Thursday, February 25, 2010

**CLOSED due to weather** Art Exhibition: Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

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

The Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Everything is Illustrated and Winter Solstice
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Everything is Illustrated: Gallery A
Recent work by Eva Calazada, Tian Chen, Barbara Morey, and Benjamin Petrie

Winter Solstice: Gallery B
Works by Cala Glatz, Julia Kester, Jonathan LaPlante, and Beth Mand

The Loneliness of Nature: Works by James Domroe
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Photographs of "The Loneliness of Nature" were manipulated in Photoshop to heighten and bring contrast to the starkness of the photos.

Also a short film, "How to be Happy", running time 5 min.

Works of Bill Reddick
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Exhibition of Bill Reddick, renowned Canadian international porcelain artist. Reddick designed the Official State Dinnerware for Canada. His work can be seen at Rideau Hall, the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, and the Porcelain Institute in Jingdexhen, China.

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

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

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

**CLOSED due to weather** Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

**CLOSED due to weather** The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Phantoms
Redhouse

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

Red House Arts Center presents "Phantoms," a New Media art exhibition curated by New York City based gallerist and curator Stephan Stoayanov.

We can attribute the present art and pop-cult fascination with the paranormal and vampires with our ongoing human interest in metamorphosis.The mystery of the unknown will always be something that we obsess about. Our brain creates illusions of words and phrases.

The nine artists included in the exhibition "Phantoms" create illusions through their artwork, which evoke the paranormal and mystical on both personal and universal level. "Phantoms" features the work of Phil Argent (United Kingdom), Heather Bennett (United States), Amelie Chabannes (France), Lieven de Boeck (Belgium), Cliff Evans (Australia), Ellen Harvey (United States), Dominik Lejman (Poland), Marie Maillard (France), and Trine Lise Nedreaas (Norway).

Domestic Flourish: Works by Jen Allen
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jen Allen is a passionate potter. She proudly proclaims "Handcrafted pottery has the capacity to nourish the home, the hand and the mind." Her goal as an artist is to keep the handmade an integral part of the contemporary home, and her beautifully crafted pottery on view reflects this philosophy.

Allen's utilitarian pottery forms "describe contrasts between modesty and generosity, grace and awkwardness" while they relate to her love of sewing through details such as folds, seams, darts, and pillow-like handles. The exterior surfaces, inspired by a fondness for textile design, juxtapose bold pattern with quiet, glazed expanses. All of her work is created with porcelain because of the material's inherit brightness and luminosity.

**CLOSED due to weather** At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

Wild Card Exhibit: Serious Art for Children
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A new collection of works by noted illustrator and painter Connie Carroll, created for children of any age, meant to encourage an appreciation for the arts even in young children. This group of paintings bears a lighthearted and whimsical approach. The work in this series adds colorful dimension to common enjoyable experiences or fantasies for children, such as space travel or other adventures. In her artist statement, Carroll thanks "children of all ages, from one to one hundred" for joining her in exploring the fantasies depicted in these paintings.

Art: 2003-2009
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Art: 2003-2009" pays tribute to a group of artists aligned with the gallery since its inception over six years ago. The exhibit runs the gamut of artistic endeavors. Among the artists included in the show are: Lydia Benscher, Jamie Ashlaw, Eric W. Shute, A. Brooks Decker, Frank Calidonna, Harry R. Freeman-Jones, Diana Godfrey, Tom Hussey, John Dowling, Roscha Folger, Ruth Wynn, Wendy Harris, R. Jason Howard, Stephen Perrone, Kathleen Schneider, Arthur Brangman, Crystal LaPoint, Thomas Barnes, Tom Townsley, Kyle Mort, Andrea Hall, Stephen Ryan, Patrice Downes Centore, Robert Glisson, James Skvarch, and Vincent Fitches. The gallery is also planning to show works by Amy E. Bartell, Jim Dieso, Douglas Biklen, Tom Champion, Diane Lansing, Robert Carroll, Lauren Ritchie, Phil Austin, Sandy Clift, James R. Walker, Vivian Geiger, Richard Karuzas, Rudy Hellmann, Jennifer Colvin, Richard Schultz, Fred Wellner, Laura J. Wellner, Joyce Day Homan, Linda Esterley, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Mary Kester, and C. J. Hodge.

Read a review!

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

Read a review!

The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

**CLOSED due to weather** Elongating the Thread
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Elongating the Thread" features the work of fiber and textile artists Jappie King Black, Anne Cofer, Annet Couwenberg, Jennifer Gandee, Mary Kester, Susan Krueger, Laura Reinhard, Barbara Jean Weingart, and Victoria Zacek.

The selected work in "Elongating the Thread" highlights the breadth of work based in the fiber and textile arts program in VPA's School of Art and Design and the success of the participants to explore their individual studio practices on a national level. The diversity of the group is evident through the variety of media (wool, silk, copper, steel, clay, and doilies) and concepts (weight, domesticity, identity, nature, war, and the subconscious) explored by the artists.

The exhibition is curated and coordinated by Cofer, Mary Giehl, and Olivia Robinson, all faculty members in the fiber and textile arts program. Many of the exhibiting artists are active members of the local artistic community and continue to make Central New York their home.

For more information, email Robinson at orobinso@syr.edu, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours, or visit vpa.syr.edu/xlprojects.

Breach of Peace: Eric Etheridge's Photographs of the Freedom Riders
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans—blacks and whites, men and women—converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge state segregation laws. The Freedom Riders, as they came to be known, were determined to open up the South to civil rights: it was illegal for bus and train stations to discriminate, but most did and were not interested in change. Over 300 people were arrested and convicted of the charge "breach of the peace."

Artist and author Eric Etheridge's exhibit, Breach of Peace, collects the mug shots of those arrested, which were only recently made public, and juxtaposes them with present-day photographs of the Riders and their recollections about the experience. The group, half black and half white (a quarter were women), was remarkably young; in their faces we see strength, courage, defiance, dignity, and, occasionally, fear.

STILL ON: Animal Pants CD Release with DJ Afar
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

Spark has confirmed that this event is still taking place.

Film: Goodbye, Momo (A Dios Momo)
Community Folk Art Center

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

Goodbye, Momo was written and directed by Leonardo Ricagni and stars Jorge Esmoris, Mathias Acuna, and Washington Luna. The film tells the story of Obdulio, an 11-year-old Afro-Uruguayan boy who lives with his grandmother and sells newspapers for a living while he cannot read or write. Obdulio is not interested in going to school until he finds out that the night watchman of the newspaper's office is a charismatic magical "Maestro" who not only introduces him to the world of literacy but also teaches him the real meaning of life through the lyrics of the "Murgas" (Carnival Pierrots) during the mythical nights of the irreverent and provocative Uruguayan carnival.

A post-film discussion will follow.

**CANCELLED due to weather** Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
SU Jazz Ensemble

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

The ensemble performs under the direction of Joseph Riposo.

Parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, contact Riposo at 315-443-2192 or jriposo@syr.edu.

**CANCELLED** Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad + Sim Redmond Band and Jimkata
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

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

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

You and the rest of the Bangalone Gang are in deep trouble. Big Louie's been beaned by a bocci ball and now he ain't thinking so good. The gang's got to figure out what to do before arch rival gang leader "Muscles" Marinara has you rubbed out. You better move fast. Word on the street is that ruthless hitman Jake "The Weasel" is on the way.

** CANCELLED due to weather** Lookingglass Alice
Syracuse Stage

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

Ticket holders may call the Box Office at 315-443-3275 for an exchange.

In your wildest imaginings, you've never imagined Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass like this! Staged with endless wit, astonishing physicality, breathtaking aerial acrobatics, and theatrical daring, Alice, The Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and all of Lewis Carroll's enchanting characters come to dizzyingly, playful, gravity-defying life in a circus-like spectacle sure to amaze kids and adults alike. By David Catlin.

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**CANCELLED due to weather** Emma's Child
LeMoyne College
Steve Braddock, director

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

When a married couple, after years of trying to have a child of their own, decides to adopt a newborn baby only to discover the baby has a terminal condition, their lives are thrown into a crisis that threatens to tear their marriage apart. What are a couple's rights and responsibilities to a child and to each other? How does a hospital staff and administration, bound by regulations and laws, negotiate waters clouded with strong feelings and emotions?

The first play ever commissioned by the internationally acclaimed Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Emma's Child is a riveting story, emphasizing that "Life matters and the connection between lives matters." Tenderly and insightfully written with a light, comedic touch, it is a play that deeply involves the audience with the title character, a brave little individual, and the adults that are forever changed by sharing his life.

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**CANCELLED due to weather** The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Syracuse University Drama Department
Elizabeth Ingram, director

Price: $18 regular, $16 students/seniors, $7 rush at the door if available
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Ticket holders may call the Box Office at 315-443-3275 for an exchange.

In this early comedy, Shakespeare cheerfully travesties love and friendship as two best friends fall for and fall out over the same woman. a genuine precursor to the later great comedies (this is the first of the Bard's plays to feature a woman disguised as a man), the seeds of Shakespeare's genius are one full display in this farcical romp. Check out a character named Launce and his dog Crab.

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Friday, February 26, 2010

Art Exhibition: Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

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

The Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Everything is Illustrated and Winter Solstice
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Everything is Illustrated: Gallery A
Recent work by Eva Calazada, Tian Chen, Barbara Morey, and Benjamin Petrie

Winter Solstice: Gallery B
Works by Cala Glatz, Julia Kester, Jonathan LaPlante, and Beth Mand

The Loneliness of Nature: Works by James Domroe
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Photographs of "The Loneliness of Nature" were manipulated in Photoshop to heighten and bring contrast to the starkness of the photos.

Also a short film, "How to be Happy", running time 5 min.

Works of Bill Reddick
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Exhibition of Bill Reddick, renowned Canadian international porcelain artist. Reddick designed the Official State Dinnerware for Canada. His work can be seen at Rideau Hall, the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, and the Porcelain Institute in Jingdexhen, China.

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

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

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

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

Phantoms
Redhouse

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

Red House Arts Center presents "Phantoms," a New Media art exhibition curated by New York City based gallerist and curator Stephan Stoayanov.

We can attribute the present art and pop-cult fascination with the paranormal and vampires with our ongoing human interest in metamorphosis.The mystery of the unknown will always be something that we obsess about. Our brain creates illusions of words and phrases.

The nine artists included in the exhibition "Phantoms" create illusions through their artwork, which evoke the paranormal and mystical on both personal and universal level. "Phantoms" features the work of Phil Argent (United Kingdom), Heather Bennett (United States), Amelie Chabannes (France), Lieven de Boeck (Belgium), Cliff Evans (Australia), Ellen Harvey (United States), Dominik Lejman (Poland), Marie Maillard (France), and Trine Lise Nedreaas (Norway).

Domestic Flourish: Works by Jen Allen
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jen Allen is a passionate potter. She proudly proclaims "Handcrafted pottery has the capacity to nourish the home, the hand and the mind." Her goal as an artist is to keep the handmade an integral part of the contemporary home, and her beautifully crafted pottery on view reflects this philosophy.

Allen's utilitarian pottery forms "describe contrasts between modesty and generosity, grace and awkwardness" while they relate to her love of sewing through details such as folds, seams, darts, and pillow-like handles. The exterior surfaces, inspired by a fondness for textile design, juxtapose bold pattern with quiet, glazed expanses. All of her work is created with porcelain because of the material's inherit brightness and luminosity.

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

Wild Card Exhibit: Serious Art for Children
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A new collection of works by noted illustrator and painter Connie Carroll, created for children of any age, meant to encourage an appreciation for the arts even in young children. This group of paintings bears a lighthearted and whimsical approach. The work in this series adds colorful dimension to common enjoyable experiences or fantasies for children, such as space travel or other adventures. In her artist statement, Carroll thanks "children of all ages, from one to one hundred" for joining her in exploring the fantasies depicted in these paintings.

Art: 2003-2009
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Art: 2003-2009" pays tribute to a group of artists aligned with the gallery since its inception over six years ago. The exhibit runs the gamut of artistic endeavors. Among the artists included in the show are: Lydia Benscher, Jamie Ashlaw, Eric W. Shute, A. Brooks Decker, Frank Calidonna, Harry R. Freeman-Jones, Diana Godfrey, Tom Hussey, John Dowling, Roscha Folger, Ruth Wynn, Wendy Harris, R. Jason Howard, Stephen Perrone, Kathleen Schneider, Arthur Brangman, Crystal LaPoint, Thomas Barnes, Tom Townsley, Kyle Mort, Andrea Hall, Stephen Ryan, Patrice Downes Centore, Robert Glisson, James Skvarch, and Vincent Fitches. The gallery is also planning to show works by Amy E. Bartell, Jim Dieso, Douglas Biklen, Tom Champion, Diane Lansing, Robert Carroll, Lauren Ritchie, Phil Austin, Sandy Clift, James R. Walker, Vivian Geiger, Richard Karuzas, Rudy Hellmann, Jennifer Colvin, Richard Schultz, Fred Wellner, Laura J. Wellner, Joyce Day Homan, Linda Esterley, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Mary Kester, and C. J. Hodge.

Read a review!

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

Read a review!

The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Elongating the Thread
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Elongating the Thread" features the work of fiber and textile artists Jappie King Black, Anne Cofer, Annet Couwenberg, Jennifer Gandee, Mary Kester, Susan Krueger, Laura Reinhard, Barbara Jean Weingart, and Victoria Zacek.

The selected work in "Elongating the Thread" highlights the breadth of work based in the fiber and textile arts program in VPA's School of Art and Design and the success of the participants to explore their individual studio practices on a national level. The diversity of the group is evident through the variety of media (wool, silk, copper, steel, clay, and doilies) and concepts (weight, domesticity, identity, nature, war, and the subconscious) explored by the artists.

The exhibition is curated and coordinated by Cofer, Mary Giehl, and Olivia Robinson, all faculty members in the fiber and textile arts program. Many of the exhibiting artists are active members of the local artistic community and continue to make Central New York their home.

For more information, email Robinson at orobinso@syr.edu, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours, or visit vpa.syr.edu/xlprojects.

Breach of Peace: Eric Etheridge's Photographs of the Freedom Riders
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans—blacks and whites, men and women—converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge state segregation laws. The Freedom Riders, as they came to be known, were determined to open up the South to civil rights: it was illegal for bus and train stations to discriminate, but most did and were not interested in change. Over 300 people were arrested and convicted of the charge "breach of the peace."

Artist and author Eric Etheridge's exhibit, Breach of Peace, collects the mug shots of those arrested, which were only recently made public, and juxtaposes them with present-day photographs of the Riders and their recollections about the experience. The group, half black and half white (a quarter were women), was remarkably young; in their faces we see strength, courage, defiance, dignity, and, occasionally, fear.

Opening Reception: (re)circulate(d): studies in 'collage': Works of Scott Herrmann
LeMoyne College

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

Scott Herrmann is a graduate of the art programs of Syracuse University and Onondaga Community College. A lifelong resident of Central New York, he resides in Liverpool with his wife and son. He recently participated in the "Collage + Assemblage" exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn. This is his first solo show.

Opening: Remembrance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lorraine Savidge: "painting with thread" -- hand-guided original machine embroidery depicting landscape and design
Paula Burke: decorative and functional ceramics
Barbara Kellogg: abstract water media collages based on places visited
Lauren Bristol: string objects/garments referencing ancient rituals and record keeping

Opening Reception: Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The artists will be in attendance at the opening reception.

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

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

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

*CANCELLED* The Renegades Improv
Redhouse

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The Renegades are a comedy troupe based out of Syracuse, NY. The troupe incorporates sketches, digital shorts, and improv games into the performance to produce a show that's equal parts Saturday Night Live, Whose Line is it Anyways?, and Monty Python.

Performing will be Deidre Dyer, Brandon Dyer, Tim Hogarth, Jeff White, Aaron Geiskopf, and Ron Sweet.

Imbued
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Award-winning filmmaker Rob Nilsson brings his newest film to Syracuse. "Imbued" stars Stacy Keach, with Michelle Anton Allen, Liz Sklar and Nancy Bower. Donatello is a complex man who bets money he does not possess on horses, sports teams, and just about anything else he cannot attain. What Donatello isn't betting on is the strange and sudden appearance of Lydia, a beautiful woman with an expensive problem Don is convinced he can solve. Through one long night together, emotions are laid bare, settling and unsettling in the shadowy corners of the San Francisco skyline.

Join us after the screening for a SyrFilm exclusive video interview with Stacy Keach and live discussion with Rob Nilsson.

Onondaga Community College
OCC African Percussion Ensemble

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Tenor Madness Plus Piano
Featuring Stefan Vasnier, piano

Price: $20 adults, $10 students
Erwin First United Methodist Church
920 Euclid Ave., Syracuse

Tenor Madness is made up of Hanna Richardson on tenor guitar and vocals, Tom Bronzetti on tenor guitar, and Phil Flanagan on bass. For this performance, they will be joined by pianist Stefan Vasnier.

Stefan, a native Parisian, has played in many jazz clubs and for several European festivals. Primarily influenced by Ahmad Jamal, Nat King Cole, and Wynton Kelly, he's perfectly suited to accompany the unique sound of twin tenor guitars, and the classic repertoire of Tenor Madness.

Light refreshments will be available during the intermission.

Rubblebucket + Sophistafunk, Animal Pants, and Phantom Chemistry
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Flying Dutchman
Syracuse Opera

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

The legend of the Flying Dutchman has been told and re-told through the ages, but never as magnificently as by Richard Wagner. The glorious music brilliantly captures the yearning desperation of the cursed sea captain, and the tragic despair of the woman who loves him enough to die for him. This multimedia concert event focuses all of the musical forces of the company, featuring artists in demand worldwide, an expanded chorus, and superb accompaniment by the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. Projected images, innovative lighting, and dramatic interactions give spectacle to this groundbreaking event.

Featuring Greer Grimsley as The Dutchman, Lori Phillips as Senta, Alan Glassman as Erik, and Peter Strummer as Daland. Sung in German with projected English titles.

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Greg Ames, novelist
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Greg Ames is the author of Buffalo Lockjaw, winner of the 2009 NAIBA Book of the Year Award. His stories have appeared in the Best American Nonrequired Reading, McSweeney's, Open City and The Sun. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Ames lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

The Good Doctor
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Jon Barden, director

Price: Adults $15, students $12
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

The Good Doctor is Neil Simon's tribute to one of his play writing idols—the Russian playwright Anton Chekov. The play is a series of scenes and vignettes (12 in all) written as Chekov farces with that wonderful funny and poignant Simon touch.

The cast includes Mark Baker, Denise Ballou, Jay Burris, Camille Chace, Stephanie Long, Cole Salo and Josh Taylor.

Macbeth
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $10 regular; $5 with SU student ID; $7.50 with SU faculty/staff ID
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

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Revenge of the Space Pandas
Black Box Players

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

Binky Rudich is your everyday, run-of-the-mill mad scientist, and with the help of his assistant Vivian and his friend Bob the Sheep (who is a sheep) he creates his masterpiece. A two-speed clock. This two-speed clock not only keeps Earth time but also, when used correctly, stops Earth time and shoots Binky, Vivian, and Bob the Sheep off into the galaxy. They arrive on Crestview, 4th World of the Goolagong system, which is ruled by the tyrannical (but not too bright) George Topax and his army of Space Pandas. Their clock is broken, their territory is unknown, and their situation is dire. Needless to say, hilarity ensues as our fearless friends try to fix their clock and make it home in time for lunch. Mama Rudich is making casserole. Written by David Mamet, directed by Tony Cavallo.

Emma's Child
LeMoyne College
Steve Braddock, director

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

When a married couple, after years of trying to have a child of their own, decides to adopt a newborn baby only to discover the baby has a terminal condition, their lives are thrown into a crisis that threatens to tear their marriage apart. What are a couple's rights and responsibilities to a child and to each other? How does a hospital staff and administration, bound by regulations and laws, negotiate waters clouded with strong feelings and emotions?

The first play ever commissioned by the internationally acclaimed Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Emma's Child is a riveting story, emphasizing that "Life matters and the connection between lives matters." Tenderly and insightfully written with a light, comedic touch, it is a play that deeply involves the audience with the title character, a brave little individual, and the adults that are forever changed by sharing his life.

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Star Wars: The Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Wit's End Players

Price: $25
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Starring the brightest lights of the Syracuse stage, Star Wars: The Musical is a hilarious interpretation of what the 1977 film might have been like if it had opened off-Broadway instead of at Mann's Chinese Theater. Though written with a tongue-in-cheek attitude, the comedy rarely sinks into parody, and instead relies on turning some of the more mundane moments of the film into high melodrama by way of song (as well as the mechanics of how to stage the attack on the Death Star using only performers in starship costumes!) Book by George Lucas as adapted by Todd Panek and David R. Witanowski, music and lyrics by Timothy Edward Smith and Hunter Nolen.

Presented as a benefit by Rarely Done Productions and The Wit's End Players.

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Fat Pig
Simply New Theatre
John Nara, director

Price: 29.50 includes opening night party at Opus following
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Cow. Slob. Pig. How many insults can you hear before you have to stand up and defend the woman you love? Tom faces just that question when he falls for Helen, a bright, funny, sexy young woman who happens to be plus-sized...and then some. Forced to explain his new relationship to his shallow (although shockingly funny) friends, he finally comes to terms with his own preconceptions of the importance of conventional good looks. This sharply drawn play not only critiques our slavish adherence to Hollywood ideals of beauty but also boldly questions our own ability to change what we dislike about ourselves.

A modern romantic comedy by Neil Labute, featuring Josh Canfield, Jenn DeCook, Katheryn Guyette, and Wil Szczech.

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Lookingglass Alice
Syracuse Stage

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

In your wildest imaginings, you've never imagined Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass like this! Staged with endless wit, astonishing physicality, breathtaking aerial acrobatics, and theatrical daring, Alice, The Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and all of Lewis Carroll's enchanting characters come to dizzyingly, playful, gravity-defying life in a circus-like spectacle sure to amaze kids and adults alike. By David Catlin.

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The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Syracuse University Drama Department
Elizabeth Ingram, director

Price: $18 regular, $16 students/seniors, $7 rush at the door if available
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In this early comedy, Shakespeare cheerfully travesties love and friendship as two best friends fall for and fall out over the same woman. a genuine precursor to the later great comedies (this is the first of the Bard's plays to feature a woman disguised as a man), the seeds of Shakespeare's genius are one full display in this farcical romp. Check out a character named Launce and his dog Crab.

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Saturday, February 27, 2010

Works of Bill Reddick
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Exhibition of Bill Reddick, renowned Canadian international porcelain artist. Reddick designed the Official State Dinnerware for Canada. His work can be seen at Rideau Hall, the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, and the Porcelain Institute in Jingdexhen, China.

Art: 2003-2009
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Art: 2003-2009" pays tribute to a group of artists aligned with the gallery since its inception over six years ago. The exhibit runs the gamut of artistic endeavors. Among the artists included in the show are: Lydia Benscher, Jamie Ashlaw, Eric W. Shute, A. Brooks Decker, Frank Calidonna, Harry R. Freeman-Jones, Diana Godfrey, Tom Hussey, John Dowling, Roscha Folger, Ruth Wynn, Wendy Harris, R. Jason Howard, Stephen Perrone, Kathleen Schneider, Arthur Brangman, Crystal LaPoint, Thomas Barnes, Tom Townsley, Kyle Mort, Andrea Hall, Stephen Ryan, Patrice Downes Centore, Robert Glisson, James Skvarch, and Vincent Fitches. The gallery is also planning to show works by Amy E. Bartell, Jim Dieso, Douglas Biklen, Tom Champion, Diane Lansing, Robert Carroll, Lauren Ritchie, Phil Austin, Sandy Clift, James R. Walker, Vivian Geiger, Richard Karuzas, Rudy Hellmann, Jennifer Colvin, Richard Schultz, Fred Wellner, Laura J. Wellner, Joyce Day Homan, Linda Esterley, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Mary Kester, and C. J. Hodge.

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Wild Card Exhibit: Serious Art for Children
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A new collection of works by noted illustrator and painter Connie Carroll, created for children of any age, meant to encourage an appreciation for the arts even in young children. This group of paintings bears a lighthearted and whimsical approach. The work in this series adds colorful dimension to common enjoyable experiences or fantasies for children, such as space travel or other adventures. In her artist statement, Carroll thanks "children of all ages, from one to one hundred" for joining her in exploring the fantasies depicted in these paintings.

Remembrance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lorraine Savidge: "painting with thread" -- hand-guided original machine embroidery depicting landscape and design
Paula Burke: decorative and functional ceramics
Barbara Kellogg: abstract water media collages based on places visited
Lauren Bristol: string objects/garments referencing ancient rituals and record keeping

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

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The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

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

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

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

Domestic Flourish: Works by Jen Allen
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jen Allen is a passionate potter. She proudly proclaims "Handcrafted pottery has the capacity to nourish the home, the hand and the mind." Her goal as an artist is to keep the handmade an integral part of the contemporary home, and her beautifully crafted pottery on view reflects this philosophy.

Allen's utilitarian pottery forms "describe contrasts between modesty and generosity, grace and awkwardness" while they relate to her love of sewing through details such as folds, seams, darts, and pillow-like handles. The exterior surfaces, inspired by a fondness for textile design, juxtapose bold pattern with quiet, glazed expanses. All of her work is created with porcelain because of the material's inherit brightness and luminosity.

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

Breach of Peace: Eric Etheridge's Photographs of the Freedom Riders
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans—blacks and whites, men and women—converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge state segregation laws. The Freedom Riders, as they came to be known, were determined to open up the South to civil rights: it was illegal for bus and train stations to discriminate, but most did and were not interested in change. Over 300 people were arrested and convicted of the charge "breach of the peace."

Artist and author Eric Etheridge's exhibit, Breach of Peace, collects the mug shots of those arrested, which were only recently made public, and juxtaposes them with present-day photographs of the Riders and their recollections about the experience. The group, half black and half white (a quarter were women), was remarkably young; in their faces we see strength, courage, defiance, dignity, and, occasionally, fear.

Elongating the Thread
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Elongating the Thread" features the work of fiber and textile artists Jappie King Black, Anne Cofer, Annet Couwenberg, Jennifer Gandee, Mary Kester, Susan Krueger, Laura Reinhard, Barbara Jean Weingart, and Victoria Zacek.

The selected work in "Elongating the Thread" highlights the breadth of work based in the fiber and textile arts program in VPA's School of Art and Design and the success of the participants to explore their individual studio practices on a national level. The diversity of the group is evident through the variety of media (wool, silk, copper, steel, clay, and doilies) and concepts (weight, domesticity, identity, nature, war, and the subconscious) explored by the artists.

The exhibition is curated and coordinated by Cofer, Mary Giehl, and Olivia Robinson, all faculty members in the fiber and textile arts program. Many of the exhibiting artists are active members of the local artistic community and continue to make Central New York their home.

For more information, email Robinson at orobinso@syr.edu, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours, or visit vpa.syr.edu/xlprojects.

Louis Massiah Pre-Screenings
Community Folk Art Center

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

CFAC is proud to present pre-screenings of the films of Louis Massiah, a 1996 recipient of the MacArthur Foundation "genius grant."

Massiah is an independent documentary filmmaker and founder of Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia, which promotes community access to media production. His work engages civil rights and other critical issues in the lives of people of African descent. His most recent projects include Haytian Stories, a documentary on the historical relationship between the U.S. and Haiti, and Precious Places, a community oral history project. His award-winning productions include W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices; The Bombing of Osage Avenue; Louise Alone Thompson Patterson: In Her Own Words; and segments of the PBS series, Eyes on the Prize.

SaturdaySCREENINGS: Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (2003)
ArtRage Gallery

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

This film draws on rare archival footage, interviews, and even FBI files, to offer a powerful portrait of this forgotten political activist and Civil Rights strategist. Rustin's nonviolent philosophy influenced Martin Luther King, but he was also a labor organizer, conscientious objector, and religious intellectual—all troublesome tags in the 20th century—and his open gay life forced him to stay in the background. Directed by Nancy Kates and Bennett Singer.

Over 20 awards including GLAAD Award: Outstanding Documentary; NY Gay and Lesbian Film Fest: Best Feature; SF Gay and Lesbian Film Festival: Best Documentary; Sundance: Grand Jury Prize.

We'll Never Turn Back
Featuring Mavis Staples

Price: $25 regular, $20 students
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

In the 1960s, the legendary family gospel group The Staple Singers became the musical voices of the Civil Rights Movement. Group member and civil rights activist Mavis Staples continues to inspire those who work for peace and justice throughout the world today with her Civil Rights Movement-inspired blend of gospel, soul, folk, blues and jazz.

Reduced-rate parking for the concert is available in the University Avenue Garage.

Staples' concert will be preceded by "It's Never Too Late for Justice," a conversation with Civil Rights Era cold case activists and family members, from 3:00-4:30 p.m. in Rooms 304A, B and C in the Schine Student Center. The conversation event is free and open to the public, and reduced-rate parking is also available in the University Avenue Garage.

The panel discussion will include key journalists, community activists and advocates, and family members of Frank Morris, Joseph Edwards and Wharlest Jackson, whose unsolved murders in Mississippi and Louisiana CCJI is actively investigating.

Staples reached back to the freedom songs of the '60s, such as "Why Am I Treated So Bad," "When Will We Be Paid for the Work We've Done," and "Long Walk to D.C.," and new originals for her latest studio hit CD, "We'll Never Turn Back" (Anti Records). The CD appeared on more than 30 "Best Of" critics lists (including No. 1 CD of the Year from the Chicago Tribune). Her first live solo CD, "Live: Hope at the Hideout," a recording of her acclaimed show at Chicagos Hideout, has been nominated for a Grammy Award for Blues Album of the Year.

Miró Quartet
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

Price: $20 regular, $15 senior, $10 student, children under 13 free
Lincoln Middle School
1613 James St., Syracuse

The Miró Quartet was founded in 1995 at the Oberlin Conservatory and enjoyed immediate recognition, captivating audiences around the world with their youthful intensity and mature interpretations. Their numerous awards include the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Cleveland Quartet Award. The Miró was enthusiastically received at the 2008 Skaneateles Festival.

Schubert String Quartet No. 15 in G Major, Op. 161, D. 887
Beethoven String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 130 with Grosse Fuge, Op. 133

Dark Hollow (Grateful Dead Tribute) + Master Thieves
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Beauty and the Beast
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive adaptation of the children's classic.

The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Syracuse University Drama Department
Elizabeth Ingram, director

Price: $18 regular, $16 students/seniors, $7 rush at the door if available
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In this early comedy, Shakespeare cheerfully travesties love and friendship as two best friends fall for and fall out over the same woman. a genuine precursor to the later great comedies (this is the first of the Bard's plays to feature a woman disguised as a man), the seeds of Shakespeare's genius are one full display in this farcical romp. Check out a character named Launce and his dog Crab.

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Lookingglass Alice
Syracuse Stage

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

In your wildest imaginings, you've never imagined Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass like this! Staged with endless wit, astonishing physicality, breathtaking aerial acrobatics, and theatrical daring, Alice, The Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and all of Lewis Carroll's enchanting characters come to dizzyingly, playful, gravity-defying life in a circus-like spectacle sure to amaze kids and adults alike. By David Catlin.

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Death by Disco
Without a Cue Productions

Price: $34.50 includes dinner and show
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

Welcome to the Land of Oz Discoteria, the world's first and thankfully, only, disco-cafeteria. A place where disco never dies as long as the mirror balls glint in the light of the sterno flames. Contestants have gathered for the moderately aptly named "3rd Annual World Championship of Disco Championship." The dancers are ready to show their moves, but they might not realize that tonight some of the competition will definitely be stiff.

The show is an interactive murder mystery show that gets members of the audience involved. If you love disco, and even if you despise it, this show will have you intrigued, laughing, and of course dancing, by the end of the night.

For reservations, phone 315-469-6969.

The Good Doctor
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Jon Barden, director

Price: Adults $15, students $12
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

The Good Doctor is Neil Simon's tribute to one of his play writing idols—the Russian playwright Anton Chekov. The play is a series of scenes and vignettes (12 in all) written as Chekov farces with that wonderful funny and poignant Simon touch.

The cast includes Mark Baker, Denise Ballou, Jay Burris, Camille Chace, Stephanie Long, Cole Salo and Josh Taylor.

Macbeth
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $10 regular; $5 with SU student ID; $7.50 with SU faculty/staff ID
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

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Revenge of the Space Pandas
Black Box Players

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

Binky Rudich is your everyday, run-of-the-mill mad scientist, and with the help of his assistant Vivian and his friend Bob the Sheep (who is a sheep) he creates his masterpiece. A two-speed clock. This two-speed clock not only keeps Earth time but also, when used correctly, stops Earth time and shoots Binky, Vivian, and Bob the Sheep off into the galaxy. They arrive on Crestview, 4th World of the Goolagong system, which is ruled by the tyrannical (but not too bright) George Topax and his army of Space Pandas. Their clock is broken, their territory is unknown, and their situation is dire. Needless to say, hilarity ensues as our fearless friends try to fix their clock and make it home in time for lunch. Mama Rudich is making casserole. Written by David Mamet, directed by Tony Cavallo.

Emma's Child
LeMoyne College
Steve Braddock, director

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

When a married couple, after years of trying to have a child of their own, decides to adopt a newborn baby only to discover the baby has a terminal condition, their lives are thrown into a crisis that threatens to tear their marriage apart. What are a couple's rights and responsibilities to a child and to each other? How does a hospital staff and administration, bound by regulations and laws, negotiate waters clouded with strong feelings and emotions?

The first play ever commissioned by the internationally acclaimed Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Emma's Child is a riveting story, emphasizing that "Life matters and the connection between lives matters." Tenderly and insightfully written with a light, comedic touch, it is a play that deeply involves the audience with the title character, a brave little individual, and the adults that are forever changed by sharing his life.

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Star Wars: The Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Wit's End Players

Price: $25
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Starring the brightest lights of the Syracuse stage, Star Wars: The Musical is a hilarious interpretation of what the 1977 film might have been like if it had opened off-Broadway instead of at Mann's Chinese Theater. Though written with a tongue-in-cheek attitude, the comedy rarely sinks into parody, and instead relies on turning some of the more mundane moments of the film into high melodrama by way of song (as well as the mechanics of how to stage the attack on the Death Star using only performers in starship costumes!) Book by George Lucas as adapted by Todd Panek and David R. Witanowski, music and lyrics by Timothy Edward Smith and Hunter Nolen.

Presented as a benefit by Rarely Done Productions and The Wit's End Players.

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Fat Pig
Simply New Theatre
John Nara, director

Price: $24
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Cow. Slob. Pig. How many insults can you hear before you have to stand up and defend the woman you love? Tom faces just that question when he falls for Helen, a bright, funny, sexy young woman who happens to be plus-sized...and then some. Forced to explain his new relationship to his shallow (although shockingly funny) friends, he finally comes to terms with his own preconceptions of the importance of conventional good looks. This sharply drawn play not only critiques our slavish adherence to Hollywood ideals of beauty but also boldly questions our own ability to change what we dislike about ourselves.

A modern romantic comedy by Neil Labute, featuring Josh Canfield, Jenn DeCook, Katheryn Guyette, and Wil Szczech.

Read a Review!

Lookingglass Alice
Syracuse Stage

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

In your wildest imaginings, you've never imagined Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass like this! Staged with endless wit, astonishing physicality, breathtaking aerial acrobatics, and theatrical daring, Alice, The Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and all of Lewis Carroll's enchanting characters come to dizzyingly, playful, gravity-defying life in a circus-like spectacle sure to amaze kids and adults alike. By David Catlin.

Read a Review!

The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Syracuse University Drama Department
Elizabeth Ingram, director

Price: $18 regular, $16 students/seniors, $7 rush at the door if available
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In this early comedy, Shakespeare cheerfully travesties love and friendship as two best friends fall for and fall out over the same woman. a genuine precursor to the later great comedies (this is the first of the Bard's plays to feature a woman disguised as a man), the seeds of Shakespeare's genius are one full display in this farcical romp. Check out a character named Launce and his dog Crab.

Read a Review!

Sunday, February 28, 2010

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

Domestic Flourish: Works by Jen Allen
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jen Allen is a passionate potter. She proudly proclaims "Handcrafted pottery has the capacity to nourish the home, the hand and the mind." Her goal as an artist is to keep the handmade an integral part of the contemporary home, and her beautifully crafted pottery on view reflects this philosophy.

Allen's utilitarian pottery forms "describe contrasts between modesty and generosity, grace and awkwardness" while they relate to her love of sewing through details such as folds, seams, darts, and pillow-like handles. The exterior surfaces, inspired by a fondness for textile design, juxtapose bold pattern with quiet, glazed expanses. All of her work is created with porcelain because of the material's inherit brightness and luminosity.

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

Read a review!

The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Elongating the Thread
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Elongating the Thread" features the work of fiber and textile artists Jappie King Black, Anne Cofer, Annet Couwenberg, Jennifer Gandee, Mary Kester, Susan Krueger, Laura Reinhard, Barbara Jean Weingart, and Victoria Zacek.

The selected work in "Elongating the Thread" highlights the breadth of work based in the fiber and textile arts program in VPA's School of Art and Design and the success of the participants to explore their individual studio practices on a national level. The diversity of the group is evident through the variety of media (wool, silk, copper, steel, clay, and doilies) and concepts (weight, domesticity, identity, nature, war, and the subconscious) explored by the artists.

The exhibition is curated and coordinated by Cofer, Mary Giehl, and Olivia Robinson, all faculty members in the fiber and textile arts program. Many of the exhibiting artists are active members of the local artistic community and continue to make Central New York their home.

For more information, email Robinson at orobinso@syr.edu, phone 315-442-2542 during gallery hours, or visit vpa.syr.edu/xlprojects.

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

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

The Wind Ensemble performs under the direction of John Laverty. The program will include works by Berlioz, Miller, Anderson, and Williams. Bradley P. Ethington and Justin J. Mertz will appear as guest conductors. Andrea M. Rommel and Michelle C. Wofford will appear as graduate conducting associates.

The Symphony Band performs under the direction of Ethington and Mertz. The program will include works by Holst, Sullivan and Williams. Cedric L. Solice will appear as graduate conducting associate.

Free parking is available in the Irving Garage.

Caroline Stinson, cello; Peter Rovit, violin; Steven Heyman, piano
Joyful Noise Concert Series

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

The Flying Dutchman
Syracuse Opera

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

The legend of the Flying Dutchman has been told and re-told through the ages, but never as magnificently as by Richard Wagner. The glorious music brilliantly captures the yearning desperation of the cursed sea captain, and the tragic despair of the woman who loves him enough to die for him. This multimedia concert event focuses all of the musical forces of the company, featuring artists in demand worldwide, an expanded chorus, and superb accompaniment by the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. Projected images, innovative lighting, and dramatic interactions give spectacle to this groundbreaking event.

Featuring Greer Grimsley as The Dutchman, Lori Phillips as Senta, Alan Glassman as Erik, and Peter Strummer as Daland. Sung in German with projected English titles.

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Lookingglass Alice
Syracuse Stage

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

In your wildest imaginings, you've never imagined Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass like this! Staged with endless wit, astonishing physicality, breathtaking aerial acrobatics, and theatrical daring, Alice, The Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and all of Lewis Carroll's enchanting characters come to dizzyingly, playful, gravity-defying life in a circus-like spectacle sure to amaze kids and adults alike. By David Catlin.

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The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Syracuse University Drama Department
Elizabeth Ingram, director

Price: $18 regular, $16 students/seniors, $7 rush at the door if available
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In this early comedy, Shakespeare cheerfully travesties love and friendship as two best friends fall for and fall out over the same woman. a genuine precursor to the later great comedies (this is the first of the Bard's plays to feature a woman disguised as a man), the seeds of Shakespeare's genius are one full display in this farcical romp. Check out a character named Launce and his dog Crab.

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Revenge of the Space Pandas
Black Box Players

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

Binky Rudich is your everyday, run-of-the-mill mad scientist, and with the help of his assistant Vivian and his friend Bob the Sheep (who is a sheep) he creates his masterpiece. A two-speed clock. This two-speed clock not only keeps Earth time but also, when used correctly, stops Earth time and shoots Binky, Vivian, and Bob the Sheep off into the galaxy. They arrive on Crestview, 4th World of the Goolagong system, which is ruled by the tyrannical (but not too bright) George Topax and his army of Space Pandas. Their clock is broken, their territory is unknown, and their situation is dire. Needless to say, hilarity ensues as our fearless friends try to fix their clock and make it home in time for lunch. Mama Rudich is making casserole. Written by David Mamet, directed by Tony Cavallo.

Lookingglass Alice
Syracuse Stage

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

In your wildest imaginings, you've never imagined Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass like this! Staged with endless wit, astonishing physicality, breathtaking aerial acrobatics, and theatrical daring, Alice, The Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and all of Lewis Carroll's enchanting characters come to dizzyingly, playful, gravity-defying life in a circus-like spectacle sure to amaze kids and adults alike. By David Catlin.

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Star Wars: The Musical
Rarely Done Productions
Wit's End Players

Price: $25
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Starring the brightest lights of the Syracuse stage, Star Wars: The Musical is a hilarious interpretation of what the 1977 film might have been like if it had opened off-Broadway instead of at Mann's Chinese Theater. Though written with a tongue-in-cheek attitude, the comedy rarely sinks into parody, and instead relies on turning some of the more mundane moments of the film into high melodrama by way of song (as well as the mechanics of how to stage the attack on the Death Star using only performers in starship costumes!) Book by George Lucas as adapted by Todd Panek and David R. Witanowski, music and lyrics by Timothy Edward Smith and Hunter Nolen.

Presented as a benefit by Rarely Done Productions and The Wit's End Players.

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Monday, March 1, 2010

(re)circulate(d): studies in 'collage': Works of Scott Herrmann
LeMoyne College

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

Scott Herrmann is a graduate of the art programs of Syracuse University and Onondaga Community College. A lifelong resident of Central New York, he resides in Liverpool with his wife and son. He recently participated in the "Collage + Assemblage" exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn. This is his first solo show.

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

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

Selected by Essence magazine as "30 Women to Watch," Kim Mayhorn is a multi-media artist whose works encompasses installation, video and theatre. Mayhorn has been a video editor for over 10 years and in 1998 she embarked on a new challenge and began creating installations and was awarded her first solo show at HERE Arts Center in New York City entitled "A Woman Was Lynched the Other Day..." This work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

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

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Loneliness of Nature: Works by James Domroe
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Photographs of "The Loneliness of Nature" were manipulated in Photoshop to heighten and bring contrast to the starkness of the photos.

Also a short film, "How to be Happy", running time 5 min.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Phantoms
Redhouse

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

Red House Arts Center presents "Phantoms," a New Media art exhibition curated by New York City based gallerist and curator Stephan Stoayanov.

We can attribute the present art and pop-cult fascination with the paranormal and vampires with our ongoing human interest in metamorphosis.The mystery of the unknown will always be something that we obsess about. Our brain creates illusions of words and phrases.

The nine artists included in the exhibition "Phantoms" create illusions through their artwork, which evoke the paranormal and mystical on both personal and universal level. "Phantoms" features the work of Phil Argent (United Kingdom), Heather Bennett (United States), Amelie Chabannes (France), Lieven de Boeck (Belgium), Cliff Evans (Australia), Ellen Harvey (United States), Dominik Lejman (Poland), Marie Maillard (France), and Trine Lise Nedreaas (Norway).

Poetry: Li-Young Lee
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Gordon Student Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Poet Li-Young Lee was born in 1957 in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Chinese parents. His father had been a personal physician to Mao Zedong while in China, and relocated the family to Indonesia, where he helped found Gamaliel University. In 1959, the Lee family fled the country to escape anti-Chinese sentiment and after a five-year trek through Hong Kong, Macau, and Japan, they settled in the United States in 1964. Lee attended the Universities of Pittsburgh and Arizona, and the State University of New York at Brockport. He has taught at several universities, including Northwestern and the University of Iowa.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

(re)circulate(d): studies in 'collage': Works of Scott Herrmann
LeMoyne College

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

Scott Herrmann is a graduate of the art programs of Syracuse University and Onondaga Community College. A lifelong resident of Central New York, he resides in Liverpool with his wife and son. He recently participated in the "Collage + Assemblage" exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn. This is his first solo show.

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

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

Selected by Essence magazine as "30 Women to Watch," Kim Mayhorn is a multi-media artist whose works encompasses installation, video and theatre. Mayhorn has been a video editor for over 10 years and in 1998 she embarked on a new challenge and began creating installations and was awarded her first solo show at HERE Arts Center in New York City entitled "A Woman Was Lynched the Other Day..." This work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

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

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

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

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

Everything is Illustrated and Winter Solstice
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Everything is Illustrated: Gallery A
Recent work by Eva Calazada, Tian Chen, Barbara Morey, and Benjamin Petrie

Winter Solstice: Gallery B
Works by Cala Glatz, Julia Kester, Jonathan LaPlante, and Beth Mand

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

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

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

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

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

The Loneliness of Nature: Works by James Domroe
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Photographs of "The Loneliness of Nature" were manipulated in Photoshop to heighten and bring contrast to the starkness of the photos.

Also a short film, "How to be Happy", running time 5 min.

Remembrance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lorraine Savidge: "painting with thread" -- hand-guided original machine embroidery depicting landscape and design
Paula Burke: decorative and functional ceramics
Barbara Kellogg: abstract water media collages based on places visited
Lauren Bristol: string objects/garments referencing ancient rituals and record keeping

Works of Bill Reddick
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Exhibition of Bill Reddick, renowned Canadian international porcelain artist. Reddick designed the Official State Dinnerware for Canada. His work can be seen at Rideau Hall, the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, and the Porcelain Institute in Jingdexhen, China.

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

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

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

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

Phantoms
Redhouse

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

Red House Arts Center presents "Phantoms," a New Media art exhibition curated by New York City based gallerist and curator Stephan Stoayanov.

We can attribute the present art and pop-cult fascination with the paranormal and vampires with our ongoing human interest in metamorphosis.The mystery of the unknown will always be something that we obsess about. Our brain creates illusions of words and phrases.

The nine artists included in the exhibition "Phantoms" create illusions through their artwork, which evoke the paranormal and mystical on both personal and universal level. "Phantoms" features the work of Phil Argent (United Kingdom), Heather Bennett (United States), Amelie Chabannes (France), Lieven de Boeck (Belgium), Cliff Evans (Australia), Ellen Harvey (United States), Dominik Lejman (Poland), Marie Maillard (France), and Trine Lise Nedreaas (Norway).

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

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The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide
University Lectures
Featuring Alex Steffen

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Alex Steffen is the founder of Worldchanging, a popular website on sustainability. Every day, Steffen and his team of journalists and practitioners deliver bright new ideas that The New York Times lauds as "solutions-focused reporting on innovation." The ideas range from the small and clever to the huge and inspiring -- and all are proof that the tools and models to build a better future are already here. Steffen brings them all together on the site, in his talks and in his edited book Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Abrams, 2006), a 600-page compendium of writings from more than 60 noted leaders around the world. Steffen's next release, Bright Green, a book aimed at helping businesspeople understand where the big opportunities for change are, will be released in 2009. Steffen has been the subject of a CNN documentary, serves on the boards of numerous NGOs and is a much-sought-after speaker on the power of new thinking and innovative solutions for sustainable cities.

Reduced-rate parking for the event is available in the Irving Avenue parking garage.

Black Holes, Einstein, and Space-Time Ripples
University Neighbors Lecture Series
Featuring Peter Saulson

Price: $10 regular, $5 with student ID
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Peter Saulson has been hunting for black holes since 1981. He is one of the founders of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) project, the most exciting astronomical observatory that you've never heard of. LIGO has installed two giant gravitational wave antennas on opposite sides of the continent, and is now listening for the vibrations of space-time that will occur when a new black hole forms somewhere in the universe, or when two black holes collide. Come and learn what the excitement is all about: what black holes are, why a gravitational wave detector is the best way to look for them, and what it will sound like when two black holes collide. No physics background required.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

(re)circulate(d): studies in 'collage': Works of Scott Herrmann
LeMoyne College

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

Scott Herrmann is a graduate of the art programs of Syracuse University and Onondaga Community College. A lifelong resident of Central New York, he resides in Liverpool with his wife and son. He recently participated in the "Collage + Assemblage" exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn. This is his first solo show.

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

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

Selected by Essence magazine as "30 Women to Watch," Kim Mayhorn is a multi-media artist whose works encompasses installation, video and theatre. Mayhorn has been a video editor for over 10 years and in 1998 she embarked on a new challenge and began creating installations and was awarded her first solo show at HERE Arts Center in New York City entitled "A Woman Was Lynched the Other Day..." This work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

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

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

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

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

Everything is Illustrated and Winter Solstice
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Everything is Illustrated: Gallery A
Recent work by Eva Calazada, Tian Chen, Barbara Morey, and Benjamin Petrie

Winter Solstice: Gallery B
Works by Cala Glatz, Julia Kester, Jonathan LaPlante, and Beth Mand

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

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

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

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

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

The Loneliness of Nature: Works by James Domroe
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Photographs of "The Loneliness of Nature" were manipulated in Photoshop to heighten and bring contrast to the starkness of the photos.

Also a short film, "How to be Happy", running time 5 min.

Remembrance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lorraine Savidge: "painting with thread" -- hand-guided original machine embroidery depicting landscape and design
Paula Burke: decorative and functional ceramics
Barbara Kellogg: abstract water media collages based on places visited
Lauren Bristol: string objects/garments referencing ancient rituals and record keeping

Works of Bill Reddick
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Exhibition of Bill Reddick, renowned Canadian international porcelain artist. Reddick designed the Official State Dinnerware for Canada. His work can be seen at Rideau Hall, the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, and the Porcelain Institute in Jingdexhen, China.

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

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

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

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

Phantoms
Redhouse

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

Red House Arts Center presents "Phantoms," a New Media art exhibition curated by New York City based gallerist and curator Stephan Stoayanov.

We can attribute the present art and pop-cult fascination with the paranormal and vampires with our ongoing human interest in metamorphosis.The mystery of the unknown will always be something that we obsess about. Our brain creates illusions of words and phrases.

The nine artists included in the exhibition "Phantoms" create illusions through their artwork, which evoke the paranormal and mystical on both personal and universal level. "Phantoms" features the work of Phil Argent (United Kingdom), Heather Bennett (United States), Amelie Chabannes (France), Lieven de Boeck (Belgium), Cliff Evans (Australia), Ellen Harvey (United States), Dominik Lejman (Poland), Marie Maillard (France), and Trine Lise Nedreaas (Norway).

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

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Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Curated by Lisa Erf, program director, JPMorgan Chase, New York City.

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

Chopin Bicentennial Recital
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring John Spradling and Josh Corcoran, piano

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

The program includes the G minor Ballade, Op. 23; the Polonaise-Fantaisie, Op. 61; the F-sharp minor
Polonaise, Op. 44; nocturnes, and a mazurka.

Lookingglass Alice
Syracuse Stage

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

In your wildest imaginings, you've never imagined Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass like this! Staged with endless wit, astonishing physicality, breathtaking aerial acrobatics, and theatrical daring, Alice, The Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and all of Lewis Carroll's enchanting characters come to dizzyingly, playful, gravity-defying life in a circus-like spectacle sure to amaze kids and adults alike. By David Catlin.

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Thursday, March 4, 2010

(re)circulate(d): studies in 'collage': Works of Scott Herrmann
LeMoyne College

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

Scott Herrmann is a graduate of the art programs of Syracuse University and Onondaga Community College. A lifelong resident of Central New York, he resides in Liverpool with his wife and son. He recently participated in the "Collage + Assemblage" exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn. This is his first solo show.

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

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

Selected by Essence magazine as "30 Women to Watch," Kim Mayhorn is a multi-media artist whose works encompasses installation, video and theatre. Mayhorn has been a video editor for over 10 years and in 1998 she embarked on a new challenge and began creating installations and was awarded her first solo show at HERE Arts Center in New York City entitled "A Woman Was Lynched the Other Day..." This work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

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

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

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

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

Everything is Illustrated and Winter Solstice
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Everything is Illustrated: Gallery A
Recent work by Eva Calazada, Tian Chen, Barbara Morey, and Benjamin Petrie

Winter Solstice: Gallery B
Works by Cala Glatz, Julia Kester, Jonathan LaPlante, and Beth Mand

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

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

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

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

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

The Loneliness of Nature: Works by James Domroe
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Photographs of "The Loneliness of Nature" were manipulated in Photoshop to heighten and bring contrast to the starkness of the photos.

Also a short film, "How to be Happy", running time 5 min.

Remembrance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Lorraine Savidge: "painting with thread" -- hand-guided original machine embroidery depicting landscape and design
Paula Burke: decorative and functional ceramics
Barbara Kellogg: abstract water media collages based on places visited
Lauren Bristol: string objects/garments referencing ancient rituals and record keeping

Works of Bill Reddick
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Exhibition of Bill Reddick, renowned Canadian international porcelain artist. Reddick designed the Official State Dinnerware for Canada. His work can be seen at Rideau Hall, the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, and the Porcelain Institute in Jingdexhen, China.

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

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

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

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

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

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Phantoms
Redhouse

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

Red House Arts Center presents "Phantoms," a New Media art exhibition curated by New York City based gallerist and curator Stephan Stoayanov.

We can attribute the present art and pop-cult fascination with the paranormal and vampires with our ongoing human interest in metamorphosis.The mystery of the unknown will always be something that we obsess about. Our brain creates illusions of words and phrases.

The nine artists included in the exhibition "Phantoms" create illusions through their artwork, which evoke the paranormal and mystical on both personal and universal level. "Phantoms" features the work of Phil Argent (United Kingdom), Heather Bennett (United States), Amelie Chabannes (France), Lieven de Boeck (Belgium), Cliff Evans (Australia), Ellen Harvey (United States), Dominik Lejman (Poland), Marie Maillard (France), and Trine Lise Nedreaas (Norway).

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

Art: 2003-2009
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Art: 2003-2009" pays tribute to a group of artists aligned with the gallery since its inception over six years ago. The exhibit runs the gamut of artistic endeavors. Among the artists included in the show are: Lydia Benscher, Jamie Ashlaw, Eric W. Shute, A. Brooks Decker, Frank Calidonna, Harry R. Freeman-Jones, Diana Godfrey, Tom Hussey, John Dowling, Roscha Folger, Ruth Wynn, Wendy Harris, R. Jason Howard, Stephen Perrone, Kathleen Schneider, Arthur Brangman, Crystal LaPoint, Thomas Barnes, Tom Townsley, Kyle Mort, Andrea Hall, Stephen Ryan, Patrice Downes Centore, Robert Glisson, James Skvarch, and Vincent Fitches. The gallery is also planning to show works by Amy E. Bartell, Jim Dieso, Douglas Biklen, Tom Champion, Diane Lansing, Robert Carroll, Lauren Ritchie, Phil Austin, Sandy Clift, James R. Walker, Vivian Geiger, Richard Karuzas, Rudy Hellmann, Jennifer Colvin, Richard Schultz, Fred Wellner, Laura J. Wellner, Joyce Day Homan, Linda Esterley, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Mary Kester, and C. J. Hodge.

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Opening: Wild Card Exhibit: Blodgett & Seymour Benefit Art Show
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception today 3:00-6:00 p.m.

A Wild Card exhibition of work by the elementary students at Blodgett and Seymour schools to help raise funds for their art programs.

For the past six years, this student art exhibit has proven to be a win-win happening that celebrates young people's talent, motivates parent involvement, delights the general public, and strengthens the arts programs at both schools through sale of the works displayed. The basis for such success evolves from collaboration among Blodgett and Seymour school art teachers—Stacy Griffin, Kristin Dugger, and Kelly Moser-Vogler—and gallery director and manger, Bill Delavan and Caroline Szozda-McGowan.

This show of students' works covers a spectrum of different mediums including prints, clay, glass, collage, painting, hand-made journals and portraiture in finished dimensional pieces showcasing elephants, owls, fish, peacocks, ducks, pigs, Kokopelli's, Aztec Gods, Mehendi Hands and Rangoli. Art works are priced between $10-$30 with half of the sale going to the student and half to their art teacher for supplies. However, more importantly, art teachers agree that the real benefit of the show is in the prestige students experience in having their works displayed in a professional gallery where the encouragement fostered there furthers appreciation of the arts for students and their families alike.

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

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The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Curated by Lisa Erf, program director, JPMorgan Chase, New York City.

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

Miscreant of Taliwood
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $10 regular; $8 students/seniors
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Filmmaker George Gittoes, from Australia, will be screening his film, Miscreant of Taliwood.

George Gittoes has been described as a war artist who uses painting, drawing, photography, and video. He has focused on traveling to places that have been affected greatly by human tragedy either because of war or natural disaster. Sometimes the Australian government has employed him as a war artist to travel with troops or peacekeepers.

Gittoes's painting "Self Portrait in Somalia" was hung in the 1994 Archibald Prize, "General John Sanderson in Cambodia" was hung in the 1995 Archibald, and a portrait of John Olsen hung in the 1997 Archibald. In 1998, he was himself painted by another artist (Jiawei Shen) for the Archibald, in Eyewitness. His documentary Soundtrack To War had 17 scenes featured in Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. His film The Miscreants was filmed in the Taliban areas in Pakistan.

Flutessence

Price: Free
Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

Retired SSO principal flutist John Oberbrunner leads this high school flute ensemble in works by Salieri, Debussy, and Joplin.

Rhapsody in Blue
LeMoyne College
Le Moyne Community Chamber Orchestra
Featuring Anthony Molinaro, piano

Price: $15 general public, $10 seniors, free for students and LeMoyne community
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

After a tribute to John Williams featuring music from Star Wars and Jurassic Park, Anthony Molinaro, with the Le Moyne Community Chamber Orchestra, caps things off with his individual take on Gershwin's timeless Rhapsody in Blue.

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

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

You and the rest of the Bangalone Gang are in deep trouble. Big Louie's been beaned by a bocci ball and now he ain't thinking so good. The gang's got to figure out what to do before arch rival gang leader "Muscles" Marinara has you rubbed out. You better move fast. Word on the street is that ruthless hitman Jake "The Weasel" is on the way.

Anything Goes

Price: $12 regular, $10 students/seniors
Jamesville-Dewitt High School
Edinger Drive, Dewitt

For more information, phone 315-446-2477.

Lookingglass Alice
Syracuse Stage

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

In your wildest imaginings, you've never imagined Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass like this! Staged with endless wit, astonishing physicality, breathtaking aerial acrobatics, and theatrical daring, Alice, The Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and all of Lewis Carroll's enchanting characters come to dizzyingly, playful, gravity-defying life in a circus-like spectacle sure to amaze kids and adults alike. By David Catlin.

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Revenge of the Space Pandas
Black Box Players

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

Binky Rudich is your everyday, run-of-the-mill mad scientist, and with the help of his assistant Vivian and his friend Bob the Sheep (who is a sheep) he creates his masterpiece. A two-speed clock. This two-speed clock not only keeps Earth time but also, when used correctly, stops Earth time and shoots Binky, Vivian, and Bob the Sheep off into the galaxy. They arrive on Crestview, 4th World of the Goolagong system, which is ruled by the tyrannical (but not too bright) George Topax and his army of Space Pandas. Their clock is broken, their territory is unknown, and their situation is dire. Needless to say, hilarity ensues as our fearless friends try to fix their clock and make it home in time for lunch. Mama Rudich is making casserole. Written by David Mamet, directed by Tony Cavallo.