Monday, April 21, 2008

WRAP (World Reclamation Art Project)
International Fiber Collaborative

Price: Free
2301 E. Colvin St.
(corner of Nottingham), Syracuse

Artist Jennifer Marsh and participants from all over the world have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3-foot square fiber panels that express concern about the world's extreme dependency on oil. The panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station.

For more information, visit internationalfibercollaborative.com.

Icons

Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Artists include Father Andrew Szebenyi, digitally manipulated images; Meg Gentile, acrylic on canvas; Dustin Angell, photography; Sarah Reale, Sharpie portraits on canvas; Mick Mather, monotype, monotype with linocut, tempera with linocut, and watercolor; Eddie Colelli, photography; Kevin Lucas, acrylic on canvas; David McKenney, photography.

OCC Student Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Annual student exhibit.

The Materials of Color: Paintings by Italian artist Maria Grazia Facchinetti
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Carles Vives
Onondaga Community College

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

An exhibit by Carles Vives, internationally renowned ceramic sculptor from Spain. Born in Barcelona, Spain in 1957, Carles Vives studied art at Massana School of Art in Barcelona. His art is on display in museums and galleries throughout Spain, Italy, Australia, Mongolia, Peru and the United States (Everson Museum of Syracuse and in Miami). In addition, Vives' art has been exhibited in Portugal, Taiwan, Korea and New Zealand.

Most recently Vives was selected to participate in the Sino-Spain Ceramic Art Residency Program in Fuping, China in June, to celebrate the addition of the new Ceramic Art Museum of Spain to the FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums of Fuping.

Onondaga art professor Andrew Schuster met Carles Vives several years ago while lecturing at a workshop in Spain. The two sculptors formed a professional relationship and have collaborated on many artistic endeavors. Professor Schuster was instrumental in securing this prominent artist's exhibit for Onondaga in what will be Vives' first visit to the United States.

Vives has worked for the last 25 years at a studio in Canovelles near Barcelona. In 2004, he received the honorary diploma of Master Craftsman by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government Institution.)

Labyrinths
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A life-size maze of mirrors and dreams reveals an exceptional collection of works by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna: a fugue-like series of 25 drawings and etchings inspired by the Borgian notion of the labyrinth, with Icarus as protagonist. Twenty-three 7-foot tall mirrored panels form this massive installation that complicates and multiplies the space of the gallery, and infiltrates the observer.

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Good for What Ails You!
Westcott Community Center

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

Women healing from loss...from loss of loved ones, loss of health, loss of dreams, loss of youth. We heal ourselves. We heal others. We heal through stories, through reframing memories, through engagement in our art; we heal by redefining ourselves and rebirthing. It is a story of sadness and honesty and transformation. It is about connection and growth. Ultimately it is a story of triumph.

Paintings, mixed media, fibers, photography, ceramic sculpture, creative compuer art, and poetry by Maria Brown, Melissa DeStevens-Valensuela, Linda Esterly, Patrice Fitzsimmons, Cathy Gibbons, Vanessa Johnson, Amy Patricia Komar, Suzanne Masters, Georgia Popoff, and Elaine Quick.

Patterns of Perception: Works by Mary Raineri
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Photography by Julieve Jubin
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Works by Steven Fland and Ed Levine
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Exhibit featuring Steven Fland's wildlife sculptures and Ed Levine's watercolors.

The Cruel Sea
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

The Cruel Sea, a 1953 adventure starring Jack Hawkins as the captain of a British Royal Navy ship. It is adapted from Nicholas Monsarrat's World War II book and also stars Virginia McKenna and Denholm Elliott.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

WRAP (World Reclamation Art Project)
International Fiber Collaborative

Price: Free
2301 E. Colvin St.
(corner of Nottingham), Syracuse

Artist Jennifer Marsh and participants from all over the world have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3-foot square fiber panels that express concern about the world's extreme dependency on oil. The panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station.

For more information, visit internationalfibercollaborative.com.

Icons

Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Artists include Father Andrew Szebenyi, digitally manipulated images; Meg Gentile, acrylic on canvas; Dustin Angell, photography; Sarah Reale, Sharpie portraits on canvas; Mick Mather, monotype, monotype with linocut, tempera with linocut, and watercolor; Eddie Colelli, photography; Kevin Lucas, acrylic on canvas; David McKenney, photography.

The Materials of Color: Paintings by Italian artist Maria Grazia Facchinetti
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Carles Vives
Onondaga Community College

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

An exhibit by Carles Vives, internationally renowned ceramic sculptor from Spain. Born in Barcelona, Spain in 1957, Carles Vives studied art at Massana School of Art in Barcelona. His art is on display in museums and galleries throughout Spain, Italy, Australia, Mongolia, Peru and the United States (Everson Museum of Syracuse and in Miami). In addition, Vives' art has been exhibited in Portugal, Taiwan, Korea and New Zealand.

Most recently Vives was selected to participate in the Sino-Spain Ceramic Art Residency Program in Fuping, China in June, to celebrate the addition of the new Ceramic Art Museum of Spain to the FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums of Fuping.

Onondaga art professor Andrew Schuster met Carles Vives several years ago while lecturing at a workshop in Spain. The two sculptors formed a professional relationship and have collaborated on many artistic endeavors. Professor Schuster was instrumental in securing this prominent artist's exhibit for Onondaga in what will be Vives' first visit to the United States.

Vives has worked for the last 25 years at a studio in Canovelles near Barcelona. In 2004, he received the honorary diploma of Master Craftsman by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government Institution.)

Labyrinths
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A life-size maze of mirrors and dreams reveals an exceptional collection of works by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna: a fugue-like series of 25 drawings and etchings inspired by the Borgian notion of the labyrinth, with Icarus as protagonist. Twenty-three 7-foot tall mirrored panels form this massive installation that complicates and multiplies the space of the gallery, and infiltrates the observer.

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Good for What Ails You!
Westcott Community Center

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

Women healing from loss...from loss of loved ones, loss of health, loss of dreams, loss of youth. We heal ourselves. We heal others. We heal through stories, through reframing memories, through engagement in our art; we heal by redefining ourselves and rebirthing. It is a story of sadness and honesty and transformation. It is about connection and growth. Ultimately it is a story of triumph.

Paintings, mixed media, fibers, photography, ceramic sculpture, creative compuer art, and poetry by Maria Brown, Melissa DeStevens-Valensuela, Linda Esterly, Patrice Fitzsimmons, Cathy Gibbons, Vanessa Johnson, Amy Patricia Komar, Suzanne Masters, Georgia Popoff, and Elaine Quick.

Patterns of Perception: Works by Mary Raineri
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Photography by Julieve Jubin
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

MFA 2008
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates.

17 artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography, and sculpture. The exhibition contains a number of artists who explore the idea of identity, while others challenge accepted notions of wealth, time, and reality. Khanh Le explores his identity as a Vietnamese-born American by combining images of his own family life, fashion and home magazines, and well known images from the Vietnam War to create a "new historical narrative". Stacey VanWaldick playfully addresses what jewelry has come to stand for in today's commercial society by fabricating "precious stones" out of bronze and chocolate. Stephanie Koenig experiments with the idea of "recyclable nostalgia" by reclaiming 70's period style to outfit the interior of her interactive life-size pirate ship. Allison Fox forms intricately detailed thin sheets of clear plastic into organic shapes through which she shines light to create ambiguous undulating shadows. The relationship between the sculpture and the shadows on the wall establishes a vibration between reality and illusion.

Other featured artists include Jen Betton, Seunghee Chung, Jennifer Gandee, Jessica Lance, Tzu Cheng Liu, Thon Lorenz, Jennifer Marsh, Frank McCauley, Ge Maggie Mu, María José Pérez (Pepa Santamaria), David Serotkin, Carrie Will, Sue Hershberger Yoder

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

Visual Arts Showcase #63: Elements
CNY Arts

The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A juried show of works created by upstate New York artists.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith
The Warehouse Gallery
Community Folk Art Center

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

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith is artist Terry Adkins' multi-media tribute to Smith, known as the Empress of the Blues. Working with a variety of materials Adkins weaves sculpture into a narrative installation that is both a tribute to and a lament for the transformative power of Smith's vocal artistry.

In an essay that accompanies the exhibition Dr. Kheli R. Willetts, academic director of CFAC and assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Syracuse University writes, "Adkins' work creates an environment which challenges us to engage with Smith beyond her status as a legendary musical performer. He has resurrected her as a creative deity whose stage has now become a temple and the viewers are transformed into her devotees as they enter the space."

Smith is regarded as one of the greatest blues singers of all time. She was the highest-paid black performer of her day and arguably reached a level of success greater than that of any African American recording artist before her. Yet in her adopted home of Philadelphia she remains unsung and even her grave remained unmarked until 1970.

Adkins commutes regularly from New York to Philadelphia where he teaches in the Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania. This exhibition is a continued exploration of his use of figures in history whose contributions to society are overlooked, under appreciated, or just not given the stature that he believes they should have in society. Although Adkins work emanates from an activist position, it evolves from abstract forms with the intent of educating the public about historical figures through ways that are not image based or narrative-based but that challenge the viewer to think abstractly in relating to the stories of the lives of the people concerned.

Terry Adkins has been exhibiting internationally since 1980. He is Associate Professor of Fine Art at the University of Pennsylvania where he recently installed Darkwater: A Recital in Four Dominions, a tribute to W. E. B. Du Bois at the Arthur Ross Gallery. Adkins has published numerous essays and has completed several significant public commissions. In addition to being a highly respected artist and sought after guest lecturer, his artworks have been placed in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among other significant museums and collections. He received his B.S. from Fisk University and his M.F.A from the University of Kentucky.

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Recent Acquisition Talk
Everson Museum of Art

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

Join Debora Ryan, Everson Museum of Art Senior Curator, for an introduction to the most recent addition to the Everson's permanent collection. Ryan will discuss the importance of Jenny Holzer's Memorandum for Condoleezza Rice Green.

Memorandum for Condoleezza Rice Green will be on view as a part of the permanent collection re-installation opening April 4. Many permanent collection artworks that have not been on view recently will be returning to the public eye in this exhibit.

Art Works Symposium Opening Ceremony: Working: A Celebration of Syracuse Workers in Words, Photography, and Music
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Maxwell Auditorium
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An evening of music and readings featuring Latin-American acoustic guitarist Francisco Herrera; singer-songwriter Tom Juravich, professor of Labor Studies and director of the Labor Center at the University of Massachusetts; and readings from Working: An Anthology of Writing and Photography (SU Press, 2008).

This event is part of the 2008 Ray Smith Symposium entitled "Artworks: The Role of the Arts in U.S. Workers Struggles."

Who We Are
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Who We Are, a play written and performed by Syracuse University SEIU 200 United Workers, was created with the guidance of performance artist Marty Pottenger, writer and director of the Abundance Project. The Abundance Project is a community arts performance project about money as told through the stories of common folks in the United States, which culminated in an Off-Broadway production in the spring of 2003.

This event is part of the 2008 Ray Smith Symposium entitled "Artworks: The Role of the Arts in U.S. Workers Struggles."

Le Moyne College Community Chamber Orchestra
LeMoyne College
Featuring Michael Schelle, guest composer

Price: Free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Artist-in-residence Andrew Russo leads Le Moyne College's first ever Community Chamber Orchestra concert in a wide-ranging evening of short classical and popular works, including excerpts of Mozart's Requiem, Marc Mellits' Phase Inc. (a play on 'Funkytown') and a medley from Pirates of the Caribbean. Capping the evening is Michael Schelle's jazz-chamber music masterpiece, Godzilla, with the composer on piano.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

WRAP (World Reclamation Art Project)
International Fiber Collaborative

Price: Free
2301 E. Colvin St.
(corner of Nottingham), Syracuse

Artist Jennifer Marsh and participants from all over the world have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3-foot square fiber panels that express concern about the world's extreme dependency on oil. The panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station.

For more information, visit internationalfibercollaborative.com.

Icons

Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Artists include Father Andrew Szebenyi, digitally manipulated images; Meg Gentile, acrylic on canvas; Dustin Angell, photography; Sarah Reale, Sharpie portraits on canvas; Mick Mather, monotype, monotype with linocut, tempera with linocut, and watercolor; Eddie Colelli, photography; Kevin Lucas, acrylic on canvas; David McKenney, photography.

The Materials of Color: Paintings by Italian artist Maria Grazia Facchinetti
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Carles Vives
Onondaga Community College

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

An exhibit by Carles Vives, internationally renowned ceramic sculptor from Spain. Born in Barcelona, Spain in 1957, Carles Vives studied art at Massana School of Art in Barcelona. His art is on display in museums and galleries throughout Spain, Italy, Australia, Mongolia, Peru and the United States (Everson Museum of Syracuse and in Miami). In addition, Vives' art has been exhibited in Portugal, Taiwan, Korea and New Zealand.

Most recently Vives was selected to participate in the Sino-Spain Ceramic Art Residency Program in Fuping, China in June, to celebrate the addition of the new Ceramic Art Museum of Spain to the FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums of Fuping.

Onondaga art professor Andrew Schuster met Carles Vives several years ago while lecturing at a workshop in Spain. The two sculptors formed a professional relationship and have collaborated on many artistic endeavors. Professor Schuster was instrumental in securing this prominent artist's exhibit for Onondaga in what will be Vives' first visit to the United States.

Vives has worked for the last 25 years at a studio in Canovelles near Barcelona. In 2004, he received the honorary diploma of Master Craftsman by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government Institution.)

Labyrinths
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A life-size maze of mirrors and dreams reveals an exceptional collection of works by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna: a fugue-like series of 25 drawings and etchings inspired by the Borgian notion of the labyrinth, with Icarus as protagonist. Twenty-three 7-foot tall mirrored panels form this massive installation that complicates and multiplies the space of the gallery, and infiltrates the observer.

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Good for What Ails You!
Westcott Community Center

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

Women healing from loss...from loss of loved ones, loss of health, loss of dreams, loss of youth. We heal ourselves. We heal others. We heal through stories, through reframing memories, through engagement in our art; we heal by redefining ourselves and rebirthing. It is a story of sadness and honesty and transformation. It is about connection and growth. Ultimately it is a story of triumph.

Paintings, mixed media, fibers, photography, ceramic sculpture, creative compuer art, and poetry by Maria Brown, Melissa DeStevens-Valensuela, Linda Esterly, Patrice Fitzsimmons, Cathy Gibbons, Vanessa Johnson, Amy Patricia Komar, Suzanne Masters, Georgia Popoff, and Elaine Quick.

Patterns of Perception: Works by Mary Raineri
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Photography by Julieve Jubin
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

Works by Steven Fland and Ed Levine
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Exhibit featuring Steven Fland's wildlife sculptures and Ed Levine's watercolors.

MFA 2008
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates.

17 artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography, and sculpture. The exhibition contains a number of artists who explore the idea of identity, while others challenge accepted notions of wealth, time, and reality. Khanh Le explores his identity as a Vietnamese-born American by combining images of his own family life, fashion and home magazines, and well known images from the Vietnam War to create a "new historical narrative". Stacey VanWaldick playfully addresses what jewelry has come to stand for in today's commercial society by fabricating "precious stones" out of bronze and chocolate. Stephanie Koenig experiments with the idea of "recyclable nostalgia" by reclaiming 70's period style to outfit the interior of her interactive life-size pirate ship. Allison Fox forms intricately detailed thin sheets of clear plastic into organic shapes through which she shines light to create ambiguous undulating shadows. The relationship between the sculpture and the shadows on the wall establishes a vibration between reality and illusion.

Other featured artists include Jen Betton, Seunghee Chung, Jennifer Gandee, Jessica Lance, Tzu Cheng Liu, Thon Lorenz, Jennifer Marsh, Frank McCauley, Ge Maggie Mu, María José Pérez (Pepa Santamaria), David Serotkin, Carrie Will, Sue Hershberger Yoder

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

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

The Sweetest Battle: Works by Rebecca Murtaugh
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Artist Statement:
I am intrigued by the space between painting and sculpture and the history of objects. Much of my work is based in installation with materials and techniques that vary to serve the needs of my intentions. I engage in processes of often altering everyday materials so that they draw from the language of each material's history and at once, transcend that history to provide an experience of the sublime. My work maintains a balance of formal and conceptual motivations. I aim for the work to be playful, sexy, visually engaging, and a rewarding intellectual experience for those viewers who seek to look further.

Artist Biography:
Rebecca Murtaugh currently splits her time between Brooklyn and Central New York. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University, Bachelor of Science from the Pennsylvania State University, and was raised in Philadelphia. Her work has been exhibited nationally in both solo and group exhibitions at venues such as the Contemporary Art Fair with Thatcher Projects in New York City, Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia, the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Northern California, the Athens Institute of Contemporary Art in Atlanta, Current Gallery in Baltimore, and the District of Columbia Art Center. Upcoming exhibitions in 2008 include Seductions at 1708 Gallery in Richmond, Virginia; Part Object, Part Sculpture at the Brew House: Space 101 in Pittsburgh; and Keeping the Conceptual Momentum at the Kelly and Weber Gallery in Philadelphia. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York where she teaches Sculpture and Critical Theory.

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith
The Warehouse Gallery
Community Folk Art Center

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

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith is artist Terry Adkins' multi-media tribute to Smith, known as the Empress of the Blues. Working with a variety of materials Adkins weaves sculpture into a narrative installation that is both a tribute to and a lament for the transformative power of Smith's vocal artistry.

In an essay that accompanies the exhibition Dr. Kheli R. Willetts, academic director of CFAC and assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Syracuse University writes, "Adkins' work creates an environment which challenges us to engage with Smith beyond her status as a legendary musical performer. He has resurrected her as a creative deity whose stage has now become a temple and the viewers are transformed into her devotees as they enter the space."

Smith is regarded as one of the greatest blues singers of all time. She was the highest-paid black performer of her day and arguably reached a level of success greater than that of any African American recording artist before her. Yet in her adopted home of Philadelphia she remains unsung and even her grave remained unmarked until 1970.

Adkins commutes regularly from New York to Philadelphia where he teaches in the Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania. This exhibition is a continued exploration of his use of figures in history whose contributions to society are overlooked, under appreciated, or just not given the stature that he believes they should have in society. Although Adkins work emanates from an activist position, it evolves from abstract forms with the intent of educating the public about historical figures through ways that are not image based or narrative-based but that challenge the viewer to think abstractly in relating to the stories of the lives of the people concerned.

Terry Adkins has been exhibiting internationally since 1980. He is Associate Professor of Fine Art at the University of Pennsylvania where he recently installed Darkwater: A Recital in Four Dominions, a tribute to W. E. B. Du Bois at the Arthur Ross Gallery. Adkins has published numerous essays and has completed several significant public commissions. In addition to being a highly respected artist and sought after guest lecturer, his artworks have been placed in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among other significant museums and collections. He received his B.S. from Fisk University and his M.F.A from the University of Kentucky.

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Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Steven Rosenfeld, piano

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

Steven Rosenfeld will be playing the first three listed sonatas from Domenico Scarlatti's vast output, and the great Schubert A Major Sonata, D. 959. Dr. Rosenfeld is known for his interpretations of both Schubert, and more recently, Scarlatti, which he is presently recording.

SU Wind Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
John M. Laverty, conductor

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

The Wind Ensemble will perform works by Johanson and Maslanka. Guitarist Ken Meyer will appear as guest soloist.

Free parking will be available in Irving Garage.

For more information, phone 315-443-2194.

Denis Johnson, fiction
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

Preview: The Fantasticks
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

New York City's longest running musical (more than 17,000 performances off-Broadway), The Fantasticks is charming, funny, and a celebration of the bloom of first love. A girl and a boy grow up next door to each other. They are perfect for each other and they fall in love. To ensure the success of their romance, their oh-so-sly fathers devise every scheme to keep them apart. Filled with delightful songs.

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Thursday, April 24, 2008

WRAP (World Reclamation Art Project)
International Fiber Collaborative

Price: Free
2301 E. Colvin St.
(corner of Nottingham), Syracuse

Artist Jennifer Marsh and participants from all over the world have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3-foot square fiber panels that express concern about the world's extreme dependency on oil. The panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station.

For more information, visit internationalfibercollaborative.com.

Icons

Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Artists include Father Andrew Szebenyi, digitally manipulated images; Meg Gentile, acrylic on canvas; Dustin Angell, photography; Sarah Reale, Sharpie portraits on canvas; Mick Mather, monotype, monotype with linocut, tempera with linocut, and watercolor; Eddie Colelli, photography; Kevin Lucas, acrylic on canvas; David McKenney, photography.

The Materials of Color: Paintings by Italian artist Maria Grazia Facchinetti
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Labyrinths
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A life-size maze of mirrors and dreams reveals an exceptional collection of works by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna: a fugue-like series of 25 drawings and etchings inspired by the Borgian notion of the labyrinth, with Icarus as protagonist. Twenty-three 7-foot tall mirrored panels form this massive installation that complicates and multiplies the space of the gallery, and infiltrates the observer.

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Good for What Ails You!
Westcott Community Center

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

Women healing from loss...from loss of loved ones, loss of health, loss of dreams, loss of youth. We heal ourselves. We heal others. We heal through stories, through reframing memories, through engagement in our art; we heal by redefining ourselves and rebirthing. It is a story of sadness and honesty and transformation. It is about connection and growth. Ultimately it is a story of triumph.

Paintings, mixed media, fibers, photography, ceramic sculpture, creative compuer art, and poetry by Maria Brown, Melissa DeStevens-Valensuela, Linda Esterly, Patrice Fitzsimmons, Cathy Gibbons, Vanessa Johnson, Amy Patricia Komar, Suzanne Masters, Georgia Popoff, and Elaine Quick.

Patterns of Perception: Works by Mary Raineri
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Photography by Julieve Jubin
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

Works by Steven Fland and Ed Levine
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Exhibit featuring Steven Fland's wildlife sculptures and Ed Levine's watercolors.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

MFA 2008
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates.

17 artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography, and sculpture. The exhibition contains a number of artists who explore the idea of identity, while others challenge accepted notions of wealth, time, and reality. Khanh Le explores his identity as a Vietnamese-born American by combining images of his own family life, fashion and home magazines, and well known images from the Vietnam War to create a "new historical narrative". Stacey VanWaldick playfully addresses what jewelry has come to stand for in today's commercial society by fabricating "precious stones" out of bronze and chocolate. Stephanie Koenig experiments with the idea of "recyclable nostalgia" by reclaiming 70's period style to outfit the interior of her interactive life-size pirate ship. Allison Fox forms intricately detailed thin sheets of clear plastic into organic shapes through which she shines light to create ambiguous undulating shadows. The relationship between the sculpture and the shadows on the wall establishes a vibration between reality and illusion.

Other featured artists include Jen Betton, Seunghee Chung, Jennifer Gandee, Jessica Lance, Tzu Cheng Liu, Thon Lorenz, Jennifer Marsh, Frank McCauley, Ge Maggie Mu, María José Pérez (Pepa Santamaria), David Serotkin, Carrie Will, Sue Hershberger Yoder

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

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

The Sweetest Battle: Works by Rebecca Murtaugh
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Artist Statement:
I am intrigued by the space between painting and sculpture and the history of objects. Much of my work is based in installation with materials and techniques that vary to serve the needs of my intentions. I engage in processes of often altering everyday materials so that they draw from the language of each material's history and at once, transcend that history to provide an experience of the sublime. My work maintains a balance of formal and conceptual motivations. I aim for the work to be playful, sexy, visually engaging, and a rewarding intellectual experience for those viewers who seek to look further.

Artist Biography:
Rebecca Murtaugh currently splits her time between Brooklyn and Central New York. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University, Bachelor of Science from the Pennsylvania State University, and was raised in Philadelphia. Her work has been exhibited nationally in both solo and group exhibitions at venues such as the Contemporary Art Fair with Thatcher Projects in New York City, Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia, the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Northern California, the Athens Institute of Contemporary Art in Atlanta, Current Gallery in Baltimore, and the District of Columbia Art Center. Upcoming exhibitions in 2008 include Seductions at 1708 Gallery in Richmond, Virginia; Part Object, Part Sculpture at the Brew House: Space 101 in Pittsburgh; and Keeping the Conceptual Momentum at the Kelly and Weber Gallery in Philadelphia. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York where she teaches Sculpture and Critical Theory.

Opening Reception: Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith
The Warehouse Gallery
Community Folk Art Center

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

The gallery will host a public reception for the exhibition from 5:00-8:00pm that will feature a live performance by Lone Wolf Recital Corps with special guest poet and "literary hoodoo man" Arthur Flowers.

Arthur Flowers is a Vietnam veteran, blues singer, and co-founder of the New Renaissance Writer's Guild. Flowers considers himself a contemporary griot, referring to the storytellers of ancient African societies who passed on the history of their people to future generations through the oral tradition. Flowers, a professor in the English Department at Syracuse University, is a self-proclaimed "literary hoodoo man." Using spellbinding "performance poetry", Flowers accompanies his presentations with African instruments.

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith is artist Terry Adkins' multi-media tribute to Smith, known as the Empress of the Blues. Working with a variety of materials Adkins weaves sculpture into a narrative installation that is both a tribute to and a lament for the transformative power of Smith's vocal artistry.

In an essay that accompanies the exhibition Dr. Kheli R. Willetts, academic director of CFAC and assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Syracuse University writes, "Adkins' work creates an environment which challenges us to engage with Smith beyond her status as a legendary musical performer. He has resurrected her as a creative deity whose stage has now become a temple and the viewers are transformed into her devotees as they enter the space."

Smith is regarded as one of the greatest blues singers of all time. She was the highest-paid black performer of her day and arguably reached a level of success greater than that of any African American recording artist before her. Yet in her adopted home of Philadelphia she remains unsung and even her grave remained unmarked until 1970.

Adkins commutes regularly from New York to Philadelphia where he teaches in the Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania. This exhibition is a continued exploration of his use of figures in history whose contributions to society are overlooked, under appreciated, or just not given the stature that he believes they should have in society. Although Adkins work emanates from an activist position, it evolves from abstract forms with the intent of educating the public about historical figures through ways that are not image based or narrative-based but that challenge the viewer to think abstractly in relating to the stories of the lives of the people concerned.

Terry Adkins has been exhibiting internationally since 1980. He is Associate Professor of Fine Art at the University of Pennsylvania where he recently installed Darkwater: A Recital in Four Dominions, a tribute to W. E. B. Du Bois at the Arthur Ross Gallery. Adkins has published numerous essays and has completed several significant public commissions. In addition to being a highly respected artist and sought after guest lecturer, his artworks have been placed in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among other significant museums and collections. He received his B.S. from Fisk University and his M.F.A from the University of Kentucky.

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21st Annual Fashion Show
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: $6
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Senior fashion design students will present their collections in the 21st Annual Fashion Show.

Tickets can be purchased at the Schine Box Office, 315-443-4517. For more information, contact the fashion design program office at 315-443-4644.

Japanese Tea Ceremony
Everson Museum of Art

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

Participate in a Japanese Tea Ceremony presented by Tomomi VanLuven, owner of Roji Tea Lounge, coinciding with current exhibition, On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Museum of Art and Syracuse University Collections. Participants will learn how a traditional tea ceremony is prepared. The tea ceremony is a traditional ritual influenced by Zen Buddhism in which powdered green tea is ceremonially prepared by a practitioner/host and served to a guest. Tea ceremonies developed as a "transformative practice," and began to evolve their own aesthetic, in particular that of wabi. Following the demonstration, tea and cookies will be served courtesy of Roji Tea Lounge.

Shakespeare's Bodies
Featuring Dympna Callaghan

Price: Free
Bird Library, Peter Graham Scholarly Commons
Syracuse University, Syracuse

In this first in a new series of annual Mary Marshall lectures, Callaghan will argue that the question, "What is your substance, whereof are you made?" from Shakespeare's Sonnet 53, which has long fascinated readers and critics alike, is more than philosophical; it demands a specifically material answer, such as marble, flesh or wax.

Among her honors, Callaghan is recipient of a 2005 Excellence in Graduate Education Faculty Recognition Award, a Getty Long-term Scholar award and a 2001 Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship. She is the author of seven books and many articles on Shakespeare and English Renaissance literature. Her most recent book is "Romeo and Juliet: Texts and Contexts" (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003).

Mary Marshall (1903-2000) was a founder of Syracuse University Library Associates, the organization sponsoring the lecture. She was the first woman at the University to achieve the rank of full professor in The College of Liberal Arts.

Parking is available in the Marion lot. For more information, contact Anne Roth at 315-685-6832 or ABJigger@aol.com.

Art School: A Group Crit Lecture and Panel Discussion
Light Work Gallery

Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

Please join Light Work for a panel discussion and lecture featuring Bill Gaskins, Holly Greenberg, Sarah McCoubrey, and moderated by Doug Dubois. The concept for this panel was directly inspired by an article that appeared in Art in America, in May 2007. The article, titled "Art Schools: A Group Crit," featured essays about a range of issues confronting today's booming art schools and university art departments. According to the article, "The education of artists has become a growing topic of conversation, both in the media and within academia itself, and many educators and students feel the field is in a transformative phase. Driving this conversation are both larger issues, such as technology, elitism, cultural diversity and globalization, and more art-specific ones, such as the runaway growth of the contemporary art market."

This event is meant to generate a dialog among teachers, students, and administrators about the past, present, and future of training artists. The forum will also allow students, artists, and scholars to offer their divergent views.

Light Work is currently featuring an exhibition titled Educating Artists: Photography Programs in Review. This invitational juried exhibition was also inspired by the article in Art in America, and features photographs by undergraduate and graduate students from colleges and art programs. The work was submitted by artists and teachers of photography who have participated in Light Work's programs.

Jerry Beck, artist/curator of the Revolving Museum
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

If you think a museum is a stuffy building with paintings by dead people, Jerry Beck has news for you.

Artist Beck will discuss his work as the founder of the Revolving Museum, now in Lowell, MA. It is an evolving laboratory of creative expression for people of all backgrounds, ages, and abilities.

The Revolving Museum began in 1984 with "The Little Train That Could... Show, a public art installation in 12 abandoned railroad cars. The museum is dedicated to transforming abandoned and under-utilized public spaces into innovative public arts projects that create a sense of community celebration and personal empowerment.

Groundbreaking youth programs at The Revolving Museum annually reach thousands of young people, who discover how art can inspire personal and community pride, influence their academic achievement, and develop skills for leading productive, healthy and creative lives. The enthusiastic support of the Lowell community has fostered the rapid growth of the museum's programming.

Beck's talk is presented by Imagining America, Partners for Arts Education, and the VPA Departments of Fiber Arts and Sculpture as part of The Hyphenated Artist Series.

For more information, phone 315-234-9911.

SU Symphony Band
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Bradley P. Ethington and Justin J. Mertz, conductor

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

The Symphony Band will perform works by Kozhevnikov, Unger, Whitacre, Holst, Barnes, and Reed. Cedric Solice will appear as graduate conducting associate.

Free parking will be available in Irving Garage.

For more information, phone 315-443-2194.

Florence of Moravia
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive mystery/comedy dinner theater.

Preview: The Fantasticks
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

New York City's longest running musical (more than 17,000 performances off-Broadway), The Fantasticks is charming, funny, and a celebration of the bloom of first love. A girl and a boy grow up next door to each other. They are perfect for each other and they fall in love. To ensure the success of their romance, their oh-so-sly fathers devise every scheme to keep them apart. Filled with delightful songs.

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Women and Wallace
Black Box Players
Joshua Finn, director

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

Playwright Jonathan Marc Sherman drew from personal experience with the suicide of his mother when he was 18 for this drama.

Friday, April 25, 2008

WRAP (World Reclamation Art Project)
International Fiber Collaborative

Price: Free
2301 E. Colvin St.
(corner of Nottingham), Syracuse

Artist Jennifer Marsh and participants from all over the world have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3-foot square fiber panels that express concern about the world's extreme dependency on oil. The panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station.

For more information, visit internationalfibercollaborative.com.

Icons

Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Artists include Father Andrew Szebenyi, digitally manipulated images; Meg Gentile, acrylic on canvas; Dustin Angell, photography; Sarah Reale, Sharpie portraits on canvas; Mick Mather, monotype, monotype with linocut, tempera with linocut, and watercolor; Eddie Colelli, photography; Kevin Lucas, acrylic on canvas; David McKenney, photography.

The Materials of Color: Paintings by Italian artist Maria Grazia Facchinetti
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Labyrinths
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A life-size maze of mirrors and dreams reveals an exceptional collection of works by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna: a fugue-like series of 25 drawings and etchings inspired by the Borgian notion of the labyrinth, with Icarus as protagonist. Twenty-three 7-foot tall mirrored panels form this massive installation that complicates and multiplies the space of the gallery, and infiltrates the observer.

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Invasion! The Culture of Fear in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This student-curated exhibition illustrates the concept of fear in the United States. The students, members of the Renee Crown University Honors Program taking the Spring 2008 course American Fear, felt that the theme of "invasion" underlies many of our historical anxieties relating to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and a host of other issues. The idea that different people, aliens or even epidemics, like the AIDS virus during the 1980s, might infiltrate society and bring about sweeping change has been cause for extreme fear in the American experience. The exhibition raises questions of identity, and the class hopes that visitors will "understand their differences and be less discriminating in their actions."

Among the exhibited works that illuminate the roots of our culture of fear are a 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan," Cotton Mather's 1693 account of the Salem Witch trials, the literature of the Red Scare, a variety of pulp science fiction magazines and Werner Pfeiffer's sculptural tribute to the victims of 9/11 "Out of the Sky."

Good for What Ails You!
Westcott Community Center

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

Women healing from loss...from loss of loved ones, loss of health, loss of dreams, loss of youth. We heal ourselves. We heal others. We heal through stories, through reframing memories, through engagement in our art; we heal by redefining ourselves and rebirthing. It is a story of sadness and honesty and transformation. It is about connection and growth. Ultimately it is a story of triumph.

Paintings, mixed media, fibers, photography, ceramic sculpture, creative compuer art, and poetry by Maria Brown, Melissa DeStevens-Valensuela, Linda Esterly, Patrice Fitzsimmons, Cathy Gibbons, Vanessa Johnson, Amy Patricia Komar, Suzanne Masters, Georgia Popoff, and Elaine Quick.

Patterns of Perception: Works by Mary Raineri
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Photography by Julieve Jubin
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

Works by Steven Fland and Ed Levine
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Exhibit featuring Steven Fland's wildlife sculptures and Ed Levine's watercolors.

MFA 2008
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates.

17 artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography, and sculpture. The exhibition contains a number of artists who explore the idea of identity, while others challenge accepted notions of wealth, time, and reality. Khanh Le explores his identity as a Vietnamese-born American by combining images of his own family life, fashion and home magazines, and well known images from the Vietnam War to create a "new historical narrative". Stacey VanWaldick playfully addresses what jewelry has come to stand for in today's commercial society by fabricating "precious stones" out of bronze and chocolate. Stephanie Koenig experiments with the idea of "recyclable nostalgia" by reclaiming 70's period style to outfit the interior of her interactive life-size pirate ship. Allison Fox forms intricately detailed thin sheets of clear plastic into organic shapes through which she shines light to create ambiguous undulating shadows. The relationship between the sculpture and the shadows on the wall establishes a vibration between reality and illusion.

Other featured artists include Jen Betton, Seunghee Chung, Jennifer Gandee, Jessica Lance, Tzu Cheng Liu, Thon Lorenz, Jennifer Marsh, Frank McCauley, Ge Maggie Mu, María José Pérez (Pepa Santamaria), David Serotkin, Carrie Will, Sue Hershberger Yoder

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

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Special Event: Baldwin Cultural Crawl
Delavan Art Gallery

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

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

The Sweetest Battle: Works by Rebecca Murtaugh
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Artist Statement:
I am intrigued by the space between painting and sculpture and the history of objects. Much of my work is based in installation with materials and techniques that vary to serve the needs of my intentions. I engage in processes of often altering everyday materials so that they draw from the language of each material's history and at once, transcend that history to provide an experience of the sublime. My work maintains a balance of formal and conceptual motivations. I aim for the work to be playful, sexy, visually engaging, and a rewarding intellectual experience for those viewers who seek to look further.

Artist Biography:
Rebecca Murtaugh currently splits her time between Brooklyn and Central New York. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University, Bachelor of Science from the Pennsylvania State University, and was raised in Philadelphia. Her work has been exhibited nationally in both solo and group exhibitions at venues such as the Contemporary Art Fair with Thatcher Projects in New York City, Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia, the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Northern California, the Athens Institute of Contemporary Art in Atlanta, Current Gallery in Baltimore, and the District of Columbia Art Center. Upcoming exhibitions in 2008 include Seductions at 1708 Gallery in Richmond, Virginia; Part Object, Part Sculpture at the Brew House: Space 101 in Pittsburgh; and Keeping the Conceptual Momentum at the Kelly and Weber Gallery in Philadelphia. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York where she teaches Sculpture and Critical Theory.

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith
The Warehouse Gallery
Community Folk Art Center

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

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith is artist Terry Adkins' multi-media tribute to Smith, known as the Empress of the Blues. Working with a variety of materials Adkins weaves sculpture into a narrative installation that is both a tribute to and a lament for the transformative power of Smith's vocal artistry.

In an essay that accompanies the exhibition Dr. Kheli R. Willetts, academic director of CFAC and assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Syracuse University writes, "Adkins' work creates an environment which challenges us to engage with Smith beyond her status as a legendary musical performer. He has resurrected her as a creative deity whose stage has now become a temple and the viewers are transformed into her devotees as they enter the space."

Smith is regarded as one of the greatest blues singers of all time. She was the highest-paid black performer of her day and arguably reached a level of success greater than that of any African American recording artist before her. Yet in her adopted home of Philadelphia she remains unsung and even her grave remained unmarked until 1970.

Adkins commutes regularly from New York to Philadelphia where he teaches in the Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania. This exhibition is a continued exploration of his use of figures in history whose contributions to society are overlooked, under appreciated, or just not given the stature that he believes they should have in society. Although Adkins work emanates from an activist position, it evolves from abstract forms with the intent of educating the public about historical figures through ways that are not image based or narrative-based but that challenge the viewer to think abstractly in relating to the stories of the lives of the people concerned.

Terry Adkins has been exhibiting internationally since 1980. He is Associate Professor of Fine Art at the University of Pennsylvania where he recently installed Darkwater: A Recital in Four Dominions, a tribute to W. E. B. Du Bois at the Arthur Ross Gallery. Adkins has published numerous essays and has completed several significant public commissions. In addition to being a highly respected artist and sought after guest lecturer, his artworks have been placed in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among other significant museums and collections. He received his B.S. from Fisk University and his M.F.A from the University of Kentucky.

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Open House and Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Meet and greet entrepreneurs, artists and business associates; exchange best practices; and view artwork created by local artists. Artwork will include paintings, drawings, photography, Chinese water color on rice paper, ceramic, stoneware and more.

I Am Redundant, Half Of A Whole, A Freak, Identical and Lucky
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

MFA Photography Thesis Exhibition by Carrie Will.

21st Annual Fashion Show
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: $25 reserved seats; $15 balcony; $10 balcony students/seniors
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Senior fashion design students will present their collections in the 21st Annual Fashion Show.

Tickets can be purchased at the Schine Box Office, 315-443-4517. For more information, contact the fashion design program office at 315-443-4644.

In Concert 2008

Price: $16 adults; $12 for children 12 and younger and seniors
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Opening Night: Spotlight on CNY
Syracuse International Film Festival
The Flyboys

Price: $10 regular; $8 students/seniors
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

The Flyboys by Rocco DeVilliers (USA, 120 minutes, fiction) (family friendly)
Stephen Baldwin and Jessie James star in this kid friendly take on airplane disaster films of the 70's, following two small town boys who stow away on a mob-owned plane with a bomb on board. A major entertainment.

Guest star Stephen Baldwin will be in attendance to officially kick off the festival. Stephen and the film's director, Rocco DeVilliers, will have a question and answer session with the audience after the screening.

Special Event: Carol North Schmuckler New Filmmakers' Showcase
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

In the Heart of Chile by Stacy Barton (USA, 47 minutes, documentary)
Filmmaker Stacy Barton documents the long, strange trip of Santiago, Chile, from the throes of genocide and dictatorship under Pinochet in the 1970s to its current democratic state.

Janet Planet by Kevin Meegan (USA, 28 minutes, documentary)
For fans of the show Dog Whisper (or Christopher Guests Best in Show, here is a film about an animal communicator named Janet Ridgeway, shaman to all creatures great and small.

Selling a White Dress by Christopher Toppino (USA, 10 minutes, experimental)
Black-and-white photography dominates a catalog of abstract textures, disembodied voices and fragmented images of the body are propelled by a David Lynch-ian soundscape.

This is My Cheesesteak by Ben Daniels (USA, 40 minutes, documentary)
A homage to the city of Philadelphia focusing on the mouth-watering cheesesteak sandwich packs a generous amount of atmosphere in just 40 yummy minutes.

Lake Placid Film Forum presents the "Sleepless in Lake Placid" 24-hour filmmaking competition films featuring the award winning film from Syracuse University's Film Program in the Department of Transmedia, College of Visual and Performing Arts.

The Thread; Madison
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Thread by Stan Orzel and Maria Orzel (USA, 17 minutes, fiction)
Haunted by the ghost of his dead fiancee, a man seeks out a psychic who might help him exorcise her spirit in this stylish horror/mystery.

Madison by Brent Notbalm (USA, 90 minutes, fiction)
An anti-war film centered around an award-winning war correspondent distraught by his experiences in Iraq, who returns to Madison, Wisconsin in search of emotional reconnection. Politically engaging.

Lonely Joe
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Lonely Joe by Michael Coonce (USA, 110 minutes, fiction)
In the chilling spirit of The Sixth Sense comes this horror film about a woman reporter trying to find out why people are disappearing near a farm in Solvay, NY.

OCC Percussion Ensemble
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Birth of the Cool Concert
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Cornell University, Wallace Roney, and the CNY Jazz Nonet

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

For tickets or more information, phone 315-479-5299.

Words and Music Songwriter Showcase
Folkus Project
Featuring Ashley Cox, with host Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Ashley Cox is a multi-dimensional performer, singer, and songwriter who has been composing innovative and wide-ranging material since the mid-'90s. In 1997 she won the Syracuse Area Music Award (Sammy) for Best New Artist. Her unique sound has led her to perform with the likes of MeShell Ndegeocello and the Fun Lovin Criminals, while sharing production time with Russ Titleman, who produced Eric Clapton's Grammy-winning Unplugged CD. Ashley's latest album, released on her own Receptive Records label, is Honey by the Pound.

The opening set will include Ashley Cox's singing partner Lisa Romano, Tim Burns, Bob Early, and Rodgers.

The Words and Music Songwriter Showcase is a celebration of original music from Central New York and beyond, featuring established and emerging artists of all genres in an up-close-and-personal acoustic setting.

The series is hosted by singer-songwriter, author, and NPR contributor Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers.

Each monthly show includes a featured artist performing a full set, four songwriters in the round, original music by Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers, The Song Schmooze, where musicians and music lovers mingle over a drink and a bite to eat. Plus special guests, surprise collaborations, and the Soundbite of the Night, where Rodgers shares a memorable moment from his extraordinary archive of interviews with artists such as Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Jerry Garcia, Ani DiFranco, and Dave Matthews.

The Medium/Pagliacci
Syracuse Opera

Price: $17 - $155
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

For the title character in Menotti's The Medium, the seances are fake, but the killing at the end is real.

In Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, set in Italy in the 1860s, a play-within-a-play exposes real-life passions and real-life killings.

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Once Upon a Mattress
Bishop Grimes Junior-Senior High

Price: $8 regular, $5 students/seniors
Bishop Grimes Junior/Senior High School
6653 Kirkville Rd., East Syracuse

The Concert
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors/students
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The Concert, written and directed by Marcia L. Hagan, is a riveting dramatic play, with gospel music, that looks at the personal and social dynamics of three competing churches while preparing for a Mass Concert. The play that tells the story of three Baptist churches, one from the inner city, one from the lower east side of the city, and one from the suburbs, collaborating to present a musical concert to support a music scholarship fund for a graduating senior from each of the churches. The scholarship recipients must commit to serving as a musician for their church for at least one year after college graduation. This drama reveals the life, times, and tribulations of the various choir members. The story unfolds during rehearsals which take place at each church, a beauty shop, a health center, the choir members' homes, and various other places throughout the community. These rehearsals eventually culminate into a dynamic Gospel concert finale.

Bye, Bye Birie
Onondaga Central High School

Onondaga Central Junior/Senior High School
4479 S. Onondaga Rd., Nedrow

Women and Wallace
Black Box Players
Joshua Finn, director

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

Playwright Jonathan Marc Sherman drew from personal experience with the suicide of his mother when he was 18 for this drama.

Friday Night Live from Redhouse
Redhouse

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

Friday Night Live from Redhouse is an improvisational comedy show similar to the hit television series Whose Line Is It Anyway? The troupe of five seasoned actors will perform a series of games and scenarios based on audience suggestion and participation. Friday Night Live is the brainchild of Tim Mahar and Laura Austin, both products of Second City. The troupe also includes Emily Kronenberg, Mike Borden and will introduce radio personality Glen Gomez Adams who will host the show.

The Fantasticks
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

New York City's longest running musical (more than 17,000 performances off-Broadway), The Fantasticks is charming, funny, and a celebration of the bloom of first love. A girl and a boy grow up next door to each other. They are perfect for each other and they fall in love. To ensure the success of their romance, their oh-so-sly fathers devise every scheme to keep them apart. Filled with delightful songs.

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Sweeney Todd
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

Price: $18 regular, $16 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Based upon the original book The Legend of Sweeney Todd by Christopher Bond, the musical relates the story of Todd (formerly Benjamin Barker) who returns home from Australia after spending 15 years imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. Upon returning home, Todd learns of his wife's suicide after being raped by Judge Terpin, the man responsible for Todd's imprisonment. Todd vows revenge, leading to mass murder, booming business for Mrs. Lovett's pastry shop, and ultimately, tragedy. The 1979 original production, starring Angela Lansbury, won three Tonys and four Drama Desk Awards. Since then, revival productions have continued the pace, winning a host of awards and nominations. Stephen Sondheim's complex score, suffused with rich harmonies, has enticed opera companies to stage this "staggering theatre spectacle."

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Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Wit's End Players

Price: $20
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Famed comedian and former Saturday Night Live alum Steve Martin's Off-Broadway comedy finds Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso and a time-traveling Elvis meeting in a Paris café (The Nimble Rabbit) in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with Cubism. Martin's brilliant script plays fast and loose with fact, fame and fortune as these three geniuses, and a zany cast of characters, muse on the century's achievements and prospects as well as other fanciful topics with infectious hilarity!

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Saturday, April 26, 2008

WRAP (World Reclamation Art Project)
International Fiber Collaborative

Price: Free
2301 E. Colvin St.
(corner of Nottingham), Syracuse

Artist Jennifer Marsh and participants from all over the world have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3-foot square fiber panels that express concern about the world's extreme dependency on oil. The panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station.

For more information, visit internationalfibercollaborative.com.

The Materials of Color: Paintings by Italian artist Maria Grazia Facchinetti
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Patterns of Perception: Works by Mary Raineri
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Special Event: Baldwin Cultural Crawl
Delavan Art Gallery

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

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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Photography by Julieve Jubin
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Works by Steven Fland and Ed Levine
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Exhibit featuring Steven Fland's wildlife sculptures and Ed Levine's watercolors.

36th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Show
Community Folk Art Center

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

Opening reception and awards presentation 2:00-4:00 today.

Teen artists of African American, Native American, Hispanic American and Asian American heritage will display their work in the exhibition.

The Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition is the longest running collaborative exhibition in the Greater Syracuse area that features the work of underrepresented teen artists. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories. A panel of professional local artists serve as judges for the exhibition. Participating students attend Syracuse City High Schools as well as suburban Onondaga County High Schools.

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

MFA 2008
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates.

17 artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography, and sculpture. The exhibition contains a number of artists who explore the idea of identity, while others challenge accepted notions of wealth, time, and reality. Khanh Le explores his identity as a Vietnamese-born American by combining images of his own family life, fashion and home magazines, and well known images from the Vietnam War to create a "new historical narrative". Stacey VanWaldick playfully addresses what jewelry has come to stand for in today's commercial society by fabricating "precious stones" out of bronze and chocolate. Stephanie Koenig experiments with the idea of "recyclable nostalgia" by reclaiming 70's period style to outfit the interior of her interactive life-size pirate ship. Allison Fox forms intricately detailed thin sheets of clear plastic into organic shapes through which she shines light to create ambiguous undulating shadows. The relationship between the sculpture and the shadows on the wall establishes a vibration between reality and illusion.

Other featured artists include Jen Betton, Seunghee Chung, Jennifer Gandee, Jessica Lance, Tzu Cheng Liu, Thon Lorenz, Jennifer Marsh, Frank McCauley, Ge Maggie Mu, María José Pérez (Pepa Santamaria), David Serotkin, Carrie Will, Sue Hershberger Yoder

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

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Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Artists include Father Andrew Szebenyi, digitally manipulated images; Meg Gentile, acrylic on canvas; Dustin Angell, photography; Sarah Reale, Sharpie portraits on canvas; Mick Mather, monotype, monotype with linocut, tempera with linocut, and watercolor; Eddie Colelli, photography; Kevin Lucas, acrylic on canvas; David McKenney, photography.

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith
The Warehouse Gallery
Community Folk Art Center

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

Songs of Hearth and Valor, Recital in 8 Dominions, After Bessie Smith is artist Terry Adkins' multi-media tribute to Smith, known as the Empress of the Blues. Working with a variety of materials Adkins weaves sculpture into a narrative installation that is both a tribute to and a lament for the transformative power of Smith's vocal artistry.

In an essay that accompanies the exhibition Dr. Kheli R. Willetts, academic director of CFAC and assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Syracuse University writes, "Adkins' work creates an environment which challenges us to engage with Smith beyond her status as a legendary musical performer. He has resurrected her as a creative deity whose stage has now become a temple and the viewers are transformed into her devotees as they enter the space."

Smith is regarded as one of the greatest blues singers of all time. She was the highest-paid black performer of her day and arguably reached a level of success greater than that of any African American recording artist before her. Yet in her adopted home of Philadelphia she remains unsung and even her grave remained unmarked until 1970.

Adkins commutes regularly from New York to Philadelphia where he teaches in the Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania. This exhibition is a continued exploration of his use of figures in history whose contributions to society are overlooked, under appreciated, or just not given the stature that he believes they should have in society. Although Adkins work emanates from an activist position, it evolves from abstract forms with the intent of educating the public about historical figures through ways that are not image based or narrative-based but that challenge the viewer to think abstractly in relating to the stories of the lives of the people concerned.

Terry Adkins has been exhibiting internationally since 1980. He is Associate Professor of Fine Art at the University of Pennsylvania where he recently installed Darkwater: A Recital in Four Dominions, a tribute to W. E. B. Du Bois at the Arthur Ross Gallery. Adkins has published numerous essays and has completed several significant public commissions. In addition to being a highly respected artist and sought after guest lecturer, his artworks have been placed in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among other significant museums and collections. He received his B.S. from Fisk University and his M.F.A from the University of Kentucky.

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Electric Art Show: 100 Million Years of Progress
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Taskale Gallery
713 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Graduate students and faculty in the Department of Transmedia's computer art program will celebrate "100 million years of progress" with the Electric Art Show, an exhibition of interactive and electronic works. The Electric Art Show features fun, interactive art displays, 3-D computer animation, and physical computing projects. All of the artwork functions using electronics and computers in some way, making this an exhibition fit for the 21st century.

Graduate students participating include Steve Belovarich, Blake Carrington, Bret Malley, Ryan Marchand and Chris Prior. Faculty members with work featured include Heath Hanlin, Sean Hovendick and Diana Salles.

The graduate students' projects include an installation that uses the movement of cockroaches to modify audio clips of prominent figures speaking about progress and decay, a digital picture frame that blurs the digital image the closer a person stands to it, a surreal 3-D animation based on a poem that visits "phantasmagoric rehallucinations of memories," an interactive installation in which the participant can shoot down news headlines on a projected screen, and several works that address environmental issues in different, unexpected ways.

The computer art program is dedicated to exploring the possibilities of digital media in a fine-art, experimental context. Through instruction in interactive media, procedural thinking and virtual space/time, students are encouraged to develop their vision and technical skills.

For more information about the show, contact Belovarich at 315-399-7700 or sjbelova@syr.edu.

In Concert 2008

Price: $16 adults; $12 for children 12 and younger and seniors
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Ballou
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts
728 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Ballou by Michael Patrei (USA, 90 minute, documentary) (family friendly)
A high school marching band from a troubled part of Washington, D.C. must overcome their disadvantages to compete in a national contest, and inspire a community to believe again. A big time hit.

Americano
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Americano by Carlos Ferrand (Quebec/Canada, 110 minutes, documentary) USA Premiere
A journey across the North American continent that revisits a past of exploitation and suffering, the weight of silenced races extinguished for the good of the European conquest. Beautifully made.

Ivory Bastards Against Extinction; Swing State
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Ivory Bastards Against Extinction by Jon Case and Timothy M. Ferlito (USA, 30 minutes, fiction)
A coke-snorting U.S. president and a stolen fetus are just two of the pulpy ingredients in this lampoon of the masked wrestler genre, following in the stylistic footsteps of Grindhouse.

Swing State by Jason Zone Fisher and John Intrater (USA, 90 minutes, documentary)
A son follows his politician dad for a period of six months during his 2006 campaign to become lieutenant governor of Ohio, providing an inside look at the political workings of a state election. Revelatory and personal.

Special Heritage Series of Silent Films
Syracuse International Film Festival
Society for New Music

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Three classic silent films will be screened, with live music performed by members of the Society for New Music ensemble.

Un Chien Andalou by Luis Buñuel (1927, Spain, 16 minutes, surrealism)
Original music score written by Martin Matalon (Argentina)

Las Hurdes by Luis Buñuel (1933, Spain, 30 minutes, surrealistic documentary)
Original music score written by Martin Matalon (Argentina)

Woman of Tokyo by Yasujiro Ozu (1933, Japan, 47 minutes, fiction)
Original music score written by Wayne Horvitz (USA)

Llueve; One Day Like Rain
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Llueve by Alexis Mendez Giner (Venezuela, 14 minutes, fiction) USA Premiere
Inspired by John Howinson's gothic tale, The Floating Beacon tells the inner story of a man running away from himself.

One Day Like Rain by Paul Todisco (USA, 87 minutes, fiction)
An exercise in cultish weirdness, this fringe flick follows the wild misadventures of a teen living in Californian cookie-cutter as she enacts a plan to save the world from an apocalyptic end. Strange and engaging.

Special Event -- Concerns of Animals and People: Central New York Art Video
Syracuse University School of Art and Design
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multi-film discount passes available
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Program presented in collaboration with the Department of Transmedia and curated by Tom Sherman and John Orentlicher.

John Orentlicher: Stable (2007, 10 minutes); Hot Shoes (2008, 11 minutes)
Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby: Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure (2006, 14 minutes); The Spirit Guides are Watching (2008, 10 minutes)
Yvonne Buchanan: Bridge (2005, 6 minutes); Listening (2005, 4 minutes); Perfect Stranger (2007, 2 minutes); As Yet Untitled (2007, 2 minutes 30 seconds)
Joanna Spitzner: Private Space (2008, 6 minutes 30 seconds); The Real Campaign (2006, 9 minutes 10 seconds)
EcoArtTech (Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir): A Series of Practical Performances in the Wilderness (2005, 15 minutes)
Nerve Theory (Bernhard Loibner and Tom Sherman): World of Strangers (2006, 2 minutes 45 seconds); Brain Fingerprinting (2006, 2 minutes 50 seconds); Cultures of Fear and Loathing (2007, 1 minute 30 seconds); Gig (2007, 3 minutes 30 seconds); Fray (2007, 4 minutes 20 seconds)

Day of Percussion
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Vocal Jazz Jam
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

First Unitarian Universalist Society Music Series
The Boccaccio Trio

First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

The trio, comprised of Jeremy Mastrangelo, violin; David Ledoux, cello; and Fred Karpoff, piano, will perform Schubert's Piano Trio in B-Flat, D. 898 and the Brahms Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34, with Sara Mastrangelo, violin, and Amy Diefes, viola.

Alice in Wonderland
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive family performance.

Songs for a New World
LeMoyne College

Price: $12 regular; $8 seniors; $4 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Music Director Travis Newton leads the first Central New York performance of Jason Robert Brown's earliest show. Songs for a New World transports the listener from the deck of a 1492 Spanish sailing ship to a ledge 57 stories above Fifth Avenue, introducing an array of characters, including a young man who feels that basketball is his ticket out of the ghetto and a woman who dreams of marrying rich.

The Fantasticks
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

New York City's longest running musical (more than 17,000 performances off-Broadway), The Fantasticks is charming, funny, and a celebration of the bloom of first love. A girl and a boy grow up next door to each other. They are perfect for each other and they fall in love. To ensure the success of their romance, their oh-so-sly fathers devise every scheme to keep them apart. Filled with delightful songs.

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Once Upon a Mattress
Bishop Grimes Junior-Senior High

Price: $8 regular, $5 students/seniors
Bishop Grimes Junior/Senior High School
6653 Kirkville Rd., East Syracuse

The Concert
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors/students
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The Concert, written and directed by Marcia L. Hagan, is a riveting dramatic play, with gospel music, that looks at the personal and social dynamics of three competing churches while preparing for a Mass Concert. The play that tells the story of three Baptist churches, one from the inner city, one from the lower east side of the city, and one from the suburbs, collaborating to present a musical concert to support a music scholarship fund for a graduating senior from each of the churches. The scholarship recipients must commit to serving as a musician for their church for at least one year after college graduation. This drama reveals the life, times, and tribulations of the various choir members. The story unfolds during rehearsals which take place at each church, a beauty shop, a health center, the choir members' homes, and various other places throughout the community. These rehearsals eventually culminate into a dynamic Gospel concert finale.

Bye, Bye Birie
Onondaga Central High School

Onondaga Central Junior/Senior High School
4479 S. Onondaga Rd., Nedrow

Women and Wallace
Black Box Players
Joshua Finn, director

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

Playwright Jonathan Marc Sherman drew from personal experience with the suicide of his mother when he was 18 for this drama.

Songs for a New World
LeMoyne College

Price: $12 regular; $8 seniors; $4 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Music Director Travis Newton leads the first Central New York performance of Jason Robert Brown's earliest show. Songs for a New World transports the listener from the deck of a 1492 Spanish sailing ship to a ledge 57 stories above Fifth Avenue, introducing an array of characters, including a young man who feels that basketball is his ticket out of the ghetto and a woman who dreams of marrying rich.

The Fantasticks
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

New York City's longest running musical (more than 17,000 performances off-Broadway), The Fantasticks is charming, funny, and a celebration of the bloom of first love. A girl and a boy grow up next door to each other. They are perfect for each other and they fall in love. To ensure the success of their romance, their oh-so-sly fathers devise every scheme to keep them apart. Filled with delightful songs.

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Sweeney Todd
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

Price: $18 regular, $16 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Based upon the original book The Legend of Sweeney Todd by Christopher Bond, the musical relates the story of Todd (formerly Benjamin Barker) who returns home from Australia after spending 15 years imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. Upon returning home, Todd learns of his wife's suicide after being raped by Judge Terpin, the man responsible for Todd's imprisonment. Todd vows revenge, leading to mass murder, booming business for Mrs. Lovett's pastry shop, and ultimately, tragedy. The 1979 original production, starring Angela Lansbury, won three Tonys and four Drama Desk Awards. Since then, revival productions have continued the pace, winning a host of awards and nominations. Stephen Sondheim's complex score, suffused with rich harmonies, has enticed opera companies to stage this "staggering theatre spectacle."

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Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Wit's End Players

Price: $20
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Famed comedian and former Saturday Night Live alum Steve Martin's Off-Broadway comedy finds Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso and a time-traveling Elvis meeting in a Paris café (The Nimble Rabbit) in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with Cubism. Martin's brilliant script plays fast and loose with fact, fame and fortune as these three geniuses, and a zany cast of characters, muse on the century's achievements and prospects as well as other fanciful topics with infectious hilarity!

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Sunday, April 27, 2008

WRAP (World Reclamation Art Project)
International Fiber Collaborative

Price: Free
2301 E. Colvin St.
(corner of Nottingham), Syracuse

Artist Jennifer Marsh and participants from all over the world have crocheted, knitted, stitched, patched, or collaged 3-foot square fiber panels that express concern about the world's extreme dependency on oil. The panels have been sewn together to completely cover an abandoned gas station.

For more information, visit internationalfibercollaborative.com.

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

MFA 2008
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

An exhibition of the School of Art and Design's Masters of Fine Arts degree candidates.

17 artists will exhibit a range of work from video and installation to painting, photography, and sculpture. The exhibition contains a number of artists who explore the idea of identity, while others challenge accepted notions of wealth, time, and reality. Khanh Le explores his identity as a Vietnamese-born American by combining images of his own family life, fashion and home magazines, and well known images from the Vietnam War to create a "new historical narrative". Stacey VanWaldick playfully addresses what jewelry has come to stand for in today's commercial society by fabricating "precious stones" out of bronze and chocolate. Stephanie Koenig experiments with the idea of "recyclable nostalgia" by reclaiming 70's period style to outfit the interior of her interactive life-size pirate ship. Allison Fox forms intricately detailed thin sheets of clear plastic into organic shapes through which she shines light to create ambiguous undulating shadows. The relationship between the sculpture and the shadows on the wall establishes a vibration between reality and illusion.

Other featured artists include Jen Betton, Seunghee Chung, Jennifer Gandee, Jessica Lance, Tzu Cheng Liu, Thon Lorenz, Jennifer Marsh, Frank McCauley, Ge Maggie Mu, María José Pérez (Pepa Santamaria), David Serotkin, Carrie Will, Sue Hershberger Yoder

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

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

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Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Artists include Father Andrew Szebenyi, digitally manipulated images; Meg Gentile, acrylic on canvas; Dustin Angell, photography; Sarah Reale, Sharpie portraits on canvas; Mick Mather, monotype, monotype with linocut, tempera with linocut, and watercolor; Eddie Colelli, photography; Kevin Lucas, acrylic on canvas; David McKenney, photography.

Works by Steven Fland and Ed Levine
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Exhibit featuring Steven Fland's wildlife sculptures and Ed Levine's watercolors.

Films on War & Peace: To Die In Jerusalem
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; LeMoyne students free; multi-film discount passes available
Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

To Die In Jerusalem by Hilla Medalia (Israel, 76 minutes, documentary)
Connects the families of two 17-year-old women killed in a 2002 suicide bombing: one, the victim, an Israeli; the other, a Palestinian searching for martyrdom. Very powerful.

The three films in the War & Peace mini-series today are related by their general interest in examining conflict, and by their more particular interest in the possible value of staging (both during and after a conflict) non-violent encounters between the members of warring parties. All three films concern the construction of dialogues between present or former enemies. Each film will be followed by a discussion. Refreshments will be served.

Films on War & Peace: Ezra
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; LeMoyne students free; multi-film discount passes available
Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Ezra by Newton Aduaka (Nigeria, 110 minutes, fiction)
Depicting the life of a child solider, Ezra centers on a 16-year-old boy kidnapped when he was 6 by a band of guerrillas and forced to enact crimes for which he will never be forgiven. Powerful.

The three films in the War & Peace mini-series today are related by their general interest in examining conflict, and by their more particular interest in the possible value of staging (both during and after a conflict) non-violent encounters between the members of warring parties. All three films concern the construction of dialogues between present or former enemies. Each film will be followed by a discussion. Refreshments will be served.

Films on War & Peace: Meeting Resistance
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; LeMoyne students free; multi-film discount passes available
Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Meeting Resistance by Steve Connors and Molly Bingham (USA, 84 minutes, documentary)
This film brings a face to the Iraqi insurgency, investing these people with personal stories that give perspective to their struggle, and explode myth after myth about the war in Iraq. Controversial and fascinating.

The three films in the War & Peace mini-series today are related by their general interest in examining conflict, and by their more particular interest in the possible value of staging (both during and after a conflict) non-violent encounters between the members of warring parties. All three films concern the construction of dialogues between present or former enemies. Each film will be followed by a discussion. Refreshments will be served.

Sunday Musicale: September Trio
Fayetteville Free Library

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

SU Concert Band
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Justin Mertz, conductor

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

Setnor School graduate students Sky Harris and Jennifer Luzzo will appear as graduate conducting associates. The program will include works by Nelson, Berlioz, Schwartz, Lauridsen, Sousa and Smith.

Free parking will be available in Irving Garage.

For more information, phone 315-443-2194.

Spring Concert
Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra
Erik Kibelsbeck, conductor
Featuring Kelly Covert, flute

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Man Ching Yu Two Overtures (world premiere)
Reinecke Flute Concerto
Schumann Symphony No. 1

OCC Spring Concert: Wind Ensemble and Choir
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Spring Concert
Hendricks Chapel
Hendricks Chapel Choir and SU Men's Glee Club
Featuring Kola Owolabi, organ; Dianna Hnatiw, percussion

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The program will feature a wide variety of music from several countries and cultures, including India, Nigeria and Zambia, as well as sacred masterworks by Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Vaughan Williams and several contemporary American composers.

The choir will be conducted by director John Warren, and the Glee Club will be under the direction of Lon Beery. Accompaniment will be provided by Kola Owolabi, University organist, and Dianna Hnatiw, percussionist.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage.

Stars of Tomorrow Cabaret
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Big Band Jazz Concert
Young Lions of Central New York

Price: $5
Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts
728 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Ensemble composed of talented CNY high school musicians.

The Medium/Pagliacci
Syracuse Opera

Price: $17 - $155
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

For the title character in Menotti's The Medium, the seances are fake, but the killing at the end is real.

In Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, set in Italy in the 1860s, a play-within-a-play exposes real-life passions and real-life killings.

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Elegy in Blue
Armory Square Playwrights

Price: $6 regular, $5 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Armory Square Playhouse will present a reading of a staged reading of a new play by Donna Stuccio.

In Elegy in Blue, the lives of five lost souls - a pair of veteran cops, a transient ex-con, a homeless man, and a young boy  fatefully intersect on the streets of Atlantic City. Love, loss, retribution, and redemption are at the forefront as long secreted information threatens to reap catastrophic fallout.

Len Fonte will direct the reading, featuring veteran Central New York actors Al Marshall, Mark Eischen, and Dennis Heaphy. It also features newcomers Danielle von Gal, recently seen as Maggie in Syracuse University Drama Department's production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Leandre Johnson, a student in the Kuumba Project, an arts training initiative for artistically gifted middle school students.

Donna Stuccio is a graduate of Syracuse University's Drama Department and will complete the MFA Creative Writing program at Goddard College next month. Other full length plays, Blue Moon and The Job, premiered at Salt City Playhouse. Throughout the years, several of her short plays received readings through Armory Square Playhouse. She participated in Ithaca's Kitchen Theatre's 3rd Annual 48 Hour Playwriting Marathon during which she wrote the short play, Heart Burn, later reprised at the Redhouse. Wolf's Mouth Theater Collective in Ithaca will soon present her short play Nice Pants. Her plays have been published in the Journal of Women and Criminal Justice, The Pitkin Review, and Textualities. A long-standing member of Armory Square Playhouse, she is an adjunct instructor of playwriting at Onondaga Community College and Manlius Pebble Hill Upper School.

This performance is a presentation of a work in progress. A talkback discussion with the playwright will follow the performance.

Once Upon a Mattress
Bishop Grimes Junior-Senior High

Price: $8 regular, $5 students/seniors
Bishop Grimes Junior/Senior High School
6653 Kirkville Rd., East Syracuse

The Fantasticks
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director

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

New York City's longest running musical (more than 17,000 performances off-Broadway), The Fantasticks is charming, funny, and a celebration of the bloom of first love. A girl and a boy grow up next door to each other. They are perfect for each other and they fall in love. To ensure the success of their romance, their oh-so-sly fathers devise every scheme to keep them apart. Filled with delightful songs.

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Sweeney Todd
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

Price: $18 regular, $16 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Based upon the original book The Legend of Sweeney Todd by Christopher Bond, the musical relates the story of Todd (formerly Benjamin Barker) who returns home from Australia after spending 15 years imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. Upon returning home, Todd learns of his wife's suicide after being raped by Judge Terpin, the man responsible for Todd's imprisonment. Todd vows revenge, leading to mass murder, booming business for Mrs. Lovett's pastry shop, and ultimately, tragedy. The 1979 original production, starring Angela Lansbury, won three Tonys and four Drama Desk Awards. Since then, revival productions have continued the pace, winning a host of awards and nominations. Stephen Sondheim's complex score, suffused with rich harmonies, has enticed opera companies to stage this "staggering theatre spectacle."

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Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Wit's End Players

Price: $20
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Famed comedian and former Saturday Night Live alum Steve Martin's Off-Broadway comedy finds Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso and a time-traveling Elvis meeting in a Paris café (The Nimble Rabbit) in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with Cubism. Martin's brilliant script plays fast and loose with fact, fame and fortune as these three geniuses, and a zany cast of characters, muse on the century's achievements and prospects as well as other fanciful topics with infectious hilarity!

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