Thursday, November 17, 2011

Windows Project: Elisabeth Meyer: Black Night/White Night
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

There will be public reception with the artist this evening 6:00-8:00 pm as part of Th3, the third Thursday citywide art open.

The Window Project features an installation by Elisabeth Meyer consisting of organic forms embroidered onto an organza fabric. The overall patterning evokes an association with ocean waves and a net. The transparent quality of the organza background allows the viewer to see through the piece that is hanging from the ceiling covering the entire window front. The work addresses the issue of displacement through traveling. Meyer, who is based in Ithaca, developed the concept for this exhibition while at a residency in Iceland, traveled to India to oversee the production of the embroidery, and created the work on site in Syracuse.

Opening: Learning to Write American: Works by Jennifer Drinkwater
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

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

These incredibly innovative pieces directly involve the viewer to create meaning, through imagining the missing term, through opening compartments of the painting to explore what is hidden beneath the surface, or by rearranging magnets to create a composition.

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Pile-Stratra: Work s of Mikyung Kim
Onondaga Community College

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

Mikyung Kim's conceptual "Pile-Stratra" exhibit is an intrinsic exploration of the relationship between game and rite. Kim's work is deeply rooted in Eastern Ceremony, especially ancestor worship by creating the tableau as an altar setting. Each work is a product of random and composed elements, producing a form of controlled spontaneity that mirrors the interplay between the fleeting mind and metamorphic nature.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium is Lots 2 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Creative Crossings
Petit Branch Library

Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

Creative Crossings features artwork of Arthur Brangman's students featuring mixed media landscapes, still-life, portraits and abstracts. The group chose the title Creative Crossings because they felt that a crossing must be made in order to heal both mentally and spiritually.

Ephemera and Emerging
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Gallery A: "Ephemera," features photography by James Russell
Gallery B: "Emerging," features paintings by Michelle Bennett

Open Apple Steve. Memoriam: an aesthetic homage to Steve Jobs
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Exhibit features works by local artists Vicki Harris, Matthew Keeney, Ellen Leahy, Paul Melnikow, and Kathryn Petrillo, plus works from artists in California, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Utah, Washington DC, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Philippines, and Portugal

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Just One Word: Plastics
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

For more than a century, plastics have transformed our lives -- from bathroom to battlefield; from supermarket to spacecraft. Begun as a 19th-century replacement material for billiard balls and piano keys, plastics spurred 20th century developments in industry, transportation, medicine, entertainment, and other aspects of contemporary life. The original objects of "Just One Word: Plastics" represent a material history of the modern world.

This exhibition features a representative sample of the Plastics Collection at the Syracuse University Library and presents an overview of major trends in the development of plastics in everyday life. The exhibit focuses on personal and household objects rather than the use of plastics in industry where they are also widely used. Approximately 250 objects divided into 12 categories will be on view. In addition, a small selection of manuscripts and printed materials will be included.

Specific objects to be featured in the exhibition are:
* ornate celluloid combs and a wide variety of plastic toiletries
* phenolic (Bakelite) objects from the 1920s and 30s including jewelry, radios, and other appliances and games
* musical instruments
* post-war toys, dishes, and household items
* original patent books of John Wesley Hyatt, inventor of Celluloid
* product catalogues from the 1930s and 1950s for popular items such as DuPont French Ivory dresser sets, Boltaware molded "stoneware" dishes, and Tupperware, and
* the Pleur-evac, a revolutionary plastic medical device for draining fluid and maintaining pressure in the lungs that helped save the life of President Ronald Reagan.

The Plastics Collection was begun in 2007 as a joint project of the Syracuse University Library and the Plastics History & Artifacts Committee of the Plastics Pioneers Association. The Collection expanded dramatically when the National Plastics Center and Museum in Leominster, MA, closed and transferred its artifacts, books, and manuscripts to Syracuse University's care in 2008.

Aphotic Ardor: Works by Kristie Hayes-Beaulieu
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

An exhibit of variety. Diversity. Progression. Connections. Past and present. Growth. Reclusion. Pain and suffering, as well as extreme bliss. Also view a sneak preview in one of our gallery rooms of Kristie's X-ray-inspired work that will be on display at the SUNY Health Science Center in December.

Whereas I Took the Butterfly: Works by Deloss McGraw
YMCA Arts Branch GallerY

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit of literary "poster paintings" features Deloss McGraw's reflections/interpretations of such writers as Dickinson, Hemingway, Snodgrass and others, often using photographs of the authors, book covers, or other borrowed images.

Untold Stories
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Featuring the diverse works of Alison Fisher: acrylic and mixed media paintings; jewelry made of unique mixed metals and found objects; one-of-a-kind textiles including handbags, scarves, pillows, and throws.

Invitational with Photographer Tim Etter
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

African Diasporan Treasures: 40 Years of Community Folk Art Center
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition will showcase pieces from CFAC's permanent collection. Featuring over 30 works by artists including Joel Gaines, Ellen Oppler, Jack White, Denise Cole and Kamiiron Pritchard, "African Diasporan Treasures" provides a rare opportunity for visitors to experience the rich artistic history of CFAC. In many cases, the pieces have not been displayed for decades. The show will also feature African art that was once part of the Smithsonian Museum's collection.

Best if Used: Functional Pottery by Jim Burke
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

John Bishop Photographs
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Photographs by John Bishop of Tully will be featured throughout the month of November. Bishop, owner of Bishop's Falls Photography, specializes in landscape, nature and architectural photography, and has a special interest in water and waterfalls, old barns and structures, and architectural details.

VisualBooks: Works by Scott McCarney
Light Work Gallery

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

This unique and beautiful exhibition explores the book as a sculptural object that employs a variety of image-making processes. McCarney's carefully hand-bound editions and found-altered books incorporate photographic imagery and utilize the space of the gallery to explore reading as display (on pedestals and shelves, hanging from the ceiling, mounted on the wall).

McCarney creates his sculptural objects and photo-based editions as one-of-a-kind, hand-made pieces as well as small runs of print-on-demand books. According to Hannah Frieser, director of Light Work, "Scott McCarney rethinks the book form, considering books as a starting point rather than a mere vehicle for information and images."

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Art Gone Wild! Prints and Paintings by Animals of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo

Price: Free for members or with zoo admission
Rosamond Gifford Zoo
One Conservation Place, Syracuse

Striking and extraordinary works of art created by the animals living at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo illustrate the depth of keeper care and behavioral enrichment vital in maintaining healthy and engaged animals. The exhibition includes several pieces produced by trunks, paws, feet, hooves, scales, skin and, of course, brushes.

Surface and Structure
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Students in the fall 2011 introductory fiber arts course at SU will show select work in the exhibition "Surface and Structure." In the exhibit, students explore such traditional techniques as embroidery, dye painting, and sewing to make objects that respond to contemporary ideas within art and design.

For more information, contact Anne Cofer at acofer@syr.edu.

Nature Inspired
Szozda Gallery

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

Painter C. Wilkinson and husband, potter Bruce Thomas combine their dual talents in painting and clay to produce "Nature Inspired."

Cathy and Bruce Thomas are a husband and wife team of artists who often influence each other's paintings and pottery. "Nature Inspired" marks the third time the couple has shown together, though each has been at their crafts for most of their 37 married years. Early in their separate careers, each one was better known for their distinct styles. Cathy painted under the name of C. Wilkinson and her subject matter was rarely nature based. "Rather," she says, "I was more in the pop art/realism and sometimes trompe l'oeil style. My works were more like high heel shoes or lipsticks." Bruce was always a naturalist and had much success in publishing his nature photos in various magazines, such as National Wild Life, Audubon, Natural History Magazine and Sierra Club. His long-time interest in pottery eventually led him to study under noted ceramicist Vincent Clemente. Cathy says that inspiration from both Bruce's photography and pottery have influenced the couple's desire to combine efforts to work together in creating "many pieces based on his love of nature and my love for him."

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The Butterfly Effect
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

The Butterfly Effect is the first multimedia exhibition at 601 Tully. The actual and conceptual life of a butterfly is a departure point for a collaborative exhibition that places humans and butterflies together in a micro-habitat inside an art space.

The Butterfly Effect presents a variety of interpretations of the butterfly structure and the butterfly as a symbol as addressed by contemporary visual artists and will include work by local artists, Syracuse University students and professors, and Syracuse youth. The centerpiece of The Butterfly Effect is a living butterfly habitat constructed by SU students using materials reclaimed from local sites. The interior butterfly garden provides the opportunity for exhibition visitors to observe living butterflies while surrounded by artworks that explore or feature the butterfly metaphorically.

Photography on the Edge: Between Realism and Abstraction
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The show features photographs by Central New York artists that address the relationship between realistic representation and abstract concepts. Participating artists include Willson Cummer, Bob Gates, Elisabeth Groat, Peter Mahan, Yolanda Tooley, Jeanann Wieners, Diana Whiting, and Jamie Young.

The co-curators, Jen Gandee and Syracuse-area photographer, Bob Gates, in selecting work for this show, were looking for images that are true to the perennial conflict in the history of photography between representational and non-representational images. The same conflicting impulses that have shaped other forms of art--realism, impressionism, expressionism, abstraction, surrealism--have had their adherents among photographers. The works in this exhibit show how some photographers in Central New York respond to or participate in that complex history.

57th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Our gift shop of fine art and crafts handmade by local guild and independent artists is Syracuse's one-stop shopping haven during the holiday season. Find unique pottery, stained glass, paintings, jewelry, hand-crafted soaps and candles, and much more.

For more information, phone 315-243-6359 or 315-637-6562.

Sources & Structures: The Art of Robert Stackhouse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This 25-year retrospective, organized by the SUArt Galleries, surveys the development of Robert Stackhouse as an artist. In addition to investigating the roots of his best-known imagery -- Viking ships, whales, snakes, and wood A-frame constructs -- this exhibition examines how he conceives of these designs through his drawings, watercolors, and prints. "Sources and Structures" considers how Stackhouse has made a personal examination of these natural and man-made forms and developed a body of work that explores affinities between architecture and biological anatomy.

From Here to There: Alec Soth's America
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, members and children under 5 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From Here to There: Alec Soth's America" provides a focused look at an extraordinary photographer whose compelling images of the American road and its unexpected turns form powerful narrative vignettes. The exhibition will be the artist's first major survey assembled in the United States, exploring over 15 years of his career, and including an extensive new body of work.

Since his inclusion in the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo biennials, Soth's reputation as one of the most interesting voices in contemporary photography has continued to grow. Though he has followed the itinerant path laid forth by photographers such as Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Stephen Shore, Soth's is a distinct perspective, one in which the wandering, searching, and the process of telling is as resonant as the record of these remarkable encounters. When considered together, Soth's pictures probe the individualities of people, objects, and places he encounters; offer insight to broader sociologies, and in the process form a collective portrait of an unexpected America.

Featuring approximately 100 photographs made between 1994 and the present, "From Here to There" will include rarely-seen early black-and-white images as well as examples from Soth's best-known series "Sleeping by the Mississippi" and "Niagara." Interspersed throughout the exhibition will be a broad range of portraits made over the past 15 years. The exhibition will also include a new body of work the artist has been developing since 2006, exploring places of escape in America and individuals who seek to flee civilization for a life off the grid. To add insight into Soth's process, the exhibition additionally features a Library space, which includes a reading area for publications, a selection of maquettes for book and 'zine projects, short video works, and ephemera gathered on the road.

Margie Hughto: A Fired Landscape
Everson Museum of Art

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

Internationally renowned ceramic artist Margie Hughto presents her first site-specific museum installation entitled A Fired Landscape, a "clay painting" spanning 50 feet of gallery wall space. Inspired by the artist's spectacular backyard gardens and natural landscape just steps from her studio, The Fired Landscape installation consists of Setting Sun, a brilliantly colored ceramic wall relief displayed continuously on five angled walls. The visitor encounter is reminiscent of what one experiences when surrounded by the natural environment. Overall, Setting Sun is a ceramic abstraction, but Hughto establishes a connection to the landscape that inspired it by adding impressions of natural objects such as native ferns, marine life and fossils, into the wet clay and then coating the surfaces with brilliant color. The rich palette of burnt oranges and fiery reds evoke the sun’s glowing light and radiating warmth. Tiny pieces of glass embedded in the clay prior to firing add sparkle to the glossy green and blue glazes used to suggest the artist's lily pond.

Deng Guo Yuan
The Warehouse Gallery

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

There will be public reception with the artist this evening 6:00–8:00 pm, with remarks at 7:00 pm, followed by an introduction by Dr. Beate Reifenscheid, director, Museum Ludwig, Koblenz, Germany. This event is as part of Th3, the third Thursday citywide art open.

This exhibit will highlight ink brush paintings by Tianjin-based Chinese artist Deng Guo Yuan. His work reveals the tradition of Chinese landscape painting and a profound knowledge of modern and international contemporary aesthetics. The film "Deng Guo Yuan" (2010) by French filmmaker Pierre Creton, presented in the Gallery's vault, meticulously documents the creation of one of Deng Guo Yuan's ink paintings in his Tianjin studio. Widely exhibited in China and Europe, this will be the artist's first solo museum exhibition in the United States. The show originated at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts Museum (Tianjin, China), and then traveled in modified form to the Samek Art Gallery at Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA), to the Provenance Center (New London, CT), and to its last venue, the Warehouse Gallery, for which Deng Guo Yuan will create additional site-specific works.

SU @ CU; CU @ SU
XL Projects

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

Art students from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) and Colgate University will be showcasing the high standards and diversity of their work at galleries on each other's campuses.

Colgate art students will exhibit their work 10/19-11/6.
VPA student work will be shown 11/9-11/27.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com or visit vpa.syr.edu/xl-projects.

Daughters of Ixchel: The Photography of Mary Lawyer O'Connor
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Daughters of Ixchel" is a collection of images of Maya women and their hand-woven textiles that brings awareness and understanding of vibrant Maya cultures and the challenges they face. The exhibit will be a look into the lives of women weavers from Guatemala and Southern Mexico. Portrait and documentary photography along with text will tell their stories and will include original textiles. We will highlight fair-trade, worker-owned cooperatives and the political history of Guatemala where, despite persecution and genocide, Maya weavers maintain traditional methods, patterns, colors and styles that flourish and evolve.

Mary Lawyer O'Connor lives in Pompey and is a founder and current head of the Montessori School of Syracuse.

Projects from P.E.A.C.E. Inc.
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Opening: Spanglish: Drawing, Collage, Photography and Video
Point of Contact Gallery

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

There will be an opening reception with the artist this evening as ppart of Th3, the third Thursday citywide art open.

Spanglish is a project made specifically for the Point of Contact Gallery by New York City artist Celeste Fichter, based on Point of Contact's work in the verbal and the visual arts, and its ties to the Latin American literary and visual arts. Comprised of drawing, collage, photography and video, Spanglish is based solely on the artist's understanding and misunderstanding of the Spanish language.

For several months Fichter studied the Spanish/English dictionary page by page, definition by definition in alphabetical order, pronouncing each word aloud in search of words that sound like other words (in either English or Spanish), and looking for definitions that have intriguing double meanings or spellings that can be manipulated. As a non-Spanish speaker, the attempt to learn a new language through a list of definitions presented many limitations; however it is within the narrow confines of these limitations, and maybe because of them, that new understanding is created.

Fichter is interested in the fluidity of language in general as a tool of expression and visual language specifically. Spanglish is beyond a spoken language, beyond a hybrid of the English and Spanish languages — a visual language made up of words, images, signs and symbols.

Always After (the Glass House)
Urban Video Project

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

Urban Video Project is pleased to present Always After (the Glass House), 2006, by internationally recognized multimedia artist, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle.

Employing footage shot on a high-speed film camera, Always After focuses on the broken glass accumulated after the windows of the Mies-designed Illinois Institute of Technology's Crown Hall were smashed by the architect's own grandson as part of a ceremony in advance of the building's renovation. Manglano-Ovalle scrupulously edits out all clear reference to this odd 'kill your fathers' ritual, leaving the viewer with a dream-like sequence in which well-shod anonymous masses eternally exit and equally anonymous custodians endlessly move in to sweep up the crystalline debris of modernism. The precise nature of the event--whether it is a natural disaster, a terrorist attack, or just routine construction--never becomes clear. Instead, the narrative unfolds like a Jacob's ladder: never reaching the end, passing again and again through the point where modernist progress and crisis become indistinguishable--a point that is always already "after."

Nathaniel Sullivan: On the Way to the Theatre, We Egged a Trans-am
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In this 1 minute-23 second video, Sullivan depicts the pressures brought to bear in teenage boys--most of which are pressures to be pleased, injunctions to enjoy. While at first glance this looks like an easy row to hoe, the work makes it clear that in fact there are consequences to taking one's pleasures liberally, without reserve. As Plato said, pleasure deranges as efficiently as pain.

Nathaniel Sullivan is an artist and writer. He received his MFA degree from the Transmedia Department at Syracuse University in Spring 2011. His practice is a balance of artwork, critical writing, and curating. His work has been shown in exhibitions and screenings in Syracuse, New York City, and widely across Canada. In 2006, he was awarded a Special Mention from the prestigious Montreal Film Festival.

An Evening with Robert Stackhouse and Carol Mickett
Syracuse University Art Museum

Slocum Hall Auditorium
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Presented in conjunction with the exhibit Sources and Structures: The Art of Robert Stackhouse at SU Art Galleries.

Gallery Talk with Margie Hughto
Everson Museum of Art

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

Ceramic artist Margie Hughto will talk about the process and themes in her installation, A Fired Landscape.

Film Talk: The Art of Sound in Film
Syracuse International Film Festival
LeMoyne College
Featuring Ben Burtt

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Ben Burtt is an American sound designer who has worked on various films including the Star Wars and Indiana Jones film series, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and WALL-E (2008). He is also a film editor and director, screenwriter, and voice actor. He is most notable for creating many of the iconic sound effects heard in the Star Wars film franchise, including the "voice" of R2-D2, the lightsaber hum and the heavy-breathing sound of Darth Vader.

A Journey through the Music of the African Diaspora: Paul Steinbeck
Community Folk Art Center

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

Paul Steinbeck is a bassist, improviser and composer, as well as an African American Studies Professor of Musicology at Syracuse University. Special guests Myles Tate III and Lawrence Leathers will join him on the piano and drums respectively. The trio will present a concert of jazz, blues and gospel music, with discussion opportunities for the audience.

The event will be hosted by Professor Richard Dubin. Light refreshments will be served.

Syracuse Opera Resident Artists
Temple Society of Concord

Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

Each year some of America's most talented young singers come to Central New York as resident artists and we get to enjoy listening as they hone their performance skills.

The Follies: St. Joseph's Gets the Show on the Road

Price: $15
Franciscan Center
2500 Grant Blvd., Syracuse

A professionally produced, full-filled variety show featuring St. Joseph's physicians, nurses, staff, and members of the community. Proceeds benefit St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center's new emergency services building.

SU 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.

Infected Mushroom, with DJ Gunslinger, Karbokane
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Pirates of the Yuletide
Acme Mystery Company

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

Ho, ho, ho and a bottle of rum! Avast ye, maties! It be Christmas time in the year 1757 in Merry Olde England. The scuttlebutt is that all the famous pirates of the day be gathering down by the docks at London's infamous Finch and Pickle Tavern. 'Tis true, me hardies, and they be cooking up the most dastardly deed of all time. Come the tide, they be sailing to the North Pole to kidnap old Saint Nick himself! Hold on to your parrot, bucco. This meeting could get rowdy!

A Tuna Christmas
CNY Playhouse
Deborah Pearson, director

Price: Dinner theater: $29 single; $55 couple. Show only: $20 (limited availability)
Fire and Ice Banquet Hall, The Locker Room
528 Hiawatha Blvd., Syracuse

Dinner at 6:45 pm, followed by show at 8:00 pm.

Twenty Characters, Two Men, a Partridge in a Pear Tree! In this hilarious sequel to Greater Tuna, it's Christmas in the third smallest town in Texas. Radio station OKKK news personalities Thurston Wheelis and Arles Struvie report on various Yuletide activities, including hot competition in the annual lawn display contest. In other news, voracious Joe Bob Lipsey's production of "A Christmas Carol" is jeopardized by unpaid electric bills. Many colorful Tuna denizens, some you will recognize from Greater Tuna and some appearing here for the first time, join in the holiday fun. Starring Greg J. Hipius & Gerrit Vander Werff Jr.

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Preview: Red Hot Patriot:The Kick Ass Wit of Molly Ivins
Studio 24
Gerard Moses, director
Featuring Karis Wiggins

Price: $15
Studio 24
433 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This one-woman play, written by sisters Margaret and Allison Engel, is based on the writings of the late political journalist Molly Ivins. In Red Hot Patriot: The Kick Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, Karis Wiggins portrays the famously witty newspaper columnist and best-selling author. A true Texas original, Ivins took aim at the political establishment and the "good ole boys" with her unique blend of wit and wisdom. The play explores Ivins' courage and tenacity in an effort to wake up a complacent nation.

Molly Ivins' column was syndicated in nearly 400 newspapers nationwide. Her one-of-a-kind voice was developed in the early 1970s when she was the co-editor of The Texas Observer. At the time it was the state's only independent political magazine. The Observer remained dear to her throughout her illustrious career. Ivins' wrote five best-selling books. The subject of two of them (Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush and Bushwacked) was her former high school classmate, George W. Bush. Ivins attended Smith College and began her newspaper career at The Houston Chronicle. She worked at The New York Times for five years before moving back to Texas where she worked at several newspapers within her home state. Molly died in 2007 after a very public and courageous battle with breast cancer.

Tickets available through brownpapertickets.com, 1-800-838-3006 or 315-289-6613.

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Friday, November 18, 2011

Windows Project: Elisabeth Meyer: Black Night/White Night
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Window Project features an installation by Elisabeth Meyer consisting of organic forms embroidered onto an organza fabric. The overall patterning evokes an association with ocean waves and a net. The transparent quality of the organza background allows the viewer to see through the piece that is hanging from the ceiling covering the entire window front. The work addresses the issue of displacement through traveling. Meyer, who is based in Ithaca, developed the concept for this exhibition while at a residency in Iceland, traveled to India to oversee the production of the embroidery, and created the work on site in Syracuse.

Learning to Write American: Works by Jennifer Drinkwater
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

These incredibly innovative pieces directly involve the viewer to create meaning, through imagining the missing term, through opening compartments of the painting to explore what is hidden beneath the surface, or by rearranging magnets to create a composition.

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Sculpted Sound: From Art to Wood to Music -- Works of John & Sondra Bromka
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-445-4153.

Pile-Stratra: Work s of Mikyung Kim
Onondaga Community College

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

Mikyung Kim's conceptual "Pile-Stratra" exhibit is an intrinsic exploration of the relationship between game and rite. Kim's work is deeply rooted in Eastern Ceremony, especially ancestor worship by creating the tableau as an altar setting. Each work is a product of random and composed elements, producing a form of controlled spontaneity that mirrors the interplay between the fleeting mind and metamorphic nature.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium is Lots 2 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Spanglish: Drawing, Collage, Photography and Video
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Spanglish is a project made specifically for the Point of Contact Gallery by New York City artist Celeste Fichter, based on Point of Contact's work in the verbal and the visual arts, and its ties to the Latin American literary and visual arts. Comprised of drawing, collage, photography and video, Spanglish is based solely on the artist's understanding and misunderstanding of the Spanish language.

For several months Fichter studied the Spanish/English dictionary page by page, definition by definition in alphabetical order, pronouncing each word aloud in search of words that sound like other words (in either English or Spanish), and looking for definitions that have intriguing double meanings or spellings that can be manipulated. As a non-Spanish speaker, the attempt to learn a new language through a list of definitions presented many limitations; however it is within the narrow confines of these limitations, and maybe because of them, that new understanding is created.

Fichter is interested in the fluidity of language in general as a tool of expression and visual language specifically. Spanglish is beyond a spoken language, beyond a hybrid of the English and Spanish languages — a visual language made up of words, images, signs and symbols.

Ephemera and Emerging
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Gallery A: "Ephemera," features photography by James Russell
Gallery B: "Emerging," features paintings by Michelle Bennett

Open Apple Steve. Memoriam: an aesthetic homage to Steve Jobs
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Exhibit features works by local artists Vicki Harris, Matthew Keeney, Ellen Leahy, Paul Melnikow, and Kathryn Petrillo, plus works from artists in California, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Utah, Washington DC, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Philippines, and Portugal

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Just One Word: Plastics
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

For more than a century, plastics have transformed our lives -- from bathroom to battlefield; from supermarket to spacecraft. Begun as a 19th-century replacement material for billiard balls and piano keys, plastics spurred 20th century developments in industry, transportation, medicine, entertainment, and other aspects of contemporary life. The original objects of "Just One Word: Plastics" represent a material history of the modern world.

This exhibition features a representative sample of the Plastics Collection at the Syracuse University Library and presents an overview of major trends in the development of plastics in everyday life. The exhibit focuses on personal and household objects rather than the use of plastics in industry where they are also widely used. Approximately 250 objects divided into 12 categories will be on view. In addition, a small selection of manuscripts and printed materials will be included.

Specific objects to be featured in the exhibition are:
* ornate celluloid combs and a wide variety of plastic toiletries
* phenolic (Bakelite) objects from the 1920s and 30s including jewelry, radios, and other appliances and games
* musical instruments
* post-war toys, dishes, and household items
* original patent books of John Wesley Hyatt, inventor of Celluloid
* product catalogues from the 1930s and 1950s for popular items such as DuPont French Ivory dresser sets, Boltaware molded "stoneware" dishes, and Tupperware, and
* the Pleur-evac, a revolutionary plastic medical device for draining fluid and maintaining pressure in the lungs that helped save the life of President Ronald Reagan.

The Plastics Collection was begun in 2007 as a joint project of the Syracuse University Library and the Plastics History & Artifacts Committee of the Plastics Pioneers Association. The Collection expanded dramatically when the National Plastics Center and Museum in Leominster, MA, closed and transferred its artifacts, books, and manuscripts to Syracuse University's care in 2008.

Aphotic Ardor: Works by Kristie Hayes-Beaulieu
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

An exhibit of variety. Diversity. Progression. Connections. Past and present. Growth. Reclusion. Pain and suffering, as well as extreme bliss. Also view a sneak preview in one of our gallery rooms of Kristie's X-ray-inspired work that will be on display at the SUNY Health Science Center in December.

Whereas I Took the Butterfly: Works by Deloss McGraw
YMCA Arts Branch GallerY

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit of literary "poster paintings" features Deloss McGraw's reflections/interpretations of such writers as Dickinson, Hemingway, Snodgrass and others, often using photographs of the authors, book covers, or other borrowed images.

Untold Stories
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Featuring the diverse works of Alison Fisher: acrylic and mixed media paintings; jewelry made of unique mixed metals and found objects; one-of-a-kind textiles including handbags, scarves, pillows, and throws.

Invitational with Photographer Tim Etter
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

African Diasporan Treasures: 40 Years of Community Folk Art Center
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition will showcase pieces from CFAC's permanent collection. Featuring over 30 works by artists including Joel Gaines, Ellen Oppler, Jack White, Denise Cole and Kamiiron Pritchard, "African Diasporan Treasures" provides a rare opportunity for visitors to experience the rich artistic history of CFAC. In many cases, the pieces have not been displayed for decades. The show will also feature African art that was once part of the Smithsonian Museum's collection.

Best if Used: Functional Pottery by Jim Burke
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

John Bishop Photographs
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Photographs by John Bishop of Tully will be featured throughout the month of November. Bishop, owner of Bishop's Falls Photography, specializes in landscape, nature and architectural photography, and has a special interest in water and waterfalls, old barns and structures, and architectural details.

VisualBooks: Works by Scott McCarney
Light Work Gallery

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

This unique and beautiful exhibition explores the book as a sculptural object that employs a variety of image-making processes. McCarney's carefully hand-bound editions and found-altered books incorporate photographic imagery and utilize the space of the gallery to explore reading as display (on pedestals and shelves, hanging from the ceiling, mounted on the wall).

McCarney creates his sculptural objects and photo-based editions as one-of-a-kind, hand-made pieces as well as small runs of print-on-demand books. According to Hannah Frieser, director of Light Work, "Scott McCarney rethinks the book form, considering books as a starting point rather than a mere vehicle for information and images."

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Art Gone Wild! Prints and Paintings by Animals of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo

Price: Free for members or with zoo admission
Rosamond Gifford Zoo
One Conservation Place, Syracuse

Striking and extraordinary works of art created by the animals living at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo illustrate the depth of keeper care and behavioral enrichment vital in maintaining healthy and engaged animals. The exhibition includes several pieces produced by trunks, paws, feet, hooves, scales, skin and, of course, brushes.

Opening: Landmarks of New York
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this evening 4:00-7:00 pm. The reception will be presided over by Syracuse mayor Stephanie Miner. The exhibit's curator, Dr. Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, will also be in attendance along with her husband, Ambassador Carl Spielvogel, a SUNY trustee. Refreshments from Parisa Restaurant will be served. To make a reservation for the free opening reception, please call Karen at 315-428-1864, ext. 312.

Landmarks of New York is a traveling exhibit of 90 stunning black and white photographs of New York City buildings that have been accorded landmark status by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. The exhibit is curated by Dr. Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, New York City's first director of cultural affairs and acclaimed author of the book that serves as the basis for the exhibit, The Landmarks of New York: An Illustrated Record of the City's Historic Building. In conjunction with the show, Dennis Connors, OHA's Curator of History, selected over 20 contemporary and historic photographs to highlight Onondaga County's own architectural inheritance.

Nature Inspired
Szozda Gallery

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

Painter C. Wilkinson and husband, potter Bruce Thomas combine their dual talents in painting and clay to produce "Nature Inspired."

Cathy and Bruce Thomas are a husband and wife team of artists who often influence each other's paintings and pottery. "Nature Inspired" marks the third time the couple has shown together, though each has been at their crafts for most of their 37 married years. Early in their separate careers, each one was better known for their distinct styles. Cathy painted under the name of C. Wilkinson and her subject matter was rarely nature based. "Rather," she says, "I was more in the pop art/realism and sometimes trompe l'oeil style. My works were more like high heel shoes or lipsticks." Bruce was always a naturalist and had much success in publishing his nature photos in various magazines, such as National Wild Life, Audubon, Natural History Magazine and Sierra Club. His long-time interest in pottery eventually led him to study under noted ceramicist Vincent Clemente. Cathy says that inspiration from both Bruce's photography and pottery have influenced the couple's desire to combine efforts to work together in creating "many pieces based on his love of nature and my love for him."

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Photography on the Edge: Between Realism and Abstraction
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The show features photographs by Central New York artists that address the relationship between realistic representation and abstract concepts. Participating artists include Willson Cummer, Bob Gates, Elisabeth Groat, Peter Mahan, Yolanda Tooley, Jeanann Wieners, Diana Whiting, and Jamie Young.

The co-curators, Jen Gandee and Syracuse-area photographer, Bob Gates, in selecting work for this show, were looking for images that are true to the perennial conflict in the history of photography between representational and non-representational images. The same conflicting impulses that have shaped other forms of art--realism, impressionism, expressionism, abstraction, surrealism--have had their adherents among photographers. The works in this exhibit show how some photographers in Central New York respond to or participate in that complex history.

57th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Our gift shop of fine art and crafts handmade by local guild and independent artists is Syracuse's one-stop shopping haven during the holiday season. Find unique pottery, stained glass, paintings, jewelry, hand-crafted soaps and candles, and much more.

For more information, phone 315-243-6359 or 315-637-6562.

Sources & Structures: The Art of Robert Stackhouse
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This 25-year retrospective, organized by the SUArt Galleries, surveys the development of Robert Stackhouse as an artist. In addition to investigating the roots of his best-known imagery -- Viking ships, whales, snakes, and wood A-frame constructs -- this exhibition examines how he conceives of these designs through his drawings, watercolors, and prints. "Sources and Structures" considers how Stackhouse has made a personal examination of these natural and man-made forms and developed a body of work that explores affinities between architecture and biological anatomy.

Margie Hughto: A Fired Landscape
Everson Museum of Art

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

Internationally renowned ceramic artist Margie Hughto presents her first site-specific museum installation entitled A Fired Landscape, a "clay painting" spanning 50 feet of gallery wall space. Inspired by the artist's spectacular backyard gardens and natural landscape just steps from her studio, The Fired Landscape installation consists of Setting Sun, a brilliantly colored ceramic wall relief displayed continuously on five angled walls. The visitor encounter is reminiscent of what one experiences when surrounded by the natural environment. Overall, Setting Sun is a ceramic abstraction, but Hughto establishes a connection to the landscape that inspired it by adding impressions of natural objects such as native ferns, marine life and fossils, into the wet clay and then coating the surfaces with brilliant color. The rich palette of burnt oranges and fiery reds evoke the sun’s glowing light and radiating warmth. Tiny pieces of glass embedded in the clay prior to firing add sparkle to the glossy green and blue glazes used to suggest the artist's lily pond.

From Here to There: Alec Soth's America
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, members and children under 5 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From Here to There: Alec Soth's America" provides a focused look at an extraordinary photographer whose compelling images of the American road and its unexpected turns form powerful narrative vignettes. The exhibition will be the artist's first major survey assembled in the United States, exploring over 15 years of his career, and including an extensive new body of work.

Since his inclusion in the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo biennials, Soth's reputation as one of the most interesting voices in contemporary photography has continued to grow. Though he has followed the itinerant path laid forth by photographers such as Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Stephen Shore, Soth's is a distinct perspective, one in which the wandering, searching, and the process of telling is as resonant as the record of these remarkable encounters. When considered together, Soth's pictures probe the individualities of people, objects, and places he encounters; offer insight to broader sociologies, and in the process form a collective portrait of an unexpected America.

Featuring approximately 100 photographs made between 1994 and the present, "From Here to There" will include rarely-seen early black-and-white images as well as examples from Soth's best-known series "Sleeping by the Mississippi" and "Niagara." Interspersed throughout the exhibition will be a broad range of portraits made over the past 15 years. The exhibition will also include a new body of work the artist has been developing since 2006, exploring places of escape in America and individuals who seek to flee civilization for a life off the grid. To add insight into Soth's process, the exhibition additionally features a Library space, which includes a reading area for publications, a selection of maquettes for book and 'zine projects, short video works, and ephemera gathered on the road.

Deng Guo Yuan
The Warehouse Gallery

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

This exhibit will highlight ink brush paintings by Tianjin-based Chinese artist Deng Guo Yuan. His work reveals the tradition of Chinese landscape painting and a profound knowledge of modern and international contemporary aesthetics. The film "Deng Guo Yuan" (2010) by French filmmaker Pierre Creton, presented in the Gallery's vault, meticulously documents the creation of one of Deng Guo Yuan's ink paintings in his Tianjin studio. Widely exhibited in China and Europe, this will be the artist's first solo museum exhibition in the United States. The show originated at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts Museum (Tianjin, China), and then traveled in modified form to the Samek Art Gallery at Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA), to the Provenance Center (New London, CT), and to its last venue, the Warehouse Gallery, for which Deng Guo Yuan will create additional site-specific works.

SU @ CU; CU @ SU
XL Projects

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

Art students from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) and Colgate University will be showcasing the high standards and diversity of their work at galleries on each other's campuses.

Colgate art students will exhibit their work 10/19-11/6.
VPA student work will be shown 11/9-11/27.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com or visit vpa.syr.edu/xl-projects.

Opening: Dies Irae
Echo

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

There will be an opening reception this evening 7:00-10:00 pm.

Dies Irae, a group show with Thomas Ward III, Heidi Josephine, and Nik Moore featuring a mix of collaborative and original paintings.

Daughters of Ixchel: The Photography of Mary Lawyer O'Connor
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Daughters of Ixchel" is a collection of images of Maya women and their hand-woven textiles that brings awareness and understanding of vibrant Maya cultures and the challenges they face. The exhibit will be a look into the lives of women weavers from Guatemala and Southern Mexico. Portrait and documentary photography along with text will tell their stories and will include original textiles. We will highlight fair-trade, worker-owned cooperatives and the political history of Guatemala where, despite persecution and genocide, Maya weavers maintain traditional methods, patterns, colors and styles that flourish and evolve.

Mary Lawyer O'Connor lives in Pompey and is a founder and current head of the Montessori School of Syracuse.

Always After (the Glass House)
Urban Video Project

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

Urban Video Project is pleased to present Always After (the Glass House), 2006, by internationally recognized multimedia artist, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle.

Employing footage shot on a high-speed film camera, Always After focuses on the broken glass accumulated after the windows of the Mies-designed Illinois Institute of Technology's Crown Hall were smashed by the architect's own grandson as part of a ceremony in advance of the building's renovation. Manglano-Ovalle scrupulously edits out all clear reference to this odd 'kill your fathers' ritual, leaving the viewer with a dream-like sequence in which well-shod anonymous masses eternally exit and equally anonymous custodians endlessly move in to sweep up the crystalline debris of modernism. The precise nature of the event--whether it is a natural disaster, a terrorist attack, or just routine construction--never becomes clear. Instead, the narrative unfolds like a Jacob's ladder: never reaching the end, passing again and again through the point where modernist progress and crisis become indistinguishable--a point that is always already "after."

Nathaniel Sullivan: On the Way to the Theatre, We Egged a Trans-am
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In this 1 minute-23 second video, Sullivan depicts the pressures brought to bear in teenage boys--most of which are pressures to be pleased, injunctions to enjoy. While at first glance this looks like an easy row to hoe, the work makes it clear that in fact there are consequences to taking one's pleasures liberally, without reserve. As Plato said, pleasure deranges as efficiently as pain.

Nathaniel Sullivan is an artist and writer. He received his MFA degree from the Transmedia Department at Syracuse University in Spring 2011. His practice is a balance of artwork, critical writing, and curating. His work has been shown in exhibitions and screenings in Syracuse, New York City, and widely across Canada. In 2006, he was awarded a Special Mention from the prestigious Montreal Film Festival.

Brew and View Series: E.T. and Jaws
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

E.T. at 7:00 pm, followed by Jaws at 9:00 pm.

Jazz@Sitrus
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Nancy Kelly

Sitrus on the Hill
Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel, Syracuse

The Jazz@Sitrus series kicks off with the incomparable voice of Nancy Kelly backed by her trio. During a more than 30-plus year career, Nancy Kelly has honed her trademark back-to-the-roots swinging style in front of audiences throughout the US and abroad. She appears regularly in New York City at The Blue Note, Birdland, The Rainbow Room, and Dizzy's Jazz Club at Lincoln Center. Impressively, Kelly has twice been named "Best Female Jazz Vocalist" in the Down Beat Readers' Poll. She has recorded four critically acclaimed CDs.

9 Operas in 90 Minutes
Syracuse Opera

Price: $15
Plymouth Church
232 E. Onondaga St., Syracuse

The four resident artists of Syracuse Opera will present "9 Operas in 90 Minutes," a selection of arias, in a concert to benefit Plymouth Church, the site of Syracuse Opera's rehearsals.

Soprano Samantha Guevrekian, tenor Eric Bowden, baritone John David Boehr and pianist Christopher Turbessi will perform selections from such operas as West Side Story, The Rape of Lucretia, I Pagliacci and Candide.

Guevrekian has received several awards, most recently an Encouragement Prize from the Gerda Lissner International Voice Competition. In Syracuse Opera's season-opening production of La Traviata, she performed the role of Annina.

Bowden has performed two summers with Des Moines Metro Opera and in the Spectrum Young Artist Program at Virginia Opera. He sang Gastone in La Traviata.

Boehr was seen last summer at the Glimmerglass Festival, where he performed Joe Harland in John Musto's Later the Same Evening. He sang Marquis d'Obigny in La Traviata.

Turbessi returns for his second season as resident artist. He played the staging rehearsals for all of Syracuse Opera's 2010-11 mainstage productions and was rehearsal pianist for La Traviata.

Tickets are available at the church office from 8:00 am to 2:30 pm Mondays through Fridays and at the door the night of the event. For more information, call the church at 315-474-4836.

Pilant Plays Mozart
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Heather Buchman, conductor
Featuring Julia Pilant, horn

Price: $15-$50 regular, $10 students
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Weber Euryanthe Overture
Mozart Horn Concerto No. 3 in E-flat Major, K. 447
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique

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Chris Pureka
Folkus Project

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

In support of her new CD, "How I Learned to See in the Dark," Chris Pureka will be joined by Sebastian Renfield on guitar and vocals along with Monika Heidemann on bass and vocals.

Much-discussed singer songwriter Chris Pureka is a breath of fresh air in an age of fleeting success and temporary notions. In a style that is often sparse and rooted in Americana, she is an artist armed with a sharp eye for oft-missed details and an emotional intelligence that can switch from withering to compelling with a subtle inflection. Her songs cover a "landscape is akin to Neil Young's Harvest," says the AllMusic Guide.
"How I Learned To See In The Dark" marks a new stage in Pureka's musical evolution. There is a newfound edginess, coupled with a more abstract sound and a musical depth and complexity, all the while maintaining the creative instrumentation for which she is known. It has taken years for Pureka to arrive here, and each step has been as purposeful, as precise, and as unwavering as the music she makes.

Fans and critics alike are drawn to her signature voice, which can make heartbreak sound desirable, as well as to her acute attention to lyrical detail and aptitude for crafting guitar parts that speak for themselves. Beautiful melodies, stunning vocals, and distinctive guitar work shine through her songs.

The Follies: St. Joseph's Gets the Show on the Road

Price: $15
Franciscan Center
2500 Grant Blvd., Syracuse

A professionally produced, full-filled variety show featuring St. Joseph's physicians, nurses, staff, and members of the community. Proceeds benefit St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center's new emergency services building.

Enter the Haggis, with Scythian
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Zanna, Don't: A Musical Fairytale
Encore Presentations
Stephfond D. Brunson, director

Price: $37.25 dinner and show, $20 show only
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

A musical by Tim Acito and with additional lyrics and material by Alexander Dinelaris. The story is set in a parallel universe where homosexuality is the norm and heterosexuality is a taboo. Set in midwest America, "Zanna" takes place at heterophobic Heartsville High. Zanna is the school's matchmaker, bringing together happy couples until the football team's quarterback and the captain of the Girls' Intramural Mechanical Bull-Riding Team begin to discover their feelings for each other.

Dinner begins at 6:30 pm; show at 8:00 pm.

A Tuna Christmas
CNY Playhouse
Deborah Pearson, director

Price: Dinner theater: $29 single; $55 couple. Show only: $20 (limited availability)
Fire and Ice Banquet Hall, The Locker Room
528 Hiawatha Blvd., Syracuse

Dinner at 6:45 pm, followed by show at 8:00 pm.

Twenty Characters, Two Men, a Partridge in a Pear Tree! In this hilarious sequel to Greater Tuna, it's Christmas in the third smallest town in Texas. Radio station OKKK news personalities Thurston Wheelis and Arles Struvie report on various Yuletide activities, including hot competition in the annual lawn display contest. In other news, voracious Joe Bob Lipsey's production of "A Christmas Carol" is jeopardized by unpaid electric bills. Many colorful Tuna denizens, some you will recognize from Greater Tuna and some appearing here for the first time, join in the holiday fun. Starring Greg J. Hipius & Gerrit Vander Werff Jr.

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Staged Reading: Are You Mr. Friedman?
ArtRage Gallery
Milton Loayza, director

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

This play exposes what happens when a small group of major bankers, lobbyists, and the New York Federal Reserve go to Queens to consult the spirit of Nobel winner economist Milton Friedman. Professor Friedman does speak but the answers are unexpected in this "financial tragicomedy."

Opening: Red Hot Patriot:The Kick Ass Wit of Molly Ivins
Studio 24
Gerard Moses, director
Featuring Karis Wiggins

Price: $20
Studio 24
433 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This one-woman play, written by sisters Margaret and Allison Engel, is based on the writings of the late political journalist Molly Ivins. In Red Hot Patriot: The Kick Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, Karis Wiggins portrays the famously witty newspaper columnist and best-selling author. A true Texas original, Ivins took aim at the political establishment and the "good ole boys" with her unique blend of wit and wisdom. The play explores Ivins' courage and tenacity in an effort to wake up a complacent nation.

Molly Ivins' column was syndicated in nearly 400 newspapers nationwide. Her one-of-a-kind voice was developed in the early 1970s when she was the co-editor of The Texas Observer. At the time it was the state's only independent political magazine. The Observer remained dear to her throughout her illustrious career. Ivins' wrote five best-selling books. The subject of two of them (Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush and Bushwacked) was her former high school classmate, George W. Bush. Ivins attended Smith College and began her newspaper career at The Houston Chronicle. She worked at The New York Times for five years before moving back to Texas where she worked at several newspapers within her home state. Molly died in 2007 after a very public and courageous battle with breast cancer.

Tickets available through brownpapertickets.com, 1-800-838-3006 or 315-289-6613.

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Saturday, November 19, 2011

Windows Project: Elisabeth Meyer: Black Night/White Night
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Window Project features an installation by Elisabeth Meyer consisting of organic forms embroidered onto an organza fabric. The overall patterning evokes an association with ocean waves and a net. The transparent quality of the organza background allows the viewer to see through the piece that is hanging from the ceiling covering the entire window front. The work addresses the issue of displacement through traveling. Meyer, who is based in Ithaca, developed the concept for this exhibition while at a residency in Iceland, traveled to India to oversee the production of the embroidery, and created the work on site in Syracuse.

Learning to Write American: Works by Jennifer Drinkwater
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

These incredibly innovative pieces directly involve the viewer to create meaning, through imagining the missing term, through opening compartments of the painting to explore what is hidden beneath the surface, or by rearranging magnets to create a composition.

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Sculpted Sound: From Art to Wood to Music -- Works of John & Sondra Bromka
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-445-4153.

Ephemera and Emerging
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Gallery A: "Ephemera," features photography by James Russell
Gallery B: "Emerging," features paintings by Michelle Bennett

Invitational with Photographer Tim Etter
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

"Off the Wall" Holiday Art Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Dies Irae
Echo

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

Dies Irae, a group show with Thomas Ward III, Heidi Josephine, and Nik Moore featuring a mix of collaborative and original paintings.

Untold Stories
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Featuring the diverse works of Alison Fisher: acrylic and mixed media paintings; jewelry made of unique mixed metals and found objects; one-of-a-kind textiles including handbags, scarves, pillows, and throws.

From Here to There: Alec Soth's America
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, members and children under 5 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From Here to There: Alec Soth's America" provides a focused look at an extraordinary photographer whose compelling images of the American road and its unexpected turns form powerful narrative vignettes. The exhibition will be the artist's first major survey assembled in the United States, exploring over 15 years of his career, and including an extensive new body of work.

Since his inclusion in the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo biennials, Soth's reputation as one of the most interesting voices in contemporary photography has continued to grow. Though he has followed the itinerant path laid forth by photographers such as Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Stephen Shore, Soth's is a distinct perspective, one in which the wandering, searching, and the process of telling is as resonant as the record of these remarkable encounters. When considered together, Soth's pictures probe the individualities of people, objects, and places he encounters; offer insight to broader sociologies, and in the process form a collective portrait of an unexpected America.

Featuring approximately 100 photographs made between 1994 and the present, "From Here to There" will include rarely-seen early black-and-white images as well as examples from Soth's best-known series "Sleeping by the Mississippi" and "Niagara." Interspersed throughout the exhibition will be a broad range of portraits made over the past 15 years. The exhibition will also include a new body of work the artist has been developing since 2006, exploring places of escape in America and individuals who seek to flee civilization for a life off the grid. To add insight into Soth's process, the exhibition additionally features a Library space, which includes a reading area for publications, a selection of maquettes for book and 'zine projects, short video works, and ephemera gathered on the road.

Margie Hughto: A Fired Landscape
Everson Museum of Art

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

Internationally renowned ceramic artist Margie Hughto presents her first site-specific museum installation entitled A Fired Landscape, a "clay painting" spanning 50 feet of gallery wall space. Inspired by the artist's spectacular backyard gardens and natural landscape just steps from her studio, The Fired Landscape installation consists of Setting Sun, a brilliantly colored ceramic wall relief displayed continuously on five angled walls. The visitor encounter is reminiscent of what one experiences when surrounded by the natural environment. Overall, Setting Sun is a ceramic abstraction, but Hughto establishes a connection to the landscape that inspired it by adding impressions of natural objects such as native ferns, marine life and fossils, into the wet clay and then coating the surfaces with brilliant color. The rich palette of burnt oranges and fiery reds evoke the sun’s glowing light and radiating warmth. Tiny pieces of glass embedded in the clay prior to firing add sparkle to the glossy green and blue glazes used to suggest the artist's lily pond.

Best if Used: Functional Pottery by Jim Burke
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

John Bishop Photographs
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Photographs by John Bishop of Tully will be featured throughout the month of November. Bishop, owner of Bishop's Falls Photography, specializes in landscape, nature and architectural photography, and has a special interest in water and waterfalls, old barns and structures, and architectural details.

Art Gone Wild! Prints and Paintings by Animals of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo

Price: Free for members or with zoo admission
Rosamond Gifford Zoo
One Conservation Place, Syracuse

Striking and extraordinary works of art created by the animals living at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo illustrate the depth of keeper care and behavioral enrichment vital in maintaining healthy and engaged animals. The exhibition includes several pieces produced by trunks, paws, feet, hooves, scales, skin and, of course, brushes.

Nature Inspired
Szozda Gallery

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

Painter C. Wilkinson and husband, potter Bruce Thomas combine their dual talents in painting and clay to produce "Nature Inspired."

Cathy and Bruce Thomas are a husband and wife team of artists who often influence each other's paintings and pottery. "Nature Inspired" marks the third time the couple has shown together, though each has been at their crafts for most of their 37 married years. Early in their separate careers, each one was better known for their distinct styles. Cathy painted under the name of C. Wilkinson and her subject matter was rarely nature based. "Rather," she says, "I was more in the pop art/realism and sometimes trompe l'oeil style. My works were more like high heel shoes or lipsticks." Bruce was always a naturalist and had much success in publishing his nature photos in various magazines, such as National Wild Life, Audubon, Natural History Magazine and Sierra Club. His long-time interest in pottery eventually led him to study under noted ceramicist Vincent Clemente. Cathy says that inspiration from both Bruce's photography and pottery have influenced the couple's desire to combine efforts to work together in creating "many pieces based on his love of nature and my love for him."

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African Diasporan Treasures: 40 Years of Community Folk Art Center
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition will showcase pieces from CFAC's permanent collection. Featuring over 30 works by artists including Joel Gaines, Ellen Oppler, Jack White, Denise Cole and Kamiiron Pritchard, "African Diasporan Treasures" provides a rare opportunity for visitors to experience the rich artistic history of CFAC. In many cases, the pieces have not been displayed for decades. The show will also feature African art that was once part of the Smithsonian Museum's collection.

Photography on the Edge: Between Realism and Abstraction
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The show features photographs by Central New York artists that address the relationship between realistic representation and abstract concepts. Participating artists include Willson Cummer, Bob Gates, Elisabeth Groat, Peter Mahan, Yolanda Tooley, Jeanann Wieners, Diana Whiting, and Jamie Young.

The co-curators, Jen Gandee and Syracuse-area photographer, Bob Gates, in selecting work for this show, were looking for images that are true to the perennial conflict in the history of photography between representational and non-representational images. The same conflicting impulses that have shaped other forms of art--realism, impressionism, expressionism, abstraction, surrealism--have had their adherents among photographers. The works in this exhibit show how some photographers in Central New York respond to or participate in that complex history.

57th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Our gift shop of fine art and crafts handmade by local guild and independent artists is Syracuse's one-stop shopping haven during the holiday season. Find unique pottery, stained glass, paintings, jewelry, hand-crafted soaps and candles, and much more.

For more information, phone 315-243-6359 or 315-637-6562.

Landmarks of New York
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Landmarks of New York is a traveling exhibit of 90 stunning black and white photographs of New York City buildings that have been accorded landmark status by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. The exhibit is curated by Dr. Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, New York City's first director of cultural affairs and acclaimed author of the book that serves as the basis for the exhibit, The Landmarks of New York: An Illustrated Record of the City's Historic Building. In conjunction with the show, Dennis Connors, OHA's Curator of History, selected over 20 contemporary and historic photographs to highlight Onondaga County's own architectural inheritance.

Daughters of Ixchel: The Photography of Mary Lawyer O'Connor
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Daughters of Ixchel" is a collection of images of Maya women and their hand-woven textiles that brings awareness and understanding of vibrant Maya cultures and the challenges they face. The exhibit will be a look into the lives of women weavers from Guatemala and Southern Mexico. Portrait and documentary photography along with text will tell their stories and will include original textiles. We will highlight fair-trade, worker-owned cooperatives and the political history of Guatemala where, despite persecution and genocide, Maya weavers maintain traditional methods, patterns, colors and styles that flourish and evolve.

Mary Lawyer O'Connor lives in Pompey and is a founder and current head of the Montessori School of Syracuse.

Deng Guo Yuan
The Warehouse Gallery

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

This exhibit will highlight ink brush paintings by Tianjin-based Chinese artist Deng Guo Yuan. His work reveals the tradition of Chinese landscape painting and a profound knowledge of modern and international contemporary aesthetics. The film "Deng Guo Yuan" (2010) by French filmmaker Pierre Creton, presented in the Gallery's vault, meticulously documents the creation of one of Deng Guo Yuan's ink paintings in his Tianjin studio. Widely exhibited in China and Europe, this will be the artist's first solo museum exhibition in the United States. The show originated at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts Museum (Tianjin, China), and then traveled in modified form to the Samek Art Gallery at Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA), to the Provenance Center (New London, CT), and to its last venue, the Warehouse Gallery, for which Deng Guo Yuan will create additional site-specific works.

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XL Projects

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

Art students from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) and Colgate University will be showcasing the high standards and diversity of their work at galleries on each other's campuses.

Colgate art students will exhibit their work 10/19-11/6.
VPA student work will be shown 11/9-11/27.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com or visit vpa.syr.edu/xl-projects.

Art Auction: Art Gone Wild! Prints and Paintings by Animals of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo

Price: $5 regular; ages 6 & under free
Rosamond Gifford Zoo
One Conservation Place, Syracuse

More than 100 pieces of art created by the animals living at the zoo will be auctioned off in support of the 2012 American Association of Zoo Keepers annual conference to be held at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo. If you've ever wanted to purchase a piece of animal artwork, now's your chance! Light refreshments and a cash bar will be available.

Striking and extraordinary works of art created by the animals living at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo illustrate the depth of keeper care and behavioral enrichment vital in maintaining healthy and engaged animals. The exhibition includes several pieces produced by trunks, paws, feet, hooves, scales, skin and, of course, brushes.

Always After (the Glass House)
Urban Video Project

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

Urban Video Project is pleased to present Always After (the Glass House), 2006, by internationally recognized multimedia artist, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle.

Employing footage shot on a high-speed film camera, Always After focuses on the broken glass accumulated after the windows of the Mies-designed Illinois Institute of Technology's Crown Hall were smashed by the architect's own grandson as part of a ceremony in advance of the building's renovation. Manglano-Ovalle scrupulously edits out all clear reference to this odd 'kill your fathers' ritual, leaving the viewer with a dream-like sequence in which well-shod anonymous masses eternally exit and equally anonymous custodians endlessly move in to sweep up the crystalline debris of modernism. The precise nature of the event--whether it is a natural disaster, a terrorist attack, or just routine construction--never becomes clear. Instead, the narrative unfolds like a Jacob's ladder: never reaching the end, passing again and again through the point where modernist progress and crisis become indistinguishable--a point that is always already "after."

Nathaniel Sullivan: On the Way to the Theatre, We Egged a Trans-am
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In this 1 minute-23 second video, Sullivan depicts the pressures brought to bear in teenage boys--most of which are pressures to be pleased, injunctions to enjoy. While at first glance this looks like an easy row to hoe, the work makes it clear that in fact there are consequences to taking one's pleasures liberally, without reserve. As Plato said, pleasure deranges as efficiently as pain.

Nathaniel Sullivan is an artist and writer. He received his MFA degree from the Transmedia Department at Syracuse University in Spring 2011. His practice is a balance of artwork, critical writing, and curating. His work has been shown in exhibitions and screenings in Syracuse, New York City, and widely across Canada. In 2006, he was awarded a Special Mention from the prestigious Montreal Film Festival.

Bill Cosby

Price: $45-$65
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Contemporary Film Series: Ratatouille
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In this Pixar animated comedy, Remy loves fine French food, which is a problem since he happens to be a rat. He lives in an expensive French restaurant and desires to become a chef despite the disapproval of his father and brother who are happy eating garbage. He has adventures every day with a rat-despising staff that wants him gone in this riotous family film. Directed by Brad Bird, 2007, rated G, 110 minutes.

Gravedigger
Syracuse International Film Festival
ArtRage Gallery

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

Gravedigger, by Sandor Kardos (Hungary, fiction, 88 minutes)

Director's Citation Winner. Don't miss one of the most unique and hauntingly beautiful films ever made. A stranger comes to town and wins the adoration of the local bigwig's daughter. After a plague befalls the townspeople, it becomes their duty to push coffin-laden wagons to the cemetery.

Harvest Home
Bells & Motley Consort

Price: $15 individual, $45 families; $10 individual, $30 families (Baltimore Woods members))
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

For the first time in years, the log cabin at Baltimore Woods will come alive with music and celebration! John and Sondra Bromka will lead us on an enjoyable journey of nature-based folklore and legend, music, dance and craft of traditional harvest celebrations. Join them around the campfire as we start a new Baltimore Woods tradition by tapping into the deep connections our ancestors had with the land.

Registration required by November 12. Phone 315-673-1350 or email info@baltimorewoods.org.

Songwriters Fund Raiser Show
Kellish Hill Farm
Featuring Greg Hoover, Loren Barrigar, John Cadley, and Dusty Pascal

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

Come on out for a good cause -- to give thanks for the music flowing at Kellish Hill Farm. You will hear the thought process that goes into writing songs by some of the very gifted song writers of the CNY area and the songs themselves. Audience interaction is encouraged. The performers host for the evening will be Greg Hoover. The song writers to participate will be Loren Barrigar, John Cadley and Dusty Pascal. This will be the best night of entertainment under one roof in our heated music barn. Big jam will follow the show so bring your instruments. Refreshments and snacks will be available.

Treasures for Flute, Clarinet and Piano
M&M & Friends
Featuring Martha Grener, flute; Maryna Mazhukhova, piano; Gerald Zampino, clarinet

Price: $10 adults, $5 children suggested donation
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

Works by George Bizet, Frederic Chopin, Franz Danzi, Robert Muczynski, Gary Schocker, Howard Buss and others.

M&M & Friends was founded in 2009 by flutist Martha Grener and pianist Maryna Mazhukova. M&M & Friends will begin to present educational programs to children about music and composers within the next year, as well as expanding programs to benefit local charities.

For more information, visit www.mmfriends.org.

Will Jam for Food Benefit Concert
Redhouse

Price: $25
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

A night of rock, blues, and roots, featuring Mark Doyle and the Maniacs, Soul Risin', and The Super Delinquents, to support Meals on Wheels of Syracuse.

For more information, phone 315-425-0405.

Safari
Spirit of Syracuse Chorus
Nancy Field, conductor

Price: $20 advance sale, $15 students, $25 at the door
Liverpool High School Auditorium
4338 Wetzel Rd., Liverpool

The Spirit of Syracuse Chorus is hosting their annual show "Safari" with special guests Moxie Ladies the 2009 SAI Queens of Harmony.

For more information, visit www.spiritofsyracuse.com or call 315-492-2712.

The Follies: St. Joseph's Gets the Show on the Road

Price: $15
Franciscan Center
2500 Grant Blvd., Syracuse

A professionally produced, full-filled variety show featuring St. Joseph's physicians, nurses, staff, and members of the community. Proceeds benefit St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center's new emergency services building.

Donna the Buffalo, with Driftwood
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Little Red Riding Hood
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

In this interactive version, the children in the audience are invited to come dressed up as fairytale characters, and become the witnesses, jury, and judge at the wolf's trial (for trying to trick Little Red and her Grandmother).

For reservations, phone 315-449-3823.

Zanna, Don't: A Musical Fairytale
Encore Presentations
Stephfond D. Brunson, director

Price: $37.25 dinner and show, $20 show only
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

A musical by Tim Acito and with additional lyrics and material by Alexander Dinelaris. The story is set in a parallel universe where homosexuality is the norm and heterosexuality is a taboo. Set in midwest America, "Zanna" takes place at heterophobic Heartsville High. Zanna is the school's matchmaker, bringing together happy couples until the football team's quarterback and the captain of the Girls' Intramural Mechanical Bull-Riding Team begin to discover their feelings for each other.

Dinner begins at 6:30 pm; show at 8:00 pm.

A Tuna Christmas
CNY Playhouse
Deborah Pearson, director

Price: Dinner theater: $29 single; $55 couple. Show only: $20 (limited availability)
Fire and Ice Banquet Hall, The Locker Room
528 Hiawatha Blvd., Syracuse

Dinner at 6:45 pm, followed by show at 8:00 pm.

Twenty Characters, Two Men, a Partridge in a Pear Tree! In this hilarious sequel to Greater Tuna, it's Christmas in the third smallest town in Texas. Radio station OKKK news personalities Thurston Wheelis and Arles Struvie report on various Yuletide activities, including hot competition in the annual lawn display contest. In other news, voracious Joe Bob Lipsey's production of "A Christmas Carol" is jeopardized by unpaid electric bills. Many colorful Tuna denizens, some you will recognize from Greater Tuna and some appearing here for the first time, join in the holiday fun. Starring Greg J. Hipius & Gerrit Vander Werff Jr.

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Red Hot Patriot:The Kick Ass Wit of Molly Ivins
Studio 24
Gerard Moses, director
Featuring Karis Wiggins

Price: $20
Studio 24
433 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This one-woman play, written by sisters Margaret and Allison Engel, is based on the writings of the late political journalist Molly Ivins. In Red Hot Patriot: The Kick Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, Karis Wiggins portrays the famously witty newspaper columnist and best-selling author. A true Texas original, Ivins took aim at the political establishment and the "good ole boys" with her unique blend of wit and wisdom. The play explores Ivins' courage and tenacity in an effort to wake up a complacent nation.

Molly Ivins' column was syndicated in nearly 400 newspapers nationwide. Her one-of-a-kind voice was developed in the early 1970s when she was the co-editor of The Texas Observer. At the time it was the state's only independent political magazine. The Observer remained dear to her throughout her illustrious career. Ivins' wrote five best-selling books. The subject of two of them (Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush and Bushwacked) was her former high school classmate, George W. Bush. Ivins attended Smith College and began her newspaper career at The Houston Chronicle. She worked at The New York Times for five years before moving back to Texas where she worked at several newspapers within her home state. Molly died in 2007 after a very public and courageous battle with breast cancer.

Tickets available through brownpapertickets.com, 1-800-838-3006 or 315-289-6613.

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Forever Plaid
Twist Cabaret Theatre

Twist Ultra Lounge
252 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

One of the most popular and successful musicals in recent memory, this deliciously goofy revue centers on four young, eager male singers killed in a car crash in the 1950s on the way to their first big concert, and now miraculously revived for the posthumous chance to fulfill their dreams and perform the show that never was. Starring Matthew Green, Robb Sharpe, Shawn Forster and Wade McGowen, with Josh Smith.

For tickets, phone 315-479-7469.

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Windows Project: Elisabeth Meyer: Black Night/White Night
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Window Project features an installation by Elisabeth Meyer consisting of organic forms embroidered onto an organza fabric. The overall patterning evokes an association with ocean waves and a net. The transparent quality of the organza background allows the viewer to see through the piece that is hanging from the ceiling covering the entire window front. The work addresses the issue of displacement through traveling. Meyer, who is based in Ithaca, developed the concept for this exhibition while at a residency in Iceland, traveled to India to oversee the production of the embroidery, and created the work on site in Syracuse.

VisualBooks: Works by Scott McCarney
Light Work Gallery

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

This unique and beautiful exhibition explores the book as a sculptural object that employs a variety of image-making processes. McCarney's carefully hand-bound editions and found-altered books incorporate photographic imagery and utilize the space of the gallery to explore reading as display (on pedestals and shelves, hanging from the ceiling, mounted on the wall).

McCarney creates his sculptural objects and photo-based editions as one-of-a-kind, hand-made pieces as well as small runs of print-on-demand books. According to Hannah Frieser, director of Light Work, "Scott McCarney rethinks the book form, considering books as a starting point rather than a mere vehicle for information and images."

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Nature Inspired
Szozda Gallery

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

Painter C. Wilkinson and husband, potter Bruce Thomas combine their dual talents in painting and clay to produce "Nature Inspired."

Cathy and Bruce Thomas are a husband and wife team of artists who often influence each other's paintings and pottery. "Nature Inspired" marks the third time the couple has shown together, though each has been at their crafts for most of their 37 married years. Early in their separate careers, each one was better known for their distinct styles. Cathy painted under the name of C. Wilkinson and her subject matter was rarely nature based. "Rather," she says, "I was more in the pop art/realism and sometimes trompe l'oeil style. My works were more like high heel shoes or lipsticks." Bruce was always a naturalist and had much success in publishing his nature photos in various magazines, such as National Wild Life, Audubon, Natural History Magazine and Sierra Club. His long-time interest in pottery eventually led him to study under noted ceramicist Vincent Clemente. Cathy says that inspiration from both Bruce's photography and pottery have influenced the couple's desire to combine efforts to work together in creating "many pieces based on his love of nature and my love for him."

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Best if Used: Functional Pottery by Jim Burke
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Photography on the Edge: Between Realism and Abstraction
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The show features photographs by Central New York artists that address the relationship between realistic representation and abstract concepts. Participating artists include Willson Cummer, Bob Gates, Elisabeth Groat, Peter Mahan, Yolanda Tooley, Jeanann Wieners, Diana Whiting, and Jamie Young.

The co-curators, Jen Gandee and Syracuse-area photographer, Bob Gates, in selecting work for this show, were looking for images that are true to the perennial conflict in the history of photography between representational and non-representational images. The same conflicting impulses that have shaped other forms of art--realism, impressionism, expressionism, abstraction, surrealism--have had their adherents among photographers. The works in this exhibit show how some photographers in Central New York respond to or participate in that complex history.

John Bishop Photographs
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Photographs by John Bishop of Tully will be featured throughout the month of November. Bishop, owner of Bishop's Falls Photography, specializes in landscape, nature and architectural photography, and has a special interest in water and waterfalls, old barns and structures, and architectural details.

Landmarks of New York
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Landmarks of New York is a traveling exhibit of 90 stunning black and white photographs of New York City buildings that have been accorded landmark status by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. The exhibit is curated by Dr. Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, New York City's first director of cultural affairs and acclaimed author of the book that serves as the basis for the exhibit, The Landmarks of New York: An Illustrated Record of the City's Historic Building. In conjunction with the show, Dennis Connors, OHA's Curator of History, selected over 20 contemporary and historic photographs to highlight Onondaga County's own architectural inheritance.

Margie Hughto: A Fired Landscape
Everson Museum of Art

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

Internationally renowned ceramic artist Margie Hughto presents her first site-specific museum installation entitled A Fired Landscape, a "clay painting" spanning 50 feet of gallery wall space. Inspired by the artist's spectacular backyard gardens and natural landscape just steps from her studio, The Fired Landscape installation consists of Setting Sun, a brilliantly colored ceramic wall relief displayed continuously on five angled walls. The visitor encounter is reminiscent of what one experiences when surrounded by the natural environment. Overall, Setting Sun is a ceramic abstraction, but Hughto establishes a connection to the landscape that inspired it by adding impressions of natural objects such as native ferns, marine life and fossils, into the wet clay and then coating the surfaces with brilliant color. The rich palette of burnt oranges and fiery reds evoke the sun’s glowing light and radiating warmth. Tiny pieces of glass embedded in the clay prior to firing add sparkle to the glossy green and blue glazes used to suggest the artist's lily pond.

From Here to There: Alec Soth's America
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, members and children under 5 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From Here to There: Alec Soth's America" provides a focused look at an extraordinary photographer whose compelling images of the American road and its unexpected turns form powerful narrative vignettes. The exhibition will be the artist's first major survey assembled in the United States, exploring over 15 years of his career, and including an extensive new body of work.

Since his inclusion in the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo biennials, Soth's reputation as one of the most interesting voices in contemporary photography has continued to grow. Though he has followed the itinerant path laid forth by photographers such as Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Stephen Shore, Soth's is a distinct perspective, one in which the wandering, searching, and the process of telling is as resonant as the record of these remarkable encounters. When considered together, Soth's pictures probe the individualities of people, objects, and places he encounters; offer insight to broader sociologies, and in the process form a collective portrait of an unexpected America.

Featuring approximately 100 photographs made between 1994 and the present, "From Here to There" will include rarely-seen early black-and-white images as well as examples from Soth's best-known series "Sleeping by the Mississippi" and "Niagara." Interspersed throughout the exhibition will be a broad range of portraits made over the past 15 years. The exhibition will also include a new body of work the artist has been developing since 2006, exploring places of escape in America and individuals who seek to flee civilization for a life off the grid. To add insight into Soth's process, the exhibition additionally features a Library space, which includes a reading area for publications, a selection of maquettes for book and 'zine projects, short video works, and ephemera gathered on the road.

Sculpted Sound: From Art to Wood to Music -- Works of John & Sondra Bromka
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-445-4153.

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XL Projects

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

Art students from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) and Colgate University will be showcasing the high standards and diversity of their work at galleries on each other's campuses.

Colgate art students will exhibit their work 10/19-11/6.
VPA student work will be shown 11/9-11/27.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com or visit vpa.syr.edu/xl-projects.

"Off the Wall" Holiday Art Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Learning to Write American: Works by Jennifer Drinkwater
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

These incredibly innovative pieces directly involve the viewer to create meaning, through imagining the missing term, through opening compartments of the painting to explore what is hidden beneath the surface, or by rearranging magnets to create a composition.

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Always After (the Glass House)
Urban Video Project

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

Urban Video Project is pleased to present Always After (the Glass House), 2006, by internationally recognized multimedia artist, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle.

Employing footage shot on a high-speed film camera, Always After focuses on the broken glass accumulated after the windows of the Mies-designed Illinois Institute of Technology's Crown Hall were smashed by the architect's own grandson as part of a ceremony in advance of the building's renovation. Manglano-Ovalle scrupulously edits out all clear reference to this odd 'kill your fathers' ritual, leaving the viewer with a dream-like sequence in which well-shod anonymous masses eternally exit and equally anonymous custodians endlessly move in to sweep up the crystalline debris of modernism. The precise nature of the event--whether it is a natural disaster, a terrorist attack, or just routine construction--never becomes clear. Instead, the narrative unfolds like a Jacob's ladder: never reaching the end, passing again and again through the point where modernist progress and crisis become indistinguishable--a point that is always already "after."

Nathaniel Sullivan: On the Way to the Theatre, We Egged a Trans-am
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In this 1 minute-23 second video, Sullivan depicts the pressures brought to bear in teenage boys--most of which are pressures to be pleased, injunctions to enjoy. While at first glance this looks like an easy row to hoe, the work makes it clear that in fact there are consequences to taking one's pleasures liberally, without reserve. As Plato said, pleasure deranges as efficiently as pain.

Nathaniel Sullivan is an artist and writer. He received his MFA degree from the Transmedia Department at Syracuse University in Spring 2011. His practice is a balance of artwork, critical writing, and curating. His work has been shown in exhibitions and screenings in Syracuse, New York City, and widely across Canada. In 2006, he was awarded a Special Mention from the prestigious Montreal Film Festival.

Live! At The Everson: The Charismatic Oboe
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Anna Petersen Stearns, oboe; Wendy Richman, viola; Cara Johnson, piano

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

Brilliant oboist and friends in music by Reicha, Loeffler, Vivaldi, Paculli, and Barber.

Selections from Ragtime
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Vocal students will present selections from the Broadway musical Ragtime.

CNYJO Big Band with Mark Kellogg
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $30 regular, $25 subscribers/donors
Sheraton Syracuse University Grand Ballroom
801 University Ave., Syracuse

Trombonist and educator Mark Kellogg helps the CNY Jazz Orchestra kick off the cabaret season with a high energy blast in this debut concert.

Red Hot Patriot:The Kick Ass Wit of Molly Ivins
Studio 24
Gerard Moses, director
Featuring Karis Wiggins

Price: $20
Studio 24
433 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This one-woman play, written by sisters Margaret and Allison Engel, is based on the writings of the late political journalist Molly Ivins. In Red Hot Patriot: The Kick Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, Karis Wiggins portrays the famously witty newspaper columnist and best-selling author. A true Texas original, Ivins took aim at the political establishment and the "good ole boys" with her unique blend of wit and wisdom. The play explores Ivins' courage and tenacity in an effort to wake up a complacent nation.

Molly Ivins' column was syndicated in nearly 400 newspapers nationwide. Her one-of-a-kind voice was developed in the early 1970s when she was the co-editor of The Texas Observer. At the time it was the state's only independent political magazine. The Observer remained dear to her throughout her illustrious career. Ivins' wrote five best-selling books. The subject of two of them (Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush and Bushwacked) was her former high school classmate, George W. Bush. Ivins attended Smith College and began her newspaper career at The Houston Chronicle. She worked at The New York Times for five years before moving back to Texas where she worked at several newspapers within her home state. Molly died in 2007 after a very public and courageous battle with breast cancer.

Tickets available through brownpapertickets.com, 1-800-838-3006 or 315-289-6613.

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Forever Plaid
Twist Cabaret Theatre

Twist Ultra Lounge
252 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

One of the most popular and successful musicals in recent memory, this deliciously goofy revue centers on four young, eager male singers killed in a car crash in the 1950s on the way to their first big concert, and now miraculously revived for the posthumous chance to fulfill their dreams and perform the show that never was. Starring Matthew Green, Robb Sharpe, Shawn Forster and Wade McGowen, with Josh Smith.

For tickets, phone 315-479-7469.

Monday, November 21, 2011

Windows Project: Elisabeth Meyer: Black Night/White Night
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Window Project features an installation by Elisabeth Meyer consisting of organic forms embroidered onto an organza fabric. The overall patterning evokes an association with ocean waves and a net. The transparent quality of the organza background allows the viewer to see through the piece that is hanging from the ceiling covering the entire window front. The work addresses the issue of displacement through traveling. Meyer, who is based in Ithaca, developed the concept for this exhibition while at a residency in Iceland, traveled to India to oversee the production of the embroidery, and created the work on site in Syracuse.

Sculpted Sound: From Art to Wood to Music -- Works of John & Sondra Bromka
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-445-4153.

Pile-Stratra: Work s of Mikyung Kim
Onondaga Community College

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

Mikyung Kim's conceptual "Pile-Stratra" exhibit is an intrinsic exploration of the relationship between game and rite. Kim's work is deeply rooted in Eastern Ceremony, especially ancestor worship by creating the tableau as an altar setting. Each work is a product of random and composed elements, producing a form of controlled spontaneity that mirrors the interplay between the fleeting mind and metamorphic nature.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium is Lots 2 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Spanglish: Drawing, Collage, Photography and Video
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Spanglish is a project made specifically for the Point of Contact Gallery by New York City artist Celeste Fichter, based on Point of Contact's work in the verbal and the visual arts, and its ties to the Latin American literary and visual arts. Comprised of drawing, collage, photography and video, Spanglish is based solely on the artist's understanding and misunderstanding of the Spanish language.

For several months Fichter studied the Spanish/English dictionary page by page, definition by definition in alphabetical order, pronouncing each word aloud in search of words that sound like other words (in either English or Spanish), and looking for definitions that have intriguing double meanings or spellings that can be manipulated. As a non-Spanish speaker, the attempt to learn a new language through a list of definitions presented many limitations; however it is within the narrow confines of these limitations, and maybe because of them, that new understanding is created.

Fichter is interested in the fluidity of language in general as a tool of expression and visual language specifically. Spanglish is beyond a spoken language, beyond a hybrid of the English and Spanish languages — a visual language made up of words, images, signs and symbols.

Open Apple Steve. Memoriam: an aesthetic homage to Steve Jobs
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Exhibit features works by local artists Vicki Harris, Matthew Keeney, Ellen Leahy, Paul Melnikow, and Kathryn Petrillo, plus works from artists in California, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Utah, Washington DC, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Philippines, and Portugal

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Just One Word: Plastics
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

For more than a century, plastics have transformed our lives -- from bathroom to battlefield; from supermarket to spacecraft. Begun as a 19th-century replacement material for billiard balls and piano keys, plastics spurred 20th century developments in industry, transportation, medicine, entertainment, and other aspects of contemporary life. The original objects of "Just One Word: Plastics" represent a material history of the modern world.

This exhibition features a representative sample of the Plastics Collection at the Syracuse University Library and presents an overview of major trends in the development of plastics in everyday life. The exhibit focuses on personal and household objects rather than the use of plastics in industry where they are also widely used. Approximately 250 objects divided into 12 categories will be on view. In addition, a small selection of manuscripts and printed materials will be included.

Specific objects to be featured in the exhibition are:
* ornate celluloid combs and a wide variety of plastic toiletries
* phenolic (Bakelite) objects from the 1920s and 30s including jewelry, radios, and other appliances and games
* musical instruments
* post-war toys, dishes, and household items
* original patent books of John Wesley Hyatt, inventor of Celluloid
* product catalogues from the 1930s and 1950s for popular items such as DuPont French Ivory dresser sets, Boltaware molded "stoneware" dishes, and Tupperware, and
* the Pleur-evac, a revolutionary plastic medical device for draining fluid and maintaining pressure in the lungs that helped save the life of President Ronald Reagan.

The Plastics Collection was begun in 2007 as a joint project of the Syracuse University Library and the Plastics History & Artifacts Committee of the Plastics Pioneers Association. The Collection expanded dramatically when the National Plastics Center and Museum in Leominster, MA, closed and transferred its artifacts, books, and manuscripts to Syracuse University's care in 2008.

Aphotic Ardor: Works by Kristie Hayes-Beaulieu
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

An exhibit of variety. Diversity. Progression. Connections. Past and present. Growth. Reclusion. Pain and suffering, as well as extreme bliss. Also view a sneak preview in one of our gallery rooms of Kristie's X-ray-inspired work that will be on display at the SUNY Health Science Center in December.

Whereas I Took the Butterfly: Works by Deloss McGraw
YMCA Arts Branch GallerY

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit of literary "poster paintings" features Deloss McGraw's reflections/interpretations of such writers as Dickinson, Hemingway, Snodgrass and others, often using photographs of the authors, book covers, or other borrowed images.

"Off the Wall" Holiday Art Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Best if Used: Functional Pottery by Jim Burke
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

John Bishop Photographs
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Photographs by John Bishop of Tully will be featured throughout the month of November. Bishop, owner of Bishop's Falls Photography, specializes in landscape, nature and architectural photography, and has a special interest in water and waterfalls, old barns and structures, and architectural details.

VisualBooks: Works by Scott McCarney
Light Work Gallery

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

This unique and beautiful exhibition explores the book as a sculptural object that employs a variety of image-making processes. McCarney's carefully hand-bound editions and found-altered books incorporate photographic imagery and utilize the space of the gallery to explore reading as display (on pedestals and shelves, hanging from the ceiling, mounted on the wall).

McCarney creates his sculptural objects and photo-based editions as one-of-a-kind, hand-made pieces as well as small runs of print-on-demand books. According to Hannah Frieser, director of Light Work, "Scott McCarney rethinks the book form, considering books as a starting point rather than a mere vehicle for information and images."

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The Butterfly Effect
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

The Butterfly Effect is the first multimedia exhibition at 601 Tully. The actual and conceptual life of a butterfly is a departure point for a collaborative exhibition that places humans and butterflies together in a micro-habitat inside an art space.

The Butterfly Effect presents a variety of interpretations of the butterfly structure and the butterfly as a symbol as addressed by contemporary visual artists and will include work by local artists, Syracuse University students and professors, and Syracuse youth. The centerpiece of The Butterfly Effect is a living butterfly habitat constructed by SU students using materials reclaimed from local sites. The interior butterfly garden provides the opportunity for exhibition visitors to observe living butterflies while surrounded by artworks that explore or feature the butterfly metaphorically.

57th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Our gift shop of fine art and crafts handmade by local guild and independent artists is Syracuse's one-stop shopping haven during the holiday season. Find unique pottery, stained glass, paintings, jewelry, hand-crafted soaps and candles, and much more.

For more information, phone 315-243-6359 or 315-637-6562.

Will The Real Terrorist Please Stand Up
ArtRage Gallery

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

Introduced by Doug Igelsrud from Pastors for Peace. Documentary directed by Saul Landau, 65 minutes.
An in-depth look at Miami-Havana politics; the film dissects this still-contentious relationship by examining the "Cuban Five," sent by Castro to infiltrate right-wing terrorist organizations in Miami in the '90s. By explicating this little-known chapter in political history, Landau points out how Cubans and Cuban-Americans have been pitted against one another in the US government's 50-plus-year battle to destroy Communism in the Western hemisphere.

Another Thin Man (1939)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $3.50 non-members, $3 members
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Director: W.S. Van Dyke II
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, C. Aubrey Smith, Otto Kruger, Nat Pendleton, Vivien Grey, Marjorie Main, Sheldon Leonard.

Third entry in the perennially popular series with Powell and Loy as Nick and Nora Charles. This time the elegant, witty and sophisticated sleuthing couple are investigating the murder of the man who used to manage Nora's estate. Last entry to feature a story written by author Dashiell Hammett.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Windows Project: Elisabeth Meyer: Black Night/White Night
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Window Project features an installation by Elisabeth Meyer consisting of organic forms embroidered onto an organza fabric. The overall patterning evokes an association with ocean waves and a net. The transparent quality of the organza background allows the viewer to see through the piece that is hanging from the ceiling covering the entire window front. The work addresses the issue of displacement through traveling. Meyer, who is based in Ithaca, developed the concept for this exhibition while at a residency in Iceland, traveled to India to oversee the production of the embroidery, and created the work on site in Syracuse.

Sculpted Sound: From Art to Wood to Music -- Works of John & Sondra Bromka
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-445-4153.

Pile-Stratra: Work s of Mikyung Kim
Onondaga Community College

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

Mikyung Kim's conceptual "Pile-Stratra" exhibit is an intrinsic exploration of the relationship between game and rite. Kim's work is deeply rooted in Eastern Ceremony, especially ancestor worship by creating the tableau as an altar setting. Each work is a product of random and composed elements, producing a form of controlled spontaneity that mirrors the interplay between the fleeting mind and metamorphic nature.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium is Lots 2 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Spanglish: Drawing, Collage, Photography and Video
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Spanglish is a project made specifically for the Point of Contact Gallery by New York City artist Celeste Fichter, based on Point of Contact's work in the verbal and the visual arts, and its ties to the Latin American literary and visual arts. Comprised of drawing, collage, photography and video, Spanglish is based solely on the artist's understanding and misunderstanding of the Spanish language.

For several months Fichter studied the Spanish/English dictionary page by page, definition by definition in alphabetical order, pronouncing each word aloud in search of words that sound like other words (in either English or Spanish), and looking for definitions that have intriguing double meanings or spellings that can be manipulated. As a non-Spanish speaker, the attempt to learn a new language through a list of definitions presented many limitations; however it is within the narrow confines of these limitations, and maybe because of them, that new understanding is created.

Fichter is interested in the fluidity of language in general as a tool of expression and visual language specifically. Spanglish is beyond a spoken language, beyond a hybrid of the English and Spanish languages — a visual language made up of words, images, signs and symbols.

Open Apple Steve. Memoriam: an aesthetic homage to Steve Jobs
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Exhibit features works by local artists Vicki Harris, Matthew Keeney, Ellen Leahy, Paul Melnikow, and Kathryn Petrillo, plus works from artists in California, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Utah, Washington DC, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Philippines, and Portugal

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Just One Word: Plastics
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

For more than a century, plastics have transformed our lives -- from bathroom to battlefield; from supermarket to spacecraft. Begun as a 19th-century replacement material for billiard balls and piano keys, plastics spurred 20th century developments in industry, transportation, medicine, entertainment, and other aspects of contemporary life. The original objects of "Just One Word: Plastics" represent a material history of the modern world.

This exhibition features a representative sample of the Plastics Collection at the Syracuse University Library and presents an overview of major trends in the development of plastics in everyday life. The exhibit focuses on personal and household objects rather than the use of plastics in industry where they are also widely used. Approximately 250 objects divided into 12 categories will be on view. In addition, a small selection of manuscripts and printed materials will be included.

Specific objects to be featured in the exhibition are:
* ornate celluloid combs and a wide variety of plastic toiletries
* phenolic (Bakelite) objects from the 1920s and 30s including jewelry, radios, and other appliances and games
* musical instruments
* post-war toys, dishes, and household items
* original patent books of John Wesley Hyatt, inventor of Celluloid
* product catalogues from the 1930s and 1950s for popular items such as DuPont French Ivory dresser sets, Boltaware molded "stoneware" dishes, and Tupperware, and
* the Pleur-evac, a revolutionary plastic medical device for draining fluid and maintaining pressure in the lungs that helped save the life of President Ronald Reagan.

The Plastics Collection was begun in 2007 as a joint project of the Syracuse University Library and the Plastics History & Artifacts Committee of the Plastics Pioneers Association. The Collection expanded dramatically when the National Plastics Center and Museum in Leominster, MA, closed and transferred its artifacts, books, and manuscripts to Syracuse University's care in 2008.

Aphotic Ardor: Works by Kristie Hayes-Beaulieu
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

An exhibit of variety. Diversity. Progression. Connections. Past and present. Growth. Reclusion. Pain and suffering, as well as extreme bliss. Also view a sneak preview in one of our gallery rooms of Kristie's X-ray-inspired work that will be on display at the SUNY Health Science Center in December.

Whereas I Took the Butterfly: Works by Deloss McGraw
YMCA Arts Branch GallerY

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit of literary "poster paintings" features Deloss McGraw's reflections/interpretations of such writers as Dickinson, Hemingway, Snodgrass and others, often using photographs of the authors, book covers, or other borrowed images.

Untold Stories
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Featuring the diverse works of Alison Fisher: acrylic and mixed media paintings; jewelry made of unique mixed metals and found objects; one-of-a-kind textiles including handbags, scarves, pillows, and throws.

"Off the Wall" Holiday Art Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

African Diasporan Treasures: 40 Years of Community Folk Art Center
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition will showcase pieces from CFAC's permanent collection. Featuring over 30 works by artists including Joel Gaines, Ellen Oppler, Jack White, Denise Cole and Kamiiron Pritchard, "African Diasporan Treasures" provides a rare opportunity for visitors to experience the rich artistic history of CFAC. In many cases, the pieces have not been displayed for decades. The show will also feature African art that was once part of the Smithsonian Museum's collection.

Best if Used: Functional Pottery by Jim Burke
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

John Bishop Photographs
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Photographs by John Bishop of Tully will be featured throughout the month of November. Bishop, owner of Bishop's Falls Photography, specializes in landscape, nature and architectural photography, and has a special interest in water and waterfalls, old barns and structures, and architectural details.

VisualBooks: Works by Scott McCarney
Light Work Gallery

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

This unique and beautiful exhibition explores the book as a sculptural object that employs a variety of image-making processes. McCarney's carefully hand-bound editions and found-altered books incorporate photographic imagery and utilize the space of the gallery to explore reading as display (on pedestals and shelves, hanging from the ceiling, mounted on the wall).

McCarney creates his sculptural objects and photo-based editions as one-of-a-kind, hand-made pieces as well as small runs of print-on-demand books. According to Hannah Frieser, director of Light Work, "Scott McCarney rethinks the book form, considering books as a starting point rather than a mere vehicle for information and images."

Read a review!

The Butterfly Effect
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

The Butterfly Effect is the first multimedia exhibition at 601 Tully. The actual and conceptual life of a butterfly is a departure point for a collaborative exhibition that places humans and butterflies together in a micro-habitat inside an art space.

The Butterfly Effect presents a variety of interpretations of the butterfly structure and the butterfly as a symbol as addressed by contemporary visual artists and will include work by local artists, Syracuse University students and professors, and Syracuse youth. The centerpiece of The Butterfly Effect is a living butterfly habitat constructed by SU students using materials reclaimed from local sites. The interior butterfly garden provides the opportunity for exhibition visitors to observe living butterflies while surrounded by artworks that explore or feature the butterfly metaphorically.

57th Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Our gift shop of fine art and crafts handmade by local guild and independent artists is Syracuse's one-stop shopping haven during the holiday season. Find unique pottery, stained glass, paintings, jewelry, hand-crafted soaps and candles, and much more.

For more information, phone 315-243-6359 or 315-637-6562.

From Here to There: Alec Soth's America
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, members and children under 5 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From Here to There: Alec Soth's America" provides a focused look at an extraordinary photographer whose compelling images of the American road and its unexpected turns form powerful narrative vignettes. The exhibition will be the artist's first major survey assembled in the United States, exploring over 15 years of his career, and including an extensive new body of work.

Since his inclusion in the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo biennials, Soth's reputation as one of the most interesting voices in contemporary photography has continued to grow. Though he has followed the itinerant path laid forth by photographers such as Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Stephen Shore, Soth's is a distinct perspective, one in which the wandering, searching, and the process of telling is as resonant as the record of these remarkable encounters. When considered together, Soth's pictures probe the individualities of people, objects, and places he encounters; offer insight to broader sociologies, and in the process form a collective portrait of an unexpected America.

Featuring approximately 100 photographs made between 1994 and the present, "From Here to There" will include rarely-seen early black-and-white images as well as examples from Soth's best-known series "Sleeping by the Mississippi" and "Niagara." Interspersed throughout the exhibition will be a broad range of portraits made over the past 15 years. The exhibition will also include a new body of work the artist has been developing since 2006, exploring places of escape in America and individuals who seek to flee civilization for a life off the grid. To add insight into Soth's process, the exhibition additionally features a Library space, which includes a reading area for publications, a selection of maquettes for book and 'zine projects, short video works, and ephemera gathered on the road.

Margie Hughto: A Fired Landscape
Everson Museum of Art

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

Internationally renowned ceramic artist Margie Hughto presents her first site-specific museum installation entitled A Fired Landscape, a "clay painting" spanning 50 feet of gallery wall space. Inspired by the artist's spectacular backyard gardens and natural landscape just steps from her studio, The Fired Landscape installation consists of Setting Sun, a brilliantly colored ceramic wall relief displayed continuously on five angled walls. The visitor encounter is reminiscent of what one experiences when surrounded by the natural environment. Overall, Setting Sun is a ceramic abstraction, but Hughto establishes a connection to the landscape that inspired it by adding impressions of natural objects such as native ferns, marine life and fossils, into the wet clay and then coating the surfaces with brilliant color. The rich palette of burnt oranges and fiery reds evoke the sun’s glowing light and radiating warmth. Tiny pieces of glass embedded in the clay prior to firing add sparkle to the glossy green and blue glazes used to suggest the artist's lily pond.

Deng Guo Yuan
The Warehouse Gallery

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

This exhibit will highlight ink brush paintings by Tianjin-based Chinese artist Deng Guo Yuan. His work reveals the tradition of Chinese landscape painting and a profound knowledge of modern and international contemporary aesthetics. The film "Deng Guo Yuan" (2010) by French filmmaker Pierre Creton, presented in the Gallery's vault, meticulously documents the creation of one of Deng Guo Yuan's ink paintings in his Tianjin studio. Widely exhibited in China and Europe, this will be the artist's first solo museum exhibition in the United States. The show originated at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts Museum (Tianjin, China), and then traveled in modified form to the Samek Art Gallery at Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA), to the Provenance Center (New London, CT), and to its last venue, the Warehouse Gallery, for which Deng Guo Yuan will create additional site-specific works.

Dies Irae
Echo

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

Dies Irae, a group show with Thomas Ward III, Heidi Josephine, and Nik Moore featuring a mix of collaborative and original paintings.

"What If...?" Film Series: Becoming American
Gifford Foundation

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Becoming American tells the story of a Hmong refugee family from Highland Laos resettling in the U.S. Hang Sou and his family, preliterate tribal farmers, await resettlement in a refugee camp in Thailand after fleeing their war-consumed native Laos. Becoming American records their odyssey as they travel to and resettle in the United States. As they face nine months of intense culture shock, prejudice, and gradual adaptation to their new home in Seattle, the family provides a rare insight into refugee resettlement and cultural diversity issues.

"Becoming American is a galvanizing force for refugee support efforts," states a review from the Seattle Weekly. "It may prove the most potent single media instrument in teaching the refugees' suspicious American hosts who these frightened newcomers are. It may also build the beginnings of understanding and empathy."

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Windows Project: Elisabeth Meyer: Black Night/White Night
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Window Project features an installation by Elisabeth Meyer consisting of organic forms embroidered onto an organza fabric. The overall patterning evokes an association with ocean waves and a net. The transparent quality of the organza background allows the viewer to see through the piece that is hanging from the ceiling covering the entire window front. The work addresses the issue of displacement through traveling. Meyer, who is based in Ithaca, developed the concept for this exhibition while at a residency in Iceland, traveled to India to oversee the production of the embroidery, and created the work on site in Syracuse.

Learning to Write American: Works by Jennifer Drinkwater
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

These incredibly innovative pieces directly involve the viewer to create meaning, through imagining the missing term, through opening compartments of the painting to explore what is hidden beneath the surface, or by rearranging magnets to create a composition.

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Sculpted Sound: From Art to Wood to Music -- Works of John & Sondra Bromka
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-445-4153.

Pile-Stratra: Work s of Mikyung Kim
Onondaga Community College

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

Mikyung Kim's conceptual "Pile-Stratra" exhibit is an intrinsic exploration of the relationship between game and rite. Kim's work is deeply rooted in Eastern Ceremony, especially ancestor worship by creating the tableau as an altar setting. Each work is a product of random and composed elements, producing a form of controlled spontaneity that mirrors the interplay between the fleeting mind and metamorphic nature.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium is Lots 2 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Open Apple Steve. Memoriam: an aesthetic homage to Steve Jobs
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Exhibit features works by local artists Vicki Harris, Matthew Keeney, Ellen Leahy, Paul Melnikow, and Kathryn Petrillo, plus works from artists in California, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Utah, Washington DC, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Philippines, and Portugal

Read a review!

Aphotic Ardor: Works by Kristie Hayes-Beaulieu
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

An exhibit of variety. Diversity. Progression. Connections. Past and present. Growth. Reclusion. Pain and suffering, as well as extreme bliss. Also view a sneak preview in one of our gallery rooms of Kristie's X-ray-inspired work that will be on display at the SUNY Health Science Center in December.

Whereas I Took the Butterfly: Works by Deloss McGraw
YMCA Arts Branch GallerY

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit of literary "poster paintings" features Deloss McGraw's reflections/interpretations of such writers as Dickinson, Hemingway, Snodgrass and others, often using photographs of the authors, book covers, or other borrowed images.

Untold Stories
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Featuring the diverse works of Alison Fisher: acrylic and mixed media paintings; jewelry made of unique mixed metals and found objects; one-of-a-kind textiles including handbags, scarves, pillows, and throws.

"Off the Wall" Holiday Art Sale
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

African Diasporan Treasures: 40 Years of Community Folk Art Center
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition will showcase pieces from CFAC's permanent collection. Featuring over 30 works by artists including Joel Gaines, Ellen Oppler, Jack White, Denise Cole and Kamiiron Pritchard, "African Diasporan Treasures" provides a rare opportunity for visitors to experience the rich artistic history of CFAC. In many cases, the pieces have not been displayed for decades. The show will also feature African art that was once part of the Smithsonian Museum's collection.

Best if Used: Functional Pottery by Jim Burke
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

John Bishop Photographs
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Photographs by John Bishop of Tully will be featured throughout the month of November. Bishop, owner of Bishop's Falls Photography, specializes in landscape, nature and architectural photography, and has a special interest in water and waterfalls, old barns and structures, and architectural details.

VisualBooks: Works by Scott McCarney
Light Work Gallery

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

This unique and beautiful exhibition explores the book as a sculptural object that employs a variety of image-making processes. McCarney's carefully hand-bound editions and found-altered books incorporate photographic imagery and utilize the space of the gallery to explore reading as display (on pedestals and shelves, hanging from the ceiling, mounted on the wall).

McCarney creates his sculptural objects and photo-based editions as one-of-a-kind, hand-made pieces as well as small runs of print-on-demand books. According to Hannah Frieser, director of Light Work, "Scott McCarney rethinks the book form, considering books as a starting point rather than a mere vehicle for information and images."

Read a review!