Friday, March 21, 2008

17th Annual Matrilineage Symposium Community Art Show
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

The art show and symposium celebrate the accomplishments of women in art and activism. We provide a unique educational setting in which the artists from all disciplines present their work and discuss it in an open forum outside of the classroom. Guest speakers this year include the Guerrilla Girls, Carolee Schneemann, Vienna Teng, Tina Takemoto, Katherine Slusher, and Nina Katchadourian.

Viewing by appointment. Contact mkarmstr@syr.edu for more information.

TV Dinner Series: Monotypes by Mick Mather
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Paintings and Sculpture
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists exhibiting include Rachael Baldanza, Amber Balding, Alex Betancourt, Anna, Cinquemani, Sally Dutko, Bob Rose, Helena Cooper, Jeanne Dupre, Peg Hewitt, Nicholas Ruth, Sylvia Steen, Joan Stier, Karen Tashkovski, Leigh Yardley, Louise Woodard, and members of the North Syracuse Art Guild. Includes digital photography, mixed-media collages, art quilts, fiber compositions, and landscapes.

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

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

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

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

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

Karen Tashkovski: Mixed Media Paintings
Westcott Community Center

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

The mixed-media paintings are from a series created in 2000. Titled "Dream Time," they depict the explosive dreams of the artist through the eyes of a cat. Tashkovski, a graduate of Syracuse University and an art teacher with the Chittenango Central School district, paints with oils and then attaches items to the canvas including more canvas, game pieces, playing cards, and sea-shells, which add texture to the work. The layers of texture represent the depth of a person's character.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images
Community Folk Art Center

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

New exhibition celebrating 40 years of the AfriCOBRA Artist Collective. AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images will feature works by 10 members of the collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in 1968 as a group of artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Through the years, the group has continued to add new members.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images features recent works in a variety of two-and-three-dimensional media. Exhibiting artists include Akili Ron Anderson, Kevin Cole, Adger Cowans, Murry DePillars, Jeff Donaldson (1932-2004), Michael D. Harris, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, James Phillips, Frank Smith and Nelson Stevens. Jones-Henderson, who is a founding member of the group, serves as exhibition administrator for AfriCOBRA.

Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States
Community Folk Art Center

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

Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States is a traveling exhibition curated by Rickie Solinger of WAKEUP/Arts which contains eight linked installations that chronicle the experiences of incarceration. Through the use of artwork, stories and letters shared by incarcerated women and their children, alongside alarming facts and statistics, the exhibition provides an experience that will make the viewer aware of the multitude of issues faced by families involved in the prison system.

Works of Scott Bennett
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

SUArt Galleries presents Beloved Daughters, an exhibition that unites the Moksha (Heaven) and Ladli (Beloved Daughter) series, two of photographer-activist Fazal Sheikh's most recent projects concerning the lives of women in India.

The first of the two series, Moksha, completed in 2005, focuses on dispossessed widows who find refuge in the holy city of Vrindavan in northern India. They worship the god Krishna in hopes of being released from the cycle of reincarnation from past actions, samsara, into a higher state, moksha. The second, Ladli, reveals horrific stories of infanticide, feticide and other forms of abuse directed towards the women all over India.

Fazal Sheikh creates sustained portraits of communities around the world through photography, addressing people's beliefs and traditions as well as their socio-economic problems. Both Moksha and Ladli are hardcover books and are available at the gallery store.

Fazal Ilahi Sheikh was born in 1965 in New York City. Since graduating from Princeton University in 1987, he has worked with displaced communities across East Africa, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brazil, Cuba and India. In 2005 Sheikh was named a MacArthur Fellow. Additional fellowships include those from the J. William Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Mondriaan Foundation, and the Mother Jones International Documentary Fund. Sheikh is the recipient of the International Henri Cartier-Bresson Grand Prize, the Prix d'Arles, the Infinity Award, the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Ruttenberg Award, and the Ferguson Award.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

Fifth Annual Exhibition and Fundraiser for Art Students
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Delavan Art Gallery is pleased to present the fifth annual exhibition and fundraiser of art by students in three Syracuse School District Elementary Schools: Blodgett, Seymour Magnet and Solace. Each year, students from the classes of Stacy Griffin, Kristin Dugger, Kelly Moser-Vogler, Paul Bova and Simone Montgomery have the chance to see their work displayed and sold in a professional setting to raise money for themselves as burgeoning artists and for school art supplies. Donations of art supplies are also encouraged and can be dropped off at the gallery at any point during the exhibition.

This exhibition will also be open by appointment only during business hours from March 25 - March 28. To make an appointment, please call the gallery at 315-425-7500.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Self, House, Self
Redhouse

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

An exhibition of drawings and sculptures by Marion Wilson and Michael Burkard. Both Wilson and Burkard utilize the metaphor of "house" and "home" in the artwork.

Marion Wilson is the Director of Community Initiatives in the Visual Arts at Syracuse University's College of Visual & Performing Arts and teaches in the Sculpture Department. Wilson started MLAB, a collaborative design team of art and architecture students throughout Syracuse University, as part of her belief in the revitalization of urban life through the arts. Wilson regularly exhibits artwork both nationally and internationally including Art Basel: Miami, Exit Art, and New Museum of Contemporary Art.

Michael Burkard is an Associate Professor of English in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University. He has published ten poetry collections. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and many other magazines.

King and Courage
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A selection of paintings, drawings, and a video projection by Tim Rollins + K.O.S. Working in their trademark collaborative style Rollins and K.O.S present previous work along with new pieces produced specifically for the exhibition in a master class with students from Nottingham and Fowler High Schools in Syracuse.

The work in the exhibition is inspired by the speeches of Martin Luther King and the Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. By bringing Syracuse high school students into the project along with the work of Stephen Crane, who attended Syracuse University, Rollins and K.O.S. continue their long-standing exploration of how a community can be brought together to explore difference in order to find common ground under the umbrella of the arts.

Tim Harrison
Folkus Project

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

Beautiful, moving songs, well-written stories, powerfully sung.

Michael Jerling
Folkus Project

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

This quirky, clever, and always surprising songwriter Michael Jerling plays an artful mix of blues, traditional and contemporary folk songs, jazz-flavored folk and country-folk. A keen student of the good and ghastly in American life, Jerling weaves themes like a novelist -- sort of like a musical version of Richard Russo (Empire Falls, Nobody's Fool). He evokes our shortcomings and dreams without yielding to cynicism or sentimentality. His live shows are buoyed by his sharp sense of humor, his first-rate lyrical sense, and impressive musicianship. His smooth baritone voice is backed up with consummate skill on six and twelve string guitars, harmonica and mandolin.

To reserve tickets, phone 315-440-7444.

The Sound Of Music
Syracuse Civic Theatre

Price: $33 regular, $29 students/seniors, $25 children 12 and under
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

All in the Timing
Rarely Done Productions
Brian Hensley, director

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

Six playful one-acts combine the cerebral, the wordplay of modern romance, and thoughts on our closest relatives on this planet contemplating the Melancholy Dane.

Read a review!

Artists as Artists: Torment the Vein
Redhouse

Price: $6
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This event features the music and art of Torment the Vein as well as two acoustic opening acts.

Artists As Artists occupies the space where music and art meet. The featured performers are both musicians and artists...or artists and musicians. Each event is designed to give the listener and viewer a taste of being an artist in two different mediums.

The Bomb-itty of Errors
Syracuse Stage
Andy Goldberg, director

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

Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors has its origins in ancient Rome in Plautus's wild comedy The Menaechmi. Two sets of identical twins and multiple cases of mistaken identity make for a riotous comic event. This latest incarnation is a hip-hop, rap romp retelling of the famous comedy. Four gifted performers hit the street to launch an assault of non-stop, lightning-paced, side-splitting comedy. After all, the Bard was a master of "word."

Servant of Two Masters
Syracuse University Drama Department
Leslie Noble, director

Price: $15 regular, $13 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Carlo Goldoni's classic farce, adapted by Tom Cone, tells the story of a man who tries to make his way in life by hiring himself simultaneously to two employers, keeping each unaware of the other. His attempts at keeping this secret leads him into a life of disguises, broken marriage contracts, duels, and incorrectly delivered letters. Originally written in 1745 and revised in 1753, the "man-versus-society" conflict at the core of this play is just as valid as it was more than two centuries ago.

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Nunsensations! The Nunsense Vegas Revue
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular, $23 students/seniors, $16 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The CNY premiere of the new musical comedy by Danny Goggin, creator of the Nunsense shows. The worlds favorite nuns, The Little Sisters of Hoboken, are on a brand new adventure to Las Vegas. When a parishioner volunteers to donate $10,000 to the sisters' school if they will perform in a club in Vegas, Mother Superior is hesitant to accept. However, after being convinced by the other sisters that "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas," Reverend Mother agrees. Performing in The Pump Room "high atop the 3rd floor of the Mystique Motor Lodge in the soul of Sin City," the sisters experience "show-biz" like never before. There's more feathers, more fans, more hats and more hi-jinks.

The show stars Christine Lightcap as Rev. Mother, Kate Huddleston as Sister Hubert, Jodie Baum as Sister Robert Anne, Erin Race as Sister Amnesia, and Sofia Coon as Sister Leo. It's produced by Executive Producer Christine Lightcap and directed and choreographed by Ken Prescott, two-time Los Angeles Drama Logue Winner and three-time Desert Theatre League Award winner. Music direction is by Josh Smith, SALT Award winner for Best Music Director of the Year.

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Saturday, March 22, 2008

17th Annual Matrilineage Symposium Community Art Show
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

The art show and symposium celebrate the accomplishments of women in art and activism. We provide a unique educational setting in which the artists from all disciplines present their work and discuss it in an open forum outside of the classroom. Guest speakers this year include the Guerrilla Girls, Carolee Schneemann, Vienna Teng, Tina Takemoto, Katherine Slusher, and Nina Katchadourian.

Viewing by appointment. Contact mkarmstr@syr.edu for more information.

TV Dinner Series: Monotypes by Mick Mather
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read a review!

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

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

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

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

Works of Scott Bennett
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States
Community Folk Art Center

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

Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States is a traveling exhibition curated by Rickie Solinger of WAKEUP/Arts which contains eight linked installations that chronicle the experiences of incarceration. Through the use of artwork, stories and letters shared by incarcerated women and their children, alongside alarming facts and statistics, the exhibition provides an experience that will make the viewer aware of the multitude of issues faced by families involved in the prison system.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images
Community Folk Art Center

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

New exhibition celebrating 40 years of the AfriCOBRA Artist Collective. AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images will feature works by 10 members of the collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in 1968 as a group of artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Through the years, the group has continued to add new members.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images features recent works in a variety of two-and-three-dimensional media. Exhibiting artists include Akili Ron Anderson, Kevin Cole, Adger Cowans, Murry DePillars, Jeff Donaldson (1932-2004), Michael D. Harris, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, James Phillips, Frank Smith and Nelson Stevens. Jones-Henderson, who is a founding member of the group, serves as exhibition administrator for AfriCOBRA.

CNY Pride Families Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people and their families in the Central New York region. The exhibit aims to provide true-to-life representation of LGBT families that are often missing from the mainstream media. The exhibit welcomes members of the campus and the Central New York community to come and learn about these families and their experiences through the visual photographs and the print stories that accompany them.

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

SUArt Galleries presents Beloved Daughters, an exhibition that unites the Moksha (Heaven) and Ladli (Beloved Daughter) series, two of photographer-activist Fazal Sheikh's most recent projects concerning the lives of women in India.

The first of the two series, Moksha, completed in 2005, focuses on dispossessed widows who find refuge in the holy city of Vrindavan in northern India. They worship the god Krishna in hopes of being released from the cycle of reincarnation from past actions, samsara, into a higher state, moksha. The second, Ladli, reveals horrific stories of infanticide, feticide and other forms of abuse directed towards the women all over India.

Fazal Sheikh creates sustained portraits of communities around the world through photography, addressing people's beliefs and traditions as well as their socio-economic problems. Both Moksha and Ladli are hardcover books and are available at the gallery store.

Fazal Ilahi Sheikh was born in 1965 in New York City. Since graduating from Princeton University in 1987, he has worked with displaced communities across East Africa, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brazil, Cuba and India. In 2005 Sheikh was named a MacArthur Fellow. Additional fellowships include those from the J. William Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Mondriaan Foundation, and the Mother Jones International Documentary Fund. Sheikh is the recipient of the International Henri Cartier-Bresson Grand Prize, the Prix d'Arles, the Infinity Award, the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Ruttenberg Award, and the Ferguson Award.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

King and Courage
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A selection of paintings, drawings, and a video projection by Tim Rollins + K.O.S. Working in their trademark collaborative style Rollins and K.O.S present previous work along with new pieces produced specifically for the exhibition in a master class with students from Nottingham and Fowler High Schools in Syracuse.

The work in the exhibition is inspired by the speeches of Martin Luther King and the Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. By bringing Syracuse high school students into the project along with the work of Stephen Crane, who attended Syracuse University, Rollins and K.O.S. continue their long-standing exploration of how a community can be brought together to explore difference in order to find common ground under the umbrella of the arts.

Ty Marshal's Pink Clouds
(R) Evolution Art Studio

Price: Free
Recess Coffeehouse
110 Harvard Pl., Syracuse

Opening reception for Ty Marshal's Pink Clouds -- illustrations, paintings, sculptures, and objects. Part of an ongoing, statewide tour.

With special guest performance by ErikIno at 8:00.

Super Amigos; Screening Time
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

Super Amigos (71 minutes, documentary, Mexico)
These five comic-book superheroes champion the causes of Mexico's oppressed in a vivid and realistic. Five heart-warmingand truestories of activism, shot with gorgeous cinematography in and around Mexico City, lead you to believe that super powers are within the grasp of us all.

Screening Time (7 minute short, Czech Republic)

The Princess and the Pea
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive comedy.

The Bomb-itty of Errors
Syracuse Stage
Andy Goldberg, director

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

Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors has its origins in ancient Rome in Plautus's wild comedy The Menaechmi. Two sets of identical twins and multiple cases of mistaken identity make for a riotous comic event. This latest incarnation is a hip-hop, rap romp retelling of the famous comedy. Four gifted performers hit the street to launch an assault of non-stop, lightning-paced, side-splitting comedy. After all, the Bard was a master of "word."

The Sound Of Music
Syracuse Civic Theatre

Price: $33 regular, $29 students/seniors, $25 children 12 and under
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

All in the Timing
Rarely Done Productions
Brian Hensley, director

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

Six playful one-acts combine the cerebral, the wordplay of modern romance, and thoughts on our closest relatives on this planet contemplating the Melancholy Dane.

Read a review!

The Bomb-itty of Errors
Syracuse Stage
Andy Goldberg, director

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

Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors has its origins in ancient Rome in Plautus's wild comedy The Menaechmi. Two sets of identical twins and multiple cases of mistaken identity make for a riotous comic event. This latest incarnation is a hip-hop, rap romp retelling of the famous comedy. Four gifted performers hit the street to launch an assault of non-stop, lightning-paced, side-splitting comedy. After all, the Bard was a master of "word."

Servant of Two Masters
Syracuse University Drama Department
Leslie Noble, director

Price: $15 regular, $13 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Carlo Goldoni's classic farce, adapted by Tom Cone, tells the story of a man who tries to make his way in life by hiring himself simultaneously to two employers, keeping each unaware of the other. His attempts at keeping this secret leads him into a life of disguises, broken marriage contracts, duels, and incorrectly delivered letters. Originally written in 1745 and revised in 1753, the "man-versus-society" conflict at the core of this play is just as valid as it was more than two centuries ago.

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Nunsensations! The Nunsense Vegas Revue
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular, $23 students/seniors, $16 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The CNY premiere of the new musical comedy by Danny Goggin, creator of the Nunsense shows. The worlds favorite nuns, The Little Sisters of Hoboken, are on a brand new adventure to Las Vegas. When a parishioner volunteers to donate $10,000 to the sisters' school if they will perform in a club in Vegas, Mother Superior is hesitant to accept. However, after being convinced by the other sisters that "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas," Reverend Mother agrees. Performing in The Pump Room "high atop the 3rd floor of the Mystique Motor Lodge in the soul of Sin City," the sisters experience "show-biz" like never before. There's more feathers, more fans, more hats and more hi-jinks.

The show stars Christine Lightcap as Rev. Mother, Kate Huddleston as Sister Hubert, Jodie Baum as Sister Robert Anne, Erin Race as Sister Amnesia, and Sofia Coon as Sister Leo. It's produced by Executive Producer Christine Lightcap and directed and choreographed by Ken Prescott, two-time Los Angeles Drama Logue Winner and three-time Desert Theatre League Award winner. Music direction is by Josh Smith, SALT Award winner for Best Music Director of the Year.

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Sunday, March 23, 2008

CNY Pride Families Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people and their families in the Central New York region. The exhibit aims to provide true-to-life representation of LGBT families that are often missing from the mainstream media. The exhibit welcomes members of the campus and the Central New York community to come and learn about these families and their experiences through the visual photographs and the print stories that accompany them.

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

SUArt Galleries presents Beloved Daughters, an exhibition that unites the Moksha (Heaven) and Ladli (Beloved Daughter) series, two of photographer-activist Fazal Sheikh's most recent projects concerning the lives of women in India.

The first of the two series, Moksha, completed in 2005, focuses on dispossessed widows who find refuge in the holy city of Vrindavan in northern India. They worship the god Krishna in hopes of being released from the cycle of reincarnation from past actions, samsara, into a higher state, moksha. The second, Ladli, reveals horrific stories of infanticide, feticide and other forms of abuse directed towards the women all over India.

Fazal Sheikh creates sustained portraits of communities around the world through photography, addressing people's beliefs and traditions as well as their socio-economic problems. Both Moksha and Ladli are hardcover books and are available at the gallery store.

Fazal Ilahi Sheikh was born in 1965 in New York City. Since graduating from Princeton University in 1987, he has worked with displaced communities across East Africa, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brazil, Cuba and India. In 2005 Sheikh was named a MacArthur Fellow. Additional fellowships include those from the J. William Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Mondriaan Foundation, and the Mother Jones International Documentary Fund. Sheikh is the recipient of the International Henri Cartier-Bresson Grand Prize, the Prix d'Arles, the Infinity Award, the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Ruttenberg Award, and the Ferguson Award.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Servant of Two Masters
Syracuse University Drama Department
Leslie Noble, director

Price: $15 regular, $13 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Carlo Goldoni's classic farce, adapted by Tom Cone, tells the story of a man who tries to make his way in life by hiring himself simultaneously to two employers, keeping each unaware of the other. His attempts at keeping this secret leads him into a life of disguises, broken marriage contracts, duels, and incorrectly delivered letters. Originally written in 1745 and revised in 1753, the "man-versus-society" conflict at the core of this play is just as valid as it was more than two centuries ago.

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Monday, March 24, 2008

CNY Pride Families Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people and their families in the Central New York region. The exhibit aims to provide true-to-life representation of LGBT families that are often missing from the mainstream media. The exhibit welcomes members of the campus and the Central New York community to come and learn about these families and their experiences through the visual photographs and the print stories that accompany them.

TV Dinner Series: Monotypes by Mick Mather
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Carles Vives
Onondaga Community College

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

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

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

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

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

Paintings and Sculpture
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists exhibiting include Rachael Baldanza, Amber Balding, Alex Betancourt, Anna, Cinquemani, Sally Dutko, Bob Rose, Helena Cooper, Jeanne Dupre, Peg Hewitt, Nicholas Ruth, Sylvia Steen, Joan Stier, Karen Tashkovski, Leigh Yardley, Louise Woodard, and members of the North Syracuse Art Guild. Includes digital photography, mixed-media collages, art quilts, fiber compositions, and landscapes.

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

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

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

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

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

Karen Tashkovski: Mixed Media Paintings
Westcott Community Center

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

The mixed-media paintings are from a series created in 2000. Titled "Dream Time," they depict the explosive dreams of the artist through the eyes of a cat. Tashkovski, a graduate of Syracuse University and an art teacher with the Chittenango Central School district, paints with oils and then attaches items to the canvas including more canvas, game pieces, playing cards, and sea-shells, which add texture to the work. The layers of texture represent the depth of a person's character.

Works of Scott Bennett
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

CNY Pride Families Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people and their families in the Central New York region. The exhibit aims to provide true-to-life representation of LGBT families that are often missing from the mainstream media. The exhibit welcomes members of the campus and the Central New York community to come and learn about these families and their experiences through the visual photographs and the print stories that accompany them.

TV Dinner Series: Monotypes by Mick Mather
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

New Paintings of Melissa Johnson: Spaces Between
LeMoyne College

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

Gallery Exhibit: Carles Vives
Onondaga Community College

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

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

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

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

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

Paintings and Sculpture
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists exhibiting include Rachael Baldanza, Amber Balding, Alex Betancourt, Anna, Cinquemani, Sally Dutko, Bob Rose, Helena Cooper, Jeanne Dupre, Peg Hewitt, Nicholas Ruth, Sylvia Steen, Joan Stier, Karen Tashkovski, Leigh Yardley, Louise Woodard, and members of the North Syracuse Art Guild. Includes digital photography, mixed-media collages, art quilts, fiber compositions, and landscapes.

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

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

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

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

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

Karen Tashkovski: Mixed Media Paintings
Westcott Community Center

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

The mixed-media paintings are from a series created in 2000. Titled "Dream Time," they depict the explosive dreams of the artist through the eyes of a cat. Tashkovski, a graduate of Syracuse University and an art teacher with the Chittenango Central School district, paints with oils and then attaches items to the canvas including more canvas, game pieces, playing cards, and sea-shells, which add texture to the work. The layers of texture represent the depth of a person's character.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images
Community Folk Art Center

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

New exhibition celebrating 40 years of the AfriCOBRA Artist Collective. AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images will feature works by 10 members of the collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in 1968 as a group of artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Through the years, the group has continued to add new members.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images features recent works in a variety of two-and-three-dimensional media. Exhibiting artists include Akili Ron Anderson, Kevin Cole, Adger Cowans, Murry DePillars, Jeff Donaldson (1932-2004), Michael D. Harris, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, James Phillips, Frank Smith and Nelson Stevens. Jones-Henderson, who is a founding member of the group, serves as exhibition administrator for AfriCOBRA.

Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States
Community Folk Art Center

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

Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States is a traveling exhibition curated by Rickie Solinger of WAKEUP/Arts which contains eight linked installations that chronicle the experiences of incarceration. Through the use of artwork, stories and letters shared by incarcerated women and their children, alongside alarming facts and statistics, the exhibition provides an experience that will make the viewer aware of the multitude of issues faced by families involved in the prison system.

Works of Scott Bennett
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

SUArt Galleries presents Beloved Daughters, an exhibition that unites the Moksha (Heaven) and Ladli (Beloved Daughter) series, two of photographer-activist Fazal Sheikh's most recent projects concerning the lives of women in India.

The first of the two series, Moksha, completed in 2005, focuses on dispossessed widows who find refuge in the holy city of Vrindavan in northern India. They worship the god Krishna in hopes of being released from the cycle of reincarnation from past actions, samsara, into a higher state, moksha. The second, Ladli, reveals horrific stories of infanticide, feticide and other forms of abuse directed towards the women all over India.

Fazal Sheikh creates sustained portraits of communities around the world through photography, addressing people's beliefs and traditions as well as their socio-economic problems. Both Moksha and Ladli are hardcover books and are available at the gallery store.

Fazal Ilahi Sheikh was born in 1965 in New York City. Since graduating from Princeton University in 1987, he has worked with displaced communities across East Africa, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brazil, Cuba and India. In 2005 Sheikh was named a MacArthur Fellow. Additional fellowships include those from the J. William Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Mondriaan Foundation, and the Mother Jones International Documentary Fund. Sheikh is the recipient of the International Henri Cartier-Bresson Grand Prize, the Prix d'Arles, the Infinity Award, the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Ruttenberg Award, and the Ferguson Award.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

Visual Arts Showcase #63: Elements
CNY Arts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Self, House, Self
Redhouse

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

An exhibition of drawings and sculptures by Marion Wilson and Michael Burkard. Both Wilson and Burkard utilize the metaphor of "house" and "home" in the artwork.

Marion Wilson is the Director of Community Initiatives in the Visual Arts at Syracuse University's College of Visual & Performing Arts and teaches in the Sculpture Department. Wilson started MLAB, a collaborative design team of art and architecture students throughout Syracuse University, as part of her belief in the revitalization of urban life through the arts. Wilson regularly exhibits artwork both nationally and internationally including Art Basel: Miami, Exit Art, and New Museum of Contemporary Art.

Michael Burkard is an Associate Professor of English in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University. He has published ten poetry collections. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and many other magazines.

King and Courage
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A selection of paintings, drawings, and a video projection by Tim Rollins + K.O.S. Working in their trademark collaborative style Rollins and K.O.S present previous work along with new pieces produced specifically for the exhibition in a master class with students from Nottingham and Fowler High Schools in Syracuse.

The work in the exhibition is inspired by the speeches of Martin Luther King and the Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. By bringing Syracuse high school students into the project along with the work of Stephen Crane, who attended Syracuse University, Rollins and K.O.S. continue their long-standing exploration of how a community can be brought together to explore difference in order to find common ground under the umbrella of the arts.

A Conversation With Paul Taylor
University Lectures

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Paul Taylor, the unsurpassed and legendary giant of modern American dance will make a rare public appearance with the College of Arts and Sciences Dean Cathryn R. Newton moderating the event.

Reduced-fee parking is available in the Irving Garage.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Syracuse University Singers and West Genesee Chorale

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

Both groups will perform individually and end with a combined piece.

Free parking is available in Irving Garage; please mention that you are attending the concert.

Madeline and the Bad Hat
CNY Arts

Price: $8
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Youtheatre presents two performances of ArtsPower's Madeline and the Bad Hat, an original musical based upon the much-loved book.

Madeline and the Bad Hat captures the blithe yet touching spirit of Ludwig Bemelmans's Madeline series. It traces the adventures of a young Parisian girl who, despite starting off on the wrong foot with a mischievous new neighbor, eventually learns that first impressions aren't everything. When one fine day the Spanish Ambassador moves into the house next door, Madeline and Miss Clavel and the other girls quickly discover that his son Pepito is a true horror! Rude and conceited, Pepito seems at first to be nothing but trouble.

But when he unexpectedly finds himself in real danger, it's up to the resourceful Madeline to get him out of it. Can she teach Pepito a lesson into the bargain, and does he have a hidden good side after all? This gently amusing tale of enemies-become-friends will charm and entertain children and parents alike.

The performance is intended for grades K-2.

To reserve tickets, contact Bob Dwyer at 315-435-2162 or rdwyer@cspot.org.

Madeline and the Bad Hat
CNY Arts

Price: $8
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Youtheatre presents two performances of ArtsPower's Madeline and the Bad Hat, an original musical based upon the much-loved book.

Madeline and the Bad Hat captures the blithe yet touching spirit of Ludwig Bemelmans's Madeline series. It traces the adventures of a young Parisian girl who, despite starting off on the wrong foot with a mischievous new neighbor, eventually learns that first impressions aren't everything. When one fine day the Spanish Ambassador moves into the house next door, Madeline and Miss Clavel and the other girls quickly discover that his son Pepito is a true horror! Rude and conceited, Pepito seems at first to be nothing but trouble.

But when he unexpectedly finds himself in real danger, it's up to the resourceful Madeline to get him out of it. Can she teach Pepito a lesson into the bargain, and does he have a hidden good side after all? This gently amusing tale of enemies-become-friends will charm and entertain children and parents alike.

The performance is intended for grades K-2.

To reserve tickets, contact Bob Dwyer at 315-435-2162 or rdwyer@cspot.org.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

CNY Pride Families Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people and their families in the Central New York region. The exhibit aims to provide true-to-life representation of LGBT families that are often missing from the mainstream media. The exhibit welcomes members of the campus and the Central New York community to come and learn about these families and their experiences through the visual photographs and the print stories that accompany them.

An opening reception will be held from 5:30-7pm in Room 304 of the Schine Student Center. The reception will feature remarks from some of the families included in the exhibit, along with artist Ellen M. Blalock. RSVPs for the reception are requested to lgbt@syr.edu or 315-443-3983, but not required.

TV Dinner Series: Monotypes by Mick Mather
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

New Paintings of Melissa Johnson: Spaces Between
LeMoyne College

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

Gallery Exhibit: Carles Vives
Onondaga Community College

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

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

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

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

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

Paintings and Sculpture
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists exhibiting include Rachael Baldanza, Amber Balding, Alex Betancourt, Anna, Cinquemani, Sally Dutko, Bob Rose, Helena Cooper, Jeanne Dupre, Peg Hewitt, Nicholas Ruth, Sylvia Steen, Joan Stier, Karen Tashkovski, Leigh Yardley, Louise Woodard, and members of the North Syracuse Art Guild. Includes digital photography, mixed-media collages, art quilts, fiber compositions, and landscapes.

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

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

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

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

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

Karen Tashkovski: Mixed Media Paintings
Westcott Community Center

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

The mixed-media paintings are from a series created in 2000. Titled "Dream Time," they depict the explosive dreams of the artist through the eyes of a cat. Tashkovski, a graduate of Syracuse University and an art teacher with the Chittenango Central School district, paints with oils and then attaches items to the canvas including more canvas, game pieces, playing cards, and sea-shells, which add texture to the work. The layers of texture represent the depth of a person's character.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images
Community Folk Art Center

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

New exhibition celebrating 40 years of the AfriCOBRA Artist Collective. AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images will feature works by 10 members of the collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in 1968 as a group of artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Through the years, the group has continued to add new members.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images features recent works in a variety of two-and-three-dimensional media. Exhibiting artists include Akili Ron Anderson, Kevin Cole, Adger Cowans, Murry DePillars, Jeff Donaldson (1932-2004), Michael D. Harris, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, James Phillips, Frank Smith and Nelson Stevens. Jones-Henderson, who is a founding member of the group, serves as exhibition administrator for AfriCOBRA.

Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States
Community Folk Art Center

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

Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States is a traveling exhibition curated by Rickie Solinger of WAKEUP/Arts which contains eight linked installations that chronicle the experiences of incarceration. Through the use of artwork, stories and letters shared by incarcerated women and their children, alongside alarming facts and statistics, the exhibition provides an experience that will make the viewer aware of the multitude of issues faced by families involved in the prison system.

Works of Scott Bennett
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

SUArt Galleries presents Beloved Daughters, an exhibition that unites the Moksha (Heaven) and Ladli (Beloved Daughter) series, two of photographer-activist Fazal Sheikh's most recent projects concerning the lives of women in India.

The first of the two series, Moksha, completed in 2005, focuses on dispossessed widows who find refuge in the holy city of Vrindavan in northern India. They worship the god Krishna in hopes of being released from the cycle of reincarnation from past actions, samsara, into a higher state, moksha. The second, Ladli, reveals horrific stories of infanticide, feticide and other forms of abuse directed towards the women all over India.

Fazal Sheikh creates sustained portraits of communities around the world through photography, addressing people's beliefs and traditions as well as their socio-economic problems. Both Moksha and Ladli are hardcover books and are available at the gallery store.

Fazal Ilahi Sheikh was born in 1965 in New York City. Since graduating from Princeton University in 1987, he has worked with displaced communities across East Africa, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brazil, Cuba and India. In 2005 Sheikh was named a MacArthur Fellow. Additional fellowships include those from the J. William Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Mondriaan Foundation, and the Mother Jones International Documentary Fund. Sheikh is the recipient of the International Henri Cartier-Bresson Grand Prize, the Prix d'Arles, the Infinity Award, the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Ruttenberg Award, and the Ferguson Award.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

Visual Arts Showcase #63: Elements
CNY Arts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Self, House, Self
Redhouse

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

An exhibition of drawings and sculptures by Marion Wilson and Michael Burkard. Both Wilson and Burkard utilize the metaphor of "house" and "home" in the artwork.

Marion Wilson is the Director of Community Initiatives in the Visual Arts at Syracuse University's College of Visual & Performing Arts and teaches in the Sculpture Department. Wilson started MLAB, a collaborative design team of art and architecture students throughout Syracuse University, as part of her belief in the revitalization of urban life through the arts. Wilson regularly exhibits artwork both nationally and internationally including Art Basel: Miami, Exit Art, and New Museum of Contemporary Art.

Michael Burkard is an Associate Professor of English in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University. He has published ten poetry collections. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and many other magazines.

King and Courage
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A selection of paintings, drawings, and a video projection by Tim Rollins + K.O.S. Working in their trademark collaborative style Rollins and K.O.S present previous work along with new pieces produced specifically for the exhibition in a master class with students from Nottingham and Fowler High Schools in Syracuse.

The work in the exhibition is inspired by the speeches of Martin Luther King and the Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. By bringing Syracuse high school students into the project along with the work of Stephen Crane, who attended Syracuse University, Rollins and K.O.S. continue their long-standing exploration of how a community can be brought together to explore difference in order to find common ground under the umbrella of the arts.

Paul Taylor Dance Company
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: $15 regular; $12 SU faculty/staff/alumni; $5 students with valid I.D.; $40 family 4-pack
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

The program will include Taylor's master works Cloven Kingdom (1976), Banquet of Vultures (2005) and Piazzolla Caldera (1997).

Set to music by Baroque and 20th-century composers Arcangelo Corelli, Henry Cowell and Mallory Miller, Cloven Kingdom tells the story of the human struggle between humanity and savagery and reveals the animal nature lurking just below man's sophisticated veneer.

When Banquet of Vultures was performed two years ago in California, the San Francisco Chronicle called the dance "an antiwar piece in the grand tradition of Kurt Jooss' 1932 classic The Green Table (an antiwar ballet inspired by post WWI Europe). Not since Last Look (1985) has Taylor been so uncompromisingly bleak. Never has he been more eloquent." Ballet.co Magazine calls the piece "a powerful, convincing antiwar statement and a valuable addition to Taylor's choreographic legacy."

The program will conclude with Piazzolla Caldera, named in memory of Astor Piazzolla (1921-92), one of the most influential tango composers of his day. Without a single authentic tango step, Taylor captures the essence of tango culture through a story of passion and romance carried out in a smoky, dimly lit Argentine dance club.

Established in 1954, the Paul Taylor Dance Company has long been one of the world's most sought-after dance troupes. It has represented the United States at arts festivals in more than 40 countries and has toured extensively under the aegis of the U.S. Department of State. Additionally, the company performs more than half of each touring season in cities throughout the United States.

Taylor, who grew up near Washington, D.C., was a swimmer and art student at SU during the late 1940s, until he discovered dance and began studying at the Juilliard School. In 1954, Taylor formed his own group. A year later, Taylor began the first of seven seasons dancing as a soloist for the Martha Graham Dance Company. In a career spanning six decades Taylor has created more than 125 modern dances.

Taylor is the recipient of three Guggenheim Fellowships and has received honorary doctorates from a number of universities, colleges and institutes of fine arts, including SU, the Juilliard School and the California Institute of the Arts. His numerous awards and recognitions include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award, the New York State Governor's Arts Award and the New York City Mayor's Award of Honor for Art and Culture. In 1989, he was elected one of 10 honorary American members of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

Tickets are available by calling or visiting the University's Schine Box Office, 315-443-4517, or through Ticketmaster, 866-448-7849. Special group rates are also available.

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A Tribute to Slava on His Birthday
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Gregory Wood, cello; Sar-Shalom Strong, piano

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

Tryfon Tolides, poetry
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

Servant of Two Masters
Syracuse University Drama Department
Leslie Noble, director

Price: $15 regular, $13 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Carlo Goldoni's classic farce, adapted by Tom Cone, tells the story of a man who tries to make his way in life by hiring himself simultaneously to two employers, keeping each unaware of the other. His attempts at keeping this secret leads him into a life of disguises, broken marriage contracts, duels, and incorrectly delivered letters. Originally written in 1745 and revised in 1753, the "man-versus-society" conflict at the core of this play is just as valid as it was more than two centuries ago.

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Thursday, March 27, 2008

CNY Pride Families Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people and their families in the Central New York region. The exhibit aims to provide true-to-life representation of LGBT families that are often missing from the mainstream media. The exhibit welcomes members of the campus and the Central New York community to come and learn about these families and their experiences through the visual photographs and the print stories that accompany them.

TV Dinner Series: Monotypes by Mick Mather
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

New Paintings of Melissa Johnson: Spaces Between
LeMoyne College

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

Gallery Exhibit: Carles Vives
Onondaga Community College

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

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

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

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

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

Paintings and Sculpture
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists exhibiting include Rachael Baldanza, Amber Balding, Alex Betancourt, Anna, Cinquemani, Sally Dutko, Bob Rose, Helena Cooper, Jeanne Dupre, Peg Hewitt, Nicholas Ruth, Sylvia Steen, Joan Stier, Karen Tashkovski, Leigh Yardley, Louise Woodard, and members of the North Syracuse Art Guild. Includes digital photography, mixed-media collages, art quilts, fiber compositions, and landscapes.

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

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

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

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

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

Karen Tashkovski: Mixed Media Paintings
Westcott Community Center

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

The mixed-media paintings are from a series created in 2000. Titled "Dream Time," they depict the explosive dreams of the artist through the eyes of a cat. Tashkovski, a graduate of Syracuse University and an art teacher with the Chittenango Central School district, paints with oils and then attaches items to the canvas including more canvas, game pieces, playing cards, and sea-shells, which add texture to the work. The layers of texture represent the depth of a person's character.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images
Community Folk Art Center

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

New exhibition celebrating 40 years of the AfriCOBRA Artist Collective. AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images will feature works by 10 members of the collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in 1968 as a group of artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Through the years, the group has continued to add new members.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images features recent works in a variety of two-and-three-dimensional media. Exhibiting artists include Akili Ron Anderson, Kevin Cole, Adger Cowans, Murry DePillars, Jeff Donaldson (1932-2004), Michael D. Harris, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, James Phillips, Frank Smith and Nelson Stevens. Jones-Henderson, who is a founding member of the group, serves as exhibition administrator for AfriCOBRA.

Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States
Community Folk Art Center

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

Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States is a traveling exhibition curated by Rickie Solinger of WAKEUP/Arts which contains eight linked installations that chronicle the experiences of incarceration. Through the use of artwork, stories and letters shared by incarcerated women and their children, alongside alarming facts and statistics, the exhibition provides an experience that will make the viewer aware of the multitude of issues faced by families involved in the prison system.

Works of Scott Bennett
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

SUArt Galleries presents Beloved Daughters, an exhibition that unites the Moksha (Heaven) and Ladli (Beloved Daughter) series, two of photographer-activist Fazal Sheikh's most recent projects concerning the lives of women in India.

The first of the two series, Moksha, completed in 2005, focuses on dispossessed widows who find refuge in the holy city of Vrindavan in northern India. They worship the god Krishna in hopes of being released from the cycle of reincarnation from past actions, samsara, into a higher state, moksha. The second, Ladli, reveals horrific stories of infanticide, feticide and other forms of abuse directed towards the women all over India.

Fazal Sheikh creates sustained portraits of communities around the world through photography, addressing people's beliefs and traditions as well as their socio-economic problems. Both Moksha and Ladli are hardcover books and are available at the gallery store.

Fazal Ilahi Sheikh was born in 1965 in New York City. Since graduating from Princeton University in 1987, he has worked with displaced communities across East Africa, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brazil, Cuba and India. In 2005 Sheikh was named a MacArthur Fellow. Additional fellowships include those from the J. William Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Mondriaan Foundation, and the Mother Jones International Documentary Fund. Sheikh is the recipient of the International Henri Cartier-Bresson Grand Prize, the Prix d'Arles, the Infinity Award, the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Ruttenberg Award, and the Ferguson Award.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

Visual Arts Showcase #63: Elements
CNY Arts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Self, House, Self
Redhouse

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

An exhibition of drawings and sculptures by Marion Wilson and Michael Burkard. Both Wilson and Burkard utilize the metaphor of "house" and "home" in the artwork.

Marion Wilson is the Director of Community Initiatives in the Visual Arts at Syracuse University's College of Visual & Performing Arts and teaches in the Sculpture Department. Wilson started MLAB, a collaborative design team of art and architecture students throughout Syracuse University, as part of her belief in the revitalization of urban life through the arts. Wilson regularly exhibits artwork both nationally and internationally including Art Basel: Miami, Exit Art, and New Museum of Contemporary Art.

Michael Burkard is an Associate Professor of English in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University. He has published ten poetry collections. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and many other magazines.

King and Courage
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A selection of paintings, drawings, and a video projection by Tim Rollins + K.O.S. Working in their trademark collaborative style Rollins and K.O.S present previous work along with new pieces produced specifically for the exhibition in a master class with students from Nottingham and Fowler High Schools in Syracuse.

The work in the exhibition is inspired by the speeches of Martin Luther King and the Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. By bringing Syracuse high school students into the project along with the work of Stephen Crane, who attended Syracuse University, Rollins and K.O.S. continue their long-standing exploration of how a community can be brought together to explore difference in order to find common ground under the umbrella of the arts.

Spark Video
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

The Impact of Interfaith Youth Service
University Lectures
Featuring Eboo Patel, founder and director, The Interfaith Youth Core

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Eboo Patel is the Founder and Executive Director of the Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicago-based international nonprofit working to make the forces of interfaith cooperation stronger than the forces of religious extremism. He is the author of Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation. Eboo is a sought-after speaker, delivering the Keynote Speech at the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Forum and the Baccalaureate Service Address at the University of Pennsylvania in 2005. He has written for The Chicago Tribune, The Journal of Islamic Law and Culture, The Harvard Divinity School Bulletin and serves as an online panelist for the "On Faith" blog co-hosted by The Washington Post and Newsweek Magazine. An American Muslim of Indian heritage, Eboo has a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship. He is on the Religious Advisory Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Committee of the Aga Khan Foundation and the Advisory Board of Duke University's Islamic Studies Center. Eboo is an Ashoka Fellow, part of a select network of social entrepreneurs with ideas that could change the world.

Poetry Reading and Reception
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Point of Contact presents its new edition of the poetry series Corresponding Voices, Vol. 3
Poets in attendance will read, and some of the poetry will be read in both English and Spanish. Reception will follow at 7:00 pm.

More information about the book is available here.

Florence of Moravia
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive mystery/comedy dinner theater.

Servant of Two Masters
Syracuse University Drama Department
Leslie Noble, director

Price: $15 regular, $13 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Carlo Goldoni's classic farce, adapted by Tom Cone, tells the story of a man who tries to make his way in life by hiring himself simultaneously to two employers, keeping each unaware of the other. His attempts at keeping this secret leads him into a life of disguises, broken marriage contracts, duels, and incorrectly delivered letters. Originally written in 1745 and revised in 1753, the "man-versus-society" conflict at the core of this play is just as valid as it was more than two centuries ago.

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Friday, March 28, 2008

CNY Pride Families Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people and their families in the Central New York region. The exhibit aims to provide true-to-life representation of LGBT families that are often missing from the mainstream media. The exhibit welcomes members of the campus and the Central New York community to come and learn about these families and their experiences through the visual photographs and the print stories that accompany them.

TV Dinner Series: Monotypes by Mick Mather
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

New Paintings of Melissa Johnson: Spaces Between
LeMoyne College

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

There will be an opening reception for this exhibit on March 28, 4 pm - 6:30 pm.

Gallery Exhibit: Carles Vives
Onondaga Community College

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

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

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

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

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

Paintings and Sculpture
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists exhibiting include Rachael Baldanza, Amber Balding, Alex Betancourt, Anna, Cinquemani, Sally Dutko, Bob Rose, Helena Cooper, Jeanne Dupre, Peg Hewitt, Nicholas Ruth, Sylvia Steen, Joan Stier, Karen Tashkovski, Leigh Yardley, Louise Woodard, and members of the North Syracuse Art Guild. Includes digital photography, mixed-media collages, art quilts, fiber compositions, and landscapes.

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

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

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

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

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

Karen Tashkovski: Mixed Media Paintings
Westcott Community Center

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

The mixed-media paintings are from a series created in 2000. Titled "Dream Time," they depict the explosive dreams of the artist through the eyes of a cat. Tashkovski, a graduate of Syracuse University and an art teacher with the Chittenango Central School district, paints with oils and then attaches items to the canvas including more canvas, game pieces, playing cards, and sea-shells, which add texture to the work. The layers of texture represent the depth of a person's character.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images
Community Folk Art Center

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

New exhibition celebrating 40 years of the AfriCOBRA Artist Collective. AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images will feature works by 10 members of the collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in 1968 as a group of artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Through the years, the group has continued to add new members.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images features recent works in a variety of two-and-three-dimensional media. Exhibiting artists include Akili Ron Anderson, Kevin Cole, Adger Cowans, Murry DePillars, Jeff Donaldson (1932-2004), Michael D. Harris, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, James Phillips, Frank Smith and Nelson Stevens. Jones-Henderson, who is a founding member of the group, serves as exhibition administrator for AfriCOBRA.

Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States
Community Folk Art Center

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

Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States is a traveling exhibition curated by Rickie Solinger of WAKEUP/Arts which contains eight linked installations that chronicle the experiences of incarceration. Through the use of artwork, stories and letters shared by incarcerated women and their children, alongside alarming facts and statistics, the exhibition provides an experience that will make the viewer aware of the multitude of issues faced by families involved in the prison system.

Works of Scott Bennett
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

SUArt Galleries presents Beloved Daughters, an exhibition that unites the Moksha (Heaven) and Ladli (Beloved Daughter) series, two of photographer-activist Fazal Sheikh's most recent projects concerning the lives of women in India.

The first of the two series, Moksha, completed in 2005, focuses on dispossessed widows who find refuge in the holy city of Vrindavan in northern India. They worship the god Krishna in hopes of being released from the cycle of reincarnation from past actions, samsara, into a higher state, moksha. The second, Ladli, reveals horrific stories of infanticide, feticide and other forms of abuse directed towards the women all over India.

Fazal Sheikh creates sustained portraits of communities around the world through photography, addressing people's beliefs and traditions as well as their socio-economic problems. Both Moksha and Ladli are hardcover books and are available at the gallery store.

Fazal Ilahi Sheikh was born in 1965 in New York City. Since graduating from Princeton University in 1987, he has worked with displaced communities across East Africa, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brazil, Cuba and India. In 2005 Sheikh was named a MacArthur Fellow. Additional fellowships include those from the J. William Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Mondriaan Foundation, and the Mother Jones International Documentary Fund. Sheikh is the recipient of the International Henri Cartier-Bresson Grand Prize, the Prix d'Arles, the Infinity Award, the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Ruttenberg Award, and the Ferguson Award.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

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

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

Visual Arts Showcase #63: Elements
CNY Arts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Self, House, Self
Redhouse

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

An exhibition of drawings and sculptures by Marion Wilson and Michael Burkard. Both Wilson and Burkard utilize the metaphor of "house" and "home" in the artwork.

Marion Wilson is the Director of Community Initiatives in the Visual Arts at Syracuse University's College of Visual & Performing Arts and teaches in the Sculpture Department. Wilson started MLAB, a collaborative design team of art and architecture students throughout Syracuse University, as part of her belief in the revitalization of urban life through the arts. Wilson regularly exhibits artwork both nationally and internationally including Art Basel: Miami, Exit Art, and New Museum of Contemporary Art.

Michael Burkard is an Associate Professor of English in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University. He has published ten poetry collections. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and many other magazines.

King and Courage
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A selection of paintings, drawings, and a video projection by Tim Rollins + K.O.S. Working in their trademark collaborative style Rollins and K.O.S present previous work along with new pieces produced specifically for the exhibition in a master class with students from Nottingham and Fowler High Schools in Syracuse.

The work in the exhibition is inspired by the speeches of Martin Luther King and the Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. By bringing Syracuse high school students into the project along with the work of Stephen Crane, who attended Syracuse University, Rollins and K.O.S. continue their long-standing exploration of how a community can be brought together to explore difference in order to find common ground under the umbrella of the arts.

15 Years In. Comes North
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

Artists include Rebecca Dorfer, Matt Keff, Phil Henion, Kelly Patrick, Jess Lance, Ann Hirsch, and Steven Strauss.

Opening Reception with music from Neon Gloworms.

Vocal Repertory Class of Professor Jean Loftus
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Bach Birthday Bash

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

Performers include the Syracuse university Brass Ensemble; Glenn Kime, organ; Steven Seilgart, organ; and Robert Keerner, keyboard.

Rufus Reid
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $19.50, $23.50, $26.50 ($5 discount for donors and students)
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A jazz legend is brought to the series, the consummate musician, educator and author Rufus Reid. This 2005 Mellon Jazz Living Legacy Award winner was saluted by the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation as "an American treasure with the vision to make a difference and turn possibilities into results." Reid's life in music exemplifies this tribute. He is winner of numerous awards and recipient of major commissions, including the Charlie Parker Jazz Composition Award and ASCAP/IAJE Commission. In 2003 his composition "Linear Surroundings," written for a nine-piece ensemble, was created with support from a Chamber Music America Grant funded by The Doris Duke Foundation. He will perform this suite as well as selections from his recent "Live at the Kennedy Center" release with select members of the CNY Jazz Orchestra.

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Stephanie the Polka Queen
Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $20
Syracuse Center for the Performing Arts
728 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Pops Series: Big Band Bash II
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Ron Spigelman, conductor
Featuring Nancy Kelly and Ronnie Leigh, jazz vocalists

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

Central New York jazz artists Nancy Kelly and Ronnie Leigh, each armed with an impressive list of recordings and stage credits, bring their velvet vocals to the Civic Center for a swingin' celebration featuring hit songs by Billy May, Stan Kenton and Syracuse's own Jimmy Van Heusen. A sequel to the 2005 sell-out concert, Big Band Bash.

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Sean Thomas Dougherty and Monica Youn, poets
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Monica Youn's first book of poems, Barter, was published by Graywolf Press in 2003; her poetry has also appeared in such journals as Fence and AGNI. She lives in New York, where she is a media and intellectual property lawyer.

Sean Thomas Dougherty is the author and editor of ten books, including the novella The Blue City (2008 Marick Press) and Broken Hallelujahs (2007 BOA Editions). His awards include two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships in Poetry.

Don't Feed The Actors!
Appleseed Productions

Price: $10
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Appleseed Productions is proud to announce its first annual Spring benefit, two nights of Improv games with "Don't Feed The Actors!," an improv group made up of some of Appleseed's regular performers. Hosted by the "Game Warden" Greg J. Hipius, the starving actors will do improv in hopes of a few table scraps. The actors are led by veteran improv actor Doug Rougeux as well as notable Appleseed favorites Gerrit Vanderwerff, Jr., Terry LaCasse, Mark Allen Holt, Maria E. Hickman, Heather J. Roach, Dustin M. Czarny and newcomer Dawn E. Sadowski. However the improv does not stop at the stage's edge as suggestions are culled from the audience and sometimes a few are dragged on stage to help out as well. Proceeds will benefit Appleseed Productions.

Safe Sex
Simply New Theatre

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

A comedy by Harvey Fierstein.

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Servant of Two Masters
Syracuse University Drama Department
Leslie Noble, director

Price: $15 regular, $13 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Carlo Goldoni's classic farce, adapted by Tom Cone, tells the story of a man who tries to make his way in life by hiring himself simultaneously to two employers, keeping each unaware of the other. His attempts at keeping this secret leads him into a life of disguises, broken marriage contracts, duels, and incorrectly delivered letters. Originally written in 1745 and revised in 1753, the "man-versus-society" conflict at the core of this play is just as valid as it was more than two centuries ago.

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