Sunday, January 18, 2009

Prosthesis: Ambivalence -- Works by Ellen Garvens
Light Work Gallery

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

In "Prosthesis," Ellen Garvens' photographs and sculptures intersect and magnify each other as they reference the ever-present, formidable, and magnificent frailty of the human body. This exhibition unites photographs from Garvens' Ambivalence series with photo-based sculptures from her Constructions series.

Garvens began creating the images from the Ambivalence series, which documents the manufacture of prosthetics, at around the same time the war in Iraq started. The prosthetics depicted in these straightforward and elegant photographs serve as reminders of the consequence of conflict and the ephemeral nature of the humans who carry out that conflict. The photo-based sculptures from Garvens' body of work titled Constructions combine images of the body within delicate metal framings. In this series, hand tools, some from everyday life, such as scissors and pliers, and some, including probes and tooth extractors, more directly related to the maintenance of the body, integrate with images of hands and other overtly organic forms. Much as prosthetic devices contain the memory of the body, the hand-tools and metal framings of this series give form to the photographs within them. The Constructions bring the themes of the body and the revelation of its armature into three dimensions.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

The Transmedia Photography Annual features photographs by Transmedia undergraduate students at Syracuse University.

Exploring History With Art: Childhood Through The Years
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The latest exhibit in the Exploring History with Art series features paintings from the permanent collection. 19th-century portraits of children, focusing on children of prominent local families, convey historical circumstances as well as social ideals. 20th-century genre paintings show children in their element: in the bathtub, at recess, and on vacation. The exhibit also features historical objects that enliven the space and impart a sense of the experience of childhood from the cradle to school days and play time. Childhood Through The Years is not only an excellent opportunity to delve into the history of childhood but also the exhibition represents a moment, as fleeting as childhood itself, for parents and children to share their experiences through the interplay of art and history.

Warren Kimble's America
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Folk artist Warren Kimble is creator to some of the most successful 20th century Americana. His quaint depictions have graced stationery cards to decorative accessories for the home. Still, few individuals outside of Vermont know him as the artist behind the celebrated imagery that's as American as apple pie.

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is pleased to present a retrospective of the Syracuse alumnus' work including his most recent series Widows of War, which illustrates his personal reaction to the War in Iraq and its effect on women.

Kimble is best known for his patchwork-like paintings of the American flag, bucolic farm animals, and antique barns and homes. His varying flag designs are a symbol of patriotism, a theme which the artist uses often. Portraits of oversized farm animals, from heavy pigs to stocky cows, allude to an 18th-century practice of selecting prize winning livestock for their size. Kimble's stylized barns and farm houses also reveal a penchant for abstract design over architectural accuracy.

In 2005 Kimble began work on Widows of War. After purchasing a black, antique dressmaking mannequin, Kimble saw in it a visual metaphor for the loss and sorrow felt by American wives and mothers during the war. Contrary to the idyllic scenes and colorful animals, the black-and-white series remains a solemn representation of Kimble's sadness and frustration with the war's events and its toll on American lives. The paintings and sculpture, which are intermittently marked by splats of red and barbed wire, further reinforce the feminine connection through symbolic clothespins and textile patterns.

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

Student Art Open 2008: (Un)doing Fashion
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In this exhibition, high school students explore art through their own experiences and style while drawing inspiration from fashion designer Jeffrey Mayer's exhibition "Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th-Century Superstar."

Fifteen teachers from nine different schools came to hear Jeffrey Mayer's discussion on his exhibition and incorporated its themes into their lesson plans. In the next step of the Student Art Open process, students visited the Everson with their teachers and brought inspirations from the exhibits back to the classroom. Using any media they chose, students created artwork to be submitted for the Open. The teachers then selected two students' works to be on display at the museum. Come see the amazing artwork these students meticulously created for the exhibition.

Candlelight Music
Fayetteville Free Library

Price: Free
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

Music for violin and cello

Jonathan Dinkin and Klezmercuse
Arts Alive in Liverpool

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

Jonathan Dinkin and Klezmercuse are Syracuse's homegrown klezmer sensation. Klezmercuse features Jonathan on keyboards, Mike Fixler on clarinet and saxophone, Sam Young on euphonium, Art Bronstein on bass guitar, Judy Schmid on accordion, Mark Wolfe on drums along with additional vocalists Aveeya Dinkin and Lee Lawitts. Jonathan Dinkin and Klezmercuse have released an instrumental CD titled Naches, a Yiddish word meaning pleasure and pride.

Pianist's Choice: 20th Century American Choral Music
The SSO Pops Choral Ensemble; Crystal LaPoint, piano; Travis Newton; violin

Price: Free (donations accepted)
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Music of Aaron Copland, Irving Fine, Howard Hanson, Crystal LaPoint, and Randall Thompson.

Romeo and Juliet
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Debbie Pearson, director

The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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Glengarry Glen Ross
Wit's End Players

Price: $20 regular; $18 students/seniors
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

1st Prize: A Cadillac
2nd Prize: A Set of Steak Knives
3rd Prize: Youre Fired!
(And you thought your job was tough?)

David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning scalding drama took Broadway and London by storm and won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony. Never has the author's ear for the rhythms of contemporary speech been more keen than in this tale of cutthroat competition among real estate salesmen. Once shocking for its unrelentingly gritty language, the play has become an American classic.

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Syracuse Children's Theater 10th Anniversary Celebration
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Price: $25.00, $20.00, $15.00
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Performance begins at 7:00 pm, with a pre-show reception in the lobby from 5:00-6:30.

Hosts for the evening are Andrew Robert Pollock and Roy George. Featured will be Kara Tripoli, Lauren Sageer, Ana Thornton, Liam Fitzpatrick, Jennie Riverso, Mark Weatherup, The Syracuse Children's Theatre staff, and 250+ students performing songs from Disney shows, Once On This Island, Bugsy Malone, The Wiz, High School Musical, and much more.

Monday, January 19, 2009

The Golem: Visual Visitations
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A major collective exhibit of seven world class artists titled "The Golem: Visual Visitations," inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' poem "El Golem." This is the third edition of a program that began in Prague in 2002 through the initiative of the Argentinean Embassy in that city, and it was introduced by the renowned poet Václav Havel, then President of the Czech Republic. A second version was later produced with tremendous success at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2003, also introduced by then President of the country, Néstor Kirchner. Now the program travels to the United States for the first time to be shown exclusively at Syracuse University.

The Golem exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery features original works especially commissioned for this exhibit, created by seven artists: from Argentina (Leandro Katz; Pedro Roth); Uruguay (Marta Chilindrón); Puerto Rico (Víctor Vázquez); Syracuse (Tom Sherman; Doug Dubois) and New York (Sarah Kipp). It combines photography, installation and video art.

Dawn of a New Age: The Immigrant Contribution to the Arts in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"Dawn of a New Age" tells the story of five artists who immigrated to the United States during the first half of the 20th century: Adolph Bolm, a Russian dancer and choreographer who performed with the Mariinsky Ballet and Ballets Russes; William Lescaze, a Swiss architect who was one of the pioneers of modernism; Louis Lozowick, a Russian printmaker known for his Art Deco and Precision lithographs; Miklós Rózsa, a Hungarian composer of more than 100 film scores, including Ben Hur; and John Vassos, a Greek illustrator and industrial designer. The exhibition draws from the rich holdings of SCRC and showcases more than 50 of the artists' personal papers, manuscripts, photos and artifacts.

This exhibit is part of this year's Syracuse Symposium on the theme "Migration."

The Crane Show: Origami, Watercolor, and Oriental Brush Painting
Westcott Community Center

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

Works by Phil DeMocker and Ann Milner

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

The Transmedia Photography Annual features photographs by Transmedia undergraduate students at Syracuse University.

Prosthesis: Ambivalence -- Works by Ellen Garvens
Light Work Gallery

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

In "Prosthesis," Ellen Garvens' photographs and sculptures intersect and magnify each other as they reference the ever-present, formidable, and magnificent frailty of the human body. This exhibition unites photographs from Garvens' Ambivalence series with photo-based sculptures from her Constructions series.

Garvens began creating the images from the Ambivalence series, which documents the manufacture of prosthetics, at around the same time the war in Iraq started. The prosthetics depicted in these straightforward and elegant photographs serve as reminders of the consequence of conflict and the ephemeral nature of the humans who carry out that conflict. The photo-based sculptures from Garvens' body of work titled Constructions combine images of the body within delicate metal framings. In this series, hand tools, some from everyday life, such as scissors and pliers, and some, including probes and tooth extractors, more directly related to the maintenance of the body, integrate with images of hands and other overtly organic forms. Much as prosthetic devices contain the memory of the body, the hand-tools and metal framings of this series give form to the photographs within them. The Constructions bring the themes of the body and the revelation of its armature into three dimensions.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

The Golem: Visual Visitations
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A major collective exhibit of seven world class artists titled "The Golem: Visual Visitations," inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' poem "El Golem." This is the third edition of a program that began in Prague in 2002 through the initiative of the Argentinean Embassy in that city, and it was introduced by the renowned poet Václav Havel, then President of the Czech Republic. A second version was later produced with tremendous success at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2003, also introduced by then President of the country, Néstor Kirchner. Now the program travels to the United States for the first time to be shown exclusively at Syracuse University.

The Golem exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery features original works especially commissioned for this exhibit, created by seven artists: from Argentina (Leandro Katz; Pedro Roth); Uruguay (Marta Chilindrón); Puerto Rico (Víctor Vázquez); Syracuse (Tom Sherman; Doug Dubois) and New York (Sarah Kipp). It combines photography, installation and video art.

Dawn of a New Age: The Immigrant Contribution to the Arts in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"Dawn of a New Age" tells the story of five artists who immigrated to the United States during the first half of the 20th century: Adolph Bolm, a Russian dancer and choreographer who performed with the Mariinsky Ballet and Ballets Russes; William Lescaze, a Swiss architect who was one of the pioneers of modernism; Louis Lozowick, a Russian printmaker known for his Art Deco and Precision lithographs; Miklós Rózsa, a Hungarian composer of more than 100 film scores, including Ben Hur; and John Vassos, a Greek illustrator and industrial designer. The exhibition draws from the rich holdings of SCRC and showcases more than 50 of the artists' personal papers, manuscripts, photos and artifacts.

This exhibit is part of this year's Syracuse Symposium on the theme "Migration."

The Crane Show: Origami, Watercolor, and Oriental Brush Painting
Westcott Community Center

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

Works by Phil DeMocker and Ann Milner

Needle Art and Embroidered Stone
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Needle art by members of the American Needlepoint Guild, and fine porcelain and stoneware by Sue Canizares.

Contemporary Craft Masters
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Contemporary Craft Masters" features the work of three artists who were featured on HGTV's "Modern Masters: African American Artisans" program in 2003. The featured artists, Espi Frazier, Hermon Futrell, and David MacDonald, are at the forefront of contemporary crafts and reflect the diverse and innovative palette of today's artists.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

The Transmedia Photography Annual features photographs by Transmedia undergraduate students at Syracuse University.

Prosthesis: Ambivalence -- Works by Ellen Garvens
Light Work Gallery

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

In "Prosthesis," Ellen Garvens' photographs and sculptures intersect and magnify each other as they reference the ever-present, formidable, and magnificent frailty of the human body. This exhibition unites photographs from Garvens' Ambivalence series with photo-based sculptures from her Constructions series.

Garvens began creating the images from the Ambivalence series, which documents the manufacture of prosthetics, at around the same time the war in Iraq started. The prosthetics depicted in these straightforward and elegant photographs serve as reminders of the consequence of conflict and the ephemeral nature of the humans who carry out that conflict. The photo-based sculptures from Garvens' body of work titled Constructions combine images of the body within delicate metal framings. In this series, hand tools, some from everyday life, such as scissors and pliers, and some, including probes and tooth extractors, more directly related to the maintenance of the body, integrate with images of hands and other overtly organic forms. Much as prosthetic devices contain the memory of the body, the hand-tools and metal framings of this series give form to the photographs within them. The Constructions bring the themes of the body and the revelation of its armature into three dimensions.

Student Art Open 2008: (Un)doing Fashion
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In this exhibition, high school students explore art through their own experiences and style while drawing inspiration from fashion designer Jeffrey Mayer's exhibition "Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th-Century Superstar."

Fifteen teachers from nine different schools came to hear Jeffrey Mayer's discussion on his exhibition and incorporated its themes into their lesson plans. In the next step of the Student Art Open process, students visited the Everson with their teachers and brought inspirations from the exhibits back to the classroom. Using any media they chose, students created artwork to be submitted for the Open. The teachers then selected two students' works to be on display at the museum. Come see the amazing artwork these students meticulously created for the exhibition.

The Northside Mosaic
Our Northside Community Gallery

Price: Free
Our Northside Community Gallery
745 N. Salina St., Syracuse

The Northside Mosaic is a multidisciplinary exhibit, celebrating the myriad of people, cultures and histories that compose Our Northside neighborhood. The exhibit features pieces collected throughout 2007 and 2008 and produced predominantly by people living or working in our community. Through this project, we intend to showcase the brilliant individual lives and rich cultural diversity that exist within the Northside, heighten people's awareness of the struggles and injustices that are present within our neighborhoods, help citizens develop a deeper sense of pride for and ownership of their neighborhoods, bring aesthetic beauty to the area, and catalyze relationships and future collaborative projects among diverse groups of people.

Landscapes and Interiors: Works of Kianga Ford
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

In this solo exhibition, Los Angeles-Boston based artist Kianga Ford presents a set of installations with sound that explore the contemporary Syracuse landscape and the potential of its spaces to create communities out of relative strangers. The three zones of the exhibition transition from exterior landscapes to interior spaces, crossing between the spaces of the sacred and profane to re-create the dynamics of contemporary urbanity -- blending the deep interiors of the religious sanctuary with the VIP rooms of strip clubs, the food court with the bus stop.

The Wizard of Oz
Broadway in Syracuse

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

There truly is no place like home as the greatest family musical of all time, the wonderful Wizard of Oz, twists its way into Syracuse! This lavish production featuring breathtaking special effects, dazzling choreography and classic songs will blow you away from the moment the tornado touches down and transports you to a dazzling art deco Oz, complete with munchkins and flying monkeys. Don't miss the chance to travel Over the Rainbow and experience this national treasure on stage.

Read a review!

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

The Golem: Visual Visitations
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A major collective exhibit of seven world class artists titled "The Golem: Visual Visitations," inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' poem "El Golem." This is the third edition of a program that began in Prague in 2002 through the initiative of the Argentinean Embassy in that city, and it was introduced by the renowned poet Václav Havel, then President of the Czech Republic. A second version was later produced with tremendous success at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2003, also introduced by then President of the country, Néstor Kirchner. Now the program travels to the United States for the first time to be shown exclusively at Syracuse University.

The Golem exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery features original works especially commissioned for this exhibit, created by seven artists: from Argentina (Leandro Katz; Pedro Roth); Uruguay (Marta Chilindrón); Puerto Rico (Víctor Vázquez); Syracuse (Tom Sherman; Doug Dubois) and New York (Sarah Kipp). It combines photography, installation and video art.

The Crane Show: Origami, Watercolor, and Oriental Brush Painting
Westcott Community Center

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

Works by Phil DeMocker and Ann Milner

Needle Art and Embroidered Stone
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Needle art by members of the American Needlepoint Guild, and fine porcelain and stoneware by Sue Canizares.

Contemporary Craft Masters
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Contemporary Craft Masters" features the work of three artists who were featured on HGTV's "Modern Masters: African American Artisans" program in 2003. The featured artists, Espi Frazier, Hermon Futrell, and David MacDonald, are at the forefront of contemporary crafts and reflect the diverse and innovative palette of today's artists.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

The Transmedia Photography Annual features photographs by Transmedia undergraduate students at Syracuse University.

Prosthesis: Ambivalence -- Works by Ellen Garvens
Light Work Gallery

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

In "Prosthesis," Ellen Garvens' photographs and sculptures intersect and magnify each other as they reference the ever-present, formidable, and magnificent frailty of the human body. This exhibition unites photographs from Garvens' Ambivalence series with photo-based sculptures from her Constructions series.

Garvens began creating the images from the Ambivalence series, which documents the manufacture of prosthetics, at around the same time the war in Iraq started. The prosthetics depicted in these straightforward and elegant photographs serve as reminders of the consequence of conflict and the ephemeral nature of the humans who carry out that conflict. The photo-based sculptures from Garvens' body of work titled Constructions combine images of the body within delicate metal framings. In this series, hand tools, some from everyday life, such as scissors and pliers, and some, including probes and tooth extractors, more directly related to the maintenance of the body, integrate with images of hands and other overtly organic forms. Much as prosthetic devices contain the memory of the body, the hand-tools and metal framings of this series give form to the photographs within them. The Constructions bring the themes of the body and the revelation of its armature into three dimensions.

Inishlacken: the last parish
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Joan Lukas Rothenberg Gallery at Redhouse Arts Center is proud to be the first USA venue to present "Inishlacken; the last parish," curated by Rosie McGurran and Maeve Mulrennan. "Inishlacken; the last parish" is an exhibition that includes the work of 23 leading contemporary Irish artists.

Inishlacken Island, situated one mile off the west coast of County Galway, Ireland, is no longer inhabited; however, with the generosity of people who keep houses there, Rosie McGurran along with several other artists and curators have been able to create an Artists Residency (The Inishlacken Project) program on an annual basis. The Inishlacken Project aims to develop the spirit of friendship and creativity established by late Belfast artist Gerard Dillon during his time on the island. Artists are invited to visit Inishlacken and make work as a response to its unique environment and culture. Surviving on the island is much the same as it was in the '50s; it is an opportunity for artists to leave behind the 21st century and experience a way of life almost forgotten.

"Inishlacken; the last parish" exhibition is a collection of work made by selected artists who have made the journey to the island over the past seven years. Their responses to Inishlacken Island and its rich history are all highly individual. Photography, painting, installation, video, animation and printmaking make up the core of this exhibition. The diverse nature of this collection of artists and their work reflects the ever-changing landscape of an island floating between the embrace of the Twelve Bens mountain range and the watery wilderness of the Atlantic Ocean.

Artists include Aideen Barry, Eamon Colman, Cian Donnelly, Kathleen Furey, Phil Hession, Pearl Kinnear, Margaret Irwin, Gavin Lavelle, Dolores Lyne, Louise Manifold, Kate Moore, Jay Murphy, Susan McKeever, Rosie McGurran, Joseph McWilliams, Catherine McWilliams, Simon McWilliams, Mick O'Dea, Sean O'Flaithearta, Sioban Piercy, Jonathan Porter, Una Sealy, Caroline Wright.

Student Art Open 2008: (Un)doing Fashion
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In this exhibition, high school students explore art through their own experiences and style while drawing inspiration from fashion designer Jeffrey Mayer's exhibition "Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th-Century Superstar."

Fifteen teachers from nine different schools came to hear Jeffrey Mayer's discussion on his exhibition and incorporated its themes into their lesson plans. In the next step of the Student Art Open process, students visited the Everson with their teachers and brought inspirations from the exhibits back to the classroom. Using any media they chose, students created artwork to be submitted for the Open. The teachers then selected two students' works to be on display at the museum. Come see the amazing artwork these students meticulously created for the exhibition.

The Northside Mosaic
Our Northside Community Gallery

Price: Free
Our Northside Community Gallery
745 N. Salina St., Syracuse

The Northside Mosaic is a multidisciplinary exhibit, celebrating the myriad of people, cultures and histories that compose Our Northside neighborhood. The exhibit features pieces collected throughout 2007 and 2008 and produced predominantly by people living or working in our community. Through this project, we intend to showcase the brilliant individual lives and rich cultural diversity that exist within the Northside, heighten people's awareness of the struggles and injustices that are present within our neighborhoods, help citizens develop a deeper sense of pride for and ownership of their neighborhoods, bring aesthetic beauty to the area, and catalyze relationships and future collaborative projects among diverse groups of people.

Landscapes and Interiors: Works of Kianga Ford
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

In this solo exhibition, Los Angeles-Boston based artist Kianga Ford presents a set of installations with sound that explore the contemporary Syracuse landscape and the potential of its spaces to create communities out of relative strangers. The three zones of the exhibition transition from exterior landscapes to interior spaces, crossing between the spaces of the sacred and profane to re-create the dynamics of contemporary urbanity -- blending the deep interiors of the religious sanctuary with the VIP rooms of strip clubs, the food court with the bus stop.

Voices of Diversity: Photographs by Lida Suchý
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Voices of Diversity" is a composite photographic portrait of the Syracuse Community Choir. Composed of more than 100 individual black and white images, it foregrounds the potential of art/singing as a powerful tool for fostering broad social inclusiveness and community building. This exhibit honors people who, as choir founder and director Karen Mihalyi says, seek to create a space in our community "that values all people, that sees everyone as important, that creates music... Where we find our voices, sing fully, and create beauty."

For more than 20 years, the Syracuse Community Choir has been an important voice in the Central New York community, actively promoting the ideas of social justice, peace and inclusiveness. The Choir is based on the idea that singing should be a vital part of the human experience and that everyone can sing. It is open to all people, from experienced musicians to those who have never sung. To involve all, the choir provides support such as brailling, transportation, large print words, tapes/CDs, childcare, separate teen and children's rehearsals and special help for all who want it.

Lida Suchý's photographs have been widely exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States and Europe and published in LIFE Magazine, National Geographic, and GEO. Lida's photographs are in the collections of the George Eastman House, the Brooklyn Museum, Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and SF MoMA. Lida is a first-generation American born into a Ukrainian refugee family. She holds a BA from SUNY Albany, an MA from Syracuse University, and an MFA from Yale University School of Art.

Nicholas Hrynyk, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Beethoven Sonata in F minor, Op. 2, No. 1; Chopin Ballade in F minor; Bach and others.

The Wizard of Oz
Broadway in Syracuse

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

There truly is no place like home as the greatest family musical of all time, the wonderful Wizard of Oz, twists its way into Syracuse! This lavish production featuring breathtaking special effects, dazzling choreography and classic songs will blow you away from the moment the tornado touches down and transports you to a dazzling art deco Oz, complete with munchkins and flying monkeys. Don't miss the chance to travel Over the Rainbow and experience this national treasure on stage.

Read a review!

Thursday, January 22, 2009

The Golem: Visual Visitations
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A major collective exhibit of seven world class artists titled "The Golem: Visual Visitations," inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' poem "El Golem." This is the third edition of a program that began in Prague in 2002 through the initiative of the Argentinean Embassy in that city, and it was introduced by the renowned poet Václav Havel, then President of the Czech Republic. A second version was later produced with tremendous success at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2003, also introduced by then President of the country, Néstor Kirchner. Now the program travels to the United States for the first time to be shown exclusively at Syracuse University.

The Golem exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery features original works especially commissioned for this exhibit, created by seven artists: from Argentina (Leandro Katz; Pedro Roth); Uruguay (Marta Chilindrón); Puerto Rico (Víctor Vázquez); Syracuse (Tom Sherman; Doug Dubois) and New York (Sarah Kipp). It combines photography, installation and video art.

The Crane Show: Origami, Watercolor, and Oriental Brush Painting
Westcott Community Center

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

Opening reception: 6:00-8:00 pm.

Works by Phil DeMocker and Ann Milner

Needle Art and Embroidered Stone
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Needle art by members of the American Needlepoint Guild, and fine porcelain and stoneware by Sue Canizares.

Contemporary Craft Masters
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Contemporary Craft Masters" features the work of three artists who were featured on HGTV's "Modern Masters: African American Artisans" program in 2003. The featured artists, Espi Frazier, Hermon Futrell, and David MacDonald, are at the forefront of contemporary crafts and reflect the diverse and innovative palette of today's artists.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

The Transmedia Photography Annual features photographs by Transmedia undergraduate students at Syracuse University.

Prosthesis: Ambivalence -- Works by Ellen Garvens
Light Work Gallery

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

In "Prosthesis," Ellen Garvens' photographs and sculptures intersect and magnify each other as they reference the ever-present, formidable, and magnificent frailty of the human body. This exhibition unites photographs from Garvens' Ambivalence series with photo-based sculptures from her Constructions series.

Garvens began creating the images from the Ambivalence series, which documents the manufacture of prosthetics, at around the same time the war in Iraq started. The prosthetics depicted in these straightforward and elegant photographs serve as reminders of the consequence of conflict and the ephemeral nature of the humans who carry out that conflict. The photo-based sculptures from Garvens' body of work titled Constructions combine images of the body within delicate metal framings. In this series, hand tools, some from everyday life, such as scissors and pliers, and some, including probes and tooth extractors, more directly related to the maintenance of the body, integrate with images of hands and other overtly organic forms. Much as prosthetic devices contain the memory of the body, the hand-tools and metal framings of this series give form to the photographs within them. The Constructions bring the themes of the body and the revelation of its armature into three dimensions.

Inishlacken: the last parish
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Joan Lukas Rothenberg Gallery at Redhouse Arts Center is proud to be the first USA venue to present "Inishlacken; the last parish," curated by Rosie McGurran and Maeve Mulrennan. "Inishlacken; the last parish" is an exhibition that includes the work of 23 leading contemporary Irish artists.

Inishlacken Island, situated one mile off the west coast of County Galway, Ireland, is no longer inhabited; however, with the generosity of people who keep houses there, Rosie McGurran along with several other artists and curators have been able to create an Artists Residency (The Inishlacken Project) program on an annual basis. The Inishlacken Project aims to develop the spirit of friendship and creativity established by late Belfast artist Gerard Dillon during his time on the island. Artists are invited to visit Inishlacken and make work as a response to its unique environment and culture. Surviving on the island is much the same as it was in the '50s; it is an opportunity for artists to leave behind the 21st century and experience a way of life almost forgotten.

"Inishlacken; the last parish" exhibition is a collection of work made by selected artists who have made the journey to the island over the past seven years. Their responses to Inishlacken Island and its rich history are all highly individual. Photography, painting, installation, video, animation and printmaking make up the core of this exhibition. The diverse nature of this collection of artists and their work reflects the ever-changing landscape of an island floating between the embrace of the Twelve Bens mountain range and the watery wilderness of the Atlantic Ocean.

Artists include Aideen Barry, Eamon Colman, Cian Donnelly, Kathleen Furey, Phil Hession, Pearl Kinnear, Margaret Irwin, Gavin Lavelle, Dolores Lyne, Louise Manifold, Kate Moore, Jay Murphy, Susan McKeever, Rosie McGurran, Joseph McWilliams, Catherine McWilliams, Simon McWilliams, Mick O'Dea, Sean O'Flaithearta, Sioban Piercy, Jonathan Porter, Una Sealy, Caroline Wright.

Special Exhibit: Shadows
Delavan Art Gallery

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

When viewing lighted objects, it's easy to overlook the shadows they create. The Delavan Art Gallery has expanded on this concept to produce a one-of-its-kind exhibit devoted entirely to shadows and featuring works by a host of noted Central New York artists.

The Shadows Exhibit was conceived with two ideas in mind: how shadows are made (by an object, a light source and a background), and Bill Delavan's special professional interest in lighting the Gallery's exhibitions, sometimes playfully turning shadows into their own art form.

Featured artists in this exhibit include Arlene Abend, Reginald Adams, Anahid Ajemian, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Hillary Gifford, Barre Hunt, Lauren Ritchie, Jeffrey Schuessler, Andy Schuster and Matthew Vural.

Student Art Open 2008: (Un)doing Fashion
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In this exhibition, high school students explore art through their own experiences and style while drawing inspiration from fashion designer Jeffrey Mayer's exhibition "Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th-Century Superstar."

Fifteen teachers from nine different schools came to hear Jeffrey Mayer's discussion on his exhibition and incorporated its themes into their lesson plans. In the next step of the Student Art Open process, students visited the Everson with their teachers and brought inspirations from the exhibits back to the classroom. Using any media they chose, students created artwork to be submitted for the Open. The teachers then selected two students' works to be on display at the museum. Come see the amazing artwork these students meticulously created for the exhibition.

The Northside Mosaic
Our Northside Community Gallery

Price: Free
Our Northside Community Gallery
745 N. Salina St., Syracuse

The Northside Mosaic is a multidisciplinary exhibit, celebrating the myriad of people, cultures and histories that compose Our Northside neighborhood. The exhibit features pieces collected throughout 2007 and 2008 and produced predominantly by people living or working in our community. Through this project, we intend to showcase the brilliant individual lives and rich cultural diversity that exist within the Northside, heighten people's awareness of the struggles and injustices that are present within our neighborhoods, help citizens develop a deeper sense of pride for and ownership of their neighborhoods, bring aesthetic beauty to the area, and catalyze relationships and future collaborative projects among diverse groups of people.

Landscapes and Interiors: Works of Kianga Ford
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

In this solo exhibition, Los Angeles-Boston based artist Kianga Ford presents a set of installations with sound that explore the contemporary Syracuse landscape and the potential of its spaces to create communities out of relative strangers. The three zones of the exhibition transition from exterior landscapes to interior spaces, crossing between the spaces of the sacred and profane to re-create the dynamics of contemporary urbanity -- blending the deep interiors of the religious sanctuary with the VIP rooms of strip clubs, the food court with the bus stop.

Voices of Diversity: Photographs by Lida Suchý
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Voices of Diversity" is a composite photographic portrait of the Syracuse Community Choir. Composed of more than 100 individual black and white images, it foregrounds the potential of art/singing as a powerful tool for fostering broad social inclusiveness and community building. This exhibit honors people who, as choir founder and director Karen Mihalyi says, seek to create a space in our community "that values all people, that sees everyone as important, that creates music... Where we find our voices, sing fully, and create beauty."

For more than 20 years, the Syracuse Community Choir has been an important voice in the Central New York community, actively promoting the ideas of social justice, peace and inclusiveness. The Choir is based on the idea that singing should be a vital part of the human experience and that everyone can sing. It is open to all people, from experienced musicians to those who have never sung. To involve all, the choir provides support such as brailling, transportation, large print words, tapes/CDs, childcare, separate teen and children's rehearsals and special help for all who want it.

Lida Suchý's photographs have been widely exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States and Europe and published in LIFE Magazine, National Geographic, and GEO. Lida's photographs are in the collections of the George Eastman House, the Brooklyn Museum, Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and SF MoMA. Lida is a first-generation American born into a Ukrainian refugee family. She holds a BA from SUNY Albany, an MA from Syracuse University, and an MFA from Yale University School of Art.

Opening: Stone Canoe III
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Works by artists in the third edition of Stone Canoe, a journal of arts and ideas from Upstate New York. Artists featured include Marianne Barcellona, Marty Blake, Lauren Bristol, Elaine R. Defibaugh, Sylvia de Swaan, Donna L. Emerson, Paul Farinacci, Lisbeth Firmin, John Fitzsimmons, Emily Fleisher, Bob Gates, Jon Gernon, Thomas Gokey, Fred Gonyea, Erica Harney and Aldo Lira. Also, David R. MacDonald, Jennifer Marsh, Lalit K. Masih, Deloss McGraw, Rebecca Murtaugh, Mary Nelson Zadrozny, Steven Pearlman, Stephan Phillips, Awenheeyoh Powless, Mark Robbins, Roger Shimomura, Nancy Sirkis, Yolanda Tooley, Gary Trento, Kim Waale, and Phil Young.

Artist Talk: Caroline Wright
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The Redhouse will welcome artist Caroline Wright of the "Inishlacken Project". Caroline will be on hand in the gallery to speak about her work and to answer any questions.

Caroline Wright is an artist working in performance and visual art. Her work has been shown across the UK and Europe in galleries, festivals and site specific locations. She has explored human communication, looking at the philosophical and physical aspects of information exchange. This has encompassed ritual and repetitive behavior and the representation of time, space and memory.

The Sound of Murder
Acme Mystery Company

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

Inactive comedy murder mystery dinner theater. Up in the hills, a lonely goatherd has died, and the townsfolk, including Capt. Von Trumpp, begin to suspect that sweet young Maria is a serial killer.

The Wizard of Oz
Broadway in Syracuse

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

There truly is no place like home as the greatest family musical of all time, the wonderful Wizard of Oz, twists its way into Syracuse! This lavish production featuring breathtaking special effects, dazzling choreography and classic songs will blow you away from the moment the tornado touches down and transports you to a dazzling art deco Oz, complete with munchkins and flying monkeys. Don't miss the chance to travel Over the Rainbow and experience this national treasure on stage.

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Friday, January 23, 2009

The Golem: Visual Visitations
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A major collective exhibit of seven world class artists titled "The Golem: Visual Visitations," inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' poem "El Golem." This is the third edition of a program that began in Prague in 2002 through the initiative of the Argentinean Embassy in that city, and it was introduced by the renowned poet Václav Havel, then President of the Czech Republic. A second version was later produced with tremendous success at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2003, also introduced by then President of the country, Néstor Kirchner. Now the program travels to the United States for the first time to be shown exclusively at Syracuse University.

The Golem exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery features original works especially commissioned for this exhibit, created by seven artists: from Argentina (Leandro Katz; Pedro Roth); Uruguay (Marta Chilindrón); Puerto Rico (Víctor Vázquez); Syracuse (Tom Sherman; Doug Dubois) and New York (Sarah Kipp). It combines photography, installation and video art.

The Crane Show: Origami, Watercolor, and Oriental Brush Painting
Westcott Community Center

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

Works by Phil DeMocker and Ann Milner

Needle Art and Embroidered Stone
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Needle art by members of the American Needlepoint Guild, and fine porcelain and stoneware by Sue Canizares.

Contemporary Craft Masters
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Contemporary Craft Masters" features the work of three artists who were featured on HGTV's "Modern Masters: African American Artisans" program in 2003. The featured artists, Espi Frazier, Hermon Futrell, and David MacDonald, are at the forefront of contemporary crafts and reflect the diverse and innovative palette of today's artists.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

The Transmedia Photography Annual features photographs by Transmedia undergraduate students at Syracuse University.

Prosthesis: Ambivalence -- Works by Ellen Garvens
Light Work Gallery

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

In "Prosthesis," Ellen Garvens' photographs and sculptures intersect and magnify each other as they reference the ever-present, formidable, and magnificent frailty of the human body. This exhibition unites photographs from Garvens' Ambivalence series with photo-based sculptures from her Constructions series.

Garvens began creating the images from the Ambivalence series, which documents the manufacture of prosthetics, at around the same time the war in Iraq started. The prosthetics depicted in these straightforward and elegant photographs serve as reminders of the consequence of conflict and the ephemeral nature of the humans who carry out that conflict. The photo-based sculptures from Garvens' body of work titled Constructions combine images of the body within delicate metal framings. In this series, hand tools, some from everyday life, such as scissors and pliers, and some, including probes and tooth extractors, more directly related to the maintenance of the body, integrate with images of hands and other overtly organic forms. Much as prosthetic devices contain the memory of the body, the hand-tools and metal framings of this series give form to the photographs within them. The Constructions bring the themes of the body and the revelation of its armature into three dimensions.

Inishlacken: the last parish
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Joan Lukas Rothenberg Gallery at Redhouse Arts Center is proud to be the first USA venue to present "Inishlacken; the last parish," curated by Rosie McGurran and Maeve Mulrennan. "Inishlacken; the last parish" is an exhibition that includes the work of 23 leading contemporary Irish artists.

Inishlacken Island, situated one mile off the west coast of County Galway, Ireland, is no longer inhabited; however, with the generosity of people who keep houses there, Rosie McGurran along with several other artists and curators have been able to create an Artists Residency (The Inishlacken Project) program on an annual basis. The Inishlacken Project aims to develop the spirit of friendship and creativity established by late Belfast artist Gerard Dillon during his time on the island. Artists are invited to visit Inishlacken and make work as a response to its unique environment and culture. Surviving on the island is much the same as it was in the '50s; it is an opportunity for artists to leave behind the 21st century and experience a way of life almost forgotten.

"Inishlacken; the last parish" exhibition is a collection of work made by selected artists who have made the journey to the island over the past seven years. Their responses to Inishlacken Island and its rich history are all highly individual. Photography, painting, installation, video, animation and printmaking make up the core of this exhibition. The diverse nature of this collection of artists and their work reflects the ever-changing landscape of an island floating between the embrace of the Twelve Bens mountain range and the watery wilderness of the Atlantic Ocean.

Artists include Aideen Barry, Eamon Colman, Cian Donnelly, Kathleen Furey, Phil Hession, Pearl Kinnear, Margaret Irwin, Gavin Lavelle, Dolores Lyne, Louise Manifold, Kate Moore, Jay Murphy, Susan McKeever, Rosie McGurran, Joseph McWilliams, Catherine McWilliams, Simon McWilliams, Mick O'Dea, Sean O'Flaithearta, Sioban Piercy, Jonathan Porter, Una Sealy, Caroline Wright.

Stone Canoe III
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Works by artists in the third edition of Stone Canoe, a journal of arts and ideas from Upstate New York. Artists featured include Marianne Barcellona, Marty Blake, Lauren Bristol, Elaine R. Defibaugh, Sylvia de Swaan, Donna L. Emerson, Paul Farinacci, Lisbeth Firmin, John Fitzsimmons, Emily Fleisher, Bob Gates, Jon Gernon, Thomas Gokey, Fred Gonyea, Erica Harney and Aldo Lira. Also, David R. MacDonald, Jennifer Marsh, Lalit K. Masih, Deloss McGraw, Rebecca Murtaugh, Mary Nelson Zadrozny, Steven Pearlman, Stephan Phillips, Awenheeyoh Powless, Mark Robbins, Roger Shimomura, Nancy Sirkis, Yolanda Tooley, Gary Trento, Kim Waale, and Phil Young.

Special Exhibit: Shadows
Delavan Art Gallery

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

When viewing lighted objects, it's easy to overlook the shadows they create. The Delavan Art Gallery has expanded on this concept to produce a one-of-its-kind exhibit devoted entirely to shadows and featuring works by a host of noted Central New York artists.

The Shadows Exhibit was conceived with two ideas in mind: how shadows are made (by an object, a light source and a background), and Bill Delavan's special professional interest in lighting the Gallery's exhibitions, sometimes playfully turning shadows into their own art form.

Featured artists in this exhibit include Arlene Abend, Reginald Adams, Anahid Ajemian, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Hillary Gifford, Barre Hunt, Lauren Ritchie, Jeffrey Schuessler, Andy Schuster and Matthew Vural.

Student Art Open 2008: (Un)doing Fashion
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In this exhibition, high school students explore art through their own experiences and style while drawing inspiration from fashion designer Jeffrey Mayer's exhibition "Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th-Century Superstar."

Fifteen teachers from nine different schools came to hear Jeffrey Mayer's discussion on his exhibition and incorporated its themes into their lesson plans. In the next step of the Student Art Open process, students visited the Everson with their teachers and brought inspirations from the exhibits back to the classroom. Using any media they chose, students created artwork to be submitted for the Open. The teachers then selected two students' works to be on display at the museum. Come see the amazing artwork these students meticulously created for the exhibition.

The Northside Mosaic
Our Northside Community Gallery

Price: Free
Our Northside Community Gallery
745 N. Salina St., Syracuse

The Northside Mosaic is a multidisciplinary exhibit, celebrating the myriad of people, cultures and histories that compose Our Northside neighborhood. The exhibit features pieces collected throughout 2007 and 2008 and produced predominantly by people living or working in our community. Through this project, we intend to showcase the brilliant individual lives and rich cultural diversity that exist within the Northside, heighten people's awareness of the struggles and injustices that are present within our neighborhoods, help citizens develop a deeper sense of pride for and ownership of their neighborhoods, bring aesthetic beauty to the area, and catalyze relationships and future collaborative projects among diverse groups of people.

Landscapes and Interiors: Works of Kianga Ford
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

In this solo exhibition, Los Angeles-Boston based artist Kianga Ford presents a set of installations with sound that explore the contemporary Syracuse landscape and the potential of its spaces to create communities out of relative strangers. The three zones of the exhibition transition from exterior landscapes to interior spaces, crossing between the spaces of the sacred and profane to re-create the dynamics of contemporary urbanity -- blending the deep interiors of the religious sanctuary with the VIP rooms of strip clubs, the food court with the bus stop.

Voices of Diversity: Photographs by Lida Suchý
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Voices of Diversity" is a composite photographic portrait of the Syracuse Community Choir. Composed of more than 100 individual black and white images, it foregrounds the potential of art/singing as a powerful tool for fostering broad social inclusiveness and community building. This exhibit honors people who, as choir founder and director Karen Mihalyi says, seek to create a space in our community "that values all people, that sees everyone as important, that creates music... Where we find our voices, sing fully, and create beauty."

For more than 20 years, the Syracuse Community Choir has been an important voice in the Central New York community, actively promoting the ideas of social justice, peace and inclusiveness. The Choir is based on the idea that singing should be a vital part of the human experience and that everyone can sing. It is open to all people, from experienced musicians to those who have never sung. To involve all, the choir provides support such as brailling, transportation, large print words, tapes/CDs, childcare, separate teen and children's rehearsals and special help for all who want it.

Lida Suchý's photographs have been widely exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States and Europe and published in LIFE Magazine, National Geographic, and GEO. Lida's photographs are in the collections of the George Eastman House, the Brooklyn Museum, Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and SF MoMA. Lida is a first-generation American born into a Ukrainian refugee family. She holds a BA from SUNY Albany, an MA from Syracuse University, and an MFA from Yale University School of Art.

Special Event: Cirque De La Symphonie
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Duilio Dobrin, conductor

Price: $70-$30
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Cirque de la Symphonie is a new production formed to bring the magic of cirque to the music hall. It is an exciting adaptation of artistic performances widely seen in theaters and arenas everywhere. Artists include the most amazing veterans of exceptional cirque programs throughout the world -- aerial flyers, acrobats, contortionists, dancers, jugglers, balancers and strongmen.

The Mikado
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
SU Opera Theatre

Price: $10 regular; free with SU student ID
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Former Syracuse Opera Artistic Director Richard McKee performs with Syracuse University's rising student stars in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado.

Parking available in the Irving Garage. For more information, phone 315-443-2191.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Appleseed Productions
Dustin M. Czarny, director

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

All is orderly in Nurse Ratched's ward. The patients are sedated and confined into quiet dull routines. Everything is working smoothly, until Randle P. McMurphy shows up. A rebellious and charming convict, conning his way out of a lengthy prison sentence, McMurphy immediately takes over the ward and challenges authority at every turn. But McMurphy soon finds out how dangerous challenging authority can be when their power is absolute, and just how far they will go to keep it that way. By Dale Wasserman, based on the novel by Ken Kesey.

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Friday Night Live
Redhouse

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Friday Night Live from Redhouse is a high-energy improvisational comedy show similar to the hit television series Whose Line Is It Anyway? The troupe will perform a series of games and scenarios based on audience suggestion and participation. The troupe is headed up by Second City veterans Tim Mahar and Laura Austin. TK99 Radio personality Glen Gomez Adams hosts the show and is joined by the wildly talented Alexander Lapoint and Emmett Van Slyke. We guarantee wild laughter and no bodily injuries.

Widow's Pique
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts
Featuring Shirley Ann Fenner

Price: $20 regular, $18 students/seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

One-woman showing, which draws on several works.

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Glengarry Glen Ross
Wit's End Players

Price: $20 regular; $18 students/seniors
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

1st Prize: A Cadillac
2nd Prize: A Set of Steak Knives
3rd Prize: Youre Fired!
(And you thought your job was tough?)

David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning scalding drama took Broadway and London by storm and won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony. Never has the author's ear for the rhythms of contemporary speech been more keen than in this tale of cutthroat competition among real estate salesmen. Once shocking for its unrelentingly gritty language, the play has become an American classic.

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Saturday, January 24, 2009

Special Exhibit: Shadows
Delavan Art Gallery

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

When viewing lighted objects, it's easy to overlook the shadows they create. The Delavan Art Gallery has expanded on this concept to produce a one-of-its-kind exhibit devoted entirely to shadows and featuring works by a host of noted Central New York artists.

The Shadows Exhibit was conceived with two ideas in mind: how shadows are made (by an object, a light source and a background), and Bill Delavan's special professional interest in lighting the Gallery's exhibitions, sometimes playfully turning shadows into their own art form.

Featured artists in this exhibit include Arlene Abend, Reginald Adams, Anahid Ajemian, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Hillary Gifford, Barre Hunt, Lauren Ritchie, Jeffrey Schuessler, Andy Schuster and Matthew Vural.

Stone Canoe III
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Works by artists in the third edition of Stone Canoe, a journal of arts and ideas from Upstate New York. Artists featured include Marianne Barcellona, Marty Blake, Lauren Bristol, Elaine R. Defibaugh, Sylvia de Swaan, Donna L. Emerson, Paul Farinacci, Lisbeth Firmin, John Fitzsimmons, Emily Fleisher, Bob Gates, Jon Gernon, Thomas Gokey, Fred Gonyea, Erica Harney and Aldo Lira. Also, David R. MacDonald, Jennifer Marsh, Lalit K. Masih, Deloss McGraw, Rebecca Murtaugh, Mary Nelson Zadrozny, Steven Pearlman, Stephan Phillips, Awenheeyoh Powless, Mark Robbins, Roger Shimomura, Nancy Sirkis, Yolanda Tooley, Gary Trento, Kim Waale, and Phil Young.

Needle Art and Embroidered Stone
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Needle art by members of the American Needlepoint Guild, and fine porcelain and stoneware by Sue Canizares.

Student Art Open 2008: (Un)doing Fashion
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In this exhibition, high school students explore art through their own experiences and style while drawing inspiration from fashion designer Jeffrey Mayer's exhibition "Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th-Century Superstar."

Fifteen teachers from nine different schools came to hear Jeffrey Mayer's discussion on his exhibition and incorporated its themes into their lesson plans. In the next step of the Student Art Open process, students visited the Everson with their teachers and brought inspirations from the exhibits back to the classroom. Using any media they chose, students created artwork to be submitted for the Open. The teachers then selected two students' works to be on display at the museum. Come see the amazing artwork these students meticulously created for the exhibition.

Selections from the Dar-ul-Islam Historical Photograph Collection
Community Folk Art Center

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

Contemporary Craft Masters
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Contemporary Craft Masters" features the work of three artists who were featured on HGTV's "Modern Masters: African American Artisans" program in 2003. The featured artists, Espi Frazier, Hermon Futrell, and David MacDonald, are at the forefront of contemporary crafts and reflect the diverse and innovative palette of today's artists.

Voices of Diversity: Photographs by Lida Suchý
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Voices of Diversity" is a composite photographic portrait of the Syracuse Community Choir. Composed of more than 100 individual black and white images, it foregrounds the potential of art/singing as a powerful tool for fostering broad social inclusiveness and community building. This exhibit honors people who, as choir founder and director Karen Mihalyi says, seek to create a space in our community "that values all people, that sees everyone as important, that creates music... Where we find our voices, sing fully, and create beauty."

For more than 20 years, the Syracuse Community Choir has been an important voice in the Central New York community, actively promoting the ideas of social justice, peace and inclusiveness. The Choir is based on the idea that singing should be a vital part of the human experience and that everyone can sing. It is open to all people, from experienced musicians to those who have never sung. To involve all, the choir provides support such as brailling, transportation, large print words, tapes/CDs, childcare, separate teen and children's rehearsals and special help for all who want it.

Lida Suchý's photographs have been widely exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States and Europe and published in LIFE Magazine, National Geographic, and GEO. Lida's photographs are in the collections of the George Eastman House, the Brooklyn Museum, Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and SF MoMA. Lida is a first-generation American born into a Ukrainian refugee family. She holds a BA from SUNY Albany, an MA from Syracuse University, and an MFA from Yale University School of Art.

The Northside Mosaic
Our Northside Community Gallery

Price: Free
Our Northside Community Gallery
745 N. Salina St., Syracuse

The Northside Mosaic is a multidisciplinary exhibit, celebrating the myriad of people, cultures and histories that compose Our Northside neighborhood. The exhibit features pieces collected throughout 2007 and 2008 and produced predominantly by people living or working in our community. Through this project, we intend to showcase the brilliant individual lives and rich cultural diversity that exist within the Northside, heighten people's awareness of the struggles and injustices that are present within our neighborhoods, help citizens develop a deeper sense of pride for and ownership of their neighborhoods, bring aesthetic beauty to the area, and catalyze relationships and future collaborative projects among diverse groups of people.

Landscapes and Interiors: Works of Kianga Ford
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

In this solo exhibition, Los Angeles-Boston based artist Kianga Ford presents a set of installations with sound that explore the contemporary Syracuse landscape and the potential of its spaces to create communities out of relative strangers. The three zones of the exhibition transition from exterior landscapes to interior spaces, crossing between the spaces of the sacred and profane to re-create the dynamics of contemporary urbanity -- blending the deep interiors of the religious sanctuary with the VIP rooms of strip clubs, the food court with the bus stop.

Vision of Sound
Society for New Music

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Dance with live new music presented in collaboration with the SUNY Brockport Dance Department.

Music by Jennifer Bellor, Marc Mellits, Mark Volker
Doug Opel Three Preludes to Missing the Point
Dana Wilson Dancing with the Devil
Mark Olivieri Suite for Jules

With choreography by Melanie Aceto, Jon Leehrer, Kun-Yang Lin, Donna Davenport, Netta Yerushalmy, and Cheryl Wilkins-Mitchell

The Mikado
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
SU Opera Theatre

Price: $10 regular; free with SU student ID
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Former Syracuse Opera Artistic Director Richard McKee performs with Syracuse University's rising student stars in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado.

Parking available in the Irving Garage. For more information, phone 315-443-2191.

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Little Red Riding Hood
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive version of the children's classic.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Appleseed Productions
Dustin M. Czarny, director

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

All is orderly in Nurse Ratched's ward. The patients are sedated and confined into quiet dull routines. Everything is working smoothly, until Randle P. McMurphy shows up. A rebellious and charming convict, conning his way out of a lengthy prison sentence, McMurphy immediately takes over the ward and challenges authority at every turn. But McMurphy soon finds out how dangerous challenging authority can be when their power is absolute, and just how far they will go to keep it that way. By Dale Wasserman, based on the novel by Ken Kesey.

Read a Review!

Widow's Pique
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts
Featuring Shirley Ann Fenner

Price: $20 regular, $18 students/seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

One-woman showing, which draws on several works.

Read a Review!

Glengarry Glen Ross
Wit's End Players

Price: $20 regular; $18 students/seniors
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

1st Prize: A Cadillac
2nd Prize: A Set of Steak Knives
3rd Prize: Youre Fired!
(And you thought your job was tough?)

David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning scalding drama took Broadway and London by storm and won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony. Never has the author's ear for the rhythms of contemporary speech been more keen than in this tale of cutthroat competition among real estate salesmen. Once shocking for its unrelentingly gritty language, the play has become an American classic.

Read a Review!

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

The Transmedia Photography Annual features photographs by Transmedia undergraduate students at Syracuse University.

Prosthesis: Ambivalence -- Works by Ellen Garvens
Light Work Gallery

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

In "Prosthesis," Ellen Garvens' photographs and sculptures intersect and magnify each other as they reference the ever-present, formidable, and magnificent frailty of the human body. This exhibition unites photographs from Garvens' Ambivalence series with photo-based sculptures from her Constructions series.

Garvens began creating the images from the Ambivalence series, which documents the manufacture of prosthetics, at around the same time the war in Iraq started. The prosthetics depicted in these straightforward and elegant photographs serve as reminders of the consequence of conflict and the ephemeral nature of the humans who carry out that conflict. The photo-based sculptures from Garvens' body of work titled Constructions combine images of the body within delicate metal framings. In this series, hand tools, some from everyday life, such as scissors and pliers, and some, including probes and tooth extractors, more directly related to the maintenance of the body, integrate with images of hands and other overtly organic forms. Much as prosthetic devices contain the memory of the body, the hand-tools and metal framings of this series give form to the photographs within them. The Constructions bring the themes of the body and the revelation of its armature into three dimensions.

Student Art Open 2008: (Un)doing Fashion
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In this exhibition, high school students explore art through their own experiences and style while drawing inspiration from fashion designer Jeffrey Mayer's exhibition "Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th-Century Superstar."

Fifteen teachers from nine different schools came to hear Jeffrey Mayer's discussion on his exhibition and incorporated its themes into their lesson plans. In the next step of the Student Art Open process, students visited the Everson with their teachers and brought inspirations from the exhibits back to the classroom. Using any media they chose, students created artwork to be submitted for the Open. The teachers then selected two students' works to be on display at the museum. Come see the amazing artwork these students meticulously created for the exhibition.

Stained Glass Series: Haydn's Little Mass
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Scott Tucker, conductor
Featuring Julianne Baird, soprano

Most Holy Rosary Church
111 Roberts Ave., Syracuse

Haydn Little Organ Mass
Handel Gloria
Clarke Suite in D Major
Haydn Te Deum for the Empress Maria Therese

Sing in the New Year
Joyful Noise Concert Series
Featuring Candice Corbin, soprano

Price: Free (donations accepted)
Liverpool First United Methodist Church
604 Oswego St., Liverpool

Songs from the classics, gospel, and musical theater.

Candice Corbin was born and raised in Stuart, FL, and she graduated from Stetson University, Deland, FL, with a bachelor's degree in music and digital arts. Her repertoire and performance experience encompasses music in all styles, from classical to jazz. Ms. Corbin's most recent performance was as a featured soloist in a tribute to Richard Rodgers with the Orlando Symphony Orchestra.

There will be a pre-concert talk with the performers at 3:00 at Liverpool Public Library, across the street.

Winter Concert
Syracuse Youth Orchestras

Price: $12 regular, $8 children
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Mikado
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
SU Opera Theatre

Price: $10 regular; free with SU student ID
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Former Syracuse Opera Artistic Director Richard McKee performs with Syracuse University's rising student stars in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado.

Parking available in the Irving Garage. For more information, phone 315-443-2191.

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Off/Stage: 5 New Short Plays about Life Behind the Footlights
Armory Square Playwrights

Price: $7 regular, $5 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Armory Square Playhouse will present a staged reading of five new 10-minute plays by Amy Doherty, Len Fonte, Jeff Kramer, Peter Moller, and Donna Stuccio.

The challenge was on for longstanding members of Armory Square Playhouse: write a collection of short plays that explore what really goes on in the lives of actors as they pursue their craft.

In Waiting for Cynthia, by Amy Doherty, rehearsal can't begin until Cynthia arrives, but where is Cynthia and what happens when she finally arrives? Emotions run high and frenzy abounds.

Curses, written by Len Fonte, chronicles what can happen when a theatrical tradition is violated.

Grudgingly enabled by his long-suffering girlfriend, an under-employed New York City actor rejects rejection from a British theater company, and plots his artistic rebirth in the land of Shakespeare in Jeff Kramer's play, Reaching for Marsby.

"Everybody's a critic." That's the lament of actors, playwrights, directors and critics even before Shakespeare. In Peter Moller's play Critics, the consequences of the critical act take center stage.

Donna Stuccio's Crossfade finds two actresses, at very different stages in their careers, crossing paths in a 1976 regional theater dressing room. Stage and screen actress Rita Gam, a prolific star in the 1950s, shares advice with her dresser, a starry-eyed young hopeful who dreams of a life in the theater.

The five plays are presentations of works in progress and a talkback panel with the five playwrights will follow the performances.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Appleseed Productions
Dustin M. Czarny, director

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

All is orderly in Nurse Ratched's ward. The patients are sedated and confined into quiet dull routines. Everything is working smoothly, until Randle P. McMurphy shows up. A rebellious and charming convict, conning his way out of a lengthy prison sentence, McMurphy immediately takes over the ward and challenges authority at every turn. But McMurphy soon finds out how dangerous challenging authority can be when their power is absolute, and just how far they will go to keep it that way. By Dale Wasserman, based on the novel by Ken Kesey.

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Widow's Pique
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts
Featuring Shirley Ann Fenner

Price: $20 regular, $18 students/seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

One-woman showing, which draws on several works.

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Glengarry Glen Ross
Wit's End Players

Price: $20 regular; $18 students/seniors
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

1st Prize: A Cadillac
2nd Prize: A Set of Steak Knives
3rd Prize: Youre Fired!
(And you thought your job was tough?)

David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning scalding drama took Broadway and London by storm and won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony. Never has the author's ear for the rhythms of contemporary speech been more keen than in this tale of cutthroat competition among real estate salesmen. Once shocking for its unrelentingly gritty language, the play has become an American classic.

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