Sunday, October 23, 2011

Windows Project: Oscar Garces: Transcendence
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cuban-born, and Syracuse-based artist Oscar Garces' site-specific mural in the Window Projects space will offer a local echo to "Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art". This is his first solo exhibition. Both exhibitions will be organized in conjunction with the Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations in Syracuse.

Art Gone Wild! Prints and Paintings by Animals of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo

Price: Free for members or with zoo admission
Rosamond Gifford Zoo
One Conservation Place, Syracuse

Striking and extraordinary works of art created by the animals living at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo illustrate the depth of keeper care and behavioral enrichment vital in maintaining healthy and engaged animals. The exhibition includes several pieces produced by trunks, paws, feet, hooves, scales, skin and, of course, brushes.

James Dwyer: Remembering the Man and His Art

Price: Free
Art Shops at Delavan Center
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A celebratory exhibit mounted in honor of Syracuse University Professor Emeritus James Dwyer and his lifetime contributions to art and education. "Remembering the Man and His Art" is being produced by four of Dwyer's friends and colleagues: Michael Sickler, SU Professor Emeritus in painting and drawing; Nicholas Todisco, art teacher at Onondaga Community College; Bill Delavan, owner of the Delavan Center; and Caroline Szozda-McGowan, owner of Szozda Gallery.

In the Abstract
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Szozda Gallery ushers in the fall with an engaging show featuring four noted artists who reveal meaning in their abstract works created through different pathways. "In The Abstract" is the kind of exhibition that compels interaction between artist and viewer to look beyond beauty of color and structure for a relationship to one's very existence in the world in which we live. Artists Roscha Folger, Linda Bigness, Lauren Bristol, and Kwangpyo (Steve) Koh offer insights into the realm of abstractionism in their works of mixed media, paintings, fiber art, and hand carved sculptures.

Photography on the Edge: Between Realism and Abstraction
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The show features photographs by Central New York artists that address the relationship between realistic representation and abstract concepts. Participating artists include Willson Cummer, Bob Gates, Elisabeth Groat, Peter Mahan, Yolanda Tooley, Jeanann Wieners, Diana Whiting, and Jamie Young.

The co-curators, Jen Gandee and Syracuse-area photographer, Bob Gates, in selecting work for this show, were looking for images that are true to the perennial conflict in the history of photography between representational and non-representational images. The same conflicting impulses that have shaped other forms of art--realism, impressionism, expressionism, abstraction, surrealism--have had their adherents among photographers. The works in this exhibit show how some photographers in Central New York respond to or participate in that complex history.

Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Artist Jerome Witkin will be in attendance today at noon for the exhibit closing.

"Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin" consists of 70 works including drawings, paintings, and sketchbooks. Dividing the show between two venues to allow for broader access, "Drawn to Paint" will be on view at the SUArt Galleries on the Syracuse University main campus and the XL Projects gallery in downtown Syracuse. This exhibition, with Dr. Edward A. Aiken as its curator, is the first time Jerome Witkin has allowed his drawings to be displayed beside their finished works. "Drawn to Paint" will be traveling to other museums around the country during a two-year tour that will conclude at the Palmer Museum of Art in University Park, PA.

"Drawn to Paint" is more than a selection of masterfully painted narratives. Through the juxtaposition of drawings and sketchbooks, the exhibition represents a rare look into the artist's process, from the inception of an idea to the completed artwork. The works of Jerome Witkin carry forward into our era the grand Western European tradition of history painting. His images offer dramatic narratives that reveal themselves over time. Many of his most interesting paintings are large multiple panels, each section presenting a different chapter of an unfolding story. Their scale pushes the viewer back to see the whole composition while his brushwork encourages close examination to better admire the painting's surface.

Weekend and evening visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

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A Magnificent Obsession: Selections from the Hamilton Armstrong Collection of Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For decades, Hamilton Armstrong of Fayetteville, NY has been collecting prints created by some of most important and well-known American and European artists of the last 200 years. While only a fraction of the number of works he collected will be exhibited, this show will demonstrate two areas of great interest to Armstrong.

First is the area of architectural etching that began in 19th century Europe and continued into 20th century American printmaking. Consisting of more than 30 prints by Charles Meryon, John Taylor Arms, Samuel Chamberlain, and others, this part of the exhibition highlights an impressive selection of Meryon's rare etchings.

The second part of the show is a series of wood engravings done by Fritz Eichenberg for a reprint of Emily Bronte's classic novel, Wuthering Heights. These images are rare artist proof prints for the 1943 Random House edition of the novel and have been considered some of best illustrations of the 19th century classic because they capture the drama of author's text without adding superfluous material.

Weekend and evening visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exploration of identity within a unique part of the Syracuse community is the subject of "Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality," an exhibition by Bob Gates, photographer and professor emeritus of English.

The exhibition is part of the 2011 Syracuse Symposium, presented by the SU Humanities Center for SU's College of Arts and Sciences and for the entire Syracuse community. "Identity" is the theme of this year's symposium.

Gates calls the project "a collaborative urban portrait" of the people who inhabit a unique and vibrant urban space in the heart of Syracuse, which is soon to disappear -- the bus transfer stations at the corner of Fayette and Salina streets. The project began with a simple question of identity -- who are these people?

Gates is a nationally recognized photographer whose work has been featured in dozens of publications, including National Geographic Traveler, Outdoor Photographer and Popular Photography. Since 2006, his photography has been the subject of more than 20 exhibitions throughout the Northeast, garnering him numerous honors and awards, including third place in the nature category of Photo Life magazine’s international competition.

Margie Hughto: A Fired Landscape
Everson Museum of Art

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

Internationally renowned ceramic artist Margie Hughto presents her first site-specific museum installation entitled A Fired Landscape, a "clay painting" spanning 50 feet of gallery wall space. Inspired by the artist's spectacular backyard gardens and natural landscape just steps from her studio, The Fired Landscape installation consists of Setting Sun, a brilliantly colored ceramic wall relief displayed continuously on five angled walls. The visitor encounter is reminiscent of what one experiences when surrounded by the natural environment. Overall, Setting Sun is a ceramic abstraction, but Hughto establishes a connection to the landscape that inspired it by adding impressions of natural objects such as native ferns, marine life and fossils, into the wet clay and then coating the surfaces with brilliant color. The rich palette of burnt oranges and fiery reds evoke the sun’s glowing light and radiating warmth. Tiny pieces of glass embedded in the clay prior to firing add sparkle to the glossy green and blue glazes used to suggest the artist's lily pond.

From Here to There: Alec Soth's America
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, members and children under 5 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From Here to There: Alec Soth's America" provides a focused look at an extraordinary photographer whose compelling images of the American road and its unexpected turns form powerful narrative vignettes. The exhibition will be the artist's first major survey assembled in the United States, exploring over 15 years of his career, and including an extensive new body of work.

Since his inclusion in the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo biennials, Soth's reputation as one of the most interesting voices in contemporary photography has continued to grow. Though he has followed the itinerant path laid forth by photographers such as Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Stephen Shore, Soth's is a distinct perspective, one in which the wandering, searching, and the process of telling is as resonant as the record of these remarkable encounters. When considered together, Soth's pictures probe the individualities of people, objects, and places he encounters; offer insight to broader sociologies, and in the process form a collective portrait of an unexpected America.

Featuring approximately 100 photographs made between 1994 and the present, "From Here to There" will include rarely-seen early black-and-white images as well as examples from Soth's best-known series "Sleeping by the Mississippi" and "Niagara." Interspersed throughout the exhibition will be a broad range of portraits made over the past 15 years. The exhibition will also include a new body of work the artist has been developing since 2006, exploring places of escape in America and individuals who seek to flee civilization for a life off the grid. To add insight into Soth's process, the exhibition additionally features a Library space, which includes a reading area for publications, a selection of maquettes for book and 'zine projects, short video works, and ephemera gathered on the road.

Life Blood: Women in Haudenosaunee Art
LeMoyne College

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

In recognition of November as Native American Heritage Month, the Wilson Art Gallery, along with the gender and women's studies program, will sponsor an exhibition of traditional and contemporary works of Haudenosaunee women artists, as well as works that honor women by other Haudenosaunee artists.

According to Tom Huff, curator and artist, "The exhibit features the contemporary mix medium works by local Haudenosaunee women who draw on traditional culture and beliefs. Tradition is the life blood of these contemporary works. These traditions extend from the oral history of the creation story that honors Mother Earth and acknowledges women's relationship with Grandmother Moon and Life Giving Sustenance, the Three Sisters. As a matrilineal society, women are held in high regard for their leadership roles within the community and family. Within the Haudenosaunee Nations, women carry the title of clan mothers who oversee ceremonies, give clan names and maintain the authority for choosing and removing chiefs within the nation’s traditional council government. Within the family, women are the center of support and the lifeline in everyday life and decision making that sustains the strength of the extended family. This exhibit honors and celebrates this continued role of women through artistic expressions, maintaining the life blood of the nations."

For more information, phone 315-445-4153.

SU @ CU; CU @ SU
XL Projects

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Art students from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) and Colgate University will be showcasing the high standards and diversity of their work at galleries on each other's campuses.

Colgate art students will exhibit their work 10/19-11/6.
VPA student work will be shown 11/9-11/27.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com or visit vpa.syr.edu/xl-projects.

Invitational with Photographer Tim Etter
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Nathaniel Sullivan: On the Way to the Theatre, We Egged a Trans-am
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In this 1 minute-23 second video, Sullivan depicts the pressures brought to bear in teenage boys--most of which are pressures to be pleased, injunctions to enjoy. While at first glance this looks like an easy row to hoe, the work makes it clear that in fact there are consequences to taking one's pleasures liberally, without reserve. As Plato said, pleasure deranges as efficiently as pain.

Nathaniel Sullivan is an artist and writer. He received his MFA degree from the Transmedia Department at Syracuse University in Spring 2011. His practice is a balance of artwork, critical writing, and curating. His work has been shown in exhibitions and screenings in Syracuse, New York City, and widely across Canada. In 2006, he was awarded a Special Mention from the prestigious Montreal Film Festival.

Dying Oak, Wild Raspberry Bush: Works by Pae White
Urban Video Project

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

Two videos, Dying Oak/Elephant (3-min loop) and Ballerina (Wild Raspberry Bush)(1-min loop), both 2009, by internationally recognized artist and designer, Pae White.

These two video pieces employ high-tech 3D scanning and motion animation techniques and apply them to objects from the natural world, playfully interrogating the integrity of the human/nature divide. The result is a mesmerizing exploration of natural form in which perspective and scale are in constant flux, the data points coalescing for a moment to create an image that is almost hyper-real in its detail, and in the next dispersing into glowing abstractions that might be galaxies or cities at night.

Our Sporting Life: The Heroes, The Highlights, The History
Onondaga Historical Association

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

This local sports history exhibit will highlight a variety of sports equipment, photographs, ephemera, and most importantly, the people involved in making sports history come alive. From baseball, to basketball, to football, hockey, bowling, and more, the exhibit will recount the "thrill of victory and the agony of defeat" for our local sports history makers. Visitors will learn more about Syracuse’s professional basketball team, women athletes, ice boating on Onondaga Lake, past Syracuse hockey teams, as well as African American athletes such as Moses Fleetwood Walker. Guests will also get a chance to see some vintage trophies, uniforms, equipment, and images of our local competitors in action.

OCC Faculty Chamber Concert
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Featuring Andy Zaplatynsky, violin; Jacqueline Wogick, cello; Kevin Moore, piano

Cantus Novus
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The student music organization Cantus Novus will perform in the Galleries as part of the closing of the exhibit of "Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin."

Robert Auler, piano
Joyful Noise Concert Series

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

Robert Auler will perform Beethoven, Chopin, and Messiaen on the Steinway. Free parking; handicap accessible.

Broadway Jazz
LeMoyne College
The Jazzuits

Price: $10 regular, $7 seniors, $5 students
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The Le Moyne College Jazzuits perform classic jazz tunes of Broadway.

For more information and to purchase tickets, call 315-445-4523.

The Geography of the Imagination
Society for New Music

Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

A collaboration with the Syracuse University Humanities Center and Syracuse Symposium in conjunction with their series on Identity, addressing the poetics of identity and historical memory.

Gregory Wanamaker The Geography of the Imagination with visuals by renowned artist Carrie Mae Weems (world premiere of Society-commissioned work)
Kevin Puts And Legions Shall Rise
Nicholas Omiccioli Falling Through Infinity
David Feurzeig Fauxbourdon
Anna Weesner Lift High, Reckon--Fly Low, Come Close

Performers include Linda Greene, flute; John Friedrichs, clarinet/bass clarinet; Ann McIntyre, violin; David LeDoux, cello; Rob Bridge, percussion; Adrienne Kim, piano; Cynthia Johnston Turner, conductor

Peter Janson and Larry Pattis
Kellish Hill Farm

Price: $10
Kellish Hill Farm
3192 Pompey Center Rd., Pompey

These master guitar players have toured the world with their music. Larry Pattis is named one of the "Top 10 Best Acoustic Music Artists of the Decade" by the International Acoustic Music Awards, he has been a featured headline performer at such illustrious venues as the Montreal International Jazz Festival and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Millennium Stage in Washington DC. A winner of numerous awards, in 2008 Pattis was awarded First Prize for Best Instrumental in the IAMA competition.

Peter Janson is a "gifted acoustic fingerstyle guitar player" (Dirty Linen), and the winner of the Best Contemporary Instrumental Album in the 2006 NAR Lifestyle Music Awards. Peter Janson's brand of American Fingerstyle music brings world-class solo guitar playing to the concert stage. Reminiscent of American Folk guitar, Celtic guitar, and American Roots music his original and compelling contemporary style is filled with artistry, superb technical mastery, and heartfelt passion. With critical acclaim such as "perfection ... highly creative," "a true artist's soul," and "perhaps the leading contemporary fingerstyle guitarist today" there's no doubt he has bridged a gap bringing together the every-day music fan with diehard guitar fans.

La Traviata
Syracuse Opera

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

La Traviata is Violetta's lot in life. Beautiful things and beautiful people, gay parties and clever conversation are like her, the ornaments of wealthy men's lives. Life's deeper meaning comes to her in Alfredo's love and Violetta gives her heart to the younger man. Verdi's operatic masterpiece is a nuanced telling of this passionate drama where time runs out on a rare, true love. Sung in Italian with projected English titles.

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The Crucible
Appleseed Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $18 regular; $15 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

When a group of young women are accused of Witchcraft, the tiny town of Salem, Massachusetts erupts into a chaos of finger-pointing and persecution. As panic grows, no one is safe from accusations, and justice is the first victim of hysteria. Arthur Miller's powerful drama of the Salem Witch trials is an undisputed classic of American Theater, with themes that resonate to this day.

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Man of La Mancha
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $22 regular, $20 students/seniors
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Starring Bob Brown as Don Quixote, Cathleen O'Brien as Aldonza, Bill Ali as Sancho Panza, Richard Koons as The Padre, David Walker as Dr. Carrasco, and Tony Brown as Pedro.

For reservations, phone 315-479-7469.

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The Boys Next Door
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Comedy and compassion in a group home for the developmentally disabled, by Tom Griffin.

Meet Arnold Wiggins. He's basically a nervous person. He lives with Lucien P. Smith who likes to read very big books, and Norman who works in the doughnut shop, and Barry who imagines he is a golf pro (lessons $1.13 per hour). In addition to an apartment, these guys share a caseworker names Jack who, despite his genuine concern for his clients, is on the verge of of a total burn-out. The Boys Next Door is a gentle comedy from the late 80s set in a group home for the developmentally disabled. As playwright Griffin reveals the daily struggles of his characters to make sense of their world and their places in it, he reminds us to consider how much we take for granted every day. Timothy Bond is very funny and very touching.

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Nunsense A-Men
Twist Cabaret Theatre
Shawn Forster, director

Price: $20
Twist Ultra Lounge
252 W. Genesee St., Syracuse

Nunsense A-Men is basically the original Nunsense show with all of the characters being portrayed by male musical comedy performers. Think of it as "Mrs. Doubtfire enters the Convent." Done totally seriously, this show is, to quote a critic, "no drag."

Cast includes Jimmy Curtin as Reverend Mother, Roy George as Sister Mary Hubert, Shawn Forster as Sister Robert Anne, Wade McGowen as Sister Mary Amnesia, and Brian Scott as Sister Mary Leo. Music Director: Josh Smith

For tickets, phone 315-479-7469.

Othello
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Stephanie Long and Kim Marie Jakway, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

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The Complete History of America Abridged (Abridged)
Black Box Players
Marcelo Pereira, director

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

The Complete History of America Abridged (Abridged), by Adam Long, Reed Martin, and Austin Tichenor, is exactly what it sounds like. This fast-paced, witty, and wacky show pokes fun at our country's past. Come see this hysterical recap of American history, right smack in the middle of prime time election campaigns. Who knows? You might learn a thing or two.

Reservations recommended. Email blackboxplayerstickets@gmail.com with your full name and the names of the people joining you, date of performance you wish to attend, and how many seats you wish to reserve. You will receive either a confirmation e-mail or phone call closer to the date of the performance verifying your reservation.

Ticket reservations will not be honored if they are made after 7:00pm the day before the performance. For most performances, there will be a walk-up list with ten seats available with the House Manager starting an hour before curtain. You will lose your reserved seat if you are not present ten minutes before performance.

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When Thoughts Attack!

Price: $20
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Syracuse Native Kelly Kinsella returns home from her work on Broadway to present her one-woman show, When Thoughts Attack! for one night only.

A woman on the continual verge of a nervous breakdown wonders, "Am I crazy or is it everyone else around me who is nuts?" In her uproariously tragic new play, Kelly attempts to overcome her lifelong struggle with anxiety. BYOX- Bring Your Own Xanax.

Writer, actress and comedienne Kelly Kinsella first presented this original work at the Schermerhorn Theatre in Brooklyn, hosted by The Actors Fund of New York City. She went on to perform it with Emerging Artists's One Woman Standing Festival in NYC. In September, she has been invited by her alma mater, SUNY New Paltz, to further develop the play in residence and present it at alumni weekend.

Kinsella's style is unique, personal yet universal and in the vein of storytellers Lilly Tomlin, David Sedaris, and John Lequiziamo. She was last seen in Syracuse in 2008 at Jazz Central for two sold-out performances of her one-woman show, "Kelly Kinsella Live! Under Broadway." In NYC, Kelly was selected to perform the show at The New York International Fringe Festival where she earned rave reviews by BackstageNY and nytheatre.com. BackstageNY named Kelly's performance in "Live! Under Broadway" as one of the top 20 performances seen on any New York stage that year.

Kelly was hailed by the New York Times for her "terrific and zany performance" in the original musical, "Believe in Me." She has appeared on many stages across Manhattan with Daniel Reichard, original Jersey Boys cast member, in his concerts. She has also worked for Nickelodeon, Disney and Showtime as well as The Sterling Renaissance Festival where she learned her acting and comedy chops.

For tickets, visit www.brownpapertickets.com or phone 1-800-838-3006 ext. 1. Tickets will also be available at the door on the night of the show (cash only).

Monday, October 24, 2011

Windows Project: Oscar Garces: Transcendence
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cuban-born, and Syracuse-based artist Oscar Garces' site-specific mural in the Window Projects space will offer a local echo to "Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art". This is his first solo exhibition. Both exhibitions will be organized in conjunction with the Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations in Syracuse.

Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exploration of identity within a unique part of the Syracuse community is the subject of "Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality," an exhibition by Bob Gates, photographer and professor emeritus of English.

The exhibition is part of the 2011 Syracuse Symposium, presented by the SU Humanities Center for SU's College of Arts and Sciences and for the entire Syracuse community. "Identity" is the theme of this year's symposium.

Gates calls the project "a collaborative urban portrait" of the people who inhabit a unique and vibrant urban space in the heart of Syracuse, which is soon to disappear -- the bus transfer stations at the corner of Fayette and Salina streets. The project began with a simple question of identity -- who are these people?

Gates is a nationally recognized photographer whose work has been featured in dozens of publications, including National Geographic Traveler, Outdoor Photographer and Popular Photography. Since 2006, his photography has been the subject of more than 20 exhibitions throughout the Northeast, garnering him numerous honors and awards, including third place in the nature category of Photo Life magazine’s international competition.

Life Blood: Women in Haudenosaunee Art
LeMoyne College

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

In recognition of November as Native American Heritage Month, the Wilson Art Gallery, along with the gender and women's studies program, will sponsor an exhibition of traditional and contemporary works of Haudenosaunee women artists, as well as works that honor women by other Haudenosaunee artists.

According to Tom Huff, curator and artist, "The exhibit features the contemporary mix medium works by local Haudenosaunee women who draw on traditional culture and beliefs. Tradition is the life blood of these contemporary works. These traditions extend from the oral history of the creation story that honors Mother Earth and acknowledges women's relationship with Grandmother Moon and Life Giving Sustenance, the Three Sisters. As a matrilineal society, women are held in high regard for their leadership roles within the community and family. Within the Haudenosaunee Nations, women carry the title of clan mothers who oversee ceremonies, give clan names and maintain the authority for choosing and removing chiefs within the nation’s traditional council government. Within the family, women are the center of support and the lifeline in everyday life and decision making that sustains the strength of the extended family. This exhibit honors and celebrates this continued role of women through artistic expressions, maintaining the life blood of the nations."

For more information, phone 315-445-4153.

Natural Selections: Works by Bob Ripley
Baltimore Woods

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

The exhibit of wildlife paintings in transparent watercolors.

Shane LaVancher and Clémentine Allain Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Shane LaVancher and Clementine Allain, respectively from New York and Paris are artists who consistently attempt to stretch the concepts of fashion and its aesthetics. Their images playfully nudge the lines between pop art, contemporary poetic vision, and hard-line fashion. The duo works from their intuition with the fickle fashion industry in mind. The element of presence within their images reflects their attention to contemporary fashion, but also the essence of the age we live in.

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

Just One Word: Plastics
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

For more than a century, plastics have transformed our lives -- from bathroom to battlefield; from supermarket to spacecraft. Begun as a 19th-century replacement material for billiard balls and piano keys, plastics spurred 20th century developments in industry, transportation, medicine, entertainment, and other aspects of contemporary life. The original objects of "Just One Word: Plastics" represent a material history of the modern world.

This exhibition features a representative sample of the Plastics Collection at the Syracuse University Library and presents an overview of major trends in the development of plastics in everyday life. The exhibit focuses on personal and household objects rather than the use of plastics in industry where they are also widely used. Approximately 250 objects divided into 12 categories will be on view. In addition, a small selection of manuscripts and printed materials will be included.

Specific objects to be featured in the exhibition are:
* ornate celluloid combs and a wide variety of plastic toiletries
* phenolic (Bakelite) objects from the 1920s and 30s including jewelry, radios, and other appliances and games
* musical instruments
* post-war toys, dishes, and household items
* original patent books of John Wesley Hyatt, inventor of Celluloid
* product catalogues from the 1930s and 1950s for popular items such as DuPont French Ivory dresser sets, Boltaware molded "stoneware" dishes, and Tupperware, and
* the Pleur-evac, a revolutionary plastic medical device for draining fluid and maintaining pressure in the lungs that helped save the life of President Ronald Reagan.

The Plastics Collection was begun in 2007 as a joint project of the Syracuse University Library and the Plastics History & Artifacts Committee of the Plastics Pioneers Association. The Collection expanded dramatically when the National Plastics Center and Museum in Leominster, MA, closed and transferred its artifacts, books, and manuscripts to Syracuse University's care in 2008.

Aphotic Ardor: Works by Kristie Hayes-Beaulieu
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

An exhibit of variety. Diversity. Progression. Connections. Past and present. Growth. Reclusion. Pain and suffering, as well as extreme bliss. Also view a sneak preview in one of our gallery rooms of Kristie's X-ray-inspired work that will be on display at the SUNY Health Science Center in December.

Whereas I Took the Butterfly: Works by Deloss McGraw
YMCA Arts Branch GallerY

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit of literary "poster paintings" features Deloss McGraw's reflections/interpretations of such writers as Dickinson, Hemingway, Snodgrass and others, often using photographs of the authors, book covers, or other borrowed images.

Invitational with Photographer Tim Etter
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Art Gone Wild! Prints and Paintings by Animals of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo

Price: Free for members or with zoo admission
Rosamond Gifford Zoo
One Conservation Place, Syracuse

Striking and extraordinary works of art created by the animals living at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo illustrate the depth of keeper care and behavioral enrichment vital in maintaining healthy and engaged animals. The exhibition includes several pieces produced by trunks, paws, feet, hooves, scales, skin and, of course, brushes.

Edifice
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Mexican-born, New York City-based artists Gabriela Alva C. and Natalia Porter present their collaborative project, Edifice. Curated by Pedro Cuperman, the show features Alva and Porter in response to the work of Boston artist Andrew Witkin's writings.

Having partnered in previous projects as curator/artist and as co-curators, Porter and Alva now team up as artists for the first time. For this exhibit, they employ a series of texts and diagrams by Boston-based Andrew Witkin to serve as a bridge, from written word to spatial arrangement, and from artist to writer to curator, warping the term collaboration to be more and more dynamic. Witkin's writings, which can be read as lists, are accumulations of thoughts that suggest a sense of order, but still remain abstract. They are organized in an undefined way and yet are quite concrete. They repeat, are rhythmic and include a sense of time and space. Both Porter and Alva respond to the juxtaposition of order and abstraction, as well as to the visual composition of Witkin's publications. Working collectively and individually, these artists push the means, methods and roles of an exhibition and its participants, seeking and constantly finding new points of contact.

Self Expressed: Works of Mary Fragapane
Redhouse

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

Fragapane is best known for her enigmatic female figures that seek to capture the intangibles of joy, passion, and the beauty of the human spirit. Working in an expressive style on un-gessoed canvas, she uses a layering process incorporating acrylic paints, chalk and oil pastels, pencil, and water.

Fragapane has exhibited extensively in Manhattan and throughout New York, Cleveland, California and internationally on the Island of Curacao. In addition to her solo shows, she has been commissioned for numerous Public Art projects.

The American Look: Fashion and Furnishings of the Arts and Crafts Era
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

A new exhibition unites original Arts and Crafts Movement furnishings, with an emphasis on those designed by Gustav Stickley, with clothing worn by American women during 1909-1913 -- a rarely seen combination.

Exhibition curator Jeffrey Mayer, an associate professor and program coordinator of fashion design in VPA's Department of Design, selected the garments in "The American Look" from the fashion design program's Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, which he also curates. The furniture, consisting of original pieces produced between 1906-1911, is on loan from David Rudd and Debbie Goldwein of Dalton's American Decorative Arts in Syracuse. Many of the pieces on view are unparalleled examples of the work of Gustav Stickley, none of which have been previously exhibited to the public.

For more information, contact Mayer or Lauren Tagliaferro, registrar of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, at 315-443-4644.

There's a Sucker Born Every Minute: Re-creating the Cardiff Giant

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

"There's a Sucker Born Every Minute: Re-creating the Cardiff Giant" is a project by Syracuse artist Ty Marshal which re-creates the Cardiff Giant according to the original size specifications. Ty will be using Hypertufa, a mix of Portland cement, peat moss, and perlite (which creates a "lighter concrete" that can withstand harsh weather conditions). The project's focus defines a lineage to Central New York's history as a creative community, how religious fundamentalism has affected modern culture in Upstate New York and throughout the nation, and the origin of arts and entertainment (notably "pop culture") in the United States, and how arts and culture serves as an economic engine.

Palmy Days (1931)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

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

Director: Edward Sutherland
Cast: Eddie Cantor, Charlotte Greenwood, Charles Middleton, George Raft, Spencer Charters, Barbara Weeks, the Goldwyn Girls.

Cantor plays an incompetent assistant to a crooked psychic (Middleton), and eventually becomes involved with a love-starved female physical education instructor (Greenwood). A great comedy with lively musical numbers directed by Busby Berkeley. Cantor and Greenwood make a hilarious team!

MC Chris, with MC Lars, Mega Ran, Adam Warrock
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

It Can't Happen Here
Syracuse University Drama Department

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

A reading of Sinclair Lewis and John C. Moffitt's It Can't Happen Here, organized by Assistant Professor Stephen Cross to mark the 75th anniversary of the play, which was originally produced in 1936 by the Federal Theatre Project (FTP) of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA). Twenty-two theaters and universities around the country also will offer readings on Oct. 24 to celebrate the play and the landmark work of the FTP (1935-1939). It Can't Happen Here premiered simultaneously in 23 theaters in 17 states on Oct. 27, 1936.

This 2011 national reading project was initiated by Darryl Henriques, formerly of the San Francisco Mime Troupe (SFMT), and is co-sponsored by the SFMT and Dell'Arte International of Blue Lake, Calif. Henriques hopes to call attention to an important piece of American history and to alert today's audiences to the Federal Theatre Project, which employed thousands of theater workers, circus performers, cabaret and vaudeville acts.

Based on Lewis' novel of the same name, It Can't Happen Here depicts the rise to power of a seemingly populist presidential candidate who turns dictator once elected. The struggle against the president is led by a journalist, Doremus Jessup, who realizes the patriotic posturing of the new administration is a cover for an unconstitutional seizure of power.

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Windows Project: Oscar Garces: Transcendence
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cuban-born, and Syracuse-based artist Oscar Garces' site-specific mural in the Window Projects space will offer a local echo to "Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art". This is his first solo exhibition. Both exhibitions will be organized in conjunction with the Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations in Syracuse.

Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exploration of identity within a unique part of the Syracuse community is the subject of "Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality," an exhibition by Bob Gates, photographer and professor emeritus of English.

The exhibition is part of the 2011 Syracuse Symposium, presented by the SU Humanities Center for SU's College of Arts and Sciences and for the entire Syracuse community. "Identity" is the theme of this year's symposium.

Gates calls the project "a collaborative urban portrait" of the people who inhabit a unique and vibrant urban space in the heart of Syracuse, which is soon to disappear -- the bus transfer stations at the corner of Fayette and Salina streets. The project began with a simple question of identity -- who are these people?

Gates is a nationally recognized photographer whose work has been featured in dozens of publications, including National Geographic Traveler, Outdoor Photographer and Popular Photography. Since 2006, his photography has been the subject of more than 20 exhibitions throughout the Northeast, garnering him numerous honors and awards, including third place in the nature category of Photo Life magazine’s international competition.

Life Blood: Women in Haudenosaunee Art
LeMoyne College

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

In recognition of November as Native American Heritage Month, the Wilson Art Gallery, along with the gender and women's studies program, will sponsor an exhibition of traditional and contemporary works of Haudenosaunee women artists, as well as works that honor women by other Haudenosaunee artists.

According to Tom Huff, curator and artist, "The exhibit features the contemporary mix medium works by local Haudenosaunee women who draw on traditional culture and beliefs. Tradition is the life blood of these contemporary works. These traditions extend from the oral history of the creation story that honors Mother Earth and acknowledges women's relationship with Grandmother Moon and Life Giving Sustenance, the Three Sisters. As a matrilineal society, women are held in high regard for their leadership roles within the community and family. Within the Haudenosaunee Nations, women carry the title of clan mothers who oversee ceremonies, give clan names and maintain the authority for choosing and removing chiefs within the nation’s traditional council government. Within the family, women are the center of support and the lifeline in everyday life and decision making that sustains the strength of the extended family. This exhibit honors and celebrates this continued role of women through artistic expressions, maintaining the life blood of the nations."

For more information, phone 315-445-4153.

Natural Selections: Works by Bob Ripley
Baltimore Woods

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

The exhibit of wildlife paintings in transparent watercolors.

Shane LaVancher and Clémentine Allain Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Shane LaVancher and Clementine Allain, respectively from New York and Paris are artists who consistently attempt to stretch the concepts of fashion and its aesthetics. Their images playfully nudge the lines between pop art, contemporary poetic vision, and hard-line fashion. The duo works from their intuition with the fickle fashion industry in mind. The element of presence within their images reflects their attention to contemporary fashion, but also the essence of the age we live in.

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

Just One Word: Plastics
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

For more than a century, plastics have transformed our lives -- from bathroom to battlefield; from supermarket to spacecraft. Begun as a 19th-century replacement material for billiard balls and piano keys, plastics spurred 20th century developments in industry, transportation, medicine, entertainment, and other aspects of contemporary life. The original objects of "Just One Word: Plastics" represent a material history of the modern world.

This exhibition features a representative sample of the Plastics Collection at the Syracuse University Library and presents an overview of major trends in the development of plastics in everyday life. The exhibit focuses on personal and household objects rather than the use of plastics in industry where they are also widely used. Approximately 250 objects divided into 12 categories will be on view. In addition, a small selection of manuscripts and printed materials will be included.

Specific objects to be featured in the exhibition are:
* ornate celluloid combs and a wide variety of plastic toiletries
* phenolic (Bakelite) objects from the 1920s and 30s including jewelry, radios, and other appliances and games
* musical instruments
* post-war toys, dishes, and household items
* original patent books of John Wesley Hyatt, inventor of Celluloid
* product catalogues from the 1930s and 1950s for popular items such as DuPont French Ivory dresser sets, Boltaware molded "stoneware" dishes, and Tupperware, and
* the Pleur-evac, a revolutionary plastic medical device for draining fluid and maintaining pressure in the lungs that helped save the life of President Ronald Reagan.

The Plastics Collection was begun in 2007 as a joint project of the Syracuse University Library and the Plastics History & Artifacts Committee of the Plastics Pioneers Association. The Collection expanded dramatically when the National Plastics Center and Museum in Leominster, MA, closed and transferred its artifacts, books, and manuscripts to Syracuse University's care in 2008.

Aphotic Ardor: Works by Kristie Hayes-Beaulieu
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

An exhibit of variety. Diversity. Progression. Connections. Past and present. Growth. Reclusion. Pain and suffering, as well as extreme bliss. Also view a sneak preview in one of our gallery rooms of Kristie's X-ray-inspired work that will be on display at the SUNY Health Science Center in December.

Whereas I Took the Butterfly: Works by Deloss McGraw
YMCA Arts Branch GallerY

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit of literary "poster paintings" features Deloss McGraw's reflections/interpretations of such writers as Dickinson, Hemingway, Snodgrass and others, often using photographs of the authors, book covers, or other borrowed images.

Layers
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lynette Blake: oil paintings on canvas
Carol Ackles: hand built and wheel thrown ceramics
Jan Navales: hand dyed, screen printed, stitched and beaded fabric wall hangings

Invitational with Photographer Tim Etter
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

African Diasporan Treasures: 40 Years of Community Folk Art Center
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition will showcase pieces from CFAC's permanent collection. Featuring over 30 works by artists including Joel Gaines, Ellen Oppler, Jack White, Denise Cole and Kamiiron Pritchard, "African Diasporan Treasures" provides a rare opportunity for visitors to experience the rich artistic history of CFAC. In many cases, the pieces have not been displayed for decades. The show will also feature African art that was once part of the Smithsonian Museum's collection.

Art Gone Wild! Prints and Paintings by Animals of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo

Price: Free for members or with zoo admission
Rosamond Gifford Zoo
One Conservation Place, Syracuse

Striking and extraordinary works of art created by the animals living at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo illustrate the depth of keeper care and behavioral enrichment vital in maintaining healthy and engaged animals. The exhibition includes several pieces produced by trunks, paws, feet, hooves, scales, skin and, of course, brushes.

Edifice
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Mexican-born, New York City-based artists Gabriela Alva C. and Natalia Porter present their collaborative project, Edifice. Curated by Pedro Cuperman, the show features Alva and Porter in response to the work of Boston artist Andrew Witkin's writings.

Having partnered in previous projects as curator/artist and as co-curators, Porter and Alva now team up as artists for the first time. For this exhibit, they employ a series of texts and diagrams by Boston-based Andrew Witkin to serve as a bridge, from written word to spatial arrangement, and from artist to writer to curator, warping the term collaboration to be more and more dynamic. Witkin's writings, which can be read as lists, are accumulations of thoughts that suggest a sense of order, but still remain abstract. They are organized in an undefined way and yet are quite concrete. They repeat, are rhythmic and include a sense of time and space. Both Porter and Alva respond to the juxtaposition of order and abstraction, as well as to the visual composition of Witkin's publications. Working collectively and individually, these artists push the means, methods and roles of an exhibition and its participants, seeking and constantly finding new points of contact.

Self Expressed: Works of Mary Fragapane
Redhouse

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

Fragapane is best known for her enigmatic female figures that seek to capture the intangibles of joy, passion, and the beauty of the human spirit. Working in an expressive style on un-gessoed canvas, she uses a layering process incorporating acrylic paints, chalk and oil pastels, pencil, and water.

Fragapane has exhibited extensively in Manhattan and throughout New York, Cleveland, California and internationally on the Island of Curacao. In addition to her solo shows, she has been commissioned for numerous Public Art projects.

The American Look: Fashion and Furnishings of the Arts and Crafts Era
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

A new exhibition unites original Arts and Crafts Movement furnishings, with an emphasis on those designed by Gustav Stickley, with clothing worn by American women during 1909-1913 -- a rarely seen combination.

Exhibition curator Jeffrey Mayer, an associate professor and program coordinator of fashion design in VPA's Department of Design, selected the garments in "The American Look" from the fashion design program's Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, which he also curates. The furniture, consisting of original pieces produced between 1906-1911, is on loan from David Rudd and Debbie Goldwein of Dalton's American Decorative Arts in Syracuse. Many of the pieces on view are unparalleled examples of the work of Gustav Stickley, none of which have been previously exhibited to the public.

For more information, contact Mayer or Lauren Tagliaferro, registrar of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, at 315-443-4644.

There's a Sucker Born Every Minute: Re-creating the Cardiff Giant

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

"There's a Sucker Born Every Minute: Re-creating the Cardiff Giant" is a project by Syracuse artist Ty Marshal which re-creates the Cardiff Giant according to the original size specifications. Ty will be using Hypertufa, a mix of Portland cement, peat moss, and perlite (which creates a "lighter concrete" that can withstand harsh weather conditions). The project's focus defines a lineage to Central New York's history as a creative community, how religious fundamentalism has affected modern culture in Upstate New York and throughout the nation, and the origin of arts and entertainment (notably "pop culture") in the United States, and how arts and culture serves as an economic engine.

From Here to There: Alec Soth's America
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, members and children under 5 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From Here to There: Alec Soth's America" provides a focused look at an extraordinary photographer whose compelling images of the American road and its unexpected turns form powerful narrative vignettes. The exhibition will be the artist's first major survey assembled in the United States, exploring over 15 years of his career, and including an extensive new body of work.

Since his inclusion in the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo biennials, Soth's reputation as one of the most interesting voices in contemporary photography has continued to grow. Though he has followed the itinerant path laid forth by photographers such as Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Stephen Shore, Soth's is a distinct perspective, one in which the wandering, searching, and the process of telling is as resonant as the record of these remarkable encounters. When considered together, Soth's pictures probe the individualities of people, objects, and places he encounters; offer insight to broader sociologies, and in the process form a collective portrait of an unexpected America.

Featuring approximately 100 photographs made between 1994 and the present, "From Here to There" will include rarely-seen early black-and-white images as well as examples from Soth's best-known series "Sleeping by the Mississippi" and "Niagara." Interspersed throughout the exhibition will be a broad range of portraits made over the past 15 years. The exhibition will also include a new body of work the artist has been developing since 2006, exploring places of escape in America and individuals who seek to flee civilization for a life off the grid. To add insight into Soth's process, the exhibition additionally features a Library space, which includes a reading area for publications, a selection of maquettes for book and 'zine projects, short video works, and ephemera gathered on the road.

Margie Hughto: A Fired Landscape
Everson Museum of Art

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

Internationally renowned ceramic artist Margie Hughto presents her first site-specific museum installation entitled A Fired Landscape, a "clay painting" spanning 50 feet of gallery wall space. Inspired by the artist's spectacular backyard gardens and natural landscape just steps from her studio, The Fired Landscape installation consists of Setting Sun, a brilliantly colored ceramic wall relief displayed continuously on five angled walls. The visitor encounter is reminiscent of what one experiences when surrounded by the natural environment. Overall, Setting Sun is a ceramic abstraction, but Hughto establishes a connection to the landscape that inspired it by adding impressions of natural objects such as native ferns, marine life and fossils, into the wet clay and then coating the surfaces with brilliant color. The rich palette of burnt oranges and fiery reds evoke the sun’s glowing light and radiating warmth. Tiny pieces of glass embedded in the clay prior to firing add sparkle to the glossy green and blue glazes used to suggest the artist's lily pond.

Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art: Apex, Chor Boogie, and Jet Martinez
The Warehouse Gallery

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

California-based street artists Apex, Chor Boogie, and Jet Martinez will create new temporary murals inside the Warehouse Gallery. The work is based on improvisation, collaboration, and the notion that how and what they paint is recognizably Californian in its focus on strong colors, patterns, forms, and nature.

Their language consists of colorful abstract forms pertaining to optical illusions and movement, faces, evoking real and imaginary urban settings, and tropical imaginary landscapes. All three of them have significantly contributed to public art in San Francisco, San Diego, and other major cities within (Minneapolis; Washington, DC) and outside of the United States (Beijing, Dubai, Oaxaca, Sydney, Tokyo, Zurich) through their use of spray (Apex, Chor) and traditional paint (Jet Martinez) to achieve elaborate compositions with high attention to detail.

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Illusions of Grandeur: Art Exhibition and Book Release
Echo

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

On display: a collection of Ling Tang's graphite drawings and the debut of Ling's Le Style Moderne book: Illusions of Grandeur.

Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Nan Smith, ceramist
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Great Jewish Writers Series: Life and Times of Isaac Bashevis Singer
Temple Society of Concord
Featuring Sanford Sternlicht

Price: Free (donations welcome)
Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

Professor Sandy Sternlicht will discuss the Life and Times of Isaac Bashevis Singer, late great novelist and short-story writer who, in 1978, became the only Yiddish author to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. The free lecture is part of the "Great Jewish Writers" lecture series being offered by The Judaic Studies Program in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences and the Jewish Federation of Central New York. The lecture will be preceded by a dramatic reading of one of Singer's finest short stories.

G. Love & Special Sauce, with The Apache Relay, Kristy Lee
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Windows Project: Oscar Garces: Transcendence
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cuban-born, and Syracuse-based artist Oscar Garces' site-specific mural in the Window Projects space will offer a local echo to "Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art". This is his first solo exhibition. Both exhibitions will be organized in conjunction with the Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations in Syracuse.

Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exploration of identity within a unique part of the Syracuse community is the subject of "Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality," an exhibition by Bob Gates, photographer and professor emeritus of English.

The exhibition is part of the 2011 Syracuse Symposium, presented by the SU Humanities Center for SU's College of Arts and Sciences and for the entire Syracuse community. "Identity" is the theme of this year's symposium.

Gates calls the project "a collaborative urban portrait" of the people who inhabit a unique and vibrant urban space in the heart of Syracuse, which is soon to disappear -- the bus transfer stations at the corner of Fayette and Salina streets. The project began with a simple question of identity -- who are these people?

Gates is a nationally recognized photographer whose work has been featured in dozens of publications, including National Geographic Traveler, Outdoor Photographer and Popular Photography. Since 2006, his photography has been the subject of more than 20 exhibitions throughout the Northeast, garnering him numerous honors and awards, including third place in the nature category of Photo Life magazine’s international competition.

Life Blood: Women in Haudenosaunee Art
LeMoyne College

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

In recognition of November as Native American Heritage Month, the Wilson Art Gallery, along with the gender and women's studies program, will sponsor an exhibition of traditional and contemporary works of Haudenosaunee women artists, as well as works that honor women by other Haudenosaunee artists.

According to Tom Huff, curator and artist, "The exhibit features the contemporary mix medium works by local Haudenosaunee women who draw on traditional culture and beliefs. Tradition is the life blood of these contemporary works. These traditions extend from the oral history of the creation story that honors Mother Earth and acknowledges women's relationship with Grandmother Moon and Life Giving Sustenance, the Three Sisters. As a matrilineal society, women are held in high regard for their leadership roles within the community and family. Within the Haudenosaunee Nations, women carry the title of clan mothers who oversee ceremonies, give clan names and maintain the authority for choosing and removing chiefs within the nation’s traditional council government. Within the family, women are the center of support and the lifeline in everyday life and decision making that sustains the strength of the extended family. This exhibit honors and celebrates this continued role of women through artistic expressions, maintaining the life blood of the nations."

For more information, phone 315-445-4153.

Natural Selections: Works by Bob Ripley
Baltimore Woods

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

The exhibit of wildlife paintings in transparent watercolors.

Shane LaVancher and Clémentine Allain Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Shane LaVancher and Clementine Allain, respectively from New York and Paris are artists who consistently attempt to stretch the concepts of fashion and its aesthetics. Their images playfully nudge the lines between pop art, contemporary poetic vision, and hard-line fashion. The duo works from their intuition with the fickle fashion industry in mind. The element of presence within their images reflects their attention to contemporary fashion, but also the essence of the age we live in.

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

Just One Word: Plastics
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

For more than a century, plastics have transformed our lives -- from bathroom to battlefield; from supermarket to spacecraft. Begun as a 19th-century replacement material for billiard balls and piano keys, plastics spurred 20th century developments in industry, transportation, medicine, entertainment, and other aspects of contemporary life. The original objects of "Just One Word: Plastics" represent a material history of the modern world.

This exhibition features a representative sample of the Plastics Collection at the Syracuse University Library and presents an overview of major trends in the development of plastics in everyday life. The exhibit focuses on personal and household objects rather than the use of plastics in industry where they are also widely used. Approximately 250 objects divided into 12 categories will be on view. In addition, a small selection of manuscripts and printed materials will be included.

Specific objects to be featured in the exhibition are:
* ornate celluloid combs and a wide variety of plastic toiletries
* phenolic (Bakelite) objects from the 1920s and 30s including jewelry, radios, and other appliances and games
* musical instruments
* post-war toys, dishes, and household items
* original patent books of John Wesley Hyatt, inventor of Celluloid
* product catalogues from the 1930s and 1950s for popular items such as DuPont French Ivory dresser sets, Boltaware molded "stoneware" dishes, and Tupperware, and
* the Pleur-evac, a revolutionary plastic medical device for draining fluid and maintaining pressure in the lungs that helped save the life of President Ronald Reagan.

The Plastics Collection was begun in 2007 as a joint project of the Syracuse University Library and the Plastics History & Artifacts Committee of the Plastics Pioneers Association. The Collection expanded dramatically when the National Plastics Center and Museum in Leominster, MA, closed and transferred its artifacts, books, and manuscripts to Syracuse University's care in 2008.

Aphotic Ardor: Works by Kristie Hayes-Beaulieu
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

An exhibit of variety. Diversity. Progression. Connections. Past and present. Growth. Reclusion. Pain and suffering, as well as extreme bliss. Also view a sneak preview in one of our gallery rooms of Kristie's X-ray-inspired work that will be on display at the SUNY Health Science Center in December.

Whereas I Took the Butterfly: Works by Deloss McGraw
YMCA Arts Branch GallerY

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit of literary "poster paintings" features Deloss McGraw's reflections/interpretations of such writers as Dickinson, Hemingway, Snodgrass and others, often using photographs of the authors, book covers, or other borrowed images.

Layers
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lynette Blake: oil paintings on canvas
Carol Ackles: hand built and wheel thrown ceramics
Jan Navales: hand dyed, screen printed, stitched and beaded fabric wall hangings

Invitational with Photographer Tim Etter
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

African Diasporan Treasures: 40 Years of Community Folk Art Center
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition will showcase pieces from CFAC's permanent collection. Featuring over 30 works by artists including Joel Gaines, Ellen Oppler, Jack White, Denise Cole and Kamiiron Pritchard, "African Diasporan Treasures" provides a rare opportunity for visitors to experience the rich artistic history of CFAC. In many cases, the pieces have not been displayed for decades. The show will also feature African art that was once part of the Smithsonian Museum's collection.

Art Gone Wild! Prints and Paintings by Animals of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo

Price: Free for members or with zoo admission
Rosamond Gifford Zoo
One Conservation Place, Syracuse

Striking and extraordinary works of art created by the animals living at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo illustrate the depth of keeper care and behavioral enrichment vital in maintaining healthy and engaged animals. The exhibition includes several pieces produced by trunks, paws, feet, hooves, scales, skin and, of course, brushes.

James Dwyer: Remembering the Man and His Art

Price: Free
Art Shops at Delavan Center
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A celebratory exhibit mounted in honor of Syracuse University Professor Emeritus James Dwyer and his lifetime contributions to art and education. "Remembering the Man and His Art" is being produced by four of Dwyer's friends and colleagues: Michael Sickler, SU Professor Emeritus in painting and drawing; Nicholas Todisco, art teacher at Onondaga Community College; Bill Delavan, owner of the Delavan Center; and Caroline Szozda-McGowan, owner of Szozda Gallery.

Edifice
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Mexican-born, New York City-based artists Gabriela Alva C. and Natalia Porter present their collaborative project, Edifice. Curated by Pedro Cuperman, the show features Alva and Porter in response to the work of Boston artist Andrew Witkin's writings.

Having partnered in previous projects as curator/artist and as co-curators, Porter and Alva now team up as artists for the first time. For this exhibit, they employ a series of texts and diagrams by Boston-based Andrew Witkin to serve as a bridge, from written word to spatial arrangement, and from artist to writer to curator, warping the term collaboration to be more and more dynamic. Witkin's writings, which can be read as lists, are accumulations of thoughts that suggest a sense of order, but still remain abstract. They are organized in an undefined way and yet are quite concrete. They repeat, are rhythmic and include a sense of time and space. Both Porter and Alva respond to the juxtaposition of order and abstraction, as well as to the visual composition of Witkin's publications. Working collectively and individually, these artists push the means, methods and roles of an exhibition and its participants, seeking and constantly finding new points of contact.

Self Expressed: Works of Mary Fragapane
Redhouse

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

Fragapane is best known for her enigmatic female figures that seek to capture the intangibles of joy, passion, and the beauty of the human spirit. Working in an expressive style on un-gessoed canvas, she uses a layering process incorporating acrylic paints, chalk and oil pastels, pencil, and water.

Fragapane has exhibited extensively in Manhattan and throughout New York, Cleveland, California and internationally on the Island of Curacao. In addition to her solo shows, she has been commissioned for numerous Public Art projects.

The American Look: Fashion and Furnishings of the Arts and Crafts Era
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

A new exhibition unites original Arts and Crafts Movement furnishings, with an emphasis on those designed by Gustav Stickley, with clothing worn by American women during 1909-1913 -- a rarely seen combination.

Exhibition curator Jeffrey Mayer, an associate professor and program coordinator of fashion design in VPA's Department of Design, selected the garments in "The American Look" from the fashion design program's Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, which he also curates. The furniture, consisting of original pieces produced between 1906-1911, is on loan from David Rudd and Debbie Goldwein of Dalton's American Decorative Arts in Syracuse. Many of the pieces on view are unparalleled examples of the work of Gustav Stickley, none of which have been previously exhibited to the public.

For more information, contact Mayer or Lauren Tagliaferro, registrar of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, at 315-443-4644.

In the Abstract
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Szozda Gallery ushers in the fall with an engaging show featuring four noted artists who reveal meaning in their abstract works created through different pathways. "In The Abstract" is the kind of exhibition that compels interaction between artist and viewer to look beyond beauty of color and structure for a relationship to one's very existence in the world in which we live. Artists Roscha Folger, Linda Bigness, Lauren Bristol, and Kwangpyo (Steve) Koh offer insights into the realm of abstractionism in their works of mixed media, paintings, fiber art, and hand carved sculptures.

There's a Sucker Born Every Minute: Re-creating the Cardiff Giant

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

"There's a Sucker Born Every Minute: Re-creating the Cardiff Giant" is a project by Syracuse artist Ty Marshal which re-creates the Cardiff Giant according to the original size specifications. Ty will be using Hypertufa, a mix of Portland cement, peat moss, and perlite (which creates a "lighter concrete" that can withstand harsh weather conditions). The project's focus defines a lineage to Central New York's history as a creative community, how religious fundamentalism has affected modern culture in Upstate New York and throughout the nation, and the origin of arts and entertainment (notably "pop culture") in the United States, and how arts and culture serves as an economic engine.

A Magnificent Obsession: Selections from the Hamilton Armstrong Collection of Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For decades, Hamilton Armstrong of Fayetteville, NY has been collecting prints created by some of most important and well-known American and European artists of the last 200 years. While only a fraction of the number of works he collected will be exhibited, this show will demonstrate two areas of great interest to Armstrong.

First is the area of architectural etching that began in 19th century Europe and continued into 20th century American printmaking. Consisting of more than 30 prints by Charles Meryon, John Taylor Arms, Samuel Chamberlain, and others, this part of the exhibition highlights an impressive selection of Meryon's rare etchings.

The second part of the show is a series of wood engravings done by Fritz Eichenberg for a reprint of Emily Bronte's classic novel, Wuthering Heights. These images are rare artist proof prints for the 1943 Random House edition of the novel and have been considered some of best illustrations of the 19th century classic because they capture the drama of author's text without adding superfluous material.

Weekend and evening visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Margie Hughto: A Fired Landscape
Everson Museum of Art

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

Internationally renowned ceramic artist Margie Hughto presents her first site-specific museum installation entitled A Fired Landscape, a "clay painting" spanning 50 feet of gallery wall space. Inspired by the artist's spectacular backyard gardens and natural landscape just steps from her studio, The Fired Landscape installation consists of Setting Sun, a brilliantly colored ceramic wall relief displayed continuously on five angled walls. The visitor encounter is reminiscent of what one experiences when surrounded by the natural environment. Overall, Setting Sun is a ceramic abstraction, but Hughto establishes a connection to the landscape that inspired it by adding impressions of natural objects such as native ferns, marine life and fossils, into the wet clay and then coating the surfaces with brilliant color. The rich palette of burnt oranges and fiery reds evoke the sun’s glowing light and radiating warmth. Tiny pieces of glass embedded in the clay prior to firing add sparkle to the glossy green and blue glazes used to suggest the artist's lily pond.

From Here to There: Alec Soth's America
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, members and children under 5 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From Here to There: Alec Soth's America" provides a focused look at an extraordinary photographer whose compelling images of the American road and its unexpected turns form powerful narrative vignettes. The exhibition will be the artist's first major survey assembled in the United States, exploring over 15 years of his career, and including an extensive new body of work.

Since his inclusion in the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo biennials, Soth's reputation as one of the most interesting voices in contemporary photography has continued to grow. Though he has followed the itinerant path laid forth by photographers such as Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Stephen Shore, Soth's is a distinct perspective, one in which the wandering, searching, and the process of telling is as resonant as the record of these remarkable encounters. When considered together, Soth's pictures probe the individualities of people, objects, and places he encounters; offer insight to broader sociologies, and in the process form a collective portrait of an unexpected America.

Featuring approximately 100 photographs made between 1994 and the present, "From Here to There" will include rarely-seen early black-and-white images as well as examples from Soth's best-known series "Sleeping by the Mississippi" and "Niagara." Interspersed throughout the exhibition will be a broad range of portraits made over the past 15 years. The exhibition will also include a new body of work the artist has been developing since 2006, exploring places of escape in America and individuals who seek to flee civilization for a life off the grid. To add insight into Soth's process, the exhibition additionally features a Library space, which includes a reading area for publications, a selection of maquettes for book and 'zine projects, short video works, and ephemera gathered on the road.

Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art: Apex, Chor Boogie, and Jet Martinez
The Warehouse Gallery

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

California-based street artists Apex, Chor Boogie, and Jet Martinez will create new temporary murals inside the Warehouse Gallery. The work is based on improvisation, collaboration, and the notion that how and what they paint is recognizably Californian in its focus on strong colors, patterns, forms, and nature.

Their language consists of colorful abstract forms pertaining to optical illusions and movement, faces, evoking real and imaginary urban settings, and tropical imaginary landscapes. All three of them have significantly contributed to public art in San Francisco, San Diego, and other major cities within (Minneapolis; Washington, DC) and outside of the United States (Beijing, Dubai, Oaxaca, Sydney, Tokyo, Zurich) through their use of spray (Apex, Chor) and traditional paint (Jet Martinez) to achieve elaborate compositions with high attention to detail.

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SU @ CU; CU @ SU
XL Projects

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Art students from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) and Colgate University will be showcasing the high standards and diversity of their work at galleries on each other's campuses.

Colgate art students will exhibit their work 10/19-11/6.
VPA student work will be shown 11/9-11/27.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com or visit vpa.syr.edu/xl-projects.

Illusions of Grandeur: Art Exhibition and Book Release
Echo

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

On display: a collection of Ling Tang's graphite drawings and the debut of Ling's Le Style Moderne book: Illusions of Grandeur.

The Machine/La Maquina: The Art of Favianna Rodriguez
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The work of Favianna Rodriguez embodies an art and cultural practice that gives voices to disenfranchised people all over the world, transforming it into a tool for agitation, inspiration, and action. The exhibition, The Machine/La Maquina will feature some of Favianna's newest works. Favianna's composites reflect literal and imaginative migration, global community, and interdependence. Whether her subjects are immigrant youth in the USA, land workers fighting for their survival, or her own abstract self portraits, Rodriguez brings new audiences into the art world by refocusing the cultural lens.

Our Sporting Life: The Heroes, The Highlights, The History
Onondaga Historical Association

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

This local sports history exhibit will highlight a variety of sports equipment, photographs, ephemera, and most importantly, the people involved in making sports history come alive. From baseball, to basketball, to football, hockey, bowling, and more, the exhibit will recount the "thrill of victory and the agony of defeat" for our local sports history makers. Visitors will learn more about Syracuse’s professional basketball team, women athletes, ice boating on Onondaga Lake, past Syracuse hockey teams, as well as African American athletes such as Moses Fleetwood Walker. Guests will also get a chance to see some vintage trophies, uniforms, equipment, and images of our local competitors in action.

The State of the Earth
University Lectures
Featuring Moira Gunn, Host of NPR's Tech Nation

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Four pre-eminent women scientists will discuss "The State of the Earth" in an interview-style conversation with Moira Gunn, host of National Public Radio's Tech Nation. Carol Finn, research geophysicist at the U. S. Geological Survey and president-elect of the American Geophysical Union; Pamela Matson, an interdisciplinary Earth scientist; and Elsa Reichmanis, professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, will talk about how we work to reconcile the needs of people and the planet in the 21st century.

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Lake Effect Winds
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Perennial favorite Lake Effect Winds perform two 20th-century quintet classics Carl Nielsen's Qunitet and Irving Fine's Partita.

Lotus, with Keys N Krates
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Terese Svoboda, fiction
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

The reading will be preceded by a question and answer session from 3:45-4:30. The public is welcome.

Stone Canoe Poetry Night
Featuring David Lloyd, Beth Twiddy, Charles Martin, Jesse Nissim

ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Stone Canoe Poets -- a reading by a sampling of poets who have been featured in the highly-regarded Syracuse University journal of arts, literature and social commentary: David Lloyd, Beth Twiddy, Charles Martin and Jesse Nissim. Each will discuss and read from their latest book.

For more information, email stonecanoe@syr.edu or phone 315-443-4165.

The Boys Next Door
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Comedy and compassion in a group home for the developmentally disabled, by Tom Griffin.

Meet Arnold Wiggins. He's basically a nervous person. He lives with Lucien P. Smith who likes to read very big books, and Norman who works in the doughnut shop, and Barry who imagines he is a golf pro (lessons $1.13 per hour). In addition to an apartment, these guys share a caseworker names Jack who, despite his genuine concern for his clients, is on the verge of of a total burn-out. The Boys Next Door is a gentle comedy from the late 80s set in a group home for the developmentally disabled. As playwright Griffin reveals the daily struggles of his characters to make sense of their world and their places in it, he reminds us to consider how much we take for granted every day. Timothy Bond is very funny and very touching.

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The Boys Next Door
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Comedy and compassion in a group home for the developmentally disabled, by Tom Griffin.

Meet Arnold Wiggins. He's basically a nervous person. He lives with Lucien P. Smith who likes to read very big books, and Norman who works in the doughnut shop, and Barry who imagines he is a golf pro (lessons $1.13 per hour). In addition to an apartment, these guys share a caseworker names Jack who, despite his genuine concern for his clients, is on the verge of of a total burn-out. The Boys Next Door is a gentle comedy from the late 80s set in a group home for the developmentally disabled. As playwright Griffin reveals the daily struggles of his characters to make sense of their world and their places in it, he reminds us to consider how much we take for granted every day. Timothy Bond is very funny and very touching.

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The Complete History of America Abridged (Abridged)
Black Box Players
Marcelo Pereira, director

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

The Complete History of America Abridged (Abridged), by Adam Long, Reed Martin, and Austin Tichenor, is exactly what it sounds like. This fast-paced, witty, and wacky show pokes fun at our country's past. Come see this hysterical recap of American history, right smack in the middle of prime time election campaigns. Who knows? You might learn a thing or two.

Reservations recommended. Email blackboxplayerstickets@gmail.com with your full name and the names of the people joining you, date of performance you wish to attend, and how many seats you wish to reserve. You will receive either a confirmation e-mail or phone call closer to the date of the performance verifying your reservation.

Ticket reservations will not be honored if they are made after 7:00pm the day before the performance. For most performances, there will be a walk-up list with ten seats available with the House Manager starting an hour before curtain. You will lose your reserved seat if you are not present ten minutes before performance.

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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Windows Project: Oscar Garces: Transcendence
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cuban-born, and Syracuse-based artist Oscar Garces' site-specific mural in the Window Projects space will offer a local echo to "Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art". This is his first solo exhibition. Both exhibitions will be organized in conjunction with the Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations in Syracuse.

Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exploration of identity within a unique part of the Syracuse community is the subject of "Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality," an exhibition by Bob Gates, photographer and professor emeritus of English.

The exhibition is part of the 2011 Syracuse Symposium, presented by the SU Humanities Center for SU's College of Arts and Sciences and for the entire Syracuse community. "Identity" is the theme of this year's symposium.

Gates calls the project "a collaborative urban portrait" of the people who inhabit a unique and vibrant urban space in the heart of Syracuse, which is soon to disappear -- the bus transfer stations at the corner of Fayette and Salina streets. The project began with a simple question of identity -- who are these people?

Gates is a nationally recognized photographer whose work has been featured in dozens of publications, including National Geographic Traveler, Outdoor Photographer and Popular Photography. Since 2006, his photography has been the subject of more than 20 exhibitions throughout the Northeast, garnering him numerous honors and awards, including third place in the nature category of Photo Life magazine’s international competition.

Life Blood: Women in Haudenosaunee Art
LeMoyne College

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

In recognition of November as Native American Heritage Month, the Wilson Art Gallery, along with the gender and women's studies program, will sponsor an exhibition of traditional and contemporary works of Haudenosaunee women artists, as well as works that honor women by other Haudenosaunee artists.

According to Tom Huff, curator and artist, "The exhibit features the contemporary mix medium works by local Haudenosaunee women who draw on traditional culture and beliefs. Tradition is the life blood of these contemporary works. These traditions extend from the oral history of the creation story that honors Mother Earth and acknowledges women's relationship with Grandmother Moon and Life Giving Sustenance, the Three Sisters. As a matrilineal society, women are held in high regard for their leadership roles within the community and family. Within the Haudenosaunee Nations, women carry the title of clan mothers who oversee ceremonies, give clan names and maintain the authority for choosing and removing chiefs within the nation’s traditional council government. Within the family, women are the center of support and the lifeline in everyday life and decision making that sustains the strength of the extended family. This exhibit honors and celebrates this continued role of women through artistic expressions, maintaining the life blood of the nations."

For more information, phone 315-445-4153.

Natural Selections: Works by Bob Ripley
Baltimore Woods

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

The exhibit of wildlife paintings in transparent watercolors.

Shane LaVancher and Clémentine Allain Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Shane LaVancher and Clementine Allain, respectively from New York and Paris are artists who consistently attempt to stretch the concepts of fashion and its aesthetics. Their images playfully nudge the lines between pop art, contemporary poetic vision, and hard-line fashion. The duo works from their intuition with the fickle fashion industry in mind. The element of presence within their images reflects their attention to contemporary fashion, but also the essence of the age we live in.

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

Just One Word: Plastics
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

For more than a century, plastics have transformed our lives -- from bathroom to battlefield; from supermarket to spacecraft. Begun as a 19th-century replacement material for billiard balls and piano keys, plastics spurred 20th century developments in industry, transportation, medicine, entertainment, and other aspects of contemporary life. The original objects of "Just One Word: Plastics" represent a material history of the modern world.

This exhibition features a representative sample of the Plastics Collection at the Syracuse University Library and presents an overview of major trends in the development of plastics in everyday life. The exhibit focuses on personal and household objects rather than the use of plastics in industry where they are also widely used. Approximately 250 objects divided into 12 categories will be on view. In addition, a small selection of manuscripts and printed materials will be included.

Specific objects to be featured in the exhibition are:
* ornate celluloid combs and a wide variety of plastic toiletries
* phenolic (Bakelite) objects from the 1920s and 30s including jewelry, radios, and other appliances and games
* musical instruments
* post-war toys, dishes, and household items
* original patent books of John Wesley Hyatt, inventor of Celluloid
* product catalogues from the 1930s and 1950s for popular items such as DuPont French Ivory dresser sets, Boltaware molded "stoneware" dishes, and Tupperware, and
* the Pleur-evac, a revolutionary plastic medical device for draining fluid and maintaining pressure in the lungs that helped save the life of President Ronald Reagan.

The Plastics Collection was begun in 2007 as a joint project of the Syracuse University Library and the Plastics History & Artifacts Committee of the Plastics Pioneers Association. The Collection expanded dramatically when the National Plastics Center and Museum in Leominster, MA, closed and transferred its artifacts, books, and manuscripts to Syracuse University's care in 2008.

Aphotic Ardor: Works by Kristie Hayes-Beaulieu
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

An exhibit of variety. Diversity. Progression. Connections. Past and present. Growth. Reclusion. Pain and suffering, as well as extreme bliss. Also view a sneak preview in one of our gallery rooms of Kristie's X-ray-inspired work that will be on display at the SUNY Health Science Center in December.

Whereas I Took the Butterfly: Works by Deloss McGraw
YMCA Arts Branch GallerY

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit of literary "poster paintings" features Deloss McGraw's reflections/interpretations of such writers as Dickinson, Hemingway, Snodgrass and others, often using photographs of the authors, book covers, or other borrowed images.

Layers
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lynette Blake: oil paintings on canvas
Carol Ackles: hand built and wheel thrown ceramics
Jan Navales: hand dyed, screen printed, stitched and beaded fabric wall hangings

Invitational with Photographer Tim Etter
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

African Diasporan Treasures: 40 Years of Community Folk Art Center
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition will showcase pieces from CFAC's permanent collection. Featuring over 30 works by artists including Joel Gaines, Ellen Oppler, Jack White, Denise Cole and Kamiiron Pritchard, "African Diasporan Treasures" provides a rare opportunity for visitors to experience the rich artistic history of CFAC. In many cases, the pieces have not been displayed for decades. The show will also feature African art that was once part of the Smithsonian Museum's collection.

Art Gone Wild! Prints and Paintings by Animals of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo

Price: Free for members or with zoo admission
Rosamond Gifford Zoo
One Conservation Place, Syracuse

Striking and extraordinary works of art created by the animals living at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo illustrate the depth of keeper care and behavioral enrichment vital in maintaining healthy and engaged animals. The exhibition includes several pieces produced by trunks, paws, feet, hooves, scales, skin and, of course, brushes.

James Dwyer: Remembering the Man and His Art

Price: Free
Art Shops at Delavan Center
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A celebratory exhibit mounted in honor of Syracuse University Professor Emeritus James Dwyer and his lifetime contributions to art and education. "Remembering the Man and His Art" is being produced by four of Dwyer's friends and colleagues: Michael Sickler, SU Professor Emeritus in painting and drawing; Nicholas Todisco, art teacher at Onondaga Community College; Bill Delavan, owner of the Delavan Center; and Caroline Szozda-McGowan, owner of Szozda Gallery.

Edifice
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Mexican-born, New York City-based artists Gabriela Alva C. and Natalia Porter present their collaborative project, Edifice. Curated by Pedro Cuperman, the show features Alva and Porter in response to the work of Boston artist Andrew Witkin's writings.

Having partnered in previous projects as curator/artist and as co-curators, Porter and Alva now team up as artists for the first time. For this exhibit, they employ a series of texts and diagrams by Boston-based Andrew Witkin to serve as a bridge, from written word to spatial arrangement, and from artist to writer to curator, warping the term collaboration to be more and more dynamic. Witkin's writings, which can be read as lists, are accumulations of thoughts that suggest a sense of order, but still remain abstract. They are organized in an undefined way and yet are quite concrete. They repeat, are rhythmic and include a sense of time and space. Both Porter and Alva respond to the juxtaposition of order and abstraction, as well as to the visual composition of Witkin's publications. Working collectively and individually, these artists push the means, methods and roles of an exhibition and its participants, seeking and constantly finding new points of contact.

Self Expressed: Works of Mary Fragapane
Redhouse

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

Fragapane is best known for her enigmatic female figures that seek to capture the intangibles of joy, passion, and the beauty of the human spirit. Working in an expressive style on un-gessoed canvas, she uses a layering process incorporating acrylic paints, chalk and oil pastels, pencil, and water.

Fragapane has exhibited extensively in Manhattan and throughout New York, Cleveland, California and internationally on the Island of Curacao. In addition to her solo shows, she has been commissioned for numerous Public Art projects.

The American Look: Fashion and Furnishings of the Arts and Crafts Era
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

A new exhibition unites original Arts and Crafts Movement furnishings, with an emphasis on those designed by Gustav Stickley, with clothing worn by American women during 1909-1913 -- a rarely seen combination.

Exhibition curator Jeffrey Mayer, an associate professor and program coordinator of fashion design in VPA's Department of Design, selected the garments in "The American Look" from the fashion design program's Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, which he also curates. The furniture, consisting of original pieces produced between 1906-1911, is on loan from David Rudd and Debbie Goldwein of Dalton's American Decorative Arts in Syracuse. Many of the pieces on view are unparalleled examples of the work of Gustav Stickley, none of which have been previously exhibited to the public.

For more information, contact Mayer or Lauren Tagliaferro, registrar of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, at 315-443-4644.

In the Abstract
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Szozda Gallery ushers in the fall with an engaging show featuring four noted artists who reveal meaning in their abstract works created through different pathways. "In The Abstract" is the kind of exhibition that compels interaction between artist and viewer to look beyond beauty of color and structure for a relationship to one's very existence in the world in which we live. Artists Roscha Folger, Linda Bigness, Lauren Bristol, and Kwangpyo (Steve) Koh offer insights into the realm of abstractionism in their works of mixed media, paintings, fiber art, and hand carved sculptures.

Photography on the Edge: Between Realism and Abstraction
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The show features photographs by Central New York artists that address the relationship between realistic representation and abstract concepts. Participating artists include Willson Cummer, Bob Gates, Elisabeth Groat, Peter Mahan, Yolanda Tooley, Jeanann Wieners, Diana Whiting, and Jamie Young.

The co-curators, Jen Gandee and Syracuse-area photographer, Bob Gates, in selecting work for this show, were looking for images that are true to the perennial conflict in the history of photography between representational and non-representational images. The same conflicting impulses that have shaped other forms of art--realism, impressionism, expressionism, abstraction, surrealism--have had their adherents among photographers. The works in this exhibit show how some photographers in Central New York respond to or participate in that complex history.

There's a Sucker Born Every Minute: Re-creating the Cardiff Giant

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

"There's a Sucker Born Every Minute: Re-creating the Cardiff Giant" is a project by Syracuse artist Ty Marshal which re-creates the Cardiff Giant according to the original size specifications. Ty will be using Hypertufa, a mix of Portland cement, peat moss, and perlite (which creates a "lighter concrete" that can withstand harsh weather conditions). The project's focus defines a lineage to Central New York's history as a creative community, how religious fundamentalism has affected modern culture in Upstate New York and throughout the nation, and the origin of arts and entertainment (notably "pop culture") in the United States, and how arts and culture serves as an economic engine.

A Magnificent Obsession: Selections from the Hamilton Armstrong Collection of Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For decades, Hamilton Armstrong of Fayetteville, NY has been collecting prints created by some of most important and well-known American and European artists of the last 200 years. While only a fraction of the number of works he collected will be exhibited, this show will demonstrate two areas of great interest to Armstrong.

First is the area of architectural etching that began in 19th century Europe and continued into 20th century American printmaking. Consisting of more than 30 prints by Charles Meryon, John Taylor Arms, Samuel Chamberlain, and others, this part of the exhibition highlights an impressive selection of Meryon's rare etchings.

The second part of the show is a series of wood engravings done by Fritz Eichenberg for a reprint of Emily Bronte's classic novel, Wuthering Heights. These images are rare artist proof prints for the 1943 Random House edition of the novel and have been considered some of best illustrations of the 19th century classic because they capture the drama of author's text without adding superfluous material.

Weekend and evening visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

From Here to There: Alec Soth's America
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, members and children under 5 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From Here to There: Alec Soth's America" provides a focused look at an extraordinary photographer whose compelling images of the American road and its unexpected turns form powerful narrative vignettes. The exhibition will be the artist's first major survey assembled in the United States, exploring over 15 years of his career, and including an extensive new body of work.

Since his inclusion in the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo biennials, Soth's reputation as one of the most interesting voices in contemporary photography has continued to grow. Though he has followed the itinerant path laid forth by photographers such as Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Stephen Shore, Soth's is a distinct perspective, one in which the wandering, searching, and the process of telling is as resonant as the record of these remarkable encounters. When considered together, Soth's pictures probe the individualities of people, objects, and places he encounters; offer insight to broader sociologies, and in the process form a collective portrait of an unexpected America.

Featuring approximately 100 photographs made between 1994 and the present, "From Here to There" will include rarely-seen early black-and-white images as well as examples from Soth's best-known series "Sleeping by the Mississippi" and "Niagara." Interspersed throughout the exhibition will be a broad range of portraits made over the past 15 years. The exhibition will also include a new body of work the artist has been developing since 2006, exploring places of escape in America and individuals who seek to flee civilization for a life off the grid. To add insight into Soth's process, the exhibition additionally features a Library space, which includes a reading area for publications, a selection of maquettes for book and 'zine projects, short video works, and ephemera gathered on the road.

Margie Hughto: A Fired Landscape
Everson Museum of Art

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

Internationally renowned ceramic artist Margie Hughto presents her first site-specific museum installation entitled A Fired Landscape, a "clay painting" spanning 50 feet of gallery wall space. Inspired by the artist's spectacular backyard gardens and natural landscape just steps from her studio, The Fired Landscape installation consists of Setting Sun, a brilliantly colored ceramic wall relief displayed continuously on five angled walls. The visitor encounter is reminiscent of what one experiences when surrounded by the natural environment. Overall, Setting Sun is a ceramic abstraction, but Hughto establishes a connection to the landscape that inspired it by adding impressions of natural objects such as native ferns, marine life and fossils, into the wet clay and then coating the surfaces with brilliant color. The rich palette of burnt oranges and fiery reds evoke the sun’s glowing light and radiating warmth. Tiny pieces of glass embedded in the clay prior to firing add sparkle to the glossy green and blue glazes used to suggest the artist's lily pond.

Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art: Apex, Chor Boogie, and Jet Martinez
The Warehouse Gallery

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

California-based street artists Apex, Chor Boogie, and Jet Martinez will create new temporary murals inside the Warehouse Gallery. The work is based on improvisation, collaboration, and the notion that how and what they paint is recognizably Californian in its focus on strong colors, patterns, forms, and nature.

Their language consists of colorful abstract forms pertaining to optical illusions and movement, faces, evoking real and imaginary urban settings, and tropical imaginary landscapes. All three of them have significantly contributed to public art in San Francisco, San Diego, and other major cities within (Minneapolis; Washington, DC) and outside of the United States (Beijing, Dubai, Oaxaca, Sydney, Tokyo, Zurich) through their use of spray (Apex, Chor) and traditional paint (Jet Martinez) to achieve elaborate compositions with high attention to detail.

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XL Projects

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Art students from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) and Colgate University will be showcasing the high standards and diversity of their work at galleries on each other's campuses.

Colgate art students will exhibit their work 10/19-11/6.
VPA student work will be shown 11/9-11/27.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com or visit vpa.syr.edu/xl-projects.

Illusions of Grandeur: Art Exhibition and Book Release
Echo

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

On display: a collection of Ling Tang's graphite drawings and the debut of Ling's Le Style Moderne book: Illusions of Grandeur.

The Machine/La Maquina: The Art of Favianna Rodriguez
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The work of Favianna Rodriguez embodies an art and cultural practice that gives voices to disenfranchised people all over the world, transforming it into a tool for agitation, inspiration, and action. The exhibition, The Machine/La Maquina will feature some of Favianna's newest works. Favianna's composites reflect literal and imaginative migration, global community, and interdependence. Whether her subjects are immigrant youth in the USA, land workers fighting for their survival, or her own abstract self portraits, Rodriguez brings new audiences into the art world by refocusing the cultural lens.

Nathaniel Sullivan: On the Way to the Theatre, We Egged a Trans-am
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In this 1 minute-23 second video, Sullivan depicts the pressures brought to bear in teenage boys--most of which are pressures to be pleased, injunctions to enjoy. While at first glance this looks like an easy row to hoe, the work makes it clear that in fact there are consequences to taking one's pleasures liberally, without reserve. As Plato said, pleasure deranges as efficiently as pain.

Nathaniel Sullivan is an artist and writer. He received his MFA degree from the Transmedia Department at Syracuse University in Spring 2011. His practice is a balance of artwork, critical writing, and curating. His work has been shown in exhibitions and screenings in Syracuse, New York City, and widely across Canada. In 2006, he was awarded a Special Mention from the prestigious Montreal Film Festival.

Dying Oak, Wild Raspberry Bush: Works by Pae White
Urban Video Project

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

Two videos, Dying Oak/Elephant (3-min loop) and Ballerina (Wild Raspberry Bush)(1-min loop), both 2009, by internationally recognized artist and designer, Pae White.

These two video pieces employ high-tech 3D scanning and motion animation techniques and apply them to objects from the natural world, playfully interrogating the integrity of the human/nature divide. The result is a mesmerizing exploration of natural form in which perspective and scale are in constant flux, the data points coalescing for a moment to create an image that is almost hyper-real in its detail, and in the next dispersing into glowing abstractions that might be galaxies or cities at night.

Step Afrika!
Syracuse University Pulse Performing Arts Series

Price: $20 general, $16 faculty/staff/alumni/Pulse Partners, $5 with SU student ID
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Cartoon Networks Adult Swim Carnival

Price: Free
100 Block of Walton St.
Syracuse

The Syracuse Film Office in partnership with the Armory Square Association welcomes the Cartoon Network overnight program sensation "Adult Swim" to Armory Square. The evening will feature a variety of carnival games, prizes, a performance by Twin Shadow, and music from DJ 2 Short. Rain or shine!

A shuttle will be running 5:30-10:30 pm between Schine Student Center on University Place and the Block Party.

For more information, visit www.adultswimpresents.com.

Enchanted Beaver Lake

Price: $3 regular, children under 3 free. Parking $5 per car
Beaver Lake Nature Center
8477 E. Mud Lake Rd., Baldwinsville

Over 400 specially carved jack-o-lanterns of different shapes and sizes plus glowing luminaria light the way along two winding, wooded trails greeting participants as they venture through the darkness at the award-winning Enchanted Beaver Lake. Face painting, fortune telling, magic shows, and storytelling are all a part of this magical experience, one that is truly unique to Central New York. The Friends of Beaver Lake will be selling hotdogs, donuts, caramel apples, popcorn and cider.

"What If...?" Film Series: Brooklyn Matters
Gifford Foundation

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Brooklyn Matters addresses the issue of who makes decisions when urban neighborhoods are on the brink of change. Brooklyn Matters is a riveting look at how big real estate, politics, community voices, and the desperate need for jobs and housing clash in one of the largest development proposals in the history of New York City. The film poses vital, timely questions that are relevant to cities across the country, including Syracuse. Brooklyn Matters brings a depth of expert commentary to the debate and introduces many important community voices that have struggled to be heard on this project. This film's exploration of the risks that come with a concentration of power is important for anyone concerned with who has a voice and who has a vote in shaping the future of our cities. Brooklyn Matters has been called "a must see for all who care about the future of their neighborhoods and the role that public policy and process plays in determining that future." (Marilyn Gelber, Former Commissioner, New York City Department of Environmental Protection.)

Our Sporting Life: The Heroes, The Highlights, The History
Onondaga Historical Association

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

This local sports history exhibit will highlight a variety of sports equipment, photographs, ephemera, and most importantly, the people involved in making sports history come alive. From baseball, to basketball, to football, hockey, bowling, and more, the exhibit will recount the "thrill of victory and the agony of defeat" for our local sports history makers. Visitors will learn more about Syracuse’s professional basketball team, women athletes, ice boating on Onondaga Lake, past Syracuse hockey teams, as well as African American athletes such as Moses Fleetwood Walker. Guests will also get a chance to see some vintage trophies, uniforms, equipment, and images of our local competitors in action.

The Hour of Sunlight: One Palestinian's Journey from Prisoner to Peacemaker
LeMoyne College
Featuring Jen Marlowe

Price: Free
Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Identity of the Poet: A Reading by Dorianne Laux and Cornelius Eady
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Dorianne Laux's most recent collections are The Book of Men and Facts about the Moon (W.W. Norton). She is also co-author of a handbook on writing, The Poet's Companion. A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and winner of the Oregon Book Award, Laux is also author of Awake, What We Carry, and Smoke (BOA Editions), as well as a fine press edition, Dark Charms (Red Dragonfly Press). Recent poems appear in The American Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Margie, The Seattle Review, Tin House and Orion Magazine. Laux teaches poetry in the MFA Program at North Carolina State University and is founding faculty at Pacific University's Low Residency MFA Program.

Cornelius Eady's most recent book of poetry is Hardheaded Weather (Penguin, 2008), which has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Among his other books are Victims of the Latest Dance Craze (Ommation Press, 1986), winner of the 1985 Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets; The Autobiography of a Jukebox (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1997); and Brutal Imagination (Putnam, 2001). With poet Toi Derricote, Eady is cofounder of Cave Canem, a national organization for African American poetry and poets. His many honors include an NEA Literature Fellowship and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry. He is Professor of English and the Miller Family Endowed Chair in Literature and Writing at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Presented by the SU Humanities Center as part of the 2011 Syracuse Symposium on Identity.

Fiddler on the Loose
Acme Mystery Company

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

The milkman, Skeevya, and his family have been forced to leave their beloved little village of Havavodka and have immigrated to America. The quaint Russian countryside has been replaced by the bright lights of New York City and the old world traditions have been replaced by the new world permissions. In fact, Skeevya now has a new job ... with the Russian Mafia. At last he is a rich man! But how long can it last? Remember: You're gonna get a little on you when you're playing in the borscht.

For reservations, phone 315-475-1807 or email syracuse@meatballs.com.

The Boys Next Door
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

Comedy and compassion in a group home for the developmentally disabled, by Tom Griffin.

Meet Arnold Wiggins. He's basically a nervous person. He lives with Lucien P. Smith who likes to read very big books, and Norman who works in the doughnut shop, and Barry who imagines he is a golf pro (lessons $1.13 per hour). In addition to an apartment, these guys share a caseworker names Jack who, despite his genuine concern for his clients, is on the verge of of a total burn-out. The Boys Next Door is a gentle comedy from the late 80s set in a group home for the developmentally disabled. As playwright Griffin reveals the daily struggles of his characters to make sense of their world and their places in it, he reminds us to consider how much we take for granted every day. Timothy Bond is very funny and very touching.

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The Complete History of America Abridged (Abridged)
Black Box Players
Marcelo Pereira, director

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

The Complete History of America Abridged (Abridged), by Adam Long, Reed Martin, and Austin Tichenor, is exactly what it sounds like. This fast-paced, witty, and wacky show pokes fun at our country's past. Come see this hysterical recap of American history, right smack in the middle of prime time election campaigns. Who knows? You might learn a thing or two.

Reservations recommended. Email blackboxplayerstickets@gmail.com with your full name and the names of the people joining you, date of performance you wish to attend, and how many seats you wish to reserve. You will receive either a confirmation e-mail or phone call closer to the date of the performance verifying your reservation.

Ticket reservations will not be honored if they are made after 7:00pm the day before the performance. For most performances, there will be a walk-up list with ten seats available with the House Manager starting an hour before curtain. You will lose your reserved seat if you are not present ten minutes before performance.

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Rhinoceros
LeMoyne College
Matt Chiorini, director

Price: $15 regular, $10 senior, $4 student
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Eugene Ionesco's modern theatre classic, Rhinoceros is a masterpiece for all time, equally relevant in post-9/11 America as it was when first written in post-war Paris. A small town is besieged as its citizens are inexplicably transforming into rhinoceroses. The trampling becomes overwhelming, and more and more citizens join the lock-step march towards conformity in the face of terror. One sane man remains, unable to change his form and identity. The sublime is confused with the ridiculous in this savage commentary on the human condition and our knee-jerk reaction to fear of the unknown.

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The Exonerated
Rarely Done Productions
Linda Lance, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The Exonerated, by Jessica Bland and Erik Jensen, tells the true stories of six wrongfully convicted survivors of death row in their own words. The six interwoven stories paint a picture of an American criminal justice system gone horribly wrong -- and of the brave souls who persevered to survive it. Culled from interviews, letters, transcripts, case files and the public record. Winner: 2003 Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards. This show is intended for mature audiences only.

Part of the proceeds of this show go to The Exonerated Fund.

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Bat Boy: The Musical
Redhouse

Price: $25 regular, $15 members, $10 students with ID (tonight only)
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Based on the hysterical story in the Weekly World News, "Bat Boy Found in Cave," Bat Boy: The Musical is a comedy/horror show about a half-boy/half-bat creature who is discovered in a cave near Hope Falls, WV. Combine this remarkable story with a rock 'n' roll score and you've got an unforgettable evening complete with lots of laughs, lots of blood, and lots and lots of fun. Music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe. "Big laughs... It's remarkable what intelligent wit can accomplish--a jaggedly imaginative mix of skewering humor and energetic glee." -The New York Times

Tonight's performance is followed by the Bat Boy Blood Bash, a costume party featuring drink specials, costume contest, and an all-out dance party on the Redhouse stage with music from DJ AFAR. For only $10, college students can see both this hit musical and enjoy the Bat Boy Blood Bash. (Must present Student ID). For those who want to only attend the after party, there is a $5 cover at the door but those who arrive in costume will receive free admission.

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Friday, October 28, 2011

Windows Project: Oscar Garces: Transcendence
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Cuban-born, and Syracuse-based artist Oscar Garces' site-specific mural in the Window Projects space will offer a local echo to "Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art". This is his first solo exhibition. Both exhibitions will be organized in conjunction with the Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations in Syracuse.

Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exploration of identity within a unique part of the Syracuse community is the subject of "Last Transfer: Identity and Liminality," an exhibition by Bob Gates, photographer and professor emeritus of English.

The exhibition is part of the 2011 Syracuse Symposium, presented by the SU Humanities Center for SU's College of Arts and Sciences and for the entire Syracuse community. "Identity" is the theme of this year's symposium.

Gates calls the project "a collaborative urban portrait" of the people who inhabit a unique and vibrant urban space in the heart of Syracuse, which is soon to disappear -- the bus transfer stations at the corner of Fayette and Salina streets. The project began with a simple question of identity -- who are these people?

Gates is a nationally recognized photographer whose work has been featured in dozens of publications, including National Geographic Traveler, Outdoor Photographer and Popular Photography. Since 2006, his photography has been the subject of more than 20 exhibitions throughout the Northeast, garnering him numerous honors and awards, including third place in the nature category of Photo Life magazine’s international competition.

Life Blood: Women in Haudenosaunee Art
LeMoyne College

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

In recognition of November as Native American Heritage Month, the Wilson Art Gallery, along with the gender and women's studies program, will sponsor an exhibition of traditional and contemporary works of Haudenosaunee women artists, as well as works that honor women by other Haudenosaunee artists.

According to Tom Huff, curator and artist, "The exhibit features the contemporary mix medium works by local Haudenosaunee women who draw on traditional culture and beliefs. Tradition is the life blood of these contemporary works. These traditions extend from the oral history of the creation story that honors Mother Earth and acknowledges women's relationship with Grandmother Moon and Life Giving Sustenance, the Three Sisters. As a matrilineal society, women are held in high regard for their leadership roles within the community and family. Within the Haudenosaunee Nations, women carry the title of clan mothers who oversee ceremonies, give clan names and maintain the authority for choosing and removing chiefs within the nation’s traditional council government. Within the family, women are the center of support and the lifeline in everyday life and decision making that sustains the strength of the extended family. This exhibit honors and celebrates this continued role of women through artistic expressions, maintaining the life blood of the nations."

For more information, phone 315-445-4153.

Natural Selections: Works by Bob Ripley
Baltimore Woods

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

The exhibit of wildlife paintings in transparent watercolors.

Shane LaVancher and Clémentine Allain Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Shane LaVancher and Clementine Allain, respectively from New York and Paris are artists who consistently attempt to stretch the concepts of fashion and its aesthetics. Their images playfully nudge the lines between pop art, contemporary poetic vision, and hard-line fashion. The duo works from their intuition with the fickle fashion industry in mind. The element of presence within their images reflects their attention to contemporary fashion, but also the essence of the age we live in.

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

Just One Word: Plastics
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

For more than a century, plastics have transformed our lives -- from bathroom to battlefield; from supermarket to spacecraft. Begun as a 19th-century replacement material for billiard balls and piano keys, plastics spurred 20th century developments in industry, transportation, medicine, entertainment, and other aspects of contemporary life. The original objects of "Just One Word: Plastics" represent a material history of the modern world.

This exhibition features a representative sample of the Plastics Collection at the Syracuse University Library and presents an overview of major trends in the development of plastics in everyday life. The exhibit focuses on personal and household objects rather than the use of plastics in industry where they are also widely used. Approximately 250 objects divided into 12 categories will be on view. In addition, a small selection of manuscripts and printed materials will be included.

Specific objects to be featured in the exhibition are:
* ornate celluloid combs and a wide variety of plastic toiletries
* phenolic (Bakelite) objects from the 1920s and 30s including jewelry, radios, and other appliances and games
* musical instruments
* post-war toys, dishes, and household items
* original patent books of John Wesley Hyatt, inventor of Celluloid
* product catalogues from the 1930s and 1950s for popular items such as DuPont French Ivory dresser sets, Boltaware molded "stoneware" dishes, and Tupperware, and
* the Pleur-evac, a revolutionary plastic medical device for draining fluid and maintaining pressure in the lungs that helped save the life of President Ronald Reagan.

The Plastics Collection was begun in 2007 as a joint project of the Syracuse University Library and the Plastics History & Artifacts Committee of the Plastics Pioneers Association. The Collection expanded dramatically when the National Plastics Center and Museum in Leominster, MA, closed and transferred its artifacts, books, and manuscripts to Syracuse University's care in 2008.

Aphotic Ardor: Works by Kristie Hayes-Beaulieu
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

An exhibit of variety. Diversity. Progression. Connections. Past and present. Growth. Reclusion. Pain and suffering, as well as extreme bliss. Also view a sneak preview in one of our gallery rooms of Kristie's X-ray-inspired work that will be on display at the SUNY Health Science Center in December.

Whereas I Took the Butterfly: Works by Deloss McGraw
YMCA Arts Branch GallerY

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit of literary "poster paintings" features Deloss McGraw's reflections/interpretations of such writers as Dickinson, Hemingway, Snodgrass and others, often using photographs of the authors, book covers, or other borrowed images.

Layers
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lynette Blake: oil paintings on canvas
Carol Ackles: hand built and wheel thrown ceramics
Jan Navales: hand dyed, screen printed, stitched and beaded fabric wall hangings

Invitational with Photographer Tim Etter
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

African Diasporan Treasures: 40 Years of Community Folk Art Center
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition will showcase pieces from CFAC's permanent collection. Featuring over 30 works by artists including Joel Gaines, Ellen Oppler, Jack White, Denise Cole and Kamiiron Pritchard, "African Diasporan Treasures" provides a rare opportunity for visitors to experience the rich artistic history of CFAC. In many cases, the pieces have not been displayed for decades. The show will also feature African art that was once part of the Smithsonian Museum's collection.

Art Gone Wild! Prints and Paintings by Animals of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo

Price: Free for members or with zoo admission
Rosamond Gifford Zoo
One Conservation Place, Syracuse

Striking and extraordinary works of art created by the animals living at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo illustrate the depth of keeper care and behavioral enrichment vital in maintaining healthy and engaged animals. The exhibition includes several pieces produced by trunks, paws, feet, hooves, scales, skin and, of course, brushes.

James Dwyer: Remembering the Man and His Art

Price: Free
Art Shops at Delavan Center
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A celebratory exhibit mounted in honor of Syracuse University Professor Emeritus James Dwyer and his lifetime contributions to art and education. "Remembering the Man and His Art" is being produced by four of Dwyer's friends and colleagues: Michael Sickler, SU Professor Emeritus in painting and drawing; Nicholas Todisco, art teacher at Onondaga Community College; Bill Delavan, owner of the Delavan Center; and Caroline Szozda-McGowan, owner of Szozda Gallery.

Holiday Festival of Crafts

Price: $2
Dewitt Community Church
3600 Erie Blvd. East, Dewitt

Edifice
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Mexican-born, New York City-based artists Gabriela Alva C. and Natalia Porter present their collaborative project, Edifice. Curated by Pedro Cuperman, the show features Alva and Porter in response to the work of Boston artist Andrew Witkin's writings.

Having partnered in previous projects as curator/artist and as co-curators, Porter and Alva now team up as artists for the first time. For this exhibit, they employ a series of texts and diagrams by Boston-based Andrew Witkin to serve as a bridge, from written word to spatial arrangement, and from artist to writer to curator, warping the term collaboration to be more and more dynamic. Witkin's writings, which can be read as lists, are accumulations of thoughts that suggest a sense of order, but still remain abstract. They are organized in an undefined way and yet are quite concrete. They repeat, are rhythmic and include a sense of time and space. Both Porter and Alva respond to the juxtaposition of order and abstraction, as well as to the visual composition of Witkin's publications. Working collectively and individually, these artists push the means, methods and roles of an exhibition and its participants, seeking and constantly finding new points of contact.

Self Expressed: Works of Mary Fragapane
Redhouse

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

Fragapane is best known for her enigmatic female figures that seek to capture the intangibles of joy, passion, and the beauty of the human spirit. Working in an expressive style on un-gessoed canvas, she uses a layering process incorporating acrylic paints, chalk and oil pastels, pencil, and water.

Fragapane has exhibited extensively in Manhattan and throughout New York, Cleveland, California and internationally on the Island of Curacao. In addition to her solo shows, she has been commissioned for numerous Public Art projects.

The American Look: Fashion and Furnishings of the Arts and Crafts Era
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

A new exhibition unites original Arts and Crafts Movement furnishings, with an emphasis on those designed by Gustav Stickley, with clothing worn by American women during 1909-1913 -- a rarely seen combination.

Exhibition curator Jeffrey Mayer, an associate professor and program coordinator of fashion design in VPA's Department of Design, selected the garments in "The American Look" from the fashion design program's Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, which he also curates. The furniture, consisting of original pieces produced between 1906-1911, is on loan from David Rudd and Debbie Goldwein of Dalton's American Decorative Arts in Syracuse. Many of the pieces on view are unparalleled examples of the work of Gustav Stickley, none of which have been previously exhibited to the public.

For more information, contact Mayer or Lauren Tagliaferro, registrar of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, at 315-443-4644.

In the Abstract
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Szozda Gallery ushers in the fall with an engaging show featuring four noted artists who reveal meaning in their abstract works created through different pathways. "In The Abstract" is the kind of exhibition that compels interaction between artist and viewer to look beyond beauty of color and structure for a relationship to one's very existence in the world in which we live. Artists Roscha Folger, Linda Bigness, Lauren Bristol, and Kwangpyo (Steve) Koh offer insights into the realm of abstractionism in their works of mixed media, paintings, fiber art, and hand carved sculptures.

Photography on the Edge: Between Realism and Abstraction
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The show features photographs by Central New York artists that address the relationship between realistic representation and abstract concepts. Participating artists include Willson Cummer, Bob Gates, Elisabeth Groat, Peter Mahan, Yolanda Tooley, Jeanann Wieners, Diana Whiting, and Jamie Young.

The co-curators, Jen Gandee and Syracuse-area photographer, Bob Gates, in selecting work for this show, were looking for images that are true to the perennial conflict in the history of photography between representational and non-representational images. The same conflicting impulses that have shaped other forms of art--realism, impressionism, expressionism, abstraction, surrealism--have had their adherents among photographers. The works in this exhibit show how some photographers in Central New York respond to or participate in that complex history.

There's a Sucker Born Every Minute: Re-creating the Cardiff Giant

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

"There's a Sucker Born Every Minute: Re-creating the Cardiff Giant" is a project by Syracuse artist Ty Marshal which re-creates the Cardiff Giant according to the original size specifications. Ty will be using Hypertufa, a mix of Portland cement, peat moss, and perlite (which creates a "lighter concrete" that can withstand harsh weather conditions). The project's focus defines a lineage to Central New York's history as a creative community, how religious fundamentalism has affected modern culture in Upstate New York and throughout the nation, and the origin of arts and entertainment (notably "pop culture") in the United States, and how arts and culture serves as an economic engine.

A Magnificent Obsession: Selections from the Hamilton Armstrong Collection of Prints
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

For decades, Hamilton Armstrong of Fayetteville, NY has been collecting prints created by some of most important and well-known American and European artists of the last 200 years. While only a fraction of the number of works he collected will be exhibited, this show will demonstrate two areas of great interest to Armstrong.

First is the area of architectural etching that began in 19th century Europe and continued into 20th century American printmaking. Consisting of more than 30 prints by Charles Meryon, John Taylor Arms, Samuel Chamberlain, and others, this part of the exhibition highlights an impressive selection of Meryon's rare etchings.

The second part of the show is a series of wood engravings done by Fritz Eichenberg for a reprint of Emily Bronte's classic novel, Wuthering Heights. These images are rare artist proof prints for the 1943 Random House edition of the novel and have been considered some of best illustrations of the 19th century classic because they capture the drama of author's text without adding superfluous material.

Weekend and evening visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Margie Hughto: A Fired Landscape
Everson Museum of Art

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

Internationally renowned ceramic artist Margie Hughto presents her first site-specific museum installation entitled A Fired Landscape, a "clay painting" spanning 50 feet of gallery wall space. Inspired by the artist's spectacular backyard gardens and natural landscape just steps from her studio, The Fired Landscape installation consists of Setting Sun, a brilliantly colored ceramic wall relief displayed continuously on five angled walls. The visitor encounter is reminiscent of what one experiences when surrounded by the natural environment. Overall, Setting Sun is a ceramic abstraction, but Hughto establishes a connection to the landscape that inspired it by adding impressions of natural objects such as native ferns, marine life and fossils, into the wet clay and then coating the surfaces with brilliant color. The rich palette of burnt oranges and fiery reds evoke the sun’s glowing light and radiating warmth. Tiny pieces of glass embedded in the clay prior to firing add sparkle to the glossy green and blue glazes used to suggest the artist's lily pond.

From Here to There: Alec Soth's America
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors/military, members and children under 5 free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"From Here to There: Alec Soth's America" provides a focused look at an extraordinary photographer whose compelling images of the American road and its unexpected turns form powerful narrative vignettes. The exhibition will be the artist's first major survey assembled in the United States, exploring over 15 years of his career, and including an extensive new body of work.

Since his inclusion in the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo biennials, Soth's reputation as one of the most interesting voices in contemporary photography has continued to grow. Though he has followed the itinerant path laid forth by photographers such as Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Stephen Shore, Soth's is a distinct perspective, one in which the wandering, searching, and the process of telling is as resonant as the record of these remarkable encounters. When considered together, Soth's pictures probe the individualities of people, objects, and places he encounters; offer insight to broader sociologies, and in the process form a collective portrait of an unexpected America.

Featuring approximately 100 photographs made between 1994 and the present, "From Here to There" will include rarely-seen early black-and-white images as well as examples from Soth's best-known series "Sleeping by the Mississippi" and "Niagara." Interspersed throughout the exhibition will be a broad range of portraits made over the past 15 years. The exhibition will also include a new body of work the artist has been developing since 2006, exploring places of escape in America and individuals who seek to flee civilization for a life off the grid. To add insight into Soth's process, the exhibition additionally features a Library space, which includes a reading area for publications, a selection of maquettes for book and 'zine projects, short video works, and ephemera gathered on the road.

Colorfornia: New Forms in West Coast Street Art: Apex, Chor Boogie, and Jet Martinez
The Warehouse Gallery

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

California-based street artists Apex, Chor Boogie, and Jet Martinez will create new temporary murals inside the Warehouse Gallery. The work is based on improvisation, collaboration, and the notion that how and what they paint is recognizably Californian in its focus on strong colors, patterns, forms, and nature.

Their language consists of colorful abstract forms pertaining to optical illusions and movement, faces, evoking real and imaginary urban settings, and tropical imaginary landscapes. All three of them have significantly contributed to public art in San Francisco, San Diego, and other major cities within (Minneapolis; Washington, DC) and outside of the United States (Beijing, Dubai, Oaxaca, Sydney, Tokyo, Zurich) through their use of spray (Apex, Chor) and traditional paint (Jet Martinez) to achieve elaborate compositions with high attention to detail.

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SU @ CU; CU @ SU
XL Projects

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Art students from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) and Colgate University will be showcasing the high standards and diversity of their work at galleries on each other's campuses.

Colgate art students will exhibit their work 10/19-11/6.
VPA student work will be shown 11/9-11/27.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand at ahavenhand@yahoo.com or visit vpa.syr.edu/xl-projects.

Illusions of Grandeur: Art Exhibition and Book Release
Echo

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

On display: a collection of Ling Tang's graphite drawings and the debut of Ling's Le Style Moderne book: Illusions of Grandeur.

The Machine/La Maquina: The Art of Favianna Rodriguez
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The work of Favianna Rodriguez embodies an art and cultural practice that gives voices to disenfranchised people all over the world, transforming it into a tool for agitation, inspiration, and action. The exhibition, The Machine/La Maquina will feature some of Favianna's newest works. Favianna's composites reflect literal and imaginative migration, global community, and interdependence. Whether her subjects are immigrant youth in the USA, land workers fighting for their survival, or her own abstract self portraits, Rodriguez brings new audiences into the art world by refocusing the cultural lens.

Nathaniel Sullivan: On the Way to the Theatre, We Egged a Trans-am
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In this 1 minute-23 second video, Sullivan depicts the pressures brought to bear in teenage boys--most of which are pressures to be pleased, injunctions to enjoy. While at first glance this looks like an easy row to hoe, the work makes it clear that in fact there are consequences to taking one's pleasures liberally, without reserve. As Plato said, pleasure deranges as efficiently as pain.

Nathaniel Sullivan is an artist and writer. He received his MFA degree from the Transmedia Department at Syracuse University in Spring 2011. His practice is a balance of artwork, critical writing, and curating. His work has been shown in exhibitions and screenings in Syracuse, New York City, and widely across Canada. In 2006, he was awarded a Special Mention from the prestigious Montreal Film Festival.

Dying Oak, Wild Raspberry Bush: Works by Pae White
Urban Video Project

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

Two videos, Dying Oak/Elephant (3-min loop) and Ballerina (Wild Raspberry Bush)(1-min loop), both 2009, by internationally recognized artist and designer, Pae White.

These two video pieces employ high-tech 3D scanning and motion animation techniques and apply them to objects from the natural world, playfully interrogating the integrity of the human/nature divide. The result is a mesmerizing exploration of natural form in which perspective and scale are in constant flux, the data points coalescing for a moment to create an image that is almost hyper-real in its detail, and in the next dispersing into glowing abstractions that might be galaxies or cities at night.

Return of The Bank Show
Syracuse Improv Collective

Price: $5
The Vault
451 S. Warren St., Syracuse

8:00 pm: Syracuse's own Satan's Closet (Syracuse)
8:45 pm: Search Engine Improv (Rochester)
9:30 pm: Rochester Harold Team "The Pauls"
10:00 pm: Improv jam featuring members of a variety of groups.

Schedule of events subject to change.

Enchanted Beaver Lake

Price: $3 regular, children under 3 free. Parking $5 per car
Beaver Lake Nature Center
8477 E. Mud Lake Rd., Baldwinsville

Over 400 specially carved jack-o-lanterns of different shapes and sizes plus glowing luminaria light the way along two winding, wooded trails greeting participants as they venture through the darkness at the award-winning Enchanted Beaver Lake. Face painting, fortune telling, magic shows, and storytelling are all a part of this magical experience, one that is truly unique to Central New York. The Friends of Beaver Lake will be selling hotdogs, donuts, caramel apples, popcorn and cider.

Brew & View: Frankenstein, Rocky Horror Picture Show

Price: $10
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

A 35mm screening of the 1931 Frankenstein, featuring Boris Karloff, at 8:00 pm., followed by the 1975 cult musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show at 10:30 pm. Costume party at midnight. For more information, phone 315-436-4723.

Our Sporting Life: The Heroes, The Highlights, The History
Onondaga Historical Association

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

This local sports history exhibit will highlight a variety of sports equipment, photographs, ephemera, and most importantly, the people involved in making sports history come alive. From baseball, to basketball, to football, hockey, bowling, and more, the exhibit will recount the "thrill of victory and the agony of defeat" for our local sports history makers. Visitors will learn more about Syracuse’s professional basketball team, women athletes, ice boating on Onondaga Lake, past Syracuse hockey teams, as well as African American athletes such as Moses Fleetwood Walker. Guests will also get a chance to see some vintage trophies, uniforms, equipment, and images of our local competitors in action.

Syracuse Opera Resident Artists Program Performance and Master Class
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Friday Night Special: The Lost Boys with Amy Gallatin and Stillwater
Steeple Coffeehouse

Price: $10 includes dessert and beverage
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

Bluegrass.

Amos Lee, with Pieta Brown
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Sarah Collins Honenberger, novelist
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Sarah Collins Honenberger's prize-winning fiction has appeared in Antietam Review, New Millenium, South Lit, The Hook, and other literary journals. Her latest novel, Catcher, Caught, is an Amazon best seller and a nominee for the Library of Virginia Fiction Award. It explores the same dilemmas facing Salinger's Holden Caulfield in a 21st-century 16-year-old boy's battle with leukemia. Other novels by Honenberger include White Lies (2006) and Waltzing Cowboys (2009). Her essay, "Gathering Rosebuds: A Manifesto for Working Women," landed her on an Oprah Book Club segment.

Underground Poetry Spot

Price: $7 suggested donation ($1 donated to Vera House)
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Get ready for the second Underground Poetry Spot "Stop Domestic Violence" poetry night. Come and experience an emotional and powerful night of healing through poetry. There will be a guest feature, 30 minutes of poetry open mic, and a Domestic Violence skit written by India Yaya Clark.

Underground Poetry Spot calls on all poets, spoken word artists, slammers and those have the love for poetry to come on out and take part in the underground movement. If you want a place to express the truth through your poetry on stage, then the Underground Poetry Spot is the place for you.

Their mission is to provide a performance venue that promotes, enhances, and develops artists and their literary works to motivate, educate, inspire, and uplift Syracuse and the surrounding area. The UPS has also been a host to many poetic greats such as Omanii Abdullah, Talaam Acey, Eric Darby, Arthur Flowers, Ntare Ali Gault, Seth Marcel, and Jackie Warren Moore.

For more information, visit www.undergroundpoetryspot.com.

Love, Sex, and the I.R.S.
Onondaga Hillplayers
Robert Steingraber, director

Price: $36 includes dinner, show, tax and gratuity. Reservations required.
Sunset Ridge Golf Club
2814 W. Seneca Tpke., Marcellus

Frantic dinner-theater farce involving the Feds, mistaken identities, and more.

For more information or to reserve, phone 315-673-2255.

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Othello
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Stephanie Long and Kim Marie Jakway, director