Sunday, October 19, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

They are testaments to the impact of terrorism: sculptures portraying mothers going back to the exact moment they learned their child died in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some are screaming; others are weeping. Some are curled into a ball; others have fists raised in anger. The 76 larger-than-life figures that comprise the Dark Elegy collection were created by Montauk, NY-based artist Suse Lowenstein, the mother of a Pan Am 103 student victim.

Four of these sculptures will be on display as part of the University's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy.

How the Barge Canal Energized New York
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Exhibit includes photographs of hydroelectric generating facilities along the Barge Canal system.

Rita Hammond Exhibition: Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman
Light Work Gallery

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

A nationally recognized artist and photographer, Rita Hammond (1924-1999) was a dynamic and greatly admired presence in the Central New York art community. With audacity, intelligence, and humor, Hammond's work reflected on major figures from the history of art and photography. "Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman" offers a body of photographs from Hammond's long-time collaboration with Lynn Moser. The series juxtaposes images of Moser as a young girl in 1967 with images of her as a woman 20 years later, revealing the dramatic and intimate effects of time, reflected in both the subject and the perspective of the photographer.

Ernesto Pujol Exhibition: Walk #1
Light Work Gallery

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

The black-and-white digital images in this exhibition follow a figure clad in a black robe, Pujol himself, walking through a Civil War cemetery in South Carolina. The photographs are arranged in sequential order in the gallery, depicting a dialogue between the figure, nature, and architecture. According to René Paul Barilleaux, "A lush Southern landscape, ornate Victorian cast ironwork, carved marble statuary, and other picturesque elements appear as a counterpoint to the dark, nearly motionless walker."

Pujol conceived this series as a combination between a performance (the walking) and installation. According to Pujol, he had avoided going to the cemetery for some time, but "When I first set foot in that city of the dead, I suddenly realized that it was the familiar environment I had dreamed about for years. I had experienced recurring dreams of marble arches and colonnades surrounded by gated gardens and water." After beginning to photograph the area in a documentary style, he quickly realized that he needed to walk through the space in a performative way, which resulted in the photographs depicted in this exhibition.

In addition to the digital images, this exhibition also features the black robe worn in the photographs, displayed on a mannequin in the center of the gallery, as well as twelve small, framed, hand-blown glass plates hanging on the wall with the images. Each plate has a word painted on it, meant to evoke a personal or emotional response from the viewers in the gallery. Ernesto Pujol

Pujol was born in Cuba and grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He received his BA in humanities and painting from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, and his MFA in interdisciplinary art practice from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been exhibited internationally, and he has received numerous awards and fellowships. In addition, Pujol's work is included in various permanent collections, including at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University; Casa de las Americas in Havana, Cuba; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; among many others. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 1999.

Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition explores multiple facets of Michelangelo's life, art and reputation with more than 25 works by the master and artists contemporary to him, including 14 original works by Michelangelo chosen to illustrate the broad range of his interests and creative activities. Figural studies associated with the Sistine Chapel and other paintings appear alongside original architectural plans and sketches of ancient Roman monuments. Printed books complement autograph examples of the artist's poetry. Eight of the Michelangelo works in the exhibition -- five drawings, including "Study for a Gate" and "Christ in Limbo," and three manuscript pages -- have never been seen in this country.

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.

Migrating Memories, Migrating Arts: Photographic Retrospective
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition celebrates the formative cultural fermentation occurring in the present regional landscape of Central New York. These photographs document Folk Arts: Soul of Syracuse, a series of community-University collaborative programs hosted by the Department of Anthropology in SU's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs with Catholic Charities Refugee Resettlement Services, the Center for New Americans, St. Vincent de Paul Church, and Tabernacle Baptist Church in 2007 and 2008. This exhibit is part of the 2008 Syracuse Symposium: Migration.

Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th Century Superstar
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Local artist and designer Jeffrey Mayer will present a post-modern installation of 20th century fashion design inspired by the 18th century fashion sense of Marie Antoinette. Although Marie Antoinette did not really create a style that was personally unique, what she did for fashion in the 1770s was to solidify, refine and intensify the rococo style created by her grandfather-in-law, Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who died in 1764, six years before the 14-year-old Princess even arrived from Austria. Through the exhibition and a publication to be released in the fall, Mayer will be reinterpreting and discussing Marie Antoinette's key concepts of Fantasy, Luxury, and Exoticism.

Marie Antoinette was originally displayed in 2007 in a small space in Syracuse University's Fashion Design Department where Mayer has been Associate Professor of Fashion History and Design since 1992. For the Everson's installation, Mayer has expanded the visual experience to include more than 40 garments displayed on vintage mannequins, an eclectic collection of contemporary fashion accessories, an interactive audio component, and many unique, custom-designed and hand-made objects.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

Warhol Presents highlights the early commercial career of Andy Warhol, whose whimsical drawings from the 1950s created fantasies that marketed fashion and glamour through evocation. Warhol's penchant for combining art and advertisement quickly made him one of the most well known illustrators of women's fashion in New York. His talen' was sought out by fashion publication giants, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar; and women's footwear designer and retailer, I. Miller Shoe Company.

The exhibition presents 18 of Warhol's rarely seen shoe illustrations including Fantasy Shoes (ca. 1956), a whimsical and humorous take on women's footwear design. Exhibited also are drawings of women's accessories and fashion figures, including Female Fashion Figure (1950s); a vibrant depiction of a chic model alongside an equally stylish car.

Warhol's unique well-wrought line also translated to commissions of large-scale window displays for New York stores, including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's. One example of the artist's window displays is featured in this exhibition in the illustrated reproduction, Miss Dior (1950s); and a 1997 3-dimensional re-creation of Warhol's 1957 Bonwit Teller Window Display, which includes glass perfume bottles and colorful reproduction of a window display screen. Warhol's early drawings and interest in art, identity, and consumerism informed his later pop-icon status, when product and identity literally became his art, and was used to fuel his experimental factory era films.

This exhibition is curated by Natalie Sanderson, Curator of Education at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. The original exhibition, Andy Warhol Presents, was first exhibited at the University Art Museum in 2007.

Dressing Marie Antoinette
Everson Museum of Art

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

This talk by Professor Ramita Ray will focus on fashion and courtly culture in 18th-century Paris and Versailles. Central to this dazzling visual drama was Marie Antoinette, queen of France, who became famous for her wide-hooped skirts, orientalized dresses like the robe à la polonaise and elaborate wigs that teetered above her head. Widely criticized for her extravagance, the queen's appearance seemed to confirm her luxurious lifestyle. Courtly fashion was a glittering spectacle of brocades, satins, lace, leather and jewelry. Dress-up parties like masquerades held at Versailles brought together beautifully dressed people who were in reality tangled in personal rivalries and vicious political machinations. Fashion indicated courtly status and carefully orchestrated hierarchies that exerted a tight web of social control. We will examine this darker side of dressing up Marie Antoinette and other prominent women in 18th-century France, alongside the taste for exotic fabrics and accessories, and the exquisite sartorial world from which haute couture later evolved.

Romita Ray is assistant professor of art history in the department of Fine Arts at Syracuse University. She works on the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, and her specialties include European art and Indian art.

Civic Morning Musicals
Stephanie Cambra, flute; Sar-Shalom Strong, piano

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

Concerto Competition Winner flutist Stephanie Cambra returns to collaborate with pianist Sar-Shalom Strong. Reception follows.

James Welsch, vocalist
Joyful Noise Concert Series

Price: Free. Donations accepted
Liverpool First United Methodist Church
604 Oswego St., Liverpool

James Welsch, vocalist, performs with ensembles from Syracuse University. A pre-concert artist talk, Joyful Noise Narrations, will be offered at 3:00 p.m. at Liverpool Public Library; refreshments served. For more information, phone 315-457-5180.

Music to Michelangelo's Ear
Schola Cantorum of Syracuse
Joyce Irwin, conductor

Price: $12 regular, $8 students/seniors
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

In conjunction with a major art exhibit on Michelangelo at Syracuse University, we will present music that he may have heard either in Florence or in Rome and music representative of the religious events of his lifetime:
* Carnival songs and laude by Lorenzo de Medici and Savonarola;
* Heinrich Isaac's sacred and secular works from his Florence years;
* Madrigals by Jacob Arcadelt, Costanza Festa, Philippe Verdelot;
* Josquin des Pres and the papal chapel choir;
* Music of the Protestant Reformation: Johann Walter;
* Music of the Catholic Reformation: Palestrina.

The concert will be preceded by a viol prelude at 3:30 pm.

Don't Look Back: Stories from the Salt City
Syracuse Stage
Ping Chong, director

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

World Premiere. A powerful exploration of the changing face of Syracuse through an interview-based theatre work, Don't Look Back presents the first-hand narratives of citizens of Syracuse -- both recent arrivals and long-standing residents -- who are in some way living outside the dominant culture. Created by theatrical innovator Ping Chong and constructed as a chamber piece of storytelling, the performance features real people telling their personal experiences of creating cultural identity out of rich and complex histories. Ping Chong continues the compelling work he has done throughout the United States exploring the divergent lives that make up our communities. These stories will carry us around the globe and bring us home with a more complete understanding of how the world out there is the world right here.

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The Jazzuits in Concert
LeMoyne College
Carol Jacobe, director
Featuring Broadway Star Gina Lamparella

Price: $10 regular, $5 students/seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Former Baldwinsville resident Gina Lamparella graduated from the drama department at Syracuse University. She has appeared in six Broadway productions, including the 10th anniversary company of Les Miserables, Jane Eyre, Imaginary Friends, Gypsy starring Bernadette Peters, Fiddler on the Roof starring Alfred Molina and Rosie O'Donnell, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, starring John Lithgow.

The Le Moyne College Jazzuits is a vocal jazz ensemble of 16 voices and rhythm section. The group formed in 2004 under the direction of Carol Jacobe, former C. W. Baker High School choral director. Since that time the ensemble has performed at the New York State Music Teachers Conference and at numerous charitable fund raisers in the Syracuse area. The Jazzuits also host an annual Vocal Jazz Festival featuring ensembles from the central New York area.

The October 19th concert will include solo performances by several members of the Jazzuits along with ensemble performances by the group, culminating in a performance alongside Ms. Lamparella.

Seating is limited and reservations are strongly suggested. Tickets can be reserved by calling 315-638-9485.

Monday, October 20, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

They are testaments to the impact of terrorism: sculptures portraying mothers going back to the exact moment they learned their child died in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some are screaming; others are weeping. Some are curled into a ball; others have fists raised in anger. The 76 larger-than-life figures that comprise the Dark Elegy collection were created by Montauk, NY-based artist Suse Lowenstein, the mother of a Pan Am 103 student victim.

Four of these sculptures will be on display as part of the University's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy.

Migrating Memories, Migrating Arts: Photographic Retrospective
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition celebrates the formative cultural fermentation occurring in the present regional landscape of Central New York. These photographs document Folk Arts: Soul of Syracuse, a series of community-University collaborative programs hosted by the Department of Anthropology in SU's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs with Catholic Charities Refugee Resettlement Services, the Center for New Americans, St. Vincent de Paul Church, and Tabernacle Baptist Church in 2007 and 2008. This exhibit is part of the 2008 Syracuse Symposium: Migration.

Paintings by DeLoss McGraw on Poems by W.D. Snodgrass
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.D. Snodgrass and internationally acclaimed artist DeLoss McGraw have collaborated for over 30 years. This latest series of works, being shown for the first time at the YMCA's gallerY, consists of paintings created by Mr. McGraw directly on pages torn from Snodgrass' acclaimed poetry collection Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems. The end product is an extraordinary exhibit that adds an evocative dimension to a poetic achievement that stands among the best of the late 20th century.

DeLoss McGraw's work has been exhibited around the globe, and is collected by such eminent institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, and many universities. His illustrated version of Alice in Wonderland won the Illustrator's Society Book of the Year Award for 2002. W.D. Snodgrass is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, translation, and criticism, including Heart's Needle, which was awarded the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and De/Compositions, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.

Gallery Exhibition: Matt Moyer
Onondaga Community College

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

Photojournalist Matt Moyer has worked on assignment for publication such as The New York Times, The Guardian, and National Geographic magazine. For more than 15 years, he has been committed to telling stories that put a human face on the day's news.

Think Tech Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Art with a "techie" theme by Anna Soltyk, Ben Applebaum, Bob Gates, Derek Chalfant, Elizabeth Chalfant, Elizabeth Groat, Delores Herringshaw, Jennifer Jeffery, Jerry Russell, Maria Aridgides, Saba Khan, Sharon Bottle Souva, Smita Rane; plus posters from the Syracuse Poster Project.

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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."

Art Not Apathy: Works of Barbara Higgens
Westcott Community Center

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

How the Barge Canal Energized New York
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Exhibit includes photographs of hydroelectric generating facilities along the Barge Canal system.

Ernesto Pujol Exhibition: Walk #1
Light Work Gallery

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

The black-and-white digital images in this exhibition follow a figure clad in a black robe, Pujol himself, walking through a Civil War cemetery in South Carolina. The photographs are arranged in sequential order in the gallery, depicting a dialogue between the figure, nature, and architecture. According to René Paul Barilleaux, "A lush Southern landscape, ornate Victorian cast ironwork, carved marble statuary, and other picturesque elements appear as a counterpoint to the dark, nearly motionless walker."

Pujol conceived this series as a combination between a performance (the walking) and installation. According to Pujol, he had avoided going to the cemetery for some time, but "When I first set foot in that city of the dead, I suddenly realized that it was the familiar environment I had dreamed about for years. I had experienced recurring dreams of marble arches and colonnades surrounded by gated gardens and water." After beginning to photograph the area in a documentary style, he quickly realized that he needed to walk through the space in a performative way, which resulted in the photographs depicted in this exhibition.

In addition to the digital images, this exhibition also features the black robe worn in the photographs, displayed on a mannequin in the center of the gallery, as well as twelve small, framed, hand-blown glass plates hanging on the wall with the images. Each plate has a word painted on it, meant to evoke a personal or emotional response from the viewers in the gallery. Ernesto Pujol

Pujol was born in Cuba and grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He received his BA in humanities and painting from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, and his MFA in interdisciplinary art practice from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been exhibited internationally, and he has received numerous awards and fellowships. In addition, Pujol's work is included in various permanent collections, including at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University; Casa de las Americas in Havana, Cuba; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; among many others. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 1999.

Rita Hammond Exhibition: Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman
Light Work Gallery

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

A nationally recognized artist and photographer, Rita Hammond (1924-1999) was a dynamic and greatly admired presence in the Central New York art community. With audacity, intelligence, and humor, Hammond's work reflected on major figures from the history of art and photography. "Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman" offers a body of photographs from Hammond's long-time collaboration with Lynn Moser. The series juxtaposes images of Moser as a young girl in 1967 with images of her as a woman 20 years later, revealing the dramatic and intimate effects of time, reflected in both the subject and the perspective of the photographer.

Works of Jim Ridlon
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Pennies From Heaven (1936)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $3 regular, $2.50 members
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

They are testaments to the impact of terrorism: sculptures portraying mothers going back to the exact moment they learned their child died in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some are screaming; others are weeping. Some are curled into a ball; others have fists raised in anger. The 76 larger-than-life figures that comprise the Dark Elegy collection were created by Montauk, NY-based artist Suse Lowenstein, the mother of a Pan Am 103 student victim.

Four of these sculptures will be on display as part of the University's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy.

Migrating Memories, Migrating Arts: Photographic Retrospective
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition celebrates the formative cultural fermentation occurring in the present regional landscape of Central New York. These photographs document Folk Arts: Soul of Syracuse, a series of community-University collaborative programs hosted by the Department of Anthropology in SU's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs with Catholic Charities Refugee Resettlement Services, the Center for New Americans, St. Vincent de Paul Church, and Tabernacle Baptist Church in 2007 and 2008. This exhibit is part of the 2008 Syracuse Symposium: Migration.

Paintings by DeLoss McGraw on Poems by W.D. Snodgrass
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.D. Snodgrass and internationally acclaimed artist DeLoss McGraw have collaborated for over 30 years. This latest series of works, being shown for the first time at the YMCA's gallerY, consists of paintings created by Mr. McGraw directly on pages torn from Snodgrass' acclaimed poetry collection Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems. The end product is an extraordinary exhibit that adds an evocative dimension to a poetic achievement that stands among the best of the late 20th century.

DeLoss McGraw's work has been exhibited around the globe, and is collected by such eminent institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, and many universities. His illustrated version of Alice in Wonderland won the Illustrator's Society Book of the Year Award for 2002. W.D. Snodgrass is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, translation, and criticism, including Heart's Needle, which was awarded the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and De/Compositions, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.

Gallery Exhibition: Matt Moyer
Onondaga Community College

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

Photojournalist Matt Moyer has worked on assignment for publication such as The New York Times, The Guardian, and National Geographic magazine. For more than 15 years, he has been committed to telling stories that put a human face on the day's news.

Mapping Linguistics, Revisited: Works by Kelly Roe
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Kelly Roe's mixed media work will be on display. A professor in the Graphic Design Program at SUNY Oswego, Roe has a background in graphic design, bookmaking and printmaking and sees herself as an anthropologist, artist, editor and scribe. The Mapping Linguistics exhibition explores relationships in linguistics, psychology and child development.

Visual Journals: Recent Works by SUNY Oswego Faculty
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Art exhibition featuring recent work by SUNY Oswego faculty members Amy Bartell, Cynthia Clabough, Paul Pearce, Cara Brewer Thompson.

Think Tech Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Art with a "techie" theme by Anna Soltyk, Ben Applebaum, Bob Gates, Derek Chalfant, Elizabeth Chalfant, Elizabeth Groat, Delores Herringshaw, Jennifer Jeffery, Jerry Russell, Maria Aridgides, Saba Khan, Sharon Bottle Souva, Smita Rane; plus posters from the Syracuse Poster Project.

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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."

Art Not Apathy: Works of Barbara Higgens
Westcott Community Center

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

Founding Visionaries: Herb Williams and Jack White
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Community Folk Art Center is proud to exhibit this unique collection of sculptures, drawings and prints by two CFAC founders, Herb Williams and Jack White.

Celebrating Herb Williams: His Life, His Work, and His Art: As CFAC founding director, Herb Williams (1938-1999) devoted his life to promoting the work of diverse artists and ensuring that a large audience could experience their work. His dedication to the collective vision of the founding members kept Williams busy and while he avidly supported and promoted other artist he rarely took time exhibit his own work. This will be the first large-scale exhibition of Williams work in Upstate New York. Though he identified himself primarily as a sculptor, Williams worked across various artistic mediums; manipulating wood, plaster and bronze into figurative and abstract forms. His lithographs and etchings not only indicate the measure of his artistic skill and creativity but also serve as a chronicle of his literal, figurative journey as an artist.

Jack White: An Ancestral Image is a collection of the works by CFAC co-founder and artist Jack White. Since the late 1960s, Jack White's mixed media abstract work, defined as "abstract impressionism," has been inspired by African art forms and symbolism. The works included in the Ancestral Image exhibition are outside the boundaries of traditional painting or sculpture. They contain elements of the spiritual, the artistic, and the utilitarian that define African art.

March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
Community Folk Art Center

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

Original illustrated works by London Ladd

How the Barge Canal Energized New York
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Exhibit includes photographs of hydroelectric generating facilities along the Barge Canal system.

Rita Hammond Exhibition: Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman
Light Work Gallery

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

A nationally recognized artist and photographer, Rita Hammond (1924-1999) was a dynamic and greatly admired presence in the Central New York art community. With audacity, intelligence, and humor, Hammond's work reflected on major figures from the history of art and photography. "Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman" offers a body of photographs from Hammond's long-time collaboration with Lynn Moser. The series juxtaposes images of Moser as a young girl in 1967 with images of her as a woman 20 years later, revealing the dramatic and intimate effects of time, reflected in both the subject and the perspective of the photographer.

Ernesto Pujol Exhibition: Walk #1
Light Work Gallery

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

The black-and-white digital images in this exhibition follow a figure clad in a black robe, Pujol himself, walking through a Civil War cemetery in South Carolina. The photographs are arranged in sequential order in the gallery, depicting a dialogue between the figure, nature, and architecture. According to René Paul Barilleaux, "A lush Southern landscape, ornate Victorian cast ironwork, carved marble statuary, and other picturesque elements appear as a counterpoint to the dark, nearly motionless walker."

Pujol conceived this series as a combination between a performance (the walking) and installation. According to Pujol, he had avoided going to the cemetery for some time, but "When I first set foot in that city of the dead, I suddenly realized that it was the familiar environment I had dreamed about for years. I had experienced recurring dreams of marble arches and colonnades surrounded by gated gardens and water." After beginning to photograph the area in a documentary style, he quickly realized that he needed to walk through the space in a performative way, which resulted in the photographs depicted in this exhibition.

In addition to the digital images, this exhibition also features the black robe worn in the photographs, displayed on a mannequin in the center of the gallery, as well as twelve small, framed, hand-blown glass plates hanging on the wall with the images. Each plate has a word painted on it, meant to evoke a personal or emotional response from the viewers in the gallery. Ernesto Pujol

Pujol was born in Cuba and grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He received his BA in humanities and painting from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, and his MFA in interdisciplinary art practice from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been exhibited internationally, and he has received numerous awards and fellowships. In addition, Pujol's work is included in various permanent collections, including at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University; Casa de las Americas in Havana, Cuba; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; among many others. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 1999.

Works of Jim Ridlon
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th Century Superstar
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Local artist and designer Jeffrey Mayer will present a post-modern installation of 20th century fashion design inspired by the 18th century fashion sense of Marie Antoinette. Although Marie Antoinette did not really create a style that was personally unique, what she did for fashion in the 1770s was to solidify, refine and intensify the rococo style created by her grandfather-in-law, Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who died in 1764, six years before the 14-year-old Princess even arrived from Austria. Through the exhibition and a publication to be released in the fall, Mayer will be reinterpreting and discussing Marie Antoinette's key concepts of Fantasy, Luxury, and Exoticism.

Marie Antoinette was originally displayed in 2007 in a small space in Syracuse University's Fashion Design Department where Mayer has been Associate Professor of Fashion History and Design since 1992. For the Everson's installation, Mayer has expanded the visual experience to include more than 40 garments displayed on vintage mannequins, an eclectic collection of contemporary fashion accessories, an interactive audio component, and many unique, custom-designed and hand-made objects.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

Warhol Presents highlights the early commercial career of Andy Warhol, whose whimsical drawings from the 1950s created fantasies that marketed fashion and glamour through evocation. Warhol's penchant for combining art and advertisement quickly made him one of the most well known illustrators of women's fashion in New York. His talen' was sought out by fashion publication giants, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar; and women's footwear designer and retailer, I. Miller Shoe Company.

The exhibition presents 18 of Warhol's rarely seen shoe illustrations including Fantasy Shoes (ca. 1956), a whimsical and humorous take on women's footwear design. Exhibited also are drawings of women's accessories and fashion figures, including Female Fashion Figure (1950s); a vibrant depiction of a chic model alongside an equally stylish car.

Warhol's unique well-wrought line also translated to commissions of large-scale window displays for New York stores, including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's. One example of the artist's window displays is featured in this exhibition in the illustrated reproduction, Miss Dior (1950s); and a 1997 3-dimensional re-creation of Warhol's 1957 Bonwit Teller Window Display, which includes glass perfume bottles and colorful reproduction of a window display screen. Warhol's early drawings and interest in art, identity, and consumerism informed his later pop-icon status, when product and identity literally became his art, and was used to fuel his experimental factory era films.

This exhibition is curated by Natalie Sanderson, Curator of Education at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. The original exhibition, Andy Warhol Presents, was first exhibited at the University Art Museum in 2007.

Dreams of Promise and Peril
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The role that artists play as cultural barometers always seems to be heightened in times of change and uncertainty. Although they employ different approaches, from timely reportage to futuristic illusions, all of the artists in the exhibition explore the terrain where hopes and dreams collide. By making visible the complex emotions we all sometimes experience the artists in this exhibition ask us to deeply consider the promise and peril that exists both in the fantasies we create and the realities we deny.

All of the work in this exhibition was borrowed from the JGS, Inc. collection, a non-profit photography organization based in New York City. JGS and Syracuse University have entered into an agreement to collaborate on traveling exhibitions, research, publications, and other projects utilizing work from the JGS collection that includes over 8,000 photographs spanning the history of the medium. This exhibition is an example of that collaboration and at the conclusion of the exhibition SUArt Galleries will create traveling solo exhibitions by each of the four artists.

Election 2008: Predictions and Analysis
University Lectures
Featuring Patricia Williams and Fred Barnes

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

A roundtable discussion moderated by Professor Arthur Brooks.

Patricia Williams is the James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia University School of Law. She writes the monthly "Diary of a Mad Law Professor" column for the Nation magazine, covering broad issues of social justice, including the rhetoric of the war on terror, race, ethnicity, gender, all aspects of civil rights law, bioethics and eugenics, forensic uses of DNA, and comparative issues of class and culture in the United States, Great Britain and France.

Fred Barnes is co-founder and executive editor of The Weekly Standard and is co-host of the "Beltway Boys" on FOX News. He also hosts the weekly radio show "Issues in the News" on Voice of America and authored the book Rebel in Chief: Inside the Bold and Controversial Presidency of George W. Bush (Three Rivers Press, 2006).

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

They are testaments to the impact of terrorism: sculptures portraying mothers going back to the exact moment they learned their child died in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some are screaming; others are weeping. Some are curled into a ball; others have fists raised in anger. The 76 larger-than-life figures that comprise the Dark Elegy collection were created by Montauk, NY-based artist Suse Lowenstein, the mother of a Pan Am 103 student victim.

Four of these sculptures will be on display as part of the University's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy.

Migrating Memories, Migrating Arts: Photographic Retrospective
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition celebrates the formative cultural fermentation occurring in the present regional landscape of Central New York. These photographs document Folk Arts: Soul of Syracuse, a series of community-University collaborative programs hosted by the Department of Anthropology in SU's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs with Catholic Charities Refugee Resettlement Services, the Center for New Americans, St. Vincent de Paul Church, and Tabernacle Baptist Church in 2007 and 2008. This exhibit is part of the 2008 Syracuse Symposium: Migration.

Paintings by DeLoss McGraw on Poems by W.D. Snodgrass
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.D. Snodgrass and internationally acclaimed artist DeLoss McGraw have collaborated for over 30 years. This latest series of works, being shown for the first time at the YMCA's gallerY, consists of paintings created by Mr. McGraw directly on pages torn from Snodgrass' acclaimed poetry collection Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems. The end product is an extraordinary exhibit that adds an evocative dimension to a poetic achievement that stands among the best of the late 20th century.

DeLoss McGraw's work has been exhibited around the globe, and is collected by such eminent institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, and many universities. His illustrated version of Alice in Wonderland won the Illustrator's Society Book of the Year Award for 2002. W.D. Snodgrass is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, translation, and criticism, including Heart's Needle, which was awarded the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and De/Compositions, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.

Gallery Exhibition: Matt Moyer
Onondaga Community College

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

Photojournalist Matt Moyer has worked on assignment for publication such as The New York Times, The Guardian, and National Geographic magazine. For more than 15 years, he has been committed to telling stories that put a human face on the day's news.

Visual Journals: Recent Works by SUNY Oswego Faculty
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Art exhibition featuring recent work by SUNY Oswego faculty members Amy Bartell, Cynthia Clabough, Paul Pearce, Cara Brewer Thompson.

Mapping Linguistics, Revisited: Works by Kelly Roe
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Kelly Roe's mixed media work will be on display. A professor in the Graphic Design Program at SUNY Oswego, Roe has a background in graphic design, bookmaking and printmaking and sees herself as an anthropologist, artist, editor and scribe. The Mapping Linguistics exhibition explores relationships in linguistics, psychology and child development.

Think Tech Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Art with a "techie" theme by Anna Soltyk, Ben Applebaum, Bob Gates, Derek Chalfant, Elizabeth Chalfant, Elizabeth Groat, Delores Herringshaw, Jennifer Jeffery, Jerry Russell, Maria Aridgides, Saba Khan, Sharon Bottle Souva, Smita Rane; plus posters from the Syracuse Poster Project.

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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."

Art Not Apathy: Works of Barbara Higgens
Westcott Community Center

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

March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
Community Folk Art Center

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

Original illustrated works by London Ladd

Founding Visionaries: Herb Williams and Jack White
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Community Folk Art Center is proud to exhibit this unique collection of sculptures, drawings and prints by two CFAC founders, Herb Williams and Jack White.

Celebrating Herb Williams: His Life, His Work, and His Art: As CFAC founding director, Herb Williams (1938-1999) devoted his life to promoting the work of diverse artists and ensuring that a large audience could experience their work. His dedication to the collective vision of the founding members kept Williams busy and while he avidly supported and promoted other artist he rarely took time exhibit his own work. This will be the first large-scale exhibition of Williams work in Upstate New York. Though he identified himself primarily as a sculptor, Williams worked across various artistic mediums; manipulating wood, plaster and bronze into figurative and abstract forms. His lithographs and etchings not only indicate the measure of his artistic skill and creativity but also serve as a chronicle of his literal, figurative journey as an artist.

Jack White: An Ancestral Image is a collection of the works by CFAC co-founder and artist Jack White. Since the late 1960s, Jack White's mixed media abstract work, defined as "abstract impressionism," has been inspired by African art forms and symbolism. The works included in the Ancestral Image exhibition are outside the boundaries of traditional painting or sculpture. They contain elements of the spiritual, the artistic, and the utilitarian that define African art.

How the Barge Canal Energized New York
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Exhibit includes photographs of hydroelectric generating facilities along the Barge Canal system.

Ernesto Pujol Exhibition: Walk #1
Light Work Gallery

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

The black-and-white digital images in this exhibition follow a figure clad in a black robe, Pujol himself, walking through a Civil War cemetery in South Carolina. The photographs are arranged in sequential order in the gallery, depicting a dialogue between the figure, nature, and architecture. According to René Paul Barilleaux, "A lush Southern landscape, ornate Victorian cast ironwork, carved marble statuary, and other picturesque elements appear as a counterpoint to the dark, nearly motionless walker."

Pujol conceived this series as a combination between a performance (the walking) and installation. According to Pujol, he had avoided going to the cemetery for some time, but "When I first set foot in that city of the dead, I suddenly realized that it was the familiar environment I had dreamed about for years. I had experienced recurring dreams of marble arches and colonnades surrounded by gated gardens and water." After beginning to photograph the area in a documentary style, he quickly realized that he needed to walk through the space in a performative way, which resulted in the photographs depicted in this exhibition.

In addition to the digital images, this exhibition also features the black robe worn in the photographs, displayed on a mannequin in the center of the gallery, as well as twelve small, framed, hand-blown glass plates hanging on the wall with the images. Each plate has a word painted on it, meant to evoke a personal or emotional response from the viewers in the gallery. Ernesto Pujol

Pujol was born in Cuba and grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He received his BA in humanities and painting from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, and his MFA in interdisciplinary art practice from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been exhibited internationally, and he has received numerous awards and fellowships. In addition, Pujol's work is included in various permanent collections, including at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University; Casa de las Americas in Havana, Cuba; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; among many others. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 1999.

Rita Hammond Exhibition: Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman
Light Work Gallery

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

A nationally recognized artist and photographer, Rita Hammond (1924-1999) was a dynamic and greatly admired presence in the Central New York art community. With audacity, intelligence, and humor, Hammond's work reflected on major figures from the history of art and photography. "Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman" offers a body of photographs from Hammond's long-time collaboration with Lynn Moser. The series juxtaposes images of Moser as a young girl in 1967 with images of her as a woman 20 years later, revealing the dramatic and intimate effects of time, reflected in both the subject and the perspective of the photographer.

Works of Jim Ridlon
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

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.

Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th Century Superstar
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Local artist and designer Jeffrey Mayer will present a post-modern installation of 20th century fashion design inspired by the 18th century fashion sense of Marie Antoinette. Although Marie Antoinette did not really create a style that was personally unique, what she did for fashion in the 1770s was to solidify, refine and intensify the rococo style created by her grandfather-in-law, Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who died in 1764, six years before the 14-year-old Princess even arrived from Austria. Through the exhibition and a publication to be released in the fall, Mayer will be reinterpreting and discussing Marie Antoinette's key concepts of Fantasy, Luxury, and Exoticism.

Marie Antoinette was originally displayed in 2007 in a small space in Syracuse University's Fashion Design Department where Mayer has been Associate Professor of Fashion History and Design since 1992. For the Everson's installation, Mayer has expanded the visual experience to include more than 40 garments displayed on vintage mannequins, an eclectic collection of contemporary fashion accessories, an interactive audio component, and many unique, custom-designed and hand-made objects.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

Warhol Presents highlights the early commercial career of Andy Warhol, whose whimsical drawings from the 1950s created fantasies that marketed fashion and glamour through evocation. Warhol's penchant for combining art and advertisement quickly made him one of the most well known illustrators of women's fashion in New York. His talen' was sought out by fashion publication giants, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar; and women's footwear designer and retailer, I. Miller Shoe Company.

The exhibition presents 18 of Warhol's rarely seen shoe illustrations including Fantasy Shoes (ca. 1956), a whimsical and humorous take on women's footwear design. Exhibited also are drawings of women's accessories and fashion figures, including Female Fashion Figure (1950s); a vibrant depiction of a chic model alongside an equally stylish car.

Warhol's unique well-wrought line also translated to commissions of large-scale window displays for New York stores, including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's. One example of the artist's window displays is featured in this exhibition in the illustrated reproduction, Miss Dior (1950s); and a 1997 3-dimensional re-creation of Warhol's 1957 Bonwit Teller Window Display, which includes glass perfume bottles and colorful reproduction of a window display screen. Warhol's early drawings and interest in art, identity, and consumerism informed his later pop-icon status, when product and identity literally became his art, and was used to fuel his experimental factory era films.

This exhibition is curated by Natalie Sanderson, Curator of Education at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. The original exhibition, Andy Warhol Presents, was first exhibited at the University Art Museum in 2007.

Dreams of Promise and Peril
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The role that artists play as cultural barometers always seems to be heightened in times of change and uncertainty. Although they employ different approaches, from timely reportage to futuristic illusions, all of the artists in the exhibition explore the terrain where hopes and dreams collide. By making visible the complex emotions we all sometimes experience the artists in this exhibition ask us to deeply consider the promise and peril that exists both in the fantasies we create and the realities we deny.

All of the work in this exhibition was borrowed from the JGS, Inc. collection, a non-profit photography organization based in New York City. JGS and Syracuse University have entered into an agreement to collaborate on traveling exhibitions, research, publications, and other projects utilizing work from the JGS collection that includes over 8,000 photographs spanning the history of the medium. This exhibition is an example of that collaboration and at the conclusion of the exhibition SUArt Galleries will create traveling solo exhibitions by each of the four artists.

Combat Paper
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Combat Paper" is a collaborative project initiated by Drew Matott and Drew Cameron along with members of the Iraq Veterans Against the War. Utilizing uniforms worn in combat in Iraq, veterans cut, cook, beat and form sheets of paper out of their uniforms. In this way, veterans are able to use the transformation processes of papermaking to reclaim their uniform as art and begin to reconcile their experiences as a soldier in Iraq.

The Combat Paper project is an art therapy that utilizes paper as its medium and has been generating hope and inspiration for war veterans all across the country. The project has a positive impact on veterans, serves as a visceral statement of the long lasting effects of combat and acts as a catalyst for community discussion and activism.

Civic Morning Musicals
David Neal, baritone; Sar-Shalom Strong, piano

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

Lowell Liebermann's Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening, which they premiered; Brahms, Frederick Keel, John Jacob Niles, Hugo Wolf, others

Etgar Keret, fiction
Raymond Carver Reading Series

Price: Free
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Don't Look Back: Stories from the Salt City
Syracuse Stage
Ping Chong, director

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

World Premiere. A powerful exploration of the changing face of Syracuse through an interview-based theatre work, Don't Look Back presents the first-hand narratives of citizens of Syracuse -- both recent arrivals and long-standing residents -- who are in some way living outside the dominant culture. Created by theatrical innovator Ping Chong and constructed as a chamber piece of storytelling, the performance features real people telling their personal experiences of creating cultural identity out of rich and complex histories. Ping Chong continues the compelling work he has done throughout the United States exploring the divergent lives that make up our communities. These stories will carry us around the globe and bring us home with a more complete understanding of how the world out there is the world right here.

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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

They are testaments to the impact of terrorism: sculptures portraying mothers going back to the exact moment they learned their child died in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some are screaming; others are weeping. Some are curled into a ball; others have fists raised in anger. The 76 larger-than-life figures that comprise the Dark Elegy collection were created by Montauk, NY-based artist Suse Lowenstein, the mother of a Pan Am 103 student victim.

Four of these sculptures will be on display as part of the University's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy.

Migrating Memories, Migrating Arts: Photographic Retrospective
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition celebrates the formative cultural fermentation occurring in the present regional landscape of Central New York. These photographs document Folk Arts: Soul of Syracuse, a series of community-University collaborative programs hosted by the Department of Anthropology in SU's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs with Catholic Charities Refugee Resettlement Services, the Center for New Americans, St. Vincent de Paul Church, and Tabernacle Baptist Church in 2007 and 2008. This exhibit is part of the 2008 Syracuse Symposium: Migration.

Paintings by DeLoss McGraw on Poems by W.D. Snodgrass
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.D. Snodgrass and internationally acclaimed artist DeLoss McGraw have collaborated for over 30 years. This latest series of works, being shown for the first time at the YMCA's gallerY, consists of paintings created by Mr. McGraw directly on pages torn from Snodgrass' acclaimed poetry collection Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems. The end product is an extraordinary exhibit that adds an evocative dimension to a poetic achievement that stands among the best of the late 20th century.

DeLoss McGraw's work has been exhibited around the globe, and is collected by such eminent institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, and many universities. His illustrated version of Alice in Wonderland won the Illustrator's Society Book of the Year Award for 2002. W.D. Snodgrass is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, translation, and criticism, including Heart's Needle, which was awarded the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and De/Compositions, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.

Gallery Exhibition: Matt Moyer
Onondaga Community College

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

Photojournalist Matt Moyer has worked on assignment for publication such as The New York Times, The Guardian, and National Geographic magazine. For more than 15 years, he has been committed to telling stories that put a human face on the day's news.

Mapping Linguistics, Revisited: Works by Kelly Roe
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Kelly Roe's mixed media work will be on display. A professor in the Graphic Design Program at SUNY Oswego, Roe has a background in graphic design, bookmaking and printmaking and sees herself as an anthropologist, artist, editor and scribe. The Mapping Linguistics exhibition explores relationships in linguistics, psychology and child development.

Visual Journals: Recent Works by SUNY Oswego Faculty
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Art exhibition featuring recent work by SUNY Oswego faculty members Amy Bartell, Cynthia Clabough, Paul Pearce, Cara Brewer Thompson.

Think Tech Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Art with a "techie" theme by Anna Soltyk, Ben Applebaum, Bob Gates, Derek Chalfant, Elizabeth Chalfant, Elizabeth Groat, Delores Herringshaw, Jennifer Jeffery, Jerry Russell, Maria Aridgides, Saba Khan, Sharon Bottle Souva, Smita Rane; plus posters from the Syracuse Poster Project.

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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."

Art Not Apathy: Works of Barbara Higgens
Westcott Community Center

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

Founding Visionaries: Herb Williams and Jack White
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Community Folk Art Center is proud to exhibit this unique collection of sculptures, drawings and prints by two CFAC founders, Herb Williams and Jack White.

Celebrating Herb Williams: His Life, His Work, and His Art: As CFAC founding director, Herb Williams (1938-1999) devoted his life to promoting the work of diverse artists and ensuring that a large audience could experience their work. His dedication to the collective vision of the founding members kept Williams busy and while he avidly supported and promoted other artist he rarely took time exhibit his own work. This will be the first large-scale exhibition of Williams work in Upstate New York. Though he identified himself primarily as a sculptor, Williams worked across various artistic mediums; manipulating wood, plaster and bronze into figurative and abstract forms. His lithographs and etchings not only indicate the measure of his artistic skill and creativity but also serve as a chronicle of his literal, figurative journey as an artist.

Jack White: An Ancestral Image is a collection of the works by CFAC co-founder and artist Jack White. Since the late 1960s, Jack White's mixed media abstract work, defined as "abstract impressionism," has been inspired by African art forms and symbolism. The works included in the Ancestral Image exhibition are outside the boundaries of traditional painting or sculpture. They contain elements of the spiritual, the artistic, and the utilitarian that define African art.

March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
Community Folk Art Center

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

Original illustrated works by London Ladd

How the Barge Canal Energized New York
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Exhibit includes photographs of hydroelectric generating facilities along the Barge Canal system.

Rita Hammond Exhibition: Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman
Light Work Gallery

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

A nationally recognized artist and photographer, Rita Hammond (1924-1999) was a dynamic and greatly admired presence in the Central New York art community. With audacity, intelligence, and humor, Hammond's work reflected on major figures from the history of art and photography. "Images of a Girl, Images of a Woman" offers a body of photographs from Hammond's long-time collaboration with Lynn Moser. The series juxtaposes images of Moser as a young girl in 1967 with images of her as a woman 20 years later, revealing the dramatic and intimate effects of time, reflected in both the subject and the perspective of the photographer.

Ernesto Pujol Exhibition: Walk #1
Light Work Gallery

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

The black-and-white digital images in this exhibition follow a figure clad in a black robe, Pujol himself, walking through a Civil War cemetery in South Carolina. The photographs are arranged in sequential order in the gallery, depicting a dialogue between the figure, nature, and architecture. According to René Paul Barilleaux, "A lush Southern landscape, ornate Victorian cast ironwork, carved marble statuary, and other picturesque elements appear as a counterpoint to the dark, nearly motionless walker."

Pujol conceived this series as a combination between a performance (the walking) and installation. According to Pujol, he had avoided going to the cemetery for some time, but "When I first set foot in that city of the dead, I suddenly realized that it was the familiar environment I had dreamed about for years. I had experienced recurring dreams of marble arches and colonnades surrounded by gated gardens and water." After beginning to photograph the area in a documentary style, he quickly realized that he needed to walk through the space in a performative way, which resulted in the photographs depicted in this exhibition.

In addition to the digital images, this exhibition also features the black robe worn in the photographs, displayed on a mannequin in the center of the gallery, as well as twelve small, framed, hand-blown glass plates hanging on the wall with the images. Each plate has a word painted on it, meant to evoke a personal or emotional response from the viewers in the gallery. Ernesto Pujol

Pujol was born in Cuba and grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He received his BA in humanities and painting from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, and his MFA in interdisciplinary art practice from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been exhibited internationally, and he has received numerous awards and fellowships. In addition, Pujol's work is included in various permanent collections, including at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University; Casa de las Americas in Havana, Cuba; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; among many others. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 1999.

Works of Jim Ridlon
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

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.

Wild Card Exhibit: Political Cartoons by Joe Glisson
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Joe Glisson is a political cartoonist with a new book being released titled Seems Like Old Times. The book is a political cartoon retrospective of work published in the Syracuse New Times, featuring major events and politicians of the past 25 years, including local topics and persons.

Five Years at Delavan
Delavan Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features prints by the Atelier Four (Amy Georgia Buchholz, Bruce Muirhead, Jake Muirhead and Bill Salzillo) as well as sculptures by Dexter Benedict and Donald S. Sottile.

The Atelier Four is a group of artists associated with Hamilton College working together in the collaborative workshop spirit often found among printmakers. Linked philosophically to the Arts and Crafts Movement that has deep roots in Upstate New York, this group is committed to keeping the tradition of studio printmaking alive while promoting its contemporary relevance. The selection of intaglio prints exhibited here compares and contrasts the working methods of the four whose teacher/student relationships developed into life-long friendships that have shaped their art and careers. From a historical perspective the selection also references the important influences of the upstate New York printmaking laboratories centered around Robert Marx at Syracuse University and Harvey Breverman at The University of Buffalo.

Despite similar goals, each of the four artists represents a different approach to intaglio printmaking. Bruce Muirhead is a self-defined painter/print-maker in the romantic mold. William Salzillo's new prints reference historical styles. Amy Georgia Buchholz's recent dry points, based on nature subjects, reference the aesthetic philosophy of the Etching Revival. And Jake Muirhead has participated in numerous national and international print competitions. He is currently Associate in Charge of Etching at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Maryland in addition to teaching drawing at Montgomery College and printmaking at the Washington Waldorf School.

Dexter Benedict is a sculptor and the owner/operator of the Fire Works Foundry and sculpture studio in Yates County, New York. He is known for a number of commissions ranging from small commemorative awards to monumental bronze portrait figures.

Donald S. Sottile of Penn Yan, NY, is an accomplished sculptor working in both bronze and wood.

Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th Century Superstar
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Local artist and designer Jeffrey Mayer will present a post-modern installation of 20th century fashion design inspired by the 18th century fashion sense of Marie Antoinette. Although Marie Antoinette did not really create a style that was personally unique, what she did for fashion in the 1770s was to solidify, refine and intensify the rococo style created by her grandfather-in-law, Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who died in 1764, six years before the 14-year-old Princess even arrived from Austria. Through the exhibition and a publication to be released in the fall, Mayer will be reinterpreting and discussing Marie Antoinette's key concepts of Fantasy, Luxury, and Exoticism.

Marie Antoinette was originally displayed in 2007 in a small space in Syracuse University's Fashion Design Department where Mayer has been Associate Professor of Fashion History and Design since 1992. For the Everson's installation, Mayer has expanded the visual experience to include more than 40 garments displayed on vintage mannequins, an eclectic collection of contemporary fashion accessories, an interactive audio component, and many unique, custom-designed and hand-made objects.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

Warhol Presents highlights the early commercial career of Andy Warhol, whose whimsical drawings from the 1950s created fantasies that marketed fashion and glamour through evocation. Warhol's penchant for combining art and advertisement quickly made him one of the most well known illustrators of women's fashion in New York. His talen' was sought out by fashion publication giants, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar; and women's footwear designer and retailer, I. Miller Shoe Company.

The exhibition presents 18 of Warhol's rarely seen shoe illustrations including Fantasy Shoes (ca. 1956), a whimsical and humorous take on women's footwear design. Exhibited also are drawings of women's accessories and fashion figures, including Female Fashion Figure (1950s); a vibrant depiction of a chic model alongside an equally stylish car.

Warhol's unique well-wrought line also translated to commissions of large-scale window displays for New York stores, including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's. One example of the artist's window displays is featured in this exhibition in the illustrated reproduction, Miss Dior (1950s); and a 1997 3-dimensional re-creation of Warhol's 1957 Bonwit Teller Window Display, which includes glass perfume bottles and colorful reproduction of a window display screen. Warhol's early drawings and interest in art, identity, and consumerism informed his later pop-icon status, when product and identity literally became his art, and was used to fuel his experimental factory era films.

This exhibition is curated by Natalie Sanderson, Curator of Education at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. The original exhibition, Andy Warhol Presents, was first exhibited at the University Art Museum in 2007.

Dreams of Promise and Peril
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The role that artists play as cultural barometers always seems to be heightened in times of change and uncertainty. Although they employ different approaches, from timely reportage to futuristic illusions, all of the artists in the exhibition explore the terrain where hopes and dreams collide. By making visible the complex emotions we all sometimes experience the artists in this exhibition ask us to deeply consider the promise and peril that exists both in the fantasies we create and the realities we deny.

All of the work in this exhibition was borrowed from the JGS, Inc. collection, a non-profit photography organization based in New York City. JGS and Syracuse University have entered into an agreement to collaborate on traveling exhibitions, research, publications, and other projects utilizing work from the JGS collection that includes over 8,000 photographs spanning the history of the medium. This exhibition is an example of that collaboration and at the conclusion of the exhibition SUArt Galleries will create traveling solo exhibitions by each of the four artists.

Combat Paper
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Combat Paper" is a collaborative project initiated by Drew Matott and Drew Cameron along with members of the Iraq Veterans Against the War. Utilizing uniforms worn in combat in Iraq, veterans cut, cook, beat and form sheets of paper out of their uniforms. In this way, veterans are able to use the transformation processes of papermaking to reclaim their uniform as art and begin to reconcile their experiences as a soldier in Iraq.

The Combat Paper project is an art therapy that utilizes paper as its medium and has been generating hope and inspiration for war veterans all across the country. The project has a positive impact on veterans, serves as a visceral statement of the long lasting effects of combat and acts as a catalyst for community discussion and activism.

In Fine Fettle
Orange Line Gallery

Price: Free
Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

"In Fine Fettle" (fettle, noun; Webster's) refers to a state of condition of fitness or order, state of mind. The themes discussed in this show vary widely: government and environmental issues, dreams of becoming a rock star, appreciation of the natural beauty around us. The pieces go from moody to serious contemplation to plain fun.

New to the OL are artists Brandon Hall, mixed media/collage, and Chris Luchsinger, acrylic and spraypaint on canvas. New works relevant to the theme include pieces from the ongoing collection of Orange Line artists: David McKenney, Debra Parry Trichilo, Dustin Angell, Father Andrew Szebenyi, Jace Collins, Kevin Lucas, Meg Gentile, Melissa Tiffany, Mick Mather and Spencer Baker.

Opening Reception: Pine Nuts
Redhouse

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

Artist Lasse Lau will be present at the opening of "Pine Nuts" and will lead an informal Artist Talk at 7:00 pm.

16mm film installation by Lasse Lau, 20 min., 2008; Sound Editor, Pejk Malinovski; Music by Raed El-Khazen

Lasse Lau's latest film "Pine Nuts" examines the political and social relevance of Horsh Beirut Park (also known as Horch al-Sanawbar or Forêt des Pins). The film deals with the interesting story of this unusual park, as told by the immigrants of the Lebanese Disapora. At around 70 acres, Horsh Beirut is the largest of the few city parks that exist in Beirut. It used to be a landscaped pine tree forest that protected the city from sand and dust storms. The history of the planted forest can be dated back to the time of the Crusades, Emir Fakhreddean al-Ma'ani II, and the Ottomans. Horsh Beirut first became a defined park during the expanding urbanization of Beirut during the 1950s and 60s. Characterized by its triangular shape, the park is located at the edge of the city center and now divides the city from its surrounding suburbs. Today, there are three religious neighborhoods bordering the park: Shia, Sunnis, and Christians. During the civil war the park became part of the Green Line that separated the Christians from the Muslims. Horsh Beirut was rebuilt and re-landscaped in the mid-1990s, which included the planting of hundreds of new pine trees and was sponsored by Ile-de-France. Nearly 20 years after the end of the civil strife, the park has still not officially reopened to the general public. This places the park in an unclear position, creating an unofficial boundary point rather than a site for democratic socialization. The reconciliation between the park's triangulated religious ideologies has not been satisfactory resolved. As we will see in "Pine Nuts," this is how Horsh Beirut became a park of the imagination.

Lasse Lau, born in 1974 in Denmark, is a social activist, visual artist and filmmaker based in Brussels and Copenhagen. He studied at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in New York and at the Funen Academy of Fine Art in Denmark. Lasse Lau has exhibited in Hamburger Bahnhof and Wolfsburg Kunstverein in Germany, Aarhus Art Museum and Brandts Klaedefabrik in Denmark, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Croatia, The Turin Biennial of Contemporary Art in Italy, the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, Smack Mellon Gallery and PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York.

Guttaperc
Community Folk Art Center
Caribbean Cinematic Film Festival

Price: $5 regular; $3 students/seniors; $2 children 12 and under
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Guttaperc, by award-winning Bajan producer/director Andrew Millington, is a semi-biographical drama which tells the story of a 10-year-old boy spending a holiday with his grandparents in a small Barbados village. The holiday is interrupted by news that the government plans to build a tourist resort on village land, a turn of events that leads the young boy to learn hard truths about society's contradictions.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director. Andrew Millington has worked on numerous industry and independent productions, serving as assistant director on Haile Germima's internationally acclaimed Sankofa. Born in Barbados, Millington has lived in the U.S. for 13 years and studied film at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Millington is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radio, Television and Film at Howard University.

A Conversation with James Conlon: The Story Behind the Recovered Voices Project
University Lectures

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

One of today's preeminent conductors, James Conlon has cultivated a vast symphonic, operatic, and choral repertoire. In an effort to raise public consciousness to the significance of works by composers whose lives and compositions were suppressed by the Nazi regime, he has devoted himself to extensive programming of this music in North America and Europe through the Recovered Voices Project.

Words and Music Songwriter Showcase
Folkus Project
Featuring Bob Halligan Jr. of Ceili Rain; with Christopher Ames and Peterson and Dennihy

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

Bob Halligan Jr. has written nearly 1,000 songs, 200 of them recorded and released internationally, having sold over 30 million units. Among the artists who've recorded his tunes are Cher, Kiss, Michael Bolton, Judas Priest, Kathy Mattea, Joan Jett, and Blue Oyster Cult. Films featuring his songs include Iron Eagle, Light of Day, Hard as Nails, and Wayne's World. Halligan has produced albums on major and indie labels, and has sung on recordings with Billy Joel, Michael McDonald, Darlene Love, and others. Halligan's current group, the Celtic pop-rock band Ceili Rain, has won 10 Unity Awards and tours internationally.

Christopher Ames was recognized as Artist of the Year and Songwriter of the Year at the 2006 KCCM Awards, held annually in the Kansas City area. Now based in Central New York, Ames has five CDs on the Remnant Music Group label. His most recent CD, Everyday with You, includes the single "Champion," co-written with Bob Halligan Jr.

Jon Peterson and Donna Dennihy have been performing their original songs around central New York for the past ten years. They just released their second CD, Getting Warmer.

Host Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers is a grand prize winner in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest. In addition to performing his own music, he is a contributor to NPR's All Things Considered, author of Rock Troubadours and The Complete Singer-Songwriter, and founding editor of Acoustic Guitar magazine.

Montana Smith and the Curse of the Golden Crocodile
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive mystery/comedy.

Don't Look Back: Stories from the Salt City
Syracuse Stage
Ping Chong, director

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

World Premiere. A powerful exploration of the changing face of Syracuse through an interview-based theatre work, Don't Look Back presents the first-hand narratives of citizens of Syracuse -- both recent arrivals and long-standing residents -- who are in some way living outside the dominant culture. Created by theatrical innovator Ping Chong and constructed as a chamber piece of storytelling, the performance features real people telling their personal experiences of creating cultural identity out of rich and complex histories. Ping Chong continues the compelling work he has done throughout the United States exploring the divergent lives that make up our communities. These stories will carry us around the globe and bring us home with a more complete understanding of how the world out there is the world right here.

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Friday, October 24, 2008

Pine Nuts
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

16mm film installation by Lasse Lau, 20 min., 2008; Sound Editor, Pejk Malinovski; Music by Raed El-Khazen

Lasse Lau's latest film "Pine Nuts" examines the political and social relevance of Horsh Beirut Park (also known as Horch al-Sanawbar or Forêt des Pins). The film deals with the interesting story of this unusual park, as told by the immigrants of the Lebanese Disapora. At around 70 acres, Horsh Beirut is the largest of the few city parks that exist in Beirut. It used to be a landscaped pine tree forest that protected the city from sand and dust storms. The history of the planted forest can be dated back to the time of the Crusades, Emir Fakhreddean al-Ma'ani II, and the Ottomans. Horsh Beirut first became a defined park during the expanding urbanization of Beirut during the 1950s and 60s. Characterized by its triangular shape, the park is located at the edge of the city center and now divides the city from its surrounding suburbs. Today, there are three religious neighborhoods bordering the park: Shia, Sunnis, and Christians. During the civil war the park became part of the Green Line that separated the Christians from the Muslims. Horsh Beirut was rebuilt and re-landscaped in the mid-1990s, which included the planting of hundreds of new pine trees and was sponsored by Ile-de-France. Nearly 20 years after the end of the civil strife, the park has still not officially reopened to the general public. This places the park in an unclear position, creating an unofficial boundary point rather than a site for democratic socialization. The reconciliation between the park's triangulated religious ideologies has not been satisfactory resolved. As we will see in "Pine Nuts," this is how Horsh Beirut became a park of the imagination.

Lasse Lau, born in 1974 in Denmark, is a social activist, visual artist and filmmaker based in Brussels and Copenhagen. He studied at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in New York and at the Funen Academy of Fine Art in Denmark. Lasse Lau has exhibited in Hamburger Bahnhof and Wolfsburg Kunstverein in Germany, Aarhus Art Museum and Brandts Klaedefabrik in Denmark, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Croatia, The Turin Biennial of Contemporary Art in Italy, the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, Smack Mellon Gallery and PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York.

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

They are testaments to the impact of terrorism: sculptures portraying mothers going back to the exact moment they learned their child died in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some are screaming; others are weeping. Some are curled into a ball; others have fists raised in anger. The 76 larger-than-life figures that comprise the Dark Elegy collection were created by Montauk, NY-based artist Suse Lowenstein, the mother of a Pan Am 103 student victim.

Four of these sculptures will be on display as part of the University's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy.

Migrating Memories, Migrating Arts: Photographic Retrospective
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition celebrates the formative cultural fermentation occurring in the present regional landscape of Central New York. These photographs document Folk Arts: Soul of Syracuse, a series of community-University collaborative programs hosted by the Department of Anthropology in SU's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs with Catholic Charities Refugee Resettlement Services, the Center for New Americans, St. Vincent de Paul Church, and Tabernacle Baptist Church in 2007 and 2008. This exhibit is part of the 2008 Syracuse Symposium: Migration.

Paintings by DeLoss McGraw on Poems by W.D. Snodgrass
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.D. Snodgrass and internationally acclaimed artist DeLoss McGraw have collaborated for over 30 years. This latest series of works, being shown for the first time at the YMCA's gallerY, consists of paintings created by Mr. McGraw directly on pages torn from Snodgrass' acclaimed poetry collection Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems. The end product is an extraordinary exhibit that adds an evocative dimension to a poetic achievement that stands among the best of the late 20th century.

DeLoss McGraw's work has been exhibited around the globe, and is collected by such eminent institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, and many universities. His illustrated version of Alice in Wonderland won the Illustrator's Society Book of the Year Award for 2002. W.D. Snodgrass is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, translation, and criticism, including Heart's Needle, which was awarded the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and De/Compositions, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.

Gallery Exhibition: Matt Moyer
Onondaga Community College

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

Photojournalist Matt Moyer has worked on assignment for publication such as The New York Times, The Guardian, and National Geographic magazine. For more than 15 years, he has been committed to telling stories that put a human face on the day's news.

Visual Journals: Recent Works by SUNY Oswego Faculty
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Art exhibition featuring recent work by SUNY Oswego faculty members Amy Bartell, Cynthia Clabough, Paul Pearce, Cara Brewer Thompson.

Mapping Linguistics, Revisited: Works by Kelly Roe
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Kelly Roe's mixed media work will be on display. A professor in the Graphic Design Program at SUNY Oswego, Roe has a background in graphic design, bookmaking and printmaking and sees herself as an anthropologist, artist, editor and scribe. The Mapping Linguistics exhibition explores relationships in linguistics, psychology and child development.

Think Tech Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Art with a "techie" theme by Anna Soltyk, Ben Applebaum, Bob Gates, Derek Chalfant, Elizabeth Chalfant, Elizabeth Groat, Delores Herringshaw, Jennifer Jeffery, Jerry Russell, Maria Aridgides, Saba Khan, Sharon Bottle Souva, Smita Rane; plus posters from the Syracuse Poster Project.

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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."

Art Not Apathy: Works of Barbara Higgens
Westcott Community Center

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

March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
Community Folk Art Center

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

Original illustrated works by London Ladd

Founding Visionaries: Herb Williams and Jack White
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Community Folk Art Center is proud to exhibit this unique collection of sculptures, drawings and prints by two CFAC founders, Herb Williams and Jack White.

Celebrating Herb Williams: His Life, His Work, and His Art: As CFAC founding director, Herb Williams (1938-1999) devoted his life to promoting the work of diverse artists and ensuring that a large audience could experience their work. His dedication to the collective vision of the founding members kept Williams busy and while he avidly supported and promoted other artist he rarely took time exhibit his own work. This will be the first large-scale exhibition of Williams work in Upstate New York. Though he identified himself primarily as a sculptor, Williams worked across various artistic mediums; manipulating wood, plaster and bronze into figurative and abstract forms. His lithographs and etchings not only indicate the measure of his artistic skill and creativity but also serve as a chronicle of his literal, figurative journey as an artist.

Jack White: An Ancestral Image is a collection of the works by CFAC co-founder and artist Jack White. Since the late 1960s, Jack White's mixed media abstract work, defined as "abstract impressionism," has been inspired by African art forms and symbolism. The works included in the Ancestral Image exhibition are outside the boundaries of traditional painting or sculpture. They contain elements of the spiritual, the artistic, and the utilitarian that define African art.

How the Barge Canal Energized New York
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Exhibit includes photographs of hydroelectric generating facilities along the Barge Canal system.

Works of Jim Ridlon
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

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.

Five Years at Delavan
Delavan Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features prints by the Atelier Four (Amy Georgia Buchholz, Bruce Muirhead, Jake Muirhead and Bill Salzillo) as well as sculptures by Dexter Benedict and Donald S. Sottile.

The Atelier Four is a group of artists associated with Hamilton College working together in the collaborative workshop spirit often found among printmakers. Linked philosophically to the Arts and Crafts Movement that has deep roots in Upstate New York, this group is committed to keeping the tradition of studio printmaking alive while promoting its contemporary relevance. The selection of intaglio prints exhibited here compares and contrasts the working methods of the four whose teacher/student relationships developed into life-long friendships that have shaped their art and careers. From a historical perspective the selection also references the important influences of the upstate New York printmaking laboratories centered around Robert Marx at Syracuse University and Harvey Breverman at The University of Buffalo.

Despite similar goals, each of the four artists represents a different approach to intaglio printmaking. Bruce Muirhead is a self-defined painter/print-maker in the romantic mold. William Salzillo's new prints reference historical styles. Amy Georgia Buchholz's recent dry points, based on nature subjects, reference the aesthetic philosophy of the Etching Revival. And Jake Muirhead has participated in numerous national and international print competitions. He is currently Associate in Charge of Etching at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Maryland in addition to teaching drawing at Montgomery College and printmaking at the Washington Waldorf School.

Dexter Benedict is a sculptor and the owner/operator of the Fire Works Foundry and sculpture studio in Yates County, New York. He is known for a number of commissions ranging from small commemorative awards to monumental bronze portrait figures.

Donald S. Sottile of Penn Yan, NY, is an accomplished sculptor working in both bronze and wood.

Wild Card Exhibit: Political Cartoons by Joe Glisson
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Joe Glisson is a political cartoonist with a new book being released titled Seems Like Old Times. The book is a political cartoon retrospective of work published in the Syracuse New Times, featuring major events and politicians of the past 25 years, including local topics and persons.

Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th Century Superstar
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Local artist and designer Jeffrey Mayer will present a post-modern installation of 20th century fashion design inspired by the 18th century fashion sense of Marie Antoinette. Although Marie Antoinette did not really create a style that was personally unique, what she did for fashion in the 1770s was to solidify, refine and intensify the rococo style created by her grandfather-in-law, Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who died in 1764, six years before the 14-year-old Princess even arrived from Austria. Through the exhibition and a publication to be released in the fall, Mayer will be reinterpreting and discussing Marie Antoinette's key concepts of Fantasy, Luxury, and Exoticism.

Marie Antoinette was originally displayed in 2007 in a small space in Syracuse University's Fashion Design Department where Mayer has been Associate Professor of Fashion History and Design since 1992. For the Everson's installation, Mayer has expanded the visual experience to include more than 40 garments displayed on vintage mannequins, an eclectic collection of contemporary fashion accessories, an interactive audio component, and many unique, custom-designed and hand-made objects.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

Warhol Presents highlights the early commercial career of Andy Warhol, whose whimsical drawings from the 1950s created fantasies that marketed fashion and glamour through evocation. Warhol's penchant for combining art and advertisement quickly made him one of the most well known illustrators of women's fashion in New York. His talen' was sought out by fashion publication giants, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar; and women's footwear designer and retailer, I. Miller Shoe Company.

The exhibition presents 18 of Warhol's rarely seen shoe illustrations including Fantasy Shoes (ca. 1956), a whimsical and humorous take on women's footwear design. Exhibited also are drawings of women's accessories and fashion figures, including Female Fashion Figure (1950s); a vibrant depiction of a chic model alongside an equally stylish car.

Warhol's unique well-wrought line also translated to commissions of large-scale window displays for New York stores, including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's. One example of the artist's window displays is featured in this exhibition in the illustrated reproduction, Miss Dior (1950s); and a 1997 3-dimensional re-creation of Warhol's 1957 Bonwit Teller Window Display, which includes glass perfume bottles and colorful reproduction of a window display screen. Warhol's early drawings and interest in art, identity, and consumerism informed his later pop-icon status, when product and identity literally became his art, and was used to fuel his experimental factory era films.

This exhibition is curated by Natalie Sanderson, Curator of Education at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. The original exhibition, Andy Warhol Presents, was first exhibited at the University Art Museum in 2007.

Dreams of Promise and Peril
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The role that artists play as cultural barometers always seems to be heightened in times of change and uncertainty. Although they employ different approaches, from timely reportage to futuristic illusions, all of the artists in the exhibition explore the terrain where hopes and dreams collide. By making visible the complex emotions we all sometimes experience the artists in this exhibition ask us to deeply consider the promise and peril that exists both in the fantasies we create and the realities we deny.

All of the work in this exhibition was borrowed from the JGS, Inc. collection, a non-profit photography organization based in New York City. JGS and Syracuse University have entered into an agreement to collaborate on traveling exhibitions, research, publications, and other projects utilizing work from the JGS collection that includes over 8,000 photographs spanning the history of the medium. This exhibition is an example of that collaboration and at the conclusion of the exhibition SUArt Galleries will create traveling solo exhibitions by each of the four artists.

Combat Paper
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Combat Paper" is a collaborative project initiated by Drew Matott and Drew Cameron along with members of the Iraq Veterans Against the War. Utilizing uniforms worn in combat in Iraq, veterans cut, cook, beat and form sheets of paper out of their uniforms. In this way, veterans are able to use the transformation processes of papermaking to reclaim their uniform as art and begin to reconcile their experiences as a soldier in Iraq.

The Combat Paper project is an art therapy that utilizes paper as its medium and has been generating hope and inspiration for war veterans all across the country. The project has a positive impact on veterans, serves as a visceral statement of the long lasting effects of combat and acts as a catalyst for community discussion and activism.

In Fine Fettle
Orange Line Gallery

Price: Free
Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

"In Fine Fettle" (fettle, noun; Webster's) refers to a state of condition of fitness or order, state of mind. The themes discussed in this show vary widely: government and environmental issues, dreams of becoming a rock star, appreciation of the natural beauty around us. The pieces go from moody to serious contemplation to plain fun.

New to the OL are artists Brandon Hall, mixed media/collage, and Chris Luchsinger, acrylic and spraypaint on canvas. New works relevant to the theme include pieces from the ongoing collection of Orange Line artists: David McKenney, Debra Parry Trichilo, Dustin Angell, Father Andrew Szebenyi, Jace Collins, Kevin Lucas, Meg Gentile, Melissa Tiffany, Mick Mather and Spencer Baker.

Open-Mic Feminist Performance Party
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

Gwendolyn Pough, feminist scholar, hip-hop activist, poet and novelist, will headline the Open-Mic Feminist Performance Party. Feminist performers are invited to attend and participate in the entertainment. The event is being held in conjunction with "Feminist Rhetorics for Social Justice," the Fall 2008 Ray Smith Symposium presented by Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences Humanities Council and the Writing Program. Parking is available on site.

The Open-Mic master of ceremonies will be community poet Georgia Popoff, author of Coaxing Nectar from Longing (Hale Mary Press, Syracuse 1997). A published poet with a specialty in arts in education, professional development for K-12 classroom teachers of all disciplines, as well as active teaching with students, Popoff is also an editor, part-time college lecturer, and spoken word producer. In addition to the open-mic performances, the evening event will feature an exhibition of feminist art produced by students enrolled in SU's Master's Program in Fine Arts and local Syracuse artists and a brief viewing of a video produced by the Women's Herstory Peace Encampment.

Zora's Dream
Community Folk Art Center
Caribbean Cinematic Film Festival

Price: $5 regular; $3 students/seniors; $2 children 12 and under
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Award-winning Bajan producer/director Andrew Millington will treat attendees to a world premiere screening of his new drama Zora's Dream. This is a powerful and poignant story of a grandfather's visit to South Carolina's sea islands. This visit triggers the grandfather's traumatic memory of the lynching of his father and teaches his granddaughter the importance of fighting injustice.

Reflecting Poe
Redhouse

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

A mixed media extravaganza inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Reflecting Poe is a modern orchestrated work composed, conceived and performed by Emmett Van Slyke and his cast of dancers and actors. A tribute to one of America's greatest writers of fiction, this performance features readings of some of Poe's masterworks with lighting, video projection, 7.1 Surround Sound, and musical accompaniment performed live in varying styles. The result is an electrifying experience that pulls the audience into the world of the macabre. Appropriate for all ages.

Featured artists include Emmett Van Slyke, Laura Austin, Jamie Adams, Aamda Benoit, Erin Reid.

The Magic Flute
Syracuse Opera
with Open Hand Theater

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

A prince, Tamino, is sent off to rescue the queen's daughter, Pamina, held by a high priest at the temple of Isis and Osiris. To ensure his safe passage, Tamino receives a magic flute. Sung in English with projected English titles.

Dracula
Appleseed Productions
Patricia Elise Catchouny, director

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

Lucy Seward, whose father is the doctor in charge of an English sanatorium, has been attacked by some mysterious illness. Dr. Van Helsing, a specialist, believes that the girl is the victim of a vampire, a sort of ghost that goes about at night sucking blood from its victims. The vampire is at last found to be a certain Count Dracula, whose ghost is at last laid to rest in a striking and novel manner. One of the great mystery thrillers and generally considered among the best of its kind. Written by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, from Bram Stoker's novel.

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An Ideal Husband
LeMoyne College
Boot and Buskin

Price: $12 general public, $10 seniors, $4 students and LeMoyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This social satire uses political intrigue and clever wit, introducing us to Sir Robert and Lady Chiltern, a respected couple whose rise in political and social power, and indeed their marriage, are threatened by an incriminating letter exposing an early moral failure.

As husband and wife seek counsel to thwart the impending threat, audience and characters alike must ask: How much should a person be judged by the mistakes of his past? This tale of love and betrayal, though over a hundred years old, contains themes as relevant today as ever.

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Side by Side by Sondheim
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts
Shannon Tompkins, director

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

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Don't Look Back: Stories from the Salt City
Syracuse Stage
Ping Chong, director

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

World Premiere. A powerful exploration of the changing face of Syracuse through an interview-based theatre work, Don't Look Back presents the first-hand narratives of citizens of Syracuse -- both recent arrivals and long-standing residents -- who are in some way living outside the dominant culture. Created by theatrical innovator Ping Chong and constructed as a chamber piece of storytelling, the performance features real people telling their personal experiences of creating cultural identity out of rich and complex histories. Ping Chong continues the compelling work he has done throughout the United States exploring the divergent lives that make up our communities. These stories will carry us around the globe and bring us home with a more complete understanding of how the world out there is the world right here.

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Saturday, October 25, 2008

Pine Nuts
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

16mm film installation by Lasse Lau, 20 min., 2008; Sound Editor, Pejk Malinovski; Music by Raed El-Khazen

Lasse Lau's latest film "Pine Nuts" examines the political and social relevance of Horsh Beirut Park (also known as Horch al-Sanawbar or Forêt des Pins). The film deals with the interesting story of this unusual park, as told by the immigrants of the Lebanese Disapora. At around 70 acres, Horsh Beirut is the largest of the few city parks that exist in Beirut. It used to be a landscaped pine tree forest that protected the city from sand and dust storms. The history of the planted forest can be dated back to the time of the Crusades, Emir Fakhreddean al-Ma'ani II, and the Ottomans. Horsh Beirut first became a defined park during the expanding urbanization of Beirut during the 1950s and 60s. Characterized by its triangular shape, the park is located at the edge of the city center and now divides the city from its surrounding suburbs. Today, there are three religious neighborhoods bordering the park: Shia, Sunnis, and Christians. During the civil war the park became part of the Green Line that separated the Christians from the Muslims. Horsh Beirut was rebuilt and re-landscaped in the mid-1990s, which included the planting of hundreds of new pine trees and was sponsored by Ile-de-France. Nearly 20 years after the end of the civil strife, the park has still not officially reopened to the general public. This places the park in an unclear position, creating an unofficial boundary point rather than a site for democratic socialization. The reconciliation between the park's triangulated religious ideologies has not been satisfactory resolved. As we will see in "Pine Nuts," this is how Horsh Beirut became a park of the imagination.

Lasse Lau, born in 1974 in Denmark, is a social activist, visual artist and filmmaker based in Brussels and Copenhagen. He studied at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in New York and at the Funen Academy of Fine Art in Denmark. Lasse Lau has exhibited in Hamburger Bahnhof and Wolfsburg Kunstverein in Germany, Aarhus Art Museum and Brandts Klaedefabrik in Denmark, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Croatia, The Turin Biennial of Contemporary Art in Italy, the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, Smack Mellon Gallery and PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York.

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

They are testaments to the impact of terrorism: sculptures portraying mothers going back to the exact moment they learned their child died in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some are screaming; others are weeping. Some are curled into a ball; others have fists raised in anger. The 76 larger-than-life figures that comprise the Dark Elegy collection were created by Montauk, NY-based artist Suse Lowenstein, the mother of a Pan Am 103 student victim.

Four of these sculptures will be on display as part of the University's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy.

Five Years at Delavan
Delavan Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features prints by the Atelier Four (Amy Georgia Buchholz, Bruce Muirhead, Jake Muirhead and Bill Salzillo) as well as sculptures by Dexter Benedict and Donald S. Sottile.

The Atelier Four is a group of artists associated with Hamilton College working together in the collaborative workshop spirit often found among printmakers. Linked philosophically to the Arts and Crafts Movement that has deep roots in Upstate New York, this group is committed to keeping the tradition of studio printmaking alive while promoting its contemporary relevance. The selection of intaglio prints exhibited here compares and contrasts the working methods of the four whose teacher/student relationships developed into life-long friendships that have shaped their art and careers. From a historical perspective the selection also references the important influences of the upstate New York printmaking laboratories centered around Robert Marx at Syracuse University and Harvey Breverman at The University of Buffalo.

Despite similar goals, each of the four artists represents a different approach to intaglio printmaking. Bruce Muirhead is a self-defined painter/print-maker in the romantic mold. William Salzillo's new prints reference historical styles. Amy Georgia Buchholz's recent dry points, based on nature subjects, reference the aesthetic philosophy of the Etching Revival. And Jake Muirhead has participated in numerous national and international print competitions. He is currently Associate in Charge of Etching at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Maryland in addition to teaching drawing at Montgomery College and printmaking at the Washington Waldorf School.

Dexter Benedict is a sculptor and the owner/operator of the Fire Works Foundry and sculpture studio in Yates County, New York. He is known for a number of commissions ranging from small commemorative awards to monumental bronze portrait figures.

Donald S. Sottile of Penn Yan, NY, is an accomplished sculptor working in both bronze and wood.

Wild Card Exhibit: Political Cartoons by Joe Glisson
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Joe Glisson is a political cartoonist with a new book being released titled Seems Like Old Times. The book is a political cartoon retrospective of work published in the Syracuse New Times, featuring major events and politicians of the past 25 years, including local topics and persons.

How the Barge Canal Energized New York
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Exhibit includes photographs of hydroelectric generating facilities along the Barge Canal system.

Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th Century Superstar
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Local artist and designer Jeffrey Mayer will present a post-modern installation of 20th century fashion design inspired by the 18th century fashion sense of Marie Antoinette. Although Marie Antoinette did not really create a style that was personally unique, what she did for fashion in the 1770s was to solidify, refine and intensify the rococo style created by her grandfather-in-law, Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who died in 1764, six years before the 14-year-old Princess even arrived from Austria. Through the exhibition and a publication to be released in the fall, Mayer will be reinterpreting and discussing Marie Antoinette's key concepts of Fantasy, Luxury, and Exoticism.

Marie Antoinette was originally displayed in 2007 in a small space in Syracuse University's Fashion Design Department where Mayer has been Associate Professor of Fashion History and Design since 1992. For the Everson's installation, Mayer has expanded the visual experience to include more than 40 garments displayed on vintage mannequins, an eclectic collection of contemporary fashion accessories, an interactive audio component, and many unique, custom-designed and hand-made objects.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

Warhol Presents highlights the early commercial career of Andy Warhol, whose whimsical drawings from the 1950s created fantasies that marketed fashion and glamour through evocation. Warhol's penchant for combining art and advertisement quickly made him one of the most well known illustrators of women's fashion in New York. His talen' was sought out by fashion publication giants, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar; and women's footwear designer and retailer, I. Miller Shoe Company.

The exhibition presents 18 of Warhol's rarely seen shoe illustrations including Fantasy Shoes (ca. 1956), a whimsical and humorous take on women's footwear design. Exhibited also are drawings of women's accessories and fashion figures, including Female Fashion Figure (1950s); a vibrant depiction of a chic model alongside an equally stylish car.

Warhol's unique well-wrought line also translated to commissions of large-scale window displays for New York stores, including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's. One example of the artist's window displays is featured in this exhibition in the illustrated reproduction, Miss Dior (1950s); and a 1997 3-dimensional re-creation of Warhol's 1957 Bonwit Teller Window Display, which includes glass perfume bottles and colorful reproduction of a window display screen. Warhol's early drawings and interest in art, identity, and consumerism informed his later pop-icon status, when product and identity literally became his art, and was used to fuel his experimental factory era films.

This exhibition is curated by Natalie Sanderson, Curator of Education at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. The original exhibition, Andy Warhol Presents, was first exhibited at the University Art Museum in 2007.

Works of Jim Ridlon
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Founding Visionaries: Herb Williams and Jack White
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Community Folk Art Center is proud to exhibit this unique collection of sculptures, drawings and prints by two CFAC founders, Herb Williams and Jack White.

Celebrating Herb Williams: His Life, His Work, and His Art: As CFAC founding director, Herb Williams (1938-1999) devoted his life to promoting the work of diverse artists and ensuring that a large audience could experience their work. His dedication to the collective vision of the founding members kept Williams busy and while he avidly supported and promoted other artist he rarely took time exhibit his own work. This will be the first large-scale exhibition of Williams work in Upstate New York. Though he identified himself primarily as a sculptor, Williams worked across various artistic mediums; manipulating wood, plaster and bronze into figurative and abstract forms. His lithographs and etchings not only indicate the measure of his artistic skill and creativity but also serve as a chronicle of his literal, figurative journey as an artist.

Jack White: An Ancestral Image is a collection of the works by CFAC co-founder and artist Jack White. Since the late 1960s, Jack White's mixed media abstract work, defined as "abstract impressionism," has been inspired by African art forms and symbolism. The works included in the Ancestral Image exhibition are outside the boundaries of traditional painting or sculpture. They contain elements of the spiritual, the artistic, and the utilitarian that define African art.

March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
Community Folk Art Center

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

Original illustrated works by London Ladd

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.

Migrating Memories, Migrating Arts: Photographic Retrospective
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition celebrates the formative cultural fermentation occurring in the present regional landscape of Central New York. These photographs document Folk Arts: Soul of Syracuse, a series of community-University collaborative programs hosted by the Department of Anthropology in SU's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs with Catholic Charities Refugee Resettlement Services, the Center for New Americans, St. Vincent de Paul Church, and Tabernacle Baptist Church in 2007 and 2008. This exhibit is part of the 2008 Syracuse Symposium: Migration.

Combat Paper
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"Combat Paper" is a collaborative project initiated by Drew Matott and Drew Cameron along with members of the Iraq Veterans Against the War. Utilizing uniforms worn in combat in Iraq, veterans cut, cook, beat and form sheets of paper out of their uniforms. In this way, veterans are able to use the transformation processes of papermaking to reclaim their uniform as art and begin to reconcile their experiences as a soldier in Iraq.

The Combat Paper project is an art therapy that utilizes paper as its medium and has been generating hope and inspiration for war veterans all across the country. The project has a positive impact on veterans, serves as a visceral statement of the long lasting effects of combat and acts as a catalyst for community discussion and activism.

In Fine Fettle
Orange Line Gallery

Price: Free
Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

"In Fine Fettle" (fettle, noun; Webster's) refers to a state of condition of fitness or order, state of mind. The themes discussed in this show vary widely: government and environmental issues, dreams of becoming a rock star, appreciation of the natural beauty around us. The pieces go from moody to serious contemplation to plain fun.

New to the OL are artists Brandon Hall, mixed media/collage, and Chris Luchsinger, acrylic and spraypaint on canvas. New works relevant to the theme include pieces from the ongoing collection of Orange Line artists: David McKenney, Debra Parry Trichilo, Dustin Angell, Father Andrew Szebenyi, Jace Collins, Kevin Lucas, Meg Gentile, Melissa Tiffany, Mick Mather and Spencer Baker.

Dreams of Promise and Peril
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The role that artists play as cultural barometers always seems to be heightened in times of change and uncertainty. Although they employ different approaches, from timely reportage to futuristic illusions, all of the artists in the exhibition explore the terrain where hopes and dreams collide. By making visible the complex emotions we all sometimes experience the artists in this exhibition ask us to deeply consider the promise and peril that exists both in the fantasies we create and the realities we deny.

All of the work in this exhibition was borrowed from the JGS, Inc. collection, a non-profit photography organization based in New York City. JGS and Syracuse University have entered into an agreement to collaborate on traveling exhibitions, research, publications, and other projects utilizing work from the JGS collection that includes over 8,000 photographs spanning the history of the medium. This exhibition is an example of that collaboration and at the conclusion of the exhibition SUArt Galleries will create traveling solo exhibitions by each of the four artists.

Folk Arts: Soul of Syracuse
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The program will include traditional dances by DiDinga (Sudan), Liberian, Congolese, and Vietnamese community members, with ongoing demonstrations by Ukrainian, Vietnamese and Haudenosaunee traditional artists.

Free parking for visitors will be available in university lots. For more information, call Felicia Faye McMahon at 315-443-6231, ext. 1.

Animae Caribe
Community Folk Art Center
Caribbean Cinematic Film Festival

Price: $5 regular; $3 students/seniors; $2 children 12 and under
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Animae Caribe is a collection of family-friendly animated short films is sure to delight any young film fest adventurer.

Sistagod
Community Folk Art Center
Caribbean Cinematic Film Festival

Price: $5 regular; $3 students/seniors; $2 children 12 and under
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Sistagod, by director Yao Ramesar, is the first feature of a trilogy that tells the story of the coming of a black female messiah in the future, during a period known as the Apocalypso -- a global holocaust that she alone survives.

Yao Ramesar is an award-winning Caribbean filmmaker, born in Tamale, Ghana, West Africa. Ramesar holds a B.A. in Film Production and M.F.A. in Film Directing from Howard University, where he studied under African American filmmakers Haile Gerima and Abiyi Ford. He lectures in TV/Film at the Festival Centre for the Creative Arts, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad.

Gallery Talk
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Sculptors Dexter Benedict and Donald S. Sottile will talk about working with wood and bronze castings.

Dennis Mackrel, drummer
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $19.50, $24.50, $27.50 ($5 student discount)
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The 13th CNY Jazz Orchestra Concert Series opens with the orchestra's first guest drummer, Dennis Mackrel. Child prodigy on the drums at the age of three, a professional musician at 10, joining the Basie Band in his 23rd year at Joe Williams' recommendation, chosen by Mel Lewis as his successor in the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, winner of the National Endowment for the Arts Composers Grant, Dennis Mackrel is one of the most highly talented and respected musicians, composers and arrangers on the international scene today. His work has been recorded and performed on Grammy-winning recordings by the Count Basie Orchestra, the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band and the McCoy Tyner Big Band, for starters.

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Reflecting Poe
Redhouse

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

A mixed media extravaganza inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Reflecting Poe is a modern orchestrated work composed, conceived and performed by Emmett Van Slyke and his cast of dancers and actors. A tribute to one of America's greatest writers of fiction, this performance features readings of some of Poe's masterworks with lighting, video projection, 7.1 Surround Sound, and musical accompaniment performed live in varying styles. The result is an electrifying experience that pulls the audience into the world of the macabre. Appropriate for all ages.

Featured artists include Emmett Van Slyke, Laura Austin, Jamie Adams, Aamda Benoit, Erin Reid.

Autumn Children's Day at the Museum
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Children can enjoy listening to Erie Canal ghost stories and learn about life on the canal. Following the stories, children will decorate pumpkins in honor of Halloween and personalize their own Erie Canal-era toy. For more information, contact Rory Bergman, phone 315-471-0593.

Snow White
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive children's show -- help Snow White and the dwarfs foil the schemes of the Wicked Queen.

Don't Look Back: Stories from the Salt City
Syracuse Stage
Ping Chong, director

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

World Premiere. A powerful exploration of the changing face of Syracuse through an interview-based theatre work, Don't Look Back presents the first-hand narratives of citizens of Syracuse -- both recent arrivals and long-standing residents -- who are in some way living outside the dominant culture. Created by theatrical innovator Ping Chong and constructed as a chamber piece of storytelling, the performance features real people telling their personal experiences of creating cultural identity out of rich and complex histories. Ping Chong continues the compelling work he has done throughout the United States exploring the divergent lives that make up our communities. These stories will carry us around the globe and bring us home with a more complete understanding of how the world out there is the world right here.

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Dracula
Appleseed Productions
Patricia Elise Catchouny, director

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

Lucy Seward, whose father is the doctor in charge of an English sanatorium, has been attacked by some mysterious illness. Dr. Van Helsing, a specialist, believes that the girl is the victim of a vampire, a sort of ghost that goes about at night sucking blood from its victims. The vampire is at last found to be a certain Count Dracula, whose ghost is at last laid to rest in a striking and novel manner. One of the great mystery thrillers and generally considered among the best of its kind. Written by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, from Bram Stoker's novel.

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An Ideal Husband
LeMoyne College
Boot and Buskin

Price: $12 general public, $10 seniors, $4 students and LeMoyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

This social satire uses political intrigue and clever wit, introducing us to Sir Robert and Lady Chiltern, a respected couple whose rise in political and social power, and indeed their marriage, are threatened by an incriminating letter exposing an early moral failure.

As husband and wife seek counsel to thwart the impending threat, audience and characters alike must ask: How much should a person be judged by the mistakes of his past? This tale of love and betrayal, though over a hundred years old, contains themes as relevant today as ever.

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The Bird and the Two-Ton Weight

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

A staged reading of a play about life, death, and family, and how they intersect with the Pan Am 103 tragedy. Presented in conjunction with the Pan Am 103 20th anniversary commemoration.

Side by Side by Sondheim
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts
Shannon Tompkins, director

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

Read a review!

Don't Look Back: Stories from the Salt City
Syracuse Stage
Ping Chong, director

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

World Premiere. A powerful exploration of the changing face of Syracuse through an interview-based theatre work, Don't Look Back presents the first-hand narratives of citizens of Syracuse -- both recent arrivals and long-standing residents -- who are in some way living outside the dominant culture. Created by theatrical innovator Ping Chong and constructed as a chamber piece of storytelling, the performance features real people telling their personal experiences of creating cultural identity out of rich and complex histories. Ping Chong continues the compelling work he has done throughout the United States exploring the divergent lives that make up our communities. These stories will carry us around the globe and bring us home with a more complete understanding of how the world out there is the world right here.

Read a Review!

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

They are testaments to the impact of terrorism: sculptures portraying mothers going back to the exact moment they learned their child died in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland. Some are screaming; others are weeping. Some are curled into a ball; others have fists raised in anger. The 76 larger-than-life figures that comprise the Dark Elegy collection were created by Montauk, NY-based artist Suse Lowenstein, the mother of a Pan Am 103 student victim.

Four of these sculptures will be on display as part of the University's commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Pan Am 103 tragedy.

How the Barge Canal Energized New York
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Exhibit includes photographs of hydroelectric generating facilities along the Barge Canal system.

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.

Marie Antoinette: Styling the 18th Century Superstar
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Local artist and designer Jeffrey Mayer will present a post-modern installation of 20th century fashion design inspired by the 18th century fashion sense of Marie Antoinette. Although Marie Antoinette did not really create a style that was personally unique, what she did for fashion in the 1770s was to solidify, refine and intensify the rococo style created by her grandfather-in-law, Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who died in 1764, six years before the 14-year-old Princess even arrived from Austria. Through the exhibition and a publication to be released in the fall, Mayer will be reinterpreting and discussing Marie Antoinette's key concepts of Fantasy, Luxury, and Exoticism.

Marie Antoinette was originally displayed in 2007 in a small space in Syracuse University's Fashion Design Department where Mayer has been Associate Professor of Fashion History and Design since 1992. For the Everson's installation, Mayer has expanded the visual experience to include more than 40 garments displayed on vintage mannequins, an eclectic collection of contemporary fashion accessories, an interactive audio component, and many unique, custom-designed and hand-made objects.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

Warhol Presents highlights the early commercial career of Andy Warhol, whose whimsical drawings from the 1950s created fantasies that marketed fashion and glamour through evocation. Warhol's penchant for combining art and advertisement quickly made him one of the most well known illustrators of women's fashion in New York. His talen' was sought out by fashion publication giants, including Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar; and women's footwear designer and retailer, I. Miller Shoe Company.

The exhibition presents 18 of Warhol's rarely seen shoe illustrations including Fantasy Shoes (ca. 1956), a whimsical and humorous take on women's footwear design. Exhibited also are drawings of women's accessories and fashion figures, including Female Fashion Figure (1950s); a vibrant depiction of a chic model alongside an equally stylish car.

Warhol's unique well-wrought line also translated to commissions of large-scale window displays for New York stores, including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's. One example of the artist's window displays is featured in this exhibition in the illustrated reproduction, Miss Dior (1950s); and a 1997 3-dimensional re-creation of Warhol's 1957 Bonwit Teller Window Display, which includes glass perfume bottles and colorful reproduction of a window display screen. Warhol's early drawings and interest in art, identity, and consumerism informed his later pop-icon status, when product and identity literally became his art, and was used to fuel his experimental factory era films.

This exhibition is curated by Natalie Sanderson, Curator of Education at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. The original exhibition, Andy Warhol Presents, was first exhibited at the University Art Museum in 2007.

!Yo Soy Boricua, Pa'Que Tu Lo Sepas! (I'm Boriqua Just So You Know)
Community Folk Art Center
Caribbean Cinematic Film Festival

Price: $5 regular; $3 students/seniors; $2 children 12 and under
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Rosie Perez, in her directorial debut, explores the political history, social activism and national pride of Puerto Rican people. This labor of love takes her from New York to Miami and finally the island of Puerto Rico. Through the richness of the island's history, we discover its complex relationship with America. From sterilization programs in Puerto Rico to economic empowerment protests in New York, led by the Young Lords, Rosie, seamlessly weaves together interviews and narrative and creates a documentary that is both entertaining and educational.

Blue Skies Women's Chorus; 3 Medium and 1 Extra-Large Barbershop Quartet
Fayetteville Free Library

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

Reflecting Poe
Redhouse

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

A mixed media extravaganza inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Reflecting Poe is a modern orchestrated work composed, conceived and performed by Emmett Van Slyke and his cast of dancers and actors. A tribute to one of America's greatest writers of fiction, this performance features readings of some of Poe's masterworks with lighting, video projection, 7.1 Surround Sound, and musical accompaniment performed live in varying styles. The result is an electrifying experience that pulls the audience into the world of the macabre. Appropriate for all ages.

Featured artists include Emmett Van Slyke, Laura Austin, Jamie Adams, Aamda Benoit, Erin Reid.

A Massive Undertaking
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Robert Cowles, conductor

Price: $14 regular, $12 seniors, $5 children
Holy Cross Church
4112 E. Genesee St., Dewitt

The Hobart and William Smith Colleges Chorale joins SVE for this combined concert. The program will include mass movements by 20th-century composers such as Argento and Persichetti, culminating with the glorious Mass for Double Choir by Swiss composer Frank Martin. Pianist Kevin Moore will perform Finnish composer Einojuani Rautavaara's Sonata No. 2 (The Fire Sermon).

Abel Searor, organ; Liverpool Youth Voices; Tintinnabulation Bell Choir
Joyful Noise Concert Series

Price: Free. Donations accepted
Liverpool First United Methodist Church
604 Oswego St., Liverpool

A pre-concert artist talk, Joyful Noise Narrations, will be offered at 3:00 p.m. at Liverpool Public Library; refreshments served. For more information, phone 315-457-5180.

Syracuse Wurlitzer
Featuring John Ledwon, theater organ

Price: $15 adults, $2 children
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The Magic Flute
Syracuse Opera
with Open Hand Theater

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

A prince, Tamino, is sent off to rescue the queen's daughter, Pamina, held by a high priest at the temple of Isis and Osiris. To ensure his safe passage, Tamino receives a magic flute. Sung in English with projected English titles.

Three New Short Plays: Budget Cuts, Considering the Consequences of a Natural Disaster, and The Iranian Dream
Armory Square Playwrights

Price: $7 regular, $5 students/seniors
Manlius Pebble Hill School
5300 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

In the monologue Budget Cuts, Esther explains, to anyone who will listen, what the titular government policy meant to her and her friend. The author, Kit Wainer, will perform the solo piece.

Considering the Consequences of a Natural Disaster, the second short play written by Ms. Wainer, the question is posed: Suppose a natural disaster happened and no one was prepared?

The Iranian Dream, a short play by Mohammad Seraji, is a romance with touches of farce and Farsi and follows the experience of Fouroud Eshgiani after his orthodox Muslim mother visits him from Iran, bringing with her a blast of her Eastern culture and morals. A mixing of two worlds almost too different to exist together ensues. SALT award winning actress, Binaifer Dabu, will be featured as the mother.

Ithaca playwright Kit Wainer is a founding member of both PIPS (the), a feminist puppet troupe, and 3rd Floor Productions, a women's playwriting and producing company, both of which have produced many of her scripts.

Mohammad Seraji is currently a freshman at the University of Rochester. Iranian Dream was a semi-finalist in this year's Syracuse Stage's Young Playwrights' Festival. An actor who was featured in many local productions while a student at Manlius Pebble Hill, Mr. Seraji also directed a production of The Glass Menagerie at the Coville Theatre this past summer, and most recently performed in You Can't Take it With You with Rochester's Todd Theatre.

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

NOTE: Due to scheduling conflicts at the Redhouse, this month's program will be presented at Manlius Pebble Hill's Colville Theatre.

Dracula
Appleseed Productions
Patricia Elise Catchouny, director

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

Lucy Seward, whose father is the doctor in charge of an English sanatorium, has been attacked by some mysterious illness. Dr. Van Helsing, a specialist, believes that the girl is the victim of a vampire, a sort of ghost that goes about at night sucking blood from its victims. The vampire is at last found to be a certain Count Dracula, whose ghost is at last laid to rest in a striking and novel manner. One of the great mystery thrillers and generally considered among the best of its kind. Written by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, from Bram Stoker's novel.

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The Bird and the Two-Ton Weight

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

A staged reading of a play about life, death, and family, and how they intersect with the Pan Am 103 tragedy. Presented in conjunction with the Pan Am 103 20th anniversary commemoration.

**CANCELLED** Side by Side by Sondheim
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts
Shannon Tompkins, director

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Sunday's performance has been cancelled.

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Don't Look Back: Stories from the Salt City
Syracuse Stage
Ping Chong, director

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

World Premiere. A powerful exploration of the changing face of Syracuse through an interview-based theatre work, Don't Look Back presents the first-hand narratives of citizens of Syracuse -- both recent arrivals and long-standing residents -- who are in some way living outside the dominant culture. Created by theatrical innovator Ping Chong and constructed as a chamber piece of storytelling, the performance features real people telling their personal experiences of creating cultural identity out of rich and complex histories. Ping Chong continues the compelling work he has done throughout the United States exploring the divergent lives that make up our communities. These stories will carry us around the globe and bring us home with a more complete understanding of how the world out there is the world right here.

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Don't Look Back: Stories from the Salt City
Syracuse Stage
Ping Chong, director

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

World Premiere. A powerful exploration of the changing face of Syracuse through an interview-based theatre work, Don't Look Back presents the first-hand narratives of citizens of Syracuse -- both recent arrivals and long-standing residents -- who are in some way living outside the dominant culture. Created by theatrical innovator Ping Chong and constructed as a chamber piece of storytelling, the performance features real people telling their personal experiences of creating cultural identity out of rich and complex histories. Ping Chong continues the compelling work he has done throughout the United States exploring the divergent lives that make up our communities. These stories will carry us around the globe and bring us home with a more complete understanding of how the world out there is the world right here.

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