Sunday, December 27, 2009

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

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

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

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

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

Read a review!

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

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

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

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular, $4 seniors, $2 ages 12 and younger
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The delicious aroma of ginger and candy waft through the air as the second floor gallery is transformed into a festive 1800s street scene, with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers.

Holiday Show 09
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit.

The exhibition will feature photography, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include: Jen Allen (Morgantown, WV), Ed Feldman (Cortland), Shanna Fliegel (Tarrytown, NY), Bob Gates (Jamesville), Shawn O'Connor (Syracuse), Davie Reneau (Glasgow, KY), Brenda Edwards (Oswego), Kathy Barry (Syracuse), Nancy Kramer (Skaneateles), Brooke Noble (Saranac Lake, NY), Erin Murphy (Syracuse), Lucy Mink (Syracuse), Jeremy Randall (Tully), Lucie Wellner (Pompey), Forrest Lesch-Middelton (Fairfax, CA), and Jen Gandee (Fabius).

The Beauty Is in the Details
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The gallery will feature the work of ceramic artist Sarah Panzarella and printmaker James Skvarch throughout the month of December.

Panzarella, of Tully, is co-owner of the gallery, which opened this past summer. Although she says nature is the primary inspiration for her work, she also draws from the Arts and Crafts Movement—and its focus on craftsmanship, function and quality—and the Art Nouveau aesthetic.

James Skvarch, of Syracuse, has won more than 30 awards for his etchings, which depict caprices, landscapes, interiors, cars, trains, ships and boats. He also works in the medium of oil painting.

Syracuse During the Time of Impressionism
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Fresh: First-Year Students in the School of Art and Design Juried Exhibition 2009
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition showcases a variety of work from approximately 100 students in the Department of Foundation, which offers the first-year program for students in the School of Art and Design. Works shown include video, sound, digital art, sculpture, design, books, collage, animation and drawing from the four studio areas of the foundation program: drawing, creative processes, time arts and dimensional arts.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand, the colleges program exhibitions coordinator, at adhavenh@syr.edu. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Concert for Olde Christmas and Epiphany: The Adoration of the Magi
Bells & Motley Consort

Price: Free, but a collection will be taken for the musicians
Holy Transfiguration Church
783 Franklin Park Dr., East Syracuse

This is a concert of music to celebrate Olde Christmas, a perfect window into the lore of "The 12 Days of Christmas." Keeping in mind that while most of us have just celebrated the culmination of Christmas, those of the Orthodox tradition are still looking forward to Christmas on January 7. Together, we'll be time travelers, bridging the two Christmas dates! In addition to our music, presented in an exceedingly beautiful and intimate setting of holy icons, you'll be treated to a groaning board of goodies to enjoy. In our own yearly cycle, this special time leading to season of Epiphany is a personal favorite: Carols about the Three Kings are abundant, ranging from mysterious, to exalting, to very detailed and humorous stories about their activities.

For more information, phone 315-434-9540.

Little Women
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

What we cherish most—family, sacrifice, determination, hope, and love—never goes out of style. All of Louisa May Alcott's classic characters are here: warm and loving Marmee, vivacious Amy, sweet and dreamy Meg, tender-hearted Beth, handsome and charming Laurie, Aunt March, Professor Bhaer, and of course, the passionate and funny Jo. Brimming with 20 beautiful songs, this new musical captures all the struggle, romance and deep emotions of Alcott's beloved tale. Celebrate your holidays with the March family.

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This Wonderful Life
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director
Featuring James Leaming

Price: $35 adults; $16 students 18 and under
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings. Visit Bedford Falls this holiday season for a charming stage telling of Frank Capra's Hollywood classic. One brave actor plays 32 characters including George Bailey, Clarence, Mr. Potter, Mary, Martini, and Zuzu to bring everyone's favorite family holiday charmer to wonderful life. Hee-haw.

Read a Review!

Black Nativity
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
William H. Rowland II and Annette Adams-Brown, director

CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Black Nativity, by Langston Hughes, is a foot stomping, hand clapping, jump to your feet shouting gospel drama that will delight the entire family, regardless of religious affiliations or beliefs. Hughes called it a "gospel song play." Black Nativity is a re-telling of the classic nativity story with a non-traditional cast. Traditional Christmas carols along with a few musical numbers created especially for the show are sung in gospel style by The PRpac Choral Ensemble. The show has a multi-generational cast of singers, narrators, poets, dancers and soloists that will fill the theater with jubilation and praise. Through the vibrations of African drums and percussion, the birth of Jesus becomes one of the most dramatic scenes of the show. Mary and Joseph will dance right into your hearts. Marcia L. Hagan will serve as musical director. The show was first performed on Broadway on December 11, 1961, and was one of the first plays written by an African-American to do so.

Read a review!

Little Women
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse University Drama Department
Anthony Salatino, director

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

What we cherish most—family, sacrifice, determination, hope, and love—never goes out of style. All of Louisa May Alcott's classic characters are here: warm and loving Marmee, vivacious Amy, sweet and dreamy Meg, tender-hearted Beth, handsome and charming Laurie, Aunt March, Professor Bhaer, and of course, the passionate and funny Jo. Brimming with 20 beautiful songs, this new musical captures all the struggle, romance and deep emotions of Alcott's beloved tale. Celebrate your holidays with the March family.

Read a Review!

This Wonderful Life
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director
Featuring James Leaming

Price: $30 adults; $16 students 18 and under
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings. Visit Bedford Falls this holiday season for a charming stage telling of Frank Capra's Hollywood classic. One brave actor plays 32 characters including George Bailey, Clarence, Mr. Potter, Mary, Martini, and Zuzu to bring everyone's favorite family holiday charmer to wonderful life. Hee-haw.

Read a Review!

Monday, December 28, 2009

Sanarás mañana: An exhibit of works by Aimee Lee
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Artist Statement:

I am an interdisciplinary artist working across performance, installation, and book arts media, interested in personal storytelling. My work has covered topics of human intimacy, internal defenses, and the isolating properties of language. Because my work thrives in moments of vulnerability, its manifestations occur subtly and often go unnoticed: a survival kit buried in the ground, a sound recording of whistles tied to a football goalpost, a book whose prints darken and fade to mimic the life cycle of a bruise. I relate to what falls between the cracks, and seek quiet sanctuaries to process the outside world and how humans participate in it.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

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

Viewpoints II 16" x 20": 2nd Collaborative Collection of the Syracuse Photographers Association
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

The Syracuse Photography Association proudly presents a collection of photographic images at their 2nd Annual collaborative gallery exhibit.

Creatively capturing images from the commonplace to the unexpected, photographers catch the light and special moments in time. This collection of images, all 16" x 20", will serve to captivate your eye and draw you in closer to view a new world in each color or black and white photo.

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular, $4 seniors, $2 ages 12 and younger
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The delicious aroma of ginger and candy waft through the air as the second floor gallery is transformed into a festive 1800s street scene, with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers.

The Beauty Is in the Details
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The gallery will feature the work of ceramic artist Sarah Panzarella and printmaker James Skvarch throughout the month of December.

Panzarella, of Tully, is co-owner of the gallery, which opened this past summer. Although she says nature is the primary inspiration for her work, she also draws from the Arts and Crafts Movement—and its focus on craftsmanship, function and quality—and the Art Nouveau aesthetic.

James Skvarch, of Syracuse, has won more than 30 awards for his etchings, which depict caprices, landscapes, interiors, cars, trains, ships and boats. He also works in the medium of oil painting.

Intimacy & Vastness
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Price: Free
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

A show of paintings by Sharon Gordon and Aida Khalil and ceramic works by Errol Willett.

Sharon Gordon's new oil paintings feature her ongoing exploration of the dynamic relationship of earth and sky. Her dreamlike landscape paintings engage the play of light over vast surfaces and suspended water droplets.

Aida Khalil's mixed media paintings are from her "Boat of Hours" series. Through the intimate scale of er small canvases, the artist transforms vistas into personal landscapes of slowed down moments of light and weather.

Errol Willett's pottery and ceramic forms are influenced by painting, sculpture and architecture. The artist is interested in how art can forge ahead, from being something other than our known world, and crosses into a new locus.

Read a review!

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Sanarás mañana: An exhibit of works by Aimee Lee
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Artist Statement:

I am an interdisciplinary artist working across performance, installation, and book arts media, interested in personal storytelling. My work has covered topics of human intimacy, internal defenses, and the isolating properties of language. Because my work thrives in moments of vulnerability, its manifestations occur subtly and often go unnoticed: a survival kit buried in the ground, a sound recording of whistles tied to a football goalpost, a book whose prints darken and fade to mimic the life cycle of a bruise. I relate to what falls between the cracks, and seek quiet sanctuaries to process the outside world and how humans participate in it.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

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

Viewpoints II 16" x 20": 2nd Collaborative Collection of the Syracuse Photographers Association
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

The Syracuse Photography Association proudly presents a collection of photographic images at their 2nd Annual collaborative gallery exhibit.

Creatively capturing images from the commonplace to the unexpected, photographers catch the light and special moments in time. This collection of images, all 16" x 20", will serve to captivate your eye and draw you in closer to view a new world in each color or black and white photo.

Celebrating 20 Years
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular, $4 seniors, $2 ages 12 and younger
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The delicious aroma of ginger and candy waft through the air as the second floor gallery is transformed into a festive 1800s street scene, with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers.

The Beauty Is in the Details
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The gallery will feature the work of ceramic artist Sarah Panzarella and printmaker James Skvarch throughout the month of December.

Panzarella, of Tully, is co-owner of the gallery, which opened this past summer. Although she says nature is the primary inspiration for her work, she also draws from the Arts and Crafts Movement—and its focus on craftsmanship, function and quality—and the Art Nouveau aesthetic.

James Skvarch, of Syracuse, has won more than 30 awards for his etchings, which depict caprices, landscapes, interiors, cars, trains, ships and boats. He also works in the medium of oil painting.

Intimacy & Vastness
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Price: Free
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

A show of paintings by Sharon Gordon and Aida Khalil and ceramic works by Errol Willett.

Sharon Gordon's new oil paintings feature her ongoing exploration of the dynamic relationship of earth and sky. Her dreamlike landscape paintings engage the play of light over vast surfaces and suspended water droplets.

Aida Khalil's mixed media paintings are from her "Boat of Hours" series. Through the intimate scale of er small canvases, the artist transforms vistas into personal landscapes of slowed down moments of light and weather.

Errol Willett's pottery and ceramic forms are influenced by painting, sculpture and architecture. The artist is interested in how art can forge ahead, from being something other than our known world, and crosses into a new locus.

Read a review!

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read a review!

Alyson Shotz: Drawing Through Space
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

With the assistance of Syracuse University students, Brooklyn-based Shotz created her works on site, thus turning The Warehouse Gallery into a form of laboratory. Shotz is one of today's ground-breaking artists transforming contemporary art through a fusion of technology and handcrafted steel wire and yarn artworks. Her use of this material is a means of combining sculpture with drawing to address issues of light, space, time and motion. Strikingly beautiful, her wire sculpture in the vault and three wall drawings project optical experiences where questions of perception and misperception lead to further examination of the impact of 21st-century technology on the arts.

Read a review!

Windows Project: Confederacy of Dunces
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Hamilton-based Lynette K. Stephenson created an installation about New Orleans consisting of 60 hand-felted wool dunce caps. This exhibition is inspired by John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) set in New Orleans, where Stephenson's family home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and based on her previous body of paintings, The Red Cross Series, which led to the idea for this site-specific project. In this work Stephenson engages in a dialogue about present-day social issues referring to New Orleans, the tragedy of the Hurricane and the universal symbol of the Red Cross.

This Wonderful Life
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director
Featuring James Leaming

Price: $35 adults; $16 students 18 and under
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings. Visit Bedford Falls this holiday season for a charming stage telling of Frank Capra's Hollywood classic. One brave actor plays 32 characters including George Bailey, Clarence, Mr. Potter, Mary, Martini, and Zuzu to bring everyone's favorite family holiday charmer to wonderful life. Hee-haw.

Read a Review!

This Wonderful Life
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director
Featuring James Leaming

Price: $30 adults; $16 students 18 and under
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings. Visit Bedford Falls this holiday season for a charming stage telling of Frank Capra's Hollywood classic. One brave actor plays 32 characters including George Bailey, Clarence, Mr. Potter, Mary, Martini, and Zuzu to bring everyone's favorite family holiday charmer to wonderful life. Hee-haw.

Read a Review!

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Sanarás mañana: An exhibit of works by Aimee Lee
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Artist Statement:

I am an interdisciplinary artist working across performance, installation, and book arts media, interested in personal storytelling. My work has covered topics of human intimacy, internal defenses, and the isolating properties of language. Because my work thrives in moments of vulnerability, its manifestations occur subtly and often go unnoticed: a survival kit buried in the ground, a sound recording of whistles tied to a football goalpost, a book whose prints darken and fade to mimic the life cycle of a bruise. I relate to what falls between the cracks, and seek quiet sanctuaries to process the outside world and how humans participate in it.

Howard Bond Retrospective
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

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

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

Viewpoints II 16" x 20": 2nd Collaborative Collection of the Syracuse Photographers Association
Westcott Community Art Gallery

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

The Syracuse Photography Association proudly presents a collection of photographic images at their 2nd Annual collaborative gallery exhibit.

Creatively capturing images from the commonplace to the unexpected, photographers catch the light and special moments in time. This collection of images, all 16" x 20", will serve to captivate your eye and draw you in closer to view a new world in each color or black and white photo.

Celebrating 20 Years
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular, $4 seniors, $2 ages 12 and younger
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The delicious aroma of ginger and candy waft through the air as the second floor gallery is transformed into a festive 1800s street scene, with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers.

The Beauty Is in the Details
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The gallery will feature the work of ceramic artist Sarah Panzarella and printmaker James Skvarch throughout the month of December.

Panzarella, of Tully, is co-owner of the gallery, which opened this past summer. Although she says nature is the primary inspiration for her work, she also draws from the Arts and Crafts Movement—and its focus on craftsmanship, function and quality—and the Art Nouveau aesthetic.

James Skvarch, of Syracuse, has won more than 30 awards for his etchings, which depict caprices, landscapes, interiors, cars, trains, ships and boats. He also works in the medium of oil painting.

Intimacy & Vastness
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Price: Free
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

A show of paintings by Sharon Gordon and Aida Khalil and ceramic works by Errol Willett.

Sharon Gordon's new oil paintings feature her ongoing exploration of the dynamic relationship of earth and sky. Her dreamlike landscape paintings engage the play of light over vast surfaces and suspended water droplets.

Aida Khalil's mixed media paintings are from her "Boat of Hours" series. Through the intimate scale of er small canvases, the artist transforms vistas into personal landscapes of slowed down moments of light and weather.

Errol Willett's pottery and ceramic forms are influenced by painting, sculpture and architecture. The artist is interested in how art can forge ahead, from being something other than our known world, and crosses into a new locus.

Read a review!

Syracuse During the Time of Impressionism
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read a review!

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

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

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

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

Fresh: First-Year Students in the School of Art and Design Juried Exhibition 2009
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition showcases a variety of work from approximately 100 students in the Department of Foundation, which offers the first-year program for students in the School of Art and Design. Works shown include video, sound, digital art, sculpture, design, books, collage, animation and drawing from the four studio areas of the foundation program: drawing, creative processes, time arts and dimensional arts.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand, the colleges program exhibitions coordinator, at adhavenh@syr.edu. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Alyson Shotz: Drawing Through Space
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

With the assistance of Syracuse University students, Brooklyn-based Shotz created her works on site, thus turning The Warehouse Gallery into a form of laboratory. Shotz is one of today's ground-breaking artists transforming contemporary art through a fusion of technology and handcrafted steel wire and yarn artworks. Her use of this material is a means of combining sculpture with drawing to address issues of light, space, time and motion. Strikingly beautiful, her wire sculpture in the vault and three wall drawings project optical experiences where questions of perception and misperception lead to further examination of the impact of 21st-century technology on the arts.

Read a review!

Windows Project: Confederacy of Dunces
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Hamilton-based Lynette K. Stephenson created an installation about New Orleans consisting of 60 hand-felted wool dunce caps. This exhibition is inspired by John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) set in New Orleans, where Stephenson's family home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and based on her previous body of paintings, The Red Cross Series, which led to the idea for this site-specific project. In this work Stephenson engages in a dialogue about present-day social issues referring to New Orleans, the tragedy of the Hurricane and the universal symbol of the Red Cross.

This Wonderful Life
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director
Featuring James Leaming

Price: $35 adults; $16 students 18 and under
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings. Visit Bedford Falls this holiday season for a charming stage telling of Frank Capra's Hollywood classic. One brave actor plays 32 characters including George Bailey, Clarence, Mr. Potter, Mary, Martini, and Zuzu to bring everyone's favorite family holiday charmer to wonderful life. Hee-haw.

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This Wonderful Life
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director
Featuring James Leaming

Price: $30 adults; $16 students 18 and under
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings. Visit Bedford Falls this holiday season for a charming stage telling of Frank Capra's Hollywood classic. One brave actor plays 32 characters including George Bailey, Clarence, Mr. Potter, Mary, Martini, and Zuzu to bring everyone's favorite family holiday charmer to wonderful life. Hee-haw.

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Thursday, December 31, 2009

Celebrating 20 Years
Edgewood Gallery

Price: Free
Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

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

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular, $4 seniors, $2 ages 12 and younger
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The delicious aroma of ginger and candy waft through the air as the second floor gallery is transformed into a festive 1800s street scene, with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers.

The Beauty Is in the Details
Imagine

Imagine
38 E. Genesee St., Skaneateles

The gallery will feature the work of ceramic artist Sarah Panzarella and printmaker James Skvarch throughout the month of December.

Panzarella, of Tully, is co-owner of the gallery, which opened this past summer. Although she says nature is the primary inspiration for her work, she also draws from the Arts and Crafts Movement—and its focus on craftsmanship, function and quality—and the Art Nouveau aesthetic.

James Skvarch, of Syracuse, has won more than 30 awards for his etchings, which depict caprices, landscapes, interiors, cars, trains, ships and boats. He also works in the medium of oil painting.

Syracuse During the Time of Impressionism
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Holiday Show 09
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit.

The exhibition will feature photography, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include: Jen Allen (Morgantown, WV), Ed Feldman (Cortland), Shanna Fliegel (Tarrytown, NY), Bob Gates (Jamesville), Shawn O'Connor (Syracuse), Davie Reneau (Glasgow, KY), Brenda Edwards (Oswego), Kathy Barry (Syracuse), Nancy Kramer (Skaneateles), Brooke Noble (Saranac Lake, NY), Erin Murphy (Syracuse), Lucy Mink (Syracuse), Jeremy Randall (Tully), Lucie Wellner (Pompey), Forrest Lesch-Middelton (Fairfax, CA), and Jen Gandee (Fabius).

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read a review!

Windows Project: Confederacy of Dunces
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Hamilton-based Lynette K. Stephenson created an installation about New Orleans consisting of 60 hand-felted wool dunce caps. This exhibition is inspired by John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) set in New Orleans, where Stephenson's family home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and based on her previous body of paintings, The Red Cross Series, which led to the idea for this site-specific project. In this work Stephenson engages in a dialogue about present-day social issues referring to New Orleans, the tragedy of the Hurricane and the universal symbol of the Red Cross.

KJ Sawka and Jungle Drummer with DJ Flu
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Bad Kitty: A Holiday Whodunnit
Acme Mystery Company

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

Everyone who is anyone in the high-stakes, competitive world of professional cat showing is here tonight for the annual Catalina Cat Club holiday dinner and awards banquet. This once tiny event has grown from a friendly competition into an international frenzy of flying fur and flashing claws: and that's just the owners (especially Marielle Ann DeVozz). Founder and host, Cy Ameze, invites you to come and raise a glass to this year's winner of the prestigious, jewel-encrusted Kitty Cup. That is, if you're still alive by the end of the evening.

Special New Year's Eve performance: Death by Disco
Without a Cue Productions

Price: $140/couple includes dinner, show, tax, and gratuity
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

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

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

For reservations, phone 315-469-6969.

This Wonderful Life
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director
Featuring James Leaming

Price: $30 adults; $16 students 18 and under
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings. Visit Bedford Falls this holiday season for a charming stage telling of Frank Capra's Hollywood classic. One brave actor plays 32 characters including George Bailey, Clarence, Mr. Potter, Mary, Martini, and Zuzu to bring everyone's favorite family holiday charmer to wonderful life. Hee-haw.

Read a Review!

Friday, January 1, 2010

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

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

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

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

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

Read a review!

Windows Project: Confederacy of Dunces
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Hamilton-based Lynette K. Stephenson created an installation about New Orleans consisting of 60 hand-felted wool dunce caps. This exhibition is inspired by John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) set in New Orleans, where Stephenson's family home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and based on her previous body of paintings, The Red Cross Series, which led to the idea for this site-specific project. In this work Stephenson engages in a dialogue about present-day social issues referring to New Orleans, the tragedy of the Hurricane and the universal symbol of the Red Cross.

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read a review!

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

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

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

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular, $4 seniors, $2 ages 12 and younger
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The delicious aroma of ginger and candy waft through the air as the second floor gallery is transformed into a festive 1800s street scene, with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers.

Intimacy & Vastness
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Price: Free
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

A show of paintings by Sharon Gordon and Aida Khalil and ceramic works by Errol Willett.

Sharon Gordon's new oil paintings feature her ongoing exploration of the dynamic relationship of earth and sky. Her dreamlike landscape paintings engage the play of light over vast surfaces and suspended water droplets.

Aida Khalil's mixed media paintings are from her "Boat of Hours" series. Through the intimate scale of er small canvases, the artist transforms vistas into personal landscapes of slowed down moments of light and weather.

Errol Willett's pottery and ceramic forms are influenced by painting, sculpture and architecture. The artist is interested in how art can forge ahead, from being something other than our known world, and crosses into a new locus.

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Holiday Show 09
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit.

The exhibition will feature photography, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include: Jen Allen (Morgantown, WV), Ed Feldman (Cortland), Shanna Fliegel (Tarrytown, NY), Bob Gates (Jamesville), Shawn O'Connor (Syracuse), Davie Reneau (Glasgow, KY), Brenda Edwards (Oswego), Kathy Barry (Syracuse), Nancy Kramer (Skaneateles), Brooke Noble (Saranac Lake, NY), Erin Murphy (Syracuse), Lucy Mink (Syracuse), Jeremy Randall (Tully), Lucie Wellner (Pompey), Forrest Lesch-Middelton (Fairfax, CA), and Jen Gandee (Fabius).

Syracuse During the Time of Impressionism
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Fresh: First-Year Students in the School of Art and Design Juried Exhibition 2009
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition showcases a variety of work from approximately 100 students in the Department of Foundation, which offers the first-year program for students in the School of Art and Design. Works shown include video, sound, digital art, sculpture, design, books, collage, animation and drawing from the four studio areas of the foundation program: drawing, creative processes, time arts and dimensional arts.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand, the colleges program exhibitions coordinator, at adhavenh@syr.edu. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Alyson Shotz: Drawing Through Space
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

With the assistance of Syracuse University students, Brooklyn-based Shotz created her works on site, thus turning The Warehouse Gallery into a form of laboratory. Shotz is one of today's ground-breaking artists transforming contemporary art through a fusion of technology and handcrafted steel wire and yarn artworks. Her use of this material is a means of combining sculpture with drawing to address issues of light, space, time and motion. Strikingly beautiful, her wire sculpture in the vault and three wall drawings project optical experiences where questions of perception and misperception lead to further examination of the impact of 21st-century technology on the arts.

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Windows Project: Confederacy of Dunces
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Hamilton-based Lynette K. Stephenson created an installation about New Orleans consisting of 60 hand-felted wool dunce caps. This exhibition is inspired by John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) set in New Orleans, where Stephenson's family home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and based on her previous body of paintings, The Red Cross Series, which led to the idea for this site-specific project. In this work Stephenson engages in a dialogue about present-day social issues referring to New Orleans, the tragedy of the Hurricane and the universal symbol of the Red Cross.

Don't Feed the Actors Dinner Theater
Don't Feed the Actors

Price: Dinner theater: $25 single; $40 couple. Show only: $15 on day of show if seating available
Fire and Ice Banquet Hall, The Locker Room
528 Hiawatha Blvd., Syracuse

Audience-interactive improv comedy with some of Syracuse's finest comedic actors.

Dinner 6:45 pm, show begins at 8:00 pm.

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The January Jam: The Brethren, Juice Break, Lee Terrace, Family Farm
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Masks of Life
Open Hand Theater

Price: $8 adults, $6 children
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

What is the first most important moment in a person's life, no matter where they live in the world or when they have existed in time? Open Hand Theater's artistic director Geoffrey Navias unlocks the secret stories of beautifully-crafted masks from around the world, and creates beguiling characters that come to life through masks of his own design. This treasured performance has intrigued and enchanted audiences of all ages in over 10 years of touring with Open Hand's unique International Mask and Puppet Museum.

Black Nativity
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
William H. Rowland II and Annette Adams-Brown, director

CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Black Nativity, by Langston Hughes, is a foot stomping, hand clapping, jump to your feet shouting gospel drama that will delight the entire family, regardless of religious affiliations or beliefs. Hughes called it a "gospel song play." Black Nativity is a re-telling of the classic nativity story with a non-traditional cast. Traditional Christmas carols along with a few musical numbers created especially for the show are sung in gospel style by The PRpac Choral Ensemble. The show has a multi-generational cast of singers, narrators, poets, dancers and soloists that will fill the theater with jubilation and praise. Through the vibrations of African drums and percussion, the birth of Jesus becomes one of the most dramatic scenes of the show. Mary and Joseph will dance right into your hearts. Marcia L. Hagan will serve as musical director. The show was first performed on Broadway on December 11, 1961, and was one of the first plays written by an African-American to do so.

Read a review!

This Wonderful Life
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director
Featuring James Leaming

Price: $35 adults; $16 students 18 and under
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings. Visit Bedford Falls this holiday season for a charming stage telling of Frank Capra's Hollywood classic. One brave actor plays 32 characters including George Bailey, Clarence, Mr. Potter, Mary, Martini, and Zuzu to bring everyone's favorite family holiday charmer to wonderful life. Hee-haw.

Read a Review!

Black Nativity
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
William H. Rowland II and Annette Adams-Brown, director

CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Black Nativity, by Langston Hughes, is a foot stomping, hand clapping, jump to your feet shouting gospel drama that will delight the entire family, regardless of religious affiliations or beliefs. Hughes called it a "gospel song play." Black Nativity is a re-telling of the classic nativity story with a non-traditional cast. Traditional Christmas carols along with a few musical numbers created especially for the show are sung in gospel style by The PRpac Choral Ensemble. The show has a multi-generational cast of singers, narrators, poets, dancers and soloists that will fill the theater with jubilation and praise. Through the vibrations of African drums and percussion, the birth of Jesus becomes one of the most dramatic scenes of the show. Mary and Joseph will dance right into your hearts. Marcia L. Hagan will serve as musical director. The show was first performed on Broadway on December 11, 1961, and was one of the first plays written by an African-American to do so.

Read a review!

Death by Disco
Without a Cue Productions

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

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

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

For reservations, phone 315-469-6969.

This Wonderful Life
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director
Featuring James Leaming

Price: $40 adults; $16 students 18 and under
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings. Visit Bedford Falls this holiday season for a charming stage telling of Frank Capra's Hollywood classic. One brave actor plays 32 characters including George Bailey, Clarence, Mr. Potter, Mary, Martini, and Zuzu to bring everyone's favorite family holiday charmer to wonderful life. Hee-haw.

Read a Review!

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Arts & Crafts of New York State
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read a review!

Gingerbread Gallery
Erie Canal Museum

Price: $5 regular, $4 seniors, $2 ages 12 and younger
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The delicious aroma of ginger and candy waft through the air as the second floor gallery is transformed into a festive 1800s street scene, with over 40 gingerbread creations on display in storefront windows. These sweet creations are made locally by professional and amateur bakers.

Holiday Show 09
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

The Holiday Group Show emphasizes the important role that handmade objects and fine art plays in domestic life, enriching living spaces and adorning the body. The Gandee Gallery encourages art lovers to celebrate the holidays by giving gifts that embody the creative spirit.

The exhibition will feature photography, ceramics, painting, and fiber art created by regionally and nationally recognized artists. Participating artists include: Jen Allen (Morgantown, WV), Ed Feldman (Cortland), Shanna Fliegel (Tarrytown, NY), Bob Gates (Jamesville), Shawn O'Connor (Syracuse), Davie Reneau (Glasgow, KY), Brenda Edwards (Oswego), Kathy Barry (Syracuse), Nancy Kramer (Skaneateles), Brooke Noble (Saranac Lake, NY), Erin Murphy (Syracuse), Lucy Mink (Syracuse), Jeremy Randall (Tully), Lucie Wellner (Pompey), Forrest Lesch-Middelton (Fairfax, CA), and Jen Gandee (Fabius).

Syracuse During the Time of Impressionism
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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

Fresh: First-Year Students in the School of Art and Design Juried Exhibition 2009
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

The exhibition showcases a variety of work from approximately 100 students in the Department of Foundation, which offers the first-year program for students in the School of Art and Design. Works shown include video, sound, digital art, sculpture, design, books, collage, animation and drawing from the four studio areas of the foundation program: drawing, creative processes, time arts and dimensional arts.

For more information, contact Andrew Havenhand, the colleges program exhibitions coordinator, at adhavenh@syr.edu. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Jazz Vespers
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Maria DeAngelis

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

This informal event is open to everyone of all faiths. Jazz selections will be drawn from secular and sacred sources with inspirational readings and a homily.

This Wonderful Life
Syracuse Stage
Peter Amster, director
Featuring James Leaming

Price: $35 adults; $16 students 18 and under
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings. Visit Bedford Falls this holiday season for a charming stage telling of Frank Capra's Hollywood classic. One brave actor plays 32 characters including George Bailey, Clarence, Mr. Potter, Mary, Martini, and Zuzu to bring everyone's favorite family holiday charmer to wonderful life. Hee-haw.

Read a Review!

Black Nativity
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
William H. Rowland II and Annette Adams-Brown, director

CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Black Nativity, by Langston Hughes, is a foot stomping, hand clapping, jump to your feet shouting gospel drama that will delight the entire family, regardless of religious affiliations or beliefs. Hughes called it a "gospel song play." Black Nativity is a re-telling of the classic nativity story with a non-traditional cast. Traditional Christmas carols along with a few musical numbers created especially for the show are sung in gospel style by The PRpac Choral Ensemble. The show has a multi-generational cast of singers, narrators, poets, dancers and soloists that will fill the theater with jubilation and praise. Through the vibrations of African drums and percussion, the birth of Jesus becomes one of the most dramatic scenes of the show. Mary and Joseph will dance right into your hearts. Marcia L. Hagan will serve as musical director. The show was first performed on Broadway on December 11, 1961, and was one of the first plays written by an African-American to do so.

Read a review!