their supporters walked 150 miles from New York City to Albany to raise awareness of, and gain support for, the New York Dream Act, which would remove barriers to state-funded financial aid and scholarships for qualified students regardless of their immigration status. The New York State Youth Leadership Council organized the march.

This event will feature a screening of the 2010 documentary Papers: Stories of Undocumented Youth, followed by a discussion with local activists. Guest speakers who will lead the discussion include Jose Perez, Esq., a Syracuse attorney who is an expert on immigration law, and Efrén Lopéz, Guatemalan-born, award-winning photographer.

Papers turns the spotlight on the stories and challenges faced by thousands of undocumented youth who graduate each year from high schools across the United States. They are among an estimated 2 million undocumented children raised in the U.S. and educated in American schools who have little or no memory of the country in which they were born. When they turn 18, these youth are in legal limbo: They cannot legally work, drive, apply for any kind of ID, or accept the college scholarships they have been awarded.

Produced by Anne Galisky and Rebecca Shine, founders of Graham Street Productions in Portland, Oregon, Papers has been screened throughout the United States. The film follows the personal stories of five undocumented students and the national grassroots movement to pass the Dream Act in Congress. The film includes expert commentary from political, academic, and civil rights leaders.

For more information, phone 315-443-1879.

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
ArtRage Gallery

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

If a Tree Falls is a rare behind-the-curtain look at the Earth Liberation Front, the radical environmental group that the FBI calls America's "number one domestic terrorist threat." At its core, the film explores the roots of one environmentalist's law-breaking passion, and of the strictness of the federal antiterrorism laws that grew out of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 and then the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The film premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, where it also won an award for editing. On January 24, 2011, the film was announced as one of the five nominees for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. (2011, 85 minutes, documentary. Directed by Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman)

Brew & View Series: The Big Lebowski and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 single or double feature
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

8:00 pm: The Big Lebowski
10:00 pm: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Professor Dick McCullough's Vocal Rep Class Convocation
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Manna in Concert

Price: Non-perishable food items for Baldwinsville food pantries
Hillview Community Baptist Church
7382 O'Brien Rd., Baldwinsville

Women's vocal ensemble from The Master's Touch Chorale.

Rockin' the Red Cross

Price: $10 advance, $20 at the door
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Nine corporate bands will rock the stage of the Landmark Theater to raise money for the American Red Cross of Central New York. Bands are from C&S Companies, Carrier, East Syracuse Minoa Schools, INFICON, Lockheed Martin, Manlius Pebble Hill, Raymond Corporation, SRC, WYNIT. Judging will be the CXTec Dinosaurs.

Tickets are available for purchase at the Red Cross Chapter 220 Herald Place, Syracuse during business hours (M-F, 8:30 am-4:30 pm)

For more information, visit the Red Cross of CNY website.

Patty Larkin
Folkus Project

Price: $20
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Patty Larkin is one of the major stars of the contemporary folk/songwriter scene -- and has been for decades. Her smart, contemporary-themed songwriting, confident voice, combined with crisp, and sometimes edgy guitar work add up to something special.

Larkin cannot be pigeonholed. She redefines the boundaries of folk-urban pop music, blending elements of jazz, roots, and Celtic into adventurous, textured compositions. A self-described "guitar driven songwriter," she winds her way through soundscapes of evocative vocals, inventive guitar wizardry, and imaginative lyrics. Her songs run inside and outside the box, from impressionistic poetry to witty wordplay. Marked by uncompromising vocals and sophisticated lyrics, they are both beautiful to the ear and challenging to the mind.

S.U. Concert Choir
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage; patrons should mention that they are attending the concert.

Robbie Rivera, with Bassjackers, Peacetreaty, Peter Richardson
Westcott Theater

Price: $20
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Madama Butterfly
Syracuse Opera

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

Puccini's Madama Butterfly is Cio-Cio-San's quest for happiness. Despite her efforts to accommodate the strange ways of her new American husband, Madama Butterfly is abandoned. When Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton returns to Japan after a three-year absence, he brings a new wife -- an agonizing twist for Cio-Cio-San. Sung in Italian with projected English titles.

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Poet Michael Burkard
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Michael Burkard's many books of poetry include Lucky Coat Anywhere (Nightboat Books, 2011), My Secret Boat (W. W. Norton), Entire Dilemma (Sarabande Books), and Unsleeping (Sarabande Books). His poems have appeared in many journals and magazines, including The American Poetry Review, Chicago Review, Verse, Fence, and Black Clock. Twice he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Foundation for the Arts; his other honors include a Guggenheim fellowship, the Alice diFay di Castagmola Award from the Poetry Society of America, and a Whiting Writer's Prize. He is Associate Professor of English at Syracuse University, where he teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing.

Rabbit Hole
DCS Full Circle Theater
DCS Full Circle Theater

Price: $20
St. Clare Auditorium
Lodi and Isabella Streets, Syracuse

David Lindsay-Abaire's 2007 Pulitzer Prize winning domestic drama about a family experiencing a tragic loss.

For more information, phone 315-657-7658.

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Love vs. Time
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Ronnie Bell, director

Price: $12 regular, $10 students/seniors, $5 SU students/faculty/staff/alumni
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This exciting world premiere show, Love vs. Time, is based on 28 of Shakespeare's sonnets and their interpretation through music, dance, theatre, choral reading, dramatic presentation, film, photography, video, poetry and the combination of presentation modes simultaneously. Two narrators will advocate their positions to the audience throughout the show. The audience will be asked to decide the question, "What's the most important force in your life, love or time?" at the end of each act.

Creative partners include Stephen Mahan, director of SU's Photography and Literacy Project, and his brother, Michael Mahan; Renaissance music and dance group Bells and Motley; the Syracuse English Country Dancers; musical act Ben de la Garza Bassett; choreographer Erin Reid and My Fusion Flow dance troupe; filmmaker Amy Doherty; and local poets from the Underground Poetry Spot: Seneca Wilson, Rae of Sunshine, Mozart Guerrier, and Lanika Mabrey. In addition graphics, photography and videos are provided by SU's Newhouse students, Angela Laurello and Stephanie Keefe, through the Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service.

Conceived and directed by SSF's executive director Ronnie Bell. Original music by John Bromka, Sondra Bromka, Ben de la Garza Bassett, Mercury in the Derby, Steve Orlando and Bob Reid. Book by SSF's producing artistic director Jamie Bruno. Starring Jennifer Byrne and Trevor Hill as the opposing attorneys and featuring the duos of Sarah Constable/Thad Striffler and Sarah Bradstreet/Aaron Alexander as the Love Chorus and Time Chorus, respectively.

Tickets available at TicketLeap.com or at the door. Advance purchase recommended. Free parking available in SU's Warehouse lot on Washington Street.

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Around the World in 80 Days
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $4 students and Le Moyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Stampeding elephants! Raging typhoons! Runaway trains! Hold onto your seats for the original amazing race! Fearless adventurer Phileas Fogg has agreed to an outrageous wager that puts his fortune and his life at risk as he sets out to circle the globe in an unheard-of 80 days. Danger, romance and comic surprises abound in this whirlwind of a show as five actors portraying 39 characters traverse seven continents in this new adaptation of one of the great adventures of all time. Written by by Jules Verne, stage adaptation by Mark Brown.

Reservations suggested. For more information, call 315-445-4523.

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My First Time
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

First sexual experiences are one of the few things that almost every person on this planet has in common, whether you're Paris Hilton or P. Diddy, George Clooney or George Washington, yet we rarely talk about them. Until now...

In 1998, a decade before blogging began, a website was created that allowed people to anonymously share their own true stories about their First Times. The website became an instant phenomenon as over 40,000 stories poured in from around the globe that were silly, sweet, absurd, funny, shy, sexy and everything in between.

And now, these true stories and all of the unique characters in them are brought to life by four amazing actors in the acclaimed play, My First Time, by Ken Davenport, producer of Altar Boyz and creator of The Awesome 80s Prom.

This show is intended for mature audiences only.

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The Brothers Size
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney is an exciting new voice in American Theatre and his award-winning The Brothers Size proves why. In the Louisiana bayou, big brother Ogun Size is hardworking and steady. Younger brother Oshoosi is just out of prison and aimless. Elegba, Oshoosi's old prison mate, is a mysterious complication. A simple circle defines a world that begins in ritual and evolves into a tough and tender drama of what it means to brother and be brothered. Flights of poetry, music, dance and West African mythology combine in a contemporary tale that explores the tenuousness of freedom and the need to belong somewhere, to something, to someone.

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Saturday, April 21, 2012

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

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

Annual High School Seniors' Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

High school seniors within a 30 mile radius of Syracuse are invited to exhibit at Edgewood Gallery and be juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Academic Art...Teachers that Do Series
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Featuring the art work of Liverpool art teachers.
Deb Dahlin: Pastels and hand dyed scarves
Stacey Pope: Landscapes of the Adirondacks and the Finger Lakes in soft pastel and glicee prints

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

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

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

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

Reliquaries: New Work by Drew Goerlitz
Everson Museum of Art

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

Well-known for his graceful yet imposing steel sculpture, Drew Goerlitz, Associate Professor of Sculpture at the State University of New York Plattsburg, presents a new body of work at the Everson Museum of Art. Reliquaries continues the reoccurring theme of containment, concealment and privacy best described by Goerlitz himself: "My interpretation of reliquary is not to hold a sacred object or relic, but to engage the viewer with the form and tension of the unknown interior. The adornment of these objects relates to architectural details and the idea of facade. Facade is what we are presented with upon first appearance, whether speaking of people or architecture, and it isn't until we look inside that we discover the true structure."

Self Portrait Show
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The show features self portraits in a variety of mediums by gallery members.

A Quilter's Journey
Plank Road Quilt Guild

Price: $5 regular, free for children under 12
Cicero United Methodist Church
8416 North Main St., Cicero

Quilt show.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

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

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

9th Annual Kids' Benefit Art Show
Szozda Gallery

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

The school year's hard work in art programs at Meachem and Seymour Dual-Language Academy Elementary schools netted some students the opportunity to display their art in a professional gallery.

Between the two schools, some 950 students are enrolled in the art programs, in no small measure due to the dedication and expertise of their teachers, Stacy Griffin at Meachem and Kelly Moser-Vogler at Seymour, who have served in the Syracuse School District for a combined 26 years. Another reason for the success of the schools' art programs is the unique way each teacher chooses to nurture the students' interest by targeting their total development in academic curriculum, including study of various cultures, math concepts, and literacy. Further, these teachers go beyond the level of their students, using different means to encourage parents' involvement. And, every year, the teachers also move beyond their own arts departments to involve the rest of each school's student body by busing in all classmates for a special gallery kids' reception.

Sales from the show are split between the schools and students.

Reflection and Identity: Works by W. Michelle Harris and Michael Roman
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition features recent work by Rochester Institute of Technology associate professor and artist W. Michelle Harris and Atlanta-based artist and Syracuse University alum Michael Roman. These two young artists embrace questions of gender, identity, and societal expectations.

While the materials used by each artist sit at the opposite ends of the technological spectrum, both individuals seek to examine topics of an interrelated and highly personal nature.

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The Black Series
Echo

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

Photography by Amanda Zackem. On display will be 17 silver-gelatin prints and a short film.

Kala Stein: Form & Plenty
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Kala Stein's exhibition Form and Plenty showcases her innovative ceramics based on archetypal utilitarian forms, like vases, bottles, and cups. By manipulating clay primarily though the slip casting of molds, she creates sculptural silhouettes, which merge multiple forms and planes into a single vessel. Stein says of her work, "Filtering the forms through abstraction, simplification and a limited color palette allows me to make compositional arrangements that depart from the symbol of the object itself."

Stein received her Master of Fine Arts at New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University where she currently is a visiting instructor. She shows her work nationally and maintains her home and studio in Canadice, NY.

MFA 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

MFA 2012 presents the work of 22 artists concluding their graduate careers in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. On view will be a wide range of traditional and contemporary media, including painting, ceramics, photography, interactive and experimental sculpture, video, and conceptual installations. The artists participating in MFA 2012 are Maximilian Bauer, Lauren Boldon, J. S. Jin Choi, Rose Marie Cromwell, Zach Dunn, Michael Giannattasio, Eugenie Michelle Giasson, Holland Houdek, Tessa J. Kennedy, Kyoungju Kim, Jay Muhlin, Yiming Nie, Vasilios Papaioannu, Annie Ryerson, James Stevens, Jennifer Turner, Rachel Van Pelt, Claire Ying-Chin Wang, Jennifer Leigh Wright, Elif Yoney, Jave Yoshimoto, Xiaowen Zhu.

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

RESOURCED/response: The Art of the Justseeds Artists Cooperative and SU Fiber Arts
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibition is a look into the environmental devastation that plagues the earth and its beings. It is also a look into the environmental justice movement that works to correct and heal the destruction. RESOURCED is a portfolio of hand-produced prints organized and created by the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative in 2010, focusing on resource extraction and climate issues, which will be used to help ask important questions about our environment. At the beginning of the spring semester 2012, students from the introduction to fibers course at Syracuse University viewed images from RESOURCED.

Students selected the poster that held most significance to them, either for the visual content of the work or the environmental issue it addressed. Then each student created a hand-dyed textile in response to the original work, using a variety of dye techniques, relief printing techniques and methods of stitching. These were both applied traditionally and adapted to suit the students' intentions and individual visual language.

Hidden in Plain Site: Urban Sculpture and the Work of the Syracuse Public Artist in Residence

Price: Free
SPAR Space
State Tower Building, 109 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Syracuse's public sculpture, and the current work of Brendan Rose, the city's public artist in residence, is the subject of a new photographic survey. The exhibit was researched, organized, designed and installed by first-year graduate museum studies students in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

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

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The "Gnome Show"
XL Projects

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

Each fall, Department of Design faculty members review student projects on display in the department's home at The Warehouse and place a gnome statue next to the most deserving work in a variety of categories. The "Gnome Show" is an exhibition of last fall's gnome-winning projects.

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

Stickley Furniture: the Evolution of a Design
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

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

A discussion with Stickley Museum Director Sarah Lanigan will be held this evening at 5:30 pm, followed by a reception from 6:00-8:00 pm.

L. & J.G. Stickley Inc., one of America's most legendary furniture companies, recently introduced its Finger Lakes Collection, which features solid cherry pieces with a distressed, rustic finish. In this exhibition, patrons can follow the design process from inspiration to finished product through the Bristol Chair, a chair that was inspired by a piece in the Stickley Museum Collection.

The Design Gallery is located on the first floor of The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse. Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on West Fayette Street or the first-floor door on West Washington Street.

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

William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

La Mama Series: In Retrospect
Redhouse
LOCO7 Dance Puppet Theatre

Price: $20 adult, $15 Redhouse members, $10 children under 18
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

LOCO7 Dance Puppet Theatre's newest production, "In Retrospect," is a magical, multimedia piece incorporating giant puppets, marionette scenery, masks, choreography, acrobatics and live original music and video. "In Retrospect" premiered at New York's highly acclaimed La MaMa in 2010 to receive glowing reviews.

The show investigates how we each construct our personal memory box: how we keep our memories fresh and preserve the things that made us who we are. These include our mothers' embraces, lost loves, childhood dreams, ideals of youth and struggles of age, loss and birth. The music was written by award-winning composer Elizabeth Swados and marks her fifth collaboration with the LOCO7 company.

Under the direction and vision of Federico Restrepo, Loco7 has been in existence since 1985. Loco7's mission has been to develop the use of puppetry as an instrument for the dancer, a style which incorporates dance and design. Utilizing rhythmic music, dancers, body puppets, and larger-than-life marionettes, Restrepo weaves a choreography which extends beyond the body of the dancer. Dealing with themes such as South American Culture & History, the immigrants’ experience and urban life, Restrepo creates an animated movement, in an ever-changing and surreal environment, bringing the stage to life.

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Walk on Water
Temple Society of Concord

Price: Free (donations welcome)
Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

This enthralling award-winning film by internationally-acclaimed director Eytan Fox explores the motives, strengths, and, ultimately, the humanity of an Israeli assassin sent to rectify a wrong committed five decades earlier. Eyal is a top assassin in the Israeli secret service. He has killed terrorists before, but this time he is sent to eliminate an aging former Nazi war criminal. During his mission, Eyal meets his target's granddaughter and grandson, who inadvertently help him uncover his own troubled history and face his demons, while they discover the ugly truth their family has hidden from them for decades. What began as a straightforward mission has suddenly escalated in intensity and complexity -– thrusting three very different people into a thrilling triangle of murder, friendship and fate.

Tarell Alvin McCraney
Syracuse Stage

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

Timothy Bond, Producing Artistic Director of Syracuse Stage, will moderate a discussion with Tarell Alvin McCraney, writer of The Brothers Size, now playing at Syracuse Stage.

McCraney’s play starts performances this week at Syracuse Stage. Following the Syracuse run, the production will transfer to leading theatres in South Africa. The transfer, made possible by support from the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, marks the debut of McCraney's work in Africa.

Tarell Alvin McCraney is best known for his acclaimed trilogy, The Brother/Sister Plays: The Brothers Size, In the Red and Brown Water, and Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet. They have been performed across the United States and abroad in London (Olivier Award nomination). Other plays include The Breach, Wig Out! (GLAAD Award for Outstanding Play), and American Trade (Royal Shakespeare Company). Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where McCraney is an ensemble member, will produce the world premiere of his commissioned play, Head of Passes, in the spring of 2013.

McCraney was the Royal Shakespeare Company’s International Playwright in Residence in 2008-2010, where he co-edited and directed the Young People’s Shakespeare production of Hamlet which toured throughout the UK and was presented at the Park Avenue Armory in New York. He is the recipient of the prestigious Whiting Award and Steinberg Playwright Award, as well as London’s Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright, the inaugural New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award, and the inaugural Paula Vogel Playwriting Award.

Graduate Guitar Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Stephen Brew

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

Stephen Brew is a graduate guitar performance major. The program will include works by Rodrigo, Bach, and Piazzolla. Aimee Lillienstein and the SU Graduate Guitar Quartet will also appear.

Parking is available in the Waverly, Harrison, or Lehman lots.

Bringing the World Together in Syracuse
Partners in Learning

Price: $25 presale, $30 at the door
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

An evening of music, dance, tapas, silent auction, and cross-cultural sharing, featuring Grupo Pagan, ADANFO Ensemble, Puente Flamenco, Kinlogh Irish Dancers, and CNY Chinese Dance Troupe.

All proceeds benefit the MANOS Early Childhood Education Program and the West Side Learning Center.

Tickets available online or by check to Partners in Learning, Inc., West Side Learning Center, 422 Gifford St., Syracuse, NY 13204.

For more information, contact Alexandra at 315-435-4013.

Galant, Tu Perds Ton Temps

Price: $15
Robinson Memorial Church
126 Terry Rd. (corner of Granger), Syracuse

"Galant, Tu Perds Ton Temps" (Lover, You're Wasting Your Time) brings together five women and a percussionist around a repertoire of traditional a cappella folk songs.

For more information, visit www.robinsonmem.org.

Daughtry in Concert, with Safetysuit and Mike Sanchez

Price: $50.50, $40.50, $30.50
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Tickets can be purchased through the Landmark box office Monday-Friday 10:00 am-5:00 pm or through Ticketmaster.com. Phone 315-475-7980 for more information.

Isreal Hagan
Kellish Hill Farm

Price: $10
Kellish Hill Farm
3192 Pompey Center Rd., Pompey

Isreal Hagan has been the singer, bass player and leader of Syracuse R&B band Stroke for 30 years now. In 2007 Isreal was inducted into the Syracuse Area Music Awards Hall of Fame. Last year he wrote and arranged all nine songs on his new CD album "Balance." To top it off, Isreal produced the disc and released it under his own Poverty Records label. Come out to Kellish Hill Music Barn this night to listen and be swept away by this multi-talented gem of CNY.

Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

Price: $25 regular, $15 senior, $10 student
Lincoln Middle School
1613 James St., Syracuse

For over 30 years, pianist Joseph Kalichstein, violinist Jaime Laredo, and cellist Sharon Robinson have managed their own distinguished solo careers while as a trio making annual appearances at the world's major concert halls, recording, commissioning new works, and receiving a steady stream of honors. Their phenomenal contribution to chamber music was acknowledged recently by the Chamber Music Society of Detroit's creation of an International Trio Award in their honor. This will be their fourth appearance with SFCM.

Mozart Piano Trio in B-flat Major, K. 502
Stanley Silverman Piano Trio No. 2
Beethoven Piano Trio Op. 97 No. 7 in B-flat Major ("Archduke")

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Graduate Piano Ensemble Arts Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Kleber M. de Sousa

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

Kleber M. de Sousa, a graduate student in Setnor School of Music, will perform a recital of vocal and instrumental chamber music. The recital will feature a variety of musical styles, including pieces by Brahms, Mozart, and Rachmaninoff, plus Spanish composer Sandoval and a Negro spiritual. Sara E. Detweiler, Carina M. DiGianfilippo, Stefan Tessoun, Deenna Dimmick, Maddie Horrell, and Matthew Scinto will perform with Sousa. Patrons will hear the sound of trumpet, cello, viola, clarinet, and voice with the piano in diverse combinations.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage; parking for patrons with disabilities is available in the Q1 lot. Patrons should mention that they are attending the concert.

Badfish: A Tribute to Sublime, with Subsoil, House on a Spring
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Little Mermaid
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive adaptation of the children's classic.

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The Brothers Size
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney is an exciting new voice in American Theatre and his award-winning The Brothers Size proves why. In the Louisiana bayou, big brother Ogun Size is hardworking and steady. Younger brother Oshoosi is just out of prison and aimless. Elegba, Oshoosi's old prison mate, is a mysterious complication. A simple circle defines a world that begins in ritual and evolves into a tough and tender drama of what it means to brother and be brothered. Flights of poetry, music, dance and West African mythology combine in a contemporary tale that explores the tenuousness of freedom and the need to belong somewhere, to something, to someone.

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Rabbit Hole
DCS Full Circle Theater
DCS Full Circle Theater

Price: $20
St. Clare Auditorium
Lodi and Isabella Streets, Syracuse

David Lindsay-Abaire's 2007 Pulitzer Prize winning domestic drama about a family experiencing a tragic loss.

For more information, phone 315-657-7658.

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Love vs. Time
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Ronnie Bell, director

Price: $12 regular, $10 students/seniors, $5 SU students/faculty/staff/alumni
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This exciting world premiere show, Love vs. Time, is based on 28 of Shakespeare's sonnets and their interpretation through music, dance, theatre, choral reading, dramatic presentation, film, photography, video, poetry and the combination of presentation modes simultaneously. Two narrators will advocate their positions to the audience throughout the show. The audience will be asked to decide the question, "What's the most important force in your life, love or time?" at the end of each act.

Creative partners include Stephen Mahan, director of SU's Photography and Literacy Project, and his brother, Michael Mahan; Renaissance music and dance group Bells and Motley; the Syracuse English Country Dancers; musical act Ben de la Garza Bassett; choreographer Erin Reid and My Fusion Flow dance troupe; filmmaker Amy Doherty; and local poets from the Underground Poetry Spot: Seneca Wilson, Rae of Sunshine, Mozart Guerrier, and Lanika Mabrey. In addition graphics, photography and videos are provided by SU's Newhouse students, Angela Laurello and Stephanie Keefe, through the Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service.

Conceived and directed by SSF's executive director Ronnie Bell. Original music by John Bromka, Sondra Bromka, Ben de la Garza Bassett, Mercury in the Derby, Steve Orlando and Bob Reid. Book by SSF's producing artistic director Jamie Bruno. Starring Jennifer Byrne and Trevor Hill as the opposing attorneys and featuring the duos of Sarah Constable/Thad Striffler and Sarah Bradstreet/Aaron Alexander as the Love Chorus and Time Chorus, respectively.

Tickets available at TicketLeap.com or at the door. Advance purchase recommended. Free parking available in SU's Warehouse lot on Washington Street.

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Around the World in 80 Days
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $4 students and Le Moyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Stampeding elephants! Raging typhoons! Runaway trains! Hold onto your seats for the original amazing race! Fearless adventurer Phileas Fogg has agreed to an outrageous wager that puts his fortune and his life at risk as he sets out to circle the globe in an unheard-of 80 days. Danger, romance and comic surprises abound in this whirlwind of a show as five actors portraying 39 characters traverse seven continents in this new adaptation of one of the great adventures of all time. Written by by Jules Verne, stage adaptation by Mark Brown.

Reservations suggested. For more information, call 315-445-4523.

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My First Time
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

First sexual experiences are one of the few things that almost every person on this planet has in common, whether you're Paris Hilton or P. Diddy, George Clooney or George Washington, yet we rarely talk about them. Until now...

In 1998, a decade before blogging began, a website was created that allowed people to anonymously share their own true stories about their First Times. The website became an instant phenomenon as over 40,000 stories poured in from around the globe that were silly, sweet, absurd, funny, shy, sexy and everything in between.

And now, these true stories and all of the unique characters in them are brought to life by four amazing actors in the acclaimed play, My First Time, by Ken Davenport, producer of Altar Boyz and creator of The Awesome 80s Prom.

This show is intended for mature audiences only.

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The Brothers Size
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney is an exciting new voice in American Theatre and his award-winning The Brothers Size proves why. In the Louisiana bayou, big brother Ogun Size is hardworking and steady. Younger brother Oshoosi is just out of prison and aimless. Elegba, Oshoosi's old prison mate, is a mysterious complication. A simple circle defines a world that begins in ritual and evolves into a tough and tender drama of what it means to brother and be brothered. Flights of poetry, music, dance and West African mythology combine in a contemporary tale that explores the tenuousness of freedom and the need to belong somewhere, to something, to someone.

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Sunday, April 22, 2012

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

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

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

9th Annual Kids' Benefit Art Show
Szozda Gallery

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

The school year's hard work in art programs at Meachem and Seymour Dual-Language Academy Elementary schools netted some students the opportunity to display their art in a professional gallery.

Between the two schools, some 950 students are enrolled in the art programs, in no small measure due to the dedication and expertise of their teachers, Stacy Griffin at Meachem and Kelly Moser-Vogler at Seymour, who have served in the Syracuse School District for a combined 26 years. Another reason for the success of the schools' art programs is the unique way each teacher chooses to nurture the students' interest by targeting their total development in academic curriculum, including study of various cultures, math concepts, and literacy. Further, these teachers go beyond the level of their students, using different means to encourage parents' involvement. And, every year, the teachers also move beyond their own arts departments to involve the rest of each school's student body by busing in all classmates for a special gallery kids' reception.

Sales from the show are split between the schools and students.

Self Portrait Show
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

From 11:00 am-3:00 pm, Amy Bartell will demonstrate her mixed media and collage techniques, layering combinations of handmade papers, drawing, and using gouache and line work to develop the rich surfaces and imagery in her mixed media collages.

The show features self portraits in a variety of mediums by gallery members.