Monday, February 28, 2011

Ingrid Ludt: "Forest becomes Ocean"
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Psyche and Color: An Italian Point of View

Price: Free
Hospice of Central New York
990 Seventh North St., Liverpool

Maria Rizzo and Maria Grazia Facchinetti from Italy of two different generations and with two points of view, show 14 works each in an explosive combination of light, color and symbolism.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Opening: Takafumi Ide Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

There will be an opening reception today 11:00 a.m.-12:00 noon.

Takafumi Ide is an interdisciplinary media artist specializing in installation with sound and light. He received his B.A. in graphic design from Tama Art University in Tokyo in 1989, and his M.F.A. in studio art from Stony Brook University in 2007. He has worked for more than 10 years as a graphic designer and an illustrator in Japan and now teaches at Stony Brook University as a lecturer, and Suffolk County Community College as an adjunct instructor.

He has received several honors, such as The Sculpture Space Fellowship and Residency (funded by both the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts), the Strategic Opportunity Stipend Program Grant through the New York Foundation for the Arts, and most recently the Nomura Cultural Foundation's Project Grant, Asahi Shimbun Foundation Project Grant, and the Vermont Studio Center's Partial-Grant and Residency. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally. More recent exhibitions include Sunroom Project Glynder Gallery, Wave Hill, NY, ISE Cultural Foundation in Soho, NY, and AC Institute in Chelsea, NY.

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Cortland County Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists include Fred Zimmerman, David Yaman, Kathy Williams, Carl Steckler, Laurie Seamans, Meg Richardson, Lyla Phillips, Allen Phillips, Joan Niswender, Richard Mitchell, Amy Hnatko, Emily Gibbons, Serry Dans, Kathie Beale, and David Beale.

Orange Pulp: The Pulp Magazine & Contemporary Culture
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be pulp magazines, notably titles like Weird Tales and Amazing Stories; the typescript of Isaac Asimov's "Strange Playfellow," which introduced readers to one of science fiction's best known characters, Robbie the Robot; and correspondence with figures like Ray Bradbury.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Marcel Breuer and Postwar America
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Drawings from the Marcel Breuer Papers, curated by SU Architecture students, with Barry Bergdoll and Jonathan Massey. The exhibition is the outcome of their work in the extensive Breuer archive at the Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center. It features images of 120 drawings, as well as photographs, documenting thirteen of Breuer’s major postwar buildings and projects. Full-scale reproductions highlight themes that characterized some of Breuer’s lesser-known major work and document his responses to the needs and opportunities of postwar American society.

Breuer (1902-1981) was a leading figure among the second generation of modernist architects whose striking designs for furniture, houses, institutions, and commercial buildings helped to set the shape and style of modernity in Europe and the United States, leading “Time” magazine to characterize him as one of the “form givers of the 20th century.” His works include the UNESCO headquarters in Paris and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

New Member Show
Associated Artists of Central New York

Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Hudson Past/Perfect: Photos by Marna Bell
Light Work Gallery

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

Marna Bell is the winner of the Light Work/Community Darkrooms Members Juried Exhibition competition. In 2005, after the sudden death of her mother, Bell picked up her camera after a 20-year hiatus from painting and began photographing nature. Her focus in both painting and photography has been on reclaiming visions of the past and her connection to nature.

According to Bell, "Many trips back home to New York City on the train have helped me remember lost pieces of time where life seemed simpler and less veiled. It was a natural progression for me to record the cycle of change in my 'Hudson Past/Perfect' series. By revisiting the same landscapes in different seasons and under different weather conditions, I was able to capture the past before it disappeared. I am drawn to the meditative quality of the Hudson River and the sacred aspects of the natural environment. The series is reminiscent of a more romantic era, when God and nature were viewed as one."

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

This suite of three video installations, "Mare," "Perigee", and "Penumbra," by Demetrius Oliver reconnects viewers to their place in the universe by playing with earthly and human forms against a backdrop of the cosmos. In "Penumbra," explorations of light and scale, movement and the rhythm of the natural world suggest journeys both physical and metaphysical.

One of the installations will be on view in the Light Work Gallery, one projected onto the Everson Museum, and one installed in the Menschel Photography Gallery in the Schine Student Center.

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Focus x Three: Photography and Video
Redhouse

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

Focus x Three, the second in the Emerging Women of CNY series, highlights the work of three photographers: Erin Mulvehill, Gillian Andrew, and Colleen Woolpert. Each has an association and history with Syracuse, as all are graduates of Syracuse University. They have all worked, in some capacity, in the world of professional photography, perfecting their craft, while continuing to pursue the "fine art" side of their vision. Curator of this exhibition, Marianne Smith Dalton, stated: "Each of these women masterfully uses the camera to convey her own unique reflection of 'reality.' These compelling photographs, frozen moments in time, will captivate and hold you transfixed. Come celebrate the work of these three young women and discover a new way to 'see' through the lenses of these talented photographers."

Fashionable Points of View
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Fashionable Points of View" marks the first time the SU fashion design faculty has presented its work as a group. The artwork in the exhibition includes beautifully crafted garments, accessories and fine art.

Among the faculty designers showcasing their expertise and interest within the field of fashion are Jeffrey Mayer, fashion design program coordinator; Karen Bakke; Todd Conover; Laurel Morton; Claudia Gervais; Joyce Backus; Elizabeth Shorrock; Megan Lawson Clark; and Jean Henry.

For more information, contact Mayer at jcmayer@syr.edu, or Lauren Tagliaferro at lktaglia@syr.edu.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses or lamenting the struggles of daily living, Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed "Truisms" on one of Times Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her "Survival" series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

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Film Series: Keeping Up With the Steins
Temple Society of Concord

Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

Jeremy Piven and Jami Gertz star as parents who plan an over-the-top bar mitzvah for their 13-year-old son, while the boy struggles with his own shyness and his desire to see his father and grandfather reconcile. This sharp but loving satire of materialism earned the Best Feature award at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival. Doris Roberts, Larry Miller and Daryl Sabara co-star.

Implements of Mass Construction
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The Erie Canal was built by thousands of untrained men during the 19th century, before the United States had any civil engineering professionals. So how did they construct a canal across the entire state of New York? Come by the Erie Canal Museum and see the tools that made it possible. The 16 items on view were used for construction or industry along the Erie Canal in the 19th century. Visit the Museum's second floor gallery to try to guess what each instrument is. Tools similar to some of the implements on display are still used today, but others will require some guesswork. Come visit today to guess for yourself!

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Ingrid Ludt: "Forest becomes Ocean"
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Winter Art Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Come in from the cold and enjoy the warmth of friends and the glow of ceramic art made in The Studio at Clayscapes Pottery. Featuring ceramic artwork by Millie St. John, Tim See, Don Seymour, Shawn McGuire, Wes Weiss, and Sarah VanDerVoort as well as many others.

Takafumi Ide Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Takafumi Ide is an interdisciplinary media artist specializing in installation with sound and light. He received his B.A. in graphic design from Tama Art University in Tokyo in 1989, and his M.F.A. in studio art from Stony Brook University in 2007. He has worked for more than 10 years as a graphic designer and an illustrator in Japan and now teaches at Stony Brook University as a lecturer, and Suffolk County Community College as an adjunct instructor.

He has received several honors, such as The Sculpture Space Fellowship and Residency (funded by both the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts), the Strategic Opportunity Stipend Program Grant through the New York Foundation for the Arts, and most recently the Nomura Cultural Foundation's Project Grant, Asahi Shimbun Foundation Project Grant, and the Vermont Studio Center's Partial-Grant and Residency. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally. More recent exhibitions include Sunroom Project Glynder Gallery, Wave Hill, NY, ISE Cultural Foundation in Soho, NY, and AC Institute in Chelsea, NY.

Read a review!

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Cortland County Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists include Fred Zimmerman, David Yaman, Kathy Williams, Carl Steckler, Laurie Seamans, Meg Richardson, Lyla Phillips, Allen Phillips, Joan Niswender, Richard Mitchell, Amy Hnatko, Emily Gibbons, Serry Dans, Kathie Beale, and David Beale.

Orange Pulp: The Pulp Magazine & Contemporary Culture
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be pulp magazines, notably titles like Weird Tales and Amazing Stories; the typescript of Isaac Asimov's "Strange Playfellow," which introduced readers to one of science fiction's best known characters, Robbie the Robot; and correspondence with figures like Ray Bradbury.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Marcel Breuer and Postwar America
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Drawings from the Marcel Breuer Papers, curated by SU Architecture students, with Barry Bergdoll and Jonathan Massey. The exhibition is the outcome of their work in the extensive Breuer archive at the Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center. It features images of 120 drawings, as well as photographs, documenting thirteen of Breuer’s major postwar buildings and projects. Full-scale reproductions highlight themes that characterized some of Breuer’s lesser-known major work and document his responses to the needs and opportunities of postwar American society.

Breuer (1902-1981) was a leading figure among the second generation of modernist architects whose striking designs for furniture, houses, institutions, and commercial buildings helped to set the shape and style of modernity in Europe and the United States, leading “Time” magazine to characterize him as one of the “form givers of the 20th century.” His works include the UNESCO headquarters in Paris and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Tonal Gestures
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Diana Godfrey: mixed media pastels and acrylic paintings
Carmel Nicoletti: bronze reliefs and glass works

Amos Kennedy Prints!
Community Folk Art Center

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

Focusing on issues of race, violence and community, "Amos Kennedy Prints!" features the hand-printed works of Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. and will include prints created at CFAC. By transforming the gallery into an active printmaking workshop, Kennedy will collaborate with students from the Syracuse area and Syracuse University to create images and broadsides that reflect issues of race, gender and politics and illustrate the impact of violence in the city on their lives and community. The public is invited to meet Kennedy and to observe and participate in the printmaking process.

Hudson Past/Perfect: Photos by Marna Bell
Light Work Gallery

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

Marna Bell is the winner of the Light Work/Community Darkrooms Members Juried Exhibition competition. In 2005, after the sudden death of her mother, Bell picked up her camera after a 20-year hiatus from painting and began photographing nature. Her focus in both painting and photography has been on reclaiming visions of the past and her connection to nature.

According to Bell, "Many trips back home to New York City on the train have helped me remember lost pieces of time where life seemed simpler and less veiled. It was a natural progression for me to record the cycle of change in my 'Hudson Past/Perfect' series. By revisiting the same landscapes in different seasons and under different weather conditions, I was able to capture the past before it disappeared. I am drawn to the meditative quality of the Hudson River and the sacred aspects of the natural environment. The series is reminiscent of a more romantic era, when God and nature were viewed as one."

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

This suite of three video installations, "Mare," "Perigee", and "Penumbra," by Demetrius Oliver reconnects viewers to their place in the universe by playing with earthly and human forms against a backdrop of the cosmos. In "Penumbra," explorations of light and scale, movement and the rhythm of the natural world suggest journeys both physical and metaphysical.

One of the installations will be on view in the Light Work Gallery, one projected onto the Everson Museum, and one installed in the Menschel Photography Gallery in the Schine Student Center.

Focus x Three: Photography and Video
Redhouse

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

Focus x Three, the second in the Emerging Women of CNY series, highlights the work of three photographers: Erin Mulvehill, Gillian Andrew, and Colleen Woolpert. Each has an association and history with Syracuse, as all are graduates of Syracuse University. They have all worked, in some capacity, in the world of professional photography, perfecting their craft, while continuing to pursue the "fine art" side of their vision. Curator of this exhibition, Marianne Smith Dalton, stated: "Each of these women masterfully uses the camera to convey her own unique reflection of 'reality.' These compelling photographs, frozen moments in time, will captivate and hold you transfixed. Come celebrate the work of these three young women and discover a new way to 'see' through the lenses of these talented photographers."

Fashionable Points of View
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Fashionable Points of View" marks the first time the SU fashion design faculty has presented its work as a group. The artwork in the exhibition includes beautifully crafted garments, accessories and fine art.

Among the faculty designers showcasing their expertise and interest within the field of fashion are Jeffrey Mayer, fashion design program coordinator; Karen Bakke; Todd Conover; Laurel Morton; Claudia Gervais; Joyce Backus; Elizabeth Shorrock; Megan Lawson Clark; and Jean Henry.

For more information, contact Mayer at jcmayer@syr.edu, or Lauren Tagliaferro at lktaglia@syr.edu.

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity is a rich, reflective exhibition of works by 40 artists representing the vast cultural blend of modern American society.

American artists of African, Arab, European, Asian, Latino, and Native American descent explore their heritage in this vivid and diverse exhibition using a wide variety of media. The artists examine patriotism, communication, struggle for acceptance, being an American in the 21st century, and more. Humor, heartache, anger, apprehension--all emotions are evoked by these works, raising questions about race, class, gender and age. Four main themes run through Infinite Mirror: Self-Selection, Pride, Assimilation, and Protest, providing audiences with the opportunity to re-examine both the story and storytellers of the quintessential "American dream."

The exhibition was curated by Blake Bradford, Curator and Director of Education at the Barnes Foundation; Benito Huerta, Curator and Director of The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington; and Robert Lee, Curator and Executive Director at Asian American Arts Centre in New York.

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

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The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

A selection of 30 woodcuts and etchings by the internationally known and collected Chinese American artist and educator. This exhibition is a limited retrospective look at Seong Moy's career as printmaker.

Moy's early works, small but complicated woodcuts on soft luminous papers, were immediately accepted by artists, curators, and the public. A painterly quality, so important to his entire graphic output, is evident in much of this work and is all the more special because it is captured in color wood block prints that require great sophistication and skill from the artist.

As Moy's career continued to develop, his interest in capturing spatial relationships of shapes and forms in his compositions, was heightened by the role color plays in energizing these elements. This trend continued for a number a years and could also be found in his cardboard relief prints.

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

Orange Pulp: Works by Norman Saunders
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

A profile of pulp artist Norman Saunders (1907-1989), including 10 lush and dramatic Saunders paintings from the university collection.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Casey Landerkin: Paintings and Illustrations
Echo

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

Inside Job
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: Free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

With guest speaker David Rosenfeld.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses or lamenting the struggles of daily living, Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed "Truisms" on one of Times Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her "Survival" series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

Read a review!

Implements of Mass Construction
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The Erie Canal was built by thousands of untrained men during the 19th century, before the United States had any civil engineering professionals. So how did they construct a canal across the entire state of New York? Come by the Erie Canal Museum and see the tools that made it possible. The 16 items on view were used for construction or industry along the Erie Canal in the 19th century. Visit the Museum's second floor gallery to try to guess what each instrument is. Tools similar to some of the implements on display are still used today, but others will require some guesswork. Come visit today to guess for yourself!

Investigative Journalism: An Evening with Eric Schlosser
University Lectures

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

As an investigative journalist, Eric Schlosser continues to explore subjects ignored by the mainstream media and gives a voice to people at the margins of society. Over the years he has followed the harvest with migrant farm workers in California, spent time with meatpacking workers in Texas and Colorado, told the stories of marijuana growers, pornographers, and the victims of violent crime, gone on duty with the New York Police Department Bomb Squad, and visited prisons throughout the United States. His aim is to shed light on worlds that are too often hidden. Schlosser's first book, Fast Food Nation (2001), helped start a revolution in how Americans think about what they eat. It has been translated into more than 20 languages and remained on the New York Times bestseller list for two years. His second book, Reefer Madness (2003), looked at America's thriving underground economy. It was also a New York Times bestseller. Chew on This (2006), a New York Times bestselling children's book, co-written with Charles Wilson, introduced young readers to the health effects of fast food and the workings of industrial agriculture. His next book, Command and Control, is about nuclear proliferation. Before trying to write nonfiction, Schlosser was a playwright and worked for an independent film company. In recent years he's returned to those fields.

Reduced-rate parking for the event is available in the Irving Avenue parking garage.

Printmaker Beauvais Lyons
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

Beauvais Lyons, a printmaker and self-appointed director of the Hokes Archives at the University of Tennessee (UT) in Knoxville, will present a lecture. Lyons has taught printmaking at UT since 1985. His one-person exhibitions have been presented at more than 45 galleries and museums across the United States. He has published articles on his work in Archaeology, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Contemporary Impressions, the New Art Examiner and Leonardo.

Lyons was a keynote speaker at the 1999 IMPACT Printmaking Conference at the University of the West of England in Bristol. His work is cited by Linda Hutcheon in "Irony's Edge: The Theory and Politics of Irony" (Routledge, 1994), and by Lawrence Weschler in "Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder" (Pantheon, 1995). He also has works in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, among others. He was awarded the Southeastern College Art Conference Award for Creative Achievement (1994) and a Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1988).

Lyons served as the president of the Southern Graphics Council (1994-96), the largest printmaking organization in North America, and as editor of its newsletter (1998-2002).

Parking is available for $4 in Booth Garage. Patrons should mention that they are attending the lecture to receive this rate. For more information about the lecture, contact Dusty Herbig, assistant professor of printmaking, at 315-443-4519 or dtherbig@syr.edu.

Youth Chamber Music Competition
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

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

Student ensembles from Fayetteville-Manlius High School and West Genesee High School
will be performing Ernst Bacon's Salute to Casey Jones for four cellos, David Popper's
Requiem for three cellos and piano, and two movements from Shostakovich's Piano Quintet.

Our judges this year will be Syracuse Symphony Orchestra Music Director Daniel Hege and SSO violinist Sara Mastrangelo. The first ensemble will play at 7:00 PM, and by 8:15 PM, our judges will announce the winning ensemble. This group will then get to perform at the beginning of our March 12 concert featuring the Ames Piano Quartet.

The Color Purple
Broadway in Syracuse

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

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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Ingrid Ludt: "Forest becomes Ocean"
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Winter Art Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Come in from the cold and enjoy the warmth of friends and the glow of ceramic art made in The Studio at Clayscapes Pottery. Featuring ceramic artwork by Millie St. John, Tim See, Don Seymour, Shawn McGuire, Wes Weiss, and Sarah VanDerVoort as well as many others.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Takafumi Ide Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Takafumi Ide is an interdisciplinary media artist specializing in installation with sound and light. He received his B.A. in graphic design from Tama Art University in Tokyo in 1989, and his M.F.A. in studio art from Stony Brook University in 2007. He has worked for more than 10 years as a graphic designer and an illustrator in Japan and now teaches at Stony Brook University as a lecturer, and Suffolk County Community College as an adjunct instructor.

He has received several honors, such as The Sculpture Space Fellowship and Residency (funded by both the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts), the Strategic Opportunity Stipend Program Grant through the New York Foundation for the Arts, and most recently the Nomura Cultural Foundation's Project Grant, Asahi Shimbun Foundation Project Grant, and the Vermont Studio Center's Partial-Grant and Residency. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally. More recent exhibitions include Sunroom Project Glynder Gallery, Wave Hill, NY, ISE Cultural Foundation in Soho, NY, and AC Institute in Chelsea, NY.

Read a review!

Cortland County Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists include Fred Zimmerman, David Yaman, Kathy Williams, Carl Steckler, Laurie Seamans, Meg Richardson, Lyla Phillips, Allen Phillips, Joan Niswender, Richard Mitchell, Amy Hnatko, Emily Gibbons, Serry Dans, Kathie Beale, and David Beale.

Orange Pulp: The Pulp Magazine & Contemporary Culture
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be pulp magazines, notably titles like Weird Tales and Amazing Stories; the typescript of Isaac Asimov's "Strange Playfellow," which introduced readers to one of science fiction's best known characters, Robbie the Robot; and correspondence with figures like Ray Bradbury.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Marcel Breuer and Postwar America
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Drawings from the Marcel Breuer Papers, curated by SU Architecture students, with Barry Bergdoll and Jonathan Massey. The exhibition is the outcome of their work in the extensive Breuer archive at the Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center. It features images of 120 drawings, as well as photographs, documenting thirteen of Breuer’s major postwar buildings and projects. Full-scale reproductions highlight themes that characterized some of Breuer’s lesser-known major work and document his responses to the needs and opportunities of postwar American society.

Breuer (1902-1981) was a leading figure among the second generation of modernist architects whose striking designs for furniture, houses, institutions, and commercial buildings helped to set the shape and style of modernity in Europe and the United States, leading “Time” magazine to characterize him as one of the “form givers of the 20th century.” His works include the UNESCO headquarters in Paris and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Tonal Gestures
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Diana Godfrey: mixed media pastels and acrylic paintings
Carmel Nicoletti: bronze reliefs and glass works

Amos Kennedy Prints!
Community Folk Art Center

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

Focusing on issues of race, violence and community, "Amos Kennedy Prints!" features the hand-printed works of Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. and will include prints created at CFAC. By transforming the gallery into an active printmaking workshop, Kennedy will collaborate with students from the Syracuse area and Syracuse University to create images and broadsides that reflect issues of race, gender and politics and illustrate the impact of violence in the city on their lives and community. The public is invited to meet Kennedy and to observe and participate in the printmaking process.

Hudson Past/Perfect: Photos by Marna Bell
Light Work Gallery

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

Marna Bell is the winner of the Light Work/Community Darkrooms Members Juried Exhibition competition. In 2005, after the sudden death of her mother, Bell picked up her camera after a 20-year hiatus from painting and began photographing nature. Her focus in both painting and photography has been on reclaiming visions of the past and her connection to nature.

According to Bell, "Many trips back home to New York City on the train have helped me remember lost pieces of time where life seemed simpler and less veiled. It was a natural progression for me to record the cycle of change in my 'Hudson Past/Perfect' series. By revisiting the same landscapes in different seasons and under different weather conditions, I was able to capture the past before it disappeared. I am drawn to the meditative quality of the Hudson River and the sacred aspects of the natural environment. The series is reminiscent of a more romantic era, when God and nature were viewed as one."

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

This suite of three video installations, "Mare," "Perigee", and "Penumbra," by Demetrius Oliver reconnects viewers to their place in the universe by playing with earthly and human forms against a backdrop of the cosmos. In "Penumbra," explorations of light and scale, movement and the rhythm of the natural world suggest journeys both physical and metaphysical.

One of the installations will be on view in the Light Work Gallery, one projected onto the Everson Museum, and one installed in the Menschel Photography Gallery in the Schine Student Center.

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

Focus x Three: Photography and Video
Redhouse

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

Focus x Three, the second in the Emerging Women of CNY series, highlights the work of three photographers: Erin Mulvehill, Gillian Andrew, and Colleen Woolpert. Each has an association and history with Syracuse, as all are graduates of Syracuse University. They have all worked, in some capacity, in the world of professional photography, perfecting their craft, while continuing to pursue the "fine art" side of their vision. Curator of this exhibition, Marianne Smith Dalton, stated: "Each of these women masterfully uses the camera to convey her own unique reflection of 'reality.' These compelling photographs, frozen moments in time, will captivate and hold you transfixed. Come celebrate the work of these three young women and discover a new way to 'see' through the lenses of these talented photographers."

Fashionable Points of View
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Fashionable Points of View" marks the first time the SU fashion design faculty has presented its work as a group. The artwork in the exhibition includes beautifully crafted garments, accessories and fine art.

Among the faculty designers showcasing their expertise and interest within the field of fashion are Jeffrey Mayer, fashion design program coordinator; Karen Bakke; Todd Conover; Laurel Morton; Claudia Gervais; Joyce Backus; Elizabeth Shorrock; Megan Lawson Clark; and Jean Henry.

For more information, contact Mayer at jcmayer@syr.edu, or Lauren Tagliaferro at lktaglia@syr.edu.

Surface Material
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Artist Vincent Fitches, well-know locally and globally, shares exhibit space with emerging new artist Emily Elizabeth Jones. Fitches and Jones are both relatively young in age, but of the two, Fitches has enjoyed greater notoriety, having shown his work worldwide. For Jones, "Surface Material" is her first big public exhibit. The gallery's title for the show is indicative of how each artist creates their works.

Creating mostly on panel, Fitches describes his artworks as, "uncanny in their color palate and unstructured composition." He says he focuses on a central object using subjects often in solitary environments, exposing their vulnerabilities in both his landscapes and figurative paintings. "This deconstruction of the naturalness dictated in the art world allows for a new vision of beauty and interpretation," Fitches explains.

In creating her art, Jones says she is motivated by a "fascination with the universe," where she sees the elements in the atmosphere as constantly creating and changing what we perceive. Applying acrylic on canvas, she tries to capture those moments of full spectrum of color rather than shape. "Like the glare of sun and early haziness," she says. Included in this first exhibit of Jones' works are minimal landscapes in a series called, "Horizon Colors."

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity is a rich, reflective exhibition of works by 40 artists representing the vast cultural blend of modern American society.

American artists of African, Arab, European, Asian, Latino, and Native American descent explore their heritage in this vivid and diverse exhibition using a wide variety of media. The artists examine patriotism, communication, struggle for acceptance, being an American in the 21st century, and more. Humor, heartache, anger, apprehension--all emotions are evoked by these works, raising questions about race, class, gender and age. Four main themes run through Infinite Mirror: Self-Selection, Pride, Assimilation, and Protest, providing audiences with the opportunity to re-examine both the story and storytellers of the quintessential "American dream."

The exhibition was curated by Blake Bradford, Curator and Director of Education at the Barnes Foundation; Benito Huerta, Curator and Director of The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington; and Robert Lee, Curator and Executive Director at Asian American Arts Centre in New York.

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

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The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

A selection of 30 woodcuts and etchings by the internationally known and collected Chinese American artist and educator. This exhibition is a limited retrospective look at Seong Moy's career as printmaker.

Moy's early works, small but complicated woodcuts on soft luminous papers, were immediately accepted by artists, curators, and the public. A painterly quality, so important to his entire graphic output, is evident in much of this work and is all the more special because it is captured in color wood block prints that require great sophistication and skill from the artist.

As Moy's career continued to develop, his interest in capturing spatial relationships of shapes and forms in his compositions, was heightened by the role color plays in energizing these elements. This trend continued for a number a years and could also be found in his cardboard relief prints.

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

Orange Pulp: Works by Norman Saunders
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

A profile of pulp artist Norman Saunders (1907-1989), including 10 lush and dramatic Saunders paintings from the university collection.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Casey Landerkin: Paintings and Illustrations
Echo

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

Journeys
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

There will be an artists' reception this evening from 6:00-8:00 p.m.

"Journeys" includes the work of approximately 20 international students from various disciplines across the college, including art photography, art video, ceramics, communication and rhetorical studies, fiber arts/material studies, film, museum studies and sculpture.

For more information, contact Stephen Zaima, professor of painting, at 315-443-4613 or szaima@syr.edu. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses or lamenting the struggles of daily living, Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed "Truisms" on one of Times Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her "Survival" series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

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Implements of Mass Construction
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The Erie Canal was built by thousands of untrained men during the 19th century, before the United States had any civil engineering professionals. So how did they construct a canal across the entire state of New York? Come by the Erie Canal Museum and see the tools that made it possible. The 16 items on view were used for construction or industry along the Erie Canal in the 19th century. Visit the Museum's second floor gallery to try to guess what each instrument is. Tools similar to some of the implements on display are still used today, but others will require some guesswork. Come visit today to guess for yourself!

Timothy Schmidt, guitar
Civic Morning Musicals

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

Audience favorite in works of J.S. Bach, Sor, and Barrios.

Cultural Series: Jeremy Mastrangelo and Sara Mastrangelo, violins
Temple Society of Concord

Temple Society of Concord
910 Madison St., Syracuse

Mr. Mastrangelo is the associate concertmaster of the Syracuse Symphony and Ms. Mastrangelo is first violinist.

Radio Golf
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

How do we move forward without leaving behind difficult but defining aspects of our past? A powerful and timely drama from the most celebrated American playwright of this generation, Radio Golf tells the story of a man striving to become the first African American mayor of Pittsburgh. He's forced to weigh the importance of family, legacy, heritage, and history against the truth of his political and class ambitions. Moving, funny, lyrical, and rousing, Radio Golf is the inspiring final play of August Wilson's monumental, ten-play 20th-century cycle and career.

Radio Golf received four 2007 Tony nominations, including Best Play, and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.

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The Color Purple
Broadway in Syracuse

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

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Radio Golf
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

How do we move forward without leaving behind difficult but defining aspects of our past? A powerful and timely drama from the most celebrated American playwright of this generation, Radio Golf tells the story of a man striving to become the first African American mayor of Pittsburgh. He's forced to weigh the importance of family, legacy, heritage, and history against the truth of his political and class ambitions. Moving, funny, lyrical, and rousing, Radio Golf is the inspiring final play of August Wilson's monumental, ten-play 20th-century cycle and career.

Radio Golf received four 2007 Tony nominations, including Best Play, and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.

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Thursday, March 3, 2011

Ingrid Ludt: "Forest becomes Ocean"
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Winter Art Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Come in from the cold and enjoy the warmth of friends and the glow of ceramic art made in The Studio at Clayscapes Pottery. Featuring ceramic artwork by Millie St. John, Tim See, Don Seymour, Shawn McGuire, Wes Weiss, and Sarah VanDerVoort as well as many others.

Takafumi Ide Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Takafumi Ide is an interdisciplinary media artist specializing in installation with sound and light. He received his B.A. in graphic design from Tama Art University in Tokyo in 1989, and his M.F.A. in studio art from Stony Brook University in 2007. He has worked for more than 10 years as a graphic designer and an illustrator in Japan and now teaches at Stony Brook University as a lecturer, and Suffolk County Community College as an adjunct instructor.

He has received several honors, such as The Sculpture Space Fellowship and Residency (funded by both the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts), the Strategic Opportunity Stipend Program Grant through the New York Foundation for the Arts, and most recently the Nomura Cultural Foundation's Project Grant, Asahi Shimbun Foundation Project Grant, and the Vermont Studio Center's Partial-Grant and Residency. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally. More recent exhibitions include Sunroom Project Glynder Gallery, Wave Hill, NY, ISE Cultural Foundation in Soho, NY, and AC Institute in Chelsea, NY.

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CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Cortland County Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists include Fred Zimmerman, David Yaman, Kathy Williams, Carl Steckler, Laurie Seamans, Meg Richardson, Lyla Phillips, Allen Phillips, Joan Niswender, Richard Mitchell, Amy Hnatko, Emily Gibbons, Serry Dans, Kathie Beale, and David Beale.

Orange Pulp: The Pulp Magazine & Contemporary Culture
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be pulp magazines, notably titles like Weird Tales and Amazing Stories; the typescript of Isaac Asimov's "Strange Playfellow," which introduced readers to one of science fiction's best known characters, Robbie the Robot; and correspondence with figures like Ray Bradbury.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Marcel Breuer and Postwar America
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Drawings from the Marcel Breuer Papers, curated by SU Architecture students, with Barry Bergdoll and Jonathan Massey. The exhibition is the outcome of their work in the extensive Breuer archive at the Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center. It features images of 120 drawings, as well as photographs, documenting thirteen of Breuer’s major postwar buildings and projects. Full-scale reproductions highlight themes that characterized some of Breuer’s lesser-known major work and document his responses to the needs and opportunities of postwar American society.

Breuer (1902-1981) was a leading figure among the second generation of modernist architects whose striking designs for furniture, houses, institutions, and commercial buildings helped to set the shape and style of modernity in Europe and the United States, leading “Time” magazine to characterize him as one of the “form givers of the 20th century.” His works include the UNESCO headquarters in Paris and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Tonal Gestures
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Diana Godfrey: mixed media pastels and acrylic paintings
Carmel Nicoletti: bronze reliefs and glass works

Amos Kennedy Prints!
Community Folk Art Center

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

Focusing on issues of race, violence and community, "Amos Kennedy Prints!" features the hand-printed works of Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. and will include prints created at CFAC. By transforming the gallery into an active printmaking workshop, Kennedy will collaborate with students from the Syracuse area and Syracuse University to create images and broadsides that reflect issues of race, gender and politics and illustrate the impact of violence in the city on their lives and community. The public is invited to meet Kennedy and to observe and participate in the printmaking process.

Hudson Past/Perfect: Photos by Marna Bell
Light Work Gallery

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

Marna Bell is the winner of the Light Work/Community Darkrooms Members Juried Exhibition competition. In 2005, after the sudden death of her mother, Bell picked up her camera after a 20-year hiatus from painting and began photographing nature. Her focus in both painting and photography has been on reclaiming visions of the past and her connection to nature.

According to Bell, "Many trips back home to New York City on the train have helped me remember lost pieces of time where life seemed simpler and less veiled. It was a natural progression for me to record the cycle of change in my 'Hudson Past/Perfect' series. By revisiting the same landscapes in different seasons and under different weather conditions, I was able to capture the past before it disappeared. I am drawn to the meditative quality of the Hudson River and the sacred aspects of the natural environment. The series is reminiscent of a more romantic era, when God and nature were viewed as one."

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

This suite of three video installations, "Mare," "Perigee", and "Penumbra," by Demetrius Oliver reconnects viewers to their place in the universe by playing with earthly and human forms against a backdrop of the cosmos. In "Penumbra," explorations of light and scale, movement and the rhythm of the natural world suggest journeys both physical and metaphysical.

One of the installations will be on view in the Light Work Gallery, one projected onto the Everson Museum, and one installed in the Menschel Photography Gallery in the Schine Student Center.

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

Focus x Three: Photography and Video
Redhouse

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

Focus x Three, the second in the Emerging Women of CNY series, highlights the work of three photographers: Erin Mulvehill, Gillian Andrew, and Colleen Woolpert. Each has an association and history with Syracuse, as all are graduates of Syracuse University. They have all worked, in some capacity, in the world of professional photography, perfecting their craft, while continuing to pursue the "fine art" side of their vision. Curator of this exhibition, Marianne Smith Dalton, stated: "Each of these women masterfully uses the camera to convey her own unique reflection of 'reality.' These compelling photographs, frozen moments in time, will captivate and hold you transfixed. Come celebrate the work of these three young women and discover a new way to 'see' through the lenses of these talented photographers."

Fashionable Points of View
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Fashionable Points of View" marks the first time the SU fashion design faculty has presented its work as a group. The artwork in the exhibition includes beautifully crafted garments, accessories and fine art.

Among the faculty designers showcasing their expertise and interest within the field of fashion are Jeffrey Mayer, fashion design program coordinator; Karen Bakke; Todd Conover; Laurel Morton; Claudia Gervais; Joyce Backus; Elizabeth Shorrock; Megan Lawson Clark; and Jean Henry.

For more information, contact Mayer at jcmayer@syr.edu, or Lauren Tagliaferro at lktaglia@syr.edu.

Surface Material
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Artist Vincent Fitches, well-know locally and globally, shares exhibit space with emerging new artist Emily Elizabeth Jones. Fitches and Jones are both relatively young in age, but of the two, Fitches has enjoyed greater notoriety, having shown his work worldwide. For Jones, "Surface Material" is her first big public exhibit. The gallery's title for the show is indicative of how each artist creates their works.

Creating mostly on panel, Fitches describes his artworks as, "uncanny in their color palate and unstructured composition." He says he focuses on a central object using subjects often in solitary environments, exposing their vulnerabilities in both his landscapes and figurative paintings. "This deconstruction of the naturalness dictated in the art world allows for a new vision of beauty and interpretation," Fitches explains.

In creating her art, Jones says she is motivated by a "fascination with the universe," where she sees the elements in the atmosphere as constantly creating and changing what we perceive. Applying acrylic on canvas, she tries to capture those moments of full spectrum of color rather than shape. "Like the glare of sun and early haziness," she says. Included in this first exhibit of Jones' works are minimal landscapes in a series called, "Horizon Colors."

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity is a rich, reflective exhibition of works by 40 artists representing the vast cultural blend of modern American society.

American artists of African, Arab, European, Asian, Latino, and Native American descent explore their heritage in this vivid and diverse exhibition using a wide variety of media. The artists examine patriotism, communication, struggle for acceptance, being an American in the 21st century, and more. Humor, heartache, anger, apprehension--all emotions are evoked by these works, raising questions about race, class, gender and age. Four main themes run through Infinite Mirror: Self-Selection, Pride, Assimilation, and Protest, providing audiences with the opportunity to re-examine both the story and storytellers of the quintessential "American dream."

The exhibition was curated by Blake Bradford, Curator and Director of Education at the Barnes Foundation; Benito Huerta, Curator and Director of The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington; and Robert Lee, Curator and Executive Director at Asian American Arts Centre in New York.

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

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The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

A selection of 30 woodcuts and etchings by the internationally known and collected Chinese American artist and educator. This exhibition is a limited retrospective look at Seong Moy's career as printmaker.

Moy's early works, small but complicated woodcuts on soft luminous papers, were immediately accepted by artists, curators, and the public. A painterly quality, so important to his entire graphic output, is evident in much of this work and is all the more special because it is captured in color wood block prints that require great sophistication and skill from the artist.

As Moy's career continued to develop, his interest in capturing spatial relationships of shapes and forms in his compositions, was heightened by the role color plays in energizing these elements. This trend continued for a number a years and could also be found in his cardboard relief prints.

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

Orange Pulp: Works by Norman Saunders
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

A profile of pulp artist Norman Saunders (1907-1989), including 10 lush and dramatic Saunders paintings from the university collection.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Casey Landerkin: Paintings and Illustrations
Echo

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

Journeys
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Journeys" includes the work of approximately 20 international students from various disciplines across the college, including art photography, art video, ceramics, communication and rhetorical studies, fiber arts/material studies, film, museum studies and sculpture.

For more information, contact Stephen Zaima, professor of painting, at 315-443-4613 or szaima@syr.edu. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Opening: Kueng Caputo: The Quadrangular Cloud
The Warehouse Gallery

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

There will be an opening reception with the artists this evening 5:00-8:00 pm.

The young female Swiss designer duo, Sarah Kueng and Lovis Caputo, will install a hotel in the Warehouse Gallery. The main gallery will be transformed into small ephemeral rooms where the visitor is invited to take a break from reality and to take a mini-vacation complete with a number of very simple, inexpensive and joyful elements. When seated or lying down, the public's focus is drawn to the interior space and lighting. The idea for a temporary hotel goes back to Kueng's and Caputo's 72 Hours Hotel, which was initially developed in 2006 for the train station in Zurich, Switzerland. Both artists have been widely exhibited. This is their first museum solo show in the U.S.

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Demitrus Oliver: Mare, 2009
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Mare, 2009, projects a circular image of a wave crashing against an unnamed shore. As the image rotates, the lines of the waves begin to resemble the layered surface of a Jovian planet such as Jupiter. Connecting the sea with heavenly phenomena, the installation recreates the sense of wonderment felt when looking at the night sky and the fundamental human desire to understand one's place in the universe. Mare, which is Latin for "seas", suggests movement and journeys both physical and metaphysical, as well as metaphors of darkness and illumination, looking and discovery.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses or lamenting the struggles of daily living, Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed "Truisms" on one of Times Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her "Survival" series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

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Implements of Mass Construction
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The Erie Canal was built by thousands of untrained men during the 19th century, before the United States had any civil engineering professionals. So how did they construct a canal across the entire state of New York? Come by the Erie Canal Museum and see the tools that made it possible. The 16 items on view were used for construction or industry along the Erie Canal in the 19th century. Visit the Museum's second floor gallery to try to guess what each instrument is. Tools similar to some of the implements on display are still used today, but others will require some guesswork. Come visit today to guess for yourself!

Artist Lecture: Sarah Kueng and Lovis Caputo
The Warehouse Gallery

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

Artist talk in conjunction with the opening of the exhibit The Quadrangular Cloud.

British Invasion
LeMoyne College
Le Moyne College Chamber Orchestra

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors; free to students and the Le Moyne community
St. Lucy's
432 Gifford St., Syracuse

The LCCO will continue its exploration of classic rock with the post-Beatles era of British rock, including music by Queen, The Who, and more.

Harry Crocker and the Saucerer's Stove
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $32.50 plus tax and gratuities (includes meal and show)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Something's cooking at Frogtort's School for Culinary Wizardry and it smells like trouble. Harry Crocker returns after 25 years to save his alma mater but not everyone's happy to see him, to say the least. Professor Fumblepork is sending out an owl to all wizards (including you). Join Professors McMonalogue and Crepe, even Harry's old friend Herhiane, as they try to pay off centuries of back taxes and avoid a hostile takeover by the Ministry of Magic.

The Color Purple
Broadway in Syracuse

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

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The Wiz
Jamesville Dewitt High School
Shawn Forster, director

Price: $12 regular, $10 students/seniors
Jamesville-Dewitt High School
Edinger Drive, Dewitt

An upbeat, soft-rock version of the story of Dorothy, the little girl from Kansas, and her journey through the magical land of Oz. Book by William F. Brown; music, Charlie Smalls.

For tickets, phone 315-251-2956.

Radio Golf
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

How do we move forward without leaving behind difficult but defining aspects of our past? A powerful and timely drama from the most celebrated American playwright of this generation, Radio Golf tells the story of a man striving to become the first African American mayor of Pittsburgh. He's forced to weigh the importance of family, legacy, heritage, and history against the truth of his political and class ambitions. Moving, funny, lyrical, and rousing, Radio Golf is the inspiring final play of August Wilson's monumental, ten-play 20th-century cycle and career.

Radio Golf received four 2007 Tony nominations, including Best Play, and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.

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Friday, March 4, 2011

Window Project: Stephanie Rozene--The Politics of Porcelain
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This spring, both the main gallery and Window Projects feature emerging female artists and celebrate their artistic achievements at a time that coincides with International Women's Day (March 2011). Stephanie Rozene draws upon the fine line between design and the visual arts. Her work is the result of extensive research and gifted craftsmanship. Through the medium of ceramics (and with special attention to specific patterns, ornaments, and forms) she explores the politics of European ceramics and traces international developments in this medium back to the reigns of French kings Louis XV and Louis XVI. This is her first solo museum show.

Ingrid Ludt: "Forest becomes Ocean"
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Winter Art Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Come in from the cold and enjoy the warmth of friends and the glow of ceramic art made in The Studio at Clayscapes Pottery. Featuring ceramic artwork by Millie St. John, Tim See, Don Seymour, Shawn McGuire, Wes Weiss, and Sarah VanDerVoort as well as many others.

CNY Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

The CNY Scholastic Art Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Takafumi Ide Gallery Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Takafumi Ide is an interdisciplinary media artist specializing in installation with sound and light. He received his B.A. in graphic design from Tama Art University in Tokyo in 1989, and his M.F.A. in studio art from Stony Brook University in 2007. He has worked for more than 10 years as a graphic designer and an illustrator in Japan and now teaches at Stony Brook University as a lecturer, and Suffolk County Community College as an adjunct instructor.

He has received several honors, such as The Sculpture Space Fellowship and Residency (funded by both the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts), the Strategic Opportunity Stipend Program Grant through the New York Foundation for the Arts, and most recently the Nomura Cultural Foundation's Project Grant, Asahi Shimbun Foundation Project Grant, and the Vermont Studio Center's Partial-Grant and Residency. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally. More recent exhibitions include Sunroom Project Glynder Gallery, Wave Hill, NY, ISE Cultural Foundation in Soho, NY, and AC Institute in Chelsea, NY.

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Cortland County Art Exhibit
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists include Fred Zimmerman, David Yaman, Kathy Williams, Carl Steckler, Laurie Seamans, Meg Richardson, Lyla Phillips, Allen Phillips, Joan Niswender, Richard Mitchell, Amy Hnatko, Emily Gibbons, Serry Dans, Kathie Beale, and David Beale.

Orange Pulp: The Pulp Magazine & Contemporary Culture
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

On display will be pulp magazines, notably titles like Weird Tales and Amazing Stories; the typescript of Isaac Asimov's "Strange Playfellow," which introduced readers to one of science fiction's best known characters, Robbie the Robot; and correspondence with figures like Ray Bradbury.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Marcel Breuer and Postwar America
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
Slocum Hall Gallery
Syracuse University campus, Syracuse

Drawings from the Marcel Breuer Papers, curated by SU Architecture students, with Barry Bergdoll and Jonathan Massey. The exhibition is the outcome of their work in the extensive Breuer archive at the Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center. It features images of 120 drawings, as well as photographs, documenting thirteen of Breuer’s major postwar buildings and projects. Full-scale reproductions highlight themes that characterized some of Breuer’s lesser-known major work and document his responses to the needs and opportunities of postwar American society.

Breuer (1902-1981) was a leading figure among the second generation of modernist architects whose striking designs for furniture, houses, institutions, and commercial buildings helped to set the shape and style of modernity in Europe and the United States, leading “Time” magazine to characterize him as one of the “form givers of the 20th century.” His works include the UNESCO headquarters in Paris and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Tonal Gestures
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Diana Godfrey: mixed media pastels and acrylic paintings
Carmel Nicoletti: bronze reliefs and glass works

Amos Kennedy Prints!
Community Folk Art Center

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

Focusing on issues of race, violence and community, "Amos Kennedy Prints!" features the hand-printed works of Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. and will include prints created at CFAC. By transforming the gallery into an active printmaking workshop, Kennedy will collaborate with students from the Syracuse area and Syracuse University to create images and broadsides that reflect issues of race, gender and politics and illustrate the impact of violence in the city on their lives and community. The public is invited to meet Kennedy and to observe and participate in the printmaking process.

Hudson Past/Perfect: Photos by Marna Bell
Light Work Gallery

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

Marna Bell is the winner of the Light Work/Community Darkrooms Members Juried Exhibition competition. In 2005, after the sudden death of her mother, Bell picked up her camera after a 20-year hiatus from painting and began photographing nature. Her focus in both painting and photography has been on reclaiming visions of the past and her connection to nature.

According to Bell, "Many trips back home to New York City on the train have helped me remember lost pieces of time where life seemed simpler and less veiled. It was a natural progression for me to record the cycle of change in my 'Hudson Past/Perfect' series. By revisiting the same landscapes in different seasons and under different weather conditions, I was able to capture the past before it disappeared. I am drawn to the meditative quality of the Hudson River and the sacred aspects of the natural environment. The series is reminiscent of a more romantic era, when God and nature were viewed as one."

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

This suite of three video installations, "Mare," "Perigee", and "Penumbra," by Demetrius Oliver reconnects viewers to their place in the universe by playing with earthly and human forms against a backdrop of the cosmos. In "Penumbra," explorations of light and scale, movement and the rhythm of the natural world suggest journeys both physical and metaphysical.

One of the installations will be on view in the Light Work Gallery, one projected onto the Everson Museum, and one installed in the Menschel Photography Gallery in the Schine Student Center.

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

Focus x Three: Photography and Video
Redhouse

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

Focus x Three, the second in the Emerging Women of CNY series, highlights the work of three photographers: Erin Mulvehill, Gillian Andrew, and Colleen Woolpert. Each has an association and history with Syracuse, as all are graduates of Syracuse University. They have all worked, in some capacity, in the world of professional photography, perfecting their craft, while continuing to pursue the "fine art" side of their vision. Curator of this exhibition, Marianne Smith Dalton, stated: "Each of these women masterfully uses the camera to convey her own unique reflection of 'reality.' These compelling photographs, frozen moments in time, will captivate and hold you transfixed. Come celebrate the work of these three young women and discover a new way to 'see' through the lenses of these talented photographers."

Fashionable Points of View
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Fashionable Points of View" marks the first time the SU fashion design faculty has presented its work as a group. The artwork in the exhibition includes beautifully crafted garments, accessories and fine art.

Among the faculty designers showcasing their expertise and interest within the field of fashion are Jeffrey Mayer, fashion design program coordinator; Karen Bakke; Todd Conover; Laurel Morton; Claudia Gervais; Joyce Backus; Elizabeth Shorrock; Megan Lawson Clark; and Jean Henry.

For more information, contact Mayer at jcmayer@syr.edu, or Lauren Tagliaferro at lktaglia@syr.edu.

Surface Material
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Artist Vincent Fitches, well-know locally and globally, shares exhibit space with emerging new artist Emily Elizabeth Jones. Fitches and Jones are both relatively young in age, but of the two, Fitches has enjoyed greater notoriety, having shown his work worldwide. For Jones, "Surface Material" is her first big public exhibit. The gallery's title for the show is indicative of how each artist creates their works.

Creating mostly on panel, Fitches describes his artworks as, "uncanny in their color palate and unstructured composition." He says he focuses on a central object using subjects often in solitary environments, exposing their vulnerabilities in both his landscapes and figurative paintings. "This deconstruction of the naturalness dictated in the art world allows for a new vision of beauty and interpretation," Fitches explains.

In creating her art, Jones says she is motivated by a "fascination with the universe," where she sees the elements in the atmosphere as constantly creating and changing what we perceive. Applying acrylic on canvas, she tries to capture those moments of full spectrum of color rather than shape. "Like the glare of sun and early haziness," she says. Included in this first exhibit of Jones' works are minimal landscapes in a series called, "Horizon Colors."

Opening: Forrest Lesch-Middelton: Recent Work
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Forrest Lesch-Middelton's pottery combines historic patterns with modern-day technology. The resulting work creates a subtle narrative that references the cross-cultural influences that impact every facet of daily life. Pottery is used as a metaphor to illustrate this phenomenon. To achieve the intricate patterns, Lesch-Middelton uses silkscreen and embossment transfer techniques. He says of his artwork, "By blending form, pattern, and surface, my goal is to create an object that simultaneously elicits a visceral and intellectual response, followed by a contemplation of my work as a whole."

Lesch-Middelton received his MFA in Ceramics from Utah State University in 2006 and a BFA in Ceramics from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1998. He is currently the Ceramics Program Coordinator at the Sonoma Community Center in Sonoma, California and teaches at Santa Rosa Jr. College and Solano College in the San Francisco Bay area. His artwork has been shown in many venues nationally, including the Baltimore Clayworks (MD), Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (TN), and Santa Fe Clay Center (NM). He currently lives with his wife and two daughters in Northern California.

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity is a rich, reflective exhibition of works by 40 artists representing the vast cultural blend of modern American society.

American artists of African, Arab, European, Asian, Latino, and Native American descent explore their heritage in this vivid and diverse exhibition using a wide variety of media. The artists examine patriotism, communication, struggle for acceptance, being an American in the 21st century, and more. Humor, heartache, anger, apprehension--all emotions are evoked by these works, raising questions about race, class, gender and age. Four main themes run through Infinite Mirror: Self-Selection, Pride, Assimilation, and Protest, providing audiences with the opportunity to re-examine both the story and storytellers of the quintessential "American dream."

The exhibition was curated by Blake Bradford, Curator and Director of Education at the Barnes Foundation; Benito Huerta, Curator and Director of The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington; and Robert Lee, Curator and Executive Director at Asian American Arts Centre in New York.

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

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The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

A selection of 30 woodcuts and etchings by the internationally known and collected Chinese American artist and educator. This exhibition is a limited retrospective look at Seong Moy's career as printmaker.

Moy's early works, small but complicated woodcuts on soft luminous papers, were immediately accepted by artists, curators, and the public. A painterly quality, so important to his entire graphic output, is evident in much of this work and is all the more special because it is captured in color wood block prints that require great sophistication and skill from the artist.

As Moy's career continued to develop, his interest in capturing spatial relationships of shapes and forms in his compositions, was heightened by the role color plays in energizing these elements. This trend continued for a number a years and could also be found in his cardboard relief prints.

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

Orange Pulp: Works by Norman Saunders
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

A profile of pulp artist Norman Saunders (1907-1989), including 10 lush and dramatic Saunders paintings from the university collection.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Casey Landerkin: Paintings and Illustrations
Echo

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

Journeys
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Journeys" includes the work of approximately 20 international students from various disciplines across the college, including art photography, art video, ceramics, communication and rhetorical studies, fiber arts/material studies, film, museum studies and sculpture.

For more information, contact Stephen Zaima, professor of painting, at 315-443-4613 or szaima@syr.edu. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Kueng Caputo: The Quadrangular Cloud
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The young female Swiss designer duo, Sarah Kueng and Lovis Caputo, will install a hotel in the Warehouse Gallery. The main gallery will be transformed into small ephemeral rooms where the visitor is invited to take a break from reality and to take a mini-vacation complete with a number of very simple, inexpensive and joyful elements. When seated or lying down, the public's focus is drawn to the interior space and lighting. The idea for a temporary hotel goes back to Kueng's and Caputo's 72 Hours Hotel, which was initially developed in 2006 for the train station in Zurich, Switzerland. Both artists have been widely exhibited. This is their first museum solo show in the U.S.

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Demitrus Oliver: Mare, 2009
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Mare, 2009, projects a circular image of a wave crashing against an unnamed shore. As the image rotates, the lines of the waves begin to resemble the layered surface of a Jovian planet such as Jupiter. Connecting the sea with heavenly phenomena, the installation recreates the sense of wonderment felt when looking at the night sky and the fundamental human desire to understand one's place in the universe. Mare, which is Latin for "seas", suggests movement and journeys both physical and metaphysical, as well as metaphors of darkness and illumination, looking and discovery.

Red House Live Comedy Improv
Redhouse

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

Red House Arts Center invites you to laugh with us, or at us -- preferably with us -- as our very own improvisational comedy troupe returns. No two shows are the same; each feature different scenes and characters fueled by audience suggestions and response.

Improvisational comedians Laura Austin, Tim Mahar and Stephen Peters work together to craft scenes and games from audience suggestions and their own unrestrained imaginations. Darian Sundberg and Marguerite Sundberg join the cast as special guests for a night of unpredictable comedy.

Red House Live was created by Tim Mahar and Laura Austin, who have both trained and performed with Second City, the home of "the world's greatest comedy theatre." You may also recognize Mahar from his performances with "Off the Cuff" in Syracuse and New York, or from his own show "Live Radio". Austin has been seen working in television, film and theatre throughout the U.S. and abroad.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses or lamenting the struggles of daily living, Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed "Truisms" on one of Times Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her "Survival" series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

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Implements of Mass Construction
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The Erie Canal was built by thousands of untrained men during the 19th century, before the United States had any civil engineering professionals. So how did they construct a canal across the entire state of New York? Come by the Erie Canal Museum and see the tools that made it possible. The 16 items on view were used for construction or industry along the Erie Canal in the 19th century. Visit the Museum's second floor gallery to try to guess what each instrument is. Tools similar to some of the implements on display are still used today, but others will require some guesswork. Come visit today to guess for yourself!

*SOLD OUT* Dar Williams
Folkus Project

Price: $25
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Since 1993, when her debut album, The Honesty Room, was released, Dar Williams has steadily built a large and devoted following among those who treasure songs that mix truth, pathos, humor, and wit. Well-known to the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival crowd — and introduced to many as one-third of the folk super-trio Cry Cry Cry (with Lucy Kaplansky and Richard Shindell) — Dar Williams is today a major star of the folk singer-songwriter circuit, and one of the most acclaimed and popular singer-songwriters of the past 15 years.

Interest in this concert is extraordinarily high; she is one of the most requested acts suggested to us by local folk fans. We expect this show to sell out. Because of the high demand, Folkus has made special arrangements for pre-concert ticket sales. Learn more about how you can purchase your ticket for this very special show. For this show, Folkus will NOT be accepting unpaid ticket reservations by phone or e-mail. Purchasing tickets in advance is the only way to guarantee your seat at this show.

*SOLD OUT* Treme Brass Band of New Orleans
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free (tickets required)
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The celebrated Treme neighborhood in New Orleans, now the subject of the smash hit HBO Series "Treme," is more than just a place: it's a feeling. It has been described by singer John Boutté in his song "Down in the Treme" as the sound of people walking by and the music that emanates from each doorway, giving the Treme community a sense of identity and joy. Benny Jones Sr. and Lionel Batiste, the founding members of the Treme Brass Band, grew up with that sensibility. Music is the lifeblood of New Orleans in general but in Treme in particular, where jam sessions thrive. Just across the way from the Treme at the renowned Donna's Bar and Grill on Rampart Street, music lovers can hear local favorites including Bob French, Sista Teedy, George French, Germaine Bazzle, and the Treme Brass Band.

In its recordings, the Treme Brass Band pays homage to its hometown heritage in many of the tunes that appear on their two hits CDs, "Gimme My Money Back" (1995), and "I Got a Big Fat Woman" (1996). "The Old Rugged Cross" is played in traditional dirge style, while "Just a Closer Walk With Thee" gets a souped up beat.

Tickets for the Treme Brass Band concert will be available at Sound Garden on Mon., Feb. 14, while supplies last, on a first-come, first-served basis. The Sound Garden is located at 310 W. Jefferson St. in Armory Square and is open Mon.-Wed. from 10:00 am–10:00 pm, Thurs.-Sat. from 10:00 am–midnight, and on Sunday from 12:00-8:00 pm. There is a limit of two tickets per person. Tickets do not automatically guarantee seating to the show; seating is limited and on a first-come, first-seated available basis.

Classics Series: Beethoven's Pastorale
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Neal Gittleman, conductor
Featuring Terrence Wilson, piano

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

Daugherty Rosa Parks Boulevard
Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major, S. 125
Beethoven Symphony No. 6 in F major, op. 68, "Pastorale"

Jeanne Marie Beaumont, poet
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Jeanne Marie Beaumont is the author of Burning of the Three Fires (BOA Editions, 2010), Curious Conduct (BOA Editions, 2004), and Placebo Effects, selected by William Matthews as a winner in the National Poetry Series (Norton, 1997). She co-edited, with Claudia Carlson, the anthology The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales. Her poems have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines including Barrow Street, Boston Review, The Nation, New American Writing, Poetry Daily, The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 2007, World Literature Today, and many others. Her poem "Afraid So" was made into a short film by award-winning filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt with narration by Garrison Keillor; it has been shown at over two dozen international festivals and venues, most recently at the Museum of Modern Art. She has taught at Rutgers University and the Frost Place in Franconia, NH, and currently teaches at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd St. Y and in the Stonecoast low-residency MFA program in Maine. Since 1983, she has made her home in Manhattan.

Reach
Encore Presentations
M. Marie Beebe, director

Price: $37.25 dinner theater (includes tax and tip); $20 show only
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

This is a world premiere of Reach by Ryan Sprague, starring Ryan Santiago and Danielle Valeriano.

New Orleans 2006, a year after Hurricane Katrina. In this quirky sweet story of hope, we learn what happens after the media has gone. In rationalizing great tragedy, Lindsey and Jordan find themselves stagnant and detached. But through play, compassion, and acceptance they are able to leave their isolation and be in the unknown together.

For tickets, phone 315-469-6969.

Note: Show contains mature language.

Dinner at 7:00 pm; show follows at 8:00 pm.

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Cinderella (Enchanted Edition)
Bishop Ludden Junior-Senior High School
Laura Norris, director

Price: $10
Bishop Ludden Junior/Senior High School
815 Fay Rd., Geddes

Fairy tale of a girl who is enslaved by her cruel stepmother and two spoiled stepsisters. She eventually meets a prince, and with the help of her fairy godmother, becomes his bride. Music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.

The Music Man
Ron Hebert and Susan Schoonmaker, director

Price: $8
Fabius-Pompey High School
1211 Mill St., Fabius

Con Man Harold Hill poses as a boys band leader and sells instruments and uniforms to the naive townsfolk of River City, Iowa. The prim town librarian, Marian, sees through him, but when he helps her younger brother, Marian begins to fall in love with Harold. Harold, in turn, risks being caught to win her heart. Book by Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacey; music and lyrics, Meredith Willson.

Curtains
Corcoran High School
Greg J. Hipius, director

Price: $8
Corcoran High School
919 Glenwood Ave., Syracuse

At the Colonial Theatre in Boston, on the opening night of Broadway-bound "Robbin' Hood!" the lead actress is murdered onstage and the show is murdered in print in the reviews. Local Boston police detective Frank Cioffi has the entire cast and crew sequestered in the theater while he investigates. Can he catch the killer -- and fix the ailing show -- in time for tomorrow's curtains?

Book by Rupert Holmes; music, John Kander; lyrics, Fred Ebb.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Skaneateles High Drama Club

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors
Skaneateles High School
49 E. Elizabeth St., Skaneateles

The Wiz
Jamesville Dewitt High School
Shawn Forster, director

Price: $12 regular, $10 students/seniors
Jamesville-Dewitt High School
Edinger Drive, Dewitt

An upbeat, soft-rock version of the story of Dorothy, the little girl from Kansas, and her journey through the magical land of Oz. Book by William F. Brown; music, Charlie Smalls.

For tickets, phone 315-251-2956.

Tonight at 8:30: Three Plays by Noel Coward
Appleseed Productions
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $18 regular; $15 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

The Red Peppers: Doing a song and dance act in a vaudeville theatre are George Pepper and his wife, Lily. They also have a genius for picking quarrels and insulting co workers. When the house musical director, Bert, comes to the dressing room to bum a cigarette and a beer, they chide him for accompanying them in the wrong tempo, call him a drunk, and oust him. Mr. Edwards, house manager, comes to defend Bert, and he is insulted. At the following show Bert had his revenge when he plays the accompaniment so fast the Peppers get frantic and finally fall down. Lily stalks off the stage after heaving her hat at Bert.

Ways and Means: In a bedroom in Mrs. Lloyd Ransome's fabulous villa on the Cote d'Azur are heiress Stella Cartwright and her husband, a gambler. They are plagued by debts and their prolonged stay at the villa is becoming embarrassing when a scandalous chauffeur attempts to rob them and ends up saving their honor.

Hands Across the Sea: Lady Gilpin (Piggie) is so busy with social duties and gossip that she has no time for coherent thinking. She is set aflutter when her drawing room is suddenly filled with her husband's naval conferees, blueprint delivery boys and dumpy Mr. and Mrs. Wadhurst from the Far East, who flighty Piggie mistakes for the Rawlingsons. The Wadhursts overhear intimate phone conversations, are stumbled over, spilled upon and completely ignored before Piggie finally gets it straight.

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Radio Golf
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

How do we move forward without leaving behind difficult but defining aspects of our past? A powerful and timely drama from the most celebrated American playwright of this generation, Radio Golf tells the story of a man striving to become the first African American mayor of Pittsburgh. He's forced to weigh the importance of family, legacy, heritage, and history against the truth of his political and class ambitions. Moving, funny, lyrical, and rousing, Radio Golf is the inspiring final play of August Wilson's monumental, ten-play 20th-century cycle and career.

Radio Golf received four 2007 Tony nominations, including Best Play, and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.

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Saturday, March 5, 2011

Window Project: Stephanie Rozene--The Politics of Porcelain
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This spring, both the main gallery and Window Projects feature emerging female artists and celebrate their artistic achievements at a time that coincides with International Women's Day (March 2011). Stephanie Rozene draws upon the fine line between design and the visual arts. Her work is the result of extensive research and gifted craftsmanship. Through the medium of ceramics (and with special attention to specific patterns, ornaments, and forms) she explores the politics of European ceramics and traces international developments in this medium back to the reigns of French kings Louis XV and Louis XVI. This is her first solo museum show.

Winter Art Show
Clayscapes Pottery Gallery

Clayscapes Pottery Studio
1003 W. Fayette St., Suite L1, Syracuse

Come in from the cold and enjoy the warmth of friends and the glow of ceramic art made in The Studio at Clayscapes Pottery. Featuring ceramic artwork by Millie St. John, Tim See, Don Seymour, Shawn McGuire, Wes Weiss, and Sarah VanDerVoort as well as many others.

Ingrid Ludt: "Forest becomes Ocean"
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Casey Landerkin: Paintings and Illustrations
Echo

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

Tonal Gestures
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Diana Godfrey: mixed media pastels and acrylic paintings
Carmel Nicoletti: bronze reliefs and glass works

Surface Material
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Artist Vincent Fitches, well-know locally and globally, shares exhibit space with emerging new artist Emily Elizabeth Jones. Fitches and Jones are both relatively young in age, but of the two, Fitches has enjoyed greater notoriety, having shown his work worldwide. For Jones, "Surface Material" is her first big public exhibit. The gallery's title for the show is indicative of how each artist creates their works.

Creating mostly on panel, Fitches describes his artworks as, "uncanny in their color palate and unstructured composition." He says he focuses on a central object using subjects often in solitary environments, exposing their vulnerabilities in both his landscapes and figurative paintings. "This deconstruction of the naturalness dictated in the art world allows for a new vision of beauty and interpretation," Fitches explains.

In creating her art, Jones says she is motivated by a "fascination with the universe," where she sees the elements in the atmosphere as constantly creating and changing what we perceive. Applying acrylic on canvas, she tries to capture those moments of full spectrum of color rather than shape. "Like the glare of sun and early haziness," she says. Included in this first exhibit of Jones' works are minimal landscapes in a series called, "Horizon Colors."

Amos Kennedy Prints!
Community Folk Art Center

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

Focusing on issues of race, violence and community, "Amos Kennedy Prints!" features the hand-printed works of Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. and will include prints created at CFAC. By transforming the gallery into an active printmaking workshop, Kennedy will collaborate with students from the Syracuse area and Syracuse University to create images and broadsides that reflect issues of race, gender and politics and illustrate the impact of violence in the city on their lives and community. The public is invited to meet Kennedy and to observe and participate in the printmaking process.

Forrest Lesch-Middelton: Recent Work
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

There will be an opening reception this evening 6:00-8:00 PM.

Forrest Lesch-Middelton's pottery combines historic patterns with modern-day technology. The resulting work creates a subtle narrative that references the cross-cultural influences that impact every facet of daily life. Pottery is used as a metaphor to illustrate this phenomenon. To achieve the intricate patterns, Lesch-Middelton uses silkscreen and embossment transfer techniques. He says of his artwork, "By blending form, pattern, and surface, my goal is to create an object that simultaneously elicits a visceral and intellectual response, followed by a contemplation of my work as a whole."

Lesch-Middelton received his MFA in Ceramics from Utah State University in 2006 and a BFA in Ceramics from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1998. He is currently the Ceramics Program Coordinator at the Sonoma Community Center in Sonoma, California and teaches at Santa Rosa Jr. College and Solano College in the San Francisco Bay area. His artwork has been shown in many venues nationally, including the Baltimore Clayworks (MD), Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (TN), and Santa Fe Clay Center (NM). He currently lives with his wife and two daughters in Northern California.

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity is a rich, reflective exhibition of works by 40 artists representing the vast cultural blend of modern American society.

American artists of African, Arab, European, Asian, Latino, and Native American descent explore their heritage in this vivid and diverse exhibition using a wide variety of media. The artists examine patriotism, communication, struggle for acceptance, being an American in the 21st century, and more. Humor, heartache, anger, apprehension--all emotions are evoked by these works, raising questions about race, class, gender and age. Four main themes run through Infinite Mirror: Self-Selection, Pride, Assimilation, and Protest, providing audiences with the opportunity to re-examine both the story and storytellers of the quintessential "American dream."

The exhibition was curated by Blake Bradford, Curator and Director of Education at the Barnes Foundation; Benito Huerta, Curator and Director of The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington; and Robert Lee, Curator and Executive Director at Asian American Arts Centre in New York.

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

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The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

A selection of 30 woodcuts and etchings by the internationally known and collected Chinese American artist and educator. This exhibition is a limited retrospective look at Seong Moy's career as printmaker.

Moy's early works, small but complicated woodcuts on soft luminous papers, were immediately accepted by artists, curators, and the public. A painterly quality, so important to his entire graphic output, is evident in much of this work and is all the more special because it is captured in color wood block prints that require great sophistication and skill from the artist.

As Moy's career continued to develop, his interest in capturing spatial relationships of shapes and forms in his compositions, was heightened by the role color plays in energizing these elements. This trend continued for a number a years and could also be found in his cardboard relief prints.

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

Orange Pulp: Works by Norman Saunders
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

A profile of pulp artist Norman Saunders (1907-1989), including 10 lush and dramatic Saunders paintings from the university collection.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Journeys
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

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

"Journeys" includes the work of approximately 20 international students from various disciplines across the college, including art photography, art video, ceramics, communication and rhetorical studies, fiber arts/material studies, film, museum studies and sculpture.

For more information, contact Stephen Zaima, professor of painting, at 315-443-4613 or szaima@syr.edu. XL Projects may be contacted at 315-442-2542 during gallery hours.

Kueng Caputo: The Quadrangular Cloud
The Warehouse Gallery

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

The young female Swiss designer duo, Sarah Kueng and Lovis Caputo, will install a hotel in the Warehouse Gallery. The main gallery will be transformed into small ephemeral rooms where the visitor is invited to take a break from reality and to take a mini-vacation complete with a number of very simple, inexpensive and joyful elements. When seated or lying down, the public's focus is drawn to the interior space and lighting. The idea for a temporary hotel goes back to Kueng's and Caputo's 72 Hours Hotel, which was initially developed in 2006 for the train station in Zurich, Switzerland. Both artists have been widely exhibited. This is their first museum solo show in the U.S.

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Demitrus Oliver: Mare, 2009
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Mare, 2009, projects a circular image of a wave crashing against an unnamed shore. As the image rotates, the lines of the waves begin to resemble the layered surface of a Jovian planet such as Jupiter. Connecting the sea with heavenly phenomena, the installation recreates the sense of wonderment felt when looking at the night sky and the fundamental human desire to understand one's place in the universe. Mare, which is Latin for "seas", suggests movement and journeys both physical and metaphysical, as well as metaphors of darkness and illumination, looking and discovery.

Opening: 100 Years of Women Rockin' the World
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

This exhibition features the art of 35 women artists -- nine local to Syracuse, and the rest from communities across the country. These women, in keeping with the mission of ArtRage, are also activists and their work expresses a whole range of issues important to both women and the community of concerned people worldwide: self-image, hunger, collective action, war, children, the status of women, immigration, environmental crisis, alternative lifestyles and self-discovery.

Participating artists include Arlene Abend, Amy Bartell, Ellen Blalock, Marlena Buczek, Elizabeth Carter, Jen Cartwright, the Chicago Women's Graphic Collective, Sue Coe, Erin Currier, Jane Evershed, Raina Gentry, Susan Grabel, Sharon Lee Hart, Robin Hewlett, Gail Hoffman, Nancy Hom, Katherine Hughes, Lahib Jaddo, Mollie Kellogg, Kate Luscher, Dierdre Luzwick, Sofia Perez, Ruth Putter, Favianna Rodriguez, Gazelle Samizay, Nicole Schulman, Sarah Walroth, Anita Welych and Oceans Unraveled project with artists: Aviva Alter, Mary Buczek, Mary Ellen Croteau.

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

Price: Dinner theater: $20 single; $38 couple. Show only: $10 on day of show if seating available
Fire and Ice Banquet Hall, The Locker Room
528 Hiawatha Blvd., Syracuse

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

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

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Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer created a site-specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain. The installation features 272 aphorisms from her celebrated series "Truisms" and "Survival" that challenge viewers' assumptions about the world we live in through the use of language as art. Whether questioning consumerist impulses or lamenting the struggles of daily living, Jenny Holzer always provokes a response. Her work crosses the boundary between poetry and visual art, and suggests both the limitations and power of technology and the information age.

For more than 30 years, this influential American conceptual artist has been creating subversive works that blend in among advertisements in public spaces questioning and confronting our passive consumption of information. Since the early 1970s, Holzer has been collecting and writing phrases and aphorisms found in literature, philosophy and contemporary culture. She calls these summaries her Truisms, and has printed them on bronze plaques, painted signs, stone benches, footstools, stickers, t-shirts, condoms, paintings, photographs, video, sound, light projection, and the Internet. In 1982, Holzer installed "Truisms" on one of Times Square's gigantic LED billboards. In the 1980s, for her "Survival" series, Holzer adopted more personal and urgent messages about the realities of everyday living. Power, vulnerability, violence, tenderness, moral struggles and motherhood are courageously chronicled in this series which continuously prods the viewer to question the role of individuals in society.

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Implements of Mass Construction
Erie Canal Museum

Price: Free
Erie Canal Museum
318 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

The Erie Canal was built by thousands of untrained men during the 19th century, before the United States had any civil engineering professionals. So how did they construct a canal across the entire state of New York? Come by the Erie Canal Museum and see the tools that made it possible. The 16 items on view were used for construction or industry along the Erie Canal in the 19th century. Visit the Museum's second floor gallery to try to guess what each instrument is. Tools similar to some of the implements on display are still used today, but others will require some guesswork. Come visit today to guess for yourself!

RUHA acoustic band and Dusty Pascal
Kellish Hill Farm

Price: $7
Kellish Hill Farm
3192 Pompey Center Rd., Pompey

RUHA's line up of Crissy Noel, Brian Lauri and Charley Orlando will take the stage following a more than anticipated set by the evening's opener, Dusty Pascal. Come join us for a sweet night of music, in our heated music barn. Refreshments will be available. Musicians -- bring your instruments for a music jam after the concert.

Classics Series: Beethoven's Pastorale
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Neal Gittleman, conductor
Featuring Terrence Wilson, piano

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

Daugherty Rosa Parks Boulevard
Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major, S. 125
Beethoven Symphony No. 6 in F major, op. 68, "Pastorale"

The Open Wings & Broken Strings Tour
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Ed Kowalczyk of LIVE with Emerson Hart of Tonic, Leigh Nash of Six Pence None The Richer

Ferdinand
Open Hand Theater
Theatre Figuren

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

This well-loved story about a pacifist bull comes to life with a thought-provoking edge and a combination of sculpture, painting, movement, mime, and music. When you watch Theatre Figuren's Michelle Costa at work, you sometimes lose sight of the line between the puppets and the puppeteer. The performance is for all ages -- engrossing, emotional and visually stunning.

Sleeping Beauty
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive comedy retelling of the children's classic.

The Wiz
Jamesville Dewitt High School
Shawn Forster, director

Price: $12 regular, $10 students/seniors
Jamesville-Dewitt High School
Edinger Drive, Dewitt

An upbeat, soft-rock version of the story of Dorothy, the little girl from Kansas, and her journey through the magical land of Oz. Book by William F. Brown; music, Charlie Smalls.

For tickets, phone 315-251-2956.

The Music Man
Ron Hebert and Susan Schoonmaker, director

Price: $8
Fabius-Pompey High School
1211 Mill St., Fabius

Con Man Harold Hill poses as a boys band leader and sells instruments and uniforms to the naive townsfolk of River City, Iowa. The prim town librarian, Marian, sees through him, but when he helps her younger brother, Marian begins to fall in love with Harold. Harold, in turn, risks being caught to win her heart. Book by Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacey; music and lyrics, Meredith Willson.

Radio Golf
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

How do we move forward without leaving behind difficult but defining aspects of our past? A powerful and timely drama from the most celebrated American playwright of this generation, Radio Golf tells the story of a man striving to become the first African American mayor of Pittsburgh. He's forced to weigh the importance of family, legacy, heritage, and history against the truth of his political and class ambitions. Moving, funny, lyrical, and rousing, Radio Golf is the inspiring final play of August Wilson's monumental, ten-play 20th-century cycle and career.

Radio Golf received four 2007 Tony nominations, including Best Play, and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.

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Reach
Encore Presentations
M. Marie Beebe, director

Price: $37.25 dinner theater (includes tax and tip); $20 show only
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

This is a world premiere of Reach by Ryan Sprague, starring Ryan Santiago and Danielle Valeriano.

New Orleans 2006, a year after Hurricane Katrina. In this quirky sweet story of hope, we learn what happens after the media has gone. In rationalizing great tragedy, Lindsey and Jordan find themselves stagnant and detached. But through play, compassion, and acceptance they are able to leave their isolation and be in the unknown together.

For tickets, phone 315-469-6969.

Note: Show contains mature language.

Dinner at 7:00 pm; show follows at 8:00 pm.

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The Music Man
Ron Hebert and Susan Schoonmaker, director

Price: $8
Fabius-Pompey High School
1211 Mill St., Fabius

Con Man Harold Hill poses as a boys band leader and sells instruments and uniforms to the naive townsfolk of River City, Iowa. The prim town librarian, Marian, sees through him, but when he helps her younger brother, Marian begins to fall in love with Harold. Harold, in turn, risks being caught to win her heart. Book by Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacey; music and lyrics, Meredith Willson.

Curtains
Corcoran High School
Greg J. Hipius, director

Price: $8
Corcoran High School
919 Glenwood Ave., Syracuse

At the Colonial Theatre in Boston, on the opening night of Broadway-bound "Robbin' Hood!" the lead actress is murdered onstage and the show is murdered in print in the reviews. Local Boston police detective Frank Cioffi has the entire cast and crew sequestered in the theater while he investigates. Can he catch the killer -- and fix the ailing show -- in time for tomorrow's curtains?

Book by Rupert Holmes; music, John Kander; lyrics, Fred Ebb.

Cinderella (Enchanted Edition)
Bishop Ludden Junior-Senior High School
Laura Norris, director

Price: $10
Bishop Ludden Junior/Senior High School
815 Fay Rd., Geddes

Fairy tale of a girl who is enslaved by her cruel stepmother and two spoiled stepsisters. She eventually meets a prince, and with the help of her fairy godmother, becomes his bride. Music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.

The Wiz
Jamesville Dewitt High School
Shawn Forster, director

Price: $12 regular, $10 students/seniors
Jamesville-Dewitt High School
Edinger Drive, Dewitt

An upbeat, soft-rock version of the story of Dorothy, the little girl from Kansas, and her journey through the magical land of Oz. Book by William F. Brown; music, Charlie Smalls.

For tickets, phone 315-251-2956.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Skaneateles High Drama Club

Price: $10 regular, $8 students/seniors
Skaneateles High School
49 E. Elizabeth St., Skaneateles

Tonight at 8:30: Three Plays by Noel Coward
Appleseed Productions
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $18 regular; $15 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

The Red Peppers: Doing a song and dance act in a vaudeville theatre are George Pepper and his wife, Lily. They also have a genius for picking quarrels and insulting co workers. When the house musical director, Bert, comes to the dressing room to bum a cigarette and a beer, they chide him for accompanying them in the wrong tempo, call him a drunk, and oust him. Mr. Edwards, house manager, comes to defend Bert, and he is insulted. At the following show Bert had his revenge when he plays the accompaniment so fast the Peppers get frantic and finally fall down. Lily stalks off the stage after heaving her hat at Bert.

Ways and Means: In a bedroom in Mrs. Lloyd Ransome's fabulous villa on the Cote d'Azur are heiress Stella Cartwright and her husband, a gambler. They are plagued by debts and their prolonged stay at the villa is becoming embarrassing when a scandalous chauffeur attempts to rob them and ends up saving their honor.

Hands Across the Sea: Lady Gilpin (Piggie) is so busy with social duties and gossip that she has no time for coherent thinking. She is set aflutter when her drawing room is suddenly filled with her husband's naval conferees, blueprint delivery boys and dumpy Mr. and Mrs. Wadhurst from the Far East, who flighty Piggie mistakes for the Rawlingsons. The Wadhursts overhear intimate phone conversations, are stumbled over, spilled upon and completely ignored before Piggie finally gets it straight.

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Music for the Mission
Redhouse

Price: $20 in advance, $25 at the door
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Join vocalist Angela Moonan with musicians Jeff Sawyer, Matt Vacanti, Karl Sterling and Scott Remillard for an evening of musical memories. Enjoy fabulous music we promise you'll recognize, from all the greats like Cole Porter, George Gershwin and more.

Music for the Mission works to raise awareness and funding for area charities that shelter the homeless and feed the hungry. Proceeds from this evening will benefit the Chadwick Residence.

Radio Golf
Syracuse Stage
Timothy Bond, director

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

How do we move forward without leaving behind difficult but defining aspects of our past? A powerful and timely drama from the most celebrated American playwright of this generation, Radio Golf tells the story of a man striving to become the first African American mayor of Pittsburgh. He's forced to weigh the importance of family, legacy, heritage, and history against the truth of his political and class ambitions. Moving, funny, lyrical, and rousing, Radio Golf is the inspiring final play of August Wilson's monumental, ten-play 20th-century cycle and career.

Radio Golf received four 2007 Tony nominations, including Best Play, and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.

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Sunday, March 6, 2011

Window Project: Stephanie Rozene--The Politics of Porcelain
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This spring, both the main gallery and Window Projects feature emerging female artists and celebrate their artistic achievements at a time that coincides with International Women's Day (March 2011). Stephanie Rozene draws upon the fine line between design and the visual arts. Her work is the result of extensive research and gifted craftsmanship. Through the medium of ceramics (and with special attention to specific patterns, ornaments, and forms) she explores the politics of European ceramics and traces international developments in this medium back to the reigns of French kings Louis XV and Louis XVI. This is her first solo museum show.

Transmedia Photography Annual Group Exibition
Light Work Gallery

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

Demetrius Oliver: Penumbra
Light Work Gallery

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

This suite of three video installations, "Mare," "Perigee", and "Penumbra," by Demetrius Oliver reconnects viewers to their place in the universe by playing with earthly and human forms against a backdrop of the cosmos. In "Penumbra," explorations of light and scale, movement and the rhythm of the natural world suggest journeys both physical and metaphysical.

One of the installations will be on view in the Light Work Gallery, one projected onto the Everson Museum, and one installed in the Menschel Photography Gallery in the Schine Student Center.

Hudson Past/Perfect: Photos by Marna Bell
Light Work Gallery

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

Marna Bell is the winner of the Light Work/Community Darkrooms Members Juried Exhibition competition. In 2005, after the sudden death of her mother, Bell picked up her camera after a 20-year hiatus from painting and began photographing nature. Her focus in both painting and photography has been on reclaiming visions of the past and her connection to nature.

According to Bell, "Many trips back home to New York City on the train have helped me remember lost pieces of time where life seemed simpler and less veiled. It was a natural progression for me to record the cycle of change in my 'Hudson Past/Perfect' series. By revisiting the same landscapes in different seasons and under different weather conditions, I was able to capture the past before it disappeared. I am drawn to the meditative quality of the Hudson River and the sacred aspects of the natural environment. The series is reminiscent of a more romantic era, when God and nature were viewed as one."

Closing: Surface Material
Szozda Gallery

Szozda Gallery
Delavan Center, 501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Artist Vincent Fitches, well-know locally and globally, shares exhibit space with emerging new artist Emily Elizabeth Jones. Fitches and Jones are both relatively young in age, but of the two, Fitches has enjoyed greater notoriety, having shown his work worldwide. For Jones, "Surface Material" is her first big public exhibit. The gallery's title for the show is indicative of how each artist creates their works.

Creating mostly on panel, Fitches describes his artworks as, "uncanny in their color palate and unstructured composition." He says he focuses on a central object using subjects often in solitary environments, exposing their vulnerabilities in both his landscapes and figurative paintings. "This deconstruction of the naturalness dictated in the art world allows for a new vision of beauty and interpretation," Fitches explains.

In creating her art, Jones says she is motivated by a "fascination with the universe," where she sees the elements in the atmosphere as constantly creating and changing what we perceive. Applying acrylic on canvas, she tries to capture those moments of full spectrum of color rather than shape. "Like the glare of sun and early haziness," she says. Included in this first exhibit of Jones' works are minimal landscapes in a series called, "Horizon Colors."

Forrest Lesch-Middelton: Recent Work
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Forrest Lesch-Middelton's pottery combines historic patterns with modern-day technology. The resulting work creates a subtle narrative that references the cross-cultural influences that impact every facet of daily life. Pottery is used as a metaphor to illustrate this phenomenon. To achieve the intricate patterns, Lesch-Middelton uses silkscreen and embossment transfer techniques. He says of his artwork, "By blending form, pattern, and surface, my goal is to create an object that simultaneously elicits a visceral and intellectual response, followed by a contemplation of my work as a whole."

Lesch-Middelton received his MFA in Ceramics from Utah State University in 2006 and a BFA in Ceramics from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1998. He is currently the Ceramics Program Coordinator at the Sonoma Community Center in Sonoma, California and teaches at Santa Rosa Jr. College and Solano College in the San Francisco Bay area. His artwork has been shown in many venues nationally, including the Baltimore Clayworks (MD), Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (TN), and Santa Fe Clay Center (NM). He currently lives with his wife and two daughters in Northern California.

Toys from the 1970s
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This year's version will feature toys from the 1970s. Do you remember playing Pong on Atari, getting your first Luke Skywalker figure, or just wishing to have your own Malibu Barbie? Then you won't want to miss this journey into the decade of Charlie's Angels, Richard Nixon and a gallon of gasoline at fifty cents.

The Prints of Seong Moy
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

A selection of 30 woodcuts and etchings by the internationally known and collected Chinese American artist and educator. This exhibition is a limited retrospective look at Seong Moy's career as printmaker.

Moy's early works, small but complicated woodcuts on soft luminous papers, were immediately accepted by artists, curators, and the public. A painterly quality, so important to his entire graphic output, is evident in much of this work and is all the more special because it is captured in color wood block prints that require great sophistication and skill from the artist.

As Moy's career continued to develop, his interest in capturing spatial relationships of shapes and forms in his compositions, was heightened by the role color plays in energizing these elements. This trend continued for a number a years and could also be found in his cardboard relief prints.

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Syracuse University Art Museum

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

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity is a rich, reflective exhibition of works by 40 artists representing the vast cultural blend of modern American society.

American artists of African, Arab, European, Asian, Latino, and Native American descent explore their heritage in this vivid and diverse exhibition using a wide variety of media. The artists examine patriotism, communication, struggle for acceptance, being an American in the 21st century, and more. Humor, heartache, anger, apprehension--all emotions are evoked by these works, raising questions about race, class, gender and age. Four main themes run through Infinite Mirror: Self-Selection, Pride, Assimilation, and Protest, providing audiences with the opportunity to re-examine both the story and storytellers of the quintessential "American dream."

The exhibition was curated by Blake Bradford, Curator and Director of Education at the Barnes Foundation; Benito Huerta, Curator and Director of The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington; and Robert Lee, Curator and Executive Director at Asian American Arts Centre in New York.

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

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Orange Pulp: Works by Norman Saunders
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

A profile of pulp artist Norman Saunders (1907-1989), including 10 lush and dramatic Saunders paintings from the university collection.

Named for the cheap and abundant wood pulp that publishers after 1850 began using to print reading materials for a mass audience, pulp magazines sported eye-catching covers and included detective, adventure, western, horror, romance, and science fiction stories. According to co-curator Sean Quimby, director of SCRC, "This was literature tailored to specific tastes, intended to entertain in predictable ways." He notes that "even while the form of the pulp magazine died by 1960, the concept of pulp lives on in glossy photo-dense magazines, paperback novels, comic books, and film." Quimby maintains that pulp magazines, with their intensely involved readership, "helped make possible contemporary interactive media culture."

Ingrid Ludt: "Forest becomes Ocean"
LeMoyne College

Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Demitrus Oliver: Mare, 2009
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Mare, 2009, projects a circular image of a wave crashing against an unnamed shore. As the image rotates, the lines of the waves begin to resemble the layered surface of a Jovian planet such as Jupiter. Connecting the sea with heavenly phenomena, the installation recreates the sense of wonderment felt when looking at the night sky and the fundamental human desire to understand one's place in the universe. Mare, which is Latin for "seas", suggests movement and journeys both physical and metaphysical, as well as metaphors of darkness and illumination, looking and discovery.

Jenny Holzer installation
Urban Video Project

Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse