Friday, April 20, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Feats of Clay spotlights the varied and creative ceramics art education programs in our high schools throughout Onondaga County and Central New York. The continued success of Feats of Clay rests with the talented and dedicated high school art teachers and art students.

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Tsao and McKown Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Annual High School Seniors' Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

High school seniors within a 30 mile radius of Syracuse are invited to exhibit at Edgewood Gallery and be juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Time, Again Time: Works by Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In "Time, again time," the artist reflects on ordered fragments of a disordered world. An activist and renowned Latin American artist, Ana Tiscornia brings a mixed-media installation that curator Pedro Cuperman describes as "the outcome of a tale, where we have a fragmented world, where the pieces are somehow geometrically organic, logical... a kind of architecture of catastrophe. It is about the artist's obsession with organizing her world after having lived through the tragedies of military dictatorships in her home land, and the present catastrophes, wars that we endure in our own time. Ana's work demands from the viewer a sort of reconstruction, reintegration of the work, and our world.

Reflection and Identity: Works by W. Michelle Harris and Michael Roman
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition features recent work by Rochester Institute of Technology associate professor and artist W. Michelle Harris and Atlanta-based artist and Syracuse University alum Michael Roman. These two young artists embrace questions of gender, identity, and societal expectations.

While the materials used by each artist sit at the opposite ends of the technological spectrum, both individuals seek to examine topics of an interrelated and highly personal nature.

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Academic Art...Teachers that Do Series
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Featuring the art work of Liverpool art teachers.
Deb Dahlin: Pastels and hand dyed scarves
Stacey Pope: Landscapes of the Adirondacks and the Finger Lakes in soft pastel and glicee prints

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

9th Annual Kids' Benefit Art Show
Szozda Gallery

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

The school year's hard work in art programs at Meachem and Seymour Dual-Language Academy Elementary schools netted some students the opportunity to display their art in a professional gallery.

Between the two schools, some 950 students are enrolled in the art programs, in no small measure due to the dedication and expertise of their teachers, Stacy Griffin at Meachem and Kelly Moser-Vogler at Seymour, who have served in the Syracuse School District for a combined 26 years. Another reason for the success of the schools' art programs is the unique way each teacher chooses to nurture the students' interest by targeting their total development in academic curriculum, including study of various cultures, math concepts, and literacy. Further, these teachers go beyond the level of their students, using different means to encourage parents' involvement. And, every year, the teachers also move beyond their own arts departments to involve the rest of each school's student body by busing in all classmates for a special gallery kids' reception.

Sales from the show are split between the schools and students.

Self Portrait Show
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The show features self portraits in a variety of mediums by gallery members.

Kala Stein: Form & Plenty
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Kala Stein's exhibition Form and Plenty showcases her innovative ceramics based on archetypal utilitarian forms, like vases, bottles, and cups. By manipulating clay primarily though the slip casting of molds, she creates sculptural silhouettes, which merge multiple forms and planes into a single vessel. Stein says of her work, "Filtering the forms through abstraction, simplification and a limited color palette allows me to make compositional arrangements that depart from the symbol of the object itself."

Stein received her Master of Fine Arts at New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University where she currently is a visiting instructor. She shows her work nationally and maintains her home and studio in Canadice, NY.

MFA 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

MFA 2012 presents the work of 22 artists concluding their graduate careers in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. On view will be a wide range of traditional and contemporary media, including painting, ceramics, photography, interactive and experimental sculpture, video, and conceptual installations. The artists participating in MFA 2012 are Maximilian Bauer, Lauren Boldon, J. S. Jin Choi, Rose Marie Cromwell, Zach Dunn, Michael Giannattasio, Eugenie Michelle Giasson, Holland Houdek, Tessa J. Kennedy, Kyoungju Kim, Jay Muhlin, Yiming Nie, Vasilios Papaioannu, Annie Ryerson, James Stevens, Jennifer Turner, Rachel Van Pelt, Claire Ying-Chin Wang, Jennifer Leigh Wright, Elif Yoney, Jave Yoshimoto, Xiaowen Zhu.

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

Stickley Furniture: the Evolution of a Design
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

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

L. & J.G. Stickley Inc., one of America's most legendary furniture companies, recently introduced its Finger Lakes Collection, which features solid cherry pieces with a distressed, rustic finish. In this exhibition, patrons can follow the design process from inspiration to finished product through the Bristol Chair, a chair that was inspired by a piece in the Stickley Museum Collection.

The Design Gallery is located on the first floor of The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse. Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on West Fayette Street or the first-floor door on West Washington Street.

For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Reliquaries: New Work by Drew Goerlitz
Everson Museum of Art

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

Well-known for his graceful yet imposing steel sculpture, Drew Goerlitz, Associate Professor of Sculpture at the State University of New York Plattsburg, presents a new body of work at the Everson Museum of Art. Reliquaries continues the reoccurring theme of containment, concealment and privacy best described by Goerlitz himself: "My interpretation of reliquary is not to hold a sacred object or relic, but to engage the viewer with the form and tension of the unknown interior. The adornment of these objects relates to architectural details and the idea of facade. Facade is what we are presented with upon first appearance, whether speaking of people or architecture, and it isn't until we look inside that we discover the true structure."

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

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

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

The Photographer as Child: Memories of Guatemala
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Born in Guatemala, award-winning photographer Efren Lopez is a student in the Military Photojournalism Program at Syracuse University. He is also an aerial photographer for the U.S. Air Force and the first reservist to be selected to attend Newhouse's Military Photojournalism Program. He now lives in Arizona.

The exhibit features images Lopez captured on a return trip to Guatemala in 2009. "My life began in a bamboo hut at the side of a road in a tiny town named Petaca, Guatemala, in 1966," Lopez writes. "It's a town so small that it is next to impossible to find on most maps of Guatemala, much less Central America."

Lopez has documented real-world situations and the military around the globe and has captured stunning images in Arizona and Guatemala. His work has been featured in various publications, including the book Arizona 24/7, and has been awarded many distinctions, including first place in the Professional Photography category at the 2008 Arizona State Fair, an honorable mention in the pictorial category in the 2009 Military Photographer of the Year competition, and first place in the 2011 Multimedia Team 19th Annual Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photography Workshop.

Hidden in Plain Site: Urban Sculpture and the Work of the Syracuse Public Artist in Residence

Price: Free
SPAR Space
State Tower Building, 109 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Syracuse's public sculpture, and the current work of Brendan Rose, the city's public artist in residence, is the subject of a new photographic survey. The exhibit was researched, organized, designed and installed by first-year graduate museum studies students in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In her first US museum solo show, New York City-based Japanese artist Noriko Ambe will create a new site-specific installation in the main gallery reflecting the tragic 2011 events in Japan through the use of video projections and her signature large-scale paper cutouts that evoke waves.

Nature plays an important role in Ambe's work, and it points to larger issues, such as the natural forces determining our global landscape, and the relationship between nature and humans throughout time. A recipient of prestigious awards such as the AICA Award and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ambe's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Japan Society in New York and the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Kyoto, Japan. Her work is also in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.

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The "Gnome Show"
XL Projects

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

Each fall, Department of Design faculty members review student projects on display in the department's home at The Warehouse and place a gnome statue next to the most deserving work in a variety of categories. The "Gnome Show" is an exhibition of last fall's gnome-winning projects.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

The Black Series
Echo

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

Photography by Amanda Zackem. On display will be 17 silver-gelatin prints and a short film.

RESOURCED/response: The Art of the Justseeds Artists Cooperative and SU Fiber Arts
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibition is a look into the environmental devastation that plagues the earth and its beings. It is also a look into the environmental justice movement that works to correct and heal the destruction. RESOURCED is a portfolio of hand-produced prints organized and created by the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative in 2010, focusing on resource extraction and climate issues, which will be used to help ask important questions about our environment. At the beginning of the spring semester 2012, students from the introduction to fibers course at Syracuse University viewed images from RESOURCED.

Students selected the poster that held most significance to them, either for the visual content of the work or the environmental issue it addressed. Then each student created a hand-dyed textile in response to the original work, using a variety of dye techniques, relief printing techniques and methods of stitching. These were both applied traditionally and adapted to suit the students' intentions and individual visual language.

CNY Art Showcase Live Auction!
Eastwood Rotary Club

Price: $40 at the door/$35 pre-sale
Links at Erie Village
5904 N. Burdick St., East Syracuse

You are invited to experience the best in Central New York's artistic talent, while supporting the Everson Museum of Art and the Eastwood Rotary Club Foundation. Join us for an exceptional evening at the Live Auction! -- a lively party with musical entertainment, hors d'oeuvres, buffet and cash bar. The true highlight will be the Live Auction! and silent auction for stunning works of art by local artists.

The event is presented by the Eastwood Rotary Club. For more information, please visit www.eastwoodrotary.org.

For Syracuse, 2010: Selections of Truisms and Survival
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created "For Syracuse" as a site-specific installation that streams across the facade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms, and Survival" that challenge viewer's assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses, or lamenting the struggles of daily living Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed Truisms on one of Time Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her Survival Series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The video "Flo Flow" is William Wegman's latest in a long line of human-canid collaborations. It was while he was in Long Beach in the 1970s that Wegman got his dog, Man Ray, with whom he began a fruitful collaboration of many years. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman's photographs and videotapes. Ever since, Weimaraner-actors have peopled Wegman's uncanny imaginative universe, a reflection on both the human-ness of "animals" and the strangeness of humans.

William Wegman lives in New York and Maine where he continues to make videos, to take photographs and to make drawings and paintings.

La Mama Series: In Retrospect
Redhouse
LOCO7 Dance Puppet Theatre

Price: $20 adult, $15 Redhouse members, $10 children under 18
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

LOCO7 Dance Puppet Theatre's newest production, "In Retrospect," is a magical, multimedia piece incorporating giant puppets, marionette scenery, masks, choreography, acrobatics and live original music and video. "In Retrospect" premiered at New York's highly acclaimed La MaMa in 2010 to receive glowing reviews.

The show investigates how we each construct our personal memory box: how we keep our memories fresh and preserve the things that made us who we are. These include our mothers' embraces, lost loves, childhood dreams, ideals of youth and struggles of age, loss and birth. The music was written by award-winning composer Elizabeth Swados and marks her fifth collaboration with the LOCO7 company.

Under the direction and vision of Federico Restrepo, Loco7 has been in existence since 1985. Loco7's mission has been to develop the use of puppetry as an instrument for the dancer, a style which incorporates dance and design. Utilizing rhythmic music, dancers, body puppets, and larger-than-life marionettes, Restrepo weaves a choreography which extends beyond the body of the dancer. Dealing with themes such as South American Culture & History, the immigrants’ experience and urban life, Restrepo creates an animated movement, in an ever-changing and surreal environment, bringing the stage to life.

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Papers: Stories of Undocumented Youth
La Casita Cultural Center

Price: Free
La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

From April 9 to 17, a group of 15 undocumented youth and their supporters walked 150 miles from New York City to Albany to raise awareness of, and gain support for, the New York Dream Act, which would remove barriers to state-funded financial aid and scholarships for qualified students regardless of their immigration status. The New York State Youth Leadership Council organized the march.

This event will feature a screening of the 2010 documentary Papers: Stories of Undocumented Youth, followed by a discussion with local activists. Guest speakers who will lead the discussion include Jose Perez, Esq., a Syracuse attorney who is an expert on immigration law, and Efrén Lopéz, Guatemalan-born, award-winning photographer.

Papers turns the spotlight on the stories and challenges faced by thousands of undocumented youth who graduate each year from high schools across the United States. They are among an estimated 2 million undocumented children raised in the U.S. and educated in American schools who have little or no memory of the country in which they were born. When they turn 18, these youth are in legal limbo: They cannot legally work, drive, apply for any kind of ID, or accept the college scholarships they have been awarded.

Produced by Anne Galisky and Rebecca Shine, founders of Graham Street Productions in Portland, Oregon, Papers has been screened throughout the United States. The film follows the personal stories of five undocumented students and the national grassroots movement to pass the Dream Act in Congress. The film includes expert commentary from political, academic, and civil rights leaders.

For more information, phone 315-443-1879.

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
ArtRage Gallery

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

If a Tree Falls is a rare behind-the-curtain look at the Earth Liberation Front, the radical environmental group that the FBI calls America's "number one domestic terrorist threat." At its core, the film explores the roots of one environmentalist's law-breaking passion, and of the strictness of the federal antiterrorism laws that grew out of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 and then the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The film premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, where it also won an award for editing. On January 24, 2011, the film was announced as one of the five nominees for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. (2011, 85 minutes, documentary. Directed by Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman)

Brew & View Series: The Big Lebowski and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 single or double feature
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

8:00 pm: The Big Lebowski
10:00 pm: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Professor Dick McCullough's Vocal Rep Class Convocation
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Manna in Concert

Price: Non-perishable food items for Baldwinsville food pantries
Hillview Community Baptist Church
7382 O'Brien Rd., Baldwinsville

Women's vocal ensemble from The Master's Touch Chorale.

Rockin' the Red Cross

Price: $10 advance, $20 at the door
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Nine corporate bands will rock the stage of the Landmark Theater to raise money for the American Red Cross of Central New York. Bands are from C&S Companies, Carrier, East Syracuse Minoa Schools, INFICON, Lockheed Martin, Manlius Pebble Hill, Raymond Corporation, SRC, WYNIT. Judging will be the CXTec Dinosaurs.

Tickets are available for purchase at the Red Cross Chapter 220 Herald Place, Syracuse during business hours (M-F, 8:30 am-4:30 pm)

For more information, visit the Red Cross of CNY website.

Patty Larkin
Folkus Project

Price: $20
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Patty Larkin is one of the major stars of the contemporary folk/songwriter scene -- and has been for decades. Her smart, contemporary-themed songwriting, confident voice, combined with crisp, and sometimes edgy guitar work add up to something special.

Larkin cannot be pigeonholed. She redefines the boundaries of folk-urban pop music, blending elements of jazz, roots, and Celtic into adventurous, textured compositions. A self-described "guitar driven songwriter," she winds her way through soundscapes of evocative vocals, inventive guitar wizardry, and imaginative lyrics. Her songs run inside and outside the box, from impressionistic poetry to witty wordplay. Marked by uncompromising vocals and sophisticated lyrics, they are both beautiful to the ear and challenging to the mind.

S.U. Concert Choir
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage; patrons should mention that they are attending the concert.

Robbie Rivera, with Bassjackers, Peacetreaty, Peter Richardson
Westcott Theater

Price: $20
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Madama Butterfly
Syracuse Opera

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

Puccini's Madama Butterfly is Cio-Cio-San's quest for happiness. Despite her efforts to accommodate the strange ways of her new American husband, Madama Butterfly is abandoned. When Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton returns to Japan after a three-year absence, he brings a new wife -- an agonizing twist for Cio-Cio-San. Sung in Italian with projected English titles.

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Poet Michael Burkard
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Michael Burkard's many books of poetry include Lucky Coat Anywhere (Nightboat Books, 2011), My Secret Boat (W. W. Norton), Entire Dilemma (Sarabande Books), and Unsleeping (Sarabande Books). His poems have appeared in many journals and magazines, including The American Poetry Review, Chicago Review, Verse, Fence, and Black Clock. Twice he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Foundation for the Arts; his other honors include a Guggenheim fellowship, the Alice diFay di Castagmola Award from the Poetry Society of America, and a Whiting Writer's Prize. He is Associate Professor of English at Syracuse University, where he teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing.

Rabbit Hole
DCS Full Circle Theater
DCS Full Circle Theater

Price: $20
St. Clare Auditorium
Lodi and Isabella Streets, Syracuse

David Lindsay-Abaire's 2007 Pulitzer Prize winning domestic drama about a family experiencing a tragic loss.

For more information, phone 315-657-7658.

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Love vs. Time
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Ronnie Bell, director

Price: $12 regular, $10 students/seniors, $5 SU students/faculty/staff/alumni
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This exciting world premiere show, Love vs. Time, is based on 28 of Shakespeare's sonnets and their interpretation through music, dance, theatre, choral reading, dramatic presentation, film, photography, video, poetry and the combination of presentation modes simultaneously. Two narrators will advocate their positions to the audience throughout the show. The audience will be asked to decide the question, "What's the most important force in your life, love or time?" at the end of each act.

Creative partners include Stephen Mahan, director of SU's Photography and Literacy Project, and his brother, Michael Mahan; Renaissance music and dance group Bells and Motley; the Syracuse English Country Dancers; musical act Ben de la Garza Bassett; choreographer Erin Reid and My Fusion Flow dance troupe; filmmaker Amy Doherty; and local poets from the Underground Poetry Spot: Seneca Wilson, Rae of Sunshine, Mozart Guerrier, and Lanika Mabrey. In addition graphics, photography and videos are provided by SU's Newhouse students, Angela Laurello and Stephanie Keefe, through the Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service.

Conceived and directed by SSF's executive director Ronnie Bell. Original music by John Bromka, Sondra Bromka, Ben de la Garza Bassett, Mercury in the Derby, Steve Orlando and Bob Reid. Book by SSF's producing artistic director Jamie Bruno. Starring Jennifer Byrne and Trevor Hill as the opposing attorneys and featuring the duos of Sarah Constable/Thad Striffler and Sarah Bradstreet/Aaron Alexander as the Love Chorus and Time Chorus, respectively.

Tickets available at TicketLeap.com or at the door. Advance purchase recommended. Free parking available in SU's Warehouse lot on Washington Street.

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Around the World in 80 Days
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $4 students and Le Moyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Stampeding elephants! Raging typhoons! Runaway trains! Hold onto your seats for the original amazing race! Fearless adventurer Phileas Fogg has agreed to an outrageous wager that puts his fortune and his life at risk as he sets out to circle the globe in an unheard-of 80 days. Danger, romance and comic surprises abound in this whirlwind of a show as five actors portraying 39 characters traverse seven continents in this new adaptation of one of the great adventures of all time. Written by by Jules Verne, stage adaptation by Mark Brown.

Reservations suggested. For more information, call 315-445-4523.

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My First Time
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

First sexual experiences are one of the few things that almost every person on this planet has in common, whether you're Paris Hilton or P. Diddy, George Clooney or George Washington, yet we rarely talk about them. Until now...

In 1998, a decade before blogging began, a website was created that allowed people to anonymously share their own true stories about their First Times. The website became an instant phenomenon as over 40,000 stories poured in from around the globe that were silly, sweet, absurd, funny, shy, sexy and everything in between.

And now, these true stories and all of the unique characters in them are brought to life by four amazing actors in the acclaimed play, My First Time, by Ken Davenport, producer of Altar Boyz and creator of The Awesome 80s Prom.

This show is intended for mature audiences only.

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The Brothers Size
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney is an exciting new voice in American Theatre and his award-winning The Brothers Size proves why. In the Louisiana bayou, big brother Ogun Size is hardworking and steady. Younger brother Oshoosi is just out of prison and aimless. Elegba, Oshoosi's old prison mate, is a mysterious complication. A simple circle defines a world that begins in ritual and evolves into a tough and tender drama of what it means to brother and be brothered. Flights of poetry, music, dance and West African mythology combine in a contemporary tale that explores the tenuousness of freedom and the need to belong somewhere, to something, to someone.

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Saturday, April 21, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Annual High School Seniors' Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

High school seniors within a 30 mile radius of Syracuse are invited to exhibit at Edgewood Gallery and be juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Academic Art...Teachers that Do Series
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Featuring the art work of Liverpool art teachers.
Deb Dahlin: Pastels and hand dyed scarves
Stacey Pope: Landscapes of the Adirondacks and the Finger Lakes in soft pastel and glicee prints

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

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

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

Reliquaries: New Work by Drew Goerlitz
Everson Museum of Art

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

Well-known for his graceful yet imposing steel sculpture, Drew Goerlitz, Associate Professor of Sculpture at the State University of New York Plattsburg, presents a new body of work at the Everson Museum of Art. Reliquaries continues the reoccurring theme of containment, concealment and privacy best described by Goerlitz himself: "My interpretation of reliquary is not to hold a sacred object or relic, but to engage the viewer with the form and tension of the unknown interior. The adornment of these objects relates to architectural details and the idea of facade. Facade is what we are presented with upon first appearance, whether speaking of people or architecture, and it isn't until we look inside that we discover the true structure."

Self Portrait Show
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The show features self portraits in a variety of mediums by gallery members.

A Quilter's Journey
Plank Road Quilt Guild

Price: $5 regular, free for children under 12
Cicero United Methodist Church
8416 North Main St., Cicero

Quilt show.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

9th Annual Kids' Benefit Art Show
Szozda Gallery

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

The school year's hard work in art programs at Meachem and Seymour Dual-Language Academy Elementary schools netted some students the opportunity to display their art in a professional gallery.

Between the two schools, some 950 students are enrolled in the art programs, in no small measure due to the dedication and expertise of their teachers, Stacy Griffin at Meachem and Kelly Moser-Vogler at Seymour, who have served in the Syracuse School District for a combined 26 years. Another reason for the success of the schools' art programs is the unique way each teacher chooses to nurture the students' interest by targeting their total development in academic curriculum, including study of various cultures, math concepts, and literacy. Further, these teachers go beyond the level of their students, using different means to encourage parents' involvement. And, every year, the teachers also move beyond their own arts departments to involve the rest of each school's student body by busing in all classmates for a special gallery kids' reception.

Sales from the show are split between the schools and students.

Reflection and Identity: Works by W. Michelle Harris and Michael Roman
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition features recent work by Rochester Institute of Technology associate professor and artist W. Michelle Harris and Atlanta-based artist and Syracuse University alum Michael Roman. These two young artists embrace questions of gender, identity, and societal expectations.

While the materials used by each artist sit at the opposite ends of the technological spectrum, both individuals seek to examine topics of an interrelated and highly personal nature.

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The Black Series
Echo

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

Photography by Amanda Zackem. On display will be 17 silver-gelatin prints and a short film.

Kala Stein: Form & Plenty
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Kala Stein's exhibition Form and Plenty showcases her innovative ceramics based on archetypal utilitarian forms, like vases, bottles, and cups. By manipulating clay primarily though the slip casting of molds, she creates sculptural silhouettes, which merge multiple forms and planes into a single vessel. Stein says of her work, "Filtering the forms through abstraction, simplification and a limited color palette allows me to make compositional arrangements that depart from the symbol of the object itself."

Stein received her Master of Fine Arts at New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University where she currently is a visiting instructor. She shows her work nationally and maintains her home and studio in Canadice, NY.

MFA 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

MFA 2012 presents the work of 22 artists concluding their graduate careers in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. On view will be a wide range of traditional and contemporary media, including painting, ceramics, photography, interactive and experimental sculpture, video, and conceptual installations. The artists participating in MFA 2012 are Maximilian Bauer, Lauren Boldon, J. S. Jin Choi, Rose Marie Cromwell, Zach Dunn, Michael Giannattasio, Eugenie Michelle Giasson, Holland Houdek, Tessa J. Kennedy, Kyoungju Kim, Jay Muhlin, Yiming Nie, Vasilios Papaioannu, Annie Ryerson, James Stevens, Jennifer Turner, Rachel Van Pelt, Claire Ying-Chin Wang, Jennifer Leigh Wright, Elif Yoney, Jave Yoshimoto, Xiaowen Zhu.

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

RESOURCED/response: The Art of the Justseeds Artists Cooperative and SU Fiber Arts
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibition is a look into the environmental devastation that plagues the earth and its beings. It is also a look into the environmental justice movement that works to correct and heal the destruction. RESOURCED is a portfolio of hand-produced prints organized and created by the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative in 2010, focusing on resource extraction and climate issues, which will be used to help ask important questions about our environment. At the beginning of the spring semester 2012, students from the introduction to fibers course at Syracuse University viewed images from RESOURCED.

Students selected the poster that held most significance to them, either for the visual content of the work or the environmental issue it addressed. Then each student created a hand-dyed textile in response to the original work, using a variety of dye techniques, relief printing techniques and methods of stitching. These were both applied traditionally and adapted to suit the students' intentions and individual visual language.

Hidden in Plain Site: Urban Sculpture and the Work of the Syracuse Public Artist in Residence

Price: Free
SPAR Space
State Tower Building, 109 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Syracuse's public sculpture, and the current work of Brendan Rose, the city's public artist in residence, is the subject of a new photographic survey. The exhibit was researched, organized, designed and installed by first-year graduate museum studies students in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In her first US museum solo show, New York City-based Japanese artist Noriko Ambe will create a new site-specific installation in the main gallery reflecting the tragic 2011 events in Japan through the use of video projections and her signature large-scale paper cutouts that evoke waves.

Nature plays an important role in Ambe's work, and it points to larger issues, such as the natural forces determining our global landscape, and the relationship between nature and humans throughout time. A recipient of prestigious awards such as the AICA Award and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ambe's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Japan Society in New York and the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Kyoto, Japan. Her work is also in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.

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The "Gnome Show"
XL Projects

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

Each fall, Department of Design faculty members review student projects on display in the department's home at The Warehouse and place a gnome statue next to the most deserving work in a variety of categories. The "Gnome Show" is an exhibition of last fall's gnome-winning projects.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Stickley Furniture: the Evolution of a Design
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

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

A discussion with Stickley Museum Director Sarah Lanigan will be held this evening at 5:30 pm, followed by a reception from 6:00-8:00 pm.

L. & J.G. Stickley Inc., one of America's most legendary furniture companies, recently introduced its Finger Lakes Collection, which features solid cherry pieces with a distressed, rustic finish. In this exhibition, patrons can follow the design process from inspiration to finished product through the Bristol Chair, a chair that was inspired by a piece in the Stickley Museum Collection.

The Design Gallery is located on the first floor of The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse. Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on West Fayette Street or the first-floor door on West Washington Street.

For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The video "Flo Flow" is William Wegman's latest in a long line of human-canid collaborations. It was while he was in Long Beach in the 1970s that Wegman got his dog, Man Ray, with whom he began a fruitful collaboration of many years. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman's photographs and videotapes. Ever since, Weimaraner-actors have peopled Wegman's uncanny imaginative universe, a reflection on both the human-ness of "animals" and the strangeness of humans.

William Wegman lives in New York and Maine where he continues to make videos, to take photographs and to make drawings and paintings.

La Mama Series: In Retrospect
Redhouse
LOCO7 Dance Puppet Theatre

Price: $20 adult, $15 Redhouse members, $10 children under 18
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

LOCO7 Dance Puppet Theatre's newest production, "In Retrospect," is a magical, multimedia piece incorporating giant puppets, marionette scenery, masks, choreography, acrobatics and live original music and video. "In Retrospect" premiered at New York's highly acclaimed La MaMa in 2010 to receive glowing reviews.

The show investigates how we each construct our personal memory box: how we keep our memories fresh and preserve the things that made us who we are. These include our mothers' embraces, lost loves, childhood dreams, ideals of youth and struggles of age, loss and birth. The music was written by award-winning composer Elizabeth Swados and marks her fifth collaboration with the LOCO7 company.

Under the direction and vision of Federico Restrepo, Loco7 has been in existence since 1985. Loco7's mission has been to develop the use of puppetry as an instrument for the dancer, a style which incorporates dance and design. Utilizing rhythmic music, dancers, body puppets, and larger-than-life marionettes, Restrepo weaves a choreography which extends beyond the body of the dancer. Dealing with themes such as South American Culture & History, the immigrants’ experience and urban life, Restrepo creates an animated movement, in an ever-changing and surreal environment, bringing the stage to life.

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Walk on Water
Temple Society of Concord

Price: Free (donations welcome)
Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

This enthralling award-winning film by internationally-acclaimed director Eytan Fox explores the motives, strengths, and, ultimately, the humanity of an Israeli assassin sent to rectify a wrong committed five decades earlier. Eyal is a top assassin in the Israeli secret service. He has killed terrorists before, but this time he is sent to eliminate an aging former Nazi war criminal. During his mission, Eyal meets his target's granddaughter and grandson, who inadvertently help him uncover his own troubled history and face his demons, while they discover the ugly truth their family has hidden from them for decades. What began as a straightforward mission has suddenly escalated in intensity and complexity -– thrusting three very different people into a thrilling triangle of murder, friendship and fate.

Tarell Alvin McCraney
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Timothy Bond, Producing Artistic Director of Syracuse Stage, will moderate a discussion with Tarell Alvin McCraney, writer of The Brothers Size, now playing at Syracuse Stage.

McCraney’s play starts performances this week at Syracuse Stage. Following the Syracuse run, the production will transfer to leading theatres in South Africa. The transfer, made possible by support from the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, marks the debut of McCraney's work in Africa.

Tarell Alvin McCraney is best known for his acclaimed trilogy, The Brother/Sister Plays: The Brothers Size, In the Red and Brown Water, and Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet. They have been performed across the United States and abroad in London (Olivier Award nomination). Other plays include The Breach, Wig Out! (GLAAD Award for Outstanding Play), and American Trade (Royal Shakespeare Company). Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where McCraney is an ensemble member, will produce the world premiere of his commissioned play, Head of Passes, in the spring of 2013.

McCraney was the Royal Shakespeare Company’s International Playwright in Residence in 2008-2010, where he co-edited and directed the Young People’s Shakespeare production of Hamlet which toured throughout the UK and was presented at the Park Avenue Armory in New York. He is the recipient of the prestigious Whiting Award and Steinberg Playwright Award, as well as London’s Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright, the inaugural New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award, and the inaugural Paula Vogel Playwriting Award.

Graduate Guitar Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Stephen Brew

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

Stephen Brew is a graduate guitar performance major. The program will include works by Rodrigo, Bach, and Piazzolla. Aimee Lillienstein and the SU Graduate Guitar Quartet will also appear.

Parking is available in the Waverly, Harrison, or Lehman lots.

Bringing the World Together in Syracuse
Partners in Learning

Price: $25 presale, $30 at the door
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

An evening of music, dance, tapas, silent auction, and cross-cultural sharing, featuring Grupo Pagan, ADANFO Ensemble, Puente Flamenco, Kinlogh Irish Dancers, and CNY Chinese Dance Troupe.

All proceeds benefit the MANOS Early Childhood Education Program and the West Side Learning Center.

Tickets available online or by check to Partners in Learning, Inc., West Side Learning Center, 422 Gifford St., Syracuse, NY 13204.

For more information, contact Alexandra at 315-435-4013.

Galant, Tu Perds Ton Temps

Price: $15
Robinson Memorial Church
126 Terry Rd. (corner of Granger), Syracuse

"Galant, Tu Perds Ton Temps" (Lover, You're Wasting Your Time) brings together five women and a percussionist around a repertoire of traditional a cappella folk songs.

For more information, visit www.robinsonmem.org.

Daughtry in Concert, with Safetysuit and Mike Sanchez

Price: $50.50, $40.50, $30.50
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Tickets can be purchased through the Landmark box office Monday-Friday 10:00 am-5:00 pm or through Ticketmaster.com. Phone 315-475-7980 for more information.

Isreal Hagan
Kellish Hill Farm

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

Isreal Hagan has been the singer, bass player and leader of Syracuse R&B band Stroke for 30 years now. In 2007 Isreal was inducted into the Syracuse Area Music Awards Hall of Fame. Last year he wrote and arranged all nine songs on his new CD album "Balance." To top it off, Isreal produced the disc and released it under his own Poverty Records label. Come out to Kellish Hill Music Barn this night to listen and be swept away by this multi-talented gem of CNY.

Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

Price: $25 regular, $15 senior, $10 student
Lincoln Middle School
1613 James St., Syracuse

For over 30 years, pianist Joseph Kalichstein, violinist Jaime Laredo, and cellist Sharon Robinson have managed their own distinguished solo careers while as a trio making annual appearances at the world's major concert halls, recording, commissioning new works, and receiving a steady stream of honors. Their phenomenal contribution to chamber music was acknowledged recently by the Chamber Music Society of Detroit's creation of an International Trio Award in their honor. This will be their fourth appearance with SFCM.

Mozart Piano Trio in B-flat Major, K. 502
Stanley Silverman Piano Trio No. 2
Beethoven Piano Trio Op. 97 No. 7 in B-flat Major ("Archduke")

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Graduate Piano Ensemble Arts Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Kleber M. de Sousa

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

Kleber M. de Sousa, a graduate student in Setnor School of Music, will perform a recital of vocal and instrumental chamber music. The recital will feature a variety of musical styles, including pieces by Brahms, Mozart, and Rachmaninoff, plus Spanish composer Sandoval and a Negro spiritual. Sara E. Detweiler, Carina M. DiGianfilippo, Stefan Tessoun, Deenna Dimmick, Maddie Horrell, and Matthew Scinto will perform with Sousa. Patrons will hear the sound of trumpet, cello, viola, clarinet, and voice with the piano in diverse combinations.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage; parking for patrons with disabilities is available in the Q1 lot. Patrons should mention that they are attending the concert.

Badfish: A Tribute to Sublime, with Subsoil, House on a Spring
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Little Mermaid
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive adaptation of the children's classic.

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The Brothers Size
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney is an exciting new voice in American Theatre and his award-winning The Brothers Size proves why. In the Louisiana bayou, big brother Ogun Size is hardworking and steady. Younger brother Oshoosi is just out of prison and aimless. Elegba, Oshoosi's old prison mate, is a mysterious complication. A simple circle defines a world that begins in ritual and evolves into a tough and tender drama of what it means to brother and be brothered. Flights of poetry, music, dance and West African mythology combine in a contemporary tale that explores the tenuousness of freedom and the need to belong somewhere, to something, to someone.

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Rabbit Hole
DCS Full Circle Theater
DCS Full Circle Theater

Price: $20
St. Clare Auditorium
Lodi and Isabella Streets, Syracuse

David Lindsay-Abaire's 2007 Pulitzer Prize winning domestic drama about a family experiencing a tragic loss.

For more information, phone 315-657-7658.

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Love vs. Time
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Ronnie Bell, director

Price: $12 regular, $10 students/seniors, $5 SU students/faculty/staff/alumni
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This exciting world premiere show, Love vs. Time, is based on 28 of Shakespeare's sonnets and their interpretation through music, dance, theatre, choral reading, dramatic presentation, film, photography, video, poetry and the combination of presentation modes simultaneously. Two narrators will advocate their positions to the audience throughout the show. The audience will be asked to decide the question, "What's the most important force in your life, love or time?" at the end of each act.

Creative partners include Stephen Mahan, director of SU's Photography and Literacy Project, and his brother, Michael Mahan; Renaissance music and dance group Bells and Motley; the Syracuse English Country Dancers; musical act Ben de la Garza Bassett; choreographer Erin Reid and My Fusion Flow dance troupe; filmmaker Amy Doherty; and local poets from the Underground Poetry Spot: Seneca Wilson, Rae of Sunshine, Mozart Guerrier, and Lanika Mabrey. In addition graphics, photography and videos are provided by SU's Newhouse students, Angela Laurello and Stephanie Keefe, through the Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service.

Conceived and directed by SSF's executive director Ronnie Bell. Original music by John Bromka, Sondra Bromka, Ben de la Garza Bassett, Mercury in the Derby, Steve Orlando and Bob Reid. Book by SSF's producing artistic director Jamie Bruno. Starring Jennifer Byrne and Trevor Hill as the opposing attorneys and featuring the duos of Sarah Constable/Thad Striffler and Sarah Bradstreet/Aaron Alexander as the Love Chorus and Time Chorus, respectively.

Tickets available at TicketLeap.com or at the door. Advance purchase recommended. Free parking available in SU's Warehouse lot on Washington Street.

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Around the World in 80 Days
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $4 students and Le Moyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Stampeding elephants! Raging typhoons! Runaway trains! Hold onto your seats for the original amazing race! Fearless adventurer Phileas Fogg has agreed to an outrageous wager that puts his fortune and his life at risk as he sets out to circle the globe in an unheard-of 80 days. Danger, romance and comic surprises abound in this whirlwind of a show as five actors portraying 39 characters traverse seven continents in this new adaptation of one of the great adventures of all time. Written by by Jules Verne, stage adaptation by Mark Brown.

Reservations suggested. For more information, call 315-445-4523.

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My First Time
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

First sexual experiences are one of the few things that almost every person on this planet has in common, whether you're Paris Hilton or P. Diddy, George Clooney or George Washington, yet we rarely talk about them. Until now...

In 1998, a decade before blogging began, a website was created that allowed people to anonymously share their own true stories about their First Times. The website became an instant phenomenon as over 40,000 stories poured in from around the globe that were silly, sweet, absurd, funny, shy, sexy and everything in between.

And now, these true stories and all of the unique characters in them are brought to life by four amazing actors in the acclaimed play, My First Time, by Ken Davenport, producer of Altar Boyz and creator of The Awesome 80s Prom.

This show is intended for mature audiences only.

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The Brothers Size
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney is an exciting new voice in American Theatre and his award-winning The Brothers Size proves why. In the Louisiana bayou, big brother Ogun Size is hardworking and steady. Younger brother Oshoosi is just out of prison and aimless. Elegba, Oshoosi's old prison mate, is a mysterious complication. A simple circle defines a world that begins in ritual and evolves into a tough and tender drama of what it means to brother and be brothered. Flights of poetry, music, dance and West African mythology combine in a contemporary tale that explores the tenuousness of freedom and the need to belong somewhere, to something, to someone.

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Sunday, April 22, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

9th Annual Kids' Benefit Art Show
Szozda Gallery

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

The school year's hard work in art programs at Meachem and Seymour Dual-Language Academy Elementary schools netted some students the opportunity to display their art in a professional gallery.

Between the two schools, some 950 students are enrolled in the art programs, in no small measure due to the dedication and expertise of their teachers, Stacy Griffin at Meachem and Kelly Moser-Vogler at Seymour, who have served in the Syracuse School District for a combined 26 years. Another reason for the success of the schools' art programs is the unique way each teacher chooses to nurture the students' interest by targeting their total development in academic curriculum, including study of various cultures, math concepts, and literacy. Further, these teachers go beyond the level of their students, using different means to encourage parents' involvement. And, every year, the teachers also move beyond their own arts departments to involve the rest of each school's student body by busing in all classmates for a special gallery kids' reception.

Sales from the show are split between the schools and students.

Self Portrait Show
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

From 11:00 am-3:00 pm, Amy Bartell will demonstrate her mixed media and collage techniques, layering combinations of handmade papers, drawing, and using gouache and line work to develop the rich surfaces and imagery in her mixed media collages.

The show features self portraits in a variety of mediums by gallery members.

Kala Stein: Form & Plenty
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Kala Stein's exhibition Form and Plenty showcases her innovative ceramics based on archetypal utilitarian forms, like vases, bottles, and cups. By manipulating clay primarily though the slip casting of molds, she creates sculptural silhouettes, which merge multiple forms and planes into a single vessel. Stein says of her work, "Filtering the forms through abstraction, simplification and a limited color palette allows me to make compositional arrangements that depart from the symbol of the object itself."

Stein received her Master of Fine Arts at New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University where she currently is a visiting instructor. She shows her work nationally and maintains her home and studio in Canadice, NY.

MFA 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

MFA 2012 presents the work of 22 artists concluding their graduate careers in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. On view will be a wide range of traditional and contemporary media, including painting, ceramics, photography, interactive and experimental sculpture, video, and conceptual installations. The artists participating in MFA 2012 are Maximilian Bauer, Lauren Boldon, J. S. Jin Choi, Rose Marie Cromwell, Zach Dunn, Michael Giannattasio, Eugenie Michelle Giasson, Holland Houdek, Tessa J. Kennedy, Kyoungju Kim, Jay Muhlin, Yiming Nie, Vasilios Papaioannu, Annie Ryerson, James Stevens, Jennifer Turner, Rachel Van Pelt, Claire Ying-Chin Wang, Jennifer Leigh Wright, Elif Yoney, Jave Yoshimoto, Xiaowen Zhu.

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

Academic Art...Teachers that Do Series
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Featuring the art work of Liverpool art teachers.
Deb Dahlin: Pastels and hand dyed scarves
Stacey Pope: Landscapes of the Adirondacks and the Finger Lakes in soft pastel and glicee prints

Reliquaries: New Work by Drew Goerlitz
Everson Museum of Art

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

Well-known for his graceful yet imposing steel sculpture, Drew Goerlitz, Associate Professor of Sculpture at the State University of New York Plattsburg, presents a new body of work at the Everson Museum of Art. Reliquaries continues the reoccurring theme of containment, concealment and privacy best described by Goerlitz himself: "My interpretation of reliquary is not to hold a sacred object or relic, but to engage the viewer with the form and tension of the unknown interior. The adornment of these objects relates to architectural details and the idea of facade. Facade is what we are presented with upon first appearance, whether speaking of people or architecture, and it isn't until we look inside that we discover the true structure."

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

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

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

Hidden in Plain Site: Urban Sculpture and the Work of the Syracuse Public Artist in Residence

Price: Free
SPAR Space
State Tower Building, 109 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Syracuse's public sculpture, and the current work of Brendan Rose, the city's public artist in residence, is the subject of a new photographic survey. The exhibit was researched, organized, designed and installed by first-year graduate museum studies students in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

The "Gnome Show"
XL Projects

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

Each fall, Department of Design faculty members review student projects on display in the department's home at The Warehouse and place a gnome statue next to the most deserving work in a variety of categories. The "Gnome Show" is an exhibition of last fall's gnome-winning projects.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

William Wegman: Flo Flow (2011)
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The video "Flo Flow" is William Wegman's latest in a long line of human-canid collaborations. It was while he was in Long Beach in the 1970s that Wegman got his dog, Man Ray, with whom he began a fruitful collaboration of many years. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman's photographs and videotapes. Ever since, Weimaraner-actors have peopled Wegman's uncanny imaginative universe, a reflection on both the human-ness of "animals" and the strangeness of humans.

William Wegman lives in New York and Maine where he continues to make videos, to take photographs and to make drawings and paintings.

Contemporary Film Series: Waking Ned Devine
Everson Museum of Art

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

When the residents of a tiny Irish village called Tulaigh Mhor discover that one of their neighbors has won the lottery, the search is on for the winner. When they find him, Ned is dead from shock, still holding the winning ticket. In order to claim the prize, the townspeople must come together and try to fool the claim inspector. (1998, rated PG)

Annual Folk Music Series: The Youth Movement
Arts Alive in Liverpool
Featuring Salty Pink

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

Based in Ithaca, Salty Pink is an old-time duo showcasing the talents of banjo player Leah Houghtaling and bassist Amelia Sauter.

Zamir Chorale of Boston

Price: $18 supporter, $54 patron, $118 benefactor
Temple Adeth Yeshurun
450 Kimber Rd., DeWitt

Liturgical works and Ladino, Yiddish, and Israeli folk songs. For more information, phone 315-445-0002, ext. 113.

Spring Concert
Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra
Erik Kibelsbeck, conductor
Featuring Stephen Levine, violin

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Albinoni Adagio
Haydn Violin Concerto
Wagner "Prelude and Liebestod" from Tristan und Isolde
Borodin Polovtsian Dances

Celebration of Students Concert
Joyful Noise Concert Series

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

The concert will feature students from Syracuse University's Setnor School of Music. Organist Jonathan Tyler Ebers will perform, as will several chamber music ensembles under the direction of Peter Rovit.

Easy Ramblers
CNY Bluegrass Association

Price: $10 regular, $8 members, free for 16 and under with paying adult
Marcellus American Legion Hall
13 E. Main St., Marcellus

If It Were a Flute
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Mario Caroli, flutist, with Masako Hayashi-Ebbesen, piano

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Mario Caroli and Masako Hayashi-Ebbesen are faculty at the Conservatoire national de région d'Alsace in Strasbourg, France. The duo's eclectic concert program includes transcriptions for flute and piano of works by Mendelssohn, Brahms, and Debussy, as well Catena di cuori ("Chain of Hearts"), composed for Caroli in 2007 by SU composition faculty member Andrew Waggoner.

Caroli appears regularly in the greatest concert halls of the world, including the Philharmonic Halls of Berlin and Cologne, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Herkulessaal in Munich, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Royal Festival Hall in London, the Théâtre du Châtelet and the Opéra Garnier in Paris, the New York Lincoln Centre (in the cycle of "Great Performers"), Suntory Hall, Oji Hall and Opera City House of Tokyo, and the Palais des Beaux Arts in Bruxelles.

Hayashi-Ebbesen has been active as a soloist and chamber pianist in Japan, France, and the U.S. Since the beginning of her performing career, critics on both sides of the Pacific and the Atlantic have held her poetic expression and ardor in high acclaim. She has shared the stage in major halls of New York, Tokyo, Chicago, Paris, and Philadelphia; with duo partners of renown from around the world; and has appeared in guest recital series of numerous universities and conservatories in the U.S., Japan, and Europe. Her multicultural insight acquired on three continents has been shared at masterclasses and the summer chamber music academies she has held with the Strasbourg Chamber Ensemble in various regions of France.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage; parking for patrons with disabilities is available in the Q1 lot. Patrons should mention that they are attending the concert.

*SOLD OUT* Steve Aoki, with Chemicals of Creation, Mike Smiroldo
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Madama Butterfly
Syracuse Opera

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

Puccini's Madama Butterfly is Cio-Cio-San's quest for happiness. Despite her efforts to accommodate the strange ways of her new American husband, Madama Butterfly is abandoned. When Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton returns to Japan after a three-year absence, he brings a new wife -- an agonizing twist for Cio-Cio-San. Sung in Italian with projected English titles.

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April Double Header
Armory Square Playwrights

Price: $7 regular, $5 students/seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

No Homo, by Aeryn Michelle
A full production of a one-act script from the S.U. Drama Department's play writing festival.

Act 1 of Canyon, by Craig Thornton
A new play by Craig Thornton, a teacher, broadcaster and long-time writer with ASP.

After each work, we invite the audience to ask questions and give reactions to the playwrights.

Love vs. Time
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Ronnie Bell, director

Price: $12 regular, $10 students/seniors, $5 SU students/faculty/staff/alumni
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This exciting world premiere show, Love vs. Time, is based on 28 of Shakespeare's sonnets and their interpretation through music, dance, theatre, choral reading, dramatic presentation, film, photography, video, poetry and the combination of presentation modes simultaneously. Two narrators will advocate their positions to the audience throughout the show. The audience will be asked to decide the question, "What's the most important force in your life, love or time?" at the end of each act.

Creative partners include Stephen Mahan, director of SU's Photography and Literacy Project, and his brother, Michael Mahan; Renaissance music and dance group Bells and Motley; the Syracuse English Country Dancers; musical act Ben de la Garza Bassett; choreographer Erin Reid and My Fusion Flow dance troupe; filmmaker Amy Doherty; and local poets from the Underground Poetry Spot: Seneca Wilson, Rae of Sunshine, Mozart Guerrier, and Lanika Mabrey. In addition graphics, photography and videos are provided by SU's Newhouse students, Angela Laurello and Stephanie Keefe, through the Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service.

Conceived and directed by SSF's executive director Ronnie Bell. Original music by John Bromka, Sondra Bromka, Ben de la Garza Bassett, Mercury in the Derby, Steve Orlando and Bob Reid. Book by SSF's producing artistic director Jamie Bruno. Starring Jennifer Byrne and Trevor Hill as the opposing attorneys and featuring the duos of Sarah Constable/Thad Striffler and Sarah Bradstreet/Aaron Alexander as the Love Chorus and Time Chorus, respectively.

Tickets available at TicketLeap.com or at the door. Advance purchase recommended. Free parking available in SU's Warehouse lot on Washington Street.

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The Brothers Size
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney is an exciting new voice in American Theatre and his award-winning The Brothers Size proves why. In the Louisiana bayou, big brother Ogun Size is hardworking and steady. Younger brother Oshoosi is just out of prison and aimless. Elegba, Oshoosi's old prison mate, is a mysterious complication. A simple circle defines a world that begins in ritual and evolves into a tough and tender drama of what it means to brother and be brothered. Flights of poetry, music, dance and West African mythology combine in a contemporary tale that explores the tenuousness of freedom and the need to belong somewhere, to something, to someone.

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Monday, April 23, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

OCC Student Architecture and Interior Design Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

A showcase of outstanding architecture and interior design projects by Onondaga Community College students.

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Feats of Clay spotlights the varied and creative ceramics art education programs in our high schools throughout Onondaga County and Central New York. The continued success of Feats of Clay rests with the talented and dedicated high school art teachers and art students.

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Tsao and McKown Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Time, Again Time: Works by Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In "Time, again time," the artist reflects on ordered fragments of a disordered world. An activist and renowned Latin American artist, Ana Tiscornia brings a mixed-media installation that curator Pedro Cuperman describes as "the outcome of a tale, where we have a fragmented world, where the pieces are somehow geometrically organic, logical... a kind of architecture of catastrophe. It is about the artist's obsession with organizing her world after having lived through the tragedies of military dictatorships in her home land, and the present catastrophes, wars that we endure in our own time. Ana's work demands from the viewer a sort of reconstruction, reintegration of the work, and our world.

Academic Art...Teachers that Do Series
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Featuring the art work of Liverpool art teachers.
Deb Dahlin: Pastels and hand dyed scarves
Stacey Pope: Landscapes of the Adirondacks and the Finger Lakes in soft pastel and glicee prints

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

Self Portrait Show
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The show features self portraits in a variety of mediums by gallery members.

Stickley Furniture: the Evolution of a Design
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

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

L. & J.G. Stickley Inc., one of America's most legendary furniture companies, recently introduced its Finger Lakes Collection, which features solid cherry pieces with a distressed, rustic finish. In this exhibition, patrons can follow the design process from inspiration to finished product through the Bristol Chair, a chair that was inspired by a piece in the Stickley Museum Collection.

The Design Gallery is located on the first floor of The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse. Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on West Fayette Street or the first-floor door on West Washington Street.

For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

The Photographer as Child: Memories of Guatemala
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Born in Guatemala, award-winning photographer Efren Lopez is a student in the Military Photojournalism Program at Syracuse University. He is also an aerial photographer for the U.S. Air Force and the first reservist to be selected to attend Newhouse's Military Photojournalism Program. He now lives in Arizona.

The exhibit features images Lopez captured on a return trip to Guatemala in 2009. "My life began in a bamboo hut at the side of a road in a tiny town named Petaca, Guatemala, in 1966," Lopez writes. "It's a town so small that it is next to impossible to find on most maps of Guatemala, much less Central America."

Lopez has documented real-world situations and the military around the globe and has captured stunning images in Arizona and Guatemala. His work has been featured in various publications, including the book Arizona 24/7, and has been awarded many distinctions, including first place in the Professional Photography category at the 2008 Arizona State Fair, an honorable mention in the pictorial category in the 2009 Military Photographer of the Year competition, and first place in the 2011 Multimedia Team 19th Annual Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photography Workshop.

Now, Voyager (1941)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Directed by Irving Rapper. Cast includes Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper, Bonita Granville.

Classic drama about a shy spinster (Davis) who comes out of her shell and falls in love with a suave gentleman of the world (Henreid). Superb performances by a first-rate cast, and one of Bette Davis' most popular films.

Sammy Adams, with Apache Chief, Brandon Strause, Indo
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Feats of Clay spotlights the varied and creative ceramics art education programs in our high schools throughout Onondaga County and Central New York. The continued success of Feats of Clay rests with the talented and dedicated high school art teachers and art students.

OCC Student Architecture and Interior Design Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

A showcase of outstanding architecture and interior design projects by Onondaga Community College students.

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Tsao and McKown Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Annual High School Seniors' Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

High school seniors within a 30 mile radius of Syracuse are invited to exhibit at Edgewood Gallery and be juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Academic Art...Teachers that Do Series
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Featuring the art work of Liverpool art teachers.
Deb Dahlin: Pastels and hand dyed scarves
Stacey Pope: Landscapes of the Adirondacks and the Finger Lakes in soft pastel and glicee prints

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

Self Portrait Show
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The show features self portraits in a variety of mediums by gallery members.

Time, Again Time: Works by Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In "Time, again time," the artist reflects on ordered fragments of a disordered world. An activist and renowned Latin American artist, Ana Tiscornia brings a mixed-media installation that curator Pedro Cuperman describes as "the outcome of a tale, where we have a fragmented world, where the pieces are somehow geometrically organic, logical... a kind of architecture of catastrophe. It is about the artist's obsession with organizing her world after having lived through the tragedies of military dictatorships in her home land, and the present catastrophes, wars that we endure in our own time. Ana's work demands from the viewer a sort of reconstruction, reintegration of the work, and our world.

MFA 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

MFA 2012 presents the work of 22 artists concluding their graduate careers in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. On view will be a wide range of traditional and contemporary media, including painting, ceramics, photography, interactive and experimental sculpture, video, and conceptual installations. The artists participating in MFA 2012 are Maximilian Bauer, Lauren Boldon, J. S. Jin Choi, Rose Marie Cromwell, Zach Dunn, Michael Giannattasio, Eugenie Michelle Giasson, Holland Houdek, Tessa J. Kennedy, Kyoungju Kim, Jay Muhlin, Yiming Nie, Vasilios Papaioannu, Annie Ryerson, James Stevens, Jennifer Turner, Rachel Van Pelt, Claire Ying-Chin Wang, Jennifer Leigh Wright, Elif Yoney, Jave Yoshimoto, Xiaowen Zhu.

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

Stickley Furniture: the Evolution of a Design
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

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

L. & J.G. Stickley Inc., one of America's most legendary furniture companies, recently introduced its Finger Lakes Collection, which features solid cherry pieces with a distressed, rustic finish. In this exhibition, patrons can follow the design process from inspiration to finished product through the Bristol Chair, a chair that was inspired by a piece in the Stickley Museum Collection.

The Design Gallery is located on the first floor of The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse. Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on West Fayette Street or the first-floor door on West Washington Street.

For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

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

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

Reliquaries: New Work by Drew Goerlitz
Everson Museum of Art

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

Well-known for his graceful yet imposing steel sculpture, Drew Goerlitz, Associate Professor of Sculpture at the State University of New York Plattsburg, presents a new body of work at the Everson Museum of Art. Reliquaries continues the reoccurring theme of containment, concealment and privacy best described by Goerlitz himself: "My interpretation of reliquary is not to hold a sacred object or relic, but to engage the viewer with the form and tension of the unknown interior. The adornment of these objects relates to architectural details and the idea of facade. Facade is what we are presented with upon first appearance, whether speaking of people or architecture, and it isn't until we look inside that we discover the true structure."

The Photographer as Child: Memories of Guatemala
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Born in Guatemala, award-winning photographer Efren Lopez is a student in the Military Photojournalism Program at Syracuse University. He is also an aerial photographer for the U.S. Air Force and the first reservist to be selected to attend Newhouse's Military Photojournalism Program. He now lives in Arizona.

The exhibit features images Lopez captured on a return trip to Guatemala in 2009. "My life began in a bamboo hut at the side of a road in a tiny town named Petaca, Guatemala, in 1966," Lopez writes. "It's a town so small that it is next to impossible to find on most maps of Guatemala, much less Central America."

Lopez has documented real-world situations and the military around the globe and has captured stunning images in Arizona and Guatemala. His work has been featured in various publications, including the book Arizona 24/7, and has been awarded many distinctions, including first place in the Professional Photography category at the 2008 Arizona State Fair, an honorable mention in the pictorial category in the 2009 Military Photographer of the Year competition, and first place in the 2011 Multimedia Team 19th Annual Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photography Workshop.

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In her first US museum solo show, New York City-based Japanese artist Noriko Ambe will create a new site-specific installation in the main gallery reflecting the tragic 2011 events in Japan through the use of video projections and her signature large-scale paper cutouts that evoke waves.

Nature plays an important role in Ambe's work, and it points to larger issues, such as the natural forces determining our global landscape, and the relationship between nature and humans throughout time. A recipient of prestigious awards such as the AICA Award and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ambe's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Japan Society in New York and the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Kyoto, Japan. Her work is also in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.

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The Black Series
Echo

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

Photography by Amanda Zackem. On display will be 17 silver-gelatin prints and a short film.

Contemporary Film Series: Video Now
Everson Museum of Art
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The Everson's annual screening of fresh, innovative and experimental short videos by students in Syracuse University's Transmedia Department, selected by Tom Sherman.

This year's show includes 21 works by Jennifer Chan, Keaton Emelia Fox, Christian Hansen/209, Kristen Leonard, Misha Rabinovich, Jordan Rapoport, Tyler Rhinehart, Elisabeth Roth, Sloane Siegel, Slice 2 Slice, Endam Nihan Tasbasi, Wilson Tse, Matthew Williamson, Winck! and nTTn.

Light refreshments will be served during an intermission reception where the public can meet the artists.

Science and Magic in Film: Blade Runner (1982)
Redhouse
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular, $5 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Film and discussion with guest Jim Loperfido, Syracuse International Film Festival CEO and founder Auburn Cinefile Society.

"Blade Runner" depicts a dystopian Los Angeles in November 2019 in which genetically-engineered organic robots called "replicants" -- visually indistinguishable from adult humans -- are manufactured by the powerful Tyrell Corporation as well as other mega manufacturers around the world. Their use on Earth is banned, and replicants are exclusively used for dangerous, menial or leisure work on Earth's off-world colonies. Replicants who defy the ban and return to Earth are hunted down and "retired" by police special operatives known as "Blade Runners." Rated R.

S.U. Symphony Orchestra
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The SU Symphony Orchestra will perform a program featuring the Setnor School of Music Concerto and Aria Competition winners: Edgar Tumajyan, violin, and Rachel Boucher, soprano. The repertoire will include works by Wagner and Hanson, with Boucher appearing as soloist for Donizetti's "Il faut partir" from the Daughter of the Regiment and Tumajyan appearing as soloist for Sibelius's Violin Concerto in D minor, op. 47.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage; patrons should mention that they are attending the concert.

Archnemesis, with T-Wrexx
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

OCC Student Architecture and Interior Design Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

There will be a reception in Whitney Atrium this afternoon 3:00-4:00 pm.

A showcase of outstanding architecture and interior design projects by Onondaga Community College students.

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

There will be an artist reception this evening 5:00-7:00 pm.

Feats of Clay spotlights the varied and creative ceramics art education programs in our high schools throughout Onondaga County and Central New York. The continued success of Feats of Clay rests with the talented and dedicated high school art teachers and art students.

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Tsao and McKown Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Annual High School Seniors' Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

High school seniors within a 30 mile radius of Syracuse are invited to exhibit at Edgewood Gallery and be juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Time, Again Time: Works by Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

In "Time, again time," the artist reflects on ordered fragments of a disordered world. An activist and renowned Latin American artist, Ana Tiscornia brings a mixed-media installation that curator Pedro Cuperman describes as "the outcome of a tale, where we have a fragmented world, where the pieces are somehow geometrically organic, logical... a kind of architecture of catastrophe. It is about the artist's obsession with organizing her world after having lived through the tragedies of military dictatorships in her home land, and the present catastrophes, wars that we endure in our own time. Ana's work demands from the viewer a sort of reconstruction, reintegration of the work, and our world.

Academic Art...Teachers that Do Series
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Featuring the art work of Liverpool art teachers.
Deb Dahlin: Pastels and hand dyed scarves
Stacey Pope: Landscapes of the Adirondacks and the Finger Lakes in soft pastel and glicee prints

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

9th Annual Kids' Benefit Art Show
Szozda Gallery

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

The school year's hard work in art programs at Meachem and Seymour Dual-Language Academy Elementary schools netted some students the opportunity to display their art in a professional gallery.

Between the two schools, some 950 students are enrolled in the art programs, in no small measure due to the dedication and expertise of their teachers, Stacy Griffin at Meachem and Kelly Moser-Vogler at Seymour, who have served in the Syracuse School District for a combined 26 years. Another reason for the success of the schools' art programs is the unique way each teacher chooses to nurture the students' interest by targeting their total development in academic curriculum, including study of various cultures, math concepts, and literacy. Further, these teachers go beyond the level of their students, using different means to encourage parents' involvement. And, every year, the teachers also move beyond their own arts departments to involve the rest of each school's student body by busing in all classmates for a special gallery kids' reception.

Sales from the show are split between the schools and students.

Self Portrait Show
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The show features self portraits in a variety of mediums by gallery members.

MFA 2012
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

MFA 2012 presents the work of 22 artists concluding their graduate careers in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. On view will be a wide range of traditional and contemporary media, including painting, ceramics, photography, interactive and experimental sculpture, video, and conceptual installations. The artists participating in MFA 2012 are Maximilian Bauer, Lauren Boldon, J. S. Jin Choi, Rose Marie Cromwell, Zach Dunn, Michael Giannattasio, Eugenie Michelle Giasson, Holland Houdek, Tessa J. Kennedy, Kyoungju Kim, Jay Muhlin, Yiming Nie, Vasilios Papaioannu, Annie Ryerson, James Stevens, Jennifer Turner, Rachel Van Pelt, Claire Ying-Chin Wang, Jennifer Leigh Wright, Elif Yoney, Jave Yoshimoto, Xiaowen Zhu.

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

Stickley Furniture: the Evolution of a Design
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

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

L. & J.G. Stickley Inc., one of America's most legendary furniture companies, recently introduced its Finger Lakes Collection, which features solid cherry pieces with a distressed, rustic finish. In this exhibition, patrons can follow the design process from inspiration to finished product through the Bristol Chair, a chair that was inspired by a piece in the Stickley Museum Collection.

The Design Gallery is located on the first floor of The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse. Patrons should enter The Warehouse via the ground-floor door adjacent to the café on West Fayette Street or the first-floor door on West Washington Street.

For more information, contact Bradley Hudson at bjhudson@syr.edu.

Reliquaries: New Work by Drew Goerlitz
Everson Museum of Art

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

Well-known for his graceful yet imposing steel sculpture, Drew Goerlitz, Associate Professor of Sculpture at the State University of New York Plattsburg, presents a new body of work at the Everson Museum of Art. Reliquaries continues the reoccurring theme of containment, concealment and privacy best described by Goerlitz himself: "My interpretation of reliquary is not to hold a sacred object or relic, but to engage the viewer with the form and tension of the unknown interior. The adornment of these objects relates to architectural details and the idea of facade. Facade is what we are presented with upon first appearance, whether speaking of people or architecture, and it isn't until we look inside that we discover the true structure."

From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
Everson Museum of Art

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

"From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is the first exhibition to examine the American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Long celebrated as an iconic American artist due to his important early work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight, Henri's paintings have received less attention on their own. Most projects explored his career as it related to his role as a member of The Eight or in a broadly retrospective manner. Few projects focused on his landscapes, drawings, or foreign portraits.

Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most strongly--portraiture--and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Forty-one paintings of Irish people and landscapes will be on view in the upcoming exhibition.

The Photographer as Child: Memories of Guatemala
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Born in Guatemala, award-winning photographer Efren Lopez is a student in the Military Photojournalism Program at Syracuse University. He is also an aerial photographer for the U.S. Air Force and the first reservist to be selected to attend Newhouse's Military Photojournalism Program. He now lives in Arizona.

The exhibit features images Lopez captured on a return trip to Guatemala in 2009. "My life began in a bamboo hut at the side of a road in a tiny town named Petaca, Guatemala, in 1966," Lopez writes. "It's a town so small that it is next to impossible to find on most maps of Guatemala, much less Central America."

Lopez has documented real-world situations and the military around the globe and has captured stunning images in Arizona and Guatemala. His work has been featured in various publications, including the book Arizona 24/7, and has been awarded many distinctions, including first place in the Professional Photography category at the 2008 Arizona State Fair, an honorable mention in the pictorial category in the 2009 Military Photographer of the Year competition, and first place in the 2011 Multimedia Team 19th Annual Department of Defense Worldwide Military Photography Workshop.

Noriko Ambe: Inner Water
The Warehouse Gallery

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

In her first US museum solo show, New York City-based Japanese artist Noriko Ambe will create a new site-specific installation in the main gallery reflecting the tragic 2011 events in Japan through the use of video projections and her signature large-scale paper cutouts that evoke waves.

Nature plays an important role in Ambe's work, and it points to larger issues, such as the natural forces determining our global landscape, and the relationship between nature and humans throughout time. A recipient of prestigious awards such as the AICA Award and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Ambe's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Japan Society in New York and the Kyoto University of Art and Design in Kyoto, Japan. Her work is also in the collection of the Whitney Museum of Art.

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The "Gnome Show"
XL Projects

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

Each fall, Department of Design faculty members review student projects on display in the department's home at The Warehouse and place a gnome statue next to the most deserving work in a variety of categories. The "Gnome Show" is an exhibition of last fall's gnome-winning projects.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

The Black Series
Echo

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

Photography by Amanda Zackem. On display will be 17 silver-gelatin prints and a short film.

RESOURCED/response: The Art of the Justseeds Artists Cooperative and SU Fiber Arts
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibition is a look into the environmental devastation that plagues the earth and its beings. It is also a look into the environmental justice movement that works to correct and heal the destruction. RESOURCED is a portfolio of hand-produced prints organized and created by the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative in 2010, focusing on resource extraction and climate issues, which will be used to help ask important questions about our environment. At the beginning of the spring semester 2012, students from the introduction to fibers course at Syracuse University viewed images from RESOURCED.

Students selected the poster that held most significance to them, either for the visual content of the work or the environmental issue it addressed. Then each student created a hand-dyed textile in response to the original work, using a variety of dye techniques, relief printing techniques and methods of stitching. These were both applied traditionally and adapted to suit the students' intentions and individual visual language.

Centro Transit Hub Light Sculpture Preview
Syracuse University School of Art and Design
Featuring Margie Hughto

Price: Free
Comstock Art Facility
1055 Comstock Ave., Syracuse

Margie Hughto, an internationally renowned ceramic artist and professor of ceramics at SU, will offer the public a preview of the light sculpture she designed and created specifically for the new Centro Transit Hub.

The sculpture, which is made of metal, clay and glass, will be installed this spring in preparation for the June opening of the hub, which is located at the corner of Adams, South Salina, and South Warren streets in Syracuse. The sculpture measures 17-1/2 feet wide, 8-1/2 feet deep and 6-1/2 feet tall, and will hang over the Centro information booth. Hughto was assisted by artists Ron DeRutte and Carmel Nicoletti in the creation of the sculpture; all three artists will attend the preview.

Hughto has been included in numerous exhibitions since the 1970s, and has completed permanent public artworks across the country, including a monumental ceramic painting located in a subway stop in Buffalo, NY. Her panoramic "Trade, Treasure and Travel," a series of ceramic murals installed two levels beneath New York City's World Trade Center in 1998, miraculously survived the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks unharmed. The work was recently reinstalled at the Cortlandt Street station in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

Parking is available in the Manley lot.

Wednesday Film Series: La Societe du Spectacle
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Auditorium
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Guy Debord, 1973, 88 minutes

Pixar Comes to Syracuse
Syracuse International Film Festival
Featuring Jim Morris

Price: $25 (pre-talk reception and talk), reservations required
Bristol IMAX Omnitheater at the MOST
Armory Square, Syracuse

Jim Morris, Pixar's Executive Vice President, is a graduate of Syracuse University and has risen through the ranks of the film and television world from cameraman, advertising writer, television writer/producer, visual effects producer, and President of Lucas Digital Ltd., to his current position as General Manager and Executive Vice President of Production at Pixar Animation Studios, one of the world's largest and most influential animation companies in the entertainment industry.

Meet Jim Morris and join him for a reception to congratulate the PIXAR poster contest winners (6:00 pm). At 7:00 pm, attend his talk as he shares his experiences in a look behind the camera.

Tickets are limited and reservations are required. Phone 315-445-0692 to reserve.

Women in Song
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Elizabeth Kisselstein, soprano; Rebecca Horning, piano

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

Works featuring women composers, lyricists, and characters, including Libby Larsen's Try Me Good King, about various wives of Henry VIII.

Parking available in the OnCenter Garage: maximum $2.50 with CMM stamped ticket.

S.U. Clarinet Choir
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The Clarinet Choir will perform under the direction of Jill Coggiola. Graduate student guest conductors are Colleen Reynolds, Megan Speidel and Shannon Wampler. Special guest is the Silverwood Clarinet Choir with John Friedrichs, conductor.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage; patrons should mention that they are attending the concert.

Felix Cartal, with Clockwork, Synchronice
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Kelle Groom
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

Kelle Groom is the author of I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl (Free Press/Simon & Schuster, 2011) and contributing editor for The Florida Review.

The reading will be preceded by a question and answer session from 3:45-4:30 p.m. Parking is available in Syracuse University's paid lots. For more information, phone 315-443-2174.

The Brothers Size
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney is an exciting new voice in American Theatre and his award-winning The Brothers Size proves why. In the Louisiana bayou, big brother Ogun Size is hardworking and steady. Younger brother Oshoosi is just out of prison and aimless. Elegba, Oshoosi's old prison mate, is a mysterious complication. A simple circle defines a world that begins in ritual and evolves into a tough and tender drama of what it means to brother and be brothered. Flights of poetry, music, dance and West African mythology combine in a contemporary tale that explores the tenuousness of freedom and the need to belong somewhere, to something, to someone.

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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Windows Project: Chaz Griffin: The History of Silence
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Chaz Griffin studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and currently resides in Syracuse. For the Window Projects space he will produce a partially-autobiographical collage addressing the issue of youth living in 21st-century urban environments.

Interpreting Nature
Baltimore Woods Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

A collection of work by Sharon Bottle Souva, fabric handworks; Wesley Weiss, ceramics; and Jill Newton, watercolors, who work in three distinct media but are united by their shared reference to the natural world.

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Feats of Clay spotlights the varied and creative ceramics art education programs in our high schools throughout Onondaga County and Central New York. The continued success of Feats of Clay rests with the talented and dedicated high school art teachers and art students.

OCC Student Architecture and Interior Design Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

A showcase of outstanding architecture and interior design projects by Onondaga Community College students.

The Ballerina Project
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-7:00pm.

Photography. Dance. Central New York.

The Power and The Piety: The World of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This exhibit, curated by History Professor Chris Kyle with Senior Director of Special Collections Sean Quimby, showcases the library's collection of illuminated manuscripts and early printed works, including a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.

The title "The Power and The Piety," refers to extraordinary influence that secular monarchies and the Church had on the lives of everyday men and women. Richly illustrated late medieval psalters and books of hours exemplify the painstaking attention that the pious paid to their spiritual well-being. But the printing revolution made it possible for new ideas to spread more rapidly. Printed works like Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" (1651) signified the increasing power wielded by kings, queens and other secular authorities. As the Protestant Reformation and Scientific Revolution took hold of Europe, the power of the Catholic Church further waned. "The Power and the Piety" includes such important works as the first King James Bible (1611) and a second printing of Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" (1566), which argued in favor of a heliocentric, or sun-centered, universe.

The exhibition is arranged thematically, highlighting the overarching themes of power and piety, as well as English literature, music, architecture, science and fine bindings.

Tsao and McKown Architects
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Annual High School Seniors' Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

High school seniors within a 30 mile radius of Syracuse are invited to exhibit at Edgewood Gallery and be juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Academic Art...Teachers that Do Series
Eureka Crafts

Eureka Crafts
210 Walton St., Syracuse

Featuring the art work of Liverpool art teachers.
Deb Dahlin: Pastels and hand dyed scarves
Stacey Pope: Landscapes of the Adirondacks and the Finger Lakes in soft pastel and glicee prints

Wounding the Black Male
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition was curated by English Professor Cassandra Jackson and Gallery Director Sarah Cunningham, both from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The exhibition was on view in the TCNJ Art Gallery in 2011. The central ideas of the exhibit are rooted in Jackson's most recent book, Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body (Routledge, 2010). Her book deals with the ways in which the black male body has been visually exploited, and the ways in which contemporary artists have called into question the paradigmatic construction of the black body in American society. The exhibit displays 31 photographs by 19 contemporary artists of African descent, 17 from the United States, two from Britain. Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture. These artists confront stereotypes about black male appearance, sexuality, violence, and family, and highlight the ways that visual culture has contributed to the marginalization and exclusion of the black community.

Pastoral: Landscape Photos by Alexander Gronsky
Light Work Gallery

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

Alexander Gronsky is a self-described landscape photographer with an uncanny ability to capture scenes in nature as elegant allegories that include rolling hills, spectacular lighting, and far reaching horizons. His skilled use of perspective and composition, reminiscent of centuries-old traditions in European landscape painting, draw the viewer's eye deep into the landscape and generate a sense of awe for each place. The photographs in this exhibit were taken along the outlying areas of Moscow where the human need to find solace away from the city collides with urban sprawl, and the fragility of nature.

9th Annual Kids' Benefit Art Show
Szozda Gallery

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

There will be a special kids' reception for the schools' entire enrollments today 3:00-7:00 pm.

The school year's hard work in art programs at Meachem and Seymour Dual-Language Academy Elementary schools netted some students the opportunity to display their art in a professional gallery.

Between the two schools, some 950 students are enrolled in the art programs, in no small measure due to the dedication and expertise of their teachers, Stacy Griffin at Meachem and Kelly Moser-Vogler at Seymour, who have served in the Syracuse School District for a combined 26 years. Another reason for the success of the schools' art programs is the unique way each teacher chooses to nurture the students' interest by targeting their total development in academic curriculum, including study of various cultures, math concepts, and literacy. Further, these teachers go beyond the level of their students, using different means to encourage parents' involvement. And, every year, the teachers also move beyond their own arts departments to involve the rest of each school's student body by busing in all classmates for a special gallery kids' reception.

Sales from the show are split between the schools and students.

Self Portrait Show
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The show features self portraits in a variety of mediums by gallery members.