Sunday, July 22, 2007

Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

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

Gest's photographs depict people in moments of deep private thought. The figures appear emotionally removed from their environment as if withdrawing from a public self. The work focuses on the way who we are can change when we are in a group. Although the subjects are alone in the photographs, the presence of others is implied. The images depict people in the last moments of being in their own world before seeing people, or going somewhere where others will be around. These are the last breaths and the last seconds of personal time before the subjects put on a public face and adopt the persona that they use while in a group of people.

To create these images, Gest combines numerous photographs into seamless final compositions using digital technology. Each image may consist of twenty or more separate photographs taken from various vantage points. The visually surprising images direct the viewer in the construction of everyday narratives.

Lakescapes: Selected Works of Karen Thomas-Lillie
Lucas Gallery

Lucas Gallery
33 Jordan St., Skaneateles

Karen Thomas-Lillie is an artist and designer with a degree from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, who creates impressionistic landscapes of the Finger Lakes using oilbar on panels. Her aesthetic focuses on expanses, edges, distance, fields, drumlins, water and sky. Her work reflects her effort to unite art with the natural environments she sees as well as her respect for the natural beauty of the lakes.

Notes on Paper: Watercolors of Musicians by Steve Ryan
Lucas Gallery

Price: Free
Lucas Gallery
33 Jordan St., Skaneateles

Ryan's work is impressionistic, wet-to-wet watercolors, painted on crescent textured illustration board. The board and paints are wetted repetitively and some areas are defined later with pastel conte pencil. Subjects include musicians, both children and adults, in the jazz as well as the classical genre.

Women at Work: Members of the Art Students League of New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings from the University's permanent collection examines how Modernism and the formation of the Art Students League impacted the influx of women into the field and their development as professional and influential artists.

The selection of work begins with artists who were directly influenced by the 1913 Amory Show such as Peggy Bacon, Maria Wickey, and Isabel Bishop. The exhibition concludes with the advent of Abstract Expressionism, showing works by Jan Gelb, Minna Citron, Terry Haass, and Helen Frankenthaler. These works illustrate American art's stylistic evolution during the period. Early drawings like Harriet Frishmuth's "Study, reclining nude," reveal a classical, academic structure. This type of work gave way in the 1920s to the gritty and modern "realism" of Isabel Bishop's "Sleeping Man." After World War II, Abstract Expressionism began to take over, as seen in Minna
Citron's "Men Seldom Make Passes...," and later in the work of Helen Frankenthaler.

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

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

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

Tom Mazzullo Drawings
Everson Museum of Art

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

Tom Mazzullo is quietly turning the age-old idea of still-life upside down. In Tom Mazzullo Drawings, fruits and vegetables no longer rest among plentiful pre-arranged settings atop tablecloths dressed with lacey doilies and wrinkles that fall gracefully to the floor. There are no half-filled water glasses for light to dance in or mirrored reflections to play tricks on the eye.

The objects are meticulously drawn to scale, an invitation to move in for a closer look. The delicate, silverpoint lines become more apparent, reflecting light as one's eye wanders fervently over the layered network of cross-hatching where every line counts. Mazzullo wants the viewer to "concentrate on one subject, one idea at a time." The artist feels he has succeeded when "a drawing's pale, perfect surface elicits a liveliness and presence greater than the simplicity of its construction."

Tom Mazzullo Drawings, which includes 20 silverpoint and four conté crayon drawings, is the artist's first solo museum exhibition.

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art
Everson Museum of Art

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

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art, an exhibition organized by the Longyear Museum of Anthropology at Colgate University, includes 85 religious objects, most of them from the 20th century, such as figures, masks and headdresses, divination trays, staffs, vessels, and shrine furniture. Much of the art figures in the veneration of divinities and ancestors, and the control of supernatural powers associated with nature, medicine, and witchcraft.

One Woman Show
Community Folk Art Center
Featuring Cara Hagan, performance artist

Price: $17 regular, $14 students
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Information: 315-256-7926 or email Cara Hagan.

Middle Eastern Cultural Festival
St. Elias Orthodox Church

Price: Free
St. Elias Orthodox Church
4988 Onondage Rd., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-488-0388 or 315-463-8350.

New York State Blues Fest

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

Main Stage
1:30 Walter Trout
4:30 Mighty Lester
7:00 James Hunter
9:30 Buddy Guy

Dinosaur Bar-B-Que Stage
1:00 Five to Life
3:00 Syracuse All-Stars II
6:00 Nathan & the Zydeco Cha Chas
8:30 Joe Whiting & Mark Doyle

Hanover Square Stage
3:00 Sean Carney (Electric Guitar Workshop)
5:00 Tom Townsley (Blues Harp Workshop)
6:30 Bad Weather Blues Band

For more information, visit www.nysbluesfest.com.

South Side Celebration
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Ron Spigelman, conductor

Price: Free
Dunk & Bright lawn
2648 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Concert of popular favorites.

Menopause the Musical
Syracuse Stage

Price: $45, $40, $22 (adults); $20 (ages 18 and under)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Menopause The Musical brings together four women (a Power Woman, Earth Mother, Soap Star and an Iowa Housewife) at a NYC Bloomingdale's lingerie sale, who have nothing in common but a black lace bra and hot flashes, night sweats, memory loss, chocolate binges, not enough sex, too much sex, plastic surgery and more! Menopause The Musical joyfully parodies 25 of the top "baby boomer" songs of the '60s and '70s celebrating women who are or will be experiencing The Change.

Read a review!

Menopause the Musical
Syracuse Stage

Price: $40, $35, $22 (adults); $20 (ages 18 and under)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Menopause The Musical brings together four women (a Power Woman, Earth Mother, Soap Star and an Iowa Housewife) at a NYC Bloomingdale's lingerie sale, who have nothing in common but a black lace bra and hot flashes, night sweats, memory loss, chocolate binges, not enough sex, too much sex, plastic surgery and more! Menopause The Musical joyfully parodies 25 of the top "baby boomer" songs of the '60s and '70s celebrating women who are or will be experiencing The Change.

Read a review!

Monday, July 23, 2007

Visual Arts Showcase #60: 2007 Annual Member Show
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Double your pleasure, double your fun and double your exposure to some wonderful artists as the Visual Arts Showcase Committee and the Cultural Resource Council of Onondaga County present the 2007 Annual Members' Shows, Showcase #60, in two locations -- WCNY in Liverpool and the Link Gallery in The Warehouse in Armory Square.

Founded in 1992 by a group of 12 area artists and arts advocates, the VAC currently has 31 volunteer members whose mission it is to create professionally presented exhibits of high quality art produced by artists who live or work in the Central New York area. Also, to further public education about the visual arts as well as to increase recognition of the contributions of working visual artists in our community. All showcases are juried or curated by an ever-changing assortment of area professionals: gallery owners, museum directors, arts educators, and working artists from the Upstate area.

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

The exhibition features abstract artwork from 16 New York State artists. Artists exhibiting: Anatoli Truskalo, Linda Bigness, Bob Gates, Amber Blanding, Hunter O'Reilly, Stan Bowman, Lynne Taetzsch, Paul McMillan, Cheyne Rood, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, Barbara Page, Barbara Mink, Len Fishman, Melissa Tiffany and Al D'Agostino. The show holds a number of different and unique mediums including paintings, sculptures, glass work, photographs, collage, drawings, and giclee prints on canvas.

Central New York Book Arts
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Central New York Book Arts is an exhibition that features book works created by regional book artists, including students at Wells College in Aurora, N.Y., and Printmaking 552 in the School of Art and Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts, at Syracuse University.

The exhibitors are Jennifer Betton, Nicole Blum, Carol Ceraldi, Leigh Craven, Tijana Djordjevic, Diane Fine, Jessica Ginsberg, Beverly Hettig, Zebadiah Keneally, Sue Huggins Leopard, Robert LoMascolo, Conor McGrann, Ellen Nanni, Zoe Nementz, Shalini Patel, Bertha Rogers, Jamie Shoneman, Jane Tam, Robert Walp, Cynthia Wang, Wells College Book Arts Center, and Craig Wischerath.

The 22 works in the exhibition illustrate a wide range of book structures, including sewn books, accordions, and sculptural works using such materials as clay, cloth, paper, leather, and parchment. Techniques used for text and imagery include letterpress printing, woodcuts, silk-screen, laser/inkjet, calligraphic, and combinations of these techniques.

Photography by John Swank
Westcott Community Center

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

For more information, phone 315-478-8634.

Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

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

Gest's photographs depict people in moments of deep private thought. The figures appear emotionally removed from their environment as if withdrawing from a public self. The work focuses on the way who we are can change when we are in a group. Although the subjects are alone in the photographs, the presence of others is implied. The images depict people in the last moments of being in their own world before seeing people, or going somewhere where others will be around. These are the last breaths and the last seconds of personal time before the subjects put on a public face and adopt the persona that they use while in a group of people.

To create these images, Gest combines numerous photographs into seamless final compositions using digital technology. Each image may consist of twenty or more separate photographs taken from various vantage points. The visually surprising images direct the viewer in the construction of everyday narratives.

Defining Moments: American Masterworks from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition illustrates the development of American Art from the middle of the 19th century and through the 20th century. The selection of paintings, prints and sculpture in this exhibit show how art in the U.S. progressed out of Eurocentric visual and cultural ideals to form a purely American aesthetic culture. Louis Comfort Tiffany married the French Art Nouveau style with the American ingenuity of the light bulb to design masterpieces such as the Murano Design Lamp (1893-95). During the 20th century, the U.S. became a major exponent of Modernism, with artists like Rico Lebrun and Yasuo Kuniyoshi leading the way. Lebrun's "Woman with Arms over Head" (1962-63) reflects his spontaneity and experimental philosophy, while the bright, acidic colors in Kuniyoshi's "Forbidden Fruit" (1950) exemplify the prevailing aesthetic current of the New York School shortly after World War II.

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

Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
SSO Percussion Ensemble

Price: Free
Dewitt Community Church
3600 Erie Blvd. East, Dewitt

For more information, phone 315-445-0331.

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Visual Arts Showcase #60: 2007 Annual Member Show
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Double your pleasure, double your fun and double your exposure to some wonderful artists as the Visual Arts Showcase Committee and the Cultural Resource Council of Onondaga County present the 2007 Annual Members' Shows, Showcase #60, in two locations -- WCNY in Liverpool and the Link Gallery in The Warehouse in Armory Square.

Founded in 1992 by a group of 12 area artists and arts advocates, the VAC currently has 31 volunteer members whose mission it is to create professionally presented exhibits of high quality art produced by artists who live or work in the Central New York area. Also, to further public education about the visual arts as well as to increase recognition of the contributions of working visual artists in our community. All showcases are juried or curated by an ever-changing assortment of area professionals: gallery owners, museum directors, arts educators, and working artists from the Upstate area.

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

The exhibition features abstract artwork from 16 New York State artists. Artists exhibiting: Anatoli Truskalo, Linda Bigness, Bob Gates, Amber Blanding, Hunter O'Reilly, Stan Bowman, Lynne Taetzsch, Paul McMillan, Cheyne Rood, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, Barbara Page, Barbara Mink, Len Fishman, Melissa Tiffany and Al D'Agostino. The show holds a number of different and unique mediums including paintings, sculptures, glass work, photographs, collage, drawings, and giclee prints on canvas.

Central New York Book Arts
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Central New York Book Arts is an exhibition that features book works created by regional book artists, including students at Wells College in Aurora, N.Y., and Printmaking 552 in the School of Art and Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts, at Syracuse University.

The exhibitors are Jennifer Betton, Nicole Blum, Carol Ceraldi, Leigh Craven, Tijana Djordjevic, Diane Fine, Jessica Ginsberg, Beverly Hettig, Zebadiah Keneally, Sue Huggins Leopard, Robert LoMascolo, Conor McGrann, Ellen Nanni, Zoe Nementz, Shalini Patel, Bertha Rogers, Jamie Shoneman, Jane Tam, Robert Walp, Cynthia Wang, Wells College Book Arts Center, and Craig Wischerath.

The 22 works in the exhibition illustrate a wide range of book structures, including sewn books, accordions, and sculptural works using such materials as clay, cloth, paper, leather, and parchment. Techniques used for text and imagery include letterpress printing, woodcuts, silk-screen, laser/inkjet, calligraphic, and combinations of these techniques.

Photography by John Swank
Westcott Community Center

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

For more information, phone 315-478-8634.

Works of George Mayocole
Community Folk Art Center

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

This exhibition features vibrant, abstract, mixed media works on paper by this New York City-based artist.

Bag-It: Works By Lori Crawford
Community Folk Art Center

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

This exhibit is based on the "Brown Paper Bag Test," which dealt with the complexion of one's skin and whether it was lighter or darker than a brown paper bag. The works in the exhibition speak of the biases faced by each of the artist's subjects. The works offer a strong commentary on issues of prejudice faced every day in our modern society. The artist writes, "By creating images directly onto actual paper bags I attempt to bring the viewer face to face with the ignorance of judging others by his/her hue or race, weight, age, religion, sexuality, etc." Lori Crawford is an Associate Professor of Art at Delaware State University. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Morehead State University in Eastern Kentucky and a Master of Fine Arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia.

Illuminate the Arts: Portraits By Brantley Carroll
Community Folk Art Center

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

This exhibit contains photographs taken during the Illuminate the Arts Winter Break Camp at the Community Folk Art Center in February 2007. The portraits are of participants in the camp. Brantley Carroll is a self-taught photographer. He has taught courses in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University as well as at Community Darkrooms. He has received grants from Light Work and the New York Foundation For the Arts. He has been a commercial photographer in the Syracuse area for 15 years.

Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

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

Gest's photographs depict people in moments of deep private thought. The figures appear emotionally removed from their environment as if withdrawing from a public self. The work focuses on the way who we are can change when we are in a group. Although the subjects are alone in the photographs, the presence of others is implied. The images depict people in the last moments of being in their own world before seeing people, or going somewhere where others will be around. These are the last breaths and the last seconds of personal time before the subjects put on a public face and adopt the persona that they use while in a group of people.

To create these images, Gest combines numerous photographs into seamless final compositions using digital technology. Each image may consist of twenty or more separate photographs taken from various vantage points. The visually surprising images direct the viewer in the construction of everyday narratives.

Defining Moments: American Masterworks from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition illustrates the development of American Art from the middle of the 19th century and through the 20th century. The selection of paintings, prints and sculpture in this exhibit show how art in the U.S. progressed out of Eurocentric visual and cultural ideals to form a purely American aesthetic culture. Louis Comfort Tiffany married the French Art Nouveau style with the American ingenuity of the light bulb to design masterpieces such as the Murano Design Lamp (1893-95). During the 20th century, the U.S. became a major exponent of Modernism, with artists like Rico Lebrun and Yasuo Kuniyoshi leading the way. Lebrun's "Woman with Arms over Head" (1962-63) reflects his spontaneity and experimental philosophy, while the bright, acidic colors in Kuniyoshi's "Forbidden Fruit" (1950) exemplify the prevailing aesthetic current of the New York School shortly after World War II.

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

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

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

Women at Work: Members of the Art Students League of New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings from the University's permanent collection examines how Modernism and the formation of the Art Students League impacted the influx of women into the field and their development as professional and influential artists.

The selection of work begins with artists who were directly influenced by the 1913 Amory Show such as Peggy Bacon, Maria Wickey, and Isabel Bishop. The exhibition concludes with the advent of Abstract Expressionism, showing works by Jan Gelb, Minna Citron, Terry Haass, and Helen Frankenthaler. These works illustrate American art's stylistic evolution during the period. Early drawings like Harriet Frishmuth's "Study, reclining nude," reveal a classical, academic structure. This type of work gave way in the 1920s to the gritty and modern "realism" of Isabel Bishop's "Sleeping Man." After World War II, Abstract Expressionism began to take over, as seen in Minna
Citron's "Men Seldom Make Passes...," and later in the work of Helen Frankenthaler.

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

Visual Arts Showcase #60: 2007 Annual Member Show
CNY Arts

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

Double your pleasure, double your fun and double your exposure to some wonderful artists as the Visual Arts Showcase Committee and the Cultural Resource Council of Onondaga County present the 2007 Annual Members' Shows, Showcase #60, in two locations -- WCNY in Liverpool and the Link Gallery in The Warehouse in Armory Square.

Founded in 1992 by a group of 12 area artists and arts advocates, the VAC currently has 31 volunteer members whose mission it is to create professionally presented exhibits of high quality art produced by artists who live or work in the Central New York area. Also, to further public education about the visual arts as well as to increase recognition of the contributions of working visual artists in our community. All showcases are juried or curated by an ever-changing assortment of area professionals: gallery owners, museum directors, arts educators, and working artists from the Upstate area.

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art
Everson Museum of Art

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

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art, an exhibition organized by the Longyear Museum of Anthropology at Colgate University, includes 85 religious objects, most of them from the 20th century, such as figures, masks and headdresses, divination trays, staffs, vessels, and shrine furniture. Much of the art figures in the veneration of divinities and ancestors, and the control of supernatural powers associated with nature, medicine, and witchcraft.

Tom Mazzullo Drawings
Everson Museum of Art

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

Tom Mazzullo is quietly turning the age-old idea of still-life upside down. In Tom Mazzullo Drawings, fruits and vegetables no longer rest among plentiful pre-arranged settings atop tablecloths dressed with lacey doilies and wrinkles that fall gracefully to the floor. There are no half-filled water glasses for light to dance in or mirrored reflections to play tricks on the eye.

The objects are meticulously drawn to scale, an invitation to move in for a closer look. The delicate, silverpoint lines become more apparent, reflecting light as one's eye wanders fervently over the layered network of cross-hatching where every line counts. Mazzullo wants the viewer to "concentrate on one subject, one idea at a time." The artist feels he has succeeded when "a drawing's pale, perfect surface elicits a liveliness and presence greater than the simplicity of its construction."

Tom Mazzullo Drawings, which includes 20 silverpoint and four conté crayon drawings, is the artist's first solo museum exhibition.

Cult Movie Night: Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Alternative Movies and Events

Price: $5
Funk 'n Waffles University
727 S. Crouse Ave. (Campus Plaza, behind Marshall , Syracuse

Menopause the Musical
Syracuse Stage

Price: $40, $35, $22 (adults); $20 (ages 18 and under)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Menopause The Musical brings together four women (a Power Woman, Earth Mother, Soap Star and an Iowa Housewife) at a NYC Bloomingdale's lingerie sale, who have nothing in common but a black lace bra and hot flashes, night sweats, memory loss, chocolate binges, not enough sex, too much sex, plastic surgery and more! Menopause The Musical joyfully parodies 25 of the top "baby boomer" songs of the '60s and '70s celebrating women who are or will be experiencing The Change.

Read a review!

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Visual Arts Showcase #60: 2007 Annual Member Show
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Double your pleasure, double your fun and double your exposure to some wonderful artists as the Visual Arts Showcase Committee and the Cultural Resource Council of Onondaga County present the 2007 Annual Members' Shows, Showcase #60, in two locations -- WCNY in Liverpool and the Link Gallery in The Warehouse in Armory Square.

Founded in 1992 by a group of 12 area artists and arts advocates, the VAC currently has 31 volunteer members whose mission it is to create professionally presented exhibits of high quality art produced by artists who live or work in the Central New York area. Also, to further public education about the visual arts as well as to increase recognition of the contributions of working visual artists in our community. All showcases are juried or curated by an ever-changing assortment of area professionals: gallery owners, museum directors, arts educators, and working artists from the Upstate area.

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

The exhibition features abstract artwork from 16 New York State artists. Artists exhibiting: Anatoli Truskalo, Linda Bigness, Bob Gates, Amber Blanding, Hunter O'Reilly, Stan Bowman, Lynne Taetzsch, Paul McMillan, Cheyne Rood, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, Barbara Page, Barbara Mink, Len Fishman, Melissa Tiffany and Al D'Agostino. The show holds a number of different and unique mediums including paintings, sculptures, glass work, photographs, collage, drawings, and giclee prints on canvas.

Central New York Book Arts
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Central New York Book Arts is an exhibition that features book works created by regional book artists, including students at Wells College in Aurora, N.Y., and Printmaking 552 in the School of Art and Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts, at Syracuse University.

The exhibitors are Jennifer Betton, Nicole Blum, Carol Ceraldi, Leigh Craven, Tijana Djordjevic, Diane Fine, Jessica Ginsberg, Beverly Hettig, Zebadiah Keneally, Sue Huggins Leopard, Robert LoMascolo, Conor McGrann, Ellen Nanni, Zoe Nementz, Shalini Patel, Bertha Rogers, Jamie Shoneman, Jane Tam, Robert Walp, Cynthia Wang, Wells College Book Arts Center, and Craig Wischerath.

The 22 works in the exhibition illustrate a wide range of book structures, including sewn books, accordions, and sculptural works using such materials as clay, cloth, paper, leather, and parchment. Techniques used for text and imagery include letterpress printing, woodcuts, silk-screen, laser/inkjet, calligraphic, and combinations of these techniques.

Photography by John Swank
Westcott Community Center

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

For more information, phone 315-478-8634.

Works of George Mayocole
Community Folk Art Center

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

This exhibition features vibrant, abstract, mixed media works on paper by this New York City-based artist.

Illuminate the Arts: Portraits By Brantley Carroll
Community Folk Art Center

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

This exhibit contains photographs taken during the Illuminate the Arts Winter Break Camp at the Community Folk Art Center in February 2007. The portraits are of participants in the camp. Brantley Carroll is a self-taught photographer. He has taught courses in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University as well as at Community Darkrooms. He has received grants from Light Work and the New York Foundation For the Arts. He has been a commercial photographer in the Syracuse area for 15 years.

Bag-It: Works By Lori Crawford
Community Folk Art Center

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

This exhibit is based on the "Brown Paper Bag Test," which dealt with the complexion of one's skin and whether it was lighter or darker than a brown paper bag. The works in the exhibition speak of the biases faced by each of the artist's subjects. The works offer a strong commentary on issues of prejudice faced every day in our modern society. The artist writes, "By creating images directly onto actual paper bags I attempt to bring the viewer face to face with the ignorance of judging others by his/her hue or race, weight, age, religion, sexuality, etc." Lori Crawford is an Associate Professor of Art at Delaware State University. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Morehead State University in Eastern Kentucky and a Master of Fine Arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia.

Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

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

Gest's photographs depict people in moments of deep private thought. The figures appear emotionally removed from their environment as if withdrawing from a public self. The work focuses on the way who we are can change when we are in a group. Although the subjects are alone in the photographs, the presence of others is implied. The images depict people in the last moments of being in their own world before seeing people, or going somewhere where others will be around. These are the last breaths and the last seconds of personal time before the subjects put on a public face and adopt the persona that they use while in a group of people.

To create these images, Gest combines numerous photographs into seamless final compositions using digital technology. Each image may consist of twenty or more separate photographs taken from various vantage points. The visually surprising images direct the viewer in the construction of everyday narratives.

Defining Moments: American Masterworks from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition illustrates the development of American Art from the middle of the 19th century and through the 20th century. The selection of paintings, prints and sculpture in this exhibit show how art in the U.S. progressed out of Eurocentric visual and cultural ideals to form a purely American aesthetic culture. Louis Comfort Tiffany married the French Art Nouveau style with the American ingenuity of the light bulb to design masterpieces such as the Murano Design Lamp (1893-95). During the 20th century, the U.S. became a major exponent of Modernism, with artists like Rico Lebrun and Yasuo Kuniyoshi leading the way. Lebrun's "Woman with Arms over Head" (1962-63) reflects his spontaneity and experimental philosophy, while the bright, acidic colors in Kuniyoshi's "Forbidden Fruit" (1950) exemplify the prevailing aesthetic current of the New York School shortly after World War II.

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

Women at Work: Members of the Art Students League of New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings from the University's permanent collection examines how Modernism and the formation of the Art Students League impacted the influx of women into the field and their development as professional and influential artists.

The selection of work begins with artists who were directly influenced by the 1913 Amory Show such as Peggy Bacon, Maria Wickey, and Isabel Bishop. The exhibition concludes with the advent of Abstract Expressionism, showing works by Jan Gelb, Minna Citron, Terry Haass, and Helen Frankenthaler. These works illustrate American art's stylistic evolution during the period. Early drawings like Harriet Frishmuth's "Study, reclining nude," reveal a classical, academic structure. This type of work gave way in the 1920s to the gritty and modern "realism" of Isabel Bishop's "Sleeping Man." After World War II, Abstract Expressionism began to take over, as seen in Minna
Citron's "Men Seldom Make Passes...," and later in the work of Helen Frankenthaler.

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

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

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

Visual Arts Showcase #60: 2007 Annual Member Show
CNY Arts

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

Double your pleasure, double your fun and double your exposure to some wonderful artists as the Visual Arts Showcase Committee and the Cultural Resource Council of Onondaga County present the 2007 Annual Members' Shows, Showcase #60, in two locations -- WCNY in Liverpool and the Link Gallery in The Warehouse in Armory Square.

Founded in 1992 by a group of 12 area artists and arts advocates, the VAC currently has 31 volunteer members whose mission it is to create professionally presented exhibits of high quality art produced by artists who live or work in the Central New York area. Also, to further public education about the visual arts as well as to increase recognition of the contributions of working visual artists in our community. All showcases are juried or curated by an ever-changing assortment of area professionals: gallery owners, museum directors, arts educators, and working artists from the Upstate area.

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art
Everson Museum of Art

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

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art, an exhibition organized by the Longyear Museum of Anthropology at Colgate University, includes 85 religious objects, most of them from the 20th century, such as figures, masks and headdresses, divination trays, staffs, vessels, and shrine furniture. Much of the art figures in the veneration of divinities and ancestors, and the control of supernatural powers associated with nature, medicine, and witchcraft.

Tom Mazzullo Drawings
Everson Museum of Art

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

Tom Mazzullo is quietly turning the age-old idea of still-life upside down. In Tom Mazzullo Drawings, fruits and vegetables no longer rest among plentiful pre-arranged settings atop tablecloths dressed with lacey doilies and wrinkles that fall gracefully to the floor. There are no half-filled water glasses for light to dance in or mirrored reflections to play tricks on the eye.

The objects are meticulously drawn to scale, an invitation to move in for a closer look. The delicate, silverpoint lines become more apparent, reflecting light as one's eye wanders fervently over the layered network of cross-hatching where every line counts. Mazzullo wants the viewer to "concentrate on one subject, one idea at a time." The artist feels he has succeeded when "a drawing's pale, perfect surface elicits a liveliness and presence greater than the simplicity of its construction."

Tom Mazzullo Drawings, which includes 20 silverpoint and four conté crayon drawings, is the artist's first solo museum exhibition.

A Musical Passport
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Grant Cooper, conductor
Featuring William Knuth, violin

Price: Free
Allyn Arena
1 E. Austin St., Skaneateles

Concert of American summertime favorites and light classics.

A Midsummer Night's Music
Featuring Sandra Murphy, soprano; Della Holtzapple, piano; Joe Davoli, violin

Price: Free
Bellevue Heights United Methodist Church
2112 S. Geddes St., Syracuse

Vocal favorites from the sacred, classical, and Broadway repertoire.

For more information, phone 315-475-0011.

Menopause the Musical
Syracuse Stage

Price: $40, $35, $22 (adults); $20 (ages 18 and under)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Menopause The Musical brings together four women (a Power Woman, Earth Mother, Soap Star and an Iowa Housewife) at a NYC Bloomingdale's lingerie sale, who have nothing in common but a black lace bra and hot flashes, night sweats, memory loss, chocolate binges, not enough sex, too much sex, plastic surgery and more! Menopause The Musical joyfully parodies 25 of the top "baby boomer" songs of the '60s and '70s celebrating women who are or will be experiencing The Change.

Read a review!

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Visual Arts Showcase #60: 2007 Annual Member Show
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Double your pleasure, double your fun and double your exposure to some wonderful artists as the Visual Arts Showcase Committee and the Cultural Resource Council of Onondaga County present the 2007 Annual Members' Shows, Showcase #60, in two locations -- WCNY in Liverpool and the Link Gallery in The Warehouse in Armory Square.

Founded in 1992 by a group of 12 area artists and arts advocates, the VAC currently has 31 volunteer members whose mission it is to create professionally presented exhibits of high quality art produced by artists who live or work in the Central New York area. Also, to further public education about the visual arts as well as to increase recognition of the contributions of working visual artists in our community. All showcases are juried or curated by an ever-changing assortment of area professionals: gallery owners, museum directors, arts educators, and working artists from the Upstate area.

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

The exhibition features abstract artwork from 16 New York State artists. Artists exhibiting: Anatoli Truskalo, Linda Bigness, Bob Gates, Amber Blanding, Hunter O'Reilly, Stan Bowman, Lynne Taetzsch, Paul McMillan, Cheyne Rood, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, Barbara Page, Barbara Mink, Len Fishman, Melissa Tiffany and Al D'Agostino. The show holds a number of different and unique mediums including paintings, sculptures, glass work, photographs, collage, drawings, and giclee prints on canvas.

Central New York Book Arts
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Central New York Book Arts is an exhibition that features book works created by regional book artists, including students at Wells College in Aurora, N.Y., and Printmaking 552 in the School of Art and Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts, at Syracuse University.

The exhibitors are Jennifer Betton, Nicole Blum, Carol Ceraldi, Leigh Craven, Tijana Djordjevic, Diane Fine, Jessica Ginsberg, Beverly Hettig, Zebadiah Keneally, Sue Huggins Leopard, Robert LoMascolo, Conor McGrann, Ellen Nanni, Zoe Nementz, Shalini Patel, Bertha Rogers, Jamie Shoneman, Jane Tam, Robert Walp, Cynthia Wang, Wells College Book Arts Center, and Craig Wischerath.

The 22 works in the exhibition illustrate a wide range of book structures, including sewn books, accordions, and sculptural works using such materials as clay, cloth, paper, leather, and parchment. Techniques used for text and imagery include letterpress printing, woodcuts, silk-screen, laser/inkjet, calligraphic, and combinations of these techniques.

Photography by John Swank
Westcott Community Center

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

For more information, phone 315-478-8634.

Works of George Mayocole
Community Folk Art Center

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

This exhibition features vibrant, abstract, mixed media works on paper by this New York City-based artist.

Bag-It: Works By Lori Crawford
Community Folk Art Center

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

This exhibit is based on the "Brown Paper Bag Test," which dealt with the complexion of one's skin and whether it was lighter or darker than a brown paper bag. The works in the exhibition speak of the biases faced by each of the artist's subjects. The works offer a strong commentary on issues of prejudice faced every day in our modern society. The artist writes, "By creating images directly onto actual paper bags I attempt to bring the viewer face to face with the ignorance of judging others by his/her hue or race, weight, age, religion, sexuality, etc." Lori Crawford is an Associate Professor of Art at Delaware State University. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Morehead State University in Eastern Kentucky and a Master of Fine Arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia.

Illuminate the Arts: Portraits By Brantley Carroll
Community Folk Art Center

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

This exhibit contains photographs taken during the Illuminate the Arts Winter Break Camp at the Community Folk Art Center in February 2007. The portraits are of participants in the camp. Brantley Carroll is a self-taught photographer. He has taught courses in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University as well as at Community Darkrooms. He has received grants from Light Work and the New York Foundation For the Arts. He has been a commercial photographer in the Syracuse area for 15 years.

Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

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

Gest's photographs depict people in moments of deep private thought. The figures appear emotionally removed from their environment as if withdrawing from a public self. The work focuses on the way who we are can change when we are in a group. Although the subjects are alone in the photographs, the presence of others is implied. The images depict people in the last moments of being in their own world before seeing people, or going somewhere where others will be around. These are the last breaths and the last seconds of personal time before the subjects put on a public face and adopt the persona that they use while in a group of people.

To create these images, Gest combines numerous photographs into seamless final compositions using digital technology. Each image may consist of twenty or more separate photographs taken from various vantage points. The visually surprising images direct the viewer in the construction of everyday narratives.

Defining Moments: American Masterworks from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition illustrates the development of American Art from the middle of the 19th century and through the 20th century. The selection of paintings, prints and sculpture in this exhibit show how art in the U.S. progressed out of Eurocentric visual and cultural ideals to form a purely American aesthetic culture. Louis Comfort Tiffany married the French Art Nouveau style with the American ingenuity of the light bulb to design masterpieces such as the Murano Design Lamp (1893-95). During the 20th century, the U.S. became a major exponent of Modernism, with artists like Rico Lebrun and Yasuo Kuniyoshi leading the way. Lebrun's "Woman with Arms over Head" (1962-63) reflects his spontaneity and experimental philosophy, while the bright, acidic colors in Kuniyoshi's "Forbidden Fruit" (1950) exemplify the prevailing aesthetic current of the New York School shortly after World War II.

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

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

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

Women at Work: Members of the Art Students League of New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings from the University's permanent collection examines how Modernism and the formation of the Art Students League impacted the influx of women into the field and their development as professional and influential artists.

The selection of work begins with artists who were directly influenced by the 1913 Amory Show such as Peggy Bacon, Maria Wickey, and Isabel Bishop. The exhibition concludes with the advent of Abstract Expressionism, showing works by Jan Gelb, Minna Citron, Terry Haass, and Helen Frankenthaler. These works illustrate American art's stylistic evolution during the period. Early drawings like Harriet Frishmuth's "Study, reclining nude," reveal a classical, academic structure. This type of work gave way in the 1920s to the gritty and modern "realism" of Isabel Bishop's "Sleeping Man." After World War II, Abstract Expressionism began to take over, as seen in Minna
Citron's "Men Seldom Make Passes...," and later in the work of Helen Frankenthaler.

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

Visual Arts Showcase #60: 2007 Annual Member Show
CNY Arts

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

Double your pleasure, double your fun and double your exposure to some wonderful artists as the Visual Arts Showcase Committee and the Cultural Resource Council of Onondaga County present the 2007 Annual Members' Shows, Showcase #60, in two locations -- WCNY in Liverpool and the Link Gallery in The Warehouse in Armory Square.

Founded in 1992 by a group of 12 area artists and arts advocates, the VAC currently has 31 volunteer members whose mission it is to create professionally presented exhibits of high quality art produced by artists who live or work in the Central New York area. Also, to further public education about the visual arts as well as to increase recognition of the contributions of working visual artists in our community. All showcases are juried or curated by an ever-changing assortment of area professionals: gallery owners, museum directors, arts educators, and working artists from the Upstate area.

Glass and Abstracts
Delavan Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features glass works by Jerome R. Durr and R Jason Howard along with abstract paintings by Thomas Barnes, Linda Bigness and Jeff Schuessler.

With a geometric vision, Thomas Barnes began his career as a student of math and sciences during the Cold War. He was always interested in studying art, but it was not until he met Professor Frank Goodnow at Syracuse University in a night class that he finally found a direction for his art studies. Thirty-five years later Barnes has developed into a prolific artist with a solid style of hard-edged geometric shapes and colors used to create acrylic paintings of abstracts and landscapes.

Linda Bigness creates works on paper and canvas. Her largely abstract works have been exhibited internationally, won numerous awards and can be found in both public and private collections. She has exhibited at the Everson Museum of Art, the Cultural Center: The Netherlands, Westmoreland, Cooperstown and in Korea. Public commissions include the Temple B'Rith Kodesh in Rochester, NY and the Governor's Mansion in Florida. Bigness was head of the Visual Arts Department and Director of Gallery 320 at the Metropolitan School for the Arts in Syracuse before it closed and has continued to curate, teach and write on a regular basis.

Jerome R. Durr began designing and fabricating glass artwork in 1973 for private residential collectors, commercial projects, ecclesiastical commissions and public surroundings. Today Jerome R. Durr Studio specializes in architectural art glass for an impressive list of international clientele. His work can be found throughout the U.S., in France, Italy, Germany, Kuwait and Sri Lanka. Durr is on the board of directors of the Stained Glass Association of America and is Director of the Stained Glass School. His expertise includes casting, carving, etching and slumping glass. Durr looks forward to the innovative large or small architectural setting project where he can meld human problem solving with quality of design and fabrication.

R Jason Howard calls his current work "an exploration of change, time, and process." Howard first became enthralled with glass as a senior studying ceramics at Hamilton College. After he graduated he received a scholarship to the Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass and began studying with several renowned glass artists. Howard acted as a consultant for North Star Glassworks developing colored borosilicate glasses including one of their more popular colors, Onyx. Howard's current work through his studio, Cicada Glassworks, can be seen in galleries around the country. Inspired by nature, he draws on the unique combination of traditional Italian techniques and self-invented processes to create large organic colorful forms that push the boundaries of what flameworked glass can do.

Through various drawings and paintings of circles, seemingly both in motion and dynamically frozen, Jeff Schuessler presents ideas concerning space and time. Through various sized charcoal drawings, he explores both the potential for and the continuation of movement across space and time. He creates tension by providing both a sense of motion and a quiet stillness, often simultaneously. Schuessler holds a B.S. in Advertising and an M.S. in Art Education from Syracuse University. Currently, he is an art teacher at Fayetteville-Manlius High School.

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art
Everson Museum of Art

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

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art, an exhibition organized by the Longyear Museum of Anthropology at Colgate University, includes 85 religious objects, most of them from the 20th century, such as figures, masks and headdresses, divination trays, staffs, vessels, and shrine furniture. Much of the art figures in the veneration of divinities and ancestors, and the control of supernatural powers associated with nature, medicine, and witchcraft.

Tom Mazzullo Drawings
Everson Museum of Art

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

Tom Mazzullo is quietly turning the age-old idea of still-life upside down. In Tom Mazzullo Drawings, fruits and vegetables no longer rest among plentiful pre-arranged settings atop tablecloths dressed with lacey doilies and wrinkles that fall gracefully to the floor. There are no half-filled water glasses for light to dance in or mirrored reflections to play tricks on the eye.

The objects are meticulously drawn to scale, an invitation to move in for a closer look. The delicate, silverpoint lines become more apparent, reflecting light as one's eye wanders fervently over the layered network of cross-hatching where every line counts. Mazzullo wants the viewer to "concentrate on one subject, one idea at a time." The artist feels he has succeeded when "a drawing's pale, perfect surface elicits a liveliness and presence greater than the simplicity of its construction."

Tom Mazzullo Drawings, which includes 20 silverpoint and four conté crayon drawings, is the artist's first solo museum exhibition.

CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
CXtec Dinosaurs

Price: Free
Clinton Square Second Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

Hanover Square H.O.P.S.
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Blue Method and other groups TBA

Price: Free
Hanover Square
Downtown Syracuse, Syracuse

CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Swing This

Price: Free
Clinton Square Second Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Featuring Danny Sinoff

Price: Free
Clinton Square Main Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

Rain location: Crouse-Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center, 411 Montgomery St.

Read a review!

CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Swing This

Price: Free
Clinton Square Second Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

Late Night Jam with Danny Sinoff and Friends
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Harry Crocker and the Saucerer's Stove
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive mystery dinner theater.

Menopause the Musical
Syracuse Stage

Price: $40, $35, $22 (adults); $20 (ages 18 and under)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Menopause The Musical brings together four women (a Power Woman, Earth Mother, Soap Star and an Iowa Housewife) at a NYC Bloomingdale's lingerie sale, who have nothing in common but a black lace bra and hot flashes, night sweats, memory loss, chocolate binges, not enough sex, too much sex, plastic surgery and more! Menopause The Musical joyfully parodies 25 of the top "baby boomer" songs of the '60s and '70s celebrating women who are or will be experiencing The Change.

Read a review!

Grease
Theatre '90

Price: $23 regular; $20 students/seniors; $14 children under 12
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Read a Review!

Friday, July 27, 2007

Visual Arts Showcase #60: 2007 Annual Member Show
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Double your pleasure, double your fun and double your exposure to some wonderful artists as the Visual Arts Showcase Committee and the Cultural Resource Council of Onondaga County present the 2007 Annual Members' Shows, Showcase #60, in two locations -- WCNY in Liverpool and the Link Gallery in The Warehouse in Armory Square.

Founded in 1992 by a group of 12 area artists and arts advocates, the VAC currently has 31 volunteer members whose mission it is to create professionally presented exhibits of high quality art produced by artists who live or work in the Central New York area. Also, to further public education about the visual arts as well as to increase recognition of the contributions of working visual artists in our community. All showcases are juried or curated by an ever-changing assortment of area professionals: gallery owners, museum directors, arts educators, and working artists from the Upstate area.

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

The exhibition features abstract artwork from 16 New York State artists. Artists exhibiting: Anatoli Truskalo, Linda Bigness, Bob Gates, Amber Blanding, Hunter O'Reilly, Stan Bowman, Lynne Taetzsch, Paul McMillan, Cheyne Rood, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, Barbara Page, Barbara Mink, Len Fishman, Melissa Tiffany and Al D'Agostino. The show holds a number of different and unique mediums including paintings, sculptures, glass work, photographs, collage, drawings, and giclee prints on canvas.

Central New York Book Arts
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Central New York Book Arts is an exhibition that features book works created by regional book artists, including students at Wells College in Aurora, N.Y., and Printmaking 552 in the School of Art and Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts, at Syracuse University.

The exhibitors are Jennifer Betton, Nicole Blum, Carol Ceraldi, Leigh Craven, Tijana Djordjevic, Diane Fine, Jessica Ginsberg, Beverly Hettig, Zebadiah Keneally, Sue Huggins Leopard, Robert LoMascolo, Conor McGrann, Ellen Nanni, Zoe Nementz, Shalini Patel, Bertha Rogers, Jamie Shoneman, Jane Tam, Robert Walp, Cynthia Wang, Wells College Book Arts Center, and Craig Wischerath.

The 22 works in the exhibition illustrate a wide range of book structures, including sewn books, accordions, and sculptural works using such materials as clay, cloth, paper, leather, and parchment. Techniques used for text and imagery include letterpress printing, woodcuts, silk-screen, laser/inkjet, calligraphic, and combinations of these techniques.

Photography by John Swank
Westcott Community Center

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

For more information, phone 315-478-8634.

Works of George Mayocole
Community Folk Art Center

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

This exhibition features vibrant, abstract, mixed media works on paper by this New York City-based artist.

Illuminate the Arts: Portraits By Brantley Carroll
Community Folk Art Center

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

This exhibit contains photographs taken during the Illuminate the Arts Winter Break Camp at the Community Folk Art Center in February 2007. The portraits are of participants in the camp. Brantley Carroll is a self-taught photographer. He has taught courses in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University as well as at Community Darkrooms. He has received grants from Light Work and the New York Foundation For the Arts. He has been a commercial photographer in the Syracuse area for 15 years.

Bag-It: Works By Lori Crawford
Community Folk Art Center

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

This exhibit is based on the "Brown Paper Bag Test," which dealt with the complexion of one's skin and whether it was lighter or darker than a brown paper bag. The works in the exhibition speak of the biases faced by each of the artist's subjects. The works offer a strong commentary on issues of prejudice faced every day in our modern society. The artist writes, "By creating images directly onto actual paper bags I attempt to bring the viewer face to face with the ignorance of judging others by his/her hue or race, weight, age, religion, sexuality, etc." Lori Crawford is an Associate Professor of Art at Delaware State University. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Morehead State University in Eastern Kentucky and a Master of Fine Arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia.

Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

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

Gest's photographs depict people in moments of deep private thought. The figures appear emotionally removed from their environment as if withdrawing from a public self. The work focuses on the way who we are can change when we are in a group. Although the subjects are alone in the photographs, the presence of others is implied. The images depict people in the last moments of being in their own world before seeing people, or going somewhere where others will be around. These are the last breaths and the last seconds of personal time before the subjects put on a public face and adopt the persona that they use while in a group of people.

To create these images, Gest combines numerous photographs into seamless final compositions using digital technology. Each image may consist of twenty or more separate photographs taken from various vantage points. The visually surprising images direct the viewer in the construction of everyday narratives.

Women at Work: Members of the Art Students League of New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings from the University's permanent collection examines how Modernism and the formation of the Art Students League impacted the influx of women into the field and their development as professional and influential artists.

The selection of work begins with artists who were directly influenced by the 1913 Amory Show such as Peggy Bacon, Maria Wickey, and Isabel Bishop. The exhibition concludes with the advent of Abstract Expressionism, showing works by Jan Gelb, Minna Citron, Terry Haass, and Helen Frankenthaler. These works illustrate American art's stylistic evolution during the period. Early drawings like Harriet Frishmuth's "Study, reclining nude," reveal a classical, academic structure. This type of work gave way in the 1920s to the gritty and modern "realism" of Isabel Bishop's "Sleeping Man." After World War II, Abstract Expressionism began to take over, as seen in Minna
Citron's "Men Seldom Make Passes...," and later in the work of Helen Frankenthaler.

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

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

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

Defining Moments: American Masterworks from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition illustrates the development of American Art from the middle of the 19th century and through the 20th century. The selection of paintings, prints and sculpture in this exhibit show how art in the U.S. progressed out of Eurocentric visual and cultural ideals to form a purely American aesthetic culture. Louis Comfort Tiffany married the French Art Nouveau style with the American ingenuity of the light bulb to design masterpieces such as the Murano Design Lamp (1893-95). During the 20th century, the U.S. became a major exponent of Modernism, with artists like Rico Lebrun and Yasuo Kuniyoshi leading the way. Lebrun's "Woman with Arms over Head" (1962-63) reflects his spontaneity and experimental philosophy, while the bright, acidic colors in Kuniyoshi's "Forbidden Fruit" (1950) exemplify the prevailing aesthetic current of the New York School shortly after World War II.

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

Visual Arts Showcase #60: 2007 Annual Member Show
CNY Arts

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

Double your pleasure, double your fun and double your exposure to some wonderful artists as the Visual Arts Showcase Committee and the Cultural Resource Council of Onondaga County present the 2007 Annual Members' Shows, Showcase #60, in two locations -- WCNY in Liverpool and the Link Gallery in The Warehouse in Armory Square.

Founded in 1992 by a group of 12 area artists and arts advocates, the VAC currently has 31 volunteer members whose mission it is to create professionally presented exhibits of high quality art produced by artists who live or work in the Central New York area. Also, to further public education about the visual arts as well as to increase recognition of the contributions of working visual artists in our community. All showcases are juried or curated by an ever-changing assortment of area professionals: gallery owners, museum directors, arts educators, and working artists from the Upstate area.

Glass and Abstracts
Delavan Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features glass works by Jerome R. Durr and R Jason Howard along with abstract paintings by Thomas Barnes, Linda Bigness and Jeff Schuessler.

With a geometric vision, Thomas Barnes began his career as a student of math and sciences during the Cold War. He was always interested in studying art, but it was not until he met Professor Frank Goodnow at Syracuse University in a night class that he finally found a direction for his art studies. Thirty-five years later Barnes has developed into a prolific artist with a solid style of hard-edged geometric shapes and colors used to create acrylic paintings of abstracts and landscapes.

Linda Bigness creates works on paper and canvas. Her largely abstract works have been exhibited internationally, won numerous awards and can be found in both public and private collections. She has exhibited at the Everson Museum of Art, the Cultural Center: The Netherlands, Westmoreland, Cooperstown and in Korea. Public commissions include the Temple B'Rith Kodesh in Rochester, NY and the Governor's Mansion in Florida. Bigness was head of the Visual Arts Department and Director of Gallery 320 at the Metropolitan School for the Arts in Syracuse before it closed and has continued to curate, teach and write on a regular basis.

Jerome R. Durr began designing and fabricating glass artwork in 1973 for private residential collectors, commercial projects, ecclesiastical commissions and public surroundings. Today Jerome R. Durr Studio specializes in architectural art glass for an impressive list of international clientele. His work can be found throughout the U.S., in France, Italy, Germany, Kuwait and Sri Lanka. Durr is on the board of directors of the Stained Glass Association of America and is Director of the Stained Glass School. His expertise includes casting, carving, etching and slumping glass. Durr looks forward to the innovative large or small architectural setting project where he can meld human problem solving with quality of design and fabrication.

R Jason Howard calls his current work "an exploration of change, time, and process." Howard first became enthralled with glass as a senior studying ceramics at Hamilton College. After he graduated he received a scholarship to the Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass and began studying with several renowned glass artists. Howard acted as a consultant for North Star Glassworks developing colored borosilicate glasses including one of their more popular colors, Onyx. Howard's current work through his studio, Cicada Glassworks, can be seen in galleries around the country. Inspired by nature, he draws on the unique combination of traditional Italian techniques and self-invented processes to create large organic colorful forms that push the boundaries of what flameworked glass can do.

Through various drawings and paintings of circles, seemingly both in motion and dynamically frozen, Jeff Schuessler presents ideas concerning space and time. Through various sized charcoal drawings, he explores both the potential for and the continuation of movement across space and time. He creates tension by providing both a sense of motion and a quiet stillness, often simultaneously. Schuessler holds a B.S. in Advertising and an M.S. in Art Education from Syracuse University. Currently, he is an art teacher at Fayetteville-Manlius High School.

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art
Everson Museum of Art

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

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art, an exhibition organized by the Longyear Museum of Anthropology at Colgate University, includes 85 religious objects, most of them from the 20th century, such as figures, masks and headdresses, divination trays, staffs, vessels, and shrine furniture. Much of the art figures in the veneration of divinities and ancestors, and the control of supernatural powers associated with nature, medicine, and witchcraft.

Tom Mazzullo Drawings
Everson Museum of Art

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

Tom Mazzullo is quietly turning the age-old idea of still-life upside down. In Tom Mazzullo Drawings, fruits and vegetables no longer rest among plentiful pre-arranged settings atop tablecloths dressed with lacey doilies and wrinkles that fall gracefully to the floor. There are no half-filled water glasses for light to dance in or mirrored reflections to play tricks on the eye.

The objects are meticulously drawn to scale, an invitation to move in for a closer look. The delicate, silverpoint lines become more apparent, reflecting light as one's eye wanders fervently over the layered network of cross-hatching where every line counts. Mazzullo wants the viewer to "concentrate on one subject, one idea at a time." The artist feels he has succeeded when "a drawing's pale, perfect surface elicits a liveliness and presence greater than the simplicity of its construction."

Tom Mazzullo Drawings, which includes 20 silverpoint and four conté crayon drawings, is the artist's first solo museum exhibition.

Lakescapes: Selected Works of Karen Thomas-Lillie
Lucas Gallery

Lucas Gallery
33 Jordan St., Skaneateles

Karen Thomas-Lillie is an artist and designer with a degree from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, who creates impressionistic landscapes of the Finger Lakes using oilbar on panels. Her aesthetic focuses on expanses, edges, distance, fields, drumlins, water and sky. Her work reflects her effort to unite art with the natural environments she sees as well as her respect for the natural beauty of the lakes.

Notes on Paper: Watercolors of Musicians by Steve Ryan
Lucas Gallery

Price: Free
Lucas Gallery
33 Jordan St., Skaneateles

Ryan's work is impressionistic, wet-to-wet watercolors, painted on crescent textured illustration board. The board and paints are wetted repetitively and some areas are defined later with pastel conte pencil. Subjects include musicians, both children and adults, in the jazz as well as the classical genre.

Sonic Love Wave
Light Work Gallery
Featuring artist-in-residence Todd Gray

Price: Free
New Renaissance Theater
1119 Townsend St. (in Little Italy), Syracuse

Todd Gray will premiere the first performance of Sonic Love Wave, a photo-based multimedia art performance, which features multiple projection screens synched by software to the rhythmic beats of his African drum.

Sonic Love Wave combines visual elements of African, European, and American culture and architecture interspersed with images from Gray's private Shaman ritual performances. In the ritual imagery projected on screen, Gray transforms into animal and primitive totemic forms using shaving cream.

Gray maintains studios in both Los Angeles and Ghana. He developed Sonic Love Wave in Syracuse while participating in the Artist-in-Residence program at Light Work.

Immediately following the performance at the New Renaissance Theater a community drum circle will take place. Bring a drum, bell, or pot and a spoon.

CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
On The Sly

Price: Free
Hanover Square
Downtown Syracuse, Syracuse

CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
The Fabulous Ripcords

Price: Free
Clinton Square Second Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

Jesse Collins Band
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Clinton Square Main Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Mambo Inn Orchestra

Price: Free
Clinton Square Second Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Sam Kininger Band

Price: Free
Hanover Square
Downtown Syracuse, Syracuse

Phil Woods with the CNY Jazz Orchestra
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Clinton Square Main Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Mambo Inn Orchestra

Price: Free
Clinton Square Second Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Ryan Montbleau Band

Price: Free
Hanover Square
Downtown Syracuse, Syracuse

Hubert Laws
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Clinton Square Main Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

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Late Night Jam Session with the Jesse Collins Band
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Menopause the Musical
Syracuse Stage

Price: $45, $40, $22 (adults); $20 (ages 18 and under)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Menopause The Musical brings together four women (a Power Woman, Earth Mother, Soap Star and an Iowa Housewife) at a NYC Bloomingdale's lingerie sale, who have nothing in common but a black lace bra and hot flashes, night sweats, memory loss, chocolate binges, not enough sex, too much sex, plastic surgery and more! Menopause The Musical joyfully parodies 25 of the top "baby boomer" songs of the '60s and '70s celebrating women who are or will be experiencing The Change.

Read a review!

Grease
Theatre '90

Price: $23 regular; $20 students/seniors; $14 children under 12
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

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Saturday, July 28, 2007

Glass and Abstracts
Delavan Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features glass works by Jerome R. Durr and R Jason Howard along with abstract paintings by Thomas Barnes, Linda Bigness and Jeff Schuessler.

With a geometric vision, Thomas Barnes began his career as a student of math and sciences during the Cold War. He was always interested in studying art, but it was not until he met Professor Frank Goodnow at Syracuse University in a night class that he finally found a direction for his art studies. Thirty-five years later Barnes has developed into a prolific artist with a solid style of hard-edged geometric shapes and colors used to create acrylic paintings of abstracts and landscapes.

Linda Bigness creates works on paper and canvas. Her largely abstract works have been exhibited internationally, won numerous awards and can be found in both public and private collections. She has exhibited at the Everson Museum of Art, the Cultural Center: The Netherlands, Westmoreland, Cooperstown and in Korea. Public commissions include the Temple B'Rith Kodesh in Rochester, NY and the Governor's Mansion in Florida. Bigness was head of the Visual Arts Department and Director of Gallery 320 at the Metropolitan School for the Arts in Syracuse before it closed and has continued to curate, teach and write on a regular basis.

Jerome R. Durr began designing and fabricating glass artwork in 1973 for private residential collectors, commercial projects, ecclesiastical commissions and public surroundings. Today Jerome R. Durr Studio specializes in architectural art glass for an impressive list of international clientele. His work can be found throughout the U.S., in France, Italy, Germany, Kuwait and Sri Lanka. Durr is on the board of directors of the Stained Glass Association of America and is Director of the Stained Glass School. His expertise includes casting, carving, etching and slumping glass. Durr looks forward to the innovative large or small architectural setting project where he can meld human problem solving with quality of design and fabrication.

R Jason Howard calls his current work "an exploration of change, time, and process." Howard first became enthralled with glass as a senior studying ceramics at Hamilton College. After he graduated he received a scholarship to the Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass and began studying with several renowned glass artists. Howard acted as a consultant for North Star Glassworks developing colored borosilicate glasses including one of their more popular colors, Onyx. Howard's current work through his studio, Cicada Glassworks, can be seen in galleries around the country. Inspired by nature, he draws on the unique combination of traditional Italian techniques and self-invented processes to create large organic colorful forms that push the boundaries of what flameworked glass can do.

Through various drawings and paintings of circles, seemingly both in motion and dynamically frozen, Jeff Schuessler presents ideas concerning space and time. Through various sized charcoal drawings, he explores both the potential for and the continuation of movement across space and time. He creates tension by providing both a sense of motion and a quiet stillness, often simultaneously. Schuessler holds a B.S. in Advertising and an M.S. in Art Education from Syracuse University. Currently, he is an art teacher at Fayetteville-Manlius High School.

Tom Mazzullo Drawings
Everson Museum of Art

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

Tom Mazzullo is quietly turning the age-old idea of still-life upside down. In Tom Mazzullo Drawings, fruits and vegetables no longer rest among plentiful pre-arranged settings atop tablecloths dressed with lacey doilies and wrinkles that fall gracefully to the floor. There are no half-filled water glasses for light to dance in or mirrored reflections to play tricks on the eye.

The objects are meticulously drawn to scale, an invitation to move in for a closer look. The delicate, silverpoint lines become more apparent, reflecting light as one's eye wanders fervently over the layered network of cross-hatching where every line counts. Mazzullo wants the viewer to "concentrate on one subject, one idea at a time." The artist feels he has succeeded when "a drawing's pale, perfect surface elicits a liveliness and presence greater than the simplicity of its construction."

Tom Mazzullo Drawings, which includes 20 silverpoint and four conté crayon drawings, is the artist's first solo museum exhibition.

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art
Everson Museum of Art

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

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art, an exhibition organized by the Longyear Museum of Anthropology at Colgate University, includes 85 religious objects, most of them from the 20th century, such as figures, masks and headdresses, divination trays, staffs, vessels, and shrine furniture. Much of the art figures in the veneration of divinities and ancestors, and the control of supernatural powers associated with nature, medicine, and witchcraft.

Lakescapes: Selected Works of Karen Thomas-Lillie
Lucas Gallery

Lucas Gallery
33 Jordan St., Skaneateles

Karen Thomas-Lillie is an artist and designer with a degree from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, who creates impressionistic landscapes of the Finger Lakes using oilbar on panels. Her aesthetic focuses on expanses, edges, distance, fields, drumlins, water and sky. Her work reflects her effort to unite art with the natural environments she sees as well as her respect for the natural beauty of the lakes.

Notes on Paper: Watercolors of Musicians by Steve Ryan
Lucas Gallery

Price: Free
Lucas Gallery
33 Jordan St., Skaneateles

Ryan's work is impressionistic, wet-to-wet watercolors, painted on crescent textured illustration board. The board and paints are wetted repetitively and some areas are defined later with pastel conte pencil. Subjects include musicians, both children and adults, in the jazz as well as the classical genre.

Bag-It: Works By Lori Crawford
Community Folk Art Center

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

This exhibit is based on the "Brown Paper Bag Test," which dealt with the complexion of one's skin and whether it was lighter or darker than a brown paper bag. The works in the exhibition speak of the biases faced by each of the artist's subjects. The works offer a strong commentary on issues of prejudice faced every day in our modern society. The artist writes, "By creating images directly onto actual paper bags I attempt to bring the viewer face to face with the ignorance of judging others by his/her hue or race, weight, age, religion, sexuality, etc." Lori Crawford is an Associate Professor of Art at Delaware State University. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Morehead State University in Eastern Kentucky and a Master of Fine Arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia.

Illuminate the Arts: Portraits By Brantley Carroll
Community Folk Art Center

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

This exhibit contains photographs taken during the Illuminate the Arts Winter Break Camp at the Community Folk Art Center in February 2007. The portraits are of participants in the camp. Brantley Carroll is a self-taught photographer. He has taught courses in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University as well as at Community Darkrooms. He has received grants from Light Work and the New York Foundation For the Arts. He has been a commercial photographer in the Syracuse area for 15 years.

Damu Smith Memorial Environmental Justice Photo Exhibition and Southside Photovoice Project
Community Folk Art Center

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

Works of George Mayocole
Community Folk Art Center

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

This exhibition features vibrant, abstract, mixed media works on paper by this New York City-based artist.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

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

Women at Work: Members of the Art Students League of New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings from the University's permanent collection examines how Modernism and the formation of the Art Students League impacted the influx of women into the field and their development as professional and influential artists.

The selection of work begins with artists who were directly influenced by the 1913 Amory Show such as Peggy Bacon, Maria Wickey, and Isabel Bishop. The exhibition concludes with the advent of Abstract Expressionism, showing works by Jan Gelb, Minna Citron, Terry Haass, and Helen Frankenthaler. These works illustrate American art's stylistic evolution during the period. Early drawings like Harriet Frishmuth's "Study, reclining nude," reveal a classical, academic structure. This type of work gave way in the 1920s to the gritty and modern "realism" of Isabel Bishop's "Sleeping Man." After World War II, Abstract Expressionism began to take over, as seen in Minna
Citron's "Men Seldom Make Passes...," and later in the work of Helen Frankenthaler.

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

Visual Arts Showcase #60: 2007 Annual Member Show
CNY Arts

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

Double your pleasure, double your fun and double your exposure to some wonderful artists as the Visual Arts Showcase Committee and the Cultural Resource Council of Onondaga County present the 2007 Annual Members' Shows, Showcase #60, in two locations -- WCNY in Liverpool and the Link Gallery in The Warehouse in Armory Square.

Founded in 1992 by a group of 12 area artists and arts advocates, the VAC currently has 31 volunteer members whose mission it is to create professionally presented exhibits of high quality art produced by artists who live or work in the Central New York area. Also, to further public education about the visual arts as well as to increase recognition of the contributions of working visual artists in our community. All showcases are juried or curated by an ever-changing assortment of area professionals: gallery owners, museum directors, arts educators, and working artists from the Upstate area.

Jazz in the Square Scholastic Festival: Stan Colella Parks & Rec All-Star Big Band
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Clinton Square Main Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

Jazz in the Square Scholastic Festival: Liverpool Jazz Combo (Small group winner, CRC Youth Jazz Fest)
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Clinton Square Main Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

Jazz in the Square Scholastic Festival: Liverpool Jazz Ensemble (Large ensemble winner, CRC Youth Jazz Fest)
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Clinton Square Main Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

Jazz in the Square Scholastic Festival: Jazz Kids of Syracuse jam session ("graduates" of many CNYJAF programs)
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Clinton Square Main Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Happy Hour with The Gonstermachers

Price: Free
Clinton Square Second Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Interstellar Funkateers

Price: Free
Hanover Square
Downtown Syracuse, Syracuse

Candlelight Concert Youth Opening Act
Liverpool Stage Band and Jazz Ensemble

Price: Free
Armory Square
Clinton and Jefferson St., Syracuse

CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
"Reid's Raiders" featuring Rufus Reid and Frank Puzzullo

Price: Free
Clinton Square Main Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

Liverpool Stage Band and Jazz Ensemble
Woodwind Quintet

Price: Free
Armory Square
Clinton and Jefferson St., Syracuse

CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Dark Hollow

Price: Free
Hanover Square
Downtown Syracuse, Syracuse

CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
NOMO

Price: Free
Clinton Square Second Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

Candlelight Concert
The Southern Comfort Band

Price: Free
Armory Square
Clinton and Jefferson St., Syracuse

Concert
Erik Kibelsbeck, conductor

Trinity Episcopal Church
106 Chapel St., Fayetteville

Orchestral music of Haydn, Torelli, etc.

CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Danny Sinoff Quartet

Price: Free
Clinton Square Main Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
NOMO

Price: Free
Clinton Square Second Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Mecca Bodega

Price: Free
Hanover Square
Downtown Syracuse, Syracuse

Gerald Albright
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Clinton Square Main Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

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Late Night Jam with Reid's Raiders
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Hansel and Gretel
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive version of the children's classic.

Giant Puppet Circus
Open Hand Theater

Meachem Elementary School
171 Spaulding Ave, Syracuse

Menopause the Musical
Syracuse Stage

Price: $45, $40, $22 (adults); $20 (ages 18 and under)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Menopause The Musical brings together four women (a Power Woman, Earth Mother, Soap Star and an Iowa Housewife) at a NYC Bloomingdale's lingerie sale, who have nothing in common but a black lace bra and hot flashes, night sweats, memory loss, chocolate binges, not enough sex, too much sex, plastic surgery and more! Menopause The Musical joyfully parodies 25 of the top "baby boomer" songs of the '60s and '70s celebrating women who are or will be experiencing The Change.

Read a review!

Menopause the Musical
Syracuse Stage

Price: $45, $40, $22 (adults); $20 (ages 18 and under)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Menopause The Musical brings together four women (a Power Woman, Earth Mother, Soap Star and an Iowa Housewife) at a NYC Bloomingdale's lingerie sale, who have nothing in common but a black lace bra and hot flashes, night sweats, memory loss, chocolate binges, not enough sex, too much sex, plastic surgery and more! Menopause The Musical joyfully parodies 25 of the top "baby boomer" songs of the '60s and '70s celebrating women who are or will be experiencing The Change.

Read a review!

Grease
Theatre '90

Price: $23 regular; $20 students/seniors; $14 children under 12
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Read a Review!

Sunday, July 29, 2007

Notes on Paper: Watercolors of Musicians by Steve Ryan
Lucas Gallery

Price: Free
Lucas Gallery
33 Jordan St., Skaneateles

Ryan's work is impressionistic, wet-to-wet watercolors, painted on crescent textured illustration board. The board and paints are wetted repetitively and some areas are defined later with pastel conte pencil. Subjects include musicians, both children and adults, in the jazz as well as the classical genre.

Lakescapes: Selected Works of Karen Thomas-Lillie
Lucas Gallery

Lucas Gallery
33 Jordan St., Skaneateles

Karen Thomas-Lillie is an artist and designer with a degree from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, who creates impressionistic landscapes of the Finger Lakes using oilbar on panels. Her aesthetic focuses on expanses, edges, distance, fields, drumlins, water and sky. Her work reflects her effort to unite art with the natural environments she sees as well as her respect for the natural beauty of the lakes.

Women at Work: Members of the Art Students League of New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings from the University's permanent collection examines how Modernism and the formation of the Art Students League impacted the influx of women into the field and their development as professional and influential artists.

The selection of work begins with artists who were directly influenced by the 1913 Amory Show such as Peggy Bacon, Maria Wickey, and Isabel Bishop. The exhibition concludes with the advent of Abstract Expressionism, showing works by Jan Gelb, Minna Citron, Terry Haass, and Helen Frankenthaler. These works illustrate American art's stylistic evolution during the period. Early drawings like Harriet Frishmuth's "Study, reclining nude," reveal a classical, academic structure. This type of work gave way in the 1920s to the gritty and modern "realism" of Isabel Bishop's "Sleeping Man." After World War II, Abstract Expressionism began to take over, as seen in Minna
Citron's "Men Seldom Make Passes...," and later in the work of Helen Frankenthaler.

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

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

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

Tom Mazzullo Drawings
Everson Museum of Art

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

Tom Mazzullo is quietly turning the age-old idea of still-life upside down. In Tom Mazzullo Drawings, fruits and vegetables no longer rest among plentiful pre-arranged settings atop tablecloths dressed with lacey doilies and wrinkles that fall gracefully to the floor. There are no half-filled water glasses for light to dance in or mirrored reflections to play tricks on the eye.

The objects are meticulously drawn to scale, an invitation to move in for a closer look. The delicate, silverpoint lines become more apparent, reflecting light as one's eye wanders fervently over the layered network of cross-hatching where every line counts. Mazzullo wants the viewer to "concentrate on one subject, one idea at a time." The artist feels he has succeeded when "a drawing's pale, perfect surface elicits a liveliness and presence greater than the simplicity of its construction."

Tom Mazzullo Drawings, which includes 20 silverpoint and four conté crayon drawings, is the artist's first solo museum exhibition.

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art
Everson Museum of Art

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

African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art, an exhibition organized by the Longyear Museum of Anthropology at Colgate University, includes 85 religious objects, most of them from the 20th century, such as figures, masks and headdresses, divination trays, staffs, vessels, and shrine furniture. Much of the art figures in the veneration of divinities and ancestors, and the control of supernatural powers associated with nature, medicine, and witchcraft.

Showgroup Sunday: Foundation and Paul Robeson Performing Arts Co. Gospel Ensemble
Showcase Sundays

Price: Free
Spirit of Jubilee Park
161 South Ave., Syracuse

Rain location: Southwest Community Center, 401 South Ave., Syracuse

Grease
Theatre '90

Price: $23 regular; $20 students/seniors; $14 children under 12
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Read a Review!

Menopause the Musical
Syracuse Stage

Price: $45, $40, $22 (adults); $20 (ages 18 and under)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Menopause The Musical brings together four women (a Power Woman, Earth Mother, Soap Star and an Iowa Housewife) at a NYC Bloomingdale's lingerie sale, who have nothing in common but a black lace bra and hot flashes, night sweats, memory loss, chocolate binges, not enough sex, too much sex, plastic surgery and more! Menopause The Musical joyfully parodies 25 of the top "baby boomer" songs of the '60s and '70s celebrating women who are or will be experiencing The Change.

Read a review!

Menopause the Musical
Syracuse Stage

Price: $40, $35, $22 (adults); $20 (ages 18 and under)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Menopause The Musical brings together four women (a Power Woman, Earth Mother, Soap Star and an Iowa Housewife) at a NYC Bloomingdale's lingerie sale, who have nothing in common but a black lace bra and hot flashes, night sweats, memory loss, chocolate binges, not enough sex, too much sex, plastic surgery and more! Menopause The Musical joyfully parodies 25 of the top "baby boomer" songs of the '60s and '70s celebrating women who are or will be experiencing The Change.

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