Thursday, April 26, 2007

Atrium Exhibit: OCC Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Visual Arts Showcase #59
CNY Arts

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

The Showcase features the work of area artists in a juried show. This season's work was selected
by Jennifer Pepper, Director of the Cazenovia College Gallery, and Wendy Harris, a working artist from Syracuse University.

Art from the CNY Region of the National League of American Pen Women

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

Works by 15 award-winning artists will be on display.

Pennellate di Cinema: Classic film posters designed by Silvano Campeggi
Point of Contact Gallery

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

From 1945 to 1972, Silvano Campeggi worked for the major American cinematographic companies: Metro Goldwin Mayer, Universal, Paramount, RKO, Dear Film, creating over 3,000 posters for films that include Gone with the Wind, An American in Paris, Singing in the Rain and West Side Story, among countless other classics from Hollywood's Golden Era. A significant selection of the original hand made studies and sketches along with the definitive poster paintings will be on display at The Point of Contact Gallery for all Syracuse art and movie buffs to relish.

The partnership of Syracuse venues participating in this grand citywide retrospective materializes through the initiative of the Syracuse International Film Festival 2007, a Point of Contact production. Other galleries participating include the Everson Museum of Art, the Redhouse, and Company Gallery.

Each venue will cover a different era of Campeggi's prolific career. Many of the works to be presented in this citywide exhibit will later travel on to New York City's Lincoln Center for a show that opens in June.

Maestro Campeggi is the creator of the official poster for the 2007 Syracuse International Film Festival.

Beyond the Silver Screen: works of Maestro Nano Campeggi
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Italian artist Silvano Campeggi, better known as Nano, produced over 3000 billboard posters for major Hollywood films during the post-war period. In the realm of cinema-graphic advertising, he is an Italian institution. This exhibition features the masterful, contemporary works that define his signature style, going beyond the silver screen and offering a rare glimpse of his original drawings and paintings. Combining his skills as an illustrator and painter, Nano plays with images, deliberately pairing modern film icons with art history's iconic historic counterparts, each culminating in a whimsical, idealized creation. The deft, essential strokes of vibrant color and black line successfully bridge the distance between the nostalgia provoked by poster art tradition, and the post-war film genre that Nano himself nurtured. His pastiche of style and ideas are interconnected through a visual vocabulary that is both familiar and evocative of a Pop Art sensibility. Nano's poster art evolved from and at the same time blossomed into these timeless works, treasures whose influence and reach is still seen in the contemporary work of both fine artists and graphic designers today.

This exhibit is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse International Film and Video Festival.

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Dodji Koudakpo: An African Experiences
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition features recent paintings by Koudakpo, a graduating senior at Syracuse University.

Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

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

Gest's photographs depict people in moments of deep private thought. The figures appear emotionally removed from their environment as if withdrawing from a public self. The work focuses on the way who we are can change when we are in a group. Although the subjects are alone in the photographs, the presence of others is implied. The images depict people in the last moments of being in their own world before seeing people, or going somewhere where others will be around. These are the last breaths and the last seconds of personal time before the subjects put on a public face and adopt the persona that they use while in a group of people.

To create these images, Gest combines numerous photographs into seamless final compositions using digital technology. Each image may consist of twenty or more separate photographs taken from various vantage points. The visually surprising images direct the viewer in the construction of everyday narratives.

Networked Nature
The Warehouse Gallery

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

"Networked Nature" uses innovative technology to combine art, science and politics. The group exhibition inventively explores the meaning and representation of "nature," from the perspective of networked culture. The featured works employ various scientific processes and locative media, such as global positioning systems (GPS) and robotics, and take the form of installations, video and sound art. Together, they make new contributions to the discourses of extant genres, such as sculpture, earth works and landscape imagery, while also demonstrating the scientific beauty and complexity of electronic and digital art.

"Networked Nature" was organized by Marisa Olson, Editor and Curator for Rhizome, a leading new media organization affiliated with the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Their programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways.

Art Across Generations
Delavan Art Gallery

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

This exhibit features acrylic paintings by A. Brooks Decker, photographs by Vivian Geiger, photographs by Jessica Taylor and art by students in three Syracuse School District Elementary Schools: Blodgett, Seymour Magnet and Solace.

For A. Brooks Decker, childhood memories are entwined in the subject matter of her paintings in a style she calls "romantic realism." Also included in this show are paintings of garden doors inspired by photographs by her daughter, Jessica Taylor, whose work is also included in this exhibit.

Vivian Geiger is a widely respected photographer who is showcasing a new series of abstracts and a new technique of using pastels on photographs.

Jessica Taylor is exhibiting many of her cloudscapes in this exhibit along side her mother, A. Brooks Decker's paintings.

For the fourth year, Delavan Art Gallery is pleased to host the work of children from Blodgett, Seymour Magnet and Solace Elementary Schools. Students from the classes of Stacy Griffin, Kelly Moser and Simone Montgomery have the chance to see their work in a professional setting and to sell the work to raise money for themselves as burgeoning artists and for school art supplies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Selections from Silvano Campeggi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Point of Contact Gallery and the Redhouse. Each organization will be presenting works from a different period of renowned film poster artist, Silvano Campeggi.

Artists Open
CNY Arts

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

Spoken word, video and performance artists explore the complexities of issues related to mental disabilities.

CD Release Party
3rd & Main, "cool noir" jazz band; John Engerman, Seattle pianist

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

LeMoyne College
Le Moyne College Jazz Ensemble and Faculty Jazz Combo
Featuring Dominique Eade, vocalist

Price: $12 regular; $7 seniors; students free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Jazz singer Dominique Eade, an RCA Victor recording artist residing in Boston, joins the Le Moyne College Jazz Ensemble and Le Moyne College Faculty Jazz Combo. Le Moyne Jazz Director J.C. Sanford leads the college's big band in a set of standards and original charts. Eade will then join Sanford, a trombonist; pianist Rick Montalbano; bassist Kevin Dorsey; and drummer Jimmy Johns for a set of well-known tunes before concluding the show with some of her own songs arranged by Sanford for the Le Moyne College Jazz Ensemble.

For more information, phone 315-445-4523.

My New Orleans Tour
Harry Connick, Jr.

Price: $65; $45; $37
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

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Syracuse University Wind Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Under the direction of Dr. John M. Laverty, the Wind Ensemble will be performing works by Karel Husa, Walter Piston, Gustav Holst, Leonard Bernstein, Evan Hause and Serge Prokofieff. Anthony Mastrobattisto will appear as a guest conductor and Kathryn Stopper and Erin Young will appear as graduate conducting associates.

Free parking will be available in Irving Garage.

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

Deadly Inheritance
Acme Mystery Company

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

Death of a Salesman
Syracuse Stage
Tim Ocel, director

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

Its status as an American classic makes it easy to hurl superlatives at this great play without truly considering Arthur Miller's achievement. In creating Willy Loman, Miller, like Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams, examines the shaky illusions at the foundation of so many American lives and finds tragedy within. Miller fearlessly assesses the small life of a common man, the shattered hopes and dreams, and insists "attention must be paid."

Read a Review!

Friday, April 27, 2007

Atrium Exhibit: OCC Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Visual Arts Showcase #59
CNY Arts

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

The Showcase features the work of area artists in a juried show. This season's work was selected
by Jennifer Pepper, Director of the Cazenovia College Gallery, and Wendy Harris, a working artist from Syracuse University.

Art from the CNY Region of the National League of American Pen Women

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

Works by 15 award-winning artists will be on display.

Pennellate di Cinema: Classic film posters designed by Silvano Campeggi
Point of Contact Gallery

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

From 1945 to 1972, Silvano Campeggi worked for the major American cinematographic companies: Metro Goldwin Mayer, Universal, Paramount, RKO, Dear Film, creating over 3,000 posters for films that include Gone with the Wind, An American in Paris, Singing in the Rain and West Side Story, among countless other classics from Hollywood's Golden Era. A significant selection of the original hand made studies and sketches along with the definitive poster paintings will be on display at The Point of Contact Gallery for all Syracuse art and movie buffs to relish.

The partnership of Syracuse venues participating in this grand citywide retrospective materializes through the initiative of the Syracuse International Film Festival 2007, a Point of Contact production. Other galleries participating include the Everson Museum of Art, the Redhouse, and Company Gallery.

Each venue will cover a different era of Campeggi's prolific career. Many of the works to be presented in this citywide exhibit will later travel on to New York City's Lincoln Center for a show that opens in June.

Maestro Campeggi is the creator of the official poster for the 2007 Syracuse International Film Festival.

Beyond the Silver Screen: works of Maestro Nano Campeggi
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Italian artist Silvano Campeggi, better known as Nano, produced over 3000 billboard posters for major Hollywood films during the post-war period. In the realm of cinema-graphic advertising, he is an Italian institution. This exhibition features the masterful, contemporary works that define his signature style, going beyond the silver screen and offering a rare glimpse of his original drawings and paintings. Combining his skills as an illustrator and painter, Nano plays with images, deliberately pairing modern film icons with art history's iconic historic counterparts, each culminating in a whimsical, idealized creation. The deft, essential strokes of vibrant color and black line successfully bridge the distance between the nostalgia provoked by poster art tradition, and the post-war film genre that Nano himself nurtured. His pastiche of style and ideas are interconnected through a visual vocabulary that is both familiar and evocative of a Pop Art sensibility. Nano's poster art evolved from and at the same time blossomed into these timeless works, treasures whose influence and reach is still seen in the contemporary work of both fine artists and graphic designers today.

This exhibit is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse International Film and Video Festival.

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Dodji Koudakpo: An African Experiences
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition features recent paintings by Koudakpo, a graduating senior at Syracuse University.

Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

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

Gest's photographs depict people in moments of deep private thought. The figures appear emotionally removed from their environment as if withdrawing from a public self. The work focuses on the way who we are can change when we are in a group. Although the subjects are alone in the photographs, the presence of others is implied. The images depict people in the last moments of being in their own world before seeing people, or going somewhere where others will be around. These are the last breaths and the last seconds of personal time before the subjects put on a public face and adopt the persona that they use while in a group of people.

To create these images, Gest combines numerous photographs into seamless final compositions using digital technology. Each image may consist of twenty or more separate photographs taken from various vantage points. The visually surprising images direct the viewer in the construction of everyday narratives.

Networked Nature
The Warehouse Gallery

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

"Networked Nature" uses innovative technology to combine art, science and politics. The group exhibition inventively explores the meaning and representation of "nature," from the perspective of networked culture. The featured works employ various scientific processes and locative media, such as global positioning systems (GPS) and robotics, and take the form of installations, video and sound art. Together, they make new contributions to the discourses of extant genres, such as sculpture, earth works and landscape imagery, while also demonstrating the scientific beauty and complexity of electronic and digital art.

"Networked Nature" was organized by Marisa Olson, Editor and Curator for Rhizome, a leading new media organization affiliated with the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Their programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways.

Art Across Generations
Delavan Art Gallery

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

This exhibit features acrylic paintings by A. Brooks Decker, photographs by Vivian Geiger, photographs by Jessica Taylor and art by students in three Syracuse School District Elementary Schools: Blodgett, Seymour Magnet and Solace.

For A. Brooks Decker, childhood memories are entwined in the subject matter of her paintings in a style she calls "romantic realism." Also included in this show are paintings of garden doors inspired by photographs by her daughter, Jessica Taylor, whose work is also included in this exhibit.

Vivian Geiger is a widely respected photographer who is showcasing a new series of abstracts and a new technique of using pastels on photographs.

Jessica Taylor is exhibiting many of her cloudscapes in this exhibit along side her mother, A. Brooks Decker's paintings.

For the fourth year, Delavan Art Gallery is pleased to host the work of children from Blodgett, Seymour Magnet and Solace Elementary Schools. Students from the classes of Stacy Griffin, Kelly Moser and Simone Montgomery have the chance to see their work in a professional setting and to sell the work to raise money for themselves as burgeoning artists and for school art supplies.

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

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

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

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

Selections from Silvano Campeggi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Point of Contact Gallery and the Redhouse. Each organization will be presenting works from a different period of renowned film poster artist, Silvano Campeggi.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Syracuse University Symphony Band
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Under the direction of Bradley P. Ethington, Justin J. Mertz and Thomas Bankert, the Symphony Band will be performing works by Norman Dello Joio, Bedrich Smetana, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Camile Saint-Saens, Gustav Holst and Eric Whitacre. Thomas Bankert, from the Oxford Academy High School and his concert band will perfom works by Pierre LaPlante, Frank Tichelli, Hans Zimmer and Van der Roost.

Free parking will be available in Irving Garage.

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

Poets Suzanne Cleary and Keith Flynn
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Suzanne Cleary is the author of the poetry collections Trick Pear and Keeping Time, both from Carnegie Mellon University Press. Her many awards include the 2004 Sunken Garden Poetry Festival chapbook competition and the Pushcart Prize. Keith Flynn is the author of four books of poems, most recently The Golden Ratio. He is also the author of the essay collection The Rhythm Method, Razzmatazz and Memory: How to Make Your Poetry Swing (Writer's Digest Books, 2007).

Steel Magnolias
Theatre '90

Price: $20 regular; $18 students/seniors; $14 children under 12
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Some may equate Steel Magnolias to the consummate "chick flick." It is, however, more accurately described as the ultimate "feel good" theater piece that all adults will enjoy. A great girls' night out, as well as a guy-girl thing; a mother and daughter time together as well as an entire audience filled with strangers enjoying similar feelings while on the same wave-length. Steel Magnolias is one of the most popular theater productions in the country because it has it all: comedy, drama, excitement, laughter, and poignancy.

For more information, phone 315-479-5495.

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Sin: A Cardinal Deposed
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

In the tradition of outstanding "docu-dramas" like The Laramie Project and Execution of Justice, Michael Murphy's Sin is a collage of testimonies of, by and surrounding Cardinal Bernard F. Law - the Catholic leader whose governance of his diocese was questioned and scrutinized when years of sexual abuse by diocesan priests finally came to light. This searing and emotional work examines our dedication to religion, our faith in our legal system and the strength of our own convictions - in the words of Cardinal Law himself.

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Death of a Salesman
Syracuse Stage
Tim Ocel, director

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

Its status as an American classic makes it easy to hurl superlatives at this great play without truly considering Arthur Miller's achievement. In creating Willy Loman, Miller, like Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams, examines the shaky illusions at the foundation of so many American lives and finds tragedy within. Miller fearlessly assesses the small life of a common man, the shattered hopes and dreams, and insists "attention must be paid."

Read a Review!

My One and Only
Syracuse University Drama Department
David Wanstreet, director

Price: $18 regular; $16 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Pioneer aviator Captain Billy Buck Chandler wants to be the first to pilot a plane non-stop from New York to Paris. A chance sighting of champion Channel swimmer Edythe Herbert sends his heart and his plans into a tailspin. Could such a famous and accomplished beauty possibly be his One and Only? It takes a whole lot of great Gershwin tunes, wall-to-wall tap dancing, and an emergency landing on a (not so) remote island to find out. A rarely done musical comedy treat that's as sharp and snappy as a Bop Bop Ba-Bop Ba Ba Da Ba

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Saturday, April 28, 2007

Atrium Exhibit: OCC Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Art Across Generations
Delavan Art Gallery

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

This exhibit features acrylic paintings by A. Brooks Decker, photographs by Vivian Geiger, photographs by Jessica Taylor and art by students in three Syracuse School District Elementary Schools: Blodgett, Seymour Magnet and Solace.

For A. Brooks Decker, childhood memories are entwined in the subject matter of her paintings in a style she calls "romantic realism." Also included in this show are paintings of garden doors inspired by photographs by her daughter, Jessica Taylor, whose work is also included in this exhibit.

Vivian Geiger is a widely respected photographer who is showcasing a new series of abstracts and a new technique of using pastels on photographs.

Jessica Taylor is exhibiting many of her cloudscapes in this exhibit along side her mother, A. Brooks Decker's paintings.

For the fourth year, Delavan Art Gallery is pleased to host the work of children from Blodgett, Seymour Magnet and Solace Elementary Schools. Students from the classes of Stacy Griffin, Kelly Moser and Simone Montgomery have the chance to see their work in a professional setting and to sell the work to raise money for themselves as burgeoning artists and for school art supplies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Selections from Silvano Campeggi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Point of Contact Gallery and the Redhouse. Each organization will be presenting works from a different period of renowned film poster artist, Silvano Campeggi.

Survivor's Art: Images of Hope & Healing
Everson Museum of Art

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

Survivor's Art is an exhibition initiated by Vera House, a community organization created to assist families in crises related to domestic and sexual violence. As part of their project, The Art of Caring, Vera House brings together gifted artists and a caring community. The exhibition offers hope and healing and celebrates the joy of the arts in our lives.

Dodji Koudakpo: An African Experiences
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition features recent paintings by Koudakpo, a graduating senior at Syracuse University.

Networked Nature
The Warehouse Gallery

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

"Networked Nature" uses innovative technology to combine art, science and politics. The group exhibition inventively explores the meaning and representation of "nature," from the perspective of networked culture. The featured works employ various scientific processes and locative media, such as global positioning systems (GPS) and robotics, and take the form of installations, video and sound art. Together, they make new contributions to the discourses of extant genres, such as sculpture, earth works and landscape imagery, while also demonstrating the scientific beauty and complexity of electronic and digital art.

"Networked Nature" was organized by Marisa Olson, Editor and Curator for Rhizome, a leading new media organization affiliated with the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Their programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways.

Group B.F.A. Show
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

Featuring artwork from Ashley McDowell, Alexandra Perkinson, and Anne Robinson.

Vocal Jazz Jam
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

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

The Vocal Jazz Jam offers an opportunity for aspiring jazz vocalists to perform songs of their choice with professional accompaniment. Professional coach Nancy Kelly will be on hand for the afternoon to work with each vocalist in a friendly, supportive, master-class environment. Music Director for the event is East Syracuse-Minoa vocal educator Irwin Goldberg. The event is open to participants at all levels -- high school and college students and adults who are interested in honing their skills at delivering a tune from the Great American Song Book. Complete guidelines for participants are available at www.cnyjazz.org by clicking on "Scholastic Programs."

Joy Williams and Zoro The Drummer

Price: $10 in advance, $15 at door, with a $5 student discount
Syracuse Alliance Church
3112 Midland Ave., Syracuse

From two opposite ends of the musical spectrum, Joy Williams and Zoro The Drummer come together in Syracuse.

Joy Williams began her musical career at age 17 in 2001. Her engaging personality has always transcended her music and earned her legions of loyal fans around the world. In just 6 years, she has been nominated for five Dove Awards, including Female Vocalist of the Year in three consecutive years.

Zoro has sat on the drummer's throne commanding some of the most famous stages in the world of rock music. He has toured and recorded with Lenny Kravitz, Bobby Brown, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Sean Lennon, Lisa Marie Presley and many more. He has been consistently voted the #1 R&B Drummer in the World by premiere music industry publications such as Drum!, Modern Drummer, and Rhythm Magazine.

While their musical origins are different, their worlds are tied together by a strong and uncompromising faith. Come join us for a rich evening of music that will amaze your senses and dazzle your ears. For tickets and information, please call 315-214-7333.

A Tribute to Joni Mitchell
Skaneateles Area Council for the Arts
Featuring Maria De Angelis & Friends

Price: $20
First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles
97 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The concert will be performed by Maria De Angelis, guitar and vocals; with Tori De Angelis, dulcimer and vocals; Phil Flanigan, bass; Karen Oberlin, percussion and vocals; Hanna Richardson, piano and vocals; and David Yaffe, piano.

The Everson Museum of Art is kicking off the concert with a reception titled "Music, Martinis and Joni Mitchell Masterpieces" from 5:30 to 7:30 PM at the home of Jim and Kimball Kraus in Skaneateles. Tickets cost $125.00 per pair or $75 per person, and include concert tickets, reception, plus family membership at Everson Museum for one year.

To purchase combined concert tickets, reception and Everson membership, please call the Everson at 315-474-6064 or visit them online at www.everson.org.

Performance-only tickets can be purchased online at www.skaneateles.com.

Chris Trapper, with Sam Shaber opening
Redhouse

Price: $12
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Chris Trapper's songs have been winning awards as well as the hearts of devoted listeners ever since his arrival on the Boston music scene in 1995. He is most widely known as the front man for the nationally acclaimed pop/rock band The Push Stars, whose "honest, heartfelt songs with timeless melodies" were described as "the kind of music that songwriters love" by Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty.

In addition to numerous Boston Music Awards, Chris Trapper received two Gold Records, a Platimun record, and the prestigious SOCAN Award twice for his songwriting work with Newfoundland's Great Big Sea. Antigone Rising covered his song "Waiting, Watching, Wishing" on their latest album release. In 2006, he filmed cameo appearances for an episode of "Pepper Dennis," the WB romantic comedy, and for "August Rush," an upcoming film with Robin Williams.

Sam Shaber will open the show and celebrate the release of her new album "in my bones (live in chicago)." Touring nationally year 'round, Shaber has won awards in the John Lennon, Billboard, and USA Songwriting Competitions for her driving melodies, smart lyrics, and soaring voice.

The Little Mermaid
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive adaption of the children's favorite.

Death of a Salesman
Syracuse Stage
Tim Ocel, director

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

Its status as an American classic makes it easy to hurl superlatives at this great play without truly considering Arthur Miller's achievement. In creating Willy Loman, Miller, like Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams, examines the shaky illusions at the foundation of so many American lives and finds tragedy within. Miller fearlessly assesses the small life of a common man, the shattered hopes and dreams, and insists "attention must be paid."

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Steel Magnolias
Theatre '90

Price: $20 regular; $18 students/seniors; $14 children under 12
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Some may equate Steel Magnolias to the consummate "chick flick." It is, however, more accurately described as the ultimate "feel good" theater piece that all adults will enjoy. A great girls' night out, as well as a guy-girl thing; a mother and daughter time together as well as an entire audience filled with strangers enjoying similar feelings while on the same wave-length. Steel Magnolias is one of the most popular theater productions in the country because it has it all: comedy, drama, excitement, laughter, and poignancy.

For more information, phone 315-479-5495.

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Sin: A Cardinal Deposed
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

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

In the tradition of outstanding "docu-dramas" like The Laramie Project and Execution of Justice, Michael Murphy's Sin is a collage of testimonies of, by and surrounding Cardinal Bernard F. Law - the Catholic leader whose governance of his diocese was questioned and scrutinized when years of sexual abuse by diocesan priests finally came to light. This searing and emotional work examines our dedication to religion, our faith in our legal system and the strength of our own convictions - in the words of Cardinal Law himself.

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My One and Only
Syracuse University Drama Department
David Wanstreet, director

Price: $18 regular; $16 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Pioneer aviator Captain Billy Buck Chandler wants to be the first to pilot a plane non-stop from New York to Paris. A chance sighting of champion Channel swimmer Edythe Herbert sends his heart and his plans into a tailspin. Could such a famous and accomplished beauty possibly be his One and Only? It takes a whole lot of great Gershwin tunes, wall-to-wall tap dancing, and an emergency landing on a (not so) remote island to find out. A rarely done musical comedy treat that's as sharp and snappy as a Bop Bop Ba-Bop Ba Ba Da Ba

Read a Review!

Sunday, April 29, 2007

Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

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

Gest's photographs depict people in moments of deep private thought. The figures appear emotionally removed from their environment as if withdrawing from a public self. The work focuses on the way who we are can change when we are in a group. Although the subjects are alone in the photographs, the presence of others is implied. The images depict people in the last moments of being in their own world before seeing people, or going somewhere where others will be around. These are the last breaths and the last seconds of personal time before the subjects put on a public face and adopt the persona that they use while in a group of people.

To create these images, Gest combines numerous photographs into seamless final compositions using digital technology. Each image may consist of twenty or more separate photographs taken from various vantage points. The visually surprising images direct the viewer in the construction of everyday narratives.

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

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

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

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

Survivor's Art: Images of Hope & Healing
Everson Museum of Art

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

Survivor's Art is an exhibition initiated by Vera House, a community organization created to assist families in crises related to domestic and sexual violence. As part of their project, The Art of Caring, Vera House brings together gifted artists and a caring community. The exhibition offers hope and healing and celebrates the joy of the arts in our lives.

Selections from Silvano Campeggi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Point of Contact Gallery and the Redhouse. Each organization will be presenting works from a different period of renowned film poster artist, Silvano Campeggi.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Atrium Exhibit: OCC Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Syracuse University Concert Band
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Under the direction of Justin J Mertz, the Concert Band will be performing works by Frank Tichelli, Gustav Holst, JJ Richards, Jason Nitsch and David Holsinger. Kathryn Stopper, Erin Young, Kimberly Lavery and Sky Harris will appear as graduate conducting associates.

Free parking will be available in Irving Garage.

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

Oasis Chorus
Fayetteville Free Library

Price: Free
Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St., Fayetteville

Gala Concert
Vera House, Inc.
SSO Brass Quintet; Syracuse Vocal Ensemble; Kevin Moore, piano

Price: Free (donations to benefit Vera House accepted)
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Concert and reception to honor the Survivors' Art Exhibit: Images of Hope and Healing, including music by Gershwin, Rachmaninoff, and Liszt, and tunes from West Side Story.

Highland Winds Clarinet Quartet

Price: Free; donations accepted
Holy Cross Church
4112 E. Genesee St., Dewitt

The ensemble members are John Delia, Tom Soccocio, John Flaver, and Tom McKay.

Spring Concert
Onondaga Civic Symphony Orchestra
Erik Kibelsbeck, conductor
Featuring Brian Burdick, tenor

Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

A Selection of Operatic Arias by Mozart, Donizetti and Gounod
Weber Der Freischutz Overture
Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Ravel Bolero

OCC Spring Concert #2
Onondaga Community College
OCC Jazz and Latin Ensembles and OCC Singers

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Broadway Blooms

Temple Adeth Yeshurun
450 Kimber Rd., DeWitt

A magical night of Broadway songs. Dessert reception at 6:30 pm, followed by the musical program at 7:30 pm. For more information, phone 315-445-0002 ext. 122.

Stars of Tomorrow Cabaret
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $10 regular; $5 with student ID
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Outstanding vocalists from the previous day's Vocal Jazz Jam will be invited to perform in a cabaret with the CNY Jazz Trio. Jazz Central will be set up cabaret-style in order to create a night club setting, and the public is invited to take a look at the area's most promising individual vocalists.

Refreshments including free finger foods will be served at the lobby bar.

SU Flute Ensemble and SU Trumpet Ensemble
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The flute ensemble will appear under the direction of faculty member Deborah Coble; faculty member Daniel Sapochetti will direct the trumpet ensemble. This joint program will include music by Britten, Kuhlau, Gaubert, McMichael, Pezel and Fats Waller.

Free parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, contact Coble at 315-451-3584 or dccoble@syr.edu.

A Park Bench, Sand and Indigestion
Armory Square Playwrights

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

Script in hand readings of three new plays by members of the organization's Playwrights Unit: The Plaque, by Peter Moller; Castles in the Sand, by Amy Doherty; and Heartburn, by Donna Stuccio.

The Plaque, by Peter Moller deals hilariously with the fact that we all want to be remembered via some lasting marker that we once lived. So why shouldn't Nelson Donald be able to buy a simple plaque on a park bench to make himself immortal? Well, the clerk at the County Parks and Recreation Office has a different plan in mind.

In Amy Doherty's Castles in the Sand, there are surprising consequences when two women make a genuinely unique sand design on the beach.

Donna Stuccio's Heartburn was done at the 48 Hour Play Writing Marathon at Ithaca's Kitchen Theatre in February. As they sort through their mother's belongings, three adult siblings also sort through conflicting perceptions of their connections to each other -- sometimes in ways that are comic, at others, in ways that are dramatic and poignant. This one-act play will be done as a full production with the original Kitchen Theatre cast.

All three writers are members of the Armory Square Playhouse Playwrights Unit. Moller is a professor of Television and Film at SU's Newhouse School and recently directed Rounding Third at Redhouse. An actress as well as a writer and a graduate of NYC's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater, Doherty recently appeared reading "The Flood" in the Vagina Monologues at Vera House. Stuccio is currently a student in the MFA creative writing program at Goddard College; Her Blue Moon and The Job premiered at Salt City Playhouse.

A talkback discussion with the authors will follow each presentation.

For more information, phone 315-445-4028.

Death of a Salesman
Syracuse Stage
Tim Ocel, director

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

Its status as an American classic makes it easy to hurl superlatives at this great play without truly considering Arthur Miller's achievement. In creating Willy Loman, Miller, like Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams, examines the shaky illusions at the foundation of so many American lives and finds tragedy within. Miller fearlessly assesses the small life of a common man, the shattered hopes and dreams, and insists "attention must be paid."

Read a Review!

My One and Only
Syracuse University Drama Department
David Wanstreet, director

Price: $18 regular; $16 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Pioneer aviator Captain Billy Buck Chandler wants to be the first to pilot a plane non-stop from New York to Paris. A chance sighting of champion Channel swimmer Edythe Herbert sends his heart and his plans into a tailspin. Could such a famous and accomplished beauty possibly be his One and Only? It takes a whole lot of great Gershwin tunes, wall-to-wall tap dancing, and an emergency landing on a (not so) remote island to find out. A rarely done musical comedy treat that's as sharp and snappy as a Bop Bop Ba-Bop Ba Ba Da Ba

Read a Review!

Steel Magnolias
Theatre '90

Price: $20 regular; $18 students/seniors; $14 children under 12
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Some may equate Steel Magnolias to the consummate "chick flick." It is, however, more accurately described as the ultimate "feel good" theater piece that all adults will enjoy. A great girls' night out, as well as a guy-girl thing; a mother and daughter time together as well as an entire audience filled with strangers enjoying similar feelings while on the same wave-length. Steel Magnolias is one of the most popular theater productions in the country because it has it all: comedy, drama, excitement, laughter, and poignancy.

For more information, phone 315-479-5495.

Read a Review!

Monday, April 30, 2007

Atrium Exhibit: OCC Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Visual Arts Showcase #59
CNY Arts

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

The Showcase features the work of area artists in a juried show. This season's work was selected
by Jennifer Pepper, Director of the Cazenovia College Gallery, and Wendy Harris, a working artist from Syracuse University.

Art from the CNY Region of the National League of American Pen Women

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

Works by 15 award-winning artists will be on display.

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Pennellate di Cinema: Classic film posters designed by Silvano Campeggi
Point of Contact Gallery

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

From 1945 to 1972, Silvano Campeggi worked for the major American cinematographic companies: Metro Goldwin Mayer, Universal, Paramount, RKO, Dear Film, creating over 3,000 posters for films that include Gone with the Wind, An American in Paris, Singing in the Rain and West Side Story, among countless other classics from Hollywood's Golden Era. A significant selection of the original hand made studies and sketches along with the definitive poster paintings will be on display at The Point of Contact Gallery for all Syracuse art and movie buffs to relish.

The partnership of Syracuse venues participating in this grand citywide retrospective materializes through the initiative of the Syracuse International Film Festival 2007, a Point of Contact production. Other galleries participating include the Everson Museum of Art, the Redhouse, and Company Gallery.

Each venue will cover a different era of Campeggi's prolific career. Many of the works to be presented in this citywide exhibit will later travel on to New York City's Lincoln Center for a show that opens in June.

Maestro Campeggi is the creator of the official poster for the 2007 Syracuse International Film Festival.

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

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

Gest's photographs depict people in moments of deep private thought. The figures appear emotionally removed from their environment as if withdrawing from a public self. The work focuses on the way who we are can change when we are in a group. Although the subjects are alone in the photographs, the presence of others is implied. The images depict people in the last moments of being in their own world before seeing people, or going somewhere where others will be around. These are the last breaths and the last seconds of personal time before the subjects put on a public face and adopt the persona that they use while in a group of people.

To create these images, Gest combines numerous photographs into seamless final compositions using digital technology. Each image may consist of twenty or more separate photographs taken from various vantage points. The visually surprising images direct the viewer in the construction of everyday narratives.

Bill Gastrock, interactive designer and installation artist
Urban Video Project

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

Bill Gastrock, who will speak on architectural projections as public art, has a background in computer programming, electronic media and performance. He translates this knowledge into artistic innovation with interactive designs that make the audience a part of the performance.

Gastrock has designed artistic projections ranging from hotel lobby installations to surround-sound tunnels for private parties. His music and visual art installations, including his recent motion-interactive "Motley Interplay," have received critical acclaim. His work was recently displayed at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia.

Bill Horvitz Band

Price: $8 adults, $5 students
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Original jazz featuring Steve Adams, sax/flute; Harris Eisenstadt, drums; Bill Horvitz, guitar. Exciting and unique music that combines jazz, blues, funk, classical, and more. The band move with fluid grace between tight compositions and improvised solo and ensemble work, communicating with telepathic rapport.

Classical Masterworks
LeMoyne College
LeMoyne String Ensemble, Brass Ensemble, Wind Ensemble, and College Singers
Featuring Andrew King, piano

Price: Free
Panasci Family Chapel
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Andrew King, first prize winner of the 2006 Patricia DeAngelis Youth Piano Festival, joins the Le Moyne College String Ensemble under director Travis Newton in a performance of the Largo from Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2. Also on the program are performances by Le Moyne College's Wind Ensemble, J.C. Sanford, director; Brass Ensemble, Jeffrey Gray, director; and the Le Moyne College Singers, Joanna Manring, director. A great evening of student music-making, including a Phantom of the Opera medley arranged for chamber orchestra by Calvin Custer and vocal music from the soundtrack of the film Cold Mountain.

For more information, phone 315-445-4523.

Fred Karpoff, piano
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

In advance of a series of concerts in China in early May, Fred Karpoff is offering a preview recital, which will last about one hour, without intermission, and will consist of many encore-length pieces by: Liszt, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Villa-Lobos, MacDowell, Barber, Godowsky, Chopin, and Guarnieri.

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Atrium Exhibit: OCC Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Visual Arts Showcase #59
CNY Arts

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

The Showcase features the work of area artists in a juried show. This season's work was selected
by Jennifer Pepper, Director of the Cazenovia College Gallery, and Wendy Harris, a working artist from Syracuse University.

Art from the CNY Region of the National League of American Pen Women

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

Works by 15 award-winning artists will be on display.

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Pennellate di Cinema: Classic film posters designed by Silvano Campeggi
Point of Contact Gallery

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

From 1945 to 1972, Silvano Campeggi worked for the major American cinematographic companies: Metro Goldwin Mayer, Universal, Paramount, RKO, Dear Film, creating over 3,000 posters for films that include Gone with the Wind, An American in Paris, Singing in the Rain and West Side Story, among countless other classics from Hollywood's Golden Era. A significant selection of the original hand made studies and sketches along with the definitive poster paintings will be on display at The Point of Contact Gallery for all Syracuse art and movie buffs to relish.

The partnership of Syracuse venues participating in this grand citywide retrospective materializes through the initiative of the Syracuse International Film Festival 2007, a Point of Contact production. Other galleries participating include the Everson Museum of Art, the Redhouse, and Company Gallery.

Each venue will cover a different era of Campeggi's prolific career. Many of the works to be presented in this citywide exhibit will later travel on to New York City's Lincoln Center for a show that opens in June.

Maestro Campeggi is the creator of the official poster for the 2007 Syracuse International Film Festival.

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Dodji Koudakpo: An African Experiences
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition features recent paintings by Koudakpo, a graduating senior at Syracuse University.

Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

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

Gest's photographs depict people in moments of deep private thought. The figures appear emotionally removed from their environment as if withdrawing from a public self. The work focuses on the way who we are can change when we are in a group. Although the subjects are alone in the photographs, the presence of others is implied. The images depict people in the last moments of being in their own world before seeing people, or going somewhere where others will be around. These are the last breaths and the last seconds of personal time before the subjects put on a public face and adopt the persona that they use while in a group of people.

To create these images, Gest combines numerous photographs into seamless final compositions using digital technology. Each image may consist of twenty or more separate photographs taken from various vantage points. The visually surprising images direct the viewer in the construction of everyday narratives.

Networked Nature
The Warehouse Gallery

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

"Networked Nature" uses innovative technology to combine art, science and politics. The group exhibition inventively explores the meaning and representation of "nature," from the perspective of networked culture. The featured works employ various scientific processes and locative media, such as global positioning systems (GPS) and robotics, and take the form of installations, video and sound art. Together, they make new contributions to the discourses of extant genres, such as sculpture, earth works and landscape imagery, while also demonstrating the scientific beauty and complexity of electronic and digital art.

"Networked Nature" was organized by Marisa Olson, Editor and Curator for Rhizome, a leading new media organization affiliated with the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Their programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways.

Defining Moments: American Masterworks from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition illustrates the development of American Art from the middle of the 19th century and through the 20th century. The selection of paintings, prints and sculpture in this exhibit show how art in the U.S. progressed out of Eurocentric visual and cultural ideals to form a purely American aesthetic culture. Louis Comfort Tiffany married the French Art Nouveau style with the American ingenuity of the light bulb to design masterpieces such as the Murano Design Lamp (1893-95). During the 20th century, the U.S. became a major exponent of Modernism, with artists like Rico Lebrun and Yasuo Kuniyoshi leading the way. Lebrun's "Woman with Arms over Head" (1962-63) reflects his spontaneity and experimental philosophy, while the bright, acidic colors in Kuniyoshi's "Forbidden Fruit" (1950) exemplify the prevailing aesthetic current of the New York School shortly after World War II.

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

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

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

Women at Work: Members of the Art Students League of New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings from the University's permanent collection examines how Modernism and the formation of the Art Students League impacted the influx of women into the field and their development as professional and influential artists.

The selection of work begins with artists who were directly influenced by the 1913 Amory Show such as Peggy Bacon, Maria Wickey, and Isabel Bishop. The exhibition concludes with the advent of Abstract Expressionism, showing works by Jan Gelb, Minna Citron, Terry Haass, and Helen Frankenthaler. These works illustrate American art's stylistic evolution during the period. Early drawings like Harriet Frishmuth's "Study, reclining nude," reveal a classical, academic structure. This type of work gave way in the 1920s to the gritty and modern "realism" of Isabel Bishop's "Sleeping Man." After World War II, Abstract Expressionism began to take over, as seen in Minna
Citron's "Men Seldom Make Passes...," and later in the work of Helen Frankenthaler.

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

The Collector's Gene: Passion, Devotion and Learning
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Collector's Gene: Passion, Devotion and Learning uses a diverse selection of nearly 100 objects from the permanent collection to illustrate the collecting interests of Cloud Wampler, Colonel John Fox, Dr. Henry and Nancy Rosin, and Ruth Reeves. Henry Rosin says, "My collecting began as a child when I'd gather up the bottle caps under the stands at semi-professional baseball games in Brooklyn." He later turned his interests towards Japan where, as an Air Force flight surgeon, he accumulated a large group of Japanese sword fittings and hand colored photographs. The three other individuals profiled in the exhibition share similar experiences. Cloud Wampler, best known locally as the past Chairman of Carrier Corporation, was passionate about master prints, John Fox, stationed in Korea with the Army, insisted that the best way to learn about Korean culture was to go out and visit shopkeepers and merchants. Ruth Reeves went to India in 1956 on a Fulbright fellowship to study local brass casting techniques. She collected a large number of brass objects and a rare group of clay ceremonial sculptures. The university saw the educational potential in the collection and agreed to purchase her collection in 1963.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Selections from Silvano Campeggi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Point of Contact Gallery and the Redhouse. Each organization will be presenting works from a different period of renowned film poster artist, Silvano Campeggi.

Survivor's Art: Images of Hope & Healing
Everson Museum of Art

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

Survivor's Art is an exhibition initiated by Vera House, a community organization created to assist families in crises related to domestic and sexual violence. As part of their project, The Art of Caring, Vera House brings together gifted artists and a caring community. The exhibition offers hope and healing and celebrates the joy of the arts in our lives.

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

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

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

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

Glimmerglass Opera in Concert: The World of Offenbach
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

The performance, featuring members of the opera's acclaimed Young American Artists program, will present excerpts from the 2007 festival season. The program, sung in English, will include performances from Orpheus in the Underworld, La Perichole and The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein.

Performers include soprano Susan Hellman, mezzo-soprano Margaret Gawrysiak, tenor Christian Reinert, baritone Todd Boyce, and music director and pianist Tony Cho. Christopher Rovente is tour manager and director.

Free parking is available in Irving Garage.

**POSTPONED** Movin' Out
Broadway in Syracuse

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

Because of a booking change with the Movin' Out tour, the performance has been postponed until May 2008.

Movin' Out brings 24 Billy Joel classics to electrifying new life as it tells the story of five life-long friends over two turbulent decades. It all adds up to on unforgettable Broadway musical. Five-time Grammy winner Joel and legendary director/choreographer Twyla Tharp have joined forces to create this spectacular new musical that Time Magazine declares "The #1 show of the year!" The New York calls Movin' Out "a shimmering portrait of an American generation. These tornado driven dancers and rock musicians propel the audience into delirious ovations."

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Atrium Exhibit: OCC Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Visual Arts Showcase #59
CNY Arts

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

The Showcase features the work of area artists in a juried show. This season's work was selected
by Jennifer Pepper, Director of the Cazenovia College Gallery, and Wendy Harris, a working artist from Syracuse University.

Art from the CNY Region of the National League of American Pen Women

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

Works by 15 award-winning artists will be on display.

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Pennellate di Cinema: Classic film posters designed by Silvano Campeggi
Point of Contact Gallery

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

From 1945 to 1972, Silvano Campeggi worked for the major American cinematographic companies: Metro Goldwin Mayer, Universal, Paramount, RKO, Dear Film, creating over 3,000 posters for films that include Gone with the Wind, An American in Paris, Singing in the Rain and West Side Story, among countless other classics from Hollywood's Golden Era. A significant selection of the original hand made studies and sketches along with the definitive poster paintings will be on display at The Point of Contact Gallery for all Syracuse art and movie buffs to relish.

The partnership of Syracuse venues participating in this grand citywide retrospective materializes through the initiative of the Syracuse International Film Festival 2007, a Point of Contact production. Other galleries participating include the Everson Museum of Art, the Redhouse, and Company Gallery.

Each venue will cover a different era of Campeggi's prolific career. Many of the works to be presented in this citywide exhibit will later travel on to New York City's Lincoln Center for a show that opens in June.

Maestro Campeggi is the creator of the official poster for the 2007 Syracuse International Film Festival.

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Dodji Koudakpo: An African Experiences
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition features recent paintings by Koudakpo, a graduating senior at Syracuse University.

Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

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

Gest's photographs depict people in moments of deep private thought. The figures appear emotionally removed from their environment as if withdrawing from a public self. The work focuses on the way who we are can change when we are in a group. Although the subjects are alone in the photographs, the presence of others is implied. The images depict people in the last moments of being in their own world before seeing people, or going somewhere where others will be around. These are the last breaths and the last seconds of personal time before the subjects put on a public face and adopt the persona that they use while in a group of people.

To create these images, Gest combines numerous photographs into seamless final compositions using digital technology. Each image may consist of twenty or more separate photographs taken from various vantage points. The visually surprising images direct the viewer in the construction of everyday narratives.

Networked Nature
The Warehouse Gallery

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

"Networked Nature" uses innovative technology to combine art, science and politics. The group exhibition inventively explores the meaning and representation of "nature," from the perspective of networked culture. The featured works employ various scientific processes and locative media, such as global positioning systems (GPS) and robotics, and take the form of installations, video and sound art. Together, they make new contributions to the discourses of extant genres, such as sculpture, earth works and landscape imagery, while also demonstrating the scientific beauty and complexity of electronic and digital art.

"Networked Nature" was organized by Marisa Olson, Editor and Curator for Rhizome, a leading new media organization affiliated with the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Their programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

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

Defining Moments: American Masterworks from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition illustrates the development of American Art from the middle of the 19th century and through the 20th century. The selection of paintings, prints and sculpture in this exhibit show how art in the U.S. progressed out of Eurocentric visual and cultural ideals to form a purely American aesthetic culture. Louis Comfort Tiffany married the French Art Nouveau style with the American ingenuity of the light bulb to design masterpieces such as the Murano Design Lamp (1893-95). During the 20th century, the U.S. became a major exponent of Modernism, with artists like Rico Lebrun and Yasuo Kuniyoshi leading the way. Lebrun's "Woman with Arms over Head" (1962-63) reflects his spontaneity and experimental philosophy, while the bright, acidic colors in Kuniyoshi's "Forbidden Fruit" (1950) exemplify the prevailing aesthetic current of the New York School shortly after World War II.

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

The Collector's Gene: Passion, Devotion and Learning
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Collector's Gene: Passion, Devotion and Learning uses a diverse selection of nearly 100 objects from the permanent collection to illustrate the collecting interests of Cloud Wampler, Colonel John Fox, Dr. Henry and Nancy Rosin, and Ruth Reeves. Henry Rosin says, "My collecting began as a child when I'd gather up the bottle caps under the stands at semi-professional baseball games in Brooklyn." He later turned his interests towards Japan where, as an Air Force flight surgeon, he accumulated a large group of Japanese sword fittings and hand colored photographs. The three other individuals profiled in the exhibition share similar experiences. Cloud Wampler, best known locally as the past Chairman of Carrier Corporation, was passionate about master prints, John Fox, stationed in Korea with the Army, insisted that the best way to learn about Korean culture was to go out and visit shopkeepers and merchants. Ruth Reeves went to India in 1956 on a Fulbright fellowship to study local brass casting techniques. She collected a large number of brass objects and a rare group of clay ceremonial sculptures. The university saw the educational potential in the collection and agreed to purchase her collection in 1963.

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

Women at Work: Members of the Art Students League of New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings from the University's permanent collection examines how Modernism and the formation of the Art Students League impacted the influx of women into the field and their development as professional and influential artists.

The selection of work begins with artists who were directly influenced by the 1913 Amory Show such as Peggy Bacon, Maria Wickey, and Isabel Bishop. The exhibition concludes with the advent of Abstract Expressionism, showing works by Jan Gelb, Minna Citron, Terry Haass, and Helen Frankenthaler. These works illustrate American art's stylistic evolution during the period. Early drawings like Harriet Frishmuth's "Study, reclining nude," reveal a classical, academic structure. This type of work gave way in the 1920s to the gritty and modern "realism" of Isabel Bishop's "Sleeping Man." After World War II, Abstract Expressionism began to take over, as seen in Minna
Citron's "Men Seldom Make Passes...," and later in the work of Helen Frankenthaler.

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

Survivor's Art: Images of Hope & Healing
Everson Museum of Art

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

Survivor's Art is an exhibition initiated by Vera House, a community organization created to assist families in crises related to domestic and sexual violence. As part of their project, The Art of Caring, Vera House brings together gifted artists and a caring community. The exhibition offers hope and healing and celebrates the joy of the arts in our lives.

Selections from Silvano Campeggi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Point of Contact Gallery and the Redhouse. Each organization will be presenting works from a different period of renowned film poster artist, Silvano Campeggi.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Domestic Fear: An exhibition by Colin Todd, SU Photography Graduate Student
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

Domestic Fear is an exploration into the culture of surveillance and observation in suburbia. The installation questions forms of "watching" and surveillance in a domestic realm, utilizing popular forms of home-security systems and surveillance cameras. The work addresses the need for domestic safety and the forms of paranoia that branch out from a fear-driven Americana.

The Three Sopranos
Civic Morning Musicals
Susan Pearce, Julie McKinstry, and Monica Merante, sopranos

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

Performance
Salt City Jazz Collective

Syracuse Suds Factory
320 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

**POSTPONED** Movin' Out
Broadway in Syracuse

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

Because of a booking change with the Movin' Out tour, the performance has been postponed until May 2008.

Movin' Out brings 24 Billy Joel classics to electrifying new life as it tells the story of five life-long friends over two turbulent decades. It all adds up to on unforgettable Broadway musical. Five-time Grammy winner Joel and legendary director/choreographer Twyla Tharp have joined forces to create this spectacular new musical that Time Magazine declares "The #1 show of the year!" The New York calls Movin' Out "a shimmering portrait of an American generation. These tornado driven dancers and rock musicians propel the audience into delirious ovations."

My One and Only
Syracuse University Drama Department
David Wanstreet, director

Price: $18 regular; $16 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Pioneer aviator Captain Billy Buck Chandler wants to be the first to pilot a plane non-stop from New York to Paris. A chance sighting of champion Channel swimmer Edythe Herbert sends his heart and his plans into a tailspin. Could such a famous and accomplished beauty possibly be his One and Only? It takes a whole lot of great Gershwin tunes, wall-to-wall tap dancing, and an emergency landing on a (not so) remote island to find out. A rarely done musical comedy treat that's as sharp and snappy as a Bop Bop Ba-Bop Ba Ba Da Ba

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Thursday, May 3, 2007

Atrium Exhibit: OCC Architecture and Interior Design Show
Onondaga Community College

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

Visual Arts Showcase #59
CNY Arts

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

The Showcase features the work of area artists in a juried show. This season's work was selected
by Jennifer Pepper, Director of the Cazenovia College Gallery, and Wendy Harris, a working artist from Syracuse University.

Art from the CNY Region of the National League of American Pen Women

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

Works by 15 award-winning artists will be on display.

Gallery Exhibit: Feats of Clay
Onondaga Community College

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

Pennellate di Cinema: Classic film posters designed by Silvano Campeggi
Point of Contact Gallery

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

From 1945 to 1972, Silvano Campeggi worked for the major American cinematographic companies: Metro Goldwin Mayer, Universal, Paramount, RKO, Dear Film, creating over 3,000 posters for films that include Gone with the Wind, An American in Paris, Singing in the Rain and West Side Story, among countless other classics from Hollywood's Golden Era. A significant selection of the original hand made studies and sketches along with the definitive poster paintings will be on display at The Point of Contact Gallery for all Syracuse art and movie buffs to relish.

The partnership of Syracuse venues participating in this grand citywide retrospective materializes through the initiative of the Syracuse International Film Festival 2007, a Point of Contact production. Other galleries participating include the Everson Museum of Art, the Redhouse, and Company Gallery.

Each venue will cover a different era of Campeggi's prolific career. Many of the works to be presented in this citywide exhibit will later travel on to New York City's Lincoln Center for a show that opens in June.

Maestro Campeggi is the creator of the official poster for the 2007 Syracuse International Film Festival.

Seeing Red
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

Dodji Koudakpo: An African Experiences
Community Folk Art Center

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

The exhibition features recent paintings by Koudakpo, a graduating senior at Syracuse University.

Photographs by Ben Gest
Light Work Gallery

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

Gest's photographs depict people in moments of deep private thought. The figures appear emotionally removed from their environment as if withdrawing from a public self. The work focuses on the way who we are can change when we are in a group. Although the subjects are alone in the photographs, the presence of others is implied. The images depict people in the last moments of being in their own world before seeing people, or going somewhere where others will be around. These are the last breaths and the last seconds of personal time before the subjects put on a public face and adopt the persona that they use while in a group of people.

To create these images, Gest combines numerous photographs into seamless final compositions using digital technology. Each image may consist of twenty or more separate photographs taken from various vantage points. The visually surprising images direct the viewer in the construction of everyday narratives.

Networked Nature
The Warehouse Gallery

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

"Networked Nature" uses innovative technology to combine art, science and politics. The group exhibition inventively explores the meaning and representation of "nature," from the perspective of networked culture. The featured works employ various scientific processes and locative media, such as global positioning systems (GPS) and robotics, and take the form of installations, video and sound art. Together, they make new contributions to the discourses of extant genres, such as sculpture, earth works and landscape imagery, while also demonstrating the scientific beauty and complexity of electronic and digital art.

"Networked Nature" was organized by Marisa Olson, Editor and Curator for Rhizome, a leading new media organization affiliated with the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Their programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways.

Defining Moments: American Masterworks from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

This exhibition illustrates the development of American Art from the middle of the 19th century and through the 20th century. The selection of paintings, prints and sculpture in this exhibit show how art in the U.S. progressed out of Eurocentric visual and cultural ideals to form a purely American aesthetic culture. Louis Comfort Tiffany married the French Art Nouveau style with the American ingenuity of the light bulb to design masterpieces such as the Murano Design Lamp (1893-95). During the 20th century, the U.S. became a major exponent of Modernism, with artists like Rico Lebrun and Yasuo Kuniyoshi leading the way. Lebrun's "Woman with Arms over Head" (1962-63) reflects his spontaneity and experimental philosophy, while the bright, acidic colors in Kuniyoshi's "Forbidden Fruit" (1950) exemplify the prevailing aesthetic current of the New York School shortly after World War II.

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

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

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

Women at Work: Members of the Art Students League of New York
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings from the University's permanent collection examines how Modernism and the formation of the Art Students League impacted the influx of women into the field and their development as professional and influential artists.

The selection of work begins with artists who were directly influenced by the 1913 Amory Show such as Peggy Bacon, Maria Wickey, and Isabel Bishop. The exhibition concludes with the advent of Abstract Expressionism, showing works by Jan Gelb, Minna Citron, Terry Haass, and Helen Frankenthaler. These works illustrate American art's stylistic evolution during the period. Early drawings like Harriet Frishmuth's "Study, reclining nude," reveal a classical, academic structure. This type of work gave way in the 1920s to the gritty and modern "realism" of Isabel Bishop's "Sleeping Man." After World War II, Abstract Expressionism began to take over, as seen in Minna
Citron's "Men Seldom Make Passes...," and later in the work of Helen Frankenthaler.

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

The Collector's Gene: Passion, Devotion and Learning
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The Collector's Gene: Passion, Devotion and Learning uses a diverse selection of nearly 100 objects from the permanent collection to illustrate the collecting interests of Cloud Wampler, Colonel John Fox, Dr. Henry and Nancy Rosin, and Ruth Reeves. Henry Rosin says, "My collecting began as a child when I'd gather up the bottle caps under the stands at semi-professional baseball games in Brooklyn." He later turned his interests towards Japan where, as an Air Force flight surgeon, he accumulated a large group of Japanese sword fittings and hand colored photographs. The three other individuals profiled in the exhibition share similar experiences. Cloud Wampler, best known locally as the past Chairman of Carrier Corporation, was passionate about master prints, John Fox, stationed in Korea with the Army, insisted that the best way to learn about Korean culture was to go out and visit shopkeepers and merchants. Ruth Reeves went to India in 1956 on a Fulbright fellowship to study local brass casting techniques. She collected a large number of brass objects and a rare group of clay ceremonial sculptures. The university saw the educational potential in the collection and agreed to purchase her collection in 1963.

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

Art Across Generations
Delavan Art Gallery

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

This exhibit features acrylic paintings by A. Brooks Decker, photographs by Vivian Geiger, photographs by Jessica Taylor and art by students in three Syracuse School District Elementary Schools: Blodgett, Seymour Magnet and Solace.

For A. Brooks Decker, childhood memories are entwined in the subject matter of her paintings in a style she calls "romantic realism." Also included in this show are paintings of garden doors inspired by photographs by her daughter, Jessica Taylor, whose work is also included in this exhibit.

Vivian Geiger is a widely respected photographer who is showcasing a new series of abstracts and a new technique of using pastels on photographs.

Jessica Taylor is exhibiting many of her cloudscapes in this exhibit along side her mother, A. Brooks Decker's paintings.

For the fourth year, Delavan Art Gallery is pleased to host the work of children from Blodgett, Seymour Magnet and Solace Elementary Schools. Students from the classes of Stacy Griffin, Kelly Moser and Simone Montgomery have the chance to see their work in a professional setting and to sell the work to raise money for themselves as burgeoning artists and for school art supplies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Selections from Silvano Campeggi
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Point of Contact Gallery and the Redhouse. Each organization will be presenting works from a different period of renowned film poster artist, Silvano Campeggi.

Survivor's Art: Images of Hope & Healing
Everson Museum of Art

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

Survivor's Art is an exhibition initiated by Vera House, a community organization created to assist families in crises related to domestic and sexual violence. As part of their project, The Art of Caring, Vera House brings together gifted artists and a caring community. The exhibition offers hope and healing and celebrates the joy of the arts in our lives.

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

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

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

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

Die Another Death
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.

**POSTPONED** Movin' Out
Broadway in Syracuse

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

Because of a booking change with the Movin' Out tour, the performance has been postponed until May 2008.

Movin' Out brings 24 Billy Joel classics to electrifying new life as it tells the story of five life-long friends over two turbulent decades. It all adds up to on unforgettable Broadway musical. Five-time Grammy winner Joel and legendary director/choreographer Twyla Tharp have joined forces to create this spectacular new musical that Time Magazine declares "The #1 show of the year!" The New York calls Movin' Out "a shimmering portrait of an American generation. These tornado driven dancers and rock musicians propel the audience into delirious ovations."

Bang Bang You're Dead
Rarely Done Productions

Price: Free, but reservations strongly recommended
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Bang Bang You're Dead, written by award-winning playwright William Mastrosimone, which features students from OCC, Nottingham, Bishop Ludden and Jamesville-Dewitt high schools, was commissioned by the Ribbon of Promise Campaign to Prevent School Violence. The piece tackles the subject of bullying and gun violence among our school-aged youth. The play is intended to communicate and allow for discovery about how we've made the world's violence our own -- and how we can change it. It's about a theater of life.

Because of the subject matter, only mature high school students and adults will be admitted.

For more information, phone 315-546-3224.

My One and Only
Syracuse University Drama Department
David Wanstreet, director

Price: $18 regular; $16 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Pioneer aviator Captain Billy Buck Chandler wants to be the first to pilot a plane non-stop from New York to Paris. A chance sighting of champion Channel swimmer Edythe Herbert sends his heart and his plans into a tailspin. Could such a famous and accomplished beauty possibly be his One and Only? It takes a whole lot of great Gershwin tunes, wall-to-wall tap dancing, and an emergency landing on a (not so) remote island to find out. A rarely done musical comedy treat that's as sharp and snappy as a Bop Bop Ba-Bop Ba Ba Da Ba

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