Friday, November 21, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

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

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

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

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Opening: The Art of Pochade: Works of Eric W. Shute
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

An opening reception will be held from 5:00-7:30 pm.

A pochade is a small sketch in which the artist records, usually in color, the atmospheric effects and general impressions of a landscape. They are small, rapidly executed oil color sketches painted out of doors or plein air. These small paintings are often used as preliminary studies for larger works executed in the studio at a later time. The artist will be exhibiting 16 to 20 of these small works, many of them scenes from the Jonesport and Beals Island area in Down East Maine. The works are quickly conceived and rapidly executed to try and capture the light and conditions of the moment. Because these small paintings are usually considered a reference for larger works they are not often seen by the public.

The artist will be showing one larger work along side the pochade painting that was used as a reference. Patrons may compare the two paintings and see the evolution and thought process of the artist from the original concept in the small color sketch to completion in the much larger finished painting.

Eric Schute's work has appeared at Syracuse's Delavan Art Gallery, Gallery 210, the Everson Museum of Art and the Alden Gallery in Provincetown, MA. For more information, phone 315-445-4323.

Gallery Exhibition: Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A mixed media show with works from Onondaga's own faculty members.

The Golem: Visual Visitations
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A major collective exhibit of seven world class artists titled "The Golem: Visual Visitations," inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' poem "El Golem." This is the third edition of a program that began in Prague in 2002 through the initiative of the Argentinean Embassy in that city, and it was introduced by the renowned poet Václav Havel, then President of the Czech Republic. A second version was later produced with tremendous success at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2003, also introduced by then President of the country, Néstor Kirchner. Now the program travels to the United States for the first time to be shown exclusively at Syracuse University.

The Golem exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery features original works especially commissioned for this exhibit, created by seven artists: from Argentina (Leandro Katz; Pedro Roth); Uruguay (Marta Chilindrón); Puerto Rico (Víctor Vázquez); Syracuse (Tom Sherman; Doug Dubois) and New York (Sarah Kipp). It combines photography, installation and video art.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Think Tech Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

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

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Dawn of a New Age: The Immigrant Contribution to the Arts in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"Dawn of a New Age" tells the story of five artists who immigrated to the United States during the first half of the 20th century: Adolph Bolm, a Russian dancer and choreographer who performed with the Mariinsky Ballet and Ballets Russes; William Lescaze, a Swiss architect who was one of the pioneers of modernism; Louis Lozowick, a Russian printmaker known for his Art Deco and Precision lithographs; Miklós Rózsa, a Hungarian composer of more than 100 film scores, including Ben Hur; and John Vassos, a Greek illustrator and industrial designer. The exhibition draws from the rich holdings of SCRC and showcases more than 50 of the artists' personal papers, manuscripts, photos and artifacts.

This exhibit is part of this year's Syracuse Symposium on the theme "Migration."

Viewpoints: A Collaborative Collection
Westcott Community Center

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

The Syracuse Photography Meetup Group proudly presents a collection of photographic images at their very first collaborative gallery exhibit. Creatively capturing images from the commonplace to the unexpected, photographers catch the light and special moments in time. This collection of images will serve to captivate your eye and draw you in closer to view a new world in each and every photo.

Members have long exhibited their works on the unique "underground" galleries of cyberspace, but now further realize their works, by bringing them to life in print for this collaborative effort. We hope you enjoy the variety of work, as well as appreciate the varied levels of expertise represented here, from the active beginner, serious amateur, aspiring professional, and working professionals. It is safe to say that each image is a labor of love, born out of an enthusiasm to create something new and wonderful.

The Color of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Watercolor paintings by Laura Wilk, glassworks of Carmel Nicoletti, and felted bags and ruffled scarves of Sherry Gordon.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Original illustrated works by London Ladd

Tracing Memory: Photographs by Angie Buckley, Pedro Isztin, Cyrus Karimipour, and Paula Luttringer
Light Work Gallery

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

Guest curator Miriam Romais of En Foco curated this exhibition to explore what makes a thought become a memory. The artists included in this exhibition create photographs that look at the idea of remembrance -- of letting go and making sense of past events, and using those memories to understand who they are today.

Growing up with a mother from Thailand and a Caucasian American father, Angie Buckley did not know her family history for many years. She relied on the conflicting memories and stories of relatives to piece together her heritage. Her images are created with a pinhole camera and cutouts of old family photographs, resulting in work that lies somewhere in between the real world and imagination. Buckley received her BFA in Photography from Ohio University and her MFA in Photography from Arizona State University. She has received various awards, and her work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Southern Light Gallery in Texas, the McDuffy Arts Center in Virginia, and New York University.

Pedro Isztin's color portraits metaphorically integrate formative childhood memories, using them to heal the adult that the child has become. Part of a larger series that emulates a life journey, Destino III: Transformation revisits, in Isztin's words, "the pain, joy, and suffering that our psyches are stamped with, no matter how little or large those experiences as a child." Isztin was born to a Colombian mother and Hungarian father; his work explores his diverse heritage. He lives in Ottawa, Canada, and has exhibited internationally. He has received numerous awards and grants, including a Photography Project Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and an Ontario Arts Council Award.

Cyrus Karimipour revels in the flexibility of memories and uses his images to visually recreate them and depict how he remembers an event or encounter. In his series Invented Memory, he creates scenarios by heavily manipulating his negatives and rearranging their fragments to then be re-photographed. His imagery becomes ambiguous, as if looking in on someone else's dream. Karimipour received his BA from Oakland University in Michigan and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. His work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of New Art in Michigan, and the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio. His art has also appeared in Harper's Magazine and The Detroit News, among other publications.

Paula Luttringer faces her own traumatic past, infusing her imagery with what other women remember about being abducted and held captive during Argentina's Dirty War. Lamento de Los Muros (The Wailing of the Walls) consists of large black-and-white images that depict the interior of the detention centers where thousands of people were held, tortured, and "disappeared." The images capture both history and memory. Luttringer was awarded a fellowship by the Guggenheim Foundation in 2001. Her work appears in the collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; the Museum of Fine Arts in Texas; and George Eastman House in New York. She currently lives and works in Buenos Aires and Paris.

2008 Light Work Grant Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Works of Kathy Morris, Paul Pearce, and Nancy Keefe Rhodes, the recipients of the 34th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. Kathy Morris and Paul Pearce are imagemakers. Nancy Keefe Rhodes received the award for a photo-historian project on local documentary photographer Marjory Wilkins.

Exploring History With Art: Childhood Through The Years
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The latest exhibit in the Exploring History with Art series features paintings from the permanent collection. 19th-century portraits of children, focusing on children of prominent local families, convey historical circumstances as well as social ideals. 20th-century genre paintings show children in their element: in the bathtub, at recess, and on vacation. The exhibit also features historical objects that enliven the space and impart a sense of the experience of childhood from the cradle to school days and play time. Childhood Through The Years is not only an excellent opportunity to delve into the history of childhood but also the exhibition represents a moment, as fleeting as childhood itself, for parents and children to share their experiences through the interplay of art and history.

Paper Politics
Redhouse

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

Paper Politics is an important international survey of recent politically-motivated printmaking that includes over 200 handmade prints. The exhibit offers the public a comprehensive view of artists' responses to a wide variety of recent political situations and circumstances, ranging from local city politics to national policy to international 'interventions'.

All the artists selected for the exhibition employ an individual approach to the use of the media, techniques, form, and content, and yet each holds in common the will to make politically engaged art. It is through this thread that the viewer may access the struggle to balance the competing impetuses of artist and activist amongst many of the artists included in the exhibit.

The gallery is open by appointment. To schedule a visit, please phone 315-425-0405.

Works of Donna Smith and Nancy Smith
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Donna Smith (jewelry) and Nancy Smith (handbags).

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Show and sale of original fine arts and crafts by Central New York artists and craftspeople. For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Warren Kimble's America
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Folk artist Warren Kimble is creator to some of the most successful 20th century Americana. His quaint depictions have graced stationery cards to decorative accessories for the home. Still, few individuals outside of Vermont know him as the artist behind the celebrated imagery that's as American as apple pie.

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is pleased to present a retrospective of the Syracuse alumnus' work including his most recent series Widows of War, which illustrates his personal reaction to the War in Iraq and its effect on women.

Kimble is best known for his patchwork-like paintings of the American flag, bucolic farm animals, and antique barns and homes. His varying flag designs are a symbol of patriotism, a theme which the artist uses often. Portraits of oversized farm animals, from heavy pigs to stocky cows, allude to an 18th-century practice of selecting prize winning livestock for their size. Kimble's stylized barns and farm houses also reveal a penchant for abstract design over architectural accuracy.

In 2005 Kimble began work on Widows of War. After purchasing a black, antique dressmaking mannequin, Kimble saw in it a visual metaphor for the loss and sorrow felt by American wives and mothers during the war. Contrary to the idyllic scenes and colorful animals, the black-and-white series remains a solemn representation of Kimble's sadness and frustration with the war's events and its toll on American lives. The paintings and sculpture, which are intermittently marked by splats of red and barbed wire, further reinforce the feminine connection through symbolic clothespins and textile patterns.

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

Art for the Holidays
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring mixed media illustrations by Katya Krenina, monotypes and mixed media works by Thea Reidy as well as ceramics by the Clayscapes Pottery (Donald Seymour, Shawn McGuire, Jolee M. Romano, Tim See and Sallie Thompson).

Wild Card Exhibit: Art by Elena Rall
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Works in pastel, watercolor and colored pencil by Elena Rall. Rall has been gaining attention as an emerging artist since high school, earning awards in numerous state competitions including the New York State Fair Fine Arts and Scholastic Arts competitions. With two artists in her family, her mother and grandfather, her interest in the arts has always been supported. Since an early age Rall has been exposed to various art events and has continuously been supplied with tools and given opportunities to study with local artists, including Nicora Gangi. In 2007, she embarked on a trip to China which still inspires much of her work. Recently she studied fine art at Onondaga Community College, graduating with honors in the spring of 2008. Her first love is working with portraits.

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

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

Roiling Infill by Alex Schweder; Blind Spot by Kim Waale
The Warehouse Gallery

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

This solo exhibition by Seattle/Berlin-based artist Alex Schweder, Roiling Infill, consists of a video projection, Jealous Poché (2004), and an architectural installation titled Snowballing Doorway (2007). Both components of the exhibition accomplish in very different ways the artist's ongoing interest in the intersection between architecture, sculpture and performance art.

Jealous Poché is a seven-minute architectural fly-through of a space somewhere between body and building. The word poché was coined in France's École de Beaux Arts during a neoclassical moment to refer to the space between the surfaces of walls. Here, the camera path and viewer's position are actually inside the viscous poché looking into the voids on the other side of the wall's surface. The camera work in this video shows an attention by the artist to a liminal moment (the skin of the wall) between expanse and engulfment. Made in collaboration with gastroenterologist Jim Wagonfeld, a 25-gallon vat of strawberry Jell-O mixed with blocks of resin was filmed with an endoscope. Schweder's decision to use an imaging device normally employed to visualize the human body's own poché in turn represents the architectural space in the video as fleshy. This is in contrast to architecture's historical representation of and fantasies of perfect bodies.

Snowballing Doorway moves from the world of represented architectural fleshiness to architectural flesh itself. Two sac-like arches made from a combination of opaque and clear vinyl pass the same volume of poché (in this case air) back and forth until one of the two completely bulges to fill the aperture in which they are installed. This shifting skin is an example of what Schweder calls "a building that performs itself." Here he is interested in how the codes of architecture act like a score for how occupants are supposed to "perform" the building. In this case, the arch prompts an occupant to "pass through" it. Schweder's unstable arch, however, changes this instruction to its opposite when the poché passes into the upside-down arch on top. In this way, a viewer becomes aware of the way buildings structure the behavior in them.

Both works point to a permeability between buildings and the bodies that occupy them. The video, made using an edible treat, makes it unclear where insides and outsides of buildings and bodies start and stop. The inflatable instructions make explicit that buildings construct us in as much as we construct them.

Also on display, in the Window Projects Gallery, is Blind Spot, a site-specific installation using wax-encrusted wire forms designed to simultaneously emulate the roots and branches of trees and the retina and optic nerve of the human eye. These "references to nature as it exists outside and within the human body underscore the trouble we as humans have in seeing and thinking about ourselves as organisms that are part of the natural world" (Waale, artist statement).

Waale blurs the boundaries between sculpture and drawing as she moves from Vocalizations, a series of preliminary drawings for the project, to sculptural elements that will fill the space.

Syracuse Cultural Workers InsideOUT
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Syracuse Cultural Workers (SCW) presents a familiar face (or, rather, several familiar faces) to the progressive community in Syracuse. The calendars, posters, cards, and T-shirts they publish are well-known; and the banners, drums, and willing bodies are a ready resource for just about any event designed to educate/agitate.

With this exhibit, they celebrate their 25th anniversary with a behind-the-scenes look at some of the less obvious aspects of what it means to be an international "peace and justice publisher and distributor." Topics include: the poster process, from brainstorm to finished product; customer feedback when they don't get it right (and when they do); a poster/calendar/art collages featuring activist art spanning 30 years, and more. This exhibit promises to be a show filled with surprising, entertaining, and visually stimulating perspectives.

Openeing: Pacheco: From the 5th Street Gym to Gandhi
Brian's Art Gallery

Brian's Art Gallery
201 Wolf St. (former Keybank building), Syracuse

Ferdie Pacheco is a man with a great zest for life. He is a painter, an author of 14 books, a playwright, a winner of two Emmy awards, and a humanitarian. Born in 1927 in Ybor City, he made up his mind at 14 to become a doctor and established his practice on Southwest Eighth Street when the Cuban exiles began streaming into the city. It was here that he rediscovered his own immigrant roots -- his father was the Cuban born son of a Spanish consul. Pacheco went on to become Muhammad Ali's cornerman and personal physician for 17 years, becoming known as "The Fight Doctor."

His art work is internationally acclaimed and his painting of Gandhi has been selected as the stamp for the 2009 United Nations Day of Nonviolence. Pacheco's paintings are characterized by his imaginative use of color and design. In particular, his famous faces are executed in a fauvist style. His work has won the Gold Medal and First Prize in Tonneins, France: the First Prize, Best Colorist at Musee Du Luxembourg.

The artist will be in attendance at the reception.

In Fine Fettle
Orange Line Gallery

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

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

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

Opening Reception: Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary: Works of Marianne Smith Dalton

The Spring: Center for Spiritual & Cultural Unity
200 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Cazenovia artist and former Redhouse curator, Marianne Smith Dalton, will be exhibiting a selection of paintings from a new series entitled "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary". The objective of this body of work is to ultimately affect and challenge new interpretations of familiar historical images.

FridayFLICS @ ArtRage: King of Hearts
ArtRage Gallery

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

A World War I explosive expert is sent to an abandoned town only to find it inhabited by inmates from an asylum.

One of the first films to explore the insanity of war, this 1967 French farce drew a literal connection between the clinically insane and the hawkish mentality of war. The message of director Phillipe de Broca's masterpiece resonated with its Vietnam-era audience and was proclaimed one of the most powerful political statements of the 60s art-house scene.

John Rossbach and Chestnut Grove Farewell Performance
Folkus Project

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

A remarkable run of more than 20 years will come to end with the farewell concert of John Rossbach and Chestnut Grove. Originally from West Virginia, Rossbach has lived in Syracuse for 24 years, but he's moving back to his Mountain State roots. This event will celebrate the career of the renowned Central New York musician who founded the group and has kept it true to its traditional bluegrass origins.

For more than 20 years, Rossbach has led Chestnut Grove up and down the Eastern seaboard. During that time, this highly acclaimed ensemble gained a reputation for its dedication to tradition while broadening its musical style. From Highland reels and mountain ballads to old time waltzes and blistering banjo breakdowns, Chestnut Grove plays the finest in traditional bluegrass and Appalachian music. This quintet of versatile singers and award winning multi-instrumentalists always delivers a high-energy show.

To reserve seats for the show, e-mail tickets@folkus.org or call 315-440-7444. Please tell us your name and how many seats to hold.

Classics Series: Beethoven's 5th
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Leila Josefowicz, violin

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

Strauss Don Juan
Berg Violin Concerto
Beethoven Symphony No. 5

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
S.U. Symphony Orchestra
James Tapia, conductor

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

The program includes a world premiere by Setnor School graduate student and Billy Joel Fellow Ian Hartsough as well as music by Grieg and Prokofiev.

Roy Kesey, author
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Roy Kesey is the author of the novella Nothing in the World (winner of the Bullfight Media Little Book Award) and a collection of short stories called All Over (a finalist for the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year award), as well as a historical guide to the city of Nanjing. His work has appeared in several anthologies including Best American Short Stories, New Sudden Fiction, The Robert Olen Butler Prize Anthology and The Future Dictionary of America, and in more than 60 magazines including McSweeney's, Subtropics, The Georgia Review, American Short Fiction, The Iowa Review and Ninth Letter.

Don't Feed the Actors!
Appleseed Productions

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

Appleseed Productions is bringing back its wildly popular improv troupe, Don't Feed the Actors! Join us for an evening of improvisational games, similar to the hit TV show Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Cast includes Dustin M. Czarny, Megan Flanagan, Terry LaCasse, Heather Roach, Doug Rougeux, Wendy Sikorski, Gerrit Vander Werff, Jr., Greg J. Hipius.

The Nerd
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Korrie Strodel, director

Price: $15 adults; $12 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

The Fever
Black Box Players
Chris Dall'au, director

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

The Fever is traditionally a one-man show, but it has been converted to an ensemble-based choral piece. The play was originally written by Wallace Shawn to be performed in private readings, beginning in 1990. The Fever opened on Broadway in January 2007 and ran for three months. The play was later turned adapted into an HBO film in June 2007, leading to a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.

The traveler says, "I always say to my friends, We should celebrate life." But how does one celebrate life while slowly becoming aware that the poverty and oppressed condition of other human beings are a direct consequence of one's own pleasurable existence? What does one do when forced to consider the political persecution that may be occurring just beyond the traveler's hotel window? The Fever is a coruscating, eloquent meditation on whether it is possible to live in an ethical relationship with others in the world.

Seating is limited, so please arrive at least a half-hour prior to the performance to assure seating. To make reservations, leave a message on the Black Box Players' voice mailbox at 315-443-2102. All requests will receive a follow-up phone call from the box office.

The Seagull
Warehouse Architecture Theatre (WhAT)

Price: $8 regular, $4 students
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

A work that the author, Anton Chekhov, claimed contained 'five tons of love.' It is a play about a very human tendency to reject love that is freely given and seek it where it is withheld. Many of its characters are caught in a destructive, triangular relationship that evokes both pathos and humor. What the characters cannot successfully avoid is the destructive force of time, the passage of which robs some of beauty, and others of hope.

For more information, contact WhATorganization@yahoo.com.

The Rimers of Eldritch
Syracuse University Drama Department
Gerardine Clark, director

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

A serious crime has been committed in the tiny Midwestern town of Eldritch. Rumors fly, townspeople mingle, and secrets are exposed. With a mosaic of eccentric characters and an anti-chronological plot, solving the murder mystery turns into a giant puzzle -- will anyone ever find out what really happened? Written by Lanford Wilson.

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The Producers
The Talent Company
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $25 regular, $22 students/seniors, $16 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The Producers, adapted by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan from Brooks' 1968 film, with music and lyrics by Brooks, skewers Broadway traditions and takes no prisoners as it proudly proclaims itself an "equal opportunity offender!" The story line is a comedy classic: a crooked producer Max Bialystock and his anxiety ridden accountant Leo Bloom cook up a scheme to produce the worst musical ever and pocket their investors' money before the curtain falls. Instead of bilking their investors (rich little old ladies) and escaping the tax guys by producing a flop, the duo's Springtime for Hitler becomes a huge hit.

They start their scheme by finding Franz Liebkind, author of the worst play ever written. Then they secure the worst director in New York, Roger De Bris, and his assistant, Carmen Ghia, to stage the show that will present New York's worst actors. Complications arise when the show opens on Broadway and is unexpectedly a huge success!

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Saturday, November 22, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

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

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

Pacheco: From the 5th Street Gym to Gandhi
Brian's Art Gallery

Brian's Art Gallery
201 Wolf St. (former Keybank building), Syracuse

Ferdie Pacheco is a man with a great zest for life. He is a painter, an author of 14 books, a playwright, a winner of two Emmy awards, and a humanitarian. Born in 1927 in Ybor City, he made up his mind at 14 to become a doctor and established his practice on Southwest Eighth Street when the Cuban exiles began streaming into the city. It was here that he rediscovered his own immigrant roots -- his father was the Cuban born son of a Spanish consul. Pacheco went on to become Muhammad Ali's cornerman and personal physician for 17 years, becoming known as "The Fight Doctor."

His art work is internationally acclaimed and his painting of Gandhi has been selected as the stamp for the 2009 United Nations Day of Nonviolence. Pacheco's paintings are characterized by his imaginative use of color and design. In particular, his famous faces are executed in a fauvist style. His work has won the Gold Medal and First Prize in Tonneins, France: the First Prize, Best Colorist at Musee Du Luxembourg.

Wild Card Exhibit: Art by Elena Rall
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Works in pastel, watercolor and colored pencil by Elena Rall. Rall has been gaining attention as an emerging artist since high school, earning awards in numerous state competitions including the New York State Fair Fine Arts and Scholastic Arts competitions. With two artists in her family, her mother and grandfather, her interest in the arts has always been supported. Since an early age Rall has been exposed to various art events and has continuously been supplied with tools and given opportunities to study with local artists, including Nicora Gangi. In 2007, she embarked on a trip to China which still inspires much of her work. Recently she studied fine art at Onondaga Community College, graduating with honors in the spring of 2008. Her first love is working with portraits.

Art for the Holidays
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring mixed media illustrations by Katya Krenina, monotypes and mixed media works by Thea Reidy as well as ceramics by the Clayscapes Pottery (Donald Seymour, Shawn McGuire, Jolee M. Romano, Tim See and Sallie Thompson).

The Color of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Watercolor paintings by Laura Wilk, glassworks of Carmel Nicoletti, and felted bags and ruffled scarves of Sherry Gordon.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Works of Donna Smith and Nancy Smith
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Donna Smith (jewelry) and Nancy Smith (handbags).

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

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

Original illustrated works by London Ladd

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

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

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

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

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

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Show and sale of original fine arts and crafts by Central New York artists and craftspeople. For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Exploring History With Art: Childhood Through The Years
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The latest exhibit in the Exploring History with Art series features paintings from the permanent collection. 19th-century portraits of children, focusing on children of prominent local families, convey historical circumstances as well as social ideals. 20th-century genre paintings show children in their element: in the bathtub, at recess, and on vacation. The exhibit also features historical objects that enliven the space and impart a sense of the experience of childhood from the cradle to school days and play time. Childhood Through The Years is not only an excellent opportunity to delve into the history of childhood but also the exhibition represents a moment, as fleeting as childhood itself, for parents and children to share their experiences through the interplay of art and history.

Warren Kimble's America
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Folk artist Warren Kimble is creator to some of the most successful 20th century Americana. His quaint depictions have graced stationery cards to decorative accessories for the home. Still, few individuals outside of Vermont know him as the artist behind the celebrated imagery that's as American as apple pie.

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is pleased to present a retrospective of the Syracuse alumnus' work including his most recent series Widows of War, which illustrates his personal reaction to the War in Iraq and its effect on women.

Kimble is best known for his patchwork-like paintings of the American flag, bucolic farm animals, and antique barns and homes. His varying flag designs are a symbol of patriotism, a theme which the artist uses often. Portraits of oversized farm animals, from heavy pigs to stocky cows, allude to an 18th-century practice of selecting prize winning livestock for their size. Kimble's stylized barns and farm houses also reveal a penchant for abstract design over architectural accuracy.

In 2005 Kimble began work on Widows of War. After purchasing a black, antique dressmaking mannequin, Kimble saw in it a visual metaphor for the loss and sorrow felt by American wives and mothers during the war. Contrary to the idyllic scenes and colorful animals, the black-and-white series remains a solemn representation of Kimble's sadness and frustration with the war's events and its toll on American lives. The paintings and sculpture, which are intermittently marked by splats of red and barbed wire, further reinforce the feminine connection through symbolic clothespins and textile patterns.

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

Syracuse Cultural Workers InsideOUT
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Syracuse Cultural Workers (SCW) presents a familiar face (or, rather, several familiar faces) to the progressive community in Syracuse. The calendars, posters, cards, and T-shirts they publish are well-known; and the banners, drums, and willing bodies are a ready resource for just about any event designed to educate/agitate.

With this exhibit, they celebrate their 25th anniversary with a behind-the-scenes look at some of the less obvious aspects of what it means to be an international "peace and justice publisher and distributor." Topics include: the poster process, from brainstorm to finished product; customer feedback when they don't get it right (and when they do); a poster/calendar/art collages featuring activist art spanning 30 years, and more. This exhibit promises to be a show filled with surprising, entertaining, and visually stimulating perspectives.

The Art of Pochade: Works of Eric W. Shute
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A pochade is a small sketch in which the artist records, usually in color, the atmospheric effects and general impressions of a landscape. They are small, rapidly executed oil color sketches painted out of doors or plein air. These small paintings are often used as preliminary studies for larger works executed in the studio at a later time. The artist will be exhibiting 16 to 20 of these small works, many of them scenes from the Jonesport and Beals Island area in Down East Maine. The works are quickly conceived and rapidly executed to try and capture the light and conditions of the moment. Because these small paintings are usually considered a reference for larger works they are not often seen by the public.

The artist will be showing one larger work along side the pochade painting that was used as a reference. Patrons may compare the two paintings and see the evolution and thought process of the artist from the original concept in the small color sketch to completion in the much larger finished painting.

Eric Schute's work has appeared at Syracuse's Delavan Art Gallery, Gallery 210, the Everson Museum of Art and the Alden Gallery in Provincetown, MA. For more information, phone 315-445-4323.

In Fine Fettle
Orange Line Gallery

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

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

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

Roiling Infill by Alex Schweder; Blind Spot by Kim Waale
The Warehouse Gallery

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

This solo exhibition by Seattle/Berlin-based artist Alex Schweder, Roiling Infill, consists of a video projection, Jealous Poché (2004), and an architectural installation titled Snowballing Doorway (2007). Both components of the exhibition accomplish in very different ways the artist's ongoing interest in the intersection between architecture, sculpture and performance art.

Jealous Poché is a seven-minute architectural fly-through of a space somewhere between body and building. The word poché was coined in France's École de Beaux Arts during a neoclassical moment to refer to the space between the surfaces of walls. Here, the camera path and viewer's position are actually inside the viscous poché looking into the voids on the other side of the wall's surface. The camera work in this video shows an attention by the artist to a liminal moment (the skin of the wall) between expanse and engulfment. Made in collaboration with gastroenterologist Jim Wagonfeld, a 25-gallon vat of strawberry Jell-O mixed with blocks of resin was filmed with an endoscope. Schweder's decision to use an imaging device normally employed to visualize the human body's own poché in turn represents the architectural space in the video as fleshy. This is in contrast to architecture's historical representation of and fantasies of perfect bodies.

Snowballing Doorway moves from the world of represented architectural fleshiness to architectural flesh itself. Two sac-like arches made from a combination of opaque and clear vinyl pass the same volume of poché (in this case air) back and forth until one of the two completely bulges to fill the aperture in which they are installed. This shifting skin is an example of what Schweder calls "a building that performs itself." Here he is interested in how the codes of architecture act like a score for how occupants are supposed to "perform" the building. In this case, the arch prompts an occupant to "pass through" it. Schweder's unstable arch, however, changes this instruction to its opposite when the poché passes into the upside-down arch on top. In this way, a viewer becomes aware of the way buildings structure the behavior in them.

Both works point to a permeability between buildings and the bodies that occupy them. The video, made using an edible treat, makes it unclear where insides and outsides of buildings and bodies start and stop. The inflatable instructions make explicit that buildings construct us in as much as we construct them.

Also on display, in the Window Projects Gallery, is Blind Spot, a site-specific installation using wax-encrusted wire forms designed to simultaneously emulate the roots and branches of trees and the retina and optic nerve of the human eye. These "references to nature as it exists outside and within the human body underscore the trouble we as humans have in seeing and thinking about ourselves as organisms that are part of the natural world" (Waale, artist statement).

Waale blurs the boundaries between sculpture and drawing as she moves from Vocalizations, a series of preliminary drawings for the project, to sculptural elements that will fill the space.

Snow White
Syracuse City Ballet

Price: $19 - $39
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

This beloved fairy tale brings to life all of the characters we know and love: Prince Charming, the vain and wicked Queen, Snow White and her gang of brave and funny dwarves. Artistic Director Kathleen Rathbun's stunning blend of choreography and story-telling shines in the lovely and comic presentation of this timeless story.

Senior Voice Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Elizabeth Charron

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

Elizabeth Charron, a senior music education major at the Setnor School, will perform her senior voice recital. The program includes music by Handel, Vivaldi, Mozart, Robert Baksa, Hundley and Copland.

Parking is available in Irving Garage.

Instrumental Scholastic Jazz Jam
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $6 adults; $3 with student ID
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The open jam sessions are the area's only opportunity for young musicians to learn the ropes of playing in public and develop their ability to improvise in the jazz style. "Young improvisers of all ages" are encouraged to perform the tune of their choice backed by the all-star rhythm section of the Central New York Jazz Orchestra, who will lend their user-friendly expertise to all wishing to sit in.

The event draws participants from as young as 4th grade to vocational adults, young professionals completing music degrees regionally, and the occasional local educator who accompanies a local school group.

Senior Bassoon Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Kristen Lamore

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

Kristen Lamore, a senior music education major at the Setnor School, will perform her senior bassoon recital. The program includes music by Saint-Saens, Jacob, Rossini, and a new work by Setnor student composer Allison Duggan.

Parking is available in Irving Garage.

Vocal Jazz Festival
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
James Commons
Le Moyne College, Syracuse

Vocal clinician Kirk Marcy will work with students from Solvay High School, Homer High School, Cicero-North Syracuse High School, North Syracuse Junior High School and Durgee Junior High School, as well as the Le Moyne College Jazzuits, concluding with the evening concert.

DeAngelis Piano Festival
LeMoyne College

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

The DeAngelis Piano Festival will host many talented young pianists in a day-long competition, which concludes with the evening performance. The concert will feature the winners of the competition as well as Le Moyne College Artist-in-Residence Andrew Russo.

Classics Series: Beethoven's 5th
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Leila Josefowicz, violin

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

Strauss Don Juan
Berg Violin Concerto
Beethoven Symphony No. 5

Snow White
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

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

The Fever
Black Box Players
Chris Dall'au, director

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

The Fever is traditionally a one-man show, but it has been converted to an ensemble-based choral piece. The play was originally written by Wallace Shawn to be performed in private readings, beginning in 1990. The Fever opened on Broadway in January 2007 and ran for three months. The play was later turned adapted into an HBO film in June 2007, leading to a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.

The traveler says, "I always say to my friends, We should celebrate life." But how does one celebrate life while slowly becoming aware that the poverty and oppressed condition of other human beings are a direct consequence of one's own pleasurable existence? What does one do when forced to consider the political persecution that may be occurring just beyond the traveler's hotel window? The Fever is a coruscating, eloquent meditation on whether it is possible to live in an ethical relationship with others in the world.

Seating is limited, so please arrive at least a half-hour prior to the performance to assure seating. To make reservations, leave a message on the Black Box Players' voice mailbox at 315-443-2102. All requests will receive a follow-up phone call from the box office.

The Rimers of Eldritch
Syracuse University Drama Department
Gerardine Clark, director

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

A serious crime has been committed in the tiny Midwestern town of Eldritch. Rumors fly, townspeople mingle, and secrets are exposed. With a mosaic of eccentric characters and an anti-chronological plot, solving the murder mystery turns into a giant puzzle -- will anyone ever find out what really happened? Written by Lanford Wilson.

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Deadly Inheritance
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $40/dinner and theater
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

Interactive mystery/comedy dinner theater. For more information, phone 315-469-6969.

Don't Feed the Actors!
Appleseed Productions

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

Appleseed Productions is bringing back its wildly popular improv troupe, Don't Feed the Actors! Join us for an evening of improvisational games, similar to the hit TV show Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Cast includes Dustin M. Czarny, Megan Flanagan, Terry LaCasse, Heather Roach, Doug Rougeux, Wendy Sikorski, Gerrit Vander Werff, Jr., Greg J. Hipius.

The Nerd
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Korrie Strodel, director

Price: $15 adults; $12 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

The Fever
Black Box Players
Chris Dall'au, director

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

The Fever is traditionally a one-man show, but it has been converted to an ensemble-based choral piece. The play was originally written by Wallace Shawn to be performed in private readings, beginning in 1990. The Fever opened on Broadway in January 2007 and ran for three months. The play was later turned adapted into an HBO film in June 2007, leading to a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.

The traveler says, "I always say to my friends, We should celebrate life." But how does one celebrate life while slowly becoming aware that the poverty and oppressed condition of other human beings are a direct consequence of one's own pleasurable existence? What does one do when forced to consider the political persecution that may be occurring just beyond the traveler's hotel window? The Fever is a coruscating, eloquent meditation on whether it is possible to live in an ethical relationship with others in the world.

Seating is limited, so please arrive at least a half-hour prior to the performance to assure seating. To make reservations, leave a message on the Black Box Players' voice mailbox at 315-443-2102. All requests will receive a follow-up phone call from the box office.

The Seagull
Warehouse Architecture Theatre (WhAT)

Price: $8 regular, $4 students
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

A work that the author, Anton Chekhov, claimed contained 'five tons of love.' It is a play about a very human tendency to reject love that is freely given and seek it where it is withheld. Many of its characters are caught in a destructive, triangular relationship that evokes both pathos and humor. What the characters cannot successfully avoid is the destructive force of time, the passage of which robs some of beauty, and others of hope.

For more information, contact WhATorganization@yahoo.com.

The Rimers of Eldritch
Syracuse University Drama Department
Gerardine Clark, director

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

A serious crime has been committed in the tiny Midwestern town of Eldritch. Rumors fly, townspeople mingle, and secrets are exposed. With a mosaic of eccentric characters and an anti-chronological plot, solving the murder mystery turns into a giant puzzle -- will anyone ever find out what really happened? Written by Lanford Wilson.

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The Producers
The Talent Company
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $25 regular, $22 students/seniors, $16 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The Producers, adapted by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan from Brooks' 1968 film, with music and lyrics by Brooks, skewers Broadway traditions and takes no prisoners as it proudly proclaims itself an "equal opportunity offender!" The story line is a comedy classic: a crooked producer Max Bialystock and his anxiety ridden accountant Leo Bloom cook up a scheme to produce the worst musical ever and pocket their investors' money before the curtain falls. Instead of bilking their investors (rich little old ladies) and escaping the tax guys by producing a flop, the duo's Springtime for Hitler becomes a huge hit.

They start their scheme by finding Franz Liebkind, author of the worst play ever written. Then they secure the worst director in New York, Roger De Bris, and his assistant, Carmen Ghia, to stage the show that will present New York's worst actors. Complications arise when the show opens on Broadway and is unexpectedly a huge success!

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Sunday, November 23, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

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

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

2008 Light Work Grant Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Works of Kathy Morris, Paul Pearce, and Nancy Keefe Rhodes, the recipients of the 34th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. Kathy Morris and Paul Pearce are imagemakers. Nancy Keefe Rhodes received the award for a photo-historian project on local documentary photographer Marjory Wilkins.

Tracing Memory: Photographs by Angie Buckley, Pedro Isztin, Cyrus Karimipour, and Paula Luttringer
Light Work Gallery

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

Guest curator Miriam Romais of En Foco curated this exhibition to explore what makes a thought become a memory. The artists included in this exhibition create photographs that look at the idea of remembrance -- of letting go and making sense of past events, and using those memories to understand who they are today.

Growing up with a mother from Thailand and a Caucasian American father, Angie Buckley did not know her family history for many years. She relied on the conflicting memories and stories of relatives to piece together her heritage. Her images are created with a pinhole camera and cutouts of old family photographs, resulting in work that lies somewhere in between the real world and imagination. Buckley received her BFA in Photography from Ohio University and her MFA in Photography from Arizona State University. She has received various awards, and her work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Southern Light Gallery in Texas, the McDuffy Arts Center in Virginia, and New York University.

Pedro Isztin's color portraits metaphorically integrate formative childhood memories, using them to heal the adult that the child has become. Part of a larger series that emulates a life journey, Destino III: Transformation revisits, in Isztin's words, "the pain, joy, and suffering that our psyches are stamped with, no matter how little or large those experiences as a child." Isztin was born to a Colombian mother and Hungarian father; his work explores his diverse heritage. He lives in Ottawa, Canada, and has exhibited internationally. He has received numerous awards and grants, including a Photography Project Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and an Ontario Arts Council Award.

Cyrus Karimipour revels in the flexibility of memories and uses his images to visually recreate them and depict how he remembers an event or encounter. In his series Invented Memory, he creates scenarios by heavily manipulating his negatives and rearranging their fragments to then be re-photographed. His imagery becomes ambiguous, as if looking in on someone else's dream. Karimipour received his BA from Oakland University in Michigan and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. His work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of New Art in Michigan, and the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio. His art has also appeared in Harper's Magazine and The Detroit News, among other publications.

Paula Luttringer faces her own traumatic past, infusing her imagery with what other women remember about being abducted and held captive during Argentina's Dirty War. Lamento de Los Muros (The Wailing of the Walls) consists of large black-and-white images that depict the interior of the detention centers where thousands of people were held, tortured, and "disappeared." The images capture both history and memory. Luttringer was awarded a fellowship by the Guggenheim Foundation in 2001. Her work appears in the collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; the Museum of Fine Arts in Texas; and George Eastman House in New York. She currently lives and works in Buenos Aires and Paris.

Exploring History With Art: Childhood Through The Years
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The latest exhibit in the Exploring History with Art series features paintings from the permanent collection. 19th-century portraits of children, focusing on children of prominent local families, convey historical circumstances as well as social ideals. 20th-century genre paintings show children in their element: in the bathtub, at recess, and on vacation. The exhibit also features historical objects that enliven the space and impart a sense of the experience of childhood from the cradle to school days and play time. Childhood Through The Years is not only an excellent opportunity to delve into the history of childhood but also the exhibition represents a moment, as fleeting as childhood itself, for parents and children to share their experiences through the interplay of art and history.

Works of Donna Smith and Nancy Smith
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Donna Smith (jewelry) and Nancy Smith (handbags).

Warren Kimble's America
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Folk artist Warren Kimble is creator to some of the most successful 20th century Americana. His quaint depictions have graced stationery cards to decorative accessories for the home. Still, few individuals outside of Vermont know him as the artist behind the celebrated imagery that's as American as apple pie.

The Syracuse University Art Galleries is pleased to present a retrospective of the Syracuse alumnus' work including his most recent series Widows of War, which illustrates his personal reaction to the War in Iraq and its effect on women.

Kimble is best known for his patchwork-like paintings of the American flag, bucolic farm animals, and antique barns and homes. His varying flag designs are a symbol of patriotism, a theme which the artist uses often. Portraits of oversized farm animals, from heavy pigs to stocky cows, allude to an 18th-century practice of selecting prize winning livestock for their size. Kimble's stylized barns and farm houses also reveal a penchant for abstract design over architectural accuracy.

In 2005 Kimble began work on Widows of War. After purchasing a black, antique dressmaking mannequin, Kimble saw in it a visual metaphor for the loss and sorrow felt by American wives and mothers during the war. Contrary to the idyllic scenes and colorful animals, the black-and-white series remains a solemn representation of Kimble's sadness and frustration with the war's events and its toll on American lives. The paintings and sculpture, which are intermittently marked by splats of red and barbed wire, further reinforce the feminine connection through symbolic clothespins and textile patterns.

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

Artist Talk -- Pacheco: From the 5th Street Gym to Gandhi
Brian's Art Gallery

Brian's Art Gallery
201 Wolf St. (former Keybank building), Syracuse

Ferdie Pacheco is a man with a great zest for life. He is a painter, an author of 14 books, a playwright, a winner of two Emmy awards, and a humanitarian. Born in 1927 in Ybor City, he made up his mind at 14 to become a doctor and established his practice on Southwest Eighth Street when the Cuban exiles began streaming into the city. It was here that he rediscovered his own immigrant roots -- his father was the Cuban born son of a Spanish consul. Pacheco went on to become Muhammad Ali's cornerman and personal physician for 17 years, becoming known as "The Fight Doctor."

His art work is internationally acclaimed and his painting of Gandhi has been selected as the stamp for the 2009 United Nations Day of Nonviolence. Pacheco's paintings are characterized by his imaginative use of color and design. In particular, his famous faces are executed in a fauvist style. His work has won the Gold Medal and First Prize in Tonneins, France: the First Prize, Best Colorist at Musee Du Luxembourg.

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

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

The Art of Pochade: Works of Eric W. Shute
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A pochade is a small sketch in which the artist records, usually in color, the atmospheric effects and general impressions of a landscape. They are small, rapidly executed oil color sketches painted out of doors or plein air. These small paintings are often used as preliminary studies for larger works executed in the studio at a later time. The artist will be exhibiting 16 to 20 of these small works, many of them scenes from the Jonesport and Beals Island area in Down East Maine. The works are quickly conceived and rapidly executed to try and capture the light and conditions of the moment. Because these small paintings are usually considered a reference for larger works they are not often seen by the public.

The artist will be showing one larger work along side the pochade painting that was used as a reference. Patrons may compare the two paintings and see the evolution and thought process of the artist from the original concept in the small color sketch to completion in the much larger finished painting.

Eric Schute's work has appeared at Syracuse's Delavan Art Gallery, Gallery 210, the Everson Museum of Art and the Alden Gallery in Provincetown, MA. For more information, phone 315-445-4323.

Snow White
Syracuse City Ballet

Price: $19 - $39
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

This beloved fairy tale brings to life all of the characters we know and love: Prince Charming, the vain and wicked Queen, Snow White and her gang of brave and funny dwarves. Artistic Director Kathleen Rathbun's stunning blend of choreography and story-telling shines in the lovely and comic presentation of this timeless story.

Syracuse Film Festival Pre-Screening
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: Free
Reilly Hall, Room 244
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Special Fundraising Event: An American Treasure -- Helen Boatwright, Soprano
Civic Morning Musicals

Price: $50 adults; students free
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Recital of German lieder and American song. A reception follows.

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

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

Syracuse University Clarinet Choir
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Jill Coggiola, conductor

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

The Rimers of Eldritch
Syracuse University Drama Department
Gerardine Clark, director

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

A serious crime has been committed in the tiny Midwestern town of Eldritch. Rumors fly, townspeople mingle, and secrets are exposed. With a mosaic of eccentric characters and an anti-chronological plot, solving the murder mystery turns into a giant puzzle -- will anyone ever find out what really happened? Written by Lanford Wilson.

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The Producers
The Talent Company
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $25 regular, $22 students/seniors, $16 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The Producers, adapted by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan from Brooks' 1968 film, with music and lyrics by Brooks, skewers Broadway traditions and takes no prisoners as it proudly proclaims itself an "equal opportunity offender!" The story line is a comedy classic: a crooked producer Max Bialystock and his anxiety ridden accountant Leo Bloom cook up a scheme to produce the worst musical ever and pocket their investors' money before the curtain falls. Instead of bilking their investors (rich little old ladies) and escaping the tax guys by producing a flop, the duo's Springtime for Hitler becomes a huge hit.

They start their scheme by finding Franz Liebkind, author of the worst play ever written. Then they secure the worst director in New York, Roger De Bris, and his assistant, Carmen Ghia, to stage the show that will present New York's worst actors. Complications arise when the show opens on Broadway and is unexpectedly a huge success!

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Monday, November 24, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

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

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

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

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

The Art of Pochade: Works of Eric W. Shute
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A pochade is a small sketch in which the artist records, usually in color, the atmospheric effects and general impressions of a landscape. They are small, rapidly executed oil color sketches painted out of doors or plein air. These small paintings are often used as preliminary studies for larger works executed in the studio at a later time. The artist will be exhibiting 16 to 20 of these small works, many of them scenes from the Jonesport and Beals Island area in Down East Maine. The works are quickly conceived and rapidly executed to try and capture the light and conditions of the moment. Because these small paintings are usually considered a reference for larger works they are not often seen by the public.

The artist will be showing one larger work along side the pochade painting that was used as a reference. Patrons may compare the two paintings and see the evolution and thought process of the artist from the original concept in the small color sketch to completion in the much larger finished painting.

Eric Schute's work has appeared at Syracuse's Delavan Art Gallery, Gallery 210, the Everson Museum of Art and the Alden Gallery in Provincetown, MA. For more information, phone 315-445-4323.

Gallery Exhibition: Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A mixed media show with works from Onondaga's own faculty members.

The Golem: Visual Visitations
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A major collective exhibit of seven world class artists titled "The Golem: Visual Visitations," inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' poem "El Golem." This is the third edition of a program that began in Prague in 2002 through the initiative of the Argentinean Embassy in that city, and it was introduced by the renowned poet Václav Havel, then President of the Czech Republic. A second version was later produced with tremendous success at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2003, also introduced by then President of the country, Néstor Kirchner. Now the program travels to the United States for the first time to be shown exclusively at Syracuse University.

The Golem exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery features original works especially commissioned for this exhibit, created by seven artists: from Argentina (Leandro Katz; Pedro Roth); Uruguay (Marta Chilindrón); Puerto Rico (Víctor Vázquez); Syracuse (Tom Sherman; Doug Dubois) and New York (Sarah Kipp). It combines photography, installation and video art.

Think Tech Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

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

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Dawn of a New Age: The Immigrant Contribution to the Arts in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"Dawn of a New Age" tells the story of five artists who immigrated to the United States during the first half of the 20th century: Adolph Bolm, a Russian dancer and choreographer who performed with the Mariinsky Ballet and Ballets Russes; William Lescaze, a Swiss architect who was one of the pioneers of modernism; Louis Lozowick, a Russian printmaker known for his Art Deco and Precision lithographs; Miklós Rózsa, a Hungarian composer of more than 100 film scores, including Ben Hur; and John Vassos, a Greek illustrator and industrial designer. The exhibition draws from the rich holdings of SCRC and showcases more than 50 of the artists' personal papers, manuscripts, photos and artifacts.

This exhibit is part of this year's Syracuse Symposium on the theme "Migration."

Viewpoints: A Collaborative Collection
Westcott Community Center

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

The Syracuse Photography Meetup Group proudly presents a collection of photographic images at their very first collaborative gallery exhibit. Creatively capturing images from the commonplace to the unexpected, photographers catch the light and special moments in time. This collection of images will serve to captivate your eye and draw you in closer to view a new world in each and every photo.

Members have long exhibited their works on the unique "underground" galleries of cyberspace, but now further realize their works, by bringing them to life in print for this collaborative effort. We hope you enjoy the variety of work, as well as appreciate the varied levels of expertise represented here, from the active beginner, serious amateur, aspiring professional, and working professionals. It is safe to say that each image is a labor of love, born out of an enthusiasm to create something new and wonderful.

Tracing Memory: Photographs by Angie Buckley, Pedro Isztin, Cyrus Karimipour, and Paula Luttringer
Light Work Gallery

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

Guest curator Miriam Romais of En Foco curated this exhibition to explore what makes a thought become a memory. The artists included in this exhibition create photographs that look at the idea of remembrance -- of letting go and making sense of past events, and using those memories to understand who they are today.

Growing up with a mother from Thailand and a Caucasian American father, Angie Buckley did not know her family history for many years. She relied on the conflicting memories and stories of relatives to piece together her heritage. Her images are created with a pinhole camera and cutouts of old family photographs, resulting in work that lies somewhere in between the real world and imagination. Buckley received her BFA in Photography from Ohio University and her MFA in Photography from Arizona State University. She has received various awards, and her work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Southern Light Gallery in Texas, the McDuffy Arts Center in Virginia, and New York University.

Pedro Isztin's color portraits metaphorically integrate formative childhood memories, using them to heal the adult that the child has become. Part of a larger series that emulates a life journey, Destino III: Transformation revisits, in Isztin's words, "the pain, joy, and suffering that our psyches are stamped with, no matter how little or large those experiences as a child." Isztin was born to a Colombian mother and Hungarian father; his work explores his diverse heritage. He lives in Ottawa, Canada, and has exhibited internationally. He has received numerous awards and grants, including a Photography Project Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and an Ontario Arts Council Award.

Cyrus Karimipour revels in the flexibility of memories and uses his images to visually recreate them and depict how he remembers an event or encounter. In his series Invented Memory, he creates scenarios by heavily manipulating his negatives and rearranging their fragments to then be re-photographed. His imagery becomes ambiguous, as if looking in on someone else's dream. Karimipour received his BA from Oakland University in Michigan and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. His work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of New Art in Michigan, and the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio. His art has also appeared in Harper's Magazine and The Detroit News, among other publications.

Paula Luttringer faces her own traumatic past, infusing her imagery with what other women remember about being abducted and held captive during Argentina's Dirty War. Lamento de Los Muros (The Wailing of the Walls) consists of large black-and-white images that depict the interior of the detention centers where thousands of people were held, tortured, and "disappeared." The images capture both history and memory. Luttringer was awarded a fellowship by the Guggenheim Foundation in 2001. Her work appears in the collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; the Museum of Fine Arts in Texas; and George Eastman House in New York. She currently lives and works in Buenos Aires and Paris.

2008 Light Work Grant Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Works of Kathy Morris, Paul Pearce, and Nancy Keefe Rhodes, the recipients of the 34th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. Kathy Morris and Paul Pearce are imagemakers. Nancy Keefe Rhodes received the award for a photo-historian project on local documentary photographer Marjory Wilkins.

Works of Donna Smith and Nancy Smith
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Donna Smith (jewelry) and Nancy Smith (handbags).

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Show and sale of original fine arts and crafts by Central New York artists and craftspeople. For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

The Thin Man (1934)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

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

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

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

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

The Art of Pochade: Works of Eric W. Shute
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A pochade is a small sketch in which the artist records, usually in color, the atmospheric effects and general impressions of a landscape. They are small, rapidly executed oil color sketches painted out of doors or plein air. These small paintings are often used as preliminary studies for larger works executed in the studio at a later time. The artist will be exhibiting 16 to 20 of these small works, many of them scenes from the Jonesport and Beals Island area in Down East Maine. The works are quickly conceived and rapidly executed to try and capture the light and conditions of the moment. Because these small paintings are usually considered a reference for larger works they are not often seen by the public.

The artist will be showing one larger work along side the pochade painting that was used as a reference. Patrons may compare the two paintings and see the evolution and thought process of the artist from the original concept in the small color sketch to completion in the much larger finished painting.

Eric Schute's work has appeared at Syracuse's Delavan Art Gallery, Gallery 210, the Everson Museum of Art and the Alden Gallery in Provincetown, MA. For more information, phone 315-445-4323.

Gallery Exhibition: Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A mixed media show with works from Onondaga's own faculty members.

The Golem: Visual Visitations
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A major collective exhibit of seven world class artists titled "The Golem: Visual Visitations," inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' poem "El Golem." This is the third edition of a program that began in Prague in 2002 through the initiative of the Argentinean Embassy in that city, and it was introduced by the renowned poet Václav Havel, then President of the Czech Republic. A second version was later produced with tremendous success at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2003, also introduced by then President of the country, Néstor Kirchner. Now the program travels to the United States for the first time to be shown exclusively at Syracuse University.

The Golem exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery features original works especially commissioned for this exhibit, created by seven artists: from Argentina (Leandro Katz; Pedro Roth); Uruguay (Marta Chilindrón); Puerto Rico (Víctor Vázquez); Syracuse (Tom Sherman; Doug Dubois) and New York (Sarah Kipp). It combines photography, installation and video art.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Think Tech Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

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

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Dawn of a New Age: The Immigrant Contribution to the Arts in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"Dawn of a New Age" tells the story of five artists who immigrated to the United States during the first half of the 20th century: Adolph Bolm, a Russian dancer and choreographer who performed with the Mariinsky Ballet and Ballets Russes; William Lescaze, a Swiss architect who was one of the pioneers of modernism; Louis Lozowick, a Russian printmaker known for his Art Deco and Precision lithographs; Miklós Rózsa, a Hungarian composer of more than 100 film scores, including Ben Hur; and John Vassos, a Greek illustrator and industrial designer. The exhibition draws from the rich holdings of SCRC and showcases more than 50 of the artists' personal papers, manuscripts, photos and artifacts.

This exhibit is part of this year's Syracuse Symposium on the theme "Migration."

Viewpoints: A Collaborative Collection
Westcott Community Center

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

The Syracuse Photography Meetup Group proudly presents a collection of photographic images at their very first collaborative gallery exhibit. Creatively capturing images from the commonplace to the unexpected, photographers catch the light and special moments in time. This collection of images will serve to captivate your eye and draw you in closer to view a new world in each and every photo.

Members have long exhibited their works on the unique "underground" galleries of cyberspace, but now further realize their works, by bringing them to life in print for this collaborative effort. We hope you enjoy the variety of work, as well as appreciate the varied levels of expertise represented here, from the active beginner, serious amateur, aspiring professional, and working professionals. It is safe to say that each image is a labor of love, born out of an enthusiasm to create something new and wonderful.

The Color of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Watercolor paintings by Laura Wilk, glassworks of Carmel Nicoletti, and felted bags and ruffled scarves of Sherry Gordon.

Pacheco: From the 5th Street Gym to Gandhi
Brian's Art Gallery

Brian's Art Gallery
201 Wolf St. (former Keybank building), Syracuse

Ferdie Pacheco is a man with a great zest for life. He is a painter, an author of 14 books, a playwright, a winner of two Emmy awards, and a humanitarian. Born in 1927 in Ybor City, he made up his mind at 14 to become a doctor and established his practice on Southwest Eighth Street when the Cuban exiles began streaming into the city. It was here that he rediscovered his own immigrant roots -- his father was the Cuban born son of a Spanish consul. Pacheco went on to become Muhammad Ali's cornerman and personal physician for 17 years, becoming known as "The Fight Doctor."

His art work is internationally acclaimed and his painting of Gandhi has been selected as the stamp for the 2009 United Nations Day of Nonviolence. Pacheco's paintings are characterized by his imaginative use of color and design. In particular, his famous faces are executed in a fauvist style. His work has won the Gold Medal and First Prize in Tonneins, France: the First Prize, Best Colorist at Musee Du Luxembourg.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Original illustrated works by London Ladd

2008 Light Work Grant Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Works of Kathy Morris, Paul Pearce, and Nancy Keefe Rhodes, the recipients of the 34th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. Kathy Morris and Paul Pearce are imagemakers. Nancy Keefe Rhodes received the award for a photo-historian project on local documentary photographer Marjory Wilkins.

Tracing Memory: Photographs by Angie Buckley, Pedro Isztin, Cyrus Karimipour, and Paula Luttringer
Light Work Gallery

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

Guest curator Miriam Romais of En Foco curated this exhibition to explore what makes a thought become a memory. The artists included in this exhibition create photographs that look at the idea of remembrance -- of letting go and making sense of past events, and using those memories to understand who they are today.

Growing up with a mother from Thailand and a Caucasian American father, Angie Buckley did not know her family history for many years. She relied on the conflicting memories and stories of relatives to piece together her heritage. Her images are created with a pinhole camera and cutouts of old family photographs, resulting in work that lies somewhere in between the real world and imagination. Buckley received her BFA in Photography from Ohio University and her MFA in Photography from Arizona State University. She has received various awards, and her work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Southern Light Gallery in Texas, the McDuffy Arts Center in Virginia, and New York University.

Pedro Isztin's color portraits metaphorically integrate formative childhood memories, using them to heal the adult that the child has become. Part of a larger series that emulates a life journey, Destino III: Transformation revisits, in Isztin's words, "the pain, joy, and suffering that our psyches are stamped with, no matter how little or large those experiences as a child." Isztin was born to a Colombian mother and Hungarian father; his work explores his diverse heritage. He lives in Ottawa, Canada, and has exhibited internationally. He has received numerous awards and grants, including a Photography Project Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and an Ontario Arts Council Award.

Cyrus Karimipour revels in the flexibility of memories and uses his images to visually recreate them and depict how he remembers an event or encounter. In his series Invented Memory, he creates scenarios by heavily manipulating his negatives and rearranging their fragments to then be re-photographed. His imagery becomes ambiguous, as if looking in on someone else's dream. Karimipour received his BA from Oakland University in Michigan and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. His work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of New Art in Michigan, and the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio. His art has also appeared in Harper's Magazine and The Detroit News, among other publications.

Paula Luttringer faces her own traumatic past, infusing her imagery with what other women remember about being abducted and held captive during Argentina's Dirty War. Lamento de Los Muros (The Wailing of the Walls) consists of large black-and-white images that depict the interior of the detention centers where thousands of people were held, tortured, and "disappeared." The images capture both history and memory. Luttringer was awarded a fellowship by the Guggenheim Foundation in 2001. Her work appears in the collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; the Museum of Fine Arts in Texas; and George Eastman House in New York. She currently lives and works in Buenos Aires and Paris.

Works of Donna Smith and Nancy Smith
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Donna Smith (jewelry) and Nancy Smith (handbags).

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Show and sale of original fine arts and crafts by Central New York artists and craftspeople. For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Roiling Infill by Alex Schweder; Blind Spot by Kim Waale
The Warehouse Gallery

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

This solo exhibition by Seattle/Berlin-based artist Alex Schweder, Roiling Infill, consists of a video projection, Jealous Poché (2004), and an architectural installation titled Snowballing Doorway (2007). Both components of the exhibition accomplish in very different ways the artist's ongoing interest in the intersection between architecture, sculpture and performance art.

Jealous Poché is a seven-minute architectural fly-through of a space somewhere between body and building. The word poché was coined in France's École de Beaux Arts during a neoclassical moment to refer to the space between the surfaces of walls. Here, the camera path and viewer's position are actually inside the viscous poché looking into the voids on the other side of the wall's surface. The camera work in this video shows an attention by the artist to a liminal moment (the skin of the wall) between expanse and engulfment. Made in collaboration with gastroenterologist Jim Wagonfeld, a 25-gallon vat of strawberry Jell-O mixed with blocks of resin was filmed with an endoscope. Schweder's decision to use an imaging device normally employed to visualize the human body's own poché in turn represents the architectural space in the video as fleshy. This is in contrast to architecture's historical representation of and fantasies of perfect bodies.

Snowballing Doorway moves from the world of represented architectural fleshiness to architectural flesh itself. Two sac-like arches made from a combination of opaque and clear vinyl pass the same volume of poché (in this case air) back and forth until one of the two completely bulges to fill the aperture in which they are installed. This shifting skin is an example of what Schweder calls "a building that performs itself." Here he is interested in how the codes of architecture act like a score for how occupants are supposed to "perform" the building. In this case, the arch prompts an occupant to "pass through" it. Schweder's unstable arch, however, changes this instruction to its opposite when the poché passes into the upside-down arch on top. In this way, a viewer becomes aware of the way buildings structure the behavior in them.

Both works point to a permeability between buildings and the bodies that occupy them. The video, made using an edible treat, makes it unclear where insides and outsides of buildings and bodies start and stop. The inflatable instructions make explicit that buildings construct us in as much as we construct them.

Also on display, in the Window Projects Gallery, is Blind Spot, a site-specific installation using wax-encrusted wire forms designed to simultaneously emulate the roots and branches of trees and the retina and optic nerve of the human eye. These "references to nature as it exists outside and within the human body underscore the trouble we as humans have in seeing and thinking about ourselves as organisms that are part of the natural world" (Waale, artist statement).

Waale blurs the boundaries between sculpture and drawing as she moves from Vocalizations, a series of preliminary drawings for the project, to sculptural elements that will fill the space.

Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring Brooke Hodge

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Auditorium
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Brooke Hodge, Curator of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles will discuss the intersections between the two creative disciplines of fashion and architecture, from the 1980s to the present. She explores the ways in which the two practices share common conceptual underpinnings and how they have borrowed tectonic strategies from each other such as weaving, wrapping, folding, pleating, cantilever, and suspension. Immediately following the lecture, a book signing of Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture (Thames & Hudson 2006), will take place in Slocum Gallery.

From 1991-2000 Brooke Hodge was Director of Exhibitions and Publications at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where she also held the positions of Adjunct Curator of Architecture at the Fogg Art Museum and Assistant Dean of Arts Programs at the Graduate School of Design. She has organized exhibitions of the work of architects Frank Gehry, Gio Ponti, Zaha Hadid, Kazuyo Sejima, Enric Miralles, theater designer and artist Robert Wilson, car designer J Mays, and fashion designer Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons, among others. Her most recent MOCA exhibition project, "Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture," is currently on view at Somerset House in London and she is working on a new exhibition of the work of Morphosis, which will open at MOCA in 2009. Hodge is a contributor to Wallpaper and also writes "Seeing Things," a bi-weekly design column for "The Moment," The New York Times Magazine's blog.

Preview: Godspell
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj, director

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

This energetic musical based on the gospel of St. Matthew is a celebration of worldwide community, filled with popular hit songs and irresistible good will. From the UN to India to China to Darfur to Syracuse prepare ye the way of hope, brotherhood and sisterhood as the time for tolerance and inclusiveness draws nearer Day by Day. A groundbreaking musical in its time, this colorful update features world dance-inspired choreography and multimedia projections.

Conceived by John-Michael Tebelak; music and new lyrics by Stephen Schwartz; choreographed by Anthony Salatino.

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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

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

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

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

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

The Art of Pochade: Works of Eric W. Shute
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A pochade is a small sketch in which the artist records, usually in color, the atmospheric effects and general impressions of a landscape. They are small, rapidly executed oil color sketches painted out of doors or plein air. These small paintings are often used as preliminary studies for larger works executed in the studio at a later time. The artist will be exhibiting 16 to 20 of these small works, many of them scenes from the Jonesport and Beals Island area in Down East Maine. The works are quickly conceived and rapidly executed to try and capture the light and conditions of the moment. Because these small paintings are usually considered a reference for larger works they are not often seen by the public.

The artist will be showing one larger work along side the pochade painting that was used as a reference. Patrons may compare the two paintings and see the evolution and thought process of the artist from the original concept in the small color sketch to completion in the much larger finished painting.

Eric Schute's work has appeared at Syracuse's Delavan Art Gallery, Gallery 210, the Everson Museum of Art and the Alden Gallery in Provincetown, MA. For more information, phone 315-445-4323.

Gallery Exhibition: Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A mixed media show with works from Onondaga's own faculty members.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Think Tech Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

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

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Dawn of a New Age: The Immigrant Contribution to the Arts in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"Dawn of a New Age" tells the story of five artists who immigrated to the United States during the first half of the 20th century: Adolph Bolm, a Russian dancer and choreographer who performed with the Mariinsky Ballet and Ballets Russes; William Lescaze, a Swiss architect who was one of the pioneers of modernism; Louis Lozowick, a Russian printmaker known for his Art Deco and Precision lithographs; Miklós Rózsa, a Hungarian composer of more than 100 film scores, including Ben Hur; and John Vassos, a Greek illustrator and industrial designer. The exhibition draws from the rich holdings of SCRC and showcases more than 50 of the artists' personal papers, manuscripts, photos and artifacts.

This exhibit is part of this year's Syracuse Symposium on the theme "Migration."

Viewpoints: A Collaborative Collection
Westcott Community Center

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

The Syracuse Photography Meetup Group proudly presents a collection of photographic images at their very first collaborative gallery exhibit. Creatively capturing images from the commonplace to the unexpected, photographers catch the light and special moments in time. This collection of images will serve to captivate your eye and draw you in closer to view a new world in each and every photo.

Members have long exhibited their works on the unique "underground" galleries of cyberspace, but now further realize their works, by bringing them to life in print for this collaborative effort. We hope you enjoy the variety of work, as well as appreciate the varied levels of expertise represented here, from the active beginner, serious amateur, aspiring professional, and working professionals. It is safe to say that each image is a labor of love, born out of an enthusiasm to create something new and wonderful.

The Color of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Watercolor paintings by Laura Wilk, glassworks of Carmel Nicoletti, and felted bags and ruffled scarves of Sherry Gordon.

Pacheco: From the 5th Street Gym to Gandhi
Brian's Art Gallery

Brian's Art Gallery
201 Wolf St. (former Keybank building), Syracuse

Ferdie Pacheco is a man with a great zest for life. He is a painter, an author of 14 books, a playwright, a winner of two Emmy awards, and a humanitarian. Born in 1927 in Ybor City, he made up his mind at 14 to become a doctor and established his practice on Southwest Eighth Street when the Cuban exiles began streaming into the city. It was here that he rediscovered his own immigrant roots -- his father was the Cuban born son of a Spanish consul. Pacheco went on to become Muhammad Ali's cornerman and personal physician for 17 years, becoming known as "The Fight Doctor."

His art work is internationally acclaimed and his painting of Gandhi has been selected as the stamp for the 2009 United Nations Day of Nonviolence. Pacheco's paintings are characterized by his imaginative use of color and design. In particular, his famous faces are executed in a fauvist style. His work has won the Gold Medal and First Prize in Tonneins, France: the First Prize, Best Colorist at Musee Du Luxembourg.

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

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

Original illustrated works by London Ladd

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

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

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

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

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

Tracing Memory: Photographs by Angie Buckley, Pedro Isztin, Cyrus Karimipour, and Paula Luttringer
Light Work Gallery

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

Guest curator Miriam Romais of En Foco curated this exhibition to explore what makes a thought become a memory. The artists included in this exhibition create photographs that look at the idea of remembrance -- of letting go and making sense of past events, and using those memories to understand who they are today.

Growing up with a mother from Thailand and a Caucasian American father, Angie Buckley did not know her family history for many years. She relied on the conflicting memories and stories of relatives to piece together her heritage. Her images are created with a pinhole camera and cutouts of old family photographs, resulting in work that lies somewhere in between the real world and imagination. Buckley received her BFA in Photography from Ohio University and her MFA in Photography from Arizona State University. She has received various awards, and her work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Southern Light Gallery in Texas, the McDuffy Arts Center in Virginia, and New York University.

Pedro Isztin's color portraits metaphorically integrate formative childhood memories, using them to heal the adult that the child has become. Part of a larger series that emulates a life journey, Destino III: Transformation revisits, in Isztin's words, "the pain, joy, and suffering that our psyches are stamped with, no matter how little or large those experiences as a child." Isztin was born to a Colombian mother and Hungarian father; his work explores his diverse heritage. He lives in Ottawa, Canada, and has exhibited internationally. He has received numerous awards and grants, including a Photography Project Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and an Ontario Arts Council Award.

Cyrus Karimipour revels in the flexibility of memories and uses his images to visually recreate them and depict how he remembers an event or encounter. In his series Invented Memory, he creates scenarios by heavily manipulating his negatives and rearranging their fragments to then be re-photographed. His imagery becomes ambiguous, as if looking in on someone else's dream. Karimipour received his BA from Oakland University in Michigan and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. His work has been exhibited nationwide, including at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of New Art in Michigan, and the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio. His art has also appeared in Harper's Magazine and The Detroit News, among other publications.

Paula Luttringer faces her own traumatic past, infusing her imagery with what other women remember about being abducted and held captive during Argentina's Dirty War. Lamento de Los Muros (The Wailing of the Walls) consists of large black-and-white images that depict the interior of the detention centers where thousands of people were held, tortured, and "disappeared." The images capture both history and memory. Luttringer was awarded a fellowship by the Guggenheim Foundation in 2001. Her work appears in the collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; the Museum of Fine Arts in Texas; and George Eastman House in New York. She currently lives and works in Buenos Aires and Paris.

2008 Light Work Grant Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Works of Kathy Morris, Paul Pearce, and Nancy Keefe Rhodes, the recipients of the 34th Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. Kathy Morris and Paul Pearce are imagemakers. Nancy Keefe Rhodes received the award for a photo-historian project on local documentary photographer Marjory Wilkins.

Exploring History With Art: Childhood Through The Years
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The latest exhibit in the Exploring History with Art series features paintings from the permanent collection. 19th-century portraits of children, focusing on children of prominent local families, convey historical circumstances as well as social ideals. 20th-century genre paintings show children in their element: in the bathtub, at recess, and on vacation. The exhibit also features historical objects that enliven the space and impart a sense of the experience of childhood from the cradle to school days and play time. Childhood Through The Years is not only an excellent opportunity to delve into the history of childhood but also the exhibition represents a moment, as fleeting as childhood itself, for parents and children to share their experiences through the interplay of art and history.

Paper Politics
Redhouse

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

Paper Politics is an important international survey of recent politically-motivated printmaking that includes over 200 handmade prints. The exhibit offers the public a comprehensive view of artists' responses to a wide variety of recent political situations and circumstances, ranging from local city politics to national policy to international 'interventions'.

All the artists selected for the exhibition employ an individual approach to the use of the media, techniques, form, and content, and yet each holds in common the will to make politically engaged art. It is through this thread that the viewer may access the struggle to balance the competing impetuses of artist and activist amongst many of the artists included in the exhibit.

The gallery is open by appointment. To schedule a visit, please phone 315-425-0405.

Works of Donna Smith and Nancy Smith
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Donna Smith (jewelry) and Nancy Smith (handbags).

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Show and sale of original fine arts and crafts by Central New York artists and craftspeople. For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

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

Roiling Infill by Alex Schweder; Blind Spot by Kim Waale
The Warehouse Gallery

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

This solo exhibition by Seattle/Berlin-based artist Alex Schweder, Roiling Infill, consists of a video projection, Jealous Poché (2004), and an architectural installation titled Snowballing Doorway (2007). Both components of the exhibition accomplish in very different ways the artist's ongoing interest in the intersection between architecture, sculpture and performance art.

Jealous Poché is a seven-minute architectural fly-through of a space somewhere between body and building. The word poché was coined in France's École de Beaux Arts during a neoclassical moment to refer to the space between the surfaces of walls. Here, the camera path and viewer's position are actually inside the viscous poché looking into the voids on the other side of the wall's surface. The camera work in this video shows an attention by the artist to a liminal moment (the skin of the wall) between expanse and engulfment. Made in collaboration with gastroenterologist Jim Wagonfeld, a 25-gallon vat of strawberry Jell-O mixed with blocks of resin was filmed with an endoscope. Schweder's decision to use an imaging device normally employed to visualize the human body's own poché in turn represents the architectural space in the video as fleshy. This is in contrast to architecture's historical representation of and fantasies of perfect bodies.

Snowballing Doorway moves from the world of represented architectural fleshiness to architectural flesh itself. Two sac-like arches made from a combination of opaque and clear vinyl pass the same volume of poché (in this case air) back and forth until one of the two completely bulges to fill the aperture in which they are installed. This shifting skin is an example of what Schweder calls "a building that performs itself." Here he is interested in how the codes of architecture act like a score for how occupants are supposed to "perform" the building. In this case, the arch prompts an occupant to "pass through" it. Schweder's unstable arch, however, changes this instruction to its opposite when the poché passes into the upside-down arch on top. In this way, a viewer becomes aware of the way buildings structure the behavior in them.

Both works point to a permeability between buildings and the bodies that occupy them. The video, made using an edible treat, makes it unclear where insides and outsides of buildings and bodies start and stop. The inflatable instructions make explicit that buildings construct us in as much as we construct them.

Also on display, in the Window Projects Gallery, is Blind Spot, a site-specific installation using wax-encrusted wire forms designed to simultaneously emulate the roots and branches of trees and the retina and optic nerve of the human eye. These "references to nature as it exists outside and within the human body underscore the trouble we as humans have in seeing and thinking about ourselves as organisms that are part of the natural world" (Waale, artist statement).

Waale blurs the boundaries between sculpture and drawing as she moves from Vocalizations, a series of preliminary drawings for the project, to sculptural elements that will fill the space.

Syracuse Cultural Workers InsideOUT
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Syracuse Cultural Workers (SCW) presents a familiar face (or, rather, several familiar faces) to the progressive community in Syracuse. The calendars, posters, cards, and T-shirts they publish are well-known; and the banners, drums, and willing bodies are a ready resource for just about any event designed to educate/agitate.

With this exhibit, they celebrate their 25th anniversary with a behind-the-scenes look at some of the less obvious aspects of what it means to be an international "peace and justice publisher and distributor." Topics include: the poster process, from brainstorm to finished product; customer feedback when they don't get it right (and when they do); a poster/calendar/art collages featuring activist art spanning 30 years, and more. This exhibit promises to be a show filled with surprising, entertaining, and visually stimulating perspectives.

An Elegant Evening of Jazz

Price: $8 in advance; $10 at the door
United Inn
1308 Buckley Rd., Liverpool

Performers include Ronnie Lee, John Latocha, Danielle Rausa, Tony Licamelli, and Joe Carello. For more information, phone 315-451-1212.

The Original Wailers

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

Famed reggae group that once supported Bob Marley performs at the official reopening party for the Westcott Theater. For more information, phone 315-299-8886.

Preview: Godspell
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj, director

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

This energetic musical based on the gospel of St. Matthew is a celebration of worldwide community, filled with popular hit songs and irresistible good will. From the UN to India to China to Darfur to Syracuse prepare ye the way of hope, brotherhood and sisterhood as the time for tolerance and inclusiveness draws nearer Day by Day. A groundbreaking musical in its time, this colorful update features world dance-inspired choreography and multimedia projections.

Conceived by John-Michael Tebelak; music and new lyrics by Stephen Schwartz; choreographed by Anthony Salatino.

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Thursday, November 27, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

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

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

Friday, November 28, 2008

Dark Elegy
Syracuse University

Price: Free
Syracuse University Quad
Syracuse

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

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

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

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Gallery Exhibition: Faculty Art Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A mixed media show with works from Onondaga's own faculty members.

Think Tech Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

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

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Viewpoints: A Collaborative Collection
Westcott Community Center

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

The Syracuse Photography Meetup Group proudly presents a collection of photographic images at their very first collaborative gallery exhibit. Creatively capturing images from the commonplace to the unexpected, photographers catch the light and special moments in time. This collection of images will serve to captivate your eye and draw you in closer to view a new world in each and every photo.

Members have long exhibited their works on the unique "underground" galleries of cyberspace, but now further realize their works, by bringing them to life in print for this collaborative effort. We hope you enjoy the variety of work, as well as appreciate the varied levels of expertise represented here, from the active beginner, serious amateur, aspiring professional, and working professionals. It is safe to say that each image is a labor of love, born out of an enthusiasm to create something new and wonderful.

The Color of Light
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Watercolor paintings by Laura Wilk, glassworks of Carmel Nicoletti, and felted bags and ruffled scarves of Sherry Gordon.

Pacheco: From the 5th Street Gym to Gandhi
Brian's Art Gallery

Brian's Art Gallery
201 Wolf St. (former Keybank building), Syracuse

Ferdie Pacheco is a man with a great zest for life. He is a painter, an author of 14 books, a playwright, a winner of two Emmy awards, and a humanitarian. Born in 1927 in Ybor City, he made up his mind at 14 to become a doctor and established his practice on Southwest Eighth Street when the Cuban exiles began streaming into the city. It was here that he rediscovered his own immigrant roots -- his father was the Cuban born son of a Spanish consul. Pacheco went on to become Muhammad Ali's cornerman and personal physician for 17 years, becoming known as "The Fight Doctor."

His art work is internationally acclaimed and his painting of Gandhi has been selected as the stamp for the 2009 United Nations Day of Nonviolence. Pacheco's paintings are characterized by his imaginative use of color and design. In particular, his famous faces are executed in a fauvist style. His work has won the Gold Medal and First Prize in Tonneins, France: the First Prize, Best Colorist at Musee Du Luxembourg.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Original illustrated works by London Ladd

Exploring History With Art: Childhood Through The Years
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The latest exhibit in the Exploring History with Art series features paintings from the permanent collection. 19th-century portraits of children, focusing on children of prominent local families, convey historical circumstances as well as social ideals. 20th-century genre paintings show children in their element: in the bathtub, at recess, and on vacation. The exhibit also features historical objects that enliven the space and impart a sense of the experience of childhood from the cradle to school days and play time. Childhood Through The Years is not only an excellent opportunity to delve into the history of childhood but also the exhibition represents a moment, as fleeting as childhood itself, for parents and children to share their experiences through the interplay of art and history.

Paper Politics
Redhouse

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

Paper Politics is an important international survey of recent politically-motivated printmaking that includes over 200 handmade prints. The exhibit offers the public a comprehensive view of artists' responses to a wide variety of recent political situations and circumstances, ranging from local city politics to national policy to international 'interventions'.

All the artists selected for the exhibition employ an individual approach to the use of the media, techniques, form, and content, and yet each holds in common the will to make politically engaged art. It is through this thread that the viewer may access the struggle to balance the competing impetuses of artist and activist amongst many of the artists included in the exhibit.

The gallery is open by appointment. To schedule a visit, please phone 315-425-0405.

Works of Donna Smith and Nancy Smith
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Donna Smith (jewelry) and Nancy Smith (handbags).

Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Show and sale of original fine arts and crafts by Central New York artists and craftspeople. For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

Art for the Holidays
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring mixed media illustrations by Katya Krenina, monotypes and mixed media works by Thea Reidy as well as ceramics by the Clayscapes Pottery (Donald Seymour, Shawn McGuire, Jolee M. Romano, Tim See and Sallie Thompson).

Warhol Presents
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

Syracuse Cultural Workers InsideOUT
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Syracuse Cultural Workers (SCW) presents a familiar face (or, rather, several familiar faces) to the progressive community in Syracuse. The calendars, posters, cards, and T-shirts they publish are well-known; and the banners, drums, and willing bodies are a ready resource for just about any event designed to educate/agitate.

With this exhibit, they celebrate their 25th anniversary with a behind-the-scenes look at some of the less obvious aspects of what it means to be an international "peace and justice publisher and distributor." Topics include: the poster process, from brainstorm to finished product; customer feedback when they don't get it right (and when they do); a poster/calendar/art collages featuring activist art spanning 30 years, and more. This exhibit promises to be a show filled with surprising, entertaining, and visually stimulating perspectives.

Holiday Magic in the Square

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

Annual tree-lighting ceremony with live entertainment.

Martin Sexton, with special guest Colleen Sexton

Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

For tickets, phone 315-472-0700.

Preview: Godspell
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj, director

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

This energetic musical based on the gospel of St. Matthew is a celebration of worldwide community, filled with popular hit songs and irresistible good will. From the UN to India to China to Darfur to Syracuse prepare ye the way of hope, brotherhood and sisterhood as the time for tolerance and inclusiveness draws nearer Day by Day. A groundbreaking musical in its time, this colorful update features world dance-inspired choreography and multimedia projections.

Conceived by John-Michael Tebelak; music and new lyrics by Stephen Schwartz; choreographed by Anthony Salatino.

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The Producers
The Talent Company
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $25 regular, $22 students/seniors, $16 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The Producers, adapted by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan from Brooks' 1968 film, with music and lyrics by Brooks, skewers Broadway traditions and takes no prisoners as it proudly proclaims itself an "equal opportunity offender!" The story line is a comedy classic: a crooked producer Max Bialystock and his anxiety ridden accountant Leo Bloom cook up a scheme to produce the worst musical ever and pocket their investors' money before the curtain falls. Instead of bilking their investors (rich little old ladies) and escaping the tax guys by producing a flop, the duo's Springtime for Hitler becomes a huge hit.

They start their scheme by finding Franz Liebkind, author of the worst play ever written. Then they secure the worst director in New York, Roger De Bris, and his assistant, Carmen Ghia, to stage the show that will present New York's worst actors. Complications arise when the show opens on Broadway and is unexpectedly a huge success!

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