Monday, February 21, 2011

The Psyche and Color: An Italian Point of View

Price: Free
Hospice of Central New York
990 Seventh North St., Liverpool

Maria Rizzo and Maria Grazia Facchinetti from Italy of two different generations and with two points of view, show 14 works each in an explosive combination of light, color and symbolism.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Ludwig Stein Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

This exhibit will depict the 14 Stations of the Cross, also called "Via Dolorosa" or "The Way of Sorrows.” These events are the depiction of the final hours of Christ, and they cover the Passion of Jesus from his condemnation to his entombment.

Cortland County Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists include Fred Zimmerman, David Yaman, Kathy Williams, Carl Steckler, Laurie Seamans, Meg Richardson, Lyla Phillips, Allen Phillips, Joan Niswender, Richard Mitchell, Amy Hnatko, Emily Gibbons, Serry Dans, Kathie Beale, and David Beale.

Orange Pulp: The Pulp Magazine & Contemporary Culture
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be pulp magazines, notably titles like Weird Tales and Amazing Stories; the typescript of Isaac Asimov's "Strange Playfellow," which introduced readers to one of science fiction's best known characters, Robbie the Robot; and correspondence with figures like Ray Bradbury.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Marcel Breuer and Postwar America
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Drawings from the Marcel Breuer Papers, curated by SU Architecture students, with Barry Bergdoll and Jonathan Massey. The exhibition is the outcome of their work in the extensive Breuer archive at the Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center. It features images of 120 drawings, as well as photographs, documenting thirteen of Breuer’s major postwar buildings and projects. Full-scale reproductions highlight themes that characterized some of Breuer’s lesser-known major work and document his responses to the needs and opportunities of postwar American society.

Breuer (1902-1981) was a leading figure among the second generation of modernist architects whose striking designs for furniture, houses, institutions, and commercial buildings helped to set the shape and style of modernity in Europe and the United States, leading “Time” magazine to characterize him as one of the “form givers of the 20th century.” His works include the UNESCO headquarters in Paris and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Where Eagles Fly: Works by Don Ford
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Don Ward, humorist, storyteller, artist, and poet, will have at least a dozen photos, along with stories and poems, on display. This is the first solo show of the artist, who has had his writings featured in many magazines across the U.S., Portugal, and Cyprus.

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Hudson Past/Perfect: Photos by Marna Bell
Light Work Gallery

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

Marna Bell is the winner of the Light Work/Community Darkrooms Members Juried Exhibition competition. In 2005, after the sudden death of her mother, Bell picked up her camera after a 20-year hiatus from painting and began photographing nature. Her focus in both painting and photography has been on reclaiming visions of the past and her connection to nature.

According to Bell, "Many trips back home to New York City on the train have helped me remember lost pieces of time where life seemed simpler and less veiled. It was a natural progression for me to record the cycle of change in my 'Hudson Past/Perfect' series. By revisiting the same landscapes in different seasons and under different weather conditions, I was able to capture the past before it disappeared. I am drawn to the meditative quality of the Hudson River and the sacred aspects of the natural environment. The series is reminiscent of a more romantic era, when God and nature were viewed as one."

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

This suite of three video installations, "Mare," "Perigee", and "Penumbra," by Demetrius Oliver reconnects viewers to their place in the universe by playing with earthly and human forms against a backdrop of the cosmos. In "Penumbra," explorations of light and scale, movement and the rhythm of the natural world suggest journeys both physical and metaphysical.

One of the installations will be on view in the Light Work Gallery, one projected onto the Everson Museum, and one installed in the Menschel Photography Gallery in the Schine Student Center.

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Focus x Three: Photography and Video
Redhouse

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

Focus x Three, the second in the Emerging Women of CNY series, highlights the work of three photographers: Erin Mulvehill, Gillian Andrew, and Colleen Woolpert. Each has an association and history with Syracuse, as all are graduates of Syracuse University. They have all worked, in some capacity, in the world of professional photography, perfecting their craft, while continuing to pursue the "fine art" side of their vision. Curator of this exhibition, Marianne Smith Dalton, stated: "Each of these women masterfully uses the camera to convey her own unique reflection of 'reality.' These compelling photographs, frozen moments in time, will captivate and hold you transfixed. Come celebrate the work of these three young women and discover a new way to 'see' through the lenses of these talented photographers."

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

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Implements of Mass Construction
Erie Canal Museum

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

The Erie Canal was built by thousands of untrained men during the 19th century, before the United States had any civil engineering professionals. So how did they construct a canal across the entire state of New York? Come by the Erie Canal Museum and see the tools that made it possible. The 16 items on view were used for construction or industry along the Erie Canal in the 19th century. Visit the Museum's second floor gallery to try to guess what each instrument is. Tools similar to some of the implements on display are still used today, but others will require some guesswork. Come visit today to guess for yourself!

4th Annual Gospel Fest
Onondaga Community College

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Gwar with Mobile Deathcamp, Mensrea, Ruination
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

The Psyche and Color: An Italian Point of View

Price: Free
Hospice of Central New York
990 Seventh North St., Liverpool

Maria Rizzo and Maria Grazia Facchinetti from Italy of two different generations and with two points of view, show 14 works each in an explosive combination of light, color and symbolism.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Ludwig Stein Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

This exhibit will depict the 14 Stations of the Cross, also called "Via Dolorosa" or "The Way of Sorrows.” These events are the depiction of the final hours of Christ, and they cover the Passion of Jesus from his condemnation to his entombment.

Cortland County Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists include Fred Zimmerman, David Yaman, Kathy Williams, Carl Steckler, Laurie Seamans, Meg Richardson, Lyla Phillips, Allen Phillips, Joan Niswender, Richard Mitchell, Amy Hnatko, Emily Gibbons, Serry Dans, Kathie Beale, and David Beale.

Orange Pulp: The Pulp Magazine & Contemporary Culture
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be pulp magazines, notably titles like Weird Tales and Amazing Stories; the typescript of Isaac Asimov's "Strange Playfellow," which introduced readers to one of science fiction's best known characters, Robbie the Robot; and correspondence with figures like Ray Bradbury.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Marcel Breuer and Postwar America
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Drawings from the Marcel Breuer Papers, curated by SU Architecture students, with Barry Bergdoll and Jonathan Massey. The exhibition is the outcome of their work in the extensive Breuer archive at the Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center. It features images of 120 drawings, as well as photographs, documenting thirteen of Breuer’s major postwar buildings and projects. Full-scale reproductions highlight themes that characterized some of Breuer’s lesser-known major work and document his responses to the needs and opportunities of postwar American society.

Breuer (1902-1981) was a leading figure among the second generation of modernist architects whose striking designs for furniture, houses, institutions, and commercial buildings helped to set the shape and style of modernity in Europe and the United States, leading “Time” magazine to characterize him as one of the “form givers of the 20th century.” His works include the UNESCO headquarters in Paris and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Where Eagles Fly: Works by Don Ford
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Don Ward, humorist, storyteller, artist, and poet, will have at least a dozen photos, along with stories and poems, on display. This is the first solo show of the artist, who has had his writings featured in many magazines across the U.S., Portugal, and Cyprus.

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Amos Kennedy Prints!
Community Folk Art Center

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

Focusing on issues of race, violence and community, "Amos Kennedy Prints!" features the hand-printed works of Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. and will include prints created at CFAC. By transforming the gallery into an active printmaking workshop, Kennedy will collaborate with students from the Syracuse area and Syracuse University to create images and broadsides that reflect issues of race, gender and politics and illustrate the impact of violence in the city on their lives and community. The public is invited to meet Kennedy and to observe and participate in the printmaking process.

Hudson Past/Perfect: Photos by Marna Bell
Light Work Gallery

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

Marna Bell is the winner of the Light Work/Community Darkrooms Members Juried Exhibition competition. In 2005, after the sudden death of her mother, Bell picked up her camera after a 20-year hiatus from painting and began photographing nature. Her focus in both painting and photography has been on reclaiming visions of the past and her connection to nature.

According to Bell, "Many trips back home to New York City on the train have helped me remember lost pieces of time where life seemed simpler and less veiled. It was a natural progression for me to record the cycle of change in my 'Hudson Past/Perfect' series. By revisiting the same landscapes in different seasons and under different weather conditions, I was able to capture the past before it disappeared. I am drawn to the meditative quality of the Hudson River and the sacred aspects of the natural environment. The series is reminiscent of a more romantic era, when God and nature were viewed as one."

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

This suite of three video installations, "Mare," "Perigee", and "Penumbra," by Demetrius Oliver reconnects viewers to their place in the universe by playing with earthly and human forms against a backdrop of the cosmos. In "Penumbra," explorations of light and scale, movement and the rhythm of the natural world suggest journeys both physical and metaphysical.

One of the installations will be on view in the Light Work Gallery, one projected onto the Everson Museum, and one installed in the Menschel Photography Gallery in the Schine Student Center.

Focus x Three: Photography and Video
Redhouse

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

Focus x Three, the second in the Emerging Women of CNY series, highlights the work of three photographers: Erin Mulvehill, Gillian Andrew, and Colleen Woolpert. Each has an association and history with Syracuse, as all are graduates of Syracuse University. They have all worked, in some capacity, in the world of professional photography, perfecting their craft, while continuing to pursue the "fine art" side of their vision. Curator of this exhibition, Marianne Smith Dalton, stated: "Each of these women masterfully uses the camera to convey her own unique reflection of 'reality.' These compelling photographs, frozen moments in time, will captivate and hold you transfixed. Come celebrate the work of these three young women and discover a new way to 'see' through the lenses of these talented photographers."

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity is a rich, reflective exhibition of works by 40 artists representing the vast cultural blend of modern American society.

American artists of African, Arab, European, Asian, Latino, and Native American descent explore their heritage in this vivid and diverse exhibition using a wide variety of media. The artists examine patriotism, communication, struggle for acceptance, being an American in the 21st century, and more. Humor, heartache, anger, apprehension--all emotions are evoked by these works, raising questions about race, class, gender and age. Four main themes run through Infinite Mirror: Self-Selection, Pride, Assimilation, and Protest, providing audiences with the opportunity to re-examine both the story and storytellers of the quintessential "American dream."

The exhibition was curated by Blake Bradford, Curator and Director of Education at the Barnes Foundation; Benito Huerta, Curator and Director of The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington; and Robert Lee, Curator and Executive Director at Asian American Arts Centre in New York.

Paid parking is available for weekday visitors in any SU pay lot. Free parking for weekend and evening visitors is available in the Q4 lot, located on College Place. Patrons should notify the attendant that they are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Evening and weekend parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome.

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The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

A selection of 30 woodcuts and etchings by the internationally known and collected Chinese American artist and educator. This exhibition is a limited retrospective look at Seong Moy's career as printmaker.

Moy's early works, small but complicated woodcuts on soft luminous papers, were immediately accepted by artists, curators, and the public. A painterly quality, so important to his entire graphic output, is evident in much of this work and is all the more special because it is captured in color wood block prints that require great sophistication and skill from the artist.

As Moy's career continued to develop, his interest in capturing spatial relationships of shapes and forms in his compositions, was heightened by the role color plays in energizing these elements. This trend continued for a number a years and could also be found in his cardboard relief prints.

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

Orange Pulp: Works by Norman Saunders
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

A profile of pulp artist Norman Saunders (1907-1989), including 10 lush and dramatic Saunders paintings from the university collection.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Casey Landerkin: Paintings and Illustrations
Echo

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

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

Read a review!

Implements of Mass Construction
Erie Canal Museum

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

The Erie Canal was built by thousands of untrained men during the 19th century, before the United States had any civil engineering professionals. So how did they construct a canal across the entire state of New York? Come by the Erie Canal Museum and see the tools that made it possible. The 16 items on view were used for construction or industry along the Erie Canal in the 19th century. Visit the Museum's second floor gallery to try to guess what each instrument is. Tools similar to some of the implements on display are still used today, but others will require some guesswork. Come visit today to guess for yourself!

Visiting Artist Lecture: The Escape of Art
Syracuse University School of Art and Design
Featuring Graeme Sullivan

Price: Free
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Graeme Sullivan, director of the School of Visual Arts and a professor of art education at The Pennsylvania State University, will present the lecture "The Escape of Art." Sullivan's particular scholarly interest involves exploring the critical-reflexive thinking and forming processes of inquiry used in visual arts so as to enhance the importance of studio-based research in universities and art schools. He described his ideas in his book Art Practice as Research: Inquiry in Visual Arts (Sage, 2005), which underwent a major update and revision in a new edition published in 2010.

Sullivan received the 1990 Manual Barkan Memorial Award from the National Art Education Association for scholarly writing and was the recipient of the 2007 Lowenfeld Award for significant contribution to the field of art education. He is also the author of Seeing Australia: Views of Artists and Artwriters. (Piper Press, 1994).

Sullivan's record of professional service includes editor positions with Studies in Art Education and Australian Art Education, and as editorial board member and consultant to the International Journal of Art & Design Education (UK), International Journal of Education & the Arts and Studies in Material Thinking. He maintains an active art practice, and his Streetworks artwork has been installed in several international cities and sites over the past 15 years.

Parking is available for $4 in Booth Garage. Patrons should mention that they are attending the lecture to receive this rate. For more information, contact James Haywood Rolling Jr. at 315-443-2355 or jrolling@syr.edu.

Galactic,with Cyril Neville, Corey Henry (Rebirth Brass Band), High and Mighty Brass Band
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Rain: A Tribute to The Beatles
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $55, $40, $30
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

From Ed Sullivan to Abbey Road! They look like them and they sound just like them! "The next best thing to seeing The Beatles," raves the Denver Post. In 1964, a group of boys from Liverpool changed the face of rock n roll. Together longer than The Beatles themselves, Rain has mastered every song, gesture and nuance of the legendary group, delivering a totally live, note-for-note performance. From the early hits to later classics that The Beatles never got the chance to play live, this multi-media concert recaptures the era through all phases of The Beatles astounding musical career. Rain covers the Fab Four from their very first Ed Sullivan Show appearance through the Abbey Road album, the psychedelic late 60s and their long-haired hippie, hard-rocking rooftop days. For the longtime band members the music is first and foremost. All the music is performed live, with no pre-recorded tapes or sequences. Sing along with your family and friends to such Beatlemaniac favorites as Let It Be, Hey Jude, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Come Together and Can't Buy Me Love.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

The Psyche and Color: An Italian Point of View

Price: Free
Hospice of Central New York
990 Seventh North St., Liverpool

Maria Rizzo and Maria Grazia Facchinetti from Italy of two different generations and with two points of view, show 14 works each in an explosive combination of light, color and symbolism.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Cortland County Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists include Fred Zimmerman, David Yaman, Kathy Williams, Carl Steckler, Laurie Seamans, Meg Richardson, Lyla Phillips, Allen Phillips, Joan Niswender, Richard Mitchell, Amy Hnatko, Emily Gibbons, Serry Dans, Kathie Beale, and David Beale.

Orange Pulp: The Pulp Magazine & Contemporary Culture
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be pulp magazines, notably titles like Weird Tales and Amazing Stories; the typescript of Isaac Asimov's "Strange Playfellow," which introduced readers to one of science fiction's best known characters, Robbie the Robot; and correspondence with figures like Ray Bradbury.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Marcel Breuer and Postwar America
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Drawings from the Marcel Breuer Papers, curated by SU Architecture students, with Barry Bergdoll and Jonathan Massey. The exhibition is the outcome of their work in the extensive Breuer archive at the Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center. It features images of 120 drawings, as well as photographs, documenting thirteen of Breuer’s major postwar buildings and projects. Full-scale reproductions highlight themes that characterized some of Breuer’s lesser-known major work and document his responses to the needs and opportunities of postwar American society.

Breuer (1902-1981) was a leading figure among the second generation of modernist architects whose striking designs for furniture, houses, institutions, and commercial buildings helped to set the shape and style of modernity in Europe and the United States, leading “Time” magazine to characterize him as one of the “form givers of the 20th century.” His works include the UNESCO headquarters in Paris and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Where Eagles Fly: Works by Don Ford
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Don Ward, humorist, storyteller, artist, and poet, will have at least a dozen photos, along with stories and poems, on display. This is the first solo show of the artist, who has had his writings featured in many magazines across the U.S., Portugal, and Cyprus.

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Amos Kennedy Prints!
Community Folk Art Center

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

Focusing on issues of race, violence and community, "Amos Kennedy Prints!" features the hand-printed works of Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. and will include prints created at CFAC. By transforming the gallery into an active printmaking workshop, Kennedy will collaborate with students from the Syracuse area and Syracuse University to create images and broadsides that reflect issues of race, gender and politics and illustrate the impact of violence in the city on their lives and community. The public is invited to meet Kennedy and to observe and participate in the printmaking process.

Hudson Past/Perfect: Photos by Marna Bell
Light Work Gallery

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

Marna Bell is the winner of the Light Work/Community Darkrooms Members Juried Exhibition competition. In 2005, after the sudden death of her mother, Bell picked up her camera after a 20-year hiatus from painting and began photographing nature. Her focus in both painting and photography has been on reclaiming visions of the past and her connection to nature.

According to Bell, "Many trips back home to New York City on the train have helped me remember lost pieces of time where life seemed simpler and less veiled. It was a natural progression for me to record the cycle of change in my 'Hudson Past/Perfect' series. By revisiting the same landscapes in different seasons and under different weather conditions, I was able to capture the past before it disappeared. I am drawn to the meditative quality of the Hudson River and the sacred aspects of the natural environment. The series is reminiscent of a more romantic era, when God and nature were viewed as one."

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

This suite of three video installations, "Mare," "Perigee", and "Penumbra," by Demetrius Oliver reconnects viewers to their place in the universe by playing with earthly and human forms against a backdrop of the cosmos. In "Penumbra," explorations of light and scale, movement and the rhythm of the natural world suggest journeys both physical and metaphysical.

One of the installations will be on view in the Light Work Gallery, one projected onto the Everson Museum, and one installed in the Menschel Photography Gallery in the Schine Student Center.

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

Focus x Three: Photography and Video
Redhouse

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

Focus x Three, the second in the Emerging Women of CNY series, highlights the work of three photographers: Erin Mulvehill, Gillian Andrew, and Colleen Woolpert. Each has an association and history with Syracuse, as all are graduates of Syracuse University. They have all worked, in some capacity, in the world of professional photography, perfecting their craft, while continuing to pursue the "fine art" side of their vision. Curator of this exhibition, Marianne Smith Dalton, stated: "Each of these women masterfully uses the camera to convey her own unique reflection of 'reality.' These compelling photographs, frozen moments in time, will captivate and hold you transfixed. Come celebrate the work of these three young women and discover a new way to 'see' through the lenses of these talented photographers."

Surface Material
Szozda Gallery

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

Artist Vincent Fitches, well-know locally and globally, shares exhibit space with emerging new artist Emily Elizabeth Jones. Fitches and Jones are both relatively young in age, but of the two, Fitches has enjoyed greater notoriety, having shown his work worldwide. For Jones, "Surface Material" is her first big public exhibit. The gallery's title for the show is indicative of how each artist creates their works.

Creating mostly on panel, Fitches describes his artworks as, "uncanny in their color palate and unstructured composition." He says he focuses on a central object using subjects often in solitary environments, exposing their vulnerabilities in both his landscapes and figurative paintings. "This deconstruction of the naturalness dictated in the art world allows for a new vision of beauty and interpretation," Fitches explains.

In creating her art, Jones says she is motivated by a "fascination with the universe," where she sees the elements in the atmosphere as constantly creating and changing what we perceive. Applying acrylic on canvas, she tries to capture those moments of full spectrum of color rather than shape. "Like the glare of sun and early haziness," she says. Included in this first exhibit of Jones' works are minimal landscapes in a series called, "Horizon Colors."

The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

A selection of 30 woodcuts and etchings by the internationally known and collected Chinese American artist and educator. This exhibition is a limited retrospective look at Seong Moy's career as printmaker.

Moy's early works, small but complicated woodcuts on soft luminous papers, were immediately accepted by artists, curators, and the public. A painterly quality, so important to his entire graphic output, is evident in much of this work and is all the more special because it is captured in color wood block prints that require great sophistication and skill from the artist.

As Moy's career continued to develop, his interest in capturing spatial relationships of shapes and forms in his compositions, was heightened by the role color plays in energizing these elements. This trend continued for a number a years and could also be found in his cardboard relief prints.

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity is a rich, reflective exhibition of works by 40 artists representing the vast cultural blend of modern American society.

American artists of African, Arab, European, Asian, Latino, and Native American descent explore their heritage in this vivid and diverse exhibition using a wide variety of media. The artists examine patriotism, communication, struggle for acceptance, being an American in the 21st century, and more. Humor, heartache, anger, apprehension--all emotions are evoked by these works, raising questions about race, class, gender and age. Four main themes run through Infinite Mirror: Self-Selection, Pride, Assimilation, and Protest, providing audiences with the opportunity to re-examine both the story and storytellers of the quintessential "American dream."

The exhibition was curated by Blake Bradford, Curator and Director of Education at the Barnes Foundation; Benito Huerta, Curator and Director of The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington; and Robert Lee, Curator and Executive Director at Asian American Arts Centre in New York.

Paid parking is available for weekday visitors in any SU pay lot. Free parking for weekend and evening visitors is available in the Q4 lot, located on College Place. Patrons should notify the attendant that they are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Evening and weekend parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome.

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Orange Pulp: Works by Norman Saunders
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

A profile of pulp artist Norman Saunders (1907-1989), including 10 lush and dramatic Saunders paintings from the university collection.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Casey Landerkin: Paintings and Illustrations
Echo

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

Journeys
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Journeys" includes the work of approximately 20 international students from various disciplines across the college, including art photography, art video, ceramics, communication and rhetorical studies, fiber arts/material studies, film, museum studies and sculpture.

For more information, contact Stephen Zaima, professor of painting, at 315-443-4613 or szaima@syr.edu. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

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Implements of Mass Construction
Erie Canal Museum

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

The Erie Canal was built by thousands of untrained men during the 19th century, before the United States had any civil engineering professionals. So how did they construct a canal across the entire state of New York? Come by the Erie Canal Museum and see the tools that made it possible. The 16 items on view were used for construction or industry along the Erie Canal in the 19th century. Visit the Museum's second floor gallery to try to guess what each instrument is. Tools similar to some of the implements on display are still used today, but others will require some guesswork. Come visit today to guess for yourself!

Maryna Mazhukhova, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Electrifying Russian pianist in all-Liszt recital.

Victor LaValle, fiction
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

Reading is preceded by a question and answer session from 3:45-4:30.

Preview: Radio Golf
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

How do we move forward without leaving behind difficult but defining aspects of our past? A powerful and timely drama from the most celebrated American playwright of this generation, Radio Golf tells the story of a man striving to become the first African American mayor of Pittsburgh. He's forced to weigh the importance of family, legacy, heritage, and history against the truth of his political and class ambitions. Moving, funny, lyrical, and rousing, Radio Golf is the inspiring final play of August Wilson's monumental, ten-play 20th-century cycle and career.

Radio Golf received four 2007 Tony nominations, including Best Play, and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.

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Lysistrata
Syracuse University Drama Department
Stephen Cross, director

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

Bawdy, provocative and hilarious, Lysistrata has been delighting audiences since Socrates was a baby, give or take a few decades. Aristophanes was the great comic writer of ancient Athens and in this wild play he captures the frustration of women weary of the suffering wrought by the long war waged by their glory-hungry men. The solution? Inflict a frustration of a more intimate sort on the men—deny them sex until they cease fighting. A classic in every sense of the word, Lysistrata proves that long before talk radio, outrage and outrageousness lived side by side.

First performed in Athens in 411 B.C., the play has survived over two centuries due to its comical take on a serious subject. Aristophanes authored approximately 40 plays between 425 and 388 BC, 11 of which survive today.

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Thursday, February 24, 2011

The Psyche and Color: An Italian Point of View

Price: Free
Hospice of Central New York
990 Seventh North St., Liverpool

Maria Rizzo and Maria Grazia Facchinetti from Italy of two different generations and with two points of view, show 14 works each in an explosive combination of light, color and symbolism.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Cortland County Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists include Fred Zimmerman, David Yaman, Kathy Williams, Carl Steckler, Laurie Seamans, Meg Richardson, Lyla Phillips, Allen Phillips, Joan Niswender, Richard Mitchell, Amy Hnatko, Emily Gibbons, Serry Dans, Kathie Beale, and David Beale.

Orange Pulp: The Pulp Magazine & Contemporary Culture
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be pulp magazines, notably titles like Weird Tales and Amazing Stories; the typescript of Isaac Asimov's "Strange Playfellow," which introduced readers to one of science fiction's best known characters, Robbie the Robot; and correspondence with figures like Ray Bradbury.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Marcel Breuer and Postwar America
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Drawings from the Marcel Breuer Papers, curated by SU Architecture students, with Barry Bergdoll and Jonathan Massey. The exhibition is the outcome of their work in the extensive Breuer archive at the Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center. It features images of 120 drawings, as well as photographs, documenting thirteen of Breuer’s major postwar buildings and projects. Full-scale reproductions highlight themes that characterized some of Breuer’s lesser-known major work and document his responses to the needs and opportunities of postwar American society.

Breuer (1902-1981) was a leading figure among the second generation of modernist architects whose striking designs for furniture, houses, institutions, and commercial buildings helped to set the shape and style of modernity in Europe and the United States, leading “Time” magazine to characterize him as one of the “form givers of the 20th century.” His works include the UNESCO headquarters in Paris and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Where Eagles Fly: Works by Don Ford
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Don Ward, humorist, storyteller, artist, and poet, will have at least a dozen photos, along with stories and poems, on display. This is the first solo show of the artist, who has had his writings featured in many magazines across the U.S., Portugal, and Cyprus.

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Amos Kennedy Prints!
Community Folk Art Center

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

Focusing on issues of race, violence and community, "Amos Kennedy Prints!" features the hand-printed works of Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. and will include prints created at CFAC. By transforming the gallery into an active printmaking workshop, Kennedy will collaborate with students from the Syracuse area and Syracuse University to create images and broadsides that reflect issues of race, gender and politics and illustrate the impact of violence in the city on their lives and community. The public is invited to meet Kennedy and to observe and participate in the printmaking process.

Hudson Past/Perfect: Photos by Marna Bell
Light Work Gallery

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

Marna Bell is the winner of the Light Work/Community Darkrooms Members Juried Exhibition competition. In 2005, after the sudden death of her mother, Bell picked up her camera after a 20-year hiatus from painting and began photographing nature. Her focus in both painting and photography has been on reclaiming visions of the past and her connection to nature.

According to Bell, "Many trips back home to New York City on the train have helped me remember lost pieces of time where life seemed simpler and less veiled. It was a natural progression for me to record the cycle of change in my 'Hudson Past/Perfect' series. By revisiting the same landscapes in different seasons and under different weather conditions, I was able to capture the past before it disappeared. I am drawn to the meditative quality of the Hudson River and the sacred aspects of the natural environment. The series is reminiscent of a more romantic era, when God and nature were viewed as one."

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

This suite of three video installations, "Mare," "Perigee", and "Penumbra," by Demetrius Oliver reconnects viewers to their place in the universe by playing with earthly and human forms against a backdrop of the cosmos. In "Penumbra," explorations of light and scale, movement and the rhythm of the natural world suggest journeys both physical and metaphysical.

One of the installations will be on view in the Light Work Gallery, one projected onto the Everson Museum, and one installed in the Menschel Photography Gallery in the Schine Student Center.

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

Focus x Three: Photography and Video
Redhouse

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

Focus x Three, the second in the Emerging Women of CNY series, highlights the work of three photographers: Erin Mulvehill, Gillian Andrew, and Colleen Woolpert. Each has an association and history with Syracuse, as all are graduates of Syracuse University. They have all worked, in some capacity, in the world of professional photography, perfecting their craft, while continuing to pursue the "fine art" side of their vision. Curator of this exhibition, Marianne Smith Dalton, stated: "Each of these women masterfully uses the camera to convey her own unique reflection of 'reality.' These compelling photographs, frozen moments in time, will captivate and hold you transfixed. Come celebrate the work of these three young women and discover a new way to 'see' through the lenses of these talented photographers."

Surface Material
Szozda Gallery

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

Artist Vincent Fitches, well-know locally and globally, shares exhibit space with emerging new artist Emily Elizabeth Jones. Fitches and Jones are both relatively young in age, but of the two, Fitches has enjoyed greater notoriety, having shown his work worldwide. For Jones, "Surface Material" is her first big public exhibit. The gallery's title for the show is indicative of how each artist creates their works.

Creating mostly on panel, Fitches describes his artworks as, "uncanny in their color palate and unstructured composition." He says he focuses on a central object using subjects often in solitary environments, exposing their vulnerabilities in both his landscapes and figurative paintings. "This deconstruction of the naturalness dictated in the art world allows for a new vision of beauty and interpretation," Fitches explains.

In creating her art, Jones says she is motivated by a "fascination with the universe," where she sees the elements in the atmosphere as constantly creating and changing what we perceive. Applying acrylic on canvas, she tries to capture those moments of full spectrum of color rather than shape. "Like the glare of sun and early haziness," she says. Included in this first exhibit of Jones' works are minimal landscapes in a series called, "Horizon Colors."

Embryonic: New Work by Eunjung Shin
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Korean-born Eunjung Shin's figurative ceramic sculpture depicts experiences from the artist's life. Her work in the upcoming show, Embryonic, will include a new series of realistic, infant figures cradled in egg-like structures. These pieces represent Shin's hopeful wishes and new beginnings. The exhibition will also include larger jester figures, which explore the nature of human folly. Many of the works are embellished with beautifully hand-carved arabesques and floral patterns. The artist says that the carving of these ornamentations is much like meditative acts connected to many Asian traditions.

Shin received an MFA in Ceramics from Syracuse University in 2007 and a MFA in Ceramics form Kyunghee University in Yongin, Korea. She currently teaches classes at the Community Folk Art Center’s Creative Arts Academy in Syracuse. Her artwork has been shown in many venues nationally and internationally, including Affinity at the Icheon World Ceramic Center in Icheon, Korea. Shin currently resides in the city of Syracuse.

The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

A selection of 30 woodcuts and etchings by the internationally known and collected Chinese American artist and educator. This exhibition is a limited retrospective look at Seong Moy's career as printmaker.

Moy's early works, small but complicated woodcuts on soft luminous papers, were immediately accepted by artists, curators, and the public. A painterly quality, so important to his entire graphic output, is evident in much of this work and is all the more special because it is captured in color wood block prints that require great sophistication and skill from the artist.

As Moy's career continued to develop, his interest in capturing spatial relationships of shapes and forms in his compositions, was heightened by the role color plays in energizing these elements. This trend continued for a number a years and could also be found in his cardboard relief prints.

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity is a rich, reflective exhibition of works by 40 artists representing the vast cultural blend of modern American society.

American artists of African, Arab, European, Asian, Latino, and Native American descent explore their heritage in this vivid and diverse exhibition using a wide variety of media. The artists examine patriotism, communication, struggle for acceptance, being an American in the 21st century, and more. Humor, heartache, anger, apprehension--all emotions are evoked by these works, raising questions about race, class, gender and age. Four main themes run through Infinite Mirror: Self-Selection, Pride, Assimilation, and Protest, providing audiences with the opportunity to re-examine both the story and storytellers of the quintessential "American dream."

The exhibition was curated by Blake Bradford, Curator and Director of Education at the Barnes Foundation; Benito Huerta, Curator and Director of The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington; and Robert Lee, Curator and Executive Director at Asian American Arts Centre in New York.

Paid parking is available for weekday visitors in any SU pay lot. Free parking for weekend and evening visitors is available in the Q4 lot, located on College Place. Patrons should notify the attendant that they are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Evening and weekend parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome.

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Orange Pulp: Works by Norman Saunders
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

A profile of pulp artist Norman Saunders (1907-1989), including 10 lush and dramatic Saunders paintings from the university collection.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Casey Landerkin: Paintings and Illustrations
Echo

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

Journeys
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Journeys" includes the work of approximately 20 international students from various disciplines across the college, including art photography, art video, ceramics, communication and rhetorical studies, fiber arts/material studies, film, museum studies and sculpture.

For more information, contact Stephen Zaima, professor of painting, at 315-443-4613 or szaima@syr.edu. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Demitrus Oliver: Mare, 2009
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Mare, 2009, projects a circular image of a wave crashing against an unnamed shore. As the image rotates, the lines of the waves begin to resemble the layered surface of a Jovian planet such as Jupiter. Connecting the sea with heavenly phenomena, the installation recreates the sense of wonderment felt when looking at the night sky and the fundamental human desire to understand one's place in the universe. Mare, which is Latin for "seas", suggests movement and journeys both physical and metaphysical, as well as metaphors of darkness and illumination, looking and discovery.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

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Implements of Mass Construction
Erie Canal Museum

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

The Erie Canal was built by thousands of untrained men during the 19th century, before the United States had any civil engineering professionals. So how did they construct a canal across the entire state of New York? Come by the Erie Canal Museum and see the tools that made it possible. The 16 items on view were used for construction or industry along the Erie Canal in the 19th century. Visit the Museum's second floor gallery to try to guess what each instrument is. Tools similar to some of the implements on display are still used today, but others will require some guesswork. Come visit today to guess for yourself!

Morton B. Schiff Jazz Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Two Fresh with Mux Mool, Body Language, Phantom Chemistry
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Harry Crocker and the Saucerer's Stove
Acme Mystery Company

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

Something's cooking at Frogtort's School for Culinary Wizardry and it smells like trouble. Harry Crocker returns after 25 years to save his alma mater but not everyone's happy to see him, to say the least. Professor Fumblepork is sending out an owl to all wizards (including you). Join Professors McMonalogue and Crepe, even Harry's old friend Herhiane, as they try to pay off centuries of back taxes and avoid a hostile takeover by the Ministry of Magic.

Preview: Radio Golf
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

How do we move forward without leaving behind difficult but defining aspects of our past? A powerful and timely drama from the most celebrated American playwright of this generation, Radio Golf tells the story of a man striving to become the first African American mayor of Pittsburgh. He's forced to weigh the importance of family, legacy, heritage, and history against the truth of his political and class ambitions. Moving, funny, lyrical, and rousing, Radio Golf is the inspiring final play of August Wilson's monumental, ten-play 20th-century cycle and career.

Radio Golf received four 2007 Tony nominations, including Best Play, and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.

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Is He Dead?
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin Theatre Troupe

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

Mark Twain's fast-paced farce filled with clichés that are laugh-out-loud funny. You'll be tempted to boo the villains and cheer the heroes.

Millet is a brilliant but impoverished French painter with one problem: no one will pay good money for his paintings while he's still alive. When his friends persuade him that the secret to success lies in convincing the world he's dead, Millet hatches a plan which could make him rich, famous, and able to marry the girl of his dreams—if only he didn't have to wear a petticoat to do it!

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

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Lysistrata
Syracuse University Drama Department
Stephen Cross, director

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

Bawdy, provocative and hilarious, Lysistrata has been delighting audiences since Socrates was a baby, give or take a few decades. Aristophanes was the great comic writer of ancient Athens and in this wild play he captures the frustration of women weary of the suffering wrought by the long war waged by their glory-hungry men. The solution? Inflict a frustration of a more intimate sort on the men—deny them sex until they cease fighting. A classic in every sense of the word, Lysistrata proves that long before talk radio, outrage and outrageousness lived side by side.

First performed in Athens in 411 B.C., the play has survived over two centuries due to its comical take on a serious subject. Aristophanes authored approximately 40 plays between 425 and 388 BC, 11 of which survive today.

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Friday, February 25, 2011

Ingrid Ludt: "Forest becomes Ocean"
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Psyche and Color: An Italian Point of View

Price: Free
Hospice of Central New York
990 Seventh North St., Liverpool

Maria Rizzo and Maria Grazia Facchinetti from Italy of two different generations and with two points of view, show 14 works each in an explosive combination of light, color and symbolism.

Winter Art Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:30-8:00 pm.

Come in from the cold and enjoy the warmth of friends and the glow of ceramic art made in The Studio at Clayscapes Pottery. Featuring ceramic artwork by Millie St. John, Tim See, Don Seymour, Shawn McGuire, Wes Weiss, and Sarah VanDerVoort as well as many others.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Cortland County Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists include Fred Zimmerman, David Yaman, Kathy Williams, Carl Steckler, Laurie Seamans, Meg Richardson, Lyla Phillips, Allen Phillips, Joan Niswender, Richard Mitchell, Amy Hnatko, Emily Gibbons, Serry Dans, Kathie Beale, and David Beale.

Orange Pulp: The Pulp Magazine & Contemporary Culture
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be pulp magazines, notably titles like Weird Tales and Amazing Stories; the typescript of Isaac Asimov's "Strange Playfellow," which introduced readers to one of science fiction's best known characters, Robbie the Robot; and correspondence with figures like Ray Bradbury.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Marcel Breuer and Postwar America
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Drawings from the Marcel Breuer Papers, curated by SU Architecture students, with Barry Bergdoll and Jonathan Massey. The exhibition is the outcome of their work in the extensive Breuer archive at the Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center. It features images of 120 drawings, as well as photographs, documenting thirteen of Breuer’s major postwar buildings and projects. Full-scale reproductions highlight themes that characterized some of Breuer’s lesser-known major work and document his responses to the needs and opportunities of postwar American society.

Breuer (1902-1981) was a leading figure among the second generation of modernist architects whose striking designs for furniture, houses, institutions, and commercial buildings helped to set the shape and style of modernity in Europe and the United States, leading “Time” magazine to characterize him as one of the “form givers of the 20th century.” His works include the UNESCO headquarters in Paris and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Where Eagles Fly: Works by Don Ford
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Don Ward, humorist, storyteller, artist, and poet, will have at least a dozen photos, along with stories and poems, on display. This is the first solo show of the artist, who has had his writings featured in many magazines across the U.S., Portugal, and Cyprus.

Opening: Tonal Gestures
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

There will be an artists' reception this evening 6:00-8:00 pm.

Diana Godfrey: mixed media pastels and acrylic paintings
Carmel Nicoletti: bronze reliefs and glass works

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

*CLOSING EARLY* Amos Kennedy Prints!
Community Folk Art Center

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

CFAC closed early today due to the weather.

Focusing on issues of race, violence and community, "Amos Kennedy Prints!" features the hand-printed works of Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. and will include prints created at CFAC. By transforming the gallery into an active printmaking workshop, Kennedy will collaborate with students from the Syracuse area and Syracuse University to create images and broadsides that reflect issues of race, gender and politics and illustrate the impact of violence in the city on their lives and community. The public is invited to meet Kennedy and to observe and participate in the printmaking process.

Hudson Past/Perfect: Photos by Marna Bell
Light Work Gallery

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

Marna Bell is the winner of the Light Work/Community Darkrooms Members Juried Exhibition competition. In 2005, after the sudden death of her mother, Bell picked up her camera after a 20-year hiatus from painting and began photographing nature. Her focus in both painting and photography has been on reclaiming visions of the past and her connection to nature.

According to Bell, "Many trips back home to New York City on the train have helped me remember lost pieces of time where life seemed simpler and less veiled. It was a natural progression for me to record the cycle of change in my 'Hudson Past/Perfect' series. By revisiting the same landscapes in different seasons and under different weather conditions, I was able to capture the past before it disappeared. I am drawn to the meditative quality of the Hudson River and the sacred aspects of the natural environment. The series is reminiscent of a more romantic era, when God and nature were viewed as one."

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

This suite of three video installations, "Mare," "Perigee", and "Penumbra," by Demetrius Oliver reconnects viewers to their place in the universe by playing with earthly and human forms against a backdrop of the cosmos. In "Penumbra," explorations of light and scale, movement and the rhythm of the natural world suggest journeys both physical and metaphysical.

One of the installations will be on view in the Light Work Gallery, one projected onto the Everson Museum, and one installed in the Menschel Photography Gallery in the Schine Student Center.

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

Focus x Three: Photography and Video
Redhouse

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

Focus x Three, the second in the Emerging Women of CNY series, highlights the work of three photographers: Erin Mulvehill, Gillian Andrew, and Colleen Woolpert. Each has an association and history with Syracuse, as all are graduates of Syracuse University. They have all worked, in some capacity, in the world of professional photography, perfecting their craft, while continuing to pursue the "fine art" side of their vision. Curator of this exhibition, Marianne Smith Dalton, stated: "Each of these women masterfully uses the camera to convey her own unique reflection of 'reality.' These compelling photographs, frozen moments in time, will captivate and hold you transfixed. Come celebrate the work of these three young women and discover a new way to 'see' through the lenses of these talented photographers."

Surface Material
Szozda Gallery

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

Artist Vincent Fitches, well-know locally and globally, shares exhibit space with emerging new artist Emily Elizabeth Jones. Fitches and Jones are both relatively young in age, but of the two, Fitches has enjoyed greater notoriety, having shown his work worldwide. For Jones, "Surface Material" is her first big public exhibit. The gallery's title for the show is indicative of how each artist creates their works.

Creating mostly on panel, Fitches describes his artworks as, "uncanny in their color palate and unstructured composition." He says he focuses on a central object using subjects often in solitary environments, exposing their vulnerabilities in both his landscapes and figurative paintings. "This deconstruction of the naturalness dictated in the art world allows for a new vision of beauty and interpretation," Fitches explains.

In creating her art, Jones says she is motivated by a "fascination with the universe," where she sees the elements in the atmosphere as constantly creating and changing what we perceive. Applying acrylic on canvas, she tries to capture those moments of full spectrum of color rather than shape. "Like the glare of sun and early haziness," she says. Included in this first exhibit of Jones' works are minimal landscapes in a series called, "Horizon Colors."

Embryonic: New Work by Eunjung Shin
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Korean-born Eunjung Shin's figurative ceramic sculpture depicts experiences from the artist's life. Her work in the upcoming show, Embryonic, will include a new series of realistic, infant figures cradled in egg-like structures. These pieces represent Shin's hopeful wishes and new beginnings. The exhibition will also include larger jester figures, which explore the nature of human folly. Many of the works are embellished with beautifully hand-carved arabesques and floral patterns. The artist says that the carving of these ornamentations is much like meditative acts connected to many Asian traditions.

Shin received an MFA in Ceramics from Syracuse University in 2007 and a MFA in Ceramics form Kyunghee University in Yongin, Korea. She currently teaches classes at the Community Folk Art Center’s Creative Arts Academy in Syracuse. Her artwork has been shown in many venues nationally and internationally, including Affinity at the Icheon World Ceramic Center in Icheon, Korea. Shin currently resides in the city of Syracuse.

The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

A selection of 30 woodcuts and etchings by the internationally known and collected Chinese American artist and educator. This exhibition is a limited retrospective look at Seong Moy's career as printmaker.

Moy's early works, small but complicated woodcuts on soft luminous papers, were immediately accepted by artists, curators, and the public. A painterly quality, so important to his entire graphic output, is evident in much of this work and is all the more special because it is captured in color wood block prints that require great sophistication and skill from the artist.

As Moy's career continued to develop, his interest in capturing spatial relationships of shapes and forms in his compositions, was heightened by the role color plays in energizing these elements. This trend continued for a number a years and could also be found in his cardboard relief prints.

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity is a rich, reflective exhibition of works by 40 artists representing the vast cultural blend of modern American society.

American artists of African, Arab, European, Asian, Latino, and Native American descent explore their heritage in this vivid and diverse exhibition using a wide variety of media. The artists examine patriotism, communication, struggle for acceptance, being an American in the 21st century, and more. Humor, heartache, anger, apprehension--all emotions are evoked by these works, raising questions about race, class, gender and age. Four main themes run through Infinite Mirror: Self-Selection, Pride, Assimilation, and Protest, providing audiences with the opportunity to re-examine both the story and storytellers of the quintessential "American dream."

The exhibition was curated by Blake Bradford, Curator and Director of Education at the Barnes Foundation; Benito Huerta, Curator and Director of The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington; and Robert Lee, Curator and Executive Director at Asian American Arts Centre in New York.

Paid parking is available for weekday visitors in any SU pay lot. Free parking for weekend and evening visitors is available in the Q4 lot, located on College Place. Patrons should notify the attendant that they are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Evening and weekend parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome.

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Orange Pulp: Works by Norman Saunders
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

A profile of pulp artist Norman Saunders (1907-1989), including 10 lush and dramatic Saunders paintings from the university collection.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Casey Landerkin: Paintings and Illustrations
Echo

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

Journeys
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Journeys" includes the work of approximately 20 international students from various disciplines across the college, including art photography, art video, ceramics, communication and rhetorical studies, fiber arts/material studies, film, museum studies and sculpture.

For more information, contact Stephen Zaima, professor of painting, at 315-443-4613 or szaima@syr.edu. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Demitrus Oliver: Mare, 2009
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Mare, 2009, projects a circular image of a wave crashing against an unnamed shore. As the image rotates, the lines of the waves begin to resemble the layered surface of a Jovian planet such as Jupiter. Connecting the sea with heavenly phenomena, the installation recreates the sense of wonderment felt when looking at the night sky and the fundamental human desire to understand one's place in the universe. Mare, which is Latin for "seas", suggests movement and journeys both physical and metaphysical, as well as metaphors of darkness and illumination, looking and discovery.

Satan's Closet
Salt City Improv Theater

Price: $8 regular, $6 students
Salt City Improv Theatre
Shoppingtown Mall, Sears Wing, Dewitt

Long-form improv madness from the SCiT house team. Satan's Closet is a group of talented individuals who, collectively, will prove that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. We're not sure if that's mathematically possible. But, once again, comedy trumps logic and reason.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

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*CANCELLED* Brew & View Series: Die Hard and Switchblade Sisters
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

Implements of Mass Construction
Erie Canal Museum

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

The Erie Canal was built by thousands of untrained men during the 19th century, before the United States had any civil engineering professionals. So how did they construct a canal across the entire state of New York? Come by the Erie Canal Museum and see the tools that made it possible. The 16 items on view were used for construction or industry along the Erie Canal in the 19th century. Visit the Museum's second floor gallery to try to guess what each instrument is. Tools similar to some of the implements on display are still used today, but others will require some guesswork. Come visit today to guess for yourself!

OCC African Ensemble
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

*CANCELLED* Hoots & Hellmouth
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Tonight's performance cancelled due to weather-related travel delays.

MEISA is bringing Philadelphia based band Hoots & Hellmouth to the Red House stage. American roots music described as "new music for old souls."

Tickets will be available from the SU box office.

Classics Series: Nexus
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Kazuyoshi Akiyama, conductor
Featuring Nexus Percussion Ensemble

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

Reich Music for Pieces of Wood
Takemitsu From Me Flows What You Call Time
Sibelius Symphony No. 2 in D major, op. 43

Railroad Earth, with Tim Herron Corporation
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

*CANCELLED* Kyle Bass, playwright
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Tonight's reading has been postponed due to weather. It has been rescheduled to March 18, with poet George Drew.

Kyle Bass is a two-time New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellow (fiction in 1998, playwriting in 2010) and a finalist for the Princess Grace Playwriting Award. His plays have been produced by The Kitchen Theatre, Appleseed Productions, Armory Square Playhouse, and the Syracuse Stage Backstory! program. A Pushcart Prize nominee, Kyle's work has appeared in the journals Stone Canoe, Folio, and Callaloo, among other publications. Kyle is on the faculty at Goddard College where he teaches in the M.F.A. Creative Writing program. He also teaches playwriting at Syracuse University and is Resident Dramaturg at Syracuse Stage. He also serves as Drama Editor for Stone Canoe. He holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Goddard College.

*CANCELLED* Reach
Encore Presentations
M. Marie Beebe, director

Price: $37.25 dinner theater (includes tax and tip); $20 show only
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

This is a world premiere of Reach by Ryan Sprague, starring Ryan Santiago and Danielle Valeriano.

New Orleans 2006, a year after Hurricane Katrina. In this quirky sweet story of hope, we learn what happens after the media has gone. In rationalizing great tragedy, Lindsey and Jordan find themselves stagnant and detached. But through play, compassion, and acceptance they are able to leave their isolation and be in the unknown together.

For tickets, phone 315-469-6969.

Note: Show contains mature language.

Dinner at 7:00 pm; show follows at 8:00 pm.

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Antony and Cleopatra
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Antony and Cleopatra is an epic historical tragedy whose title characters are larger than life and death. The story was made famous in the early '60s by Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and Rex Harrison in the boom and bust movie entitled Cleopatra.

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Is He Dead?
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin Theatre Troupe

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

Mark Twain's fast-paced farce filled with clichés that are laugh-out-loud funny. You'll be tempted to boo the villains and cheer the heroes.

Millet is a brilliant but impoverished French painter with one problem: no one will pay good money for his paintings while he's still alive. When his friends persuade him that the secret to success lies in convincing the world he's dead, Millet hatches a plan which could make him rich, famous, and able to marry the girl of his dreams—if only he didn't have to wear a petticoat to do it!

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

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Radio Golf
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

How do we move forward without leaving behind difficult but defining aspects of our past? A powerful and timely drama from the most celebrated American playwright of this generation, Radio Golf tells the story of a man striving to become the first African American mayor of Pittsburgh. He's forced to weigh the importance of family, legacy, heritage, and history against the truth of his political and class ambitions. Moving, funny, lyrical, and rousing, Radio Golf is the inspiring final play of August Wilson's monumental, ten-play 20th-century cycle and career.

Radio Golf received four 2007 Tony nominations, including Best Play, and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.

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Lysistrata
Syracuse University Drama Department
Stephen Cross, director

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

Bawdy, provocative and hilarious, Lysistrata has been delighting audiences since Socrates was a baby, give or take a few decades. Aristophanes was the great comic writer of ancient Athens and in this wild play he captures the frustration of women weary of the suffering wrought by the long war waged by their glory-hungry men. The solution? Inflict a frustration of a more intimate sort on the men—deny them sex until they cease fighting. A classic in every sense of the word, Lysistrata proves that long before talk radio, outrage and outrageousness lived side by side.

First performed in Athens in 411 B.C., the play has survived over two centuries due to its comical take on a serious subject. Aristophanes authored approximately 40 plays between 425 and 388 BC, 11 of which survive today.

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From The Back of the Bus 2011
The Media Unit

Price: $5
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

From the Back of the Bus is a national award-winning original musical theater performance on racism and racial healing, plus inspirational a cappella gospel music by Five to Life.

For more information, call The Media Unit at 315-478-8648.

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Winter Art Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

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

Come in from the cold and enjoy the warmth of friends and the glow of ceramic art made in The Studio at Clayscapes Pottery. Featuring ceramic artwork by Millie St. John, Tim See, Don Seymour, Shawn McGuire, Wes Weiss, and Sarah VanDerVoort as well as many others.

Ingrid Ludt: "Forest becomes Ocean"
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Casey Landerkin: Paintings and Illustrations
Echo

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

Tonal Gestures
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Diana Godfrey: mixed media pastels and acrylic paintings
Carmel Nicoletti: bronze reliefs and glass works

Surface Material
Szozda Gallery

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

Artist Vincent Fitches, well-know locally and globally, shares exhibit space with emerging new artist Emily Elizabeth Jones. Fitches and Jones are both relatively young in age, but of the two, Fitches has enjoyed greater notoriety, having shown his work worldwide. For Jones, "Surface Material" is her first big public exhibit. The gallery's title for the show is indicative of how each artist creates their works.

Creating mostly on panel, Fitches describes his artworks as, "uncanny in their color palate and unstructured composition." He says he focuses on a central object using subjects often in solitary environments, exposing their vulnerabilities in both his landscapes and figurative paintings. "This deconstruction of the naturalness dictated in the art world allows for a new vision of beauty and interpretation," Fitches explains.

In creating her art, Jones says she is motivated by a "fascination with the universe," where she sees the elements in the atmosphere as constantly creating and changing what we perceive. Applying acrylic on canvas, she tries to capture those moments of full spectrum of color rather than shape. "Like the glare of sun and early haziness," she says. Included in this first exhibit of Jones' works are minimal landscapes in a series called, "Horizon Colors."

Amos Kennedy Prints!
Community Folk Art Center

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

Focusing on issues of race, violence and community, "Amos Kennedy Prints!" features the hand-printed works of Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. and will include prints created at CFAC. By transforming the gallery into an active printmaking workshop, Kennedy will collaborate with students from the Syracuse area and Syracuse University to create images and broadsides that reflect issues of race, gender and politics and illustrate the impact of violence in the city on their lives and community. The public is invited to meet Kennedy and to observe and participate in the printmaking process.

Embryonic: New Work by Eunjung Shin
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Korean-born Eunjung Shin's figurative ceramic sculpture depicts experiences from the artist's life. Her work in the upcoming show, Embryonic, will include a new series of realistic, infant figures cradled in egg-like structures. These pieces represent Shin's hopeful wishes and new beginnings. The exhibition will also include larger jester figures, which explore the nature of human folly. Many of the works are embellished with beautifully hand-carved arabesques and floral patterns. The artist says that the carving of these ornamentations is much like meditative acts connected to many Asian traditions.

Shin received an MFA in Ceramics from Syracuse University in 2007 and a MFA in Ceramics form Kyunghee University in Yongin, Korea. She currently teaches classes at the Community Folk Art Center’s Creative Arts Academy in Syracuse. Her artwork has been shown in many venues nationally and internationally, including Affinity at the Icheon World Ceramic Center in Icheon, Korea. Shin currently resides in the city of Syracuse.

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

A selection of 30 woodcuts and etchings by the internationally known and collected Chinese American artist and educator. This exhibition is a limited retrospective look at Seong Moy's career as printmaker.

Moy's early works, small but complicated woodcuts on soft luminous papers, were immediately accepted by artists, curators, and the public. A painterly quality, so important to his entire graphic output, is evident in much of this work and is all the more special because it is captured in color wood block prints that require great sophistication and skill from the artist.

As Moy's career continued to develop, his interest in capturing spatial relationships of shapes and forms in his compositions, was heightened by the role color plays in energizing these elements. This trend continued for a number a years and could also be found in his cardboard relief prints.

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity is a rich, reflective exhibition of works by 40 artists representing the vast cultural blend of modern American society.

American artists of African, Arab, European, Asian, Latino, and Native American descent explore their heritage in this vivid and diverse exhibition using a wide variety of media. The artists examine patriotism, communication, struggle for acceptance, being an American in the 21st century, and more. Humor, heartache, anger, apprehension--all emotions are evoked by these works, raising questions about race, class, gender and age. Four main themes run through Infinite Mirror: Self-Selection, Pride, Assimilation, and Protest, providing audiences with the opportunity to re-examine both the story and storytellers of the quintessential "American dream."

The exhibition was curated by Blake Bradford, Curator and Director of Education at the Barnes Foundation; Benito Huerta, Curator and Director of The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington; and Robert Lee, Curator and Executive Director at Asian American Arts Centre in New York.

Paid parking is available for weekday visitors in any SU pay lot. Free parking for weekend and evening visitors is available in the Q4 lot, located on College Place. Patrons should notify the attendant that they are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Evening and weekend parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome.

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Orange Pulp: Works by Norman Saunders
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

A profile of pulp artist Norman Saunders (1907-1989), including 10 lush and dramatic Saunders paintings from the university collection.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Journeys
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Journeys" includes the work of approximately 20 international students from various disciplines across the college, including art photography, art video, ceramics, communication and rhetorical studies, fiber arts/material studies, film, museum studies and sculpture.

For more information, contact Stephen Zaima, professor of painting, at 315-443-4613 or szaima@syr.edu. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Demitrus Oliver: Mare, 2009
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Mare, 2009, projects a circular image of a wave crashing against an unnamed shore. As the image rotates, the lines of the waves begin to resemble the layered surface of a Jovian planet such as Jupiter. Connecting the sea with heavenly phenomena, the installation recreates the sense of wonderment felt when looking at the night sky and the fundamental human desire to understand one's place in the universe. Mare, which is Latin for "seas", suggests movement and journeys both physical and metaphysical, as well as metaphors of darkness and illumination, looking and discovery.

Spark Video: Slime Time in the Virtual Scape
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Price: $3
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

Read a review!

Implements of Mass Construction
Erie Canal Museum

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

The Erie Canal was built by thousands of untrained men during the 19th century, before the United States had any civil engineering professionals. So how did they construct a canal across the entire state of New York? Come by the Erie Canal Museum and see the tools that made it possible. The 16 items on view were used for construction or industry along the Erie Canal in the 19th century. Visit the Museum's second floor gallery to try to guess what each instrument is. Tools similar to some of the implements on display are still used today, but others will require some guesswork. Come visit today to guess for yourself!

Anniversary Concert Series: Recycling Winds
DeWitt Community Church
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra

Price: $10
Dewitt Community Church
3600 Erie Blvd. East, Dewitt

2010-2011 marks the bicentennial of DeWitt Community Church and the 50th anniversary of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, two local institutions with long shared histories. To celebrate the occasion, DCC is presenting five concerts by SSO professional ensembles.

This concert features an all-ages program with the SSO Woodwind Quintet II.

Junior Clarinet Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Colleen Grande, clarinet

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

Grande will perform works by Schickele, Weber, Poulenc, and Ponchielli, with accompaniment by Sabine Krantz on piano and Trevor Roche on clarinet.

Hammond Jammin'

Price: Free
Upstairs at the Dino
246 W. Willow St., Syracuse

A concert featuring local musicians who specialize in playing the Hammond B3 organ, including Gerry Testa and Front Street, Dave Flansburg and Group with Max Flansburg, Bill Barry (from Stroke and Frostbit Blue), Michael Davis (from The Coachmen) with Skip Murphy, Jimmy Cox and Stew, Al Petroff with The Shakedown, Pauly Scrie (from Picture This), and Steve Schad (from Childhood's End).

Jon Nakamatsu, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

Price: $35
Park Central Presbyterian Church
504 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Recital with commentary and dialogue with the audience.

All proceeds to benefit Civic Morning Musicals.

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Steeple Coffeehouse Presents a Benefit for the Syracuse Symphony

Price: $10 includes beverages/pastries
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Come when you can, leave when you wish -- the music will be continuous.

Performers include Loren Barrigar, John Cadley/Cathy Wenthen, Paul Fey, Joanne Perry, John Price, Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers, Kevin Roe

Free parking in lot behind church and on-street. For more information, phone 315-663-7415.

Classics Series: Nexus
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Kazuyoshi Akiyama, conductor
Featuring Nexus Percussion Ensemble

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

Reich Music for Pieces of Wood
Takemitsu From Me Flows What You Call Time
Sibelius Symphony No. 2 in D major, op. 43

Andrew Greacen with Animal Pants, Liz Strodel
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Sleeping Beauty
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive comedy retelling of the children's classic.

Lysistrata
Syracuse University Drama Department
Stephen Cross, director

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

Bawdy, provocative and hilarious, Lysistrata has been delighting audiences since Socrates was a baby, give or take a few decades. Aristophanes was the great comic writer of ancient Athens and in this wild play he captures the frustration of women weary of the suffering wrought by the long war waged by their glory-hungry men. The solution? Inflict a frustration of a more intimate sort on the men—deny them sex until they cease fighting. A classic in every sense of the word, Lysistrata proves that long before talk radio, outrage and outrageousness lived side by side.

First performed in Athens in 411 B.C., the play has survived over two centuries due to its comical take on a serious subject. Aristophanes authored approximately 40 plays between 425 and 388 BC, 11 of which survive today.

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Radio Golf
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

How do we move forward without leaving behind difficult but defining aspects of our past? A powerful and timely drama from the most celebrated American playwright of this generation, Radio Golf tells the story of a man striving to become the first African American mayor of Pittsburgh. He's forced to weigh the importance of family, legacy, heritage, and history against the truth of his political and class ambitions. Moving, funny, lyrical, and rousing, Radio Golf is the inspiring final play of August Wilson's monumental, ten-play 20th-century cycle and career.

Radio Golf received four 2007 Tony nominations, including Best Play, and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.

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Reach
Encore Presentations
M. Marie Beebe, director

Price: $37.25 dinner theater (includes tax and tip); $20 show only
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

This is a world premiere of Reach by Ryan Sprague, starring Ryan Santiago and Danielle Valeriano.

New Orleans 2006, a year after Hurricane Katrina. In this quirky sweet story of hope, we learn what happens after the media has gone. In rationalizing great tragedy, Lindsey and Jordan find themselves stagnant and detached. But through play, compassion, and acceptance they are able to leave their isolation and be in the unknown together.

For tickets, phone 315-469-6969.

Note: Show contains mature language.

Dinner at 7:00 pm; show follows at 8:00 pm.

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Antony and Cleopatra
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Antony and Cleopatra is an epic historical tragedy whose title characters are larger than life and death. The story was made famous in the early '60s by Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and Rex Harrison in the boom and bust movie entitled Cleopatra.

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Is He Dead?
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin Theatre Troupe

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

Mark Twain's fast-paced farce filled with clichés that are laugh-out-loud funny. You'll be tempted to boo the villains and cheer the heroes.

Millet is a brilliant but impoverished French painter with one problem: no one will pay good money for his paintings while he's still alive. When his friends persuade him that the secret to success lies in convincing the world he's dead, Millet hatches a plan which could make him rich, famous, and able to marry the girl of his dreams—if only he didn't have to wear a petticoat to do it!

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

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Radio Golf
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

How do we move forward without leaving behind difficult but defining aspects of our past? A powerful and timely drama from the most celebrated American playwright of this generation, Radio Golf tells the story of a man striving to become the first African American mayor of Pittsburgh. He's forced to weigh the importance of family, legacy, heritage, and history against the truth of his political and class ambitions. Moving, funny, lyrical, and rousing, Radio Golf is the inspiring final play of August Wilson's monumental, ten-play 20th-century cycle and career.

Radio Golf received four 2007 Tony nominations, including Best Play, and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.

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Lysistrata
Syracuse University Drama Department
Stephen Cross, director

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

Bawdy, provocative and hilarious, Lysistrata has been delighting audiences since Socrates was a baby, give or take a few decades. Aristophanes was the great comic writer of ancient Athens and in this wild play he captures the frustration of women weary of the suffering wrought by the long war waged by their glory-hungry men. The solution? Inflict a frustration of a more intimate sort on the men—deny them sex until they cease fighting. A classic in every sense of the word, Lysistrata proves that long before talk radio, outrage and outrageousness lived side by side.

First performed in Athens in 411 B.C., the play has survived over two centuries due to its comical take on a serious subject. Aristophanes authored approximately 40 plays between 425 and 388 BC, 11 of which survive today.

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Sunday, February 27, 2011

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Hudson Past/Perfect: Photos by Marna Bell
Light Work Gallery

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

Marna Bell is the winner of the Light Work/Community Darkrooms Members Juried Exhibition competition. In 2005, after the sudden death of her mother, Bell picked up her camera after a 20-year hiatus from painting and began photographing nature. Her focus in both painting and photography has been on reclaiming visions of the past and her connection to nature.

According to Bell, "Many trips back home to New York City on the train have helped me remember lost pieces of time where life seemed simpler and less veiled. It was a natural progression for me to record the cycle of change in my 'Hudson Past/Perfect' series. By revisiting the same landscapes in different seasons and under different weather conditions, I was able to capture the past before it disappeared. I am drawn to the meditative quality of the Hudson River and the sacred aspects of the natural environment. The series is reminiscent of a more romantic era, when God and nature were viewed as one."

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

This suite of three video installations, "Mare," "Perigee", and "Penumbra," by Demetrius Oliver reconnects viewers to their place in the universe by playing with earthly and human forms against a backdrop of the cosmos. In "Penumbra," explorations of light and scale, movement and the rhythm of the natural world suggest journeys both physical and metaphysical.

One of the installations will be on view in the Light Work Gallery, one projected onto the Everson Museum, and one installed in the Menschel Photography Gallery in the Schine Student Center.

Surface Material
Szozda Gallery

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

Artist Vincent Fitches, well-know locally and globally, shares exhibit space with emerging new artist Emily Elizabeth Jones. Fitches and Jones are both relatively young in age, but of the two, Fitches has enjoyed greater notoriety, having shown his work worldwide. For Jones, "Surface Material" is her first big public exhibit. The gallery's title for the show is indicative of how each artist creates their works.

Creating mostly on panel, Fitches describes his artworks as, "uncanny in their color palate and unstructured composition." He says he focuses on a central object using subjects often in solitary environments, exposing their vulnerabilities in both his landscapes and figurative paintings. "This deconstruction of the naturalness dictated in the art world allows for a new vision of beauty and interpretation," Fitches explains.

In creating her art, Jones says she is motivated by a "fascination with the universe," where she sees the elements in the atmosphere as constantly creating and changing what we perceive. Applying acrylic on canvas, she tries to capture those moments of full spectrum of color rather than shape. "Like the glare of sun and early haziness," she says. Included in this first exhibit of Jones' works are minimal landscapes in a series called, "Horizon Colors."

Embryonic: New Work by Eunjung Shin
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Korean-born Eunjung Shin's figurative ceramic sculpture depicts experiences from the artist's life. Her work in the upcoming show, Embryonic, will include a new series of realistic, infant figures cradled in egg-like structures. These pieces represent Shin's hopeful wishes and new beginnings. The exhibition will also include larger jester figures, which explore the nature of human folly. Many of the works are embellished with beautifully hand-carved arabesques and floral patterns. The artist says that the carving of these ornamentations is much like meditative acts connected to many Asian traditions.

Shin received an MFA in Ceramics from Syracuse University in 2007 and a MFA in Ceramics form Kyunghee University in Yongin, Korea. She currently teaches classes at the Community Folk Art Center’s Creative Arts Academy in Syracuse. Her artwork has been shown in many venues nationally and internationally, including Affinity at the Icheon World Ceramic Center in Icheon, Korea. Shin currently resides in the city of Syracuse.

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

A selection of 30 woodcuts and etchings by the internationally known and collected Chinese American artist and educator. This exhibition is a limited retrospective look at Seong Moy's career as printmaker.

Moy's early works, small but complicated woodcuts on soft luminous papers, were immediately accepted by artists, curators, and the public. A painterly quality, so important to his entire graphic output, is evident in much of this work and is all the more special because it is captured in color wood block prints that require great sophistication and skill from the artist.

As Moy's career continued to develop, his interest in capturing spatial relationships of shapes and forms in his compositions, was heightened by the role color plays in energizing these elements. This trend continued for a number a years and could also be found in his cardboard relief prints.

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity is a rich, reflective exhibition of works by 40 artists representing the vast cultural blend of modern American society.

American artists of African, Arab, European, Asian, Latino, and Native American descent explore their heritage in this vivid and diverse exhibition using a wide variety of media. The artists examine patriotism, communication, struggle for acceptance, being an American in the 21st century, and more. Humor, heartache, anger, apprehension--all emotions are evoked by these works, raising questions about race, class, gender and age. Four main themes run through Infinite Mirror: Self-Selection, Pride, Assimilation, and Protest, providing audiences with the opportunity to re-examine both the story and storytellers of the quintessential "American dream."

The exhibition was curated by Blake Bradford, Curator and Director of Education at the Barnes Foundation; Benito Huerta, Curator and Director of The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington; and Robert Lee, Curator and Executive Director at Asian American Arts Centre in New York.

Paid parking is available for weekday visitors in any SU pay lot. Free parking for weekend and evening visitors is available in the Q4 lot, located on College Place. Patrons should notify the attendant that they are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Evening and weekend parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome.

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Orange Pulp: Works by Norman Saunders
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

A profile of pulp artist Norman Saunders (1907-1989), including 10 lush and dramatic Saunders paintings from the university collection.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Ingrid Ludt: "Forest becomes Ocean"
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Journeys
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Journeys" includes the work of approximately 20 international students from various disciplines across the college, including art photography, art video, ceramics, communication and rhetorical studies, fiber arts/material studies, film, museum studies and sculpture.

For more information, contact Stephen Zaima, professor of painting, at 315-443-4613 or szaima@syr.edu. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Demitrus Oliver: Mare, 2009
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Mare, 2009, projects a circular image of a wave crashing against an unnamed shore. As the image rotates, the lines of the waves begin to resemble the layered surface of a Jovian planet such as Jupiter. Connecting the sea with heavenly phenomena, the installation recreates the sense of wonderment felt when looking at the night sky and the fundamental human desire to understand one's place in the universe. Mare, which is Latin for "seas", suggests movement and journeys both physical and metaphysical, as well as metaphors of darkness and illumination, looking and discovery.

Ulovit Miliardare (To Catch a Billionaire)
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: Free
Reilly Room, Reilly Hall
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Czech film won SYRFILMFEST'10 Judge's Citation.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

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

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

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Implements of Mass Construction
Erie Canal Museum

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

The Erie Canal was built by thousands of untrained men during the 19th century, before the United States had any civil engineering professionals. So how did they construct a canal across the entire state of New York? Come by the Erie Canal Museum and see the tools that made it possible. The 16 items on view were used for construction or industry along the Erie Canal in the 19th century. Visit the Museum's second floor gallery to try to guess what each instrument is. Tools similar to some of the implements on display are still used today, but others will require some guesswork. Come visit today to guess for yourself!

My Old House Love Affair: The Joys and Struggles of Restoring Old Homes
University Neighbors Lecture Series
Featuring Andrew Besemer

Price: $10 regular, $5 with student ID
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Andrew Besemer, a long-time resident of the University neighborhood, has restored 21 homes in the Syracuse area and offers a wealth of knowledge on the subject of hands-on restoration of vintage homes. A busy local Realtor, active gardener, and old house lover, he explains the ups and downs of old house living. His lecture will provide a wonderful opportunity to dialogue with an expert "who has been there." Andrew's original background is in horticulture and he maintains a designation with the National Trust for Historic Places.

SU Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The world premiere of a piece by renowned composer and Syracuse University faculty member Daniel S. Godfrey will be on the program of a joint concert by the SU Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band.

The Symphony Band performs under the direction of Justin J. Mertz and Brent Paris. The program will feature Ron Nelson's Morning Alleluias, Percy Grainger's Country Gardens, Jack Stamp's Pastime, and Eric Whitacre's October.

The Wind Ensemble performs under the direction of John M. Laverty. The program will include John Adams' Lallapalooza, Ottorino Respighi's The Pines of Rome, and the world premiere of Godfrey's Kopanítsa.

Parking is available in the Irving Garage and Hillside lot.

British Festival
Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra
Erik Kibelsbeck, conductor
Featuring Nancy Sirivanakarn, violin; Brad Hougham, baritone

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

John Rutter Suite for Strings
Benjamin Britten Matinees Musicales
Ralph Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending
Ralph Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs
Gordon Jacob Fantasia on the Alleluia Hymn

Concert also features The Chittenango High School Chamber Orchestra (Edie Shillitoe, conductor)

Classic Rock Cabaret with The Jazzuits
LeMoyne College
Featuring Ronnie Leigh

Price: $10 regular, $7 seniors, $5 students, LeMoyne students free
James Commons
Le Moyne College, Syracuse

Ronnie Leigh, five-time Sammy winner and founder of "Jazz in the City," returns to Le Moyne College to celebrate Classic Rock with Le Moyne's Jazzuits. Charts include music by music by Ike & Tina Turner, Styx, Chicago and more.

Scott Foppiano, theater organ
Syracuse Wurlitzer

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

Scott Foppiano was born in Memphis, TN in 1965 and began private study of the piano and organ at a young age. While a student he started playing at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle and in high school began playing the Mighty Wurlitzer organ at the Orpheum Theatre. Critically acclaimed and sought after as a classical recitalist, theatre organist and silent film accompanist, he has played and recorded some of the greatest pipe organs in the US, Canada and Europe. In addition to his theatre organ playing, he is thoroughly trained as a classical and Liturgical organist and is also a highly respected choirmaster. To date he has recorded six solo organ CDs with future projects pending.

Scott has served as Organist-Choirmaster for several prominent congregations and has served on the administrative boards of the ATOS and AGO at local and national levels. He has played for national and regional conventions of the AGO, ATOS and OHS. He was a featured solo artist at the 2007 ATOS National Convention in New York City where he performed on the famous Möller pipe organ in the Cadet Chapel of the United States Military Academy at West Point and for the 2008 ATOS National Convention in Indianapolis. Mr. Foppiano's musical achievements were honored by being named the 2007 ATOS Organist of the Year. This will be Scott's third performance in Syracuse.

*SOLD OUT* Skrillex with Mikey Parkay & Silas Maximus
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Radio Golf
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

How do we move forward without leaving behind difficult but defining aspects of our past? A powerful and timely drama from the most celebrated American playwright of this generation, Radio Golf tells the story of a man striving to become the first African American mayor of Pittsburgh. He's forced to weigh the importance of family, legacy, heritage, and history against the truth of his political and class ambitions. Moving, funny, lyrical, and rousing, Radio Golf is the inspiring final play of August Wilson's monumental, ten-play 20th-century cycle and career.

Radio Golf received four 2007 Tony nominations, including Best Play, and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.

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Lysistrata
Syracuse University Drama Department
Stephen Cross, director

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

Bawdy, provocative and hilarious, Lysistrata has been delighting audiences since Socrates was a baby, give or take a few decades. Aristophanes was the great comic writer of ancient Athens and in this wild play he captures the frustration of women weary of the suffering wrought by the long war waged by their glory-hungry men. The solution? Inflict a frustration of a more intimate sort on the men—deny them sex until they cease fighting. A classic in every sense of the word, Lysistrata proves that long before talk radio, outrage and outrageousness lived side by side.

First performed in Athens in 411 B.C., the play has survived over two centuries due to its comical take on a serious subject. Aristophanes authored approximately 40 plays between 425 and 388 BC, 11 of which survive today.

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Monday, February 28, 2011