Friday, January 23, 2015

The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"The Automobile" provides a sampling of the ways in which the automobile evolved in the Syracuse area and a glimpse into the innovations of some of the most significant mid-20th-century automobile designers. The centerpiece of the exhibition is the air-cooled Franklin car, the most famous of Syracuse's automobile lines, with its remarkably flexible and durable wooden frame.

The exhibition will also include drawings, sketches, and photographs from SCRC's industrial design collections by designers Howard A. Darrin, Claude Hill, Raymond Loewy, Budd Steinhilber, and Walter Dorwin Teague. Darrin was known for his designs for exotic luxury and sports cars. Claude Hill created some important concept car designs, while Raymond Loewy's photographs document a number of striking Studebaker model designs. Budd Steinhilber was a member of the design team for the revolutionary rear-engine 1948 Tucker automobile, and Walter Dorwin Teague designed for both the Ford Motor Company and the Marmon Motor Company.

On the Edge: Mythology and Symbolism
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Brendon Flynn: acrylic paintings exploring unearthly creatures and surrealistic landscapes
Jude Ferencz: creative metal sculpture in copper, brass, aluminum, and stainless steel
Michelle DaRin: iconic jewelry and small sculpture

Afronauts
Community Folk Art Center

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

Afronauts, by photographer and mixed media artist Christina De Middel, is inspired by the true story of Zambia's efforts to send the first continental African into space, in 1964. The images, which are featured in Middel's book by the same name, synthesize fictional events with historically accurate documents.

Xaviera Simmons: Accumulations
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Urban Video Project are proud to present concurrent exhibitions featuring the work of Xaviera Simmons, whose multidisciplinary artistic practice includes photography, sculpture, installation, sound art, video, and performance. "Accumulations" will be on view at Light Work through March 5 and "Number Sixteen" will be on view at UVP Everson through January 31.

"Accumulations" presents a group of large-scale, graphic photographic prints. At first glance, the images emerge as a series of complex and abstract collages. Closer inspection reveals a shaman-like figure: a skirt pulled over the face and a barrage of objects hanging from the body. Fabric, photos, feathers, palm fronds and other small things tumble across the center of the photographs; composing an explosion referent to race, culture, gender and sexuality. "Accumulations" works to both obscure and define identity.

2015 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

An exhibition featuring photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Exhibiting students include Olivia Alonso Gough, Cade Austin Halkyard, Natasha Belikove, Uraina Bellamy, Morgan Edgecomb, Patrice Gonzales, Boying Huang, Joe Librandi-Cowan, Ian Sherlock, Molly Malone, Aimee Mercure, Anna Moulton, Max Orphanides, Izzy Owen, Matthew Pevear, Bridget Rogers, Christina Tainter, James Tarbell, Nancy Taylor, Kevin Tomczak, Carly Tumen, and Jermaine Williams, Jr.

Kate Barrett, Associate Photography Editor at Wallpaper magazine, served as juror to select images for "Best of Show" and "Honorable Mention." "Best of Show" went to Joe Librandi-Cowan, and "Honorable Mentions" went to Ian Sherlock and James Tarbell.

Geometric-Expressionist Digital Art by Stephen Carpenter

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

Lodging Landmark: The Heritage of the Hotel Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit will feature 20 framed images along with a small selection of original archival items and artifacts. Fourteen historic images will be drawn from the extensive photographic files on the hotel maintained in the OHA's permanent collection. These range from a 1923 view of construction to the 1948 interior of the famous Rainbow Lounge, along with historic scenes of the Cavalier Room, the Persian Terrace and other locations from its heyday. Additionally, there will be a half-dozen recent interior images taken this year by professional photographer Bruce Harvey. These show that the hotel still maintains an irreplaceable majesty despite years of faded glory. The hotel, which opened in 1924, has been closed and dormant for several years but a new owner has begun a massive project to renovate it for the future while restoring its grand architecture.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Opening: AntARTica: Exploring Art and Science at the Bottom of the World
LeMoyne College

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

There will be an opening Artist Lecture at 3:00 pm, followed by an opening reception 4:00-6:00 pm.

An exhibit of various mediums inspired by Antarctica, featuring Laura Von Rosk's oil paintings of her interpretations of the Antarctic vista, Sam Bowser's watercolors of the jewel-like forams, along with specimens and artifacts. Video work from two other team members, documentary filmmaker Hilary Hudson and musician and producer Henry Kaiser, will also be displayed.

Xaviera Simmons: Number Sixteen
Urban Video Project

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

Xaviera Simmons' multidisciplinary work explores the sculptural and performative through a photographic lens. "Number Sixteen" is an hour-long, unedited video documenting a performance produced without an audience that engages endurance, abstraction and the energies beneath abstraction. In the video, a vocalist and performer work together in a studio space. The video's audience becomes witness to a layered convergence: materials and texts, script and chance, sound and image, time and space, the body and its limits. Like the photographic and sculptural works in "Accumulations," currently on exhibit at Light Work, "Number Sixteen" reveals a complex network of accumulated inspirations, cultural allusions and visceral histories.

Opening: The Miami Show
Gallery 4040

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

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

December 2014 marked the first time a Syracuse-based art gallery introduced Central New York artists to the international art world during Art Basel Miami. This exhibition, "The Miami Show," includes works by artists that GALLERY4040 exhibited during Art Basel Miami at the Red Dot Art Fair this past December.

"The Miami Show" will exhibit Mary Giehl's alum crystal sculpture series recently published in "The Language of Mixed Media Sculpture", by Jac Scott (The Crowood Press, Ltd, 2014), assemblages by Jim Ridlon, large scale mixed media abstracts by Walter Melnikow, new acrylic paintings by Jennissa Hart, and the new "True North" mixed media series by Anne Novado.

Jazz @ Sitrus: TBA
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: No cover
Sitrus on the Hill
Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel, Syracuse

Joe Crookston
Folkus Project

Price: $15 regular, $12 members
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Joe Crookston has long been a Folkus favorite. Based in Ithaca, Crookston is a multi-instrumentalist, and his mastery of guitar, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, mandolin, and accordion fuses both contemporary and traditional elements. His music is deeply rooted in the grand celebration of life, death, ancestry, and the interconnectedness of us all.

Crookston is also a writer, eco-village member, and believer in all things possible. His songwriting is that of a social archaeologist — stories of amber eyes, Oklahoma towns, rattlesnake tails, Grandmother Moons, Galway heather, meter maids, and silver crowns. His story songs are universal and masterful, and his concerts are a grand celebration of all of us.

Dido and Aeneas
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
SU Opera Theater

Price: $10 regular, free with SU student ID
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas is a masterwork of early Baroque opera by one of the greatest of all English composers. The story is freely adapted from an episode in Virgil's Aeneid, and concerns the doomed love of the Carthaginian Queen Dido for Aeneas, Prince of Troy. Despite the mythological subject matter, the libretto is psychologically astute and continues to speak to contemporary audiences. The score features some of Purcell's most tuneful writing, culminating with Dido's great aria "When I am Laid in Earth."

The cast features some outstanding young artists, including graduate students Angky Budiardjono and Jing Liu, senior Jaclyn Clark, and juniors Catherine Bauman, Maria Whitcomb and Alexander Alpert. Running time for the performances will be approximately 1 hour 15 minutes. The opera is in English, fully staged with orchestra conducted by Jose "Peppie" Calvar, produced and directed by Eric Johnson.

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. Additional parking is available in Irving Garage. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Poet Nicholas Samaras
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Nicholas Samaras won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award for his first book, Hands of the Saddlemaker. His new book is American Psalm, World Psalm (2014, Ashland Poetry Press). Having grown up in nine countries and 13 states, Samaras considers himself a writer of permanent exile, and writes from that perspective. Currently, he is working on a memoir of the first 14 years of his life being lived underground.

Lend Me a Tenor
CNY Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: $20
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Lend Me A Tenor is set in September 1934. Saunders, the general manager of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company, is primed to welcome world famous, Tito Morelli, Il Stupendo, the greatest tenor of his generation, to appear for one night only as Otello. The star arrives late and, through a hilarious series of mishaps, is given a double dose of tranquilizers and passes out. His pulse is so low that Saunders and his assistant Max believe he's dead. In a frantic attempt to salvage the evening, Saunders persuades Max to get into Morelli's Otello costume and fool the audience into thinking he's Il Stupendo. Max succeeds admirably, but Morelli comes to and gets into his other costume ready to perform. Now two Otellos are running around in costume and two women are running around in lingerie, each thinking she is with Il Stupendo. A sensation on Broadway and in London's West End, this madcap, screwball comedy is guaranteed to leave audiences teary-eyed with laughter

Read a Review!

Redhouse Gone Wilde: A Man of No Importance
Redhouse

Price: $30 non-members, $20 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This exquisite musical tells the story of Alfie Byrne, a bus driver in 1964 Dublin, whose heart holds secrets he can't share with anyone but his imagined confidante, Oscar Wilde. A tender and beautifully woven tale of love, friendship and coming to terms with who we are. Music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and book by Terrance McNally. Rated PG13.

Read a Review!

Saturday, January 24, 2015

AntARTica: Exploring Art and Science at the Bottom of the World
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of various mediums inspired by Antarctica, featuring Laura Von Rosk's oil paintings of her interpretations of the Antarctic vista, Sam Bowser's watercolors of the jewel-like forams, along with specimens and artifacts. Video work from two other team members, documentary filmmaker Hilary Hudson and musician and producer Henry Kaiser, will also be displayed.

On the Edge: Mythology and Symbolism
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Brendon Flynn: acrylic paintings exploring unearthly creatures and surrealistic landscapes
Jude Ferencz: creative metal sculpture in copper, brass, aluminum, and stainless steel
Michelle DaRin: iconic jewelry and small sculpture

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Afronauts
Community Folk Art Center

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

Afronauts, by photographer and mixed media artist Christina De Middel, is inspired by the true story of Zambia's efforts to send the first continental African into space, in 1964. The images, which are featured in Middel's book by the same name, synthesize fictional events with historically accurate documents.

Geometric-Expressionist Digital Art by Stephen Carpenter

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

Lodging Landmark: The Heritage of the Hotel Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit will feature 20 framed images along with a small selection of original archival items and artifacts. Fourteen historic images will be drawn from the extensive photographic files on the hotel maintained in the OHA's permanent collection. These range from a 1923 view of construction to the 1948 interior of the famous Rainbow Lounge, along with historic scenes of the Cavalier Room, the Persian Terrace and other locations from its heyday. Additionally, there will be a half-dozen recent interior images taken this year by professional photographer Bruce Harvey. These show that the hotel still maintains an irreplaceable majesty despite years of faded glory. The hotel, which opened in 1924, has been closed and dormant for several years but a new owner has begun a massive project to renovate it for the future while restoring its grand architecture.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

The Miami Show
Gallery 4040

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

December 2014 marked the first time a Syracuse-based art gallery introduced Central New York artists to the international art world during Art Basel Miami. This exhibition, "The Miami Show," includes works by artists that GALLERY4040 exhibited during Art Basel Miami at the Red Dot Art Fair this past December.

"The Miami Show" will exhibit Mary Giehl's alum crystal sculpture series recently published in "The Language of Mixed Media Sculpture", by Jac Scott (The Crowood Press, Ltd, 2014), assemblages by Jim Ridlon, large scale mixed media abstracts by Walter Melnikow, new acrylic paintings by Jennissa Hart, and the new "True North" mixed media series by Anne Novado.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Xaviera Simmons: Number Sixteen
Urban Video Project

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

Xaviera Simmons' multidisciplinary work explores the sculptural and performative through a photographic lens. "Number Sixteen" is an hour-long, unedited video documenting a performance produced without an audience that engages endurance, abstraction and the energies beneath abstraction. In the video, a vocalist and performer work together in a studio space. The video's audience becomes witness to a layered convergence: materials and texts, script and chance, sound and image, time and space, the body and its limits. Like the photographic and sculptural works in "Accumulations," currently on exhibit at Light Work, "Number Sixteen" reveals a complex network of accumulated inspirations, cultural allusions and visceral histories.

Isreal Hagan, guitarist/singer
Steeple Coffee House

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

Singer-songwriter Isreal Hagan, a member of Syracuse Area Music Hall of Fame and recipient of multiple SAMMY awards, will perform originals and favorites.

Masterworks: The Promise of Hope
Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria)
Hawthorne String Quartet
Michael Lankester, conductor
Featuring Van Robinson, narrator

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

Schulhoff Concerto for Quartet
Beethoven Leonore Overture No. 3
Godfrey Towards the Sun
Copland Lincoln Portrait

Music of hope and promise, from the music that nourished the spirit of hope for prisoners in concentration camps through Beethoven's opera about liberation from oppression on to celebrations of Mandela and Lincoln.

Lotus: The Gilded Age Tour
Creative Concerts

F Shed at The Regional Market
2100 Park St., Syracuse

Dido and Aeneas
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
SU Opera Theater

Price: $10 regular, free with SU student ID
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas is a masterwork of early Baroque opera by one of the greatest of all English composers. The story is freely adapted from an episode in Virgil's Aeneid, and concerns the doomed love of the Carthaginian Queen Dido for Aeneas, Prince of Troy. Despite the mythological subject matter, the libretto is psychologically astute and continues to speak to contemporary audiences. The score features some of Purcell's most tuneful writing, culminating with Dido's great aria "When I am Laid in Earth."

The cast features some outstanding young artists, including graduate students Angky Budiardjono and Jing Liu, senior Jaclyn Clark, and juniors Catherine Bauman, Maria Whitcomb and Alexander Alpert. Running time for the performances will be approximately 1 hour 15 minutes. The opera is in English, fully staged with orchestra conducted by Jose "Peppie" Calvar, produced and directed by Eric Johnson.

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. Additional parking is available in Irving Garage. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Cinderella
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.

Redhouse Gone Wilde: A Man of No Importance
Redhouse

Price: $30 non-members, $20 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This exquisite musical tells the story of Alfie Byrne, a bus driver in 1964 Dublin, whose heart holds secrets he can't share with anyone but his imagined confidante, Oscar Wilde. A tender and beautifully woven tale of love, friendship and coming to terms with who we are. Music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and book by Terrance McNally. Rated PG13.

Read a Review!

Lend Me a Tenor
CNY Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: $20
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Lend Me A Tenor is set in September 1934. Saunders, the general manager of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company, is primed to welcome world famous, Tito Morelli, Il Stupendo, the greatest tenor of his generation, to appear for one night only as Otello. The star arrives late and, through a hilarious series of mishaps, is given a double dose of tranquilizers and passes out. His pulse is so low that Saunders and his assistant Max believe he's dead. In a frantic attempt to salvage the evening, Saunders persuades Max to get into Morelli's Otello costume and fool the audience into thinking he's Il Stupendo. Max succeeds admirably, but Morelli comes to and gets into his other costume ready to perform. Now two Otellos are running around in costume and two women are running around in lingerie, each thinking she is with Il Stupendo. A sensation on Broadway and in London's West End, this madcap, screwball comedy is guaranteed to leave audiences teary-eyed with laughter

Read a Review!

Redhouse Gone Wilde: Gross Indecency
Redhouse

Price: $30 non-members, $20 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde by Moisés Kaufman
In three short months, Oscar Wilde, the most celebrated playwright and wit of Victorian England, was toppled from the apex of British society into humiliation and ruin. Drawing from trial documents, newspaper accounts, and writings of the key players, Moises Kaufman ignites an incendiary mix of sex and censorship. Appropriate for high school and up.

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Sunday, January 25, 2015

2015 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

An exhibition featuring photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Exhibiting students include Olivia Alonso Gough, Cade Austin Halkyard, Natasha Belikove, Uraina Bellamy, Morgan Edgecomb, Patrice Gonzales, Boying Huang, Joe Librandi-Cowan, Ian Sherlock, Molly Malone, Aimee Mercure, Anna Moulton, Max Orphanides, Izzy Owen, Matthew Pevear, Bridget Rogers, Christina Tainter, James Tarbell, Nancy Taylor, Kevin Tomczak, Carly Tumen, and Jermaine Williams, Jr.

Kate Barrett, Associate Photography Editor at Wallpaper magazine, served as juror to select images for "Best of Show" and "Honorable Mention." "Best of Show" went to Joe Librandi-Cowan, and "Honorable Mentions" went to Ian Sherlock and James Tarbell.

Xaviera Simmons: Accumulations
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Urban Video Project are proud to present concurrent exhibitions featuring the work of Xaviera Simmons, whose multidisciplinary artistic practice includes photography, sculpture, installation, sound art, video, and performance. "Accumulations" will be on view at Light Work through March 5 and "Number Sixteen" will be on view at UVP Everson through January 31.

"Accumulations" presents a group of large-scale, graphic photographic prints. At first glance, the images emerge as a series of complex and abstract collages. Closer inspection reveals a shaman-like figure: a skirt pulled over the face and a barrage of objects hanging from the body. Fabric, photos, feathers, palm fronds and other small things tumble across the center of the photographs; composing an explosion referent to race, culture, gender and sexuality. "Accumulations" works to both obscure and define identity.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Lodging Landmark: The Heritage of the Hotel Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit will feature 20 framed images along with a small selection of original archival items and artifacts. Fourteen historic images will be drawn from the extensive photographic files on the hotel maintained in the OHA's permanent collection. These range from a 1923 view of construction to the 1948 interior of the famous Rainbow Lounge, along with historic scenes of the Cavalier Room, the Persian Terrace and other locations from its heyday. Additionally, there will be a half-dozen recent interior images taken this year by professional photographer Bruce Harvey. These show that the hotel still maintains an irreplaceable majesty despite years of faded glory. The hotel, which opened in 1924, has been closed and dormant for several years but a new owner has begun a massive project to renovate it for the future while restoring its grand architecture.

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

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

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

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

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

AntARTica: Exploring Art and Science at the Bottom of the World
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of various mediums inspired by Antarctica, featuring Laura Von Rosk's oil paintings of her interpretations of the Antarctic vista, Sam Bowser's watercolors of the jewel-like forams, along with specimens and artifacts. Video work from two other team members, documentary filmmaker Hilary Hudson and musician and producer Henry Kaiser, will also be displayed.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Geometric-Expressionist Digital Art by Stephen Carpenter

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

January JAZZfest
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $25 in advance, $30 at the door, $15 students with ID
Mohegan Manor
58 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Shake off the post-holiday blahs, be seen at the hippest winter party of the year, and help a premier Central New York arts organization continue its prize-winning scholastic and public programs by attending the 2015 January JAZZfest.

Guests can wander the entire facility to discover a spectacular world of music in all styles, featuring the Donna Alford JASS Band, local RnB sensation; Edgar Pagan's Grupo Lite with guest flutist Stephanie Mata, the E.S.P. Trio, and Melissa Gardiner & Friends. At 4:30, all activities cease for the main attraction--this year's headliner is Ralph Lalama: Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, Mel Lewis and Vanguard Jazz Orchestra tenor sax veteran, with vocalist Nancy Kelly and her standout band, appearing together for a rare performance.

There will also be food stations throughout (including Sushi bar menu, now in the lounge), multiple cash bars, a "your Choice" Prize Raffle that allows anonymous bidding, and much more! Then from 6:00-9:00 pm, the fest culminates with two jam sessions--a CNY Jazz Alumni Jam with an after-show buffet, and a celebrity jam hosted by Jeff Stockham's Jazz Police, the region's all-star jazz combo, featuring Joe Carello, John Rohde, Dave Solazzo, Mike Solazzo and Jimmy Johns.

To purchase tickets in advance, visit www.brownpapertickets.org.

SCHEDULE

3rd Level Ballroom
4:30 pm: Ralph Lalama and Nancy Kelly

2nd Level Green Room
2:15 pm: Donna Alford JASS Band
3:30 pm: Donna Alford JASS Band
6:00-7:30 pm: CNY Jazz Alumni Jam & Buffet Menu

1st Level Lounge
2:15 pm: Grupo Lite with Stephanie Mata
3:30 pm: Grupo Lite with Stephanie Mata

Basta
1:00 pm: Matt Vacanti & John Magnante
2:15 pm: E.S.P.
3:30 pm: Melissa Gardiner & Friends
6:30-9:00 pm: Celebrity Jam Session with Jeff Stockham's Jazz Police

Hawthorne String Quartet, with painter Jim Schantz
Syracuse University School of Education Holocaust and Genocide Education Program

Price: Free
Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse 3
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This performance will combine two distinct art forms, painter Jim Schantz and the Hawthorne String Quartet, bringing life to a musical piece composed by Hans Krasa before being deported to the Terezin concentration camp.

Schantz, an SU graduate, says his work serves "as reminders of transformative moments found with the spiritual guidance of nature. These works are moments caught in time." He will paint while the Hawthorne String Quartet plays Krasa's work. Krasa, who enjoyed critical acclaim as a composer in Europe and North America before being deported to Terezin, died in Auschwitz at the age of 44.

Free parking at the Waverly Parking Lot.

21st Century Prize Winners
Society for New Music

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors; children 12 and under free
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Steven Stucky Rain Shadow, 2012
Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann Whistling Vessels, 2013
Arthur Levering Still Raining, Still Dreaming, rev. 2001
David Liptak DOVE cycle, 2013
Joseph Schwantner Two Poems of Agueda Pizarro

Lotus: The Gilded Age Tour
Creative Concerts

F Shed at The Regional Market
2100 Park St., Syracuse

Preview: A Little Night Music
Syracuse Opera

Price: Free
Barnes & Noble
3454 Erie Blvd. E., Dewitt

Join Syracuse Opera Producing and Artistic Director Douglas Kinney Frost as he discusses the opera, providing insights and highlights from the upcoming production. Cast members will perform selections from the opera.

Dido and Aeneas
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
SU Opera Theater

Price: $10 regular, free with SU student ID
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas is a masterwork of early Baroque opera by one of the greatest of all English composers. The story is freely adapted from an episode in Virgil's Aeneid, and concerns the doomed love of the Carthaginian Queen Dido for Aeneas, Prince of Troy. Despite the mythological subject matter, the libretto is psychologically astute and continues to speak to contemporary audiences. The score features some of Purcell's most tuneful writing, culminating with Dido's great aria "When I am Laid in Earth."

The cast features some outstanding young artists, including graduate students Angky Budiardjono and Jing Liu, senior Jaclyn Clark, and juniors Catherine Bauman, Maria Whitcomb and Alexander Alpert. Running time for the performances will be approximately 1 hour 15 minutes. The opera is in English, fully staged with orchestra conducted by Jose "Peppie" Calvar, produced and directed by Eric Johnson.

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. Additional parking is available in Irving Garage. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Monday, January 26, 2015

AntARTica: Exploring Art and Science at the Bottom of the World
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of various mediums inspired by Antarctica, featuring Laura Von Rosk's oil paintings of her interpretations of the Antarctic vista, Sam Bowser's watercolors of the jewel-like forams, along with specimens and artifacts. Video work from two other team members, documentary filmmaker Hilary Hudson and musician and producer Henry Kaiser, will also be displayed.

The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"The Automobile" provides a sampling of the ways in which the automobile evolved in the Syracuse area and a glimpse into the innovations of some of the most significant mid-20th-century automobile designers. The centerpiece of the exhibition is the air-cooled Franklin car, the most famous of Syracuse's automobile lines, with its remarkably flexible and durable wooden frame.

The exhibition will also include drawings, sketches, and photographs from SCRC's industrial design collections by designers Howard A. Darrin, Claude Hill, Raymond Loewy, Budd Steinhilber, and Walter Dorwin Teague. Darrin was known for his designs for exotic luxury and sports cars. Claude Hill created some important concept car designs, while Raymond Loewy's photographs document a number of striking Studebaker model designs. Budd Steinhilber was a member of the design team for the revolutionary rear-engine 1948 Tucker automobile, and Walter Dorwin Teague designed for both the Ford Motor Company and the Marmon Motor Company.

Xaviera Simmons: Accumulations
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Urban Video Project are proud to present concurrent exhibitions featuring the work of Xaviera Simmons, whose multidisciplinary artistic practice includes photography, sculpture, installation, sound art, video, and performance. "Accumulations" will be on view at Light Work through March 5 and "Number Sixteen" will be on view at UVP Everson through January 31.

"Accumulations" presents a group of large-scale, graphic photographic prints. At first glance, the images emerge as a series of complex and abstract collages. Closer inspection reveals a shaman-like figure: a skirt pulled over the face and a barrage of objects hanging from the body. Fabric, photos, feathers, palm fronds and other small things tumble across the center of the photographs; composing an explosion referent to race, culture, gender and sexuality. "Accumulations" works to both obscure and define identity.

2015 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

An exhibition featuring photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Exhibiting students include Olivia Alonso Gough, Cade Austin Halkyard, Natasha Belikove, Uraina Bellamy, Morgan Edgecomb, Patrice Gonzales, Boying Huang, Joe Librandi-Cowan, Ian Sherlock, Molly Malone, Aimee Mercure, Anna Moulton, Max Orphanides, Izzy Owen, Matthew Pevear, Bridget Rogers, Christina Tainter, James Tarbell, Nancy Taylor, Kevin Tomczak, Carly Tumen, and Jermaine Williams, Jr.

Kate Barrett, Associate Photography Editor at Wallpaper magazine, served as juror to select images for "Best of Show" and "Honorable Mention." "Best of Show" went to Joe Librandi-Cowan, and "Honorable Mentions" went to Ian Sherlock and James Tarbell.

Geometric-Expressionist Digital Art by Stephen Carpenter

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

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

AntARTica: Exploring Art and Science at the Bottom of the World
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of various mediums inspired by Antarctica, featuring Laura Von Rosk's oil paintings of her interpretations of the Antarctic vista, Sam Bowser's watercolors of the jewel-like forams, along with specimens and artifacts. Video work from two other team members, documentary filmmaker Hilary Hudson and musician and producer Henry Kaiser, will also be displayed.

The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"The Automobile" provides a sampling of the ways in which the automobile evolved in the Syracuse area and a glimpse into the innovations of some of the most significant mid-20th-century automobile designers. The centerpiece of the exhibition is the air-cooled Franklin car, the most famous of Syracuse's automobile lines, with its remarkably flexible and durable wooden frame.

The exhibition will also include drawings, sketches, and photographs from SCRC's industrial design collections by designers Howard A. Darrin, Claude Hill, Raymond Loewy, Budd Steinhilber, and Walter Dorwin Teague. Darrin was known for his designs for exotic luxury and sports cars. Claude Hill created some important concept car designs, while Raymond Loewy's photographs document a number of striking Studebaker model designs. Budd Steinhilber was a member of the design team for the revolutionary rear-engine 1948 Tucker automobile, and Walter Dorwin Teague designed for both the Ford Motor Company and the Marmon Motor Company.

On the Edge: Mythology and Symbolism
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Brendon Flynn: acrylic paintings exploring unearthly creatures and surrealistic landscapes
Jude Ferencz: creative metal sculpture in copper, brass, aluminum, and stainless steel
Michelle DaRin: iconic jewelry and small sculpture

Afronauts
Community Folk Art Center

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

Afronauts, by photographer and mixed media artist Christina De Middel, is inspired by the true story of Zambia's efforts to send the first continental African into space, in 1964. The images, which are featured in Middel's book by the same name, synthesize fictional events with historically accurate documents.

2015 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

An exhibition featuring photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Exhibiting students include Olivia Alonso Gough, Cade Austin Halkyard, Natasha Belikove, Uraina Bellamy, Morgan Edgecomb, Patrice Gonzales, Boying Huang, Joe Librandi-Cowan, Ian Sherlock, Molly Malone, Aimee Mercure, Anna Moulton, Max Orphanides, Izzy Owen, Matthew Pevear, Bridget Rogers, Christina Tainter, James Tarbell, Nancy Taylor, Kevin Tomczak, Carly Tumen, and Jermaine Williams, Jr.

Kate Barrett, Associate Photography Editor at Wallpaper magazine, served as juror to select images for "Best of Show" and "Honorable Mention." "Best of Show" went to Joe Librandi-Cowan, and "Honorable Mentions" went to Ian Sherlock and James Tarbell.

Xaviera Simmons: Accumulations
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Urban Video Project are proud to present concurrent exhibitions featuring the work of Xaviera Simmons, whose multidisciplinary artistic practice includes photography, sculpture, installation, sound art, video, and performance. "Accumulations" will be on view at Light Work through March 5 and "Number Sixteen" will be on view at UVP Everson through January 31.

"Accumulations" presents a group of large-scale, graphic photographic prints. At first glance, the images emerge as a series of complex and abstract collages. Closer inspection reveals a shaman-like figure: a skirt pulled over the face and a barrage of objects hanging from the body. Fabric, photos, feathers, palm fronds and other small things tumble across the center of the photographs; composing an explosion referent to race, culture, gender and sexuality. "Accumulations" works to both obscure and define identity.

Geometric-Expressionist Digital Art by Stephen Carpenter

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

Artit Talk: Xaviera Simmons
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

Presented in conjunction with her exhibit "Accumulations" at Light Work and "Number Sixteen" at Urban Video Project at the Everson.

Wild Child, with Pearl and The Beard, Call Security, Spring Street
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Spank! The "Fifty Shades" Parody

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

The perfect "Ladies Night Out," this is a whip-smart comedy that takes the best-selling book and highly-anticipated movie and brings them to outrageous life!

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

AntARTica: Exploring Art and Science at the Bottom of the World
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of various mediums inspired by Antarctica, featuring Laura Von Rosk's oil paintings of her interpretations of the Antarctic vista, Sam Bowser's watercolors of the jewel-like forams, along with specimens and artifacts. Video work from two other team members, documentary filmmaker Hilary Hudson and musician and producer Henry Kaiser, will also be displayed.

Winter Recipe
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibition feature the work of 16 local artists.

The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"The Automobile" provides a sampling of the ways in which the automobile evolved in the Syracuse area and a glimpse into the innovations of some of the most significant mid-20th-century automobile designers. The centerpiece of the exhibition is the air-cooled Franklin car, the most famous of Syracuse's automobile lines, with its remarkably flexible and durable wooden frame.

The exhibition will also include drawings, sketches, and photographs from SCRC's industrial design collections by designers Howard A. Darrin, Claude Hill, Raymond Loewy, Budd Steinhilber, and Walter Dorwin Teague. Darrin was known for his designs for exotic luxury and sports cars. Claude Hill created some important concept car designs, while Raymond Loewy's photographs document a number of striking Studebaker model designs. Budd Steinhilber was a member of the design team for the revolutionary rear-engine 1948 Tucker automobile, and Walter Dorwin Teague designed for both the Ford Motor Company and the Marmon Motor Company.

On the Edge: Mythology and Symbolism
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Brendon Flynn: acrylic paintings exploring unearthly creatures and surrealistic landscapes
Jude Ferencz: creative metal sculpture in copper, brass, aluminum, and stainless steel
Michelle DaRin: iconic jewelry and small sculpture

Afronauts
Community Folk Art Center

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

Afronauts, by photographer and mixed media artist Christina De Middel, is inspired by the true story of Zambia's efforts to send the first continental African into space, in 1964. The images, which are featured in Middel's book by the same name, synthesize fictional events with historically accurate documents.

Xaviera Simmons: Accumulations
Light Work Gallery

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

There will be a gallery reception and talk this evening 5:00-7:00 pm.

Light Work and Urban Video Project are proud to present concurrent exhibitions featuring the work of Xaviera Simmons, whose multidisciplinary artistic practice includes photography, sculpture, installation, sound art, video, and performance. "Accumulations" will be on view at Light Work through March 5 and "Number Sixteen" will be on view at UVP Everson through January 31.

"Accumulations" presents a group of large-scale, graphic photographic prints. At first glance, the images emerge as a series of complex and abstract collages. Closer inspection reveals a shaman-like figure: a skirt pulled over the face and a barrage of objects hanging from the body. Fabric, photos, feathers, palm fronds and other small things tumble across the center of the photographs; composing an explosion referent to race, culture, gender and sexuality. "Accumulations" works to both obscure and define identity.

2015 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

There will be a gallery reception this evening 5:00-7:00 pm.

An exhibition featuring photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Exhibiting students include Olivia Alonso Gough, Cade Austin Halkyard, Natasha Belikove, Uraina Bellamy, Morgan Edgecomb, Patrice Gonzales, Boying Huang, Joe Librandi-Cowan, Ian Sherlock, Molly Malone, Aimee Mercure, Anna Moulton, Max Orphanides, Izzy Owen, Matthew Pevear, Bridget Rogers, Christina Tainter, James Tarbell, Nancy Taylor, Kevin Tomczak, Carly Tumen, and Jermaine Williams, Jr.

Kate Barrett, Associate Photography Editor at Wallpaper magazine, served as juror to select images for "Best of Show" and "Honorable Mention." "Best of Show" went to Joe Librandi-Cowan, and "Honorable Mentions" went to Ian Sherlock and James Tarbell.

Geometric-Expressionist Digital Art by Stephen Carpenter

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

Lodging Landmark: The Heritage of the Hotel Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit will feature 20 framed images along with a small selection of original archival items and artifacts. Fourteen historic images will be drawn from the extensive photographic files on the hotel maintained in the OHA's permanent collection. These range from a 1923 view of construction to the 1948 interior of the famous Rainbow Lounge, along with historic scenes of the Cavalier Room, the Persian Terrace and other locations from its heyday. Additionally, there will be a half-dozen recent interior images taken this year by professional photographer Bruce Harvey. These show that the hotel still maintains an irreplaceable majesty despite years of faded glory. The hotel, which opened in 1924, has been closed and dormant for several years but a new owner has begun a massive project to renovate it for the future while restoring its grand architecture.

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

The Miami Show
Gallery 4040

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

December 2014 marked the first time a Syracuse-based art gallery introduced Central New York artists to the international art world during Art Basel Miami. This exhibition, "The Miami Show," includes works by artists that GALLERY4040 exhibited during Art Basel Miami at the Red Dot Art Fair this past December.

"The Miami Show" will exhibit Mary Giehl's alum crystal sculpture series recently published in "The Language of Mixed Media Sculpture", by Jac Scott (The Crowood Press, Ltd, 2014), assemblages by Jim Ridlon, large scale mixed media abstracts by Walter Melnikow, new acrylic paintings by Jennissa Hart, and the new "True North" mixed media series by Anne Novado.

Piano Students of Fred Karpoff from SU
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Music by Haydn, Beethoven, Bartók, Chopin, and Ginastera.

Rusted Root, with The Unknown Woodsmen
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Jonathan Dee
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

Readings are preceded by a question and answer session from 3:45-4:30 pm.

Redhouse Gone Wilde: Gross Indecency
Redhouse

Price: $25 non-members, $15 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde by Moisés Kaufman
In three short months, Oscar Wilde, the most celebrated playwright and wit of Victorian England, was toppled from the apex of British society into humiliation and ruin. Drawing from trial documents, newspaper accounts, and writings of the key players, Moises Kaufman ignites an incendiary mix of sex and censorship. Appropriate for high school and up.

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Preview: In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play
Syracuse Stage
May Adrales, director

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

It's the 1880s and electricity is all the rage. In a quiet home office, a doctor experiments with a new instrument for treating "hysteria." The device? A vibrator. In this genuinely touching, original, and wickedly funny play, Sarah Ruhl (The Clean House) explores relationships and sexual fulfillment while managing to stay discreetly beneath the crisp white sheets of Victorian propriety. May Adrales (Chinglish) returns to direct this tastefully stimulating play that's both social commentary and comedy.

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Thursday, January 29, 2015

AntARTica: Exploring Art and Science at the Bottom of the World
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of various mediums inspired by Antarctica, featuring Laura Von Rosk's oil paintings of her interpretations of the Antarctic vista, Sam Bowser's watercolors of the jewel-like forams, along with specimens and artifacts. Video work from two other team members, documentary filmmaker Hilary Hudson and musician and producer Henry Kaiser, will also be displayed.

Winter Recipe
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An opening reception will be held this evening 5:00-7:00 pm.

An exhibition feature the work of 16 local artists.

The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"The Automobile" provides a sampling of the ways in which the automobile evolved in the Syracuse area and a glimpse into the innovations of some of the most significant mid-20th-century automobile designers. The centerpiece of the exhibition is the air-cooled Franklin car, the most famous of Syracuse's automobile lines, with its remarkably flexible and durable wooden frame.

The exhibition will also include drawings, sketches, and photographs from SCRC's industrial design collections by designers Howard A. Darrin, Claude Hill, Raymond Loewy, Budd Steinhilber, and Walter Dorwin Teague. Darrin was known for his designs for exotic luxury and sports cars. Claude Hill created some important concept car designs, while Raymond Loewy's photographs document a number of striking Studebaker model designs. Budd Steinhilber was a member of the design team for the revolutionary rear-engine 1948 Tucker automobile, and Walter Dorwin Teague designed for both the Ford Motor Company and the Marmon Motor Company.

On the Edge: Mythology and Symbolism
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Brendon Flynn: acrylic paintings exploring unearthly creatures and surrealistic landscapes
Jude Ferencz: creative metal sculpture in copper, brass, aluminum, and stainless steel
Michelle DaRin: iconic jewelry and small sculpture

Critical Mass
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Juried exhibition of work by undergraduate visual artists from SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

A professional jury reviewed submissions and selected 10 artists to represent the best undergraduate thesis work. The artists selected are John Catania, Lily Fein, Yegor Mikushkin, Hannah Moore, Mathew Pevear, Kati Rehbeck, Emma Silverstein, Ricardo Varona, Paul Weiner, and Holly Wilson.

The jury includes Monika Burczyk, executive director of Sculpture Space in Utica; John Massier, visual arts curator at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo; and Mary E. Murray, curator of modern and contemporary art at Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica.

"Critical Mass" is curated by Allison Kirsch '15, who is pursuing a double major in sculpture and English and textual studies. The exhibition is her Renée Crown University Honors Program Capstone, a major creative project or research thesis that serves as a pivotal point in a student's academic career and the beginning of an intellectually stimulating professional life. Kirsch, who received a Crown-Wise Scholarship from the Honors Program to assist with funding, hopes her Capstone Project will give exceptional students the experience of presenting their work in a gallery setting prior to the completion of their undergraduate degree.

Afronauts
Community Folk Art Center

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

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

Afronauts, by photographer and mixed media artist Christina De Middel, is inspired by the true story of Zambia's efforts to send the first continental African into space, in 1964. The images, which are featured in Middel's book by the same name, synthesize fictional events with historically accurate documents.

2015 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

An exhibition featuring photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Exhibiting students include Olivia Alonso Gough, Cade Austin Halkyard, Natasha Belikove, Uraina Bellamy, Morgan Edgecomb, Patrice Gonzales, Boying Huang, Joe Librandi-Cowan, Ian Sherlock, Molly Malone, Aimee Mercure, Anna Moulton, Max Orphanides, Izzy Owen, Matthew Pevear, Bridget Rogers, Christina Tainter, James Tarbell, Nancy Taylor, Kevin Tomczak, Carly Tumen, and Jermaine Williams, Jr.

Kate Barrett, Associate Photography Editor at Wallpaper magazine, served as juror to select images for "Best of Show" and "Honorable Mention." "Best of Show" went to Joe Librandi-Cowan, and "Honorable Mentions" went to Ian Sherlock and James Tarbell.

Xaviera Simmons: Accumulations
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Urban Video Project are proud to present concurrent exhibitions featuring the work of Xaviera Simmons, whose multidisciplinary artistic practice includes photography, sculpture, installation, sound art, video, and performance. "Accumulations" will be on view at Light Work through March 5 and "Number Sixteen" will be on view at UVP Everson through January 31.

"Accumulations" presents a group of large-scale, graphic photographic prints. At first glance, the images emerge as a series of complex and abstract collages. Closer inspection reveals a shaman-like figure: a skirt pulled over the face and a barrage of objects hanging from the body. Fabric, photos, feathers, palm fronds and other small things tumble across the center of the photographs; composing an explosion referent to race, culture, gender and sexuality. "Accumulations" works to both obscure and define identity.

Geometric-Expressionist Digital Art by Stephen Carpenter

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

Lodging Landmark: The Heritage of the Hotel Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit will feature 20 framed images along with a small selection of original archival items and artifacts. Fourteen historic images will be drawn from the extensive photographic files on the hotel maintained in the OHA's permanent collection. These range from a 1923 view of construction to the 1948 interior of the famous Rainbow Lounge, along with historic scenes of the Cavalier Room, the Persian Terrace and other locations from its heyday. Additionally, there will be a half-dozen recent interior images taken this year by professional photographer Bruce Harvey. These show that the hotel still maintains an irreplaceable majesty despite years of faded glory. The hotel, which opened in 1924, has been closed and dormant for several years but a new owner has begun a massive project to renovate it for the future while restoring its grand architecture.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

The Miami Show
Gallery 4040

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

December 2014 marked the first time a Syracuse-based art gallery introduced Central New York artists to the international art world during Art Basel Miami. This exhibition, "The Miami Show," includes works by artists that GALLERY4040 exhibited during Art Basel Miami at the Red Dot Art Fair this past December.

"The Miami Show" will exhibit Mary Giehl's alum crystal sculpture series recently published in "The Language of Mixed Media Sculpture", by Jac Scott (The Crowood Press, Ltd, 2014), assemblages by Jim Ridlon, large scale mixed media abstracts by Walter Melnikow, new acrylic paintings by Jennissa Hart, and the new "True North" mixed media series by Anne Novado.

Xaviera Simmons: Number Sixteen
Urban Video Project

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

Xaviera Simmons' multidisciplinary work explores the sculptural and performative through a photographic lens. "Number Sixteen" is an hour-long, unedited video documenting a performance produced without an audience that engages endurance, abstraction and the energies beneath abstraction. In the video, a vocalist and performer work together in a studio space. The video's audience becomes witness to a layered convergence: materials and texts, script and chance, sound and image, time and space, the body and its limits. Like the photographic and sculptural works in "Accumulations," currently on exhibit at Light Work, "Number Sixteen" reveals a complex network of accumulated inspirations, cultural allusions and visceral histories.

Suspended Memories: Works of Liene Bosquê
Point of Contact Gallery

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

There will be an opening reception this evening beginning at 6:00 pm.

Liene Bosquê has been interested in the history of vernacular as well as iconic architecture of small and big cities. In reinterpreting symbolic constructions into miniature sculptures that allude to travel souvenirs, the artist tackles not only concepts of collection, but also notions of personal and collective memories. Bosquê is interested in the meanings that human beings attach to places and objects, and how such experiences can serve as catalysts to alter public perspectives, inserting them into private domains.

In this first solo show in the United States, Bosquê explores the own history of the city of Syracuse, unearthing buildings that have been demolished and obliterated from the city's landscape. The artist will present works in various media, such as sculpture, installation, video, and imprints, portraying some of Syracuse's symbolic landmarks, which probably do not carry the same significance nationwide, thus transforming them into iconic constructions, worthy of being memorialized and reinserted within the history of the region and the country. By activating local remembrances, Bosquê emphasizes the importance of preserving places of symbolic affection in opposition to the constant renewing of the landscape in the name of progress and industrialization.

Datsik, with Kennedy Jones, Trolley Snatcha, Barely Alive
Creative Concerts

F Shed at The Regional Market
2100 Park St., Syracuse

No Time for Death
Acme Mystery Company

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Shirley Maxwell has gathered the media together to announce that her company, Wonder Labs, is back on the map with the unveiling of an incredible new invention: a time machine! Insiders say it was invented by lab assistant Nick Van Castle. Or was it really invented by has-been inventor Nathan Brandmark? Or was it stolen by Nathan who used it to go back in time and claim he invented it? Or the other way around? Whatever happened, one thing's for sure: the clock is ticking down on someone.

Redhouse Gone Wilde: A Man of No Importance
Redhouse

Price: $25 non-members, $15 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This exquisite musical tells the story of Alfie Byrne, a bus driver in 1964 Dublin, whose heart holds secrets he can't share with anyone but his imagined confidante, Oscar Wilde. A tender and beautifully woven tale of love, friendship and coming to terms with who we are. Music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and book by Terrance McNally. Rated PG13.

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Preview: In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play
Syracuse Stage
May Adrales, director

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

It's the 1880s and electricity is all the rage. In a quiet home office, a doctor experiments with a new instrument for treating "hysteria." The device? A vibrator. In this genuinely touching, original, and wickedly funny play, Sarah Ruhl (The Clean House) explores relationships and sexual fulfillment while managing to stay discreetly beneath the crisp white sheets of Victorian propriety. May Adrales (Chinglish) returns to direct this tastefully stimulating play that's both social commentary and comedy.

Read a Review!

Redhouse Gone Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest
Redhouse

Price: $10
Redhouse Lab Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Oscar Wilde's masterpiece is probably the most famous of all comedies. It revolves wittily around the most ingenious case of "manufactured" mistaken identity ever put into a play. PG 13

Read a Review!

Friday, January 30, 2015

AntARTica: Exploring Art and Science at the Bottom of the World
LeMoyne College

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

An exhibit of various mediums inspired by Antarctica, featuring Laura Von Rosk's oil paintings of her interpretations of the Antarctic vista, Sam Bowser's watercolors of the jewel-like forams, along with specimens and artifacts. Video work from two other team members, documentary filmmaker Hilary Hudson and musician and producer Henry Kaiser, will also be displayed.

Winter Recipe
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibition feature the work of 16 local artists.

The Automobile: Design Considerations and Local Manifestations
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

"The Automobile" provides a sampling of the ways in which the automobile evolved in the Syracuse area and a glimpse into the innovations of some of the most significant mid-20th-century automobile designers. The centerpiece of the exhibition is the air-cooled Franklin car, the most famous of Syracuse's automobile lines, with its remarkably flexible and durable wooden frame.

The exhibition will also include drawings, sketches, and photographs from SCRC's industrial design collections by designers Howard A. Darrin, Claude Hill, Raymond Loewy, Budd Steinhilber, and Walter Dorwin Teague. Darrin was known for his designs for exotic luxury and sports cars. Claude Hill created some important concept car designs, while Raymond Loewy's photographs document a number of striking Studebaker model designs. Budd Steinhilber was a member of the design team for the revolutionary rear-engine 1948 Tucker automobile, and Walter Dorwin Teague designed for both the Ford Motor Company and the Marmon Motor Company.

On the Edge: Mythology and Symbolism
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Brendon Flynn: acrylic paintings exploring unearthly creatures and surrealistic landscapes
Jude Ferencz: creative metal sculpture in copper, brass, aluminum, and stainless steel
Michelle DaRin: iconic jewelry and small sculpture

Critical Mass
914Works

Price: Free
914Works
914 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Juried exhibition of work by undergraduate visual artists from SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

A professional jury reviewed submissions and selected 10 artists to represent the best undergraduate thesis work. The artists selected are John Catania, Lily Fein, Yegor Mikushkin, Hannah Moore, Mathew Pevear, Kati Rehbeck, Emma Silverstein, Ricardo Varona, Paul Weiner, and Holly Wilson.

The jury includes Monika Burczyk, executive director of Sculpture Space in Utica; John Massier, visual arts curator at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo; and Mary E. Murray, curator of modern and contemporary art at Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica.

"Critical Mass" is curated by Allison Kirsch '15, who is pursuing a double major in sculpture and English and textual studies. The exhibition is her Renée Crown University Honors Program Capstone, a major creative project or research thesis that serves as a pivotal point in a student's academic career and the beginning of an intellectually stimulating professional life. Kirsch, who received a Crown-Wise Scholarship from the Honors Program to assist with funding, hopes her Capstone Project will give exceptional students the experience of presenting their work in a gallery setting prior to the completion of their undergraduate degree.

Afronauts
Community Folk Art Center

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

Afronauts, by photographer and mixed media artist Christina De Middel, is inspired by the true story of Zambia's efforts to send the first continental African into space, in 1964. The images, which are featured in Middel's book by the same name, synthesize fictional events with historically accurate documents.

Xaviera Simmons: Accumulations
Light Work Gallery

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

Light Work and Urban Video Project are proud to present concurrent exhibitions featuring the work of Xaviera Simmons, whose multidisciplinary artistic practice includes photography, sculpture, installation, sound art, video, and performance. "Accumulations" will be on view at Light Work through March 5 and "Number Sixteen" will be on view at UVP Everson through January 31.

"Accumulations" presents a group of large-scale, graphic photographic prints. At first glance, the images emerge as a series of complex and abstract collages. Closer inspection reveals a shaman-like figure: a skirt pulled over the face and a barrage of objects hanging from the body. Fabric, photos, feathers, palm fronds and other small things tumble across the center of the photographs; composing an explosion referent to race, culture, gender and sexuality. "Accumulations" works to both obscure and define identity.

2015 Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

An exhibition featuring photographs by seniors from the Art Photography program in the Department of Transmedia within SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Exhibiting students include Olivia Alonso Gough, Cade Austin Halkyard, Natasha Belikove, Uraina Bellamy, Morgan Edgecomb, Patrice Gonzales, Boying Huang, Joe Librandi-Cowan, Ian Sherlock, Molly Malone, Aimee Mercure, Anna Moulton, Max Orphanides, Izzy Owen, Matthew Pevear, Bridget Rogers, Christina Tainter, James Tarbell, Nancy Taylor, Kevin Tomczak, Carly Tumen, and Jermaine Williams, Jr.

Kate Barrett, Associate Photography Editor at Wallpaper magazine, served as juror to select images for "Best of Show" and "Honorable Mention." "Best of Show" went to Joe Librandi-Cowan, and "Honorable Mentions" went to Ian Sherlock and James Tarbell.

Geometric-Expressionist Digital Art by Stephen Carpenter

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

Lodging Landmark: The Heritage of the Hotel Syracuse
Onondaga Historical Association

Price: Free
Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit will feature 20 framed images along with a small selection of original archival items and artifacts. Fourteen historic images will be drawn from the extensive photographic files on the hotel maintained in the OHA's permanent collection. These range from a 1923 view of construction to the 1948 interior of the famous Rainbow Lounge, along with historic scenes of the Cavalier Room, the Persian Terrace and other locations from its heyday. Additionally, there will be a half-dozen recent interior images taken this year by professional photographer Bruce Harvey. These show that the hotel still maintains an irreplaceable majesty despite years of faded glory. The hotel, which opened in 1924, has been closed and dormant for several years but a new owner has begun a massive project to renovate it for the future while restoring its grand architecture.

Snowy Splendor: Winter Scenes of Onondaga County
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

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

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

The Miami Show
Gallery 4040

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

December 2014 marked the first time a Syracuse-based art gallery introduced Central New York artists to the international art world during Art Basel Miami. This exhibition, "The Miami Show," includes works by artists that GALLERY4040 exhibited during Art Basel Miami at the Red Dot Art Fair this past December.

"The Miami Show" will exhibit Mary Giehl's alum crystal sculpture series recently published in "The Language of Mixed Media Sculpture", by Jac Scott (The Crowood Press, Ltd, 2014), assemblages by Jim Ridlon, large scale mixed media abstracts by Walter Melnikow, new acrylic paintings by Jennissa Hart, and the new "True North" mixed media series by Anne Novado.

Suspended Memories: Works of Liene Bosquê
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Liene Bosquê has been interested in the history of vernacular as well as iconic architecture of small and big cities. In reinterpreting symbolic constructions into miniature sculptures that allude to travel souvenirs, the artist tackles not only concepts of collection, but also notions of personal and collective memories. Bosquê is interested in the meanings that human beings attach to places and objects, and how such experiences can serve as catalysts to alter public perspectives, inserting them into private domains.

In this first solo show in the United States, Bosquê explores the own history of the city of Syracuse, unearthing buildings that have been demolished and obliterated from the city's landscape. The artist will present works in various media, such as sculpture, installation, video, and imprints, portraying some of Syracuse's symbolic landmarks, which probably do not carry the same significance nationwide, thus transforming them into iconic constructions, worthy of being memorialized and reinserted within the history of the region and the country. By activating local remembrances, Bosquê emphasizes the importance of preserving places of symbolic affection in opposition to the constant renewing of the landscape in the name of progress and industrialization.

Xaviera Simmons: Number Sixteen
Urban Video Project

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

Xaviera Simmons' multidisciplinary work explores the sculptural and performative through a photographic lens. "Number Sixteen" is an hour-long, unedited video documenting a performance produced without an audience that engages endurance, abstraction and the energies beneath abstraction. In the video, a vocalist and performer work together in a studio space. The video's audience becomes witness to a layered convergence: materials and texts, script and chance, sound and image, time and space, the body and its limits. Like the photographic and sculptural works in "Accumulations," currently on exhibit at Light Work, "Number Sixteen" reveals a complex network of accumulated inspirations, cultural allusions and visceral histories.

Paintings of Richard Harris
Studio 24

Studio 24
433 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Exhibition presented in conjunction with Omanii Abdullah's performance of his original poetry to kick off Black History Month.

Black History Month Kickoff Concert
Community Folk Art Center
Featuring Lydia Caesar, with Brownskin Band and Brandyn Thomas

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

Lydia Caesar is a singer/songwriter hailing from Hollis, Queens NY. Her album CAESAR (2012) released independently, produced singles that gave her some major spotlights. Caesar has received radio plays on 2 of New York's biggest stations Hot 97 & Power 105.1, two music videos on BET's 106 & Park, as well as a live TV performance of her song "St. Louis" on a national network morning show. Earlier this year, Lydia was selected to participate in the ASCAP Foundation Workshop, "The Collective" and was member of the trio selected for writing the winning song "Hook, Line & Sinker." Having opened for heavy hitters like Trey Songz, Robyn Thicke, Brandy and a host of other artists, Caesar is no stranger to the main stage. Her electric stage presence has resulted in Casear being invited to perform in just about every major venue in New York City.

Faculty Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring John Hadfield, guest artist

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

Ian Clarke maya (2000)
Kelly Covert, flute; Dana DiGennaro, flute; Ida Trebicka, piano

Ture Rangström Sköldmön, "Flickan under nymånen"
Kathleen Roland-Silverstein, soprano; Ida Trebicka, piano

William Billings, arr. Jonathan English Chester
Jonathan English, tenor; Bonnie Choi, harpsichord

Michel Corrette From Divertissement for Harpsichord
Jonathan English, narrator; Bonnie Choi, harpsichord

Rob Zuidam Il Pleut (1991)
Janet Brown, soprano; Kathleen Roland-Silverstein, soprano

John Hadfield Green Machine
John Hadfield, guest artist/percussion; Josh Dekaney, percussion

Sergei Rachmaninoff Sonata in G Minor, Op. 19, "Allegro mosso"
Gregory Wood, cello; Fred Karpoff, piano

Louis Vierne Symphony No. 3, "Finale"
Anne Laver, organ

For most events, free and accessible concert parking is available on campus in the Q-1 lot, located behind Crouse College. If lot is full or unavailable, guests will be directed to alternate lots. Campus parking availability is subject to change, so please call 315-443-2191 for current information.

Beau Sasser's Escape Plan
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Poet Jasmine V. Bailey
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Jasmine V. Bailey studied at George School, Colgate University, and the University of Virginia. She has taught English in Argentina as a Fulbright scholar and at Colgate University as an Olive B. O'Connor fellow. Her chapbook, Sleep and What Precedes It, won the 2009 Longleaf Press Chapbook Prize; her first full-length collection, Alexandria, was selected by Kelly Davio for the 2014 CNY Book Award for Poetry. She reads poetry and writes book reviews for 32 Poems and The Carolina Quarterly.

Omanii Abdullah One-Man Show of Spoken Word Poetry
Studio 24

Price: Free
Studio 24
433 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Hear him do such favorites as "I Wanna Be The Kinda Father My Mother Was," "Boyz N The Hood," "Yeah, You're Right, I'm Not Your Real Father," "The Late Speech," and the show-stopper, "Nobody Eats Fried Chicken Like Black Folks Do." There will be a 20-minute talkback following the performance.

For more information, email studio24m@aol.com or phone 315-247-4206.

Cabaret Series: Some Other Me
CNY Playhouse
Featuring Mary Musial

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

Multi-SALT-award nominee Mary Musial stars in her own cabaret, accompanied by Abel Searor.

Redhouse Gone Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest
Redhouse

Price: $10
Redhouse Lab Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Oscar Wilde's masterpiece is probably the most famous of all comedies. It revolves wittily around the most ingenious case of "manufactured" mistaken identity ever put into a play. PG 13

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Redhouse Gone Wilde: Gross Indecency
Redhouse

Price: $30 non-members, $20 members
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde by Moisés Kaufman
In three short months, Oscar Wilde, the most celebrated playwright and wit of Victorian England, was toppled from the apex of British society into humiliation and ruin. Drawing from trial documents, newspaper accounts, and writings of the key players, Moises Kaufman ignites an incendiary mix of sex and censorship. Appropriate for high school and up.

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Opening: In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play
Syracuse Stage
May Adrales, director

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

It's the 1880s and electricity is all the rage. In a quiet home office, a doctor experiments with a new instrument for treating "hysteria." The device? A vibrator. In this genuinely touching, original, and wickedly funny play, Sarah Ruhl (The Clean House) explores relationships and sexual fulfillment while managing to stay discreetly beneath the crisp white sheets of Victorian propriety. May Adrales (Chinglish) returns to direct this tastefully stimulating play that's both social commentary and comedy.

Read a Review!