Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Lost and Found
Center for New Americans

Price: Free
Center for New Americans
503 N. Prospect Ave., Syracuse

The exhibit features artifacts, artwork, family heirlooms, poems and other objects that tell the stories of loss and discovery which form a major part of the refugee experience. The refugees featured in the exhibit come from Vietnam, Burma, Sudan and Cuba.

Invasion! The Culture of Fear in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This student-curated exhibition illustrates the concept of fear in the United States. The students, members of the Renee Crown University Honors Program taking the Spring 2008 course American Fear, felt that the theme of "invasion" underlies many of our historical anxieties relating to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and a host of other issues. The idea that different people, aliens or even epidemics, like the AIDS virus during the 1980s, might infiltrate society and bring about sweeping change has been cause for extreme fear in the American experience. The exhibition raises questions of identity, and the class hopes that visitors will "understand their differences and be less discriminating in their actions."

Among the exhibited works that illuminate the roots of our culture of fear are a 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan," Cotton Mather's 1693 account of the Salem Witch trials, the literature of the Red Scare, a variety of pulp science fiction magazines and Werner Pfeiffer's sculptural tribute to the victims of 9/11 "Out of the Sky."

Survivors' Art Exhibit
Westcott Community Center

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

Survivors' Art Exhibit includes 27 individual posters and one collaborative collage, all of which celebrate the power of artistic creativity as a tool for healing. Exhibit participants include women, teens and children who are victims of domestic or sexual violence. Using various mediums, each survivor has transformed very personal experiences into compelling images for public display. Each piece incorporates a colorful, digitally stylized rendering of the artist's original image, printed on 100% cotton art stock using archival inks, and strikingly framed. All posters are available for sale to benefit the mission and services of Vera House.

A Lot on Your Plate
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

An exhibit of ceramic plates designed by 14 area artists.

The Whipping Post: Photos by Brantley Carroll
Community Folk Art Center

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

Blending historical images and engravings or text, Brantley Carroll's exhibition explores the legacy of The Middle Passage and the American Plantation System of Slavery in the United States. The exhibition engages the viewer in a visual tête-à-tête with colonial slavery and starkly captures the instrumentation of abuses that slaves endured. Each photograph draws you in to witness and read the digitally interwoven images and text taken from antebellum slave auctions, warrants, historical maps and documents.

In a piece entitled Thomas Jefferson's Slave Sally Hemmings, a young woman looks out beyond the words and signatures pearled together to constitute the foundation of a country. This piece holds a special significance to the artist, amongst commonly recognized filigree marks -- Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, and Benjamin Franklin -- is a Charles Carroll, the artist's great, great, great-grandfather. "My father, Walter Carroll was reportedly very ashamed when as a young man he learned that he was the descendant of Charles Carroll. Carroll was a founding father and signer of the Declaration of Independence. An Irish Catholic immigrant, Carroll became a wealthy landowner in Maryland who founded the first industrial Iron Works in Baltimore and owned a large tobacco plantation. He owned one thousand slaves."

Artist Brantley Carroll contends, "that a nation, like an individual, must face its sins and make amends if it is to move toward greatness and enlightenment. It is the goal of my work to more fully understand and educate people about what the sins and realities of slavery and more importantly how its legacy pervades today."

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

H2ONY
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Juried exhibition of water themed works by New York State artists.

Works by Carol Adamec, Cheri Haring, and Barbara Schramm
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New exhibit featuring artists Carol Adamec (sculpture), Cheri Haring (pottery) and Barbara Schramm (traditional and trompe l'oeil painting).

The Object and Beyond: 2008 Everson Biennial
Everson Museum of Art

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

In celebration of the 2008 Everson Biennial the Everson has devoted the entire second floor of the Museum to the display of current artwork created by artists from the Central New York region. This year's call for entries elicited a strong response from artists of all ages and diverse practices. More than 266 artists residing in the Central New York region submitted more than 1,000 works for consideration by juror Edward Winkleman. Winkleman is an independent curator and director of Winkleman Gallery in Chelsea, New York who specializes in contemporary art. He selected works by 55 artists for the exhibition which will occupy all four galleries on the second floor of the Museum.

Artists represented in the exhibition are diverse in their practices as well as their techniques, materials, and presentation. Winkleman's eye was on the look out for fine quality and craftsmanship and his goal was to showcase the broad spectrum of artwork being produced in the Central New York community from traditional to conceptual art.

Syracuse Ceramic Guild: 2008 Juried Exhibition
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Syracuse Ceramic Guild: 2008 Juried Exhibition presents new functional and non-functional work in clay involving a variety of clay bodies, construction, glazing and firing techniques, all of which were selected by Jo Buffalo, a local ceramic artist who has been a professor of art at Cazenovia College for 23 years.

ADA: An Exceptional Exhibition in Celebration of the Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Unchained Memories: Readings from Slave Narratives
Community Folk Art Center

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

In the early 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project mounted a project to transcribe the memories of former African-American slaves who were still living. The result was a massive collection of notes, documents, and recordings, all of which found their way into the Library of Congress. Co-produced by the Library and the HBO cable channel, Unchained Memories: Readings From the Slave Narratives features a truly impressive array of black performers sharing the reminiscences of those who lived under the yoke of slavery. Directors Ed Bell and Thomas Lennon complement the words with vivid images culled from contemporary photographs of the years 1850-1935.

Unchained Memories will be screening in the Herbert T. Williams Gallery throughout The Whipping Post exhibition. Come sit for a moment with 'elders' and listen to this stunning collection of slave stories.

Strings in the Stacks
Liverpool Youth String Ensemble

Price: Free
Maxwell Memorial Library
14 Genesee St., Camillus

For more information, phone 315-672-3661.

Pops in the Park

Price: Free
Onondaga Park
Roberts Avenue, Syracuse

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Lost and Found
Center for New Americans

Price: Free
Center for New Americans
503 N. Prospect Ave., Syracuse

The exhibit features artifacts, artwork, family heirlooms, poems and other objects that tell the stories of loss and discovery which form a major part of the refugee experience. The refugees featured in the exhibit come from Vietnam, Burma, Sudan and Cuba.

Invasion! The Culture of Fear in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This student-curated exhibition illustrates the concept of fear in the United States. The students, members of the Renee Crown University Honors Program taking the Spring 2008 course American Fear, felt that the theme of "invasion" underlies many of our historical anxieties relating to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and a host of other issues. The idea that different people, aliens or even epidemics, like the AIDS virus during the 1980s, might infiltrate society and bring about sweeping change has been cause for extreme fear in the American experience. The exhibition raises questions of identity, and the class hopes that visitors will "understand their differences and be less discriminating in their actions."

Among the exhibited works that illuminate the roots of our culture of fear are a 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan," Cotton Mather's 1693 account of the Salem Witch trials, the literature of the Red Scare, a variety of pulp science fiction magazines and Werner Pfeiffer's sculptural tribute to the victims of 9/11 "Out of the Sky."

Survivors' Art Exhibit
Westcott Community Center

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

Survivors' Art Exhibit includes 27 individual posters and one collaborative collage, all of which celebrate the power of artistic creativity as a tool for healing. Exhibit participants include women, teens and children who are victims of domestic or sexual violence. Using various mediums, each survivor has transformed very personal experiences into compelling images for public display. Each piece incorporates a colorful, digitally stylized rendering of the artist's original image, printed on 100% cotton art stock using archival inks, and strikingly framed. All posters are available for sale to benefit the mission and services of Vera House.

A Lot on Your Plate
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

An exhibit of ceramic plates designed by 14 area artists.

The Whipping Post: Photos by Brantley Carroll
Community Folk Art Center

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

Blending historical images and engravings or text, Brantley Carroll's exhibition explores the legacy of The Middle Passage and the American Plantation System of Slavery in the United States. The exhibition engages the viewer in a visual tête-à-tête with colonial slavery and starkly captures the instrumentation of abuses that slaves endured. Each photograph draws you in to witness and read the digitally interwoven images and text taken from antebellum slave auctions, warrants, historical maps and documents.

In a piece entitled Thomas Jefferson's Slave Sally Hemmings, a young woman looks out beyond the words and signatures pearled together to constitute the foundation of a country. This piece holds a special significance to the artist, amongst commonly recognized filigree marks -- Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, and Benjamin Franklin -- is a Charles Carroll, the artist's great, great, great-grandfather. "My father, Walter Carroll was reportedly very ashamed when as a young man he learned that he was the descendant of Charles Carroll. Carroll was a founding father and signer of the Declaration of Independence. An Irish Catholic immigrant, Carroll became a wealthy landowner in Maryland who founded the first industrial Iron Works in Baltimore and owned a large tobacco plantation. He owned one thousand slaves."

Artist Brantley Carroll contends, "that a nation, like an individual, must face its sins and make amends if it is to move toward greatness and enlightenment. It is the goal of my work to more fully understand and educate people about what the sins and realities of slavery and more importantly how its legacy pervades today."

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

H2ONY
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Juried exhibition of water themed works by New York State artists.

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

Works by Carol Adamec, Cheri Haring, and Barbara Schramm
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New exhibit featuring artists Carol Adamec (sculpture), Cheri Haring (pottery) and Barbara Schramm (traditional and trompe l'oeil painting).

Whimsy: Celebrating the Power of 'Why Not'?
Contemporary Gallery

Price: Free
Contemporary Gallery
230 Harrison St., Syracuse

The art featured in Whimsy: Celebrating the Power of 'Why Not?' includes art books, drawings, fabric art, film, illustration, installation art, intaglio prints, works in mixed media, paintings, photo etchings, photography, sculpture, and video art. The majority of artists represented come from the New York State area. The theme "whimsy" is inspired by its definition: 1. The quality of being quaint, odd, or playfully humorous, especially in an endearing way; 2. An idea that has no immediately obvious reason to exist. Since the gallery itself was created on a whim as a labor of love, it seemed appropriate for the theme of the exhibition to exemplify these characteristics.

ADA: An Exceptional Exhibition in Celebration of the Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Syracuse Ceramic Guild: 2008 Juried Exhibition
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Syracuse Ceramic Guild: 2008 Juried Exhibition presents new functional and non-functional work in clay involving a variety of clay bodies, construction, glazing and firing techniques, all of which were selected by Jo Buffalo, a local ceramic artist who has been a professor of art at Cazenovia College for 23 years.

The Object and Beyond: 2008 Everson Biennial
Everson Museum of Art

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

In celebration of the 2008 Everson Biennial the Everson has devoted the entire second floor of the Museum to the display of current artwork created by artists from the Central New York region. This year's call for entries elicited a strong response from artists of all ages and diverse practices. More than 266 artists residing in the Central New York region submitted more than 1,000 works for consideration by juror Edward Winkleman. Winkleman is an independent curator and director of Winkleman Gallery in Chelsea, New York who specializes in contemporary art. He selected works by 55 artists for the exhibition which will occupy all four galleries on the second floor of the Museum.

Artists represented in the exhibition are diverse in their practices as well as their techniques, materials, and presentation. Winkleman's eye was on the look out for fine quality and craftsmanship and his goal was to showcase the broad spectrum of artwork being produced in the Central New York community from traditional to conceptual art.

Other Options
Redhouse

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

Other Options is a traveling and evolving exhibition which features artists' projects which re-interpret, alter and create infrastructure that affect their everyday lives. In an attempt to explore the nature of such flaws and contradictions in the nonprofit system such as the way these organizations are made to function in society, Other Options asks the question: How does the current matrix of specific regulations and compliances to which non-profit organizations are forced to adhere, affect the creative output, imagination, and flexibility of such organizations?

Other Options includes work by Forays (Montreal/New York City), Josh Greene (San Francisco, CA), Material Exchange (Chicago, IL), Mikey Merrill (Portland, OR), Phil Orr/Ryan Thompson (Urbana-Champaign, IL), ReTool (Pittsburgh, PA), and Joanna Spitzner (Syracuse, NY).

Open Video Showcase
Contemporary Gallery

Price: Free
Contemporary Gallery
230 Harrison St., Syracuse

Unchained Memories: Readings from Slave Narratives
Community Folk Art Center

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

In the early 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project mounted a project to transcribe the memories of former African-American slaves who were still living. The result was a massive collection of notes, documents, and recordings, all of which found their way into the Library of Congress. Co-produced by the Library and the HBO cable channel, Unchained Memories: Readings From the Slave Narratives features a truly impressive array of black performers sharing the reminiscences of those who lived under the yoke of slavery. Directors Ed Bell and Thomas Lennon complement the words with vivid images culled from contemporary photographs of the years 1850-1935.

Unchained Memories will be screening in the Herbert T. Williams Gallery throughout The Whipping Post exhibition. Come sit for a moment with 'elders' and listen to this stunning collection of slave stories.

Syracuse Movie Night: Shrek the Third

Price: Free
Burnet Park
Grand Ave., Syracuse

Mario DeSantis Band

Price: Free
Manlius Amphitheater
Behind the swan pond, Manlius

For more information, phone 315-682-7887.

The Flyin' Column
Liverpool is the Place

Price: Free
Johnson Park
Corner of Vine and Oswego Streets, Liverpool

Concert of Popular Favorites
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Grant Cooper, conductor

Price: Free
Austin Pavilion
Corner of East Austin and Jordan Streets, Skaneateles

American summertime favorites and light classics! Pre-concert instrument petting zoo. Limited food vendors available.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Lost and Found
Center for New Americans

Price: Free
Center for New Americans
503 N. Prospect Ave., Syracuse

The exhibit features artifacts, artwork, family heirlooms, poems and other objects that tell the stories of loss and discovery which form a major part of the refugee experience. The refugees featured in the exhibit come from Vietnam, Burma, Sudan and Cuba.

Invasion! The Culture of Fear in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This student-curated exhibition illustrates the concept of fear in the United States. The students, members of the Renee Crown University Honors Program taking the Spring 2008 course American Fear, felt that the theme of "invasion" underlies many of our historical anxieties relating to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and a host of other issues. The idea that different people, aliens or even epidemics, like the AIDS virus during the 1980s, might infiltrate society and bring about sweeping change has been cause for extreme fear in the American experience. The exhibition raises questions of identity, and the class hopes that visitors will "understand their differences and be less discriminating in their actions."

Among the exhibited works that illuminate the roots of our culture of fear are a 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan," Cotton Mather's 1693 account of the Salem Witch trials, the literature of the Red Scare, a variety of pulp science fiction magazines and Werner Pfeiffer's sculptural tribute to the victims of 9/11 "Out of the Sky."

Survivors' Art Exhibit
Westcott Community Center

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

Survivors' Art Exhibit includes 27 individual posters and one collaborative collage, all of which celebrate the power of artistic creativity as a tool for healing. Exhibit participants include women, teens and children who are victims of domestic or sexual violence. Using various mediums, each survivor has transformed very personal experiences into compelling images for public display. Each piece incorporates a colorful, digitally stylized rendering of the artist's original image, printed on 100% cotton art stock using archival inks, and strikingly framed. All posters are available for sale to benefit the mission and services of Vera House.

A Lot on Your Plate
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

An exhibit of ceramic plates designed by 14 area artists.

The Whipping Post: Photos by Brantley Carroll
Community Folk Art Center

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

Blending historical images and engravings or text, Brantley Carroll's exhibition explores the legacy of The Middle Passage and the American Plantation System of Slavery in the United States. The exhibition engages the viewer in a visual tête-à-tête with colonial slavery and starkly captures the instrumentation of abuses that slaves endured. Each photograph draws you in to witness and read the digitally interwoven images and text taken from antebellum slave auctions, warrants, historical maps and documents.

In a piece entitled Thomas Jefferson's Slave Sally Hemmings, a young woman looks out beyond the words and signatures pearled together to constitute the foundation of a country. This piece holds a special significance to the artist, amongst commonly recognized filigree marks -- Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, and Benjamin Franklin -- is a Charles Carroll, the artist's great, great, great-grandfather. "My father, Walter Carroll was reportedly very ashamed when as a young man he learned that he was the descendant of Charles Carroll. Carroll was a founding father and signer of the Declaration of Independence. An Irish Catholic immigrant, Carroll became a wealthy landowner in Maryland who founded the first industrial Iron Works in Baltimore and owned a large tobacco plantation. He owned one thousand slaves."

Artist Brantley Carroll contends, "that a nation, like an individual, must face its sins and make amends if it is to move toward greatness and enlightenment. It is the goal of my work to more fully understand and educate people about what the sins and realities of slavery and more importantly how its legacy pervades today."

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

H2ONY
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Juried exhibition of water themed works by New York State artists.

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

Works by Carol Adamec, Cheri Haring, and Barbara Schramm
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New exhibit featuring artists Carol Adamec (sculpture), Cheri Haring (pottery) and Barbara Schramm (traditional and trompe l'oeil painting).

Whimsy: Celebrating the Power of 'Why Not'?
Contemporary Gallery

Price: Free
Contemporary Gallery
230 Harrison St., Syracuse

The art featured in Whimsy: Celebrating the Power of 'Why Not?' includes art books, drawings, fabric art, film, illustration, installation art, intaglio prints, works in mixed media, paintings, photo etchings, photography, sculpture, and video art. The majority of artists represented come from the New York State area. The theme "whimsy" is inspired by its definition: 1. The quality of being quaint, odd, or playfully humorous, especially in an endearing way; 2. An idea that has no immediately obvious reason to exist. Since the gallery itself was created on a whim as a labor of love, it seemed appropriate for the theme of the exhibition to exemplify these characteristics.

The Object and Beyond: 2008 Everson Biennial
Everson Museum of Art

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

In celebration of the 2008 Everson Biennial the Everson has devoted the entire second floor of the Museum to the display of current artwork created by artists from the Central New York region. This year's call for entries elicited a strong response from artists of all ages and diverse practices. More than 266 artists residing in the Central New York region submitted more than 1,000 works for consideration by juror Edward Winkleman. Winkleman is an independent curator and director of Winkleman Gallery in Chelsea, New York who specializes in contemporary art. He selected works by 55 artists for the exhibition which will occupy all four galleries on the second floor of the Museum.

Artists represented in the exhibition are diverse in their practices as well as their techniques, materials, and presentation. Winkleman's eye was on the look out for fine quality and craftsmanship and his goal was to showcase the broad spectrum of artwork being produced in the Central New York community from traditional to conceptual art.

Syracuse Ceramic Guild: 2008 Juried Exhibition
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Syracuse Ceramic Guild: 2008 Juried Exhibition presents new functional and non-functional work in clay involving a variety of clay bodies, construction, glazing and firing techniques, all of which were selected by Jo Buffalo, a local ceramic artist who has been a professor of art at Cazenovia College for 23 years.

ADA: An Exceptional Exhibition in Celebration of the Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Other Options
Redhouse

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

Other Options is a traveling and evolving exhibition which features artists' projects which re-interpret, alter and create infrastructure that affect their everyday lives. In an attempt to explore the nature of such flaws and contradictions in the nonprofit system such as the way these organizations are made to function in society, Other Options asks the question: How does the current matrix of specific regulations and compliances to which non-profit organizations are forced to adhere, affect the creative output, imagination, and flexibility of such organizations?

Other Options includes work by Forays (Montreal/New York City), Josh Greene (San Francisco, CA), Material Exchange (Chicago, IL), Mikey Merrill (Portland, OR), Phil Orr/Ryan Thompson (Urbana-Champaign, IL), ReTool (Pittsburgh, PA), and Joanna Spitzner (Syracuse, NY).

Unchained Memories: Readings from Slave Narratives
Community Folk Art Center

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

In the early 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project mounted a project to transcribe the memories of former African-American slaves who were still living. The result was a massive collection of notes, documents, and recordings, all of which found their way into the Library of Congress. Co-produced by the Library and the HBO cable channel, Unchained Memories: Readings From the Slave Narratives features a truly impressive array of black performers sharing the reminiscences of those who lived under the yoke of slavery. Directors Ed Bell and Thomas Lennon complement the words with vivid images culled from contemporary photographs of the years 1850-1935.

Unchained Memories will be screening in the Herbert T. Williams Gallery throughout The Whipping Post exhibition. Come sit for a moment with 'elders' and listen to this stunning collection of slave stories.

Jazz in the Square
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Seaflight

Price: Free
Clinton Square Second Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

Jazz in the Square
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Grant Cooper, conductor
Featuring Nancy Kelly and Ronnie Leigh, vocalists

Price: Free
Clinton Square
Downtown, Syracuse

Jazz in the Square
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Seaflight

Price: Free
Clinton Square Second Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

Manuscript Launch for Poet Lenore DeCerce
Contemporary Gallery

Price: Free
Contemporary Gallery
230 Harrison St., Syracuse

Threat of Pleasure
Redhouse
Featuring Philip Memmer

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

The Redhouse will host a celebration in honor of the release of poet Philip Memmer's newest collection of poems, Threat of Pleasure. The book was published by Word Press in June of this year. The event will include a reception and reading by the poet.

Hello: My Name is Death
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive murder-mystery dinner theater.

Disney's High School Musical
The Talent Company
Christine Lightcap, director

Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The Talent Company brings its January 2007 SRO smash hit Disney's High School Musical back. Three of its stars, Tim Quartier, who reprises his role as Troy Bolton; Ana Thornton, reprising her role as Gabriella Montez; and Danielle Lovier, who will portray Sharpay Evans; were multiple award winners at the '07 and '08 SALTY and SALT Awards ceremonies.

The show follows the antics of East High students as they audition for the school musical, compete in a scholastic decathlon, and play the championship basketball game. Troy, captain of the basketball team, and Gabriella, the brainy, shy new girl at school, surprise themselves and others by trying out for the lead roles in the musical. They face the objections of Sharpay, the thespian queen and president of the drama club, and Ryan, her brother and vice-president of the drama club, who covet the roles for themselves, and friends Chad, number two on the Wildcats Basketball Team, and Taylor, president of the scholastic club, who want Troy and Gabriella to stick to what they do best -- basketball and academics.

The stage version features the original musical score including "The Start Of Something New," "We're All In This Together," "Get'cha Head In The Game," "Stick To The Status Quo," "Bop To The Top," "When There Was Me And You," "What I've Been Looking For" and "Breaking Free," plus three new songs, "Cellular Fusion," "Counting On You," and the song, not in the movie but heard on a bonus track of the original cast recording, entitled "I Can't Take My Eyes Off of You."

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Friday, July 25, 2008

Lost and Found
Center for New Americans

Price: Free
Center for New Americans
503 N. Prospect Ave., Syracuse

The exhibit features artifacts, artwork, family heirlooms, poems and other objects that tell the stories of loss and discovery which form a major part of the refugee experience. The refugees featured in the exhibit come from Vietnam, Burma, Sudan and Cuba.

Invasion! The Culture of Fear in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This student-curated exhibition illustrates the concept of fear in the United States. The students, members of the Renee Crown University Honors Program taking the Spring 2008 course American Fear, felt that the theme of "invasion" underlies many of our historical anxieties relating to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and a host of other issues. The idea that different people, aliens or even epidemics, like the AIDS virus during the 1980s, might infiltrate society and bring about sweeping change has been cause for extreme fear in the American experience. The exhibition raises questions of identity, and the class hopes that visitors will "understand their differences and be less discriminating in their actions."

Among the exhibited works that illuminate the roots of our culture of fear are a 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan," Cotton Mather's 1693 account of the Salem Witch trials, the literature of the Red Scare, a variety of pulp science fiction magazines and Werner Pfeiffer's sculptural tribute to the victims of 9/11 "Out of the Sky."

Survivors' Art Exhibit
Westcott Community Center

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

Survivors' Art Exhibit includes 27 individual posters and one collaborative collage, all of which celebrate the power of artistic creativity as a tool for healing. Exhibit participants include women, teens and children who are victims of domestic or sexual violence. Using various mediums, each survivor has transformed very personal experiences into compelling images for public display. Each piece incorporates a colorful, digitally stylized rendering of the artist's original image, printed on 100% cotton art stock using archival inks, and strikingly framed. All posters are available for sale to benefit the mission and services of Vera House.

A Lot on Your Plate
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

An exhibit of ceramic plates designed by 14 area artists.

The Whipping Post: Photos by Brantley Carroll
Community Folk Art Center

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

Blending historical images and engravings or text, Brantley Carroll's exhibition explores the legacy of The Middle Passage and the American Plantation System of Slavery in the United States. The exhibition engages the viewer in a visual tête-à-tête with colonial slavery and starkly captures the instrumentation of abuses that slaves endured. Each photograph draws you in to witness and read the digitally interwoven images and text taken from antebellum slave auctions, warrants, historical maps and documents.

In a piece entitled Thomas Jefferson's Slave Sally Hemmings, a young woman looks out beyond the words and signatures pearled together to constitute the foundation of a country. This piece holds a special significance to the artist, amongst commonly recognized filigree marks -- Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, and Benjamin Franklin -- is a Charles Carroll, the artist's great, great, great-grandfather. "My father, Walter Carroll was reportedly very ashamed when as a young man he learned that he was the descendant of Charles Carroll. Carroll was a founding father and signer of the Declaration of Independence. An Irish Catholic immigrant, Carroll became a wealthy landowner in Maryland who founded the first industrial Iron Works in Baltimore and owned a large tobacco plantation. He owned one thousand slaves."

Artist Brantley Carroll contends, "that a nation, like an individual, must face its sins and make amends if it is to move toward greatness and enlightenment. It is the goal of my work to more fully understand and educate people about what the sins and realities of slavery and more importantly how its legacy pervades today."

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

H2ONY
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Juried exhibition of water themed works by New York State artists.

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

Works by Carol Adamec, Cheri Haring, and Barbara Schramm
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New exhibit featuring artists Carol Adamec (sculpture), Cheri Haring (pottery) and Barbara Schramm (traditional and trompe l'oeil painting).

Whimsy: Celebrating the Power of 'Why Not'?
Contemporary Gallery

Price: Free
Contemporary Gallery
230 Harrison St., Syracuse

A closing reception will be held from 5:00 - 8:00 pm.

The art featured in Whimsy: Celebrating the Power of 'Why Not?' includes art books, drawings, fabric art, film, illustration, installation art, intaglio prints, works in mixed media, paintings, photo etchings, photography, sculpture, and video art. The majority of artists represented come from the New York State area. The theme "whimsy" is inspired by its definition: 1. The quality of being quaint, odd, or playfully humorous, especially in an endearing way; 2. An idea that has no immediately obvious reason to exist. Since the gallery itself was created on a whim as a labor of love, it seemed appropriate for the theme of the exhibition to exemplify these characteristics.

The Object and Beyond: 2008 Everson Biennial
Everson Museum of Art

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

In celebration of the 2008 Everson Biennial the Everson has devoted the entire second floor of the Museum to the display of current artwork created by artists from the Central New York region. This year's call for entries elicited a strong response from artists of all ages and diverse practices. More than 266 artists residing in the Central New York region submitted more than 1,000 works for consideration by juror Edward Winkleman. Winkleman is an independent curator and director of Winkleman Gallery in Chelsea, New York who specializes in contemporary art. He selected works by 55 artists for the exhibition which will occupy all four galleries on the second floor of the Museum.

Artists represented in the exhibition are diverse in their practices as well as their techniques, materials, and presentation. Winkleman's eye was on the look out for fine quality and craftsmanship and his goal was to showcase the broad spectrum of artwork being produced in the Central New York community from traditional to conceptual art.

ADA: An Exceptional Exhibition in Celebration of the Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Syracuse Ceramic Guild: 2008 Juried Exhibition
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Syracuse Ceramic Guild: 2008 Juried Exhibition presents new functional and non-functional work in clay involving a variety of clay bodies, construction, glazing and firing techniques, all of which were selected by Jo Buffalo, a local ceramic artist who has been a professor of art at Cazenovia College for 23 years.

Art Demonstations

Price: Free
300 Block of E. Onondaga St.
Syracuse

12:00-2:00 pm: Plein Aire Demonstration
Local artist and instructor Sharon Blair will share tips and tricks of painting in the great outdoors, in all types of weather, from bringing the right tools to redesigning in mid-painting.

3:00-5:00 pm: Stone Carving Demonstration
Tom Huff is a stone sculptor working in a variety fo stones, styles, and themes. In much of his work, Huff addresses the current Native American situation by making cultural, stereotypical, political, and autobiographical elements. Watch as he pulls the spirit hidden inside the stone and releases its image to the world.

Other Options
Redhouse

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

Other Options is a traveling and evolving exhibition which features artists' projects which re-interpret, alter and create infrastructure that affect their everyday lives. In an attempt to explore the nature of such flaws and contradictions in the nonprofit system such as the way these organizations are made to function in society, Other Options asks the question: How does the current matrix of specific regulations and compliances to which non-profit organizations are forced to adhere, affect the creative output, imagination, and flexibility of such organizations?

Other Options includes work by Forays (Montreal/New York City), Josh Greene (San Francisco, CA), Material Exchange (Chicago, IL), Mikey Merrill (Portland, OR), Phil Orr/Ryan Thompson (Urbana-Champaign, IL), ReTool (Pittsburgh, PA), and Joanna Spitzner (Syracuse, NY).

Syracuse Arts and Crafts Festival

Price: Free
Columbus Circle
Jefferson and Montgomery Sts., Syracuse

Ukrainian Festival

Price: Free
St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church
207 Tompkins St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-478-5109.

Unchained Memories: Readings from Slave Narratives
Community Folk Art Center

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

In the early 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project mounted a project to transcribe the memories of former African-American slaves who were still living. The result was a massive collection of notes, documents, and recordings, all of which found their way into the Library of Congress. Co-produced by the Library and the HBO cable channel, Unchained Memories: Readings From the Slave Narratives features a truly impressive array of black performers sharing the reminiscences of those who lived under the yoke of slavery. Directors Ed Bell and Thomas Lennon complement the words with vivid images culled from contemporary photographs of the years 1850-1935.

Unchained Memories will be screening in the Herbert T. Williams Gallery throughout The Whipping Post exhibition. Come sit for a moment with 'elders' and listen to this stunning collection of slave stories.

South Side Film Festival: Catch a Fire

Price: Free
Key Bank (downtown) parking lot
Corner of Washington and Montgomery St., Syracuse

Jazz in the Square
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
State Street Band

Price: Free
Clinton Square Second Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

Jazz in the Square
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Funk Gotham

Price: Free
Hanover Square
Downtown Syracuse, Syracuse

Jazz in the Square
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Blues Brother "Bones" Malone and His Briefcase Full of Blues

Price: Free
Clinton Square Main Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

Dancing Under the Stars

Price: Free
Meachem Field
121 W. Seneca Tpke., Syracuse

Dancing Under the Stars
Featuring Stan Colella Orchestra

Price: Free
Sunnycrest Rink
Sunnycrest Park, Syracuse

Jazz in the Square
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Turnip Stampede

Price: Free
Hanover Square
Downtown Syracuse, Syracuse

Jazz in the Square
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
The Element

Price: Free
Clinton Square Second Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

Jazz in the Square: Then, Now & Again
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
CNY Jazz Orchestra

Price: Free
Clinton Square Main Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

Jazz in the Square
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Sophistafunk

Price: Free
Hanover Square
Downtown Syracuse, Syracuse

Jazz in the Square
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
The Element

Price: Free
Clinton Square Second Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

Jazz in the Square: Tribute to Hilton Ruiz and Mario Rivera
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Latin Jazz All Stars
Featuring Arturo O'Farrill and Claudio Roditi

Price: Free
Clinton Square Main Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

Jazz in the Square
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Late Night Jam Session

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

Summer Youth Musical: The Sound of Music
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

Price: $10 adults; $5 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Disney's High School Musical
The Talent Company
Christine Lightcap, director

Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The Talent Company brings its January 2007 SRO smash hit Disney's High School Musical back. Three of its stars, Tim Quartier, who reprises his role as Troy Bolton; Ana Thornton, reprising her role as Gabriella Montez; and Danielle Lovier, who will portray Sharpay Evans; were multiple award winners at the '07 and '08 SALTY and SALT Awards ceremonies.

The show follows the antics of East High students as they audition for the school musical, compete in a scholastic decathlon, and play the championship basketball game. Troy, captain of the basketball team, and Gabriella, the brainy, shy new girl at school, surprise themselves and others by trying out for the lead roles in the musical. They face the objections of Sharpay, the thespian queen and president of the drama club, and Ryan, her brother and vice-president of the drama club, who covet the roles for themselves, and friends Chad, number two on the Wildcats Basketball Team, and Taylor, president of the scholastic club, who want Troy and Gabriella to stick to what they do best -- basketball and academics.

The stage version features the original musical score including "The Start Of Something New," "We're All In This Together," "Get'cha Head In The Game," "Stick To The Status Quo," "Bop To The Top," "When There Was Me And You," "What I've Been Looking For" and "Breaking Free," plus three new songs, "Cellular Fusion," "Counting On You," and the song, not in the movie but heard on a bonus track of the original cast recording, entitled "I Can't Take My Eyes Off of You."

Read a review!

Friday Night Live
Redhouse

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

Friday Night Live from Redhouse is an improvisational comedy show similar to the hit television series Whose Line Is It Anyway? The troupe of six seasoned actors will perform a series of games and scenarios based on audience suggestion and participation. Friday Night Live is the brainchild of Tim Mahar and Laura Austin, both products of Second City. The troupe also includes the following wildly talented individuals: Emily Kronenberg, Mike Borden, Andy Friedson, Kate Walsh and radio personality Glen Gomez Adams who will host the show.

Saturday, July 26, 2008

A Lot on Your Plate
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

An exhibit of ceramic plates designed by 14 area artists.

The Object and Beyond: 2008 Everson Biennial
Everson Museum of Art

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

In celebration of the 2008 Everson Biennial the Everson has devoted the entire second floor of the Museum to the display of current artwork created by artists from the Central New York region. This year's call for entries elicited a strong response from artists of all ages and diverse practices. More than 266 artists residing in the Central New York region submitted more than 1,000 works for consideration by juror Edward Winkleman. Winkleman is an independent curator and director of Winkleman Gallery in Chelsea, New York who specializes in contemporary art. He selected works by 55 artists for the exhibition which will occupy all four galleries on the second floor of the Museum.

Artists represented in the exhibition are diverse in their practices as well as their techniques, materials, and presentation. Winkleman's eye was on the look out for fine quality and craftsmanship and his goal was to showcase the broad spectrum of artwork being produced in the Central New York community from traditional to conceptual art.

Syracuse Ceramic Guild: 2008 Juried Exhibition
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Syracuse Ceramic Guild: 2008 Juried Exhibition presents new functional and non-functional work in clay involving a variety of clay bodies, construction, glazing and firing techniques, all of which were selected by Jo Buffalo, a local ceramic artist who has been a professor of art at Cazenovia College for 23 years.

ADA: An Exceptional Exhibition in Celebration of the Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

H2ONY
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Juried exhibition of water themed works by New York State artists.

Works by Carol Adamec, Cheri Haring, and Barbara Schramm
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New exhibit featuring artists Carol Adamec (sculpture), Cheri Haring (pottery) and Barbara Schramm (traditional and trompe l'oeil painting).

The Whipping Post: Photos by Brantley Carroll
Community Folk Art Center

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

Blending historical images and engravings or text, Brantley Carroll's exhibition explores the legacy of The Middle Passage and the American Plantation System of Slavery in the United States. The exhibition engages the viewer in a visual tête-à-tête with colonial slavery and starkly captures the instrumentation of abuses that slaves endured. Each photograph draws you in to witness and read the digitally interwoven images and text taken from antebellum slave auctions, warrants, historical maps and documents.

In a piece entitled Thomas Jefferson's Slave Sally Hemmings, a young woman looks out beyond the words and signatures pearled together to constitute the foundation of a country. This piece holds a special significance to the artist, amongst commonly recognized filigree marks -- Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, and Benjamin Franklin -- is a Charles Carroll, the artist's great, great, great-grandfather. "My father, Walter Carroll was reportedly very ashamed when as a young man he learned that he was the descendant of Charles Carroll. Carroll was a founding father and signer of the Declaration of Independence. An Irish Catholic immigrant, Carroll became a wealthy landowner in Maryland who founded the first industrial Iron Works in Baltimore and owned a large tobacco plantation. He owned one thousand slaves."

Artist Brantley Carroll contends, "that a nation, like an individual, must face its sins and make amends if it is to move toward greatness and enlightenment. It is the goal of my work to more fully understand and educate people about what the sins and realities of slavery and more importantly how its legacy pervades today."

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

Art Demonstations

Price: Free
300 Block of E. Onondaga St.
Syracuse

12:00-2:00 pm: Creating with Spirit Demonstration
Sandra Fiormonti, owner/director of the Liverpool Arts Center, began Spirit Painting as a form of meditation. She has used this method to release emotional blocks such as self-doubt, grief, and anger. Experience the passion, the energy, and the expression of emotion on canvas by watching Fiormonti create with Spirit.

3:00-5:00 pm: Mixed Media Mayhem Demonstration
Local artist and instructor Sharon Blair will break the rules once again by taking traditional mediums and techniques and tweaking them to fit her own sense of style. Using everything from acrylics, oils, and the new Pan Pastel, she will create and rework her art in ways you need to see to believe.

ArtsWeek Interactive Events

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

"The Hand," A Tectonic Sculpture: Brendan Gabriel Rose, an SU graduate architecture student, will lead a team of artists, students, and community members in the design and construction of a new public art installation. The Hand, made of concrete, wood, and steel, symbolizes Syracuse's emerging artistic renaissance.

Oh Snap! Photo Booth: With cameras often a barrier between the photographer and the subject, Maarten Jacob's mobile photo booth removes this obstacle, making the subject the photographer. By capturing candid, honest, and lively portraits of people along the ArtsWeek corridor, visitors will become interwoven into the spirit of ArtsWeek.

ArtsWeek 'Zine: Urban Art Rangers, directed by Joanna Spitzner, will be dispatched around the festival gathering stories from exhibiting artists, strolling musicians, and people attending ArtsWeek to create an art newspaper that captures the experience of the festival. Everyone is encouraged to help write the stories, take the pictures, and create drawings.

Redhouse Community Mapping, A People's Atlas: Syracuse is a place where people come from, move through, and where people settle. Maps shape the landscape of an area and are visual tools for sharing with others. Maps are never stagnant but change as boundaries shift, populations rise and fall, and ideas are shared. Visitors to ArtsWeek can help create maps of Syracuse by drawing visual stories of memories and lost histories that have shaped the perception of the people who live, work, visit, and play in Syracuse.

Th3 Community Mural Project: Artist Michael Berman will have multimedia workstations for adults and children to paint and collage murals and other objects. Some work will be included in the Onondaga Historical Association Museum's September exhibit, Exploring History with Art: Childhood Through the Years.

Park(ing) Day: In honor of National Park(ing) day on Fri., Sept. 19, the fear factory and the 40 Below Public Arts Task Force will offer a preview of a performance art installation that helps us to rethink how space is used in urban areas. Rather than using a parking spot to store a car, concrete and asphalt are replaced with grass, trees, shrubs, and a sitting area creating an urban oasis. Visitors can take a moment to relax with friends and be inspired to think about the space we call Syracuse.

Syracuse Arts and Crafts Festival

Price: Free
Columbus Circle
Jefferson and Montgomery Sts., Syracuse

Ukrainian Festival

Price: Free
St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church
207 Tompkins St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-478-5109.

Unchained Memories: Readings from Slave Narratives
Community Folk Art Center

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

In the early 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project mounted a project to transcribe the memories of former African-American slaves who were still living. The result was a massive collection of notes, documents, and recordings, all of which found their way into the Library of Congress. Co-produced by the Library and the HBO cable channel, Unchained Memories: Readings From the Slave Narratives features a truly impressive array of black performers sharing the reminiscences of those who lived under the yoke of slavery. Directors Ed Bell and Thomas Lennon complement the words with vivid images culled from contemporary photographs of the years 1850-1935.

Unchained Memories will be screening in the Herbert T. Williams Gallery throughout The Whipping Post exhibition. Come sit for a moment with 'elders' and listen to this stunning collection of slave stories.

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

Price: Free
Clinton Square Main Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

Jazz in the Square Scholastic Festival
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Fayetteville Manlius Combo

Price: Free
Clinton Square Main Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

Jazz in the Square Scholastic Festival
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Rome YMCA Center for the Creative Arts Band

Price: Free
Clinton Square Main Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

Syracuse Symphony String Quartet
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra

Price: Free
Beauchamp Public Library
Corner S. Salina & Colvin Sts., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-435-3395.

Jazz in the Square Scholastic Festival
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Liverpool Combo

Price: Free
Clinton Square Main Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

Jazz in the Square
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Jeff Bujak

Price: Free
Hanover Square
Downtown Syracuse, Syracuse

Jazz in the Square
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
The Fabulous Ripcords

Price: Free
Clinton Square Second Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

Jazz in the Square
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Noah Kellman's National Youth Jazz Sextet

Price: Free
Clinton Square Main Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

Jazz in the Square
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Dark Hollow

Price: Free
Hanover Square
Downtown Syracuse, Syracuse

Jazz in the Square
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Alex Torres and His Latin Orchestra

Price: Free
Clinton Square Second Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

Jazz in the Square
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Pamela Williams, The "Saxtress"

Price: Free
Clinton Square Main Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

Jazz in the Square
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
On the Sly

Price: Free
Hanover Square
Downtown Syracuse, Syracuse

Jazz in the Square
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Alex Torres and His Latin Orchestra

Price: Free
Clinton Square Second Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

Jazz in the Square
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
The Curtis Fuller Super Band
Featuring Randy Brecker and Jason Marsalis

Price: Free
Clinton Square Main Stage
Downtown, Syracuse

Jazz in the Square
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Late Night Jam Session

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

Disney's High School Musical
The Talent Company
Christine Lightcap, director

Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The Talent Company brings its January 2007 SRO smash hit Disney's High School Musical back. Three of its stars, Tim Quartier, who reprises his role as Troy Bolton; Ana Thornton, reprising her role as Gabriella Montez; and Danielle Lovier, who will portray Sharpay Evans; were multiple award winners at the '07 and '08 SALTY and SALT Awards ceremonies.

The show follows the antics of East High students as they audition for the school musical, compete in a scholastic decathlon, and play the championship basketball game. Troy, captain of the basketball team, and Gabriella, the brainy, shy new girl at school, surprise themselves and others by trying out for the lead roles in the musical. They face the objections of Sharpay, the thespian queen and president of the drama club, and Ryan, her brother and vice-president of the drama club, who covet the roles for themselves, and friends Chad, number two on the Wildcats Basketball Team, and Taylor, president of the scholastic club, who want Troy and Gabriella to stick to what they do best -- basketball and academics.

The stage version features the original musical score including "The Start Of Something New," "We're All In This Together," "Get'cha Head In The Game," "Stick To The Status Quo," "Bop To The Top," "When There Was Me And You," "What I've Been Looking For" and "Breaking Free," plus three new songs, "Cellular Fusion," "Counting On You," and the song, not in the movie but heard on a bonus track of the original cast recording, entitled "I Can't Take My Eyes Off of You."

Read a review!

Summer Youth Musical: The Sound of Music
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

Price: $10 adults; $5 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Disney's High School Musical
The Talent Company
Christine Lightcap, director

Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The Talent Company brings its January 2007 SRO smash hit Disney's High School Musical back. Three of its stars, Tim Quartier, who reprises his role as Troy Bolton; Ana Thornton, reprising her role as Gabriella Montez; and Danielle Lovier, who will portray Sharpay Evans; were multiple award winners at the '07 and '08 SALTY and SALT Awards ceremonies.

The show follows the antics of East High students as they audition for the school musical, compete in a scholastic decathlon, and play the championship basketball game. Troy, captain of the basketball team, and Gabriella, the brainy, shy new girl at school, surprise themselves and others by trying out for the lead roles in the musical. They face the objections of Sharpay, the thespian queen and president of the drama club, and Ryan, her brother and vice-president of the drama club, who covet the roles for themselves, and friends Chad, number two on the Wildcats Basketball Team, and Taylor, president of the scholastic club, who want Troy and Gabriella to stick to what they do best -- basketball and academics.

The stage version features the original musical score including "The Start Of Something New," "We're All In This Together," "Get'cha Head In The Game," "Stick To The Status Quo," "Bop To The Top," "When There Was Me And You," "What I've Been Looking For" and "Breaking Free," plus three new songs, "Cellular Fusion," "Counting On You," and the song, not in the movie but heard on a bonus track of the original cast recording, entitled "I Can't Take My Eyes Off of You."

Read a review!

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

Exploring History With Art: Work!
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The third art exhibition in the series features occupations and places of work. Appropriately titled "Occupations & Places of Work," the exhibition showcases paintings illustrating different occupations and places of work in Onondaga County through the years.

Inside the exhibit gallery you'll see Onondaga Pottery, Comfort Tyler's Tavern, Good Shepherd Hospital, salt towers, and several others depicting the diverse places to work in Onondaga County from the early 19th through the late 20th centuries.

Works by Carol Adamec, Cheri Haring, and Barbara Schramm
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New exhibit featuring artists Carol Adamec (sculpture), Cheri Haring (pottery) and Barbara Schramm (traditional and trompe l'oeil painting).

ADA: An Exceptional Exhibition in Celebration of the Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Syracuse Ceramic Guild: 2008 Juried Exhibition
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Syracuse Ceramic Guild: 2008 Juried Exhibition presents new functional and non-functional work in clay involving a variety of clay bodies, construction, glazing and firing techniques, all of which were selected by Jo Buffalo, a local ceramic artist who has been a professor of art at Cazenovia College for 23 years.

The Object and Beyond: 2008 Everson Biennial
Everson Museum of Art

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

In celebration of the 2008 Everson Biennial the Everson has devoted the entire second floor of the Museum to the display of current artwork created by artists from the Central New York region. This year's call for entries elicited a strong response from artists of all ages and diverse practices. More than 266 artists residing in the Central New York region submitted more than 1,000 works for consideration by juror Edward Winkleman. Winkleman is an independent curator and director of Winkleman Gallery in Chelsea, New York who specializes in contemporary art. He selected works by 55 artists for the exhibition which will occupy all four galleries on the second floor of the Museum.

Artists represented in the exhibition are diverse in their practices as well as their techniques, materials, and presentation. Winkleman's eye was on the look out for fine quality and craftsmanship and his goal was to showcase the broad spectrum of artwork being produced in the Central New York community from traditional to conceptual art.

Art Demonstations

Price: Free
300 Block of E. Onondaga St.
Syracuse

12:00-2:00 pm: Mixed Method Block Printing Demonstration
Local printmaker Emily Bender will demonstrate the ancient art form of block printing. Always open to exploration and inclusion of diverse media, Bender will illustrate a variety of techniques for carving and printing with wood, linoleum, and even potatoes.

3:00-5:00 pm: Assemblage Demonstration
Sam Jenks, local artist and recent SU graduate, will demonstrate hsi unique style of art. There are no words that truly define him. Watch him subtly create thought-provoking art by reinventing found objects and salvages.

Syracuse Arts and Crafts Festival

Price: Free
Columbus Circle
Jefferson and Montgomery Sts., Syracuse

Southwest Showcase Sunday: Shekinah Sunday
Featuring Foundation and various gospel groups

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

For more information, go to www.showcasesundays.com.

Disney's High School Musical
The Talent Company
Christine Lightcap, director

Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The Talent Company brings its January 2007 SRO smash hit Disney's High School Musical back. Three of its stars, Tim Quartier, who reprises his role as Troy Bolton; Ana Thornton, reprising her role as Gabriella Montez; and Danielle Lovier, who will portray Sharpay Evans; were multiple award winners at the '07 and '08 SALTY and SALT Awards ceremonies.

The show follows the antics of East High students as they audition for the school musical, compete in a scholastic decathlon, and play the championship basketball game. Troy, captain of the basketball team, and Gabriella, the brainy, shy new girl at school, surprise themselves and others by trying out for the lead roles in the musical. They face the objections of Sharpay, the thespian queen and president of the drama club, and Ryan, her brother and vice-president of the drama club, who covet the roles for themselves, and friends Chad, number two on the Wildcats Basketball Team, and Taylor, president of the scholastic club, who want Troy and Gabriella to stick to what they do best -- basketball and academics.

The stage version features the original musical score including "The Start Of Something New," "We're All In This Together," "Get'cha Head In The Game," "Stick To The Status Quo," "Bop To The Top," "When There Was Me And You," "What I've Been Looking For" and "Breaking Free," plus three new songs, "Cellular Fusion," "Counting On You," and the song, not in the movie but heard on a bonus track of the original cast recording, entitled "I Can't Take My Eyes Off of You."

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Summer Youth Musical: The Sound of Music
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild

Price: $10 adults; $5 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Monday, July 28, 2008

Lost and Found
Center for New Americans

Price: Free
Center for New Americans
503 N. Prospect Ave., Syracuse

The exhibit features artifacts, artwork, family heirlooms, poems and other objects that tell the stories of loss and discovery which form a major part of the refugee experience. The refugees featured in the exhibit come from Vietnam, Burma, Sudan and Cuba.

Invasion! The Culture of Fear in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This student-curated exhibition illustrates the concept of fear in the United States. The students, members of the Renee Crown University Honors Program taking the Spring 2008 course American Fear, felt that the theme of "invasion" underlies many of our historical anxieties relating to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and a host of other issues. The idea that different people, aliens or even epidemics, like the AIDS virus during the 1980s, might infiltrate society and bring about sweeping change has been cause for extreme fear in the American experience. The exhibition raises questions of identity, and the class hopes that visitors will "understand their differences and be less discriminating in their actions."

Among the exhibited works that illuminate the roots of our culture of fear are a 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan," Cotton Mather's 1693 account of the Salem Witch trials, the literature of the Red Scare, a variety of pulp science fiction magazines and Werner Pfeiffer's sculptural tribute to the victims of 9/11 "Out of the Sky."

Survivors' Art Exhibit
Westcott Community Center

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

Survivors' Art Exhibit includes 27 individual posters and one collaborative collage, all of which celebrate the power of artistic creativity as a tool for healing. Exhibit participants include women, teens and children who are victims of domestic or sexual violence. Using various mediums, each survivor has transformed very personal experiences into compelling images for public display. Each piece incorporates a colorful, digitally stylized rendering of the artist's original image, printed on 100% cotton art stock using archival inks, and strikingly framed. All posters are available for sale to benefit the mission and services of Vera House.

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

H2ONY
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Juried exhibition of water themed works by New York State artists.

Works by Carol Adamec, Cheri Haring, and Barbara Schramm
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New exhibit featuring artists Carol Adamec (sculpture), Cheri Haring (pottery) and Barbara Schramm (traditional and trompe l'oeil painting).

Entourage
Liverpool is the Place

Price: Free
Johnson Park
Corner of Vine and Oswego Streets, Liverpool

A rockin' dance band, complete with horn section.
Rain date: Tues., July 29

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Lost and Found
Center for New Americans

Price: Free
Center for New Americans
503 N. Prospect Ave., Syracuse

The exhibit features artifacts, artwork, family heirlooms, poems and other objects that tell the stories of loss and discovery which form a major part of the refugee experience. The refugees featured in the exhibit come from Vietnam, Burma, Sudan and Cuba.

Invasion! The Culture of Fear in America
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

This student-curated exhibition illustrates the concept of fear in the United States. The students, members of the Renee Crown University Honors Program taking the Spring 2008 course American Fear, felt that the theme of "invasion" underlies many of our historical anxieties relating to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and a host of other issues. The idea that different people, aliens or even epidemics, like the AIDS virus during the 1980s, might infiltrate society and bring about sweeping change has been cause for extreme fear in the American experience. The exhibition raises questions of identity, and the class hopes that visitors will "understand their differences and be less discriminating in their actions."

Among the exhibited works that illuminate the roots of our culture of fear are a 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan," Cotton Mather's 1693 account of the Salem Witch trials, the literature of the Red Scare, a variety of pulp science fiction magazines and Werner Pfeiffer's sculptural tribute to the victims of 9/11 "Out of the Sky."

Survivors' Art Exhibit
Westcott Community Center

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

Survivors' Art Exhibit includes 27 individual posters and one collaborative collage, all of which celebrate the power of artistic creativity as a tool for healing. Exhibit participants include women, teens and children who are victims of domestic or sexual violence. Using various mediums, each survivor has transformed very personal experiences into compelling images for public display. Each piece incorporates a colorful, digitally stylized rendering of the artist's original image, printed on 100% cotton art stock using archival inks, and strikingly framed. All posters are available for sale to benefit the mission and services of Vera House.

A Lot on Your Plate
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

An exhibit of ceramic plates designed by 14 area artists.

The Whipping Post: Photos by Brantley Carroll
Community Folk Art Center

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

Blending historical images and engravings or text, Brantley Carroll's exhibition explores the legacy of The Middle Passage and the American Plantation System of Slavery in the United States. The exhibition engages the viewer in a visual tête-à-tête with colonial slavery and starkly captures the instrumentation of abuses that slaves endured. Each photograph draws you in to witness and read the digitally interwoven images and text taken from antebellum slave auctions, warrants, historical maps and documents.

In a piece entitled Thomas Jefferson's Slave Sally Hemmings, a young woman looks out beyond the words and signatures pearled together to constitute the foundation of a country. This piece holds a special significance to the artist, amongst commonly recognized filigree marks -- Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, and Benjamin Franklin -- is a Charles Carroll, the artist's great, great, great-grandfather. "My father, Walter Carroll was reportedly very ashamed when as a young man he learned that he was the descendant of Charles Carroll. Carroll was a founding father and signer of the Declaration of Independence. An Irish Catholic immigrant, Carroll became a wealthy landowner in Maryland who founded the first industrial Iron Works in Baltimore and owned a large tobacco plantation. He owned one thousand slaves."

Artist Brantley Carroll contends, "that a nation, like an individual, must face its sins and make amends if it is to move toward greatness and enlightenment. It is the goal of my work to more fully understand and educate people about what the sins and realities of slavery and more importantly how its legacy pervades today."

Blake Fitch: The Expectations of Adolescence
Light Work Gallery

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

Blake Fitch's photographs capture her sister, cousin, and friends as they have grown from children to young adults. Fitch has been able to draw on the autobiographical nature of photography by creating candid and intimate images of her family.

H2ONY
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Juried exhibition of water themed works by New York State artists.

Works by Carol Adamec, Cheri Haring, and Barbara Schramm
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New exhibit featuring artists Carol Adamec (sculpture), Cheri Haring (pottery) and Barbara Schramm (traditional and trompe l'oeil painting).

The Object and Beyond: 2008 Everson Biennial
Everson Museum of Art

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

In celebration of the 2008 Everson Biennial the Everson has devoted the entire second floor of the Museum to the display of current artwork created by artists from the Central New York region. This year's call for entries elicited a strong response from artists of all ages and diverse practices. More than 266 artists residing in the Central New York region submitted more than 1,000 works for consideration by juror Edward Winkleman. Winkleman is an independent curator and director of Winkleman Gallery in Chelsea, New York who specializes in contemporary art. He selected works by 55 artists for the exhibition which will occupy all four galleries on the second floor of the Museum.

Artists represented in the exhibition are diverse in their practices as well as their techniques, materials, and presentation. Winkleman's eye was on the look out for fine quality and craftsmanship and his goal was to showcase the broad spectrum of artwork being produced in the Central New York community from traditional to conceptual art.

Syracuse Ceramic Guild: 2008 Juried Exhibition
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Syracuse Ceramic Guild: 2008 Juried Exhibition presents new functional and non-functional work in clay involving a variety of clay bodies, construction, glazing and firing techniques, all of which were selected by Jo Buffalo, a local ceramic artist who has been a professor of art at Cazenovia College for 23 years.

ADA: An Exceptional Exhibition in Celebration of the Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Unchained Memories: Readings from Slave Narratives
Community Folk Art Center

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

In the early 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project mounted a project to transcribe the memories of former African-American slaves who were still living. The result was a massive collection of notes, documents, and recordings, all of which found their way into the Library of Congress. Co-produced by the Library and the HBO cable channel, Unchained Memories: Readings From the Slave Narratives features a truly impressive array of black performers sharing the reminiscences of those who lived under the yoke of slavery. Directors Ed Bell and Thomas Lennon complement the words with vivid images culled from contemporary photographs of the years 1850-1935.

Unchained Memories will be screening in the Herbert T. Williams Gallery throughout The Whipping Post exhibition. Come sit for a moment with 'elders' and listen to this stunning collection of slave stories.

Pops in the Park
Featuring Stan Colella Orchestra

Price: Free
Onondaga Park
Roberts Avenue, Syracuse