Saturday, November 22, 2014

Howard Hao Tran: Sculpture and Drawing
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Howard Tran's work explores three themes related to his life: migration, assimilation and identity. His family moved from China to Vietnam during WWII, translated their name to Vietnamese and assimilated in many ways while maintaining Chinese language and customs.

After immigrating to the United States, Howard's identity came into question. Although his family was Chinese, he had been born and raised in Vietnam. To Americans he was Vietnamese. Now he has lived in America most of his life and has assimilated to this culture so much that when he return returns to Vietnam he no longer feels at home.

Today, he self-identifies as Chinese/Vietnamese/American and embodies elements of all three cultures while at the same time feels between them all. In his art he explores identity, home, tradition change and the dichotomy between East and West.

Painting Alumni Retrospective
914Works

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The breadth and diversity of "Painting Alumni Retrospective" stand as evidence of the University's lasting impact on American culture since it became the first institution in the United States to offer a bachelor of fine arts degree 140 years ago.

The exhibition includes small works by 21 alumni of the undergraduate painting program from the Class of 1959 to the Class of 2014. The exhibition shows the evolution of painting over a half century, from action painting to conceptual, post-conceptual, representational, interdisciplinary and contemporary works. As such, the exhibition addresses the historical phenomenon of American painting and the impact Syracuse University has had on the medium from the reign of critic Clement Greenberg '30 to the contemporary conversation.

The artists represented include Barbara Vural, Louise Freshman Brown, Ken Rush, Scott Bennett, Deborah Walsh, Allyn Stewart, Linda Bigness, Elizabeth Brown Eagle, Yvonne Petkus, Heather Hertel, Francis Sills, Holly Cahill, Alexis Serio Hughes, Jennie Schaeffer, Adam Winner, Edward Holland, Emily Dierkes, Sean Ward, Joshua Kaplan, Mary Luke, and Jenna Race. Combined, they have amassed prestigious recognitions, including more than 50 museum exhibitions and a wide array of press coverage and critical acclaim from the likes of the New York Times, ARTnews, Greenberg, and the Syracuse Post-Standard.

Common Planes: The Metalwork of Arlene Abend and Todd Conover
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

An exhibit of jewelry and sculpture.

Arlene Abend's career creating sculpture spans decades. Abend works in bronze, sheet steel, and other mediums. Her work can be found in public, corporate, and private collections. Abend has exhibited in over 15 shows, some group and some one-woman shows. "When I create a sculpture to communicate an idea or a feeling, I also find myself expressing the character of the material as well...be it bronze whose molten liquid flows into cavities or sheet steel that can be sheared and bent. The use of different material is both exciting and challenging. The exploration leads to new forms and directions and offers me a far greater range of expression."

Todd Conover's passion for collecting early 20th century American Arts & Crafts Period metalwork led to his obsession with learning long-lost metalworking techniques. He quickly set out producing unique work of his own. Conover has been in fashion design for over 25 years so it was an obvious marriage to transition his metalwork to jewelry where he focuses most of his design work and energy. With a mix of unexpected yet related materials, his jewelry tends to be overtly bold with inspiration harnessed from natural forms that will highlight surface and materials. Conover is professor of Design/Chair: Fashion Design, Syracuse University School of Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Block Prints of Laura Wilder
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

An exhibition of the work of Roycroft Renaissance artist Laura Wilder.

Beyond the Pale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Linda Bigness: encaustic and oil paintings influenced by music's emergent patterns and created with subtle nuances of color and found materials

Todd Conover: folded, pierced stone set and chainworked sculpture and jewelry, based on a strong craft tradition from centuries-old metalsmithing techniques

Amy Bartell: gouache and drawing combine to investigate organic forms; archeology of place and time presented as formal portraits

29th Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular, $4 seniors, $2 children
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

It's that time of year again! The upstairs gallery of the Erie Canal Museum has been transformed into a 1800s street scene with over 30 gingerbread creations made by professional and amateur bakers from across the region on display in storefront windows.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to a construction schedule beyond our control, the elevator will be out of service for the duration of the Gingerbread Gallery. We apologize for the inconvenience. Our temporary entrance will be on the Water Street side of the building.

Shadows: Fernando Orellana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The interactive artworks found in Shadows are designed to be used posthumously. Inspired by paranormal research, spiritualism, and ghost folklore, these machines continuously search for the dead, attempting to allow the departed continued use of their worldly possessions. Extracted from recent estate sales, the personal objects found in these techno-effigies are in a constant state of potential energy, awaiting their owner's return. By monitoring sudden fluctuations in temperature, infrared, and electromagnetic readings, the machines try to open a channel or doorway into the neither world. By this, each machine gives the dead an opportunity or proxy to continue interacting in this world and the next.

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Performing Media: Works by Signal Culture Artists in Residence
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition highlights work which was made through a performative process with media art. Artists Benton-C Bainbridge, Pat Cain, Jax Deluca & Kyle Marler, Andrew Deutsch, Colleen Keough, LoVid, and Eric Souther are featured with single channel videos, installations, and live performances. All were artists in residence at Signal Culture in Owego, NY.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Salt City Clay: Selected Works by Syracuse Ceramics Guild
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition, juried by Chandra Debuse and Tommy Frank, presents new work by members of the Syracuse Ceramic Guild. The Syracuse Ceramic Guild, established in 1947, is a not-for-profit organization of potters dedicated to the promotion of awareness and understanding of the ceramic medium.

Pots and Pods: Tableware and Sculpture by Sallie Thompson
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Opening Exhibition
CommonSpace Crafts

CommonSpace Crafts
201 E Jefferson St., Syracuse

The gallery features the work of 11 local artists.

Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Question Bridge: Black Males" is an innovative transmedia project, created by artists Chris Johnson and Hank Willis Thomas, which facilitates a dialogue between a critical mass of Black men from diverse and contending backgrounds and creates a platform for them to represent and redefine Black male identity in America. CFAC will also be featuring a Syracuse-based "Question Bridge" featuring Black men of all ages as platform to ask and candidly respond to questions that are rarely discussed in public.

"Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock" explores the work of this multidisciplinary artist who interrogates Black male identity and constructs a layered narrative addressing violence in the Black community.

60th Annual Holiday Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Original art by over 50 local arts, including paintings, photography, pottery, jewelry, textiles, stained glass, and one-of-a-kind gifts.

For more information, visit artmart-syracuse.com.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An artwork exhibit highlighting winter scenes throughout Onondaga County. "Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County" features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 30 scenes include downtown Syracuse, rural vistas, Oakwood and Rose Hill Cemeteries, and woodland settings. The imagery is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.

Thinkin 'Bout Lincoln
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In conjunction with Onondaga Community College's "Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War" exhibit, OHA will open an exhibit titled "Thinkin' 'Bout Lincoln" featuring some of OHA's Lincoln collection.

Watercolor Memories: The Artistic Legacy of Betty Munro
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibit featuring the watercolors of the late Betty Munro, a local artist who could be seen painting in downtown Syracuse throughout the 1970s to the early 1990s. Located in the first floor main gallery, the exhibit will focus on Betty's artistic diversity through watercolor paints. Betty is best known for her architectural scenes and cityscapes, and while guests will see some of those, they also will be treated to other, perhaps lesser-known subjects such as human figures, swans, barns, the beach in Florida, and other colorful themes. All paintings in the exhibit will be for sale.

It's in Our Very Name: The Italian Heritage of Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

As a crossroads for many immigrants from around the world, Syracuse became the home for Italians who were looking to build a better life. In turn, these immigrants changed Syracuse both physically, by helping with different architectural and infrastructure projects, and culturally, by importing new foods and customs to our community and by participation at all levels in the Syracuse economy.

The exhibit will focus on the history and influence of Italian culture in Syracuse beginning with the name given to this village in 1825, which was adopted when John Wilkinson was inspired by a poem about Siracusa, Sicily. By the 1880s, an increasing number of Italian immigrants began to arrive to take advantage of the thriving Syracuse economy and other opportunities that were available. Some artifacts that will be highlighted include a wine press, a set of wooden bocce balls, and purses made at the Resnick purse factory.

Conceal/Reveal: New Work from the Faculty of the College of Visual and Performing Arts
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit brings together the eclectic and powerful work of design, studio arts, and transmedia faculty. Organized by SUArt Galleries Assistant Director Andrew J. Saluti, this exhibition will showcase new and recent artwork from 20 artists working in a wide variety of media including painting, photography, drawing, ceramics, art video and site-specific installations.

Trans*cending Gender: The work of Gavin Laurence Rouille and Rhys Harper
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Minneapolis-based Rouille's conceptual art poses questions about masculinity and femininity, traditional gender norms, and what shapes identity. Be it erroneous assumptions, the hurdles of transitioning, or violence (including murder), Rouille's art lays bare the challenges that transgender and gender-nonconforming people face daily. But people are more than their challenges, and Syracuse photographer and videographer Rhys Harper's classically lit black and-white images reflect this sentiment. Harper's photographs invite the viewer to see his subjects as more than their gender identities. They are teachers, musicians, parents...

Through Rouille's printmaking and Harper's photography, Trans*cending Gender presents both the challenges and the real people who live beyond these challenges. Transgender Day of Remembrance – November 20th – falls during the run of this exhibition, when we memorialize those who have died because of transphobia, the fear and hatred of transgender and gender-nonconforming people.

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Switch: Prints by Dusty Herbig
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

The large format relief prints were realized through Herbig's research into developing contradictions about the dichotomy of power/energy and his concerned interest in human population expansion and its ramifications on the earth and its inhabitants. Through his use of imagery of electrical outlets, sockets, switches and other receptacles, the work seeks to open dialog about what exactly power can mean to divergent populations around the globe.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Moments of Place: Photos by Gwenn Thomas
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Gwenn Thomas's photographs of doors and windows are embedded within sculptural frames in ways that question perceptions of photographic imagery, and our experience of lived space. Her photographs of window frames, exterior and interior architectural spaces initiate portholes into the spaces within. These irregularly shaped photographic objects construct the illusion of actual windows, recalling Marcel Duchamp's window of 1920. The illusion is assisted by the absence of glass in the framing, opening the window of the photo from the perspective of the viewer. The photograph with the frame are the windows themselves.

Her earlier works from this series began with an exploration into the play between the two-dimensional image and the three-dimensional object frame in a 1980 exhibition at John Weber Gallery. Starting with the architectural subject matter of the photograph itself, Thomas interlinks the image with the structure of its presentational frame, which is initiated by the image itself.

Continuing into the present, the artist's newest works are framed laminated photographs of the same window taken at various times of day: morning, late afternoon and dusk. These works are inspired in part by the documentary photos of the house that the philosopher Wittgenstein designed for his sister in 1926, in Vienna.

Thomas's photographic objects reveal complex spatial relationships, within and outside of the two-dimensional plane, taking into account each available axis of space.

Sanford Biggers: Shuffle & Shake
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Shuffle" and "Shake" form the first two parts of Sanford Biggers' Odyssean trilogy about the formation and dissolution of identity. Both works feature the electric presence of Ricardo Camillo, a Brazil-born, Germany-based choreographer, stuntman, clown and DJ. "Shuffle" explores how we matriculate through society, often masking our insecurities, pain, longing, and the internal schizophrenia of the id. The original soundtrack is composed from the artist's field recordings made in Indonesia. In "Shake," the second video of the trilogy, Camillo walks from the favelas (or shantytowns) of Brazil, to the ocean before finally transforming into an androgynous silver-skinned figure. Biggers' imagery and narrative simultaneously reference Greek mythology and the quintessential Afrofutrist aesthetics of Parliament Funkadelic.

This exhibition marks the second installment of "Celestial Navigation: A Year into the Afro Future", a year-long program of exhibitions and events at Urban Video Project and partner organizations that takes Afrofuturism as its point of departure.

Screening begins at dusk.

Opening: Holiday Show 2014
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

There will be an opening reception this evening 6:00-8:00 pm.

The Holiday Show features jewelry, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include Kathy Barry, Jen Gandee, Diane Godfrey, Wendy Harris, Cary Joseph, Colleen McCall, David MacDonald, Betsy Menson Sio, Karen Pardee, Jeremy Randall, Emily Riesenfeld, and Errol Willett.

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit. Many fine art and craft artists currently have work on display at the gallery shop. New holiday cards, ornaments, and many gift items fill the space.

Hannah and Her Sisters
ArtRage Gallery

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

Directed by Woody Allen with Mia Farrow, Michael Caine, Barbara Hershey, and Dianne Wiest.

Our annual Thanksgiving feast: Woody Allen's Manhattan mosaic spins around the lives, loves and romantic strayings of a tightly knit, artistic family. Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with one of her two sisters, even as her hypochondriac husband rekindles his affair with the other sister. Smart, tender, wise. Hailed as one of Allen's best. With Lloyd Nolan, Maureen O'Sullivan, Max vonSydow, Carrie Fisher.

Hallelujah!
MasterWorks Chorale
Kip Coerper, conductor

Price: $15 regular; $10 students, seniors, participating singers; free for children 5 and under
St. Mary's of the Lake Church
81 Jordan St., Skaneateles

Messiah sing-along with orchestra and soloists.

Singers who are familiar with Messiah choruses and would like to perform on stage with the Chorale are asked to arrive at 6:45 PM on the day of the concert. Those planning to participate are also invited to attend a rehearsal on November 18, 7:00-9:00 pm, at St. Mary's of the Lake. For more information contact Kip Coerper at kipcoerper@gmail.com, or call 315-702-7325.

Todd Hobin and Doug Moncrief
Steeple Coffee House

Price: $10 suggested donation covers entertainment, dessert, coffee/tea
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Rock & Roll, without the drums, by two CNY legends.

American String Quartet with pianist Anton Nel
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

Price: $25 regular, $15 senior, students free
H. W. Smith School Auditorium
1130 Salt Springs Rd., Syracuse

One of the world's foremost quartets, the American String Quartet is worthy to bear its proud name. In its 38 years thus far, the ensemble has performed the complete quartets of Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg and Bartok internationally. Its 2-volume set of the Mozart string quartets—on matched Stradivarius instruments—sets the gold standard.

The distinguished pianist Anton Nel has appeared with the symphonies of Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Detroit, and London, among others, and has performed solo recitals in major venues worldwide.

Mozart String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K. 465, "Dissonance"
Brahms String Quartet in B-flat Major No. 3, Op. 67
Schumann Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44

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Mark Doyle's Guitar Noir
Syracuse Jazz Fest

Price: $20 in advance, $25 at the door
OCC Recital Hall
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Tickets available at Sound Garden in Armory Square.

Ryan Montbleau, with The Unknown Woodsmen
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Little Red Riding Hood
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.

Stepping Out
Syracuse University Drama Department
Timothy Davis-Reed, director

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

This comic gem of a play follows the ups and downs of nine women and one man who meet each week in a church hall for a beginning tap class. Led by Mavis, a patient and talented dancer and accompanied by the acerbic Mrs. Fraser on piano, the students struggle to learn basic tap with varying degrees of success. Throughout, playwright Richard Harris explores the shifts in the lives of the characters as they work together to rehearse and perform a polished routine at a charity fund-raiser. This delightful play ran for three years when it premiered in London in the 1980s and remains an insightful look at friendship and the joy that can be found in Stepping Out, if only once a week.

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Salt City Magic Club
CNY Playhouse

Price: $10 regular, $5 for children under 10
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

CNYP is partnering with the Salt City Magic Club to provide a night of magic and entertainment, featuring Louis Hanlon, Theresa Barniak, Bruce Purdy, Jason The Entertainer, Hal Schulman, and Dave Sorensen.

This is a follow-up to our March event which nearly sold out. We highly suggest reservations and/or purchasing tickets in advance at www.cnyplayhouse.com for this event.

Be Our Guest: Disney Through the Ages
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

A cast comprised of Rarely Done favorites and newcomers to our stage raises their voices in celebration of the best of the Disney music songbook. Disney has been adding their distinct, much-loved, often-sung music to the American musical canon for years, and with Be Our Guest, Rarely Done shares the very best of Disney with our audiences. Appropriate for the entire family!

Starring Julia Berger, Rachel Boucher, David Cotter, Liam Fitzpatrick, Corey Hopkins, Colin Keating, Cathleen O'Brien Brown, and Jennifer Pearson, this production features musical direction by Abel Searor and musical staging by Jimmy Curtin. This family-friendly show will leave you tapping your toes and humming your favorite classic Disney songs.

Throughout performances of Be Our Guest, we will be accepting donations of cash and new, unwrapped toys in our lobby, in support of our friends at The Salvation Army.

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Stepping Out
Syracuse University Drama Department
Timothy Davis-Reed, director

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

This comic gem of a play follows the ups and downs of nine women and one man who meet each week in a church hall for a beginning tap class. Led by Mavis, a patient and talented dancer and accompanied by the acerbic Mrs. Fraser on piano, the students struggle to learn basic tap with varying degrees of success. Throughout, playwright Richard Harris explores the shifts in the lives of the characters as they work together to rehearse and perform a polished routine at a charity fund-raiser. This delightful play ran for three years when it premiered in London in the 1980s and remains an insightful look at friendship and the joy that can be found in Stepping Out, if only once a week.

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Sunday, November 23, 2014

29th Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular, $4 seniors, $2 children
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

It's that time of year again! The upstairs gallery of the Erie Canal Museum has been transformed into a 1800s street scene with over 30 gingerbread creations made by professional and amateur bakers from across the region on display in storefront windows.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to a construction schedule beyond our control, the elevator will be out of service for the duration of the Gingerbread Gallery. We apologize for the inconvenience. Our temporary entrance will be on the Water Street side of the building.

2014 Light Work Grants: Trevor Clement, Sebastian Collett, Dan Wetmore
Light Work Gallery

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

Raymond Meeks: Where Objects Fall Away
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce "Where Objects Fall Away," an exhibition spanning the career of photographer and book artist Raymond Meeks, exploring his relationship to the photobook and its form.

In the words of artist and publisher Raymond Meeks, "I continue to be inspired by collaboration with writers of poetry and short fiction and the merging of visual and word narratives. Recently, I've focused my efforts towards making artist books and a collaborative journal, orchard, which presents a visual conversation with fellow artists." Meeks has collaborated with artists Deborah Luster, Wes Mills, and Mark Steinmetz. His books and pictures are housed in numerous public and private collections, including the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, George Eastman House, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Howard Stein Collection.

Opening Exhibition
CommonSpace Crafts

CommonSpace Crafts
201 E Jefferson St., Syracuse

The gallery features the work of 11 local artists.

Pots and Pods: Tableware and Sculpture by Sallie Thompson
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Holiday Show 2014
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Show features jewelry, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include Kathy Barry, Jen Gandee, Diane Godfrey, Wendy Harris, Cary Joseph, Colleen McCall, David MacDonald, Betsy Menson Sio, Karen Pardee, Jeremy Randall, Emily Riesenfeld, and Errol Willett.

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit. Many fine art and craft artists currently have work on display at the gallery shop. New holiday cards, ornaments, and many gift items fill the space.

Thinkin 'Bout Lincoln
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In conjunction with Onondaga Community College's "Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War" exhibit, OHA will open an exhibit titled "Thinkin' 'Bout Lincoln" featuring some of OHA's Lincoln collection.

It's in Our Very Name: The Italian Heritage of Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

As a crossroads for many immigrants from around the world, Syracuse became the home for Italians who were looking to build a better life. In turn, these immigrants changed Syracuse both physically, by helping with different architectural and infrastructure projects, and culturally, by importing new foods and customs to our community and by participation at all levels in the Syracuse economy.

The exhibit will focus on the history and influence of Italian culture in Syracuse beginning with the name given to this village in 1825, which was adopted when John Wilkinson was inspired by a poem about Siracusa, Sicily. By the 1880s, an increasing number of Italian immigrants began to arrive to take advantage of the thriving Syracuse economy and other opportunities that were available. Some artifacts that will be highlighted include a wine press, a set of wooden bocce balls, and purses made at the Resnick purse factory.

Watercolor Memories: The Artistic Legacy of Betty Munro
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibit featuring the watercolors of the late Betty Munro, a local artist who could be seen painting in downtown Syracuse throughout the 1970s to the early 1990s. Located in the first floor main gallery, the exhibit will focus on Betty's artistic diversity through watercolor paints. Betty is best known for her architectural scenes and cityscapes, and while guests will see some of those, they also will be treated to other, perhaps lesser-known subjects such as human figures, swans, barns, the beach in Florida, and other colorful themes. All paintings in the exhibit will be for sale.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An artwork exhibit highlighting winter scenes throughout Onondaga County. "Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County" features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 30 scenes include downtown Syracuse, rural vistas, Oakwood and Rose Hill Cemeteries, and woodland settings. The imagery is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.

Conceal/Reveal: New Work from the Faculty of the College of Visual and Performing Arts
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit brings together the eclectic and powerful work of design, studio arts, and transmedia faculty. Organized by SUArt Galleries Assistant Director Andrew J. Saluti, this exhibition will showcase new and recent artwork from 20 artists working in a wide variety of media including painting, photography, drawing, ceramics, art video and site-specific installations.

Shadows: Fernando Orellana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The interactive artworks found in Shadows are designed to be used posthumously. Inspired by paranormal research, spiritualism, and ghost folklore, these machines continuously search for the dead, attempting to allow the departed continued use of their worldly possessions. Extracted from recent estate sales, the personal objects found in these techno-effigies are in a constant state of potential energy, awaiting their owner's return. By monitoring sudden fluctuations in temperature, infrared, and electromagnetic readings, the machines try to open a channel or doorway into the neither world. By this, each machine gives the dead an opportunity or proxy to continue interacting in this world and the next.

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Salt City Clay: Selected Works by Syracuse Ceramics Guild
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition, juried by Chandra Debuse and Tommy Frank, presents new work by members of the Syracuse Ceramic Guild. The Syracuse Ceramic Guild, established in 1947, is a not-for-profit organization of potters dedicated to the promotion of awareness and understanding of the ceramic medium.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Performing Media: Works by Signal Culture Artists in Residence
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition highlights work which was made through a performative process with media art. Artists Benton-C Bainbridge, Pat Cain, Jax Deluca & Kyle Marler, Andrew Deutsch, Colleen Keough, LoVid, and Eric Souther are featured with single channel videos, installations, and live performances. All were artists in residence at Signal Culture in Owego, NY.

Howard Hao Tran: Sculpture and Drawing
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Howard Tran's work explores three themes related to his life: migration, assimilation and identity. His family moved from China to Vietnam during WWII, translated their name to Vietnamese and assimilated in many ways while maintaining Chinese language and customs.

After immigrating to the United States, Howard's identity came into question. Although his family was Chinese, he had been born and raised in Vietnam. To Americans he was Vietnamese. Now he has lived in America most of his life and has assimilated to this culture so much that when he return returns to Vietnam he no longer feels at home.

Today, he self-identifies as Chinese/Vietnamese/American and embodies elements of all three cultures while at the same time feels between them all. In his art he explores identity, home, tradition change and the dichotomy between East and West.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Sunday Musicale: MoJoTo
Fayetteville Free Library

Price: Free
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

Featuring Monk Rowe, John Hutson, and Tom McGrath, a trio of veteran musicians playing jazz, rhythm & blues, reggae, and original songs comprise a repertoire that is both highly musical and audience-friendly!

Casual Concert: Exultations
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Syracuse University Oratorio Society
John Warren, conductor
Featuring Janet Brown, soprano; Laura Enslin, soprano; John Raschella, trumpet

St. Paul's Syracuse
220 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

J.S. Bach Orchestra Suite No. 1
J.S. Bach Cantata No. 51
Vivaldi Gloria

Jazz Vespers
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Fayetteville United Methodist Church
601 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

The event is titled "Getting In Tune with the Holidays--and All That Jazz" and will feature vocalist and trombonist Melissa Gardiner, who will be backed by music director Barry Blumenthal leading the CNY Jazz Quartet, musicians drawn from the ranks of the CNY Jazz Orchestra.

Musical selections will range from jazz standards to inspirational favorites to hymns, all arranged in the jazz style. They will be interspersed with inspirational and meditative readings by the Rev. Bob Sherburne, pastor of the church.

These informal events are open to people of all faiths.

Monday, November 24, 2014

Howard Hao Tran: Sculpture and Drawing
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Howard Tran's work explores three themes related to his life: migration, assimilation and identity. His family moved from China to Vietnam during WWII, translated their name to Vietnamese and assimilated in many ways while maintaining Chinese language and customs.

After immigrating to the United States, Howard's identity came into question. Although his family was Chinese, he had been born and raised in Vietnam. To Americans he was Vietnamese. Now he has lived in America most of his life and has assimilated to this culture so much that when he return returns to Vietnam he no longer feels at home.

Today, he self-identifies as Chinese/Vietnamese/American and embodies elements of all three cultures while at the same time feels between them all. In his art he explores identity, home, tradition change and the dichotomy between East and West.

Everything Illustrated VI
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Work by SUNY Oswego illustration students: Kendi Kajogo, Trish Steinberg, Liz Hunt, Jen Osborne, Sam Castaldo, Sam Fuller, Harold Vaz, Ana Paula Retore

Opening Exhibition
CommonSpace Crafts

CommonSpace Crafts
201 E Jefferson St., Syracuse

The gallery features the work of 11 local artists.

Context: Reading the Photography of Margaret Bourke-White
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a celebrity behind, and in front of, the camera. As a photographer for Life magazine from the 1930s through the 1950s, she documented unforgettable moments--African-American flood victims in Louisville, KY, standing in a bread line beneath a banner that reads almost mockingly "There's No Way Like the American Way"; just-liberated survivors of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp returning the camera's gaze under an eerily cinematic light; Mahatma Gandhi sitting cross-legged on the floor reading, spinning wheel in the foreground. Bourke-White's photographs helped shape the way millions of Americans experienced the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the world that followed.

In front of the camera she cultivated an image of herself as fearless, undaunted in pursuit of her "shot," and fashionable, donning fine clothes and a coquettish smile.

After three decades in the public eye Bourke-White began to write her memoirs in the early 1950s. When Portrait of Myself finally appeared in 1963, she had already published ten books, countless essays, and been the subject of many interviews. In fact, but for the occasional gallery exhibition, text had always surrounded Bourke-White's photographs. This exhibition explores how text "framed" the photography of Margaret Bourke-White and, ultimately, how she sought to transcend the limits of the medium that made her famous.

Block Prints of Laura Wilder
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

An exhibition of the work of Roycroft Renaissance artist Laura Wilder.

Common Planes: The Metalwork of Arlene Abend and Todd Conover
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

An exhibit of jewelry and sculpture.

Arlene Abend's career creating sculpture spans decades. Abend works in bronze, sheet steel, and other mediums. Her work can be found in public, corporate, and private collections. Abend has exhibited in over 15 shows, some group and some one-woman shows. "When I create a sculpture to communicate an idea or a feeling, I also find myself expressing the character of the material as well...be it bronze whose molten liquid flows into cavities or sheet steel that can be sheared and bent. The use of different material is both exciting and challenging. The exploration leads to new forms and directions and offers me a far greater range of expression."

Todd Conover's passion for collecting early 20th century American Arts & Crafts Period metalwork led to his obsession with learning long-lost metalworking techniques. He quickly set out producing unique work of his own. Conover has been in fashion design for over 25 years so it was an obvious marriage to transition his metalwork to jewelry where he focuses most of his design work and energy. With a mix of unexpected yet related materials, his jewelry tends to be overtly bold with inspiration harnessed from natural forms that will highlight surface and materials. Conover is professor of Design/Chair: Fashion Design, Syracuse University School of Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts.

29th Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular, $4 seniors, $2 children
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

It's that time of year again! The upstairs gallery of the Erie Canal Museum has been transformed into a 1800s street scene with over 30 gingerbread creations made by professional and amateur bakers from across the region on display in storefront windows.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to a construction schedule beyond our control, the elevator will be out of service for the duration of the Gingerbread Gallery. We apologize for the inconvenience. Our temporary entrance will be on the Water Street side of the building.

Pots and Pods: Tableware and Sculpture by Sallie Thompson
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

2014 Light Work Grants: Trevor Clement, Sebastian Collett, Dan Wetmore
Light Work Gallery

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

Raymond Meeks: Where Objects Fall Away
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce "Where Objects Fall Away," an exhibition spanning the career of photographer and book artist Raymond Meeks, exploring his relationship to the photobook and its form.

In the words of artist and publisher Raymond Meeks, "I continue to be inspired by collaboration with writers of poetry and short fiction and the merging of visual and word narratives. Recently, I've focused my efforts towards making artist books and a collaborative journal, orchard, which presents a visual conversation with fellow artists." Meeks has collaborated with artists Deborah Luster, Wes Mills, and Mark Steinmetz. His books and pictures are housed in numerous public and private collections, including the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, George Eastman House, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Howard Stein Collection.

60th Annual Holiday Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Original art by over 50 local arts, including paintings, photography, pottery, jewelry, textiles, stained glass, and one-of-a-kind gifts.

For more information, visit artmart-syracuse.com.

Balcon Criollo
La Casita Cultural Center

Price: Free
La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Inspired by the work of Puerto Rican artist Pepón Osorio, this gallery-wide installation of meaningful memorabilia pays special tribute to the valiant contributions of Hispanic soldiers in active duty and veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces. All the memorabilia, photographs and other meaningful objects in view are loaned and contributed for the show by members of the Hispanic communities of Syracuse University, the City of Syracuse and Hispanic American families statewide.

Among the honored veterans, this program especially recognizes the troops of the 65th Infantry Regiment known as the "Borinqueneers", the only segregated all-Hispanic battalion in the history of the U.S. Army. The legendary Borinqueneers gallantly served their country in World War I, WWII, and the Korean War. A former Borinqueneer and Korean War veteran, Eugenio Quevedo, was the guest of honor at the opening reception of the Balcón Criollo.

Flashback Mondays: Gran Torino
Palace Theatre

Price: $5
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

And the Angels Sing (1944)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $3.50 non-members, $3 members
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Director: George Marshall. Cast: Dorothy Lamour, Fred MacMurray, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, Eddie Foy, Jr., Raymond Walburn, Mimi Chandler.

An entertaining musical-comedy about four musically talented sisters (Lamour, Hutton, Lynn and Chandler) who get mixed up with a scheming (but lovable) bandleader (MacMurray). The lively cast offers a great time that's both funny and tuneful.

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Howard Hao Tran: Sculpture and Drawing
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Howard Tran's work explores three themes related to his life: migration, assimilation and identity. His family moved from China to Vietnam during WWII, translated their name to Vietnamese and assimilated in many ways while maintaining Chinese language and customs.

After immigrating to the United States, Howard's identity came into question. Although his family was Chinese, he had been born and raised in Vietnam. To Americans he was Vietnamese. Now he has lived in America most of his life and has assimilated to this culture so much that when he return returns to Vietnam he no longer feels at home.

Today, he self-identifies as Chinese/Vietnamese/American and embodies elements of all three cultures while at the same time feels between them all. In his art he explores identity, home, tradition change and the dichotomy between East and West.

Everything Illustrated VI
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Work by SUNY Oswego illustration students: Kendi Kajogo, Trish Steinberg, Liz Hunt, Jen Osborne, Sam Castaldo, Sam Fuller, Harold Vaz, Ana Paula Retore

Opening Exhibition
CommonSpace Crafts

CommonSpace Crafts
201 E Jefferson St., Syracuse

The gallery features the work of 11 local artists.

Context: Reading the Photography of Margaret Bourke-White
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a celebrity behind, and in front of, the camera. As a photographer for Life magazine from the 1930s through the 1950s, she documented unforgettable moments--African-American flood victims in Louisville, KY, standing in a bread line beneath a banner that reads almost mockingly "There's No Way Like the American Way"; just-liberated survivors of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp returning the camera's gaze under an eerily cinematic light; Mahatma Gandhi sitting cross-legged on the floor reading, spinning wheel in the foreground. Bourke-White's photographs helped shape the way millions of Americans experienced the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the world that followed.

In front of the camera she cultivated an image of herself as fearless, undaunted in pursuit of her "shot," and fashionable, donning fine clothes and a coquettish smile.

After three decades in the public eye Bourke-White began to write her memoirs in the early 1950s. When Portrait of Myself finally appeared in 1963, she had already published ten books, countless essays, and been the subject of many interviews. In fact, but for the occasional gallery exhibition, text had always surrounded Bourke-White's photographs. This exhibition explores how text "framed" the photography of Margaret Bourke-White and, ultimately, how she sought to transcend the limits of the medium that made her famous.

Beyond the Pale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Linda Bigness: encaustic and oil paintings influenced by music's emergent patterns and created with subtle nuances of color and found materials

Todd Conover: folded, pierced stone set and chainworked sculpture and jewelry, based on a strong craft tradition from centuries-old metalsmithing techniques

Amy Bartell: gouache and drawing combine to investigate organic forms; archeology of place and time presented as formal portraits

Painting Alumni Retrospective
914Works

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The breadth and diversity of "Painting Alumni Retrospective" stand as evidence of the University's lasting impact on American culture since it became the first institution in the United States to offer a bachelor of fine arts degree 140 years ago.

The exhibition includes small works by 21 alumni of the undergraduate painting program from the Class of 1959 to the Class of 2014. The exhibition shows the evolution of painting over a half century, from action painting to conceptual, post-conceptual, representational, interdisciplinary and contemporary works. As such, the exhibition addresses the historical phenomenon of American painting and the impact Syracuse University has had on the medium from the reign of critic Clement Greenberg '30 to the contemporary conversation.

The artists represented include Barbara Vural, Louise Freshman Brown, Ken Rush, Scott Bennett, Deborah Walsh, Allyn Stewart, Linda Bigness, Elizabeth Brown Eagle, Yvonne Petkus, Heather Hertel, Francis Sills, Holly Cahill, Alexis Serio Hughes, Jennie Schaeffer, Adam Winner, Edward Holland, Emily Dierkes, Sean Ward, Joshua Kaplan, Mary Luke, and Jenna Race. Combined, they have amassed prestigious recognitions, including more than 50 museum exhibitions and a wide array of press coverage and critical acclaim from the likes of the New York Times, ARTnews, Greenberg, and the Syracuse Post-Standard.

Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Question Bridge: Black Males" is an innovative transmedia project, created by artists Chris Johnson and Hank Willis Thomas, which facilitates a dialogue between a critical mass of Black men from diverse and contending backgrounds and creates a platform for them to represent and redefine Black male identity in America. CFAC will also be featuring a Syracuse-based "Question Bridge" featuring Black men of all ages as platform to ask and candidly respond to questions that are rarely discussed in public.

"Question Bridge Syracuse: The Work of Ellen Blalock" explores the work of this multidisciplinary artist who interrogates Black male identity and constructs a layered narrative addressing violence in the Black community.

Common Planes: The Metalwork of Arlene Abend and Todd Conover
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

An exhibit of jewelry and sculpture.

Arlene Abend's career creating sculpture spans decades. Abend works in bronze, sheet steel, and other mediums. Her work can be found in public, corporate, and private collections. Abend has exhibited in over 15 shows, some group and some one-woman shows. "When I create a sculpture to communicate an idea or a feeling, I also find myself expressing the character of the material as well...be it bronze whose molten liquid flows into cavities or sheet steel that can be sheared and bent. The use of different material is both exciting and challenging. The exploration leads to new forms and directions and offers me a far greater range of expression."

Todd Conover's passion for collecting early 20th century American Arts & Crafts Period metalwork led to his obsession with learning long-lost metalworking techniques. He quickly set out producing unique work of his own. Conover has been in fashion design for over 25 years so it was an obvious marriage to transition his metalwork to jewelry where he focuses most of his design work and energy. With a mix of unexpected yet related materials, his jewelry tends to be overtly bold with inspiration harnessed from natural forms that will highlight surface and materials. Conover is professor of Design/Chair: Fashion Design, Syracuse University School of Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Block Prints of Laura Wilder
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

An exhibition of the work of Roycroft Renaissance artist Laura Wilder.

29th Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular, $4 seniors, $2 children
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

It's that time of year again! The upstairs gallery of the Erie Canal Museum has been transformed into a 1800s street scene with over 30 gingerbread creations made by professional and amateur bakers from across the region on display in storefront windows.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to a construction schedule beyond our control, the elevator will be out of service for the duration of the Gingerbread Gallery. We apologize for the inconvenience. Our temporary entrance will be on the Water Street side of the building.

Pots and Pods: Tableware and Sculpture by Sallie Thompson
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

2014 Light Work Grants: Trevor Clement, Sebastian Collett, Dan Wetmore
Light Work Gallery

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

Raymond Meeks: Where Objects Fall Away
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work is pleased to announce "Where Objects Fall Away," an exhibition spanning the career of photographer and book artist Raymond Meeks, exploring his relationship to the photobook and its form.

In the words of artist and publisher Raymond Meeks, "I continue to be inspired by collaboration with writers of poetry and short fiction and the merging of visual and word narratives. Recently, I've focused my efforts towards making artist books and a collaborative journal, orchard, which presents a visual conversation with fellow artists." Meeks has collaborated with artists Deborah Luster, Wes Mills, and Mark Steinmetz. His books and pictures are housed in numerous public and private collections, including the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, George Eastman House, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Howard Stein Collection.

60th Annual Holiday Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Original art by over 50 local arts, including paintings, photography, pottery, jewelry, textiles, stained glass, and one-of-a-kind gifts.

For more information, visit artmart-syracuse.com.

Conceal/Reveal: New Work from the Faculty of the College of Visual and Performing Arts
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit brings together the eclectic and powerful work of design, studio arts, and transmedia faculty. Organized by SUArt Galleries Assistant Director Andrew J. Saluti, this exhibition will showcase new and recent artwork from 20 artists working in a wide variety of media including painting, photography, drawing, ceramics, art video and site-specific installations.

Balcon Criollo
La Casita Cultural Center

Price: Free
La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

Inspired by the work of Puerto Rican artist Pepón Osorio, this gallery-wide installation of meaningful memorabilia pays special tribute to the valiant contributions of Hispanic soldiers in active duty and veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces. All the memorabilia, photographs and other meaningful objects in view are loaned and contributed for the show by members of the Hispanic communities of Syracuse University, the City of Syracuse and Hispanic American families statewide.

Among the honored veterans, this program especially recognizes the troops of the 65th Infantry Regiment known as the "Borinqueneers", the only segregated all-Hispanic battalion in the history of the U.S. Army. The legendary Borinqueneers gallantly served their country in World War I, WWII, and the Korean War. A former Borinqueneer and Korean War veteran, Eugenio Quevedo, was the guest of honor at the opening reception of the Balcón Criollo.

Moments of Place: Photos by Gwenn Thomas
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Gwenn Thomas's photographs of doors and windows are embedded within sculptural frames in ways that question perceptions of photographic imagery, and our experience of lived space. Her photographs of window frames, exterior and interior architectural spaces initiate portholes into the spaces within. These irregularly shaped photographic objects construct the illusion of actual windows, recalling Marcel Duchamp's window of 1920. The illusion is assisted by the absence of glass in the framing, opening the window of the photo from the perspective of the viewer. The photograph with the frame are the windows themselves.

Her earlier works from this series began with an exploration into the play between the two-dimensional image and the three-dimensional object frame in a 1980 exhibition at John Weber Gallery. Starting with the architectural subject matter of the photograph itself, Thomas interlinks the image with the structure of its presentational frame, which is initiated by the image itself.

Continuing into the present, the artist's newest works are framed laminated photographs of the same window taken at various times of day: morning, late afternoon and dusk. These works are inspired in part by the documentary photos of the house that the philosopher Wittgenstein designed for his sister in 1926, in Vienna.

Thomas's photographic objects reveal complex spatial relationships, within and outside of the two-dimensional plane, taking into account each available axis of space.

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Everything Illustrated VI
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Work by SUNY Oswego illustration students: Kendi Kajogo, Trish Steinberg, Liz Hunt, Jen Osborne, Sam Castaldo, Sam Fuller, Harold Vaz, Ana Paula Retore

Howard Hao Tran: Sculpture and Drawing
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Howard Tran's work explores three themes related to his life: migration, assimilation and identity. His family moved from China to Vietnam during WWII, translated their name to Vietnamese and assimilated in many ways while maintaining Chinese language and customs.

After immigrating to the United States, Howard's identity came into question. Although his family was Chinese, he had been born and raised in Vietnam. To Americans he was Vietnamese. Now he has lived in America most of his life and has assimilated to this culture so much that when he return returns to Vietnam he no longer feels at home.

Today, he self-identifies as Chinese/Vietnamese/American and embodies elements of all three cultures while at the same time feels between them all. In his art he explores identity, home, tradition change and the dichotomy between East and West.

Opening Exhibition
CommonSpace Crafts

CommonSpace Crafts
201 E Jefferson St., Syracuse

The gallery features the work of 11 local artists.

Context: Reading the Photography of Margaret Bourke-White
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a celebrity behind, and in front of, the camera. As a photographer for Life magazine from the 1930s through the 1950s, she documented unforgettable moments--African-American flood victims in Louisville, KY, standing in a bread line beneath a banner that reads almost mockingly "There's No Way Like the American Way"; just-liberated survivors of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp returning the camera's gaze under an eerily cinematic light; Mahatma Gandhi sitting cross-legged on the floor reading, spinning wheel in the foreground. Bourke-White's photographs helped shape the way millions of Americans experienced the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the world that followed.

In front of the camera she cultivated an image of herself as fearless, undaunted in pursuit of her "shot," and fashionable, donning fine clothes and a coquettish smile.

After three decades in the public eye Bourke-White began to write her memoirs in the early 1950s. When Portrait of Myself finally appeared in 1963, she had already published ten books, countless essays, and been the subject of many interviews. In fact, but for the occasional gallery exhibition, text had always surrounded Bourke-White's photographs. This exhibition explores how text "framed" the photography of Margaret Bourke-White and, ultimately, how she sought to transcend the limits of the medium that made her famous.

Beyond the Pale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Linda Bigness: encaustic and oil paintings influenced by music's emergent patterns and created with subtle nuances of color and found materials

Todd Conover: folded, pierced stone set and chainworked sculpture and jewelry, based on a strong craft tradition from centuries-old metalsmithing techniques

Amy Bartell: gouache and drawing combine to investigate organic forms; archeology of place and time presented as formal portraits

Painting Alumni Retrospective
914Works

914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The breadth and diversity of "Painting Alumni Retrospective" stand as evidence of the University's lasting impact on American culture since it became the first institution in the United States to offer a bachelor of fine arts degree 140 years ago.

The exhibition includes small works by 21 alumni of the undergraduate painting program from the Class of 1959 to the Class of 2014. The exhibition shows the evolution of painting over a half century, from action painting to conceptual, post-conceptual, representational, interdisciplinary and contemporary works. As such, the exhibition addresses the historical phenomenon of American painting and the impact Syracuse University has had on the medium from the reign of critic Clement Greenberg '30 to the contemporary conversation.

The artists represented include Barbara Vural, Louise Freshman Brown, Ken Rush, Scott Bennett, Deborah Walsh, Allyn Stewart, Linda Bigness, Elizabeth Brown Eagle, Yvonne Petkus, Heather Hertel, Francis Sills, Holly Cahill, Alexis Serio Hughes, Jennie Schaeffer, Adam Winner, Edward Holland, Emily Dierkes, Sean Ward, Joshua Kaplan, Mary Luke, and Jenna Race. Combined, they have amassed prestigious recognitions, including more than 50 museum exhibitions and a wide array of press coverage and critical acclaim from the likes of the New York Times, ARTnews, Greenberg, and the Syracuse Post-Standard.

Common Planes: The Metalwork of Arlene Abend and Todd Conover
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

An exhibit of jewelry and sculpture.

Arlene Abend's career creating sculpture spans decades. Abend works in bronze, sheet steel, and other mediums. Her work can be found in public, corporate, and private collections. Abend has exhibited in over 15 shows, some group and some one-woman shows. "When I create a sculpture to communicate an idea or a feeling, I also find myself expressing the character of the material as well...be it bronze whose molten liquid flows into cavities or sheet steel that can be sheared and bent. The use of different material is both exciting and challenging. The exploration leads to new forms and directions and offers me a far greater range of expression."

Todd Conover's passion for collecting early 20th century American Arts & Crafts Period metalwork led to his obsession with learning long-lost metalworking techniques. He quickly set out producing unique work of his own. Conover has been in fashion design for over 25 years so it was an obvious marriage to transition his metalwork to jewelry where he focuses most of his design work and energy. With a mix of unexpected yet related materials, his jewelry tends to be overtly bold with inspiration harnessed from natural forms that will highlight surface and materials. Conover is professor of Design/Chair: Fashion Design, Syracuse University School of Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Block Prints of Laura Wilder
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

An exhibition of the work of Roycroft Renaissance artist Laura Wilder.

29th Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular, $4 seniors, $2 children
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

It's that time of year again! The upstairs gallery of the Erie Canal Museum has been transformed into a 1800s street scene with over 30 gingerbread creations made by professional and amateur bakers from across the region on display in storefront windows.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to a construction schedule beyond our control, the elevator will be out of service for the duration of the Gingerbread Gallery. We apologize for the inconvenience. Our temporary entrance will be on the Water Street side of the building.

Pots and Pods: Tableware and Sculpture by Sallie Thompson
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Thinkin 'Bout Lincoln
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In conjunction with Onondaga Community College's "Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War" exhibit, OHA will open an exhibit titled "Thinkin' 'Bout Lincoln" featuring some of OHA's Lincoln collection.

Watercolor Memories: The Artistic Legacy of Betty Munro
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibit featuring the watercolors of the late Betty Munro, a local artist who could be seen painting in downtown Syracuse throughout the 1970s to the early 1990s. Located in the first floor main gallery, the exhibit will focus on Betty's artistic diversity through watercolor paints. Betty is best known for her architectural scenes and cityscapes, and while guests will see some of those, they also will be treated to other, perhaps lesser-known subjects such as human figures, swans, barns, the beach in Florida, and other colorful themes. All paintings in the exhibit will be for sale.

It's in Our Very Name: The Italian Heritage of Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

As a crossroads for many immigrants from around the world, Syracuse became the home for Italians who were looking to build a better life. In turn, these immigrants changed Syracuse both physically, by helping with different architectural and infrastructure projects, and culturally, by importing new foods and customs to our community and by participation at all levels in the Syracuse economy.

The exhibit will focus on the history and influence of Italian culture in Syracuse beginning with the name given to this village in 1825, which was adopted when John Wilkinson was inspired by a poem about Siracusa, Sicily. By the 1880s, an increasing number of Italian immigrants began to arrive to take advantage of the thriving Syracuse economy and other opportunities that were available. Some artifacts that will be highlighted include a wine press, a set of wooden bocce balls, and purses made at the Resnick purse factory.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An artwork exhibit highlighting winter scenes throughout Onondaga County. "Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County" features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 30 scenes include downtown Syracuse, rural vistas, Oakwood and Rose Hill Cemeteries, and woodland settings. The imagery is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.

60th Annual Holiday Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Original art by over 50 local arts, including paintings, photography, pottery, jewelry, textiles, stained glass, and one-of-a-kind gifts.

For more information, visit artmart-syracuse.com.

Conceal/Reveal: New Work from the Faculty of the College of Visual and Performing Arts
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibit brings together the eclectic and powerful work of design, studio arts, and transmedia faculty. Organized by SUArt Galleries Assistant Director Andrew J. Saluti, this exhibition will showcase new and recent artwork from 20 artists working in a wide variety of media including painting, photography, drawing, ceramics, art video and site-specific installations.

Salt City Clay: Selected Works by Syracuse Ceramics Guild
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition, juried by Chandra Debuse and Tommy Frank, presents new work by members of the Syracuse Ceramic Guild. The Syracuse Ceramic Guild, established in 1947, is a not-for-profit organization of potters dedicated to the promotion of awareness and understanding of the ceramic medium.

Performing Media: Works by Signal Culture Artists in Residence
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition highlights work which was made through a performative process with media art. Artists Benton-C Bainbridge, Pat Cain, Jax Deluca & Kyle Marler, Andrew Deutsch, Colleen Keough, LoVid, and Eric Souther are featured with single channel videos, installations, and live performances. All were artists in residence at Signal Culture in Owego, NY.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Shadows: Fernando Orellana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The interactive artworks found in Shadows are designed to be used posthumously. Inspired by paranormal research, spiritualism, and ghost folklore, these machines continuously search for the dead, attempting to allow the departed continued use of their worldly possessions. Extracted from recent estate sales, the personal objects found in these techno-effigies are in a constant state of potential energy, awaiting their owner's return. By monitoring sudden fluctuations in temperature, infrared, and electromagnetic readings, the machines try to open a channel or doorway into the neither world. By this, each machine gives the dead an opportunity or proxy to continue interacting in this world and the next.

Read a review!

Switch: Prints by Dusty Herbig
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

The large format relief prints were realized through Herbig's research into developing contradictions about the dichotomy of power/energy and his concerned interest in human population expansion and its ramifications on the earth and its inhabitants. Through his use of imagery of electrical outlets, sockets, switches and other receptacles, the work seeks to open dialog about what exactly power can mean to divergent populations around the globe.

Trans*cending Gender: The work of Gavin Laurence Rouille and Rhys Harper
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Minneapolis-based Rouille's conceptual art poses questions about masculinity and femininity, traditional gender norms, and what shapes identity. Be it erroneous assumptions, the hurdles of transitioning, or violence (including murder), Rouille's art lays bare the challenges that transgender and gender-nonconforming people face daily. But people are more than their challenges, and Syracuse photographer and videographer Rhys Harper's classically lit black and-white images reflect this sentiment. Harper's photographs invite the viewer to see his subjects as more than their gender identities. They are teachers, musicians, parents...

Through Rouille's printmaking and Harper's photography, Trans*cending Gender presents both the challenges and the real people who live beyond these challenges. Transgender Day of Remembrance – November 20th – falls during the run of this exhibition, when we memorialize those who have died because of transphobia, the fear and hatred of transgender and gender-nonconforming people.

Read a review!

I Love NY Too (Neil Young Tribute)
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Thursday, November 27, 2014

Sanford Biggers: Shuffle & Shake
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Shuffle" and "Shake" form the first two parts of Sanford Biggers' Odyssean trilogy about the formation and dissolution of identity. Both works feature the electric presence of Ricardo Camillo, a Brazil-born, Germany-based choreographer, stuntman, clown and DJ. "Shuffle" explores how we matriculate through society, often masking our insecurities, pain, longing, and the internal schizophrenia of the id. The original soundtrack is composed from the artist's field recordings made in Indonesia. In "Shake," the second video of the trilogy, Camillo walks from the favelas (or shantytowns) of Brazil, to the ocean before finally transforming into an androgynous silver-skinned figure. Biggers' imagery and narrative simultaneously reference Greek mythology and the quintessential Afrofutrist aesthetics of Parliament Funkadelic.

This exhibition marks the second installment of "Celestial Navigation: A Year into the Afro Future", a year-long program of exhibitions and events at Urban Video Project and partner organizations that takes Afrofuturism as its point of departure.

Screening begins at dusk.

Friday, November 28, 2014

Everything Illustrated VI
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Work by SUNY Oswego illustration students: Kendi Kajogo, Trish Steinberg, Liz Hunt, Jen Osborne, Sam Castaldo, Sam Fuller, Harold Vaz, Ana Paula Retore

Opening Exhibition
CommonSpace Crafts

CommonSpace Crafts
201 E Jefferson St., Syracuse

The gallery features the work of 11 local artists.

Beyond the Pale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Linda Bigness: encaustic and oil paintings influenced by music's emergent patterns and created with subtle nuances of color and found materials

Todd Conover: folded, pierced stone set and chainworked sculpture and jewelry, based on a strong craft tradition from centuries-old metalsmithing techniques

Amy Bartell: gouache and drawing combine to investigate organic forms; archeology of place and time presented as formal portraits

Block Prints of Laura Wilder
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

An exhibition of the work of Roycroft Renaissance artist Laura Wilder.

Common Planes: The Metalwork of Arlene Abend and Todd Conover
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

An exhibit of jewelry and sculpture.

Arlene Abend's career creating sculpture spans decades. Abend works in bronze, sheet steel, and other mediums. Her work can be found in public, corporate, and private collections. Abend has exhibited in over 15 shows, some group and some one-woman shows. "When I create a sculpture to communicate an idea or a feeling, I also find myself expressing the character of the material as well...be it bronze whose molten liquid flows into cavities or sheet steel that can be sheared and bent. The use of different material is both exciting and challenging. The exploration leads to new forms and directions and offers me a far greater range of expression."

Todd Conover's passion for collecting early 20th century American Arts & Crafts Period metalwork led to his obsession with learning long-lost metalworking techniques. He quickly set out producing unique work of his own. Conover has been in fashion design for over 25 years so it was an obvious marriage to transition his metalwork to jewelry where he focuses most of his design work and energy. With a mix of unexpected yet related materials, his jewelry tends to be overtly bold with inspiration harnessed from natural forms that will highlight surface and materials. Conover is professor of Design/Chair: Fashion Design, Syracuse University School of Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Grand Opening: 29th Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular, $4 seniors, $2 children
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Join us for cookies and cocoa after the tree-lighting ceremony in Clinton Square.

It's that time of year again! The upstairs gallery of the Erie Canal Museum has been transformed into a 1800s street scene with over 30 gingerbread creations made by professional and amateur bakers from across the region on display in storefront windows.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to a construction schedule beyond our control, the elevator will be out of service for the duration of the Gingerbread Gallery. We apologize for the inconvenience. Our temporary entrance will be on the Water Street side of the building.

Pots and Pods: Tableware and Sculpture by Sallie Thompson
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

It's in Our Very Name: The Italian Heritage of Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

As a crossroads for many immigrants from around the world, Syracuse became the home for Italians who were looking to build a better life. In turn, these immigrants changed Syracuse both physically, by helping with different architectural and infrastructure projects, and culturally, by importing new foods and customs to our community and by participation at all levels in the Syracuse economy.

The exhibit will focus on the history and influence of Italian culture in Syracuse beginning with the name given to this village in 1825, which was adopted when John Wilkinson was inspired by a poem about Siracusa, Sicily. By the 1880s, an increasing number of Italian immigrants began to arrive to take advantage of the thriving Syracuse economy and other opportunities that were available. Some artifacts that will be highlighted include a wine press, a set of wooden bocce balls, and purses made at the Resnick purse factory.

Watercolor Memories: The Artistic Legacy of Betty Munro
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibit featuring the watercolors of the late Betty Munro, a local artist who could be seen painting in downtown Syracuse throughout the 1970s to the early 1990s. Located in the first floor main gallery, the exhibit will focus on Betty's artistic diversity through watercolor paints. Betty is best known for her architectural scenes and cityscapes, and while guests will see some of those, they also will be treated to other, perhaps lesser-known subjects such as human figures, swans, barns, the beach in Florida, and other colorful themes. All paintings in the exhibit will be for sale.

Thinkin 'Bout Lincoln
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In conjunction with Onondaga Community College's "Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War" exhibit, OHA will open an exhibit titled "Thinkin' 'Bout Lincoln" featuring some of OHA's Lincoln collection.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An artwork exhibit highlighting winter scenes throughout Onondaga County. "Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County" features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 30 scenes include downtown Syracuse, rural vistas, Oakwood and Rose Hill Cemeteries, and woodland settings. The imagery is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.

Holiday Show 2014
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Show features jewelry, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include Kathy Barry, Jen Gandee, Diane Godfrey, Wendy Harris, Cary Joseph, Colleen McCall, David MacDonald, Betsy Menson Sio, Karen Pardee, Jeremy Randall, Emily Riesenfeld, and Errol Willett.

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit. Many fine art and craft artists currently have work on display at the gallery shop. New holiday cards, ornaments, and many gift items fill the space.

60th Annual Holiday Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Original art by over 50 local arts, including paintings, photography, pottery, jewelry, textiles, stained glass, and one-of-a-kind gifts.

For more information, visit artmart-syracuse.com.

Salt City Clay: Selected Works by Syracuse Ceramics Guild
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition, juried by Chandra Debuse and Tommy Frank, presents new work by members of the Syracuse Ceramic Guild. The Syracuse Ceramic Guild, established in 1947, is a not-for-profit organization of potters dedicated to the promotion of awareness and understanding of the ceramic medium.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Performing Media: Works by Signal Culture Artists in Residence
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition highlights work which was made through a performative process with media art. Artists Benton-C Bainbridge, Pat Cain, Jax Deluca & Kyle Marler, Andrew Deutsch, Colleen Keough, LoVid, and Eric Souther are featured with single channel videos, installations, and live performances. All were artists in residence at Signal Culture in Owego, NY.

Shadows: Fernando Orellana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The interactive artworks found in Shadows are designed to be used posthumously. Inspired by paranormal research, spiritualism, and ghost folklore, these machines continuously search for the dead, attempting to allow the departed continued use of their worldly possessions. Extracted from recent estate sales, the personal objects found in these techno-effigies are in a constant state of potential energy, awaiting their owner's return. By monitoring sudden fluctuations in temperature, infrared, and electromagnetic readings, the machines try to open a channel or doorway into the neither world. By this, each machine gives the dead an opportunity or proxy to continue interacting in this world and the next.

Read a review!

Switch: Prints by Dusty Herbig
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

The large format relief prints were realized through Herbig's research into developing contradictions about the dichotomy of power/energy and his concerned interest in human population expansion and its ramifications on the earth and its inhabitants. Through his use of imagery of electrical outlets, sockets, switches and other receptacles, the work seeks to open dialog about what exactly power can mean to divergent populations around the globe.

Trans*cending Gender: The work of Gavin Laurence Rouille and Rhys Harper
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Minneapolis-based Rouille's conceptual art poses questions about masculinity and femininity, traditional gender norms, and what shapes identity. Be it erroneous assumptions, the hurdles of transitioning, or violence (including murder), Rouille's art lays bare the challenges that transgender and gender-nonconforming people face daily. But people are more than their challenges, and Syracuse photographer and videographer Rhys Harper's classically lit black and-white images reflect this sentiment. Harper's photographs invite the viewer to see his subjects as more than their gender identities. They are teachers, musicians, parents...

Through Rouille's printmaking and Harper's photography, Trans*cending Gender presents both the challenges and the real people who live beyond these challenges. Transgender Day of Remembrance – November 20th – falls during the run of this exhibition, when we memorialize those who have died because of transphobia, the fear and hatred of transgender and gender-nonconforming people.

Read a review!

Sanford Biggers: Shuffle & Shake
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Shuffle" and "Shake" form the first two parts of Sanford Biggers' Odyssean trilogy about the formation and dissolution of identity. Both works feature the electric presence of Ricardo Camillo, a Brazil-born, Germany-based choreographer, stuntman, clown and DJ. "Shuffle" explores how we matriculate through society, often masking our insecurities, pain, longing, and the internal schizophrenia of the id. The original soundtrack is composed from the artist's field recordings made in Indonesia. In "Shake," the second video of the trilogy, Camillo walks from the favelas (or shantytowns) of Brazil, to the ocean before finally transforming into an androgynous silver-skinned figure. Biggers' imagery and narrative simultaneously reference Greek mythology and the quintessential Afrofutrist aesthetics of Parliament Funkadelic.

This exhibition marks the second installment of "Celestial Navigation: A Year into the Afro Future", a year-long program of exhibitions and events at Urban Video Project and partner organizations that takes Afrofuturism as its point of departure.

Screening begins at dusk.

November Bank Show
Syracuse Improv Collective

Price: $5
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

The Collective specializes in bringing a show like no other combining long form improv with musical acts and stand up comedy. You never know what the SIC has in store!

Dark Hollow (Grateful Dead Tribute), with Solar Garlic (Phish Tribute)
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Preview: Hairspray
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Bill Fennelly, director

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

Tony Award, Best Musical. Bubbling with joy and 60s era music and dance, Hairspray delights with the pleasures of a classic American musical. Tracy Turnblad is a teen whose life revolves around dancing on the Corny Collins TV show. Who knew that a teenybopper TV show could be a catalyst for integration? You can't stop the beat, and truth be told, you won't want to once the all-singing and dancing cast takes the stage. Book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman.

Choreography by David Wanstreet, musical direction by Brian Cimmet.

Read a Review!

Saturday, November 29, 2014

Howard Hao Tran: Sculpture and Drawing
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Howard Tran's work explores three themes related to his life: migration, assimilation and identity. His family moved from China to Vietnam during WWII, translated their name to Vietnamese and assimilated in many ways while maintaining Chinese language and customs.

After immigrating to the United States, Howard's identity came into question. Although his family was Chinese, he had been born and raised in Vietnam. To Americans he was Vietnamese. Now he has lived in America most of his life and has assimilated to this culture so much that when he return returns to Vietnam he no longer feels at home.

Today, he self-identifies as Chinese/Vietnamese/American and embodies elements of all three cultures while at the same time feels between them all. In his art he explores identity, home, tradition change and the dichotomy between East and West.

Common Planes: The Metalwork of Arlene Abend and Todd Conover
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

An exhibit of jewelry and sculpture.

Arlene Abend's career creating sculpture spans decades. Abend works in bronze, sheet steel, and other mediums. Her work can be found in public, corporate, and private collections. Abend has exhibited in over 15 shows, some group and some one-woman shows. "When I create a sculpture to communicate an idea or a feeling, I also find myself expressing the character of the material as well...be it bronze whose molten liquid flows into cavities or sheet steel that can be sheared and bent. The use of different material is both exciting and challenging. The exploration leads to new forms and directions and offers me a far greater range of expression."

Todd Conover's passion for collecting early 20th century American Arts & Crafts Period metalwork led to his obsession with learning long-lost metalworking techniques. He quickly set out producing unique work of his own. Conover has been in fashion design for over 25 years so it was an obvious marriage to transition his metalwork to jewelry where he focuses most of his design work and energy. With a mix of unexpected yet related materials, his jewelry tends to be overtly bold with inspiration harnessed from natural forms that will highlight surface and materials. Conover is professor of Design/Chair: Fashion Design, Syracuse University School of Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Block Prints of Laura Wilder
Dalton's American Decorative Arts

Dalton's American Decorative Arts
1931 James St., Syracuse

An exhibition of the work of Roycroft Renaissance artist Laura Wilder.

Beyond the Pale
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Linda Bigness: encaustic and oil paintings influenced by music's emergent patterns and created with subtle nuances of color and found materials

Todd Conover: folded, pierced stone set and chainworked sculpture and jewelry, based on a strong craft tradition from centuries-old metalsmithing techniques

Amy Bartell: gouache and drawing combine to investigate organic forms; archeology of place and time presented as formal portraits

29th Annual Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular, $4 seniors, $2 children
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

It's that time of year again! The upstairs gallery of the Erie Canal Museum has been transformed into a 1800s street scene with over 30 gingerbread creations made by professional and amateur bakers from across the region on display in storefront windows.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to a construction schedule beyond our control, the elevator will be out of service for the duration of the Gingerbread Gallery. We apologize for the inconvenience. Our temporary entrance will be on the Water Street side of the building.

Shadows: Fernando Orellana
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The interactive artworks found in Shadows are designed to be used posthumously. Inspired by paranormal research, spiritualism, and ghost folklore, these machines continuously search for the dead, attempting to allow the departed continued use of their worldly possessions. Extracted from recent estate sales, the personal objects found in these techno-effigies are in a constant state of potential energy, awaiting their owner's return. By monitoring sudden fluctuations in temperature, infrared, and electromagnetic readings, the machines try to open a channel or doorway into the neither world. By this, each machine gives the dead an opportunity or proxy to continue interacting in this world and the next.

Read a review!

Performing Media: Works by Signal Culture Artists in Residence
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition highlights work which was made through a performative process with media art. Artists Benton-C Bainbridge, Pat Cain, Jax Deluca & Kyle Marler, Andrew Deutsch, Colleen Keough, LoVid, and Eric Souther are featured with single channel videos, installations, and live performances. All were artists in residence at Signal Culture in Owego, NY.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Salt City Clay: Selected Works by Syracuse Ceramics Guild
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition, juried by Chandra Debuse and Tommy Frank, presents new work by members of the Syracuse Ceramic Guild. The Syracuse Ceramic Guild, established in 1947, is a not-for-profit organization of potters dedicated to the promotion of awareness and understanding of the ceramic medium.

Pots and Pods: Tableware and Sculpture by Sallie Thompson
Gallery 54

Gallery 54
54 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

Opening Exhibition
CommonSpace Crafts

CommonSpace Crafts
201 E Jefferson St., Syracuse

The gallery features the work of 11 local artists.

Holiday Show 2014
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Show features jewelry, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include Kathy Barry, Jen Gandee, Diane Godfrey, Wendy Harris, Cary Joseph, Colleen McCall, David MacDonald, Betsy Menson Sio, Karen Pardee, Jeremy Randall, Emily Riesenfeld, and Errol Willett.

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit. Many fine art and craft artists currently have work on display at the gallery shop. New holiday cards, ornaments, and many gift items fill the space.

60th Annual Holiday Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts

City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Original art by over 50 local arts, including paintings, photography, pottery, jewelry, textiles, stained glass, and one-of-a-kind gifts.

For more information, visit artmart-syracuse.com.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An artwork exhibit highlighting winter scenes throughout Onondaga County. "Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County" features oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, photographs, and drawings of winter scenes of Onondaga County from area artists and photographers. The 30 scenes include downtown Syracuse, rural vistas, Oakwood and Rose Hill Cemeteries, and woodland settings. The imagery is varied; sometimes stark, sometimes colorful, yet all evocative of a season we love and hate.

It's in Our Very Name: The Italian Heritage of Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

As a crossroads for many immigrants from around the world, Syracuse became the home for Italians who were looking to build a better life. In turn, these immigrants changed Syracuse both physically, by helping with different architectural and infrastructure projects, and culturally, by importing new foods and customs to our community and by participation at all levels in the Syracuse economy.

The exhibit will focus on the history and influence of Italian culture in Syracuse beginning with the name given to this village in 1825, which was adopted when John Wilkinson was inspired by a poem about Siracusa, Sicily. By the 1880s, an increasing number of Italian immigrants began to arrive to take advantage of the thriving Syracuse economy and other opportunities that were available. Some artifacts that will be highlighted include a wine press, a set of wooden bocce balls, and purses made at the Resnick purse factory.

Thinkin 'Bout Lincoln
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

In conjunction with Onondaga Community College's "Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War" exhibit, OHA will open an exhibit titled "Thinkin' 'Bout Lincoln" featuring some of OHA's Lincoln collection.

Watercolor Memories: The Artistic Legacy of Betty Munro
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

An exhibit featuring the watercolors of the late Betty Munro, a local artist who could be seen painting in downtown Syracuse throughout the 1970s to the early 1990s. Located in the first floor main gallery, the exhibit will focus on Betty's artistic diversity through watercolor paints. Betty is best known for her architectural scenes and cityscapes, and while guests will see some of those, they also will be treated to other, perhaps lesser-known subjects such as human figures, swans, barns, the beach in Florida, and other colorful themes. All paintings in the exhibit will be for sale.

Trans*cending Gender: The work of Gavin Laurence Rouille and Rhys Harper
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Minneapolis-based Rouille's conceptual art poses questions about masculinity and femininity, traditional gender norms, and what shapes identity. Be it erroneous assumptions, the hurdles of transitioning, or violence (including murder), Rouille's art lays bare the challenges that transgender and gender-nonconforming people face daily. But people are more than their challenges, and Syracuse photographer and videographer Rhys Harper's classically lit black and-white images reflect this sentiment. Harper's photographs invite the viewer to see his subjects as more than their gender identities. They are teachers, musicians, parents...

Through Rouille's printmaking and Harper's photography, Trans*cending Gender presents both the challenges and the real people who live beyond these challenges. Transgender Day of Remembrance – November 20th – falls during the run of this exhibition, when we memorialize those who have died because of transphobia, the fear and hatred of transgender and gender-nonconforming people.

Read a review!

Switch: Prints by Dusty Herbig
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

The large format relief prints were realized through Herbig's research into developing contradictions about the dichotomy of power/energy and his concerned interest in human population expansion and its ramifications on the earth and its inhabitants. Through his use of imagery of electrical outlets, sockets, switches and other receptacles, the work seeks to open dialog about what exactly power can mean to divergent populations around the globe.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Sanford Biggers: Shuffle & Shake
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"Shuffle" and "Shake" form the first two parts of Sanford Biggers' Odyssean trilogy about the formation and dissolution of identity. Both works feature the electric presence of Ricardo Camillo, a Brazil-born, Germany-based choreographer, stuntman, clown and DJ. "Shuffle" explores how we matriculate through society, often masking our insecurities, pain, longing, and the internal schizophrenia of the id. The original soundtrack is composed from the artist's field recordings made in Indonesia. In "Shake," the second video of the trilogy, Camillo walks from the favelas (or shantytowns) of Brazil, to the ocean before finally transforming into an androgynous silver-skinned figure. Biggers' imagery and narrative simultaneously reference Greek mythology and the quintessential Afrofutrist aesthetics of Parliament Funkadelic.

This exhibition marks the second installment of "Celestial Navigation: A Year into the Afro Future", a year-long program of exhibitions and events at Urban Video Project and partner organizations that takes Afrofuturism as its point of departure.

Screening begins at dusk.

Cuse Comedy Showcase
CNY Playhouse

Price: $10 in advance, $12 at the door
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Syracuse's own Moody McCarthy is coming to headline our special Thanksgiving showcase. And we also have six competing comics as well: Sarah Benson, Charlie Frusci, Mr. Jaxn, Will Phillips, Evan Robinson, and Pamela Werts.

Advance ticket price only available online at www.cnyplayhouse.com/comedy or by visiting CNY Playhouse at least 24 hours before show, 1:00-6:00 pm Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays. First come first serve seating at time of show.

The Scintas
Landmark Theatre

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

After more than a decade, The Scintas are making their triumphant return home to Syracuse for a special one-night-only concert. The show spans several generations, blending classic songs from musical icons such as Ray Charles, Michael Jackson, and Whitney Houston all the way to Michael Buble, Coldplay and Bruno Mars. It will be an evening of music, comedy and first-rate entertainment you won't want to miss! The Scintas, brothers Joe and Frank, "honorary Scinta" Peter O'Donnell, and recent addition Janien Valentine, bring refreshing wit, great music, and endless talent to a show that has been highly regarded for decades.

Having performed for hundreds of thousands of people over the years, The Scintas have become a fixture in the Las Vegas entertainment scene with their signature comedy, musical prowess, and knack for spot-on celebrity impressions.

Frankie's talent as a singer and multi-instrumentalist and Joe's knack for celebrity impressions will bring you to your feet, and Valentine's powerful mezzo-soprano will knock you back off them.

Don't miss this electrifying night of music, humor and an all-around great time!

Tickets may be purchased at the Landmark Theatre Box Office, by phone at 315-475-7979, and online at TicketMaster.com.

Salt City Waltz
Palace Theatre

Price: $30
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

A homegrown celebration of the music of The Band.

Tickets available at the Palace Theater, Sound Garden in Armory Square, or at www.upstateshows.com.

Start Making Sense: Talking Heads Tribute, with HMFO: Hall & Oates Tribute, Jocelyn Arndt
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Little Red Riding Hood
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.

Preview: Hairspray
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Bill Fennelly, director

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

Tony Award, Best Musical. Bubbling with joy and 60s era music and dance, Hairspray delights with the pleasures of a classic American musical. Tracy Turnblad is a teen whose life revolves around dancing on the Corny Collins TV show. Who knew that a teenybopper TV show could be a catalyst for integration? You can't stop the beat, and truth be told, you won't want to once the all-singing and dancing cast takes the stage. Book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman.

Choreography by David Wanstreet, musical direction by Brian Cimmet.

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