Sunday, February 18, 2007

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

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

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

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

A Journey Towards Hope: Underground Railroad Sites in Oberlin, Ohio
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Coriana Close has photographed the history of Oberlin, Ohio's Underground Railroad for the last few years. The images include large format color photographs of buildings in Oberlin that were essential to the abolitionist movement.

Celestial Images: Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps From the Mendillo Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Celestial Images celebrates the Golden Age of astronomical charts. Some of the world's earliest artistic images, illustrations of cosmologies and heavenly phenomena, entered into a new and lively phase during the Renaissance. The invention of printing in the 15th century improved the means of disseminating scientific knowledge; advances in astronomy in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the portrayal of new information. This fortuitous conjunction created printed astronomical charts of surprising accuracy and delicate beauty. Celestial cartographers combined their scientific quest with a keen aesthetic sense -- each chart had to be an object of beauty, as well as a repository of information. These charts were a celebration of aesthetics as well as scientific knowledge.

Like the twins of Gemini, art and science walked hand-in-hand for over hundred years. By the late 19th century, this unified way of seeing had split into the "two cultures" of art and science that we know today. Overwhelmed by a vast amount of data, astronomical charts of the 20th century eventually changed into functional, unadorned tools intended for the specialists. Tucked away in libraries, museums and private collections, however, are splendid remnants of a bygone era. Assembled here from the Mendillo Collection of Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps are over 80 examples of some of the finest celestial cartography created. There are star charts (maps of the constellations and the full celestial sphere), charts of planetary systems (cosmologies), and a smaller third category, charts of celestial phenomena (such as nebulae, comets, and eclipses). Together, they pay homage to a time when simple systems explained the universe and humankind held friendly commerce with the skies.

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

Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Meaning and Metaphor presents a group of 10 large contemporary paintings and two distinctly different sculptures. Made by American and British artists, the works challenge preconceived notions of what art is and its purpose.

Several pieces reject the idea that art needs to be realistic. Large paintings by Bernard Cohen and Walter Darby Bannard explore abstraction in uniquely different ways. Bannard's Sun Flood, 1972 is an excellent late example of Abstract Expressionism while Cohen's Somewhere Between, 1975 pushed Op Art to its philosophical extreme.

Other works examine the role of narration in art. Robert Birmelin's Night Driving, 1964, Sidney Goodman's Eclipse and Rico Lebrun's Lazarus, 1962 develop stories that leave the viewer with more questions than answers.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

War News and Strange Brews: The Art of Boris Artzybasheff
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Boris Artzybasheff was a Russian émigré artist who painted over 200 cover illustrations for Time magazine. His most important work dates to World War II when he depicted the politicians, military leaders and the issues that governed the course of the conflict. His unique abilities in portraiture led Time to select him to paint several Man of the Year covers including portraits of Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman.

Artzybasheff was possibly more famous for his illustrations that gave machinery human characteristics. His sly talent for choosing just the right amount of human anatomy gave each machine a personality that ranged from sympathetic to sinister. Viewers were therefore compelled to have an emotional reaction to the machine and its purpose.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

On the Edge of Pop
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

On the Edge of Pop presents a selection of paintings, sculpture and prints that examines the pop art movement's later years in the 1970s. Included in the exhibition are works by Pop icons like Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. These originators were joined by later participants including Robert Cottingham, John Clem Clark and Mel Ramos.

Pop established a new order of symbols, images and content that evolved over time. The style began in the late 1950s as a reaction to the intensely personal and gestural look of Abstract Expressionism. Pop artists de-emphasized their role in making art by often using more mechanical techniques usually associated with mass market processes. Their images were often appropriated from popular culture and, as a result, the general public greeted the new work enthusiastically.

By 1970 Pop had evolved into a more mainstream art form as the style broadened its scope. Andy Warhol did a series of paintings and prints of celebrities and other important figures. He took a famous publicity photograph of Marilyn Monroe and made a series of differently colored screenprints. Installed as multiples, the prints reinterpreted the starlet's place in American culture. Robert Rauschenberg had gained such a reputation that in 1969 NASA invited him to Cape Canaveral to witness the launch of Apollo 11 and to use its images in his work. His color screenprint Signs, 1970 prominently features the astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon along with a host of other iconic figures and events from the preceding decade.

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

Atrium Exhibit: Scholastic Art Awards Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

New to You
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

An exhibit of the work of new guild members as well as emerging and seldom shown artists.

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

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

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

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

Black History Month Cabaret and Stars of Tomorrow
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences
Featuring Barbara Morrison

Price: $5 regular; $3 with student ID
Schine Underground, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Black History Month Cabaret and Stars of Tomorrow with special guest Barbara Morrison in "Happy Birthday Ella," a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, plus student cabaret artists.

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm: Jazz Trio,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm: Stars of Tomorrow
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm: Barbara Morrison

For reservations, phone 315-443-4517.

Frozen
Redhouse
Gerard E. Moses, director

Price: $25 regular; $20 senior; $16 student; $8 student rush
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

British playwright Bryony Lavery's controversial play begins with a mother waiting for the return of her missing 10-year old daughter. In the wait and over a period of years the mother, the kidnapper, and a psychiatrist come together to confront each other. Its subject matter uncovers new questions and ignites a thick range of emotion for actors and audience members alike. Frozen asks us to look at who we are and why we do what we do.

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The Art of Dining
Syracuse University Drama Department
Craig MacDonald, director

Price: $16 regular; $14 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Set at a posh new gourmet restaurant, The Golden Carousel, on a cold and blustery New Jersey evening, The Art of Dining uses food as a running metaphor for many of the pressures, hopes, fears, and stresses that exist in American society. Written and first performed in 1979, this play explores the idea that dining can be not only a time to bring friends and family together, but an opportunity for much more serious issues to be chewed on: body image issues and eating, personality and mental disorders are some of the darker notes in Tina Howe's uproarious, fast-paced comedy.

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Monday, February 19, 2007

A Journey Towards Hope: Underground Railroad Sites in Oberlin, Ohio
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Coriana Close has photographed the history of Oberlin, Ohio's Underground Railroad for the last few years. The images include large format color photographs of buildings in Oberlin that were essential to the abolitionist movement.

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

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

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

Atrium Exhibit: Scholastic Art Awards Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

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

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

Playthings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Drawing by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma.

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

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

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

Living Arrangements
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

Works by Julie Eizenberg

New to You
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

An exhibit of the work of new guild members as well as emerging and seldom shown artists.

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

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

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

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

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

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

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

A Journey Towards Hope: Underground Railroad Sites in Oberlin, Ohio
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Coriana Close has photographed the history of Oberlin, Ohio's Underground Railroad for the last few years. The images include large format color photographs of buildings in Oberlin that were essential to the abolitionist movement.

Atrium Exhibit: Scholastic Art Awards Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

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

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

Playthings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Drawing by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma.

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

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

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

Living Arrangements
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

Works by Julie Eizenberg

Impressions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

New to You
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

An exhibit of the work of new guild members as well as emerging and seldom shown artists.

Underground Railroad Made Visible: Photos by William Earle Williams
Community Folk Art Center

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

The photographs are of sites that were once part of the Underground Railroad, including many here in Central New York.

The exhibition is held in conjunction with a simultaneous exhibition at Light Work also featuring Williams' photographs: "Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War."

William Earle Williams received a B.A. degree in History from Hamilton College and an M.F.A. degree in Fine Arts from Yale University. He is a Professor of Fine Arts at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and also a Curator of Photography. Williams participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2003.

Pride and Perseverance: Civil Rights Paintings by Charly Palmer
Community Folk Art Center

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

An artist with a passion for history, Palmer's works chronicle important social and political events, focusing on African American historical subjects and the Civil Rights Movement in particular. Palmer's works make use of bold colors, textures and layers to bring his subjects to life. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and his work can be found in several prominent public and private collections. Palmer has received several major awards and commissions. He has also worked as an educator, instructing students of all ages in drawing, painting, design and illustration.

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

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

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

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

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

Read a review!

War News and Strange Brews: The Art of Boris Artzybasheff
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Boris Artzybasheff was a Russian émigré artist who painted over 200 cover illustrations for Time magazine. His most important work dates to World War II when he depicted the politicians, military leaders and the issues that governed the course of the conflict. His unique abilities in portraiture led Time to select him to paint several Man of the Year covers including portraits of Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman.

Artzybasheff was possibly more famous for his illustrations that gave machinery human characteristics. His sly talent for choosing just the right amount of human anatomy gave each machine a personality that ranged from sympathetic to sinister. Viewers were therefore compelled to have an emotional reaction to the machine and its purpose.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Meaning and Metaphor presents a group of 10 large contemporary paintings and two distinctly different sculptures. Made by American and British artists, the works challenge preconceived notions of what art is and its purpose.

Several pieces reject the idea that art needs to be realistic. Large paintings by Bernard Cohen and Walter Darby Bannard explore abstraction in uniquely different ways. Bannard's Sun Flood, 1972 is an excellent late example of Abstract Expressionism while Cohen's Somewhere Between, 1975 pushed Op Art to its philosophical extreme.

Other works examine the role of narration in art. Robert Birmelin's Night Driving, 1964, Sidney Goodman's Eclipse and Rico Lebrun's Lazarus, 1962 develop stories that leave the viewer with more questions than answers.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

Celestial Images: Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps From the Mendillo Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Celestial Images celebrates the Golden Age of astronomical charts. Some of the world's earliest artistic images, illustrations of cosmologies and heavenly phenomena, entered into a new and lively phase during the Renaissance. The invention of printing in the 15th century improved the means of disseminating scientific knowledge; advances in astronomy in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the portrayal of new information. This fortuitous conjunction created printed astronomical charts of surprising accuracy and delicate beauty. Celestial cartographers combined their scientific quest with a keen aesthetic sense -- each chart had to be an object of beauty, as well as a repository of information. These charts were a celebration of aesthetics as well as scientific knowledge.

Like the twins of Gemini, art and science walked hand-in-hand for over hundred years. By the late 19th century, this unified way of seeing had split into the "two cultures" of art and science that we know today. Overwhelmed by a vast amount of data, astronomical charts of the 20th century eventually changed into functional, unadorned tools intended for the specialists. Tucked away in libraries, museums and private collections, however, are splendid remnants of a bygone era. Assembled here from the Mendillo Collection of Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps are over 80 examples of some of the finest celestial cartography created. There are star charts (maps of the constellations and the full celestial sphere), charts of planetary systems (cosmologies), and a smaller third category, charts of celestial phenomena (such as nebulae, comets, and eclipses). Together, they pay homage to a time when simple systems explained the universe and humankind held friendly commerce with the skies.

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

On the Edge of Pop
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

On the Edge of Pop presents a selection of paintings, sculpture and prints that examines the pop art movement's later years in the 1970s. Included in the exhibition are works by Pop icons like Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. These originators were joined by later participants including Robert Cottingham, John Clem Clark and Mel Ramos.

Pop established a new order of symbols, images and content that evolved over time. The style began in the late 1950s as a reaction to the intensely personal and gestural look of Abstract Expressionism. Pop artists de-emphasized their role in making art by often using more mechanical techniques usually associated with mass market processes. Their images were often appropriated from popular culture and, as a result, the general public greeted the new work enthusiastically.

By 1970 Pop had evolved into a more mainstream art form as the style broadened its scope. Andy Warhol did a series of paintings and prints of celebrities and other important figures. He took a famous publicity photograph of Marilyn Monroe and made a series of differently colored screenprints. Installed as multiples, the prints reinterpreted the starlet's place in American culture. Robert Rauschenberg had gained such a reputation that in 1969 NASA invited him to Cape Canaveral to witness the launch of Apollo 11 and to use its images in his work. His color screenprint Signs, 1970 prominently features the astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon along with a host of other iconic figures and events from the preceding decade.

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

Music Film Series: Tupac: Resurrection
Onondaga Community College

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

This portrait of gangsta rap star Tupac Shakur traces his brief life from childhood to his meteoric rise as a recording artist.

Music Film Series: Tupac: Resurrection
Onondaga Community College

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

This portrait of gangsta rap star Tupac Shakur traces his brief life from childhood to his meteoric rise as a recording artist.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

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

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

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

A Journey Towards Hope: Underground Railroad Sites in Oberlin, Ohio
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Coriana Close has photographed the history of Oberlin, Ohio's Underground Railroad for the last few years. The images include large format color photographs of buildings in Oberlin that were essential to the abolitionist movement.

Atrium Exhibit: Scholastic Art Awards Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

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

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

Playthings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Drawing by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma.

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

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

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

Living Arrangements
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

Works by Julie Eizenberg

Impressions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

New to You
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

An exhibit of the work of new guild members as well as emerging and seldom shown artists.

Underground Railroad Made Visible: Photos by William Earle Williams
Community Folk Art Center

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

The photographs are of sites that were once part of the Underground Railroad, including many here in Central New York.

The exhibition is held in conjunction with a simultaneous exhibition at Light Work also featuring Williams' photographs: "Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War."

William Earle Williams received a B.A. degree in History from Hamilton College and an M.F.A. degree in Fine Arts from Yale University. He is a Professor of Fine Arts at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and also a Curator of Photography. Williams participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2003.

Pride and Perseverance: Civil Rights Paintings by Charly Palmer
Community Folk Art Center

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

An artist with a passion for history, Palmer's works chronicle important social and political events, focusing on African American historical subjects and the Civil Rights Movement in particular. Palmer's works make use of bold colors, textures and layers to bring his subjects to life. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and his work can be found in several prominent public and private collections. Palmer has received several major awards and commissions. He has also worked as an educator, instructing students of all ages in drawing, painting, design and illustration.

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

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

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

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

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

Read a review!

War News and Strange Brews: The Art of Boris Artzybasheff
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Boris Artzybasheff was a Russian émigré artist who painted over 200 cover illustrations for Time magazine. His most important work dates to World War II when he depicted the politicians, military leaders and the issues that governed the course of the conflict. His unique abilities in portraiture led Time to select him to paint several Man of the Year covers including portraits of Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman.

Artzybasheff was possibly more famous for his illustrations that gave machinery human characteristics. His sly talent for choosing just the right amount of human anatomy gave each machine a personality that ranged from sympathetic to sinister. Viewers were therefore compelled to have an emotional reaction to the machine and its purpose.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

Celestial Images: Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps From the Mendillo Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Celestial Images celebrates the Golden Age of astronomical charts. Some of the world's earliest artistic images, illustrations of cosmologies and heavenly phenomena, entered into a new and lively phase during the Renaissance. The invention of printing in the 15th century improved the means of disseminating scientific knowledge; advances in astronomy in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the portrayal of new information. This fortuitous conjunction created printed astronomical charts of surprising accuracy and delicate beauty. Celestial cartographers combined their scientific quest with a keen aesthetic sense -- each chart had to be an object of beauty, as well as a repository of information. These charts were a celebration of aesthetics as well as scientific knowledge.

Like the twins of Gemini, art and science walked hand-in-hand for over hundred years. By the late 19th century, this unified way of seeing had split into the "two cultures" of art and science that we know today. Overwhelmed by a vast amount of data, astronomical charts of the 20th century eventually changed into functional, unadorned tools intended for the specialists. Tucked away in libraries, museums and private collections, however, are splendid remnants of a bygone era. Assembled here from the Mendillo Collection of Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps are over 80 examples of some of the finest celestial cartography created. There are star charts (maps of the constellations and the full celestial sphere), charts of planetary systems (cosmologies), and a smaller third category, charts of celestial phenomena (such as nebulae, comets, and eclipses). Together, they pay homage to a time when simple systems explained the universe and humankind held friendly commerce with the skies.

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

Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Meaning and Metaphor presents a group of 10 large contemporary paintings and two distinctly different sculptures. Made by American and British artists, the works challenge preconceived notions of what art is and its purpose.

Several pieces reject the idea that art needs to be realistic. Large paintings by Bernard Cohen and Walter Darby Bannard explore abstraction in uniquely different ways. Bannard's Sun Flood, 1972 is an excellent late example of Abstract Expressionism while Cohen's Somewhere Between, 1975 pushed Op Art to its philosophical extreme.

Other works examine the role of narration in art. Robert Birmelin's Night Driving, 1964, Sidney Goodman's Eclipse and Rico Lebrun's Lazarus, 1962 develop stories that leave the viewer with more questions than answers.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

On the Edge of Pop
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

On the Edge of Pop presents a selection of paintings, sculpture and prints that examines the pop art movement's later years in the 1970s. Included in the exhibition are works by Pop icons like Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. These originators were joined by later participants including Robert Cottingham, John Clem Clark and Mel Ramos.

Pop established a new order of symbols, images and content that evolved over time. The style began in the late 1950s as a reaction to the intensely personal and gestural look of Abstract Expressionism. Pop artists de-emphasized their role in making art by often using more mechanical techniques usually associated with mass market processes. Their images were often appropriated from popular culture and, as a result, the general public greeted the new work enthusiastically.

By 1970 Pop had evolved into a more mainstream art form as the style broadened its scope. Andy Warhol did a series of paintings and prints of celebrities and other important figures. He took a famous publicity photograph of Marilyn Monroe and made a series of differently colored screenprints. Installed as multiples, the prints reinterpreted the starlet's place in American culture. Robert Rauschenberg had gained such a reputation that in 1969 NASA invited him to Cape Canaveral to witness the launch of Apollo 11 and to use its images in his work. His color screenprint Signs, 1970 prominently features the astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon along with a host of other iconic figures and events from the preceding decade.

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

Civic Morning Musicals
Timothy Schmidt, guitar; Selma Moore, flute

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

Duarte English Suite, Rorem Romeo and Juliet

Vieux Farka Toure, singer/songwriter

Price: $5 general public; $3 with SU I.D.
Schine Underground, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Vieux Farka Touré is one of the world's most anticipated and talented new artists - the successor to his two-time Grammy Award winning father, Ali Farka Touré. A brilliant guitarist, singer, and songwriter, Vieux brings the energy and charisma that has mesmerized audiences in Europe and Africa to the U.S. for the first time. Backed by an all-star cast of Malian and American musicians - including the legendary ngoni-player Mama Sissoko - Vieux brings together rock, funk, and reggae with the desert blues of Mali in an electrifying new global sound.

All proceeds from the show will be donated to Bée Sago, to fight against malaria in Niafunke, the home region of the Farka Touré family in Northern Mali. Bée Sago, a local award-winning organization affiliated with UNICEF, specializes in the manufacture and distribution of insecticide-treated mosquito nets to children and pregnant mothers.

Gem of the Ocean
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

Price: $26, $24, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Lyric, poetic, and infused with singular spiritualism, Gem of the Ocean marks the chronological beginning of August Wilson's towering 10-play cycle of African-American life in the 20th century. The year is 1904, when slavery was a palpable memory. The place is Wilson's familiar haunt, the Hill District of Pittsburgh. A young man named Citizen seeks atonement for a crime for which there is no forgiveness. His only hope is 285-year-old Aunt Esther, the spiritual center of the community and its collective history, who guides him on a journey to the "City of Bones," the watery graves of those who perished on the journey to slavery, a past he needs to embrace.

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The Art of Dining
Syracuse University Drama Department
Craig MacDonald, director

Price: $16 regular; $14 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Set at a posh new gourmet restaurant, The Golden Carousel, on a cold and blustery New Jersey evening, The Art of Dining uses food as a running metaphor for many of the pressures, hopes, fears, and stresses that exist in American society. Written and first performed in 1979, this play explores the idea that dining can be not only a time to bring friends and family together, but an opportunity for much more serious issues to be chewed on: body image issues and eating, personality and mental disorders are some of the darker notes in Tina Howe's uproarious, fast-paced comedy.

Read a Review!

Thursday, February 22, 2007

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

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

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

A Journey Towards Hope: Underground Railroad Sites in Oberlin, Ohio
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Coriana Close has photographed the history of Oberlin, Ohio's Underground Railroad for the last few years. The images include large format color photographs of buildings in Oberlin that were essential to the abolitionist movement.

Atrium Exhibit: Scholastic Art Awards Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

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

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

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

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

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

Playthings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Drawing by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma.

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

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

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

Living Arrangements
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

Works by Julie Eizenberg

Impressions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

New to You
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

An exhibit of the work of new guild members as well as emerging and seldom shown artists.

Underground Railroad Made Visible: Photos by William Earle Williams
Community Folk Art Center

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

The photographs are of sites that were once part of the Underground Railroad, including many here in Central New York.

The exhibition is held in conjunction with a simultaneous exhibition at Light Work also featuring Williams' photographs: "Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War."

William Earle Williams received a B.A. degree in History from Hamilton College and an M.F.A. degree in Fine Arts from Yale University. He is a Professor of Fine Arts at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and also a Curator of Photography. Williams participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2003.

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

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

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

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

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

Read a review!

War News and Strange Brews: The Art of Boris Artzybasheff
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Boris Artzybasheff was a Russian émigré artist who painted over 200 cover illustrations for Time magazine. His most important work dates to World War II when he depicted the politicians, military leaders and the issues that governed the course of the conflict. His unique abilities in portraiture led Time to select him to paint several Man of the Year covers including portraits of Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman.

Artzybasheff was possibly more famous for his illustrations that gave machinery human characteristics. His sly talent for choosing just the right amount of human anatomy gave each machine a personality that ranged from sympathetic to sinister. Viewers were therefore compelled to have an emotional reaction to the machine and its purpose.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Meaning and Metaphor presents a group of 10 large contemporary paintings and two distinctly different sculptures. Made by American and British artists, the works challenge preconceived notions of what art is and its purpose.

Several pieces reject the idea that art needs to be realistic. Large paintings by Bernard Cohen and Walter Darby Bannard explore abstraction in uniquely different ways. Bannard's Sun Flood, 1972 is an excellent late example of Abstract Expressionism while Cohen's Somewhere Between, 1975 pushed Op Art to its philosophical extreme.

Other works examine the role of narration in art. Robert Birmelin's Night Driving, 1964, Sidney Goodman's Eclipse and Rico Lebrun's Lazarus, 1962 develop stories that leave the viewer with more questions than answers.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

Celestial Images: Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps From the Mendillo Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Celestial Images celebrates the Golden Age of astronomical charts. Some of the world's earliest artistic images, illustrations of cosmologies and heavenly phenomena, entered into a new and lively phase during the Renaissance. The invention of printing in the 15th century improved the means of disseminating scientific knowledge; advances in astronomy in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the portrayal of new information. This fortuitous conjunction created printed astronomical charts of surprising accuracy and delicate beauty. Celestial cartographers combined their scientific quest with a keen aesthetic sense -- each chart had to be an object of beauty, as well as a repository of information. These charts were a celebration of aesthetics as well as scientific knowledge.

Like the twins of Gemini, art and science walked hand-in-hand for over hundred years. By the late 19th century, this unified way of seeing had split into the "two cultures" of art and science that we know today. Overwhelmed by a vast amount of data, astronomical charts of the 20th century eventually changed into functional, unadorned tools intended for the specialists. Tucked away in libraries, museums and private collections, however, are splendid remnants of a bygone era. Assembled here from the Mendillo Collection of Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps are over 80 examples of some of the finest celestial cartography created. There are star charts (maps of the constellations and the full celestial sphere), charts of planetary systems (cosmologies), and a smaller third category, charts of celestial phenomena (such as nebulae, comets, and eclipses). Together, they pay homage to a time when simple systems explained the universe and humankind held friendly commerce with the skies.

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

On the Edge of Pop
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

On the Edge of Pop presents a selection of paintings, sculpture and prints that examines the pop art movement's later years in the 1970s. Included in the exhibition are works by Pop icons like Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. These originators were joined by later participants including Robert Cottingham, John Clem Clark and Mel Ramos.

Pop established a new order of symbols, images and content that evolved over time. The style began in the late 1950s as a reaction to the intensely personal and gestural look of Abstract Expressionism. Pop artists de-emphasized their role in making art by often using more mechanical techniques usually associated with mass market processes. Their images were often appropriated from popular culture and, as a result, the general public greeted the new work enthusiastically.

By 1970 Pop had evolved into a more mainstream art form as the style broadened its scope. Andy Warhol did a series of paintings and prints of celebrities and other important figures. He took a famous publicity photograph of Marilyn Monroe and made a series of differently colored screenprints. Installed as multiples, the prints reinterpreted the starlet's place in American culture. Robert Rauschenberg had gained such a reputation that in 1969 NASA invited him to Cape Canaveral to witness the launch of Apollo 11 and to use its images in his work. His color screenprint Signs, 1970 prominently features the astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon along with a host of other iconic figures and events from the preceding decade.

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

The Human Condition
Delavan Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features photography and wood cut prints of West Africa by James Albertson, drawings on issues of forced emigration by Joan Carlon, oil paintings by William Finch, drawings on canvas and linen of West African women by Viginia Hovendon, and watercolor portraits by Stephen Ryan.

Nevis: Abstract Paintings by Rachel Harms
Redhouse

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

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

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

Cinema Thursday: Freedom's Call
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Adults $5.00; students $3; children 3 and under $1
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Freedom's Call was directed by Richard Breyer and produced by George Kilpatrick and Robert Short Jr. The film is about the Deep South in the turbulent 1960s and two veteran journalists who covered the important stories of the Civil Rights Movement - Dorothy Gilliam, first female African American reporter at The Washington Post, and Ernest Withers, renowned photographer whose photographs have appeared in the black press, The Washington Post and The New York Times. The film chronicles the journalists' return journey to Memphis, Little Rock, Oxford, Jackson and the Mississippi Delta.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Morton Schiff Jazz Ensemble

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

The program includes jazz compositions "Black Orpheus" by Luiz Bonfa, "Bags Groove" by Milt Jackson, "Count Bubba" by Gordon Goodwin and more. The concert features the ensemble's jazz soloists. The ensemble performs under the direction of Joseph Riposo and John Coggiola, faculty members in the Setnor School of Music.

Parking is available in Irving Garage.

Preview of Lucia di Lammermoor
Syracuse Opera

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

Big Louie and the Gang that Couldn't Think Straight
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $26 plus tax and gratuities (includes meal and show)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Audience participation comedy/mystery dinner theater.

Gem of the Ocean
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

Price: $28, $26, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Lyric, poetic, and infused with singular spiritualism, Gem of the Ocean marks the chronological beginning of August Wilson's towering 10-play cycle of African-American life in the 20th century. The year is 1904, when slavery was a palpable memory. The place is Wilson's familiar haunt, the Hill District of Pittsburgh. A young man named Citizen seeks atonement for a crime for which there is no forgiveness. His only hope is 285-year-old Aunt Esther, the spiritual center of the community and its collective history, who guides him on a journey to the "City of Bones," the watery graves of those who perished on the journey to slavery, a past he needs to embrace.

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Frozen
Redhouse
Gerard E. Moses, director

Price: $25 regular; $20 senior; $16 student; $8 student rush
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

British playwright Bryony Lavery's controversial play begins with a mother waiting for the return of her missing 10-year old daughter. In the wait and over a period of years the mother, the kidnapper, and a psychiatrist come together to confront each other. Its subject matter uncovers new questions and ignites a thick range of emotion for actors and audience members alike. Frozen asks us to look at who we are and why we do what we do.

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The Art of Dining
Syracuse University Drama Department
Craig MacDonald, director

Price: $16 regular; $14 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Set at a posh new gourmet restaurant, The Golden Carousel, on a cold and blustery New Jersey evening, The Art of Dining uses food as a running metaphor for many of the pressures, hopes, fears, and stresses that exist in American society. Written and first performed in 1979, this play explores the idea that dining can be not only a time to bring friends and family together, but an opportunity for much more serious issues to be chewed on: body image issues and eating, personality and mental disorders are some of the darker notes in Tina Howe's uproarious, fast-paced comedy.

Read a Review!

Friday, February 23, 2007

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

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

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

A Journey Towards Hope: Underground Railroad Sites in Oberlin, Ohio
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Coriana Close has photographed the history of Oberlin, Ohio's Underground Railroad for the last few years. The images include large format color photographs of buildings in Oberlin that were essential to the abolitionist movement.

Atrium Exhibit: Scholastic Art Awards Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

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

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

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

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

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

Playthings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Drawing by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma.

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

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

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

Living Arrangements
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

Works by Julie Eizenberg

Impressions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

New to You
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

An exhibit of the work of new guild members as well as emerging and seldom shown artists.

Underground Railroad Made Visible: Photos by William Earle Williams
Community Folk Art Center

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

The photographs are of sites that were once part of the Underground Railroad, including many here in Central New York.

The exhibition is held in conjunction with a simultaneous exhibition at Light Work also featuring Williams' photographs: "Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War."

William Earle Williams received a B.A. degree in History from Hamilton College and an M.F.A. degree in Fine Arts from Yale University. He is a Professor of Fine Arts at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and also a Curator of Photography. Williams participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2003.

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

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

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

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

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

Read a review!

War News and Strange Brews: The Art of Boris Artzybasheff
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Boris Artzybasheff was a Russian émigré artist who painted over 200 cover illustrations for Time magazine. His most important work dates to World War II when he depicted the politicians, military leaders and the issues that governed the course of the conflict. His unique abilities in portraiture led Time to select him to paint several Man of the Year covers including portraits of Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman.

Artzybasheff was possibly more famous for his illustrations that gave machinery human characteristics. His sly talent for choosing just the right amount of human anatomy gave each machine a personality that ranged from sympathetic to sinister. Viewers were therefore compelled to have an emotional reaction to the machine and its purpose.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

Celestial Images: Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps From the Mendillo Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Celestial Images celebrates the Golden Age of astronomical charts. Some of the world's earliest artistic images, illustrations of cosmologies and heavenly phenomena, entered into a new and lively phase during the Renaissance. The invention of printing in the 15th century improved the means of disseminating scientific knowledge; advances in astronomy in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the portrayal of new information. This fortuitous conjunction created printed astronomical charts of surprising accuracy and delicate beauty. Celestial cartographers combined their scientific quest with a keen aesthetic sense -- each chart had to be an object of beauty, as well as a repository of information. These charts were a celebration of aesthetics as well as scientific knowledge.

Like the twins of Gemini, art and science walked hand-in-hand for over hundred years. By the late 19th century, this unified way of seeing had split into the "two cultures" of art and science that we know today. Overwhelmed by a vast amount of data, astronomical charts of the 20th century eventually changed into functional, unadorned tools intended for the specialists. Tucked away in libraries, museums and private collections, however, are splendid remnants of a bygone era. Assembled here from the Mendillo Collection of Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps are over 80 examples of some of the finest celestial cartography created. There are star charts (maps of the constellations and the full celestial sphere), charts of planetary systems (cosmologies), and a smaller third category, charts of celestial phenomena (such as nebulae, comets, and eclipses). Together, they pay homage to a time when simple systems explained the universe and humankind held friendly commerce with the skies.

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

Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Meaning and Metaphor presents a group of 10 large contemporary paintings and two distinctly different sculptures. Made by American and British artists, the works challenge preconceived notions of what art is and its purpose.

Several pieces reject the idea that art needs to be realistic. Large paintings by Bernard Cohen and Walter Darby Bannard explore abstraction in uniquely different ways. Bannard's Sun Flood, 1972 is an excellent late example of Abstract Expressionism while Cohen's Somewhere Between, 1975 pushed Op Art to its philosophical extreme.

Other works examine the role of narration in art. Robert Birmelin's Night Driving, 1964, Sidney Goodman's Eclipse and Rico Lebrun's Lazarus, 1962 develop stories that leave the viewer with more questions than answers.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

On the Edge of Pop
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

On the Edge of Pop presents a selection of paintings, sculpture and prints that examines the pop art movement's later years in the 1970s. Included in the exhibition are works by Pop icons like Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. These originators were joined by later participants including Robert Cottingham, John Clem Clark and Mel Ramos.

Pop established a new order of symbols, images and content that evolved over time. The style began in the late 1950s as a reaction to the intensely personal and gestural look of Abstract Expressionism. Pop artists de-emphasized their role in making art by often using more mechanical techniques usually associated with mass market processes. Their images were often appropriated from popular culture and, as a result, the general public greeted the new work enthusiastically.

By 1970 Pop had evolved into a more mainstream art form as the style broadened its scope. Andy Warhol did a series of paintings and prints of celebrities and other important figures. He took a famous publicity photograph of Marilyn Monroe and made a series of differently colored screenprints. Installed as multiples, the prints reinterpreted the starlet's place in American culture. Robert Rauschenberg had gained such a reputation that in 1969 NASA invited him to Cape Canaveral to witness the launch of Apollo 11 and to use its images in his work. His color screenprint Signs, 1970 prominently features the astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon along with a host of other iconic figures and events from the preceding decade.

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

The Human Condition
Delavan Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features photography and wood cut prints of West Africa by James Albertson, drawings on issues of forced emigration by Joan Carlon, oil paintings by William Finch, drawings on canvas and linen of West African women by Viginia Hovendon, and watercolor portraits by Stephen Ryan.

Nevis: Abstract Paintings by Rachel Harms
Redhouse

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

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

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

John Hill: New Works on Paper; and Swap Horses
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

Swap Horses: Featuring artwork from Frank McCauley, Will Kiser, J Tyler, Joey Hays, Jon Prichard, Nicholas Bowers, Mike Ledford, Jeremey Shockley, Bill Mcright, Will Hays, Ronnie Gunter, Justin Van Hoy, Kevin Morrisey, Ben Viser, and Mr. Big Bones.

Spark Video
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Price: $4
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Lunch Hour Film Series
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

The Life directed by Jun-Ki-Kim. Animation (Korea) 10 minutes. Best of Fest Nominee 2004.
A fantastic climb up what seems an infinitely high totem reveals the drama of the life cycle.

How to Cope With Death by Ignacio Ferreras. Animation (England) 3 minutes. Best of Fest Nominee 2004.
A contemporary allegory offering a modern solution to the problem which has haunted humankind since time began.

Mujaan, directed by Chris Mckee. Documentary (USA) 24 minutes. Best of Fest Nominee 2005.
On the distant steppes of Mongolia, using only simple tools, strength and ingenuity, a Mongolian nomad builds a home much the way his ancestors have for a thousand years. Mujaan (The Craftsman) is a vivid window to a disappearing way of life in one of the most remote corners of the world.

Starry Night, directed by Ben Miller. Fiction (England) 13 minutes.
It is the birthday of Vincent Van Gogh and art lover Annie has hired a "Gogh-a-gram" to help her celebrate. Little does she realize that a double booking at the agency threatens to ruin her perfect evening...

Guests are encouraged to bring their lunch or snack and join other film enthusiasts in watching selected films from prior festivals.

Reservations are not required, but are welcomed due to limited seating. To reserve a seat, call the festival headquarters at 315-443-8826.

Onondaga Community College
OCC African Ensemble

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Special Event: Classical Mystery Tour
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Imagine The Beatles playing in concert with a symphony orchestra. What would that have sounded like? Find out when the original members of the Broadway sensation Beatlemania perform live with the SSO! These Fab Four musicians look and sound just like The Beatles; but Classical Mystery Tour is more than just a rock concert. Some 30 Beatles tunes are performed exactly as they were written. From vintage Beatles music through the songs of the solo years, Classical Mystery Tour is the best of The Beatles as you've never heard them before!

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Always ... Patsy Cline
Opening Night Productions

Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

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Frozen
Redhouse
Gerard E. Moses, director

Price: $25 regular; $20 senior; $16 student; $8 student rush
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

British playwright Bryony Lavery's controversial play begins with a mother waiting for the return of her missing 10-year old daughter. In the wait and over a period of years the mother, the kidnapper, and a psychiatrist come together to confront each other. Its subject matter uncovers new questions and ignites a thick range of emotion for actors and audience members alike. Frozen asks us to look at who we are and why we do what we do.

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Gem of the Ocean
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

Price: $45, $40, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Lyric, poetic, and infused with singular spiritualism, Gem of the Ocean marks the chronological beginning of August Wilson's towering 10-play cycle of African-American life in the 20th century. The year is 1904, when slavery was a palpable memory. The place is Wilson's familiar haunt, the Hill District of Pittsburgh. A young man named Citizen seeks atonement for a crime for which there is no forgiveness. His only hope is 285-year-old Aunt Esther, the spiritual center of the community and its collective history, who guides him on a journey to the "City of Bones," the watery graves of those who perished on the journey to slavery, a past he needs to embrace.

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The Art of Dining
Syracuse University Drama Department
Craig MacDonald, director

Price: $16 regular; $14 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Set at a posh new gourmet restaurant, The Golden Carousel, on a cold and blustery New Jersey evening, The Art of Dining uses food as a running metaphor for many of the pressures, hopes, fears, and stresses that exist in American society. Written and first performed in 1979, this play explores the idea that dining can be not only a time to bring friends and family together, but an opportunity for much more serious issues to be chewed on: body image issues and eating, personality and mental disorders are some of the darker notes in Tina Howe's uproarious, fast-paced comedy.

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The Fantastiks
Wit's End Players

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

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

For more information, phone 315-345-8001.

Read a Review!

Saturday, February 24, 2007

Atrium Exhibit: Scholastic Art Awards Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

New to You
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

An exhibit of the work of new guild members as well as emerging and seldom shown artists.

The Human Condition
Delavan Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features photography and wood cut prints of West Africa by James Albertson, drawings on issues of forced emigration by Joan Carlon, oil paintings by William Finch, drawings on canvas and linen of West African women by Viginia Hovendon, and watercolor portraits by Stephen Ryan.

Impressions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

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

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Underground Railroad Made Visible: Photos by William Earle Williams
Community Folk Art Center

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

The photographs are of sites that were once part of the Underground Railroad, including many here in Central New York.

The exhibition is held in conjunction with a simultaneous exhibition at Light Work also featuring Williams' photographs: "Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War."

William Earle Williams received a B.A. degree in History from Hamilton College and an M.F.A. degree in Fine Arts from Yale University. He is a Professor of Fine Arts at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and also a Curator of Photography. Williams participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2003.

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

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

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

A Journey Towards Hope: Underground Railroad Sites in Oberlin, Ohio
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Coriana Close has photographed the history of Oberlin, Ohio's Underground Railroad for the last few years. The images include large format color photographs of buildings in Oberlin that were essential to the abolitionist movement.

Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Meaning and Metaphor presents a group of 10 large contemporary paintings and two distinctly different sculptures. Made by American and British artists, the works challenge preconceived notions of what art is and its purpose.

Several pieces reject the idea that art needs to be realistic. Large paintings by Bernard Cohen and Walter Darby Bannard explore abstraction in uniquely different ways. Bannard's Sun Flood, 1972 is an excellent late example of Abstract Expressionism while Cohen's Somewhere Between, 1975 pushed Op Art to its philosophical extreme.

Other works examine the role of narration in art. Robert Birmelin's Night Driving, 1964, Sidney Goodman's Eclipse and Rico Lebrun's Lazarus, 1962 develop stories that leave the viewer with more questions than answers.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

Celestial Images: Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps From the Mendillo Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Celestial Images celebrates the Golden Age of astronomical charts. Some of the world's earliest artistic images, illustrations of cosmologies and heavenly phenomena, entered into a new and lively phase during the Renaissance. The invention of printing in the 15th century improved the means of disseminating scientific knowledge; advances in astronomy in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the portrayal of new information. This fortuitous conjunction created printed astronomical charts of surprising accuracy and delicate beauty. Celestial cartographers combined their scientific quest with a keen aesthetic sense -- each chart had to be an object of beauty, as well as a repository of information. These charts were a celebration of aesthetics as well as scientific knowledge.

Like the twins of Gemini, art and science walked hand-in-hand for over hundred years. By the late 19th century, this unified way of seeing had split into the "two cultures" of art and science that we know today. Overwhelmed by a vast amount of data, astronomical charts of the 20th century eventually changed into functional, unadorned tools intended for the specialists. Tucked away in libraries, museums and private collections, however, are splendid remnants of a bygone era. Assembled here from the Mendillo Collection of Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps are over 80 examples of some of the finest celestial cartography created. There are star charts (maps of the constellations and the full celestial sphere), charts of planetary systems (cosmologies), and a smaller third category, charts of celestial phenomena (such as nebulae, comets, and eclipses). Together, they pay homage to a time when simple systems explained the universe and humankind held friendly commerce with the skies.

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

War News and Strange Brews: The Art of Boris Artzybasheff
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Boris Artzybasheff was a Russian émigré artist who painted over 200 cover illustrations for Time magazine. His most important work dates to World War II when he depicted the politicians, military leaders and the issues that governed the course of the conflict. His unique abilities in portraiture led Time to select him to paint several Man of the Year covers including portraits of Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman.

Artzybasheff was possibly more famous for his illustrations that gave machinery human characteristics. His sly talent for choosing just the right amount of human anatomy gave each machine a personality that ranged from sympathetic to sinister. Viewers were therefore compelled to have an emotional reaction to the machine and its purpose.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

On the Edge of Pop
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

On the Edge of Pop presents a selection of paintings, sculpture and prints that examines the pop art movement's later years in the 1970s. Included in the exhibition are works by Pop icons like Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. These originators were joined by later participants including Robert Cottingham, John Clem Clark and Mel Ramos.

Pop established a new order of symbols, images and content that evolved over time. The style began in the late 1950s as a reaction to the intensely personal and gestural look of Abstract Expressionism. Pop artists de-emphasized their role in making art by often using more mechanical techniques usually associated with mass market processes. Their images were often appropriated from popular culture and, as a result, the general public greeted the new work enthusiastically.

By 1970 Pop had evolved into a more mainstream art form as the style broadened its scope. Andy Warhol did a series of paintings and prints of celebrities and other important figures. He took a famous publicity photograph of Marilyn Monroe and made a series of differently colored screenprints. Installed as multiples, the prints reinterpreted the starlet's place in American culture. Robert Rauschenberg had gained such a reputation that in 1969 NASA invited him to Cape Canaveral to witness the launch of Apollo 11 and to use its images in his work. His color screenprint Signs, 1970 prominently features the astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon along with a host of other iconic figures and events from the preceding decade.

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

Nevis: Abstract Paintings by Rachel Harms
Redhouse

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

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

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

The Mastery and Mystery of Carlo Gesualdo
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Robert Cowles, conductor

Price: $12 regular, $10 students/seniors
Assumption Church
812 N. Salina St., Syracuse

Don Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa (c. 1561-1613), is one of the more enigmatic figures in the history of western music. A body of arrestingly beautiful choral music remains the enduring artifact from the mind of this mentally disturbed man. Indeed, one could argue that his emotional instability gave way to a highly adventuresome, unpredictable, even erratic, musical style. Whatever the cause, the music is simply stunning. SVE presents on this program one of Gesualdo's true masterpieces -- indeed, one of the great works from the entire Renaissance era -- his Responsoria service music for Good Friday, nine choral movements that provide a moving narrative of Christ's Passion. Interspersed will be examples of Gregorian Chant as well as devotional interludes by instruments and voices alike.

Snow White
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive adaptation of the well-known tale.

Gem of the Ocean
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

Price: $40, $36, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Lyric, poetic, and infused with singular spiritualism, Gem of the Ocean marks the chronological beginning of August Wilson's towering 10-play cycle of African-American life in the 20th century. The year is 1904, when slavery was a palpable memory. The place is Wilson's familiar haunt, the Hill District of Pittsburgh. A young man named Citizen seeks atonement for a crime for which there is no forgiveness. His only hope is 285-year-old Aunt Esther, the spiritual center of the community and its collective history, who guides him on a journey to the "City of Bones," the watery graves of those who perished on the journey to slavery, a past he needs to embrace.

Read a Review!

Always ... Patsy Cline
Opening Night Productions

Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

Read a review!

Frozen
Redhouse
Gerard E. Moses, director

Price: $25 regular; $20 senior; $16 student; $8 student rush
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

British playwright Bryony Lavery's controversial play begins with a mother waiting for the return of her missing 10-year old daughter. In the wait and over a period of years the mother, the kidnapper, and a psychiatrist come together to confront each other. Its subject matter uncovers new questions and ignites a thick range of emotion for actors and audience members alike. Frozen asks us to look at who we are and why we do what we do.

Read a Review!

Gem of the Ocean
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

Price: $44, $39, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Lyric, poetic, and infused with singular spiritualism, Gem of the Ocean marks the chronological beginning of August Wilson's towering 10-play cycle of African-American life in the 20th century. The year is 1904, when slavery was a palpable memory. The place is Wilson's familiar haunt, the Hill District of Pittsburgh. A young man named Citizen seeks atonement for a crime for which there is no forgiveness. His only hope is 285-year-old Aunt Esther, the spiritual center of the community and its collective history, who guides him on a journey to the "City of Bones," the watery graves of those who perished on the journey to slavery, a past he needs to embrace.

Read a Review!

The Art of Dining
Syracuse University Drama Department
Craig MacDonald, director

Price: $16 regular; $14 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Set at a posh new gourmet restaurant, The Golden Carousel, on a cold and blustery New Jersey evening, The Art of Dining uses food as a running metaphor for many of the pressures, hopes, fears, and stresses that exist in American society. Written and first performed in 1979, this play explores the idea that dining can be not only a time to bring friends and family together, but an opportunity for much more serious issues to be chewed on: body image issues and eating, personality and mental disorders are some of the darker notes in Tina Howe's uproarious, fast-paced comedy.

Read a Review!

The Fantastiks
Wit's End Players

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

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

For more information, phone 315-345-8001.

Read a Review!

Sunday, February 25, 2007

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

A Journey Towards Hope: Underground Railroad Sites in Oberlin, Ohio
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Coriana Close has photographed the history of Oberlin, Ohio's Underground Railroad for the last few years. The images include large format color photographs of buildings in Oberlin that were essential to the abolitionist movement.

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

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

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

Celestial Images: Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps From the Mendillo Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Celestial Images celebrates the Golden Age of astronomical charts. Some of the world's earliest artistic images, illustrations of cosmologies and heavenly phenomena, entered into a new and lively phase during the Renaissance. The invention of printing in the 15th century improved the means of disseminating scientific knowledge; advances in astronomy in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the portrayal of new information. This fortuitous conjunction created printed astronomical charts of surprising accuracy and delicate beauty. Celestial cartographers combined their scientific quest with a keen aesthetic sense -- each chart had to be an object of beauty, as well as a repository of information. These charts were a celebration of aesthetics as well as scientific knowledge.

Like the twins of Gemini, art and science walked hand-in-hand for over hundred years. By the late 19th century, this unified way of seeing had split into the "two cultures" of art and science that we know today. Overwhelmed by a vast amount of data, astronomical charts of the 20th century eventually changed into functional, unadorned tools intended for the specialists. Tucked away in libraries, museums and private collections, however, are splendid remnants of a bygone era. Assembled here from the Mendillo Collection of Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps are over 80 examples of some of the finest celestial cartography created. There are star charts (maps of the constellations and the full celestial sphere), charts of planetary systems (cosmologies), and a smaller third category, charts of celestial phenomena (such as nebulae, comets, and eclipses). Together, they pay homage to a time when simple systems explained the universe and humankind held friendly commerce with the skies.

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

Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Meaning and Metaphor presents a group of 10 large contemporary paintings and two distinctly different sculptures. Made by American and British artists, the works challenge preconceived notions of what art is and its purpose.

Several pieces reject the idea that art needs to be realistic. Large paintings by Bernard Cohen and Walter Darby Bannard explore abstraction in uniquely different ways. Bannard's Sun Flood, 1972 is an excellent late example of Abstract Expressionism while Cohen's Somewhere Between, 1975 pushed Op Art to its philosophical extreme.

Other works examine the role of narration in art. Robert Birmelin's Night Driving, 1964, Sidney Goodman's Eclipse and Rico Lebrun's Lazarus, 1962 develop stories that leave the viewer with more questions than answers.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

War News and Strange Brews: The Art of Boris Artzybasheff
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Boris Artzybasheff was a Russian émigré artist who painted over 200 cover illustrations for Time magazine. His most important work dates to World War II when he depicted the politicians, military leaders and the issues that governed the course of the conflict. His unique abilities in portraiture led Time to select him to paint several Man of the Year covers including portraits of Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman.

Artzybasheff was possibly more famous for his illustrations that gave machinery human characteristics. His sly talent for choosing just the right amount of human anatomy gave each machine a personality that ranged from sympathetic to sinister. Viewers were therefore compelled to have an emotional reaction to the machine and its purpose.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

On the Edge of Pop
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

On the Edge of Pop presents a selection of paintings, sculpture and prints that examines the pop art movement's later years in the 1970s. Included in the exhibition are works by Pop icons like Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. These originators were joined by later participants including Robert Cottingham, John Clem Clark and Mel Ramos.

Pop established a new order of symbols, images and content that evolved over time. The style began in the late 1950s as a reaction to the intensely personal and gestural look of Abstract Expressionism. Pop artists de-emphasized their role in making art by often using more mechanical techniques usually associated with mass market processes. Their images were often appropriated from popular culture and, as a result, the general public greeted the new work enthusiastically.

By 1970 Pop had evolved into a more mainstream art form as the style broadened its scope. Andy Warhol did a series of paintings and prints of celebrities and other important figures. He took a famous publicity photograph of Marilyn Monroe and made a series of differently colored screenprints. Installed as multiples, the prints reinterpreted the starlet's place in American culture. Robert Rauschenberg had gained such a reputation that in 1969 NASA invited him to Cape Canaveral to witness the launch of Apollo 11 and to use its images in his work. His color screenprint Signs, 1970 prominently features the astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon along with a host of other iconic figures and events from the preceding decade.

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

Atrium Exhibit: Scholastic Art Awards Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

New to You
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

An exhibit of the work of new guild members as well as emerging and seldom shown artists.

Malmgren Concert Series
Baltimore Consort

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The consort has made 11 recordings on the Dorian label and tours widely in the United States, Canada and Europe. It performs arrangements of early music from England, Scotland, France and Italy, and the members' love for music of English/Scottish heritage has led them to delve into traditional balladry and dance tunes preserved in the Appalachian Mountains and Nova Scotia. More recently, they explored repertory from the Iberian Peninsula and released their latest recording, "Cancionero: Early Music from Spain," in spring 2006.

Ice Cream Social and The Press
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Price: $5
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Spam, a Newspaper Office, an Attic and an Elevator
Armory Square Playwrights

Price: $5 regular, $4 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Script-in-hand readings of four newly written plays: Spamorama by Donna Stuccio; Cashiered Out by Tom Fogarty; and Kathleen Kramer's Sleeps Through Storms and Forty-Three.

In Donna Stuccio's comic Spamorama, a dysfunctional family prepares to compete in a national spam cooking contest and their kitchen becomes a battleground when they realize that the essential ingredient is in short supply and the clock is ticking ominously toward the contest deadline.

Cashiered Out by Tom Fogarty centers on a newspaper clerk whose eyes become opened to the reality of his unpleasant job in a newspaper's advertising department.

The reading features two scripts by Kathleen Kramer. Sleeps Through Storms is a haunting study of a woman and her search for something undefined and hidden in her attic. Is what she visits in the attic real and will her husband discover the answer to that perplexing question? In Kramer's 10-minute Forty-Three, a quintessential claustrophobic space is the setting for a comic encounter with an undercurrent of menace. Just how eccentric is Enid, the woman Marla meets when she tries to go up a Manhattan skyscraper?

A long-time member of the Armory Square Playhouse Playwrights Unit, Donna Stuccio is currently a student in the MFA program in creative writing at Goddard College. Her Blue Moon and The Job premiered at Salt City Playhouse. Blue Moon was published in the Journal of Women and Criminal Justice.

Tom Fogarty, of Auburn, has studied play writing or attended writing workshops at Cayuga Community College, LeMoyne College, Colgate University, the Writers Program at the Downtown YMCA in Syracuse, Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Iowa. His Peace of Mind was given a staged reading at the Auburn public Theatre in September.

Kathleen Kramer lives near Ithaca, where several of her full-length plays and numerous shorter works have been produced. Some of the plays were site-specific pieces, while others have been presented at the Kitchen Theatre and various venues, including the performance space of 3rd Floor Productions, a women's playwriting collective.

Each reading will be followed by a talkback discussion with the author.

Always ... Patsy Cline
Opening Night Productions

Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

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Gem of the Ocean
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

Price: $40, $36, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Lyric, poetic, and infused with singular spiritualism, Gem of the Ocean marks the chronological beginning of August Wilson's towering 10-play cycle of African-American life in the 20th century. The year is 1904, when slavery was a palpable memory. The place is Wilson's familiar haunt, the Hill District of Pittsburgh. A young man named Citizen seeks atonement for a crime for which there is no forgiveness. His only hope is 285-year-old Aunt Esther, the spiritual center of the community and its collective history, who guides him on a journey to the "City of Bones," the watery graves of those who perished on the journey to slavery, a past he needs to embrace.

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The Art of Dining
Syracuse University Drama Department
Craig MacDonald, director

Price: $16 regular; $14 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Set at a posh new gourmet restaurant, The Golden Carousel, on a cold and blustery New Jersey evening, The Art of Dining uses food as a running metaphor for many of the pressures, hopes, fears, and stresses that exist in American society. Written and first performed in 1979, this play explores the idea that dining can be not only a time to bring friends and family together, but an opportunity for much more serious issues to be chewed on: body image issues and eating, personality and mental disorders are some of the darker notes in Tina Howe's uproarious, fast-paced comedy.

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The Fantastiks
Wit's End Players

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

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

For more information, phone 315-345-8001.

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Gem of the Ocean
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

Price: $35, $31, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Lyric, poetic, and infused with singular spiritualism, Gem of the Ocean marks the chronological beginning of August Wilson's towering 10-play cycle of African-American life in the 20th century. The year is 1904, when slavery was a palpable memory. The place is Wilson's familiar haunt, the Hill District of Pittsburgh. A young man named Citizen seeks atonement for a crime for which there is no forgiveness. His only hope is 285-year-old Aunt Esther, the spiritual center of the community and its collective history, who guides him on a journey to the "City of Bones," the watery graves of those who perished on the journey to slavery, a past he needs to embrace.

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