Sunday, October 25, 2009

Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $15 non-members, $12 students/seniors, $10 Everson members, children 5 and under free, $50 family rate (maximum two adults and four dependent children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This collection is comprised of an extraordinary group of 19th- and early 20th-century paintings collected largely between 1908 and 1923 by sisters Margaret and Gwendoline Davies. By 1914, the Davies sisters had assembled one of the finest collections of European modern art in Britain, with works from artists such as Paul Cézanne, Camille Corot, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Joseph M.W. Turner, among several others.

Turner to Cézanne speaks volumes about taste, patronage and philanthropy. The 53 original works by 29 artists included also a present survey of modern art, ranging from Turner's Romantic naturalism to Cézanne's modern aesthetic innovations. This exhibition serves as a reminder of the value of creativity, and of persistence, as many of the artists were, at first, either misunderstood or scorned.

Docent-led tours are available Tuesday-Thursday at 2:00 pm and Saturdays at 10:00 am and 3:00 pm. These tours are complimentary with exhibition admission, and no reservation is required. A complimentary cell phone audio tour is available to all visitors.

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Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Fired Experience: Recent Work by Jack Troy
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jack Troy, teacher, potter, and writer once wrote, ",I have picked up, moved, shaped and lightened myself of many tons of clay, and those tons lifted, moved and shaped me...". He has taught more than 200 workshops in the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Great Britain. He has worked at the Institute of Ceramic Studies, Jingdezhen, China; and was an invited artist at the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, in Japan. His education in ceramics has included trips to 13 countries. Having published over 70 articles in ceramics publications, he also wrote Salt Glazed Ceramics, Woodfired Stoneware and Porcelain, and Calling the Planet Home, [poems]. His work has been exhibited widely, and is in numerous collections, public and private. Troy will bring this wealth of knowledge and experience to Syracuse University for a 2-week intensive workshop and kiln firing. The exhibition of his work at the Gandee Gallery is in conjunction with his visit to the Syracuse University Ceramics Program and will feature his most recent work.

Works by Betsy Andrus Smith
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of paintings, jewelry and slumped glass plates by Seneca Falls artist Betsy Andrus Smith. Smith, an award-winning painter, has exhibited at the Salon du Vieux Colombier Paris; Musee D'Art Moderne in Tonneins, France; and Agora Gallery and Abney Gallery in New York. Her work is currently featured in Manhattan Arts International magazine.

Syracuse During the Time of Impressionism
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A complementary exhibit to the Everson Museum of Art's "From Turner To Cezanne", OHA's exhibit will look at what was happening in Syracuse at the time of the European Impressionist painters, 1880-1916. The exhibit will feature artwork, clothing, products, archival material, and other items that will interpret the Syracuse scene during this time impressionist painters were viewed by their contemporaries as "outrageously modern."

Silent Auction for St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Art donated to a silent auction to support the St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach.

VPA Faculty Show
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An exhibition of work by faculty members in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. For more information, phone 315-443-5889.

Sublime, Picturesque, Beautiful: 19th-Century Landscape Painting
Everson Museum of Art
Featuring Patricia Mainardi

Price: Free with same-day exhibit admission
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Patricia Mainardi, Professor of Art History at the City University of New York, will provide an introduction to the varieties of 19th century landscape painting. She will discuss landscape as a genre and how landscape painting during this time created a controversy over impressionist painting. The presentation will also include a general overview of the three kinds of landscape, the Sublime (Turner), the Beautiful (Corot) and the Picturesque (Impressionists), as well as an explanation of landscape painting technique, underpainting, paint in tubes, portable easels, and studio copies.

Grassroots Politics and New Media
University Neighbors Lecture Series
Featuring Lisa Daly

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

Lisa Daly has a PhD in American History from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, as well as Masters degrees in Television, Radio and Film; and Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation. She works as an internet consultant/technical project manager for logicalsolutions.net, and has advised several state and local Democratic campaigns on new media strategy. In the 2006 election cycle, she served on a volunteer basis as the Director of New Media for Dan Maffei's Congressional campaign in New York's 25th Congressional District, and in 2008, attended the Democratic Convention as a delegate for Barack Obama. Lisa is active in the community, volunteering with the Syracuse Chargers, and working on environmental issues.

Chris Botti
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $20 general, $16 for CNYJAF season subscribers and SU faculty/staff/alumni; $5 students with SU ID
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Chris Botti is the hottest ticket in the country these days, recently selling out the Stanley at prices up to $67. Garnering a Grammy for his duet recording with Sting, this gifted instrumentalist, talented composer, and charismatic performer is the leading standard bearer for the art form.

Phone 315-479-JAZZ (5299) for reservations.

Free parking will be available in the Lehman and Harrison lots on campus.

The Jazzuits at Jazz Central
LeMoyne College

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Le Moyne College's vocal jazz ensemble, the Jazzuits, will take audiences on a "Sentimental Journey" down memory lane, singing hit tunes from movies spanning nine decades, including Casablanca, Swingtime and When Harry Met Sally.

High Masters of the Low Countries
Schola Cantorum of Syracuse
Barry Torres, conductor

Price: $15 regular, $10 students/seniors
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

Featuring music of two composers from either end of the Renaissance time line—Jean Ockeghem and Orlande de Lassus. Ockeghem's Missa Mi-Mi will be the featured work.

The concert will be preceded by an instrumental prelude at 3:30 pm.

The Jazzuits at Jazz Central
LeMoyne College

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Le Moyne College's vocal jazz ensemble, the Jazzuits, will take audiences on a "Sentimental Journey" down memory lane, singing hit tunes from movies spanning nine decades, including Casablanca, Swingtime and When Harry Met Sally.

La Boheme
Syracuse Opera

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

Life in a garret in 1830s Paris: it may lack comfort, but oh, the romance! Revel in the carefree antics of our four Bohemians—poet, painter, philosopher, musician—along with a pair of beautiful grisettes, mimi and Musetta. Featuring some of America's best young singing actors.

Beautifully staged in conjunction with the Everson Museum's exhibition, Turner to Cezanne, see Renoir's art come to life as one of Mimi's costumes reproduces the blue dress in "La Parisienne." The scenery, designed by Boyd Ostroff for Opera Company of Philadelphia, features large reproductions of art and posters from the Impressionist era.

Sung in Italian with projected English titles.

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The Woman in the Blue Dress
Syracuse Stage
Leslie Noble, director

Price: $5
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Woman in the Blue Dress is a multi-media theatre work that brings to life Henriette Henriot, a fledgling actress at the Théâtre de L'Odéon in Paris and model for artist Pierre-August Renoir's "La Parisienne." In the work, Henriette, played by Kathleen Wrinn, shares her provocative story of life in the theatre, her experience in the Parisian art world of the 1870s, and what it was like to model for Renoir, the most shocking Impressionist painter of his day. The Woman in the Blue Dress is an original 30-minute piece by Stage's Director of Educational Programming Lauren Unbekant. This special project is presented in conjunction with the Turner to Cézanne exhibit at the Everson Museum.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Appleseed Productions
William Edward White, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

The respected Dr. Jekyll has begun to display alarmingly erratic behavior toward his friends. At the same time, a brutal figure has begun to haunt the city's streets. In Jeffrey Hatcher's intense new version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale, Dr. Jekyll confronts the many faces of the monstrous Mr. Hyde in a maze of interlocking scenes that attempt to answer the puzzles at the heart of a tortured soul. On the fog-bound streets of Victorian-era London, Henry Jekyll's experiments with exotic "powders and tinctures" have brought forth his other self -- Edward Hyde, a sensualist and villain free to commit the sins Jekyll is too civilized to comprehend. When Hyde meets a woman who stirs his interest, Jekyll fears for her life and decides to end his experiments. But Hyde has other ideas, and so the two sides battle each other in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse to determine who shall be the master and who his slave.

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Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Syracuse Stage

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

Set in the real-life Parisian cafe Le Lapin Agile (Nimble Rabbit), Picasso at the Lapin Agile wonders what if contemporaries Picasso and Einstein accidentally met while in their 20s, just before the famous scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. Laughter, comedy, absurdity and some delightfully zany musings on the nature of art, science and the 20th century, as only Steve Martin (yes, that Steve Martin) could render them. Plus a royal visit.

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James Joyce's The Dead
Simply New Theatre

Price: $25
BeVard Room, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Set in James Joyce's turn-of-the-20th-century Dublin, The Dead is a hauntingly tender and emotionally complex story of an annual Christmas gathering of old friends and family. On the 30th anniversary of their holiday festivities, two aging sisters—Aunt Kate and Aunt Julia—and their niece Mary Jane host an evening filled with food, stories, memories and music. Among the guests are their nephew Gabriel Conroy and his wife, Gretta. Gabriel doubles as the story's narrator and shares a deeply personal epiphany at the story's end, as he realizes what it means to accept the pain of being "alone" and yet together, with his wife, Gretta.

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Rabbit Hole
Black Box Players
David Julian Melendez, director

Price: Free, but seating is limited
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Rabbit Hole has nothing to do with Alice In Wonderland. The truth of the show is anything but a fairy tale. Eight months ago, a tragedy tore this family apart and unexpected news brings them all together to deal with it once again. We follow the Corbett family as they fight, work and struggle to keep things together or at the very least keep it from completely falling apart. The ultimate question is not what happened, but whether or not they will survive the aftermath. Is the weight of the tragedy too much for them or will they find a way to come together and be a stronger family in spite (or perhaps because) of it? David Lindsay-Abaire takes us on an emotional ride with both pain and humor, with his naturally written dialogue and his incredibly storytelling takes us on a tumultuous ride down the Rabbit Hole.

Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire is an American playwright and lyricist. He received the Puiltzer Prize for Drama in 2007 for Rabbit Hole. Lindsay-Abaire describes his plays as centering around "outsiders in search of clarity." Lindsay-Abaire's most recent project is the book for the musical High Fidelity. He was also nominated for two Tony Awards for the book and lyrics of Shrek the Musical.

Director David Julian Melendez is a senior Acting major at Syracuse University. His directing credits include Keep Your Eyes On Your Own Paper (an original work by Jake Keefe) and Where's My Money? (winner of Black Box Awards for Best Production, Best Director, Best Leading Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Featured Actress)

To make reservations, email blackboxtickets@gmail.com. Request for tickets will receive a follow-up phone call from the box office. Please arrive a half hour prior to performance to assure seating.

Monday, October 26, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Mary Giehl
Onondaga Community College

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

Mary Giehl's work has taken on themes that she had encountered through her work experience as a registered nurse in a pediatric intensive care unit. She had often cared for children after they had been abused. Much of her work focuses around this theme. There are hints of darkness and confinement in her installations along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness.

Slow Scandal: Works of Marco Maggi
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery and The Warehouse Gallery are pleased to announce the opening of a twofold exhibition by renowned artist Marco Maggi. "Slow Scandal" is the title of the exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery, while The Warehouse Gallery presents "American Ream."

The fundamental nature of this dual experiment, according to Maggi, is perception, the idea of difficult perception, "a precise confusion," Maggi comments during a recent conversation with the show's curators, Anja Chávez of The Warehouse Gallery, and Pedro Cuperman of The Point of Contact Gallery. "The aim is to slow down the viewer, and not make a text. There's no complete message, only a second reality to ponder, to start a dialogue of the viewer with the viewer, not with the work." The experience is more about intimacy than about information, or the vacuum of information, and our necessity to fill the vacuum.

Onondaga Lake Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibition featuring over two dozen images drawn primarily from the Onondaga Historical Association collection exploring the evolution of Onondaga Lake over the last 500 years.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Twenty-two pieces of Bond's work was donated to the SU's Bird Library by alumnus Carl Armani. The exhibition, which includes these works, is a retrospective of 30 years of Bond's creative work highlighting the photographer's mastery of abstraction, proximity, pattern, texture, and landscape.

Presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

Memories in Paint: Works by Michael Lynne
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Artist Statement by Michael Lynne:
My work and my interests are eclectic and are reflected throughout the work I have selected for this show. You can see the work meander between realism, social commentary, narrative and even some abstract paintings. The changes in interest, direction and use of mediums are evident. One "stage" is not necessarily better than another but rather reflects either a change in interest by the artist or the arrival of a particularly inspiring idea. This evolving path has been my own road to self-discovery as an artist and is a path that I continue to travel.

Works by Betsy Andrus Smith
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of paintings, jewelry and slumped glass plates by Seneca Falls artist Betsy Andrus Smith. Smith, an award-winning painter, has exhibited at the Salon du Vieux Colombier Paris; Musee D'Art Moderne in Tonneins, France; and Agora Gallery and Abney Gallery in New York. Her work is currently featured in Manhattan Arts International magazine.

Silent Auction for St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Art donated to a silent auction to support the St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach.

Murders in the Zoo and Mark of the Vampire
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $3 regular, $2.50 members
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

It's a double feature for Halloween with Murders in the Zoo, with Lionel Atwill starring in the 1933 flick as a jealous zoologist. Watch for Randolph Scott and Charles Ruggles in major roles.
Mark of the Vampire is on the second half of the program. The 1935 film starring Bela Lugosi is a product of horror master Tod Browning.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Mary Giehl
Onondaga Community College

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

Mary Giehl's work has taken on themes that she had encountered through her work experience as a registered nurse in a pediatric intensive care unit. She had often cared for children after they had been abused. Much of her work focuses around this theme. There are hints of darkness and confinement in her installations along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness.

Slow Scandal: Works of Marco Maggi
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery and The Warehouse Gallery are pleased to announce the opening of a twofold exhibition by renowned artist Marco Maggi. "Slow Scandal" is the title of the exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery, while The Warehouse Gallery presents "American Ream."

The fundamental nature of this dual experiment, according to Maggi, is perception, the idea of difficult perception, "a precise confusion," Maggi comments during a recent conversation with the show's curators, Anja Chávez of The Warehouse Gallery, and Pedro Cuperman of The Point of Contact Gallery. "The aim is to slow down the viewer, and not make a text. There's no complete message, only a second reality to ponder, to start a dialogue of the viewer with the viewer, not with the work." The experience is more about intimacy than about information, or the vacuum of information, and our necessity to fill the vacuum.

Chilton & Johnson
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Chilton & Johnson features recent digital illustrations by Kelly Chilton and abstract paintings by Melissa Johnson. The exhibition is an explosion of color in a mix of fantasy worlds and formal discussions.

Onondaga Lake Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibition featuring over two dozen images drawn primarily from the Onondaga Historical Association collection exploring the evolution of Onondaga Lake over the last 500 years.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Twenty-two pieces of Bond's work was donated to the SU's Bird Library by alumnus Carl Armani. The exhibition, which includes these works, is a retrospective of 30 years of Bond's creative work highlighting the photographer's mastery of abstraction, proximity, pattern, texture, and landscape.

Presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

Memories in Paint: Works by Michael Lynne
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Artist Statement by Michael Lynne:
My work and my interests are eclectic and are reflected throughout the work I have selected for this show. You can see the work meander between realism, social commentary, narrative and even some abstract paintings. The changes in interest, direction and use of mediums are evident. One "stage" is not necessarily better than another but rather reflects either a change in interest by the artist or the arrival of a particularly inspiring idea. This evolving path has been my own road to self-discovery as an artist and is a path that I continue to travel.

Celebrating 20 Years
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

A diverse show of 56 creative artists who have previously exhibited at Edgewood Gallery.

Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective" features 50 years of prints, drawings, collages and sculptures by Catlett, who is an icon of American art. The exhibition was organized with the assistance of Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA.

Born in Washington, DC, Elizabeth Catlett graduated from Howard University with a degree in painting and was the first student to receive an M.F.A. degree in sculpture from the University of Iowa in 1940. She later studied ceramics at the Art Institute of Chicago, and lithography at the Art Students League in New York. In 1943, she studied with sculptor Ossip Zadkine in New York. Catlett was awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1946, under which she travelled to Mexico to study sculpture, mural painting and printmaking. In Mexico, she worked at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura and at the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Arts Workshop), a group of artists who created art that expressed desire for social change. In 1947, she married Mexican artist Francisco Mora, and became a naturalized Mexican citizen in 1962. A lifelong artist, activist and educator, Catlett is known for her depiction of social and political issues, in particular those relating to African American and women's themes.

Elizabeth Catlett has taught at Dillard University, Hampton University, the George Washington Carver School, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, where she became the first female professor and first female department chair at the School of Fine Arts.

She retired in 1976 and makes her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she continues to work in her studio. Her work is featured in many public and private collections around the world, and she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Catlett has been the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees.

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Works by Betsy Andrus Smith
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of paintings, jewelry and slumped glass plates by Seneca Falls artist Betsy Andrus Smith. Smith, an award-winning painter, has exhibited at the Salon du Vieux Colombier Paris; Musee D'Art Moderne in Tonneins, France; and Agora Gallery and Abney Gallery in New York. Her work is currently featured in Manhattan Arts International magazine.

Silent Auction for St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Art donated to a silent auction to support the St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $15 non-members, $12 students/seniors, $10 Everson members, children 5 and under free, $50 family rate (maximum two adults and four dependent children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This collection is comprised of an extraordinary group of 19th- and early 20th-century paintings collected largely between 1908 and 1923 by sisters Margaret and Gwendoline Davies. By 1914, the Davies sisters had assembled one of the finest collections of European modern art in Britain, with works from artists such as Paul Cézanne, Camille Corot, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Joseph M.W. Turner, among several others.

Turner to Cézanne speaks volumes about taste, patronage and philanthropy. The 53 original works by 29 artists included also a present survey of modern art, ranging from Turner's Romantic naturalism to Cézanne's modern aesthetic innovations. This exhibition serves as a reminder of the value of creativity, and of persistence, as many of the artists were, at first, either misunderstood or scorned.

Docent-led tours are available Tuesday-Thursday at 2:00 pm and Saturdays at 10:00 am and 3:00 pm. These tours are complimentary with exhibition admission, and no reservation is required. A complimentary cell phone audio tour is available to all visitors.

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American Ream: Works of Marco Maggi
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition features the installation HOTBED (ORANGE), the drawing PLEXI LINE, and the video D-REAMS. The exhibition is intended for audiences of all ages.

Uruguayan-born, New Paltz-based Marco Maggi is best known for his use of everyday materials on which he inscribes a vocabulary that evokes Aztec culture and the art of Joaquín Torres-García. By focusing on visual codes (such as repeated visual symbols that only suggest objects), spatiality, and the political connotations of maps, Maggi's work also reflects Latin American traditions and concerns expressed by many contemporary artists. American Ream (The Warehouse Gallery) and Slow Scandal (The Point of Contact Gallery) are the result of a partnership between both organizations and feature media that the artist chose as a means of responding to both spaces.

Window Project: This is Not Site-Specific by Nathan Cordero
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Syracuse-based, self-taught Nathan Cordero moved recently from Sacramento, CA, where he worked primarily in public art. For the Window Projects, Cordero has covered the wall with paintings that refer to urban art while also creating an assemblage (through the inclusion of everyday objects into the artwork). An excellent draftsman, his art is about self-expression, protest and the desire to take street art into the galleries.

For this exhibition, Cordero used found objects such as plywood and photographs. He covered a person's face in the photographs to make her/him look like a thief or terrorist, and to reflect upon specific events in his personal life that also refer to issues in today's society. Engraved into the plywood, the paintings manifest the artist's ease in the medium. He uses masking tape or paint to refer to common television talk shows, personal events or books that are part of pop culture. Cordero's work, which was for the most part created within the last few months, demonstrates the artist's capacity of turning daily, banal or threatening events into art. This is his first solo museum exhibition.

Art as Politics: Predictions of Fire (1996)
Redhouse

Price: $5 suggested donation
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This two-night film series explores the nexus of politics and art through documentaries, with introductions and discussions with curator Dusan Bjelic.

Etgar Keret, author
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Hillel Lender Auditorium
102 Walnut Pl., Syracuse

Israeli author and Oscar winner Etgar Keret is regarded as one of the pre-eminent writers to emerge from Israel in recent years. He is the author of short story books, as well as screenplays. He has been published in 22 languages and has won several awards, including the Israeli Ministry of Culture's Cinema Prize. More than 40 short movies have been based on Keret's stories, one of which won an American MTV Award in 1998.

Books by Keret include the bestselling The Nimrod Flipout (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006) and his most recent, The Girl on the Fridge (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008). The Girl on the Fridge is Keret's collection of past stories that made him Israel's bestselling and most celebrated young writer.

Keret teaches at Ben Gurion University in Beersheba, Israel, and he delivers lectures and readings throughout the United States. He has been called the voice of young Israel; many of his stories look lightheartedly at modern Israeli life.

Keret is speaking as part of the annual B. G. Rudolph Lecture in Judaic Studies. Other scholars and writers, such as Aharon Appelfeld and Robert Alter, have delivered the lecture, which was inaugurated in 1962.

Keret's visit is cosponsored by the B. G. Rudolph Lecture in Judaic Studies, the Judaic Studies Program, SU Hillel and the Creative Writing Program.

The Woman in the Blue Dress
Syracuse Stage
Leslie Noble, director

Price: $5
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Woman in the Blue Dress is a multi-media theatre work that brings to life Henriette Henriot, a fledgling actress at the Théâtre de L'Odéon in Paris and model for artist Pierre-August Renoir's "La Parisienne." In the work, Henriette, played by Kathleen Wrinn, shares her provocative story of life in the theatre, her experience in the Parisian art world of the 1870s, and what it was like to model for Renoir, the most shocking Impressionist painter of his day. The Woman in the Blue Dress is an original 30-minute piece by Stage's Director of Educational Programming Lauren Unbekant. This special project is presented in conjunction with the Turner to Cézanne exhibit at the Everson Museum.

Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Syracuse Stage

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

Set in the real-life Parisian cafe Le Lapin Agile (Nimble Rabbit), Picasso at the Lapin Agile wonders what if contemporaries Picasso and Einstein accidentally met while in their 20s, just before the famous scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. Laughter, comedy, absurdity and some delightfully zany musings on the nature of art, science and the 20th century, as only Steve Martin (yes, that Steve Martin) could render them. Plus a royal visit.

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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Mary Giehl
Onondaga Community College

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

Mary Giehl's work has taken on themes that she had encountered through her work experience as a registered nurse in a pediatric intensive care unit. She had often cared for children after they had been abused. Much of her work focuses around this theme. There are hints of darkness and confinement in her installations along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness.

Slow Scandal: Works of Marco Maggi
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery and The Warehouse Gallery are pleased to announce the opening of a twofold exhibition by renowned artist Marco Maggi. "Slow Scandal" is the title of the exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery, while The Warehouse Gallery presents "American Ream."

The fundamental nature of this dual experiment, according to Maggi, is perception, the idea of difficult perception, "a precise confusion," Maggi comments during a recent conversation with the show's curators, Anja Chávez of The Warehouse Gallery, and Pedro Cuperman of The Point of Contact Gallery. "The aim is to slow down the viewer, and not make a text. There's no complete message, only a second reality to ponder, to start a dialogue of the viewer with the viewer, not with the work." The experience is more about intimacy than about information, or the vacuum of information, and our necessity to fill the vacuum.

Chilton & Johnson
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Chilton & Johnson features recent digital illustrations by Kelly Chilton and abstract paintings by Melissa Johnson. The exhibition is an explosion of color in a mix of fantasy worlds and formal discussions.

Onondaga Lake Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibition featuring over two dozen images drawn primarily from the Onondaga Historical Association collection exploring the evolution of Onondaga Lake over the last 500 years.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Twenty-two pieces of Bond's work was donated to the SU's Bird Library by alumnus Carl Armani. The exhibition, which includes these works, is a retrospective of 30 years of Bond's creative work highlighting the photographer's mastery of abstraction, proximity, pattern, texture, and landscape.

Presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

Memories in Paint: Works by Michael Lynne
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Artist Statement by Michael Lynne:
My work and my interests are eclectic and are reflected throughout the work I have selected for this show. You can see the work meander between realism, social commentary, narrative and even some abstract paintings. The changes in interest, direction and use of mediums are evident. One "stage" is not necessarily better than another but rather reflects either a change in interest by the artist or the arrival of a particularly inspiring idea. This evolving path has been my own road to self-discovery as an artist and is a path that I continue to travel.

Celebrating 20 Years
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

A diverse show of 56 creative artists who have previously exhibited at Edgewood Gallery.

Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective" features 50 years of prints, drawings, collages and sculptures by Catlett, who is an icon of American art. The exhibition was organized with the assistance of Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA.

Born in Washington, DC, Elizabeth Catlett graduated from Howard University with a degree in painting and was the first student to receive an M.F.A. degree in sculpture from the University of Iowa in 1940. She later studied ceramics at the Art Institute of Chicago, and lithography at the Art Students League in New York. In 1943, she studied with sculptor Ossip Zadkine in New York. Catlett was awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1946, under which she travelled to Mexico to study sculpture, mural painting and printmaking. In Mexico, she worked at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura and at the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Arts Workshop), a group of artists who created art that expressed desire for social change. In 1947, she married Mexican artist Francisco Mora, and became a naturalized Mexican citizen in 1962. A lifelong artist, activist and educator, Catlett is known for her depiction of social and political issues, in particular those relating to African American and women's themes.

Elizabeth Catlett has taught at Dillard University, Hampton University, the George Washington Carver School, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, where she became the first female professor and first female department chair at the School of Fine Arts.

She retired in 1976 and makes her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she continues to work in her studio. Her work is featured in many public and private collections around the world, and she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Catlett has been the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees.

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Works by Betsy Andrus Smith
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of paintings, jewelry and slumped glass plates by Seneca Falls artist Betsy Andrus Smith. Smith, an award-winning painter, has exhibited at the Salon du Vieux Colombier Paris; Musee D'Art Moderne in Tonneins, France; and Agora Gallery and Abney Gallery in New York. Her work is currently featured in Manhattan Arts International magazine.

Syracuse During the Time of Impressionism
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A complementary exhibit to the Everson Museum of Art's "From Turner To Cezanne", OHA's exhibit will look at what was happening in Syracuse at the time of the European Impressionist painters, 1880-1916. The exhibit will feature artwork, clothing, products, archival material, and other items that will interpret the Syracuse scene during this time impressionist painters were viewed by their contemporaries as "outrageously modern."

Silent Auction for St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Art donated to a silent auction to support the St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $15 non-members, $12 students/seniors, $10 Everson members, children 5 and under free, $50 family rate (maximum two adults and four dependent children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This collection is comprised of an extraordinary group of 19th- and early 20th-century paintings collected largely between 1908 and 1923 by sisters Margaret and Gwendoline Davies. By 1914, the Davies sisters had assembled one of the finest collections of European modern art in Britain, with works from artists such as Paul Cézanne, Camille Corot, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Joseph M.W. Turner, among several others.

Turner to Cézanne speaks volumes about taste, patronage and philanthropy. The 53 original works by 29 artists included also a present survey of modern art, ranging from Turner's Romantic naturalism to Cézanne's modern aesthetic innovations. This exhibition serves as a reminder of the value of creativity, and of persistence, as many of the artists were, at first, either misunderstood or scorned.

Docent-led tours are available Tuesday-Thursday at 2:00 pm and Saturdays at 10:00 am and 3:00 pm. These tours are complimentary with exhibition admission, and no reservation is required. A complimentary cell phone audio tour is available to all visitors.

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Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

VPA Faculty Show
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An exhibition of work by faculty members in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. For more information, phone 315-443-5889.

American Ream: Works of Marco Maggi
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition features the installation HOTBED (ORANGE), the drawing PLEXI LINE, and the video D-REAMS. The exhibition is intended for audiences of all ages.

Uruguayan-born, New Paltz-based Marco Maggi is best known for his use of everyday materials on which he inscribes a vocabulary that evokes Aztec culture and the art of Joaquín Torres-García. By focusing on visual codes (such as repeated visual symbols that only suggest objects), spatiality, and the political connotations of maps, Maggi's work also reflects Latin American traditions and concerns expressed by many contemporary artists. American Ream (The Warehouse Gallery) and Slow Scandal (The Point of Contact Gallery) are the result of a partnership between both organizations and feature media that the artist chose as a means of responding to both spaces.

Window Project: This is Not Site-Specific by Nathan Cordero
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Syracuse-based, self-taught Nathan Cordero moved recently from Sacramento, CA, where he worked primarily in public art. For the Window Projects, Cordero has covered the wall with paintings that refer to urban art while also creating an assemblage (through the inclusion of everyday objects into the artwork). An excellent draftsman, his art is about self-expression, protest and the desire to take street art into the galleries.

For this exhibition, Cordero used found objects such as plywood and photographs. He covered a person's face in the photographs to make her/him look like a thief or terrorist, and to reflect upon specific events in his personal life that also refer to issues in today's society. Engraved into the plywood, the paintings manifest the artist's ease in the medium. He uses masking tape or paint to refer to common television talk shows, personal events or books that are part of pop culture. Cordero's work, which was for the most part created within the last few months, demonstrates the artist's capacity of turning daily, banal or threatening events into art. This is his first solo museum exhibition.

Art as Politics: Bringing Down a Dictator (2002)
Redhouse

Price: $5 suggested donation
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This two-night film series explores the nexus of politics and art through documentaries, with introductions and discussions with curator Dusan Bjelic.

What's so Funny about Einstein?
Syracuse Stage
Wednesday @ 1 Lecture Series
Featuring Peter Saulson, professor of physics

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

In Steve Martin's play Picasso at the Lapin Agile, the great painter gets top billing, but it is physicist Albert Einstein who gets most of the laughs. Why? Syracuse University Physics Professor Peter Saulson will lead a discussion of how Einstein's legacy lives on, both in physics and in society at large.

Peter Saulson has been hunting for black holes since 1981. He is one of the founders of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) project, the most exciting astronomical observatory that you've never heard of. LIGO has installed two giant gravitational wave antennas on opposite sides of the continent, and is now listening for the vibrations of space-time that will occur when a new black hole forms somewhere in the universe, or when two black holes collide.

Saulson is the Martin A. Pomerantz '37 Professor of Physics at Syracuse University. He has been at Syracuse since 1991, after having served on the research staff at MIT for eight years. He earned his Bachelor's degree at Harvard in 1976 and his Ph.D. at Princeton in 1981.

The talk takes place before the 2:00 pm matinee of Picasso at the Lapin Agile.

Sharon I-Chun Cheng, soprano; Michael Fennelly, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Vocal works of Faure, Liszt, Debussy, Duparc, Poulenc, and Godfrey. Piano works of Ravel.

Celebrating Central New York Concert
Nottingham High School Music Department

Price: Free
Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The concert will consist of music by Central New York composers. The Concert Choir, under the direction of Richard Fields, will perform compositions by Stephen Carpenter, Earl George and Donald Miller. The Concert Band, under the direction of Raymond Sturge, will perform works by Brian Israel, Calvin Custer* and conclude with the *world premiere of "Quad," by Marc Mellits.

The program will be followed by a reception with composers*Marc Mellits, Donald Miller and Stephen Carpenter.

Julie Orringer, fiction
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

Orringer is author of the novel The Invisible Bridge (Knopf, 2009) and the award-winning short story How to Breathe Underwater (Knopf, 2003). Her stories have been published by The Yale Review, where they have been twice-awarded the Editors' Prize; the Paris Review, which awarded her the Discovery Prize; Ploughshares, which selected her work for the Cohen Award for Best Fiction; Zoetrope All-Story, which nominated her for a National Magazine Award; and Washington Post Magazine. Orringer is the recipient of two Pushcart prizes, and her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including The Granta Book of the American Short Story and The Scribner Anthology of American Short Fiction. She is the Helen Herzog Zell Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Michigan.

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

Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Syracuse Stage

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

Set in the real-life Parisian cafe Le Lapin Agile (Nimble Rabbit), Picasso at the Lapin Agile wonders what if contemporaries Picasso and Einstein accidentally met while in their 20s, just before the famous scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. Laughter, comedy, absurdity and some delightfully zany musings on the nature of art, science and the 20th century, as only Steve Martin (yes, that Steve Martin) could render them. Plus a royal visit.

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Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Syracuse Stage

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

Set in the real-life Parisian cafe Le Lapin Agile (Nimble Rabbit), Picasso at the Lapin Agile wonders what if contemporaries Picasso and Einstein accidentally met while in their 20s, just before the famous scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. Laughter, comedy, absurdity and some delightfully zany musings on the nature of art, science and the 20th century, as only Steve Martin (yes, that Steve Martin) could render them. Plus a royal visit.

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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Mary Giehl
Onondaga Community College

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

Mary Giehl's work has taken on themes that she had encountered through her work experience as a registered nurse in a pediatric intensive care unit. She had often cared for children after they had been abused. Much of her work focuses around this theme. There are hints of darkness and confinement in her installations along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness.

Slow Scandal: Works of Marco Maggi
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery and The Warehouse Gallery are pleased to announce the opening of a twofold exhibition by renowned artist Marco Maggi. "Slow Scandal" is the title of the exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery, while The Warehouse Gallery presents "American Ream."

The fundamental nature of this dual experiment, according to Maggi, is perception, the idea of difficult perception, "a precise confusion," Maggi comments during a recent conversation with the show's curators, Anja Chávez of The Warehouse Gallery, and Pedro Cuperman of The Point of Contact Gallery. "The aim is to slow down the viewer, and not make a text. There's no complete message, only a second reality to ponder, to start a dialogue of the viewer with the viewer, not with the work." The experience is more about intimacy than about information, or the vacuum of information, and our necessity to fill the vacuum.

Chilton & Johnson
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Chilton & Johnson features recent digital illustrations by Kelly Chilton and abstract paintings by Melissa Johnson. The exhibition is an explosion of color in a mix of fantasy worlds and formal discussions.

Onondaga Lake Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibition featuring over two dozen images drawn primarily from the Onondaga Historical Association collection exploring the evolution of Onondaga Lake over the last 500 years.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Twenty-two pieces of Bond's work was donated to the SU's Bird Library by alumnus Carl Armani. The exhibition, which includes these works, is a retrospective of 30 years of Bond's creative work highlighting the photographer's mastery of abstraction, proximity, pattern, texture, and landscape.

Presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

Memories in Paint: Works by Michael Lynne
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Artist Statement by Michael Lynne:
My work and my interests are eclectic and are reflected throughout the work I have selected for this show. You can see the work meander between realism, social commentary, narrative and even some abstract paintings. The changes in interest, direction and use of mediums are evident. One "stage" is not necessarily better than another but rather reflects either a change in interest by the artist or the arrival of a particularly inspiring idea. This evolving path has been my own road to self-discovery as an artist and is a path that I continue to travel.

Celebrating 20 Years
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

A diverse show of 56 creative artists who have previously exhibited at Edgewood Gallery.

Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective" features 50 years of prints, drawings, collages and sculptures by Catlett, who is an icon of American art. The exhibition was organized with the assistance of Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA.

Born in Washington, DC, Elizabeth Catlett graduated from Howard University with a degree in painting and was the first student to receive an M.F.A. degree in sculpture from the University of Iowa in 1940. She later studied ceramics at the Art Institute of Chicago, and lithography at the Art Students League in New York. In 1943, she studied with sculptor Ossip Zadkine in New York. Catlett was awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1946, under which she travelled to Mexico to study sculpture, mural painting and printmaking. In Mexico, she worked at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura and at the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Arts Workshop), a group of artists who created art that expressed desire for social change. In 1947, she married Mexican artist Francisco Mora, and became a naturalized Mexican citizen in 1962. A lifelong artist, activist and educator, Catlett is known for her depiction of social and political issues, in particular those relating to African American and women's themes.

Elizabeth Catlett has taught at Dillard University, Hampton University, the George Washington Carver School, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, where she became the first female professor and first female department chair at the School of Fine Arts.

She retired in 1976 and makes her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she continues to work in her studio. Her work is featured in many public and private collections around the world, and she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Catlett has been the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees.

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Works by Betsy Andrus Smith
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of paintings, jewelry and slumped glass plates by Seneca Falls artist Betsy Andrus Smith. Smith, an award-winning painter, has exhibited at the Salon du Vieux Colombier Paris; Musee D'Art Moderne in Tonneins, France; and Agora Gallery and Abney Gallery in New York. Her work is currently featured in Manhattan Arts International magazine.

Syracuse During the Time of Impressionism
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A complementary exhibit to the Everson Museum of Art's "From Turner To Cezanne", OHA's exhibit will look at what was happening in Syracuse at the time of the European Impressionist painters, 1880-1916. The exhibit will feature artwork, clothing, products, archival material, and other items that will interpret the Syracuse scene during this time impressionist painters were viewed by their contemporaries as "outrageously modern."

Fired Experience: Recent Work by Jack Troy
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jack Troy, teacher, potter, and writer once wrote, ",I have picked up, moved, shaped and lightened myself of many tons of clay, and those tons lifted, moved and shaped me...". He has taught more than 200 workshops in the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Great Britain. He has worked at the Institute of Ceramic Studies, Jingdezhen, China; and was an invited artist at the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, in Japan. His education in ceramics has included trips to 13 countries. Having published over 70 articles in ceramics publications, he also wrote Salt Glazed Ceramics, Woodfired Stoneware and Porcelain, and Calling the Planet Home, [poems]. His work has been exhibited widely, and is in numerous collections, public and private. Troy will bring this wealth of knowledge and experience to Syracuse University for a 2-week intensive workshop and kiln firing. The exhibition of his work at the Gandee Gallery is in conjunction with his visit to the Syracuse University Ceramics Program and will feature his most recent work.

Silent Auction for St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Art donated to a silent auction to support the St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach.

John Wood: On the Edge of Clear Meaning
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This retrospective exhibition highlights the work of mixed media photography pioneer John Wood. Over 100 works that chronicle the artist's work from the 1960s to the present will be on display in his first major retrospective exhibition.

Well known as a photographer who routinely broke the barriers of "pure photography," Wood's work is credited as being the foundation for the mixed media and digital imagery processes of the last two decades. A master of processes from straight photography, collage, cliché verre, solarization, mixed media, offset lithography to drawing, he has a unique ability to work decisively across a variety of media with ease.

Wood's early influences as a photographer stem from his time served in the Army Air Corps as a B-17 pilot, as seen in his multiple frame landscapes and time-lapse collages. After the war, Wood trained as a visual designer and photographer at the Institute of Design in Chicago. Wood spent 35 years teaching photography and printmaking at the School of Art and Design at Alfred University in Alfred, NY. Like the work of Jasper Johns, John Wood is relentless in pushing the boundaries of traditional media. His work has laid the groundwork for the multi process, cross disciplinary artwork being created for years.

Paid parking is available for weekday visitors in any SU pay lot. Free parking for weekend and evening visitors is available in the Q4 lot, located on College Place. Patrons should notify the attendant that they are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Evening and weekend parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome.

Wild Card Exhibition: George F. Earle Retrospective
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $15 non-members, $12 students/seniors, $10 Everson members, children 5 and under free, $50 family rate (maximum two adults and four dependent children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This collection is comprised of an extraordinary group of 19th- and early 20th-century paintings collected largely between 1908 and 1923 by sisters Margaret and Gwendoline Davies. By 1914, the Davies sisters had assembled one of the finest collections of European modern art in Britain, with works from artists such as Paul Cézanne, Camille Corot, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Joseph M.W. Turner, among several others.

Turner to Cézanne speaks volumes about taste, patronage and philanthropy. The 53 original works by 29 artists included also a present survey of modern art, ranging from Turner's Romantic naturalism to Cézanne's modern aesthetic innovations. This exhibition serves as a reminder of the value of creativity, and of persistence, as many of the artists were, at first, either misunderstood or scorned.

Docent-led tours are available Tuesday-Thursday at 2:00 pm and Saturdays at 10:00 am and 3:00 pm. These tours are complimentary with exhibition admission, and no reservation is required. A complimentary cell phone audio tour is available to all visitors.

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VPA Faculty Show
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An exhibition of work by faculty members in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. For more information, phone 315-443-5889.

Window Project: This is Not Site-Specific by Nathan Cordero
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Syracuse-based, self-taught Nathan Cordero moved recently from Sacramento, CA, where he worked primarily in public art. For the Window Projects, Cordero has covered the wall with paintings that refer to urban art while also creating an assemblage (through the inclusion of everyday objects into the artwork). An excellent draftsman, his art is about self-expression, protest and the desire to take street art into the galleries.

For this exhibition, Cordero used found objects such as plywood and photographs. He covered a person's face in the photographs to make her/him look like a thief or terrorist, and to reflect upon specific events in his personal life that also refer to issues in today's society. Engraved into the plywood, the paintings manifest the artist's ease in the medium. He uses masking tape or paint to refer to common television talk shows, personal events or books that are part of pop culture. Cordero's work, which was for the most part created within the last few months, demonstrates the artist's capacity of turning daily, banal or threatening events into art. This is his first solo museum exhibition.

American Ream: Works of Marco Maggi
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition features the installation HOTBED (ORANGE), the drawing PLEXI LINE, and the video D-REAMS. The exhibition is intended for audiences of all ages.

Uruguayan-born, New Paltz-based Marco Maggi is best known for his use of everyday materials on which he inscribes a vocabulary that evokes Aztec culture and the art of Joaquín Torres-García. By focusing on visual codes (such as repeated visual symbols that only suggest objects), spatiality, and the political connotations of maps, Maggi's work also reflects Latin American traditions and concerns expressed by many contemporary artists. American Ream (The Warehouse Gallery) and Slow Scandal (The Point of Contact Gallery) are the result of a partnership between both organizations and feature media that the artist chose as a means of responding to both spaces.

Paleo; Bears in America
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

Paleo is the band name taken by songwriter David Strackany for his wiry, folk tangents. Strackany is credited with having written and recorded a song every day for 365 days, while touring the US from April 16, 2006 (Easter Day) to April 15, 2007. The project, The Song Diary, similar to a feat achieved by playwright Suzan-Lori Parks in 2003, was covered by USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, Magnet Magazine, Paste Magazine, the Chicago Sun Times, the New York Post, NPR Morning Edition, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and a number of regional U.S. papers.

Bears in America opens.

Ashtray Navigations; Flower-Corsano Duo
Redhouse

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

From the Termite Club in Leeds, England via the ISSUE Project Room in New York City, RedHouse brings you the psychedelic noise project Ashtray Navigations and the Flower-Corsano Duo.

Phil Todd, inspired by the UK's underground tape music scene, formed Ashtray Navigations in 1994 in Stoke On Trent, England. The psychedelic noise project defies easy categorization given the diverse nature of Todd's collaborators and the incredible breadth of work Ash Nav has created. Ash Nav consists of Phil Todd (guitar/electronics) and Melanie Delaney, aka Ocelocelot (electronics).

Michael Flower (shahi baaja, a modified electric version of the Indian bulbul tarang) has been involved in a number of solo projects and is best know for his work with Vibracathedral Orchestra. Chris Corsano plays drums and has performed with Paul Flaherty, Jim O'Rourke, Björk, Evan Parker, Jandek, Thurston Moore, Vampire Belt and Six Organs of Admittance among others.

The Woman in the Blue Dress
Syracuse Stage
Leslie Noble, director

Price: $5
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Woman in the Blue Dress is a multi-media theatre work that brings to life Henriette Henriot, a fledgling actress at the Théâtre de L'Odéon in Paris and model for artist Pierre-August Renoir's "La Parisienne." In the work, Henriette, played by Kathleen Wrinn, shares her provocative story of life in the theatre, her experience in the Parisian art world of the 1870s, and what it was like to model for Renoir, the most shocking Impressionist painter of his day. The Woman in the Blue Dress is an original 30-minute piece by Stage's Director of Educational Programming Lauren Unbekant. This special project is presented in conjunction with the Turner to Cézanne exhibit at the Everson Museum.

Tomb With a View
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive mystery-comedy dinner theater. The zombies who inhabit the site of an old mine disaster bring a class-action lawsuit against an ambitious mall developer.

Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Syracuse Stage

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

Set in the real-life Parisian cafe Le Lapin Agile (Nimble Rabbit), Picasso at the Lapin Agile wonders what if contemporaries Picasso and Einstein accidentally met while in their 20s, just before the famous scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. Laughter, comedy, absurdity and some delightfully zany musings on the nature of art, science and the 20th century, as only Steve Martin (yes, that Steve Martin) could render them. Plus a royal visit.

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Rabbit Hole
Black Box Players
David Julian Melendez, director

Price: Free, but seating is limited
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Rabbit Hole has nothing to do with Alice In Wonderland. The truth of the show is anything but a fairy tale. Eight months ago, a tragedy tore this family apart and unexpected news brings them all together to deal with it once again. We follow the Corbett family as they fight, work and struggle to keep things together or at the very least keep it from completely falling apart. The ultimate question is not what happened, but whether or not they will survive the aftermath. Is the weight of the tragedy too much for them or will they find a way to come together and be a stronger family in spite (or perhaps because) of it? David Lindsay-Abaire takes us on an emotional ride with both pain and humor, with his naturally written dialogue and his incredibly storytelling takes us on a tumultuous ride down the Rabbit Hole.

Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire is an American playwright and lyricist. He received the Puiltzer Prize for Drama in 2007 for Rabbit Hole. Lindsay-Abaire describes his plays as centering around "outsiders in search of clarity." Lindsay-Abaire's most recent project is the book for the musical High Fidelity. He was also nominated for two Tony Awards for the book and lyrics of Shrek the Musical.

Director David Julian Melendez is a senior Acting major at Syracuse University. His directing credits include Keep Your Eyes On Your Own Paper (an original work by Jake Keefe) and Where's My Money? (winner of Black Box Awards for Best Production, Best Director, Best Leading Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Featured Actress)

To make reservations, email blackboxtickets@gmail.com. Request for tickets will receive a follow-up phone call from the box office. Please arrive a half hour prior to performance to assure seating.

Friday, October 30, 2009

Gallery Exhibition: Mary Giehl
Onondaga Community College

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

Mary Giehl's work has taken on themes that she had encountered through her work experience as a registered nurse in a pediatric intensive care unit. She had often cared for children after they had been abused. Much of her work focuses around this theme. There are hints of darkness and confinement in her installations along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness.

Slow Scandal: Works of Marco Maggi
Point of Contact Gallery

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

The Point of Contact Gallery and The Warehouse Gallery are pleased to announce the opening of a twofold exhibition by renowned artist Marco Maggi. "Slow Scandal" is the title of the exhibit at The Point of Contact Gallery, while The Warehouse Gallery presents "American Ream."

The fundamental nature of this dual experiment, according to Maggi, is perception, the idea of difficult perception, "a precise confusion," Maggi comments during a recent conversation with the show's curators, Anja Chávez of The Warehouse Gallery, and Pedro Cuperman of The Point of Contact Gallery. "The aim is to slow down the viewer, and not make a text. There's no complete message, only a second reality to ponder, to start a dialogue of the viewer with the viewer, not with the work." The experience is more about intimacy than about information, or the vacuum of information, and our necessity to fill the vacuum.

Chilton & Johnson
SUNY Oswego Metro Center at the Atrium

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

Chilton & Johnson features recent digital illustrations by Kelly Chilton and abstract paintings by Melissa Johnson. The exhibition is an explosion of color in a mix of fantasy worlds and formal discussions.

Onondaga Lake Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

An exhibition featuring over two dozen images drawn primarily from the Onondaga Historical Association collection exploring the evolution of Onondaga Lake over the last 500 years.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Twenty-two pieces of Bond's work was donated to the SU's Bird Library by alumnus Carl Armani. The exhibition, which includes these works, is a retrospective of 30 years of Bond's creative work highlighting the photographer's mastery of abstraction, proximity, pattern, texture, and landscape.

Presented in conjunction with the 2009 Syracuse Symposium, "Light".

Memories in Paint: Works by Michael Lynne
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Artist Statement by Michael Lynne:
My work and my interests are eclectic and are reflected throughout the work I have selected for this show. You can see the work meander between realism, social commentary, narrative and even some abstract paintings. The changes in interest, direction and use of mediums are evident. One "stage" is not necessarily better than another but rather reflects either a change in interest by the artist or the arrival of a particularly inspiring idea. This evolving path has been my own road to self-discovery as an artist and is a path that I continue to travel.

Celebrating 20 Years
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

A diverse show of 56 creative artists who have previously exhibited at Edgewood Gallery.

Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective" features 50 years of prints, drawings, collages and sculptures by Catlett, who is an icon of American art. The exhibition was organized with the assistance of Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA.

Born in Washington, DC, Elizabeth Catlett graduated from Howard University with a degree in painting and was the first student to receive an M.F.A. degree in sculpture from the University of Iowa in 1940. She later studied ceramics at the Art Institute of Chicago, and lithography at the Art Students League in New York. In 1943, she studied with sculptor Ossip Zadkine in New York. Catlett was awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1946, under which she travelled to Mexico to study sculpture, mural painting and printmaking. In Mexico, she worked at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura and at the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Arts Workshop), a group of artists who created art that expressed desire for social change. In 1947, she married Mexican artist Francisco Mora, and became a naturalized Mexican citizen in 1962. A lifelong artist, activist and educator, Catlett is known for her depiction of social and political issues, in particular those relating to African American and women's themes.

Elizabeth Catlett has taught at Dillard University, Hampton University, the George Washington Carver School, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, where she became the first female professor and first female department chair at the School of Fine Arts.

She retired in 1976 and makes her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she continues to work in her studio. Her work is featured in many public and private collections around the world, and she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Catlett has been the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees.

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Works by Betsy Andrus Smith
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of paintings, jewelry and slumped glass plates by Seneca Falls artist Betsy Andrus Smith. Smith, an award-winning painter, has exhibited at the Salon du Vieux Colombier Paris; Musee D'Art Moderne in Tonneins, France; and Agora Gallery and Abney Gallery in New York. Her work is currently featured in Manhattan Arts International magazine.

Syracuse During the Time of Impressionism
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A complementary exhibit to the Everson Museum of Art's "From Turner To Cezanne", OHA's exhibit will look at what was happening in Syracuse at the time of the European Impressionist painters, 1880-1916. The exhibit will feature artwork, clothing, products, archival material, and other items that will interpret the Syracuse scene during this time impressionist painters were viewed by their contemporaries as "outrageously modern."

Fired Experience: Recent Work by Jack Troy
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jack Troy, teacher, potter, and writer once wrote, ",I have picked up, moved, shaped and lightened myself of many tons of clay, and those tons lifted, moved and shaped me...". He has taught more than 200 workshops in the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Great Britain. He has worked at the Institute of Ceramic Studies, Jingdezhen, China; and was an invited artist at the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, in Japan. His education in ceramics has included trips to 13 countries. Having published over 70 articles in ceramics publications, he also wrote Salt Glazed Ceramics, Woodfired Stoneware and Porcelain, and Calling the Planet Home, [poems]. His work has been exhibited widely, and is in numerous collections, public and private. Troy will bring this wealth of knowledge and experience to Syracuse University for a 2-week intensive workshop and kiln firing. The exhibition of his work at the Gandee Gallery is in conjunction with his visit to the Syracuse University Ceramics Program and will feature his most recent work.

Silent Auction for St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Art donated to a silent auction to support the St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach.

John Wood: On the Edge of Clear Meaning
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This retrospective exhibition highlights the work of mixed media photography pioneer John Wood. Over 100 works that chronicle the artist's work from the 1960s to the present will be on display in his first major retrospective exhibition.

Well known as a photographer who routinely broke the barriers of "pure photography," Wood's work is credited as being the foundation for the mixed media and digital imagery processes of the last two decades. A master of processes from straight photography, collage, cliché verre, solarization, mixed media, offset lithography to drawing, he has a unique ability to work decisively across a variety of media with ease.

Wood's early influences as a photographer stem from his time served in the Army Air Corps as a B-17 pilot, as seen in his multiple frame landscapes and time-lapse collages. After the war, Wood trained as a visual designer and photographer at the Institute of Design in Chicago. Wood spent 35 years teaching photography and printmaking at the School of Art and Design at Alfred University in Alfred, NY. Like the work of Jasper Johns, John Wood is relentless in pushing the boundaries of traditional media. His work has laid the groundwork for the multi process, cross disciplinary artwork being created for years.

Paid parking is available for weekday visitors in any SU pay lot. Free parking for weekend and evening visitors is available in the Q4 lot, located on College Place. Patrons should notify the attendant that they are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Evening and weekend parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome.

Wild Card Exhibition: George F. Earle Retrospective
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $15 non-members, $12 students/seniors, $10 Everson members, children 5 and under free, $50 family rate (maximum two adults and four dependent children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This collection is comprised of an extraordinary group of 19th- and early 20th-century paintings collected largely between 1908 and 1923 by sisters Margaret and Gwendoline Davies. By 1914, the Davies sisters had assembled one of the finest collections of European modern art in Britain, with works from artists such as Paul Cézanne, Camille Corot, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Joseph M.W. Turner, among several others.

Turner to Cézanne speaks volumes about taste, patronage and philanthropy. The 53 original works by 29 artists included also a present survey of modern art, ranging from Turner's Romantic naturalism to Cézanne's modern aesthetic innovations. This exhibition serves as a reminder of the value of creativity, and of persistence, as many of the artists were, at first, either misunderstood or scorned.

Docent-led tours are available Tuesday-Thursday at 2:00 pm and Saturdays at 10:00 am and 3:00 pm. These tours are complimentary with exhibition admission, and no reservation is required. A complimentary cell phone audio tour is available to all visitors.

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Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

VPA Faculty Show
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An exhibition of work by faculty members in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. For more information, phone 315-443-5889.

Window Project: This is Not Site-Specific by Nathan Cordero
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Syracuse-based, self-taught Nathan Cordero moved recently from Sacramento, CA, where he worked primarily in public art. For the Window Projects, Cordero has covered the wall with paintings that refer to urban art while also creating an assemblage (through the inclusion of everyday objects into the artwork). An excellent draftsman, his art is about self-expression, protest and the desire to take street art into the galleries.

For this exhibition, Cordero used found objects such as plywood and photographs. He covered a person's face in the photographs to make her/him look like a thief or terrorist, and to reflect upon specific events in his personal life that also refer to issues in today's society. Engraved into the plywood, the paintings manifest the artist's ease in the medium. He uses masking tape or paint to refer to common television talk shows, personal events or books that are part of pop culture. Cordero's work, which was for the most part created within the last few months, demonstrates the artist's capacity of turning daily, banal or threatening events into art. This is his first solo museum exhibition.

American Ream: Works of Marco Maggi
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition features the installation HOTBED (ORANGE), the drawing PLEXI LINE, and the video D-REAMS. The exhibition is intended for audiences of all ages.

Uruguayan-born, New Paltz-based Marco Maggi is best known for his use of everyday materials on which he inscribes a vocabulary that evokes Aztec culture and the art of Joaquín Torres-García. By focusing on visual codes (such as repeated visual symbols that only suggest objects), spatiality, and the political connotations of maps, Maggi's work also reflects Latin American traditions and concerns expressed by many contemporary artists. American Ream (The Warehouse Gallery) and Slow Scandal (The Point of Contact Gallery) are the result of a partnership between both organizations and feature media that the artist chose as a means of responding to both spaces.

Let My People Go: Songs of Hope and Courage
Syracuse Community Choir
Karen Mihalyi, conductor
Featuring Kim and Reggie Harris and children of Levy K-8 School

Price: $3-$5 sliding scale
Levy K-8 School
111 Fellows Ave., Syracuse

Legends of Upstate New York I
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Steve Brown and Joe Riposo with the CNY Jazz Orchestra

Price: $19.50, $24.50, $27.50 ($5 discount for students and donors)
Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

To residents of the Big Apple, Upstate starts in Westchester, right? We thought we'd correct this peculiar myopia by showing off the finest exponents of jazz who just happen to live across our region, home and birthplace of many of the finest practitioners of the art in the world—the ones tough enough to take a little snow and laugh it off. We've paired Syracuse's own Dean of Jazz and Syracuse University prof Joe Riposo with Ithaca's signature musician and educator Steve Brown in a powerhouse "twofer" that will feature them and their original writing, individually and together. Double the trouble for a single price! Such a deal.

Classics Series: Beethoven's Emperor Concerto
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Jon Kimura Parker, piano

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

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5, "Emperor"
Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2

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The Woman in the Blue Dress
Syracuse Stage
Leslie Noble, director

Price: $5
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Woman in the Blue Dress is a multi-media theatre work that brings to life Henriette Henriot, a fledgling actress at the Théâtre de L'Odéon in Paris and model for artist Pierre-August Renoir's "La Parisienne." In the work, Henriette, played by Kathleen Wrinn, shares her provocative story of life in the theatre, her experience in the Parisian art world of the 1870s, and what it was like to model for Renoir, the most shocking Impressionist painter of his day. The Woman in the Blue Dress is an original 30-minute piece by Stage's Director of Educational Programming Lauren Unbekant. This special project is presented in conjunction with the Turner to Cézanne exhibit at the Everson Museum.

Any Wednesday
Onondaga Hillplayers
Robert Steingraber, director

Price: $35 includes dinner, show, tax, and tip
Sunset Ridge Golf Club
2814 W. Seneca Tpke., Marcellus

A light and bouncy comedy by Muriel Resnik.

For reservations, phone 315-673-2255.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Appleseed Productions
William Edward White, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

The respected Dr. Jekyll has begun to display alarmingly erratic behavior toward his friends. At the same time, a brutal figure has begun to haunt the city's streets. In Jeffrey Hatcher's intense new version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale, Dr. Jekyll confronts the many faces of the monstrous Mr. Hyde in a maze of interlocking scenes that attempt to answer the puzzles at the heart of a tortured soul. On the fog-bound streets of Victorian-era London, Henry Jekyll's experiments with exotic "powders and tinctures" have brought forth his other self -- Edward Hyde, a sensualist and villain free to commit the sins Jekyll is too civilized to comprehend. When Hyde meets a woman who stirs his interest, Jekyll fears for her life and decides to end his experiments. But Hyde has other ideas, and so the two sides battle each other in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse to determine who shall be the master and who his slave.

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Rabbit Hole
Black Box Players
David Julian Melendez, director

Price: Free, but seating is limited
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Rabbit Hole has nothing to do with Alice In Wonderland. The truth of the show is anything but a fairy tale. Eight months ago, a tragedy tore this family apart and unexpected news brings them all together to deal with it once again. We follow the Corbett family as they fight, work and struggle to keep things together or at the very least keep it from completely falling apart. The ultimate question is not what happened, but whether or not they will survive the aftermath. Is the weight of the tragedy too much for them or will they find a way to come together and be a stronger family in spite (or perhaps because) of it? David Lindsay-Abaire takes us on an emotional ride with both pain and humor, with his naturally written dialogue and his incredibly storytelling takes us on a tumultuous ride down the Rabbit Hole.

Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire is an American playwright and lyricist. He received the Puiltzer Prize for Drama in 2007 for Rabbit Hole. Lindsay-Abaire describes his plays as centering around "outsiders in search of clarity." Lindsay-Abaire's most recent project is the book for the musical High Fidelity. He was also nominated for two Tony Awards for the book and lyrics of Shrek the Musical.

Director David Julian Melendez is a senior Acting major at Syracuse University. His directing credits include Keep Your Eyes On Your Own Paper (an original work by Jake Keefe) and Where's My Money? (winner of Black Box Awards for Best Production, Best Director, Best Leading Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Featured Actress)

To make reservations, email blackboxtickets@gmail.com. Request for tickets will receive a follow-up phone call from the box office. Please arrive a half hour prior to performance to assure seating.

As You Like It
LeMoyne College
Steve Braddock, director

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Shakespeare's astutely funny pastoral comedy, As You Like It, runs the gamut of the comedic canon, combining cross-dressing and slapstick with gentle satire and sparkling, witty conversation.

As You Like It follows the lively exploits of banished Rosalind and her quest for true love amid the schemes of two warring brothers. In the untarnished and idyllic Forest of Arden, Rosalind, disguised as a gentleman farmer, stumbles upon an extraordinary assemblage of characters, including a fool, a malcontent traveler, her own exiled father, and the cast-out young man she loves.

The play, which contains some of Shakespeare's loveliest poetry, including "All the world's a stage," provides a glimpse into the contrasts between the courtbristling with envy and rivalryand the compassionate harmony of the forest, allowing us to recognize our own human foibles by considering the romantic versus the realistic, and by laughing at the excesses of love.

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Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Syracuse Stage

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

Set in the real-life Parisian cafe Le Lapin Agile (Nimble Rabbit), Picasso at the Lapin Agile wonders what if contemporaries Picasso and Einstein accidentally met while in their 20s, just before the famous scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. Laughter, comedy, absurdity and some delightfully zany musings on the nature of art, science and the 20th century, as only Steve Martin (yes, that Steve Martin) could render them. Plus a royal visit.

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Saturday, October 31, 2009

Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $15 non-members, $12 students/seniors, $10 Everson members, children 5 and under free, $50 family rate (maximum two adults and four dependent children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This collection is comprised of an extraordinary group of 19th- and early 20th-century paintings collected largely between 1908 and 1923 by sisters Margaret and Gwendoline Davies. By 1914, the Davies sisters had assembled one of the finest collections of European modern art in Britain, with works from artists such as Paul Cézanne, Camille Corot, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Joseph M.W. Turner, among several others.

Turner to Cézanne speaks volumes about taste, patronage and philanthropy. The 53 original works by 29 artists included also a present survey of modern art, ranging from Turner's Romantic naturalism to Cézanne's modern aesthetic innovations. This exhibition serves as a reminder of the value of creativity, and of persistence, as many of the artists were, at first, either misunderstood or scorned.

Docent-led tours are available Tuesday-Thursday at 2:00 pm and Saturdays at 10:00 am and 3:00 pm. These tours are complimentary with exhibition admission, and no reservation is required. A complimentary cell phone audio tour is available to all visitors.

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Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Wild Card Exhibition: George F. Earle Retrospective
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Works by Betsy Andrus Smith
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

An exhibition of paintings, jewelry and slumped glass plates by Seneca Falls artist Betsy Andrus Smith. Smith, an award-winning painter, has exhibited at the Salon du Vieux Colombier Paris; Musee D'Art Moderne in Tonneins, France; and Agora Gallery and Abney Gallery in New York. Her work is currently featured in Manhattan Arts International magazine.

Silent Auction for St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach
Skaneateles Artisans

Skaneateles Artisans
11 Fennell St., Skaneateles

Art donated to a silent auction to support the St. James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach.

Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective
Community Folk Art Center

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

"Power and Pride: An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective" features 50 years of prints, drawings, collages and sculptures by Catlett, who is an icon of American art. The exhibition was organized with the assistance of Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA.

Born in Washington, DC, Elizabeth Catlett graduated from Howard University with a degree in painting and was the first student to receive an M.F.A. degree in sculpture from the University of Iowa in 1940. She later studied ceramics at the Art Institute of Chicago, and lithography at the Art Students League in New York. In 1943, she studied with sculptor Ossip Zadkine in New York. Catlett was awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1946, under which she travelled to Mexico to study sculpture, mural painting and printmaking. In Mexico, she worked at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura and at the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Arts Workshop), a group of artists who created art that expressed desire for social change. In 1947, she married Mexican artist Francisco Mora, and became a naturalized Mexican citizen in 1962. A lifelong artist, activist and educator, Catlett is known for her depiction of social and political issues, in particular those relating to African American and women's themes.

Elizabeth Catlett has taught at Dillard University, Hampton University, the George Washington Carver School, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, where she became the first female professor and first female department chair at the School of Fine Arts.

She retired in 1976 and makes her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she continues to work in her studio. Her work is featured in many public and private collections around the world, and she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Catlett has been the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees.

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Fired Experience: Recent Work by Jack Troy
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jack Troy, teacher, potter, and writer once wrote, ",I have picked up, moved, shaped and lightened myself of many tons of clay, and those tons lifted, moved and shaped me...". He has taught more than 200 workshops in the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Great Britain. He has worked at the Institute of Ceramic Studies, Jingdezhen, China; and was an invited artist at the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, in Japan. His education in ceramics has included trips to 13 countries. Having published over 70 articles in ceramics publications, he also wrote Salt Glazed Ceramics, Woodfired Stoneware and Porcelain, and Calling the Planet Home, [poems]. His work has been exhibited widely, and is in numerous collections, public and private. Troy will bring this wealth of knowledge and experience to Syracuse University for a 2-week intensive workshop and kiln firing. The exhibition of his work at the Gandee Gallery is in conjunction with his visit to the Syracuse University Ceramics Program and will feature his most recent work.

Syracuse During the Time of Impressionism
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A complementary exhibit to the Everson Museum of Art's "From Turner To Cezanne", OHA's exhibit will look at what was happening in Syracuse at the time of the European Impressionist painters, 1880-1916. The exhibit will feature artwork, clothing, products, archival material, and other items that will interpret the Syracuse scene during this time impressionist painters were viewed by their contemporaries as "outrageously modern."

John Wood: On the Edge of Clear Meaning
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This retrospective exhibition highlights the work of mixed media photography pioneer John Wood. Over 100 works that chronicle the artist's work from the 1960s to the present will be on display in his first major retrospective exhibition.

Well known as a photographer who routinely broke the barriers of "pure photography," Wood's work is credited as being the foundation for the mixed media and digital imagery processes of the last two decades. A master of processes from straight photography, collage, cliché verre, solarization, mixed media, offset lithography to drawing, he has a unique ability to work decisively across a variety of media with ease.

Wood's early influences as a photographer stem from his time served in the Army Air Corps as a B-17 pilot, as seen in his multiple frame landscapes and time-lapse collages. After the war, Wood trained as a visual designer and photographer at the Institute of Design in Chicago. Wood spent 35 years teaching photography and printmaking at the School of Art and Design at Alfred University in Alfred, NY. Like the work of Jasper Johns, John Wood is relentless in pushing the boundaries of traditional media. His work has laid the groundwork for the multi process, cross disciplinary artwork being created for years.

Paid parking is available for weekday visitors in any SU pay lot. Free parking for weekend and evening visitors is available in the Q4 lot, located on College Place. Patrons should notify the attendant that they are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Evening and weekend parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome.

VPA Faculty Show
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An exhibition of work by faculty members in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. For more information, phone 315-443-5889.

Window Project: This is Not Site-Specific by Nathan Cordero
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Syracuse-based, self-taught Nathan Cordero moved recently from Sacramento, CA, where he worked primarily in public art. For the Window Projects, Cordero has covered the wall with paintings that refer to urban art while also creating an assemblage (through the inclusion of everyday objects into the artwork). An excellent draftsman, his art is about self-expression, protest and the desire to take street art into the galleries.

For this exhibition, Cordero used found objects such as plywood and photographs. He covered a person's face in the photographs to make her/him look like a thief or terrorist, and to reflect upon specific events in his personal life that also refer to issues in today's society. Engraved into the plywood, the paintings manifest the artist's ease in the medium. He uses masking tape or paint to refer to common television talk shows, personal events or books that are part of pop culture. Cordero's work, which was for the most part created within the last few months, demonstrates the artist's capacity of turning daily, banal or threatening events into art. This is his first solo museum exhibition.

American Ream: Works of Marco Maggi
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibition features the installation HOTBED (ORANGE), the drawing PLEXI LINE, and the video D-REAMS. The exhibition is intended for audiences of all ages.

Uruguayan-born, New Paltz-based Marco Maggi is best known for his use of everyday materials on which he inscribes a vocabulary that evokes Aztec culture and the art of Joaquín Torres-García. By focusing on visual codes (such as repeated visual symbols that only suggest objects), spatiality, and the political connotations of maps, Maggi's work also reflects Latin American traditions and concerns expressed by many contemporary artists. American Ream (The Warehouse Gallery) and Slow Scandal (The Point of Contact Gallery) are the result of a partnership between both organizations and feature media that the artist chose as a means of responding to both spaces.

Turner to Cézanne
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free with same-day exhibition admission
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Two Welsh sisters, Gwendoline and Margaret Davies, amassed an amazing collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings at a time when modern French art was largely ignored in Britain. The collection, which was bequeathed to the National Museum Wales, includes such artists as Turner, Monet, and van Gogh. The works in this exhibition chronicle the evolution of modern art, from the mid-1800s to the early 20th century and were assembled as a traveling exhibition, visiting five museums in the United States. This film examines the lives of the sisters and explores select masterpieces from the exhibition.

Halloween Movie Marathon
ArtRage Gallery

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

All horror, all night! Five films to scare you silly! Come for one or stay for them all. Costumes encouraged.

6:30 pm: Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
Bela Lugosi as Dracula, Boris Karloff as Frankenstein, Lon Chaney as the Wolf Man! A pair of nitwit freight handlers meet three horror icons in one funny fright fest. A blast from the past for all ages.

8:15 pm: House on Haunted Hill
With Vincent Price. This old house has a reputation for murder. Would you stay the night?

9:30 pm: An American Werewolf in London
Two tourists in England are attacked by a werewolf—with strange consequences.

11:15 pm: F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922)
The Granddaddy of all vampire movies! "Unforgettable...inspired dozens of other Dracula films, none as artistic"—Roger Ebert

12:45 am: The original, one-and-only John Carpenter's Halloween
Jamie Lee Curtis. "The trick was to stay alive...if you could."

Family Series: Halloween Spooktacular
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Jeffrey Meyer, conductor

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

Come dressed in your Halloween costume and hear the SSO perform music from The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Harry Potter and Ride of the Valkyries. Local dance students will join the SSO, showing their spookiest steps, as we have some Halloween fun.

Classics Series: Beethoven's Emperor Concerto
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Jon Kimura Parker, piano

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

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5, "Emperor"
Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2

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The Woman in the Blue Dress
Syracuse Stage
Leslie Noble, director

Price: $5
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Woman in the Blue Dress is a multi-media theatre work that brings to life Henriette Henriot, a fledgling actress at the Théâtre de L'Odéon in Paris and model for artist Pierre-August Renoir's "La Parisienne." In the work, Henriette, played by Kathleen Wrinn, shares her provocative story of life in the theatre, her experience in the Parisian art world of the 1870s, and what it was like to model for Renoir, the most shocking Impressionist painter of his day. The Woman in the Blue Dress is an original 30-minute piece by Stage's Director of Educational Programming Lauren Unbekant. This special project is presented in conjunction with the Turner to Cézanne exhibit at the Everson Museum.

The Little Mermaid
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interaction adaptation of this children's favorite. The audience helps the Mermaid foil the Seawitch and get her voice back.

Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Syracuse Stage

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

Set in the real-life Parisian cafe Le Lapin Agile (Nimble Rabbit), Picasso at the Lapin Agile wonders what if contemporaries Picasso and Einstein accidentally met while in their 20s, just before the famous scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. Laughter, comedy, absurdity and some delightfully zany musings on the nature of art, science and the 20th century, as only Steve Martin (yes, that Steve Martin) could render them. Plus a royal visit.

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Any Wednesday
Onondaga Hillplayers
Robert Steingraber, director

Price: $35 includes dinner, show, tax, and tip
Sunset Ridge Golf Club
2814 W. Seneca Tpke., Marcellus

A light and bouncy comedy by Muriel Resnik.

For reservations, phone 315-673-2255.

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Death by Disco
Without a Cue Productions

Price: $39.50, includes dinner and show
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

Welcome to the Land of Oz Discoteria and the "3rd Annual World Championship of Disco Championship." Contestants are ready to show their moves, but they don't know that tonight some competition will definitely be stiff. Join us for "Death by Disco." a murderous evening of theater, dancing, and great food!

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Appleseed Productions
William Edward White, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

The respected Dr. Jekyll has begun to display alarmingly erratic behavior toward his friends. At the same time, a brutal figure has begun to haunt the city's streets. In Jeffrey Hatcher's intense new version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale, Dr. Jekyll confronts the many faces of the monstrous Mr. Hyde in a maze of interlocking scenes that attempt to answer the puzzles at the heart of a tortured soul. On the fog-bound streets of Victorian-era London, Henry Jekyll's experiments with exotic "powders and tinctures" have brought forth his other self -- Edward Hyde, a sensualist and villain free to commit the sins Jekyll is too civilized to comprehend. When Hyde meets a woman who stirs his interest, Jekyll fears for her life and decides to end his experiments. But Hyde has other ideas, and so the two sides battle each other in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse to determine who shall be the master and who his slave.

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Rabbit Hole
Black Box Players
David Julian Melendez, director

Price: Free, but seating is limited
Loft Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Rabbit Hole has nothing to do with Alice In Wonderland. The truth of the show is anything but a fairy tale. Eight months ago, a tragedy tore this family apart and unexpected news brings them all together to deal with it once again. We follow the Corbett family as they fight, work and struggle to keep things together or at the very least keep it from completely falling apart. The ultimate question is not what happened, but whether or not they will survive the aftermath. Is the weight of the tragedy too much for them or will they find a way to come together and be a stronger family in spite (or perhaps because) of it? David Lindsay-Abaire takes us on an emotional ride with both pain and humor, with his naturally written dialogue and his incredibly storytelling takes us on a tumultuous ride down the Rabbit Hole.

Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire is an American playwright and lyricist. He received the Puiltzer Prize for Drama in 2007 for Rabbit Hole. Lindsay-Abaire describes his plays as centering around "outsiders in search of clarity." Lindsay-Abaire's most recent project is the book for the musical High Fidelity. He was also nominated for two Tony Awards for the book and lyrics of Shrek the Musical.

Director David Julian Melendez is a senior Acting major at Syracuse University. His directing credits include Keep Your Eyes On Your Own Paper (an original work by Jake Keefe) and Where's My Money? (winner of Black Box Awards for Best Production, Best Director, Best Leading Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Featured Actress)

To make reservations, email blackboxtickets@gmail.com. Request for tickets will receive a follow-up phone call from the box office. Please arrive a half hour prior to performance to assure seating.

As You Like It
LeMoyne College
Steve Braddock, director

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Shakespeare's astutely funny pastoral comedy, As You Like It, runs the gamut of the comedic canon, combining cross-dressing and slapstick with gentle satire and sparkling, witty conversation.

As You Like It follows the lively exploits of banished Rosalind and her quest for true love amid the schemes of two warring brothers. In the untarnished and idyllic Forest of Arden, Rosalind, disguised as a gentleman farmer, stumbles upon an extraordinary assemblage of characters, including a fool, a malcontent traveler, her own exiled father, and the cast-out young man she loves.

The play, which contains some of Shakespeare's loveliest poetry, including "All the world's a stage," provides a glimpse into the contrasts between the courtbristling with envy and rivalryand the compassionate harmony of the forest, allowing us to recognize our own human foibles by considering the romantic versus the realistic, and by laughing at the excesses of love.

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Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Syracuse Stage

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

Set in the real-life Parisian cafe Le Lapin Agile (Nimble Rabbit), Picasso at the Lapin Agile wonders what if contemporaries Picasso and Einstein accidentally met while in their 20s, just before the famous scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. Laughter, comedy, absurdity and some delightfully zany musings on the nature of art, science and the 20th century, as only Steve Martin (yes, that Steve Martin) could render them. Plus a royal visit.

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Sunday, November 1, 2009

Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $15 non-members, $12 students/seniors, $10 Everson members, children 5 and under free, $50 family rate (maximum two adults and four dependent children)
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This collection is comprised of an extraordinary group of 19th- and early 20th-century paintings collected largely between 1908 and 1923 by sisters Margaret and Gwendoline Davies. By 1914, the Davies sisters had assembled one of the finest collections of European modern art in Britain, with works from artists such as Paul Cézanne, Camille Corot, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Joseph M.W. Turner, among several others.

Turner to Cézanne speaks volumes about taste, patronage and philanthropy. The 53 original works by 29 artists included also a present survey of modern art, ranging from Turner's Romantic naturalism to Cézanne's modern aesthetic innovations. This exhibition serves as a reminder of the value of creativity, and of persistence, as many of the artists were, at first, either misunderstood or scorned.

Docent-led tours are available Tuesday-Thursday at 2:00 pm and Saturdays at 10:00 am and 3:00 pm. These tours are complimentary with exhibition admission, and no reservation is required. A complimentary cell phone audio tour is available to all visitors.

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Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Arts & Crafts movement that blossomed in Europe in the late 19th century and rapidly spread to America not only has deep roots in New York State, but it is still very much alive in the upstate region today. Gustav Stickley and Adelaide Robineau, significant figures on the national Arts & Crafts scene at the turn of the century, were based in Syracuse. Elbert Hubbard established the Roycrofters in East Aurora in the 1880s and the Byrdcliffe Colony flourished in Woodstock, New York at the same time. This exhibition showcases paintings, furniture, ceramics, and metal work created by these masters of the Arts & Crafts movement from 1890 to 1920.

Fired Experience: Recent Work by Jack Troy
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jack Troy, teacher, potter, and writer once wrote, ",I have picked up, moved, shaped and lightened myself of many tons of clay, and those tons lifted, moved and shaped me...". He has taught more than 200 workshops in the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Great Britain. He has worked at the Institute of Ceramic Studies, Jingdezhen, China; and was an invited artist at the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, in Japan. His education in ceramics has included trips to 13 countries. Having published over 70 articles in ceramics publications, he also wrote Salt Glazed Ceramics, Woodfired Stoneware and Porcelain, and Calling the Planet Home, [poems]. His work has been exhibited widely, and is in numerous collections, public and private. Troy will bring this wealth of knowledge and experience to Syracuse University for a 2-week intensive workshop and kiln firing. The exhibition of his work at the Gandee Gallery is in conjunction with his visit to the Syracuse University Ceramics Program and will feature his most recent work.

Syracuse During the Time of Impressionism
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A complementary exhibit to the Everson Museum of Art's "From Turner To Cezanne", OHA's exhibit will look at what was happening in Syracuse at the time of the European Impressionist painters, 1880-1916. The exhibit will feature artwork, clothing, products, archival material, and other items that will interpret the Syracuse scene during this time impressionist painters were viewed by their contemporaries as "outrageously modern."

John Wood: On the Edge of Clear Meaning
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This retrospective exhibition highlights the work of mixed media photography pioneer John Wood. Over 100 works that chronicle the artist's work from the 1960s to the present will be on display in his first major retrospective exhibition.

Well known as a photographer who routinely broke the barriers of "pure photography," Wood's work is credited as being the foundation for the mixed media and digital imagery processes of the last two decades. A master of processes from straight photography, collage, cliché verre, solarization, mixed media, offset lithography to drawing, he has a unique ability to work decisively across a variety of media with ease.

Wood's early influences as a photographer stem from his time served in the Army Air Corps as a B-17 pilot, as seen in his multiple frame landscapes and time-lapse collages. After the war, Wood trained as a visual designer and photographer at the Institute of Design in Chicago. Wood spent 35 years teaching photography and printmaking at the School of Art and Design at Alfred University in Alfred, NY. Like the work of Jasper Johns, John Wood is relentless in pushing the boundaries of traditional media. His work has laid the groundwork for the multi process, cross disciplinary artwork being created for years.

Paid parking is available for weekday visitors in any SU pay lot. Free parking for weekend and evening visitors is available in the Q4 lot, located on College Place. Patrons should notify the attendant that they are visiting the SUArt Galleries. Evening and weekend parking is on a space-available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome.

VPA Faculty Show
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An exhibition of work by faculty members in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. For more information, phone 315-443-5889.

Latin Jazz by Da Flo Jo Tette
Arts Alive in Liverpool

Price: Free
Liverpool Public Library
310 Tulip St., Liverpool

Jazz Vespers
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

The service is a combination of inspirational and meditative readings, homily, and jazz played by members of the CNY Jazz Orchestra and various guest vocalists. The jazz selections are drawn from secular and sacred sources, representing a wide range of composers as varied as Duke Ellington, Chick Corea, Cole Porter, and Stephen Foster, and well-known hymns in jazz settings for all to enjoy, singing as they wish. The service is open to those of all faiths.

The Woman in the Blue Dress
Syracuse Stage
Leslie Noble, director

Price: $5
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Woman in the Blue Dress is a multi-media theatre work that brings to life Henriette Henriot, a fledgling actress at the Théâtre de L'Odéon in Paris and model for artist Pierre-August Renoir's "La Parisienne." In the work, Henriette, played by Kathleen Wrinn, shares her provocative story of life in the theatre, her experience in the Parisian art world of the 1870s, and what it was like to model for Renoir, the most shocking Impressionist painter of his day. The Woman in the Blue Dress is an original 30-minute piece by Stage's Director of Educational Programming Lauren Unbekant. This special project is presented in conjunction with the Turner to Cézanne exhibit at the Everson Museum.

Any Wednesday
Onondaga Hillplayers
Robert Steingraber, director

Price: $35 includes dinner, show, tax, and tip
Sunset Ridge Golf Club
2814 W. Seneca Tpke., Marcellus

A light and bouncy comedy by Muriel Resnik.

For reservations, phone 315-673-2255.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Appleseed Productions
William Edward White, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

The respected Dr. Jekyll has begun to display alarmingly erratic behavior toward his friends. At the same time, a brutal figure has begun to haunt the city's streets. In Jeffrey Hatcher's intense new version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale, Dr. Jekyll confronts the many faces of the monstrous Mr. Hyde in a maze of interlocking scenes that attempt to answer the puzzles at the heart of a tortured soul. On the fog-bound streets of Victorian-era London, Henry Jekyll's experiments with exotic "powders and tinctures" have brought forth his other self -- Edward Hyde, a sensualist and villain free to commit the sins Jekyll is too civilized to comprehend. When Hyde meets a woman who stirs his interest, Jekyll fears for her life and decides to end his experiments. But Hyde has other ideas, and so the two sides battle each other in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse to determine who shall be the master and who his slave.

Read a Review!

As You Like It
LeMoyne College
Steve Braddock, director

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Shakespeare's astutely funny pastoral comedy, As You Like It, runs the gamut of the comedic canon, combining cross-dressing and slapstick with gentle satire and sparkling, witty conversation.

As You Like It follows the lively exploits of banished Rosalind and her quest for true love amid the schemes of two warring brothers. In the untarnished and idyllic Forest of Arden, Rosalind, disguised as a gentleman farmer, stumbles upon an extraordinary assemblage of characters, including a fool, a malcontent traveler, her own exiled father, and the cast-out young man she loves.

The play, which contains some of Shakespeare's loveliest poetry, including "All the world's a stage," provides a glimpse into the contrasts between the courtbristling with envy and rivalryand the compassionate harmony of the forest, allowing us to recognize our own human foibles by considering the romantic versus the realistic, and by laughing at the excesses of love.

Read a Review!

Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Syracuse Stage

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

Set in the real-life Parisian cafe Le Lapin Agile (Nimble Rabbit), Picasso at the Lapin Agile wonders what if contemporaries Picasso and Einstein accidentally met while in their 20s, just before the famous scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. Laughter, comedy, absurdity and some delightfully zany musings on the nature of art, science and the 20th century, as only Steve Martin (yes, that Steve Martin) could render them. Plus a royal visit.

Read a Review!

The Woman in the Blue Dress
Syracuse Stage
Leslie Noble, director

Price: $5
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Woman in the Blue Dress is a multi-media theatre work that brings to life Henriette Henriot, a fledgling actress at the Théâtre de L'Odéon in Paris and model for artist Pierre-August Renoir's "La Parisienne." In the work, Henriette, played by Kathleen Wrinn, shares her provocative story of life in the theatre, her experience in the Parisian art world of the 1870s, and what it was like to model for Renoir, the most shocking Impressionist painter of his day. The Woman in the Blue Dress is an original 30-minute piece by Stage's Director of Educational Programming Lauren Unbekant. This special project is presented in conjunction with the Turner to Cézanne exhibit at the Everson Museum.

The Woman in the Blue Dress
Syracuse Stage
Leslie Noble, director

Price: $5
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Woman in the Blue Dress is a multi-media theatre work that brings to life Henriette Henriot, a fledgling actress at the Théâtre de L'Odéon in Paris and model for artist Pierre-August Renoir's "La Parisienne." In the work, Henriette, played by Kathleen Wrinn, shares her provocative story of life in the theatre, her experience in the Parisian art world of the 1870s, and what it was like to model for Renoir, the most shocking Impressionist painter of his day. The Woman in the Blue Dress is an original 30-minute piece by Stage's Director of Educational Programming Lauren Unbekant. This special project is presented in conjunction with the Turner to Cézanne exhibit at the Everson Museum.