Saturday, February 24, 2007

Atrium Exhibit: Scholastic Art Awards Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

New to You
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

An exhibit of the work of new guild members as well as emerging and seldom shown artists.

The Human Condition
Delavan Art Gallery

Price: Free
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibit features photography and wood cut prints of West Africa by James Albertson, drawings on issues of forced emigration by Joan Carlon, oil paintings by William Finch, drawings on canvas and linen of West African women by Viginia Hovendon, and watercolor portraits by Stephen Ryan.

Impressions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Oil paintings by Eric Shute, watercolors by Stephen Ryan, and ceramics by Bobbi Lamb.

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Staging the coldest season as a playground for imagination, The Warehouse Gallery presents Embracing Winter, a group exhibition featuring knitted sculpture, psychedelic video, interactive displays, sly photography, and crisp audio and book works by American, Canadian and Italian artists: Janet Morton, Bruno Munari, Takeshi Murata, Collin Olan, Lisa M. Robinson, and Rudy Shepherd

Syracuse is the perennial winner of the Golden Snowball Award, for the most snowfall in New York State. Embracing Winter celebrates this crystallized precipitation as the key to a delightful set of activities, and as an ephemeral filter to make ordinary surroundings new again.

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Underground Railroad Made Visible: Photos by William Earle Williams
Community Folk Art Center

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

The photographs are of sites that were once part of the Underground Railroad, including many here in Central New York.

The exhibition is held in conjunction with a simultaneous exhibition at Light Work also featuring Williams' photographs: "Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War."

William Earle Williams received a B.A. degree in History from Hamilton College and an M.F.A. degree in Fine Arts from Yale University. He is a Professor of Fine Arts at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and also a Curator of Photography. Williams participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2003.

A Journey Towards Hope: Underground Railroad Sites in Oberlin, Ohio
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Coriana Close has photographed the history of Oberlin, Ohio's Underground Railroad for the last few years. The images include large format color photographs of buildings in Oberlin that were essential to the abolitionist movement.

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

Celestial Images: Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps From the Mendillo Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Celestial Images celebrates the Golden Age of astronomical charts. Some of the world's earliest artistic images, illustrations of cosmologies and heavenly phenomena, entered into a new and lively phase during the Renaissance. The invention of printing in the 15th century improved the means of disseminating scientific knowledge; advances in astronomy in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the portrayal of new information. This fortuitous conjunction created printed astronomical charts of surprising accuracy and delicate beauty. Celestial cartographers combined their scientific quest with a keen aesthetic sense -- each chart had to be an object of beauty, as well as a repository of information. These charts were a celebration of aesthetics as well as scientific knowledge.

Like the twins of Gemini, art and science walked hand-in-hand for over hundred years. By the late 19th century, this unified way of seeing had split into the "two cultures" of art and science that we know today. Overwhelmed by a vast amount of data, astronomical charts of the 20th century eventually changed into functional, unadorned tools intended for the specialists. Tucked away in libraries, museums and private collections, however, are splendid remnants of a bygone era. Assembled here from the Mendillo Collection of Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps are over 80 examples of some of the finest celestial cartography created. There are star charts (maps of the constellations and the full celestial sphere), charts of planetary systems (cosmologies), and a smaller third category, charts of celestial phenomena (such as nebulae, comets, and eclipses). Together, they pay homage to a time when simple systems explained the universe and humankind held friendly commerce with the skies.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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.

Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Meaning and Metaphor presents a group of 10 large contemporary paintings and two distinctly different sculptures. Made by American and British artists, the works challenge preconceived notions of what art is and its purpose.

Several pieces reject the idea that art needs to be realistic. Large paintings by Bernard Cohen and Walter Darby Bannard explore abstraction in uniquely different ways. Bannard's Sun Flood, 1972 is an excellent late example of Abstract Expressionism while Cohen's Somewhere Between, 1975 pushed Op Art to its philosophical extreme.

Other works examine the role of narration in art. Robert Birmelin's Night Driving, 1964, Sidney Goodman's Eclipse and Rico Lebrun's Lazarus, 1962 develop stories that leave the viewer with more questions than answers.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

War News and Strange Brews: The Art of Boris Artzybasheff
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Boris Artzybasheff was a Russian émigré artist who painted over 200 cover illustrations for Time magazine. His most important work dates to World War II when he depicted the politicians, military leaders and the issues that governed the course of the conflict. His unique abilities in portraiture led Time to select him to paint several Man of the Year covers including portraits of Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman.

Artzybasheff was possibly more famous for his illustrations that gave machinery human characteristics. His sly talent for choosing just the right amount of human anatomy gave each machine a personality that ranged from sympathetic to sinister. Viewers were therefore compelled to have an emotional reaction to the machine and its purpose.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

On the Edge of Pop
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

On the Edge of Pop presents a selection of paintings, sculpture and prints that examines the pop art movement's later years in the 1970s. Included in the exhibition are works by Pop icons like Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. These originators were joined by later participants including Robert Cottingham, John Clem Clark and Mel Ramos.

Pop established a new order of symbols, images and content that evolved over time. The style began in the late 1950s as a reaction to the intensely personal and gestural look of Abstract Expressionism. Pop artists de-emphasized their role in making art by often using more mechanical techniques usually associated with mass market processes. Their images were often appropriated from popular culture and, as a result, the general public greeted the new work enthusiastically.

By 1970 Pop had evolved into a more mainstream art form as the style broadened its scope. Andy Warhol did a series of paintings and prints of celebrities and other important figures. He took a famous publicity photograph of Marilyn Monroe and made a series of differently colored screenprints. Installed as multiples, the prints reinterpreted the starlet's place in American culture. Robert Rauschenberg had gained such a reputation that in 1969 NASA invited him to Cape Canaveral to witness the launch of Apollo 11 and to use its images in his work. His color screenprint Signs, 1970 prominently features the astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon along with a host of other iconic figures and events from the preceding decade.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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.

Nevis: Abstract Paintings by Rachel Harms
Redhouse

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

Rachel Harms, an English-born and educated artist will exhibit her most recent abstract paintings, which are influenced by the warm, brightly hued, West Indies Island of Nevis. Harms is interested in basic contradictions between nature and life, solidity and fragility, timelessness and change. These paintings beckon the viewer to linger, search, and discover the unexpected. They are refreshing, precisely honed constructions, both beautiful and affecting.

Rachel Harms has exhibited throughout the United Kingdom and the United States, including at the Creaser Gallery in London, the New Waterfront Museum in New York City; and recently at Onondaga Community College and ThInc in Syracuse. Harms earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Parson School of Design in New York City and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the Chelsea School of Art in London. Harms currently lives in Skaneateles with her husband and daughter.

The Mastery and Mystery of Carlo Gesualdo
Syracuse Vocal Ensemble
Robert Cowles, conductor

Price: $12 regular, $10 students/seniors
Assumption Church
812 N. Salina St., Syracuse

Don Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa (c. 1561-1613), is one of the more enigmatic figures in the history of western music. A body of arrestingly beautiful choral music remains the enduring artifact from the mind of this mentally disturbed man. Indeed, one could argue that his emotional instability gave way to a highly adventuresome, unpredictable, even erratic, musical style. Whatever the cause, the music is simply stunning. SVE presents on this program one of Gesualdo's true masterpieces -- indeed, one of the great works from the entire Renaissance era -- his Responsoria service music for Good Friday, nine choral movements that provide a moving narrative of Christ's Passion. Interspersed will be examples of Gregorian Chant as well as devotional interludes by instruments and voices alike.

Snow White
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive adaptation of the well-known tale.

Gem of the Ocean
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

Price: $40, $36, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Lyric, poetic, and infused with singular spiritualism, Gem of the Ocean marks the chronological beginning of August Wilson's towering 10-play cycle of African-American life in the 20th century. The year is 1904, when slavery was a palpable memory. The place is Wilson's familiar haunt, the Hill District of Pittsburgh. A young man named Citizen seeks atonement for a crime for which there is no forgiveness. His only hope is 285-year-old Aunt Esther, the spiritual center of the community and its collective history, who guides him on a journey to the "City of Bones," the watery graves of those who perished on the journey to slavery, a past he needs to embrace.

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Always ... Patsy Cline
Opening Night Productions

Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

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Frozen
Redhouse
Gerard E. Moses, director

Price: $25 regular; $20 senior; $16 student; $8 student rush
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

British playwright Bryony Lavery's controversial play begins with a mother waiting for the return of her missing 10-year old daughter. In the wait and over a period of years the mother, the kidnapper, and a psychiatrist come together to confront each other. Its subject matter uncovers new questions and ignites a thick range of emotion for actors and audience members alike. Frozen asks us to look at who we are and why we do what we do.

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Gem of the Ocean
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

Price: $44, $39, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Lyric, poetic, and infused with singular spiritualism, Gem of the Ocean marks the chronological beginning of August Wilson's towering 10-play cycle of African-American life in the 20th century. The year is 1904, when slavery was a palpable memory. The place is Wilson's familiar haunt, the Hill District of Pittsburgh. A young man named Citizen seeks atonement for a crime for which there is no forgiveness. His only hope is 285-year-old Aunt Esther, the spiritual center of the community and its collective history, who guides him on a journey to the "City of Bones," the watery graves of those who perished on the journey to slavery, a past he needs to embrace.

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The Art of Dining
Syracuse University Drama Department
Craig MacDonald, director

Price: $16 regular; $14 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Set at a posh new gourmet restaurant, The Golden Carousel, on a cold and blustery New Jersey evening, The Art of Dining uses food as a running metaphor for many of the pressures, hopes, fears, and stresses that exist in American society. Written and first performed in 1979, this play explores the idea that dining can be not only a time to bring friends and family together, but an opportunity for much more serious issues to be chewed on: body image issues and eating, personality and mental disorders are some of the darker notes in Tina Howe's uproarious, fast-paced comedy.

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The Fantastiks
Wit's End Players

Price: $21.00 regular; $19.00 seniors; $14.00 children
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

A girl, a boy, a wall between them... This charming show, the longest running musical in history, tells a timeless story of young love. Beautiful songs include "Try to Remember."

For more information, phone 315-345-8001.

Read a Review!

Sunday, February 25, 2007

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features the work of seniors and graduate students in Syracuse University's Department of Transmedia.

Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War
Light Work Gallery
Featuring works by William Earle Williams

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Until the release of the motion picture Glory in 1989, it was not well known that more than 180,000 black soldiers served in the Civil War. The exhibition Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War features over 40 stunning black-and-white photographs by William Earle Williams. The images call attention to the sites made special through these soldiers' contributions, so that their story becomes a part of our American story.

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

A Journey Towards Hope: Underground Railroad Sites in Oberlin, Ohio
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Coriana Close has photographed the history of Oberlin, Ohio's Underground Railroad for the last few years. The images include large format color photographs of buildings in Oberlin that were essential to the abolitionist movement.

Celestial Images: Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps From the Mendillo Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Celestial Images celebrates the Golden Age of astronomical charts. Some of the world's earliest artistic images, illustrations of cosmologies and heavenly phenomena, entered into a new and lively phase during the Renaissance. The invention of printing in the 15th century improved the means of disseminating scientific knowledge; advances in astronomy in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the portrayal of new information. This fortuitous conjunction created printed astronomical charts of surprising accuracy and delicate beauty. Celestial cartographers combined their scientific quest with a keen aesthetic sense -- each chart had to be an object of beauty, as well as a repository of information. These charts were a celebration of aesthetics as well as scientific knowledge.

Like the twins of Gemini, art and science walked hand-in-hand for over hundred years. By the late 19th century, this unified way of seeing had split into the "two cultures" of art and science that we know today. Overwhelmed by a vast amount of data, astronomical charts of the 20th century eventually changed into functional, unadorned tools intended for the specialists. Tucked away in libraries, museums and private collections, however, are splendid remnants of a bygone era. Assembled here from the Mendillo Collection of Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps are over 80 examples of some of the finest celestial cartography created. There are star charts (maps of the constellations and the full celestial sphere), charts of planetary systems (cosmologies), and a smaller third category, charts of celestial phenomena (such as nebulae, comets, and eclipses). Together, they pay homage to a time when simple systems explained the universe and humankind held friendly commerce with the skies.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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.

War News and Strange Brews: The Art of Boris Artzybasheff
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Boris Artzybasheff was a Russian émigré artist who painted over 200 cover illustrations for Time magazine. His most important work dates to World War II when he depicted the politicians, military leaders and the issues that governed the course of the conflict. His unique abilities in portraiture led Time to select him to paint several Man of the Year covers including portraits of Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman.

Artzybasheff was possibly more famous for his illustrations that gave machinery human characteristics. His sly talent for choosing just the right amount of human anatomy gave each machine a personality that ranged from sympathetic to sinister. Viewers were therefore compelled to have an emotional reaction to the machine and its purpose.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Meaning and Metaphor presents a group of 10 large contemporary paintings and two distinctly different sculptures. Made by American and British artists, the works challenge preconceived notions of what art is and its purpose.

Several pieces reject the idea that art needs to be realistic. Large paintings by Bernard Cohen and Walter Darby Bannard explore abstraction in uniquely different ways. Bannard's Sun Flood, 1972 is an excellent late example of Abstract Expressionism while Cohen's Somewhere Between, 1975 pushed Op Art to its philosophical extreme.

Other works examine the role of narration in art. Robert Birmelin's Night Driving, 1964, Sidney Goodman's Eclipse and Rico Lebrun's Lazarus, 1962 develop stories that leave the viewer with more questions than answers.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

On the Edge of Pop
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

On the Edge of Pop presents a selection of paintings, sculpture and prints that examines the pop art movement's later years in the 1970s. Included in the exhibition are works by Pop icons like Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. These originators were joined by later participants including Robert Cottingham, John Clem Clark and Mel Ramos.

Pop established a new order of symbols, images and content that evolved over time. The style began in the late 1950s as a reaction to the intensely personal and gestural look of Abstract Expressionism. Pop artists de-emphasized their role in making art by often using more mechanical techniques usually associated with mass market processes. Their images were often appropriated from popular culture and, as a result, the general public greeted the new work enthusiastically.

By 1970 Pop had evolved into a more mainstream art form as the style broadened its scope. Andy Warhol did a series of paintings and prints of celebrities and other important figures. He took a famous publicity photograph of Marilyn Monroe and made a series of differently colored screenprints. Installed as multiples, the prints reinterpreted the starlet's place in American culture. Robert Rauschenberg had gained such a reputation that in 1969 NASA invited him to Cape Canaveral to witness the launch of Apollo 11 and to use its images in his work. His color screenprint Signs, 1970 prominently features the astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon along with a host of other iconic figures and events from the preceding decade.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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.

Atrium Exhibit: Scholastic Art Awards Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

New to You
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

An exhibit of the work of new guild members as well as emerging and seldom shown artists.

Malmgren Concert Series
Baltimore Consort

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The consort has made 11 recordings on the Dorian label and tours widely in the United States, Canada and Europe. It performs arrangements of early music from England, Scotland, France and Italy, and the members' love for music of English/Scottish heritage has led them to delve into traditional balladry and dance tunes preserved in the Appalachian Mountains and Nova Scotia. More recently, they explored repertory from the Iberian Peninsula and released their latest recording, "Cancionero: Early Music from Spain," in spring 2006.

Ice Cream Social and The Press
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

Spam, a Newspaper Office, an Attic and an Elevator
Armory Square Playwrights

Price: $5 regular, $4 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Script-in-hand readings of four newly written plays: Spamorama by Donna Stuccio; Cashiered Out by Tom Fogarty; and Kathleen Kramer's Sleeps Through Storms and Forty-Three.

In Donna Stuccio's comic Spamorama, a dysfunctional family prepares to compete in a national spam cooking contest and their kitchen becomes a battleground when they realize that the essential ingredient is in short supply and the clock is ticking ominously toward the contest deadline.

Cashiered Out by Tom Fogarty centers on a newspaper clerk whose eyes become opened to the reality of his unpleasant job in a newspaper's advertising department.

The reading features two scripts by Kathleen Kramer. Sleeps Through Storms is a haunting study of a woman and her search for something undefined and hidden in her attic. Is what she visits in the attic real and will her husband discover the answer to that perplexing question? In Kramer's 10-minute Forty-Three, a quintessential claustrophobic space is the setting for a comic encounter with an undercurrent of menace. Just how eccentric is Enid, the woman Marla meets when she tries to go up a Manhattan skyscraper?

A long-time member of the Armory Square Playhouse Playwrights Unit, Donna Stuccio is currently a student in the MFA program in creative writing at Goddard College. Her Blue Moon and The Job premiered at Salt City Playhouse. Blue Moon was published in the Journal of Women and Criminal Justice.

Tom Fogarty, of Auburn, has studied play writing or attended writing workshops at Cayuga Community College, LeMoyne College, Colgate University, the Writers Program at the Downtown YMCA in Syracuse, Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Iowa. His Peace of Mind was given a staged reading at the Auburn public Theatre in September.

Kathleen Kramer lives near Ithaca, where several of her full-length plays and numerous shorter works have been produced. Some of the plays were site-specific pieces, while others have been presented at the Kitchen Theatre and various venues, including the performance space of 3rd Floor Productions, a women's playwriting collective.

Each reading will be followed by a talkback discussion with the author.

Always ... Patsy Cline
Opening Night Productions

Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

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Gem of the Ocean
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

Price: $40, $36, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Lyric, poetic, and infused with singular spiritualism, Gem of the Ocean marks the chronological beginning of August Wilson's towering 10-play cycle of African-American life in the 20th century. The year is 1904, when slavery was a palpable memory. The place is Wilson's familiar haunt, the Hill District of Pittsburgh. A young man named Citizen seeks atonement for a crime for which there is no forgiveness. His only hope is 285-year-old Aunt Esther, the spiritual center of the community and its collective history, who guides him on a journey to the "City of Bones," the watery graves of those who perished on the journey to slavery, a past he needs to embrace.

Read a Review!

The Art of Dining
Syracuse University Drama Department
Craig MacDonald, director

Price: $16 regular; $14 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Set at a posh new gourmet restaurant, The Golden Carousel, on a cold and blustery New Jersey evening, The Art of Dining uses food as a running metaphor for many of the pressures, hopes, fears, and stresses that exist in American society. Written and first performed in 1979, this play explores the idea that dining can be not only a time to bring friends and family together, but an opportunity for much more serious issues to be chewed on: body image issues and eating, personality and mental disorders are some of the darker notes in Tina Howe's uproarious, fast-paced comedy.

Read a Review!

The Fantastiks
Wit's End Players

Price: $21.00 regular; $19.00 seniors; $14.00 children
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

A girl, a boy, a wall between them... This charming show, the longest running musical in history, tells a timeless story of young love. Beautiful songs include "Try to Remember."

For more information, phone 315-345-8001.

Read a Review!

Gem of the Ocean
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

Price: $35, $31, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Lyric, poetic, and infused with singular spiritualism, Gem of the Ocean marks the chronological beginning of August Wilson's towering 10-play cycle of African-American life in the 20th century. The year is 1904, when slavery was a palpable memory. The place is Wilson's familiar haunt, the Hill District of Pittsburgh. A young man named Citizen seeks atonement for a crime for which there is no forgiveness. His only hope is 285-year-old Aunt Esther, the spiritual center of the community and its collective history, who guides him on a journey to the "City of Bones," the watery graves of those who perished on the journey to slavery, a past he needs to embrace.

Read a Review!

Monday, February 26, 2007

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

A Journey Towards Hope: Underground Railroad Sites in Oberlin, Ohio
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Coriana Close has photographed the history of Oberlin, Ohio's Underground Railroad for the last few years. The images include large format color photographs of buildings in Oberlin that were essential to the abolitionist movement.

Atrium Exhibit: Scholastic Art Awards Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Visual Arts Showcase Committee of the CRC is pleased to present an eclectic offering, featuring work of state and local grant winners since 2000. Special viewing arrangements can be made through the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155.

Gallery Exhibit: Aida Khalil, Stephen Datz and Syau-Cheng Lai
Onondaga Community College

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

A stunning exhibit of paintings, sculpture and mixed media works.

Playthings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Drawing by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma.

Roy Bautista:
I am interested in how I learn things. And how much I learn by looking. And how much more can be learned by looking harder. A longer look at people and how people communicate, and much can be read in a body's posture and movement. The word, understand implies a pose, a stand taken. We understand through our bodies, our own physical limitations of dancing, running, and wrestling. To stop any one pose of the body during any instantaneous action is to elevate it to drama or switch it into a performance, a portent. Micro-expressions flash for an instant that can divulge much information that is not stated verbally, precisely. I am interested in the idea of play, and playing with objects, which can be made to assume poses, fetishes that can be made to represent beings.

Natalia Porter:
I'm interested in creating art that make us reflect on our relationship with objects, on the significance and value we assign to them, particularly those objects which we use everyday.

Ami Suma:
My obsession is to make you giggle and remember childhood feelings, so I am obsessed with fun textures. Textures that give me goose bumps; odd shapes and silhouettes, toys that stimulate the senses of both young and old.

Living Arrangements
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

Works by Julie Eizenberg

New to You
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

An exhibit of the work of new guild members as well as emerging and seldom shown artists.

Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War
Light Work Gallery
Featuring works by William Earle Williams

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Until the release of the motion picture Glory in 1989, it was not well known that more than 180,000 black soldiers served in the Civil War. The exhibition Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War features over 40 stunning black-and-white photographs by William Earle Williams. The images call attention to the sites made special through these soldiers' contributions, so that their story becomes a part of our American story.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features the work of seniors and graduate students in Syracuse University's Department of Transmedia.

The Century Project: Bodies and Souls -- Works by Frank Cordelle

Price: Free
Schine Student Center, room 304
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

An exhibition of works by nationally known artist Frank Cordelle, who uses photographs of nude women and highly personal accompanying statements to create powerful commentary about body image, society's portrayal of women, sexuality and women's health issues. Cordelle will be on hand throughout the exhibition to discuss his work with the public.

"Century" is a photographic look at real-life women ranging in age from the very moment of birth to 100 years of age. Far from the media-stylized caricature of beauty, the images feature daughters, sisters, mothers and grandmothers with a variety of life experiences, including victims of gender violence, cancer survivors and eating disorder sufferers, among others. Many of the photos are accompanied by the women's stories, often in their own words; the overall effect is provocative, educational and therapeutic for viewers. Therapists have used Cordelle's work extensively, and his exhibitions have been favorably received nationwide.

A companion book to the exhibition, "Bodies and Souls: The Century Project," was published in November 2006 by Heureka Productions. A review appears in the March issue of O Magazine.

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

A Journey Towards Hope: Underground Railroad Sites in Oberlin, Ohio
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Coriana Close has photographed the history of Oberlin, Ohio's Underground Railroad for the last few years. The images include large format color photographs of buildings in Oberlin that were essential to the abolitionist movement.

Atrium Exhibit: Scholastic Art Awards Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Visual Arts Showcase Committee of the CRC is pleased to present an eclectic offering, featuring work of state and local grant winners since 2000. Special viewing arrangements can be made through the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155.

The Century Project: Bodies and Souls -- Works by Frank Cordelle

Price: Free
Schine Student Center, room 304
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

An exhibition of works by nationally known artist Frank Cordelle, who uses photographs of nude women and highly personal accompanying statements to create powerful commentary about body image, society's portrayal of women, sexuality and women's health issues. Cordelle will be on hand throughout the exhibition to discuss his work with the public.

"Century" is a photographic look at real-life women ranging in age from the very moment of birth to 100 years of age. Far from the media-stylized caricature of beauty, the images feature daughters, sisters, mothers and grandmothers with a variety of life experiences, including victims of gender violence, cancer survivors and eating disorder sufferers, among others. Many of the photos are accompanied by the women's stories, often in their own words; the overall effect is provocative, educational and therapeutic for viewers. Therapists have used Cordelle's work extensively, and his exhibitions have been favorably received nationwide.

A companion book to the exhibition, "Bodies and Souls: The Century Project," was published in November 2006 by Heureka Productions. A review appears in the March issue of O Magazine.

Gallery Exhibit: Aida Khalil, Stephen Datz and Syau-Cheng Lai
Onondaga Community College

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

A stunning exhibit of paintings, sculpture and mixed media works.

Playthings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Drawing by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma.

Roy Bautista:
I am interested in how I learn things. And how much I learn by looking. And how much more can be learned by looking harder. A longer look at people and how people communicate, and much can be read in a body's posture and movement. The word, understand implies a pose, a stand taken. We understand through our bodies, our own physical limitations of dancing, running, and wrestling. To stop any one pose of the body during any instantaneous action is to elevate it to drama or switch it into a performance, a portent. Micro-expressions flash for an instant that can divulge much information that is not stated verbally, precisely. I am interested in the idea of play, and playing with objects, which can be made to assume poses, fetishes that can be made to represent beings.

Natalia Porter:
I'm interested in creating art that make us reflect on our relationship with objects, on the significance and value we assign to them, particularly those objects which we use everyday.

Ami Suma:
My obsession is to make you giggle and remember childhood feelings, so I am obsessed with fun textures. Textures that give me goose bumps; odd shapes and silhouettes, toys that stimulate the senses of both young and old.

Living Arrangements
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

Works by Julie Eizenberg

Impressions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Oil paintings by Eric Shute, watercolors by Stephen Ryan, and ceramics by Bobbi Lamb.

New to You
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

An exhibit of the work of new guild members as well as emerging and seldom shown artists.

Underground Railroad Made Visible: Photos by William Earle Williams
Community Folk Art Center

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

The photographs are of sites that were once part of the Underground Railroad, including many here in Central New York.

The exhibition is held in conjunction with a simultaneous exhibition at Light Work also featuring Williams' photographs: "Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War."

William Earle Williams received a B.A. degree in History from Hamilton College and an M.F.A. degree in Fine Arts from Yale University. He is a Professor of Fine Arts at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and also a Curator of Photography. Williams participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2003.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features the work of seniors and graduate students in Syracuse University's Department of Transmedia.

Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War
Light Work Gallery
Featuring works by William Earle Williams

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Until the release of the motion picture Glory in 1989, it was not well known that more than 180,000 black soldiers served in the Civil War. The exhibition Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War features over 40 stunning black-and-white photographs by William Earle Williams. The images call attention to the sites made special through these soldiers' contributions, so that their story becomes a part of our American story.

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Staging the coldest season as a playground for imagination, The Warehouse Gallery presents Embracing Winter, a group exhibition featuring knitted sculpture, psychedelic video, interactive displays, sly photography, and crisp audio and book works by American, Canadian and Italian artists: Janet Morton, Bruno Munari, Takeshi Murata, Collin Olan, Lisa M. Robinson, and Rudy Shepherd

Syracuse is the perennial winner of the Golden Snowball Award, for the most snowfall in New York State. Embracing Winter celebrates this crystallized precipitation as the key to a delightful set of activities, and as an ephemeral filter to make ordinary surroundings new again.

Read a review!

Celestial Images: Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps From the Mendillo Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Celestial Images celebrates the Golden Age of astronomical charts. Some of the world's earliest artistic images, illustrations of cosmologies and heavenly phenomena, entered into a new and lively phase during the Renaissance. The invention of printing in the 15th century improved the means of disseminating scientific knowledge; advances in astronomy in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the portrayal of new information. This fortuitous conjunction created printed astronomical charts of surprising accuracy and delicate beauty. Celestial cartographers combined their scientific quest with a keen aesthetic sense -- each chart had to be an object of beauty, as well as a repository of information. These charts were a celebration of aesthetics as well as scientific knowledge.

Like the twins of Gemini, art and science walked hand-in-hand for over hundred years. By the late 19th century, this unified way of seeing had split into the "two cultures" of art and science that we know today. Overwhelmed by a vast amount of data, astronomical charts of the 20th century eventually changed into functional, unadorned tools intended for the specialists. Tucked away in libraries, museums and private collections, however, are splendid remnants of a bygone era. Assembled here from the Mendillo Collection of Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps are over 80 examples of some of the finest celestial cartography created. There are star charts (maps of the constellations and the full celestial sphere), charts of planetary systems (cosmologies), and a smaller third category, charts of celestial phenomena (such as nebulae, comets, and eclipses). Together, they pay homage to a time when simple systems explained the universe and humankind held friendly commerce with the skies.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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.

Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Meaning and Metaphor presents a group of 10 large contemporary paintings and two distinctly different sculptures. Made by American and British artists, the works challenge preconceived notions of what art is and its purpose.

Several pieces reject the idea that art needs to be realistic. Large paintings by Bernard Cohen and Walter Darby Bannard explore abstraction in uniquely different ways. Bannard's Sun Flood, 1972 is an excellent late example of Abstract Expressionism while Cohen's Somewhere Between, 1975 pushed Op Art to its philosophical extreme.

Other works examine the role of narration in art. Robert Birmelin's Night Driving, 1964, Sidney Goodman's Eclipse and Rico Lebrun's Lazarus, 1962 develop stories that leave the viewer with more questions than answers.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

War News and Strange Brews: The Art of Boris Artzybasheff
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Boris Artzybasheff was a Russian émigré artist who painted over 200 cover illustrations for Time magazine. His most important work dates to World War II when he depicted the politicians, military leaders and the issues that governed the course of the conflict. His unique abilities in portraiture led Time to select him to paint several Man of the Year covers including portraits of Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman.

Artzybasheff was possibly more famous for his illustrations that gave machinery human characteristics. His sly talent for choosing just the right amount of human anatomy gave each machine a personality that ranged from sympathetic to sinister. Viewers were therefore compelled to have an emotional reaction to the machine and its purpose.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

On the Edge of Pop
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

On the Edge of Pop presents a selection of paintings, sculpture and prints that examines the pop art movement's later years in the 1970s. Included in the exhibition are works by Pop icons like Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. These originators were joined by later participants including Robert Cottingham, John Clem Clark and Mel Ramos.

Pop established a new order of symbols, images and content that evolved over time. The style began in the late 1950s as a reaction to the intensely personal and gestural look of Abstract Expressionism. Pop artists de-emphasized their role in making art by often using more mechanical techniques usually associated with mass market processes. Their images were often appropriated from popular culture and, as a result, the general public greeted the new work enthusiastically.

By 1970 Pop had evolved into a more mainstream art form as the style broadened its scope. Andy Warhol did a series of paintings and prints of celebrities and other important figures. He took a famous publicity photograph of Marilyn Monroe and made a series of differently colored screenprints. Installed as multiples, the prints reinterpreted the starlet's place in American culture. Robert Rauschenberg had gained such a reputation that in 1969 NASA invited him to Cape Canaveral to witness the launch of Apollo 11 and to use its images in his work. His color screenprint Signs, 1970 prominently features the astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon along with a host of other iconic figures and events from the preceding decade.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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.

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

A Journey Towards Hope: Underground Railroad Sites in Oberlin, Ohio
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Coriana Close has photographed the history of Oberlin, Ohio's Underground Railroad for the last few years. The images include large format color photographs of buildings in Oberlin that were essential to the abolitionist movement.

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

Atrium Exhibit: Scholastic Art Awards Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Visual Arts Showcase Committee of the CRC is pleased to present an eclectic offering, featuring work of state and local grant winners since 2000. Special viewing arrangements can be made through the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155.

Gallery Exhibit: Aida Khalil, Stephen Datz and Syau-Cheng Lai
Onondaga Community College

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

A stunning exhibit of paintings, sculpture and mixed media works.

Playthings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Drawing by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma.

Roy Bautista:
I am interested in how I learn things. And how much I learn by looking. And how much more can be learned by looking harder. A longer look at people and how people communicate, and much can be read in a body's posture and movement. The word, understand implies a pose, a stand taken. We understand through our bodies, our own physical limitations of dancing, running, and wrestling. To stop any one pose of the body during any instantaneous action is to elevate it to drama or switch it into a performance, a portent. Micro-expressions flash for an instant that can divulge much information that is not stated verbally, precisely. I am interested in the idea of play, and playing with objects, which can be made to assume poses, fetishes that can be made to represent beings.

Natalia Porter:
I'm interested in creating art that make us reflect on our relationship with objects, on the significance and value we assign to them, particularly those objects which we use everyday.

Ami Suma:
My obsession is to make you giggle and remember childhood feelings, so I am obsessed with fun textures. Textures that give me goose bumps; odd shapes and silhouettes, toys that stimulate the senses of both young and old.

Living Arrangements
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

Works by Julie Eizenberg

Impressions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Oil paintings by Eric Shute, watercolors by Stephen Ryan, and ceramics by Bobbi Lamb.

New to You
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

An exhibit of the work of new guild members as well as emerging and seldom shown artists.

Underground Railroad Made Visible: Photos by William Earle Williams
Community Folk Art Center

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

The photographs are of sites that were once part of the Underground Railroad, including many here in Central New York.

The exhibition is held in conjunction with a simultaneous exhibition at Light Work also featuring Williams' photographs: "Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War."

William Earle Williams received a B.A. degree in History from Hamilton College and an M.F.A. degree in Fine Arts from Yale University. He is a Professor of Fine Arts at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and also a Curator of Photography. Williams participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2003.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features the work of seniors and graduate students in Syracuse University's Department of Transmedia.

Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War
Light Work Gallery
Featuring works by William Earle Williams

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Until the release of the motion picture Glory in 1989, it was not well known that more than 180,000 black soldiers served in the Civil War. The exhibition Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War features over 40 stunning black-and-white photographs by William Earle Williams. The images call attention to the sites made special through these soldiers' contributions, so that their story becomes a part of our American story.

The Century Project: Bodies and Souls -- Works by Frank Cordelle

Price: Free
Schine Student Center, room 304
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

An exhibition of works by nationally known artist Frank Cordelle, who uses photographs of nude women and highly personal accompanying statements to create powerful commentary about body image, society's portrayal of women, sexuality and women's health issues. Cordelle will be on hand throughout the exhibition to discuss his work with the public.

"Century" is a photographic look at real-life women ranging in age from the very moment of birth to 100 years of age. Far from the media-stylized caricature of beauty, the images feature daughters, sisters, mothers and grandmothers with a variety of life experiences, including victims of gender violence, cancer survivors and eating disorder sufferers, among others. Many of the photos are accompanied by the women's stories, often in their own words; the overall effect is provocative, educational and therapeutic for viewers. Therapists have used Cordelle's work extensively, and his exhibitions have been favorably received nationwide.

A companion book to the exhibition, "Bodies and Souls: The Century Project," was published in November 2006 by Heureka Productions. A review appears in the March issue of O Magazine.

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Staging the coldest season as a playground for imagination, The Warehouse Gallery presents Embracing Winter, a group exhibition featuring knitted sculpture, psychedelic video, interactive displays, sly photography, and crisp audio and book works by American, Canadian and Italian artists: Janet Morton, Bruno Munari, Takeshi Murata, Collin Olan, Lisa M. Robinson, and Rudy Shepherd

Syracuse is the perennial winner of the Golden Snowball Award, for the most snowfall in New York State. Embracing Winter celebrates this crystallized precipitation as the key to a delightful set of activities, and as an ephemeral filter to make ordinary surroundings new again.

Read a review!

Celestial Images: Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps From the Mendillo Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Celestial Images celebrates the Golden Age of astronomical charts. Some of the world's earliest artistic images, illustrations of cosmologies and heavenly phenomena, entered into a new and lively phase during the Renaissance. The invention of printing in the 15th century improved the means of disseminating scientific knowledge; advances in astronomy in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the portrayal of new information. This fortuitous conjunction created printed astronomical charts of surprising accuracy and delicate beauty. Celestial cartographers combined their scientific quest with a keen aesthetic sense -- each chart had to be an object of beauty, as well as a repository of information. These charts were a celebration of aesthetics as well as scientific knowledge.

Like the twins of Gemini, art and science walked hand-in-hand for over hundred years. By the late 19th century, this unified way of seeing had split into the "two cultures" of art and science that we know today. Overwhelmed by a vast amount of data, astronomical charts of the 20th century eventually changed into functional, unadorned tools intended for the specialists. Tucked away in libraries, museums and private collections, however, are splendid remnants of a bygone era. Assembled here from the Mendillo Collection of Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps are over 80 examples of some of the finest celestial cartography created. There are star charts (maps of the constellations and the full celestial sphere), charts of planetary systems (cosmologies), and a smaller third category, charts of celestial phenomena (such as nebulae, comets, and eclipses). Together, they pay homage to a time when simple systems explained the universe and humankind held friendly commerce with the skies.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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.

War News and Strange Brews: The Art of Boris Artzybasheff
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Boris Artzybasheff was a Russian émigré artist who painted over 200 cover illustrations for Time magazine. His most important work dates to World War II when he depicted the politicians, military leaders and the issues that governed the course of the conflict. His unique abilities in portraiture led Time to select him to paint several Man of the Year covers including portraits of Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman.

Artzybasheff was possibly more famous for his illustrations that gave machinery human characteristics. His sly talent for choosing just the right amount of human anatomy gave each machine a personality that ranged from sympathetic to sinister. Viewers were therefore compelled to have an emotional reaction to the machine and its purpose.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Meaning and Metaphor presents a group of 10 large contemporary paintings and two distinctly different sculptures. Made by American and British artists, the works challenge preconceived notions of what art is and its purpose.

Several pieces reject the idea that art needs to be realistic. Large paintings by Bernard Cohen and Walter Darby Bannard explore abstraction in uniquely different ways. Bannard's Sun Flood, 1972 is an excellent late example of Abstract Expressionism while Cohen's Somewhere Between, 1975 pushed Op Art to its philosophical extreme.

Other works examine the role of narration in art. Robert Birmelin's Night Driving, 1964, Sidney Goodman's Eclipse and Rico Lebrun's Lazarus, 1962 develop stories that leave the viewer with more questions than answers.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

On the Edge of Pop
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

On the Edge of Pop presents a selection of paintings, sculpture and prints that examines the pop art movement's later years in the 1970s. Included in the exhibition are works by Pop icons like Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. These originators were joined by later participants including Robert Cottingham, John Clem Clark and Mel Ramos.

Pop established a new order of symbols, images and content that evolved over time. The style began in the late 1950s as a reaction to the intensely personal and gestural look of Abstract Expressionism. Pop artists de-emphasized their role in making art by often using more mechanical techniques usually associated with mass market processes. Their images were often appropriated from popular culture and, as a result, the general public greeted the new work enthusiastically.

By 1970 Pop had evolved into a more mainstream art form as the style broadened its scope. Andy Warhol did a series of paintings and prints of celebrities and other important figures. He took a famous publicity photograph of Marilyn Monroe and made a series of differently colored screenprints. Installed as multiples, the prints reinterpreted the starlet's place in American culture. Robert Rauschenberg had gained such a reputation that in 1969 NASA invited him to Cape Canaveral to witness the launch of Apollo 11 and to use its images in his work. His color screenprint Signs, 1970 prominently features the astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon along with a host of other iconic figures and events from the preceding decade.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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.

Architectural Ecosystems
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring Doug Garofalo

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

Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures
University Lectures
Featuring Wade Davis, Explorer-in-Residence, The National Geographic Society

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Civic Morning Musicals
Bruce Keplinger, clarinet; Susan Crocker, piano

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

Leonard Stack Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
Gerald Finzi Five Bagatelles
Matt Doran Sonata for Clarinet and Piano

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Syracuse University Symphony Orchestra
James Welsch, conductor
Featuring Sharon I-Chun Cheng, soprano

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

Milhaud La Creation du Monde
Mozart Exsultate Jubilate, K. 165
Schnittke Polyphonic Tango
Weber Freischutz Overture

A. Van Jordan, poetry
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 p.m.

Gem of the Ocean
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

Price: $40, $36, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Lyric, poetic, and infused with singular spiritualism, Gem of the Ocean marks the chronological beginning of August Wilson's towering 10-play cycle of African-American life in the 20th century. The year is 1904, when slavery was a palpable memory. The place is Wilson's familiar haunt, the Hill District of Pittsburgh. A young man named Citizen seeks atonement for a crime for which there is no forgiveness. His only hope is 285-year-old Aunt Esther, the spiritual center of the community and its collective history, who guides him on a journey to the "City of Bones," the watery graves of those who perished on the journey to slavery, a past he needs to embrace.

Read a Review!

Gem of the Ocean
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

Price: $35, $31, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Lyric, poetic, and infused with singular spiritualism, Gem of the Ocean marks the chronological beginning of August Wilson's towering 10-play cycle of African-American life in the 20th century. The year is 1904, when slavery was a palpable memory. The place is Wilson's familiar haunt, the Hill District of Pittsburgh. A young man named Citizen seeks atonement for a crime for which there is no forgiveness. His only hope is 285-year-old Aunt Esther, the spiritual center of the community and its collective history, who guides him on a journey to the "City of Bones," the watery graves of those who perished on the journey to slavery, a past he needs to embrace.

Read a Review!

Thursday, March 1, 2007

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

A Journey Towards Hope: Underground Railroad Sites in Oberlin, Ohio
Light Work Gallery

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Coriana Close has photographed the history of Oberlin, Ohio's Underground Railroad for the last few years. The images include large format color photographs of buildings in Oberlin that were essential to the abolitionist movement.

Atrium Exhibit: Scholastic Art Awards Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Visual Arts Showcase Committee of the CRC is pleased to present an eclectic offering, featuring work of state and local grant winners since 2000. Special viewing arrangements can be made through the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155.

The Century Project: Bodies and Souls -- Works by Frank Cordelle

Price: Free
Schine Student Center, room 304
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

An exhibition of works by nationally known artist Frank Cordelle, who uses photographs of nude women and highly personal accompanying statements to create powerful commentary about body image, society's portrayal of women, sexuality and women's health issues. Cordelle will be on hand throughout the exhibition to discuss his work with the public.

"Century" is a photographic look at real-life women ranging in age from the very moment of birth to 100 years of age. Far from the media-stylized caricature of beauty, the images feature daughters, sisters, mothers and grandmothers with a variety of life experiences, including victims of gender violence, cancer survivors and eating disorder sufferers, among others. Many of the photos are accompanied by the women's stories, often in their own words; the overall effect is provocative, educational and therapeutic for viewers. Therapists have used Cordelle's work extensively, and his exhibitions have been favorably received nationwide.

A companion book to the exhibition, "Bodies and Souls: The Century Project," was published in November 2006 by Heureka Productions. A review appears in the March issue of O Magazine.

Gallery Exhibit: Aida Khalil, Stephen Datz and Syau-Cheng Lai
Onondaga Community College

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

A stunning exhibit of paintings, sculpture and mixed media works.

Playthings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Drawing by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma.

Roy Bautista:
I am interested in how I learn things. And how much I learn by looking. And how much more can be learned by looking harder. A longer look at people and how people communicate, and much can be read in a body's posture and movement. The word, understand implies a pose, a stand taken. We understand through our bodies, our own physical limitations of dancing, running, and wrestling. To stop any one pose of the body during any instantaneous action is to elevate it to drama or switch it into a performance, a portent. Micro-expressions flash for an instant that can divulge much information that is not stated verbally, precisely. I am interested in the idea of play, and playing with objects, which can be made to assume poses, fetishes that can be made to represent beings.

Natalia Porter:
I'm interested in creating art that make us reflect on our relationship with objects, on the significance and value we assign to them, particularly those objects which we use everyday.

Ami Suma:
My obsession is to make you giggle and remember childhood feelings, so I am obsessed with fun textures. Textures that give me goose bumps; odd shapes and silhouettes, toys that stimulate the senses of both young and old.

Living Arrangements
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

Works by Julie Eizenberg

Impressions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Oil paintings by Eric Shute, watercolors by Stephen Ryan, and ceramics by Bobbi Lamb.

Underground Railroad Made Visible: Photos by William Earle Williams
Community Folk Art Center

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

The photographs are of sites that were once part of the Underground Railroad, including many here in Central New York.

The exhibition is held in conjunction with a simultaneous exhibition at Light Work also featuring Williams' photographs: "Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War."

William Earle Williams received a B.A. degree in History from Hamilton College and an M.F.A. degree in Fine Arts from Yale University. He is a Professor of Fine Arts at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and also a Curator of Photography. Williams participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2003.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features the work of seniors and graduate students in Syracuse University's Department of Transmedia.

Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War
Light Work Gallery
Featuring works by William Earle Williams

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Until the release of the motion picture Glory in 1989, it was not well known that more than 180,000 black soldiers served in the Civil War. The exhibition Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War features over 40 stunning black-and-white photographs by William Earle Williams. The images call attention to the sites made special through these soldiers' contributions, so that their story becomes a part of our American story.

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Staging the coldest season as a playground for imagination, The Warehouse Gallery presents Embracing Winter, a group exhibition featuring knitted sculpture, psychedelic video, interactive displays, sly photography, and crisp audio and book works by American, Canadian and Italian artists: Janet Morton, Bruno Munari, Takeshi Murata, Collin Olan, Lisa M. Robinson, and Rudy Shepherd

Syracuse is the perennial winner of the Golden Snowball Award, for the most snowfall in New York State. Embracing Winter celebrates this crystallized precipitation as the key to a delightful set of activities, and as an ephemeral filter to make ordinary surroundings new again.

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Celestial Images: Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps From the Mendillo Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Celestial Images celebrates the Golden Age of astronomical charts. Some of the world's earliest artistic images, illustrations of cosmologies and heavenly phenomena, entered into a new and lively phase during the Renaissance. The invention of printing in the 15th century improved the means of disseminating scientific knowledge; advances in astronomy in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the portrayal of new information. This fortuitous conjunction created printed astronomical charts of surprising accuracy and delicate beauty. Celestial cartographers combined their scientific quest with a keen aesthetic sense -- each chart had to be an object of beauty, as well as a repository of information. These charts were a celebration of aesthetics as well as scientific knowledge.

Like the twins of Gemini, art and science walked hand-in-hand for over hundred years. By the late 19th century, this unified way of seeing had split into the "two cultures" of art and science that we know today. Overwhelmed by a vast amount of data, astronomical charts of the 20th century eventually changed into functional, unadorned tools intended for the specialists. Tucked away in libraries, museums and private collections, however, are splendid remnants of a bygone era. Assembled here from the Mendillo Collection of Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps are over 80 examples of some of the finest celestial cartography created. There are star charts (maps of the constellations and the full celestial sphere), charts of planetary systems (cosmologies), and a smaller third category, charts of celestial phenomena (such as nebulae, comets, and eclipses). Together, they pay homage to a time when simple systems explained the universe and humankind held friendly commerce with the skies.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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.

Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Meaning and Metaphor presents a group of 10 large contemporary paintings and two distinctly different sculptures. Made by American and British artists, the works challenge preconceived notions of what art is and its purpose.

Several pieces reject the idea that art needs to be realistic. Large paintings by Bernard Cohen and Walter Darby Bannard explore abstraction in uniquely different ways. Bannard's Sun Flood, 1972 is an excellent late example of Abstract Expressionism while Cohen's Somewhere Between, 1975 pushed Op Art to its philosophical extreme.

Other works examine the role of narration in art. Robert Birmelin's Night Driving, 1964, Sidney Goodman's Eclipse and Rico Lebrun's Lazarus, 1962 develop stories that leave the viewer with more questions than answers.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

War News and Strange Brews: The Art of Boris Artzybasheff
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Boris Artzybasheff was a Russian émigré artist who painted over 200 cover illustrations for Time magazine. His most important work dates to World War II when he depicted the politicians, military leaders and the issues that governed the course of the conflict. His unique abilities in portraiture led Time to select him to paint several Man of the Year covers including portraits of Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman.

Artzybasheff was possibly more famous for his illustrations that gave machinery human characteristics. His sly talent for choosing just the right amount of human anatomy gave each machine a personality that ranged from sympathetic to sinister. Viewers were therefore compelled to have an emotional reaction to the machine and its purpose.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

On the Edge of Pop
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

On the Edge of Pop presents a selection of paintings, sculpture and prints that examines the pop art movement's later years in the 1970s. Included in the exhibition are works by Pop icons like Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. These originators were joined by later participants including Robert Cottingham, John Clem Clark and Mel Ramos.

Pop established a new order of symbols, images and content that evolved over time. The style began in the late 1950s as a reaction to the intensely personal and gestural look of Abstract Expressionism. Pop artists de-emphasized their role in making art by often using more mechanical techniques usually associated with mass market processes. Their images were often appropriated from popular culture and, as a result, the general public greeted the new work enthusiastically.

By 1970 Pop had evolved into a more mainstream art form as the style broadened its scope. Andy Warhol did a series of paintings and prints of celebrities and other important figures. He took a famous publicity photograph of Marilyn Monroe and made a series of differently colored screenprints. Installed as multiples, the prints reinterpreted the starlet's place in American culture. Robert Rauschenberg had gained such a reputation that in 1969 NASA invited him to Cape Canaveral to witness the launch of Apollo 11 and to use its images in his work. His color screenprint Signs, 1970 prominently features the astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon along with a host of other iconic figures and events from the preceding decade.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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.

Nevis: Abstract Paintings by Rachel Harms
Redhouse

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

Rachel Harms, an English-born and educated artist will exhibit her most recent abstract paintings, which are influenced by the warm, brightly hued, West Indies Island of Nevis. Harms is interested in basic contradictions between nature and life, solidity and fragility, timelessness and change. These paintings beckon the viewer to linger, search, and discover the unexpected. They are refreshing, precisely honed constructions, both beautiful and affecting.

Rachel Harms has exhibited throughout the United Kingdom and the United States, including at the Creaser Gallery in London, the New Waterfront Museum in New York City; and recently at Onondaga Community College and ThInc in Syracuse. Harms earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Parson School of Design in New York City and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the Chelsea School of Art in London. Harms currently lives in Skaneateles with her husband and daughter.

The Language of Art
Delavan Art Gallery

Price: Free
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Barbara Kellogg: watermedia
Nives Marzocchi: varied works
An exhibit of artists whose work is shown in the new cultural magazine, Stone Canoe Journal

Rory Block, with Kyler England
Redhouse

Price: $17
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Rory Block has staked her claim to be one of America's top acoustic blueswomen, an interpreter of the great Delta blues singers, a slide guitarist par excellence, and also a talented songwriter on her own account. Born and raised in Manhattan by a family that had Bohemian leanings, she spent her formative years hanging out with musicians like Peter Rowan, John Sebastian, and Geoff Muldaur, who hung out in her father's sandal shop, before picking up the guitar at the age of ten. Her record debut came two years later, backing her father on the Elektra String Band Project, a concept album. She met guitarist Stefan Grossman, who, like her, was in love with the blues. The pair would often travel to the Bronx to visit the Reverend Gary Davis, one of the greatest living bluesmen.

In addition to her regular albums with labels like Rounder Records, Block has created series of instructional records and videos. Although she had been performing for a long time, the plaudits really began in 1992, when she won a NAIRD Award for "Ain't I a Woman." She repeated the feat in 1994 and 1997. In '96 Rory Block began winning W.C. Handy Awards. Her first was for "Best Traditional Album" (When a Woman Gets the Blues), and in '97 and '98 for Best Traditional Blues Female Artist. In 1997 she was elected to the CAMA Hall of Fame. Finally 1999 yielded yet another Handy Award, for Best Acoustic Blues Album (Confessions of a Blues Singer).

Opening for Rory will be the young folk-songwriter, Kyler England. With a natural instinct for melody and lyrics, honed during a stint at the renowned Berklee School of Music, she crafts songs that are not only addictively catchy but full of depth. The simplicity of her words, which matches her crystal-clear, elegant sound, nonetheless conveys a deep well of emotion and wisdomfor even in her darkest material, there is always the glimmer of optimism. Kyler has previously shared the stage with Sting, Annie Lennox, Kelly Clarkson, Melissa Etheridge, Teitur, Gavin DeGraw, Avril Lavigne, Meredith Brooks, Liz Phair, Pete Yorn, and Vienna Teng.

ITHE eASTERN sEABOARD
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

SU Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The Wind Ensemble program includes works by Iannacone, Hindemith and Gorb. They will perform under the direction of John Laverty. The Symphony Band, under the direction of Bradley Ethington, will play works by Husa, Khachaturian, Fry, Host and Ticheli. Justin Mertz will serve as guest conductor for both ensembles.

For more information, contact the University Band Department at 315-443-2194 or fmmoore@syr.edu.

Free parking is available in Irving Garage.

Big Louie and the Gang that Couldn't Think Straight
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $26 plus tax and gratuities (includes meal and show)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Audience participation comedy/mystery dinner theater.

Midsummer Night's Dream
Skaneateles High School Drama Program

Price: $7 regular, $5 students/seniors
Skaneateles High School
49 E. Elizabeth St., Skaneateles

Information: 315-291-2296.

Gem of the Ocean
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

Price: $35, $31, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Lyric, poetic, and infused with singular spiritualism, Gem of the Ocean marks the chronological beginning of August Wilson's towering 10-play cycle of African-American life in the 20th century. The year is 1904, when slavery was a palpable memory. The place is Wilson's familiar haunt, the Hill District of Pittsburgh. A young man named Citizen seeks atonement for a crime for which there is no forgiveness. His only hope is 285-year-old Aunt Esther, the spiritual center of the community and its collective history, who guides him on a journey to the "City of Bones," the watery graves of those who perished on the journey to slavery, a past he needs to embrace.

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Friday, March 2, 2007

Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

Atrium Exhibit: Scholastic Art Awards Show
Onondaga Community College

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

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase #58
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Visual Arts Showcase Committee of the CRC is pleased to present an eclectic offering, featuring work of state and local grant winners since 2000. Special viewing arrangements can be made through the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155.

Gallery Exhibit: Aida Khalil, Stephen Datz and Syau-Cheng Lai
Onondaga Community College

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

A stunning exhibit of paintings, sculpture and mixed media works.

Playthings
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Drawing by Roy Bautista, Natalia Porter and Ami Suma.

Roy Bautista:
I am interested in how I learn things. And how much I learn by looking. And how much more can be learned by looking harder. A longer look at people and how people communicate, and much can be read in a body's posture and movement. The word, understand implies a pose, a stand taken. We understand through our bodies, our own physical limitations of dancing, running, and wrestling. To stop any one pose of the body during any instantaneous action is to elevate it to drama or switch it into a performance, a portent. Micro-expressions flash for an instant that can divulge much information that is not stated verbally, precisely. I am interested in the idea of play, and playing with objects, which can be made to assume poses, fetishes that can be made to represent beings.

Natalia Porter:
I'm interested in creating art that make us reflect on our relationship with objects, on the significance and value we assign to them, particularly those objects which we use everyday.

Ami Suma:
My obsession is to make you giggle and remember childhood feelings, so I am obsessed with fun textures. Textures that give me goose bumps; odd shapes and silhouettes, toys that stimulate the senses of both young and old.

Living Arrangements
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

Works by Julie Eizenberg

Impressions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Oil paintings by Eric Shute, watercolors by Stephen Ryan, and ceramics by Bobbi Lamb.

Underground Railroad Made Visible: Photos by William Earle Williams
Community Folk Art Center

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

The photographs are of sites that were once part of the Underground Railroad, including many here in Central New York.

The exhibition is held in conjunction with a simultaneous exhibition at Light Work also featuring Williams' photographs: "Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War."

William Earle Williams received a B.A. degree in History from Hamilton College and an M.F.A. degree in Fine Arts from Yale University. He is a Professor of Fine Arts at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and also a Curator of Photography. Williams participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2003.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features the work of seniors and graduate students in Syracuse University's Department of Transmedia.

Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War
Light Work Gallery
Featuring works by William Earle Williams

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Until the release of the motion picture Glory in 1989, it was not well known that more than 180,000 black soldiers served in the Civil War. The exhibition Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War features over 40 stunning black-and-white photographs by William Earle Williams. The images call attention to the sites made special through these soldiers' contributions, so that their story becomes a part of our American story.

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Staging the coldest season as a playground for imagination, The Warehouse Gallery presents Embracing Winter, a group exhibition featuring knitted sculpture, psychedelic video, interactive displays, sly photography, and crisp audio and book works by American, Canadian and Italian artists: Janet Morton, Bruno Munari, Takeshi Murata, Collin Olan, Lisa M. Robinson, and Rudy Shepherd

Syracuse is the perennial winner of the Golden Snowball Award, for the most snowfall in New York State. Embracing Winter celebrates this crystallized precipitation as the key to a delightful set of activities, and as an ephemeral filter to make ordinary surroundings new again.

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Celestial Images: Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps From the Mendillo Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Celestial Images celebrates the Golden Age of astronomical charts. Some of the world's earliest artistic images, illustrations of cosmologies and heavenly phenomena, entered into a new and lively phase during the Renaissance. The invention of printing in the 15th century improved the means of disseminating scientific knowledge; advances in astronomy in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the portrayal of new information. This fortuitous conjunction created printed astronomical charts of surprising accuracy and delicate beauty. Celestial cartographers combined their scientific quest with a keen aesthetic sense -- each chart had to be an object of beauty, as well as a repository of information. These charts were a celebration of aesthetics as well as scientific knowledge.

Like the twins of Gemini, art and science walked hand-in-hand for over hundred years. By the late 19th century, this unified way of seeing had split into the "two cultures" of art and science that we know today. Overwhelmed by a vast amount of data, astronomical charts of the 20th century eventually changed into functional, unadorned tools intended for the specialists. Tucked away in libraries, museums and private collections, however, are splendid remnants of a bygone era. Assembled here from the Mendillo Collection of Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps are over 80 examples of some of the finest celestial cartography created. There are star charts (maps of the constellations and the full celestial sphere), charts of planetary systems (cosmologies), and a smaller third category, charts of celestial phenomena (such as nebulae, comets, and eclipses). Together, they pay homage to a time when simple systems explained the universe and humankind held friendly commerce with the skies.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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.

War News and Strange Brews: The Art of Boris Artzybasheff
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Boris Artzybasheff was a Russian émigré artist who painted over 200 cover illustrations for Time magazine. His most important work dates to World War II when he depicted the politicians, military leaders and the issues that governed the course of the conflict. His unique abilities in portraiture led Time to select him to paint several Man of the Year covers including portraits of Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman.

Artzybasheff was possibly more famous for his illustrations that gave machinery human characteristics. His sly talent for choosing just the right amount of human anatomy gave each machine a personality that ranged from sympathetic to sinister. Viewers were therefore compelled to have an emotional reaction to the machine and its purpose.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Meaning and Metaphor presents a group of 10 large contemporary paintings and two distinctly different sculptures. Made by American and British artists, the works challenge preconceived notions of what art is and its purpose.

Several pieces reject the idea that art needs to be realistic. Large paintings by Bernard Cohen and Walter Darby Bannard explore abstraction in uniquely different ways. Bannard's Sun Flood, 1972 is an excellent late example of Abstract Expressionism while Cohen's Somewhere Between, 1975 pushed Op Art to its philosophical extreme.

Other works examine the role of narration in art. Robert Birmelin's Night Driving, 1964, Sidney Goodman's Eclipse and Rico Lebrun's Lazarus, 1962 develop stories that leave the viewer with more questions than answers.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

On the Edge of Pop
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

On the Edge of Pop presents a selection of paintings, sculpture and prints that examines the pop art movement's later years in the 1970s. Included in the exhibition are works by Pop icons like Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. These originators were joined by later participants including Robert Cottingham, John Clem Clark and Mel Ramos.

Pop established a new order of symbols, images and content that evolved over time. The style began in the late 1950s as a reaction to the intensely personal and gestural look of Abstract Expressionism. Pop artists de-emphasized their role in making art by often using more mechanical techniques usually associated with mass market processes. Their images were often appropriated from popular culture and, as a result, the general public greeted the new work enthusiastically.

By 1970 Pop had evolved into a more mainstream art form as the style broadened its scope. Andy Warhol did a series of paintings and prints of celebrities and other important figures. He took a famous publicity photograph of Marilyn Monroe and made a series of differently colored screenprints. Installed as multiples, the prints reinterpreted the starlet's place in American culture. Robert Rauschenberg had gained such a reputation that in 1969 NASA invited him to Cape Canaveral to witness the launch of Apollo 11 and to use its images in his work. His color screenprint Signs, 1970 prominently features the astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon along with a host of other iconic figures and events from the preceding decade.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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.

The Language of Art
Delavan Art Gallery

Price: Free
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Barbara Kellogg: watermedia
Nives Marzocchi: varied works
An exhibit of artists whose work is shown in the new cultural magazine, Stone Canoe Journal

Nevis: Abstract Paintings by Rachel Harms
Redhouse

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

Rachel Harms, an English-born and educated artist will exhibit her most recent abstract paintings, which are influenced by the warm, brightly hued, West Indies Island of Nevis. Harms is interested in basic contradictions between nature and life, solidity and fragility, timelessness and change. These paintings beckon the viewer to linger, search, and discover the unexpected. They are refreshing, precisely honed constructions, both beautiful and affecting.

Rachel Harms has exhibited throughout the United Kingdom and the United States, including at the Creaser Gallery in London, the New Waterfront Museum in New York City; and recently at Onondaga Community College and ThInc in Syracuse. Harms earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Parson School of Design in New York City and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the Chelsea School of Art in London. Harms currently lives in Skaneateles with her husband and daughter.

Lunch Hour Film Series
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: Free
Marriott Hotel Syracuse
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

Under the Harlem Moon, directed by Dmitry Geller. Fiction (USA) 19 minutes.
Set in Harlem in the twenties and thirties, Under The Harlem Moon explores the artistic contributions of the Harlem Renaissance while following two sisters in their search for a balance between their commitment to their dreams and to each other.

Flyaway, directed by Oakley & Cernak. Animation (USA) 11 minutes  Best of Fest Nominee.
A little wooden plane, despite the price it must pay, does the impossible and joins a world it could only dream of.

Liars, directed by Nicholas Gurewitch. Experimental (USA) 11 minutes  Best of Fest Nominee.
It is in a state of 'slumber' that a couple unites to celebrate the truest feelings that two people can have for one another. When morning comes however, the two lovers awaken, and return to a world of haste and turbulence.

Kodachrome, directed by Morgan Sheffield. Animation (USA) 8 minutes.
Kodachrome follows a girl living in a strange world, somewhere in the clouds as she explores the world of color. The story opens as our main character watches a film about photography, longing for such creative fulfillment. She soon receives her own camera and begins to experiment with it, finding that her flat, monochromatic world does not impress her sense of creativity as much as she's hoped.

Wake Up, directed by Moo-Joon Kim and Gwang-Kil Choi. Animation (Korea) 3 minutes.
This short animated film includes several episodes with the theme of "Breaking the bias" and the decalcomania technique is used to make these episodes. In the animation, the eggs which are able to be broken, represent the biased ideas and you can come across the hidden faith in your mind by breaking the eggs.

Due to limited seating, reservations are suggested, but not required. Bring your lunch if you choose. SIFF will provide the popcorn. To reserve a seat, call 315-443-8826.

Prisoners of Freedom
Redhouse

Price: $6
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Prisoners of Freedom, by filmmaker Owen Shapiro, is a very unusual dramatized documentary
which explores the little-known episode in American history when 982 European refugees were brought to the United States and interred in a camp behind a barbed wire fence in Oswego, NY during WWII. Blending narration, actual interviews with surviving refugees, and recreated dramatic events the film brings to life the complex, often contradictory feelings of these refugees who found themselves in a hazy gray realm between freedom and imprisonment.

Opening Night Lecture: The Willard Suitcase Owners - What Might Have Helped Them Then?
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 regular; members free
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Peter Stastny, MD, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York, will give a lecture identifying the ways in which the patients of Willard State Hospital could possibly have been helped. Were there methods available 75 years ago that could have made a difference and set them on paths towards recovery rather than lifelong incarceration? This talk will answer this question affirmatively, and will be illustrated with several examples.

Onondaga Community College
Clinton String Quartet

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Onondaga Community College
Syracuse Children's Chorus

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The internationally acclaimed Syracuse Children's Chorus has performed from Carnegie Hall to China, serving as Central New Yorks musical ambassadors to the world.

Mark Erelli
Folkus Project

Price: $10
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Some singer/songwriters are musical explorers, altering their sound and trying different stylistic directions. With a gift for songwriting and a versatility that allows him to move easily from folk to blues to rock to country, Mark Erelli has established himself as one of the premiere young songwriters making music today. He has an ease and distinctive quality of phrasing that allows him to put across a wide range of songs. His recordings have included songs of political commentary, social consciousness and love, distilled into a unique musical vision. A powerful new voice in American music, Erelli proudly wears his heart on his sleeve, weaving tales of honesty and passion. His deeply personal and affecting songs tell stories that capture your attention and pull you in. With clever, thought provoking lyrics, his songs are intelligent, accessible and sung with style and grace. Erelli has long been known for his great voice, versatile talents, and clever way with lyrics.

Lucia di Lammermoor
Syracuse Opera

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

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Hey, Naked Lady
Onondaga Hillplayers

Price: $38 includes dinner, show, and gratuity
Inn of the Seasons
4311 W. Seneca Tpke., Syracuse

A little-seen 1960s comedy by Fred Carmichael.

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Midsummer Night's Dream
Skaneateles High School Drama Program

Price: $7 regular, $5 students/seniors
Skaneateles High School
49 E. Elizabeth St., Skaneateles

Information: 315-291-2296.

Gem of the Ocean
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

Price: $44, $39, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Lyric, poetic, and infused with singular spiritualism, Gem of the Ocean marks the chronological beginning of August Wilson's towering 10-play cycle of African-American life in the 20th century. The year is 1904, when slavery was a palpable memory. The place is Wilson's familiar haunt, the Hill District of Pittsburgh. A young man named Citizen seeks atonement for a crime for which there is no forgiveness. His only hope is 285-year-old Aunt Esther, the spiritual center of the community and its collective history, who guides him on a journey to the "City of Bones," the watery graves of those who perished on the journey to slavery, a past he needs to embrace.

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The Fantastiks
Wit's End Players

Price: $21.00 regular; $19.00 seniors; $14.00 children
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

A girl, a boy, a wall between them... This charming show, the longest running musical in history, tells a timeless story of young love. Beautiful songs include "Try to Remember."

For more information, phone 315-345-8001.

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Saturday, March 3, 2007

The Language of Art
Delavan Art Gallery

Price: Free
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Barbara Kellogg: watermedia
Nives Marzocchi: varied works
An exhibit of artists whose work is shown in the new cultural magazine, Stone Canoe Journal

Impressions
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Oil paintings by Eric Shute, watercolors by Stephen Ryan, and ceramics by Bobbi Lamb.

A New Refutation of Time (Still Images in Sequence)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Syracuse City School District high school students worked at the e-tags gallery and studio with video artist Ryan Tebo. After four weeks, students created a visual representation of their own concept of time through still photography, which was then sequenced into one-minute video shorts. Student artists include: Corbin Bryant and Susan Drake from Nottingham High School; Varvara Mikushkina, Manual Bova and Teddy Bratt from Henninger High School; and Ryan Gallagher and Leah Bucher from Corcoran High School.

The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic
Everson Museum of Art

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

"The Lives They Left Behind" is a traveling exhibition from the Exhibition Alliance. In 1995, during the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes region, several hundred suitcases filled with the personal belongings of former patients were discovered. "The Lives They Left Behind" presents excerpts of personal and hospital history surrounding Willard through portraits and still lives and includes six of the original suitcases. These suitcases and their contents illuminate the rich complex lives the individual patients led before they were committed to Willard and speak to their aspirations, accomplishments, and community connections as well as their loss and isolation.

Sponsored in part by W. Carroll Coyne, Coordinated Care Services, Mental Health Association of Onondaga County, Onondaga Case Management Services, Inc., NAMI-PROMISE, INC., Transitional Living Services of Onondaga County, Inc., and Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, Law & Disability Studies. Community Collaborators include Hutchings Psychaitric Center, Syracuse University Consortium of Employment Services, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, St. Joesph's Mental Health Services, Liberty Resources, ARISE, Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, NY Association of Physchiatric Rehabilitation, CONTACT Community Services.

Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face: Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Everson Biennial Winner
Everson Museum of Art

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

Jeremy Bailey uses his video art to deal with issues of identity and privacy. He described his exhibition as, "A complete solution for your identity toolbox that lets you be yourself while maintaining your personal freedoms."

Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties
Everson Museum of Art

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

Developed by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this show highlights the Depression-era photography of author Eudora Welty. Welty's photographs capture with pictures the world that the author describes with words. The photographs and paintings which come from this period are visual interpretations, not only of the economic instability and often great personal despair, but of the optimism about the human spirit and pride of place.

At the center of the exhibit are Eudora Welty's dramatic photographs of Mississippi, Lousiana and New York during the Great Depression. Welty's photographs bear witness to America's courage in the face of adversity. Few American writers share both a gift for pictoral precision and words as does Welty: the craft of the metaphor, the gift for discovering the world and then transmitting the image clearly.

Embracing Winter
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Staging the coldest season as a playground for imagination, The Warehouse Gallery presents Embracing Winter, a group exhibition featuring knitted sculpture, psychedelic video, interactive displays, sly photography, and crisp audio and book works by American, Canadian and Italian artists: Janet Morton, Bruno Munari, Takeshi Murata, Collin Olan, Lisa M. Robinson, and Rudy Shepherd

Syracuse is the perennial winner of the Golden Snowball Award, for the most snowfall in New York State. Embracing Winter celebrates this crystallized precipitation as the key to a delightful set of activities, and as an ephemeral filter to make ordinary surroundings new again.

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Underground Railroad Made Visible: Photos by William Earle Williams
Community Folk Art Center

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

The photographs are of sites that were once part of the Underground Railroad, including many here in Central New York.

The exhibition is held in conjunction with a simultaneous exhibition at Light Work also featuring Williams' photographs: "Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War."

William Earle Williams received a B.A. degree in History from Hamilton College and an M.F.A. degree in Fine Arts from Yale University. He is a Professor of Fine Arts at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and also a Curator of Photography. Williams participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2003.

Environmental Injustice and the Artist Response to Hurricane Katrina
Community Folk Art Center

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

When photographers Donn Young and Gus Bennett, Jr., stared loss in the face after Hurricane Katrina they searched through their emotional and physical lives, assessed the damage and moved on. They entered spaces and captured images and rescued items that were difficult to see, but needed to be saved in order to help tell the story of New Orleans.

Donn Young returned to New Orleans to find his studio and over one million images taken during his 25 year career virtually eliminated. In light of this, he began documenting the devastation of not just his life, but the lives of others in the City as well. Gus Bennett documented the efforts of curator and archivist Linda Hill to rescue a collection of African antiquities that were left unattended and deteriorating on a local university campus. She endured the hazardous environment, located the items, removed them and began working to restore them.

For those who make New Orleans their home after Katrina, it is not always easy to find the beauty that has been covered up by the debris of the storm. This exhibition is about three remarkable individuals who chose to help save New Orleans through their individual efforts and are now sharing those efforts collectively; a metaphor for what it takes to live in New Orleans
­ today.

This exhibition will challenge your senses, in part, because we dare to display the images of objects that under different circumstances would be gazed upon with notions of beauty, humor and historic documentation. In this context, however, we are sharing those objects in their vulnerable state, straddling the line, in appearance, of art and refuse. This is a story about seeing devastation, experiencing the pain and moving forward by will and choice.

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Un/Common Threads: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition, curated by Syracuse University graduate student Kaylen Williams, features images from the Light Work Collection. The work selected explores how contemporary artists approach issues of ethnic and cultural identity.

Celestial Images: Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps From the Mendillo Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Celestial Images celebrates the Golden Age of astronomical charts. Some of the world's earliest artistic images, illustrations of cosmologies and heavenly phenomena, entered into a new and lively phase during the Renaissance. The invention of printing in the 15th century improved the means of disseminating scientific knowledge; advances in astronomy in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the portrayal of new information. This fortuitous conjunction created printed astronomical charts of surprising accuracy and delicate beauty. Celestial cartographers combined their scientific quest with a keen aesthetic sense -- each chart had to be an object of beauty, as well as a repository of information. These charts were a celebration of aesthetics as well as scientific knowledge.

Like the twins of Gemini, art and science walked hand-in-hand for over hundred years. By the late 19th century, this unified way of seeing had split into the "two cultures" of art and science that we know today. Overwhelmed by a vast amount of data, astronomical charts of the 20th century eventually changed into functional, unadorned tools intended for the specialists. Tucked away in libraries, museums and private collections, however, are splendid remnants of a bygone era. Assembled here from the Mendillo Collection of Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps are over 80 examples of some of the finest celestial cartography created. There are star charts (maps of the constellations and the full celestial sphere), charts of planetary systems (cosmologies), and a smaller third category, charts of celestial phenomena (such as nebulae, comets, and eclipses). Together, they pay homage to a time when simple systems explained the universe and humankind held friendly commerce with the skies.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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.

Meaning and Metaphor
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Meaning and Metaphor presents a group of 10 large contemporary paintings and two distinctly different sculptures. Made by American and British artists, the works challenge preconceived notions of what art is and its purpose.

Several pieces reject the idea that art needs to be realistic. Large paintings by Bernard Cohen and Walter Darby Bannard explore abstraction in uniquely different ways. Bannard's Sun Flood, 1972 is an excellent late example of Abstract Expressionism while Cohen's Somewhere Between, 1975 pushed Op Art to its philosophical extreme.

Other works examine the role of narration in art. Robert Birmelin's Night Driving, 1964, Sidney Goodman's Eclipse and Rico Lebrun's Lazarus, 1962 develop stories that leave the viewer with more questions than answers.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

War News and Strange Brews: The Art of Boris Artzybasheff
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Boris Artzybasheff was a Russian émigré artist who painted over 200 cover illustrations for Time magazine. His most important work dates to World War II when he depicted the politicians, military leaders and the issues that governed the course of the conflict. His unique abilities in portraiture led Time to select him to paint several Man of the Year covers including portraits of Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman.

Artzybasheff was possibly more famous for his illustrations that gave machinery human characteristics. His sly talent for choosing just the right amount of human anatomy gave each machine a personality that ranged from sympathetic to sinister. Viewers were therefore compelled to have an emotional reaction to the machine and its purpose.

Parking is available at the Marion Avenue parking lot. For further information please contact the Galleries' David Prince at 315-443-4097.

On the Edge of Pop
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

On the Edge of Pop presents a selection of paintings, sculpture and prints that examines the pop art movement's later years in the 1970s. Included in the exhibition are works by Pop icons like Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. These originators were joined by later participants including Robert Cottingham, John Clem Clark and Mel Ramos.

Pop established a new order of symbols, images and content that evolved over time. The style began in the late 1950s as a reaction to the intensely personal and gestural look of Abstract Expressionism. Pop artists de-emphasized their role in making art by often using more mechanical techniques usually associated with mass market processes. Their images were often appropriated from popular culture and, as a result, the general public greeted the new work enthusiastically.

By 1970 Pop had evolved into a more mainstream art form as the style broadened its scope. Andy Warhol did a series of paintings and prints of celebrities and other important figures. He took a famous publicity photograph of Marilyn Monroe and made a series of differently colored screenprints. Installed as multiples, the prints reinterpreted the starlet's place in American culture. Robert Rauschenberg had gained such a reputation that in 1969 NASA invited him to Cape Canaveral to witness the launch of Apollo 11 and to use its images in his work. His color screenprint Signs, 1970 prominently features the astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon along with a host of other iconic figures and events from the preceding decade.

Weekend and evening Galleries 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.

Nevis: Abstract Paintings by Rachel Harms
Redhouse

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

Rachel Harms, an English-born and educated artist will exhibit her most recent abstract paintings, which are influenced by the warm, brightly hued, West Indies Island of Nevis. Harms is interested in basic contradictions between nature and life, solidity and fragility, timelessness and change. These paintings beckon the viewer to linger, search, and discover the unexpected. They are refreshing, precisely honed constructions, both beautiful and affecting.

Rachel Harms has exhibited throughout the United Kingdom and the United States, including at the Creaser Gallery in London, the New Waterfront Museum in New York City; and recently at Onondaga Community College and ThInc in Syracuse. Harms earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Parson School of Design in New York City and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the Chelsea School of Art in London. Harms currently lives in Skaneateles with her husband and daughter.

Survivors' Artistry Celebration
Vera House, Inc.

Price: Free; donations requested
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

A unique multi-media performance event celebrating the creativity of survivors and compassionate artists. An inspiring evening of compelling poetry and art, dramatic readings & soul-stirring song!

Performers and artists include: Evelyn Ayers-Marsh, Jackie Warren Moore, Sonita Surrat, Roslyn Rasberry, Ashley Cox, Debra Faes, Heidi Kuhl, Jane Cassady, Cathy Brochu, Jenny Terrero-Rivera.

Contemporary Film Series: Sisters in Law
Everson Museum of Art

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

Winner of the Prix Art et Essai at the Cannes FIlm Festival and screened to acclaim at more than 120 festivals around the world, Sisters in Law is the latest documentary from internationally renowned director Kim Longinotto, co-directed by Florence Ayisi.

In the little town of Kumba, Cameroon, there have been no convictions in spousal abuse cases for 17 years. But two women determined to change their community are making prgress that could change the world. This fascinating, often hilarious documentary follows the work of State Prosecutor Vera Ngassa and Court President Beatrice Ntuba as they help women fight often-difficult cases of abuse, despite pressures from family and their community to remain silent. Six-year-old Manka is covered in scars and has run away from an abusive aunt, Amina is seeking a divorce to put an end to brutal beatings by her husband, the pre-teen Sonita has daringly accused her neighbor of rape.

With fierce compassion, the two feisty and progressive-minded women dispense wisdom, wisecracks and justice in fair measure, handing down stiff sentences to those convicted. A cross between "Judge Judy" and "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency," Sisters in Law has audiences cheering when justice is served.

Cameroon/UK, 2005, 104 minutes. Presented in collaboration with the YMCA.

North of 49
Redhouse

Price: $6
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

North of 49, by filmmaker Richard Breyer, is a recent documentary about the burning of a Sikh Temple by four teens a month after 9/11. William Larue of the Post Standard called this film "The most important film to originate in Central New York over the past years."

Reception and Panel Discussion
Community Folk Art Center

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

Reception and a special panel discussion with artists Donn Young and Gus Bennett, Jr. and guest curator Redell Hearn, held in conjunction with the exhibit "Environmental Injustice and the Artist Response to Hurricane Katrina."

Gallery Talk: Jeremy Bailey
Everson Museum of Art

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

Video artist Jeremy Bailey, 2006 Biennial winner, will discuss the work in his solo exhibition, Hey You with the Totally Awesome Face.

Scholastic Instrumental Jazz Jam
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $6 regular, $3 with student ID
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Aspiring jazz instrumentalists and vocalists can "learn the ropes" of public performance backed by the area's finest professionals. Play the tunes of your choice in a supportive atmosphere. All levels of experience are welcome!

Jazz Concerts
Jazz Appreciation Society of Syracuse
Bear Cat Jass Band

Price: $12 regular, $10 JASS members
Quality Inn
1308 Buckley Rd., Salina

B.B. King, with opening act David Foster & the Mohegan Sun All-Stars

Price: $59.50 and $44.50
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

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Masks of Life
Open Hand Theater

Price: $8 adults, $6 children ($2 discount for members)
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Open Hand Theater's artistic director Geoffrey Navias invites us into the world of masks and the stories they tell.

For families and children 6 years old and older.

Snow White
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive adaptation of the well-known tale.

Gem of the Ocean
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

Price: $40, $36, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Lyric, poetic, and infused with singular spiritualism, Gem of the Ocean marks the chronological beginning of August Wilson's towering 10-play cycle of African-American life in the 20th century. The year is 1904, when slavery was a palpable memory. The place is Wilson's familiar haunt, the Hill District of Pittsburgh. A young man named Citizen seeks atonement for a crime for which there is no forgiveness. His only hope is 285-year-old Aunt Esther, the spiritual center of the community and its collective history, who guides him on a journey to the "City of Bones," the watery graves of those who perished on the journey to slavery, a past he needs to embrace.

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Hey, Naked Lady
Onondaga Hillplayers

Price: $38 includes dinner, show, and gratuity
Inn of the Seasons
4311 W. Seneca Tpke., Syracuse

A little-seen 1960s comedy by Fred Carmichael.

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Midsummer Night's Dream
Skaneateles High School Drama Program

Price: $7 regular, $5 students/seniors
Skaneateles High School
49 E. Elizabeth St., Skaneateles

Information: 315-291-2296.

Gem of the Ocean
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Douglas, director

Price: $44, $39, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Lyric, poetic, and infused with singular spiritualism, Gem of the Ocean marks the chronological beginning of August Wilson's towering 10-play cycle of African-American life in the 20th century. The year is 1904, when slavery was a palpable memory. The place is Wilson's familiar haunt, the Hill District of Pittsburgh. A young man named Citizen seeks atonement for a crime for which there is no forgiveness. His only hope is 285-year-old Aunt Esther, the spiritual center of the community and its collective history, who guides him on a journey to the "City of Bones," the watery graves of those who perished on the journey to slavery, a past he needs to embrace.

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The Fantastiks
Wit's End Players

Price: $21.00 regular; $19.00 seniors; $14.00 children
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

A girl, a boy, a wall between them... This charming show, the longest running musical in history, tells a timeless story of young love. Beautiful songs include "Try to Remember."

For more information, phone 315-345-8001.

Read a Review!