Friday, October 27, 2006

Atrium Exhibit: National Kitchen and Bath Design Competition
Onondaga Community College

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

National Kitchen and Bath Design Competition featuring nine professional designers from the Central New York region. Display will also include five of the winning entries from last years competition.

Visual Arts Showcase #57
CNY Arts

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

Visual Arts Showcase #57 features 19 local visual artists presenting work in varied media.
Featured Artists: Joan Applebaum, Dan Bacich, Marna Bell, Michael Berman, Judith Brown-Roenbeck, Robert Carroll, Joe Cerio, Anne Childress, Mary Lou Colgin, Shelly Coryell, Ben Donzella, Joy Englehart, Kathy Gibbons, Richard Karuzas, Steve Koh, Allen Kosoff, Joe LeFevre, Yolanda Tooley, Noelle Uebele

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

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

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Gallery Exhibit: Objects and Implications: Jennifer Pepper, Richard Pardee and Hilary Lorenz
Onondaga Community College

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

A compelling exhibit of handmade books, installation pieces and woodcut prints.

Virgil Dombroski: Photographs
Westcott Community Center

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

Associated Artists Annual Juried Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

This year marks the 80th consecutive year that this show has taken place. It is the first year in the new gallery which is part of the recently expanded and remodeled Manlius Library. The Gordon Steele Medal will be awarded for Best of Show. This award, given out since 1962, includes a cash prize and a solo exhibit in the Library Gallery. This year's show is being juried by Merilee French Freeman and Claude Freeman, both Adjunct Professors of Painting in the Art Department at OCC.

African-American Constructs: Designs by Scott Ruff
Community Folk Art Center

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

Ruff is a professor of architecture at Syracuse University. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from Cornell University. He is the recipient of an Alpha Chi Ro Medal for leadership and service. Prior to joining the SU faculty, Ruff taught at Hampton University, the University at Buffalo and Cornell University. Ruff previously worked with the architectural firm of Foit-Albert and Associates.

Ruff formed Ruff Works Studio in 2003. Ruff Works specializes in research and design. One main focus of the studio is the research and cultivation of African-American aesthetics in spatial design. Ruff's publications include an article in Thresholds, "Spatial wRapping: A Speculation on Men's Hip-Hop Fashion," and a book review in the Journal of Architectural Education, "White Papers, Black Marks." He has lectured throughout the United States.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Challenges in Contemporary Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Over 40 visual artists in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts are participating in the annual exhibition highlighting new work by the college's faculty. This year, for the first time, the exhibition has been organized on the theme of challenges chosen, faced, discovered and resolved by this diverse group of image and object makers.

As usual the show brings together a broad diversity of media, technique and inspiration. Visitors will be surprised by the range of objects on display and their breadth and depth of intellectual and emotional content. Traditional themes like portraiture, landscape and still life can be seen next to more experimental genres such as interactive installations and time based arts.

Making this exhibition especially interesting are the visual comparisons between artists working in the same subject area. Several artists are intrigued by landscape but their inspiration springs from sources as different as gardening, the subtle yet real transitions that occur in a landscape and discovering visually interesting fragments of urban settings. Other artists found life experience to inspire them: one used her experiences as a pediatric nurse to shape her imagery while another attempted to portray the music of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis through abstract drawings. Yet another used his family as subjects in a series of photographs that documented the family's travails.

Better Than Words
Delavan Art Gallery

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

Deborah Dahlin - landscapes and still lifes
Suzanne Firsching - eclectic sculptural works
Chris Galin - photography
Stephen Perrone - paintings
Kate Wossner - landscape photography

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

On My Own Time was initiated in 1974 by the Cultural Resources Council in cooperation with the Everson Museum of Art to celebrate and promote the creativity among the employees of local businesses. The exhibition, juried by artists and staff of the Everson and the Council, exposes the sometimes hidden artistic talent found in the businesses of Central New York.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

The Canary Project
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Canary Project is a photographic presentation of the effects of global warming on 16 landscapes around the world. Its mission is to photograph areas that are exhibiting dramatic transformation due to global warming and to use these photographs to persuade as many people as possible that global warming is already underway and of immediate concern.

Edward and Susannah Morris, co-founders of the Canary Project, have traveled the world documenting the effects global warming is creating. The project derives its unusual name from the canaries once used by miners to warn of deadly methane levels. The project hopes to warn people of the harmful effects of global warming.

The Canary Project is an unusual opportunity to view landscapes affected by the changing global climate. The images comprising this exhibition take the viewer to countries they may never visit, but face the same impact from global warming that we all do.

Dialogues and Solos: Contemporary Photography, Collage and Installation by Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Since Liliana Porter last presented her prints and paintings at Syracuse University (Crossing Boundaries, 1990), this world-renowned Argentinean artist has continued to explore and grow into new dimensions in photography and installation art. Her figurines and toys, her characters, are social, down to earth human creations, made in society's image and likeness.

Born in Uruguay, Ana Tiscornia was a witness-participant of Latin America's recent painful history. Her world is made out of digitalized photography intermingled with maps, fragmented objects, rolled pieces of paper, leftovers -- what we recall are broken sequences, broken at some critical point in our imagery, in our memory.

About the nature of this exhibit, the artists comment: "In order to say where our work intercepts, first we should establish that both artworks are different. While one is more philosophical, related to recurrent questions (Liliana), the other is more political and relates to current events (Ana). While one is dramatic, the other confronts human tragedy with humor. We do not pretend to erase that diversity but to use it as material for the new constructions. What we want is for the fusion of both languages to give birth to a narrative that could be for all intents and purposes fictional and mysterious, where the visual ambiguity opens new ways of interpretation and uncovers unexpected conflicts."

Johan Lowie: Call to Silence
Redhouse

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

An exhibition of oil paintings by Belgian artist Johan Lowie focuses on the human drama, while capturing personal stories and emotions in the Surrealist style.

"My work focuses on the human drama, capturing stories and emotions in one image. The story of waking up at four o'clock in the morning will all your negative feelings of doom, despair or the feeling of pure happiness. How does love feel? The loss of a friend, the first days of spring? The tale of sorrow or eufory captured in deep understanding, the theatre of life in a light of color and composition. How do you paint these human travels universally without showing the obvious but deeper meaning with color and composition."

Onondaga Community College
Guitar Foundation Competition Winner: Jerome Ducharme

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Thanksgiving + Lake + Idatel + Al Larsen
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

Thanksgiving (aka Adrian Orange) is a musician out of Portland, Oregon, on Marriage Records.
The Nerve Magazine says "Adrian Orange's unique brand of fuzzy outsider-folk isnt always the easiest to describe, and, as a result, is often just given a place among the likes of Mount Eerie, Little Wings and Karl Blau by the adjectively challenged...."

Redhouse Live: Chris Chandler and David Roe Show
Redhouse

Price: $10
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The Washington Post calls him dangerous. Punk United magazine calls him a one-man revolution. Redhouse calls him our performing guest on October 27th. When spoken word, music, and visual media collide, the result is a politically charged explosion named Chris Chandler. Experience the Chris Chandler and David Roe Show and find out why even Allen Ginsberg is a fan.

Haunted Halloween Cabaret!
Syracuse Gay and Lesbian Chorus
Carl Johengen, conductor

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

A cast of chorus members and local talent will "treat" you to a "gay-ly ghoulish" variety show. Cash bar available.

Carmen
Syracuse Opera

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

Read a review!

Poets Sarah Harwell, Farah Marklevitz, and Courtney Queeney
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

These three recent Syracuse University Creative Writing Program graduates are featured in a new book of poems, Three New Poets, published by Sheep Meadow Press.

Victim
Appleseed Productions
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 seniors/students
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

A beautiful woman, talking on the phone to her lover, is intruded upon by a man who claims to be the gas man. In fact, he has recently murdered someone on her front door step. She is intrigued by him, and a fascinating contest of wills develops, which is added to when her husband shows up. We find out only at the last who the real victim was. Written by Mario Fratti.

Read a review!

Tape
Black Box Players
Amy Newhall, director

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

For reservations, phone 315-443-2102.

Tales From Hollywood
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin
Anjalee Nadkarni, director

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Tales From Hollywood, by Christopher Hampton, explores the clash of cultures and the search for truth and identity when a group of German writers immigrate to Tinsel Town to escape the Nazis. The play spans the years 1938 to the 1950s in Hollywood, where many European refugee writers have fled to escape Hitler. Among writers hoping to earn a living in the movie industry are Bertolt Brecht and Thomas Mann. Hampton's scholarship is obvious as are his finely drawn characters but they are also hugely enjoyable, and so is the picture of the clash of the two worlds -- the displaced European artists and the empty and glamorous Hollywood set.

Driving Miss Daisy
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director
Featuring Elizabeth Franz

Price: $45, $40, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Alfred Uhry won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for this heartwarming play and the film won Best Picture in 1989. It is easy to see why. By tracing the evolution of the unlikely friendship between the wealthy, Jewish, and rigid Miss Daisy and her wise, patient, African-American chauffeur, Hoke, Uhry crafts a subtle and insightful examination of aging, racial prejudice, independence and class. Much admired for its honesty and integrity, Driving Miss Daisy is a delightful, charmer of a play.

Read a Review!

Hello, Dolly!
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular, $22 students/seniors, $14 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

A joyous, exuberant show that is a song of praise to the undefeatable human spirit, every main character in Hello, Dolly! decides to take a chance once more on life. It is this affirmation of the positive powers of the human spirit that has contributed to the show's success and longevity. With a book by Michael Stewart, based on the play "The Matchmaker" by Thornton Wilder, and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, the show won 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.

During the turn-of-the-century "Gay 90s" in New York City, Dolly Gallagher Levy has her hand in every business from marriages to corset repair, but unofficially, this feminine but shrewd lady is a natural arranger. Dolly promises to help Ambrose Kemper, a struggling artist, win the hand of Ermengarde, the niece of Horace Vandergelder, the Scrooge of Yonkers, while setting her own sights on Vandergelder himself. Along the way, many others become caught up in Dolly's manipulations that result in zany confusion, mistaken identities, and ensuing melees.

Read a review!

Saturday, October 28, 2006

Associated Artists Annual Juried Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

This year marks the 80th consecutive year that this show has taken place. It is the first year in the new gallery which is part of the recently expanded and remodeled Manlius Library. The Gordon Steele Medal will be awarded for Best of Show. This award, given out since 1962, includes a cash prize and a solo exhibit in the Library Gallery. This year's show is being juried by Merilee French Freeman and Claude Freeman, both Adjunct Professors of Painting in the Art Department at OCC.

Better Than Words
Delavan Art Gallery

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

Deborah Dahlin - landscapes and still lifes
Suzanne Firsching - eclectic sculptural works
Chris Galin - photography
Stephen Perrone - paintings
Kate Wossner - landscape photography

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

On My Own Time was initiated in 1974 by the Cultural Resources Council in cooperation with the Everson Museum of Art to celebrate and promote the creativity among the employees of local businesses. The exhibition, juried by artists and staff of the Everson and the Council, exposes the sometimes hidden artistic talent found in the businesses of Central New York.

The Canary Project
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Canary Project is a photographic presentation of the effects of global warming on 16 landscapes around the world. Its mission is to photograph areas that are exhibiting dramatic transformation due to global warming and to use these photographs to persuade as many people as possible that global warming is already underway and of immediate concern.

Edward and Susannah Morris, co-founders of the Canary Project, have traveled the world documenting the effects global warming is creating. The project derives its unusual name from the canaries once used by miners to warn of deadly methane levels. The project hopes to warn people of the harmful effects of global warming.

The Canary Project is an unusual opportunity to view landscapes affected by the changing global climate. The images comprising this exhibition take the viewer to countries they may never visit, but face the same impact from global warming that we all do.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

African-American Constructs: Designs by Scott Ruff
Community Folk Art Center

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

Ruff is a professor of architecture at Syracuse University. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from Cornell University. He is the recipient of an Alpha Chi Ro Medal for leadership and service. Prior to joining the SU faculty, Ruff taught at Hampton University, the University at Buffalo and Cornell University. Ruff previously worked with the architectural firm of Foit-Albert and Associates.

Ruff formed Ruff Works Studio in 2003. Ruff Works specializes in research and design. One main focus of the studio is the research and cultivation of African-American aesthetics in spatial design. Ruff's publications include an article in Thresholds, "Spatial wRapping: A Speculation on Men's Hip-Hop Fashion," and a book review in the Journal of Architectural Education, "White Papers, Black Marks." He has lectured throughout the United States.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

Challenges in Contemporary Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Over 40 visual artists in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts are participating in the annual exhibition highlighting new work by the college's faculty. This year, for the first time, the exhibition has been organized on the theme of challenges chosen, faced, discovered and resolved by this diverse group of image and object makers.

As usual the show brings together a broad diversity of media, technique and inspiration. Visitors will be surprised by the range of objects on display and their breadth and depth of intellectual and emotional content. Traditional themes like portraiture, landscape and still life can be seen next to more experimental genres such as interactive installations and time based arts.

Making this exhibition especially interesting are the visual comparisons between artists working in the same subject area. Several artists are intrigued by landscape but their inspiration springs from sources as different as gardening, the subtle yet real transitions that occur in a landscape and discovering visually interesting fragments of urban settings. Other artists found life experience to inspire them: one used her experiences as a pediatric nurse to shape her imagery while another attempted to portray the music of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis through abstract drawings. Yet another used his family as subjects in a series of photographs that documented the family's travails.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Johan Lowie: Call to Silence
Redhouse

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

An exhibition of oil paintings by Belgian artist Johan Lowie focuses on the human drama, while capturing personal stories and emotions in the Surrealist style.

"My work focuses on the human drama, capturing stories and emotions in one image. The story of waking up at four o'clock in the morning will all your negative feelings of doom, despair or the feeling of pure happiness. How does love feel? The loss of a friend, the first days of spring? The tale of sorrow or eufory captured in deep understanding, the theatre of life in a light of color and composition. How do you paint these human travels universally without showing the obvious but deeper meaning with color and composition."

500 Miles to Babylon: A Film About Occupied Iraq
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Price: $2
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

A one-hour documentary not about soldiers, not about governments, but about Iraqi civilians and a handful of independent journalists in a country turned to hell. A cinema verite narrative of daily life, disintegration, and the humor that ordinary people adapt when living in a war-zone. Includes rare footage from inside besieged Fallujah, April 2004, and a Choubi music soundtrack provided by Sublime Frequencies. Unlike any Iraq movie you have seen!

San Francisco filmmaker David Martinez will be in attendance.

Gallery Talk
Community Folk Art Center
Featuring Scott Ruff, architect

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

Lecture offered in conjunction with the exhibit "African-American Constructs: Designs by Scott Ruff."

Classical Concert Series
Redhouse
Avalon String Quartet

Price: $22 regular; $18 senior; $15 student
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Hailed as "one of the most exciting young string quartets in America," the Avalon String Quartet has established itself as one of the country's leading chamber ensembles and has earned international acclaim for the bold musicality and passionate intensity of it performances.

The Avalon String Quartet artistic line-up consists of Blaise Magniere, first violin; Marie Wang; second violin; Anthony Devroye, viola; Sumire Kudo, cello.

Beethoven String Quartet Op. 18 No. 2 in G Major
Debussy String Quartet Op. 10 in G Minor
Beethoven String Quartet Op. 131 in C# Minor

Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music
Musicians from Marlboro

Price: $20 regular, $15 senior, $10 student, children under 13 free
H. W. Smith School Auditorium
1130 Salt Springs Rd., Syracuse

Mozart Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat major, K. 452
Ravel Chansons Madecasses
Carter Eight Etudes and a Fantasy
Poulenc Sextuor for Piano and Woodwind Quintet

Aladdin
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Driving Miss Daisy
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director
Featuring Elizabeth Franz

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

Alfred Uhry won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for this heartwarming play and the film won Best Picture in 1989. It is easy to see why. By tracing the evolution of the unlikely friendship between the wealthy, Jewish, and rigid Miss Daisy and her wise, patient, African-American chauffeur, Hoke, Uhry crafts a subtle and insightful examination of aging, racial prejudice, independence and class. Much admired for its honesty and integrity, Driving Miss Daisy is a delightful, charmer of a play.

Read a Review!

Victim
Appleseed Productions
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 seniors/students
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

A beautiful woman, talking on the phone to her lover, is intruded upon by a man who claims to be the gas man. In fact, he has recently murdered someone on her front door step. She is intrigued by him, and a fascinating contest of wills develops, which is added to when her husband shows up. We find out only at the last who the real victim was. Written by Mario Fratti.

Read a review!

Tape
Black Box Players
Amy Newhall, director

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

For reservations, phone 315-443-2102.

Tales From Hollywood
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin
Anjalee Nadkarni, director

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Tales From Hollywood, by Christopher Hampton, explores the clash of cultures and the search for truth and identity when a group of German writers immigrate to Tinsel Town to escape the Nazis. The play spans the years 1938 to the 1950s in Hollywood, where many European refugee writers have fled to escape Hitler. Among writers hoping to earn a living in the movie industry are Bertolt Brecht and Thomas Mann. Hampton's scholarship is obvious as are his finely drawn characters but they are also hugely enjoyable, and so is the picture of the clash of the two worlds -- the displaced European artists and the empty and glamorous Hollywood set.

Mystery at the Brewmaster's Castle
Open Hand Theater

Price: $35
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

A special Halloween event, to benefit Open Hand Theater. A haunting evening of food, drink, and mystery.

Driving Miss Daisy
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director
Featuring Elizabeth Franz

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

Alfred Uhry won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for this heartwarming play and the film won Best Picture in 1989. It is easy to see why. By tracing the evolution of the unlikely friendship between the wealthy, Jewish, and rigid Miss Daisy and her wise, patient, African-American chauffeur, Hoke, Uhry crafts a subtle and insightful examination of aging, racial prejudice, independence and class. Much admired for its honesty and integrity, Driving Miss Daisy is a delightful, charmer of a play.

Read a Review!

Hello, Dolly!
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular, $22 students/seniors, $14 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

A joyous, exuberant show that is a song of praise to the undefeatable human spirit, every main character in Hello, Dolly! decides to take a chance once more on life. It is this affirmation of the positive powers of the human spirit that has contributed to the show's success and longevity. With a book by Michael Stewart, based on the play "The Matchmaker" by Thornton Wilder, and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, the show won 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.

During the turn-of-the-century "Gay 90s" in New York City, Dolly Gallagher Levy has her hand in every business from marriages to corset repair, but unofficially, this feminine but shrewd lady is a natural arranger. Dolly promises to help Ambrose Kemper, a struggling artist, win the hand of Ermengarde, the niece of Horace Vandergelder, the Scrooge of Yonkers, while setting her own sights on Vandergelder himself. Along the way, many others become caught up in Dolly's manipulations that result in zany confusion, mistaken identities, and ensuing melees.

Read a review!

Sunday, October 29, 2006

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Challenges in Contemporary Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Over 40 visual artists in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts are participating in the annual exhibition highlighting new work by the college's faculty. This year, for the first time, the exhibition has been organized on the theme of challenges chosen, faced, discovered and resolved by this diverse group of image and object makers.

As usual the show brings together a broad diversity of media, technique and inspiration. Visitors will be surprised by the range of objects on display and their breadth and depth of intellectual and emotional content. Traditional themes like portraiture, landscape and still life can be seen next to more experimental genres such as interactive installations and time based arts.

Making this exhibition especially interesting are the visual comparisons between artists working in the same subject area. Several artists are intrigued by landscape but their inspiration springs from sources as different as gardening, the subtle yet real transitions that occur in a landscape and discovering visually interesting fragments of urban settings. Other artists found life experience to inspire them: one used her experiences as a pediatric nurse to shape her imagery while another attempted to portray the music of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis through abstract drawings. Yet another used his family as subjects in a series of photographs that documented the family's travails.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

On My Own Time was initiated in 1974 by the Cultural Resources Council in cooperation with the Everson Museum of Art to celebrate and promote the creativity among the employees of local businesses. The exhibition, juried by artists and staff of the Everson and the Council, exposes the sometimes hidden artistic talent found in the businesses of Central New York.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

The Canary Project
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Canary Project is a photographic presentation of the effects of global warming on 16 landscapes around the world. Its mission is to photograph areas that are exhibiting dramatic transformation due to global warming and to use these photographs to persuade as many people as possible that global warming is already underway and of immediate concern.

Edward and Susannah Morris, co-founders of the Canary Project, have traveled the world documenting the effects global warming is creating. The project derives its unusual name from the canaries once used by miners to warn of deadly methane levels. The project hopes to warn people of the harmful effects of global warming.

The Canary Project is an unusual opportunity to view landscapes affected by the changing global climate. The images comprising this exhibition take the viewer to countries they may never visit, but face the same impact from global warming that we all do.

Associated Artists Annual Juried Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

This year marks the 80th consecutive year that this show has taken place. It is the first year in the new gallery which is part of the recently expanded and remodeled Manlius Library. The Gordon Steele Medal will be awarded for Best of Show. This award, given out since 1962, includes a cash prize and a solo exhibit in the Library Gallery. This year's show is being juried by Merilee French Freeman and Claude Freeman, both Adjunct Professors of Painting in the Art Department at OCC.

Second Annual Art of Caring Concert, Art Sale & Reception
Vera House

Price: $30 - advance registration required
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Members of the Co-Dependents' Songbook, Irish music group Tathu, women's choral ensemble Concinnity, soprano Julianna Sabol, clarinetist David Abrams and other notable Syracuse musicians perform on a stage arrayed with original fine artwork donated by regional artists. See and purchase pieces by Shel & Donal Little, Rosalie Spitzer, Sylvia Taylor, Christina Munger, Crystal LaPoint, Betty Murtagh, Mary Stebbins-Taitt, Debra Faes, Joan Applebaum and Maria Strazzulla, as well as posters from the Vera House "Survivors' Art" collection. There will be a reception prior to the performance (from 3:00 to 3:30) to preview the artwork, and again following the concert (from 5:00 to 5:30) to meet and greet the artists and musicians, and purchase artwork. Proceeds from all sales benefit the programs of Vera House, Inc.

Deadline to purchase tickets is Oct. 22. For more information, phone 315-425-0818 ext. 212 or email clapoint@verahouse.org.

Jazz Vespers
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free (donation requested)
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

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

Carmen
Syracuse Opera

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

Read a review!

Finals, a new play by Charles Lupia
Armory Square Playwrights

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

Finals centers on four students about to graduate from law school. As they move through their last school examinations, the four attempt to resolve romantic issues and settle old grudges.

This script-in-hand reading will be followed by a talkback session with the playwright.

Lupia's musical The Beautiful Brown Danube was presented last spring by NY Artists Unlimited in New York's East Village. His short comedy Uncle Sergei opens Oct. 5 at the Barnstormer's Theater in Tamworth, N. H., and runs for eight performances. In November, KUSB-San Francisco will broadcast a radio version of his play The Agony and the Experts. He is a long time member of Armory Square Playhouse.

Victim
Appleseed Productions
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 seniors/students
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

A beautiful woman, talking on the phone to her lover, is intruded upon by a man who claims to be the gas man. In fact, he has recently murdered someone on her front door step. She is intrigued by him, and a fascinating contest of wills develops, which is added to when her husband shows up. We find out only at the last who the real victim was. Written by Mario Fratti.

Read a review!

Driving Miss Daisy
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director
Featuring Elizabeth Franz

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

Alfred Uhry won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for this heartwarming play and the film won Best Picture in 1989. It is easy to see why. By tracing the evolution of the unlikely friendship between the wealthy, Jewish, and rigid Miss Daisy and her wise, patient, African-American chauffeur, Hoke, Uhry crafts a subtle and insightful examination of aging, racial prejudice, independence and class. Much admired for its honesty and integrity, Driving Miss Daisy is a delightful, charmer of a play.

Read a Review!

Hello, Dolly!
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular, $22 students/seniors, $14 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

A joyous, exuberant show that is a song of praise to the undefeatable human spirit, every main character in Hello, Dolly! decides to take a chance once more on life. It is this affirmation of the positive powers of the human spirit that has contributed to the show's success and longevity. With a book by Michael Stewart, based on the play "The Matchmaker" by Thornton Wilder, and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, the show won 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.

During the turn-of-the-century "Gay 90s" in New York City, Dolly Gallagher Levy has her hand in every business from marriages to corset repair, but unofficially, this feminine but shrewd lady is a natural arranger. Dolly promises to help Ambrose Kemper, a struggling artist, win the hand of Ermengarde, the niece of Horace Vandergelder, the Scrooge of Yonkers, while setting her own sights on Vandergelder himself. Along the way, many others become caught up in Dolly's manipulations that result in zany confusion, mistaken identities, and ensuing melees.

Read a review!

Driving Miss Daisy
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director
Featuring Elizabeth Franz

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

Alfred Uhry won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for this heartwarming play and the film won Best Picture in 1989. It is easy to see why. By tracing the evolution of the unlikely friendship between the wealthy, Jewish, and rigid Miss Daisy and her wise, patient, African-American chauffeur, Hoke, Uhry crafts a subtle and insightful examination of aging, racial prejudice, independence and class. Much admired for its honesty and integrity, Driving Miss Daisy is a delightful, charmer of a play.

Read a Review!

Monday, October 30, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase #57
CNY Arts

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

Visual Arts Showcase #57 features 19 local visual artists presenting work in varied media.
Featured Artists: Joan Applebaum, Dan Bacich, Marna Bell, Michael Berman, Judith Brown-Roenbeck, Robert Carroll, Joe Cerio, Anne Childress, Mary Lou Colgin, Shelly Coryell, Ben Donzella, Joy Englehart, Kathy Gibbons, Richard Karuzas, Steve Koh, Allen Kosoff, Joe LeFevre, Yolanda Tooley, Noelle Uebele

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

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

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Gallery Exhibit: Objects and Implications: Jennifer Pepper, Richard Pardee and Hilary Lorenz
Onondaga Community College

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

A compelling exhibit of handmade books, installation pieces and woodcut prints.

Virgil Dombroski: Photographs
Westcott Community Center

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

Associated Artists Annual Juried Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

This year marks the 80th consecutive year that this show has taken place. It is the first year in the new gallery which is part of the recently expanded and remodeled Manlius Library. The Gordon Steele Medal will be awarded for Best of Show. This award, given out since 1962, includes a cash prize and a solo exhibit in the Library Gallery. This year's show is being juried by Merilee French Freeman and Claude Freeman, both Adjunct Professors of Painting in the Art Department at OCC.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Dialogues and Solos: Contemporary Photography, Collage and Installation by Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Since Liliana Porter last presented her prints and paintings at Syracuse University (Crossing Boundaries, 1990), this world-renowned Argentinean artist has continued to explore and grow into new dimensions in photography and installation art. Her figurines and toys, her characters, are social, down to earth human creations, made in society's image and likeness.

Born in Uruguay, Ana Tiscornia was a witness-participant of Latin America's recent painful history. Her world is made out of digitalized photography intermingled with maps, fragmented objects, rolled pieces of paper, leftovers -- what we recall are broken sequences, broken at some critical point in our imagery, in our memory.

About the nature of this exhibit, the artists comment: "In order to say where our work intercepts, first we should establish that both artworks are different. While one is more philosophical, related to recurrent questions (Liliana), the other is more political and relates to current events (Ana). While one is dramatic, the other confronts human tragedy with humor. We do not pretend to erase that diversity but to use it as material for the new constructions. What we want is for the fusion of both languages to give birth to a narrative that could be for all intents and purposes fictional and mysterious, where the visual ambiguity opens new ways of interpretation and uncovers unexpected conflicts."

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase #57
CNY Arts

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

Visual Arts Showcase #57 features 19 local visual artists presenting work in varied media.
Featured Artists: Joan Applebaum, Dan Bacich, Marna Bell, Michael Berman, Judith Brown-Roenbeck, Robert Carroll, Joe Cerio, Anne Childress, Mary Lou Colgin, Shelly Coryell, Ben Donzella, Joy Englehart, Kathy Gibbons, Richard Karuzas, Steve Koh, Allen Kosoff, Joe LeFevre, Yolanda Tooley, Noelle Uebele

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

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

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Gallery Exhibit: Objects and Implications: Jennifer Pepper, Richard Pardee and Hilary Lorenz
Onondaga Community College

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

A compelling exhibit of handmade books, installation pieces and woodcut prints.

Virgil Dombroski: Photographs
Westcott Community Center

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

Associated Artists Annual Juried Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

This year marks the 80th consecutive year that this show has taken place. It is the first year in the new gallery which is part of the recently expanded and remodeled Manlius Library. The Gordon Steele Medal will be awarded for Best of Show. This award, given out since 1962, includes a cash prize and a solo exhibit in the Library Gallery. This year's show is being juried by Merilee French Freeman and Claude Freeman, both Adjunct Professors of Painting in the Art Department at OCC.

African-American Constructs: Designs by Scott Ruff
Community Folk Art Center

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

Ruff is a professor of architecture at Syracuse University. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from Cornell University. He is the recipient of an Alpha Chi Ro Medal for leadership and service. Prior to joining the SU faculty, Ruff taught at Hampton University, the University at Buffalo and Cornell University. Ruff previously worked with the architectural firm of Foit-Albert and Associates.

Ruff formed Ruff Works Studio in 2003. Ruff Works specializes in research and design. One main focus of the studio is the research and cultivation of African-American aesthetics in spatial design. Ruff's publications include an article in Thresholds, "Spatial wRapping: A Speculation on Men's Hip-Hop Fashion," and a book review in the Journal of Architectural Education, "White Papers, Black Marks." He has lectured throughout the United States.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

Challenges in Contemporary Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Over 40 visual artists in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts are participating in the annual exhibition highlighting new work by the college's faculty. This year, for the first time, the exhibition has been organized on the theme of challenges chosen, faced, discovered and resolved by this diverse group of image and object makers.

As usual the show brings together a broad diversity of media, technique and inspiration. Visitors will be surprised by the range of objects on display and their breadth and depth of intellectual and emotional content. Traditional themes like portraiture, landscape and still life can be seen next to more experimental genres such as interactive installations and time based arts.

Making this exhibition especially interesting are the visual comparisons between artists working in the same subject area. Several artists are intrigued by landscape but their inspiration springs from sources as different as gardening, the subtle yet real transitions that occur in a landscape and discovering visually interesting fragments of urban settings. Other artists found life experience to inspire them: one used her experiences as a pediatric nurse to shape her imagery while another attempted to portray the music of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis through abstract drawings. Yet another used his family as subjects in a series of photographs that documented the family's travails.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

The Canary Project
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Canary Project is a photographic presentation of the effects of global warming on 16 landscapes around the world. Its mission is to photograph areas that are exhibiting dramatic transformation due to global warming and to use these photographs to persuade as many people as possible that global warming is already underway and of immediate concern.

Edward and Susannah Morris, co-founders of the Canary Project, have traveled the world documenting the effects global warming is creating. The project derives its unusual name from the canaries once used by miners to warn of deadly methane levels. The project hopes to warn people of the harmful effects of global warming.

The Canary Project is an unusual opportunity to view landscapes affected by the changing global climate. The images comprising this exhibition take the viewer to countries they may never visit, but face the same impact from global warming that we all do.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

On My Own Time was initiated in 1974 by the Cultural Resources Council in cooperation with the Everson Museum of Art to celebrate and promote the creativity among the employees of local businesses. The exhibition, juried by artists and staff of the Everson and the Council, exposes the sometimes hidden artistic talent found in the businesses of Central New York.

Dialogues and Solos: Contemporary Photography, Collage and Installation by Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Since Liliana Porter last presented her prints and paintings at Syracuse University (Crossing Boundaries, 1990), this world-renowned Argentinean artist has continued to explore and grow into new dimensions in photography and installation art. Her figurines and toys, her characters, are social, down to earth human creations, made in society's image and likeness.

Born in Uruguay, Ana Tiscornia was a witness-participant of Latin America's recent painful history. Her world is made out of digitalized photography intermingled with maps, fragmented objects, rolled pieces of paper, leftovers -- what we recall are broken sequences, broken at some critical point in our imagery, in our memory.

About the nature of this exhibit, the artists comment: "In order to say where our work intercepts, first we should establish that both artworks are different. While one is more philosophical, related to recurrent questions (Liliana), the other is more political and relates to current events (Ana). While one is dramatic, the other confronts human tragedy with humor. We do not pretend to erase that diversity but to use it as material for the new constructions. What we want is for the fusion of both languages to give birth to a narrative that could be for all intents and purposes fictional and mysterious, where the visual ambiguity opens new ways of interpretation and uncovers unexpected conflicts."

SU Symphony Orchestra
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
James Tapia, conductor

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

Wednesday, November 1, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase #57
CNY Arts

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

Visual Arts Showcase #57 features 19 local visual artists presenting work in varied media.
Featured Artists: Joan Applebaum, Dan Bacich, Marna Bell, Michael Berman, Judith Brown-Roenbeck, Robert Carroll, Joe Cerio, Anne Childress, Mary Lou Colgin, Shelly Coryell, Ben Donzella, Joy Englehart, Kathy Gibbons, Richard Karuzas, Steve Koh, Allen Kosoff, Joe LeFevre, Yolanda Tooley, Noelle Uebele

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

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

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Gallery Exhibit: Objects and Implications: Jennifer Pepper, Richard Pardee and Hilary Lorenz
Onondaga Community College

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

A compelling exhibit of handmade books, installation pieces and woodcut prints.

Virgil Dombroski: Photographs
Westcott Community Center

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

Associated Artists Annual Juried Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

This year marks the 80th consecutive year that this show has taken place. It is the first year in the new gallery which is part of the recently expanded and remodeled Manlius Library. The Gordon Steele Medal will be awarded for Best of Show. This award, given out since 1962, includes a cash prize and a solo exhibit in the Library Gallery. This year's show is being juried by Merilee French Freeman and Claude Freeman, both Adjunct Professors of Painting in the Art Department at OCC.

African-American Constructs: Designs by Scott Ruff
Community Folk Art Center

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

Ruff is a professor of architecture at Syracuse University. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from Cornell University. He is the recipient of an Alpha Chi Ro Medal for leadership and service. Prior to joining the SU faculty, Ruff taught at Hampton University, the University at Buffalo and Cornell University. Ruff previously worked with the architectural firm of Foit-Albert and Associates.

Ruff formed Ruff Works Studio in 2003. Ruff Works specializes in research and design. One main focus of the studio is the research and cultivation of African-American aesthetics in spatial design. Ruff's publications include an article in Thresholds, "Spatial wRapping: A Speculation on Men's Hip-Hop Fashion," and a book review in the Journal of Architectural Education, "White Papers, Black Marks." He has lectured throughout the United States.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Challenges in Contemporary Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Over 40 visual artists in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts are participating in the annual exhibition highlighting new work by the college's faculty. This year, for the first time, the exhibition has been organized on the theme of challenges chosen, faced, discovered and resolved by this diverse group of image and object makers.

As usual the show brings together a broad diversity of media, technique and inspiration. Visitors will be surprised by the range of objects on display and their breadth and depth of intellectual and emotional content. Traditional themes like portraiture, landscape and still life can be seen next to more experimental genres such as interactive installations and time based arts.

Making this exhibition especially interesting are the visual comparisons between artists working in the same subject area. Several artists are intrigued by landscape but their inspiration springs from sources as different as gardening, the subtle yet real transitions that occur in a landscape and discovering visually interesting fragments of urban settings. Other artists found life experience to inspire them: one used her experiences as a pediatric nurse to shape her imagery while another attempted to portray the music of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis through abstract drawings. Yet another used his family as subjects in a series of photographs that documented the family's travails.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

On My Own Time was initiated in 1974 by the Cultural Resources Council in cooperation with the Everson Museum of Art to celebrate and promote the creativity among the employees of local businesses. The exhibition, juried by artists and staff of the Everson and the Council, exposes the sometimes hidden artistic talent found in the businesses of Central New York.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

The Canary Project
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Canary Project is a photographic presentation of the effects of global warming on 16 landscapes around the world. Its mission is to photograph areas that are exhibiting dramatic transformation due to global warming and to use these photographs to persuade as many people as possible that global warming is already underway and of immediate concern.

Edward and Susannah Morris, co-founders of the Canary Project, have traveled the world documenting the effects global warming is creating. The project derives its unusual name from the canaries once used by miners to warn of deadly methane levels. The project hopes to warn people of the harmful effects of global warming.

The Canary Project is an unusual opportunity to view landscapes affected by the changing global climate. The images comprising this exhibition take the viewer to countries they may never visit, but face the same impact from global warming that we all do.

Dialogues and Solos: Contemporary Photography, Collage and Installation by Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Since Liliana Porter last presented her prints and paintings at Syracuse University (Crossing Boundaries, 1990), this world-renowned Argentinean artist has continued to explore and grow into new dimensions in photography and installation art. Her figurines and toys, her characters, are social, down to earth human creations, made in society's image and likeness.

Born in Uruguay, Ana Tiscornia was a witness-participant of Latin America's recent painful history. Her world is made out of digitalized photography intermingled with maps, fragmented objects, rolled pieces of paper, leftovers -- what we recall are broken sequences, broken at some critical point in our imagery, in our memory.

About the nature of this exhibit, the artists comment: "In order to say where our work intercepts, first we should establish that both artworks are different. While one is more philosophical, related to recurrent questions (Liliana), the other is more political and relates to current events (Ana). While one is dramatic, the other confronts human tragedy with humor. We do not pretend to erase that diversity but to use it as material for the new constructions. What we want is for the fusion of both languages to give birth to a narrative that could be for all intents and purposes fictional and mysterious, where the visual ambiguity opens new ways of interpretation and uncovers unexpected conflicts."

Explorations for an Environmental Response
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring Richard A. Cook, founder and principal of Cook + Fox Architects in NYC

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

Cook established Cook + Fox Architects in 2003 with partner Robert Fox, as a firm devoted to creating environmentally responsible high performance buildings. Major projects include the Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park, designed to be one of the most highly efficient and ecologically friendly buildings in the world; a large preservation project in the South Street Seaport Historic District in downtown Manhattan, involving 11 existing buildings and the design of three new buildings for a two-block waterfront area; 360 Madison Avenue, for which the firm received 2002 Merit Award from New York Construction News; the Chelsea Grande, a residential development which was selected by the Congress for New Urbanism for their 2002 Charter Award; and the Caroline, a suite of condominiums with forms echoing its former department-store neighbors along Sixth Avenue.

For information on parking at The Warehouse, call 315-443-8238.

For more information about the lecture, contact Mary Kate O'Brien, 315-443-2388 or mcobrien@syr.edu.

John Feinstein
Friends of the Central Library Author Series

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

Best-selling author, and regular commentator on NPR, Feinstein has written a number of books including A Season on the Brink and Caddy for Life.

Music and Love from Old and New
Civic Morning Musicals
Syracuse University Oratorio Society
Elisa Dekaney, conductor

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

Driving Miss Daisy
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director
Featuring Elizabeth Franz

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

Alfred Uhry won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for this heartwarming play and the film won Best Picture in 1989. It is easy to see why. By tracing the evolution of the unlikely friendship between the wealthy, Jewish, and rigid Miss Daisy and her wise, patient, African-American chauffeur, Hoke, Uhry crafts a subtle and insightful examination of aging, racial prejudice, independence and class. Much admired for its honesty and integrity, Driving Miss Daisy is a delightful, charmer of a play.

Read a Review!

Driving Miss Daisy
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director
Featuring Elizabeth Franz

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

Alfred Uhry won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for this heartwarming play and the film won Best Picture in 1989. It is easy to see why. By tracing the evolution of the unlikely friendship between the wealthy, Jewish, and rigid Miss Daisy and her wise, patient, African-American chauffeur, Hoke, Uhry crafts a subtle and insightful examination of aging, racial prejudice, independence and class. Much admired for its honesty and integrity, Driving Miss Daisy is a delightful, charmer of a play.

Read a Review!

Thursday, November 2, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase #57
CNY Arts

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

Visual Arts Showcase #57 features 19 local visual artists presenting work in varied media.
Featured Artists: Joan Applebaum, Dan Bacich, Marna Bell, Michael Berman, Judith Brown-Roenbeck, Robert Carroll, Joe Cerio, Anne Childress, Mary Lou Colgin, Shelly Coryell, Ben Donzella, Joy Englehart, Kathy Gibbons, Richard Karuzas, Steve Koh, Allen Kosoff, Joe LeFevre, Yolanda Tooley, Noelle Uebele

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

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

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Gordon Exhibit: Floating World
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Gordon Student Center Great Room
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exploring the vanished architecture and lifestyles of the Thousand Islands through the photography of Ian Coristine.

Gallery Exhibit: Objects and Implications: Jennifer Pepper, Richard Pardee and Hilary Lorenz
Onondaga Community College

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

A compelling exhibit of handmade books, installation pieces and woodcut prints.

Virgil Dombroski: Photographs
Westcott Community Center

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

Associated Artists Annual Juried Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

This year marks the 80th consecutive year that this show has taken place. It is the first year in the new gallery which is part of the recently expanded and remodeled Manlius Library. The Gordon Steele Medal will be awarded for Best of Show. This award, given out since 1962, includes a cash prize and a solo exhibit in the Library Gallery. This year's show is being juried by Merilee French Freeman and Claude Freeman, both Adjunct Professors of Painting in the Art Department at OCC.

African-American Constructs: Designs by Scott Ruff
Community Folk Art Center

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

Ruff is a professor of architecture at Syracuse University. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from Cornell University. He is the recipient of an Alpha Chi Ro Medal for leadership and service. Prior to joining the SU faculty, Ruff taught at Hampton University, the University at Buffalo and Cornell University. Ruff previously worked with the architectural firm of Foit-Albert and Associates.

Ruff formed Ruff Works Studio in 2003. Ruff Works specializes in research and design. One main focus of the studio is the research and cultivation of African-American aesthetics in spatial design. Ruff's publications include an article in Thresholds, "Spatial wRapping: A Speculation on Men's Hip-Hop Fashion," and a book review in the Journal of Architectural Education, "White Papers, Black Marks." He has lectured throughout the United States.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

Challenges in Contemporary Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Over 40 visual artists in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts are participating in the annual exhibition highlighting new work by the college's faculty. This year, for the first time, the exhibition has been organized on the theme of challenges chosen, faced, discovered and resolved by this diverse group of image and object makers.

As usual the show brings together a broad diversity of media, technique and inspiration. Visitors will be surprised by the range of objects on display and their breadth and depth of intellectual and emotional content. Traditional themes like portraiture, landscape and still life can be seen next to more experimental genres such as interactive installations and time based arts.

Making this exhibition especially interesting are the visual comparisons between artists working in the same subject area. Several artists are intrigued by landscape but their inspiration springs from sources as different as gardening, the subtle yet real transitions that occur in a landscape and discovering visually interesting fragments of urban settings. Other artists found life experience to inspire them: one used her experiences as a pediatric nurse to shape her imagery while another attempted to portray the music of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis through abstract drawings. Yet another used his family as subjects in a series of photographs that documented the family's travails.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

The Canary Project
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Canary Project is a photographic presentation of the effects of global warming on 16 landscapes around the world. Its mission is to photograph areas that are exhibiting dramatic transformation due to global warming and to use these photographs to persuade as many people as possible that global warming is already underway and of immediate concern.

Edward and Susannah Morris, co-founders of the Canary Project, have traveled the world documenting the effects global warming is creating. The project derives its unusual name from the canaries once used by miners to warn of deadly methane levels. The project hopes to warn people of the harmful effects of global warming.

The Canary Project is an unusual opportunity to view landscapes affected by the changing global climate. The images comprising this exhibition take the viewer to countries they may never visit, but face the same impact from global warming that we all do.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

On My Own Time was initiated in 1974 by the Cultural Resources Council in cooperation with the Everson Museum of Art to celebrate and promote the creativity among the employees of local businesses. The exhibition, juried by artists and staff of the Everson and the Council, exposes the sometimes hidden artistic talent found in the businesses of Central New York.

Dialogues and Solos: Contemporary Photography, Collage and Installation by Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Since Liliana Porter last presented her prints and paintings at Syracuse University (Crossing Boundaries, 1990), this world-renowned Argentinean artist has continued to explore and grow into new dimensions in photography and installation art. Her figurines and toys, her characters, are social, down to earth human creations, made in society's image and likeness.

Born in Uruguay, Ana Tiscornia was a witness-participant of Latin America's recent painful history. Her world is made out of digitalized photography intermingled with maps, fragmented objects, rolled pieces of paper, leftovers -- what we recall are broken sequences, broken at some critical point in our imagery, in our memory.

About the nature of this exhibit, the artists comment: "In order to say where our work intercepts, first we should establish that both artworks are different. While one is more philosophical, related to recurrent questions (Liliana), the other is more political and relates to current events (Ana). While one is dramatic, the other confronts human tragedy with humor. We do not pretend to erase that diversity but to use it as material for the new constructions. What we want is for the fusion of both languages to give birth to a narrative that could be for all intents and purposes fictional and mysterious, where the visual ambiguity opens new ways of interpretation and uncovers unexpected conflicts."

Johan Lowie: Call to Silence
Redhouse

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

An exhibition of oil paintings by Belgian artist Johan Lowie focuses on the human drama, while capturing personal stories and emotions in the Surrealist style.

"My work focuses on the human drama, capturing stories and emotions in one image. The story of waking up at four o'clock in the morning will all your negative feelings of doom, despair or the feeling of pure happiness. How does love feel? The loss of a friend, the first days of spring? The tale of sorrow or eufory captured in deep understanding, the theatre of life in a light of color and composition. How do you paint these human travels universally without showing the obvious but deeper meaning with color and composition."

Artistic Journeys
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibit features watercolors by Linda Abbey, oil paintings by Diane Menzies, mixed media drawings by Fred and Laura J. Wellner, and "Dance Themes: Pas de Deux," art by Judith Hand and Christine Patsos.

Linda Abbey uses the transparency and freshness of the watercolor medium itself to depict flowers and scenes from Venice, Italy. For this exhibit Linda will also be showing works in oil from a series of 40 small birch panels depicting Onondaga Park in Syracuse.

Diane Menzies has a strong passion for the natural world as is depicted in many of her oil paintings. The "North Lake Series" emerges from the Adirondack Mountains. They portray a reverence for this ancient place of deep waters and quietude of woods.

Fred Wellner creates surreal landscapes and abstractions using pencil, charcoal and watercolor. Fred states, "There is this paradoxical dance of order and chaos, suggesting that life cannot be entirely either and therefore must embrace both. When I apply pencil or brush, this resonates in my thoughts, much more so when I'm unfettered by precision, when working on surreal or abstract images."

Laura J. Wellner creates landscapes and abstractions inspired by nature using pencil, watercolor and pastel. Her drawings reflect the intricate wonders of a flower, the pearly surface of a shell, the ruffles of lichen on bark, rocks in water, clouds in sky, and then there are visualizations of music -- Beethoven mostly.

Judith Hand and Christine Patsos are exhibiting art about dance in their collaborative show titled "Dance Themes: Pas de Deux." Judith Hand's watercolors depict the basic positions in ballet. Her images are almost monochromatic paintings with different backgrounds accompanying manikins arranged in each ballet position. Christine Patsos uses pencil and watercolor wash or acrylic stain on Bristol board to portray ballet dancers.

Fugate/Bahiri BalletNY
Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts

Price: $20 general; $10 SU faculty/staff/alumni; $5 students with SU ID
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Ballet NY was founded in 1997 by former New York City Ballet principal ballerina Judith Fugate and international guest artist Medhi Bahiri, who serve as the company's artistic directors. The mission of the company is to present audiences with the highest level of professionalism and artistry possible; cultivate, educate and develop new audiences; and provide expanded artistic opportunities for accomplished dancers and choreographers. The troupe is composed of accomplished principals and soloists who performed with the New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theater, Dance Theater of Harlem and the Joffrey Ballet, among others.

Free parking is available in the Harrison and Lehman lots.

Film Series: Flag Wars
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The events in this documentary unfold against a backdrop of racism, homophobia and tensions between the privileged and those stricken with poverty.

Film Series: Flag Wars
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The events in this documentary unfold against a backdrop of racism, homophobia and tensions between the privileged and those stricken with poverty.

Reconfiguration of Syracuse's East Side Quadrant Schools: Building a Future Together
University Neighbors Lecture Series
Featuring Daniel Lowengard

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

Superintendent for the Syracuse City school system, Dan Lowengard, was Superintendent of Schools for the Utica school system from 1998 to 2005. Prior to 1998, he developed a rich background of administrative and teaching experiences with the Syracuse City school system from 1972 to 1998.
His discussion will address the issue of revamping the K through 8 programs in the East side quadrant and the importance of high quality schools in retaining families in the city. The power of teachers, parents and families working together to build the future for our children, our schools and our community will also be discussed.

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

Interactive comedy/mystery dinner theater.

Driving Miss Daisy
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director
Featuring Elizabeth Franz

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

Alfred Uhry won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for this heartwarming play and the film won Best Picture in 1989. It is easy to see why. By tracing the evolution of the unlikely friendship between the wealthy, Jewish, and rigid Miss Daisy and her wise, patient, African-American chauffeur, Hoke, Uhry crafts a subtle and insightful examination of aging, racial prejudice, independence and class. Much admired for its honesty and integrity, Driving Miss Daisy is a delightful, charmer of a play.

Read a Review!

Tales From Hollywood
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin
Anjalee Nadkarni, director

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Tales From Hollywood, by Christopher Hampton, explores the clash of cultures and the search for truth and identity when a group of German writers immigrate to Tinsel Town to escape the Nazis. The play spans the years 1938 to the 1950s in Hollywood, where many European refugee writers have fled to escape Hitler. Among writers hoping to earn a living in the movie industry are Bertolt Brecht and Thomas Mann. Hampton's scholarship is obvious as are his finely drawn characters but they are also hugely enjoyable, and so is the picture of the clash of the two worlds -- the displaced European artists and the empty and glamorous Hollywood set.

Friday, November 3, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase #57
CNY Arts

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

Visual Arts Showcase #57 features 19 local visual artists presenting work in varied media.
Featured Artists: Joan Applebaum, Dan Bacich, Marna Bell, Michael Berman, Judith Brown-Roenbeck, Robert Carroll, Joe Cerio, Anne Childress, Mary Lou Colgin, Shelly Coryell, Ben Donzella, Joy Englehart, Kathy Gibbons, Richard Karuzas, Steve Koh, Allen Kosoff, Joe LeFevre, Yolanda Tooley, Noelle Uebele

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

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

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Gallery Exhibit: Objects and Implications: Jennifer Pepper, Richard Pardee and Hilary Lorenz
Onondaga Community College

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

A compelling exhibit of handmade books, installation pieces and woodcut prints.

Gordon Exhibit: Floating World
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Gordon Student Center Great Room
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Exploring the vanished architecture and lifestyles of the Thousand Islands through the photography of Ian Coristine.

Virgil Dombroski: Photographs
Westcott Community Center

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

Associated Artists Annual Juried Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

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

This year marks the 80th consecutive year that this show has taken place. It is the first year in the new gallery which is part of the recently expanded and remodeled Manlius Library. The Gordon Steele Medal will be awarded for Best of Show. This award, given out since 1962, includes a cash prize and a solo exhibit in the Library Gallery. This year's show is being juried by Merilee French Freeman and Claude Freeman, both Adjunct Professors of Painting in the Art Department at OCC.

African-American Constructs: Designs by Scott Ruff
Community Folk Art Center

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

Ruff is a professor of architecture at Syracuse University. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from Cornell University. He is the recipient of an Alpha Chi Ro Medal for leadership and service. Prior to joining the SU faculty, Ruff taught at Hampton University, the University at Buffalo and Cornell University. Ruff previously worked with the architectural firm of Foit-Albert and Associates.

Ruff formed Ruff Works Studio in 2003. Ruff Works specializes in research and design. One main focus of the studio is the research and cultivation of African-American aesthetics in spatial design. Ruff's publications include an article in Thresholds, "Spatial wRapping: A Speculation on Men's Hip-Hop Fashion," and a book review in the Journal of Architectural Education, "White Papers, Black Marks." He has lectured throughout the United States.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Challenges in Contemporary Art
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Over 40 visual artists in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts are participating in the annual exhibition highlighting new work by the college's faculty. This year, for the first time, the exhibition has been organized on the theme of challenges chosen, faced, discovered and resolved by this diverse group of image and object makers.

As usual the show brings together a broad diversity of media, technique and inspiration. Visitors will be surprised by the range of objects on display and their breadth and depth of intellectual and emotional content. Traditional themes like portraiture, landscape and still life can be seen next to more experimental genres such as interactive installations and time based arts.

Making this exhibition especially interesting are the visual comparisons between artists working in the same subject area. Several artists are intrigued by landscape but their inspiration springs from sources as different as gardening, the subtle yet real transitions that occur in a landscape and discovering visually interesting fragments of urban settings. Other artists found life experience to inspire them: one used her experiences as a pediatric nurse to shape her imagery while another attempted to portray the music of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis through abstract drawings. Yet another used his family as subjects in a series of photographs that documented the family's travails.

Artistic Journeys
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

The exhibit features watercolors by Linda Abbey, oil paintings by Diane Menzies, mixed media drawings by Fred and Laura J. Wellner, and "Dance Themes: Pas de Deux," art by Judith Hand and Christine Patsos.

Linda Abbey uses the transparency and freshness of the watercolor medium itself to depict flowers and scenes from Venice, Italy. For this exhibit Linda will also be showing works in oil from a series of 40 small birch panels depicting Onondaga Park in Syracuse.

Diane Menzies has a strong passion for the natural world as is depicted in many of her oil paintings. The "North Lake Series" emerges from the Adirondack Mountains. They portray a reverence for this ancient place of deep waters and quietude of woods.

Fred Wellner creates surreal landscapes and abstractions using pencil, charcoal and watercolor. Fred states, "There is this paradoxical dance of order and chaos, suggesting that life cannot be entirely either and therefore must embrace both. When I apply pencil or brush, this resonates in my thoughts, much more so when I'm unfettered by precision, when working on surreal or abstract images."

Laura J. Wellner creates landscapes and abstractions inspired by nature using pencil, watercolor and pastel. Her drawings reflect the intricate wonders of a flower, the pearly surface of a shell, the ruffles of lichen on bark, rocks in water, clouds in sky, and then there are visualizations of music -- Beethoven mostly.

Judith Hand and Christine Patsos are exhibiting art about dance in their collaborative show titled "Dance Themes: Pas de Deux." Judith Hand's watercolors depict the basic positions in ballet. Her images are almost monochromatic paintings with different backgrounds accompanying manikins arranged in each ballet position. Christine Patsos uses pencil and watercolor wash or acrylic stain on Bristol board to portray ballet dancers.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

On My Own Time was initiated in 1974 by the Cultural Resources Council in cooperation with the Everson Museum of Art to celebrate and promote the creativity among the employees of local businesses. The exhibition, juried by artists and staff of the Everson and the Council, exposes the sometimes hidden artistic talent found in the businesses of Central New York.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

The Canary Project
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Canary Project is a photographic presentation of the effects of global warming on 16 landscapes around the world. Its mission is to photograph areas that are exhibiting dramatic transformation due to global warming and to use these photographs to persuade as many people as possible that global warming is already underway and of immediate concern.

Edward and Susannah Morris, co-founders of the Canary Project, have traveled the world documenting the effects global warming is creating. The project derives its unusual name from the canaries once used by miners to warn of deadly methane levels. The project hopes to warn people of the harmful effects of global warming.

The Canary Project is an unusual opportunity to view landscapes affected by the changing global climate. The images comprising this exhibition take the viewer to countries they may never visit, but face the same impact from global warming that we all do.

Dialogues and Solos: Contemporary Photography, Collage and Installation by Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia
Point of Contact Gallery

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

Since Liliana Porter last presented her prints and paintings at Syracuse University (Crossing Boundaries, 1990), this world-renowned Argentinean artist has continued to explore and grow into new dimensions in photography and installation art. Her figurines and toys, her characters, are social, down to earth human creations, made in society's image and likeness.

Born in Uruguay, Ana Tiscornia was a witness-participant of Latin America's recent painful history. Her world is made out of digitalized photography intermingled with maps, fragmented objects, rolled pieces of paper, leftovers -- what we recall are broken sequences, broken at some critical point in our imagery, in our memory.

About the nature of this exhibit, the artists comment: "In order to say where our work intercepts, first we should establish that both artworks are different. While one is more philosophical, related to recurrent questions (Liliana), the other is more political and relates to current events (Ana). While one is dramatic, the other confronts human tragedy with humor. We do not pretend to erase that diversity but to use it as material for the new constructions. What we want is for the fusion of both languages to give birth to a narrative that could be for all intents and purposes fictional and mysterious, where the visual ambiguity opens new ways of interpretation and uncovers unexpected conflicts."

Johan Lowie: Call to Silence
Redhouse

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

An exhibition of oil paintings by Belgian artist Johan Lowie focuses on the human drama, while capturing personal stories and emotions in the Surrealist style.

"My work focuses on the human drama, capturing stories and emotions in one image. The story of waking up at four o'clock in the morning will all your negative feelings of doom, despair or the feeling of pure happiness. How does love feel? The loss of a friend, the first days of spring? The tale of sorrow or eufory captured in deep understanding, the theatre of life in a light of color and composition. How do you paint these human travels universally without showing the obvious but deeper meaning with color and composition."

52nd Annual Art Mart
Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc.

Price: Free
401 S. Salina St.
(formerly Dey Brothers Department Store building), Syracuse

Artists participating include members of the Camillus Art Association, Marcellus-Skaneateles Art Guild, North Syracuse Art Guild, Onondaga Art Guild, and Syracuse Ceramic Guild, as well as those participating independently, from the Central New York area.

The show and sale features paintings, sculptures, pottery, stained glass, jewelry, fabrics, soaps, wood, ceramics, and more! It's the perfect place to find those special holiday gifts for your friends and family.

ART MART is sponsored by Syracuse Allied Arts, Inc., and is a unique sale of original crafts and fine arts by artists and craftspeople from Central New York. Art Mart is supported, in part, by grants from Senator John A. DeFrancisco and Onondaga County, administered by the Cultural Resources Council of Syracuse and Onondaga County.

For more information, phone 315-468-2616.

La Strada
Redhouse
Master Directors Film Festival

Price: $6
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

La Strada is the story of an innocent, simple young woman who is sold by her family to a brutish strongman in a traveling circus. Federico Fellini's unquestioned masterpiece, is a poetic and expressive parable of two unlikely souls journeying toward salvation. The film's impact is bolstered immeasurably by Nino Rota's unforgettable music and by the luminous performance of Masina. Widely considered one of the greatest films of all time, it received the NYFCC Award and the first Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1957. (1954, 104 mins, Italy)

Italian humanist director Federico Fellini is among the most intensely autobiographical film directors the cinema has known. Fellini was fascinated by the circuses and vaudeville performances which his town attracted. His education in Catholic schools also profoundly affected his later work, which is infused with a strong spiritual dimension. After jobs as a crime reporter and artist specializing in caricature, Fellini began his film career as a gag writer. In 1943, Fellini met and married actress Giulietta Masina, who appeared in several of his films and whom Fellini has called the greatest influence on his work. In 1945, he got his first important break in film, when he was invited to collaborate on the script of Open City, Roberto Rossellini's seminal work of the neorealist movement. Variety Lights(1950) was Fellini's directorial debut. Fellini's International breakthrough came with La Strada (1954)

Paul Hindemith's Das Marienleben (The Life of Mary)
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

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

Performed by Cornell professor and soprano Judith Kellock, with SUNY-Postdam faculty pianist Kirk Severtsen, and Risa Fujita, dancer. Choreography by Joyce Morgenroth.

Folkus Project
Roy Bookbinder

Price: $15
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Behind the humor lurks a musical master.

Classics Series: Shakespeare at the Symphony
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor

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

Walton Overture to Henry V
Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream
Sibelius The Tempest Overture
Strauss Macbeth

Read a review!

Sapphire, poet
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Sapphire is the author of American Dreams, a book of poems which was cited by Publisher's Weekly as "One of the strongest debut collections of the nineties." Her novel, Push, won the Book-of-the-Month Club Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction, and in Great Britain, the Mind Book of the Year. Push was also named by The Village Voice as one of the top 25 books of 1996, and by TIMEOUT New York as one of the top 10 books of 1996. Sapphire's latest book of poetry is Black Wings & Blind Angels.

Victim
Appleseed Productions
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 seniors/students
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

A beautiful woman, talking on the phone to her lover, is intruded upon by a man who claims to be the gas man. In fact, he has recently murdered someone on her front door step. She is intrigued by him, and a fascinating contest of wills develops, which is added to when her husband shows up. We find out only at the last who the real victim was. Written by Mario Fratti.

Read a review!

Tales From Hollywood
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin
Anjalee Nadkarni, director

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Tales From Hollywood, by Christopher Hampton, explores the clash of cultures and the search for truth and identity when a group of German writers immigrate to Tinsel Town to escape the Nazis. The play spans the years 1938 to the 1950s in Hollywood, where many European refugee writers have fled to escape Hitler. Among writers hoping to earn a living in the movie industry are Bertolt Brecht and Thomas Mann. Hampton's scholarship is obvious as are his finely drawn characters but they are also hugely enjoyable, and so is the picture of the clash of the two worlds -- the displaced European artists and the empty and glamorous Hollywood set.

Driving Miss Daisy
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director
Featuring Elizabeth Franz

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

Alfred Uhry won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for this heartwarming play and the film won Best Picture in 1989. It is easy to see why. By tracing the evolution of the unlikely friendship between the wealthy, Jewish, and rigid Miss Daisy and her wise, patient, African-American chauffeur, Hoke, Uhry crafts a subtle and insightful examination of aging, racial prejudice, independence and class. Much admired for its honesty and integrity, Driving Miss Daisy is a delightful, charmer of a play.

Read a Review!