Friday, March 26, 2010

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

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

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

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

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

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

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

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life's Closet: Acrylics and Fabric by Anne-Margaret Childress
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Remembrance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Darryl Hughto & Susan Roth: New Paintings and Sculptures
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibition will feature paintings by both artists created specifically for this exhibition, as well as recent sculptures. A full color exhibition catalog will be available which will include an essay by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

{un}familiar
Redhouse

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

{un}familiar, curated by Maeve Mulrennan of the Galway Arts Centre in Ireland, takes as its starting point research by Professor Olaf Blanke into out-of-body-experiences. The selected artists have been invited to make a new work for the exhibition. They have been given research texts by the curator, which include Prof. Blanke's case studies, Foucault's Of Other Spaces, Heterotopias and Alice's Adventure's In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

The artists were selected not because they have explored this territory before: it is because they each show a need to investigate the unknown, to immerse themselves in the unheimlich and reveal fears, myths and truths surrounding their subjects. Each artist works in various media, including performance, video, painting, drawing, collage and sculpture.

{un}familiar features the work of Michelle Browne, Benji de Burca, Cecilia Danell, Vera Klute, Sabina MacMahon, and Julia Pallone. The opening reception will include a performance of "The World Could Wait No Longer" by Mark Clare on the Red House stage. A video of this performance will be shown throughout the remainder of the exhibition.

Act 2: Recent Work by Michelle DaRin
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Act 2 represents a pivotal moment in life and art for artist, Michelle DaRin. Known regionally and nationally as a designer of fine art jewelry, Michelle also creates sculptural assemblages. These combine found objects, reclaimed wood, fiber, and metal, and objects cast in bronze. Michelle's jewelry also incorporates various elements, including forged and enameled copper, cast silver, fiber, resin, and stones. Her jewelry and sculpture will both be featured in this exhibition.

Art: 2003-2009
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

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Wild Card Exhibit: CNY Scholastic Art Awards Show
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rodger Mack Exhibition
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park

Price: Free
The Spring: Center for Spiritual & Cultural Unity
200 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibit will feature a total of 104 paintings by the late Rodger Mack, one of Syracuse's most well-known and well-loved artists. Internationally known for his sculptures, Mack was also a dynamic painter who created colorful, vibrant works.

The paintings are provided by Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, and the exhibition is made possible by a collaboration between the Park, The Spring and Syracuse University. Proceeds from the sale of Mack's art will go equally to the three not-for-profits.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Reassemblages
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

Mark Povinelli is curating this exhibition of over 80 or more of his most recent drawings. He navigates mythaglyphic language within the matrix of drawings as captured portals.

Also on display is a window installation designed by Mark Povinelli.

Boys & Girls: The Art of Diane Menzies and Mary Giehl
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Each year in America over 3 million children are abused, nearly 2,000 die, some run away, others are abandoned, all have their own challenges with this sojourn through adolescence. Each day in America, 6 children die from abuse, 100,000 children are homeless, 8 children die from guns, 219 children die before their first birthday, 1,534 babies are born to teenage girls.

In the paintings by Diane Menzies and installations by Mary Giehl, there are hints of darkness and confinement along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness. The work challenges the viewer to take a deeper look at what these images of childhood are telling us.

Cinefest 2010
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $25/day or $75/four-day festival
Holiday Inn
Electronics Parkway, Liverpool

9:00 a.m.: Information Please
1940 short based on the popular NBC radio game show hosted by Clifton Fadiman, with Oscar Levant as panelist.

9:10 a.m.: Hats Off
1936 musical with Mae Clarke and John Payne working from an early script by Sam Fuller.

10:20 a.m.: The Doll-House Mystery
1915 short starring then 7-year-old Baby Carmen De Rue

10:55 a.m.: Human Hearts
1922 silent dubbed as a rural melodrama, with an Ozark hayseed getting hornswoggled by a con lady.

1:00 p.m.: Chapter 9 of Pearl of the Army
1916 serial, a sampling of the adventures with Pearl White.

1:30 p.m.: A Tale of Two Worlds
1921 silent melodrama begins with a Ming Dynasty-era scepter falling into the hands of an antiques dealer and his wife, who are promptly killed by Boxer rebels; the orphaned daughter is then raised in San Francisco's Chinatown, where she is thought to be Chinese.

2:35 p.m.: Peacock Alley
1930, out-of-favor actress Mae Murray's failed attempt at a screen comeback with this talkie that shares the same title (and little else) of her celebrated 1922 silent.

3:45 p.m.: The White Desert
1925 silent melodrama set in snowy Colorado.

5:00 p.m.: Freckles
1935, about an Indiana lumber camp, with Tom Brown and kid actor Virginia Weidler.

8:00 p.m.: Jubilee Overture
1954 short with composer Johnny Green wielding the orchestra baton, designed to showcase the glories of widescreen and stereophonic sound.

8:10 p.m.: A Song in the Dark
1930, Richard Barrios' program of excerpts and deleted musical numbers from early sound musicals.

9:45 p.m.: Orchids and Ermine
1927 silent flapper comedy with Colleen Moore as a hotel telephone operator in husband-hunting mode.

10:40 p.m.: The Lost Patrol
Director John Ford's classic tale of desert survival with Victor MacLaglen, Boris Karloff, and plenty of familiar faces in the supporting cast. Cinefest will screen what's believed to be the last surviving 16mm print, which has some additional moments not found in those other versions.

For more information, phone 315-68-6147.

5th Annual Rockin' the Red Cross Battle of the Bands

Price: $10
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

13 Syracuse company-organized rock bands compete for bragging rights and to raise money for the American Red Cross

For more information, call 315-234-2225.

Harrison Bankhead with Warren Smith and Bill Cole
Community Folk Art Center
John Coltrane Memorial Contemporary Jazz Series

Price: Free
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-442-2230.

Ghost Society, Milking Diamonds
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

Ghost Society, comes from Denmark on their international tour for their debut album, "Better Days."
Ghost Society is a new project by the two vocalists and songwriters Sara Savery from People Press Play (Morr Music) and Tobias Wilner from Blue Foundation/Bichi. With love for catchy indiepop, shoegazing and avant garde folk they have been creating some beautiful and dreamy tunes in collaboration with the other two band members Lasse Herbst (drums) and Frederik Sølberg (guitars).

The opening band will be Syracuse's own Milking Diamonds.

Pops Series: A Long and Winding Road
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Michael Butterman, conductor
Featuring Maureen McGovern

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

Maureen McGovern's famous songs "The Morning After" and "We May Never Love Like This Again" have won her two Oscars. She is also a Grammy winner for her contribution to the album Songs From the Neighborhood: The Music of Mister Rogers.

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Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
SU Women's Choir and Concert Choir

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

Under the direction of Barbara Tagg, the SU Women's Choir will premiere "The Turning Earth" by Kala Pierson, winner of the SU Gregg Smith Choral Composition Contest. The Women's Choir will also perform Smith's "Now I Walk in Beauty" and "Latin Madrigals," as well as works by Walker, Dawson, and Papoulis.

Under the direction of John Warren, the SU Concert Choir will perform works by Handel, Aguiar, Haugland, Cunliffe and Diettrich. The concert's finale will feature the combined choirs and the Syracuse Children's Chorus in a performance of "Welcome Home" from Smith's opera "Rip Van Winkle."

Parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, phone 315-443-5750 or email btagg@syr.edu.

Parking is available in the Irving Garage.

Gene Ween
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

No, No Nanette
Christian Brothers Academy

Price: $8
Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A Night of Israel Horovitz: The Indian Wants the Bronx and It's Called the Sugar Plum
Appleseed Productions
Jon Wilson, director

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

The Indian Wants the Bronx
An East Indian (played by Navroz N. Dabu) gets lost on his first day in New York as two teenage punks find him waiting at a lonely bus stop. He cannot understand English, and the boys have some fun with him -- at least it starts out as fun. But as the minutes go by and the bus doesn't come, they get bored; then annoyed; then vicious. As the nightmare spell of the play takes hold, and the boys torture their victim with increasing relish, we are brought to a shocking awareness of how thin the veneer of civilization can be, of how close beneath the surface of all men lurks the primitive impulse to hurt and humiliate those whose very helplessness and inability to communicate can only frustrate and enrage.

It's Called the Sugar Plum
Zuckerman, a college student, ran over and killed a young man riding a skate board. As the play opens he is in his room pasting newspaper clippings into a scrapbook, humming contentedly, as he listens to a report of the accident on the radio. There is a knock at the door. Joanna, the fiancee of the dead man, enters in tears of accusation. After her initial tirade, it's not long before they end up in each other's arms, quarreling over the amount of space devoted to each of them in the newspaper's report of the accident. Zuckerman's outrage during the quarrel seems to be the only emotion he feels, whereas shedding tears is no problem for Joanna. But what amuses and disturbs them most is the chilling speed with which their instinctive self-concern overcomes the grief of the one and the guilt of the other.

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The Shape of Things
Rarely Done Productions
Roy VanNorstrand, director

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

How far would you go for love? For art? What would you be willing to change? Which price might you pay? A young student drifts into an ever-changing relationship with an art major while his best friends' engagement crumbles, so unleashing a drama that peels back the skin of two modern-day relationships, exposing the raw meat and gristle that lie beneath. By Neil LaBute.

Intended for mature audiences only.

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Almost, Maine
Syracuse Stage

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

It's all about love, and like love, it is never what you expect. Meet the people of Almost, Maine, a tiny town so far north Vermont is considered the South. One winter night, with the aurora borealis creating celestial enchantment, eight couples fall under the spell of that funny little unpredictable thing called love. By turns touching, comic, warm, gentle, and altogether surprising, Almost, Maine is a funny Valentine of a play that will make you smile with your heart. By John Cariani.

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Room Service
Syracuse University Drama Department
Robert Moss, director

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

This comic delight from the 1930s is a real treat for anyone who loves theatre and especially for those who love the people who make theatre. An unscrupulous Broadway producer struggles to find a backer for his new show, which he knows will be a smash hit. Holed up in a Times Square hotel with 19 hungry actors and a ballooning room service bill, he tries to forestall eviction by concocting a series of ever-more preposterous events. A gem from an era of great American comedy.

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Saturday, March 27, 2010

Wild Card Exhibit: CNY Scholastic Art Awards Show
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Art: 2003-2009
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

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

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Remembrance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Act 2: Recent Work by Michelle DaRin
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Act 2 represents a pivotal moment in life and art for artist, Michelle DaRin. Known regionally and nationally as a designer of fine art jewelry, Michelle also creates sculptural assemblages. These combine found objects, reclaimed wood, fiber, and metal, and objects cast in bronze. Michelle's jewelry also incorporates various elements, including forged and enameled copper, cast silver, fiber, resin, and stones. Her jewelry and sculpture will both be featured in this exhibition.

Boys & Girls: The Art of Diane Menzies and Mary Giehl
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Each year in America over 3 million children are abused, nearly 2,000 die, some run away, others are abandoned, all have their own challenges with this sojourn through adolescence. Each day in America, 6 children die from abuse, 100,000 children are homeless, 8 children die from guns, 219 children die before their first birthday, 1,534 babies are born to teenage girls.

In the paintings by Diane Menzies and installations by Mary Giehl, there are hints of darkness and confinement along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness. The work challenges the viewer to take a deeper look at what these images of childhood are telling us.

Reassemblages
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

Mark Povinelli is curating this exhibition of over 80 or more of his most recent drawings. He navigates mythaglyphic language within the matrix of drawings as captured portals.

Also on display is a window installation designed by Mark Povinelli.

Darryl Hughto & Susan Roth: New Paintings and Sculptures
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibition will feature paintings by both artists created specifically for this exhibition, as well as recent sculptures. A full color exhibition catalog will be available which will include an essay by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

Rodger Mack Exhibition
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park

Price: Free
The Spring: Center for Spiritual & Cultural Unity
200 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibit will feature a total of 104 paintings by the late Rodger Mack, one of Syracuse's most well-known and well-loved artists. Internationally known for his sculptures, Mack was also a dynamic painter who created colorful, vibrant works.

The paintings are provided by Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, and the exhibition is made possible by a collaboration between the Park, The Spring and Syracuse University. Proceeds from the sale of Mack's art will go equally to the three not-for-profits.

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Cinefest 2010
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $25/day or $75/four-day festival
Holiday Inn
Electronics Parkway, Liverpool

Screenings of 35mm films will take place in Rome at the Capitol Theater. For those remaining in Syracuse, the following 16mm films will be shown:

10:00 a.m.: Earthworm Trailers
1936 slapstick comedy with Joe E. Brown

11:15 a.m.: New Frontier (Frontier Horizons)
1939 western, featuring John Wayne in one of his last Three Mesquiteers ventures

1:00 p.m.: Confessions of Boston Blackie
1941 mystery with Chester Morris;

2:15 p.m.: Buck Privates
1941 Abbott and Costello comedy

3:50 p.m.: Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
1939 film with Sidney Toler

8:00 p.m.: The Anthony Case
1930 William J. Burns detective short

8:10 p.m.: Innocently Guilty
1950 short with comic Bert Wheeler

8:35 p.m.: The Girl Without a Soul
1917 silent starring Viola Dana

9:30 p.m.: Are Parents People?
1925 silent comedy, directed by Mal St. Clair, involving a teen flapper daughter who tries to prevent her squabbling mom and dad from splitting.

10:25 p.m.: Winged Victory
1944 wartime flag-waver, 20th Century Fox's 130-minute collaboration with the U.S. Army Air Corps fields an impressive cast (Jeanne Crain, Judy Holliday, Edmond O'Brien, Red Buttons, Karl Malden and more) under the direction of George Cukor

For more information, phone 315-68-6147.

SaturdaySCREENINGS: Pray the Devil Back to Hell
ArtRage Gallery

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

Are you troubled about the role of non-violence in an extremely violent world? Come and see this inspiring and stirring documentary that shows how nonpartisan women activists brought peace to Liberia and helped empower the first female head of state. Crossing religious and generation lines, these women first pray for their country, and then take silent, peaceful action. 2008. Best Documentary: Tribeca Film Festival.

Spark Video
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Price: $3
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Spark Video, curated by Nathaniel Sullivan, features international and local work by Rob Conner, Xiaowen Zhu, Rachel Pigott, Holly Rodricks, Jessica Martinez, Michael Stickrod.

Family Series: Og and the Drum: Percussion Extravaganza
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Michael Butterman, conductor
Featuring SSO Percussion Section

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

With hundreds of different instruments at the ready, the SSO's most diverse section of the orchestra gets the spotlight in this concert as we explore percussion music from the caveman's log-drum to Latin music, ragtime, and the most exciting music of the 21st century. We'll demonstrate how just about anything that can be hit or struck makes great music!

Opera Resident Artists Concert
First Unitarian Universalist Society Music Series
Syracuse Opera

Price: $10 suggested donation
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

Syracuse Opera Resident Artists will perform a benefit concert featuring beloved arias and show tunes.

All proceeds will benefit the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse. For more information, call the church offices at 315-446-5940.

Pops Series: A Long and Winding Road
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Michael Butterman, conductor
Featuring Maureen McGovern

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

Maureen McGovern's famous songs "The Morning After" and "We May Never Love Like This Again" have won her two Oscars. She is also a Grammy winner for her contribution to the album Songs From the Neighborhood: The Music of Mister Rogers.

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Henry Rollins
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Beauty and the Beast
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive adaptation of the children's classic.

Almost, Maine
Syracuse Stage

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

It's all about love, and like love, it is never what you expect. Meet the people of Almost, Maine, a tiny town so far north Vermont is considered the South. One winter night, with the aurora borealis creating celestial enchantment, eight couples fall under the spell of that funny little unpredictable thing called love. By turns touching, comic, warm, gentle, and altogether surprising, Almost, Maine is a funny Valentine of a play that will make you smile with your heart. By John Cariani.

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Idol Assassination
Without a Cue Productions
Sara Caliva, director

Price: $37.25 includes dinner and show
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

It's the final night of Big American Star, and America is going to get a chance to vote for its next...big American star. The contestants are at each other's throats, dangerously close to ripping out one another's vocal chords, while the judges and host stir up drama to boost sagging ratings. By the time the contestants are ready to sing, the atmosphere has turned murderous, and the contestants may "knock 'em dead" in more ways than one.

The show is an interactive murder mystery that involves the members of the audience.

No, No Nanette
Christian Brothers Academy

Price: $8
Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A Night of Israel Horovitz: The Indian Wants the Bronx and It's Called the Sugar Plum
Appleseed Productions
Jon Wilson, director

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

The Indian Wants the Bronx
An East Indian (played by Navroz N. Dabu) gets lost on his first day in New York as two teenage punks find him waiting at a lonely bus stop. He cannot understand English, and the boys have some fun with him -- at least it starts out as fun. But as the minutes go by and the bus doesn't come, they get bored; then annoyed; then vicious. As the nightmare spell of the play takes hold, and the boys torture their victim with increasing relish, we are brought to a shocking awareness of how thin the veneer of civilization can be, of how close beneath the surface of all men lurks the primitive impulse to hurt and humiliate those whose very helplessness and inability to communicate can only frustrate and enrage.

It's Called the Sugar Plum
Zuckerman, a college student, ran over and killed a young man riding a skate board. As the play opens he is in his room pasting newspaper clippings into a scrapbook, humming contentedly, as he listens to a report of the accident on the radio. There is a knock at the door. Joanna, the fiancee of the dead man, enters in tears of accusation. After her initial tirade, it's not long before they end up in each other's arms, quarreling over the amount of space devoted to each of them in the newspaper's report of the accident. Zuckerman's outrage during the quarrel seems to be the only emotion he feels, whereas shedding tears is no problem for Joanna. But what amuses and disturbs them most is the chilling speed with which their instinctive self-concern overcomes the grief of the one and the guilt of the other.

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Well-Aged Words: Storytelling for Adults
Open Hand Theater
Featuring Michael Parent

Price: $18 in advance; $20 at the door; artist reception $5
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

From New England to New Zealand, and many places in between, Michael Parent has been telling stories and singing songs since 1977. He's a Franco-American Mainer, a storyteller, singer, writer and actor. He's been called "the storyteller of the underdog" with his folk and original stories and his traditional and otherwise outlandish songs (in both English and French). After many years living in Virginia, Michael returned to his home state of Maine in 1998, and now lives in Portland. He received the Circle of Excellence Award from the National Storytelling Network in 1999.

The Shape of Things
Rarely Done Productions
Roy VanNorstrand, director

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

How far would you go for love? For art? What would you be willing to change? Which price might you pay? A young student drifts into an ever-changing relationship with an art major while his best friends' engagement crumbles, so unleashing a drama that peels back the skin of two modern-day relationships, exposing the raw meat and gristle that lie beneath. By Neil LaBute.

Intended for mature audiences only.

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Ella
Redhouse
Autopista del Sur
Milton Loayza, director

Price: $20 includes post-show reception
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Red House presents the inaugural production of Autopista del Sur: a play about the dangerous combination of desire and the imagination. Presented in Spanish with English supertitles, Ella entertains and provokes with its suspense and emotions. This is the U.S. premiere of this work by acclaimed playwright Susana Torres Molina. Ella follows two men in a steam sauna where they confront the fact that they are sharing the same mistress. Mixing a naturalistic dialogue with dramatic inflections of energy, Ella, meaning "She" in Spanish, earned Molina a first prize by the National Foundation of the Arts in Agentina.

Co-founded by Rodrigo Hernandez and Artistic Director Milton Loayza, Autopista del Sur proposes stagings that explore theatricality as a source of discovery and pleasure. This inaugural production introduces Autopista Del Sur's mission of bringing Latin American plays to Central New York while seeking partnerships with local artists, communities, and universities.

Almost, Maine
Syracuse Stage

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

It's all about love, and like love, it is never what you expect. Meet the people of Almost, Maine, a tiny town so far north Vermont is considered the South. One winter night, with the aurora borealis creating celestial enchantment, eight couples fall under the spell of that funny little unpredictable thing called love. By turns touching, comic, warm, gentle, and altogether surprising, Almost, Maine is a funny Valentine of a play that will make you smile with your heart. By John Cariani.

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Room Service
Syracuse University Drama Department
Robert Moss, director

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

This comic delight from the 1930s is a real treat for anyone who loves theatre and especially for those who love the people who make theatre. An unscrupulous Broadway producer struggles to find a backer for his new show, which he knows will be a smash hit. Holed up in a Times Square hotel with 19 hungry actors and a ballooning room service bill, he tries to forestall eviction by concocting a series of ever-more preposterous events. A gem from an era of great American comedy.

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Sunday, March 28, 2010

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Act 2: Recent Work by Michelle DaRin
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Act 2 represents a pivotal moment in life and art for artist, Michelle DaRin. Known regionally and nationally as a designer of fine art jewelry, Michelle also creates sculptural assemblages. These combine found objects, reclaimed wood, fiber, and metal, and objects cast in bronze. Michelle's jewelry also incorporates various elements, including forged and enameled copper, cast silver, fiber, resin, and stones. Her jewelry and sculpture will both be featured in this exhibition.

Reassemblages
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

Mark Povinelli is curating this exhibition of over 80 or more of his most recent drawings. He navigates mythaglyphic language within the matrix of drawings as captured portals.

Also on display is a window installation designed by Mark Povinelli.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cinefest 2010
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $25/day or $75/four-day festival
Holiday Inn
Electronics Parkway, Liverpool

9:00 a.m.: College Holiday
1936 musical-comedy with Jack Benny, Martha Raye, George Burns, and Gracie Allen.

12:00 p.m.: Salute to Justin Herman, the Peabody Award-winning writer-director behind three comedy shorts from Paramount's Topper and Pacemaker series: The Littlest Expert on My Favorite President (1951), Pardon Us Penguins (1952), and The Rhumba Seat (1950).

12:35 p.m.: Cheer Up
1936 British musical comedy starring Stanley Lupino

1:50 p.m.: The History of the Motion Picture Camera
1979 film industry documentary

2:25 p.m.: The Lady Lies
1929 soap opera-ish soundie with Walter Huston, Claudette Colbert, and Charlie Ruggles.

3:50 p.m.: A Holy Terror
1931 drama starring George O'Brien and Humphrey Bogart

For more information, phone 315-68-6147.

Who Does She Think She Is?
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

In a half-changed world, women often feel they need to choose: mothering or working? Your children's well-being or your own? Who Does She Think She Is?, a documentary by Academy Award winning filmmaker Pamela Tanner Boll, features five women artists who navigate the economic, psychological, and spiritual challenges of making work outside the elite art world. Through their lives, we explore some of the most problematic intersections of our time: mothering and creativity, partnering and independence, economics and art. The film invites us to consider both ancient legacies of women worshipped as cultural muses and more modern times when most people cannot even name a handful of female artists.

Interviews with experts like Riane Eisler (The Chalice and the Blade), Maura Reilly (Sackler Center for Feminist Art-Brooklyn Museum) and the Guerrilla Girls add a cultural context for these women's uplifting journeys. It is not accolades they seek; it's simply the radical opportunity to live whole. (82 minutes)

Following the screening, there will be a panel discussion with local women artists.

art:21, Art in the 21st Century
Everson Museum of Art

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

The public is invited to view and discuss two artists included in season 5 of the critically acclaimed PBS series, art:21, Art in the 21st Century. Compassion: Carrie Mae Weems and Transformation: Cindy Sherman provide excerpts of interviews juxtaposed with illustrations of their work, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the creative process. Enjoy light refreshments and conversation inspired by the issues, materials and influences explored in these artist snapshots. Works by both Weems and Sherman are part of the Everson's permanent collection. Please email Pam McLaughlin, curator of education and public programs, to reserve your place.

The Young and Restless
Society for New Music

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Philippe Bodin Plains from Inner Banners, 2004, for solo piano
Diego Davidenko String Quartet, 2008
Jocelyn Hagen love, song (e.e. cummings), 2010
David Crowell Valley of Fire, 2010, for piano quartet
Marc Mellits, Octet, 2010 for double string quartet

Performers include Eileen Strempel, soprano; Sylvie Beaudette, piano; Adrienne Kim, piano; Cristina Buciu, violin; Petia Manolova, violin; Li Li, viola; Lindsay Groves, cello; plus the Syracuse Symphony Youth Orchestra Quartet: Alicia Friedrichs, violin; Rachel Parks, violin; Dan Brown, viola; and Xander Edwards, cello.

Stained Glass Series: The Glory Of Venice
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Syracuse Children's Chorus, Syracuse University Singers
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring SSO Brass Section; Edward Castilano, double bass

Most Holy Rosary Church
111 Roberts Ave., Syracuse

The SSO recreates the glorious sounds of St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries in this concert, which features antiphonal brass music by Giovanni Gabrieli, choral masterpieces by Lassus, and excerpts from Pergolisi's Stabat Mater. SSO Principal Bassist Edward Castilano will perform the Dragonetti Bass Concerto.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Price: $58.50, $48.50
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

5th Annual Production of New Short Plays by SU Drama Students
Armory Square Playwrights

Price: $7 regular, $5 students/seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Armory Square playhouse will present the 5th annual full production of two new short plays selected from the SU Drama Department's New Playwrights Festival of Student Plays.

An Aphorism on Love, written by Sammi Lappin, means two things: it means a truth about love, and it is an informal definition of the Kama Sutra. This short play is about sex. Sex in terms of itself, in terms of friendship, and lastly, in terms of love. It is an examination of four different people and their own personal aphorisms on these subjects, and a look at what happens when those aphorisms collide with each other. The play, directed by Emily Batsford, features Eric Meyers, Aisling Halpin, Mike Lowes, and Katie Campbell.

The Death of Superboy, written by David-Julian Melendez is about two young men each living in light of death. One is living with the knowledge that his friend is dying and that others around him may not be long for this world either. The other is living with the knowledge that he himself has little time left. The play is an exploration of how an enduring friendship stands in the face of that knowledge and how two young men deal with those circumstances. The cast includes Matt Smith, Phil Blechman, and Peter Hourihan. Emily Rice directs.

Sammi Lappin is a Junior acting major at Syracuse University and this is her first produced script. She was most recently seen as Julia in Two Gentlemen of Verona in the Drama Department at Syracuse University.

David-Julian Melendez is an acting major from Brooklyn, NY, currently attending Syracuse University. He has written before for the New Playwrights' Festival (Life, Art, & Cereal) and he has directed twice for the Black Box Players with Where's My Money? by John Patrick Shanley and Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire. He was recently seen as as Rev. Tooker in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Romeo in an adapted version of Romeo & Juliet with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. He is currently working on a night of one-acts called The Holey Trinity.

These plays are presentations of works in progress and talkback sessions with the playwrights will follow each performance.

Almost, Maine
Syracuse Stage

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

It's all about love, and like love, it is never what you expect. Meet the people of Almost, Maine, a tiny town so far north Vermont is considered the South. One winter night, with the aurora borealis creating celestial enchantment, eight couples fall under the spell of that funny little unpredictable thing called love. By turns touching, comic, warm, gentle, and altogether surprising, Almost, Maine is a funny Valentine of a play that will make you smile with your heart. By John Cariani.

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Room Service
Syracuse University Drama Department
Robert Moss, director

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

This comic delight from the 1930s is a real treat for anyone who loves theatre and especially for those who love the people who make theatre. An unscrupulous Broadway producer struggles to find a backer for his new show, which he knows will be a smash hit. Holed up in a Times Square hotel with 19 hungry actors and a ballooning room service bill, he tries to forestall eviction by concocting a series of ever-more preposterous events. A gem from an era of great American comedy.

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The Diary of Anne Frank
Syracuse Children's Theatre

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Almost, Maine
Syracuse Stage

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

It's all about love, and like love, it is never what you expect. Meet the people of Almost, Maine, a tiny town so far north Vermont is considered the South. One winter night, with the aurora borealis creating celestial enchantment, eight couples fall under the spell of that funny little unpredictable thing called love. By turns touching, comic, warm, gentle, and altogether surprising, Almost, Maine is a funny Valentine of a play that will make you smile with your heart. By John Cariani.

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Monday, March 29, 2010

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

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

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

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

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life's Closet: Acrylics and Fabric by Anne-Margaret Childress
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Darryl Hughto & Susan Roth: New Paintings and Sculptures
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibition will feature paintings by both artists created specifically for this exhibition, as well as recent sculptures. A full color exhibition catalog will be available which will include an essay by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

{un}familiar
Redhouse

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

{un}familiar, curated by Maeve Mulrennan of the Galway Arts Centre in Ireland, takes as its starting point research by Professor Olaf Blanke into out-of-body-experiences. The selected artists have been invited to make a new work for the exhibition. They have been given research texts by the curator, which include Prof. Blanke's case studies, Foucault's Of Other Spaces, Heterotopias and Alice's Adventure's In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

The artists were selected not because they have explored this territory before: it is because they each show a need to investigate the unknown, to immerse themselves in the unheimlich and reveal fears, myths and truths surrounding their subjects. Each artist works in various media, including performance, video, painting, drawing, collage and sculpture.

{un}familiar features the work of Michelle Browne, Benji de Burca, Cecilia Danell, Vera Klute, Sabina MacMahon, and Julia Pallone. The opening reception will include a performance of "The World Could Wait No Longer" by Mark Clare on the Red House stage. A video of this performance will be shown throughout the remainder of the exhibition.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

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

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

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

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life's Closet: Acrylics and Fabric by Anne-Margaret Childress
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Remembrance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Darryl Hughto & Susan Roth: New Paintings and Sculptures
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibition will feature paintings by both artists created specifically for this exhibition, as well as recent sculptures. A full color exhibition catalog will be available which will include an essay by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

{un}familiar
Redhouse

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

{un}familiar, curated by Maeve Mulrennan of the Galway Arts Centre in Ireland, takes as its starting point research by Professor Olaf Blanke into out-of-body-experiences. The selected artists have been invited to make a new work for the exhibition. They have been given research texts by the curator, which include Prof. Blanke's case studies, Foucault's Of Other Spaces, Heterotopias and Alice's Adventure's In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

The artists were selected not because they have explored this territory before: it is because they each show a need to investigate the unknown, to immerse themselves in the unheimlich and reveal fears, myths and truths surrounding their subjects. Each artist works in various media, including performance, video, painting, drawing, collage and sculpture.

{un}familiar features the work of Michelle Browne, Benji de Burca, Cecilia Danell, Vera Klute, Sabina MacMahon, and Julia Pallone. The opening reception will include a performance of "The World Could Wait No Longer" by Mark Clare on the Red House stage. A video of this performance will be shown throughout the remainder of the exhibition.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

A Dialogue between Verbal and Visual Texts
Point of Contact Gallery

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

This will be a gathering of poets, scholars and artists; a panel of women, and the discussion will revolve around the new exhibit, Alejandra, a contemporary art display of five artists inspired by the poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik.

PANELISTS:
Anja Chávez—Moderator: Curator of contemporary art at The Warehouse Gallery and SUArt Galleries at Syracuse University
Kathryn Everly: Associate Professor of Spanish Literature in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Syracuse University
Colleen Kattau: Associate Professor of Latin American Literature at SUNY Cortland
Lourdes Rojas-Paiewonsky: Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Colgate University
Suzanne Shane: Poet and essayist, author of the new poetry collection titled "This Wayward Grace" (Foothills Press in 2009)

Reception to follow.

The Music of Film Noir
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, free for students and Le Moyne Community
Panasci Family Chapel
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Accompanied by Andrew Russo, cellist Caroline Stinson will perform Korngold's Cello Concerto, written for the 1946 film noir Deception starring Bette Davis.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
SU Percussion Ensemble

Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, phone 315-443-2191.

The Budos Band + Animal Pants
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

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

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

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

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life's Closet: Acrylics and Fabric by Anne-Margaret Childress
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Remembrance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Darryl Hughto & Susan Roth: New Paintings and Sculptures
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibition will feature paintings by both artists created specifically for this exhibition, as well as recent sculptures. A full color exhibition catalog will be available which will include an essay by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

{un}familiar
Redhouse

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

{un}familiar, curated by Maeve Mulrennan of the Galway Arts Centre in Ireland, takes as its starting point research by Professor Olaf Blanke into out-of-body-experiences. The selected artists have been invited to make a new work for the exhibition. They have been given research texts by the curator, which include Prof. Blanke's case studies, Foucault's Of Other Spaces, Heterotopias and Alice's Adventure's In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

The artists were selected not because they have explored this territory before: it is because they each show a need to investigate the unknown, to immerse themselves in the unheimlich and reveal fears, myths and truths surrounding their subjects. Each artist works in various media, including performance, video, painting, drawing, collage and sculpture.

{un}familiar features the work of Michelle Browne, Benji de Burca, Cecilia Danell, Vera Klute, Sabina MacMahon, and Julia Pallone. The opening reception will include a performance of "The World Could Wait No Longer" by Mark Clare on the Red House stage. A video of this performance will be shown throughout the remainder of the exhibition.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Fresh Produce
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An exhibit of works by S.U. School of Art and Design first- and second-year M.F.A. students.

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

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Boys & Girls: The Art of Diane Menzies and Mary Giehl
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Each year in America over 3 million children are abused, nearly 2,000 die, some run away, others are abandoned, all have their own challenges with this sojourn through adolescence. Each day in America, 6 children die from abuse, 100,000 children are homeless, 8 children die from guns, 219 children die before their first birthday, 1,534 babies are born to teenage girls.

In the paintings by Diane Menzies and installations by Mary Giehl, there are hints of darkness and confinement along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness. The work challenges the viewer to take a deeper look at what these images of childhood are telling us.

"What if..." Film Series: Holding Ground: The Rebirth of Dudley Street
Gifford Foundation

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

The Gifford Foundation presents the "What if..." film series, featuring films about community revitalization efforts around the United States. Each film documents the successes and struggles communities have experienced, and their varying methods of revitalizing these neighborhoods, from murals and gardens to community activism. Each will be followed by a moderated discussion.

Holding Ground: The Rebirth of Dudley Street is an award-winning documentary about community vision, struggle and change. Through the voices of committed residents, activists, and city officials, this one-hour documentary shows how a Boston neighborhood was able to create and carry out its own agenda for change.

For further information about the "What If..." series, contact Lindsay McClung at lmcclung@giffordfd.org or by phone at 315-474-2489. Details are also available on the Foundation website or Facebook page.

Il Quattro Pianisti
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Two-piano, eight-hand ensemble consisting of Nancy Pease, James Lee Vatter, Linda Yonteff,
and Sabine Krantz, performing a novelty program including arrangements of Purcell, Bach, Mussorgsky,
Sousa, as well as modern composer Kevin Olson and others.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Allegro

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

Parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, phone 315-443-2191.

Stephen Kellogg and The Sixers + Serena Ryder
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Almost, Maine
Syracuse Stage

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

It's all about love, and like love, it is never what you expect. Meet the people of Almost, Maine, a tiny town so far north Vermont is considered the South. One winter night, with the aurora borealis creating celestial enchantment, eight couples fall under the spell of that funny little unpredictable thing called love. By turns touching, comic, warm, gentle, and altogether surprising, Almost, Maine is a funny Valentine of a play that will make you smile with your heart. By John Cariani.

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Almost, Maine
Syracuse Stage

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

It's all about love, and like love, it is never what you expect. Meet the people of Almost, Maine, a tiny town so far north Vermont is considered the South. One winter night, with the aurora borealis creating celestial enchantment, eight couples fall under the spell of that funny little unpredictable thing called love. By turns touching, comic, warm, gentle, and altogether surprising, Almost, Maine is a funny Valentine of a play that will make you smile with your heart. By John Cariani.

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Room Service
Syracuse University Drama Department
Robert Moss, director

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

This comic delight from the 1930s is a real treat for anyone who loves theatre and especially for those who love the people who make theatre. An unscrupulous Broadway producer struggles to find a backer for his new show, which he knows will be a smash hit. Holed up in a Times Square hotel with 19 hungry actors and a ballooning room service bill, he tries to forestall eviction by concocting a series of ever-more preposterous events. A gem from an era of great American comedy.

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Thursday, April 1, 2010

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

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

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

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

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life's Closet: Acrylics and Fabric by Anne-Margaret Childress
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Remembrance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

There will be a gallery reception tonight 5:00-7:00 pm. Limited free reception parking is available by phoning 315-443-1300.

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Darryl Hughto & Susan Roth: New Paintings and Sculptures
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibition will feature paintings by both artists created specifically for this exhibition, as well as recent sculptures. A full color exhibition catalog will be available which will include an essay by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

{un}familiar
Redhouse

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

{un}familiar, curated by Maeve Mulrennan of the Galway Arts Centre in Ireland, takes as its starting point research by Professor Olaf Blanke into out-of-body-experiences. The selected artists have been invited to make a new work for the exhibition. They have been given research texts by the curator, which include Prof. Blanke's case studies, Foucault's Of Other Spaces, Heterotopias and Alice's Adventure's In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

The artists were selected not because they have explored this territory before: it is because they each show a need to investigate the unknown, to immerse themselves in the unheimlich and reveal fears, myths and truths surrounding their subjects. Each artist works in various media, including performance, video, painting, drawing, collage and sculpture.

{un}familiar features the work of Michelle Browne, Benji de Burca, Cecilia Danell, Vera Klute, Sabina MacMahon, and Julia Pallone. The opening reception will include a performance of "The World Could Wait No Longer" by Mark Clare on the Red House stage. A video of this performance will be shown throughout the remainder of the exhibition.

Act 2: Recent Work by Michelle DaRin
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Act 2 represents a pivotal moment in life and art for artist, Michelle DaRin. Known regionally and nationally as a designer of fine art jewelry, Michelle also creates sculptural assemblages. These combine found objects, reclaimed wood, fiber, and metal, and objects cast in bronze. Michelle's jewelry also incorporates various elements, including forged and enameled copper, cast silver, fiber, resin, and stones. Her jewelry and sculpture will both be featured in this exhibition.

MFA MMX (2010)
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual exhibition of masters of fine arts candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts will include 20 artists displaying a broad range of traditional and contemporary work, including painting, ceramics and sculpture, as well as digital photography, installation, and computer art.

While the artists work independently on their thesis concepts, themes have routinely emerged within the group—crossing the boundaries of media and style. This year's exhibition is no exception; the work exudes a highly developed sense of technique and thought. In MFA MMX, however, the artists engage the viewer, both physically and psychologically, in a way not seen in previous MFA exhibitions. The narrative photography of Jared Landberg, a documentary film by Sonya Pollard, and the video installation of Esther Probst are examples of the thematic way many the artists record their personal history or specific experiences. Another pervading theme in the exhibition is interaction: walking through the unique environments created by painters Gwendolyn Mercado-Reyes and Jessica Sharpe, playing the autobiographical video game created by Ryan Marchand, or taking one of the hundreds of ceramic cups thrown by Shawn O'Connor; the viewer is invited to physically take part in the artistic experience.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rodger Mack Exhibition
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park

Price: Free
The Spring: Center for Spiritual & Cultural Unity
200 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibit will feature a total of 104 paintings by the late Rodger Mack, one of Syracuse's most well-known and well-loved artists. Internationally known for his sculptures, Mack was also a dynamic painter who created colorful, vibrant works.

The paintings are provided by Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, and the exhibition is made possible by a collaboration between the Park, The Spring and Syracuse University. Proceeds from the sale of Mack's art will go equally to the three not-for-profits.

Fresh Produce
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An exhibit of works by S.U. School of Art and Design first- and second-year M.F.A. students.

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

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Reassemblages
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

Mark Povinelli is curating this exhibition of over 80 or more of his most recent drawings. He navigates mythaglyphic language within the matrix of drawings as captured portals.

Also on display is a window installation designed by Mark Povinelli.

Boys & Girls: The Art of Diane Menzies and Mary Giehl
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Each year in America over 3 million children are abused, nearly 2,000 die, some run away, others are abandoned, all have their own challenges with this sojourn through adolescence. Each day in America, 6 children die from abuse, 100,000 children are homeless, 8 children die from guns, 219 children die before their first birthday, 1,534 babies are born to teenage girls.

In the paintings by Diane Menzies and installations by Mary Giehl, there are hints of darkness and confinement along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness. The work challenges the viewer to take a deeper look at what these images of childhood are telling us.

Radio Flyer
ArtRage Gallery

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

Mike and Bobby are brothers who endure a horrific life of abuse at the hands of their stepfather. In an effort to save his younger brother from further turmoil, Mike tries to turn their red wagon into a working airplane. In the process, the two discover a remarkable work of imagination that lets them escape their own harsh reality. An adult Mike (Tom Hanks) tells their touching story in a series of flashbacks. (1992, directed by Richard Donner with Tom Hanks, Elijah Wood, and Joseph Mazzello)

Artist Lecture
Syracuse University School of Art and Design
Featuring Nick Cave

Price: Free
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Nick Cave, an artist and chair of the fashion design department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, is serving as a visiting artist for the fiber and textile arts program in the Department of Art. His lecture will focus on his work, including his signature soundsuits.

Cave's clothing and fiber-based sculptures, collages, installations, and performances explore the use of textiles and clothing as conceptual modes of expression and pose fundamental questions about the human condition in the social and political realm. His work has been exhibited internationally, including in solo exhibitions at Studio La Città in Verona, Italy (2010); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco; and at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York City, which represents him. His retrospective, "Nick Cave: Soundsuits", was presented by the Chicago Cultural Center Foundation at the Chicago Cultural Center and several other venues across the country.

Among Cave's numerous awards and fellowships is the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award (2008), the Artadia Award (2006) and the Joyce Foundation Joyce Award (2006). His work is in the public collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Portland Art Museum and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He holds a bachelor of fine arts degree from the Kansas City Art Institute and a master of fine arts degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art.

For more information about the lecture, contact fiber and textile arts faculty members Olivia Robinson at orobinso@syr.edu or Mary Giehl at mgiehl@yahoo.com.

Parking is available for $3.50 in the Booth Garage. Patrons should indicate that they are attending the lecture to receive the special rate.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
SU Morton Schiff Jazz Ensemble

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

The ensemble performs under the direction of Joseph Riposo.

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

The Heavy Pets + Gadabout
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

The Y-Files: Where are the Cows?
Acme Mystery Company

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

Sheriff Shelly Moganagle is calling an emergency town meeting for you and everybody else in Pine Bluffs to try and figure out where in the heck all these cows are disappearing to. Roland McBurger's new hamburger joint? Cattle rustlers? Down at the Crazy Kegger folks are saying it's alien cow abduction! The Sheriff is taking no chances and has called in the FBI. Be there when Special Agents Molding and Sulky arrive. They'll need all the help they can get.

Almost, Maine
Syracuse Stage

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

It's all about love, and like love, it is never what you expect. Meet the people of Almost, Maine, a tiny town so far north Vermont is considered the South. One winter night, with the aurora borealis creating celestial enchantment, eight couples fall under the spell of that funny little unpredictable thing called love. By turns touching, comic, warm, gentle, and altogether surprising, Almost, Maine is a funny Valentine of a play that will make you smile with your heart. By John Cariani.

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Room Service
Syracuse University Drama Department
Robert Moss, director

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

This comic delight from the 1930s is a real treat for anyone who loves theatre and especially for those who love the people who make theatre. An unscrupulous Broadway producer struggles to find a backer for his new show, which he knows will be a smash hit. Holed up in a Times Square hotel with 19 hungry actors and a ballooning room service bill, he tries to forestall eviction by concocting a series of ever-more preposterous events. A gem from an era of great American comedy.

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Friday, April 2, 2010

Gallery Exhibition: Kim Mayhorn
Onondaga Community College

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

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

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

Alejandra
Point of Contact Gallery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life's Closet: Acrylics and Fabric by Anne-Margaret Childress
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

Remembrance
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

Works by Stephen Chalmers
Light Work Gallery

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

Stephen Chalmers connects remembrance and the land as he investigates so called dumpsites, places where the bodies of victims of serial killers were abandoned. Photographing these places in a deliberately generic manner, Chalmers presents beautiful but ambiguous landscapes that seem to conflict with our certain knowledge that something terrible ended at these sites. While Chalmers treads on sensitive ground as he explores and documents dumpsites in the Pacific Northwest, he hopes to avoid the derivative pathos of sites of tragedy and the clichés of prefabricated sentimentality. Instead, he offers an elegant memorial that shifts our gaze away from infamy and back to the humanity of the victims. Each image is titled with the names and ages of the people found on the site.

Downstream: Encounters on the Colorado River
Light Work Gallery

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

Karen Halverson, a Syracuse native and fine art photographer, has been drawn to the open spaces and monumental land forms of the American West for a quarter-century, traveling the region's vast expanses and stopping when moved to set up her large-format camera. In Downstream: Encounters with the Colorado River, a two-year study of the 1,700-mile river, she maintains her signature focus on human relationships to the natural environment.

Darryl Hughto & Susan Roth: New Paintings and Sculptures
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibition will feature paintings by both artists created specifically for this exhibition, as well as recent sculptures. A full color exhibition catalog will be available which will include an essay by Nancy Keefe Rhodes.

{un}familiar
Redhouse

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

{un}familiar, curated by Maeve Mulrennan of the Galway Arts Centre in Ireland, takes as its starting point research by Professor Olaf Blanke into out-of-body-experiences. The selected artists have been invited to make a new work for the exhibition. They have been given research texts by the curator, which include Prof. Blanke's case studies, Foucault's Of Other Spaces, Heterotopias and Alice's Adventure's In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

The artists were selected not because they have explored this territory before: it is because they each show a need to investigate the unknown, to immerse themselves in the unheimlich and reveal fears, myths and truths surrounding their subjects. Each artist works in various media, including performance, video, painting, drawing, collage and sculpture.

{un}familiar features the work of Michelle Browne, Benji de Burca, Cecilia Danell, Vera Klute, Sabina MacMahon, and Julia Pallone. The opening reception will include a performance of "The World Could Wait No Longer" by Mark Clare on the Red House stage. A video of this performance will be shown throughout the remainder of the exhibition.

Act 2: Recent Work by Michelle DaRin
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Act 2 represents a pivotal moment in life and art for artist, Michelle DaRin. Known regionally and nationally as a designer of fine art jewelry, Michelle also creates sculptural assemblages. These combine found objects, reclaimed wood, fiber, and metal, and objects cast in bronze. Michelle's jewelry also incorporates various elements, including forged and enameled copper, cast silver, fiber, resin, and stones. Her jewelry and sculpture will both be featured in this exhibition.

MFA MMX (2010)
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

The annual exhibition of masters of fine arts candidates from the College of Visual and Performing Arts will include 20 artists displaying a broad range of traditional and contemporary work, including painting, ceramics and sculpture, as well as digital photography, installation, and computer art.

While the artists work independently on their thesis concepts, themes have routinely emerged within the group—crossing the boundaries of media and style. This year's exhibition is no exception; the work exudes a highly developed sense of technique and thought. In MFA MMX, however, the artists engage the viewer, both physically and psychologically, in a way not seen in previous MFA exhibitions. The narrative photography of Jared Landberg, a documentary film by Sonya Pollard, and the video installation of Esther Probst are examples of the thematic way many the artists record their personal history or specific experiences. Another pervading theme in the exhibition is interaction: walking through the unique environments created by painters Gwendolyn Mercado-Reyes and Jessica Sharpe, playing the autobiographical video game created by Ryan Marchand, or taking one of the hundreds of ceramic cups thrown by Shawn O'Connor; the viewer is invited to physically take part in the artistic experience.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rodger Mack Exhibition
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park

Price: Free
The Spring: Center for Spiritual & Cultural Unity
200 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The exhibit will feature a total of 104 paintings by the late Rodger Mack, one of Syracuse's most well-known and well-loved artists. Internationally known for his sculptures, Mack was also a dynamic painter who created colorful, vibrant works.

The paintings are provided by Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, and the exhibition is made possible by a collaboration between the Park, The Spring and Syracuse University. Proceeds from the sale of Mack's art will go equally to the three not-for-profits.

Fresh Produce
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

An exhibit of works by S.U. School of Art and Design first- and second-year M.F.A. students.

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

Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Jesse Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer-based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.

Reassemblages
Echo

745 N. Salina St. (formerly Craft Chemistry)
Syracuse

Mark Povinelli is curating this exhibition of over 80 or more of his most recent drawings. He navigates mythaglyphic language within the matrix of drawings as captured portals.

Also on display is a window installation designed by Mark Povinelli.

Boys & Girls: The Art of Diane Menzies and Mary Giehl
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Each year in America over 3 million children are abused, nearly 2,000 die, some run away, others are abandoned, all have their own challenges with this sojourn through adolescence. Each day in America, 6 children die from abuse, 100,000 children are homeless, 8 children die from guns, 219 children die before their first birthday, 1,534 babies are born to teenage girls.

In the paintings by Diane Menzies and installations by Mary Giehl, there are hints of darkness and confinement along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness. The work challenges the viewer to take a deeper look at what these images of childhood are telling us.

Shayna Dulberger with Warren Smith and Bill Cole
Community Folk Art Center
John Coltrane Memorial Contemporary Jazz Series

Price: Free
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

For more information, phone 315-442-2230.

Joe Crookston
Folkus Project

Price: $12
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Full of spontaneity, energy, and with a lively sense of humor, Joe Crookston is a remarkable musician. But the real miracle of his performances is his charismatic presence and rapport with the crowd. An engaging performer, Crookston can be intense one moment and playful the next. Whether it's his mesmerizing guitar sound, bubbling banjo, finely crafted lyrics, or his kinetic connection with his audience, his music exudes a remarkable intergenerational, universal and timeless quality. Based in Ithaca, Crookston is a multi-instrumentalist, and his mastery of guitar, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, mandolin, and accordion fuses contemporary and traditional elements. His music is deeply rooted in the grand celebration of life, death, ancestry, and the interconnectedness of us all. His skillful songwriting mixes clever lyrics with traditional melodies to convey complex ideas and sentiments. Earthy and spiritual, his songs reveals his personal take on the natural world.

Chase Twichell, poet
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
Hall of Languages, Room 500
Syracuse University, Syracuse

A practicing Buddhist, Chase Twichell has published six books of poetry: Dog Language, The Snow Watcher, The Ghost of Eden, Perdido, The Odds, and Northern Spy. Forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in April is Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been: New and Selected Poems. She is also co-editor of The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach.

The DWC is proud to co-sponsor this reading with Syracuse University's Graduate Student Organization and Student Buddhist Association, and the Zen Center of Syracuse.

Mud and A Kind of Alaska
Black Box Players

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

Mud
Ignorance and poverty wage war against the mind and spirit in this contemporary drama about a young woman named Mae and her desperate struggle to transcend extreme rural poverty, crippling illiteracy, and a confining gender role. Simultaneously raw and poetic, her tragedy will arouse your pity and fear, while revealing the utmost limits of the human spirit. Written by Maria Irene Fornes, directed by Jordan Rosin.

A Kind of Alaska
The extraordinarily intense drama by Harold Pinter, based on Oliver Sacks' book Awakenings, drives deeply into a world of uncertainty. After 29 years of being in a catatonic-like sleep, Deborah, now 45, awakens to find her world completely turned upside down. She struggles to find clarity in herself and desperately wants to believe that nothing has changed, while everything in her life, her family, her sisters have all changed while she has been stuck only in her mind. Directed by Alex Alcheh.

Jesus Christ Superstar
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $30, $25, $20
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Bob Brown's farewell performance as Jesus.

Almost, Maine
Syracuse Stage

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

It's all about love, and like love, it is never what you expect. Meet the people of Almost, Maine, a tiny town so far north Vermont is considered the South. One winter night, with the aurora borealis creating celestial enchantment, eight couples fall under the spell of that funny little unpredictable thing called love. By turns touching, comic, warm, gentle, and altogether surprising, Almost, Maine is a funny Valentine of a play that will make you smile with your heart. By John Cariani.

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Room Service
Syracuse University Drama Department
Robert Moss, director

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

This comic delight from the 1930s is a real treat for anyone who loves theatre and especially for those who love the people who make theatre. An unscrupulous Broadway producer struggles to find a backer for his new show, which he knows will be a smash hit. Holed up in a Times Square hotel with 19 hungry actors and a ballooning room service bill, he tries to forestall eviction by concocting a series of ever-more preposterous events. A gem from an era of great American comedy.

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