Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Visual Arts Showcase #59
CNY Arts

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

The Showcase features the work of area artists in a juried show. This season's work was selected
by Jennifer Pepper, Director of the Cazenovia College Gallery, and Wendy Harris, a working artist from Syracuse University.

Art from the CNY Region of the National League of American Pen Women

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

Works by 15 award-winning artists will be on display.

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

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.

Diane Menzies/Jane Daroskikh: Painting and Sculpture
Redhouse

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

Local artist Janie Darovskikh, lives in Skaneateles and is a figurative artist working in traditional sculpting methods such as carving, clay and wax modeling, plaster and bronze casting. She is the recipient of two Fulbright grants, the Suomalainen Perustus Grant, support from the New York Foundation on the Arts and numerous other awards. She exhibits in the United States and internationally. Her art has taken her to Kulusuk, Greenland; the Ural Mountains of Russia; Yangshuo, China; and to Finland, Sweden, Lithuania and Latvia. Jane is passionate about Nordic mythology, cultural exchange and her belief in art as an international language. "The process I use involves a constantly evolving search to learn, grow, exchange, feel and create. May the work tell a story of an adventure, a feeling, a dream or a journey."

Diane Menzies, also a local artist, lives in Jamesville, NY. The drawings selected for this exhibition are from a series entitled "The Passing." These mystifying drawings served as a cathartic expression of the joys and sorrows Menzies experienced while a hospice attendant for those dying of AIDS. When the works were exhibited at the Jean Cocteau Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, reviewer Diane Armitage wrote: "The gothic tension that Menzies creates might seem overwrought if not for the fact that her environmental concerns and melancholy response is right on target. Her psychological distress is not a bid for personal attention. It is, rather, a transpersonal sublimation of individual identity in favor of an emotional identification with torn bark, barren ground, and polluted air and water. Because of the careful way that Menzies limits her visual elements and establishes an air of stark abandonment, her mood of intense grieving appears as more than empty rhetoric."

Networked Nature
The Warehouse Gallery

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

"Networked Nature" uses innovative technology to combine art, science and politics. The group exhibition inventively explores the meaning and representation of "nature," from the perspective of networked culture. The featured works employ various scientific processes and locative media, such as global positioning systems (GPS) and robotics, and take the form of installations, video and sound art. Together, they make new contributions to the discourses of extant genres, such as sculpture, earth works and landscape imagery, while also demonstrating the scientific beauty and complexity of electronic and digital art.

"Networked Nature" was organized by Marisa Olson, Editor and Curator for Rhizome, a leading new media organization affiliated with the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Their programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways.

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.

The Collector's Gene: Passion, Devotion and Learning
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Collector's Gene: Passion, Devotion and Learning uses a diverse selection of nearly 100 objects from the permanent collection to illustrate the collecting interests of Cloud Wampler, Colonel John Fox, Dr. Henry and Nancy Rosin, and Ruth Reeves. Henry Rosin says, "My collecting began as a child when I'd gather up the bottle caps under the stands at semi-professional baseball games in Brooklyn." He later turned his interests towards Japan where, as an Air Force flight surgeon, he accumulated a large group of Japanese sword fittings and hand colored photographs. The three other individuals profiled in the exhibition share similar experiences. Cloud Wampler, best known locally as the past Chairman of Carrier Corporation, was passionate about master prints, John Fox, stationed in Korea with the Army, insisted that the best way to learn about Korean culture was to go out and visit shopkeepers and merchants. Ruth Reeves went to India in 1956 on a Fulbright fellowship to study local brass casting techniques. She collected a large number of brass objects and a rare group of clay ceremonial sculptures. The university saw the educational potential in the collection and agreed to purchase her collection in 1963.

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.

Survivor's Art: Images of Hope & Healing
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Survivor's Art is an exhibition initiated by Vera House, a community organization created to assist families in crises related to domestic and sexual violence. As part of their project, The Art of Caring, Vera House brings together gifted artists and a caring community. The exhibition offers hope and healing and celebrates the joy of the arts in our lives.

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

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

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

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

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

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

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

Selections from Silvano Campeggi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Point of Contact Gallery and the Redhouse. Each organization will be presenting works from a different period of renowned film poster artist, Silvano Campeggi.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Visual Arts Showcase #59
CNY Arts

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

The Showcase features the work of area artists in a juried show. This season's work was selected
by Jennifer Pepper, Director of the Cazenovia College Gallery, and Wendy Harris, a working artist from Syracuse University.

Art from the CNY Region of the National League of American Pen Women

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

Works by 15 award-winning artists will be on display.

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

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.

Diane Menzies/Jane Daroskikh: Painting and Sculpture
Redhouse

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

Local artist Janie Darovskikh, lives in Skaneateles and is a figurative artist working in traditional sculpting methods such as carving, clay and wax modeling, plaster and bronze casting. She is the recipient of two Fulbright grants, the Suomalainen Perustus Grant, support from the New York Foundation on the Arts and numerous other awards. She exhibits in the United States and internationally. Her art has taken her to Kulusuk, Greenland; the Ural Mountains of Russia; Yangshuo, China; and to Finland, Sweden, Lithuania and Latvia. Jane is passionate about Nordic mythology, cultural exchange and her belief in art as an international language. "The process I use involves a constantly evolving search to learn, grow, exchange, feel and create. May the work tell a story of an adventure, a feeling, a dream or a journey."

Diane Menzies, also a local artist, lives in Jamesville, NY. The drawings selected for this exhibition are from a series entitled "The Passing." These mystifying drawings served as a cathartic expression of the joys and sorrows Menzies experienced while a hospice attendant for those dying of AIDS. When the works were exhibited at the Jean Cocteau Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, reviewer Diane Armitage wrote: "The gothic tension that Menzies creates might seem overwrought if not for the fact that her environmental concerns and melancholy response is right on target. Her psychological distress is not a bid for personal attention. It is, rather, a transpersonal sublimation of individual identity in favor of an emotional identification with torn bark, barren ground, and polluted air and water. Because of the careful way that Menzies limits her visual elements and establishes an air of stark abandonment, her mood of intense grieving appears as more than empty rhetoric."

Networked Nature
The Warehouse Gallery

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

"Networked Nature" uses innovative technology to combine art, science and politics. The group exhibition inventively explores the meaning and representation of "nature," from the perspective of networked culture. The featured works employ various scientific processes and locative media, such as global positioning systems (GPS) and robotics, and take the form of installations, video and sound art. Together, they make new contributions to the discourses of extant genres, such as sculpture, earth works and landscape imagery, while also demonstrating the scientific beauty and complexity of electronic and digital art.

"Networked Nature" was organized by Marisa Olson, Editor and Curator for Rhizome, a leading new media organization affiliated with the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Their programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways.

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.

The Collector's Gene: Passion, Devotion and Learning
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Collector's Gene: Passion, Devotion and Learning uses a diverse selection of nearly 100 objects from the permanent collection to illustrate the collecting interests of Cloud Wampler, Colonel John Fox, Dr. Henry and Nancy Rosin, and Ruth Reeves. Henry Rosin says, "My collecting began as a child when I'd gather up the bottle caps under the stands at semi-professional baseball games in Brooklyn." He later turned his interests towards Japan where, as an Air Force flight surgeon, he accumulated a large group of Japanese sword fittings and hand colored photographs. The three other individuals profiled in the exhibition share similar experiences. Cloud Wampler, best known locally as the past Chairman of Carrier Corporation, was passionate about master prints, John Fox, stationed in Korea with the Army, insisted that the best way to learn about Korean culture was to go out and visit shopkeepers and merchants. Ruth Reeves went to India in 1956 on a Fulbright fellowship to study local brass casting techniques. She collected a large number of brass objects and a rare group of clay ceremonial sculptures. The university saw the educational potential in the collection and agreed to purchase her collection in 1963.

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.

Survivor's Art: Images of Hope & Healing
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Survivor's Art is an exhibition initiated by Vera House, a community organization created to assist families in crises related to domestic and sexual violence. As part of their project, The Art of Caring, Vera House brings together gifted artists and a caring community. The exhibition offers hope and healing and celebrates the joy of the arts in our lives.

Selections from Silvano Campeggi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Point of Contact Gallery and the Redhouse. Each organization will be presenting works from a different period of renowned film poster artist, Silvano Campeggi.

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

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

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

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

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

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

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

In the Blind Spot of a War: Images from the West Bank by photographer Stephen Shaner
The Arts Branch of the YMCA of Greater Syracuse

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Stephen Shaner, a Skaneateles native and former newspaper photojournalist, is currently working on a long-term documentary project in Israel and the Palestinian Territories which he began in 2002. The black-and-white photographs on display highlight Shaner's ongoing exploration of rural Palestinian villages existing in close proximity to Jewish settlements and outposts in the southern West Bank. Largely ignored in the mainstream media, these tiny communities are on the verge of extinction due to land confiscation, shifting borders, violence, and economic constraints.

Civic Morning Musicals
Dominick Corbaccio, tenor; Elizabeth Sutphen, mezzo soprano; Patricia DeAngelis, piano

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

Works by Bach, Handel, Tosti, William Bolcom, Samuel Barber, Brahms, and others
A junior at Bishop Ludden Jr/Sr High School, Dominick was recently accepted into the Italian 2007 Bel Canto Institute in Florence. He participated last summer in Boston University's Tanglewood Institute. In October 2006 he placed third in the Barbara Staropoli Vocal Competition at Nazareth College in Rochester, NY. He has studied voice with Dr. Eileen Strempel for two years, and has also studied piano for nine years. Dominick is quite active in cantering at local parishes including St. Charles Borromeo and Immaculate Heart of Mary. He was a member of the Syracuse Children's Chorus from 2000 to 2004. While in the choir, Dominick participated in the 2003 Children In Harmony Festival in Orlando Florida, and was a 2004 performance at the MENC in Minneapolis Minnesota. In 2003, he was accepted into the ACDA National Honor Choir for Men and Boys. A member of his high school's select chorus, and the Tri-M Music Honor Society, he has also filled lead roles in his schools spring musicals. Dominick plans to continue his study in voice, and actively pursue a career in opera and performance.

Elizabeth is a 16-year-old honor student at Manlius Pebble Hill School in DeWitt. She is a classical voice student of Eileen Strempel. Elizabeth has recently been the recipient of first or second place solo honors in the Central New York Music Teachers Association Classical Vocal Competition, the Barbara Staropoli Competition, the Heddy Killian Competition and the NATS Central New York Finger Lakes Chapter Competition. Named a finalist for the Classical Singers National High School Vocal Competition, she looks forward to the national competition in San Diego at the end of May. Elizabeth also enjoys choral singing and was a 7-year member of the Syracuse Children's Chorus. In 2006 she was selected to perform with the Honor Choir of ACDA at Carnegie Hall as well as with the All New York State High School Mixed Choir at the Eastman Theatre. Elizabeth studied music at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute last summer and excitedly anticipates continuing her vocal training this summer in Florence, Italy with the Bel Canto Institute.

Patricia DeAngelis holds the bachelor's and master's degrees in piano performance from Syracuse University, where, as an undergraduate, she held a full scholarship. As soloist and as a collaborative artist, she has performed throughout the eastern and southern U.S. with such groups as The Trio Dolce; the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, its principal players and Woodwind Quintet; the Colgate University Concert Orchestra and The Society for New Music. She has played in Carnegie (Weill) Recital Hall; Town Hall, and on NYC's classical music FM station WQXR and the summer music festivals of Blue Mountain Lake; the Old Forge Arts Guild; and the Skaneateles Festival. As dedicated teacher to piano enthusiasts of all ages, Patricia taught at Colgate University from 1979-1999 and has served on the faculties of L'Ecole Hindemith in Vevey, Switzerland; Onondaga Community College, and at LeMoyne College since 2004. Implementing a classical concert series in 2000 for OASIS, a learning center for older adults, she remains as the popular monthly series' volunteer coordinator.

John A. Weeks

Price: Free
Dewitt Community Library
Shoppingtown Mall, Dewitt

Author John A. Weeks, a contributor to The Nature of Things, the 5 minute spot on WRVO-FM 89.9 from 1982 to 2006, will talk about his 50-year career as a naturalist and discuss his book Nature's Quiet Conversations. Join us for a short talk and sample reading, followed by a Q & A session and book signing.

For more information, call the library at 315-446-3578.

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Visual Arts Showcase #59
CNY Arts

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

The Showcase features the work of area artists in a juried show. This season's work was selected
by Jennifer Pepper, Director of the Cazenovia College Gallery, and Wendy Harris, a working artist from Syracuse University.

In the Blind Spot of a War: Images from the West Bank by photographer Stephen Shaner
The Arts Branch of the YMCA of Greater Syracuse

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Stephen Shaner, a Skaneateles native and former newspaper photojournalist, is currently working on a long-term documentary project in Israel and the Palestinian Territories which he began in 2002. The black-and-white photographs on display highlight Shaner's ongoing exploration of rural Palestinian villages existing in close proximity to Jewish settlements and outposts in the southern West Bank. Largely ignored in the mainstream media, these tiny communities are on the verge of extinction due to land confiscation, shifting borders, violence, and economic constraints.

Art from the CNY Region of the National League of American Pen Women

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

Works by 15 award-winning artists will be on display.

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

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.

Diane Menzies/Jane Daroskikh: Painting and Sculpture
Redhouse

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

Local artist Janie Darovskikh, lives in Skaneateles and is a figurative artist working in traditional sculpting methods such as carving, clay and wax modeling, plaster and bronze casting. She is the recipient of two Fulbright grants, the Suomalainen Perustus Grant, support from the New York Foundation on the Arts and numerous other awards. She exhibits in the United States and internationally. Her art has taken her to Kulusuk, Greenland; the Ural Mountains of Russia; Yangshuo, China; and to Finland, Sweden, Lithuania and Latvia. Jane is passionate about Nordic mythology, cultural exchange and her belief in art as an international language. "The process I use involves a constantly evolving search to learn, grow, exchange, feel and create. May the work tell a story of an adventure, a feeling, a dream or a journey."

Diane Menzies, also a local artist, lives in Jamesville, NY. The drawings selected for this exhibition are from a series entitled "The Passing." These mystifying drawings served as a cathartic expression of the joys and sorrows Menzies experienced while a hospice attendant for those dying of AIDS. When the works were exhibited at the Jean Cocteau Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, reviewer Diane Armitage wrote: "The gothic tension that Menzies creates might seem overwrought if not for the fact that her environmental concerns and melancholy response is right on target. Her psychological distress is not a bid for personal attention. It is, rather, a transpersonal sublimation of individual identity in favor of an emotional identification with torn bark, barren ground, and polluted air and water. Because of the careful way that Menzies limits her visual elements and establishes an air of stark abandonment, her mood of intense grieving appears as more than empty rhetoric."

Networked Nature
The Warehouse Gallery

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

"Networked Nature" uses innovative technology to combine art, science and politics. The group exhibition inventively explores the meaning and representation of "nature," from the perspective of networked culture. The featured works employ various scientific processes and locative media, such as global positioning systems (GPS) and robotics, and take the form of installations, video and sound art. Together, they make new contributions to the discourses of extant genres, such as sculpture, earth works and landscape imagery, while also demonstrating the scientific beauty and complexity of electronic and digital art.

"Networked Nature" was organized by Marisa Olson, Editor and Curator for Rhizome, a leading new media organization affiliated with the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Their programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways.

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.

The Collector's Gene: Passion, Devotion and Learning
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Collector's Gene: Passion, Devotion and Learning uses a diverse selection of nearly 100 objects from the permanent collection to illustrate the collecting interests of Cloud Wampler, Colonel John Fox, Dr. Henry and Nancy Rosin, and Ruth Reeves. Henry Rosin says, "My collecting began as a child when I'd gather up the bottle caps under the stands at semi-professional baseball games in Brooklyn." He later turned his interests towards Japan where, as an Air Force flight surgeon, he accumulated a large group of Japanese sword fittings and hand colored photographs. The three other individuals profiled in the exhibition share similar experiences. Cloud Wampler, best known locally as the past Chairman of Carrier Corporation, was passionate about master prints, John Fox, stationed in Korea with the Army, insisted that the best way to learn about Korean culture was to go out and visit shopkeepers and merchants. Ruth Reeves went to India in 1956 on a Fulbright fellowship to study local brass casting techniques. She collected a large number of brass objects and a rare group of clay ceremonial sculptures. The university saw the educational potential in the collection and agreed to purchase her collection in 1963.

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.

Aldo Tambellini: A Cultural History of Syracuse
ThINC

Price: Free
Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

An exhibition of photographs taken by artist, avant-garde filmmaker and video pioneer, Aldo Tambellini. These photographs, taken in 1948 with a Kodak Box Camera, are among the first images he shot, when he was 18 years old. Tambellini documented the people and places of his early life in Syracuse, around Pine Street and East Genesee. These images depict the life and surroundings of the residents of the 15th Ward, a section of Syracuse of important historical significance. The 15th ward was originally a Jewish settlement. As the Jewish community started to establish itself in Syracuse, it moved up towards the South of East Genesee Street and many African Americans moved into the 15th ward.

In an effort to articulate the historical and contemporary relevance of these images, Lori Convington, a Syracuse based artist/activist and historian, will re-visit some of the locations in Tambellini's photographs to capture the contemporary locations and individuals. Along with engaging and informing text about about the individuals who once lived there and the area itself, Ms. Covington will connect a contemporary meaning for the viewer of Mr. Tambellini's historical photographs.

Art for the Soul
Delavan Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features acrylic paintings by Hope Irvine, photography by Richard Schultz, and watercolor paintings by members of the Art and Soul Watercolor Group.

Over the years, Hope Irvine, Ph.D. has become an accomplished painter as well as an innovative educator and community leader. Delavan Art Gallery is pleased to exhibit Dr. Irvine's sedimentary landscape acrylic paintings. "My paintings result from confrontations with vistas, especially in the American Southwest, Alaska and Iceland," Dr. Irvine explains in her artist statement. Since 1982, Dr. Irvine has held the position of Chair of the Department of Art Education while maintaining dual tenure and full professorships in both the College of Visual & Performing Arts and the School of Education at Syracuse University. Her commitment to the arts and education of others was rewarded by the Manhattan Borough President on June 22, 1982 when he declared the date "Hope Irvine Day."

Richard Schultz's photography ranges in subject from the commonplace to the absurd. Schultz writes in his artist statement, "It's a wild and wacky world that we encounter every day. Photography has been one way for me to express my reactions to the visceral stimuli of daily life." The photographer is Vice President of the David B. Schultz Insurance Agency and a proud native of Syracuse, NY. The majority of the photographs in this exhibit were shot between 2004 and 2007 and are shown exactly as they were when the artist came across the scene.

Also in this exhibition are watercolor paintings by 12 members of the Art and Soul Watercolor Group of Onondaga County: Sharon Daniels-Duerr, Pam Dischinger, Sharon H. Gibbons, Bonnie Goetzke, Rita Keller, Loie Mechetti, Geraldine Meday, Joanne Neff, Virginia Raner, Nancy Shampine, Jan Waters and Kathryn Wehrung. The Art and Soul Watercolor Group is a collective of artists who meet weekly to discuss, share and study art together, using each other as inspiration and encouragement in the arts. The group supports Vera House, the Crisis Pregnancy Center in Mexico and Ophelia's Place along with other notable causes.

Survivor's Art: Images of Hope & Healing
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Survivor's Art is an exhibition initiated by Vera House, a community organization created to assist families in crises related to domestic and sexual violence. As part of their project, The Art of Caring, Vera House brings together gifted artists and a caring community. The exhibition offers hope and healing and celebrates the joy of the arts in our lives.

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

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

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

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

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

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

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

Selections from Silvano Campeggi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Point of Contact Gallery and the Redhouse. Each organization will be presenting works from a different period of renowned film poster artist, Silvano Campeggi.

Redhouse
North La Brea All-Star Conquistadors

Price: $15
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This group of singer/songwriters have been playing together for awhile now, and have put together one of the most unique and interesting nights of music in Los Angeles. At their home base of Room 5, the North La Brea All-Star Conquistadors have turned Monday nights into a songwriter circle that leaves you wanting more. The group will bring one of LA's most meaningful songwriter nights to Syracuse for one night only.

Die Another Death
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive mystery/comedy dinner theater.

The Unexpected Guest
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

Price: $35, $31, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A foggy night and a car runs off the road into a ditch. The driver gropes his way to a nearby house. He taps on the window. No answer. He enters the well-appointed study to find a man dead in a wheelchair. Nearby stands the dead man's wife, revolver in hand, and ready to confess to murder. Case open, but with Agatha Christie, it's far from shut. Great fun from the master of mystery herself.

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Friday, May 25, 2007

Visual Arts Showcase #59
CNY Arts

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

The Showcase features the work of area artists in a juried show. This season's work was selected
by Jennifer Pepper, Director of the Cazenovia College Gallery, and Wendy Harris, a working artist from Syracuse University.

Art from the CNY Region of the National League of American Pen Women

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

Works by 15 award-winning artists will be on display.

In the Blind Spot of a War: Images from the West Bank by photographer Stephen Shaner
The Arts Branch of the YMCA of Greater Syracuse

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Stephen Shaner, a Skaneateles native and former newspaper photojournalist, is currently working on a long-term documentary project in Israel and the Palestinian Territories which he began in 2002. The black-and-white photographs on display highlight Shaner's ongoing exploration of rural Palestinian villages existing in close proximity to Jewish settlements and outposts in the southern West Bank. Largely ignored in the mainstream media, these tiny communities are on the verge of extinction due to land confiscation, shifting borders, violence, and economic constraints.

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

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.

Diane Menzies/Jane Daroskikh: Painting and Sculpture
Redhouse

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

Local artist Janie Darovskikh, lives in Skaneateles and is a figurative artist working in traditional sculpting methods such as carving, clay and wax modeling, plaster and bronze casting. She is the recipient of two Fulbright grants, the Suomalainen Perustus Grant, support from the New York Foundation on the Arts and numerous other awards. She exhibits in the United States and internationally. Her art has taken her to Kulusuk, Greenland; the Ural Mountains of Russia; Yangshuo, China; and to Finland, Sweden, Lithuania and Latvia. Jane is passionate about Nordic mythology, cultural exchange and her belief in art as an international language. "The process I use involves a constantly evolving search to learn, grow, exchange, feel and create. May the work tell a story of an adventure, a feeling, a dream or a journey."

Diane Menzies, also a local artist, lives in Jamesville, NY. The drawings selected for this exhibition are from a series entitled "The Passing." These mystifying drawings served as a cathartic expression of the joys and sorrows Menzies experienced while a hospice attendant for those dying of AIDS. When the works were exhibited at the Jean Cocteau Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, reviewer Diane Armitage wrote: "The gothic tension that Menzies creates might seem overwrought if not for the fact that her environmental concerns and melancholy response is right on target. Her psychological distress is not a bid for personal attention. It is, rather, a transpersonal sublimation of individual identity in favor of an emotional identification with torn bark, barren ground, and polluted air and water. Because of the careful way that Menzies limits her visual elements and establishes an air of stark abandonment, her mood of intense grieving appears as more than empty rhetoric."

Networked Nature
The Warehouse Gallery

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

"Networked Nature" uses innovative technology to combine art, science and politics. The group exhibition inventively explores the meaning and representation of "nature," from the perspective of networked culture. The featured works employ various scientific processes and locative media, such as global positioning systems (GPS) and robotics, and take the form of installations, video and sound art. Together, they make new contributions to the discourses of extant genres, such as sculpture, earth works and landscape imagery, while also demonstrating the scientific beauty and complexity of electronic and digital art.

"Networked Nature" was organized by Marisa Olson, Editor and Curator for Rhizome, a leading new media organization affiliated with the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Their programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways.

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.

The Collector's Gene: Passion, Devotion and Learning
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Collector's Gene: Passion, Devotion and Learning uses a diverse selection of nearly 100 objects from the permanent collection to illustrate the collecting interests of Cloud Wampler, Colonel John Fox, Dr. Henry and Nancy Rosin, and Ruth Reeves. Henry Rosin says, "My collecting began as a child when I'd gather up the bottle caps under the stands at semi-professional baseball games in Brooklyn." He later turned his interests towards Japan where, as an Air Force flight surgeon, he accumulated a large group of Japanese sword fittings and hand colored photographs. The three other individuals profiled in the exhibition share similar experiences. Cloud Wampler, best known locally as the past Chairman of Carrier Corporation, was passionate about master prints, John Fox, stationed in Korea with the Army, insisted that the best way to learn about Korean culture was to go out and visit shopkeepers and merchants. Ruth Reeves went to India in 1956 on a Fulbright fellowship to study local brass casting techniques. She collected a large number of brass objects and a rare group of clay ceremonial sculptures. The university saw the educational potential in the collection and agreed to purchase her collection in 1963.

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.

Aldo Tambellini: A Cultural History of Syracuse
ThINC

Price: Free
Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

An exhibition of photographs taken by artist, avant-garde filmmaker and video pioneer, Aldo Tambellini. These photographs, taken in 1948 with a Kodak Box Camera, are among the first images he shot, when he was 18 years old. Tambellini documented the people and places of his early life in Syracuse, around Pine Street and East Genesee. These images depict the life and surroundings of the residents of the 15th Ward, a section of Syracuse of important historical significance. The 15th ward was originally a Jewish settlement. As the Jewish community started to establish itself in Syracuse, it moved up towards the South of East Genesee Street and many African Americans moved into the 15th ward.

In an effort to articulate the historical and contemporary relevance of these images, Lori Convington, a Syracuse based artist/activist and historian, will re-visit some of the locations in Tambellini's photographs to capture the contemporary locations and individuals. Along with engaging and informing text about about the individuals who once lived there and the area itself, Ms. Covington will connect a contemporary meaning for the viewer of Mr. Tambellini's historical photographs.

Art for the Soul
Delavan Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features acrylic paintings by Hope Irvine, photography by Richard Schultz, and watercolor paintings by members of the Art and Soul Watercolor Group.

Over the years, Hope Irvine, Ph.D. has become an accomplished painter as well as an innovative educator and community leader. Delavan Art Gallery is pleased to exhibit Dr. Irvine's sedimentary landscape acrylic paintings. "My paintings result from confrontations with vistas, especially in the American Southwest, Alaska and Iceland," Dr. Irvine explains in her artist statement. Since 1982, Dr. Irvine has held the position of Chair of the Department of Art Education while maintaining dual tenure and full professorships in both the College of Visual & Performing Arts and the School of Education at Syracuse University. Her commitment to the arts and education of others was rewarded by the Manhattan Borough President on June 22, 1982 when he declared the date "Hope Irvine Day."

Richard Schultz's photography ranges in subject from the commonplace to the absurd. Schultz writes in his artist statement, "It's a wild and wacky world that we encounter every day. Photography has been one way for me to express my reactions to the visceral stimuli of daily life." The photographer is Vice President of the David B. Schultz Insurance Agency and a proud native of Syracuse, NY. The majority of the photographs in this exhibit were shot between 2004 and 2007 and are shown exactly as they were when the artist came across the scene.

Also in this exhibition are watercolor paintings by 12 members of the Art and Soul Watercolor Group of Onondaga County: Sharon Daniels-Duerr, Pam Dischinger, Sharon H. Gibbons, Bonnie Goetzke, Rita Keller, Loie Mechetti, Geraldine Meday, Joanne Neff, Virginia Raner, Nancy Shampine, Jan Waters and Kathryn Wehrung. The Art and Soul Watercolor Group is a collective of artists who meet weekly to discuss, share and study art together, using each other as inspiration and encouragement in the arts. The group supports Vera House, the Crisis Pregnancy Center in Mexico and Ophelia's Place along with other notable causes.

Survivor's Art: Images of Hope & Healing
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Survivor's Art is an exhibition initiated by Vera House, a community organization created to assist families in crises related to domestic and sexual violence. As part of their project, The Art of Caring, Vera House brings together gifted artists and a caring community. The exhibition offers hope and healing and celebrates the joy of the arts in our lives.

Selections from Silvano Campeggi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Point of Contact Gallery and the Redhouse. Each organization will be presenting works from a different period of renowned film poster artist, Silvano Campeggi.

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

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

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

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

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

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

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

Classics Series: Serkin and the Sea
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor

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

Britten Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
Stravinsky Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments
Bach Piano Concerto in D minor
Debussy La Mer

Miss Nelson is Missing
Gifford Family Theatre

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Miss Nelson's class is the worst behaved in the whole school. Spitballs flying across the room, paper airplanes sailing every which way and uncontrollable children send the gentle, long-suffering teacher, Miss Nelson, over the edge. But the students of Room 207 are in for a surprise when Miss Nelson turns up missing and is replaced by the mean, mysterious Miss Viola Swamp, the scariest substitute teacher on the face of the earth. Miss Swamp assigns tons of homework and wields her ruler with dangerous authority. In desperation, the students set out to find their beloved Miss Nelson ... and they'll do whatever it takes to bring her back!

The Gifford Family Theatre proudly presents this witty, wacky musical adaptation of the award-winning children's favorites by Harry Allard and James Marshall. Originally commissioned and produced by BAPA's Imagination Stage, the adaptation by Joan Cushing (book, music and lyrics) was named the winner of the 2003 National Childrens Theatre Festival.

Into the Woods
West Genesee High School Fine Arts

Price: $5
Christ Community Church
3644 Warners Rd., Camillus

Proceeds benefit the Andrea Morelli Memorial Art Scholarship Fund. For more information, phone 315-487-3510 or 315-558-4943.

The Unexpected Guest
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

Price: $44, $39, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A foggy night and a car runs off the road into a ditch. The driver gropes his way to a nearby house. He taps on the window. No answer. He enters the well-appointed study to find a man dead in a wheelchair. Nearby stands the dead man's wife, revolver in hand, and ready to confess to murder. Case open, but with Agatha Christie, it's far from shut. Great fun from the master of mystery herself.

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Saturday, May 26, 2007

In the Blind Spot of a War: Images from the West Bank by photographer Stephen Shaner
The Arts Branch of the YMCA of Greater Syracuse

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Stephen Shaner, a Skaneateles native and former newspaper photojournalist, is currently working on a long-term documentary project in Israel and the Palestinian Territories which he began in 2002. The black-and-white photographs on display highlight Shaner's ongoing exploration of rural Palestinian villages existing in close proximity to Jewish settlements and outposts in the southern West Bank. Largely ignored in the mainstream media, these tiny communities are on the verge of extinction due to land confiscation, shifting borders, violence, and economic constraints.

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Art for the Soul
Delavan Art Gallery

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

The exhibit features acrylic paintings by Hope Irvine, photography by Richard Schultz, and watercolor paintings by members of the Art and Soul Watercolor Group.

Over the years, Hope Irvine, Ph.D. has become an accomplished painter as well as an innovative educator and community leader. Delavan Art Gallery is pleased to exhibit Dr. Irvine's sedimentary landscape acrylic paintings. "My paintings result from confrontations with vistas, especially in the American Southwest, Alaska and Iceland," Dr. Irvine explains in her artist statement. Since 1982, Dr. Irvine has held the position of Chair of the Department of Art Education while maintaining dual tenure and full professorships in both the College of Visual & Performing Arts and the School of Education at Syracuse University. Her commitment to the arts and education of others was rewarded by the Manhattan Borough President on June 22, 1982 when he declared the date "Hope Irvine Day."

Richard Schultz's photography ranges in subject from the commonplace to the absurd. Schultz writes in his artist statement, "It's a wild and wacky world that we encounter every day. Photography has been one way for me to express my reactions to the visceral stimuli of daily life." The photographer is Vice President of the David B. Schultz Insurance Agency and a proud native of Syracuse, NY. The majority of the photographs in this exhibit were shot between 2004 and 2007 and are shown exactly as they were when the artist came across the scene.

Also in this exhibition are watercolor paintings by 12 members of the Art and Soul Watercolor Group of Onondaga County: Sharon Daniels-Duerr, Pam Dischinger, Sharon H. Gibbons, Bonnie Goetzke, Rita Keller, Loie Mechetti, Geraldine Meday, Joanne Neff, Virginia Raner, Nancy Shampine, Jan Waters and Kathryn Wehrung. The Art and Soul Watercolor Group is a collective of artists who meet weekly to discuss, share and study art together, using each other as inspiration and encouragement in the arts. The group supports Vera House, the Crisis Pregnancy Center in Mexico and Ophelia's Place along with other notable causes.

Survivor's Art: Images of Hope & Healing
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Survivor's Art is an exhibition initiated by Vera House, a community organization created to assist families in crises related to domestic and sexual violence. As part of their project, The Art of Caring, Vera House brings together gifted artists and a caring community. The exhibition offers hope and healing and celebrates the joy of the arts in our lives.

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

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

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

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

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

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

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

Selections from Silvano Campeggi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Point of Contact Gallery and the Redhouse. Each organization will be presenting works from a different period of renowned film poster artist, Silvano Campeggi.

Aldo Tambellini: A Cultural History of Syracuse
ThINC

Price: Free
Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

An exhibition of photographs taken by artist, avant-garde filmmaker and video pioneer, Aldo Tambellini. These photographs, taken in 1948 with a Kodak Box Camera, are among the first images he shot, when he was 18 years old. Tambellini documented the people and places of his early life in Syracuse, around Pine Street and East Genesee. These images depict the life and surroundings of the residents of the 15th Ward, a section of Syracuse of important historical significance. The 15th ward was originally a Jewish settlement. As the Jewish community started to establish itself in Syracuse, it moved up towards the South of East Genesee Street and many African Americans moved into the 15th ward.

In an effort to articulate the historical and contemporary relevance of these images, Lori Convington, a Syracuse based artist/activist and historian, will re-visit some of the locations in Tambellini's photographs to capture the contemporary locations and individuals. Along with engaging and informing text about about the individuals who once lived there and the area itself, Ms. Covington will connect a contemporary meaning for the viewer of Mr. Tambellini's historical photographs.

Networked Nature
The Warehouse Gallery

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

"Networked Nature" uses innovative technology to combine art, science and politics. The group exhibition inventively explores the meaning and representation of "nature," from the perspective of networked culture. The featured works employ various scientific processes and locative media, such as global positioning systems (GPS) and robotics, and take the form of installations, video and sound art. Together, they make new contributions to the discourses of extant genres, such as sculpture, earth works and landscape imagery, while also demonstrating the scientific beauty and complexity of electronic and digital art.

"Networked Nature" was organized by Marisa Olson, Editor and Curator for Rhizome, a leading new media organization affiliated with the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Their programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways.

Classics Series: Serkin and the Sea
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor

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

Britten Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
Stravinsky Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments
Bach Piano Concerto in D minor
Debussy La Mer

The Little Mermaid
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive adaption of the children's favorite.

Miss Nelson is Missing
Gifford Family Theatre

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Miss Nelson's class is the worst behaved in the whole school. Spitballs flying across the room, paper airplanes sailing every which way and uncontrollable children send the gentle, long-suffering teacher, Miss Nelson, over the edge. But the students of Room 207 are in for a surprise when Miss Nelson turns up missing and is replaced by the mean, mysterious Miss Viola Swamp, the scariest substitute teacher on the face of the earth. Miss Swamp assigns tons of homework and wields her ruler with dangerous authority. In desperation, the students set out to find their beloved Miss Nelson ... and they'll do whatever it takes to bring her back!

The Gifford Family Theatre proudly presents this witty, wacky musical adaptation of the award-winning children's favorites by Harry Allard and James Marshall. Originally commissioned and produced by BAPA's Imagination Stage, the adaptation by Joan Cushing (book, music and lyrics) was named the winner of the 2003 National Childrens Theatre Festival.

The Unexpected Guest
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

Price: $40, $36, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A foggy night and a car runs off the road into a ditch. The driver gropes his way to a nearby house. He taps on the window. No answer. He enters the well-appointed study to find a man dead in a wheelchair. Nearby stands the dead man's wife, revolver in hand, and ready to confess to murder. Case open, but with Agatha Christie, it's far from shut. Great fun from the master of mystery herself.

Read a Review!

Miss Nelson is Missing
Gifford Family Theatre

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Miss Nelson's class is the worst behaved in the whole school. Spitballs flying across the room, paper airplanes sailing every which way and uncontrollable children send the gentle, long-suffering teacher, Miss Nelson, over the edge. But the students of Room 207 are in for a surprise when Miss Nelson turns up missing and is replaced by the mean, mysterious Miss Viola Swamp, the scariest substitute teacher on the face of the earth. Miss Swamp assigns tons of homework and wields her ruler with dangerous authority. In desperation, the students set out to find their beloved Miss Nelson ... and they'll do whatever it takes to bring her back!

The Gifford Family Theatre proudly presents this witty, wacky musical adaptation of the award-winning children's favorites by Harry Allard and James Marshall. Originally commissioned and produced by BAPA's Imagination Stage, the adaptation by Joan Cushing (book, music and lyrics) was named the winner of the 2003 National Childrens Theatre Festival.

Into the Woods
West Genesee High School Fine Arts

Price: $5
Christ Community Church
3644 Warners Rd., Camillus

Proceeds benefit the Andrea Morelli Memorial Art Scholarship Fund. For more information, phone 315-487-3510 or 315-558-4943.

The Unexpected Guest
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

Price: $44, $39, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A foggy night and a car runs off the road into a ditch. The driver gropes his way to a nearby house. He taps on the window. No answer. He enters the well-appointed study to find a man dead in a wheelchair. Nearby stands the dead man's wife, revolver in hand, and ready to confess to murder. Case open, but with Agatha Christie, it's far from shut. Great fun from the master of mystery herself.

Read a Review!

Sunday, May 27, 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.

Survivor's Art: Images of Hope & Healing
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Survivor's Art is an exhibition initiated by Vera House, a community organization created to assist families in crises related to domestic and sexual violence. As part of their project, The Art of Caring, Vera House brings together gifted artists and a caring community. The exhibition offers hope and healing and celebrates the joy of the arts in our lives.

Selections from Silvano Campeggi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Point of Contact Gallery and the Redhouse. Each organization will be presenting works from a different period of renowned film poster artist, Silvano Campeggi.

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

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

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

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

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

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

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

A Cavalcade of Popular Music
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Phil Klein, piano

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

One-man show highlighting the best in American song of the last 125 years.

Reservations are recommended -- phone 315-469-4675.

Jazz Vespers
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free (donation requested)
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

The jazz vesper service is a combination of inspirational and meditative readings, homily, and jazz played by members of the CNY Jazz Orchestra and various guest vocalists. The jazz selections are drawn from secular and sacred sources, representing a wide range of composers as varied as Duke Ellington, Chick Corea, Cole Porter, and Stephen Foster, and well-known hymns in jazz settings for all to enjoy, singing if they wish.

Bill and Mary Right Now at Redhouse; Genograms
Armory Square Playwrights

Price: $5 regular, $4 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Armory Square Playhouse will do script-in-hand readings of two new plays in progress by Armory Square Playhouse members, followed by a talkback session. One is a short comedy, Bill and Mary Right Now at Redhouse, a Site Specific Play about a Theater Company Putting on a Play at a Local Theater, by David Feldman; the second is a drama, Genograms, by Charles Lupia.

Bill and Mary ... is a comedy by David Feldman, about what happens on- and off-stage when a company tries to put on a play using two reluctant audience members as performers while the Stage Manager has a dispute with the Technical Editor over a disintegrating romance. Are the performers who get dragged onstage really actors or patrons at the Beaux Arts Cafe where the play is supposed to take place? And what is more real, the comedies we see onstage or the drama in the lives of the people who work behind the scenes?

Charles Lupia's Genograms connects drama with modern social science. In the play, three actresses are used to represent four generations of two families. As two 40-ish women friends confront their children and each other, dramatic issues from their family backgrounds resurface. (A genogram is a sociologist's tool that studies behavior patterns in families over several generations.)

Feldman is Artistic Director of Armory Square Playhouse, Professor Emeritus of English and Journalism at OCC and an adjunct professor at the Syracuse University Drama Department. His plays have been presented in Los Angeles, New York, the Boston area and in Syracuse.

Charls Lupia is a playwight, freelance writer, attorney, and longtime member of Armory Square Playhouse. His plays have been done at SABEL, Theatre Three, NY Artists, and Barnstormers. A radio version of his The Agony and the Experts was recently broadcast by KUSF in San Francisco. His article "Village Life" will appear in an upcoming issue of Life in the Finger Lakes.

The Unexpected Guest
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

Price: $40, $36, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A foggy night and a car runs off the road into a ditch. The driver gropes his way to a nearby house. He taps on the window. No answer. He enters the well-appointed study to find a man dead in a wheelchair. Nearby stands the dead man's wife, revolver in hand, and ready to confess to murder. Case open, but with Agatha Christie, it's far from shut. Great fun from the master of mystery herself.

Read a Review!

The Unexpected Guest
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

Price: $35, $31, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A foggy night and a car runs off the road into a ditch. The driver gropes his way to a nearby house. He taps on the window. No answer. He enters the well-appointed study to find a man dead in a wheelchair. Nearby stands the dead man's wife, revolver in hand, and ready to confess to murder. Case open, but with Agatha Christie, it's far from shut. Great fun from the master of mystery herself.

Read a Review!

Monday, May 28, 2007

Art from the CNY Region of the National League of American Pen Women

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

Works by 15 award-winning artists will be on display.

In the Blind Spot of a War: Images from the West Bank by photographer Stephen Shaner
The Arts Branch of the YMCA of Greater Syracuse

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Stephen Shaner, a Skaneateles native and former newspaper photojournalist, is currently working on a long-term documentary project in Israel and the Palestinian Territories which he began in 2002. The black-and-white photographs on display highlight Shaner's ongoing exploration of rural Palestinian villages existing in close proximity to Jewish settlements and outposts in the southern West Bank. Largely ignored in the mainstream media, these tiny communities are on the verge of extinction due to land confiscation, shifting borders, violence, and economic constraints.

Diane Menzies/Jane Daroskikh: Painting and Sculpture
Redhouse

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

Local artist Janie Darovskikh, lives in Skaneateles and is a figurative artist working in traditional sculpting methods such as carving, clay and wax modeling, plaster and bronze casting. She is the recipient of two Fulbright grants, the Suomalainen Perustus Grant, support from the New York Foundation on the Arts and numerous other awards. She exhibits in the United States and internationally. Her art has taken her to Kulusuk, Greenland; the Ural Mountains of Russia; Yangshuo, China; and to Finland, Sweden, Lithuania and Latvia. Jane is passionate about Nordic mythology, cultural exchange and her belief in art as an international language. "The process I use involves a constantly evolving search to learn, grow, exchange, feel and create. May the work tell a story of an adventure, a feeling, a dream or a journey."

Diane Menzies, also a local artist, lives in Jamesville, NY. The drawings selected for this exhibition are from a series entitled "The Passing." These mystifying drawings served as a cathartic expression of the joys and sorrows Menzies experienced while a hospice attendant for those dying of AIDS. When the works were exhibited at the Jean Cocteau Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, reviewer Diane Armitage wrote: "The gothic tension that Menzies creates might seem overwrought if not for the fact that her environmental concerns and melancholy response is right on target. Her psychological distress is not a bid for personal attention. It is, rather, a transpersonal sublimation of individual identity in favor of an emotional identification with torn bark, barren ground, and polluted air and water. Because of the careful way that Menzies limits her visual elements and establishes an air of stark abandonment, her mood of intense grieving appears as more than empty rhetoric."

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Visual Arts Showcase #59
CNY Arts

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

The Showcase features the work of area artists in a juried show. This season's work was selected
by Jennifer Pepper, Director of the Cazenovia College Gallery, and Wendy Harris, a working artist from Syracuse University.

In the Blind Spot of a War: Images from the West Bank by photographer Stephen Shaner
The Arts Branch of the YMCA of Greater Syracuse

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Stephen Shaner, a Skaneateles native and former newspaper photojournalist, is currently working on a long-term documentary project in Israel and the Palestinian Territories which he began in 2002. The black-and-white photographs on display highlight Shaner's ongoing exploration of rural Palestinian villages existing in close proximity to Jewish settlements and outposts in the southern West Bank. Largely ignored in the mainstream media, these tiny communities are on the verge of extinction due to land confiscation, shifting borders, violence, and economic constraints.

Art from the CNY Region of the National League of American Pen Women

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

Works by 15 award-winning artists will be on display.

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.

Diane Menzies/Jane Daroskikh: Painting and Sculpture
Redhouse

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

Local artist Janie Darovskikh, lives in Skaneateles and is a figurative artist working in traditional sculpting methods such as carving, clay and wax modeling, plaster and bronze casting. She is the recipient of two Fulbright grants, the Suomalainen Perustus Grant, support from the New York Foundation on the Arts and numerous other awards. She exhibits in the United States and internationally. Her art has taken her to Kulusuk, Greenland; the Ural Mountains of Russia; Yangshuo, China; and to Finland, Sweden, Lithuania and Latvia. Jane is passionate about Nordic mythology, cultural exchange and her belief in art as an international language. "The process I use involves a constantly evolving search to learn, grow, exchange, feel and create. May the work tell a story of an adventure, a feeling, a dream or a journey."

Diane Menzies, also a local artist, lives in Jamesville, NY. The drawings selected for this exhibition are from a series entitled "The Passing." These mystifying drawings served as a cathartic expression of the joys and sorrows Menzies experienced while a hospice attendant for those dying of AIDS. When the works were exhibited at the Jean Cocteau Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, reviewer Diane Armitage wrote: "The gothic tension that Menzies creates might seem overwrought if not for the fact that her environmental concerns and melancholy response is right on target. Her psychological distress is not a bid for personal attention. It is, rather, a transpersonal sublimation of individual identity in favor of an emotional identification with torn bark, barren ground, and polluted air and water. Because of the careful way that Menzies limits her visual elements and establishes an air of stark abandonment, her mood of intense grieving appears as more than empty rhetoric."

Networked Nature
The Warehouse Gallery

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

"Networked Nature" uses innovative technology to combine art, science and politics. The group exhibition inventively explores the meaning and representation of "nature," from the perspective of networked culture. The featured works employ various scientific processes and locative media, such as global positioning systems (GPS) and robotics, and take the form of installations, video and sound art. Together, they make new contributions to the discourses of extant genres, such as sculpture, earth works and landscape imagery, while also demonstrating the scientific beauty and complexity of electronic and digital art.

"Networked Nature" was organized by Marisa Olson, Editor and Curator for Rhizome, a leading new media organization affiliated with the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Their programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways.

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.

The Collector's Gene: Passion, Devotion and Learning
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Collector's Gene: Passion, Devotion and Learning uses a diverse selection of nearly 100 objects from the permanent collection to illustrate the collecting interests of Cloud Wampler, Colonel John Fox, Dr. Henry and Nancy Rosin, and Ruth Reeves. Henry Rosin says, "My collecting began as a child when I'd gather up the bottle caps under the stands at semi-professional baseball games in Brooklyn." He later turned his interests towards Japan where, as an Air Force flight surgeon, he accumulated a large group of Japanese sword fittings and hand colored photographs. The three other individuals profiled in the exhibition share similar experiences. Cloud Wampler, best known locally as the past Chairman of Carrier Corporation, was passionate about master prints, John Fox, stationed in Korea with the Army, insisted that the best way to learn about Korean culture was to go out and visit shopkeepers and merchants. Ruth Reeves went to India in 1956 on a Fulbright fellowship to study local brass casting techniques. She collected a large number of brass objects and a rare group of clay ceremonial sculptures. The university saw the educational potential in the collection and agreed to purchase her collection in 1963.

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.

Survivor's Art: Images of Hope & Healing
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Survivor's Art is an exhibition initiated by Vera House, a community organization created to assist families in crises related to domestic and sexual violence. As part of their project, The Art of Caring, Vera House brings together gifted artists and a caring community. The exhibition offers hope and healing and celebrates the joy of the arts in our lives.