Friday, April 23, 2010

Annual Le Moyne College Student Art Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

Uncommon Creatures, Singing Things: Works by Bertha Rogers
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This series of images is based on her own translations of Anglo-Saxon riddle poems, which are displayed along with the work.

Gallery Exhibition: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Feats of Clay spotlights the varied and creative ceramics art education programs in our high schools throughout Onondaga County and Central New York. The continued success of Feats of Clay rests with the talented and dedicated high school art teachers and art students.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

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

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

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place" and "Experimental Urbanism"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place," in Gallery A, featuring photographs by Jane Winslow and Mindy Ostrow. This exhibition invites the viewer to see the world through the lens of two of the regions most talented photographers.

"Experimental Urbanism," in Gallery B, features work by internationally known installation artist, Richard Metzgar. This particular exhibit showcases a series of prints that challenge the viewer to rethink the ways they document place and experience.

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

New Works by Michael Weismore
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Michael Weismore will be displaying 25 of his new original abstract oil paintings, including a set of 10 paintings titled "Ode to Pollock." For this group of paintings, Weismore has incorporated Jackson Pollock's drip technique over his own original paintings.

The artist has a form of color blindness that affects less then 1% of people. Color blindness has only "hindered one of his paintings. He accidentally painted the sky and trees purple in an ocean landscape. It ended up being one of the first paintings of his that was ever sold by an art dealer.

In 2006, Michael was commissioned to do a painting for rock and roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis. A few years later, the artist received the 2009 Best Abstract Award from the Everson Museum.

Annual High School Seniors Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

High schools within a 30-mile radius of Syracuse are invited to display seniors' artwork and have them juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Darryl Hughto & Susan Roth: New Paintings and Sculptures
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibition will feature paintings by both artists created specifically for this exhibition, as well as recent sculptures. A full color exhibition catalog will be available which will include an essay by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

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

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

MFA MMX (2010)
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual exhibition of masters of fine arts candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts will include 20 artists displaying a broad range of traditional and contemporary work, including painting, ceramics and sculpture, as well as digital photography, installation, and computer art.

While the artists work independently on their thesis concepts, themes have routinely emerged within the group—crossing the boundaries of media and style. This year's exhibition is no exception; the work exudes a highly developed sense of technique and thought. In MFA MMX, however, the artists engage the viewer, both physically and psychologically, in a way not seen in previous MFA exhibitions. The narrative photography of Jared Landberg, a documentary film by Sonya Pollard, and the video installation of Esther Probst are examples of the thematic way many the artists record their personal history or specific experiences. Another pervading theme in the exhibition is interaction: walking through the unique environments created by painters Gwendolyn Mercado-Reyes and Jessica Sharpe, playing the autobiographical video game created by Ryan Marchand, or taking one of the hundreds of ceramic cups thrown by Shawn O'Connor; the viewer is invited to physically take part in the artistic experience.

The Color of Spring
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

What better way to welcome spring? The Color of Spring is a collection of lush batiks by Marilyn Forth and vibrant watercolors by Elizabeth M. Hueber and Louise Woodard. In addition to the colorful dramatic imagery, the works of all three artists lay claim to another harbinger of spring—the awakening joy that the new season brings, especially in the sharing of the creative process with viewers.

Wild Card Exhibition: Continuing Works
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A selection of work by over 60 artists who have previously shown at the gallery.

Isaac Bidwell: The Big Three-Oh
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

A solo exhibition of art work by Isaac Bidwell. For this show, Isaac has arranged a collection of 30 original ink drawings, paintings and digital illustrations. As his first exhibition in Syracuse since 2008, The Big Three-Oh not only displays a body of new and unseen works, but the end of Isaac's twenties.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

Boys & Girls: The Art of Diane Menzies and Mary Giehl
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Each year in America over 3 million children are abused, nearly 2,000 die, some run away, others are abandoned, all have their own challenges with this sojourn through adolescence. Each day in America, 6 children die from abuse, 100,000 children are homeless, 8 children die from guns, 219 children die before their first birthday, 1,534 babies are born to teenage girls.

In the paintings by Diane Menzies and installations by Mary Giehl, there are hints of darkness and confinement along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness. The work challenges the viewer to take a deeper look at what these images of childhood are telling us.

Creative Collaboration
Dance Arts Studio and Syracuse Dance Alloy

Price: $7
Manlius Pebble Hill School
5300 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

Original choreography by the students.

Life is a Dance Floor
LeMoyne College
Le Moyne Student Dance Company

Price: $12 general public, $10 seniors, $4 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Annual Spring Concert featuring student and professional choreographers. Reservations suggested. For more information, call 315-445-4523.

Overcoming the Spectacle: A Cinema of Pure Means
Redhouse

Price: $5 suggested donation
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Flaming Creatures, by Jack Smith
Leda und der Schwan, by Kurt Kren

This grouping of short films breaks with the tradition of the Situationist approach to the construction of film and looks at some cinematic practices that offer alternative possibilities to the practice of everyday life. Rather than understanding the body as a series stable images and identities these films create/depict the body as new polymorphous becoming. The relationships purposed between cinema and separation and the potential role that the cinema can play in the reinvigoration of meaning within the cinematic language. Debord wrote that "The modern spectacle, by contrast, depicts what society can deliver, but within this depiction what is permitted is rigidly distinguished from what is possible." Thus these films take up, in a roundabout way, Agamben's assertion about films potential, "to turn the real into the possible and the possible into the real." This short series will feature one Kurt Kren film of Otto Muehl performances and American director Jack Smith's most well known work. -Curator Lawrence Kumpf

Dr. Branden Joseph, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Columbia University and editor of Grey Room, will introduce the films and lead the discussion afterwards.

Save the Planet
Syracuse International Film Festival

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

Alec Loorz, now 15, founded Kids vs. Global Warming when he was 12 years old. Feeling the weight of the global situation and a sense that he could make a difference, Alec felt compelled to tell other kids about the problems we are facing. His message is deeply rooted in hope, encouraging kids to speak up and let their voices be heard on this issue. After giving over 30 global warming presentations he was invited by Al Gore to be formally trained with the Climate Project in October of 2008 and is now the youngest trained presenter with The Climate Project.

For more information, call 315-443-8826 or email kc@syrfilm.com.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Opus

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, phone 315-443-2191.

Sophistafunk, with David Correy, Delirium, World Record Players, Jay Foss
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Hansel & Gretel
Syracuse Opera

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

Lost and hungry in the Black Forest, who wouldn't be tempted by the charms of a gingerbread house? Follow the famous brother and sisiter into—and out of—the home of the Wicked Witch, with the help of many lovable woodland characters. Beauty and spectacle abound, with innovative, colorful costumes and Engelbert Humperdinck's authentic children's folk songs. Enchanting and irresistable for all ages; and all live happily ever after!

Sung in English with projected English titles.

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DéLana R. A. Dameron and Jane Springer, poets
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

DéLana R. A. Dameron's first book of poems, How God Ends Us, was selected by Elizabeth Alexander as the fourth annual winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize. She has received fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation, Constance Saltonstall Foundation, and Soul Mountain and is a member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective.

Jane Springer's first book, Dear Blackbird, was recipient of the Agha Shahid Ali prize for poetry (University of Utah Press, 2007). Her poems have received, among other honors, an AWP Intro Award, The Robert Penn Warren Prize for Poetry, and an NEA fellowship (2009-2011). She teaches as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Poetry at Hamilton College.

Sylvia
CNY Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: Dinner theater: $27 single; $50 couple. Show only: $18 (limited availability)
Fire and Ice Banquet Hall, The Locker Room
528 Hiawatha Blvd., Syracuse

Dinner at 6:30 pm, followed by show at 8:00 pm.

Greg and Kate have moved to Manhattan after 22 years of child-raising in the suburbs. Greg's career as a financial trader is winding down, while Kate's career, as a public-school English teacher, is beginning to offer her more opportunities. Greg brings home a dog he found in the park—or that has found him—bearing only the name "Sylvia" on her name tag. A street-smart mixture of Lab and Poodle, Sylvia becomes a major bone of contention between husband and wife. She offers Greg an escape from the frustrations of his job and the unknowns of middle age. To Kate, Sylvia becomes a rival for affection. And Sylvia thinks Kate just doesn't understand the relationship between man and dog. The marriage is put in serious jeopardy until, after a series of hilarious and touching complications, Greg and Kate learn to compromise, and Sylvia becomes a valued part of their lives. Play by A.R. Gurney.

Performance stars Heather J. Roach, J. Brazil, Binaifer Dabu, and Gerrit Vander Werff Jr.

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Saturday, April 24, 2010

Annual Le Moyne College Student Art Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

Wild Card Exhibition: Continuing Works
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A selection of work by over 60 artists who have previously shown at the gallery.

The Color of Spring
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

What better way to welcome spring? The Color of Spring is a collection of lush batiks by Marilyn Forth and vibrant watercolors by Elizabeth M. Hueber and Louise Woodard. In addition to the colorful dramatic imagery, the works of all three artists lay claim to another harbinger of spring—the awakening joy that the new season brings, especially in the sharing of the creative process with viewers.

Annual High School Seniors Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

High schools within a 30-mile radius of Syracuse are invited to display seniors' artwork and have them juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Read a review!

MFA MMX (2010)
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual exhibition of masters of fine arts candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts will include 20 artists displaying a broad range of traditional and contemporary work, including painting, ceramics and sculpture, as well as digital photography, installation, and computer art.

While the artists work independently on their thesis concepts, themes have routinely emerged within the group—crossing the boundaries of media and style. This year's exhibition is no exception; the work exudes a highly developed sense of technique and thought. In MFA MMX, however, the artists engage the viewer, both physically and psychologically, in a way not seen in previous MFA exhibitions. The narrative photography of Jared Landberg, a documentary film by Sonya Pollard, and the video installation of Esther Probst are examples of the thematic way many the artists record their personal history or specific experiences. Another pervading theme in the exhibition is interaction: walking through the unique environments created by painters Gwendolyn Mercado-Reyes and Jessica Sharpe, playing the autobiographical video game created by Ryan Marchand, or taking one of the hundreds of ceramic cups thrown by Shawn O'Connor; the viewer is invited to physically take part in the artistic experience.

Boys & Girls: The Art of Diane Menzies and Mary Giehl
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Each year in America over 3 million children are abused, nearly 2,000 die, some run away, others are abandoned, all have their own challenges with this sojourn through adolescence. Each day in America, 6 children die from abuse, 100,000 children are homeless, 8 children die from guns, 219 children die before their first birthday, 1,534 babies are born to teenage girls.

In the paintings by Diane Menzies and installations by Mary Giehl, there are hints of darkness and confinement along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness. The work challenges the viewer to take a deeper look at what these images of childhood are telling us.

Isaac Bidwell: The Big Three-Oh
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

A solo exhibition of art work by Isaac Bidwell. For this show, Isaac has arranged a collection of 30 original ink drawings, paintings and digital illustrations. As his first exhibition in Syracuse since 2008, The Big Three-Oh not only displays a body of new and unseen works, but the end of Isaac's twenties.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Improv comedians from Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Life is a Dance Floor
LeMoyne College
Le Moyne Student Dance Company

Price: $12 general public, $10 seniors, $4 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Annual Spring Concert featuring student and professional choreographers. Reservations suggested. For more information, call 315-445-4523.

Life is a Dance Floor
LeMoyne College
Le Moyne Student Dance Company

Price: $12 general public, $10 seniors, $4 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Annual Spring Concert featuring student and professional choreographers. Reservations suggested. For more information, call 315-445-4523.

SaturdaySCREENINGS: Autumn Moon (Qui Yue)
ArtRage Gallery

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

Japanese tourist Tokio comes to Hong Kong looking for good food. When he stumbles upon 15-year-old Wai, a Chinese girl caring for her ill grandma, she invites him for a home-cooked meal. A bond grows between them—but Wai's family is soon off for Canada. Tender look at how Asian cultures differ, and how pop culture is erasing ancient traditions. Locarno Intl Fest: Golden Leopard Award (1992, directed by Clara Law)

CNY Day of Percussion Final Concert
Onondaga Community College
CNY All-Star Percussion Ensemble, OCC Percussion Ensemble

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Gretchen Parlato In Concert
WAER-FM

Price: $15
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month in April with WAER as we present Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition winner, Gretchen Parlato, in concert. Ms. Parlato's album, "In A Dream", was voted Best Vocal Album of the Year 2009 by the Village Voice; #6 Top Jazz Albums for 2009 by the Boston Globe; and #9 Top 10 Music of 2009 by NPR.

For tickets or more information, phone 315-443-4834.

Musicians of Grace

Price: $10 suggested donation
Grace Episcopal Church
819 Madison St., Syracuse

The Musicians of Grace will perform works by Mendelssohn and Elizabeth Luttinger.

Legends of Upstate New York II
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Joe Magnarelli and Bill Dobbins with the CNY Jazz Orchestra

Price: $19.50, $24.50, $27.50 ($5 discount for students and donors)
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Further proof that upstate grows the greatest talent in jazz is not necessary, but in keeping with our theme, we present bookend appearances by Syracuse's finest jazz trumpet export, Joe Magnarelli, and Rochester's international jazz commodity, Bill Dobbins. They floored our summer festival audience in Clinton Square, who clamored for a reprise by this dynamic duo, so we gladly complied. Complete bios would fill volumes, so just try to match the association with the guest artist: WDR Big Band, Ray Barretto, Metropole Orchestra, Lionel Hampton Orchestra, Eastman Jazz Ensemble and Studio Orchestra, Harry Connick Jr, the list goes on and on. Take that, Manhattan.

Weilerstein Trio
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

Price: $25 regular, $15 senior, $10 student, children under 13 free
Lincoln Middle School
1613 James St., Syracuse

Violinist Donald Weilerstein was the founding first violinist of the legendary Cleveland Quartet, with whom he recorded and concertized world-wide for twenty years. He and his wife Vivian, both members of the faculty at the New England Conservatory, have performed widely as the Weilerstein Duo and recorded duos for violin and piano by Janacek, Schumann and others. They will be joined by cellist Claire Bryant, a frequent collaborator with many eminent artists and ensembles, including the Weilersteins in the newly-formed Enescu Ensemble.

Schumann Piano Trio No.2 in F Major, Op.80
Janácek/Coxe Piano Trio after String Quartet No. 1 "The Kreutzer Sonata"
Dvorák Piano Trio Op. 90 in E minor, "Dumky"

Aladdin
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the classic tale.

Sylvia
CNY Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: Dinner theater: $27 single; $50 couple. Show only: $18 (limited availability)
Fire and Ice Banquet Hall, The Locker Room
528 Hiawatha Blvd., Syracuse

Dinner at 6:30 pm, followed by show at 8:00 pm.

Greg and Kate have moved to Manhattan after 22 years of child-raising in the suburbs. Greg's career as a financial trader is winding down, while Kate's career, as a public-school English teacher, is beginning to offer her more opportunities. Greg brings home a dog he found in the park—or that has found him—bearing only the name "Sylvia" on her name tag. A street-smart mixture of Lab and Poodle, Sylvia becomes a major bone of contention between husband and wife. She offers Greg an escape from the frustrations of his job and the unknowns of middle age. To Kate, Sylvia becomes a rival for affection. And Sylvia thinks Kate just doesn't understand the relationship between man and dog. The marriage is put in serious jeopardy until, after a series of hilarious and touching complications, Greg and Kate learn to compromise, and Sylvia becomes a valued part of their lives. Play by A.R. Gurney.

Performance stars Heather J. Roach, J. Brazil, Binaifer Dabu, and Gerrit Vander Werff Jr.

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Idol Assassination
Without a Cue Productions
Sara Caliva, director

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

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

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

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

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

MFA MMX (2010)
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual exhibition of masters of fine arts candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts will include 20 artists displaying a broad range of traditional and contemporary work, including painting, ceramics and sculpture, as well as digital photography, installation, and computer art.

While the artists work independently on their thesis concepts, themes have routinely emerged within the group—crossing the boundaries of media and style. This year's exhibition is no exception; the work exudes a highly developed sense of technique and thought. In MFA MMX, however, the artists engage the viewer, both physically and psychologically, in a way not seen in previous MFA exhibitions. The narrative photography of Jared Landberg, a documentary film by Sonya Pollard, and the video installation of Esther Probst are examples of the thematic way many the artists record their personal history or specific experiences. Another pervading theme in the exhibition is interaction: walking through the unique environments created by painters Gwendolyn Mercado-Reyes and Jessica Sharpe, playing the autobiographical video game created by Ryan Marchand, or taking one of the hundreds of ceramic cups thrown by Shawn O'Connor; the viewer is invited to physically take part in the artistic experience.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Read a review!

Annual Le Moyne College Student Art Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

Syracuse Symphony Chamber Ensemble
Fayetteville Free Library

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

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
SU Saxophone Ensemble

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, phone 315-443-2191.

Irish Tenor Anthony Kearns

Price: $50 regular, $30 students/seniors
Holy Cross Church
4112 E. Genesee St., Dewitt

Into the Woods
LeMoyne College
The Jazzuits

Price: Free
Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Jazzuits perform music from Stephen Sondheim's musical Into the Woods.

For more information, call 315-445-4523.

Hansel & Gretel
Syracuse Opera

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

Lost and hungry in the Black Forest, who wouldn't be tempted by the charms of a gingerbread house? Follow the famous brother and sisiter into—and out of—the home of the Wicked Witch, with the help of many lovable woodland characters. Beauty and spectacle abound, with innovative, colorful costumes and Engelbert Humperdinck's authentic children's folk songs. Enchanting and irresistable for all ages; and all live happily ever after!

Sung in English with projected English titles.

Read a review!

Salt Hill Journal No. 25 Release Party
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Price: $10 adults, $8 students
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Step outside and kick off spring at our literary carnival! Please join us in celebrating the release of Issue 25 with an afternoon of hot BBQ, cold beverages, readings, music, a raffle, and more! Entry gets you a copy of our vibrant spring issue, classic picnic food and drink, an afternoon of readings by Christopher Kennedy (Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death), Julian Zadorozny (SH 25), Ryan Ridge (SH 21), and music (starting at 6:00 pm) by Dan Goodhue.

Just in time for spring, summer, and ever, No. 25 is a white-hot issue charged with eclectic voices and electric images. Featuring cover-art and drawings by Michael Burkard; photographs by Carlo Van De Roer; a diagram of Walt Whitman's influence on music by Bruce Smith; a special handwriting and revisions feature from Ari Banias, Carrie Williams, Chris Green, and more; interviews with David Shields and Christine Schutt; as well as fiction, poetry, and art make this an exciting addition to any spring reading list.

Contributors include Michael Agresta, Keith Alexander, Arlene Ang, Ari Banias, Michael Burkard, Kim Chinquee, Susan Daitch, Nicole Terez Dutton, B.H. Fairchild, Chris Green, Bob Hicok, Laura Kasischke, Patrick Lawler, Farah Marklevits, Karyna McGlynn, Doug Ramspeck, Luke Reid, Michael Scott Ryan, Eleni Sikelianos, Peter Jay Shippy, Nate Slawson, Bruce Smith, Carlo Van De Roer, Carrie Williams, Julian Zadorozny.

Salt Hill is a literary journal publishing outstanding new fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction and art. Now over 10 years old, the journal is published by writers affiliated with the Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University. To learn more, visit www.salthilljournal.com.

Sylvia
CNY Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: Dinner theater: $27 single; $50 couple. Show only: $18 (limited availability)
Fire and Ice Banquet Hall, The Locker Room
528 Hiawatha Blvd., Syracuse

Brunch at 12:30 pm, followed by show at 2:00 pm.

Greg and Kate have moved to Manhattan after 22 years of child-raising in the suburbs. Greg's career as a financial trader is winding down, while Kate's career, as a public-school English teacher, is beginning to offer her more opportunities. Greg brings home a dog he found in the park—or that has found him—bearing only the name "Sylvia" on her name tag. A street-smart mixture of Lab and Poodle, Sylvia becomes a major bone of contention between husband and wife. She offers Greg an escape from the frustrations of his job and the unknowns of middle age. To Kate, Sylvia becomes a rival for affection. And Sylvia thinks Kate just doesn't understand the relationship between man and dog. The marriage is put in serious jeopardy until, after a series of hilarious and touching complications, Greg and Kate learn to compromise, and Sylvia becomes a valued part of their lives. Play by A.R. Gurney.

Performance stars Heather J. Roach, J. Brazil, Binaifer Dabu, and Gerrit Vander Werff Jr.

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The Sweet Life
Armory Square Playwrights

Price: $7 regular, $5 students/seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The Lunes family chocolate business has fallen onto hard times and is near collapse because of antiquated business practices and the lack of modern technology. When big-city estranged daughter, Pauline Lunes, returns with her slick fiancé to launch a plan to save the family business, old conflicts arise. A homecoming story that embraces quirkiness and rides a fine line between zaniness, satire and drama, "The Sweet Life" written by Armory Square Playhouse playwright Craig Thornton is homage to small towns, chocolate, family, and Kaufman and Hart. It is a bittersweet comedy about the perils of big business and the struggle of necessary change, while staying to true to yourself.

Craig Thornton’'s plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles, and upstate New York. They include "Yoo-Hoo Sheila", "Happy Birthday, Tina Marie", "Life on the Lawn", "The Sweet Life" and most recently, "The Moment" (March 2010). His 10-minute play "Man on Television" recently won first prize in the ACC playwriting contest. A previous Armory Square playhouse script in hand play, "What We Hold Onto", was selected as a finalist in the Eugene O'’Neil Theater Conference. His latest play, "The High Cost of Heating" had a staged reading in Watertown. The "Sweet Life" had a previous staged reading for the American Playwright’s Series in Rochester and his short play "The Moment" will be published in the Black River Review in May. He is a member of the Dramatist Guild and holds a MFA from Goddard College.

The play is a staged reading of a work in progress and a talkback session with the playwright will follow the performance.

Monday, April 26, 2010

Annual Le Moyne College Student Art Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

Gallery Exhibition: Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exhibition of student work from the Architecture and Interior Design Department. It is an annual exhibit that showcases some of the best work produced by our students in the preceding academic year.

Uncommon Creatures, Singing Things: Works by Bertha Rogers
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This series of images is based on her own translations of Anglo-Saxon riddle poems, which are displayed along with the work.

Gallery Exhibition: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Feats of Clay spotlights the varied and creative ceramics art education programs in our high schools throughout Onondaga County and Central New York. The continued success of Feats of Clay rests with the talented and dedicated high school art teachers and art students.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

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

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

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

New Works by Michael Weismore
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Michael Weismore will be displaying 25 of his new original abstract oil paintings, including a set of 10 paintings titled "Ode to Pollock." For this group of paintings, Weismore has incorporated Jackson Pollock's drip technique over his own original paintings.

The artist has a form of color blindness that affects less then 1% of people. Color blindness has only "hindered one of his paintings. He accidentally painted the sky and trees purple in an ocean landscape. It ended up being one of the first paintings of his that was ever sold by an art dealer.

In 2006, Michael was commissioned to do a painting for rock and roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis. A few years later, the artist received the 2009 Best Abstract Award from the Everson Museum.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

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

elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

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

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

Film Festival Pre-Screening
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: Free
Reilly Room, Reilly Hall
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A team of local writers, actors, producers, and film critics will make up a professional prescreening team who will watch a handful of the hundreds of entries received by the festival organizers. The general public is also invited to join the prescreening sessions and give their impressions of the films. For more information, call 315-443-8826 or email kc@syrfilm.com.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Annual Le Moyne College Student Art Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

Gallery Exhibition: Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exhibition of student work from the Architecture and Interior Design Department. It is an annual exhibit that showcases some of the best work produced by our students in the preceding academic year.

Uncommon Creatures, Singing Things: Works by Bertha Rogers
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This series of images is based on her own translations of Anglo-Saxon riddle poems, which are displayed along with the work.

Gallery Exhibition: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Feats of Clay spotlights the varied and creative ceramics art education programs in our high schools throughout Onondaga County and Central New York. The continued success of Feats of Clay rests with the talented and dedicated high school art teachers and art students.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

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

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

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place" and "Experimental Urbanism"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place," in Gallery A, featuring photographs by Jane Winslow and Mindy Ostrow. This exhibition invites the viewer to see the world through the lens of two of the regions most talented photographers.

"Experimental Urbanism," in Gallery B, features work by internationally known installation artist, Richard Metzgar. This particular exhibit showcases a series of prints that challenge the viewer to rethink the ways they document place and experience.

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

New Works by Michael Weismore
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Michael Weismore will be displaying 25 of his new original abstract oil paintings, including a set of 10 paintings titled "Ode to Pollock." For this group of paintings, Weismore has incorporated Jackson Pollock's drip technique over his own original paintings.

The artist has a form of color blindness that affects less then 1% of people. Color blindness has only "hindered one of his paintings. He accidentally painted the sky and trees purple in an ocean landscape. It ended up being one of the first paintings of his that was ever sold by an art dealer.

In 2006, Michael was commissioned to do a painting for rock and roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis. A few years later, the artist received the 2009 Best Abstract Award from the Everson Museum.

Annual High School Seniors Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

High schools within a 30-mile radius of Syracuse are invited to display seniors' artwork and have them juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

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

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

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

elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

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

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

MFA MMX (2010)
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual exhibition of masters of fine arts candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts will include 20 artists displaying a broad range of traditional and contemporary work, including painting, ceramics and sculpture, as well as digital photography, installation, and computer art.

While the artists work independently on their thesis concepts, themes have routinely emerged within the group—crossing the boundaries of media and style. This year's exhibition is no exception; the work exudes a highly developed sense of technique and thought. In MFA MMX, however, the artists engage the viewer, both physically and psychologically, in a way not seen in previous MFA exhibitions. The narrative photography of Jared Landberg, a documentary film by Sonya Pollard, and the video installation of Esther Probst are examples of the thematic way many the artists record their personal history or specific experiences. Another pervading theme in the exhibition is interaction: walking through the unique environments created by painters Gwendolyn Mercado-Reyes and Jessica Sharpe, playing the autobiographical video game created by Ryan Marchand, or taking one of the hundreds of ceramic cups thrown by Shawn O'Connor; the viewer is invited to physically take part in the artistic experience.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

Sara Gruen
Friends of the Central Library Author Series

Price: $25
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Sara Gruen is a Canadian-born dual citizen who moved to the United States in 1999 to pursue a job in technical writing. She was laid off within two years time and decided to try her hand at writing fiction. An avid animal lover she began writing about what she loves most. She lives in Ashville, NC with her husband, three children, two dogs, two cats, three goats, and a horse. She is the author of Riding Lessons, Flying Changes, and Water for Elephants.

Poetry Reading
Featuring Peter Levitt, poet

Price: Free
Hall of Languages, Room 500
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Recipient of the prestigious Lannan Foundation Award in Poetry, Peter Levitt's twelve books include Within Within, Bright Root, Dark Root, One Hundred Butterflies, and Fingerpainting on the Moon: Writing and Creativity as a Path.

This event is sponsored by Syracuse University's Division of Student Affairs and Student Buddhist Association, along with the Zen Center of Syracuse, Inc.; this event is the third in the Zen Center's Forman Bicentennial Year, commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Joshua Forman House on West Seneca Turnpike.

Parking is available in Irving Garage on the SU campus at a reduced rate.

For more information, contact Bonnie Shoultz, Zen Center of Syracuse, 315-492-6341.

Young Playwrights Festival
Syracuse University Drama Department

Price: Free
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Staged readings of the winning works from the 12th Annual Young Playwrights Festival at Syracuse Stage.

Winners of the 2010 Young Playwrights Festival were chosen from more than 140 submissions by area high school students. A panel at Syracuse Stage chose 17 semi-finalists, who then participated in a series of writing workshops. Nine winning works were then chosen for the staged reading.

The winners of the 2010 Young Playwrights Festival are:
* J.J. Davis (Jamesville-Dewitt), Adventures in Miscommunication
* Amanda Haskell (Christian Brothers Academy), The Communication Revelation
* Drew Jackson (Fayetteville-Manlius), An Interesting Meeting, or AIM
* Annie Jaffe (Nottingham), Awkward
* Amanda Marci (Christian Brothers Academy), A Childhood Guarantee
* Ray McAndrew (Nottingham), Bread Crumbs
* Gabrielle Petrosino (Auburn), Crimes of Innocence
* Julia Quigley (Christian Brothers Academy), Beyond the Grave
* Tom Voorheis (Christian Brothers Academy), The Cure

For more information, phone 315-442-7755.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Annual Le Moyne College Student Art Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

Gallery Exhibition: Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exhibition of student work from the Architecture and Interior Design Department. It is an annual exhibit that showcases some of the best work produced by our students in the preceding academic year.

Uncommon Creatures, Singing Things: Works by Bertha Rogers
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This series of images is based on her own translations of Anglo-Saxon riddle poems, which are displayed along with the work.

Gallery Exhibition: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Feats of Clay spotlights the varied and creative ceramics art education programs in our high schools throughout Onondaga County and Central New York. The continued success of Feats of Clay rests with the talented and dedicated high school art teachers and art students.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

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

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

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place" and "Experimental Urbanism"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place," in Gallery A, featuring photographs by Jane Winslow and Mindy Ostrow. This exhibition invites the viewer to see the world through the lens of two of the regions most talented photographers.

"Experimental Urbanism," in Gallery B, features work by internationally known installation artist, Richard Metzgar. This particular exhibit showcases a series of prints that challenge the viewer to rethink the ways they document place and experience.

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

New Works by Michael Weismore
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Michael Weismore will be displaying 25 of his new original abstract oil paintings, including a set of 10 paintings titled "Ode to Pollock." For this group of paintings, Weismore has incorporated Jackson Pollock's drip technique over his own original paintings.

The artist has a form of color blindness that affects less then 1% of people. Color blindness has only "hindered one of his paintings. He accidentally painted the sky and trees purple in an ocean landscape. It ended up being one of the first paintings of his that was ever sold by an art dealer.

In 2006, Michael was commissioned to do a painting for rock and roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis. A few years later, the artist received the 2009 Best Abstract Award from the Everson Museum.

Annual High School Seniors Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

There will be a reception and awards ceremony tonight 6:00-7:30 pm.

High schools within a 30-mile radius of Syracuse are invited to display seniors' artwork and have them juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

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

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

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

elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

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

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

MFA MMX (2010)
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual exhibition of masters of fine arts candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts will include 20 artists displaying a broad range of traditional and contemporary work, including painting, ceramics and sculpture, as well as digital photography, installation, and computer art.

While the artists work independently on their thesis concepts, themes have routinely emerged within the group—crossing the boundaries of media and style. This year's exhibition is no exception; the work exudes a highly developed sense of technique and thought. In MFA MMX, however, the artists engage the viewer, both physically and psychologically, in a way not seen in previous MFA exhibitions. The narrative photography of Jared Landberg, a documentary film by Sonya Pollard, and the video installation of Esther Probst are examples of the thematic way many the artists record their personal history or specific experiences. Another pervading theme in the exhibition is interaction: walking through the unique environments created by painters Gwendolyn Mercado-Reyes and Jessica Sharpe, playing the autobiographical video game created by Ryan Marchand, or taking one of the hundreds of ceramic cups thrown by Shawn O'Connor; the viewer is invited to physically take part in the artistic experience.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Read a review!

Fashion Program Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Fashion design program junior student collection.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Metanoia
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Installation and performance by Kelly Bogan, fashion design undergraduate student.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

Isaac Bidwell: The Big Three-Oh
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

A solo exhibition of art work by Isaac Bidwell. For this show, Isaac has arranged a collection of 30 original ink drawings, paintings and digital illustrations. As his first exhibition in Syracuse since 2008, The Big Three-Oh not only displays a body of new and unseen works, but the end of Isaac's twenties.

Kant and the Work of Art
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts
Featuring Arthur Danto, philosopher

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Arthur Danto, a renowned philosopher and the Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University, is one of the most influential art scholars and philosophers of our time and a major shaper of recent aesthetic theory. He studied art and history and received a B.A. in fine arts from Wayne University. He went on to receive both an M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia. From 1949-50, Danto studied in Paris on a Fulbright Scholarship under Maurice Merleau-Ponty. In 1951, he returned to teach at Columbia.

Danto was an art critic for The Nation from 1984-2009 and has also published numerous articles in other journals. In addition, he is an editor of the Journal of Philosophy and a contributing editor of Artforum, among other publications.

Danto is author of numerous books on philosophy and art, including "Nietzsche as Philosopher" (Columbia University Press, 1965), "Analytical Philosophy of Action" (Cambridge University Press, 1973), "The Transfiguration of the Commonplace" (Harvard University Press, 1981), "Narration and Knowledge" (Columbia University Press, 1985), Connections to the World: The Basic Concepts of Philosophy (University of California Press, 1997), After the End of Art (Princeton University Press, 1997), The Abuse of Beauty (Open Court, 2003) and Andy Warhol (Yale University Press, 2009).

Dantos essays and papers include The Artworld (1964), The State of the Art (1987), Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present (1990), Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective (1992), Playing With the Edge: The Photographic Achievement of Robert Mapplethorpe (1995), The Wake of Art: Criticism, Philosophy, and the Ends of Taste (1998), The Madonna of the Future: Essays in a Pluralistic Art World (2000), Philosophizing Art: Selected Essays (2001), The Body/Body Problem: Selected Essays (2001), The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art (2004) and Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life (2007).

Parking is available in the Irving Garage.

Kevin Moore and Katherine Ciarelli, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Piano four-hands program featuring works by Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Kevin Moore.

Laura Kasischke, poetry
Raymond Carver Reading Series

Price: Free
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

3 Above-Below-WITHIN
Bright Star Theatre Company

Price: $15 regular, $12 students/seniors
Studio 24
433 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

"3 Above-Below-WITHIN" is a ground-breaking showcase of exercises, monologues, and scene work featuring Bright Star Theatre Company actors Dallas DeFée and Laura K. Vannah. The performance will include a new short one-act play written by Dallas DeFée and will be followed by a Q&A session with the performers.

Experience a high-energy, fast-paced exploration of what Spiritual Acting is all about!

To order tickets, phone 315-963-3820 or visit www.brightstarproductionz.com.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Annual Le Moyne College Student Art Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

Gallery Exhibition: Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exhibition of student work from the Architecture and Interior Design Department. It is an annual exhibit that showcases some of the best work produced by our students in the preceding academic year.

Uncommon Creatures, Singing Things: Works by Bertha Rogers
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This series of images is based on her own translations of Anglo-Saxon riddle poems, which are displayed along with the work.

Gallery Exhibition: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Feats of Clay spotlights the varied and creative ceramics art education programs in our high schools throughout Onondaga County and Central New York. The continued success of Feats of Clay rests with the talented and dedicated high school art teachers and art students.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

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

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

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place" and "Experimental Urbanism"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place," in Gallery A, featuring photographs by Jane Winslow and Mindy Ostrow. This exhibition invites the viewer to see the world through the lens of two of the regions most talented photographers.

"Experimental Urbanism," in Gallery B, features work by internationally known installation artist, Richard Metzgar. This particular exhibit showcases a series of prints that challenge the viewer to rethink the ways they document place and experience.

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

New Works by Michael Weismore
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Michael Weismore will be displaying 25 of his new original abstract oil paintings, including a set of 10 paintings titled "Ode to Pollock." For this group of paintings, Weismore has incorporated Jackson Pollock's drip technique over his own original paintings.

The artist has a form of color blindness that affects less then 1% of people. Color blindness has only "hindered one of his paintings. He accidentally painted the sky and trees purple in an ocean landscape. It ended up being one of the first paintings of his that was ever sold by an art dealer.

In 2006, Michael was commissioned to do a painting for rock and roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis. A few years later, the artist received the 2009 Best Abstract Award from the Everson Museum.

Annual High School Seniors Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

High schools within a 30-mile radius of Syracuse are invited to display seniors' artwork and have them juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

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

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

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

elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

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

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

MFA MMX (2010)
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual exhibition of masters of fine arts candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts will include 20 artists displaying a broad range of traditional and contemporary work, including painting, ceramics and sculpture, as well as digital photography, installation, and computer art.

While the artists work independently on their thesis concepts, themes have routinely emerged within the group—crossing the boundaries of media and style. This year's exhibition is no exception; the work exudes a highly developed sense of technique and thought. In MFA MMX, however, the artists engage the viewer, both physically and psychologically, in a way not seen in previous MFA exhibitions. The narrative photography of Jared Landberg, a documentary film by Sonya Pollard, and the video installation of Esther Probst are examples of the thematic way many the artists record their personal history or specific experiences. Another pervading theme in the exhibition is interaction: walking through the unique environments created by painters Gwendolyn Mercado-Reyes and Jessica Sharpe, playing the autobiographical video game created by Ryan Marchand, or taking one of the hundreds of ceramic cups thrown by Shawn O'Connor; the viewer is invited to physically take part in the artistic experience.

The Color of Spring
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

What better way to welcome spring? The Color of Spring is a collection of lush batiks by Marilyn Forth and vibrant watercolors by Elizabeth M. Hueber and Louise Woodard. In addition to the colorful dramatic imagery, the works of all three artists lay claim to another harbinger of spring—the awakening joy that the new season brings, especially in the sharing of the creative process with viewers.

Wild Card Exhibition: Continuing Works
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A selection of work by over 60 artists who have previously shown at the gallery.

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

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

Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

Fashion Program Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Fashion design program junior student collection.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Metanoia
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Installation and performance by Kelly Bogan, fashion design undergraduate student.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

23rd Annual Fashion Show
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: $6
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Showcasing the collections of senior fashion design majors in the School of Art and Design's Department of Design.

For more information, phone 315-443-4644. Tickets can be purchased at the Schine Box Office, 315-443-4517.

Isaac Bidwell: The Big Three-Oh
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

A solo exhibition of art work by Isaac Bidwell. For this show, Isaac has arranged a collection of 30 original ink drawings, paintings and digital illustrations. As his first exhibition in Syracuse since 2008, The Big Three-Oh not only displays a body of new and unseen works, but the end of Isaac's twenties.

Good bye Momo (A Dios Momo)
Community Folk Art Center

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

Obdulio is an 11-year-old Afro-Uruguayan boy who lives with his grandmother and sells newspapers for a living while he cannot read or write. Obdulio is not interested in going to school until he finds out that the night watchman of the newspaper's office is a charismatic magical "Maestro" who not only introduces him to the world of literacy but also teaches him the real meaning of life through the lyrics of the "Murgas" (Carnival Pierrots) during the mythical nights of the irreverent and provocative Uruguayan carnival.

An Evening with Annie Leibovitz
University Lectures

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Annie Leibovitz began her career as a photojournalist for Rolling Stone in 1970, while she was a student at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her pictures have appeared regularly on magazine covers ever since, and her large and distinguished body of work encompasses some of the most well-known portraits of our time.

Leibovitz's first major assignment was for a cover story on John Lennon. She became Rolling Stone's chief photographer in 1973, where she shot 142 covers and published photo essays on scores of stories, including her memorable accounts of the resignation of Richard Nixon and of the 1975 Rolling Stones tour. In 1983, she joined the staff of the revived Vanity Fair and was established as the foremost rock music photographer and an astute documentarian of the social landscape. At Vanity Fair, and later at Vogue, she developed a large body of workportraits of actors, directors, writers, musicians, athletes, and political and business figures, as well as fashion photographsthat expanded her collective portrait of contemporary life.

Several collections of Leibovitz's work have been published, and exhibitions of her work have appeared at museums and galleries all over the world. Leibovitz is the recipient of many honors and recognitions. In 2009, she received the International Center of Photography's Lifetime Achievement Award, ASME's first Creative Excellence Award, and the Centenary Medal of the Royal Photographic Society in London. Leibovitz has been designated a Living Legend by the Library of Congress.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
SU Wind Ensemble
John M. Laverty, conductor

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The program will include works by Jenkins, Elgar, Gershwin, Daugherty, Wagner and Sousa. Douglas Burian will appear as guest conductor and Andrea M. Rommel as graduate conducting associate.

Parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, phone 315-443-2191.

Art for Peace Celebration
ArtRage Gallery
Featuring Georgia Popoff

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The Military Alternatives Education Project (MAEP) invites you to the ArtRage Gallery for an "Art for Peace" Celebration. This event will feature poetry and posters by the Syracuse city high school students, centered on the theme "How Can We Build Peace?" Winners in each category will receive prizes and have their work published in the Peace Newsletter. There will also be a brief poetry reading by Central New York poet Georgia Popoff. Everyone is welcome to share poetry. Refreshments will be provided.

The Y-Files: Where are the Cows?
Acme Mystery Company

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

Sheriff Shelly Moganagle is calling an emergency town meeting for you and everybody else in Pine Bluffs to try and figure out where in the heck all these cows are disappearing to. Roland McBurger's new hamburger joint? Cattle rustlers? Down at the Crazy Kegger folks are saying it's alien cow abduction! The Sheriff is taking no chances and has called in the FBI. Be there when Special Agents Molding and Sulky arrive. They'll need all the help they can get.

"MakeA Wish" Upon A Star
The Epic Thespians

Price: Free, but donations for the Make-a-Wish Foundation encouraged
West Genesee High School
5201 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

A student-run performance showcasing songs from Disney, including favorites from The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Hercules, Beauty and the Beast, Mulan, Pocahontas, Aladdin, Mary Poppins, and many more.

Friday, April 30, 2010

Annual Le Moyne College Student Art Exhibition
LeMoyne College

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

Gallery Exhibition: Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exhibition of student work from the Architecture and Interior Design Department. It is an annual exhibit that showcases some of the best work produced by our students in the preceding academic year.

Uncommon Creatures, Singing Things: Works by Bertha Rogers
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This series of images is based on her own translations of Anglo-Saxon riddle poems, which are displayed along with the work.

Gallery Exhibition: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Feats of Clay spotlights the varied and creative ceramics art education programs in our high schools throughout Onondaga County and Central New York. The continued success of Feats of Clay rests with the talented and dedicated high school art teachers and art students.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

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

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

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place" and "Experimental Urbanism"
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

"An Inner and Outer Sense of Place," in Gallery A, featuring photographs by Jane Winslow and Mindy Ostrow. This exhibition invites the viewer to see the world through the lens of two of the regions most talented photographers.

"Experimental Urbanism," in Gallery B, features work by internationally known installation artist, Richard Metzgar. This particular exhibit showcases a series of prints that challenge the viewer to rethink the ways they document place and experience.

Covering Photography: Imitation, Influence, and Coincidence
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Guest curator Karl Baden is a Boston-based photographer and member of Boston College's Fine Arts Department. In 2005, Baden founded the Web-based archive Covering Photography, based on his own book collection. The exhibition previously appeared at the Boston Public Library in fall 2009.

Baden writes, "Creative individuals from every discipline have regularly appropriated the ideas of others, at least as a foundation to build on... This exhibition compares the cover art of selected books with the photographs from which they are, or may be, derived. The books were chosen not because of their content, but because the images on their jackets reference, in some way, another image...a photograph whose significance or popularity has earned it, or its maker, a place in the history of photography."

According to Baden, "The connection between book cover and photograph may be obvious—an instance of imitation or even blatant appropriation. In other cases it is more a question of the designer or illustrator being subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, influenced by a particular photographer or photograph. Finally, there may be no direct, or even indirect, trail of influence; the idea or visual trope may just be part of our collective cultural consciousness."

New Works by Michael Weismore
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Michael Weismore will be displaying 25 of his new original abstract oil paintings, including a set of 10 paintings titled "Ode to Pollock." For this group of paintings, Weismore has incorporated Jackson Pollock's drip technique over his own original paintings.

The artist has a form of color blindness that affects less then 1% of people. Color blindness has only "hindered one of his paintings. He accidentally painted the sky and trees purple in an ocean landscape. It ended up being one of the first paintings of his that was ever sold by an art dealer.

In 2006, Michael was commissioned to do a painting for rock and roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis. A few years later, the artist received the 2009 Best Abstract Award from the Everson Museum.

Annual High School Seniors Exhibit
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

High schools within a 30-mile radius of Syracuse are invited to display seniors' artwork and have them juried by the CNY Art Guild.

Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

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

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

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

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

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

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

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

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

elegy: society for a dead society
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

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

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

MFA MMX (2010)
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual exhibition of masters of fine arts candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts will include 20 artists displaying a broad range of traditional and contemporary work, including painting, ceramics and sculpture, as well as digital photography, installation, and computer art.

While the artists work independently on their thesis concepts, themes have routinely emerged within the group—crossing the boundaries of media and style. This year's exhibition is no exception; the work exudes a highly developed sense of technique and thought. In MFA MMX, however, the artists engage the viewer, both physically and psychologically, in a way not seen in previous MFA exhibitions. The narrative photography of Jared Landberg, a documentary film by Sonya Pollard, and the video installation of Esther Probst are examples of the thematic way many the artists record their personal history or specific experiences. Another pervading theme in the exhibition is interaction: walking through the unique environments created by painters Gwendolyn Mercado-Reyes and Jessica Sharpe, playing the autobiographical video game created by Ryan Marchand, or taking one of the hundreds of ceramic cups thrown by Shawn O'Connor; the viewer is invited to physically take part in the artistic experience.

Wild Card Exhibition: Continuing Works
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A selection of work by over 60 artists who have previously shown at the gallery.

The Color of Spring
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

What better way to welcome spring? The Color of Spring is a collection of lush batiks by Marilyn Forth and vibrant watercolors by Elizabeth M. Hueber and Louise Woodard. In addition to the colorful dramatic imagery, the works of all three artists lay claim to another harbinger of spring—the awakening joy that the new season brings, especially in the sharing of the creative process with viewers.

Isaac Bidwell: The Big Three-Oh
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

A solo exhibition of art work by Isaac Bidwell. For this show, Isaac has arranged a collection of 30 original ink drawings, paintings and digital illustrations. As his first exhibition in Syracuse since 2008, The Big Three-Oh not only displays a body of new and unseen works, but the end of Isaac's twenties.

Opening: Alphabet in Your Own Backyard
Everson Museum of Art

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

There will be an opening reception from 5:30-8:00 p.m. Join art lovers for this whimsical night, featuring a magical mix of songs provided by DJ Brian Oddo. Enjoy light hors d'oeuvres and cash bar before previewing the exhibitions. (Members free, non-members $10)

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

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

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

There will be an opening reception from 5:30-8:00 p.m. Join art lovers for this whimsical night, featuring a magical mix of songs provided by DJ Brian Oddo. Enjoy light hors d'oeuvres and cash bar before previewing the exhibitions.

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

Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art

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

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

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Fashion Program Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Fashion design program junior student collection.

For more information, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

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

23rd Annual Fashion Show
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: $25 floor seating (includes hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar); $15 balcony regular, $10 balcony students/seniors
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Showcasing the collections of senior fashion design majors in the School of Art and Design's Department of Design.

For more information, phone 315-443-4644. Tickets can be purchased at the Schine Box Office, 315-443-4517.

An Evening of Improv
Lazlo's Closet

Price: $13
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The Renegades comedy troupe features the extremely talented cast of Brandon Dyer, Tim Hogarth, Jeff White, Deidre Dyer, Aaron Geiskopf, Ron Sweet, and Lou Leonardo. Their high-energy stage show is a live comedy experience unlike any other in the area. They incorporate improv games, sketches, digital shorts, and long form improv to produce a show that's equal parts Saturday Night Live, Whose Line is it Anyway?, and Monty Python.

Saltine Warrior: Part of a Complete Breakfast
Saltine Warrior

Price: $10 regular, $8 students
Salt City Improv Theatre
Shoppingtown Mall, Sears Wing, Dewitt

Are you not getting enough comedy in your diet? Well that is unfortunate because a new study suggests that this will definitely kill you. But don't fret! You can get a hearty serving by watching Saltine Warrior.

Sweet Adeline Large Group Performance

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

Nearly 1,500 members of the Sweet Adelines, in town for their regional convention, will sing on the steps of the County Courthouse at Columbus Circle.

A Touch of Noir
LeMoyne College
Le Moyne College Jazz Ensemble
Featuring John McNeil, trumpet

Price: $10 general public, students free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Join trumpeter John McNeil and the LeMoyne College Jazz Ensemble for film noir compositions and arrangements by John McNeil and JC Sanford.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
SU Symphony Band
Bradley P. Ethington and Justin J. Mertz, conductor

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The program will include works by Sousa, Holst, Arnold and Turina. James O. Welsch will appear as guest conductor and Michelle C. Wofford as graduate conducting associate.

Parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, phone 315-443-2191.

Martha Collins, poet
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Martha Collins is the author of the book-length poem Blue Front (Graywolf, 2006), which focuses on a lynching her father witnessed as a child; it won an Anisfield-Wolf Award and was chosen as one of 25 Books to Remember by the New York Public Library. Collins has also published four earlier collections of poems, two chapbooks (most recently Sheer, 2008), and two co-translations of poetry from the Vietnamese (most recently Green Rice, 2005). Founder of the Creative Writing Program at UMass-Boston and Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College until 1997, she is currently editor-at-large for FIELD magazine and an editor of the Oberlin College Press. This spring she is serving as Distinguished Visiting Writer at Cornell.

Sylvia
CNY Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: Dinner theater: $27 single; $50 couple. Show only: $18 (limited availability)
Fire and Ice Banquet Hall, The Locker Room
528 Hiawatha Blvd., Syracuse

Dinner at 6:30 pm, followed by show at 8:00 pm.

Greg and Kate have moved to Manhattan after 22 years of child-raising in the suburbs. Greg's career as a financial trader is winding down, while Kate's career, as a public-school English teacher, is beginning to offer her more opportunities. Greg brings home a dog he found in the park—or that has found him—bearing only the name "Sylvia" on her name tag. A street-smart mixture of Lab and Poodle, Sylvia becomes a major bone of contention between husband and wife. She offers Greg an escape from the frustrations of his job and the unknowns of middle age. To Kate, Sylvia becomes a rival for affection. And Sylvia thinks Kate just doesn't understand the relationship between man and dog. The marriage is put in serious jeopardy until, after a series of hilarious and touching complications, Greg and Kate learn to compromise, and Sylvia becomes a valued part of their lives. Play by A.R. Gurney.

Performance stars Heather J. Roach, J. Brazil, Binaifer Dabu, and Gerrit Vander Werff Jr.

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To Kill a Mockingbird
Appleseed Productions
Sharee Lemos, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Scout is about to experience the dramatic events that will affect the rest of her life. She and brother Jem are being raised by their widower father Atticus and by a strong-minded housekeeper Calpurnia. Wide-eyed Scout is fascinated with the sensitively-revealed people of her small town but, from the start, there's a rumble of thunder just under the calm surface. The black people of the community have a special feeling about Scout's father and she doesn't know why. A few of her white friends are inexplicably hostile and Scout doesn't understand this either. Unpleasant things are shouted and the bewildered girl turns to her father. Atticus, a lawyer, explains that he's defending a young Negro wrongfully accused of a grave crime. Scout wants to know why he's doing it. "Because if I didn't," her father replies, "I couldn't hold my head up." He goes on to prepare Scout for the trouble to come. Things do get bitter, to the point where Atticus props himself in a chair against the cell door of the man he's defending and confronts an angry mob. Horrified Scout projects herself into this confrontation and her inconvenient presence helps bring back a little sanity. Atticus fights his legal battle with a result that is part defeat, part triumph. As Atticus comes out of the courthouse, the deeply moved town minister tells Scout, "Stand up. Your father's passing!"

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I Love You Because
Syracuse University Drama Department
Marie Kemp, director

Price: $18 regular, $16 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Ah, New York, city of romance, where relationships end badly, and on the rebound everyone falls for the wrong person. Such is the world of I Love You Because. This infectiously entertaining modern day musical love story is filled with witty and incisive lyrics and a rich and tuneful score. A quirky and slightly nutty take on modern dating. Think Friends with terrific songs and dancing.

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