Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Window Projects: Museum of the City of Lost and Found
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Museum of the City of Lost and Found, Marion Wilson's latest sculpture project, is a continuation of her public art project launched in conjunction with the 2008 New Orleans Biennial. The exhibition is a combination of hexagram patterns of i-ching (a symbol system used to identify order in random events) collaboratively painted on the wall by the artist, community members, faculty and students at Syracuse University; miniature "igloo" and cast resin objects; and a short video of Wilson's bicycle (mobile museum) performance in New Orleans edited by Jessica Posner. Wilson invites audience participation by filling out Lost and Found Report cards (available throughout the exhibition), her method of collecting stories about viewers' personal losses, chances, findings and discoveries.

Marion Wilson uses igloos as a nomadic structure of native materials to remind us of our basic human need for shelter and protection. In addition, it is a reference to fundamentals of human existence and the Italian Arte Povera artist Mario Merz (1925-2003). In New Orleans, Wilson's sculpture was originally mounted on a constructed bicycle able to roam the city streets within the St. Roch neighborhood and the French Market. In Syracuse, Wilson will exhibit her 'mobile museum' at the Warehouse Gallery, thus, creating a "museum inside a museum." Although the installation in the Window Projects will remain through June 6, its appearance will continuously change through the continual addition of found materials collected by the artist. Wilson will be guided in selecting these additional materials by outside interviews with the general public in the greater Syracuse community.

Gallery Exhibition: Works of Anne Novado Cappuccilli
Onondaga Community College

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

To a large extent, Cappuccilli's drawings and paintings are about the beauty of mark making, sensitivity of touch, and forms that are fundamentally mysterious. Her drawings are sometimes mistaken for photographs. The biomorphic drawings may read as benign or threatening hybrids, or as unknown species. The stain drawings developed from recognition of the delicate formal quality of grease stains, and their random patterns.

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Photo-Drawings: Recent Works by Julieve Jubin and Juan Perdiguero, and An Introduction: Recent Works by Barbara Stout
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Threads of a Culture: Hadbakah Images by Selma Hurwitz
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

Price: Free
Winnick Hillel Center for Jewish Life
102 Walnut Place (corner of Harrison St.), Syracuse

Selma Hurwitz is an internationally-known artist whose works portray personal and social themes of universal impact, as well as basic motifs of love, beauty, valor and tyranny. In 1964, she created her own medium, hadbakah (Hebrew for "gluing"), which is glued-thread painting. Instead of using a brush, the artist glues various individual threads, particularly those that are metalized, to a specially prepared surface. Careful planning of thread direction and location, as well as meticulous maneuvering of the threads during the gluing process, achieves the desired shading and design.

Hurwitz has exhibited work in numerous solo shows, including those at the Russell Senate Office Building Rotunda and the First Baptist Church in Washington, DC; the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles; the American Jewish Historical Society in Waltham, MA; and the Herzl Institute in New York City. Her work is part of numerous collections, including the Israel Museum, Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and Knesset, all in Jerusalem; the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California; and the National Endowment for the Arts Library in Washington, DC.

For more information about the exhibition, contact April Maw at 315-443-7095 or aamaw@syr.edu.

A Goodly Heritage of Study: The Portfolio Club of Syracuse
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Displayed are the archives of a still-thriving women's study club that was formed in 1875 in Syracuse. The Portfolio Club exemplifies a post-Civil War movement in which many thousands of middle-class women came together to educate themselves in a society that restricted women's access to institutions of higher learning. This club began a few weeks after the Association for the Advancement of Women held a congress at the Wieting Opera House in downtown Syracuse. At these congresses, which took place in many American cities, Julia Ward Howe and other presenters encouraged women to form study clubs for self-culture.

Nine young women founded the Portfolio Club, with guidance from Mary Dana Hicks, their art teacher. Though they began with a focus on art, in the middle 1880s they expanded their scope to include literature, current events, history, performing arts and many other subjects. Members have always met regularly from October through April to read their papers on a topic assigned by each year's president.

Syracuse residents and those long associated with SU will recognize the married names of many past club members, such as Mrs. Donald Dey, Mrs. William Nottingham, Mrs. E.N. Westcott, and Mrs. Mildred Eggers. Among Portfolio guest speakers during the club's first several decades were Judge Charles Andrews, Dean George Fiske Comfort, Howard Lyman, professors Sawyer Falk and Irene Sargent, Paul Paine, Douglas Petit, Katherine Sibley, and SU Chancellor Charles Sims.

The exhibition, which emphasizes the years 1875-1950, includes annual program booklets, many of them finely crafted. Also on display are meeting minutes, clippings, photographs, film footage of a 1935 gathering and other club documents.

Passage: Latino Direction in CNY
Community Folk Art Center

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

Works by Alejandro Betancourt.

Three Sisters: The Art of Robin Holder, Sonya A. Lawyer, and Tamara Natalie Madden
Community Folk Art Center

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

Three Sisters: The Art of Robin Holder, Sonya A. Lawyer and Tamara Natalie Madden features works by three contemporary African American women artists who work in different media but explore issues of ethnicity, identity, history and culture in their work.

Robin Holder's works are inspired by issues of empowerment and integrity as well as the complexities of American identity: culture, gender, class, race and ethnicity. The works in her series "Behind Each Window, A Voice," were inspired by oral histories of eight of her neighbors in Brooklyn. Issues of race, social and political victimization, and ideas about society are shared by each of the subjects in their personal histories. The works are a combination of painting, collage and printmaking techniques.

Sonya Lawyer's photographic transfers combine imagery from vintage photographs with modern hand-dyed cotton fabric. The photographs were collected by the artist from vintage photo albums purchased at antique stores and through online auctions. Concerned that pieces of history were literally being torn apart and sold to the highest bidder, Lawyer was prompted to start acquiring images in order to protect them from further disturbance. Works from two series, "Searching For Beulah (limit of disturbance)" and "Finding Authenticity (does anyone remember?)" contain singular images of men and women of color juxtaposed with fabric blocks of varying hues. The works are a celebration of the persons depicted, each work revealing strength, pride, beauty and a quintessential timelessness.

Tamara Natalie Madden, in her recent series of mixed media paintings, creates images of kings,queens and warriors, using everyday people as her inspiration. Recognizing the struggles of the working class, the unseen and unheard, Madden chooses to depict them as kings and queens, as a means of expressing appreciation for their experiences, struggles and triumphs. The paintings are layered with quilted fabrics, which represent regal clothing and, symbolically, storytelling and quilts reflecting African traditions. The birds in the paintings represent a sense of freedom.

New York Waters: Photographs by Randy Duchaine
Erie Canal Museum

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

The exhibition investigates the lives of those who work and play on the fabled bodies of water that border the city's five boroughs. Among those you will meet are a dry dock operator, an eel fisherman, a fireboat preservationist, and a guerilla swimmer. Gathered from the East River to the Erie Basin, the Hudson to Hempstead Harbor, each new perspective connects a personal passion to a fabled local maritime history.

Limbo: Works of Admas Habteslasie
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

"Limbo" depicts a graceful yet unusually honest and insightful snapshot of Eritrea, an East African country suspended in an unsettled state between war and peace.

Eritrea warred with neighboring Ethiopia for 30 years before gaining independence in 1991. Then, in 1998, they entered another war with Ethiopia that lasted two years. Today, the war-torn country is yet again at the brink of war with their neighbor. Years of unrest have left the people of Eritrea waiting for life to improve. According to Habteslasie: "Transitory states become permanent; empty villas, destroyed old buildings and unfinished new buildings dot the landscape, monuments to the suspension of history. The collision between Eritrea's proud historical narrative and the bleak ennui of the present has produced an obsessive focus on the future. Reconstruction and infrastructure development are energetically driven forward whilst the economy remains essentially shut off from the outside world." The images in "Limbo" capture both destruction and construction, both the unhealed wounds of war and a fierce optimism and hope for a brighter future.

Habteslasie was born in Kuwait, and his parents are Eritrean. He received his master's degree from the London College of Communication in photojournalism and documentary photography. His photographic projects look at the ideas of identity, history, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with historical process. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Flowers East and 198 Gallery in London. His work has also been published in Source Magazine.

As It Happens: Artists-in-Residence at Light Work
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Josh Brilliant curates a selection of images by recent Light Work Artists-in-Residence, including Amy Stein, Kelli Connell, Cristina Fraire, Krista Steinke, and Christine Osinski. Brilliant is currently an MFA candidate in the Museum Studies program at Syracuse University.

Exploring History with Art: The Changing View—Landscapes
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Paintings from OHA's permanent collection

Techno_Culture
Redhouse

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

Techno_Culture is an exhibition of works from artists utilizing numerous forms of technology in their creative process. Presented in association with the Department of Transmedia's Computer Art Program at Syracuse University, the show offers a sampling of the vast area of art forms unique within our digital-based culture. Techno_Culture features the work of artists Wafaa Bilal, Alicia Ross, Shawn Lawson, Meggan Gould, Michael Heroux, Olivia Robinson, Stephen Belovarich, and Chris Prior.

Curator Sean Hovendick teaches courses in Computer Art within the Department of Transmedia. Hovendick's interactive, procedual and time-based works explore the hidden forces of power, identity and social order within the mediated psyche. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally - most recently at the Gallery Aferro in Newark, NJ; the traveling exhibition Experiencing the War in Iraq, and FutureSonic: International Festival of Art, Music & Ideas in Manchester, UK.

Works of Tim Etter, Gretchen Hamlin, and Lisa Noviasky
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Tim Etter (photography), Gretchen Hamlin (blown glass jewelry) and Lisa Noviasky (oil paintings).

MFA 2009
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

MFA 2009 is an exhibition of master of fine arts degree candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. Twenty-two artists will exhibit a range of work from traditional media such as oil on canvas, portraiture, and atmospheric-fired pottery to contemporary media including digital prints, site-specific installation, and video projection. The diversity of the show is also distinctly international, with artists from Canada, France, Korea and Russia.

While the artists work in a variety of media and techniques, themes emerge across the disciplines. The concept of the fabricated or manipulated environment is evident in many of the artists' sculptural installations, including a monumental model stagecoach positioned in a moon-landing re-creation and a faux-storefront display with ceramic poodles that both mock and celebrate what we regard as haute couture.

Nostalgia and personal identity are also sources of inspiration in this year's exhibition. One artist's work reinterprets the well-known characters from Sesame Street into an iconic status, while another incorporates the artist's past memories and dark humor into photographs that explore childhood experiences of fear, mortality and sex.

BFA Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition will feature work from seniors in VPA's School of Art and Design and Department of Transmedia, with a particular focus on the areas of painting, illustration, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, fiber arts/material studies and art photography.

50/50: Works of Nancy Jurs
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Nancy Jurs juxtaposes her signature large-scale, hand-built ceramic sculptures with recent site-specific installations composed of ceramic, mixed-media and found objects. Throughout her 40-year career Jurs, a Rochester-based sculptor and ceramic artist, has produced an astounding body of work that largely addresses female power and strength. In 2003, Jurs completed the Armor Series, a grouping of six life-size armored torsos that present themselves with empowered determination. The stylized shells not only serve to protect the figures but to symbolize renewed confidence and strength in a post-9/11 world. "Undaunted" (2003), which is part of the Armor Series, was acquired by the Everson in 2004.

Also on view will be "Triad," a monumental 16-foot high sculpture composed of ceramic slabs that have been hand-built: cut, scraped, modeled, and stacked in three interacting totem-like structures. Triad will be prominently displayed in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court.

Anne Cofer: Concealed Objects
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Anne Cofer's interest in materials and artistic processes is evident in "Concealed Objects," a provocative new site-specific installation created for her first museum solo exhibition at the Everson. Inspired by British artists such as Cornelia Parker and Rachel Whiteread, whose sculpture is at once unique and fleeting, Cofer creates objects that exist for a moment and place in time and then are recycled and reused for other projects. The installation designed for the Everson is composed of skirt forms constructed of cloth and wet clay suspended from the ceiling in grid fashion. The skirts, arranged in perfect harmony within the space that contains them, appear to float in contradiction to the heavy clay that pulls them downward. Each garment is cut from a Victorian-era dress pattern (ca. 1895), combined with wet clay and modeled by hand to capture every fold of the fabric as it cascades to the floor. The repetition of form and motion recalls the monotonous tasks of domestic chores that have existed for centuries without change. Cofer assigns new meaning to the found and recycled fabrics she chooses for the garments: the bed linens, table cloths, furniture upholstery, and well-worn clothing conceal the individual histories, memories and stories untold about their previous owners.

Anne Cofer was the recipient of the Best-of-Show Award given at the 2008 Everson Biennial exhibition.

Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition of works by Andrew Deutsch and Stephen Vitiello, "Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass," is an installation composed of audio and video pieces as well as photographs, prints and sculpture. Deutsch and Vitiello are musicians, composers and sound artists who have been collaborating since 1999. For this, their first co-exhibition, the artists provided each other with musical scores for the other to perform. In so doing, they emphasize the visual nature of sound scores, shedding light on this complex, seemingly inaccessible medium called sound art.

In Vitiello's work viewers will see a shift from landscape photographs (7 Studies for Graphic Scores, 2007) to abstract black-and-white prints (Pond Set, 2008) that continue to refer to landscape through black lines that evoke both reeds and musical notes. In the background of his videos, Deutsch includes imagery from the "Notgeld" (emergency money that was put into circulation in Germany during the economic crisis of the 1920s) as a reflection on our difficult economic times. Deutsch also uses these collectibles in the making of his own sound scores; he has created a narrative referring to the films of Fritz Lang, to illustrated children's books, and to early 20th-century European artistic abstraction, where sound and sight blend into a common experience.

Iraq & the U.S. -- Children, Art & Building a Culture of Peace
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Iraq & the U.S.—Children, Art & Building a Culture of Peace is an exhibit of artwork exchanged between Iraqi refugee children living in Jordan and students at our own Van Duyn Elementary School. The exhibit will display a joint mural, an Iraqi mural and other artwork from children connected to the project.

Civic Morning Musicals
Anthony Crain and Cindy Josbena, pianists

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

Pianists Anthony Crain and Cindy Josbena perform a joint recital featuring works by Bach, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, and Ravel.

Van Duyn Elementary Shool Concert
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Some of the artists/students from Van Duyn Elementary School who worked on the Iraqi Children's Art Exchange project will be giving a musical performance. Come hear their voices and see the art of children who are building a culture of peace.

Westcott Theater
Presidents of the United States of America

Price: $22
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Presidents of the United States of America (pop punk/alternative/punk), with Oppenheimer (indie/pop/electronica)

Mary Gaitskill
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

Mary Gaitskill is one of today's most celebrated novelists and short-story writers. She is currently promoting a collection of stories -- her first in more than a decade -- titled "Don't Cry" (Pantheon Books, 2009). Gaitskill is also author of "Because They Wanted To" (Simon & Schuster, 1998), nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award, and "Veronica: A Novel" (Pantheon Books, 2005), nominated for the National Book Award. She recently served on the faculty of SU's Creative Writing Program.

Youtheatre: Letters Home
CNY Arts

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

For more information or reservation, contact Bob Dwyer, 315-435-2162.

The Diary of Anne Frank
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

The story is simplicity itself. A young girl, alive to everything around her and awakening within her, with hopes and dreams of the life she may one day lead with friends and family, confides to her diary the secrets of her heart. That diary, as we all know, becomes one of the lasting documents of the 20th century, a testament not to the horrors we know so well, but to the indomitability of the human spirit. That's what's so wonderful about this version of The Diary of Anne Frank, newly revised by Wendy Kesselman. With information gleaned from previously withheld portions of the diary and additional survivor accounts, we glimpse this remarkable young woman with greater clarity and deeper understanding of the fullness of her life. Was she on the verge of falling in love for the first time? Did she harbor misgivings about herself or members of the "family" imposed on her? We know the sad end of the tale, but do we really know the complexity of the heart that with its every beat sought to find the goodness in others?

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Let's Make a Date
Rarely Done Productions
Featuring Roy George

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

A cabaret night staring Roy George with special guests Jodie Baum, and Jimmy Wachter as Barbra Streisand. Musical Director Josh Smith leads a 9-piece band through a night of jazz standards, gospel, musical theatre, and children's songs, including selections from All Shook Up, Aladdin, Beauty and The Beast, Mary Poppins, Sesame Street, and many more.

Let's Make a Date is part of the "One Night Only" series. This performance is a fundraiser for Rarely Done Productions.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Window Projects: Museum of the City of Lost and Found
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Museum of the City of Lost and Found, Marion Wilson's latest sculpture project, is a continuation of her public art project launched in conjunction with the 2008 New Orleans Biennial. The exhibition is a combination of hexagram patterns of i-ching (a symbol system used to identify order in random events) collaboratively painted on the wall by the artist, community members, faculty and students at Syracuse University; miniature "igloo" and cast resin objects; and a short video of Wilson's bicycle (mobile museum) performance in New Orleans edited by Jessica Posner. Wilson invites audience participation by filling out Lost and Found Report cards (available throughout the exhibition), her method of collecting stories about viewers' personal losses, chances, findings and discoveries.

Marion Wilson uses igloos as a nomadic structure of native materials to remind us of our basic human need for shelter and protection. In addition, it is a reference to fundamentals of human existence and the Italian Arte Povera artist Mario Merz (1925-2003). In New Orleans, Wilson's sculpture was originally mounted on a constructed bicycle able to roam the city streets within the St. Roch neighborhood and the French Market. In Syracuse, Wilson will exhibit her 'mobile museum' at the Warehouse Gallery, thus, creating a "museum inside a museum." Although the installation in the Window Projects will remain through June 6, its appearance will continuously change through the continual addition of found materials collected by the artist. Wilson will be guided in selecting these additional materials by outside interviews with the general public in the greater Syracuse community.

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Photo-Drawings: Recent Works by Julieve Jubin and Juan Perdiguero, and An Introduction: Recent Works by Barbara Stout
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Threads of a Culture: Hadbakah Images by Selma Hurwitz
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

Price: Free
Winnick Hillel Center for Jewish Life
102 Walnut Place (corner of Harrison St.), Syracuse

There will be a reception with the artist tonight 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Selma Hurwitz is an internationally-known artist whose works portray personal and social themes of universal impact, as well as basic motifs of love, beauty, valor and tyranny. In 1964, she created her own medium, hadbakah (Hebrew for "gluing"), which is glued-thread painting. Instead of using a brush, the artist glues various individual threads, particularly those that are metalized, to a specially prepared surface. Careful planning of thread direction and location, as well as meticulous maneuvering of the threads during the gluing process, achieves the desired shading and design.

Hurwitz has exhibited work in numerous solo shows, including those at the Russell Senate Office Building Rotunda and the First Baptist Church in Washington, DC; the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles; the American Jewish Historical Society in Waltham, MA; and the Herzl Institute in New York City. Her work is part of numerous collections, including the Israel Museum, Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and Knesset, all in Jerusalem; the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California; and the National Endowment for the Arts Library in Washington, DC.

For more information about the exhibition, contact April Maw at 315-443-7095 or aamaw@syr.edu.

A Goodly Heritage of Study: The Portfolio Club of Syracuse
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Displayed are the archives of a still-thriving women's study club that was formed in 1875 in Syracuse. The Portfolio Club exemplifies a post-Civil War movement in which many thousands of middle-class women came together to educate themselves in a society that restricted women's access to institutions of higher learning. This club began a few weeks after the Association for the Advancement of Women held a congress at the Wieting Opera House in downtown Syracuse. At these congresses, which took place in many American cities, Julia Ward Howe and other presenters encouraged women to form study clubs for self-culture.

Nine young women founded the Portfolio Club, with guidance from Mary Dana Hicks, their art teacher. Though they began with a focus on art, in the middle 1880s they expanded their scope to include literature, current events, history, performing arts and many other subjects. Members have always met regularly from October through April to read their papers on a topic assigned by each year's president.

Syracuse residents and those long associated with SU will recognize the married names of many past club members, such as Mrs. Donald Dey, Mrs. William Nottingham, Mrs. E.N. Westcott, and Mrs. Mildred Eggers. Among Portfolio guest speakers during the club's first several decades were Judge Charles Andrews, Dean George Fiske Comfort, Howard Lyman, professors Sawyer Falk and Irene Sargent, Paul Paine, Douglas Petit, Katherine Sibley, and SU Chancellor Charles Sims.

The exhibition, which emphasizes the years 1875-1950, includes annual program booklets, many of them finely crafted. Also on display are meeting minutes, clippings, photographs, film footage of a 1935 gathering and other club documents.

Passage: Latino Direction in CNY
Community Folk Art Center

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

Works by Alejandro Betancourt.

Three Sisters: The Art of Robin Holder, Sonya A. Lawyer, and Tamara Natalie Madden
Community Folk Art Center

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

Three Sisters: The Art of Robin Holder, Sonya A. Lawyer and Tamara Natalie Madden features works by three contemporary African American women artists who work in different media but explore issues of ethnicity, identity, history and culture in their work.

Robin Holder's works are inspired by issues of empowerment and integrity as well as the complexities of American identity: culture, gender, class, race and ethnicity. The works in her series "Behind Each Window, A Voice," were inspired by oral histories of eight of her neighbors in Brooklyn. Issues of race, social and political victimization, and ideas about society are shared by each of the subjects in their personal histories. The works are a combination of painting, collage and printmaking techniques.

Sonya Lawyer's photographic transfers combine imagery from vintage photographs with modern hand-dyed cotton fabric. The photographs were collected by the artist from vintage photo albums purchased at antique stores and through online auctions. Concerned that pieces of history were literally being torn apart and sold to the highest bidder, Lawyer was prompted to start acquiring images in order to protect them from further disturbance. Works from two series, "Searching For Beulah (limit of disturbance)" and "Finding Authenticity (does anyone remember?)" contain singular images of men and women of color juxtaposed with fabric blocks of varying hues. The works are a celebration of the persons depicted, each work revealing strength, pride, beauty and a quintessential timelessness.

Tamara Natalie Madden, in her recent series of mixed media paintings, creates images of kings,queens and warriors, using everyday people as her inspiration. Recognizing the struggles of the working class, the unseen and unheard, Madden chooses to depict them as kings and queens, as a means of expressing appreciation for their experiences, struggles and triumphs. The paintings are layered with quilted fabrics, which represent regal clothing and, symbolically, storytelling and quilts reflecting African traditions. The birds in the paintings represent a sense of freedom.

New York Waters: Photographs by Randy Duchaine
Erie Canal Museum

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

The exhibition investigates the lives of those who work and play on the fabled bodies of water that border the city's five boroughs. Among those you will meet are a dry dock operator, an eel fisherman, a fireboat preservationist, and a guerilla swimmer. Gathered from the East River to the Erie Basin, the Hudson to Hempstead Harbor, each new perspective connects a personal passion to a fabled local maritime history.

Limbo: Works of Admas Habteslasie
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

"Limbo" depicts a graceful yet unusually honest and insightful snapshot of Eritrea, an East African country suspended in an unsettled state between war and peace.

Eritrea warred with neighboring Ethiopia for 30 years before gaining independence in 1991. Then, in 1998, they entered another war with Ethiopia that lasted two years. Today, the war-torn country is yet again at the brink of war with their neighbor. Years of unrest have left the people of Eritrea waiting for life to improve. According to Habteslasie: "Transitory states become permanent; empty villas, destroyed old buildings and unfinished new buildings dot the landscape, monuments to the suspension of history. The collision between Eritrea's proud historical narrative and the bleak ennui of the present has produced an obsessive focus on the future. Reconstruction and infrastructure development are energetically driven forward whilst the economy remains essentially shut off from the outside world." The images in "Limbo" capture both destruction and construction, both the unhealed wounds of war and a fierce optimism and hope for a brighter future.

Habteslasie was born in Kuwait, and his parents are Eritrean. He received his master's degree from the London College of Communication in photojournalism and documentary photography. His photographic projects look at the ideas of identity, history, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with historical process. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Flowers East and 198 Gallery in London. His work has also been published in Source Magazine.

As It Happens: Artists-in-Residence at Light Work
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Josh Brilliant curates a selection of images by recent Light Work Artists-in-Residence, including Amy Stein, Kelli Connell, Cristina Fraire, Krista Steinke, and Christine Osinski. Brilliant is currently an MFA candidate in the Museum Studies program at Syracuse University.

Exploring History with Art: The Changing View—Landscapes
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Paintings from OHA's permanent collection

Techno_Culture
Redhouse

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

Techno_Culture is an exhibition of works from artists utilizing numerous forms of technology in their creative process. Presented in association with the Department of Transmedia's Computer Art Program at Syracuse University, the show offers a sampling of the vast area of art forms unique within our digital-based culture. Techno_Culture features the work of artists Wafaa Bilal, Alicia Ross, Shawn Lawson, Meggan Gould, Michael Heroux, Olivia Robinson, Stephen Belovarich, and Chris Prior.

Curator Sean Hovendick teaches courses in Computer Art within the Department of Transmedia. Hovendick's interactive, procedual and time-based works explore the hidden forces of power, identity and social order within the mediated psyche. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally - most recently at the Gallery Aferro in Newark, NJ; the traveling exhibition Experiencing the War in Iraq, and FutureSonic: International Festival of Art, Music & Ideas in Manchester, UK.

Works of Tim Etter, Gretchen Hamlin, and Lisa Noviasky
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Tim Etter (photography), Gretchen Hamlin (blown glass jewelry) and Lisa Noviasky (oil paintings).

MFA 2009
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

MFA 2009 is an exhibition of master of fine arts degree candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. Twenty-two artists will exhibit a range of work from traditional media such as oil on canvas, portraiture, and atmospheric-fired pottery to contemporary media including digital prints, site-specific installation, and video projection. The diversity of the show is also distinctly international, with artists from Canada, France, Korea and Russia.

While the artists work in a variety of media and techniques, themes emerge across the disciplines. The concept of the fabricated or manipulated environment is evident in many of the artists' sculptural installations, including a monumental model stagecoach positioned in a moon-landing re-creation and a faux-storefront display with ceramic poodles that both mock and celebrate what we regard as haute couture.

Nostalgia and personal identity are also sources of inspiration in this year's exhibition. One artist's work reinterprets the well-known characters from Sesame Street into an iconic status, while another incorporates the artist's past memories and dark humor into photographs that explore childhood experiences of fear, mortality and sex.

BFA Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition will feature work from seniors in VPA's School of Art and Design and Department of Transmedia, with a particular focus on the areas of painting, illustration, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, fiber arts/material studies and art photography.

Fiber Art
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Works include framed batik, cloth colleges, sculptural coiled basketry, quilting, tapestry, and more by artists Wilson Akuamoah-Boateng, Sharon Bottle Souva, Lauren Bristol, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Linda Esterley, Alice Gant, Hilary Gifford, Mary Kester, and Holly Knott.

Wild Card Exhibit: Serymour and Blodgett School Art Show
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

50/50: Works of Nancy Jurs
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Nancy Jurs juxtaposes her signature large-scale, hand-built ceramic sculptures with recent site-specific installations composed of ceramic, mixed-media and found objects. Throughout her 40-year career Jurs, a Rochester-based sculptor and ceramic artist, has produced an astounding body of work that largely addresses female power and strength. In 2003, Jurs completed the Armor Series, a grouping of six life-size armored torsos that present themselves with empowered determination. The stylized shells not only serve to protect the figures but to symbolize renewed confidence and strength in a post-9/11 world. "Undaunted" (2003), which is part of the Armor Series, was acquired by the Everson in 2004.

Also on view will be "Triad," a monumental 16-foot high sculpture composed of ceramic slabs that have been hand-built: cut, scraped, modeled, and stacked in three interacting totem-like structures. Triad will be prominently displayed in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court.

Anne Cofer: Concealed Objects
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Anne Cofer's interest in materials and artistic processes is evident in "Concealed Objects," a provocative new site-specific installation created for her first museum solo exhibition at the Everson. Inspired by British artists such as Cornelia Parker and Rachel Whiteread, whose sculpture is at once unique and fleeting, Cofer creates objects that exist for a moment and place in time and then are recycled and reused for other projects. The installation designed for the Everson is composed of skirt forms constructed of cloth and wet clay suspended from the ceiling in grid fashion. The skirts, arranged in perfect harmony within the space that contains them, appear to float in contradiction to the heavy clay that pulls them downward. Each garment is cut from a Victorian-era dress pattern (ca. 1895), combined with wet clay and modeled by hand to capture every fold of the fabric as it cascades to the floor. The repetition of form and motion recalls the monotonous tasks of domestic chores that have existed for centuries without change. Cofer assigns new meaning to the found and recycled fabrics she chooses for the garments: the bed linens, table cloths, furniture upholstery, and well-worn clothing conceal the individual histories, memories and stories untold about their previous owners.

Anne Cofer was the recipient of the Best-of-Show Award given at the 2008 Everson Biennial exhibition.

Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition of works by Andrew Deutsch and Stephen Vitiello, "Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass," is an installation composed of audio and video pieces as well as photographs, prints and sculpture. Deutsch and Vitiello are musicians, composers and sound artists who have been collaborating since 1999. For this, their first co-exhibition, the artists provided each other with musical scores for the other to perform. In so doing, they emphasize the visual nature of sound scores, shedding light on this complex, seemingly inaccessible medium called sound art.

In Vitiello's work viewers will see a shift from landscape photographs (7 Studies for Graphic Scores, 2007) to abstract black-and-white prints (Pond Set, 2008) that continue to refer to landscape through black lines that evoke both reeds and musical notes. In the background of his videos, Deutsch includes imagery from the "Notgeld" (emergency money that was put into circulation in Germany during the economic crisis of the 1920s) as a reflection on our difficult economic times. Deutsch also uses these collectibles in the making of his own sound scores; he has created a narrative referring to the films of Fritz Lang, to illustrated children's books, and to early 20th-century European artistic abstraction, where sound and sight blend into a common experience.

22nd Annual Senior Fashion Show
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Senior fashion design students in the School of Art and Design will present their collections.

Tickets can be purchased at the Schine Box Office, 315-443-4517. Parking is available in SU pay lots. For more information, contact the fashion design program office at 315-443-4644.

Iraq & the U.S. -- Children, Art & Building a Culture of Peace
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Iraq & the U.S.—Children, Art & Building a Culture of Peace is an exhibit of artwork exchanged between Iraqi refugee children living in Jordan and students at our own Van Duyn Elementary School. The exhibit will display a joint mural, an Iraqi mural and other artwork from children connected to the project.

The Art of Urbanism: City Life in America & Abroad
Orange Line Gallery

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

The basis of this show will be a unique demonstration of city arts and culture. A showing of true urbanism and creativity that lies within the youth of this concrete civilization, where street performances, music, dancing, graffiti, art, and spoken word have evolved from simple basic ideas into the most complex and deep meaningful outputs of artistic expression.

"The Art of Urbanism: City Life in America & Abroad" at the will feature new artists as well as past favorites: John Deere, acrylic & spraypaint on canvas; Marc Pitterelli, photography; Ramona Persaud, photography; Tina Dadabo, colored pencil & marker on paper; Amber Blanding, glass; Brandon Hall, mixed media; David McKenney, acrylic on canvas; Debra Parry Trichilo, photography; Edward Colelli, photography on silk; Jace Collins, mixed media; Jim Reed, acrylic & spraypaint on canvas;
Melissa Tiffany, collage; and Mick Mather, digitally manipulated photography.

MFA Film Showcase 2009
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An event showcasing films produced by Syracuse University MFA Film candidates.

Il Temporale
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building, Room 121
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Screening and discussion of Il Temporale and one or more shorts by Gian Vittorio Baldi, one of the most important and influential producers/directors in the history of Italian cinema. He will be a special guest of the Syracuse International Film Festival for a week before the opening as well as during the days of the Festival, will receive the festival's Special Achievement Award this year, and also serve on the jury.

Gian Vittorio Baldi produced several of the most important Italian films of the 1960s and 70s including Robert Bresson's Four Nights of a Dreamer, Pier Paolo Pasolini's Pigsty and Notes Toward an African Orestes, and Jean-Marie Straub's Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach by Jean Marie Straub and Daniel Huillet.

Acting Shakespeare's Sonnets
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts
Featuring Elizabeth and Malcolm Ingram

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

The Ingrams will demonstrate how Shakespeare, through language and structure, reveals the situation and emotional state of his characters in the sonnets, providing the actor with the tools necessary for a fully realized performance.

The Ingrams have worked on more than 50 productions of Shakespeare's plays in Britain and the U.S. Most recently, they presented "This Powerful Rhyme," a program of 20 Shakespearean sonnets with music by Andrew Waggoner, performed by the Sequitur repertory company at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City, the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, and the Redhouse Arts Center in Syracuse. Both Ingrams teach voice and acting in the drama department at Syracuse University.

Free event parking is available in the Booth Garage, one block from Bird Library on the corner of Waverly and Comstock avenues.

For more information, please contact Kathleen White at 315-443-8782.

Onondaga Community College
OCC Percussion Ensemble

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Annual convocation concert

Words and Music Songwriter Showcase
Folkus Project
Featuring Maura Kennedy with Emily Arin and Tim Herron

Price: $10
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Maura Kennedy plays a special hometown solo show the Words and Music Songwriter Showcase. Maura Kennedy, of the popular folk-rock duo the Kennedys, returns to her hometown of Syracuse for a solo show. This special appearance is one of Maura's first-ever solo concerts.

The opening set will include Emily Arin and Tim Herron performing in the round with series host Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers, a grand prize winner in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest.

Manlius Pebble Hill High School Chamber Ensemble

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

Works of Beethoven, Handle, Tsura, and others.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Contemporary Directions Ensemble
James O. Welsch, conductor

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

The program features two new compositions by graduate composition student, Ian Hartsough (faculty member Ken Meyer, guitar; Setnor alum Dianna Hnatiw, percussion), plus music of composition faculty member, Andrew Waggoner; The Goethe Lieder of Charles Fussell (Emily Gibson, soprano); a wind quintet by Hungarian composer, Endre Szervansky; and performances of three of John Cage's compositions, Music Walk, Living Room Music and the well-known 4'33".

Westcott Theater
Girls Guns and Glory

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Girls Guns and Glory (Americana/country/rock) with The Northbound Traveling Minstrel Jug Band (bluegrass/jam band/folk rock), Grasshigh, and Upstate Boxcar Club.

A Cappella After Hours
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

A concert featuring all five of SU's a cappella ensembles: The Mandarins, Oy Capella, Orange Appeal, Main Squeeze, and Groove Stand.

Death Warmed Over
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive mystery/comedy dinner theater. A sleepy village is in for strange events when a famous medium comes to a haunted cottage to run a live seance on his television show.

Preview: Disco Pigs and Zoo Story
Black Box Players

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

Disco Pigs by Enda Walsh
Two friends set out on a celebratory birthday night through the nightclubs of Cork City. That night the whole of the city is lost in dance and pounding rave rhythms. But Pig and Runt want more. They are two inseparable violent creatures. From birth they have developed their own language and 'Pork City' through their eyes is a wet grey wasteland with only one diamond shining out of the shite, The Palace Disco. The night is going to be different from others. The inseparable are about to separate and which one will survive depends on which one can break free. Directed by Holly Hart.

Zoo Story by Edward Albee
A park bench in Central Park. A well-to-do business man. A disturbed vagrant. Primal warfare unfolds in this classic play about the desperate need for human connection, and the lengths we go to to achieve it. This deeply moving and comical one-act will creep under your skin and leave you questioning human nature in its most animalistic form. Directed by Brendan Naylor.

Friday, April 24, 2009

Window Projects: Museum of the City of Lost and Found
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Museum of the City of Lost and Found, Marion Wilson's latest sculpture project, is a continuation of her public art project launched in conjunction with the 2008 New Orleans Biennial. The exhibition is a combination of hexagram patterns of i-ching (a symbol system used to identify order in random events) collaboratively painted on the wall by the artist, community members, faculty and students at Syracuse University; miniature "igloo" and cast resin objects; and a short video of Wilson's bicycle (mobile museum) performance in New Orleans edited by Jessica Posner. Wilson invites audience participation by filling out Lost and Found Report cards (available throughout the exhibition), her method of collecting stories about viewers' personal losses, chances, findings and discoveries.

Marion Wilson uses igloos as a nomadic structure of native materials to remind us of our basic human need for shelter and protection. In addition, it is a reference to fundamentals of human existence and the Italian Arte Povera artist Mario Merz (1925-2003). In New Orleans, Wilson's sculpture was originally mounted on a constructed bicycle able to roam the city streets within the St. Roch neighborhood and the French Market. In Syracuse, Wilson will exhibit her 'mobile museum' at the Warehouse Gallery, thus, creating a "museum inside a museum." Although the installation in the Window Projects will remain through June 6, its appearance will continuously change through the continual addition of found materials collected by the artist. Wilson will be guided in selecting these additional materials by outside interviews with the general public in the greater Syracuse community.

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Photo-Drawings: Recent Works by Julieve Jubin and Juan Perdiguero, and An Introduction: Recent Works by Barbara Stout
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Threads of a Culture: Hadbakah Images by Selma Hurwitz
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

Price: Free
Winnick Hillel Center for Jewish Life
102 Walnut Place (corner of Harrison St.), Syracuse

Selma Hurwitz is an internationally-known artist whose works portray personal and social themes of universal impact, as well as basic motifs of love, beauty, valor and tyranny. In 1964, she created her own medium, hadbakah (Hebrew for "gluing"), which is glued-thread painting. Instead of using a brush, the artist glues various individual threads, particularly those that are metalized, to a specially prepared surface. Careful planning of thread direction and location, as well as meticulous maneuvering of the threads during the gluing process, achieves the desired shading and design.

Hurwitz has exhibited work in numerous solo shows, including those at the Russell Senate Office Building Rotunda and the First Baptist Church in Washington, DC; the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles; the American Jewish Historical Society in Waltham, MA; and the Herzl Institute in New York City. Her work is part of numerous collections, including the Israel Museum, Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and Knesset, all in Jerusalem; the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California; and the National Endowment for the Arts Library in Washington, DC.

For more information about the exhibition, contact April Maw at 315-443-7095 or aamaw@syr.edu.

A Goodly Heritage of Study: The Portfolio Club of Syracuse
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Displayed are the archives of a still-thriving women's study club that was formed in 1875 in Syracuse. The Portfolio Club exemplifies a post-Civil War movement in which many thousands of middle-class women came together to educate themselves in a society that restricted women's access to institutions of higher learning. This club began a few weeks after the Association for the Advancement of Women held a congress at the Wieting Opera House in downtown Syracuse. At these congresses, which took place in many American cities, Julia Ward Howe and other presenters encouraged women to form study clubs for self-culture.

Nine young women founded the Portfolio Club, with guidance from Mary Dana Hicks, their art teacher. Though they began with a focus on art, in the middle 1880s they expanded their scope to include literature, current events, history, performing arts and many other subjects. Members have always met regularly from October through April to read their papers on a topic assigned by each year's president.

Syracuse residents and those long associated with SU will recognize the married names of many past club members, such as Mrs. Donald Dey, Mrs. William Nottingham, Mrs. E.N. Westcott, and Mrs. Mildred Eggers. Among Portfolio guest speakers during the club's first several decades were Judge Charles Andrews, Dean George Fiske Comfort, Howard Lyman, professors Sawyer Falk and Irene Sargent, Paul Paine, Douglas Petit, Katherine Sibley, and SU Chancellor Charles Sims.

The exhibition, which emphasizes the years 1875-1950, includes annual program booklets, many of them finely crafted. Also on display are meeting minutes, clippings, photographs, film footage of a 1935 gathering and other club documents.

Passage: Latino Direction in CNY
Community Folk Art Center

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

Works by Alejandro Betancourt.

Three Sisters: The Art of Robin Holder, Sonya A. Lawyer, and Tamara Natalie Madden
Community Folk Art Center

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

Three Sisters: The Art of Robin Holder, Sonya A. Lawyer and Tamara Natalie Madden features works by three contemporary African American women artists who work in different media but explore issues of ethnicity, identity, history and culture in their work.

Robin Holder's works are inspired by issues of empowerment and integrity as well as the complexities of American identity: culture, gender, class, race and ethnicity. The works in her series "Behind Each Window, A Voice," were inspired by oral histories of eight of her neighbors in Brooklyn. Issues of race, social and political victimization, and ideas about society are shared by each of the subjects in their personal histories. The works are a combination of painting, collage and printmaking techniques.

Sonya Lawyer's photographic transfers combine imagery from vintage photographs with modern hand-dyed cotton fabric. The photographs were collected by the artist from vintage photo albums purchased at antique stores and through online auctions. Concerned that pieces of history were literally being torn apart and sold to the highest bidder, Lawyer was prompted to start acquiring images in order to protect them from further disturbance. Works from two series, "Searching For Beulah (limit of disturbance)" and "Finding Authenticity (does anyone remember?)" contain singular images of men and women of color juxtaposed with fabric blocks of varying hues. The works are a celebration of the persons depicted, each work revealing strength, pride, beauty and a quintessential timelessness.

Tamara Natalie Madden, in her recent series of mixed media paintings, creates images of kings,queens and warriors, using everyday people as her inspiration. Recognizing the struggles of the working class, the unseen and unheard, Madden chooses to depict them as kings and queens, as a means of expressing appreciation for their experiences, struggles and triumphs. The paintings are layered with quilted fabrics, which represent regal clothing and, symbolically, storytelling and quilts reflecting African traditions. The birds in the paintings represent a sense of freedom.

New York Waters: Photographs by Randy Duchaine
Erie Canal Museum

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

The exhibition investigates the lives of those who work and play on the fabled bodies of water that border the city's five boroughs. Among those you will meet are a dry dock operator, an eel fisherman, a fireboat preservationist, and a guerilla swimmer. Gathered from the East River to the Erie Basin, the Hudson to Hempstead Harbor, each new perspective connects a personal passion to a fabled local maritime history.

Limbo: Works of Admas Habteslasie
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

"Limbo" depicts a graceful yet unusually honest and insightful snapshot of Eritrea, an East African country suspended in an unsettled state between war and peace.

Eritrea warred with neighboring Ethiopia for 30 years before gaining independence in 1991. Then, in 1998, they entered another war with Ethiopia that lasted two years. Today, the war-torn country is yet again at the brink of war with their neighbor. Years of unrest have left the people of Eritrea waiting for life to improve. According to Habteslasie: "Transitory states become permanent; empty villas, destroyed old buildings and unfinished new buildings dot the landscape, monuments to the suspension of history. The collision between Eritrea's proud historical narrative and the bleak ennui of the present has produced an obsessive focus on the future. Reconstruction and infrastructure development are energetically driven forward whilst the economy remains essentially shut off from the outside world." The images in "Limbo" capture both destruction and construction, both the unhealed wounds of war and a fierce optimism and hope for a brighter future.

Habteslasie was born in Kuwait, and his parents are Eritrean. He received his master's degree from the London College of Communication in photojournalism and documentary photography. His photographic projects look at the ideas of identity, history, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with historical process. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Flowers East and 198 Gallery in London. His work has also been published in Source Magazine.

As It Happens: Artists-in-Residence at Light Work
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Josh Brilliant curates a selection of images by recent Light Work Artists-in-Residence, including Amy Stein, Kelli Connell, Cristina Fraire, Krista Steinke, and Christine Osinski. Brilliant is currently an MFA candidate in the Museum Studies program at Syracuse University.

Exploring History with Art: The Changing View—Landscapes
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Paintings from OHA's permanent collection

Techno_Culture
Redhouse

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

Techno_Culture is an exhibition of works from artists utilizing numerous forms of technology in their creative process. Presented in association with the Department of Transmedia's Computer Art Program at Syracuse University, the show offers a sampling of the vast area of art forms unique within our digital-based culture. Techno_Culture features the work of artists Wafaa Bilal, Alicia Ross, Shawn Lawson, Meggan Gould, Michael Heroux, Olivia Robinson, Stephen Belovarich, and Chris Prior.

Curator Sean Hovendick teaches courses in Computer Art within the Department of Transmedia. Hovendick's interactive, procedual and time-based works explore the hidden forces of power, identity and social order within the mediated psyche. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally - most recently at the Gallery Aferro in Newark, NJ; the traveling exhibition Experiencing the War in Iraq, and FutureSonic: International Festival of Art, Music & Ideas in Manchester, UK.

Works of Tim Etter, Gretchen Hamlin, and Lisa Noviasky
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Tim Etter (photography), Gretchen Hamlin (blown glass jewelry) and Lisa Noviasky (oil paintings).

MFA 2009
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

MFA 2009 is an exhibition of master of fine arts degree candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. Twenty-two artists will exhibit a range of work from traditional media such as oil on canvas, portraiture, and atmospheric-fired pottery to contemporary media including digital prints, site-specific installation, and video projection. The diversity of the show is also distinctly international, with artists from Canada, France, Korea and Russia.

While the artists work in a variety of media and techniques, themes emerge across the disciplines. The concept of the fabricated or manipulated environment is evident in many of the artists' sculptural installations, including a monumental model stagecoach positioned in a moon-landing re-creation and a faux-storefront display with ceramic poodles that both mock and celebrate what we regard as haute couture.

Nostalgia and personal identity are also sources of inspiration in this year's exhibition. One artist's work reinterprets the well-known characters from Sesame Street into an iconic status, while another incorporates the artist's past memories and dark humor into photographs that explore childhood experiences of fear, mortality and sex.

BFA Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition will feature work from seniors in VPA's School of Art and Design and Department of Transmedia, with a particular focus on the areas of painting, illustration, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, fiber arts/material studies and art photography.

Wild Card Exhibit: Serymour and Blodgett School Art Show
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Fiber Art
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Works include framed batik, cloth colleges, sculptural coiled basketry, quilting, tapestry, and more by artists Wilson Akuamoah-Boateng, Sharon Bottle Souva, Lauren Bristol, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Linda Esterley, Alice Gant, Hilary Gifford, Mary Kester, and Holly Knott.

50/50: Works of Nancy Jurs
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Nancy Jurs juxtaposes her signature large-scale, hand-built ceramic sculptures with recent site-specific installations composed of ceramic, mixed-media and found objects. Throughout her 40-year career Jurs, a Rochester-based sculptor and ceramic artist, has produced an astounding body of work that largely addresses female power and strength. In 2003, Jurs completed the Armor Series, a grouping of six life-size armored torsos that present themselves with empowered determination. The stylized shells not only serve to protect the figures but to symbolize renewed confidence and strength in a post-9/11 world. "Undaunted" (2003), which is part of the Armor Series, was acquired by the Everson in 2004.

Also on view will be "Triad," a monumental 16-foot high sculpture composed of ceramic slabs that have been hand-built: cut, scraped, modeled, and stacked in three interacting totem-like structures. Triad will be prominently displayed in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court.

Anne Cofer: Concealed Objects
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Anne Cofer's interest in materials and artistic processes is evident in "Concealed Objects," a provocative new site-specific installation created for her first museum solo exhibition at the Everson. Inspired by British artists such as Cornelia Parker and Rachel Whiteread, whose sculpture is at once unique and fleeting, Cofer creates objects that exist for a moment and place in time and then are recycled and reused for other projects. The installation designed for the Everson is composed of skirt forms constructed of cloth and wet clay suspended from the ceiling in grid fashion. The skirts, arranged in perfect harmony within the space that contains them, appear to float in contradiction to the heavy clay that pulls them downward. Each garment is cut from a Victorian-era dress pattern (ca. 1895), combined with wet clay and modeled by hand to capture every fold of the fabric as it cascades to the floor. The repetition of form and motion recalls the monotonous tasks of domestic chores that have existed for centuries without change. Cofer assigns new meaning to the found and recycled fabrics she chooses for the garments: the bed linens, table cloths, furniture upholstery, and well-worn clothing conceal the individual histories, memories and stories untold about their previous owners.

Anne Cofer was the recipient of the Best-of-Show Award given at the 2008 Everson Biennial exhibition.

Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition of works by Andrew Deutsch and Stephen Vitiello, "Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass," is an installation composed of audio and video pieces as well as photographs, prints and sculpture. Deutsch and Vitiello are musicians, composers and sound artists who have been collaborating since 1999. For this, their first co-exhibition, the artists provided each other with musical scores for the other to perform. In so doing, they emphasize the visual nature of sound scores, shedding light on this complex, seemingly inaccessible medium called sound art.

In Vitiello's work viewers will see a shift from landscape photographs (7 Studies for Graphic Scores, 2007) to abstract black-and-white prints (Pond Set, 2008) that continue to refer to landscape through black lines that evoke both reeds and musical notes. In the background of his videos, Deutsch includes imagery from the "Notgeld" (emergency money that was put into circulation in Germany during the economic crisis of the 1920s) as a reflection on our difficult economic times. Deutsch also uses these collectibles in the making of his own sound scores; he has created a narrative referring to the films of Fritz Lang, to illustrated children's books, and to early 20th-century European artistic abstraction, where sound and sight blend into a common experience.

Iraq & the U.S. -- Children, Art & Building a Culture of Peace
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Iraq & the U.S.—Children, Art & Building a Culture of Peace is an exhibit of artwork exchanged between Iraqi refugee children living in Jordan and students at our own Van Duyn Elementary School. The exhibit will display a joint mural, an Iraqi mural and other artwork from children connected to the project.

The Art of Urbanism: City Life in America & Abroad
Orange Line Gallery

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

The basis of this show will be a unique demonstration of city arts and culture. A showing of true urbanism and creativity that lies within the youth of this concrete civilization, where street performances, music, dancing, graffiti, art, and spoken word have evolved from simple basic ideas into the most complex and deep meaningful outputs of artistic expression.

"The Art of Urbanism: City Life in America & Abroad" at the will feature new artists as well as past favorites: John Deere, acrylic & spraypaint on canvas; Marc Pitterelli, photography; Ramona Persaud, photography; Tina Dadabo, colored pencil & marker on paper; Amber Blanding, glass; Brandon Hall, mixed media; David McKenney, acrylic on canvas; Debra Parry Trichilo, photography; Edward Colelli, photography on silk; Jace Collins, mixed media; Jim Reed, acrylic & spraypaint on canvas;
Melissa Tiffany, collage; and Mick Mather, digitally manipulated photography.

22nd Annual Senior Fashion Show
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Senior fashion design students in the School of Art and Design will present their collections.

Tickets can be purchased at the Schine Box Office, 315-443-4517. Parking is available in SU pay lots. For more information, contact the fashion design program office at 315-443-4644.

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

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

Lady Feet, driected by Chris Toppino (2008, United States, fiction, 29 minutes)
Glimpses into the lives of a painter and two dancers living in Philadelphia reveal secrets-in-the-making as the characters search for identity in sex, art, the city, and each other. In English. Learn more.

Star Riders, directed by Josh Burdett (2008, United States, documentary, 16 minutes)
An insurance salesman in Monterey, California, lost his only daughter to disability and disease, and is now the head instructor of a program that gives hope to children like her. In English. Learn more.

Sunday, directed by Brent Barbano (2008, United States, fiction, 21 minutes)
A thirty-something homebody who lives with his mother meets a free-spirited young woman at mass one Sunday and must reconcile his new feelings with his family loyalty. In English. Learn more.

Attention, Go!, directed by Theresa Alessio (2008, United States, documentary, 10 minutes)
The Syracuse University women's crew team works together as one as they race to the finish. In English. Learn more.

Ben-Hur Opening Event
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $16 regular, $14 senior/student
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

The silent film Ben-Hur will be accompanied by live jazz, composed and performed by LeMoyne College's J.C. Sanford with the Central New York Jazz Orchestra. This is the opening event of the Syracuse International Film Festival 2009 and sure to be a wonderful evening with toga-clad doormen and photo opps for all!

Ben-Hur, directed by Fred Niblo (United States, fiction, 143 minutes)
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. In English. Learn more.

FridayFLICS: The Burmese Harp
ArtRage Gallery

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

An Imperial Japanese Army regiment surrenders to British forces in Burma at the close of World War II and finds harmony through song. A private, thought to be dead, disguises himself as a Buddhist monk and stumbles upon spiritual enlightenment. Magnificently shot in hushed black and white, Kon Ichikawa's The Burmese Harp is an eloquent meditation on beauty coexisting with death and remains one of Japanese cinema's most overwhelming antiwar statements, both tender and brutal in its grappling with Japan's wartime legacy. Directed by Kon Ichikawa, 1956.

Maria's Grotto; Torgheh
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Hotel Syracuse Persian Terrace
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Maria's Grotto, directed by Buthina Canaan Khoury (2008, Occupied Palestinian Territory, documentary, 52 minutes)
This gripping portrait of four women whose lives are dictated by moral codes explores the issue of honor killing in Palestine. In Arabic. Learn more.

Torgheh, directed by Mohammad Hassan Damanzan (2008, Islamic Republic of Iran, documentary, 52 minutes)
Four Iranian country women encounter life's challenges. Although they face social problems they have a common passion: to release their pain through music. In Arabic. Learn more.

Onondaga Community College
OCC Percussion Ensemble

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Annual convocation concert

Rockin' the Red Cross Battle of the Bands

Price: $10
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Fourteen bands from local corporations compete for the top spot as determined by a panel of judges. All proceeds benefit the Onondaga-Oswego chapter of the American Red Cross.

Multicultural Community Outreach

Price: $10
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Performances by the Media Unit, Sam Wynn, the Maya Tribe, Omani Abdullah, Kuumba Dancers, Nancy Kelly, Andrea Moore, David Nyadedzor and West African dancers, Tyasiah LeFlore, Jackie Warren-Moore, Gregory Sheppard, and Angie Lynn.

Titanic Concert Performance
Jamesville-Dewitt Middle school and High School
Kevin Stites, conductor
Featuring Steve Heyman, piano

Price: $5
Jamesville-Dewitt High School
Edinger Drive, Dewitt

Conductor Kevin Stites was musical director and conductor for Titanic on Broadway and conducted the cast recording.

S.U. Concerto and Aria Winners' Concert
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Syracuse University Symphony Orchestra
James Tapia, conductor

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

The concert will showcase three of the most talented performers in the school of music. Raed Saade will sing "Thus saith the lord" from Handel's Messiah, Juan Rodrigo Velasguez will perform the first movement of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, and Charles Magnone will perform the first movement of Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto. The concert will conclude with the 1919 Firebird Suite of Igor Stravinsky.

Free parking is available in Irving Garage.

Opera Karaoke
Syracuse Opera

Price: Free
Opus Restaurant
218 Walton St., Syracuse

Opera favorites with music director Douglas Kinney Frost and members of the cast of the upcoming performance of Little Women.

Pirates of Penzance
Bishop Grimes High School

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

The Wizard of Oz
Onondaga Central Junior/Senior High School

Price: $7 adults; $4 students
Onondaga Central Junior/Senior High School
4479 S. Onondaga Rd., Nedrow

Elizabeth Rex
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Judith Harris, director

Price: $10 adults; $5 with student ID
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Elizabeth Rex by T. Findley is a CNY premiere of an Off-Broadway smash. It shows Elizabeth I's deep-seated inner conflicts, in the time of Shakespeare, as a woman in a man's job when she confronts an actor who's a man portraying a woman.

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Disco Pigs and Zoo Story
Black Box Players

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

Disco Pigs by Enda Walsh
Two friends set out on a celebratory birthday night through the nightclubs of Cork City. That night the whole of the city is lost in dance and pounding rave rhythms. But Pig and Runt want more. They are two inseparable violent creatures. From birth they have developed their own language and 'Pork City' through their eyes is a wet grey wasteland with only one diamond shining out of the shite, The Palace Disco. The night is going to be different from others. The inseparable are about to separate and which one will survive depends on which one can break free. Directed by Holly Hart.

Zoo Story by Edward Albee
A park bench in Central Park. A well-to-do business man. A disturbed vagrant. Primal warfare unfolds in this classic play about the desperate need for human connection, and the lengths we go to to achieve it. This deeply moving and comical one-act will creep under your skin and leave you questioning human nature in its most animalistic form. Directed by Brendan Naylor.

Poor Super Man
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

David is a painter whose success has brought him fame, money and insulation from the life experiences that inspired him to paint. When he decides he needs to get out in the world again and takes a job at a small cafe as a waiter, the last thing he expects is to fall in love with Matt, part of the husband and wife couple that own the cafe. Love, hate, life and death—all have a place in this contemporary story about a group of 30-something urbanites whose lives seem to be coming apart.

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Red House Live!
Redhouse

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

Red House Live! is an improvisational comedy show similar to the hit television series "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" The troupe of seasoned actors will perform a series of games and scenarios based on audience suggestion and participation. Friday Night Live! is the brainchild of Tim Mahar and Laura Austin, both products of Second City. The troupe includes the wildly talented AJ LaPoint, Sara Caliva, Mike Intaglietta, Emmett Van Slyke, and the show's host, Glen Gomez Adams of TK99's Gomez & Dave Morning Show.

The World Goes 'Round
Syracuse University Drama Department
Nathan Hurwitz, director

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

Life -- with its glories, indignities, hopes and quiet dreams -- is the subject of this stunning revue of the beloved songs of John Kander and Fred Ebb. Features unforgettable gems from throughout their incredible career in theatre, film and television, spotlighting songs from Cabaret; Chicago; New York, New York; Funny Lady; Kiss Of The Spiderwoman and more. Filled with humor, romance, drama, nonstop melody and brassy, insightful lyrics, The World Goes 'Round is a thrilling celebration of life and the fighting spirit that keeps us all going.

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Ruthless! The Musical
The Talent Company
Dan Tursi, director

Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Fasten your seatbelts...it's gonna be a laughed-so-hard-I-almost-fell-outta-my-seat night! What happens when you take the classic movies The Bad Seed, All About Eve, Gypsy, and Auntie Mame and roll them all together? You get Ruthless! The Musical, the story of 8-year-old Tina Denmark who would kill for the lead in her school play. Add her split-personality mother and a few other bizarre characters and you have a hysterical spoof filled with infamous deeds, mysterious pasts, hidden identities, outrageous plot twists, and loads of laughter.

Ten-year old Julia Goodwin stars as Tina Denmark, the aspiring child actress in Talent Companys production of Ruthless! A student at Reynolds Elementary School in Baldwinsville, Julia has appeared in seven musicals, including the title role in Annie and as Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden. In February, she appeared as Chip for Baker High School's production of Beauty & The Beast. She has sung the National Anthem for the Syracuse Crunch Hockey Team and the Syracuse University Women's Basketball Team. Recently called back after her first NYC audition, Julia was one of the finalists for Broadway's Mary Poppins.

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Saturday, April 25, 2009

Window Projects: Museum of the City of Lost and Found
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Museum of the City of Lost and Found, Marion Wilson's latest sculpture project, is a continuation of her public art project launched in conjunction with the 2008 New Orleans Biennial. The exhibition is a combination of hexagram patterns of i-ching (a symbol system used to identify order in random events) collaboratively painted on the wall by the artist, community members, faculty and students at Syracuse University; miniature "igloo" and cast resin objects; and a short video of Wilson's bicycle (mobile museum) performance in New Orleans edited by Jessica Posner. Wilson invites audience participation by filling out Lost and Found Report cards (available throughout the exhibition), her method of collecting stories about viewers' personal losses, chances, findings and discoveries.

Marion Wilson uses igloos as a nomadic structure of native materials to remind us of our basic human need for shelter and protection. In addition, it is a reference to fundamentals of human existence and the Italian Arte Povera artist Mario Merz (1925-2003). In New Orleans, Wilson's sculpture was originally mounted on a constructed bicycle able to roam the city streets within the St. Roch neighborhood and the French Market. In Syracuse, Wilson will exhibit her 'mobile museum' at the Warehouse Gallery, thus, creating a "museum inside a museum." Although the installation in the Window Projects will remain through June 6, its appearance will continuously change through the continual addition of found materials collected by the artist. Wilson will be guided in selecting these additional materials by outside interviews with the general public in the greater Syracuse community.

Fiber Art
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Works include framed batik, cloth colleges, sculptural coiled basketry, quilting, tapestry, and more by artists Wilson Akuamoah-Boateng, Sharon Bottle Souva, Lauren Bristol, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Linda Esterley, Alice Gant, Hilary Gifford, Mary Kester, and Holly Knott.

Wild Card Exhibit: Serymour and Blodgett School Art Show
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

New York Waters: Photographs by Randy Duchaine
Erie Canal Museum

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

The exhibition investigates the lives of those who work and play on the fabled bodies of water that border the city's five boroughs. Among those you will meet are a dry dock operator, an eel fisherman, a fireboat preservationist, and a guerilla swimmer. Gathered from the East River to the Erie Basin, the Hudson to Hempstead Harbor, each new perspective connects a personal passion to a fabled local maritime history.

50/50: Works of Nancy Jurs
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Nancy Jurs juxtaposes her signature large-scale, hand-built ceramic sculptures with recent site-specific installations composed of ceramic, mixed-media and found objects. Throughout her 40-year career Jurs, a Rochester-based sculptor and ceramic artist, has produced an astounding body of work that largely addresses female power and strength. In 2003, Jurs completed the Armor Series, a grouping of six life-size armored torsos that present themselves with empowered determination. The stylized shells not only serve to protect the figures but to symbolize renewed confidence and strength in a post-9/11 world. "Undaunted" (2003), which is part of the Armor Series, was acquired by the Everson in 2004.

Also on view will be "Triad," a monumental 16-foot high sculpture composed of ceramic slabs that have been hand-built: cut, scraped, modeled, and stacked in three interacting totem-like structures. Triad will be prominently displayed in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court.

Anne Cofer: Concealed Objects
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Anne Cofer's interest in materials and artistic processes is evident in "Concealed Objects," a provocative new site-specific installation created for her first museum solo exhibition at the Everson. Inspired by British artists such as Cornelia Parker and Rachel Whiteread, whose sculpture is at once unique and fleeting, Cofer creates objects that exist for a moment and place in time and then are recycled and reused for other projects. The installation designed for the Everson is composed of skirt forms constructed of cloth and wet clay suspended from the ceiling in grid fashion. The skirts, arranged in perfect harmony within the space that contains them, appear to float in contradiction to the heavy clay that pulls them downward. Each garment is cut from a Victorian-era dress pattern (ca. 1895), combined with wet clay and modeled by hand to capture every fold of the fabric as it cascades to the floor. The repetition of form and motion recalls the monotonous tasks of domestic chores that have existed for centuries without change. Cofer assigns new meaning to the found and recycled fabrics she chooses for the garments: the bed linens, table cloths, furniture upholstery, and well-worn clothing conceal the individual histories, memories and stories untold about their previous owners.

Anne Cofer was the recipient of the Best-of-Show Award given at the 2008 Everson Biennial exhibition.

Works of Tim Etter, Gretchen Hamlin, and Lisa Noviasky
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Tim Etter (photography), Gretchen Hamlin (blown glass jewelry) and Lisa Noviasky (oil paintings).

Passage: Latino Direction in CNY
Community Folk Art Center

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

Works by Alejandro Betancourt.

Three Sisters: The Art of Robin Holder, Sonya A. Lawyer, and Tamara Natalie Madden
Community Folk Art Center

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

Three Sisters: The Art of Robin Holder, Sonya A. Lawyer and Tamara Natalie Madden features works by three contemporary African American women artists who work in different media but explore issues of ethnicity, identity, history and culture in their work.

Robin Holder's works are inspired by issues of empowerment and integrity as well as the complexities of American identity: culture, gender, class, race and ethnicity. The works in her series "Behind Each Window, A Voice," were inspired by oral histories of eight of her neighbors in Brooklyn. Issues of race, social and political victimization, and ideas about society are shared by each of the subjects in their personal histories. The works are a combination of painting, collage and printmaking techniques.

Sonya Lawyer's photographic transfers combine imagery from vintage photographs with modern hand-dyed cotton fabric. The photographs were collected by the artist from vintage photo albums purchased at antique stores and through online auctions. Concerned that pieces of history were literally being torn apart and sold to the highest bidder, Lawyer was prompted to start acquiring images in order to protect them from further disturbance. Works from two series, "Searching For Beulah (limit of disturbance)" and "Finding Authenticity (does anyone remember?)" contain singular images of men and women of color juxtaposed with fabric blocks of varying hues. The works are a celebration of the persons depicted, each work revealing strength, pride, beauty and a quintessential timelessness.

Tamara Natalie Madden, in her recent series of mixed media paintings, creates images of kings,queens and warriors, using everyday people as her inspiration. Recognizing the struggles of the working class, the unseen and unheard, Madden chooses to depict them as kings and queens, as a means of expressing appreciation for their experiences, struggles and triumphs. The paintings are layered with quilted fabrics, which represent regal clothing and, symbolically, storytelling and quilts reflecting African traditions. The birds in the paintings represent a sense of freedom.

Exploring History with Art: The Changing View—Landscapes
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Paintings from OHA's permanent collection

MFA 2009
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

MFA 2009 is an exhibition of master of fine arts degree candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. Twenty-two artists will exhibit a range of work from traditional media such as oil on canvas, portraiture, and atmospheric-fired pottery to contemporary media including digital prints, site-specific installation, and video projection. The diversity of the show is also distinctly international, with artists from Canada, France, Korea and Russia.

While the artists work in a variety of media and techniques, themes emerge across the disciplines. The concept of the fabricated or manipulated environment is evident in many of the artists' sculptural installations, including a monumental model stagecoach positioned in a moon-landing re-creation and a faux-storefront display with ceramic poodles that both mock and celebrate what we regard as haute couture.

Nostalgia and personal identity are also sources of inspiration in this year's exhibition. One artist's work reinterprets the well-known characters from Sesame Street into an iconic status, while another incorporates the artist's past memories and dark humor into photographs that explore childhood experiences of fear, mortality and sex.

BFA Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition will feature work from seniors in VPA's School of Art and Design and Department of Transmedia, with a particular focus on the areas of painting, illustration, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, fiber arts/material studies and art photography.

Iraq & the U.S. -- Children, Art & Building a Culture of Peace
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Iraq & the U.S.—Children, Art & Building a Culture of Peace is an exhibit of artwork exchanged between Iraqi refugee children living in Jordan and students at our own Van Duyn Elementary School. The exhibit will display a joint mural, an Iraqi mural and other artwork from children connected to the project.

The Art of Urbanism: City Life in America & Abroad
Orange Line Gallery

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

The basis of this show will be a unique demonstration of city arts and culture. A showing of true urbanism and creativity that lies within the youth of this concrete civilization, where street performances, music, dancing, graffiti, art, and spoken word have evolved from simple basic ideas into the most complex and deep meaningful outputs of artistic expression.

"The Art of Urbanism: City Life in America & Abroad" at the will feature new artists as well as past favorites: John Deere, acrylic & spraypaint on canvas; Marc Pitterelli, photography; Ramona Persaud, photography; Tina Dadabo, colored pencil & marker on paper; Amber Blanding, glass; Brandon Hall, mixed media; David McKenney, acrylic on canvas; Debra Parry Trichilo, photography; Edward Colelli, photography on silk; Jace Collins, mixed media; Jim Reed, acrylic & spraypaint on canvas;
Melissa Tiffany, collage; and Mick Mather, digitally manipulated photography.

Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition of works by Andrew Deutsch and Stephen Vitiello, "Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass," is an installation composed of audio and video pieces as well as photographs, prints and sculpture. Deutsch and Vitiello are musicians, composers and sound artists who have been collaborating since 1999. For this, their first co-exhibition, the artists provided each other with musical scores for the other to perform. In so doing, they emphasize the visual nature of sound scores, shedding light on this complex, seemingly inaccessible medium called sound art.

In Vitiello's work viewers will see a shift from landscape photographs (7 Studies for Graphic Scores, 2007) to abstract black-and-white prints (Pond Set, 2008) that continue to refer to landscape through black lines that evoke both reeds and musical notes. In the background of his videos, Deutsch includes imagery from the "Notgeld" (emergency money that was put into circulation in Germany during the economic crisis of the 1920s) as a reflection on our difficult economic times. Deutsch also uses these collectibles in the making of his own sound scores; he has created a narrative referring to the films of Fritz Lang, to illustrated children's books, and to early 20th-century European artistic abstraction, where sound and sight blend into a common experience.

The Heart is a Hidden Camera; Empties
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

The Heart is a Hidden Camera, directed by Gabriel Judet-Weinshel (2008, United States, experimental, 10 minutes)
In this magic realist meditation on memory and beauty, a young boy discovers that his heart is a camera, capable of capturing the vitality of the world around him. In English.
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Empties, directed by Jan Sverak (2008, Czech Republic, fiction, 100 minutes)
A humorous portrait of the post-retirement antics of a cantankerous Czech. In Czech.
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Porque Hay Cosas Que Nunca Se Olvidan; An Unquiet Mind; Le Ring
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

Porque Hay Cosas Que Nunca Se Olvidan, directed by Lucas Figueroa (2008, Spain, fiction, 12 minutes)
Four friends accidentally kick their soccer ball into the yard of an evil old woman, which sparks a deadly act of revenge. In Spanish. Learn more.

An Unquiet Mind, directed by Chihwen Lo (2008, United States, experimental, 6 minutes)
Shueiin a maniac (or depressed) state?witnesses his body in a coffin. Inspired by his struggle of bipolar disorder and Kay Redfield Jamison's book, An Unquiet Mind, the film is Shuei's mercurial journey of mood swings and deep restlessness. In English.
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Le Ring, directed by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette (2007, Canada, fiction, 87 minutes)
Glimpses into the lives of a painter and two dancers living in Philadelphia reveal secrets-in-the-making as the characters search for identity in sex, art, the city, and each other. In French.
Learn more.

The Appearance of a Man
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

The Appearance of a Man, directed by Daniel Pace (2008, United States, fiction, 105 minutes)
Strange lights appear over the Phoenix sky, heralding the arrival of an unusual man who unleashes a series of mysterious events. In English. Learn more.

Sebastian's Voodoo; Famous in 31 Days
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

Sebastian's Voodoo, directed by Joaquin Baldwin (2008, United States, animation, 4 minutes)
A voodoo doll must find the courage to save his friends from being pinned to death. In English. Learn more.

Famous in 31 Days, directed by John Gerard (2008, United States, documentary, 76 minutes)
Feeling unhappy at work and experiencing a midlife crisis, the film's subject quits his job and tries to become nationally recognizable in a month's time. In English.
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Annie Lloyd; Neckcloth; One Hundred Yuan
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

Annie Lloyd, directed by Ceclia Condit (2008, United States, experimental, 18 minutes)
Annie Lloyd is an unflinching valentine to Director Cecelia Condits mother in her last years and a portrayal of the courage and creativity of old age. Condit charts a course free of stereotypes, addressing the personal identity and the external expectations, which lie just beneath the surface of her mothers everyday life. In Annie Lloyd, Condit focuses on a very sturdy present tense and a past that is forgiving. Working with her very old mother, they come together to form a new relationship that may only have been possible during her mothers final years. In Annie Lloyd, mother and daughter spin stories into a dance of identities, weaving fluctuating tales of remembering and becoming. In English.
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Neckcloth, directed by Ji-Sung Kim (2008, Republic of Korea, animation, 7 minutes)
A sophisticatedly grotesque and highly stylized film that combines the genres of thriller, fantasy and sci-fi. In Korean.
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One Hundred Yuan, directed by Wang Ping
An out-of-work technician find a 100 yuan note that initially brings him trouble but may ultimately bring him luck and happiness. In Chinese. (2008, China, fiction, 90 minutes) Learn more.

Special Event: That Evening Sun
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

That Evening Sun, directed by Scott Teems and starring Hal Holbrook (2008, United States, fiction, 110 minutes)
An aging Tennessee farmer returns to his homestead and must confront a family betrayal, the reappearance of an enemy, and the loss of his farm. In English.
Learn more.

The screening will be immediately followed by a discussion with Syracuse native Larsen Jay, producer, and Scott Teems, writer and director.

CNY Day of Percussion
Onondaga Community College
Featuring Michael Burritt

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The CNY Day of Percussion has been held at OCC since April of 2002. It is a full day of clinics and concerts featuring internationally renowned artists, local artists, OCC students, and area HS students. Past guests have included: She-e Wu; Billy Ward, Leigh Howard Stevens, John Riley, Thom Hannum, Dom Famularo, Jim Petercsak, Gordon Stout, Jeff Moore, John Beck, Bobby Sanabria, Linda Maxey, and Tony Verderosa. Students from many area high schools, Cornell University, Syracuse University, the Crane School of Music, Ithaca College and the Eastman School of Music have attended. The average attendance is 150 students, educators, and professional musicians from all over central New York.

Events will also be held in Gordon Great Room and Gordon Cafeteria.

Senior Bassoon Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Janna DeWan

Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The program includes works by Tansman, Ravel, Steingart, Wolfgang, and Busser. The concert also features pianist Michelle DiBona and cellist Rosie Rion. Following the recital will be a reception featuring ceramic pottery made by Janna.

Free parking is available in Irving Garage.

Vocal Scholastic Jazz Jam
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Nancy Kelly

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

Aspiring jazz and cabaret vocalists can perform songs of their choice with professional accompaniment. Professional coach Nancy Kelly will be on hand to work with each vocalist in a friendly, master-class environment. Music director and band leader for the event is Dino Losito. The event is open to participants at all levels: high school and college students and adults who are interested in honing their skills at delivering a tune from the Great American Song Book. Complete guidelines for participants are available online.

Liverpool High School Symphonic Band, with Clarence High School Band

Price: Free
Liverpool High School Auditorium
4338 Wetzel Rd., Liverpool

For more information, phone 315-622-7145.

An Evening of Broadway
First Unitarian Universalist Society Music Series

Price: $20
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

Featuring students from the Theatre Department of Syracuse University performing music from Into the Woods, Jekyll & Hyde, and many others.

The Music Masters

Price: $7
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

The barbershop ensemble performs their season finale. For more information, phone 315-637-3186.

SVE After Hours
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble

Price: $35; seating is limited
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Join SVE for an intimate evening of performances from operas, Broadway musicals, and operettas, surrounded by beautiful artwork and an array of delicious treats, including light savory snacks, sweet treats, wine, and beverages.

To reserve tickets or for more information, phone 315-637-3899.

Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music
Guitarist Eliot Fisk and Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman

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

In this program featuring guitarist Eliot Fisk and clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, we bring you two luminaries of the music world. Eliot Fisk has lived up to the prediction of his great mentor, Andres Segovia, that he is "at the top line of our artistic world." He has performed to critical and public acclaim in most of the great concert halls of the world.

Richard Stoltzman's virtuosity, musicianship and sheer personal magnetism have made him one of today's most sought-after concert artists. As soloist with more than a hundred orchestras, as a captivating recitalist, and as innovative jazz artist, Stoltzman has defied categorization, dazzling critics and audiences.

Schubert Sonatina in D major (guitar solo)
Bartok Romanian Folk Dances
Beaser Mountain Songs
J.S.Bach Fantasy and Fugue (clarinet solo)
Rossini Aria,Theme and Variations

Westcott Theater
Dark Hollow (Grateful Dead Tribute)

Price: $10
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Golden Age of Operetta
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Syracuse University Opera Theatre

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

Excerpts from three rarely-performed, early 20th-century American operettas will be featured in Syracuse University Opera Theatre's student-directed and -produced "The Golden Age of Operetta."

The production is directed and produced by Kate Haar-Lyons, a senior music major.

"The Golden Age of Operetta" will include scenes from Sigmund Romberg's The Desert Song and The Student Prince as well as Victor Herbert's Naughty Marietta. The music blends the lightheartedness of Broadway with challenging vocal lines of the operatic tradition. All selections share the common theme of escape to exotic lands. The audience will be guided through the program by Stephen Meyer, associate professor of fine arts in SU's College of Arts and Sciences, who will offer historical commentary.

The production marks Haar-Lyons' directing and producing debut. She previously served as assistant director of the Opera Theatre's critically acclaimed production of The Mikado, which premiered in January. "Golden Age" was inspired by her senior thesis on early 20th-century operetta.

The 30-member student cast is also led by assistant director Gabrielle Traub, a sophomore vocal performance major, and musical director Eric Johnson, a faculty member and co-chair of the voice department. Abigail Ottenjohn, a sophomore music industry major, serves as production assistant, and Benjamin Hoffman, a first-year graduate student in piano performance, will accompany on keyboard. Minimal sets, lighting and costumes will be used.

Parking is available in the Irving Garage. For more information, contact the Opera Theatre office at 315-443-2512.

Stone Canoe Writer's Series: Wendy Gonyea, poet
Delavan Art Gallery

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

Wendy Gonyea, member of the Beaver Clan of the Onondaga Nation, will read from her collection of poetry. Significantly, two of Gonyea's poems appeared in the first edition of the Stone Canoe Journal, the publication whose title refers to an ancient mythical story of the peacemaker who traveled from the shores of Lake Ontario in a canoe, carved out of white granite, to New York's Finger Lakes region, spreading a message of peace and harmony among warring tribes who lived there. Onondaga Nation is part of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy believed to be the result of that 'floating stone' miracle.

The Emperor's New Clothes
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the classic story.

Disco Pigs and Zoo Story
Black Box Players

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

Disco Pigs by Enda Walsh
Two friends set out on a celebratory birthday night through the nightclubs of Cork City. That night the whole of the city is lost in dance and pounding rave rhythms. But Pig and Runt want more. They are two inseparable violent creatures. From birth they have developed their own language and 'Pork City' through their eyes is a wet grey wasteland with only one diamond shining out of the shite, The Palace Disco. The night is going to be different from others. The inseparable are about to separate and which one will survive depends on which one can break free. Directed by Holly Hart.

Zoo Story by Edward Albee
A park bench in Central Park. A well-to-do business man. A disturbed vagrant. Primal warfare unfolds in this classic play about the desperate need for human connection, and the lengths we go to to achieve it. This deeply moving and comical one-act will creep under your skin and leave you questioning human nature in its most animalistic form. Directed by Brendan Naylor.

The Diary of Anne Frank
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

The story is simplicity itself. A young girl, alive to everything around her and awakening within her, with hopes and dreams of the life she may one day lead with friends and family, confides to her diary the secrets of her heart. That diary, as we all know, becomes one of the lasting documents of the 20th century, a testament not to the horrors we know so well, but to the indomitability of the human spirit. That's what's so wonderful about this version of The Diary of Anne Frank, newly revised by Wendy Kesselman. With information gleaned from previously withheld portions of the diary and additional survivor accounts, we glimpse this remarkable young woman with greater clarity and deeper understanding of the fullness of her life. Was she on the verge of falling in love for the first time? Did she harbor misgivings about herself or members of the "family" imposed on her? We know the sad end of the tale, but do we really know the complexity of the heart that with its every beat sought to find the goodness in others?

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Pirates of Penzance
Bishop Grimes High School

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

The Wizard of Oz
Onondaga Central Junior/Senior High School

Price: $7 adults; $4 students
Onondaga Central Junior/Senior High School
4479 S. Onondaga Rd., Nedrow

Elizabeth Rex
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Judith Harris, director

Price: $10 adults; $5 with student ID
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Elizabeth Rex by T. Findley is a CNY premiere of an Off-Broadway smash. It shows Elizabeth I's deep-seated inner conflicts, in the time of Shakespeare, as a woman in a man's job when she confronts an actor who's a man portraying a woman.

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Disco Pigs and Zoo Story
Black Box Players

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

Disco Pigs by Enda Walsh
Two friends set out on a celebratory birthday night through the nightclubs of Cork City. That night the whole of the city is lost in dance and pounding rave rhythms. But Pig and Runt want more. They are two inseparable violent creatures. From birth they have developed their own language and 'Pork City' through their eyes is a wet grey wasteland with only one diamond shining out of the shite, The Palace Disco. The night is going to be different from others. The inseparable are about to separate and which one will survive depends on which one can break free. Directed by Holly Hart.

Zoo Story by Edward Albee
A park bench in Central Park. A well-to-do business man. A disturbed vagrant. Primal warfare unfolds in this classic play about the desperate need for human connection, and the lengths we go to to achieve it. This deeply moving and comical one-act will creep under your skin and leave you questioning human nature in its most animalistic form. Directed by Brendan Naylor.

Poor Super Man
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

David is a painter whose success has brought him fame, money and insulation from the life experiences that inspired him to paint. When he decides he needs to get out in the world again and takes a job at a small cafe as a waiter, the last thing he expects is to fall in love with Matt, part of the husband and wife couple that own the cafe. Love, hate, life and death—all have a place in this contemporary story about a group of 30-something urbanites whose lives seem to be coming apart.

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The Diary of Anne Frank
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

The story is simplicity itself. A young girl, alive to everything around her and awakening within her, with hopes and dreams of the life she may one day lead with friends and family, confides to her diary the secrets of her heart. That diary, as we all know, becomes one of the lasting documents of the 20th century, a testament not to the horrors we know so well, but to the indomitability of the human spirit. That's what's so wonderful about this version of The Diary of Anne Frank, newly revised by Wendy Kesselman. With information gleaned from previously withheld portions of the diary and additional survivor accounts, we glimpse this remarkable young woman with greater clarity and deeper understanding of the fullness of her life. Was she on the verge of falling in love for the first time? Did she harbor misgivings about herself or members of the "family" imposed on her? We know the sad end of the tale, but do we really know the complexity of the heart that with its every beat sought to find the goodness in others?

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The World Goes 'Round
Syracuse University Drama Department
Nathan Hurwitz, director

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

Life -- with its glories, indignities, hopes and quiet dreams -- is the subject of this stunning revue of the beloved songs of John Kander and Fred Ebb. Features unforgettable gems from throughout their incredible career in theatre, film and television, spotlighting songs from Cabaret; Chicago; New York, New York; Funny Lady; Kiss Of The Spiderwoman and more. Filled with humor, romance, drama, nonstop melody and brassy, insightful lyrics, The World Goes 'Round is a thrilling celebration of life and the fighting spirit that keeps us all going.

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Ruthless! The Musical
The Talent Company
Dan Tursi, director

Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Fasten your seatbelts...it's gonna be a laughed-so-hard-I-almost-fell-outta-my-seat night! What happens when you take the classic movies The Bad Seed, All About Eve, Gypsy, and Auntie Mame and roll them all together? You get Ruthless! The Musical, the story of 8-year-old Tina Denmark who would kill for the lead in her school play. Add her split-personality mother and a few other bizarre characters and you have a hysterical spoof filled with infamous deeds, mysterious pasts, hidden identities, outrageous plot twists, and loads of laughter.

Ten-year old Julia Goodwin stars as Tina Denmark, the aspiring child actress in Talent Companys production of Ruthless! A student at Reynolds Elementary School in Baldwinsville, Julia has appeared in seven musicals, including the title role in Annie and as Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden. In February, she appeared as Chip for Baker High School's production of Beauty & The Beast. She has sung the National Anthem for the Syracuse Crunch Hockey Team and the Syracuse University Women's Basketball Team. Recently called back after her first NYC audition, Julia was one of the finalists for Broadway's Mary Poppins.

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Sunday, April 26, 2009

Window Projects: Museum of the City of Lost and Found
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Museum of the City of Lost and Found, Marion Wilson's latest sculpture project, is a continuation of her public art project launched in conjunction with the 2008 New Orleans Biennial. The exhibition is a combination of hexagram patterns of i-ching (a symbol system used to identify order in random events) collaboratively painted on the wall by the artist, community members, faculty and students at Syracuse University; miniature "igloo" and cast resin objects; and a short video of Wilson's bicycle (mobile museum) performance in New Orleans edited by Jessica Posner. Wilson invites audience participation by filling out Lost and Found Report cards (available throughout the exhibition), her method of collecting stories about viewers' personal losses, chances, findings and discoveries.

Marion Wilson uses igloos as a nomadic structure of native materials to remind us of our basic human need for shelter and protection. In addition, it is a reference to fundamentals of human existence and the Italian Arte Povera artist Mario Merz (1925-2003). In New Orleans, Wilson's sculpture was originally mounted on a constructed bicycle able to roam the city streets within the St. Roch neighborhood and the French Market. In Syracuse, Wilson will exhibit her 'mobile museum' at the Warehouse Gallery, thus, creating a "museum inside a museum." Although the installation in the Window Projects will remain through June 6, its appearance will continuously change through the continual addition of found materials collected by the artist. Wilson will be guided in selecting these additional materials by outside interviews with the general public in the greater Syracuse community.

New York Waters: Photographs by Randy Duchaine
Erie Canal Museum

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

The exhibition investigates the lives of those who work and play on the fabled bodies of water that border the city's five boroughs. Among those you will meet are a dry dock operator, an eel fisherman, a fireboat preservationist, and a guerilla swimmer. Gathered from the East River to the Erie Basin, the Hudson to Hempstead Harbor, each new perspective connects a personal passion to a fabled local maritime history.

Limbo: Works of Admas Habteslasie
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

"Limbo" depicts a graceful yet unusually honest and insightful snapshot of Eritrea, an East African country suspended in an unsettled state between war and peace.

Eritrea warred with neighboring Ethiopia for 30 years before gaining independence in 1991. Then, in 1998, they entered another war with Ethiopia that lasted two years. Today, the war-torn country is yet again at the brink of war with their neighbor. Years of unrest have left the people of Eritrea waiting for life to improve. According to Habteslasie: "Transitory states become permanent; empty villas, destroyed old buildings and unfinished new buildings dot the landscape, monuments to the suspension of history. The collision between Eritrea's proud historical narrative and the bleak ennui of the present has produced an obsessive focus on the future. Reconstruction and infrastructure development are energetically driven forward whilst the economy remains essentially shut off from the outside world." The images in "Limbo" capture both destruction and construction, both the unhealed wounds of war and a fierce optimism and hope for a brighter future.

Habteslasie was born in Kuwait, and his parents are Eritrean. He received his master's degree from the London College of Communication in photojournalism and documentary photography. His photographic projects look at the ideas of identity, history, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with historical process. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Flowers East and 198 Gallery in London. His work has also been published in Source Magazine.

As It Happens: Artists-in-Residence at Light Work
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Josh Brilliant curates a selection of images by recent Light Work Artists-in-Residence, including Amy Stein, Kelli Connell, Cristina Fraire, Krista Steinke, and Christine Osinski. Brilliant is currently an MFA candidate in the Museum Studies program at Syracuse University.

Exploring History with Art: The Changing View—Landscapes
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Paintings from OHA's permanent collection

MFA 2009
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

MFA 2009 is an exhibition of master of fine arts degree candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. Twenty-two artists will exhibit a range of work from traditional media such as oil on canvas, portraiture, and atmospheric-fired pottery to contemporary media including digital prints, site-specific installation, and video projection. The diversity of the show is also distinctly international, with artists from Canada, France, Korea and Russia.

While the artists work in a variety of media and techniques, themes emerge across the disciplines. The concept of the fabricated or manipulated environment is evident in many of the artists' sculptural installations, including a monumental model stagecoach positioned in a moon-landing re-creation and a faux-storefront display with ceramic poodles that both mock and celebrate what we regard as haute couture.

Nostalgia and personal identity are also sources of inspiration in this year's exhibition. One artist's work reinterprets the well-known characters from Sesame Street into an iconic status, while another incorporates the artist's past memories and dark humor into photographs that explore childhood experiences of fear, mortality and sex.

BFA Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition will feature work from seniors in VPA's School of Art and Design and Department of Transmedia, with a particular focus on the areas of painting, illustration, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, fiber arts/material studies and art photography.

50/50: Works of Nancy Jurs
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Nancy Jurs juxtaposes her signature large-scale, hand-built ceramic sculptures with recent site-specific installations composed of ceramic, mixed-media and found objects. Throughout her 40-year career Jurs, a Rochester-based sculptor and ceramic artist, has produced an astounding body of work that largely addresses female power and strength. In 2003, Jurs completed the Armor Series, a grouping of six life-size armored torsos that present themselves with empowered determination. The stylized shells not only serve to protect the figures but to symbolize renewed confidence and strength in a post-9/11 world. "Undaunted" (2003), which is part of the Armor Series, was acquired by the Everson in 2004.

Also on view will be "Triad," a monumental 16-foot high sculpture composed of ceramic slabs that have been hand-built: cut, scraped, modeled, and stacked in three interacting totem-like structures. Triad will be prominently displayed in the Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court.

Anne Cofer: Concealed Objects
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Anne Cofer's interest in materials and artistic processes is evident in "Concealed Objects," a provocative new site-specific installation created for her first museum solo exhibition at the Everson. Inspired by British artists such as Cornelia Parker and Rachel Whiteread, whose sculpture is at once unique and fleeting, Cofer creates objects that exist for a moment and place in time and then are recycled and reused for other projects. The installation designed for the Everson is composed of skirt forms constructed of cloth and wet clay suspended from the ceiling in grid fashion. The skirts, arranged in perfect harmony within the space that contains them, appear to float in contradiction to the heavy clay that pulls them downward. Each garment is cut from a Victorian-era dress pattern (ca. 1895), combined with wet clay and modeled by hand to capture every fold of the fabric as it cascades to the floor. The repetition of form and motion recalls the monotonous tasks of domestic chores that have existed for centuries without change. Cofer assigns new meaning to the found and recycled fabrics she chooses for the garments: the bed linens, table cloths, furniture upholstery, and well-worn clothing conceal the individual histories, memories and stories untold about their previous owners.

Anne Cofer was the recipient of the Best-of-Show Award given at the 2008 Everson Biennial exhibition.

Works of Tim Etter, Gretchen Hamlin, and Lisa Noviasky
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

A new exhibit featuring artists Tim Etter (photography), Gretchen Hamlin (blown glass jewelry) and Lisa Noviasky (oil paintings).

Caught Between Colors; Love Conquers Paul
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

Caught Between Colors, directed by Munjal Yagnik (2008, United States, fiction, 22 minutes)
Amidst the religious tensions of contemporary India, a Muslim girl and a Hindu boy struggle with the temptation to act on their own growing romantic feelings for each other. In Hindi. Learn more.

Love Conquers Paul, directed by Colin Bannon (2007, United States, fiction, 90 minutes)
Set in hometown USA, the narrative reveals 20-something recluse Paul,deep in his special secret: he's a people-watcher living vicariously through the lives of others. Retreating behind the lens of his trusty video camera, and personal shield from reality, Paul researches the 'women of his dreams' by using his findings from a series of staged 'chance encounters' with targeted women. When a genuine chance encounter with a free-spirited artist named Esoterica provides the spark that ignites his first real life passionate relationship, Paul allows her to change the way he looks at love and life, thereby introducing him to his own potential and inspiring a new-found confidence. Just as soon as their fairy-tale romance begins to sizzle however, Paul discovers that Esoterica has a secret of her own. In English. Learn more.

Vandals of the XXI Century; Sweet Crude
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Vandals of the XXI Century, directed by Ashot Movsisyan (2008, Armenia, documentary, 10 minutes)
This film, which serves as an alert to society, is about the extermination of the 400-year-old khachqars of Julfa by Azerbaijani vandals in the 21st century. In Armenian. Learn more.

Sweet Crude, directed by Sandy Cioffi (2008, United States, documentary, 90 minutes)
The story of the Niger Delta and the members of an armed resistance who declare an oil war in Nigeria. In English. Learn more.

Truth and Consequence; Epitaph; Rocaterrania
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

Truth and Consequence, directed by Carol Jennings (2008, United States, documentary, 37 minutes)
It is an intolerable fact that some children are abused, yet false allegations lead to the tragic miscarriage of justice. One scientist asks the difficult question: Should we believe the kids? In English. Learn more.

Epitaph, directed by Walter Ungerer (2008, United States, experimental, 10 minutes)
This documentary explores the issues surrounding war, natural disasters, and society and asks: Is the Earth speaking to us? In English. Learn more.

Rocaterrania, directed by Brett Ingram (2009, United States, documentary, 74 minutes)
A journey into the secret world of 76-year-old Renaldo Kuhler, a scientific illustrator who invented an imaginary country in order to survive his disaffected youth. In English. Learn more.

Animated American; Voice Teacher
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

Animated American, directed by James Baker, Joe Haidar (2008, United States, fiction, 15 minutes)
The future is about to collide with the past. Eric, a digital loving executive on a mansion hunting expedition finds himself crossing swords with his realtor, Max, an out of work toon rabbit. Like it or not, Max will make Eric see things through the eyes of an "Animated American." In English. Learn more.

Voice Teacher, directed by Daniel Mendelson (2008, United States, documentary, 77 minutes)
A construction worker builds throats, not buildings, conducting lessons over the phone and going to outrageous lengths to enforce the doctrine that voice teaching is sacred. In English. Learn more.

Nuestros Desaparecidos (Our Disappeared)
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Nuestros Desaparecidos (Our Disappeared), directed by Juan Mandelbaum (2008, United States, documentary, 99 minutes)
The director embarks on a journey to find out what happened to his long-lost girlfriend who was kidnapped and never seen again during Argentina's brutual dictatorship. In English. Learn more.

Strictly Reserved Trains; Elephant Graveyard; Nice People; E.M.E.T
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

Strictly Reserved Trains, directed by Emanuele Scaringi (2008, Italy, fiction, 12 minutes)
Every day, the same people get on the same busy and dirty train to reach Rome. Some are ashamed, some can't stand the situation, and some prefer to take a free ride. In Italian. Learn more.

Elephant Graveyard, directed by Avi Belkin (2008, Israel, fiction, 14 minutes)
Old Mr. Weissmuller is 80 years old and in a psychiatric ward. Tired and humiliated, the former Tarzan actor feels that his time is up. In English. Learn more.

Nice People, directed by Joey Huertas (2008, United States, documentary, 26 minutes, rated R)
A promising ballet dancer battles the distorted image she has of her own body. In English. Learn more.

E.M.E.T, directed by Yaron Allouche (2008, Israel, experimental, 45 minutes)
A man awakes, suffering from amnesia, after a terrible war. As he tries to uncover the secrets of his past, he finds a world with a history so dark that no one can remember. In Hebrew. Learn more.

Once a Wall, or Ripple Remains; The Tale of Nicolai and the Law of Return
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

Once a Wall, or Ripple Remains, directed by Tirtza Even (2008, United States, experimental, 61 minutes)
Once a Wall, or Ripple Remains is a manifold document that questions the stability of any perception, record, or rendering of a series of encounters which took place in the Summer and Fall of 1998 in the Occupied Territory of Palestine. The various iterations of the project, spanning more than 10 years and a wide range of media (from single channel video, CD-ROM, website, to written text, 3-D animation, and interactive installation) reflect and undermine each other's reports, detecting gaps, contradiction and bias in the perception and mediation of the primary encounters that set the trail of records in motion. Together they form a shifting history not only of the experiences themselves, but of each moment's viewing and of its articulation. In English. Learn more.

The Tale of Nicolai and the Law of Return, directed by David Ofek (2008, Afghanistan, documentary, 54 minutes)
Nicolai's story begins in a tiny, remote village in the Romanian region of Moldavia. With the collapse of communism, Nicolai—like thousands of other villagers—suddenly finds himself out of work, so he decides to seek his fortune overseas, far from his family and home. In Hebrew. Learn more.

Mapping; Whispering Embers
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $8 regular; $6 students/seniors; multifilm discount passes available
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Mapping, directed by Asaf Saban (2007, Israel, fiction, 15 minutes)
Two surveyors working during Memorial Day on the construction of the separation wall are unaware of the different segments of Israel's absurd reality surrounding them. In Hebrew. Learn more.

Whispering Embers, directed by Ali Nassar (2008, Israel, fiction, 88 minutes)
As the world collapses, a young man is drawn into a fantasy love story in the face of rapid changes in the Islamic world. In Arabic. Learn more.

They Came to Play
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

They Came to Play, directed by Alex Rotaru (2008, United States, documentary, 91 minutes)
Portrayal of several multi-talented amateur pianists striving to balance their work, home, and musical lives following them to an international competition. In English. Learn more.

Tears For Sale Special Screening
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

Serbia in the 1920s, after the First World War—a beautiful, brutal land, suspended between East and West, ancient magic and the forces of civilization. High in the mountains of this mysterious, battle-scarred country lies the village of Pokrp, whose menfolk have been eradicated by generations of war. A village of lovelorn, men-starved women. When sisters Little Boginja and Ognjenka inadvertently kill Pokrp's sole surviving male—elderly and half catatonic Grandpa Bisa—in a futile attempt to lose their virginity, a death sentence at the hands of the womenfolk seems certain. But they are granted a reprieve, on the condition that they find a living, virile man and bring him back to the village. Under the watchful eye of their grandmother's angry spirit, the feisty but innocent pair set out into the big, wide world. Lust, love, a hot-headed strongman and Belgrade's lecherous dance hall king await them... Mystic, comic and slightly erotic melodrama by Uros Stojanovic.

S.U. Concert Band
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Justin J. Mertz, conductor

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

The Concert Band will be performing works by Vaughan-Williams, Norman, Smith, Gillingham, Stravinsky, and Sousa. Kaitlin Bunger, Jennifer Luzzo and Andrea Rommel will appear as graduate conducting associates.

Free parking will be available in Irving Garage. For further information, please contact the University Band Office at 315-443-2194 or fmmoore@syr.edu.

Spring Concert
Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra
Erik Kibelsbeck, conductor
Featuring Laura Enslin, soprano

Price: $10 regular; $5 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Mendelssohn The Hebrides Overture
Mozart Exsultate, Jubilate
Mallia When You're Far Away, Sicilienne, and Tarantella (world premieres)
Wagner Overture to Tannhauser
Weinberger Polka and Fugue

OCC Wind Ensemble and Concert Choir
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Organ Recital
Featuring Giogio Parolini

Price: Free
St. Joseph's Church of Camillus
5600 W. Genesee St., Camillus

Organist from the Basilica of St. Eufemia in Milan, Italy, will perform. For more information, pone 315-488.8490.

Anguish of Hell and Peace of Soul
Schola Cantorum of Syracuse
Joyce Irwin, conductor

Price: $12 regular, $8 students/seniors
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

In 1623, sixteen settings of Psalm 116 by leading German composers were published by Burckhard Grossmann, a court official in Jena, under the title Angst der Hellen und Friede der Seelen. Grossmann had commissioned the settings out of gratitude for deliverance from a life-threatening calamity. Two of the compositions in contrasting styles, those of Johann Hermann Schein and Heinrich Schuetz, will be presented. The second half of the program will explore the themes of despair and hope in the story of the disciples of Jesus on the road to Emmaus as set in an oratorio by Giacomo Carissimi and the story of St. Ursula and the 11,000 virgins as set by Hildegard of Bingen.

The concert will be preceded by a viol prelude at 3:30 pm.

Howard Boatwright's Canticle of the Sun
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Syracuse University Oratorio Society
Elisa Dekaney, conductor

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The Syracuse University Oratorio Society will remember eminent American composer, author, violinist, conductor, and SU Professor Emeritus Howard Boatwright with a concert featuring his 1963 work Canticle of the Sun (The Praises of the Creatures).

Canticle of the Sun, a work for mixed chorus, soprano solo and orchestra, was commissioned by the Spring Choral Festival Association of New England Secondary Schools. The program will also feature Biebl's Ave Maria, Vivaldi's Laetatus, Convery's At Terezen from the cantata Songs of Children, and Rossini's I Gondolieri, as well as American traditional songs.

Parking is available in the Irving Garage. For more information about the concert, contact the Setnor School at 315-443-2191.

Stars of Tomorrow Cabaret
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Nancy Kelly Trio

Price: $10 adults; $5 students
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Outstanding vocalists from the weekend's Vocal Jam will be invited to perform in an elegant Stars of Tomorrow cabaret with the Nancy Kelly Trio. Jazz Central will be set up cabaret-style in order to create a nightclub setting, and the public is invited to take a look at the area's most promising individual vocalists. Refreshments, including finger foods, will be served at the Lobby Bar. All proceeds benefit the CNY Jazz Arts Foundation, Inc.

Werewolf
Armory Square Playwrights
Donna Stuccio, director

Price: $7 regular, $5 students/seniors
Manlius Pebble Hill School
5300 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

As Len Fonte's new play Werewolf opens, it is feared that a 60-year-old veteran high school teacher has gone over the edge. A district-hired lawyer is dispatched to lay out his options: he can retire immediately or face an embarrassing competency hearing. Instead of addressing the choices directly, he recounts how he got to this point — by beginning with a first year teaching encounter with a disturbed student, who believes he’'s turning into a werewolf, and ending with the horrible events of that very day.

Len Fonte is a founding member of Armory Square Playhouse. His plays include Wasted Bread, produced by Armory Square Playhouse, Alchemist of Light, which premiered at SUNY Oswego, Road Trip, and Holographic Furniture, as well as several interactive murder mysteries. He also directed Armory Square Playhouse’s production of Jeff Kramer’s Lowdown Lies. Holding an M.A. in Cinema Studies from New York University, he has done graduate work at Northwestern University, University of Rochester, Texas A&M University, and Oxford University. He is also an adjunct at Syracuse University, teaching playwriting.

The reading is a presentation of a work in progress and a talkback session with the playwright will follow the performance.

Pirates of Penzance
Bishop Grimes High School

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

Elizabeth Rex
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Judith Harris, director

Price: $10 adults; $5 with student ID
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Elizabeth Rex by T. Findley is a CNY premiere of an Off-Broadway smash. It shows Elizabeth I's deep-seated inner conflicts, in the time of Shakespeare, as a woman in a man's job when she confronts an actor who's a man portraying a woman.

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The Diary of Anne Frank
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

The story is simplicity itself. A young girl, alive to everything around her and awakening within her, with hopes and dreams of the life she may one day lead with friends and family, confides to her diary the secrets of her heart. That diary, as we all know, becomes one of the lasting documents of the 20th century, a testament not to the horrors we know so well, but to the indomitability of the human spirit. That's what's so wonderful about this version of The Diary of Anne Frank, newly revised by Wendy Kesselman. With information gleaned from previously withheld portions of the diary and additional survivor accounts, we glimpse this remarkable young woman with greater clarity and deeper understanding of the fullness of her life. Was she on the verge of falling in love for the first time? Did she harbor misgivings about herself or members of the "family" imposed on her? We know the sad end of the tale, but do we really know the complexity of the heart that with its every beat sought to find the goodness in others?

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The World Goes 'Round
Syracuse University Drama Department
Nathan Hurwitz, director

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

Life -- with its glories, indignities, hopes and quiet dreams -- is the subject of this stunning revue of the beloved songs of John Kander and Fred Ebb. Features unforgettable gems from throughout their incredible career in theatre, film and television, spotlighting songs from Cabaret; Chicago; New York, New York; Funny Lady; Kiss Of The Spiderwoman and more. Filled with humor, romance, drama, nonstop melody and brassy, insightful lyrics, The World Goes 'Round is a thrilling celebration of life and the fighting spirit that keeps us all going.

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Monday, April 27, 2009

Window Projects: Museum of the City of Lost and Found
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Museum of the City of Lost and Found, Marion Wilson's latest sculpture project, is a continuation of her public art project launched in conjunction with the 2008 New Orleans Biennial. The exhibition is a combination of hexagram patterns of i-ching (a symbol system used to identify order in random events) collaboratively painted on the wall by the artist, community members, faculty and students at Syracuse University; miniature "igloo" and cast resin objects; and a short video of Wilson's bicycle (mobile museum) performance in New Orleans edited by Jessica Posner. Wilson invites audience participation by filling out Lost and Found Report cards (available throughout the exhibition), her method of collecting stories about viewers' personal losses, chances, findings and discoveries.

Marion Wilson uses igloos as a nomadic structure of native materials to remind us of our basic human need for shelter and protection. In addition, it is a reference to fundamentals of human existence and the Italian Arte Povera artist Mario Merz (1925-2003). In New Orleans, Wilson's sculpture was originally mounted on a constructed bicycle able to roam the city streets within the St. Roch neighborhood and the French Market. In Syracuse, Wilson will exhibit her 'mobile museum' at the Warehouse Gallery, thus, creating a "museum inside a museum." Although the installation in the Window Projects will remain through June 6, its appearance will continuously change through the continual addition of found materials collected by the artist. Wilson will be guided in selecting these additional materials by outside interviews with the general public in the greater Syracuse community.

Gallery Exhibition: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

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

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Threads of a Culture: Hadbakah Images by Selma Hurwitz
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

Price: Free
Winnick Hillel Center for Jewish Life
102 Walnut Place (corner of Harrison St.), Syracuse

Selma Hurwitz is an internationally-known artist whose works portray personal and social themes of universal impact, as well as basic motifs of love, beauty, valor and tyranny. In 1964, she created her own medium, hadbakah (Hebrew for "gluing"), which is glued-thread painting. Instead of using a brush, the artist glues various individual threads, particularly those that are metalized, to a specially prepared surface. Careful planning of thread direction and location, as well as meticulous maneuvering of the threads during the gluing process, achieves the desired shading and design.

Hurwitz has exhibited work in numerous solo shows, including those at the Russell Senate Office Building Rotunda and the First Baptist Church in Washington, DC; the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles; the American Jewish Historical Society in Waltham, MA; and the Herzl Institute in New York City. Her work is part of numerous collections, including the Israel Museum, Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and Knesset, all in Jerusalem; the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California; and the National Endowment for the Arts Library in Washington, DC.

For more information about the exhibition, contact April Maw at 315-443-7095 or aamaw@syr.edu.

A Goodly Heritage of Study: The Portfolio Club of Syracuse
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Displayed are the archives of a still-thriving women's study club that was formed in 1875 in Syracuse. The Portfolio Club exemplifies a post-Civil War movement in which many thousands of middle-class women came together to educate themselves in a society that restricted women's access to institutions of higher learning. This club began a few weeks after the Association for the Advancement of Women held a congress at the Wieting Opera House in downtown Syracuse. At these congresses, which took place in many American cities, Julia Ward Howe and other presenters encouraged women to form study clubs for self-culture.

Nine young women founded the Portfolio Club, with guidance from Mary Dana Hicks, their art teacher. Though they began with a focus on art, in the middle 1880s they expanded their scope to include literature, current events, history, performing arts and many other subjects. Members have always met regularly from October through April to read their papers on a topic assigned by each year's president.

Syracuse residents and those long associated with SU will recognize the married names of many past club members, such as Mrs. Donald Dey, Mrs. William Nottingham, Mrs. E.N. Westcott, and Mrs. Mildred Eggers. Among Portfolio guest speakers during the club's first several decades were Judge Charles Andrews, Dean George Fiske Comfort, Howard Lyman, professors Sawyer Falk and Irene Sargent, Paul Paine, Douglas Petit, Katherine Sibley, and SU Chancellor Charles Sims.

The exhibition, which emphasizes the years 1875-1950, includes annual program booklets, many of them finely crafted. Also on display are meeting minutes, clippings, photographs, film footage of a 1935 gathering and other club documents.

New York Waters: Photographs by Randy Duchaine
Erie Canal Museum

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

The exhibition investigates the lives of those who work and play on the fabled bodies of water that border the city's five boroughs. Among those you will meet are a dry dock operator, an eel fisherman, a fireboat preservationist, and a guerilla swimmer. Gathered from the East River to the Erie Basin, the Hudson to Hempstead Harbor, each new perspective connects a personal passion to a fabled local maritime history.

Limbo: Works of Admas Habteslasie
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

"Limbo" depicts a graceful yet unusually honest and insightful snapshot of Eritrea, an East African country suspended in an unsettled state between war and peace.

Eritrea warred with neighboring Ethiopia for 30 years before gaining independence in 1991. Then, in 1998, they entered another war with Ethiopia that lasted two years. Today, the war-torn country is yet again at the brink of war with their neighbor. Years of unrest have left the people of Eritrea waiting for life to improve. According to Habteslasie: "Transitory states become permanent; empty villas, destroyed old buildings and unfinished new buildings dot the landscape, monuments to the suspension of history. The collision between Eritrea's proud historical narrative and the bleak ennui of the present has produced an obsessive focus on the future. Reconstruction and infrastructure development are energetically driven forward whilst the economy remains essentially shut off from the outside world." The images in "Limbo" capture both destruction and construction, both the unhealed wounds of war and a fierce optimism and hope for a brighter future.

Habteslasie was born in Kuwait, and his parents are Eritrean. He received his master's degree from the London College of Communication in photojournalism and documentary photography. His photographic projects look at the ideas of identity, history, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with historical process. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Flowers East and 198 Gallery in London. His work has also been published in Source Magazine.