Saturday, May 22, 2010

Under The Surface: Ceramic Stylings of Shawn McGuire and Wes Weiss
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

"Under the Surface" explores the rich surfaces achieved by each ceramic artist using very different techniques. Shawn's work is thrown and altered and then naked Raku fired. Wes's work is hand-built from colored clays and the result is an active, vibrant surface.

Horizons
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anna Soltyk: richly textured oil and mixed media paintings
Phil Austin: glass artistry
Wendy Harris: upstate landscape done en plein air in pastel and mixed media

Read a review!

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

Read a review!

Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

May Garden Party
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Garden-themed pieces in a variety of mediums.

38th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Syracuse Chapter of the Links, Inc. in cooperation with Community Folk Art Center and local school districts join their efforts to provide an ongoing opportunity to recognize teenagers (ages 13-19) of African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian American heritage as well as those from other underrepresented groups who demonstrate talents in the fine arts.

Fiction to Function: Recent Work by Shanna Fliegel
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Shanna Fliegel's ceramic artwork draws upon "the surrealistic nature of dreams and childhood memories" and combines image, color, and sculpted forms to create "vehicles that generate stories for the viewer." Her artistic output includes anthropomorphic figures, wall tablets, and functional vessels and these will be on view.

Read a review!

Works of Gretchen Hamlin and Bob Ripley
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New works by watercolorist Bob Ripley and glass artist Gretchen Hamlin.

A Tender Record: Early black and white photographs by Marjory Wilkins
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Curated by Nancy Keefe Rhodes, this is an exhibit of 35 restored and finished prints of the now-extinct 15th Ward and others of historical relevance to both the African American community and the Syracuse community at large. Marjory Wilkins has been an important figure in our community for over six decades, inspiring many through her camera's view of the world. Her work is described by the exhibit curator in this way: "As documentary photographs, they record history, whether recent or remote, that is 'minority' history—that is, history often outside of its own community, either ignored or contested by stereotypes."

Her photography has become an invaluable resource to remember a place now destroyed, and a community with a charm and importance almost unknown to those outside of it.

Works of Bridget Bossart Van Otterloo, Lucie Wellner, and Katherine Houston
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

SOLD OUT: Syracuse's 15th Ward and Beyond

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

Last fall, Syracuse University's South Side Initiative and the local Black History Preservation team sponsored a bus tour of old Syracuse: the 15th Ward and other historical sites. Some 30 senior members of the community, who have lived in Syracuse for at least 40 years, participated. The tour and the participants' stories and recollections of Syracuse's past were filmed for this documentary by local filmmaker Courtney Rile.

Among the former sites the tour participants visited were the Ebony Market, Croton Elementary, Old Dunbar, The Glass Bottom and Open Door lounges, Ben's Kitchen, the Father Brady Center for Black Catholics, and Washington Irving Elementary School.

Korean Women's Choir Concert

Price: Freewill offering
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Choir from Pyongyang Presbytery in Seoul.

Mark Doyle & the Maniacs CD Release Party
Redhouse

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

The Red House welcomes Mark Doyle & the Maniacs, who will perform in promotion of their latest LP, Comin' Home, inspired by the 1960s British Blues Boom. The album features mostly original music.

Aladdin
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the classic tale.

Miss Nelson has a Field Day
Gifford Family Theatre

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The delightful sequel to "Miss Nelson is Missing!" based on the book by Harry Allard and James Marshall, adapted by Joan Cushing, with book, music and lyrics by Joan Cushing.

Read a review!

Fences
Syracuse Stage

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

Because a true classic always speaks to us anew. Pittsburgh, 1957. Troy Maxon, ex-ballplayer, complicated African-American family man and garbage collector, has lived a life of diminished hopes and abandoned dreams. Now Troy's talented son, Cory, has hopes and dreams of his own. Will Troy allow his bitterness about the past to poison his son's promising future? With a view toward a better future, August Wilson's Fences first posed this dramatic and necessary question 25 years ago ... and it hits us as hard today.

Read a Review!

Miss Nelson has a Field Day
Gifford Family Theatre

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The delightful sequel to "Miss Nelson is Missing!" based on the book by Harry Allard and James Marshall, adapted by Joan Cushing, with book, music and lyrics by Joan Cushing.

Read a review!

Idol Assassination
Without a Cue Productions
Sara Caliva, director

Price: $37.25 includes dinner and show
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

It's the final night of Big American Star, and America is going to get a chance to vote for its next...big American star. The contestants are at each other's throats, dangerously close to ripping out one another's vocal chords, while the judges and host stir up drama to boost sagging ratings. By the time the contestants are ready to sing, the atmosphere has turned murderous, and the contestants may "knock 'em dead" in more ways than one.

The show is an interactive murder mystery that involves the members of the audience.

Alice in Wanderland
Appleseed Productions
Linda Lance & Mark Wright, director

Price: $20 regular; $17 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

This musical by Pat Lotito is the story of a young woman who has attempted suicide, then—in a "magical" time out—is given a chance to look back on her life and either continue with her first choice or make a different one.

Falsettos
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $25
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Falsettos is a story of love in the face of modern conflicts. The story takes place between 1979 and 1981 and follows Marvin, who has left his wife Trina and son Jason for a male lover, Whizzer, but still wants them all to be one big happy family. Life gets more complicated when Trina falls for Marvin's psychiatrist, Mendel, while Jason is about to be Bar Mitzvah-ed and the lesbians next door, Cordelia and Dr. Charlotte, are doing the catering! As if that's not complicated enough, Whizzer and Marvin break up and then are reunited, only to find that Whizzer is dying of some new unexplained disease.

Winner of the 1992 Tony Award for Best Score and Best Book for a Musical, Falsettos is a powerful piece for both its ability to capture an important moment in history and in its depiction of very real and human characters faced with significant adversity. Despite dealing with the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic, Falsettos is primarily about experiencing life and love; a joyous story of the struggle between values, love, and forgiveness. William Finn touches on the joy and happiness of every family by depicting one very different family.

Music direction by Jeff Unaitis. Cast members include Dana Sovocool, Peter Irwin, and Josh Mele.

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Driving Miss Daisy
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
Bob Brown, director

Price: $30; $15 students and seniors
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Comedy about an elderly Georgia woman and her chauffeur, starring Shirley Ann Fenner and David Walker.

Read a review!

Fences
Syracuse Stage

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

Because a true classic always speaks to us anew. Pittsburgh, 1957. Troy Maxon, ex-ballplayer, complicated African-American family man and garbage collector, has lived a life of diminished hopes and abandoned dreams. Now Troy's talented son, Cory, has hopes and dreams of his own. Will Troy allow his bitterness about the past to poison his son's promising future? With a view toward a better future, August Wilson's Fences first posed this dramatic and necessary question 25 years ago ... and it hits us as hard today.

Read a Review!

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Fiction to Function: Recent Work by Shanna Fliegel
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Shanna Fliegel's ceramic artwork draws upon "the surrealistic nature of dreams and childhood memories" and combines image, color, and sculpted forms to create "vehicles that generate stories for the viewer." Her artistic output includes anthropomorphic figures, wall tablets, and functional vessels and these will be on view.

Read a review!

Works of Gretchen Hamlin and Bob Ripley
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New works by watercolorist Bob Ripley and glass artist Gretchen Hamlin.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

Read a review!

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

May Garden Party
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Garden-themed pieces in a variety of mediums.

Highland Winds Clarinet Quartet

Price: Free
Onondaga Hill Free Library
4840 W. Seneca Tnpk., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-492-1727, or visit oflibrary.org.

Sunday Afternoon Serenade
Featuring Jean Danton, soprano; Nancy B. Head, piano

Price: $10 suggested donation
Fairmount Community Church
4801 W. Genesee St. , Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-487-8521.

Ida Trebicka, piano
Joyful Noise Concert Series

Price: Free (donations accepted)
Liverpool First United Methodist Church
604 Oswego St., Liverpool

Voices Alive

Price: Freewill offering to benefit Haiti earthquake relief
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

Voices Alive, directed by Linda Williams, is a 65-member mixed-voices chorus and traveling music theater troupe with a repertoire ranging from Broadway show tunes to serious anthems.

Korean Women's Choir Concert

Price: Freewill offering
Park Central Presbyterian Church
504 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Choir from Pyongyang Presbytery in Seoul.

Jazz Vespers: Love Power
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Cookie Coogan

Price: Free
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

The 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 as they wish. The service is open to those of all faiths.

A Musican Bouquet

Price: $15 regular, $10 students/seniors
Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
927 Park Ave., Syracuse

Classical concert to benefit Hospice of Central New York. For more information, phone 315-391-3741.

Sweet Hour of Sound
Featuring Ernest Musquiz, marimba; Joe Davoli, mandolin

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

For more information, phone 315-445-0331.

Spring Pops Concert
Syracuse University Brass Ensemble
James T. Spencer, conductor

Price: Suggested donation: $8 adults; $6 children
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Light fare, including Antonin Dvorak's Carnival Overture and Morton Gould's American Salute.

Proceeds will benefit United Church of Fayetteville.

For more information, phone 315-786-2458.

Alice in Wanderland
Appleseed Productions
Linda Lance & Mark Wright, director

Price: $20 regular; $17 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

This musical by Pat Lotito is the story of a young woman who has attempted suicide, then—in a "magical" time out—is given a chance to look back on her life and either continue with her first choice or make a different one.

Driving Miss Daisy
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
Bob Brown, director

Price: $30; $15 students and seniors
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Comedy about an elderly Georgia woman and her chauffeur, starring Shirley Ann Fenner and David Walker.

Read a review!

Fences
Syracuse Stage

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

Because a true classic always speaks to us anew. Pittsburgh, 1957. Troy Maxon, ex-ballplayer, complicated African-American family man and garbage collector, has lived a life of diminished hopes and abandoned dreams. Now Troy's talented son, Cory, has hopes and dreams of his own. Will Troy allow his bitterness about the past to poison his son's promising future? With a view toward a better future, August Wilson's Fences first posed this dramatic and necessary question 25 years ago ... and it hits us as hard today.

Read a Review!

Monday, May 24, 2010

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

The Portrait Show: Open Figure Drawing, Inc.
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

With the 2010 Portrait Show, Open Figure Drawing Inc. continues their tradition of celebrating the collective work from the group with a non-juried exhibit made up of the artists who participate in the Wednesday night drawing sessions. The group is open and self instructional, with a variety of different styles to take in!

Whether your interest lies in finding interesting artwork to purchase, or maybe just thinking about taking up your own drawing, there is something for everyone here! Come and be entertained and empowered to make your own work!

An incorporated not-for-profit art organization run by a board of directors and volunteers, OFD has existed since 1989 as "One of Syracuse's most economical drawing experiences!"

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Works of Bridget Bossart Van Otterloo, Lucie Wellner, and Katherine Houston
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Drawn from details of the death of a former friend and bandmate of artist Paul Lloyd Sargent, "elegy" is presented through a multimedia installation of mashed-up, remixed, and recontextualized historical ephemera collected from mixtapes, amateur videos, zines, photographs, band fliers, sketchbook pages, song lyrics, and more. A lament for the death of youth despite the overwhelming persistence of youth culture, "elegy: society for a dead society" paints nostalgia and cynicism as two shades within the same dark palette.

Paul Lloyd Sargent splits his time between Brooklyn and Wellesley Island, NY. He was raised in Syracuse and graduated from Nottingham High School in 1989 and Hamilton College in 1993. After stints in Las Vegas, Boston, and Venice Beach, in 2000, he received his MFA in video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

May Garden Party
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Garden-themed pieces in a variety of mediums.

Works of Gretchen Hamlin and Bob Ripley
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New works by watercolorist Bob Ripley and glass artist Gretchen Hamlin.

A.J. Shanti
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Price: $5
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

A.J. Shanti is an international singing/songwriting sensation whose hauntingly beautiful and lyrically rich musical stylings have the uncanny ability to make girls' hearts melt and grandmas cry. She's toured over 75 cities in more than 15 countries, so that's a whole lot of grandmas. Shanti has been a featured artist and headliner at both large music festivals and intimate venues and her live performances have been described as "raw and emotive" and "captivating and sexy." Singing about heartbreak, lust, politics, and pain, and armed only with her guitar and her words, A.J. Shanti's music gives an authentic voice and visibility to queer life and political struggle in the U.S. and abroad. Her studio album "Baby Beau Blue" was released in 2008 and is available on cdbaby.com. A.J. loves femmes, beer, and gender fabulousness.

A.J. will be performing with Brenda Fernandes. A talented musician, Brenda sings in the vein of Sarah McLachlan, plays piano, and writes her own songs.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Under The Surface: Ceramic Stylings of Shawn McGuire and Wes Weiss
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

"Under the Surface" explores the rich surfaces achieved by each ceramic artist using very different techniques. Shawn's work is thrown and altered and then naked Raku fired. Wes's work is hand-built from colored clays and the result is an active, vibrant surface.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

The Portrait Show: Open Figure Drawing, Inc.
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

With the 2010 Portrait Show, Open Figure Drawing Inc. continues their tradition of celebrating the collective work from the group with a non-juried exhibit made up of the artists who participate in the Wednesday night drawing sessions. The group is open and self instructional, with a variety of different styles to take in!

Whether your interest lies in finding interesting artwork to purchase, or maybe just thinking about taking up your own drawing, there is something for everyone here! Come and be entertained and empowered to make your own work!

An incorporated not-for-profit art organization run by a board of directors and volunteers, OFD has existed since 1989 as "One of Syracuse's most economical drawing experiences!"

Horizons
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anna Soltyk: richly textured oil and mixed media paintings
Phil Austin: glass artistry
Wendy Harris: upstate landscape done en plein air in pastel and mixed media

Read a review!

38th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Syracuse Chapter of the Links, Inc. in cooperation with Community Folk Art Center and local school districts join their efforts to provide an ongoing opportunity to recognize teenagers (ages 13-19) of African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian American heritage as well as those from other underrepresented groups who demonstrate talents in the fine arts.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Works of Bridget Bossart Van Otterloo, Lucie Wellner, and Katherine Houston
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Drawn from details of the death of a former friend and bandmate of artist Paul Lloyd Sargent, "elegy" is presented through a multimedia installation of mashed-up, remixed, and recontextualized historical ephemera collected from mixtapes, amateur videos, zines, photographs, band fliers, sketchbook pages, song lyrics, and more. A lament for the death of youth despite the overwhelming persistence of youth culture, "elegy: society for a dead society" paints nostalgia and cynicism as two shades within the same dark palette.

Paul Lloyd Sargent splits his time between Brooklyn and Wellesley Island, NY. He was raised in Syracuse and graduated from Nottingham High School in 1989 and Hamilton College in 1993. After stints in Las Vegas, Boston, and Venice Beach, in 2000, he received his MFA in video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

May Garden Party
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Garden-themed pieces in a variety of mediums.

Works of Gretchen Hamlin and Bob Ripley
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New works by watercolorist Bob Ripley and glass artist Gretchen Hamlin.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

Read a review!

Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Fences
Syracuse Stage

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

Because a true classic always speaks to us anew. Pittsburgh, 1957. Troy Maxon, ex-ballplayer, complicated African-American family man and garbage collector, has lived a life of diminished hopes and abandoned dreams. Now Troy's talented son, Cory, has hopes and dreams of his own. Will Troy allow his bitterness about the past to poison his son's promising future? With a view toward a better future, August Wilson's Fences first posed this dramatic and necessary question 25 years ago ... and it hits us as hard today.

Read a Review!

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Under The Surface: Ceramic Stylings of Shawn McGuire and Wes Weiss
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

"Under the Surface" explores the rich surfaces achieved by each ceramic artist using very different techniques. Shawn's work is thrown and altered and then naked Raku fired. Wes's work is hand-built from colored clays and the result is an active, vibrant surface.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

The Portrait Show: Open Figure Drawing, Inc.
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

With the 2010 Portrait Show, Open Figure Drawing Inc. continues their tradition of celebrating the collective work from the group with a non-juried exhibit made up of the artists who participate in the Wednesday night drawing sessions. The group is open and self instructional, with a variety of different styles to take in!

Whether your interest lies in finding interesting artwork to purchase, or maybe just thinking about taking up your own drawing, there is something for everyone here! Come and be entertained and empowered to make your own work!

An incorporated not-for-profit art organization run by a board of directors and volunteers, OFD has existed since 1989 as "One of Syracuse's most economical drawing experiences!"

Horizons
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anna Soltyk: richly textured oil and mixed media paintings
Phil Austin: glass artistry
Wendy Harris: upstate landscape done en plein air in pastel and mixed media

Read a review!

38th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Syracuse Chapter of the Links, Inc. in cooperation with Community Folk Art Center and local school districts join their efforts to provide an ongoing opportunity to recognize teenagers (ages 13-19) of African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian American heritage as well as those from other underrepresented groups who demonstrate talents in the fine arts.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Works of Bridget Bossart Van Otterloo, Lucie Wellner, and Katherine Houston
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Drawn from details of the death of a former friend and bandmate of artist Paul Lloyd Sargent, "elegy" is presented through a multimedia installation of mashed-up, remixed, and recontextualized historical ephemera collected from mixtapes, amateur videos, zines, photographs, band fliers, sketchbook pages, song lyrics, and more. A lament for the death of youth despite the overwhelming persistence of youth culture, "elegy: society for a dead society" paints nostalgia and cynicism as two shades within the same dark palette.

Paul Lloyd Sargent splits his time between Brooklyn and Wellesley Island, NY. He was raised in Syracuse and graduated from Nottingham High School in 1989 and Hamilton College in 1993. After stints in Las Vegas, Boston, and Venice Beach, in 2000, he received his MFA in video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

May Garden Party
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Garden-themed pieces in a variety of mediums.

Works of Gretchen Hamlin and Bob Ripley
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New works by watercolorist Bob Ripley and glass artist Gretchen Hamlin.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

Read a review!

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

A Tender Record: Early black and white photographs by Marjory Wilkins
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Curated by Nancy Keefe Rhodes, this is an exhibit of 35 restored and finished prints of the now-extinct 15th Ward and others of historical relevance to both the African American community and the Syracuse community at large. Marjory Wilkins has been an important figure in our community for over six decades, inspiring many through her camera's view of the world. Her work is described by the exhibit curator in this way: "As documentary photographs, they record history, whether recent or remote, that is 'minority' history—that is, history often outside of its own community, either ignored or contested by stereotypes."

Her photography has become an invaluable resource to remember a place now destroyed, and a community with a charm and importance almost unknown to those outside of it.

Elizabeth Sutphen, soprano Nicholas Blaney, baritone; Adam Rothenberg, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Opera scenes, Schumann Frauenliebe und Leben, Schubert Winterreise, piano solos, and other works.

Fences
Syracuse Stage

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

Because a true classic always speaks to us anew. Pittsburgh, 1957. Troy Maxon, ex-ballplayer, complicated African-American family man and garbage collector, has lived a life of diminished hopes and abandoned dreams. Now Troy's talented son, Cory, has hopes and dreams of his own. Will Troy allow his bitterness about the past to poison his son's promising future? With a view toward a better future, August Wilson's Fences first posed this dramatic and necessary question 25 years ago ... and it hits us as hard today.

Read a Review!

Fences
Syracuse Stage

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

Because a true classic always speaks to us anew. Pittsburgh, 1957. Troy Maxon, ex-ballplayer, complicated African-American family man and garbage collector, has lived a life of diminished hopes and abandoned dreams. Now Troy's talented son, Cory, has hopes and dreams of his own. Will Troy allow his bitterness about the past to poison his son's promising future? With a view toward a better future, August Wilson's Fences first posed this dramatic and necessary question 25 years ago ... and it hits us as hard today.

Read a Review!

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Under The Surface: Ceramic Stylings of Shawn McGuire and Wes Weiss
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

"Under the Surface" explores the rich surfaces achieved by each ceramic artist using very different techniques. Shawn's work is thrown and altered and then naked Raku fired. Wes's work is hand-built from colored clays and the result is an active, vibrant surface.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

The Portrait Show: Open Figure Drawing, Inc.
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

With the 2010 Portrait Show, Open Figure Drawing Inc. continues their tradition of celebrating the collective work from the group with a non-juried exhibit made up of the artists who participate in the Wednesday night drawing sessions. The group is open and self instructional, with a variety of different styles to take in!

Whether your interest lies in finding interesting artwork to purchase, or maybe just thinking about taking up your own drawing, there is something for everyone here! Come and be entertained and empowered to make your own work!

An incorporated not-for-profit art organization run by a board of directors and volunteers, OFD has existed since 1989 as "One of Syracuse's most economical drawing experiences!"

Horizons
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anna Soltyk: richly textured oil and mixed media paintings
Phil Austin: glass artistry
Wendy Harris: upstate landscape done en plein air in pastel and mixed media

Read a review!

38th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Syracuse Chapter of the Links, Inc. in cooperation with Community Folk Art Center and local school districts join their efforts to provide an ongoing opportunity to recognize teenagers (ages 13-19) of African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian American heritage as well as those from other underrepresented groups who demonstrate talents in the fine arts.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Works of Bridget Bossart Van Otterloo, Lucie Wellner, and Katherine Houston
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Drawn from details of the death of a former friend and bandmate of artist Paul Lloyd Sargent, "elegy" is presented through a multimedia installation of mashed-up, remixed, and recontextualized historical ephemera collected from mixtapes, amateur videos, zines, photographs, band fliers, sketchbook pages, song lyrics, and more. A lament for the death of youth despite the overwhelming persistence of youth culture, "elegy: society for a dead society" paints nostalgia and cynicism as two shades within the same dark palette.

Paul Lloyd Sargent splits his time between Brooklyn and Wellesley Island, NY. He was raised in Syracuse and graduated from Nottingham High School in 1989 and Hamilton College in 1993. After stints in Las Vegas, Boston, and Venice Beach, in 2000, he received his MFA in video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

May Garden Party
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Garden-themed pieces in a variety of mediums.

Fiction to Function: Recent Work by Shanna Fliegel
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Shanna Fliegel's ceramic artwork draws upon "the surrealistic nature of dreams and childhood memories" and combines image, color, and sculpted forms to create "vehicles that generate stories for the viewer." Her artistic output includes anthropomorphic figures, wall tablets, and functional vessels and these will be on view.

Read a review!

Works of Gretchen Hamlin and Bob Ripley
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New works by watercolorist Bob Ripley and glass artist Gretchen Hamlin.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

Read a review!

Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

A Tender Record: Early black and white photographs by Marjory Wilkins
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Curated by Nancy Keefe Rhodes, this is an exhibit of 35 restored and finished prints of the now-extinct 15th Ward and others of historical relevance to both the African American community and the Syracuse community at large. Marjory Wilkins has been an important figure in our community for over six decades, inspiring many through her camera's view of the world. Her work is described by the exhibit curator in this way: "As documentary photographs, they record history, whether recent or remote, that is 'minority' history—that is, history often outside of its own community, either ignored or contested by stereotypes."

Her photography has become an invaluable resource to remember a place now destroyed, and a community with a charm and importance almost unknown to those outside of it.

Syracuse's 15th Ward and Beyond

ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Last fall, Syracuse University's South Side Initiative and the local Black History Preservation team sponsored a bus tour of old Syracuse: the 15th Ward and other historical sites. Some 30 senior members of the community, who have lived in Syracuse for at least 40 years, participated. The tour and the participants' stories and recollections of Syracuse's past were filmed for this documentary by local filmmaker Courtney Rile.

Among the former sites the tour participants visited were the Ebony Market, Croton Elementary, Old Dunbar, The Glass Bottom and Open Door lounges, Ben's Kitchen, the Father Brady Center for Black Catholics, and Washington Irving Elementary School.

Dead Pull Hitter
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $32.50 plus tax and gratuities (includes meal and show)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Play ball! Come on out to the ball park, loyal followers. It's media day and your hometown Sympronius Swamp Turtles are getting ready for yet another pathetic season of shabby, losing baseball. Make sure you wear your protective gear this year, sports fans. Jobs are now on the line and the new owner plays rough. Really, really rough.

Fences
Syracuse Stage

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

Because a true classic always speaks to us anew. Pittsburgh, 1957. Troy Maxon, ex-ballplayer, complicated African-American family man and garbage collector, has lived a life of diminished hopes and abandoned dreams. Now Troy's talented son, Cory, has hopes and dreams of his own. Will Troy allow his bitterness about the past to poison his son's promising future? With a view toward a better future, August Wilson's Fences first posed this dramatic and necessary question 25 years ago ... and it hits us as hard today.

Read a Review!

Friday, May 28, 2010

Under The Surface: Ceramic Stylings of Shawn McGuire and Wes Weiss
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

"Under the Surface" explores the rich surfaces achieved by each ceramic artist using very different techniques. Shawn's work is thrown and altered and then naked Raku fired. Wes's work is hand-built from colored clays and the result is an active, vibrant surface.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery presents "Alejandra," an international collective inspired by the life and poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's surrealist voice resounds from the '60s to inspire a new generation of dreamers. One of Argentina's adored poets, she achieved literary greatness in the Spanish world and met an early death in 1972, at the age of 36.

"Alejandra" features a stellar assembly of international scale contemporary artists, three from Latin America—Graciela Sacco (Argentina), Patricia Betancur (Uruguay); Nayda Collazo-Llorens (Puerto Rico)—and three faculty members from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Mary Giehl, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.

A visual and verbal exploration, this exhibition complements the 2010 release of a Point of Contact journal special edition dedicated to Pizarnik. The new publication will feature a series of unedited letters about poetry, from young Alejandra.

The Portrait Show: Open Figure Drawing, Inc.
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

With the 2010 Portrait Show, Open Figure Drawing Inc. continues their tradition of celebrating the collective work from the group with a non-juried exhibit made up of the artists who participate in the Wednesday night drawing sessions. The group is open and self instructional, with a variety of different styles to take in!

Whether your interest lies in finding interesting artwork to purchase, or maybe just thinking about taking up your own drawing, there is something for everyone here! Come and be entertained and empowered to make your own work!

An incorporated not-for-profit art organization run by a board of directors and volunteers, OFD has existed since 1989 as "One of Syracuse's most economical drawing experiences!"

Horizons
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anna Soltyk: richly textured oil and mixed media paintings
Phil Austin: glass artistry
Wendy Harris: upstate landscape done en plein air in pastel and mixed media

Read a review!

38th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Syracuse Chapter of the Links, Inc. in cooperation with Community Folk Art Center and local school districts join their efforts to provide an ongoing opportunity to recognize teenagers (ages 13-19) of African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian American heritage as well as those from other underrepresented groups who demonstrate talents in the fine arts.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Works of Bridget Bossart Van Otterloo, Lucie Wellner, and Katherine Houston
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Drawn from details of the death of a former friend and bandmate of artist Paul Lloyd Sargent, "elegy" is presented through a multimedia installation of mashed-up, remixed, and recontextualized historical ephemera collected from mixtapes, amateur videos, zines, photographs, band fliers, sketchbook pages, song lyrics, and more. A lament for the death of youth despite the overwhelming persistence of youth culture, "elegy: society for a dead society" paints nostalgia and cynicism as two shades within the same dark palette.

Paul Lloyd Sargent splits his time between Brooklyn and Wellesley Island, NY. He was raised in Syracuse and graduated from Nottingham High School in 1989 and Hamilton College in 1993. After stints in Las Vegas, Boston, and Venice Beach, in 2000, he received his MFA in video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

May Garden Party
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Garden-themed pieces in a variety of mediums.

Fiction to Function: Recent Work by Shanna Fliegel
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Shanna Fliegel's ceramic artwork draws upon "the surrealistic nature of dreams and childhood memories" and combines image, color, and sculpted forms to create "vehicles that generate stories for the viewer." Her artistic output includes anthropomorphic figures, wall tablets, and functional vessels and these will be on view.

Read a review!

Works of Gretchen Hamlin and Bob Ripley
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New works by watercolorist Bob Ripley and glass artist Gretchen Hamlin.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

Read a review!

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

DFtA at the Palace
Don't Feed the Actors

Price: $12
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Audience-interactive improv comedy with some of Syracuse's finest comedic actors.

Heart & Soul: A Centennial Celebration of Frank Loesser
Featuring Karen Oberlin

Price: $12 (cash only)
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

For reservations and information, phone 315-380-9689.

Karen Oberlin (nee Oberbrunner) was born and raised in Syracuse and is thrilled to be returning to Jazz Central to perform a preview of her new show, which she will then be taking to the legendary Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City in June for a three full-week engagement, followed by two weeks at the Royal Room at the Colony Hotel in West Palm Beach.

Described by The New York Times as having "impeccable style, musical intelligence and delicately voluptuous phrasing" and being chosen by The New York Times as being one of the "Saviors of the Great American Songbook," Karen has been the recipient of multiple awards for her singing in New York, and in the past few years has headlined at such venues there as Jazz at Lincoln Center, Town Hall, Iridium Jazz Club, Feinstein's, and of course, the Oak Room at The Algonquin. She has two award-winning CDs on the Miranda Music label, and Oberlin, hailed by Rex Reed as "thrilling" in the New York Observer, will be joined by the jazz pianist phenomenon Jon Weber.

Oberlin honors the great American songwriter Frank Loesser, who wrote such classics as the Oscar-winning "Baby, It's Cold Outside," "Heart and Soul," "Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year," and "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" not to mention his Broadway Tony Award-winning masterpieces (both words and music): Guys and Dolls, The Most Happy Fella, and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Heart & Soul: A Centennial Celebration of Frank Loesser
Featuring Karen Oberlin

Price: $12 (cash only)
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

For reservations and information, phone 315-380-9689.

Karen Oberlin (nee Oberbrunner) was born and raised in Syracuse and is thrilled to be returning to Jazz Central to perform a preview of her new show, which she will then be taking to the legendary Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City in June for a three full-week engagement, followed by two weeks at the Royal Room at the Colony Hotel in West Palm Beach.

Described by The New York Times as having "impeccable style, musical intelligence and delicately voluptuous phrasing" and being chosen by The New York Times as being one of the "Saviors of the Great American Songbook," Karen has been the recipient of multiple awards for her singing in New York, and in the past few years has headlined at such venues there as Jazz at Lincoln Center, Town Hall, Iridium Jazz Club, Feinstein's, and of course, the Oak Room at The Algonquin. She has two award-winning CDs on the Miranda Music label, and Oberlin, hailed by Rex Reed as "thrilling" in the New York Observer, will be joined by the jazz pianist phenomenon Jon Weber.

Oberlin honors the great American songwriter Frank Loesser, who wrote such classics as the Oscar-winning "Baby, It's Cold Outside," "Heart and Soul," "Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year," and "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" not to mention his Broadway Tony Award-winning masterpieces (both words and music): Guys and Dolls, The Most Happy Fella, and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Miss Nelson has a Field Day
Gifford Family Theatre

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The delightful sequel to "Miss Nelson is Missing!" based on the book by Harry Allard and James Marshall, adapted by Joan Cushing, with book, music and lyrics by Joan Cushing.

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Fences
Syracuse Stage

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

Because a true classic always speaks to us anew. Pittsburgh, 1957. Troy Maxon, ex-ballplayer, complicated African-American family man and garbage collector, has lived a life of diminished hopes and abandoned dreams. Now Troy's talented son, Cory, has hopes and dreams of his own. Will Troy allow his bitterness about the past to poison his son's promising future? With a view toward a better future, August Wilson's Fences first posed this dramatic and necessary question 25 years ago ... and it hits us as hard today.

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Saturday, May 29, 2010

Under The Surface: Ceramic Stylings of Shawn McGuire and Wes Weiss
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

"Under the Surface" explores the rich surfaces achieved by each ceramic artist using very different techniques. Shawn's work is thrown and altered and then naked Raku fired. Wes's work is hand-built from colored clays and the result is an active, vibrant surface.

Horizons
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anna Soltyk: richly textured oil and mixed media paintings
Phil Austin: glass artistry
Wendy Harris: upstate landscape done en plein air in pastel and mixed media

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Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors/students/military, $30 family pack (includes 2 adults and up to 4 children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

During the height of Maxfield Parrish's popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements, and color reproductions, Parrish's images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture. While recent exhibitions of Parrish have focused mainly on his original oil paintings, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales represents the first comprehensive sampling of Parrish's work in a variety of printed media.

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

This exhibition highlights selected work from a two-year collaborative community project between Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University Library, and four schools from the Syracuse City School District: Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran and Fowler. Students photographed "hidden" letters in their neighborhoods and transformed their "found alphabets" into artist books. The project is funded by a Syracuse University Enitiative grant with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

In 2010, the Everson Museum of Art introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series as an alternative to the traditional Biennial Exhibition. Fit to be Bound, the second exhibition in a series of four will showcase a broad range of artist books created by artists currently living in New York State—the first survey of its kind at the Everson. The exhibition will be an exploration of the various means by which contemporary artists have expanded the notion of the book form, from the traditional to the sculptural, from paper to mixed-media, small-scale and oversized.

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May Garden Party
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Garden-themed pieces in a variety of mediums.

38th Annual Teenage Competitive Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

The Syracuse Chapter of the Links, Inc. in cooperation with Community Folk Art Center and local school districts join their efforts to provide an ongoing opportunity to recognize teenagers (ages 13-19) of African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Asian American heritage as well as those from other underrepresented groups who demonstrate talents in the fine arts.

Fiction to Function: Recent Work by Shanna Fliegel
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Shanna Fliegel's ceramic artwork draws upon "the surrealistic nature of dreams and childhood memories" and combines image, color, and sculpted forms to create "vehicles that generate stories for the viewer." Her artistic output includes anthropomorphic figures, wall tablets, and functional vessels and these will be on view.

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Works of Gretchen Hamlin and Bob Ripley
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

New works by watercolorist Bob Ripley and glass artist Gretchen Hamlin.

Works of Bridget Bossart Van Otterloo, Lucie Wellner, and Katherine Houston
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

There will be a live performance by Curtis Bahn and Jesse Stiles at the closing reception at 7:00 p.m.

Curtis Bahn, a nationally and internationally recognized composer and improviser specializing in live interactive electronic performance, is associate professor of computer music composition/performance, and director of the Integrated Electronic Arts (iEAR) Studios at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. Bahn and Stiles' performance will combine Classical Hindustani, electronic music, and interactive video projections.

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Aladdin
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the classic tale.

Miss Nelson has a Field Day
Gifford Family Theatre

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The delightful sequel to "Miss Nelson is Missing!" based on the book by Harry Allard and James Marshall, adapted by Joan Cushing, with book, music and lyrics by Joan Cushing.

Read a review!

Fences
Syracuse Stage

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

Because a true classic always speaks to us anew. Pittsburgh, 1957. Troy Maxon, ex-ballplayer, complicated African-American family man and garbage collector, has lived a life of diminished hopes and abandoned dreams. Now Troy's talented son, Cory, has hopes and dreams of his own. Will Troy allow his bitterness about the past to poison his son's promising future? With a view toward a better future, August Wilson's Fences first posed this dramatic and necessary question 25 years ago ... and it hits us as hard today.

Read a Review!

Miss Nelson has a Field Day
Gifford Family Theatre

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The delightful sequel to "Miss Nelson is Missing!" based on the book by Harry Allard and James Marshall, adapted by Joan Cushing, with book, music and lyrics by Joan Cushing.

Read a review!

Idol Assassination
Without a Cue Productions
Sara Caliva, director

Price: $37.25 includes dinner and show
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

It's the final night of Big American Star, and America is going to get a chance to vote for its next...big American star. The contestants are at each other's throats, dangerously close to ripping out one another's vocal chords, while the judges and host stir up drama to boost sagging ratings. By the time the contestants are ready to sing, the atmosphere has turned murderous, and the contestants may "knock 'em dead" in more ways than one.

The show is an interactive murder mystery that involves the members of the audience.

Fences
Syracuse Stage

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

Because a true classic always speaks to us anew. Pittsburgh, 1957. Troy Maxon, ex-ballplayer, complicated African-American family man and garbage collector, has lived a life of diminished hopes and abandoned dreams. Now Troy's talented son, Cory, has hopes and dreams of his own. Will Troy allow his bitterness about the past to poison his son's promising future? With a view toward a better future, August Wilson's Fences first posed this dramatic and necessary question 25 years ago ... and it hits us as hard today.

Read a Review!