Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Under The Surface: Ceramic Stylings of Shawn McGuire and Wes Weiss
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

"Under the Surface" explores the rich surfaces achieved by each ceramic artist using very different techniques. Shawn's work is thrown and altered and then naked Raku fired. Wes's work is hand-built from colored clays and the result is an active, vibrant surface.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place" and "Experimental Urbanism"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place," in Gallery A, featuring photographs by Jane Winslow and Mindy Ostrow. This exhibition invites the viewer to see the world through the lens of two of the regions most talented photographers.

"Experimental Urbanism," in Gallery B, features work by internationally known installation artist, Richard Metzgar. This particular exhibit showcases a series of prints that challenge the viewer to rethink the ways they document place and experience.

Horizons
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anna Soltyk: richly textured oil and mixed media paintings
Phil Austin: glass artistry
Wendy Harris: upstate landscape done en plein air in pastel and mixed media

Read a review!

38th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Syracuse Chapter of the Links, Inc. in cooperation with Community Folk Art Center and local school districts join their efforts to provide an ongoing opportunity to recognize teenagers (ages 13-19) of African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian American heritage as well as those from other underrepresented groups who demonstrate talents in the fine arts.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Works of Bridget Bossart Van Otterloo, Lucie Wellner, and Katherine Houston
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Drawn from details of the death of a former friend and bandmate of artist Paul Lloyd Sargent, "elegy" is presented through a multimedia installation of mashed-up, remixed, and recontextualized historical ephemera collected from mixtapes, amateur videos, zines, photographs, band fliers, sketchbook pages, song lyrics, and more. A lament for the death of youth despite the overwhelming persistence of youth culture, "elegy: society for a dead society" paints nostalgia and cynicism as two shades within the same dark palette.

Paul Lloyd Sargent splits his time between Brooklyn and Wellesley Island, NY. He was raised in Syracuse and graduated from Nottingham High School in 1989 and Hamilton College in 1993. After stints in Las Vegas, Boston, and Venice Beach, in 2000, he received his MFA in video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

May Garden Party
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Garden-themed pieces in a variety of mediums.

Works of Gretchen Hamlin and Bob Ripley
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New works by watercolorist Bob Ripley and glass artist Gretchen Hamlin.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

Read a review!

Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

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

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

A Tender Record: Early black and white photographs by Marjory Wilkins
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Curated by Nancy Keefe Rhodes, this is an exhibit of 35 restored and finished prints of the now-extinct 15th Ward and others of historical relevance to both the African American community and the Syracuse community at large. Marjory Wilkins has been an important figure in our community for over six decades, inspiring many through her camera's view of the world. Her work is described by the exhibit curator in this way: "As documentary photographs, they record history, whether recent or remote, that is 'minority' history—that is, history often outside of its own community, either ignored or contested by stereotypes."

Her photography has become an invaluable resource to remember a place now destroyed, and a community with a charm and importance almost unknown to those outside of it.

Storytelling and the Spectres of Liberty
Community Folk Art Center

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

CFAC will be leading an opening evening at the Open City workshop centered around storytelling, education, and access. The perfect starter to the evening would be a historical story that connects us to the Loguen family and that time period, creating a frame for our discussion about Syracuse today. Please join CFAC for this arts discussion.

Contrasts: Beethoven - Debussy
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Joyce Ucci, piano

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

"Les Adieux" Sonata, and selected Debussy Preludes.

Fences
Syracuse Stage

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

Because a true classic always speaks to us anew. Pittsburgh, 1957. Troy Maxon, ex-ballplayer, complicated African-American family man and garbage collector, has lived a life of diminished hopes and abandoned dreams. Now Troy's talented son, Cory, has hopes and dreams of his own. Will Troy allow his bitterness about the past to poison his son's promising future? With a view toward a better future, August Wilson's Fences first posed this dramatic and necessary question 25 years ago ... and it hits us as hard today.

Read a Review!

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Under The Surface: Ceramic Stylings of Shawn McGuire and Wes Weiss
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

"Under the Surface" explores the rich surfaces achieved by each ceramic artist using very different techniques. Shawn's work is thrown and altered and then naked Raku fired. Wes's work is hand-built from colored clays and the result is an active, vibrant surface.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place" and "Experimental Urbanism"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place," in Gallery A, featuring photographs by Jane Winslow and Mindy Ostrow. This exhibition invites the viewer to see the world through the lens of two of the regions most talented photographers.

"Experimental Urbanism," in Gallery B, features work by internationally known installation artist, Richard Metzgar. This particular exhibit showcases a series of prints that challenge the viewer to rethink the ways they document place and experience.

The Portrait Show: Open Figure Drawing, Inc.
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

With the 2010 Portrait Show, Open Figure Drawing Inc. continues their tradition of celebrating the collective work from the group with a non-juried exhibit made up of the artists who participate in the Wednesday night drawing sessions. The group is open and self instructional, with a variety of different styles to take in!

Whether your interest lies in finding interesting artwork to purchase, or maybe just thinking about taking up your own drawing, there is something for everyone here! Come and be entertained and empowered to make your own work!

An incorporated not-for-profit art organization run by a board of directors and volunteers, OFD has existed since 1989 as "One of Syracuse's most economical drawing experiences!"

Horizons
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anna Soltyk: richly textured oil and mixed media paintings
Phil Austin: glass artistry
Wendy Harris: upstate landscape done en plein air in pastel and mixed media

Read a review!

38th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Syracuse Chapter of the Links, Inc. in cooperation with Community Folk Art Center and local school districts join their efforts to provide an ongoing opportunity to recognize teenagers (ages 13-19) of African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian American heritage as well as those from other underrepresented groups who demonstrate talents in the fine arts.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Works of Bridget Bossart Van Otterloo, Lucie Wellner, and Katherine Houston
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Drawn from details of the death of a former friend and bandmate of artist Paul Lloyd Sargent, "elegy" is presented through a multimedia installation of mashed-up, remixed, and recontextualized historical ephemera collected from mixtapes, amateur videos, zines, photographs, band fliers, sketchbook pages, song lyrics, and more. A lament for the death of youth despite the overwhelming persistence of youth culture, "elegy: society for a dead society" paints nostalgia and cynicism as two shades within the same dark palette.

Paul Lloyd Sargent splits his time between Brooklyn and Wellesley Island, NY. He was raised in Syracuse and graduated from Nottingham High School in 1989 and Hamilton College in 1993. After stints in Las Vegas, Boston, and Venice Beach, in 2000, he received his MFA in video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

May Garden Party
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Garden-themed pieces in a variety of mediums.

Fiction to Function: Recent Work by Shanna Fliegel
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Shanna Fliegel's ceramic artwork draws upon "the surrealistic nature of dreams and childhood memories" and combines image, color, and sculpted forms to create "vehicles that generate stories for the viewer." Her artistic output includes anthropomorphic figures, wall tablets, and functional vessels and these will be on view.

Read a review!

Works of Gretchen Hamlin and Bob Ripley
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New works by watercolorist Bob Ripley and glass artist Gretchen Hamlin.

Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

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

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

Read a review!

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

A Tender Record: Early black and white photographs by Marjory Wilkins
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Curated by Nancy Keefe Rhodes, this is an exhibit of 35 restored and finished prints of the now-extinct 15th Ward and others of historical relevance to both the African American community and the Syracuse community at large. Marjory Wilkins has been an important figure in our community for over six decades, inspiring many through her camera's view of the world. Her work is described by the exhibit curator in this way: "As documentary photographs, they record history, whether recent or remote, that is 'minority' history—that is, history often outside of its own community, either ignored or contested by stereotypes."

Her photography has become an invaluable resource to remember a place now destroyed, and a community with a charm and importance almost unknown to those outside of it.

Meet the Artist Night with metalsmith David E. Church
Eureka Crafts

Price: Free
Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Artist Open: Fit to Be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In conjunction with The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series, the Everson presents a talk by three of the artists in the exhibition "Fit to Be Bound." Kelly Roe of Baldwinsville, Wendy Cross of Syracuse, and Dennis Yuen of Woodside will discuss the construction, materials and concepts behind their very unique artists' books.

Gallery Talk: Photo Restoration, History and Art
ArtRage Gallery
Featuring Nancy Keefe Rhodes

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Nancy Keefe Rhodes is the curator of "A Tender Record," the current ArtRage exhibit of restored photographs by Marjory Wilkins. She will discuss this exhibit and the issue of photo restoration in general. Nancy has written a book on the Wilkins' photographic project, due to be published in 2010.

In her words, "This project has challenged assumptions about both the beauty of vernacular photography and its practitioners' aesthetic accomplishment — above and beyond its historical importance in specific communities. It also suggests that the ways in which 'old pictures' have often been treated may sometimes diminish our capacity to fully appreciate them as photographs."

Dead Pull Hitter
Acme Mystery Company

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

Play ball! Come on out to the ball park, loyal followers. It's media day and your hometown Sympronius Swamp Turtles are getting ready for yet another pathetic season of shabby, losing baseball. Make sure you wear your protective gear this year, sports fans. Jobs are now on the line and the new owner plays rough. Really, really rough.

Fences
Syracuse Stage

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

Because a true classic always speaks to us anew. Pittsburgh, 1957. Troy Maxon, ex-ballplayer, complicated African-American family man and garbage collector, has lived a life of diminished hopes and abandoned dreams. Now Troy's talented son, Cory, has hopes and dreams of his own. Will Troy allow his bitterness about the past to poison his son's promising future? With a view toward a better future, August Wilson's Fences first posed this dramatic and necessary question 25 years ago ... and it hits us as hard today.

Read a Review!

Driving Miss Daisy
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
Bob Brown, director

Price: $30; $15 students and seniors
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Comedy about an elderly Georgia woman and her chauffeur, starring Shirley Ann Fenner and David Walker.

Read a review!

Friday, May 21, 2010

Under The Surface: Ceramic Stylings of Shawn McGuire and Wes Weiss
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

"Under the Surface" explores the rich surfaces achieved by each ceramic artist using very different techniques. Shawn's work is thrown and altered and then naked Raku fired. Wes's work is hand-built from colored clays and the result is an active, vibrant surface.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place" and "Experimental Urbanism"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place," in Gallery A, featuring photographs by Jane Winslow and Mindy Ostrow. This exhibition invites the viewer to see the world through the lens of two of the regions most talented photographers.

"Experimental Urbanism," in Gallery B, features work by internationally known installation artist, Richard Metzgar. This particular exhibit showcases a series of prints that challenge the viewer to rethink the ways they document place and experience.

The Portrait Show: Open Figure Drawing, Inc.
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

With the 2010 Portrait Show, Open Figure Drawing Inc. continues their tradition of celebrating the collective work from the group with a non-juried exhibit made up of the artists who participate in the Wednesday night drawing sessions. The group is open and self instructional, with a variety of different styles to take in!

Whether your interest lies in finding interesting artwork to purchase, or maybe just thinking about taking up your own drawing, there is something for everyone here! Come and be entertained and empowered to make your own work!

An incorporated not-for-profit art organization run by a board of directors and volunteers, OFD has existed since 1989 as "One of Syracuse's most economical drawing experiences!"

Horizons
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anna Soltyk: richly textured oil and mixed media paintings
Phil Austin: glass artistry
Wendy Harris: upstate landscape done en plein air in pastel and mixed media

Read a review!

38th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Syracuse Chapter of the Links, Inc. in cooperation with Community Folk Art Center and local school districts join their efforts to provide an ongoing opportunity to recognize teenagers (ages 13-19) of African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian American heritage as well as those from other underrepresented groups who demonstrate talents in the fine arts.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Works of Bridget Bossart Van Otterloo, Lucie Wellner, and Katherine Houston
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Drawn from details of the death of a former friend and bandmate of artist Paul Lloyd Sargent, "elegy" is presented through a multimedia installation of mashed-up, remixed, and recontextualized historical ephemera collected from mixtapes, amateur videos, zines, photographs, band fliers, sketchbook pages, song lyrics, and more. A lament for the death of youth despite the overwhelming persistence of youth culture, "elegy: society for a dead society" paints nostalgia and cynicism as two shades within the same dark palette.

Paul Lloyd Sargent splits his time between Brooklyn and Wellesley Island, NY. He was raised in Syracuse and graduated from Nottingham High School in 1989 and Hamilton College in 1993. After stints in Las Vegas, Boston, and Venice Beach, in 2000, he received his MFA in video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

May Garden Party
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Garden-themed pieces in a variety of mediums.

Fiction to Function: Recent Work by Shanna Fliegel
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Shanna Fliegel's ceramic artwork draws upon "the surrealistic nature of dreams and childhood memories" and combines image, color, and sculpted forms to create "vehicles that generate stories for the viewer." Her artistic output includes anthropomorphic figures, wall tablets, and functional vessels and these will be on view.

Read a review!

Works of Gretchen Hamlin and Bob Ripley
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New works by watercolorist Bob Ripley and glass artist Gretchen Hamlin.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

Read a review!

Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

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

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

A Tender Record: Early black and white photographs by Marjory Wilkins
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Curated by Nancy Keefe Rhodes, this is an exhibit of 35 restored and finished prints of the now-extinct 15th Ward and others of historical relevance to both the African American community and the Syracuse community at large. Marjory Wilkins has been an important figure in our community for over six decades, inspiring many through her camera's view of the world. Her work is described by the exhibit curator in this way: "As documentary photographs, they record history, whether recent or remote, that is 'minority' history—that is, history often outside of its own community, either ignored or contested by stereotypes."

Her photography has become an invaluable resource to remember a place now destroyed, and a community with a charm and importance almost unknown to those outside of it.

Andrew and Noah VanNorstrand
Folkus Project

Price: $12
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Andrew and Noah VanNorstrand are two of the most exciting and creative musicians on the acoustic music scene today. They've been bringing their brand of high-energy alternative folk music to concert halls, festival stages and dance floors across North America for nearly a decade. Lately they've expanded their musical versatility with a band of their own. Joining Andrew and Noah are Rachel Bell on accordion and wooden flute, Kevin Dorsey on bass, special guest Kailyn Wright singing vocals, and Dana Billings on drums. This ensemble explores an edgy, more improvisational sound while continuing the VanNorstrand's traditional blend of genres including Celtic, Appalachian, swing, old-time country and bluegrass.

Miss Nelson has a Field Day
Gifford Family Theatre

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The delightful sequel to "Miss Nelson is Missing!" based on the book by Harry Allard and James Marshall, adapted by Joan Cushing, with book, music and lyrics by Joan Cushing.

Read a review!

Alice in Wanderland
Appleseed Productions
Linda Lance & Mark Wright, director

Price: $20 regular; $17 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

This musical by Pat Lotito is the story of a young woman who has attempted suicide, then—in a "magical" time out—is given a chance to look back on her life and either continue with her first choice or make a different one.

Falsettos
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $25
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Falsettos is a story of love in the face of modern conflicts. The story takes place between 1979 and 1981 and follows Marvin, who has left his wife Trina and son Jason for a male lover, Whizzer, but still wants them all to be one big happy family. Life gets more complicated when Trina falls for Marvin's psychiatrist, Mendel, while Jason is about to be Bar Mitzvah-ed and the lesbians next door, Cordelia and Dr. Charlotte, are doing the catering! As if that's not complicated enough, Whizzer and Marvin break up and then are reunited, only to find that Whizzer is dying of some new unexplained disease.

Winner of the 1992 Tony Award for Best Score and Best Book for a Musical, Falsettos is a powerful piece for both its ability to capture an important moment in history and in its depiction of very real and human characters faced with significant adversity. Despite dealing with the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic, Falsettos is primarily about experiencing life and love; a joyous story of the struggle between values, love, and forgiveness. William Finn touches on the joy and happiness of every family by depicting one very different family.

Music direction by Jeff Unaitis. Cast members include Dana Sovocool, Peter Irwin, and Josh Mele.

Read a review!

Driving Miss Daisy
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
Bob Brown, director

Price: $30; $15 students and seniors
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Comedy about an elderly Georgia woman and her chauffeur, starring Shirley Ann Fenner and David Walker.

Read a review!

Fences
Syracuse Stage

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

Because a true classic always speaks to us anew. Pittsburgh, 1957. Troy Maxon, ex-ballplayer, complicated African-American family man and garbage collector, has lived a life of diminished hopes and abandoned dreams. Now Troy's talented son, Cory, has hopes and dreams of his own. Will Troy allow his bitterness about the past to poison his son's promising future? With a view toward a better future, August Wilson's Fences first posed this dramatic and necessary question 25 years ago ... and it hits us as hard today.

Read a Review!

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Under The Surface: Ceramic Stylings of Shawn McGuire and Wes Weiss
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

"Under the Surface" explores the rich surfaces achieved by each ceramic artist using very different techniques. Shawn's work is thrown and altered and then naked Raku fired. Wes's work is hand-built from colored clays and the result is an active, vibrant surface.

Horizons
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anna Soltyk: richly textured oil and mixed media paintings
Phil Austin: glass artistry
Wendy Harris: upstate landscape done en plein air in pastel and mixed media

Read a review!

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

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

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

Read a review!

May Garden Party
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Garden-themed pieces in a variety of mediums.

38th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Syracuse Chapter of the Links, Inc. in cooperation with Community Folk Art Center and local school districts join their efforts to provide an ongoing opportunity to recognize teenagers (ages 13-19) of African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian American heritage as well as those from other underrepresented groups who demonstrate talents in the fine arts.

Fiction to Function: Recent Work by Shanna Fliegel
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Shanna Fliegel's ceramic artwork draws upon "the surrealistic nature of dreams and childhood memories" and combines image, color, and sculpted forms to create "vehicles that generate stories for the viewer." Her artistic output includes anthropomorphic figures, wall tablets, and functional vessels and these will be on view.

Read a review!

Works of Gretchen Hamlin and Bob Ripley
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New works by watercolorist Bob Ripley and glass artist Gretchen Hamlin.

A Tender Record: Early black and white photographs by Marjory Wilkins
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Curated by Nancy Keefe Rhodes, this is an exhibit of 35 restored and finished prints of the now-extinct 15th Ward and others of historical relevance to both the African American community and the Syracuse community at large. Marjory Wilkins has been an important figure in our community for over six decades, inspiring many through her camera's view of the world. Her work is described by the exhibit curator in this way: "As documentary photographs, they record history, whether recent or remote, that is 'minority' history—that is, history often outside of its own community, either ignored or contested by stereotypes."

Her photography has become an invaluable resource to remember a place now destroyed, and a community with a charm and importance almost unknown to those outside of it.

Works of Bridget Bossart Van Otterloo, Lucie Wellner, and Katherine Houston
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

SOLD OUT: Syracuse's 15th Ward and Beyond

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

Last fall, Syracuse University's South Side Initiative and the local Black History Preservation team sponsored a bus tour of old Syracuse: the 15th Ward and other historical sites. Some 30 senior members of the community, who have lived in Syracuse for at least 40 years, participated. The tour and the participants' stories and recollections of Syracuse's past were filmed for this documentary by local filmmaker Courtney Rile.

Among the former sites the tour participants visited were the Ebony Market, Croton Elementary, Old Dunbar, The Glass Bottom and Open Door lounges, Ben's Kitchen, the Father Brady Center for Black Catholics, and Washington Irving Elementary School.

Korean Women's Choir Concert

Price: Freewill offering
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Choir from Pyongyang Presbytery in Seoul.

Mark Doyle & the Maniacs CD Release Party
Redhouse

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

The Red House welcomes Mark Doyle & the Maniacs, who will perform in promotion of their latest LP, Comin' Home, inspired by the 1960s British Blues Boom. The album features mostly original music.

Aladdin
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the classic tale.

Miss Nelson has a Field Day
Gifford Family Theatre

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The delightful sequel to "Miss Nelson is Missing!" based on the book by Harry Allard and James Marshall, adapted by Joan Cushing, with book, music and lyrics by Joan Cushing.

Read a review!

Fences
Syracuse Stage

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

Because a true classic always speaks to us anew. Pittsburgh, 1957. Troy Maxon, ex-ballplayer, complicated African-American family man and garbage collector, has lived a life of diminished hopes and abandoned dreams. Now Troy's talented son, Cory, has hopes and dreams of his own. Will Troy allow his bitterness about the past to poison his son's promising future? With a view toward a better future, August Wilson's Fences first posed this dramatic and necessary question 25 years ago ... and it hits us as hard today.

Read a Review!

Miss Nelson has a Field Day
Gifford Family Theatre

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The delightful sequel to "Miss Nelson is Missing!" based on the book by Harry Allard and James Marshall, adapted by Joan Cushing, with book, music and lyrics by Joan Cushing.

Read a review!

Idol Assassination
Without a Cue Productions
Sara Caliva, director

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

It's the final night of Big American Star, and America is going to get a chance to vote for its next...big American star. The contestants are at each other's throats, dangerously close to ripping out one another's vocal chords, while the judges and host stir up drama to boost sagging ratings. By the time the contestants are ready to sing, the atmosphere has turned murderous, and the contestants may "knock 'em dead" in more ways than one.

The show is an interactive murder mystery that involves the members of the audience.

Alice in Wanderland
Appleseed Productions
Linda Lance & Mark Wright, director

Price: $20 regular; $17 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

This musical by Pat Lotito is the story of a young woman who has attempted suicide, then—in a "magical" time out—is given a chance to look back on her life and either continue with her first choice or make a different one.

Falsettos
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $25
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Falsettos is a story of love in the face of modern conflicts. The story takes place between 1979 and 1981 and follows Marvin, who has left his wife Trina and son Jason for a male lover, Whizzer, but still wants them all to be one big happy family. Life gets more complicated when Trina falls for Marvin's psychiatrist, Mendel, while Jason is about to be Bar Mitzvah-ed and the lesbians next door, Cordelia and Dr. Charlotte, are doing the catering! As if that's not complicated enough, Whizzer and Marvin break up and then are reunited, only to find that Whizzer is dying of some new unexplained disease.

Winner of the 1992 Tony Award for Best Score and Best Book for a Musical, Falsettos is a powerful piece for both its ability to capture an important moment in history and in its depiction of very real and human characters faced with significant adversity. Despite dealing with the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic, Falsettos is primarily about experiencing life and love; a joyous story of the struggle between values, love, and forgiveness. William Finn touches on the joy and happiness of every family by depicting one very different family.

Music direction by Jeff Unaitis. Cast members include Dana Sovocool, Peter Irwin, and Josh Mele.

Read a review!

Driving Miss Daisy
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
Bob Brown, director

Price: $30; $15 students and seniors
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Comedy about an elderly Georgia woman and her chauffeur, starring Shirley Ann Fenner and David Walker.

Read a review!

Fences
Syracuse Stage

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

Because a true classic always speaks to us anew. Pittsburgh, 1957. Troy Maxon, ex-ballplayer, complicated African-American family man and garbage collector, has lived a life of diminished hopes and abandoned dreams. Now Troy's talented son, Cory, has hopes and dreams of his own. Will Troy allow his bitterness about the past to poison his son's promising future? With a view toward a better future, August Wilson's Fences first posed this dramatic and necessary question 25 years ago ... and it hits us as hard today.

Read a Review!

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Fiction to Function: Recent Work by Shanna Fliegel
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Shanna Fliegel's ceramic artwork draws upon "the surrealistic nature of dreams and childhood memories" and combines image, color, and sculpted forms to create "vehicles that generate stories for the viewer." Her artistic output includes anthropomorphic figures, wall tablets, and functional vessels and these will be on view.

Read a review!

Works of Gretchen Hamlin and Bob Ripley
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New works by watercolorist Bob Ripley and glass artist Gretchen Hamlin.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

Read a review!

Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

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

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

May Garden Party
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Garden-themed pieces in a variety of mediums.

Highland Winds Clarinet Quartet

Price: Free
Onondaga Hill Free Library
4840 W. Seneca Tnpk., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-492-1727, or visit oflibrary.org.

Sunday Afternoon Serenade
Featuring Jean Danton, soprano; Nancy B. Head, piano

Price: $10 suggested donation
Fairmount Community Church
4801 W. Genesee St. , Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-487-8521.

Ida Trebicka, piano
Joyful Noise Concert Series

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

Korean Women's Choir Concert

Price: Freewill offering
Park Central Presbyterian Church
504 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Choir from Pyongyang Presbytery in Seoul.

Voices Alive

Price: Freewill offering to benefit Haiti earthquake relief
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

Voices Alive, directed by Linda Williams, is a 65-member mixed-voices chorus and traveling music theater troupe with a repertoire ranging from Broadway show tunes to serious anthems.

Jazz Vespers: Love Power
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Cookie Coogan

Price: Free
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

The service is a combination of inspirational and meditative readings, homily, and jazz played by members of the CNY Jazz Orchestra and various guest vocalists. The jazz selections are drawn from secular and sacred sources, representing a wide range of composers as varied as Duke Ellington, Chick Corea, Cole Porter, and Stephen Foster, and well-known hymns in jazz settings for all to enjoy, singing as they wish. The service is open to those of all faiths.

A Musican Bouquet

Price: $15 regular, $10 students/seniors
Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
927 Park Ave., Syracuse

Classical concert to benefit Hospice of Central New York. For more information, phone 315-391-3741.

Sweet Hour of Sound
Featuring Ernest Musquiz, marimba; Joe Davoli, mandolin

Price: Free
Dewitt Community Church
3600 Erie Blvd. East, Dewitt

For more information, phone 315-445-0331.

Spring Pops Concert
Syracuse University Brass Ensemble
James T. Spencer, conductor

Price: Suggested donation: $8 adults; $6 children
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Light fare, including Antonin Dvorak's Carnival Overture and Morton Gould's American Salute.

Proceeds will benefit United Church of Fayetteville.

For more information, phone 315-786-2458.

Alice in Wanderland
Appleseed Productions
Linda Lance & Mark Wright, director

Price: $20 regular; $17 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

This musical by Pat Lotito is the story of a young woman who has attempted suicide, then—in a "magical" time out—is given a chance to look back on her life and either continue with her first choice or make a different one.

Driving Miss Daisy
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
Bob Brown, director

Price: $30; $15 students and seniors
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Comedy about an elderly Georgia woman and her chauffeur, starring Shirley Ann Fenner and David Walker.

Read a review!

Fences
Syracuse Stage

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

Because a true classic always speaks to us anew. Pittsburgh, 1957. Troy Maxon, ex-ballplayer, complicated African-American family man and garbage collector, has lived a life of diminished hopes and abandoned dreams. Now Troy's talented son, Cory, has hopes and dreams of his own. Will Troy allow his bitterness about the past to poison his son's promising future? With a view toward a better future, August Wilson's Fences first posed this dramatic and necessary question 25 years ago ... and it hits us as hard today.

Read a Review!

Monday, May 24, 2010

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

The Portrait Show: Open Figure Drawing, Inc.
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

With the 2010 Portrait Show, Open Figure Drawing Inc. continues their tradition of celebrating the collective work from the group with a non-juried exhibit made up of the artists who participate in the Wednesday night drawing sessions. The group is open and self instructional, with a variety of different styles to take in!

Whether your interest lies in finding interesting artwork to purchase, or maybe just thinking about taking up your own drawing, there is something for everyone here! Come and be entertained and empowered to make your own work!

An incorporated not-for-profit art organization run by a board of directors and volunteers, OFD has existed since 1989 as "One of Syracuse's most economical drawing experiences!"

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Works of Bridget Bossart Van Otterloo, Lucie Wellner, and Katherine Houston
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Drawn from details of the death of a former friend and bandmate of artist Paul Lloyd Sargent, "elegy" is presented through a multimedia installation of mashed-up, remixed, and recontextualized historical ephemera collected from mixtapes, amateur videos, zines, photographs, band fliers, sketchbook pages, song lyrics, and more. A lament for the death of youth despite the overwhelming persistence of youth culture, "elegy: society for a dead society" paints nostalgia and cynicism as two shades within the same dark palette.

Paul Lloyd Sargent splits his time between Brooklyn and Wellesley Island, NY. He was raised in Syracuse and graduated from Nottingham High School in 1989 and Hamilton College in 1993. After stints in Las Vegas, Boston, and Venice Beach, in 2000, he received his MFA in video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

May Garden Party
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Garden-themed pieces in a variety of mediums.

Works of Gretchen Hamlin and Bob Ripley
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New works by watercolorist Bob Ripley and glass artist Gretchen Hamlin.

A.J. Shanti
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

A.J. Shanti is an international singing/songwriting sensation whose hauntingly beautiful and lyrically rich musical stylings have the uncanny ability to make girls' hearts melt and grandmas cry. She's toured over 75 cities in more than 15 countries, so that's a whole lot of grandmas. Shanti has been a featured artist and headliner at both large music festivals and intimate venues and her live performances have been described as "raw and emotive" and "captivating and sexy." Singing about heartbreak, lust, politics, and pain, and armed only with her guitar and her words, A.J. Shanti's music gives an authentic voice and visibility to queer life and political struggle in the U.S. and abroad. Her studio album "Baby Beau Blue" was released in 2008 and is available on cdbaby.com. A.J. loves femmes, beer, and gender fabulousness.

A.J. will be performing with Brenda Fernandes. A talented musician, Brenda sings in the vein of Sarah McLachlan, plays piano, and writes her own songs.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Under The Surface: Ceramic Stylings of Shawn McGuire and Wes Weiss
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

"Under the Surface" explores the rich surfaces achieved by each ceramic artist using very different techniques. Shawn's work is thrown and altered and then naked Raku fired. Wes's work is hand-built from colored clays and the result is an active, vibrant surface.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

The Portrait Show: Open Figure Drawing, Inc.
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

With the 2010 Portrait Show, Open Figure Drawing Inc. continues their tradition of celebrating the collective work from the group with a non-juried exhibit made up of the artists who participate in the Wednesday night drawing sessions. The group is open and self instructional, with a variety of different styles to take in!

Whether your interest lies in finding interesting artwork to purchase, or maybe just thinking about taking up your own drawing, there is something for everyone here! Come and be entertained and empowered to make your own work!

An incorporated not-for-profit art organization run by a board of directors and volunteers, OFD has existed since 1989 as "One of Syracuse's most economical drawing experiences!"

Horizons
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anna Soltyk: richly textured oil and mixed media paintings
Phil Austin: glass artistry
Wendy Harris: upstate landscape done en plein air in pastel and mixed media

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38th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Syracuse Chapter of the Links, Inc. in cooperation with Community Folk Art Center and local school districts join their efforts to provide an ongoing opportunity to recognize teenagers (ages 13-19) of African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian American heritage as well as those from other underrepresented groups who demonstrate talents in the fine arts.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Works of Bridget Bossart Van Otterloo, Lucie Wellner, and Katherine Houston
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Drawn from details of the death of a former friend and bandmate of artist Paul Lloyd Sargent, "elegy" is presented through a multimedia installation of mashed-up, remixed, and recontextualized historical ephemera collected from mixtapes, amateur videos, zines, photographs, band fliers, sketchbook pages, song lyrics, and more. A lament for the death of youth despite the overwhelming persistence of youth culture, "elegy: society for a dead society" paints nostalgia and cynicism as two shades within the same dark palette.

Paul Lloyd Sargent splits his time between Brooklyn and Wellesley Island, NY. He was raised in Syracuse and graduated from Nottingham High School in 1989 and Hamilton College in 1993. After stints in Las Vegas, Boston, and Venice Beach, in 2000, he received his MFA in video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

May Garden Party
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Garden-themed pieces in a variety of mediums.

Works of Gretchen Hamlin and Bob Ripley
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New works by watercolorist Bob Ripley and glass artist Gretchen Hamlin.

Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

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

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

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Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Fences
Syracuse Stage

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

Because a true classic always speaks to us anew. Pittsburgh, 1957. Troy Maxon, ex-ballplayer, complicated African-American family man and garbage collector, has lived a life of diminished hopes and abandoned dreams. Now Troy's talented son, Cory, has hopes and dreams of his own. Will Troy allow his bitterness about the past to poison his son's promising future? With a view toward a better future, August Wilson's Fences first posed this dramatic and necessary question 25 years ago ... and it hits us as hard today.

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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Under The Surface: Ceramic Stylings of Shawn McGuire and Wes Weiss
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

"Under the Surface" explores the rich surfaces achieved by each ceramic artist using very different techniques. Shawn's work is thrown and altered and then naked Raku fired. Wes's work is hand-built from colored clays and the result is an active, vibrant surface.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

The Portrait Show: Open Figure Drawing, Inc.
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

With the 2010 Portrait Show, Open Figure Drawing Inc. continues their tradition of celebrating the collective work from the group with a non-juried exhibit made up of the artists who participate in the Wednesday night drawing sessions. The group is open and self instructional, with a variety of different styles to take in!

Whether your interest lies in finding interesting artwork to purchase, or maybe just thinking about taking up your own drawing, there is something for everyone here! Come and be entertained and empowered to make your own work!

An incorporated not-for-profit art organization run by a board of directors and volunteers, OFD has existed since 1989 as "One of Syracuse's most economical drawing experiences!"

Horizons
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anna Soltyk: richly textured oil and mixed media paintings
Phil Austin: glass artistry
Wendy Harris: upstate landscape done en plein air in pastel and mixed media

Read a review!

38th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Syracuse Chapter of the Links, Inc. in cooperation with Community Folk Art Center and local school districts join their efforts to provide an ongoing opportunity to recognize teenagers (ages 13-19) of African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian American heritage as well as those from other underrepresented groups who demonstrate talents in the fine arts.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Works of Bridget Bossart Van Otterloo, Lucie Wellner, and Katherine Houston
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Drawn from details of the death of a former friend and bandmate of artist Paul Lloyd Sargent, "elegy" is presented through a multimedia installation of mashed-up, remixed, and recontextualized historical ephemera collected from mixtapes, amateur videos, zines, photographs, band fliers, sketchbook pages, song lyrics, and more. A lament for the death of youth despite the overwhelming persistence of youth culture, "elegy: society for a dead society" paints nostalgia and cynicism as two shades within the same dark palette.

Paul Lloyd Sargent splits his time between Brooklyn and Wellesley Island, NY. He was raised in Syracuse and graduated from Nottingham High School in 1989 and Hamilton College in 1993. After stints in Las Vegas, Boston, and Venice Beach, in 2000, he received his MFA in video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

May Garden Party
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Garden-themed pieces in a variety of mediums.

Works of Gretchen Hamlin and Bob Ripley
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New works by watercolorist Bob Ripley and glass artist Gretchen Hamlin.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

Read a review!

Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

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

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

A Tender Record: Early black and white photographs by Marjory Wilkins
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Curated by Nancy Keefe Rhodes, this is an exhibit of 35 restored and finished prints of the now-extinct 15th Ward and others of historical relevance to both the African American community and the Syracuse community at large. Marjory Wilkins has been an important figure in our community for over six decades, inspiring many through her camera's view of the world. Her work is described by the exhibit curator in this way: "As documentary photographs, they record history, whether recent or remote, that is 'minority' history—that is, history often outside of its own community, either ignored or contested by stereotypes."

Her photography has become an invaluable resource to remember a place now destroyed, and a community with a charm and importance almost unknown to those outside of it.

Elizabeth Sutphen, soprano Nicholas Blaney, baritone; Adam Rothenberg, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Opera scenes, Schumann Frauenliebe und Leben, Schubert Winterreise, piano solos, and other works.

Fences
Syracuse Stage

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

Because a true classic always speaks to us anew. Pittsburgh, 1957. Troy Maxon, ex-ballplayer, complicated African-American family man and garbage collector, has lived a life of diminished hopes and abandoned dreams. Now Troy's talented son, Cory, has hopes and dreams of his own. Will Troy allow his bitterness about the past to poison his son's promising future? With a view toward a better future, August Wilson's Fences first posed this dramatic and necessary question 25 years ago ... and it hits us as hard today.

Read a Review!

Fences
Syracuse Stage

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

Because a true classic always speaks to us anew. Pittsburgh, 1957. Troy Maxon, ex-ballplayer, complicated African-American family man and garbage collector, has lived a life of diminished hopes and abandoned dreams. Now Troy's talented son, Cory, has hopes and dreams of his own. Will Troy allow his bitterness about the past to poison his son's promising future? With a view toward a better future, August Wilson's Fences first posed this dramatic and necessary question 25 years ago ... and it hits us as hard today.

Read a Review!