Monday, May 25, 2009

Window Projects: Museum of the City of Lost and Found
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Museum of the City of Lost and Found, Marion Wilson's latest sculpture project, is a continuation of her public art project launched in conjunction with the 2008 New Orleans Biennial. The exhibition is a combination of hexagram patterns of i-ching (a symbol system used to identify order in random events) collaboratively painted on the wall by the artist, community members, faculty and students at Syracuse University; miniature "igloo" and cast resin objects; and a short video of Wilson's bicycle (mobile museum) performance in New Orleans edited by Jessica Posner. Wilson invites audience participation by filling out Lost and Found Report cards (available throughout the exhibition), her method of collecting stories about viewers' personal losses, chances, findings and discoveries.

Marion Wilson uses igloos as a nomadic structure of native materials to remind us of our basic human need for shelter and protection. In addition, it is a reference to fundamentals of human existence and the Italian Arte Povera artist Mario Merz (1925-2003). In New Orleans, Wilson's sculpture was originally mounted on a constructed bicycle able to roam the city streets within the St. Roch neighborhood and the French Market. In Syracuse, Wilson will exhibit her 'mobile museum' at the Warehouse Gallery, thus, creating a "museum inside a museum." Although the installation in the Window Projects will remain through June 6, its appearance will continuously change through the continual addition of found materials collected by the artist. Wilson will be guided in selecting these additional materials by outside interviews with the general public in the greater Syracuse community.

Curious Works
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Kyle Mort, paintings
Curtis W. Readel, money prints and collages
Roger Bisbing, small assemblies

Stoneware and Stone "Wear"
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Works of Sallie Thompson, ceramics, and Dee Ann VonHunke, fine silver and semi-precious gemstone jewelry.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Window Projects: Museum of the City of Lost and Found
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Museum of the City of Lost and Found, Marion Wilson's latest sculpture project, is a continuation of her public art project launched in conjunction with the 2008 New Orleans Biennial. The exhibition is a combination of hexagram patterns of i-ching (a symbol system used to identify order in random events) collaboratively painted on the wall by the artist, community members, faculty and students at Syracuse University; miniature "igloo" and cast resin objects; and a short video of Wilson's bicycle (mobile museum) performance in New Orleans edited by Jessica Posner. Wilson invites audience participation by filling out Lost and Found Report cards (available throughout the exhibition), her method of collecting stories about viewers' personal losses, chances, findings and discoveries.

Marion Wilson uses igloos as a nomadic structure of native materials to remind us of our basic human need for shelter and protection. In addition, it is a reference to fundamentals of human existence and the Italian Arte Povera artist Mario Merz (1925-2003). In New Orleans, Wilson's sculpture was originally mounted on a constructed bicycle able to roam the city streets within the St. Roch neighborhood and the French Market. In Syracuse, Wilson will exhibit her 'mobile museum' at the Warehouse Gallery, thus, creating a "museum inside a museum." Although the installation in the Window Projects will remain through June 6, its appearance will continuously change through the continual addition of found materials collected by the artist. Wilson will be guided in selecting these additional materials by outside interviews with the general public in the greater Syracuse community.

Postcards to (and from!) the Past
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit is a collaboration between the Arts Branch of the YMCA's after school arts program at Salem Hyde Elementary School, the Onondaga Historical Association, and Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. On display at the YMCA will be replications of over 100 century-old postcards mailed back and forth between students in the YMCA's program (asking questions of various historical figures from the Syracuse area), and staff members of the OHA (who responded to the students' questions in character). Sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, the kids' questions show an active engagement with their own history—and the postcards themselves are a delight to anyone interested in the area's past. The exhibit is continued across the street at the OHA, and guests are invited and encouraged to visit both galleries to see the complete show.

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Photo-Drawings: Recent Works by Julieve Jubin and Juan Perdiguero, and An Introduction: Recent Works by Barbara Stout
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Spring Loaded
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery
Associated Artists of Syracuse

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

Featuring works by Joan Applebaum, Lesley Brooks, A. Brooks Decker, Lorraine Doyle, Joy Englehart, Marcia Ferber, Roscha Folger, Patricia Gancarz, Mimi George, Helga Gilber, Carol Ginsky, Marion Lapham, Howard McLaughlin, Kathleen O'Brien, Ute Oestreicher, E.A. Pilbeam, Mary Raineri, Pamela Sunshine, Yolanda Tooley, Clara Towell.

Threads of a Culture: Hadbakah Images by Selma Hurwitz
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

Price: Free
Winnick Hillel Center for Jewish Life
102 Walnut Place (corner of Harrison St.), Syracuse

Selma Hurwitz is an internationally-known artist whose works portray personal and social themes of universal impact, as well as basic motifs of love, beauty, valor and tyranny. In 1964, she created her own medium, hadbakah (Hebrew for "gluing"), which is glued-thread painting. Instead of using a brush, the artist glues various individual threads, particularly those that are metalized, to a specially prepared surface. Careful planning of thread direction and location, as well as meticulous maneuvering of the threads during the gluing process, achieves the desired shading and design.

Hurwitz has exhibited work in numerous solo shows, including those at the Russell Senate Office Building Rotunda and the First Baptist Church in Washington, DC; the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles; the American Jewish Historical Society in Waltham, MA; and the Herzl Institute in New York City. Her work is part of numerous collections, including the Israel Museum, Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and Knesset, all in Jerusalem; the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California; and the National Endowment for the Arts Library in Washington, DC.

For more information about the exhibition, contact April Maw at 315-443-7095 or aamaw@syr.edu.

The Curiosity of Change
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anne Novado-Cappuccilli: Drawings and Paintings
John Lombardi: Works in Stone

37th Annual Teen Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

CFAC is honored to host the longest running collaborative exhibition in the Greater Syracuse area that features the work of under-represented teen artists. Participating students attend Syracuse City High Schools and suburban Onondaga County High Schools. A panel of professional local artists serve as judges for the competition. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories.

As It Happens: Artists-in-Residence at Light Work
Light Work Gallery

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

Josh Brilliant curates a selection of images by recent Light Work Artists-in-Residence, including Amy Stein, Kelli Connell, Cristina Fraire, Krista Steinke, and Christine Osinski. Brilliant is currently an MFA candidate in the Museum Studies program at Syracuse University.

Limbo: Works of Admas Habteslasie
Light Work Gallery

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

"Limbo" depicts a graceful yet unusually honest and insightful snapshot of Eritrea, an East African country suspended in an unsettled state between war and peace.

Eritrea warred with neighboring Ethiopia for 30 years before gaining independence in 1991. Then, in 1998, they entered another war with Ethiopia that lasted two years. Today, the war-torn country is yet again at the brink of war with their neighbor. Years of unrest have left the people of Eritrea waiting for life to improve. According to Habteslasie: "Transitory states become permanent; empty villas, destroyed old buildings and unfinished new buildings dot the landscape, monuments to the suspension of history. The collision between Eritrea's proud historical narrative and the bleak ennui of the present has produced an obsessive focus on the future. Reconstruction and infrastructure development are energetically driven forward whilst the economy remains essentially shut off from the outside world." The images in "Limbo" capture both destruction and construction, both the unhealed wounds of war and a fierce optimism and hope for a brighter future.

Habteslasie was born in Kuwait, and his parents are Eritrean. He received his master's degree from the London College of Communication in photojournalism and documentary photography. His photographic projects look at the ideas of identity, history, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with historical process. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Flowers East and 198 Gallery in London. His work has also been published in Source Magazine.

Curious Works
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Kyle Mort, paintings
Curtis W. Readel, money prints and collages
Roger Bisbing, small assemblies

Stoneware and Stone "Wear"
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Works of Sallie Thompson, ceramics, and Dee Ann VonHunke, fine silver and semi-precious gemstone jewelry.

PostSecret
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In November 2004, Frank Warren began a community art project by handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood. Each self-addressed card invited people to anonymously share a secret. Two requirements were: the secret had to be true and it had to be something that had never been told to another person. Today Warren has been mailed more than 100,000 highly personal and artfully decorated postcards illustrating the soulful secrets never voiced. This extraordinary project has become an international phenomenon with thousands of people participating in scheduled PostSecret events throughout the United States, and through the PostSecret website and blog.

This exhibition features 450 postcards bringing together the most powerful, poignant and beautifully intimate secrets Warren has received in the past four years. In many cases, the illustrations on the cards are just as compelling as the accompanying text.

Sitting Still
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"What does the world look like from a non-violent point of view? What would happen if the youth of Syracuse city and Syracuse University joined together to explore this question?" These are the questions that led Anne Beffel, a New York based public artist and Associate Professor of Art at Syracuse University and Pam McLaughlin, Everson Curator of Education and Public Programs to bring the Sitting Still contemplative video project to high school students from the Syracuse City School District. Beffel and McLaughlin worked together for over a year to put video cameras in the hands eight young artists, so that they could stop, look, and listen as scenes unfolded before them ranging from those that inspired awe to those that compelled participation and intervention. Within the context of four workshops at the SU Warehouse e-tags studio, students engaged in making video art from a perfectly still point of view, and then used their artworks as the basis for sharing their diverse visions. The workshops were at the heart of this process of opening up to environments -- both physical and social.

Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition of works by Andrew Deutsch and Stephen Vitiello, "Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass," is an installation composed of audio and video pieces as well as photographs, prints and sculpture. Deutsch and Vitiello are musicians, composers and sound artists who have been collaborating since 1999. For this, their first co-exhibition, the artists provided each other with musical scores for the other to perform. In so doing, they emphasize the visual nature of sound scores, shedding light on this complex, seemingly inaccessible medium called sound art.

In Vitiello's work viewers will see a shift from landscape photographs (7 Studies for Graphic Scores, 2007) to abstract black-and-white prints (Pond Set, 2008) that continue to refer to landscape through black lines that evoke both reeds and musical notes. In the background of his videos, Deutsch includes imagery from the "Notgeld" (emergency money that was put into circulation in Germany during the economic crisis of the 1920s) as a reflection on our difficult economic times. Deutsch also uses these collectibles in the making of his own sound scores; he has created a narrative referring to the films of Fritz Lang, to illustrated children's books, and to early 20th-century European artistic abstraction, where sound and sight blend into a common experience.

Vicktory Dogs Exhibition
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Pit bulls victimized in the notorious dog-fighting ring of former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick are the subject of the exhibition. "Vicktory Dogs" is the brainchild of Cyrus Mejia, who, along with his wife and a group of animal lovers, founded Best Friends Animal Society, the nation's largest sanctuary for abused and abandoned animals.

The exhibition features giclée prints of 22 dogs rescued by Best Friends after Vick's indictment. By depicting the dogs up close in his painting, Mejia hopes people will confront their own prejudices about pit bulls in general and will think twice about exploiting them or fearing them, or both.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Window Projects: Museum of the City of Lost and Found
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Museum of the City of Lost and Found, Marion Wilson's latest sculpture project, is a continuation of her public art project launched in conjunction with the 2008 New Orleans Biennial. The exhibition is a combination of hexagram patterns of i-ching (a symbol system used to identify order in random events) collaboratively painted on the wall by the artist, community members, faculty and students at Syracuse University; miniature "igloo" and cast resin objects; and a short video of Wilson's bicycle (mobile museum) performance in New Orleans edited by Jessica Posner. Wilson invites audience participation by filling out Lost and Found Report cards (available throughout the exhibition), her method of collecting stories about viewers' personal losses, chances, findings and discoveries.

Marion Wilson uses igloos as a nomadic structure of native materials to remind us of our basic human need for shelter and protection. In addition, it is a reference to fundamentals of human existence and the Italian Arte Povera artist Mario Merz (1925-2003). In New Orleans, Wilson's sculpture was originally mounted on a constructed bicycle able to roam the city streets within the St. Roch neighborhood and the French Market. In Syracuse, Wilson will exhibit her 'mobile museum' at the Warehouse Gallery, thus, creating a "museum inside a museum." Although the installation in the Window Projects will remain through June 6, its appearance will continuously change through the continual addition of found materials collected by the artist. Wilson will be guided in selecting these additional materials by outside interviews with the general public in the greater Syracuse community.

Postcards to (and from!) the Past
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit is a collaboration between the Arts Branch of the YMCA's after school arts program at Salem Hyde Elementary School, the Onondaga Historical Association, and Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. On display at the YMCA will be replications of over 100 century-old postcards mailed back and forth between students in the YMCA's program (asking questions of various historical figures from the Syracuse area), and staff members of the OHA (who responded to the students' questions in character). Sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, the kids' questions show an active engagement with their own history—and the postcards themselves are a delight to anyone interested in the area's past. The exhibit is continued across the street at the OHA, and guests are invited and encouraged to visit both galleries to see the complete show.

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Photo-Drawings: Recent Works by Julieve Jubin and Juan Perdiguero, and An Introduction: Recent Works by Barbara Stout
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Spring Loaded
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery
Associated Artists of Syracuse

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

Featuring works by Joan Applebaum, Lesley Brooks, A. Brooks Decker, Lorraine Doyle, Joy Englehart, Marcia Ferber, Roscha Folger, Patricia Gancarz, Mimi George, Helga Gilber, Carol Ginsky, Marion Lapham, Howard McLaughlin, Kathleen O'Brien, Ute Oestreicher, E.A. Pilbeam, Mary Raineri, Pamela Sunshine, Yolanda Tooley, Clara Towell.

Threads of a Culture: Hadbakah Images by Selma Hurwitz
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

Price: Free
Winnick Hillel Center for Jewish Life
102 Walnut Place (corner of Harrison St.), Syracuse

Selma Hurwitz is an internationally-known artist whose works portray personal and social themes of universal impact, as well as basic motifs of love, beauty, valor and tyranny. In 1964, she created her own medium, hadbakah (Hebrew for "gluing"), which is glued-thread painting. Instead of using a brush, the artist glues various individual threads, particularly those that are metalized, to a specially prepared surface. Careful planning of thread direction and location, as well as meticulous maneuvering of the threads during the gluing process, achieves the desired shading and design.

Hurwitz has exhibited work in numerous solo shows, including those at the Russell Senate Office Building Rotunda and the First Baptist Church in Washington, DC; the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles; the American Jewish Historical Society in Waltham, MA; and the Herzl Institute in New York City. Her work is part of numerous collections, including the Israel Museum, Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and Knesset, all in Jerusalem; the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California; and the National Endowment for the Arts Library in Washington, DC.

For more information about the exhibition, contact April Maw at 315-443-7095 or aamaw@syr.edu.

The Curiosity of Change
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anne Novado-Cappuccilli: Drawings and Paintings
John Lombardi: Works in Stone

37th Annual Teen Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

CFAC is honored to host the longest running collaborative exhibition in the Greater Syracuse area that features the work of under-represented teen artists. Participating students attend Syracuse City High Schools and suburban Onondaga County High Schools. A panel of professional local artists serve as judges for the competition. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories.

As It Happens: Artists-in-Residence at Light Work
Light Work Gallery

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

Josh Brilliant curates a selection of images by recent Light Work Artists-in-Residence, including Amy Stein, Kelli Connell, Cristina Fraire, Krista Steinke, and Christine Osinski. Brilliant is currently an MFA candidate in the Museum Studies program at Syracuse University.

Limbo: Works of Admas Habteslasie
Light Work Gallery

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

"Limbo" depicts a graceful yet unusually honest and insightful snapshot of Eritrea, an East African country suspended in an unsettled state between war and peace.

Eritrea warred with neighboring Ethiopia for 30 years before gaining independence in 1991. Then, in 1998, they entered another war with Ethiopia that lasted two years. Today, the war-torn country is yet again at the brink of war with their neighbor. Years of unrest have left the people of Eritrea waiting for life to improve. According to Habteslasie: "Transitory states become permanent; empty villas, destroyed old buildings and unfinished new buildings dot the landscape, monuments to the suspension of history. The collision between Eritrea's proud historical narrative and the bleak ennui of the present has produced an obsessive focus on the future. Reconstruction and infrastructure development are energetically driven forward whilst the economy remains essentially shut off from the outside world." The images in "Limbo" capture both destruction and construction, both the unhealed wounds of war and a fierce optimism and hope for a brighter future.

Habteslasie was born in Kuwait, and his parents are Eritrean. He received his master's degree from the London College of Communication in photojournalism and documentary photography. His photographic projects look at the ideas of identity, history, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with historical process. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Flowers East and 198 Gallery in London. His work has also been published in Source Magazine.

Curious Works
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Kyle Mort, paintings
Curtis W. Readel, money prints and collages
Roger Bisbing, small assemblies

Exploring History with Art: The Changing View—Landscapes
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Paintings from OHA's permanent collection

XAYC: Xybrid Authenticity Ynder Construction, and Museum of the City of Lost and Found
Redhouse

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

The Red House is proud to present international artists Daniela Kostova and Joro De Boro with their newest site-specific project and art event commissioned by the Red House, entitled "XAYC: Xybrid Authenticity Ynder Construction," and Marion Wilson with "Museum of the City of Lost and Found," video projection and sidewalk installation.

XAYC (pronounced "house" in English) is an art project that questions contemporary identity politics and the concept of subjectivity in relation to authenticity. In Bulgarian, XAYC stands for "chaos".

By creating site-specific works both inside and outside of the Red House Arts Center's building, Daniela Kostova and Joro De Boro will open up a dialogue about the meaning of authenticity in the context of contemporary culture, the role of the artist in a system of specialized division of labor, and the importance of audience participation in the ecology of art consumption.

Marion Wilson will project "Museum of the City of Lost and Found" as a video--a staged performance of Marion Wilson riding the museum/bicycle through the cemetery stones of St. Roch. In addition, a sculpture/drawing on the city sidewalks will physically and visually connect Marion's current Warehouse Gallery Window installation to the Red House building. Marion Wilson's artwork included in "XAYC" is the latest development within a body of work commissioned by the 2008 New Orleans Biennial.

Stoneware and Stone "Wear"
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Works of Sallie Thompson, ceramics, and Dee Ann VonHunke, fine silver and semi-precious gemstone jewelry.

Sitting Still
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"What does the world look like from a non-violent point of view? What would happen if the youth of Syracuse city and Syracuse University joined together to explore this question?" These are the questions that led Anne Beffel, a New York based public artist and Associate Professor of Art at Syracuse University and Pam McLaughlin, Everson Curator of Education and Public Programs to bring the Sitting Still contemplative video project to high school students from the Syracuse City School District. Beffel and McLaughlin worked together for over a year to put video cameras in the hands eight young artists, so that they could stop, look, and listen as scenes unfolded before them ranging from those that inspired awe to those that compelled participation and intervention. Within the context of four workshops at the SU Warehouse e-tags studio, students engaged in making video art from a perfectly still point of view, and then used their artworks as the basis for sharing their diverse visions. The workshops were at the heart of this process of opening up to environments -- both physical and social.

PostSecret
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In November 2004, Frank Warren began a community art project by handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood. Each self-addressed card invited people to anonymously share a secret. Two requirements were: the secret had to be true and it had to be something that had never been told to another person. Today Warren has been mailed more than 100,000 highly personal and artfully decorated postcards illustrating the soulful secrets never voiced. This extraordinary project has become an international phenomenon with thousands of people participating in scheduled PostSecret events throughout the United States, and through the PostSecret website and blog.

This exhibition features 450 postcards bringing together the most powerful, poignant and beautifully intimate secrets Warren has received in the past four years. In many cases, the illustrations on the cards are just as compelling as the accompanying text.

Vicktory Dogs Exhibition
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Pit bulls victimized in the notorious dog-fighting ring of former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick are the subject of the exhibition. "Vicktory Dogs" is the brainchild of Cyrus Mejia, who, along with his wife and a group of animal lovers, founded Best Friends Animal Society, the nation's largest sanctuary for abused and abandoned animals.

The exhibition features giclée prints of 22 dogs rescued by Best Friends after Vick's indictment. By depicting the dogs up close in his painting, Mejia hopes people will confront their own prejudices about pit bulls in general and will think twice about exploiting them or fearing them, or both.

Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition of works by Andrew Deutsch and Stephen Vitiello, "Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass," is an installation composed of audio and video pieces as well as photographs, prints and sculpture. Deutsch and Vitiello are musicians, composers and sound artists who have been collaborating since 1999. For this, their first co-exhibition, the artists provided each other with musical scores for the other to perform. In so doing, they emphasize the visual nature of sound scores, shedding light on this complex, seemingly inaccessible medium called sound art.

In Vitiello's work viewers will see a shift from landscape photographs (7 Studies for Graphic Scores, 2007) to abstract black-and-white prints (Pond Set, 2008) that continue to refer to landscape through black lines that evoke both reeds and musical notes. In the background of his videos, Deutsch includes imagery from the "Notgeld" (emergency money that was put into circulation in Germany during the economic crisis of the 1920s) as a reflection on our difficult economic times. Deutsch also uses these collectibles in the making of his own sound scores; he has created a narrative referring to the films of Fritz Lang, to illustrated children's books, and to early 20th-century European artistic abstraction, where sound and sight blend into a common experience.

Civic Morning Musicals
Hannah Lamont, harp; Robin Reece, flute; Aaron Reece, oboe

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

Works for flute and harp by Naudot, Andres, and the complete Children's Corner Suite by Debussy. Aaron Reece will join them on oboe in L'enfance du Christ by Berlioz.

Crowns
Syracuse Stage
Patdro Harris, director

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

Get ready for some soul stirring, funny and powerful stories, stories from the church elders, stories with hattitude, enough hattitude to set the choir singing. That's hattitude, as in hat, as in Crown, as in the elegant cranial adornments favored by certain elegant church-going ladies of the South. Sing about it, dance about it, boast about it, even dream about it, a Crown is a joyous expression of culture and tradition, and as we find in this rollicking celebratory play by Regina Taylor, tradition and culture can be just the balm to salve the wounded soul. That's worth singing about whether the style is gospel, freedom song or hip-hop.

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Crowns
Syracuse Stage
Patdro Harris, director

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

Get ready for some soul stirring, funny and powerful stories, stories from the church elders, stories with hattitude, enough hattitude to set the choir singing. That's hattitude, as in hat, as in Crown, as in the elegant cranial adornments favored by certain elegant church-going ladies of the South. Sing about it, dance about it, boast about it, even dream about it, a Crown is a joyous expression of culture and tradition, and as we find in this rollicking celebratory play by Regina Taylor, tradition and culture can be just the balm to salve the wounded soul. That's worth singing about whether the style is gospel, freedom song or hip-hop.

Read a Review!

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Window Projects: Museum of the City of Lost and Found
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Museum of the City of Lost and Found, Marion Wilson's latest sculpture project, is a continuation of her public art project launched in conjunction with the 2008 New Orleans Biennial. The exhibition is a combination of hexagram patterns of i-ching (a symbol system used to identify order in random events) collaboratively painted on the wall by the artist, community members, faculty and students at Syracuse University; miniature "igloo" and cast resin objects; and a short video of Wilson's bicycle (mobile museum) performance in New Orleans edited by Jessica Posner. Wilson invites audience participation by filling out Lost and Found Report cards (available throughout the exhibition), her method of collecting stories about viewers' personal losses, chances, findings and discoveries.

Marion Wilson uses igloos as a nomadic structure of native materials to remind us of our basic human need for shelter and protection. In addition, it is a reference to fundamentals of human existence and the Italian Arte Povera artist Mario Merz (1925-2003). In New Orleans, Wilson's sculpture was originally mounted on a constructed bicycle able to roam the city streets within the St. Roch neighborhood and the French Market. In Syracuse, Wilson will exhibit her 'mobile museum' at the Warehouse Gallery, thus, creating a "museum inside a museum." Although the installation in the Window Projects will remain through June 6, its appearance will continuously change through the continual addition of found materials collected by the artist. Wilson will be guided in selecting these additional materials by outside interviews with the general public in the greater Syracuse community.

Postcards to (and from!) the Past
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit is a collaboration between the Arts Branch of the YMCA's after school arts program at Salem Hyde Elementary School, the Onondaga Historical Association, and Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. On display at the YMCA will be replications of over 100 century-old postcards mailed back and forth between students in the YMCA's program (asking questions of various historical figures from the Syracuse area), and staff members of the OHA (who responded to the students' questions in character). Sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, the kids' questions show an active engagement with their own history—and the postcards themselves are a delight to anyone interested in the area's past. The exhibit is continued across the street at the OHA, and guests are invited and encouraged to visit both galleries to see the complete show.

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Photo-Drawings: Recent Works by Julieve Jubin and Juan Perdiguero, and An Introduction: Recent Works by Barbara Stout
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Spring Loaded
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery
Associated Artists of Syracuse

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

Featuring works by Joan Applebaum, Lesley Brooks, A. Brooks Decker, Lorraine Doyle, Joy Englehart, Marcia Ferber, Roscha Folger, Patricia Gancarz, Mimi George, Helga Gilber, Carol Ginsky, Marion Lapham, Howard McLaughlin, Kathleen O'Brien, Ute Oestreicher, E.A. Pilbeam, Mary Raineri, Pamela Sunshine, Yolanda Tooley, Clara Towell.

Threads of a Culture: Hadbakah Images by Selma Hurwitz
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

Price: Free
Winnick Hillel Center for Jewish Life
102 Walnut Place (corner of Harrison St.), Syracuse

Selma Hurwitz is an internationally-known artist whose works portray personal and social themes of universal impact, as well as basic motifs of love, beauty, valor and tyranny. In 1964, she created her own medium, hadbakah (Hebrew for "gluing"), which is glued-thread painting. Instead of using a brush, the artist glues various individual threads, particularly those that are metalized, to a specially prepared surface. Careful planning of thread direction and location, as well as meticulous maneuvering of the threads during the gluing process, achieves the desired shading and design.

Hurwitz has exhibited work in numerous solo shows, including those at the Russell Senate Office Building Rotunda and the First Baptist Church in Washington, DC; the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles; the American Jewish Historical Society in Waltham, MA; and the Herzl Institute in New York City. Her work is part of numerous collections, including the Israel Museum, Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and Knesset, all in Jerusalem; the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California; and the National Endowment for the Arts Library in Washington, DC.

For more information about the exhibition, contact April Maw at 315-443-7095 or aamaw@syr.edu.

The Curiosity of Change
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anne Novado-Cappuccilli: Drawings and Paintings
John Lombardi: Works in Stone

37th Annual Teen Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

CFAC is honored to host the longest running collaborative exhibition in the Greater Syracuse area that features the work of under-represented teen artists. Participating students attend Syracuse City High Schools and suburban Onondaga County High Schools. A panel of professional local artists serve as judges for the competition. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories.

As It Happens: Artists-in-Residence at Light Work
Light Work Gallery

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

Josh Brilliant curates a selection of images by recent Light Work Artists-in-Residence, including Amy Stein, Kelli Connell, Cristina Fraire, Krista Steinke, and Christine Osinski. Brilliant is currently an MFA candidate in the Museum Studies program at Syracuse University.

Limbo: Works of Admas Habteslasie
Light Work Gallery

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

"Limbo" depicts a graceful yet unusually honest and insightful snapshot of Eritrea, an East African country suspended in an unsettled state between war and peace.

Eritrea warred with neighboring Ethiopia for 30 years before gaining independence in 1991. Then, in 1998, they entered another war with Ethiopia that lasted two years. Today, the war-torn country is yet again at the brink of war with their neighbor. Years of unrest have left the people of Eritrea waiting for life to improve. According to Habteslasie: "Transitory states become permanent; empty villas, destroyed old buildings and unfinished new buildings dot the landscape, monuments to the suspension of history. The collision between Eritrea's proud historical narrative and the bleak ennui of the present has produced an obsessive focus on the future. Reconstruction and infrastructure development are energetically driven forward whilst the economy remains essentially shut off from the outside world." The images in "Limbo" capture both destruction and construction, both the unhealed wounds of war and a fierce optimism and hope for a brighter future.

Habteslasie was born in Kuwait, and his parents are Eritrean. He received his master's degree from the London College of Communication in photojournalism and documentary photography. His photographic projects look at the ideas of identity, history, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with historical process. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Flowers East and 198 Gallery in London. His work has also been published in Source Magazine.

Curious Works
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Kyle Mort, paintings
Curtis W. Readel, money prints and collages
Roger Bisbing, small assemblies

Exploring History with Art: The Changing View—Landscapes
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Paintings from OHA's permanent collection

XAYC: Xybrid Authenticity Ynder Construction, and Museum of the City of Lost and Found
Redhouse

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

The Red House is proud to present international artists Daniela Kostova and Joro De Boro with their newest site-specific project and art event commissioned by the Red House, entitled "XAYC: Xybrid Authenticity Ynder Construction," and Marion Wilson with "Museum of the City of Lost and Found," video projection and sidewalk installation.

XAYC (pronounced "house" in English) is an art project that questions contemporary identity politics and the concept of subjectivity in relation to authenticity. In Bulgarian, XAYC stands for "chaos".

By creating site-specific works both inside and outside of the Red House Arts Center's building, Daniela Kostova and Joro De Boro will open up a dialogue about the meaning of authenticity in the context of contemporary culture, the role of the artist in a system of specialized division of labor, and the importance of audience participation in the ecology of art consumption.

Marion Wilson will project "Museum of the City of Lost and Found" as a video--a staged performance of Marion Wilson riding the museum/bicycle through the cemetery stones of St. Roch. In addition, a sculpture/drawing on the city sidewalks will physically and visually connect Marion's current Warehouse Gallery Window installation to the Red House building. Marion Wilson's artwork included in "XAYC" is the latest development within a body of work commissioned by the 2008 New Orleans Biennial.

All Forms: Studio Pottery '09
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Featuring works by 13 artists.

Stoneware and Stone "Wear"
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Works of Sallie Thompson, ceramics, and Dee Ann VonHunke, fine silver and semi-precious gemstone jewelry.

Fusion
Delavan Art Gallery

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

John F. Fitzsimmons, paintings
Diana Godfrey, mixed media collage
Pam Steele, metal and glass wall sculptures
Catharine Westlake, acrylics and monotypes

Wild Card Exhibit: Color Etchings from Florence by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna
Delavan Art Gallery

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

PostSecret
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In November 2004, Frank Warren began a community art project by handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood. Each self-addressed card invited people to anonymously share a secret. Two requirements were: the secret had to be true and it had to be something that had never been told to another person. Today Warren has been mailed more than 100,000 highly personal and artfully decorated postcards illustrating the soulful secrets never voiced. This extraordinary project has become an international phenomenon with thousands of people participating in scheduled PostSecret events throughout the United States, and through the PostSecret website and blog.

This exhibition features 450 postcards bringing together the most powerful, poignant and beautifully intimate secrets Warren has received in the past four years. In many cases, the illustrations on the cards are just as compelling as the accompanying text.

Sitting Still
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"What does the world look like from a non-violent point of view? What would happen if the youth of Syracuse city and Syracuse University joined together to explore this question?" These are the questions that led Anne Beffel, a New York based public artist and Associate Professor of Art at Syracuse University and Pam McLaughlin, Everson Curator of Education and Public Programs to bring the Sitting Still contemplative video project to high school students from the Syracuse City School District. Beffel and McLaughlin worked together for over a year to put video cameras in the hands eight young artists, so that they could stop, look, and listen as scenes unfolded before them ranging from those that inspired awe to those that compelled participation and intervention. Within the context of four workshops at the SU Warehouse e-tags studio, students engaged in making video art from a perfectly still point of view, and then used their artworks as the basis for sharing their diverse visions. The workshops were at the heart of this process of opening up to environments -- both physical and social.

Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition of works by Andrew Deutsch and Stephen Vitiello, "Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass," is an installation composed of audio and video pieces as well as photographs, prints and sculpture. Deutsch and Vitiello are musicians, composers and sound artists who have been collaborating since 1999. For this, their first co-exhibition, the artists provided each other with musical scores for the other to perform. In so doing, they emphasize the visual nature of sound scores, shedding light on this complex, seemingly inaccessible medium called sound art.

In Vitiello's work viewers will see a shift from landscape photographs (7 Studies for Graphic Scores, 2007) to abstract black-and-white prints (Pond Set, 2008) that continue to refer to landscape through black lines that evoke both reeds and musical notes. In the background of his videos, Deutsch includes imagery from the "Notgeld" (emergency money that was put into circulation in Germany during the economic crisis of the 1920s) as a reflection on our difficult economic times. Deutsch also uses these collectibles in the making of his own sound scores; he has created a narrative referring to the films of Fritz Lang, to illustrated children's books, and to early 20th-century European artistic abstraction, where sound and sight blend into a common experience.

Vicktory Dogs Exhibition
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Pit bulls victimized in the notorious dog-fighting ring of former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick are the subject of the exhibition. "Vicktory Dogs" is the brainchild of Cyrus Mejia, who, along with his wife and a group of animal lovers, founded Best Friends Animal Society, the nation's largest sanctuary for abused and abandoned animals.

The exhibition features giclée prints of 22 dogs rescued by Best Friends after Vick's indictment. By depicting the dogs up close in his painting, Mejia hopes people will confront their own prejudices about pit bulls in general and will think twice about exploiting them or fearing them, or both.

Tanks & Trees: The War Show
Orange Line Gallery

Price: Free
Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A soldier's intimate look at Iraq. Featuring photographs from Steven Robinson, photos and video from anonymous sources, and video from the Syracuse Peace Council.

International Social Action Film Festival
Alchemical Nursery Project

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

The festival will feature local and international films about social change. Some highlights include local works featuring Syracuse's 40 Below and the Syracuse Peace Council, and War Dance, an Academy Award nominee and Sundance Film Festival winner about the power of music and dance amidst war in Uganda. The ISAFF has been featured in cities around the world, including Los Angeles, Cairo, Sydney and Berlin. Proceeds from this event will help the Alchemical Nursery Project to further develop our Permaculture Center and Regenerative Trades School, working for food security in Syracuse through perennial poly-culture landscapes.

6:00 pm: Doors Open

6:30pm: Local and feature length films:
     Educate, Agitate, Organize: The Syracuse Peace Council
     War Dance (an Academy Award nominee and Sundance Film Festival Winner)

9:30 pm - 12:00 am: Local and international shorts:
     Climate Matters
     Walleyball
     Pilgrimage Through Kham
     Moving the Mountain of Poverty
     40 Below Summit video
     Detecting Danger: Africa's Giant Rats
     Reversing Ripples of War

Homestyle Homicide: The Freagan Family Reunion
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive comedy murder mystery.

Crowns
Syracuse Stage
Patdro Harris, director

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

Get ready for some soul stirring, funny and powerful stories, stories from the church elders, stories with hattitude, enough hattitude to set the choir singing. That's hattitude, as in hat, as in Crown, as in the elegant cranial adornments favored by certain elegant church-going ladies of the South. Sing about it, dance about it, boast about it, even dream about it, a Crown is a joyous expression of culture and tradition, and as we find in this rollicking celebratory play by Regina Taylor, tradition and culture can be just the balm to salve the wounded soul. That's worth singing about whether the style is gospel, freedom song or hip-hop.

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An Evening With Alan and Lawrence
Gerard Moses, director

Studio 24
433 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Mark Cole and Robert Auler team for this original work. Cole is cast as Lawrence, an eccentric unearther of little-known musical anecdotes, while Auler is a virtuoso concert pianist. As they do their stage act, a deep-seated jealousy surfaces that results in a battle of wills. The two-man show incorporates music by Mendelssohn, Chopin and Schubert, among other composers.

Cole is the chair of the theater department at the State University College at Oswego, where Auler is a member of the music faculty.

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Friday, May 29, 2009

Window Projects: Museum of the City of Lost and Found
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Museum of the City of Lost and Found, Marion Wilson's latest sculpture project, is a continuation of her public art project launched in conjunction with the 2008 New Orleans Biennial. The exhibition is a combination of hexagram patterns of i-ching (a symbol system used to identify order in random events) collaboratively painted on the wall by the artist, community members, faculty and students at Syracuse University; miniature "igloo" and cast resin objects; and a short video of Wilson's bicycle (mobile museum) performance in New Orleans edited by Jessica Posner. Wilson invites audience participation by filling out Lost and Found Report cards (available throughout the exhibition), her method of collecting stories about viewers' personal losses, chances, findings and discoveries.

Marion Wilson uses igloos as a nomadic structure of native materials to remind us of our basic human need for shelter and protection. In addition, it is a reference to fundamentals of human existence and the Italian Arte Povera artist Mario Merz (1925-2003). In New Orleans, Wilson's sculpture was originally mounted on a constructed bicycle able to roam the city streets within the St. Roch neighborhood and the French Market. In Syracuse, Wilson will exhibit her 'mobile museum' at the Warehouse Gallery, thus, creating a "museum inside a museum." Although the installation in the Window Projects will remain through June 6, its appearance will continuously change through the continual addition of found materials collected by the artist. Wilson will be guided in selecting these additional materials by outside interviews with the general public in the greater Syracuse community.

Postcards to (and from!) the Past
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit is a collaboration between the Arts Branch of the YMCA's after school arts program at Salem Hyde Elementary School, the Onondaga Historical Association, and Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. On display at the YMCA will be replications of over 100 century-old postcards mailed back and forth between students in the YMCA's program (asking questions of various historical figures from the Syracuse area), and staff members of the OHA (who responded to the students' questions in character). Sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, the kids' questions show an active engagement with their own history—and the postcards themselves are a delight to anyone interested in the area's past. The exhibit is continued across the street at the OHA, and guests are invited and encouraged to visit both galleries to see the complete show.

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Photo-Drawings: Recent Works by Julieve Jubin and Juan Perdiguero, and An Introduction: Recent Works by Barbara Stout
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Spring Loaded
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery
Associated Artists of Syracuse

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

Featuring works by Joan Applebaum, Lesley Brooks, A. Brooks Decker, Lorraine Doyle, Joy Englehart, Marcia Ferber, Roscha Folger, Patricia Gancarz, Mimi George, Helga Gilber, Carol Ginsky, Marion Lapham, Howard McLaughlin, Kathleen O'Brien, Ute Oestreicher, E.A. Pilbeam, Mary Raineri, Pamela Sunshine, Yolanda Tooley, Clara Towell.

Threads of a Culture: Hadbakah Images by Selma Hurwitz
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

Price: Free
Winnick Hillel Center for Jewish Life
102 Walnut Place (corner of Harrison St.), Syracuse

Selma Hurwitz is an internationally-known artist whose works portray personal and social themes of universal impact, as well as basic motifs of love, beauty, valor and tyranny. In 1964, she created her own medium, hadbakah (Hebrew for "gluing"), which is glued-thread painting. Instead of using a brush, the artist glues various individual threads, particularly those that are metalized, to a specially prepared surface. Careful planning of thread direction and location, as well as meticulous maneuvering of the threads during the gluing process, achieves the desired shading and design.

Hurwitz has exhibited work in numerous solo shows, including those at the Russell Senate Office Building Rotunda and the First Baptist Church in Washington, DC; the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles; the American Jewish Historical Society in Waltham, MA; and the Herzl Institute in New York City. Her work is part of numerous collections, including the Israel Museum, Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and Knesset, all in Jerusalem; the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California; and the National Endowment for the Arts Library in Washington, DC.

For more information about the exhibition, contact April Maw at 315-443-7095 or aamaw@syr.edu.

The Curiosity of Change
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anne Novado-Cappuccilli: Drawings and Paintings
John Lombardi: Works in Stone

37th Annual Teen Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

CFAC is honored to host the longest running collaborative exhibition in the Greater Syracuse area that features the work of under-represented teen artists. Participating students attend Syracuse City High Schools and suburban Onondaga County High Schools. A panel of professional local artists serve as judges for the competition. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories.

As It Happens: Artists-in-Residence at Light Work
Light Work Gallery

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

Josh Brilliant curates a selection of images by recent Light Work Artists-in-Residence, including Amy Stein, Kelli Connell, Cristina Fraire, Krista Steinke, and Christine Osinski. Brilliant is currently an MFA candidate in the Museum Studies program at Syracuse University.

Limbo: Works of Admas Habteslasie
Light Work Gallery

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

"Limbo" depicts a graceful yet unusually honest and insightful snapshot of Eritrea, an East African country suspended in an unsettled state between war and peace.

Eritrea warred with neighboring Ethiopia for 30 years before gaining independence in 1991. Then, in 1998, they entered another war with Ethiopia that lasted two years. Today, the war-torn country is yet again at the brink of war with their neighbor. Years of unrest have left the people of Eritrea waiting for life to improve. According to Habteslasie: "Transitory states become permanent; empty villas, destroyed old buildings and unfinished new buildings dot the landscape, monuments to the suspension of history. The collision between Eritrea's proud historical narrative and the bleak ennui of the present has produced an obsessive focus on the future. Reconstruction and infrastructure development are energetically driven forward whilst the economy remains essentially shut off from the outside world." The images in "Limbo" capture both destruction and construction, both the unhealed wounds of war and a fierce optimism and hope for a brighter future.

Habteslasie was born in Kuwait, and his parents are Eritrean. He received his master's degree from the London College of Communication in photojournalism and documentary photography. His photographic projects look at the ideas of identity, history, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with historical process. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Flowers East and 198 Gallery in London. His work has also been published in Source Magazine.

Curious Works
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Kyle Mort, paintings
Curtis W. Readel, money prints and collages
Roger Bisbing, small assemblies

Exploring History with Art: The Changing View—Landscapes
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Paintings from OHA's permanent collection

XAYC: Xybrid Authenticity Ynder Construction, and Museum of the City of Lost and Found
Redhouse

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

The Red House is proud to present international artists Daniela Kostova and Joro De Boro with their newest site-specific project and art event commissioned by the Red House, entitled "XAYC: Xybrid Authenticity Ynder Construction," and Marion Wilson with "Museum of the City of Lost and Found," video projection and sidewalk installation.

XAYC (pronounced "house" in English) is an art project that questions contemporary identity politics and the concept of subjectivity in relation to authenticity. In Bulgarian, XAYC stands for "chaos".

By creating site-specific works both inside and outside of the Red House Arts Center's building, Daniela Kostova and Joro De Boro will open up a dialogue about the meaning of authenticity in the context of contemporary culture, the role of the artist in a system of specialized division of labor, and the importance of audience participation in the ecology of art consumption.

Marion Wilson will project "Museum of the City of Lost and Found" as a video--a staged performance of Marion Wilson riding the museum/bicycle through the cemetery stones of St. Roch. In addition, a sculpture/drawing on the city sidewalks will physically and visually connect Marion's current Warehouse Gallery Window installation to the Red House building. Marion Wilson's artwork included in "XAYC" is the latest development within a body of work commissioned by the 2008 New Orleans Biennial.

All Forms: Studio Pottery '09
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Featuring works by 13 artists.

Stoneware and Stone "Wear"
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Works of Sallie Thompson, ceramics, and Dee Ann VonHunke, fine silver and semi-precious gemstone jewelry.

Fusion
Delavan Art Gallery

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

John F. Fitzsimmons, paintings
Diana Godfrey, mixed media collage
Pam Steele, metal and glass wall sculptures
Catharine Westlake, acrylics and monotypes

Wild Card Exhibit: Color Etchings from Florence by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna
Delavan Art Gallery

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

Sitting Still
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"What does the world look like from a non-violent point of view? What would happen if the youth of Syracuse city and Syracuse University joined together to explore this question?" These are the questions that led Anne Beffel, a New York based public artist and Associate Professor of Art at Syracuse University and Pam McLaughlin, Everson Curator of Education and Public Programs to bring the Sitting Still contemplative video project to high school students from the Syracuse City School District. Beffel and McLaughlin worked together for over a year to put video cameras in the hands eight young artists, so that they could stop, look, and listen as scenes unfolded before them ranging from those that inspired awe to those that compelled participation and intervention. Within the context of four workshops at the SU Warehouse e-tags studio, students engaged in making video art from a perfectly still point of view, and then used their artworks as the basis for sharing their diverse visions. The workshops were at the heart of this process of opening up to environments -- both physical and social.

PostSecret
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In November 2004, Frank Warren began a community art project by handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood. Each self-addressed card invited people to anonymously share a secret. Two requirements were: the secret had to be true and it had to be something that had never been told to another person. Today Warren has been mailed more than 100,000 highly personal and artfully decorated postcards illustrating the soulful secrets never voiced. This extraordinary project has become an international phenomenon with thousands of people participating in scheduled PostSecret events throughout the United States, and through the PostSecret website and blog.

This exhibition features 450 postcards bringing together the most powerful, poignant and beautifully intimate secrets Warren has received in the past four years. In many cases, the illustrations on the cards are just as compelling as the accompanying text.

Vicktory Dogs Exhibition
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Pit bulls victimized in the notorious dog-fighting ring of former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick are the subject of the exhibition. "Vicktory Dogs" is the brainchild of Cyrus Mejia, who, along with his wife and a group of animal lovers, founded Best Friends Animal Society, the nation's largest sanctuary for abused and abandoned animals.

The exhibition features giclée prints of 22 dogs rescued by Best Friends after Vick's indictment. By depicting the dogs up close in his painting, Mejia hopes people will confront their own prejudices about pit bulls in general and will think twice about exploiting them or fearing them, or both.

Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition of works by Andrew Deutsch and Stephen Vitiello, "Sound Scores: Paper, Wood, Stone and Glass," is an installation composed of audio and video pieces as well as photographs, prints and sculpture. Deutsch and Vitiello are musicians, composers and sound artists who have been collaborating since 1999. For this, their first co-exhibition, the artists provided each other with musical scores for the other to perform. In so doing, they emphasize the visual nature of sound scores, shedding light on this complex, seemingly inaccessible medium called sound art.

In Vitiello's work viewers will see a shift from landscape photographs (7 Studies for Graphic Scores, 2007) to abstract black-and-white prints (Pond Set, 2008) that continue to refer to landscape through black lines that evoke both reeds and musical notes. In the background of his videos, Deutsch includes imagery from the "Notgeld" (emergency money that was put into circulation in Germany during the economic crisis of the 1920s) as a reflection on our difficult economic times. Deutsch also uses these collectibles in the making of his own sound scores; he has created a narrative referring to the films of Fritz Lang, to illustrated children's books, and to early 20th-century European artistic abstraction, where sound and sight blend into a common experience.

Tanks & Trees: The War Show
Orange Line Gallery

Price: Free
Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A soldier's intimate look at Iraq. Featuring photographs from Steven Robinson, photos and video from anonymous sources, and video from the Syracuse Peace Council.

FridayFLICS: Modern Times
ArtRage Gallery

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

Chaplin stars as a worker in a futuristic factory who is fed up with the job and his tyrannical boss; his hilarious yet profound farewell to silent comedy. Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard. Directed by Charlie Chaplin, 1936.

Words and Music Songwriter Showcase
Folkus Project
Featuring Brian Francis of Kh'Mi with Charley Orlando and Phips Avery

Price: $10
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Brian Francis, known to CNY music fans as the songwriter and guitarist for the Sammy-award-winning roots band Kh'Mi, has spent the last seven months playing music in bars, cafes, and street corners up and down the California coast. When he's not picking his resonator guitar, he's writing a book chronicling the life of a ramblin' man in America. The latest record from Kh'Mi is Medicine Show, on Hondo Mesa Records.

Charley Orlando has been writing songs for over 25 years and touring North America for 17. He has shared the stage with the likes of Peter Rowan, Jorma Kaukonen, David Lindley, Spin Doctors, Kid Rock, and even Meatloaf and Quiet Riot. Whether Charley is playing solo, with Ruha, the Assassins of Hip, or the Charley Orlando Band, his shows are always honest and emotional.

Phips Avery has a unique solo style shaped by his experience with folk, bluegrass, and rock. He plays banjo, guitar, and various wind instruments and has composed more than a 100 songs and instrumental pieces.

Series host Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers won a Lennon Award, and a grand prize, for best country song in the 2008 John Lennon Songwriting Contest. In addition to performing and writing music, he is a contributor to NPR's All Things Considered and founding editor of Acoustic Guitar magazine.

The Words and Music Songwriter Showcase is a celebration of original music from Central New York and beyond, featuring established and emerging artists of all genres in an up-close-and-personal acoustic setting.

Mecca Bodega
Westcott Theater

Price: $10
Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Drum-based, world beat indie band.

An Evening With Alan and Lawrence
Gerard Moses, director

Studio 24
433 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Mark Cole and Robert Auler team for this original work. Cole is cast as Lawrence, an eccentric unearther of little-known musical anecdotes, while Auler is a virtuoso concert pianist. As they do their stage act, a deep-seated jealousy surfaces that results in a battle of wills. The two-man show incorporates music by Mendelssohn, Chopin and Schubert, among other composers.

Cole is the chair of the theater department at the State University College at Oswego, where Auler is a member of the music faculty.

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Red House Live!
Redhouse

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

Red House Live! is an improvisational comedy show similar to the hit television series "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" The troupe of seasoned actors will perform improvised scenes based on audience suggestion and participation.

Friday Night Live is the brainchild of Tim Mahar and Laura Austin, both products of Second City. The troupe includes the wildly talented AJ LaPoint, the ridiculously talented Sara Caliva, the mildly talented Mike Intaglietta, the musically talented Emmett Van Slyke, and the show's host Glenn Gomez Adams of TK99's Gomez & Dave Morning Show (whose talent is unqualified).

Red House Live! takes a vacation after this show, so this is your last chance to catch a performance before next fall!

Crowns
Syracuse Stage
Patdro Harris, director

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

Get ready for some soul stirring, funny and powerful stories, stories from the church elders, stories with hattitude, enough hattitude to set the choir singing. That's hattitude, as in hat, as in Crown, as in the elegant cranial adornments favored by certain elegant church-going ladies of the South. Sing about it, dance about it, boast about it, even dream about it, a Crown is a joyous expression of culture and tradition, and as we find in this rollicking celebratory play by Regina Taylor, tradition and culture can be just the balm to salve the wounded soul. That's worth singing about whether the style is gospel, freedom song or hip-hop.

Read a Review!

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Window Projects: Museum of the City of Lost and Found
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Museum of the City of Lost and Found, Marion Wilson's latest sculpture project, is a continuation of her public art project launched in conjunction with the 2008 New Orleans Biennial. The exhibition is a combination of hexagram patterns of i-ching (a symbol system used to identify order in random events) collaboratively painted on the wall by the artist, community members, faculty and students at Syracuse University; miniature "igloo" and cast resin objects; and a short video of Wilson's bicycle (mobile museum) performance in New Orleans edited by Jessica Posner. Wilson invites audience participation by filling out Lost and Found Report cards (available throughout the exhibition), her method of collecting stories about viewers' personal losses, chances, findings and discoveries.

Marion Wilson uses igloos as a nomadic structure of native materials to remind us of our basic human need for shelter and protection. In addition, it is a reference to fundamentals of human existence and the Italian Arte Povera artist Mario Merz (1925-2003). In New Orleans, Wilson's sculpture was originally mounted on a constructed bicycle able to roam the city streets within the St. Roch neighborhood and the French Market. In Syracuse, Wilson will exhibit her 'mobile museum' at the Warehouse Gallery, thus, creating a "museum inside a museum." Although the installation in the Window Projects will remain through June 6, its appearance will continuously change through the continual addition of found materials collected by the artist. Wilson will be guided in selecting these additional materials by outside interviews with the general public in the greater Syracuse community.

Wild Card Exhibit: Color Etchings from Florence by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna
Delavan Art Gallery

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

Fusion
Delavan Art Gallery

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

John F. Fitzsimmons, paintings
Diana Godfrey, mixed media collage
Pam Steele, metal and glass wall sculptures
Catharine Westlake, acrylics and monotypes

The Curiosity of Change
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Anne Novado-Cappuccilli: Drawings and Paintings
John Lombardi: Works in Stone

PostSecret
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In November 2004, Frank Warren began a community art project by handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood. Each self-addressed card invited people to anonymously share a secret. Two requirements were: the secret had to be true and it had to be something that had never been told to another person. Today Warren has been mailed more than 100,000 highly personal and artfully decorated postcards illustrating the soulful secrets never voiced. This extraordinary project has become an international phenomenon with thousands of people participating in scheduled PostSecret events throughout the United States, and through the PostSecret website and blog.

This exhibition features 450 postcards bringing together the most powerful, poignant and beautifully intimate secrets Warren has received in the past four years. In many cases, the illustrations on the cards are just as compelling as the accompanying text.

Sitting Still
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"What does the world look like from a non-violent point of view? What would happen if the youth of Syracuse city and Syracuse University joined together to explore this question?" These are the questions that led Anne Beffel, a New York based public artist and Associate Professor of Art at Syracuse University and Pam McLaughlin, Everson Curator of Education and Public Programs to bring the Sitting Still contemplative video project to high school students from the Syracuse City School District. Beffel and McLaughlin worked together for over a year to put video cameras in the hands eight young artists, so that they could stop, look, and listen as scenes unfolded before them ranging from those that inspired awe to those that compelled participation and intervention. Within the context of four workshops at the SU Warehouse e-tags studio, students engaged in making video art from a perfectly still point of view, and then used their artworks as the basis for sharing their diverse visions. The workshops were at the heart of this process of opening up to environments -- both physical and social.

Curious Works
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Kyle Mort, paintings
Curtis W. Readel, money prints and collages
Roger Bisbing, small assemblies

Stoneware and Stone "Wear"
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Works of Sallie Thompson, ceramics, and Dee Ann VonHunke, fine silver and semi-precious gemstone jewelry.

37th Annual Teen Art Exhibition
Community Folk Art Center

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

CFAC is honored to host the longest running collaborative exhibition in the Greater Syracuse area that features the work of under-represented teen artists. Participating students attend Syracuse City High Schools and suburban Onondaga County High Schools. A panel of professional local artists serve as judges for the competition. Prizes are awarded to winners in two-dimensional and three-dimensional categories.

All Forms: Studio Pottery '09
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Featuring works by 13 artists.

Exploring History with Art: The Changing View—Landscapes
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Paintings from OHA's permanent collection

Tanks & Trees: The War Show
Orange Line Gallery

Price: Free
Orange Line Gallery
106 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A soldier's intimate look at Iraq. Featuring photographs from Steven Robinson, photos and video from anonymous sources, and video from the Syracuse Peace Council.

Ending the Stigma: An Art Exhibit to Raise Awareness of Mental Illness
Westcott Community Center

Price: $5 donation
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Artists include:
Amber Christian Osterhout, "Gaining Insight"
Jane Klock, exhibiting her own Paintings, and sculptures created by her brother John who died by suicide
Family Diversity Projects, "Nothing To Hide--Mental Illness In The Family"
Emily Cress, an artist personally affected by mental illness
Eden Connelly, a slam-style poet inspired by the suicide of her friend Josh

For more information, contact Debra Graham.

Beyond Boundaries Art Exhibit and Silent Auction
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This is the 16th annual Beyond Boundaries Silent Auction. It is held every year as both a fundraiser and as a presentation of a collection of work from a culturally diverse mix of CNY established and emerging artists. It serves to continue an education fund for three communities in Ghana (CENSUDI in Bolgatanga, the Liberian refugee camp in Buduburam and the community library in Wora Wora).

Additional information can be found at www.beyondboundariescny.org, or contact Mardea Warner at 315-479-5757, mardeamardea@yahoo.com.

Festival of Folk Music

Price: $15; children 16 and under free with adult
Kellish Hill Farm
3192 Pompey Center Rd., Pompey

Festival features Folkstrings, John Cadley and John Price, Larry Hoyt and the Good Acoustics, Alan Sokaloski, Father John, Off the Wall, The Selkirk Band, John O'Hara and Caz, and the Syracuse Song Miners. Jamming all day. Food vendor on site. For more information, contact Ron White at 315-964-1251.

Finger Lakes Wind Quintet

Price: Free
Betts Branch Library
4862 S. Salina St., Syraucse

Somethin' About Lulu
First Unitarian Universalist Society Music Series
Featuring Patty Jackson

Price: $10-$25 sliding scale
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

Syracuse's own Patty Jackson will be in town for a special debut performance with her Colorado band, Somethin' About Lulu.

Somethin' About Lulu is a rare treat not to be missed. Help welcome Patty back to Syracuse, meet the Lulus, and enjoy a wonderful evening of music, laughter and fun. A reception will follow.

For more information, contact Susie.ShowcaseProductions@gmail.com or 315-382-2222.

Seasons of Love Cabaret
Syracuse Chorale
Warren Ottey, conductor

Price: $15
Blessed Sacrament Church
3127 James St., Syracuse

Laurence Juber In Concert
Guitar League

May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Laurence Juber got an extraordinary, life-changing break when Paul McCartney picked him to become Wings' lead guitarist. Juber spent three years recording and touring with the band. During that time he won a Best Rock Instrumental Grammy for the track "Rockestra" from the Wings album "Back To The Egg."

Juber's DVD "Guitar Noir" is DVD Etc. magazine's top pick for surround-sound 5.1 audio and earned a 2005 CEA "Demmy" award for sonic excellence. His solo guitar arrangement of "The Pink Panther Theme" is featured on the Best Pop Instrumental Grammy-winning album "Henry Mancini-Pink Guitar".

Local guitar great Loren Barrigar will open the show.

Westcott Theater
DJ Afar

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Jazz, hip-hop.

Stone Canoe Writers Series: Jules Gibbs and Philip Memmer
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

For her poem, "Black Walnut," published in the recent edition of the Stone Canoe Journal, Jules Gibbs won the prestigious Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize for a second time. Before settling in Syracuse, Gibbs workeding as an editor, journalist and advertising director for various newspapers and magazines, including The Atlantic, Hudson Valley Magazine and The Progressive Magazine in Madison, WI. She earned her MFA in Poetry in 2006 from New England College, and in 2007 was awarded a writing fellowship and residency to the Ucross Foundation in Ucross, WY. Besides Stone Canoe, her recent work appears in Spoon River Poetry Review, Salt Hill Poetry Journal, The New Anonymous, Pearl Magazine and The Alembic, among others. Gibbs has poems in three anthology collections and has just completed a chapbook, The Bulk of the Mailable Universe. She is writer-in-residence at Syracuse's Franklin and Salem Hyde Elementary schools and teaches poetry courses at the Downtown Writer's Center in Syracuse's YMCA.

Phil Memmer was selected for the Idaho Prize from Lost Horse Press for his third collection of poems, Lucifer: A Hagiography, published in January 2009. He previously authored two other books of poems, Threat of Pleasure and Sweetheart, Baby, Darling, in addition to three chapbooks of poetry. His poems have appeared widely in literary journals, including Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Southern Poetry Review, Mid-American Review, Epoch, Tar River Poetry and many others. Memmer's work has also appeared in several anthologies, including 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day and in Don't Leave Hungry: 50 Years of Southern Poetry Review. Memmer is the editor of Two Rivers Review, associate editor for Tiger Bark Press and was the poetry editor for the third edition of Stone Canoe Journal. He is the director of the Arts Branch of the YMCA of Greater Syracuse, where he founded the Downtown Writer's Center in 2001.

The Emperor's New Clothes
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive retelling of the classic story.

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $15 adults; $10 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Big Bad Wolf is put on trial and has a very different account of what happened.

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Crowns
Syracuse Stage
Patdro Harris, director

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

Get ready for some soul stirring, funny and powerful stories, stories from the church elders, stories with hattitude, enough hattitude to set the choir singing. That's hattitude, as in hat, as in Crown, as in the elegant cranial adornments favored by certain elegant church-going ladies of the South. Sing about it, dance about it, boast about it, even dream about it, a Crown is a joyous expression of culture and tradition, and as we find in this rollicking celebratory play by Regina Taylor, tradition and culture can be just the balm to salve the wounded soul. That's worth singing about whether the style is gospel, freedom song or hip-hop.

Read a Review!

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $15 adults; $10 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Big Bad Wolf is put on trial and has a very different account of what happened.

Read a review!

Trumbo: The Letters of a Screenwriter, Prisoner, Husband, Father, Friend
Simply New Theatre
John Nara, director
Featuring Bill Molesky and Tom Ciancaglini

Price: $20
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Legendary author of Spartacus, Roman Holiday, Exodus, Papillon, and Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo was at the top of his game when, in 1947, he stood up to the House Un-American Activities Committee, was thrown in prison, and blacklisted as one of the infamous "Hollywood Ten." Though vilified, exiled and "broke as a bankrupt's bastard," Trumbo refused to be silenced. In a script born from funny and brilliant letters to his friends, former friends, fronts and family, emerges the story of a family's survival and one stubborn artist's quest to break the blacklist. This one act was lovingly written by Dalton Trumbo's son, Christopher Trumbo.

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Crowns
Syracuse Stage
Patdro Harris, director

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

Get ready for some soul stirring, funny and powerful stories, stories from the church elders, stories with hattitude, enough hattitude to set the choir singing. That's hattitude, as in hat, as in Crown, as in the elegant cranial adornments favored by certain elegant church-going ladies of the South. Sing about it, dance about it, boast about it, even dream about it, a Crown is a joyous expression of culture and tradition, and as we find in this rollicking celebratory play by Regina Taylor, tradition and culture can be just the balm to salve the wounded soul. That's worth singing about whether the style is gospel, freedom song or hip-hop.

Read a Review!

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Window Projects: Museum of the City of Lost and Found
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Museum of the City of Lost and Found, Marion Wilson's latest sculpture project, is a continuation of her public art project launched in conjunction with the 2008 New Orleans Biennial. The exhibition is a combination of hexagram patterns of i-ching (a symbol system used to identify order in random events) collaboratively painted on the wall by the artist, community members, faculty and students at Syracuse University; miniature "igloo" and cast resin objects; and a short video of Wilson's bicycle (mobile museum) performance in New Orleans edited by Jessica Posner. Wilson invites audience participation by filling out Lost and Found Report cards (available throughout the exhibition), her method of collecting stories about viewers' personal losses, chances, findings and discoveries.

Marion Wilson uses igloos as a nomadic structure of native materials to remind us of our basic human need for shelter and protection. In addition, it is a reference to fundamentals of human existence and the Italian Arte Povera artist Mario Merz (1925-2003). In New Orleans, Wilson's sculpture was originally mounted on a constructed bicycle able to roam the city streets within the St. Roch neighborhood and the French Market. In Syracuse, Wilson will exhibit her 'mobile museum' at the Warehouse Gallery, thus, creating a "museum inside a museum." Although the installation in the Window Projects will remain through June 6, its appearance will continuously change through the continual addition of found materials collected by the artist. Wilson will be guided in selecting these additional materials by outside interviews with the general public in the greater Syracuse community.

As It Happens: Artists-in-Residence at Light Work
Light Work Gallery

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

Josh Brilliant curates a selection of images by recent Light Work Artists-in-Residence, including Amy Stein, Kelli Connell, Cristina Fraire, Krista Steinke, and Christine Osinski. Brilliant is currently an MFA candidate in the Museum Studies program at Syracuse University.

Limbo: Works of Admas Habteslasie
Light Work Gallery

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

"Limbo" depicts a graceful yet unusually honest and insightful snapshot of Eritrea, an East African country suspended in an unsettled state between war and peace.

Eritrea warred with neighboring Ethiopia for 30 years before gaining independence in 1991. Then, in 1998, they entered another war with Ethiopia that lasted two years. Today, the war-torn country is yet again at the brink of war with their neighbor. Years of unrest have left the people of Eritrea waiting for life to improve. According to Habteslasie: "Transitory states become permanent; empty villas, destroyed old buildings and unfinished new buildings dot the landscape, monuments to the suspension of history. The collision between Eritrea's proud historical narrative and the bleak ennui of the present has produced an obsessive focus on the future. Reconstruction and infrastructure development are energetically driven forward whilst the economy remains essentially shut off from the outside world." The images in "Limbo" capture both destruction and construction, both the unhealed wounds of war and a fierce optimism and hope for a brighter future.

Habteslasie was born in Kuwait, and his parents are Eritrean. He received his master's degree from the London College of Communication in photojournalism and documentary photography. His photographic projects look at the ideas of identity, history, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with historical process. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Flowers East and 198 Gallery in London. His work has also been published in Source Magazine.

All Forms: Studio Pottery '09
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Featuring works by 13 artists.

Exploring History with Art: The Changing View—Landscapes
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Paintings from OHA's permanent collection

Sitting Still
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

"What does the world look like from a non-violent point of view? What would happen if the youth of Syracuse city and Syracuse University joined together to explore this question?" These are the questions that led Anne Beffel, a New York based public artist and Associate Professor of Art at Syracuse University and Pam McLaughlin, Everson Curator of Education and Public Programs to bring the Sitting Still contemplative video project to high school students from the Syracuse City School District. Beffel and McLaughlin worked together for over a year to put video cameras in the hands eight young artists, so that they could stop, look, and listen as scenes unfolded before them ranging from those that inspired awe to those that compelled participation and intervention. Within the context of four workshops at the SU Warehouse e-tags studio, students engaged in making video art from a perfectly still point of view, and then used their artworks as the basis for sharing their diverse visions. The workshops were at the heart of this process of opening up to environments -- both physical and social.

PostSecret
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In November 2004, Frank Warren began a community art project by handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood. Each self-addressed card invited people to anonymously share a secret. Two requirements were: the secret had to be true and it had to be something that had never been told to another person. Today Warren has been mailed more than 100,000 highly personal and artfully decorated postcards illustrating the soulful secrets never voiced. This extraordinary project has become an international phenomenon with thousands of people participating in scheduled PostSecret events throughout the United States, and through the PostSecret website and blog.

This exhibition features 450 postcards bringing together the most powerful, poignant and beautifully intimate secrets Warren has received in the past four years. In many cases, the illustrations on the cards are just as compelling as the accompanying text.

Stoneware and Stone "Wear"
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Works of Sallie Thompson, ceramics, and Dee Ann VonHunke, fine silver and semi-precious gemstone jewelry.

Opening Reception: (Shade/Light) Red Excursions
Redhouse

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

Patrick Blackburn's newest multimedia installation creates an environment which seduces visitors and subtly asks them to leave their preconception of viewing art aside. Instead, visitors are invited to experience the artwork in the present moment. Blackburn explores the use of familiar media objects as a means of experiencing audio and visual art.

Blackburn is an artist, musician, composer and producer of audio and visual landscapes. He has worked in the design and production of numerous gallery installation and limited editions music albums and sound artworks. In his own artwork, Blackburn uses emergent technologies and behavioral patterns such as music generated by a system that ostensibly has no inputs. Thus his artwork cannot be called a composition in the traditional sense but rather open-end soundscapes, designed to continue indefinitely, without a chance to ever repeat. His work continues to create itself even in the audience's absence.

Woofstock

Price: $5; additional donations welcome
Inner Harbor
W. Kirkpatrick St., Syracuse

Local rock bands perform to benefit the Central New York SPCA.

1:00 pm: Turnip Stampede
2:15 pm: Merit
3:30 pm: Dead Rose
4:45 pm: Under the Gun
6:15 pm: 3 Inch Fury
7:45 pm: The Reissues
9:00 pm: Los Blancos

Seasons of Love Cabaret
Syracuse Chorale
Warren Ottey, conductor

Price: $15
Blessed Sacrament Church
3127 James St., Syracuse

Jazz Vespers Series
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free (donations encouraged)
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

These informal events are open to everyone of all faiths. Jazz selections will be drawn from secular and sacred sources, with inspirational readings and homily.

Crowns
Syracuse Stage
Patdro Harris, director

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

Get ready for some soul stirring, funny and powerful stories, stories from the church elders, stories with hattitude, enough hattitude to set the choir singing. That's hattitude, as in hat, as in Crown, as in the elegant cranial adornments favored by certain elegant church-going ladies of the South. Sing about it, dance about it, boast about it, even dream about it, a Crown is a joyous expression of culture and tradition, and as we find in this rollicking celebratory play by Regina Taylor, tradition and culture can be just the balm to salve the wounded soul. That's worth singing about whether the style is gospel, freedom song or hip-hop.

Read a Review!

Monday, June 1, 2009

Window Projects: Museum of the City of Lost and Found
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Museum of the City of Lost and Found, Marion Wilson's latest sculpture project, is a continuation of her public art project launched in conjunction with the 2008 New Orleans Biennial. The exhibition is a combination of hexagram patterns of i-ching (a symbol system used to identify order in random events) collaboratively painted on the wall by the artist, community members, faculty and students at Syracuse University; miniature "igloo" and cast resin objects; and a short video of Wilson's bicycle (mobile museum) performance in New Orleans edited by Jessica Posner. Wilson invites audience participation by filling out Lost and Found Report cards (available throughout the exhibition), her method of collecting stories about viewers' personal losses, chances, findings and discoveries.

Marion Wilson uses igloos as a nomadic structure of native materials to remind us of our basic human need for shelter and protection. In addition, it is a reference to fundamentals of human existence and the Italian Arte Povera artist Mario Merz (1925-2003). In New Orleans, Wilson's sculpture was originally mounted on a constructed bicycle able to roam the city streets within the St. Roch neighborhood and the French Market. In Syracuse, Wilson will exhibit her 'mobile museum' at the Warehouse Gallery, thus, creating a "museum inside a museum." Although the installation in the Window Projects will remain through June 6, its appearance will continuously change through the continual addition of found materials collected by the artist. Wilson will be guided in selecting these additional materials by outside interviews with the general public in the greater Syracuse community.

Postcards to (and from!) the Past
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit is a collaboration between the Arts Branch of the YMCA's after school arts program at Salem Hyde Elementary School, the Onondaga Historical Association, and Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. On display at the YMCA will be replications of over 100 century-old postcards mailed back and forth between students in the YMCA's program (asking questions of various historical figures from the Syracuse area), and staff members of the OHA (who responded to the students' questions in character). Sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, the kids' questions show an active engagement with their own history—and the postcards themselves are a delight to anyone interested in the area's past. The exhibit is continued across the street at the OHA, and guests are invited and encouraged to visit both galleries to see the complete show.

The Gallery as Studio: Drawings on Delirium
Point of Contact Gallery

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

A world-renowned Uruguayan artist, Ricardo Lanzarini comes from Montevideo to Syracuse to recreate the mundane and the extraordinary in his drawings on delirium made to unexpected scales. The exhibition comes to life at The Point of Contact Gallery where the space has turned into an artist's studio. The work of the exhibit is to be produced entirely on site and directly onto the walls of the gallery in the weeks leading up to the opening. Lanzarini will also share this experiment with students from Syracuse University's Fine Arts Department who will join in the creative process.

Lanzarini's work balances extremes of scale, crafting an extensive abstract image from precise, miniscule characters, whose everyday activities serve as a window into a miniature world, frozen in time. These drawings sarcastically explore the two major paradigms in figurative art of the 20th century: Social and Fantastic Realism

The exhibit will last through the summer and then Lanzarini returns to Point of Contact to perform an "erasure" of the work on September 4. The book catalogue documenting the entire project will be presented at the close.

Spring Loaded
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery
Associated Artists of Syracuse

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

Featuring works by Joan Applebaum, Lesley Brooks, A. Brooks Decker, Lorraine Doyle, Joy Englehart, Marcia Ferber, Roscha Folger, Patricia Gancarz, Mimi George, Helga Gilber, Carol Ginsky, Marion Lapham, Howard McLaughlin, Kathleen O'Brien, Ute Oestreicher, E.A. Pilbeam, Mary Raineri, Pamela Sunshine, Yolanda Tooley, Clara Towell.

Threads of a Culture: Hadbakah Images by Selma Hurwitz
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

Price: Free
Winnick Hillel Center for Jewish Life
102 Walnut Place (corner of Harrison St.), Syracuse

Selma Hurwitz is an internationally-known artist whose works portray personal and social themes of universal impact, as well as basic motifs of love, beauty, valor and tyranny. In 1964, she created her own medium, hadbakah (Hebrew for "gluing"), which is glued-thread painting. Instead of using a brush, the artist glues various individual threads, particularly those that are metalized, to a specially prepared surface. Careful planning of thread direction and location, as well as meticulous maneuvering of the threads during the gluing process, achieves the desired shading and design.

Hurwitz has exhibited work in numerous solo shows, including those at the Russell Senate Office Building Rotunda and the First Baptist Church in Washington, DC; the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles; the American Jewish Historical Society in Waltham, MA; and the Herzl Institute in New York City. Her work is part of numerous collections, including the Israel Museum, Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and Knesset, all in Jerusalem; the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California; and the National Endowment for the Arts Library in Washington, DC.

For more information about the exhibition, contact April Maw at 315-443-7095 or aamaw@syr.edu.

As It Happens: Artists-in-Residence at Light Work
Light Work Gallery

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

Josh Brilliant curates a selection of images by recent Light Work Artists-in-Residence, including Amy Stein, Kelli Connell, Cristina Fraire, Krista Steinke, and Christine Osinski. Brilliant is currently an MFA candidate in the Museum Studies program at Syracuse University.

Limbo: Works of Admas Habteslasie
Light Work Gallery

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

"Limbo" depicts a graceful yet unusually honest and insightful snapshot of Eritrea, an East African country suspended in an unsettled state between war and peace.

Eritrea warred with neighboring Ethiopia for 30 years before gaining independence in 1991. Then, in 1998, they entered another war with Ethiopia that lasted two years. Today, the war-torn country is yet again at the brink of war with their neighbor. Years of unrest have left the people of Eritrea waiting for life to improve. According to Habteslasie: "Transitory states become permanent; empty villas, destroyed old buildings and unfinished new buildings dot the landscape, monuments to the suspension of history. The collision between Eritrea's proud historical narrative and the bleak ennui of the present has produced an obsessive focus on the future. Reconstruction and infrastructure development are energetically driven forward whilst the economy remains essentially shut off from the outside world." The images in "Limbo" capture both destruction and construction, both the unhealed wounds of war and a fierce optimism and hope for a brighter future.

Habteslasie was born in Kuwait, and his parents are Eritrean. He received his master's degree from the London College of Communication in photojournalism and documentary photography. His photographic projects look at the ideas of identity, history, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with historical process. His work has been exhibited at venues such as Flowers East and 198 Gallery in London. His work has also been published in Source Magazine.

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